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2004 Spring Southeastern Section Meeting
Tallahassee, FL, March 12-13, 2004
Meeting #994

Associate secretaries:
John L Bryant, AMS bryant@math.fsu.edu

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Friday March 12, 2004

• Friday March 12, 2004, 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Weichelt Lounge, Rovetta Business Building
• Friday March 12, 2004, 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Weichelt Lounge, Rovetta Business Building
• Friday March 12, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Modeling and Simulation of Complex Fluid Systems, I
  Room 106, Rovetta Business Building
  Organizers:
  Qi Wang, Florida State University wang@math.fsu.edu
  Mark Sussman, Florida State University sussman@math.fsu.edu
  Xiaoming Wang, Iowa State University xiawang@iastate.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Connecting Molecular Orientation and Structure to Nano-Composite Properties.
    M. Gregory Forest*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Xiaoyu Zheng, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Robert Lipton, Louisiana State University
    Qi Wang, Florida State University
    Ruhai Zhou, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (994-76-150)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The flow-phase diagram of Doi theory for sheared nematic polymers.
    Ruhai Zhou*, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    M. Gregory Forest, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Qi Wang, Florida State Univ.
    (994-76-165)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Structure formation and evolution in simple flows of nematic liquid crystal polymers.
    Qi Wang*, Florida State University
    (994-76-136)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On weak shear and Poiseuille flows of nematic liquid crystalline polymers: steady structures and transient behavior.
    Zhenlu Cui*, Florida State University
    M. Gregory Forest, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Qi Wang, Florida State University
    (994-82-134)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On Ericksen's Model for Nematic Liquid Crystals with Variable Degree of Orientation.
    Xiaobing Feng*, The University of Tennessee
    (994-65-26)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Grain boundary motion for lamellar structures of a diblock copolymer under oscillatory shear flow.
    Zhi-Feng Huang*, School of Computational Science and Information Technology, Florida State University
    Jorge Vinals, School of Computational Science and Information Technology, Florida State University
    (994-76-104)
• Friday March 12, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Syzygies and Hilbert Functions, I
  Room 108, Rovetta Business Building
  Organizers:
  Irena Peeva, Cornell University ivp1@cornell.edu
  Christopher A. Francisco, Cornell University chris@math.cornell.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    On the projective dimension of three cubics.
    Bahman Engheta*, University of Kansas
    (994-13-118)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The HomAB Problem.
    Kia Dalili*, Rutgers University
    (994-13-73)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Poincare sreies of surface singularities.
    Steven D Cutkosky*, Univ. of Missouri
    (994-14-83)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Endomorphism rings of finite global dimension.
    Graham J Leuschke*, University of Toronto
    (994-13-99)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Multiplicity Bounds.
    Hema Srinivasan*, University of Missouri
    (994-13-174)
• Friday March 12, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Knot Theory and Applications, I
  Room 202, Rovetta Business Building
  Organizers:
  Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte ydiao@uncc.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    A Fast Algorithm for Computing Ropelength.
    Jason H Cantarella*, University of Georgia
    Ted Ashton, University of Georgia
    (994-52-144)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Quadrisecants Give New Lower Bounds for Ropelength of a Knot.
    Elizabeth J. Denne*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina Charlotte
    John M. Sullivan, Technische Universitat Berlin
    (994-57-84)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Semidifferential topology and the ropelength problem.
    Joseph HG Fu*, University of Georgia
    (994-49-148)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Local structure of knot space near ropelength-minimized knots.
    Kenneth Millett, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Michael Piatek, Duquesne University
    Eric Rawdon*, Duquesne University
    (994-57-76)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Implementing the Gradient of Ropelength.
    Michael Piatek*, Duquesne University
    Eric Rawdon, Duquesne University
    Jason Cantarella, University of Georgia
    (994-74-67)
• Friday March 12, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Robert Gilmer and Joe Mott: Forty Years of Commutative Ring Theory at Florida State University, I
  Room 206, Rovetta Business Building
  Organizers:
  William J. Heinzer, Purdue University heinzer@math.purdue.edu
  James W. Brewer, Florida Atlantic University brewer@fau.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Invertibility of the content of a Gaussian polynomial.
    Thomas G Lucas*, University of North Carolina Charlotte
    (994-13-14)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Condensed Rings with Zero-Divisors.
    D. D. Anderson*, The University of Iowa
    Tiberiu Dumitrescu, Universitatea Bucresti
    (994-13-33)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On chain morphisms of commutative rings.
    David E Dobbs*, University of Tennessee
    Andrew J Hetzel, University of Louisiana at Monroe
    (994-13-22)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Divisorial elements in lattice-ordered monoids.
    Laszlo Fuchs*, Tulane University
    Niovi Kehayopulu, University of Athens, Greece
    Raquel Reis, Universidade Aberta, Portugal
    Michael Tsingelis, University of Athens, Greece
    (994-06-30)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Star operations and pullbacks.
    Marco Fontana*, Universit\`a degli Studi ``Roma Tre"
    Mi Hee Park, Korea Institute for Advanced Study
    (994-13-43)
• Friday March 12, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Topology in Honor of John Bryant, I
  Room 204, Rovetta Business Building
  Organizers:
  Washington Mio, Florida State University mio@math.fsu.edu
  Erik K. Pedersen, Binghamton University (SUNY) erik@math.binghamton.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Recognizing open subsets of $S^n$.
    Diarmuid J Crowley, Penn State University
    Steven C Ferry*, Rutgers University
    (994-57-172)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Representing 2-knot groups.
    Gerard A Venema*, Calvin College
    (994-57-200)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    2-Dimensional Axiomatic Geometry Revisited.
    Fredric D Ancel*, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
    (994-51-189)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Embedding of Coxeter groups in a product of trees.
    Alexander N Dranishnikov*, University of Florida
    (994-51-81)
• Friday March 12, 2004, 8:45 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Topology, I
  Room 205, Rovetta Business Building
  Organizers:
  Eriko Hironaka, Florida State University hironaka@math.fsu.edu
  Paolo Aluffi, Florida State University aluffi@math.fsu.edu
  Ettore Aldrovandi, Florida State University ealdrov@math.fsu.edu
  

  • 8:45 a.m.
    Mahler measures of Alexander polynomials.
    Daniel S Silver, University of South Alabama
    Susan G Williams*, University of South Alabama
    (994-58-149)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Links and Lehmer's Question.
    Daniel S Silver*, University of South Alabama
    Susan G Williams, University of South Alabama
    (994-57-153)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    New arithmetic invariants of hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
    Igor V Nikolaev*, Calgary
    (994-11-78)
• Friday March 12, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Financial Mathematics, I
  Room 103, Rovetta Business Building
  Organizers:
  Alec N. Kercheval, Florida State University kercheva@math.fsu.edu
  Warren D. Nichols, Florida State University nichols@math.fsu.edu
  Craig A. Nolder, Florida State University nolder@math.fsu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Continuous-Time Mean--Variance Portfolio Selection with Bankruptcy Prohibition.
    Tomasz R. Bielecki*, Illinois Institute
    Hanqing Jin, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Stanley R. Pliska, Department of Finance, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Xun-Yu Zhou, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    (994-93-145)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Optimal portfolio choice in bond markets.
    Michael R. Tehranchi*, University of Texas at Austin
    (994-60-109)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Portfolio Optimization under Budget Constraints.
    Kiseop Lee*, University of Louisville
    Andrew E.B. Lim, University of California, Berkeley
    (994-60-19)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Sample-Path Approach to Optimal Position Liquidation.
    Paul Krokhmal*, University of Florida
    Stan Uryasev, University of Florida
    (994-90-63)
• Friday March 12, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Results in 3-Manifolds and Related Topics, I
  Room 203, Rovetta Business Building
  Organizers:
  Wolfgang H. Heil, Florida State University heil@math.fsu.edu
  Sergio R. Fenley, Florida State University fenley@math.fsu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Tameness of hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
    Ian Agol*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (994-57-86)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Quasi-Fuchsian immersions in cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
    Joseph D Masters*, SUNY Buffalo
    Xingru Zhang, SUNY Buffalo
    (994-57-205)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    LERF and tameness.
    Darren Long, UCSB
    Alan W Reid*, University of Texas at Austin
    (994-57-62)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Finite quotients of rings and applications to subgroup separability of linear groups.
    Emily Hamilton*, Emory University
    (994-57-135)
• Friday March 12, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis, I
  Room 207, Rovetta Business Building
  Organizers:
  Daniel M. Oberlin, Florida State University oberlin@math.fsu.edu
  Laura de Carli, Florida International University decarlil@fiu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    A new homotopy operator for differential forms in Lipschitz domains and applications to boundary problems.
    Marius S Mitrea*, University of Missouri
    (994-31-164)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Parabolic layer potentials and initial boundary value problems in Lipschitz cylinders with data in Besov spaces.
    Tunde D Jakab*, University of Missouri - Columbia
    (994-35-82)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Maximal function estimates for a modified $KP$ equation.
    Sarah N Ziesler*, Dominican University
    Carlos E Kenig, University of Chicago
    (994-42-72)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Some remarks on unique continuation.
    Steve M Hudson*, Florida International University
    Laura De Carli, Florida International University
    (994-42-103)
• Friday March 12, 2004, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Welcoming remarks.
  Auditorium, Moore Auditorium
  Logistic nonlinearities in population dynamics.
  Auditorium, Moore Auditorium
  Glenn F. Webb*, Vanderbilt University
  (994-92-06)
• Friday March 12, 2004, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Surfaces in hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
  Room 101, Rovetta Business Building
  Yair Minsky*, Yale University
  (994-57-07)
• Friday March 12, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Syzygies and Hilbert Functions, II
  Room 108, Rovetta Business Building
  Organizers:
  Irena Peeva, Cornell University ivp1@cornell.edu
  Christopher A. Francisco, Cornell University chris@math.cornell.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Syzygies of Projective Toric Varieties.
    Gregory G Smith*, Barnard College, Columbia University
    Hal Schenck, Texas A&M University
    (994-14-113)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Polytopal initial ideals for Gorenstein rings.
    Volkmar Welker*, Phlipps-Universit\"at Marburg
    (994-13-39)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Projective algebraic sets of minimal degree.
    David Eisenbud, UC Berkeley
    Mark Green, UCLA
    Klaus Hulek, University of Hannover
    Sorin Popescu*, SUNY at Stony Brook
    (994-14-198)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the Hilbert function and the minimal free resolution of a relatively compressed level algebra.
    Juan C. Migliore*, University of Notre Dame
    Rosa M. Miro-Roig, University of Barcelona
    Uwe Nagel, University of Kentucky
    (994-13-61)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    More on the Lex Plus Powers Conjecture.
    Ben Richert*, California Polytechnic State University
    (994-13-122)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The Pinched Veronese is Koszul.
    Giulio Caviglia*, University of Kansas
    (994-13-102)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Matroids and the structure of multigraded modules.
    A Tchernev*, University at Albany,SUNY
    (994-13-90)
• Friday March 12, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Financial Mathematics, II
  Room 103, Rovetta Business Building
  Organizers:
  Alec N. Kercheval, Florida State University kercheva@math.fsu.edu
  Warren D. Nichols, Florida State University nichols@math.fsu.edu
  Craig A. Nolder, Florida State University nolder@math.fsu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Derivative Pricing with Selfsimilar Additive Processes.
    Craig A. Nolder*, Florida State University
    Mack Galloway, Florida State University
    (994-60-158)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Pricing of Options in Stock Price Models driven by L\'{e}vy Processes.
    Frank Oertel*, Department T - Mathematics and Physics, Zurich University
    (994-60-49)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Nonparametric estimation of asset price models driven by pure-jump L\'evy processes.
    Jose E Figueroa-Lopez*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (994-60-206)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The pricing of a Callable Call on a Forward price.
    Luis Hernandez*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (994-65-194)
• Friday March 12, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Knot Theory and Applications, II
  Room 202, Rovetta Business Building
  Organizers:
  Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte ydiao@uncc.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Topological entanglement of a random $\theta$-curve through knots and links.
    Tetsuo Deguchi*, Department of Physics, Ochanomizu University
    (994-82-125)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Knots in Linear Random Walks.
    Kenneth C Millett*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (994-57-181)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Knot complexity and the probability of random knotting.
    Miyuki K. Shimamura*, Japan
    Tetsuo Deguchi, Japan
    (994-65-79)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Random Knotting of self-avoiding polygons on $\mathbb{Z}^3$.
    Christine E Soteros*, Univ. of Saskatchewan
    (994-05-184)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Probability of Knotting after a Local Strand Passage in an Unknotted SAP.
    M. L. Szafron*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Saskatchewan
    C. E. Soteros, The Mathematical Sciences Group, University of Saskatchewan
    (994-82-147)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Distribution of knots in lattice polygons.
    Stuart G Whittington*, University of Toronto
    (994-57-27)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    How long is a knot in a polymer ?
    Enzo Orlandini*, INFM-Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' di Padova
    Boris Marcone, INFM-Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' di Padova
    Attilio L. Stella, INFM-Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' di Padova
    Francesco Zonta, INFM-Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' di Padova
    (994-82-167)
• Friday March 12, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Results in 3-Manifolds and Related Topics, II
  Room 203, Rovetta Business Building
  Organizers:
  Wolfgang H. Heil, Florida State University heil@math.fsu.edu
  Sergio R. Fenley, Florida State University fenley@math.fsu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Unknotting number 1 knots with non-trivial characteristic toric splitting.
    Cameron McA Gordon*, University of Texas at Austin
    John E Luecke, University of Texas at Austin
    (994-57-154)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Remarks on 2-universal links.
    V\'\i ctor N\'u\~nez*, CIMAT
    (994-57-140)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Constructing knots with trivial mapping class group in closed, orientable 3-manifolds.
    Robert Myers*, Oklahoma State University
    (994-57-119)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Classifying orientation reversing actions on lens spaces.
    John Kalliongis*, Saint Louis University
    Andy Miller, University of Oklahoma
    (994-57-47)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Smale Conjecture for Elliptic 3-manifolds.
    Sungbok Hong, Korea University
    Darryl McCullough*, University of Oklahoma
    J. H. Rubinstein, University of Melbourne
    (994-57-51)
• Friday March 12, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Robert Gilmer and Joe Mott: Forty Years of Commutative Ring Theory at Florida State University, II
  Room 206, Rovetta Business Building
  Organizers:
  William J. Heinzer, Purdue University heinzer@math.purdue.edu
  James W. Brewer, Florida Atlantic University brewer@fau.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    t-Splitting Multiplicative Sets of Ideals in Integral Domains.
    G W Chang, University of Incheon
    Tiberiu Dumitrescu, Universitatea Bucuresti
    Muhammad Zafrullah*, Idaho State University
    (994-13-50)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Splitting Sets.
    David F Anderson*, University of Tennessee
    (994-13-54)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Irreducibles and Elasticity in the Block Monoid B(S,G) for a Cyclic Group G.
    William W. Smith*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (994-13-59)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the irreducible elements of $\mathrm{Int}(D)$ when $D$ is a UFD.
    Scott T Chapman*, Trinity University
    (994-12-66)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Socles of local cohomology modules.
    Tom Marley*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Janet Vassilev, University of Arkansas
    (994-13-71)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On Polynomial Equivalence.
    S. B. Mulay*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    (994-13-98)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Integral Closures of Ideals in Completions of Regular Local Domains.
    William Heinzer, Purdue University
    Christel Rotthaus, Michigan State University
    Sylvia Wiegand*, University of Nebraska
    (994-13-107)
• Friday March 12, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Topology, II
  Room 205, Rovetta Business Building
  Organizers:
  Eriko Hironaka, Florida State University hironaka@math.fsu.edu
  Paolo Aluffi, Florida State University aluffi@math.fsu.edu
  Ettore Aldrovandi, Florida State University ealdrov@math.fsu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    The Hodge theory of algebraic maps.
    Mark Andrea Antonio de Cataldo*, SUNY at Stony Brook
    Luca Migliorini, Univerity of Bologna
    (994-14-95)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Toric Koszul Duality.
    Tom Braden*, UMass, Amherst
    Valery Lunts, Indiana University
    (994-14-56)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Milnor Monodromy in the Perverse Category.
    David B Massey*, Northeastern University
    (994-32-112)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Calogero-Moser and KP systems.
    David Ben-Zvi*, University of Texas, Austin
    Thomas Nevins, University of Michigan
    (994-14-123)
• Friday March 12, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Topology in Honor of John Bryant, II
  Room 204, Rovetta Business Building
  Organizers:
  Washington Mio, Florida State University mio@math.fsu.edu
  Erik K. Pedersen, Binghamton University (SUNY) erik@math.binghamton.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Generalized manifolds - examples, techniques, antecedents and main developments.
    Robert J. Daverman*, University of Tennessee
    (994-57-177)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The quadratic form $E_8\times T^{2n}$ used to construct exotic homology manifolds.
    Andrew A. Ranicki*, University of Edinburgh
    (994-57-60)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Cell-like Approximation Theorem in Dimension 5.
    Denise M. Halverson*, Brigham Young University
    Robert J. Daverman, University of Tennessee
    (994-57-190)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Colored finite type invariants and a multi-variable analogue of the Conway polynomial.
    Sergey A Melikhov*, University of Florida
    (994-57-124)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    What groups can be the fundamental group if a compact Hausdorff space?
    James E Keesling*, University of Florida
    Yuli Rudyak, University of Florida
    (994-54-191)
• Friday March 12, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Modeling and Simulation of Complex Fluid Systems, II
  Room 106, Rovetta Business Building
  Organizers:
  Qi Wang, Florida State University wang@math.fsu.edu
  Mark Sussman, Florida State University sussman@math.fsu.edu
  Xiaoming Wang, Iowa State University xiawang@iastate.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Some new results on elastic fluids.
    Chun Liu*, Penn State University
    (994-35-20)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    CVT reduced-order modeling for fluid flow systems.
    John Burkardt, Florida State University
    Max Gunzburger*, Florida State University
    Hyung-Chun Lee, Ajou University, Korea
    (994-65-126)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Moment closure for a two dimensional complex fluid model.
    Qiang Du, Penn State University
    Chun Liu, Penn State University
    Peng Yu*, Penn State University
    (994-76-15)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Adaptive simulation of 3d non-newtonian bubble and drop dynamics.
    Mark M Sussman*, Florida State University
    Mitsuhiro Ohta, Muroran Institute of Technology
    (994-65-166)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Localization of Bose-Einstein Condensate in a Two-Dimensional Optical Lattice.
    Ziad H Musslimani*, University of Central Florida
    (994-35-24)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The role of volume and surface measure in statistical models of multiphase flow.
    Shankar Subramaniam*, Iowa State University
    (994-76-152)
• Friday March 12, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
  Special Session on Partial Differential Equations and Turbulence (dedicated to the memory of Olga A. Ladyzhenskaya), I
  Room 208, Rovetta Business Building
  Organizers:
  Xiaoming Wang, Florida State University and Iowa State University xiawang@iastate.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Spatial complexity of solutions of the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation.
    Igor Kukavica*, University of Southern California
    (994-35-182)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The 2D quasi-geostrophic equation with critical or super-critical dissipation.
    Jiahong Wu*, Oklahoma State University
    (994-35-36)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the Dissipative 2D Quasi-Geostrophic Equations.
    Ning Ju*, Oklahoma State University
    (994-35-186)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Channel Flow Due To A Concentrated Nonlinear Source.
    C. Y. Chan*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    (994-35-57)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Discussion.
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Schrodinger maps with strong potentials.
    Jalal Shatah, New York University
    Chongchun Zeng*, University of Virginia
    (994-35-35)
• Friday March 12, 2004, 2:45 p.m.-4:25 p.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers
  Room 102, Rovetta Business Building
  

  • 2:45 p.m.
    Boolean Rank and Minimum Rank of Nonnegative Sign Pattern Matrices.
    Frank J Hall*, Georgia State University
    (994-15-34)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Genetic Algorithm for Constrained Optimization.
    M Sun*, The University of Alabama
    D. Bunnag, The University of Alabama
    (994-49-53)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    On $3\times 3$ Orthogonal Matrices with no Zero Entries (Preliminary Report).
    Michael E Holcomb*, Emory and Henry College
    (994-15-80)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Well ordered subsets of the real line.
    David A Rose*, Florida Southern College
    Shi Broadwell, Florida Southern College
    Stephen C Mitchell, Florida Southern College
    (994-54-143)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    A Domain-Decomposition Algorithm for Convection-Diffusion Equations.
    Jayathi Raghavan*, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
    (994-65-188)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Fourier coefficients of the eigenfunction expansions for direct sum differential operators.
    Maksim S. Sokolov*, National University of Uzbekistan
    (994-47-31)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    On the contemporary technologies of creating of electronic libraries for IT students and mathematicians.
    Paul G Shlyonsky*, National University of Uzbekistan
    (994-97-38)
• Friday March 12, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis, II
  Room 207, Rovetta Business Building
  Organizers:
  Daniel M. Oberlin, Florida State University oberlin@math.fsu.edu
  Laura de Carli, Florida International University decarlil@fiu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Some recent applications of Carleman estimates.
    Carlos E Kenig*, University of Chicago and Institute for Advanced Study
    (994-42-117)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Estimates for null forms.
    Atanas Stefanov, University of Kansas
    Rodolfo H. Torres*, University of Kansas
    (994-42-94)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Poisson problem with optimal Besov and Triebel-Lizorkin estimates on non-smooth domains.
    Svitlana Mayboroda*, University of Missouri-Columbia
    (994-35-155)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Discussions.
• Friday March 12, 2004, 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
  Florida State University Department of Mathematics Reception
  Courtyard, Moore Auditorium

Saturday March 13, 2004

• Saturday March 13, 2004, 7:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Weichelt Lounge, Rovetta Business Building
• Saturday March 13, 2004, 7:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Weichelt Lounge, Rovetta Business Building
• Saturday March 13, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Syzygies and Hilbert Functions, III
  Room 108, Rovetta Business Building
  Organizers:
  Irena Peeva, Cornell University ivp1@cornell.edu
  Christopher A. Francisco, Cornell University chris@math.cornell.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Gorenstein projective dimesion, Tate and Vogel cohomology for complexes.
    Oana Veliche*, Purdue University
    (994-18-96)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Classes of Gorenstein rings defined via vanishing cohomology.
    David A. Jorgensen*, University of Texas at Arlington
    Liana M. Sega, Michigan State University
    (994-13-110)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The set of semidualizing complexes is a metric space.
    Sean Sather-Wagstaff*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Anders Frankild, University of Copenhagen
    (994-13-40)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Sally modules of m-primary ideals in local rings.
    Alberto Corso*, University of Kentucky
    (994-13-141)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A bound on the first Hilbert coefficient.
    Claudia Polini*, University of Notre Dame
    (994-13-106)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Rees algebras of the modules of cycles in a Koszul complex.
    Jerzy M Weyman*, Northeastern University
    (994-13-111)
• Saturday March 13, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Knot Theory and Applications, III
  Room 202, Rovetta Business Building
  Organizers:
  Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte ydiao@uncc.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Solving Tangle Equations with KnotPlot.
    Isabel K Darcy*, University of Iowa
    Robert G Scharein, Simon Fraser University
    Stephen D Levene, University of Texas at Dallas
    (994-92-193)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A comparison between the scaling of the average crossing number ${\rm ACN}$ of equilateral random polygons with the corresponding ${\rm ACN}$ scaling observed in native proteins.
    Akos Dobay*, Laboratory of Ultrastructural Analysis, University of Lausanne
    Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina
    Kenneth Millett, University of California Santa Barbara
    Rob Kusner, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
    Andrzej Stasiak, Laboratory of Ultrastructural Analysis, University of Lausanne
    (994-65-85)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Connectivity and shape of spaces of knots.
    Alessandro Flammini, SISSA, Trieste, Italy
    Andrzej Stasiak*, University of Lausanne
    (994-54-46)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Unknotting by Type II Topoisomerases.
    Jennifer K Mann*, Florida State University
    Richard W Deibler, Harvard Medical School
    De Witt L Sumners, Florida State University
    E. Lynn Zechiedrich, Baylor College of Medicine
    (994-92-187)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Colorability and $n$-string Tangles.
    Junalyn P. Navarra-Madsen*, UT-Dallas
    Isabel K. Darcy, University of Iowa
    (994-92-37)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Generating Large Random Knot Projections.
    Claus Ernst*, Western Kentucky University
    Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
    Uta Ziegler, Western Kentucky University
    (994-55-162)
• Saturday March 13, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Special Session on Partial Differential Equations and Turbulence (dedicated to the memory of Olga A. Ladyzhenskaya), II
  Room 208, Rovetta Business Building
  Organizers:
  Xiaoming Wang, Florida State University and Iowa State University xiawang@iastate.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Optical turbulence in shear flows of nematic liquid crystal polymers.
    Qi Wang*, Florida State University
    (994-76-137)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    On Viscoelastic Fluids.
    Chun Liu*, PSU
    (994-35-69)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Homogenized Transport by a Spatiotemporal Mean Flow with Small-Scale Periodic Fluctuations.
    Grigorios A. Pavliotis, University of Warwick
    Peter R Kramer*, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    (994-76-128)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Statistically Relevant Conserved Quantities in Systems with Conservation Laws.
    Rafail V. Abramov*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences/Center for Atmospheric Ocean Science, New York University
    Andrew J. Majda, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences/Center for Atmospheric Ocean Science, New York University
    (994-35-32)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Resonances, Renormalization Groups, and Wave Turbulence.
    David Cai*, Courant Institute
    (994-35-199)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Bifurcation and Stability of Rayleigh-Benard Convection.
    Tian Ma, Indiana University
    Shouhong Wang*, Indiana University
    (994-35-132)
• Saturday March 13, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Applications of Mathematics to Problems in Biology, I
  Room 102, Rovetta Business Building
  Organizers:
  Richard Bertram, Florida State University bertram@math.fsu.edu
  Jack Quine, Florida State University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Mathematical Formalism of Pulse Sequences in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.
    P. Srinivasan*, Florida State University
    J. R. Quine, Florida State University
    Zhehong Gan, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
    (994-92-179)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Structure Determination of Membrane Proteins usingDiscrete Frenet Frames and Solid-State NMR restraints.
    Achuthan Srisairam*, FSU
    Jack Quine, FSU
    (994-92-121)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Graphical Models and Independent Components - A Unifying Paradigm for Model-Free Functional MRI.
    Anke Meyer-Baese*, FSU
    (994-62-196)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Applications of the Poisson-Boltzmann Equation in Molecular Biophysics.
    Marcia O Fenley*, Florida State University
    Alexander H Boschitsch, Continuum Dynamics, Inc.
    (994-92-197)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Membrane Protein Refinement Techniques Using Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo Methods.
    Thomas M Asbury*, Florida State University
    (994-92-77)
• Saturday March 13, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Topology in Honor of John Bryant, III
  Room 204, Rovetta Business Building
  Organizers:
  Washington Mio, Florida State University mio@math.fsu.edu
  Erik K. Pedersen, Binghamton University (SUNY) erik@math.binghamton.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Smoothing loop spaces.
    Erik K. Pedersen*, Binghamton University
    Tilman Bauer, University of Münster
    N. Kitchloo, Johns Hopkins University
    D. Notbohm, Leicester University
    (994-57-75)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Manifolds with nonstable fundamental groups at infinity.
    Craig R Guilbault*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    Frederick C Tinsley, The Colorado College
    (994-57-156)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Weighted $L^2$-cohomology of Coxeter groups.
    M W Davis, The Ohio State University
    J Dymara, Wroclaw University
    T Januszkiewicz, The Ohio State University
    B Okun*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    (994-55-170)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Some examples of free actions of products of Spheres.
    Ian Hambleton*, McMaster University
    (994-57-171)
• Saturday March 13, 2004, 8:45 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Topology, III
  Room 205, Rovetta Business Building
  Organizers:
  Eriko Hironaka, Florida State University hironaka@math.fsu.edu
  Paolo Aluffi, Florida State University aluffi@math.fsu.edu
  Ettore Aldrovandi, Florida State University ealdrov@math.fsu.edu
  

  • 8:45 a.m.
    On the growth of hyperbolic Coxeter groups.
    Ruth Kellerhals*, University of Fribourg
    (994-22-68)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On groups generated by two positive multi-twists.
    Chris Leininger*, Columbia University
    (994-51-12)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Presentation of orbifolds and equivariant algebraic topology.
    David S Metzler*, University of Florida
    Andre Henriques, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (994-55-127)
• Saturday March 13, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Financial Mathematics, III
  Room 103, Rovetta Business Building
  Organizers:
  Alec N. Kercheval, Florida State University kercheva@math.fsu.edu
  Warren D. Nichols, Florida State University nichols@math.fsu.edu
  Craig A. Nolder, Florida State University nolder@math.fsu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Multiscale Stochastic Volatility Models.
    Jean-Pierre M Fouque*, North Carolina State University
    (994-60-08)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Mathematical Models for European Options with Dividends and Stochastic Volatility.
    Osvaldo D. Mendez*, University of Texas El Paso
    (994-91-64)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Market Price of Credit Risk.
    Kay Giesecke*, Cornell University
    Lisa Goldberg, Barra, Inc.
    (994-90-55)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Extreme events in financial markets: jumps and crashes.
    Maria Cristina Mariani*, New Mexico State University
    (994-90-58)
• Saturday March 13, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Results in 3-Manifolds and Related Topics, III
  Room 203, Rovetta Business Building
  Organizers:
  Wolfgang H. Heil, Florida State University heil@math.fsu.edu
  Sergio R. Fenley, Florida State University fenley@math.fsu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Compression branched surfaces and tight laminations.
    Tao Li*, Oklahoma State University
    (994-57-120)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Seifert surfaces with different depths.
    Mark Brittenham*, University of Nebraska
    (994-57-101)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Nonexistence of foliations.
    Sergio Fenley, Florida State University
    Rachel Roberts*, Washington University in St Louis
    John Shareshian, Washington University in St Louis
    Melanie Stein, Trinity College
    (994-57-178)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Uniform 1 Cochains and Genuine Laminations.
    Baris Coskunuzer*, Princeton University
    (994-57-207)
• Saturday March 13, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Robert Gilmer and Joe Mott: Forty Years of Commutative Ring Theory at Florida State University, III
  Room 206, Rovetta Business Building
  Organizers:
  William J. Heinzer, Purdue University heinzer@math.purdue.edu
  James W. Brewer, Florida Atlantic University brewer@fau.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    The $t\#$-property for integral domains.
    Stefania Gabelli, University of Rome III
    Evan Houston*, UNC Charlotte
    Thomas G Lucas, UNC Charlotte
    (994-13-114)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Prufer Conditions on Rings.
    Sarah Glaz*, University of Connecticut
    (994-13-129)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Prufer Domains.
    K Alan Loper*, Ohio State University - Newark
    (994-13-142)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Prime ideals in ultraproducts of commutative rings.
    Bruce M Olberding*, New Mexico State University
    Jay Shapiro, George Mason University
    (994-13-151)
• Saturday March 13, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis, III
  Room 207, Rovetta Business Building
  Organizers:
  Daniel M. Oberlin, Florida State University oberlin@math.fsu.edu
  Laura de Carli, Florida International University decarlil@fiu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Spaces Related to the Dirichlet Space.
    Richard Rochberg*, Washington University
    (994-46-173)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Moser's inequality on the ball $B^n$ for functions with mean value zero.
    Mark Leckband*, Florida International University
    (994-46-185)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On G-Convergence of the Beltrami Operators.
    Tadeusz Iwaniec*, Syracuse University
    (994-35-146)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    $(p,p)$-mapping properties for oscillaory integrals.
    G. Sampson*, Auburn University
    (994-42-03)
• Saturday March 13, 2004, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Markov decision processes and a potential application to biological sequence alignment.
  Room 101, Rovetta Business Building
  Fern Y. Hunt*, National Institute of Standards
  (994-60-05)
• Saturday March 13, 2004, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  On the homeomorphism problem.
  Room 101, Rovetta Business Building
  William H. Jaco*, Oklahoma State University
  (994-57-04)
• Saturday March 13, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Syzygies and Hilbert Functions, IV
  Room 108, Rovetta Business Building
  Organizers:
  Irena Peeva, Cornell University ivp1@cornell.edu
  Christopher A. Francisco, Cornell University chris@math.cornell.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Curves defined by certain monomial ideals.
    Uwe Nagel*, University of Kentucky
    Juan C Migliore, University of Notre Dame
    (994-14-116)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Powers of Complete Intersections and Fat Points in Special Position.
    Adam Van Tuyl*, Lakehead University
    Elena Guardo, University of Catania
    (994-13-52)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Subsets of Complete Intersections in $\mathbb P^n$.
    Susan Marie Cooper*, Queen's University
    (994-13-108)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Approximate Liftings in Commutative Algebra and a Theorem of Grothendieck.
    Phillip A Griffith*, University of Illinois
    (994-13-45)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Asymptotic behaviour of the length of local cohomology.
    S. Dale Cutkosky, University of Missouri
    Huy Tai Ha*, University of Missouri
    Hema Srinivasan, University of Missouri
    Emanoil Theodorescu, University of Missouri
    (994-14-42)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Bounding the relation-type of parameter ideals.
    Laura Ghezzi*, University of Missouri-Columbia
    (994-13-29)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Ideals of Linear Type and c-sequences.
    Hamid Kulosman*, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign
    (994-13-93)
• Saturday March 13, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Financial Mathematics, IV
  Room 103, Rovetta Business Building
  Organizers:
  Alec N. Kercheval, Florida State University kercheva@math.fsu.edu
  Warren D. Nichols, Florida State University nichols@math.fsu.edu
  Craig A. Nolder, Florida State University nolder@math.fsu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    An Agent Market Model Using Evolutionary Game Theory.
    Benoit S Montin*, Florida State University
    Craig A Nolder, Florida State University
    (994-91-41)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Completeness of Security Markets and Backward Stochastic Differential Equations with Unbounded Coefficients.
    Jiongmin Yong*, University of Central Florida
    (994-91-168)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Smoothing Defined Benefit Pension Plan Contributions.
    Steve Paris*, Florida State University
    (994-91-175)
• Saturday March 13, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Applications of Mathematics to Problems in Biology, II
  Room 102, Rovetta Business Building
  Organizers:
  Richard Bertram, Florida State University bertram@math.fsu.edu
  Jack Quine, Florida State University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Modeling mixed microbial growth: connecting theory and experiments.
    S S Pilyugin*, University of Florida
    G T Reeves, Princeton University
    A Narang, University of Florida
    (994-92-97)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Competition and Coexistence of Strains: The Impact of Vaccination.
    Maia Martcheva*, University of Florida
    Mimmo Iannelli, University of Trento
    Xue-Zhi Li, Xinyang Teachers College
    (994-92-89)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Parameter Study of a Markov Decision Modelfor Protein Sequence Alignment.
    Fern Hunt*, NIST
    (994-92-203)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Monte Carlo Methods for Calculating Some Physical Properties of a Large Molecule.
    Michael Mascagni*, Florida State University
    Nikolai Simonov, Florida State University
    (994-65-204)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Rhythmic Hormone Secretion in Rats: Computational model of the hypothalamic mechanism controlling Prolactin secretion.
    Marcel Egli*, Florida State University
    Richard Bertram, Florida State University
    Michael T. Sellix, Florida State University
    Marc E. Freeman, Florida State University
    (994-92-70)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Modeling the Electrical Activity of Pancreatic Islets.
    Richard Bertram*, Florida State University
    (994-92-48)
• Saturday March 13, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Knot Theory and Applications, IV
  Room 202, Rovetta Business Building
  Organizers:
  Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte ydiao@uncc.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    The tight Borromean rings.
    John M Sulivan*, TU Berlin / U Illinois
    (994-53-105)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Braiding Operators are Universal Quantum Gates.
    Louis H. Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (994-57-92)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    From the Gehring Link Problem to Gehring Cloth (and Beyond).
    Rob Kusner*, MSRI
    (994-53-87)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A Khovanov type homology theory for graphs.
    Yongwu Rong*, The George Washington University
    Laure Helme-Guizon, The George Washington University
    (994-05-100)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Total curvature and packing of knots.
    Jonathan Simon*, University of Iowa
    Gregory Buck, St. Anselm College
    (994-57-115)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Computations in knot theory.
    Morwen Thistlethwaite*, University of Tennessee
    (994-57-169)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Geometry, Topology and the Entanglement Phase Transition.
    Greg Buck*, Saint Anselm College
    Jonathan Simon, University of Iowa
    (994-82-202)
• Saturday March 13, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Results in 3-Manifolds and Related Topics, IV
  Room 203, Rovetta Business Building
  Organizers:
  Wolfgang H. Heil, Florida State University heil@math.fsu.edu
  Sergio R. Fenley, Florida State University fenley@math.fsu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Width and Depth for Heegaard splittings.
    John Hempel*, Rice University
    (994-57-183)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Relative Heegaard Genus of Haken 3-Manifolds.
    Jennifer C Schultens*, Univ Cal Davis
    (994-57-139)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Blow-ups of ideal triangulations of $3$--manifolds.
    William Jaco*, Oklahoma State University
    J Hyam Rubinstein, University of Melbourne
    (994-57-88)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Discretized configuration spaces.
    Aaron D Abrams*, University of Georgia
    (994-57-180)
• Saturday March 13, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Robert Gilmer and Joe Mott: Forty Years of Commutative Ring Theory at Florida State University, IV
  Room 206, Rovetta Business Building
  Organizers:
  William J. Heinzer, Purdue University heinzer@math.purdue.edu
  James W. Brewer, Florida Atlantic University brewer@fau.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Indecomposable modules of large rank over double points.
    Wolfgang Hassler, Karl-Franzens Universitaet Graz
    Roger Wiegand*, University of Nebraska
    (994-13-157)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    SFT-property and the ring D((X)).
    Byung Gyun Kang, Pohang University of Science and Technology
    Elaoud Salma*, Higher Institute of Computer Science and Multimedias of Sfax
    (994-13-163)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Finitely Generated Divisibility Groups.
    Yves Lequain*, Instituto de Matematica Pura e Aplicada (IMPA)
    (994-13-176)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The monoid of fractional ideals of a one-dimensional local domain.
    David C, Lantz*, Colgate University
    William E. Heinzer, Purdue University
    (994-13-192)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Strong Finite Type Property.
    Jim Coykendall*, North Dakota State University
    (994-13-195)
• Saturday March 13, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Topology, IV
  Room 205, Rovetta Business Building
  Organizers:
  Eriko Hironaka, Florida State University hironaka@math.fsu.edu
  Paolo Aluffi, Florida State University aluffi@math.fsu.edu
  Ettore Aldrovandi, Florida State University ealdrov@math.fsu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    q-Analogs of Multiple Zeta Functions and Multiple Polylogarithms.
    Jianqiang Zhao*, Eckerd College
    (994-11-21)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Formality of Complex Hypersurface Complements.
    Daniel Matei*, University of Tokyo, Japan
    (994-55-16)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The dimension of the Hilbert scheme of special threefolds.
    Gian Mario Besana*, DePaul University
    Maria Lucia Fania, Universita' degli Studi di L'Aquila
    (994-14-25)
• Saturday March 13, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Topology in Honor of John Bryant, IV
  Room 204, Rovetta Business Building
  Organizers:
  Washington Mio, Florida State University mio@math.fsu.edu
  Erik K. Pedersen, Binghamton University (SUNY) erik@math.binghamton.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Problems and progress in homology manifolds.
    Frank S. Quinn*, Virginia Tech
    (994-57-74)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Obstructions to transversality for homology manifolds.
    Heather M Johnston*, Vassar College
    (994-57-161)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Uncountably many inequivalent Lipschitz homogeneous Cantor sets.
    Du\v{s}an Repov\v{s}*, University of Ljubljana
    (994-57-91)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Elimination of singularities of smooth mappings of 4-manifolds into 3-manifolds.
    Rustam R Sadykov*, University of Florida
    (994-58-130)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Homeomorphism groups of manifolds and Erd\H os space.
    Jan J Dijkstra*, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
    Jan van Mill, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
    (994-57-13)
• Saturday March 13, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis, IV
  Room 207, Rovetta Business Building
  Organizers:
  Daniel M. Oberlin, Florida State University oberlin@math.fsu.edu
  Laura de Carli, Florida International University decarlil@fiu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Distance set problem and weighted Fourier extension estimates.
    M Burak Erdogan*, UC Berkeley
    (994-42-131)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Diophantine equations, distance sets and incidence theorems.
    Alex Iosevich*, University of Missouri
    (994-42-65)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Sobolev norm estimates for functions with Fourier transforms vanishing on families of spheres.
    Oleg Kovrizhkin*, FSU
    (994-42-159)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Level Set Operators vs. Oscillatory Integral Operators.
    Svetlana Roudenko*, Duke University
    Andrew Comech, Duke University
    (994-42-160)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Decay Estimates For Oscillatory Integrals With Polynomial Phase in terms of $p^{(n-3)}$ and $p^{(n-2)}$ or in terms of $p^{(n-2)}$ and $p^{(n-1)}$.
    Brian H Felkel*, Appalachian State University
    (994-42-18)

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