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2002 Fall Eastern Section Meeting
Boston, MA, October 5-6, 2002
Meeting #979
Associate secretaries: Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu
Saturday October 5, 2002
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Meeting Registration
Indoor Quad, Mezzanine Level, Curry Student Center
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Exhibit and Book Sale
Gallery, Mezzanine Level, Curry Student Center
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry, I
Room 230, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Matthew A. Papanikolas, Brown University map@math.brown.edu
Siman Wong, University of Massachusetts, Amherst siman@math.umass.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Speculations on the ranks of elliptic curves.
Douglas Ulmer*, University of Arizona
(979-11-49)
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8:30 a.m.
An extension of the Fontaine-Mazur Conjecture.
Farshid Hajir*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
(979-11-63)
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9:00 a.m.
The arithmetic of m-regular partition functions.
David K Penniston*, Furman University
(979-11-229)
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9:30 a.m.
Greenberg's conjecture: a non-abelian example.
William G. McCallum*, University of Arizona
Romyar T. Sharifi, Harvard University
(979-11-201)
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10:00 a.m.
Weierstrass points on $X_0(p)$ and supersingular $j$-invariants.
Scott Ahlgren*, University of Illinois
(979-11-91)
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10:30 a.m.
Picard modular varieties in positive characteristic.
Jeffrey D Achter*, Columbia University
(979-14-205)
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 8:15 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Hilbert Schemes, I
Room 330, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Mark De Cataldo, SUNY at Stony Brook mde@math.sunysb.edu
Anthony A. Iarrobino, Northeastern University a.iarrobino@neu.edu
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9:00 a.m.
The ample cone of the Hilbert scheme of points in the plane and of the Hilbert scheme of space curves.
Gerd Gotzmann*, Rheine,Germany
(979-14-31)
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9:40 a.m.
On the geometry of the parabolic Hilbert schemes.
Takuro Mochizuki*, Osaka City University, Institute for Advanced Study
(979-14-29)
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10:20 a.m.
An application of Hilbert schemes to some enumerative problems.
Heather J. Russell*, Oklahoma State University
(979-14-156)
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Developments and Applications in Differential Geometry, I
Room 130, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Chuu-Lian Terng, Northeastern University terng@neu.edu
Xiaobo Liu, University of Notre Dame xliu3@nd.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Discussion.
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9:00 a.m.
Counting Fourier-Mukai Partners of K3 Surfaces.
Bong H Lian*, Brandeis University
(979-51-65)
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9:30 a.m.
Special Lagrangian Submanifolds and Mirror Symmetry.
Sema Salur*, Northwestern University
(979-53-237)
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10:00 a.m.
Special Lagrangian cones over tori.
Emma E. Carberry*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ian McIntosh, University of York
(979-53-210)
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10:30 a.m.
The Camassa-Holm hierarchy, $r$-matrix structure, and algebro-geometric solution.
Darryl D Holm, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Zhijun Qiao*, Los Alamos National Laboratory
(979-35-19)
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
Special Session on Quivers and Their Generalizations, I
Room 173, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Alex Martsinkovsky, Northeastern University
Gordana G. Todorov, Northeastern University
Jerzy M. Weyman, Northeastern University weyman@neu.edu
Andrei V. Zelevinsky, Northeastern University andrei@neu.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Quiver varieties and infinite Grassmannians of type A.
Maxim Vybornov*, MIT
(979-14-242)
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9:10 a.m.
Lie algebras associated to a Dynkin quiver.
Igor Frenkel, Yale
Anton Malkin*, MIT
Maxim Vybornov, MIT
(979-16-169)
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9:50 a.m.
Regions of the canonical basis of a quantized enveloping algebra.
Robert J Marsh*, University of Leicester
Markus Reineke, BUGH Wuppertal
(979-17-34)
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10:25 a.m.
Standard Monomial Theory for Affine SL(n).
V Lakshmibai, Northeastern University
Peter Magyar*, Michigan State University
Jerzy Weyman, Northeastern University
(979-14-226)
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Recent Developments in the Orbit Method for Real and p-adic Groups, I
Room 344, Curry Student Center
Organizers:
Donald R. King, Northeastern University donking@neu.edu
Alfred G. Noel, University of Massachusetts, Boston alfred.noel@umb.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Some tiny unitary representations of indefinite orthogonal groups.
Anthony W. Knapp*, State University of New York at Stony Brook
(979-22-07)
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9:00 a.m.
Associated varieties and signatures of Hermitian forms.
David A. Vogan*, MIT
(979-22-66)
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9:30 a.m.
Discussion.
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10:00 a.m.
Admissible nilpotent orbits of $p$-adic split exceptional groups.
Monica Nevins*, University of Ottawa
(979-22-155)
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10:30 a.m.
Components of the Springer Fiber and Domino Tableaux.
Thomas Pietraho*, Bowdoin College
(979-22-68)
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on The Mathematics of Water Waves, I
Room 140, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Diane Henderson, Pennsylvania State University dmh@math.psu.edu
Gene Wayne, Boston University cew@math.bu.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Rigorous approximations of water waves.
Guido Schneider, University of Karlsruhe
C. Eugene Wayne*, Boston University
(979-35-79)
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9:00 a.m.
Existence, Analyticity, and Stable Computation of Traveling Water Waves.
David P Nicholls*, University of Notre Dame
(979-76-124)
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9:30 a.m.
Boussinesq models of shallow water waves.
Min Chen*, University of Central Florida
(979-76-234)
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10:00 a.m.
Higher order corrections to KdV approximations.
J. Douglas Wright*, Boston University
(979-35-117)
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10:30 a.m.
Hamiltonians and long wave expansions for the dynamics of free surfaces and interfaces.
Walter Craig*, McMaster University
Philippe Guyenne, McMaster University
Henrik Kalisch, Lund University
(979-76-80)
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Convex Geometry, I
Room 50, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Daniel A. Klain, University of Massachusetts, Lowell Daniel_Klain@uml.edu
Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University emw2@po.cwru.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Extremal slabs in the cube and the Laplace transform.
Franck Barthe, University of Marne-la-Vallee
Alexander Koldobsky*, University of Missouri-Columbia
(979-52-30)
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9:00 a.m.
Volume of Projections of Convex Bodies via Fourier Transform.
Alexander Koldobsky, University of Missouri-Columbia
Dmitry Ryabogin, University of Missouri-Columbia
Artem Zvavitch*, University of MIssouri-Columbia
(979-52-100)
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9:30 a.m.
Euclidean sections of direct sums of normed spaces.
A. E. Litvak*, University of Alberta
V. D. Milman, Tel Aviv University
(979-46-130)
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10:00 a.m.
Coordinate projections of convex bodies.
Mark Rudelson*, University of Missouri
Roman Vershynin, University of Alberta
(979-52-193)
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10:30 a.m.
Inequalities related to convex bodies and applications.
Yehoram Gordon*, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
(979-52-225)
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Modern Schubert Calculus, I
Room 150, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Frank Sottile, University of Massachusetts, Amherst sottile@math.umass.edu
Christopher T. Woodward, Rutgers University ctw@math.rutgers.edu
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9:00 a.m.
GKM spaces with non-isolated fixed points.
Victor Guillemin*, MIT
Tara S Holm, MIT
(979-14-223)
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9:30 a.m.
Schur and Schubert polynomials are Thom polynomials.
Richard Rimanyi*, Ohio State University
(979-14-90)
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10:00 a.m.
Schubert Calculus on Bott-Samelson Manifolds.
Rebecca Goldin*, George Mason University
(979-53-196)
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10:30 a.m.
Polynomials associated to Bott-Samelson resolutions and torsion in intersection cohomology.
Tom Braden*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
(979-14-144)
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, I
Room 119, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Stanley J. Eigen, Northeastern University eigen@neu.edu
Vidhu S. Prasad, University of Massachusetts, Lowell vidhu_prasad@uml.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Rank one mixing actions of discrete Abelian groups.
Adam Fieldsteel, Wesleyan University
Andr\'es del Junco*, University of Toronto
(979-28-177)
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9:30 a.m.
Lower Bounds for Upcrossings of Ergodic Averages.
Sebastian E Ferrando*, Ryerson University
Pedro Catuogno, Mar del Plata National University
Alfredo Gonzalez, Mar del Plata National University
(979-28-122)
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10:00 a.m.
Local Rigidity of Group Actions.
David M Fisher*, Lehman College, CUNY
G A Margulis, Yale University
(979-37-219)
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10:30 a.m.
Growth of typical orbits on homogeneous spaces.
Dmitry Y Kleinbock*, Brandeis University
(979-37-84)
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Special Session on Singularities in Algebraic and Analytic Geometry, I
Room 470, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Terence Gaffney, Northeastern University gaff@neu.edu
David B. Massey, Northeastern University dmassey@neu.edu
Caroline Grant Melles, U. S. Naval Academy cgg@usna.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Cohen-Macaulay Properties for Groups of Equivalences and Consequences for Properties of Discriminants.
James N Damon*, Univ. North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(979-32-176)
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9:50 a.m.
Computing characteristic classes of projective schemes.
Paolo Aluffi*, Florida State University
(979-14-35)
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Quantum Information Theory, I
Room 70, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Christopher K. King, Northeastern University king@neu.edu
Mary Beth Ruskai, University of Massachusetts, Lowell bruskai@cs.uml.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Entanglement and Quantum Error Correction.
Michael D Westmoreland*, Denison University
(979-81-183)
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9:30 a.m.
Continuous-time quantum error correction.
C S Ahn, Caltech
A C Doherty, Caltech
A J Landahl*, MIT
(979-81-139)
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10:00 a.m.
Empirically Combining Methods of Quantum Error Correction and Avoidance.
Mark S. Byrd*, Harvard University
Daniel A. Lidar, University of Toronto
(979-81-96)
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10:30 a.m.
Quantum Dynamical Semigroup Tomography.
Timothy F Havel*, MIT
(979-15-81)
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on The History of Mathematics, I
Room 333, Curry Student Center
Organizers:
Adrian C. Rice, Randolph-Macon College arice4@rmc.edu
Amy E. Shell-Gellasch, U. S. Military Academy aa7423@usma.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Brought to book: The curious story of Guglielmo Libri.
Adrian Rice*, Randolph-Macon College
(979-01-15)
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9:30 a.m.
200 Years of West Point Mathematics: Profiles of Mathematical Soldiers and Trailblazers.
Chris Arney*, College of Saint Rose
(979-01-12)
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10:00 a.m.
A Medieval Islamic Perspective on Indian Mathematics.
Kim Plofker*, Brown University
(979-01-213)
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10:30 a.m.
Analysis, Synthesis, and Trigonometry: From Pure Geometry to the Exact Sciences in Greece and Medieval Islam.
Glen R Van Brummelen*, Bennington College
(979-01-109)
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Elliptic Operators on Noncompact Manifolds, I
Room 170, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Maxim Braverman, Northeastern University maxim@neu.edu
Victor Nistor, Pennsylvania State University nistor@math.psu.edu
Mikhail A. Shubin, Northeastern University shubin@neu.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Many-body scattering and symmetric spaces.
Rafe Mazzeo, Stanford University
Andras Vasy*, MIT
(979-35-76)
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9:40 a.m.
Heat Trace and Spectral Asymptotics for Singular Schrodinger Operators.
Robert C McOwen*, Northeastern University
(979-35-131)
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10:20 a.m.
On the absence of positive eigenvalues of Schr\"{o}dinger operators.
Alexandru D Ionescu*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
(979-42-134)
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, I
Room 346, Curry Student Center
Organizers:
Sean T. Cleary, City College, CUNY cleary@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Murray Elder, Tufts University melder@math.tamu.edu
Jennifer Taback, University of Albany jtaback@math.albany.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Birth, death and the braid group.
Matthew G Brin*, Binghamton University
(979-20-137)
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9:30 a.m.
Finiteness properties of the braided Thompson group.
M. Brin, Binghamton University
J. Meier*, Lafayette College
(979-20-67)
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10:00 a.m.
Controlled topology and group theory.
Ross Geoghegan*, Binghamton University (SUNY)
(979-57-167)
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10:30 a.m.
Progress on the $K(\pi,1)$-conjecture for Artin groups.
Ruth M Charney*, Ohio State University
(979-20-56)
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
Session for Contributed Papers, I
Room 342, Curry Student Center
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9:00 a.m.
More on Randomness and Pseudo-random Numbers: An Historical Review.
G. Arthur Mihram*, Princeton, NJ
Danielle Mihram, U. of Southern California
(979-01-20)
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9:15 a.m.
On Critical Trees for L(2,1)-labelings.
Denise Sakai Troxell*, Babson College
(979-05-46)
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9:30 a.m.
Criteria for Irrationality of Euler's Constant.
Jonathan Sondow*, New York, NY
(979-11-16)
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9:45 a.m.
Towards Characterizing Morphisms of High Dimensional Hypersurfaces.
David C Sheppard*, MIT
(979-14-241)
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Invited Address
Complexity, irrationality, and model theory.
Ballroom, Curry Student Center
Lou P. van den Dries*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
(979-03-04)
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
Invited Address
Mathematical modelling and experiments on water waves.
Ballroom, Curry Student Center
Diane Henderson*, Pennsylvania State University
Joseph L Hammack, Pennsylvania State University
(979-76-01)
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Modern Schubert Calculus, II
Room 150, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Frank Sottile, University of Massachusetts, Amherst sottile@math.umass.edu
Christopher T. Woodward, Rutgers University ctw@math.rutgers.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Geometric proofs of Horn and Saturation conjectures.
Prakash Belkale*, University of North Carolina
(979-14-102)
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3:00 p.m.
A Vansihing and a Non-Vanshing Criterion for Schubert Calculus on $G/B$.
Kevin Purbhoo*, U.C. Berkeley
(979-00-224)
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3:30 p.m.
Divided differences and spaces of subwords.
Catalin Zara*, Yale University
(979-05-214)
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4:00 p.m.
Schubert Calculus over Free Skew-fields.
Vladimir Retakh*, Rutgers University
(979-16-138)
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4:30 p.m.
Degenerating Schubert varieties to unions of toric varieties associated to rc-graphs.
Mikhail Kogan*, Northeastern University
Ezra Miller, MSRI
(979-14-187)
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5:00 p.m.
Positivity of quiver cycles via deformation.
Allen Knutson, UC Berkeley
Ezra Miller*, MSRI
Mark Shimozono, Virginia Tech
(979-14-233)
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, II
Room 119, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Stanley J. Eigen, Northeastern University eigen@neu.edu
Vidhu S. Prasad, University of Massachusetts, Lowell vidhu_prasad@uml.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Bounded orbit injections and flow equivalence for minimal $Z^d$-actions.
Nicholas S Ormes*, University of Denver
Kathleen Madden, Drew University
(979-37-120)
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3:00 p.m.
The complexity of self affine tiling dynamical systems.
E. Arthur Robinson, Jr.*, The George Washington University
(979-37-60)
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3:30 p.m.
The square of a map, symbolic dynamics, and the Conley index.
Jim Wiseman*, Swarthmore College
(979-37-173)
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4:00 p.m.
Bounded homeomorphisms of the open annulus.
David S. Richeson*, Dickinson College
(979-58-50)
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4:30 p.m.
Non-conventional ergodic averages and nilmanifolds.
Bryna Kra*, Pennsylvania State University
Bernard Host, University of Marne La Vallee
(979-37-17)
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Developments and Applications in Differential Geometry, II
Room 130, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Chuu-Lian Terng, Northeastern University terng@neu.edu
Xiaobo Liu, University of Notre Dame xliu3@nd.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Isoparametric hypersurfaces with four principal curvatures.
Thomas E. Cecil, College of the Holy Cross
Quo-Shin Chi, Washington University
Gary R. Jensen*, Washington University
(979-53-118)
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3:00 p.m.
Isoparametric hypersurfaces with four principal curvatures by Thomas E. Cecil, Quo-Shin Chi and Gary R. Jensen.
Thomas E Cecil, College of the Holy Cross
Quo-Shin Chi*, Washington University
Gary R Jensen, Washington University
(979-53-136)
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3:30 p.m.
Mean curvature flow of symplectic surfaces in Kaehler-Einstein surfaces.
Jingyi Chen*, University of British Columbia
(979-53-212)
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4:00 p.m.
Timelike Isothermic surfaces in $\Bbb R^n_j$.
Martin A. Magid*, Wellesley College
(979-53-61)
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4:30 p.m.
Discussion.
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5:00 p.m.
Discussion.
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry, II
Room 230, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Matthew A. Papanikolas, Brown University map@math.brown.edu
Siman Wong, University of Massachusetts, Amherst siman@math.umass.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Surfaces in $P^3$ over finite fields.
J. Felipe Voloch*, Dept. Math., Univ. Texas
(979-11-26)
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3:00 p.m.
An elementary proof that abc implies Faltings' Theorem.
Thomas J Tucker*, CUNY Graduate Center
Andrew Granville, University of Montreal
(979-11-199)
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3:30 p.m.
Multizeta values for function fields.
Dinesh S. Thakur*, University of Arizona, Tucson
(979-11-99)
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4:00 p.m.
Modular Form Congruences and Selmer Groups.
William J McGraw*, University of Wisconsin
Ken Ono, University of Wisconsin
(979-11-37)
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4:30 p.m.
Counting Fontaine-Mazur-like function fields.
Joshua Brandon Holden*, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Jeffrey D. Achter, Columbia University
(979-11-127)
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5:00 p.m.
Class Groups of Global Function Fields.
Allison M. Pacelli*, Brown University
(979-11-146)
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
Special Session on Quivers and Their Generalizations, II
Room 173, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Alex Martsinkovsky, Northeastern University
Gordana G. Todorov, Northeastern University
Jerzy M. Weyman, Northeastern University weyman@neu.edu
Andrei V. Zelevinsky, Northeastern University andrei@neu.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Orthogonal and Symplectic Analogues of Determinental Ideals.
Stephen Tyler Lovett*, Northeastern University
(979-14-191)
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3:10 p.m.
Semi-invariants for quivers.
Harm Derksen, University of Michigan
Jerzy Weyman*, Northeastern University
(979-13-220)
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3:45 p.m.
Degeneracy loci formulae for quivers.
Richard Rimanyi*, Ohio State University
(979-14-89)
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4:20 p.m.
Auslander-Reiten components for finite-dimension algebras of strongly unbounded representation type.
Raymundo Bautista*, Instituto de Matematicas, UNAM
(979-16-190)
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4:55 p.m.
Discussion.
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Recent Developments in the Orbit Method for Real and p-adic Groups, II
Room 344, Curry Student Center
Organizers:
Donald R. King, Northeastern University donking@neu.edu
Alfred G. Noel, University of Massachusetts, Boston alfred.noel@umb.edu
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2:30 p.m.
An order-reversing duality map for conjugacy classes in Lusztig's canonical quotient.
Pramod N Achar*, University of Chicago
(979-22-238)
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3:00 p.m.
Ideals in the nilradical of a Borel subalgebra.
Eric N Sommers*, UMass--Amherst
(979-17-232)
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3:30 p.m.
Break.
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4:00 p.m.
Dixmier algebras quantizing classical complex nilpotent orbits.
Ranee K Brylinski*, Penn State University
(979-22-101)
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4:30 p.m.
The closure ordering of nilpotent orbits of the complex symmetric pair $(SO_{p+q},SO_p\times SO_q)$.
Dragomir Z. Djokovic*, University of Waterloo
Michael Litvinov, University of Waterloo
(979-22-133)
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5:00 p.m.
Jordan algebras and spherical low-rank representations.
Alexander Dvorsky*, University of Miami
Siddhartha Sahi, Rutgers University
(979-22-64)
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Hilbert Schemes, II
Room 330, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Mark De Cataldo, SUNY at Stony Brook mde@math.sunysb.edu
Anthony A. Iarrobino, Northeastern University a.iarrobino@neu.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Hilbert schemes of points on surfaces: an informal survey.
Mark Andrea A de Cataldo*, SUNY at Stony Brook
(979-14-39)
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3:30 p.m.
The Geometry of Crepant Resolutions of Calabi-Yau Orbifolds.
Anda Degeratu*, Duke University
(979-53-194)
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4:10 p.m.
Orbifold cohomology as periodic cyclic homology.
Vladimir Baranovsky*, California Institute of Technology
(979-14-24)
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4:50 p.m.
A Mirror Orbifold Product.
Andrei H. C\u ald\u araru*, University of Pennsylvania
(979-14-128)
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Quantum Information Theory, II
Room 70, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Christopher K. King, Northeastern University king@neu.edu
Mary Beth Ruskai, University of Massachusetts, Lowell bruskai@cs.uml.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Introduction to bidirectional channels.
Charles A Bennett, IBM Research
Aram W Harrow, MIT
Debbie W Leung, IBM Research
John A Smolin*, IBM Research
(979-81-221)
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3:00 p.m.
Classical communication with bidirectional channels.
Charles H Bennett, IBM
Aram W Harrow*, MIT
Debbie W Leung, IBM
John A Smolin, IBM
(979-81-211)
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3:30 p.m.
Capacities of quantum bidirectional channels.
Charles H Bennett, IBM
Aram W Harrow, MIT and IBM
Debbie W Leung*, IBM and MSRI
John A Smolin, IBM
(979-81-182)
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4:00 p.m.
Entanglement capacity of the Ising and anisotropic Heisenberg interactions.
Andrew M Childs*, MIT Center for Theoretical Physics
(979-81-103)
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4:30 p.m.
Practical High-Speed Quantum Cryptography.
Gerald N Gilbert*, MITRE
(979-81-216)
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on The Mathematics of Water Waves, II
Room 140, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Diane Henderson, Pennsylvania State University dmh@math.psu.edu
Gene Wayne, Boston University cew@math.bu.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Stability and instability of periodic plane waves in deep water.
Harvey Segur*, University of Colorado
Diane M Henderson, Pennsylvania State University
Katherine Socha, Michigan State University
(979-76-184)
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3:00 p.m.
Instability of Bounded Solutions of the 2-D Cubic Nolinear Schr\"odinger Equation.
John Carter*, Seattle University
(979-35-186)
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3:30 p.m.
Nonlocal perturbations and the stability of stationary solutions of the NLS equation.
Bernard Deconinck*, Colorado State University
J Nathan Kutz, University of Washington
(979-35-78)
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4:00 p.m.
Blow-up solutions of the vector nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation.
James Coleman, University of Toronto
Catherine Sulem*, University of Toronto
(979-35-171)
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4:30 p.m.
Fifth Order Perturbation Solution for Gravity-Capillary Standing Waves in Fluid of Finite Depth.
Sergey Sekerzh-Zenkovich*, Universidad de Guadalajara
(979-76-59)
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on The History of Mathematics, II
Room 333, Curry Student Center
Organizers:
Adrian C. Rice, Randolph-Macon College arice4@rmc.edu
Amy E. Shell-Gellasch, U. S. Military Academy aa7423@usma.edu
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2:30 p.m.
The Nodding Sphere and the Bird's Beak: a Vignette from the Euler-d'Alembert Correspondence.
Robert E Bradley*, Adelphi University
(979-01-218)
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3:00 p.m.
Some connections within Euler's early mathematics.
C Edward Sandifer*, Western Connecticut State U
(979-01-106)
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3:30 p.m.
Leonhard Euler, Frederick II and the scientific imperative of the Berlin Academy.
John D. Glaus*, The Euler Society
(979-01-25)
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4:00 p.m.
Bad Logic, Bad Mathematics: Milton's Justification of the Ways of Number to Man.
Thomas Drucker*, University of Wisconsin--Whitewater
(979-01-21)
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4:30 p.m.
Mathematics in the thought of Nicholas Cusanus.
Hardy Grant*, York University, Toronto
(979-01-105)
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Convex Geometry, II
Room 50, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Daniel A. Klain, University of Massachusetts, Lowell Daniel_Klain@uml.edu
Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University emw2@po.cwru.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Problems in Convex Geometry Related to Microlocal Analysis.
Eric L. Grinberg*, Temple University
Eric Todd Quinto, Tufts University
(979-52-152)
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3:00 p.m.
Pure and Applied aspects of Limited Data Tomography.
Eric Todd Quinto*, Tufts University
(979-92-52)
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3:30 p.m.
An iterative algorithm for finding $x\in C\subseteq R^N$ with $Ax\in Q\subseteq R^M$, where $C$ and $Q$ are closed, convex and $A$ is linear.
Charles L Byrne*, University of Massachsuetts Lowell
(979-52-93)
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4:00 p.m.
Point $X$-rays of convex bodies in non-Euclidean spaces.
Paolo Dulio, Politecnico di Milano
Carla Peri*, Università Cattolica
(979-52-140)
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4:30 p.m.
Two problems on affine diameters of convex bodies.
Valeriu Soltan*, George Mason University
(979-52-44)
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5:00 p.m.
Unitarily invariant valuations and complex integral geometry.
Semyon Alesker*, Tel Aviv University & University of Chicago
(979-52-88)
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, II
Room 346, Curry Student Center
Organizers:
Sean T. Cleary, City College, CUNY cleary@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Murray Elder, Tufts University melder@math.tamu.edu
Jennifer Taback, University of Albany jtaback@math.albany.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Free decompositions of graphs of free groups.
Guo-An Diao, Rutgers University-Newark
Mark Feighn*, Rutgers University-Newark
(979-20-62)
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3:00 p.m.
Minimal almost convexity.
Murray Elder, Tufts University
Susan Hermiller*, University of Nebraska
(979-20-53)
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3:30 p.m.
Embedding wreath-like products in finitely presented groups.
Gilbert Baumslag*, City College of CUNY
(979-20-114)
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4:00 p.m.
Approximating word problems of groups.
Robert H Gilman*, Stevens Institute of Technology
(979-20-147)
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4:30 p.m.
Train track quasigeodesics in mapping class groups.
Lee Mosher*, Rutgers University, Newark
(979-20-51)
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5:00 p.m.
Graph homology and Outer space.
Karen Vogtmann*, Cornell University
Jim Conant, Cornell University
(979-20-141)
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
Session for Contributed Papers, II
Room 342, Curry Student Center
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2:30 p.m.
Pure subgroups of locally compact abelian groups.
Peter Loth*, Sacred Heart University
(979-22-55)
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2:45 p.m.
On Compact Lattices.
Carmen D Vlad*, Pace University,New York
(979-28-72)
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3:00 p.m.
Generation and Solution of Equalized terms power differential equations.
Ali A. Salim*, Amman - Jordan
(979-34-28)
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3:15 p.m.
Rank and Orbit in R Sequences.
Andrew B Perry*, Springfield College
(979-46-188)
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3:30 p.m.
The Dependence of Deformation of the Energy-Weighted Sum Rules for the Magnetic Dipole Transitions.
Mehmet Guner*, Sakarya University
Ali Ekber Kuliev, Sakarya University
(979-81-22)
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 2:40 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
Special Session on Elliptic Operators on Noncompact Manifolds, II
Room 170, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Maxim Braverman, Northeastern University maxim@neu.edu
Victor Nistor, Pennsylvania State University nistor@math.psu.edu
Mikhail A. Shubin, Northeastern University shubin@neu.edu
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2:40 p.m.
Index theory on foliated spaces and the gap labeling conjecture for quasicrystals.
Jerry Kaminker*, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
(979-58-108)
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3:20 p.m.
From surgery to analysis.
John Roe*, Penn State University
(979-58-164)
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4:00 p.m.
Amenable approximations of spectral density function.
J\'ozef Dodziuk*, Ph.D. Program in Mathematics, Graduate Center, CUNY
Varghese Mathai, University of Adelaide, Adelaide Australia
(979-58-150)
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4:40 p.m.
Quantum Unique Ergodicity.
Harold G Donnelly*, Purdue University
(979-58-33)
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 2:45 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
Special Session on Singularities in Algebraic and Analytic Geometry, II
Room 470, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Terence Gaffney, Northeastern University gaff@neu.edu
David B. Massey, Northeastern University dmassey@neu.edu
Caroline Grant Melles, U. S. Naval Academy cgg@usna.edu
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2:45 p.m.
Topological structure of complex hypersurfaces of dimension 2.
Dung Trang Le*, Universite de Provence
(979-14-125)
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3:35 p.m.
The Denef-Loeser series for toric surface singularities.
Monique H Lejeune-Jalabert*, CNRS LAMA Univ. Versailles St Quentin
Ana J Reguera, Dpto. Algebra y Geometria Univ. Valladolid
(979-14-27)
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4:15 p.m.
On local uniformization in arbitrary characteristic.
Franz-Viktor Kuhlmann*, University of Saskatchewan
(979-14-32)
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Saturday October 5, 2002, 5:30 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Invited Address
Solving universal equations in Gromov-Witten invariants.
Ballroom, Curry Student Center
Xiaobo Liu*, University of Notre Dame
(979-53-03)
Sunday October 6, 2002
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Sunday October 6, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Meeting Registration
Indoor Quad, Mezzanine Level, Curry Student Center
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Sunday October 6, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Quivers and Their Generalizations, III
Room 173, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Alex Martsinkovsky, Northeastern University
Gordana G. Todorov, Northeastern University
Jerzy M. Weyman, Northeastern University weyman@neu.edu
Andrei V. Zelevinsky, Northeastern University andrei@neu.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Weak Morita Duality.
Robert R Colby, University of Iowa
Kent R Fuller*, University of Iowa
(979-16-47)
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8:35 a.m.
Discussion.
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9:10 a.m.
Hochschild cohomology rings, support varieties, and finite generation.
E L Green*, Virginia Tech
Nicole Snashall, University of Leicester
Oyvind Solberg, NTNU
(979-16-23)
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9:45 a.m.
Cotorsion rings.
Pedro Antonio Guil Asensio, Universidad de Murcia
Ivo Herzog*, The Ohio State University at Lima
(979-16-111)
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10:20 a.m.
A grading on the preprojective algebra of a locally finite quiver.
Mark Kleiner*, Syracuse University
(979-16-73)
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Sunday October 6, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Exhibit and Book Sale
Gallery, Mezzanine Level, Curry Student Center
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Sunday October 6, 2002, 8:15 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Hilbert Schemes, III
Room 330, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Mark De Cataldo, SUNY at Stony Brook mde@math.sunysb.edu
Anthony A. Iarrobino, Northeastern University a.iarrobino@neu.edu
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8:15 a.m.
Rational Cherednik Algebras and Differential Operators on Varieties of Quasi-Invariants.
Yuri Berest*, Cornell University
Pavel Etingof, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Victor Ginzburg, University of Chicago
(979-16-231)
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9:00 a.m.
Finite dimensional representations of the rational Cherednik algebra.
Yuri Berest, Cornell University
Pavel Etingof*, MIT
Victor Ginzburg, University of Cheicago
(979-16-197)
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9:40 a.m.
Symmetric products, Symmetric group Frobenius algebras and Discrete Torsion.
Ralph M Kaufmann*, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK and Max--Planck--Institut fuer Mathematik,Bonn, Germany
(979-14-123)
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10:20 a.m.
An elementary construction of an open affine covering of the Hilbert scheme of points of an affine space.
Mark E Huibregtse*, Skidmore College
(979-14-230)
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Sunday October 6, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, III
Room 119, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Stanley J. Eigen, Northeastern University eigen@neu.edu
Vidhu S. Prasad, University of Massachusetts, Lowell vidhu_prasad@uml.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Dynamics of McMullen's Root-Finding Algorithm for cubic polynomials.
Jane M. Hawkins*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(979-37-41)
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9:00 a.m.
Parameter space of the Weierstrass elliptic function.
Jane Hawkins, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lorelei Koss*, Dickinson College
(979-37-189)
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9:30 a.m.
The Dynamics of Quadratic One-Dimensional Continuous Cellular Automata.
Randall E Rausch*, University of Texas at Dallas
(979-37-181)
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10:00 a.m.
Asymptotic Behaviour of Measures with Long Range Correlations under the Action of Cellular Automata.
Reem Yassawi*, Trent University
Marcus Pivato, Trent University
(979-37-204)
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10:30 a.m.
Dimension of hyperbolic sets computed from stable and unstable slices.
Boris Hasselblatt*, Tufts University
Joerg Schmeling, Lunds Universitet
(979-37-48)
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Sunday October 6, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Developments and Applications in Differential Geometry, III
Room 130, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Chuu-Lian Terng, Northeastern University terng@neu.edu
Xiaobo Liu, University of Notre Dame xliu3@nd.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Discussion.
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9:00 a.m.
Painlev\'e Expansions, Cohomogeneity One Metrics, and Exceptional Holonomy.
A. Dancer, Oxford University
M. Wang*, McMaster University
(979-53-153)
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9:30 a.m.
Some fully nonlinear equations in conformal geometry.
Jeff A Viaclovsky*, MIT
(979-53-207)
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10:00 a.m.
The Gromov-Hausdorff Stability of the Spacelike Friedman Model.
Christina Sormani*, Lehman College, CUNY
(979-58-85)
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10:30 a.m.
The minimal marked length spectrum of Riemannian two-step nilmanifolds.
Ruth Gornet, University of Texas at Arlington
Maura B Mast*, University of Massachusetts Boston
(979-53-235)
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Sunday October 6, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry, III
Room 230, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Matthew A. Papanikolas, Brown University map@math.brown.edu
Siman Wong, University of Massachusetts, Amherst siman@math.umass.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Discussion.
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8:30 a.m.
Recent progress on families of twisted $L$-functions.
Solomon Friedberg*, Boston College
(979-11-45)
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9:00 a.m.
Nonholomorphic cocyclic Eisenstein series.
Gautam Chinta*, Brown University
Cormac O'Sullivan, CUNY
(979-11-126)
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9:30 a.m.
Can a Drinfeld module be modular?
David M Goss*, Ohio State University
(979-11-40)
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10:00 a.m.
Newton polygons of wildly ramified curves.
Rachel J. Pries*, Columbia University
(979-11-129)
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10:30 a.m.
Algebraic independence of the divided derivatives of the Carlitz modules.
W. Dale Brownawell*, Penn State
Alfred J. van der Poorten, Macquarie University
(979-11-170)
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Sunday October 6, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Recent Developments in the Orbit Method for Real and p-adic Groups, III
Room 344, Curry Student Center
Organizers:
Donald R. King, Northeastern University donking@neu.edu
Alfred G. Noel, University of Massachusetts, Boston alfred.noel@umb.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Complexity of Nilpotent Orbits and the Kostant-Sekiguchi Correspondence.
Donald R. King*, Northeastern University
(979-22-42)
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9:00 a.m.
Triangularity results for characteristic cycles.
Peter E Trapa*, University of Utah
(979-22-158)
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9:30 a.m.
Discussion.
-
10:00 a.m.
Discussion.
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Sunday October 6, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on The History of Mathematics, III
Room 333, Curry Student Center
Organizers:
Adrian C. Rice, Randolph-Macon College arice4@rmc.edu
Amy E. Shell-Gellasch, U. S. Military Academy aa7423@usma.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Taylor's Theorem: A historical link between discrete and continuous mathematics.
Dick Jardine*, Keene State College
(979-01-115)
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9:00 a.m.
A Jacobian School in Mathematics?
Tom Archibald*, Acadia University
(979-01-54)
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9:30 a.m.
Kinematic space in special relativity.
Paul R Wolfson*, West Chester University of PA
(979-01-38)
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10:00 a.m.
The Evolution of American Geometry Education, 1750-1950.
Amy Ackerberg-Hastings*, Rockville, MD
(979-01-09)
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10:30 a.m.
Old Books and Hidden Gems.
Amy Shell-Gellasch*, United States Military Academy
(979-01-11)
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Sunday October 6, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Convex Geometry, III
Room 50, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Daniel A. Klain, University of Massachusetts, Lowell Daniel_Klain@uml.edu
Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University emw2@po.cwru.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Directed Projection Functions.
Paul Goodey*, University of Oklahoma
Wolfgang Weil, Universit\"at Karlsruhe
(979-52-198)
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9:00 a.m.
A regularity theorem for support functions of convex bodies.
Ralph Howard*, University of South Carolina
(979-52-116)
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9:30 a.m.
Smoothing Convex Polytopes.
Mohammad Ghomi*, University of South Carolina
(979-53-157)
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10:00 a.m.
Convex bodies: metrics and dimension.
R A Vitale*, University of Connecticut
(979-52-70)
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10:30 a.m.
On directly additive selectors for convex and star bodies.
Maria Moszy\'nska*, Warsaw University
(979-52-36)
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Sunday October 6, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Modern Schubert Calculus, III
Room 150, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Frank Sottile, University of Massachusetts, Amherst sottile@math.umass.edu
Christopher T. Woodward, Rutgers University ctw@math.rutgers.edu
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9:00 a.m.
A Schubert calculus recurrence from the noncomplex $W$-action on $G/B$.
Allen Knutson*, UC Berkeley
(979-05-236)
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9:30 a.m.
Grothendieck Polynomials via Permutation Patterns and Chains in the Bruhat Order.
Cristian Lenart, State University of New York at Albany
Shawn Robinson*, Rutgers University
Frank Sottile, University of Massachusetts
(979-05-143)
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10:00 a.m.
Computational aspects of Schubert Calculus.
Alexander Yong*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
(979-05-161)
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10:30 a.m.
Multiplication Formulas in the Grothendieck Ring of a Flag Variety.
Cristian P. Lenart*, SUNY Albany
(979-14-178)
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Sunday October 6, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Special Session on Singularities in Algebraic and Analytic Geometry, III
Room 470, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Terence Gaffney, Northeastern University gaff@neu.edu
David B. Massey, Northeastern University dmassey@neu.edu
Caroline Grant Melles, U. S. Naval Academy cgg@usna.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Equisingularity of sections, $t^r$ condition, and the integral closure of modules.
Terence Gaffney, Northeastern University
David Trotman, Universite de Provence
Leslie Wilson*, University of Hawai`i
(979-32-97)
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9:50 a.m.
Equisingularity and the multiplicity of a pair of modules.
Terence Gaffney*, Northeastern University
(979-32-75)
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Sunday October 6, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Quantum Information Theory, III
Room 70, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Christopher K. King, Northeastern University king@neu.edu
Mary Beth Ruskai, University of Massachusetts, Lowell bruskai@cs.uml.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Exponential speedup via quantum random walk.
Sam Gutmann*, Northeastern University
(979-81-121)
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9:30 a.m.
Conditions for Equality in the Strong Subadditivity Inequality.
Andreas Winter*, University of Bristol
Patrick Hayde, Institution for Quantum Information, Caltech
Richard Jozsa, University of Bristol
(979-94-87)
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10:00 a.m.
Quantum Channels with Limited Access.
Neal G. Anderson*, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
(979-81-185)
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10:30 a.m.
The communication cost of entanglement transformations.
Patrick Hayden*, California Institute of Technology
Sumit Daftuar, California Institute of Technology
Andreas Winter, University of Bristol
(979-81-243)
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Sunday October 6, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Elliptic Operators on Noncompact Manifolds, III
Room 170, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Maxim Braverman, Northeastern University maxim@neu.edu
Victor Nistor, Pennsylvania State University nistor@math.psu.edu
Mikhail A. Shubin, Northeastern University shubin@neu.edu
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9:00 a.m.
The density of states of a periodic media in a large coupling limit.
Leonid Friedlander*, University of Arizona
(979-35-175)
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9:40 a.m.
Adiabatic decompositions formulas for the zeta-determinant of the Dirac Laplacian.
Krzysztof P Wojciechowski*, IUPUI
(979-58-112)
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10:20 a.m.
On complete Ricci-flat metrics.
Gang Tian*, MIT
(979-53-192)
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Sunday October 6, 2002, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, III
Room 346, Curry Student Center
Organizers:
Sean T. Cleary, City College, CUNY cleary@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Murray Elder, Tufts University melder@math.tamu.edu
Jennifer Taback, University of Albany jtaback@math.albany.edu
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9:00 a.m.
The girth of groupsd and quasi-isometry.
Azer Akhmedov*, Yale University
(979-20-107)
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9:30 a.m.
Trivializations of group presentations and the Andrews-Curtis conjecture.
Andrew Casson*, Yale University
(979-20-203)
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10:00 a.m.
The gallery length filling function for finite presentations of groups.
Tim R Riley*, Yale University
Steve M Gersten, University of Utah
(979-20-154)
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10:30 a.m.
Approximating CAT(0) geodesics by Cayley graph geodesics.
Kim E. Ruane*, Tufts University
(979-20-168)
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Sunday October 6, 2002, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Presentation: Part I
TA development using case studies: A workshop for faculty.
Room 342, Curry Student Center
Organizers:
Solomon Friedberg, Boston College
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Sunday October 6, 2002, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Invited Address
Information capacity of quantum channels.
Ballroom, Curry Student Center
Christopher K. King*, Northeastern University
(979-81-02)
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Sunday October 6, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-1:50 p.m.
Erd\H os Memorial Lecture
The conjecture of Erd\H os-Turan and its impact on ergodic theory.
Ballroom, Curry Student Center
Hillel Furstenberg*, Einstein Institute of Mathematics
(979-05-05)
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Sunday October 6, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Modern Schubert Calculus, IV
Room 150, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Frank Sottile, University of Massachusetts, Amherst sottile@math.umass.edu
Christopher T. Woodward, Rutgers University ctw@math.rutgers.edu
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2:00 p.m.
Polynomial representatives of Schubert classes in $QH^*(G/B)$.
Liviu Mare*, University of Toronto
(979-22-162)
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2:30 p.m.
A Pieri formula for universal Schubert polynomials.
Linda Chen*, Columbia University
(979-14-217)
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3:00 p.m.
The Peterson variety and total positivity.
Konstanze Rietsch*, King's College London
(979-22-145)
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3:30 p.m.
Symmetries in quantum Schubert calculus.
Harald Hengelbrock*, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum
(979-05-160)
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4:00 p.m.
Quantum Bruhat graph and Schubert polynomials.
Alexander Postnikov*, MIT
(979-05-240)
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4:30 p.m.
Gromov-Witten invariants on Grassmannians.
Harry Tamvakis*, Brandeis University
(979-14-174)
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Sunday October 6, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 a.m.
Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, IV
Room 119, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Stanley J. Eigen, Northeastern University eigen@neu.edu
Vidhu S. Prasad, University of Massachusetts, Lowell vidhu_prasad@uml.edu
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2:00 a.m.
Properties of Topological Entropy which Characterize it.
Ethan M. Coven*, Wesleyan University
(979-37-18)
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2:30 a.m.
Entropy Points, Expansiveness and Symbolic Dynamics.
Doris Fiebig, Goettingen, Germany
Ulf Rainer Fiebig, Goettingen, Germany
Zbigniew H Nitecki*, Tufts University
(979-37-14)
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3:00 a.m.
On weak mixing and multiple recurrence for infinite measure-preserving transformations.
Cesar E Silva*, Williams College
(979-37-222)
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3:30 a.m.
Distributions of Special One-dependent Measures.
Jorge E Navarro*, University of Texas-Brownsville
(979-37-149)
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4:00 a.m.
Complementing subsets of the integers and a conjecture of Yuji Ito.
Stanley J. Eigen*, Northeastern University
(979-37-206)
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Sunday October 6, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Number Theory and Arithmetic Geometry, IV
Room 230, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Matthew A. Papanikolas, Brown University map@math.brown.edu
Siman Wong, University of Massachusetts, Amherst siman@math.umass.edu
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2:00 p.m.
p-adic rigidity of arithmetic cohomology.
Avner Ash*, Boston College
(979-11-10)
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2:30 p.m.
Cusp singularities and special values of $L$-functions.
Paul E. Gunnells*, UMass Amherst
Jacob Sturm, Rutgers University, Newark
Robert Sczech, Rutgers University, Newark
(979-11-148)
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3:00 p.m.
1-Motives and Iwasawa Theory.
Cristian D. Popescu*, Johns Hopkins University
(979-11-163)
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3:30 p.m.
Adequate equivalence relations and cycles on abelian varieties.
Reza Akhtar*, Miami University
(979-14-179)
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4:00 p.m.
Optimal curves and their $j-$invariants.
Mihran Papikian*, University of Michigan
(979-11-98)
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Sunday October 6, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
Special Session on Quivers and Their Generalizations, IV
Room 173, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Alex Martsinkovsky, Northeastern University
Gordana G. Todorov, Northeastern University
Jerzy M. Weyman, Northeastern University weyman@neu.edu
Andrei V. Zelevinsky, Northeastern University andrei@neu.edu
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2:00 p.m.
Cotilting modules for tame quivers.
Henning Krause*, University of Bielefeld
(979-16-113)
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2:40 p.m.
Koszul algebras and sheaves over projective space.
Roberto Martinez-Villa*, UNAM
(979-16-71)
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3:20 p.m.
Infinite dimensional representations of canonical algebras.
Idun Reiten*, NTNU, Norway
Claus Michael Ringel, Universität Bielefeld, Germany
(979-16-180)
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4:00 p.m.
Representations of selfinjective Koszul algebras.
Dan Zacharia*, Syracuse University
Roberto Martinez-Villa, UNAM
(979-16-74)
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4:40 p.m.
Direct products of representations and the pure-semisimplicity conjecture.
Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann*, University of California at Santa Barbara
Manuel Saorin, Universidad de Murcia
(979-16-132)
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Sunday October 6, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
Special Session on Hilbert Schemes, IV
Room 330, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Mark De Cataldo, SUNY at Stony Brook mde@math.sunysb.edu
Anthony A. Iarrobino, Northeastern University a.iarrobino@neu.edu
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2:00 p.m.
Auto-equivalences of the derived category of a K3 surface and monodromy of its Hilbert schemes.
Eyal Markman*, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
(979-14-166)
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2:45 p.m.
Hilbert schemes and singular curves on a surface.
Ragni Piene*, University of Oslo, Norway
(979-14-58)
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3:25 p.m.
Chow motives for semismall maps.
Mark Andrea A de Cataldo*, SUNY at Stony Brook
Luca Migliorini, University of Bologna
(979-14-43)
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Sunday October 6, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Quantum Information Theory, IV
Room 70, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Christopher K. King, Northeastern University king@neu.edu
Mary Beth Ruskai, University of Massachusetts, Lowell bruskai@cs.uml.edu
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2:00 p.m.
Discussion.
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2:30 p.m.
Quantum Reverse Shannon Theorem.
Charles H. Bennett*, IBM Research Division
(979-94-239)
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3:00 p.m.
Application of operator space methods to conditional expectation and completely positive maps in $L_p$ spaces.
Marius Junge*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(979-46-151)
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3:30 p.m.
Entanglement Breaking Channels.
M. Beth Ruskai*, Arlington, MA
(979-81-69)
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Sunday October 6, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Elliptic Operators on Noncompact Manifolds, IV
Room 170, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Maxim Braverman, Northeastern University maxim@neu.edu
Victor Nistor, Pennsylvania State University nistor@math.psu.edu
Mikhail A. Shubin, Northeastern University shubin@neu.edu
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2:00 p.m.
Adjoints of elliptic cone operators.
Juan B Gil*, Temple University
Gerardo A Mendoza, Temple University
(979-35-119)
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2:40 p.m.
Dirac operators and periodic connections.
Marcos Jardim*, University of Pennsylvania
(979-58-08)
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3:20 p.m.
$b$-holomorphic manifolds.
Howard Jacobowitz, Rutgers University
Gerardo A. Mendoza*, Temple University
(979-35-95)
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Sunday October 6, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Convex Geometry, IV
Room 50, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Daniel A. Klain, University of Massachusetts, Lowell Daniel_Klain@uml.edu
Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University emw2@po.cwru.edu
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2:00 p.m.
A local Steiner-type formula for closed sets and applications.
Daniel Josef Hug*, Universität Freiburg
Günter Last, Universität Karlsruhe
Wolfgang Weil, Universität Karlsruhe
(979-52-159)
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2:30 p.m.
On the uniqueness of solutions to the discrete ${\hbox{L}}_0$-Minkowski problem in the plane.
Alina Stancu*, Polytechnic University of New York
(979-52-110)
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3:00 p.m.
On the State of Voronoi's Conjecture on Parallelohedra.
Konstantin Rybnikov*, UMASS Lowell
(979-52-142)
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3:30 p.m.
Volumes of symmetric random polytopes.
Mark W Meckes*, Case Western Reserve University
(979-52-94)
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4:00 p.m.
Inequalities for mixed volumes and the Minkowski problem for polytopes.
Daniel A. Klain*, University of Massachusetts Lowell
(979-52-227)
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Sunday October 6, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, IV
Room 346, Curry Student Center
Organizers:
Sean T. Cleary, City College, CUNY cleary@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Murray Elder, Tufts University melder@math.tamu.edu
Jennifer Taback, University of Albany jtaback@math.albany.edu
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2:00 p.m.
Sections of projections from a free product to one of its factors.
Mauricio Gutierrez*, Tufts University
(979-20-57)
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2:30 p.m.
Three Dimensional FC Artin Groups are CAT(0).
Robert W Bell*, The Ohio State University
(979-20-215)
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3:00 p.m.
Properties of relatively hyperbolic groups.
Inna Bumagin*, McGill University
(979-20-202)
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3:30 p.m.
Superrigidity for Quasi-isometric Embeddings.
David M Fisher*, Lehman College
Kevin Whyte, University of Illinois, Chicago
(979-22-209)
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4:00 p.m.
Automorphisms of right-angled Coxeter groups.
Anton Kaul*, Tufts University
(979-20-104)
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Sunday October 6, 2002, 2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
Special Presentation: Part II
TA development using case studies: A workshop for faculty.
Room 342, Curry Student Center
Organizers:
Solomon Friedberg, Boston College
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Sunday October 6, 2002, 2:15 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
Special Session on Singularities in Algebraic and Analytic Geometry, IV
Room 470, Dodge Hall
Organizers:
Terence Gaffney, Northeastern University gaff@neu.edu
David B. Massey, Northeastern University dmassey@neu.edu
Caroline Grant Melles, U. S. Naval Academy cgg@usna.edu
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2:15 p.m.
Lipschitz Stratifications and Generic Wings.
Dwi Juniati, Universitas Negeri Surabaya (UNESA), Indonesia
David J. A. Trotman*, University of Provence
Guillaume Valette, University of Provence
(979-58-208)
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3:05 p.m.
Recent results on the Pierce-Birkhoff conjecture.
Francois Lucas, Universite d'Angers, Angers, France
James J. Madden, University of Louisiana, Baton Rouge
Daniel Schaub, Universite d'Angers, Angers, France
Mark Spivakovsky*, Labo. de Math. E. Picard, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
(979-14-228)
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3:55 p.m.
Additive invariants of real varieties.
Clint McCrory*, University of Georgia
Adam Parusinski, University of Angers
(979-14-77)
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4:25 p.m.
Betti numbers of semialgebraic and sub-Pfaffian sets.
Andrei Gabrielov*, Purdue University
(979-14-92)
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