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2004 Fall Western Section Meeting
Albuquerque, NM, October 16-17, 2004
Meeting #1000

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

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Saturday October 16, 2004

• Saturday October 16, 2004, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Atrium, Dane Smith Hall
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Atrium, Dane Smith Hall
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Regularity in PDEs and Harmonic Analysis, I
  Room 325, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Marianne Korten, Kansas State University marianne@math.ksu.edu
  Charles Nelson Moore, Kansas State University cnmoore@math.ksu.edu
  Maria C. Pereyra, University of New Mexico crisp@math.unm.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Boundedness of bilinear pseudodifferential operators on Lebesgue and Sobolev spaces.
    \'Arp\'ad B\'enyi*, University of Massachusetts
    Andrea Nahmod, University of Massachusetts
    Rodolfo H. Torres, University of Kansas
    (1000-42-78)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Limiting weak-type behavior of maximal functions on singular measures.
    Prabhu Janakiraman*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    (1000-42-130)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    "Reconstruction of convex bodies of revolution from the areas of their Shadows".
    Dmitry Ryabogin*, Kansas State University
    (1000-52-120)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Local Hardy spaces and nonhomogeneous div-curl lemmas.
    Galia D. Dafni*, Concordia University
    (1000-42-62)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Weighted inequalities for gradients on non-smooth domains.
    Caroline Sweezy*, Department of Mathemaitcal Sciences, New Mexico State University
    J. Michael Wilson, Department of Mathematics. University of Vermont
    (1000-35-47)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Carleson measures and elliptic operators.
    Steven C. Hofmann*, University of Missouri
    (1000-42-151)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Braids and Knots, I
  Room 127, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Theodore Stanford, New Mexico State University stanford@nmsu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A Self-Linking Invariant of Virtual Knots.
    Louis H. Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1000-57-191)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Khovanov Homology and Skein Modules.
    Adam S. Sikora*, SUNY Buffalo
    Marta M. Asaeda, University of Iowa
    Jozef H. Przytycki, GWU
    (1000-57-187)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Kauffman-Harary Conjecture for Montesinos links and closed 3-braids.
    Jozef H Przytycki*, George Washington University
    Marta M Asaeda, University of Iowa
    Adam S Sikora, SUNY at Buffalo
    (1000-57-97)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Topology of knot spaces.
    Ryan D Budney*, Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon
    (1000-57-126)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Spanning trees and Khovanov homology.
    Abhijit Champanerkar, University of South Alabama
    Ilya Kofman*, Barnard College, Columbia University
    Oleg Viro, Uppsala University
    (1000-57-171)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Mahler measure of Jones Polynomials under twisting.
    Abhijit Champanerkar*, University of South Alabama
    Ilya Kofman, Barnard College, Columbia University
    (1000-57-165)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Probabilistic and Geometric Methods in Learning Theory, I
  Room 228, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Vladimir Koltchinskii, University of New Mexico vlad@math.unm.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    An empirical central limit theorem for pre-Gaussian classes of functions.
    Shahar Mendelson, Australian National University
    Joel Zinn*, TX
    (1000-60-114)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Vapnik-Chervonenkis combinatorics of real-valued classes of functions: entropy and empirical processes.
    Roman Vershynin*, University of California, Davis
    (1000-60-82)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Free energy in the generalized Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model.
    Dmitry Panchenko*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1000-60-57)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematics for Secondary Teachers: Curriculum and Assessment, I
  Room 333, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Adriana Aceves, University of New Mexico aceves@math.unm.edu
  Kristin Umland, University of New Mexico umland@math.unm.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Content Is Important, But ...
    Timothy J Middleton*, University of New Mexico and Bosque School
    (1000-97-183)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Mathematics for Secondary School Teachers: Basics, Connections, and Extensions.
    Ralph J. Bremigan*, Ball State University
    Elizabeth George Bremigan, Ball State University
    John D. Lorch, Ball State University
    (1000-97-21)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Several Complex Variables and CR Geometry, I
  Room 327, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Peter Ebenfelt, University of California San Diego pebenfel@ucsd.edu
  Marshall A. Whittlesey, California State University, San Marcos mwhittle@csusm.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A new compactness property in the theory of the $\overline{\partial}$-Neumann problem.
    Emil J. Straube*, Texas A&M University
    (1000-32-93)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Algebraic aspects of solutions of the Dirichlet problem.
    Peter Ebenfelt, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla
    Dmitry Khavinson*, University of Arkansas
    Harold S. Shapiro, Royal Institute of Technology
    (1000-35-26)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Invariant CR Mappings.
    John P. D'Angelo*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1000-32-54)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Financial Mathematics: The Mathematics of Derivative Securities, I
  Room 224, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Maria Cristina Mariani, New Mexico State University mmariani@nmsu.edu
  Osvaldo Mendez, University of Texas at El Paso mendez@math.utep.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The method of upper and lower solutions for a generalized Black and Scholes equation.
    Pablo Amster*, Universidad de Buenos Aires
    (1000-35-27)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Extending the Universality of the Heath-Jarrow-Morton Model.
    Dwight Grant, University of New Mexico
    Gautam Vora*, University of New Mexico
    (1000-91-115)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Conjugate Duality in Pricing, Hedging, and Portfolio Optimization.
    Jeremy Staum*, Northwestern University
    (1000-90-101)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Categories and Operads in Topology, Geometry, Physics and Other Applications, I
  Room 128, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Hanna Ewa Makaruk, Los Alamos National Laboratory hanna_m@lanl.gov
  Robert Michal Owczarek, Los Alamos National Laboratory rmo@lanl.gov
  Zbigniew Oziewicz, Universidad Nacional Aut\'onoma de M\'exico
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Categorification of the Kauffman bracket skein module of $F\times I$.
    Jozef H Przytycki*, George Washington University
    Marta M Asaeda, University of Iowa
    Adam S Sikora, SUNY at Buffalo
    (1000-57-48)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Asymptotics of the Turaev-Viro invariant of 3-manifolds.
    Charles Frohman, University of Iowa
    Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska*, Boise State University / National Science Foundation
    (1000-57-156)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Frobenius operad.
    Zbigniew Oziewicz*, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Facultad de Estudios Superiores Cuautitlan
    (1000-18-169)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Causal sites as a foundation for quantum gravity.
    Louis Crane*, Mathematics Department, Kansas State University
    Dan Christensen, Mathematics Department, University of western Ontario
    (1000-83-37)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Is there a relationship between geometry of complex networks and the 1/f noise?
    Robert M. Owczarek*, Jemez Springs, NM
    (1000-52-137)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Spectral Geometry, I
  Room 326, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Ivan G. Avramidi, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology iavramid@nmt.edu
  Thomas Patrick Branson, University of Iowa thomas-branson@uiowa.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The Robin Boundary Condition: A Technique and Spectral Consequences.
    Stephen A. Fulling*, Texas A&M University
    (1000-35-49)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Segal-Bargmann transform for noncompact symmetric spaces.
    Brian C. Hall, Notre Dame University
    Jeffrey J. Mitchell*, Robert Morris University
    (1000-53-119)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the renormalized volume of conformally compact Einstein manifolds.
    Alice Chang, Princeton University
    Jie Qing*, UC Santa Cruz
    Paul Yang, Princeton University
    (1000-53-161)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Scaling and asymptotics of heat operators: A spectral duality.
    Palle E. T. Jorgensen*, University of Iowa
    (1000-46-05)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Multiscale Methods and Sampling in Time-Frequency Analysis, I
  Room 229, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Jeffrey Andrew Hogan, University of Arkansas jeffh@uark.edu
  Joseph D. Lakey, New Mexico State University jlakey@nmsu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Analysis of Blockwise Shrinkage Wavelet Estimates via Lower Bounds.
    Sam Efromovich*, University of New Mexico
    (1000-62-219)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Matrix theory for the polyphase-with-advance representation of multirate filter banks.
    Christopher M. Brislawn*, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Brendt Wohlberg, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    (1000-94-17)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Optimality on compact sets of filter banks.
    Michelle D Quirk*, Los Alamos National Laboratories
    (1000-41-150)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Wavelet examples built from redundant filter systems.
    Kathy D. Merrill*, Colorado College
    (1000-42-134)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Construction of scaling functions in GMRA for wavelet sets.
    John J Benedetto, University of Maryland at College Park
    Juan R Romero*, Department of Mathematics at College Park
    (1000-43-23)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations Applied to Materials Science, I
  Room 225, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Patricia Bauman, Purdue University bauman@math.purdue.edu
  Tiziana Giorgi, New Mexico State University tgiorgi@nmsu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Convergence Analysis of a Space-Time Discontinuous Galerkin method for Scalar Conservation Laws.
    Yangsuk Ko*, California State University at Bakersfield
    Robert Haber, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1000-35-58)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Singular limits in the Liouville type equations.
    Michal Kowalczyk*, Kent State University
    (1000-35-139)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Long-time Limit For The Ginzburg-Landau System With Pinning.
    Jianzhong Sun*, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
    Patricia Bauman, Purdue University
    (1000-35-43)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Scattering in Ginzburg-Landau equations.
    Stephen J Gustafson*, University of British Columbia
    Kenji Nakanishi, Nagoya University
    Tai-Peng Tsai, University of British Columbia
    (1000-35-208)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Analysis and Geometry in Carnot-Caratheodory Spaces, I
  Room 329, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Luca Capogna, University of Arkansas capogna@lagrange.uark.edu
  Robert Smits, New Mexico State University rsmits@nmsu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Comparison theorems for Hausdorff dimension in the Heisenberg group.
    Zoltan M. Balogh, University of Berne
    Jeremy T. Tyson*, University of Illinois
    (1000-28-113)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Regular submanifolds of the Heisenberg group.
    Bruno Franchi*, Dept. Mathematics, University of Bologna (Italy)
    Raul Serapioni, Dept. Mathematics, University of Trento (Italy)
    Francesco Serra Cassano, Dept. Mathematics, University of Trento (Italy)
    (1000-22-131)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Blow-up and coarea formula in Heisenberg groups.
    Valentino Magnani*, University of Pisa
    (1000-28-110)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    $C^{1,1}$ Hypersurfaces of the Heisenberg Group are $N$-Rectifiable.
    Daniel R Cole*, Dartmouth College
    (1000-53-103)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Random Matrix Theory and Growth Processes, I
  Room 328, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Craig A. Tracy, University of California Davis tracy@math.ucdavis.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Continuum Limits of Toda Lattices associated to a Random Matrix Partition Function.
    Nicholas M. Ercolani*, University of Arizona
    Kenneth T.-R. McLaughlin, University of Arizona
    Virgil Pierce, University of Arizona
    (1000-05-45)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Asymptotics of block Toeplitz determinants and the classical dimer model.
    Estelle L Basor*, California Polytechnic State University
    (1000-82-136)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, I
  Room 136, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Hirotachi Abo, Colorado State University abo@math.colostate.edu
  Chris Peterson, Colorado State University peterson@math.colostate.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Relations in Tautological Rings by Localization.
    Fumitoshi Sato*, University of Utah
    (1000-14-84)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On the base locus of the generalized theta divisor.
    Daniele Arcara*, University of Utah
    (1000-14-40)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Grothendieck-Lefschetz theorem for normal projective varieties.
    Ravindra V Girivaru*, Washington University at St. Louis
    Srinivas Vasudevan, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
    (1000-14-38)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Smoothing a singular variety using toroidal embeddings.
    Wenxiang Wang*, California State University at San Bernardino
    (1000-14-12)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Arithmetic Geometry, I
  Room 129, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Alexandru Buium, University of New Mexico buium@math.unm.edu
  Michael J. Nakamaye, University of New Mexico nakamaye@math.unm.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Fractals related to K3 surfaces.
    Arthur Baragar*, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
    (1000-14-22)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Arithmetic jet bundles.
    Paul Vojta*, University of California, Berkeley
    (1000-14-174)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Interactions in Riemannian Geometry, I
  Room 324, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Charles P. Boyer, University of New Mexico cboyer@math.unm.edu
  Krzysztof Galicki, University of New Mexico galicki@math.unm.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    3-Sasakian spaces and positive sectional curvature.
    Wolfgang Ziller*, University of Pennsylvania
    Karsten Grove, University of Maryland
    Burkhard Wilking, University of Muenster
    (1000-53-186)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The topology of Eschenburg spaces and 3-Sasakian manifolds.
    Christine Escher*, Oregon State University
    Wolfgang Ziller, University of Pennsylvania
    (1000-53-135)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Superpotentials and the Cohomogeneity One Einstein Equations.
    Andrew Dancer, Oxford University
    McKenzie Y Wang*, McMaster University
    (1000-53-71)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    CAT(0) cube complexes for non-discrete reflection groups.
    Krishnan Shankar*, University of Oklahoma, Norman
    (1000-20-74)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Methods in Turbulence, I
  Room 226, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Monika Nitsche, University of New Mexico nitsche@math.unm.edu
  Vachtang Poutkaradze, University of New Mexico putkarad@math.unm.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Effects of surface tension on immiscible Rayleigh-Taylor turbulence.
    Misha Chertkov*, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    (1000-76-195)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Cascade time-scales for energy and helicity in isotropic homogeneous turbulence.
    Susan Kurien*, Mathematical modeling and analysis group, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Mark Taylor, Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque,NM
    Takeshi Matsumoto, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
    (1000-76-205)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Intersecting Schubert Varieties.
  Room 125, Dane Smith Hall
  Sara C. Billey*, University of Washington
  Ravi Vakil, Stanford University
  (1000-05-160)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Knots modulo braids.
  Room 125, Dane Smith Hall
  Theodore Stanford*, New Mexico State University
  (1000-57-222)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Multiscale Methods and Sampling in Time-Frequency Analysis, II
  Room 229, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Jeffrey Andrew Hogan, University of Arkansas jeffh@uark.edu
  Joseph D. Lakey, New Mexico State University jlakey@nmsu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Composition calculus for fourier integral operators with fold and blowdown singularities.
    Raluca Felea*, Rochester Institute of Technology
    (1000-42-28)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Dyadic models for the equations of fluid motion.
    Natasa Pavlovic*, Princeton University
    (1000-35-133)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Sharp Growth Estimates for Several $T(b)$ Theorems.
    Stephanie Anne Molnar*, UCLA
    (1000-43-184)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Non-Uniform Sampling Schemes in Rectangular and Radial Domains.
    Stephen Casey*, American University
    (1000-42-107)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The Periodic Slepian Wavelets.
    Xiaoping Shen*, Department of Mathematics, Ohio University
    (1000-42-83)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    An implementable frame-based algorithm for the irregular sampling of bandlimited data.
    Jeffrey Hogan*, University of Arkansas
    Joseph Lakey, New Mexico State University
    (1000-42-172)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations Applied to Materials Science, II
  Room 225, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Patricia Bauman, Purdue University bauman@math.purdue.edu
  Tiziana Giorgi, New Mexico State University tgiorgi@nmsu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Dynamics of solitons in nonlinear Schroedinger equations with external potentials.
    I. M. Sigal*, University of Notre Dame, University of Toronto
    (1000-35-94)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Stability of Pinned Fundamental Vortices.
    Fridolin S.T. Ting*, Lakehead University
    (1000-35-86)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Stable vortex Solutions to the Ginzburg-Landau Energy.
    Alberto Montero*, McMaster University
    (1000-35-153)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Vortices and pinning effects for the Ginzburg--Landau model in multiply connected domains.
    Stan Alama, McMaster University
    Lia Bronsard*, McMaster University
    (1000-35-210)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Regularity in PDEs and Harmonic Analysis, II
  Room 325, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Marianne Korten, Kansas State University marianne@math.ksu.edu
  Charles Nelson Moore, Kansas State University cnmoore@math.ksu.edu
  Maria C. Pereyra, University of New Mexico crisp@math.unm.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Norm estimates for inverses of singular integrals in two dimensions.
    Irina Mitrea*, University of Virginia
    (1000-45-152)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Variational inequalities and free boundaries for the p-Laplace operator.
    Donatella Danielli*, Purdue University
    Arshak Petrosyan, Purdue University
    (1000-35-192)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Tornados and continuity for $\Delta u = u^{-\alpha}$ and related equations.
    Alexander M. Meadows*, Cornell University
    (1000-35-182)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Equivalence of Solutions to the p-Laplace Equation in the Heisenberg Group.
    Thomas J. Bieske*, University of South Florida
    (1000-35-163)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Unique continuation for second order elliptic operators: a non-Carleman approach.
    Laura De Carli*, Florida International University
    Steve Hudson, Florida International University
    (1000-35-56)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Analysis and Geometry in Carnot-Caratheodory Spaces, II
  Room 329, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Luca Capogna, University of Arkansas capogna@lagrange.uark.edu
  Robert Smits, New Mexico State University rsmits@nmsu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A regularity result for sub-elliptic systems in Carnot Groups.
    Emily D. Shores*, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
    (1000-35-41)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Fundamental Solution of Kohn Laplacian on quadratic CR manifold.
    Jingzhi Tie*, The University of Georgia
    Der-Chen Chang, Georgetown University
    (1000-32-88)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Forward-backward diffusion in the continuous spectrum case.
    Jorge Aarao*, Claremont McKenna College
    (1000-35-221)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Doubly Nonlinear Parabolic Equations with singular lower order term on the Heisenberg group.
    Ismail Kombe*, Oklahoma City University
    (1000-35-128)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Braids and Knots, II
  Room 127, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Theodore Stanford, New Mexico State University stanford@nmsu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Almost periodic flows on three-manifolds.
    Kelly Delp*, University of California at Santa Barbara
    (1000-57-75)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Closed Essential Surfaces in the Complements of Large Volume Berge Knots.
    Ken Baker*, The University of Georgia at Athens
    (1000-57-145)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Noncyclic covers of knot complements.
    Nathan Darrell Broaddus*, Cornell University
    (1000-57-112)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Polygonal Links and Crossing Number.
    Rollie Trapp*, California State University, San Bernardino
    (1000-57-91)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Hyperbolic Volume vs. Knot Polynomials.
    Oliver Dasbach*, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
    Xiao-Song Lin, UC Riverside
    (1000-57-207)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Probabilistic and Geometric Methods in Learning Theory, II
  Room 228, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Vladimir Koltchinskii, University of New Mexico vlad@math.unm.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Local Rademacher averages and empirical minimization.
    Peter L Bartlett*, University of California at Berkeley
    (1000-60-141)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Fast Rates to Bayes for Support Vector Machines.
    Ingo Steinwart*, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    (1000-60-203)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Anomaly Detection is Classification.
    Clint Scovel*, Modeling, Algorithmics, and Informatics Group, CCS-3, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    (1000-60-202)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematics for Secondary Teachers: Curriculum and Assessment, II
  Room 333, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Adriana Aceves, University of New Mexico aceves@math.unm.edu
  Kristin Umland, University of New Mexico umland@math.unm.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Computer Algebra Systems in the Preparation of Middle School and High School Mathematics Teachers.
    Gary A Harris*, Department of Mathematics and StatisticsTexas Tech University
    (1000-97-44)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Mathematics Content Courses for Middle School Teachers.
    David R. Finston*, New Mexico State University
    Douglas S. Kurtz, New Mexico State University
    (1000-97-100)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Panel Discussion
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Random Matrix Theory and Growth Processes, II
  Room 328, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Craig A. Tracy, University of California Davis tracy@math.ucdavis.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Differential Equations for Dyson Processes.
    Craig A. Tracy, University of California, Davis
    Harold Widom*, University of California, Santa Cruz
    (1000-60-50)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Averages of Characteristic Polynomials in Random Matrix Theory.
    Alexei Borodin*, Clay Mathematics Institute and California Institute of Technology
    Eugene Strahov, California Institute of Technology
    (1000-60-76)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Several Complex Variables and CR Geometry, II
  Room 327, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Peter Ebenfelt, University of California San Diego pebenfel@ucsd.edu
  Marshall A. Whittlesey, California State University, San Marcos mwhittle@csusm.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Super-rigidity for holomorphic mappings between hyperquadrics of different dimensions.
    M. S. Baouendi*, University of California, San Diego
    Xiaojun Huang, Rutgers University
    (1000-32-180)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Effective Estimates of Subelliptic Gain for the $\bar\partial$-Neumann Problem.
    Andreea C Nicoara*, Harvard University
    (1000-32-102)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Convergence of formal holomorphic mappings between real-analytic hypersurfaces.
    Robert Juhlin*, Department of Mathematics, University of California San Diego
    (1000-32-170)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Rational Approximation on the Unit Sphere in $\mathbb{C}^2$.
    John T Anderson*, College of the Holy Cross
    John Wermer, Brown University
    (1000-32-34)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, II
  Room 136, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Hirotachi Abo, Colorado State University abo@math.colostate.edu
  Chris Peterson, Colorado State University peterson@math.colostate.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Plane curves moving with a complete intersection threefold.
    Holger P Kley*, Colorado State University
    (1000-14-199)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Remarks on vector bundles on Projective spaces.
    Mohan Kumar Neithalath*, Washington University in St. Louis
    (1000-14-144)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    ACM Bundles on Hypersurfaces.
    A. Prabhakar Rao*, University of Missouri-St.Louis
    (1000-14-162)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Holomorphic surgery for vector bundles.
    Elizabeth T. Gasparim*, New Mexico State University
    (1000-14-108)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Dualities and Classical Geometry of the Moduli Space of Vector Bundles of Rank 3.
    Quang Minh Nguyen*, University of Michigan - Department of Mathematics
    (1000-14-36)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Financial Mathematics: The Mathematics of Derivative Securities, II
  Room 224, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Maria Cristina Mariani, New Mexico State University mmariani@nmsu.edu
  Osvaldo Mendez, University of Texas at El Paso mendez@math.utep.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the Controversy over Tailweight of Distributions.
    C C Heyde, Australia National University and Columbia University
    S G Kou*, Columbia University
    (1000-90-08)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Multiscale Parameter Variation in Pricing of Derivatives.
    Knut Solna*, UC Irvine
    (1000-00-125)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A Model for Monetary Shocks.
    Jerry L. Bona*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Jenny X. Li, The Pennsylvania State University
    (1000-90-09)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Categories and Operads in Topology, Geometry, Physics and Other Applications, II
  Room 128, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Hanna Ewa Makaruk, Los Alamos National Laboratory hanna_m@lanl.gov
  Robert Michal Owczarek, Los Alamos National Laboratory rmo@lanl.gov
  Zbigniew Oziewicz, Universidad Nacional Aut\'onoma de M\'exico
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Virtual Braids and the $L$-move.
    Sofia Lambropoulou*, Department of Mathematics, National Technical University of Athens
    Louis H. Kauffman, Mathematics Department, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1000-57-55)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Virtual Links and the Generalized Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev Invariant.
    H A Dye*, United States Military Academy
    Louis H Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1000-57-42)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On Correlation Schemes.
    Fernando J. O. Souza*, University of Iowa
    (1000-05-214)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Graphs Applied in Theory of White-Box Software Testing.
    Nikita A Sakhanenko*, Los Alamos National Laboratory/University of New Mexico
    Hanna E Makaruk, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Robert M Owczarek, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    (1000-68-65)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Vector space of paths and completeness of White-Box software testing.
    Hanna E. Makaruk*, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos NM
    Robert M. Owczarek, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
    Nikita A. Sakhanenko, University of New Mexico and Los Alamos National Laboratory
    (1000-68-146)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Arithmetic Geometry, II
  Room 129, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Alexandru Buium, University of New Mexico buium@math.unm.edu
  Michael J. Nakamaye, University of New Mexico nakamaye@math.unm.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Elliptic curves over function fields.
    J Felipe Voloch*, Dept. Math., Univ of Texas at Austin
    (1000-11-13)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Ranks of quadratic twists of elliptic curves and random matrix theory.
    Douglas Ulmer*, University of Arizona
    (1000-11-167)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A proof of the Semistable Conjecture.
    Wieslawa Krystyna Niziol*, University of Utah
    (1000-11-177)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
  Special Session on Spectral Geometry, II
  Room 326, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Ivan G. Avramidi, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology iavramid@nmt.edu
  Thomas Patrick Branson, University of Iowa thomas-branson@uiowa.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Patterson-Selberg zeta function for the BTZ black hole.
    Floyd L. Williams*, Dept.Math./Univ.Mass.at Amherst
    (1000-53-25)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Noncommutative residue and conformal invariants.
    William J Ugalde*, Purdue University
    (1000-53-111)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Two new Weyl-type bounds for the fixed membrane.
    Lotfi Hermi*, Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona
    (1000-35-11)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Beyond the classical Weyl and Colin de Verdi\`ere's formulas for Schr\"odinger operators with polynomial magnetic and electric fields.
    Mitya Boyarchenko, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago
    Sergei Levendorskii*, Department of Economics, University of Texas at Austin
    (1000-35-20)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Interactions in Riemannian Geometry, II
  Room 324, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Charles P. Boyer, University of New Mexico cboyer@math.unm.edu
  Krzysztof Galicki, University of New Mexico galicki@math.unm.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Hamiltonian two-forms in K\"ahler Geometry.
    Vestislav Apostolov*, Universit\'e du Qu\'ebec \`a Montr\'eal
    (1000-53-148)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Weakly Bochner-flat K\"ahler metrics.
    V. Apostolov, UQAM, Montreal
    D. M. J. Calderbank, University of Edinburgh
    P. Gauduchon, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
    C. W. Tonnesen-Friedman*, Union College
    (1000-53-87)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The signature of smooth 4-manifolds with $S^1$ actions.
    Rafael Herrera*, The City University of New York, CSI
    Haydee Herrera, Rutgers University, Camden
    (1000-53-127)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The geometry of compact homogeneous spaces with two isotropy summands.
    William Dickinson, Grand Valley State University
    Megan M. Kerr*, Wellesley College
    (1000-53-142)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Conformally-Einstein K\"ahler metrics on compact manifolds with boundary.
    Gideon Maschler*, University of Toronto
    (1000-53-178)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Methods in Turbulence, II
  Room 226, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Monika Nitsche, University of New Mexico nitsche@math.unm.edu
  Vachtang Poutkaradze, University of New Mexico putkarad@math.unm.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Mathematical Analysis of Certain Analytic Sub-grid Scale Models of Turbulence.
    Edriss S Titi*, University of California -Irvine, and Weizmann Institute of Science
    (1000-76-217)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Equation-free multiscale computation for compressible fluid flows.
    Jimmy Fung*, California Institute of Technology
    (1000-76-197)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Kinematic Simulation of Log-Layer Turbulence using the Langevin Equation.
    Christopher A. Jeffery*, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    (1000-76-206)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Comparison of Euler-alpha and vortex blob regularization of vortex filaments and sheets.
    Monika Nitsche*, University of New Mexico
    Darryl Holm, Los Alamos National Laboratory/Imperial College
    Vakhtang Putkaradze, University of New Mexico
    (1000-35-99)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 3:15 p.m.-4:25 p.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers
  Room 334, Dane Smith Hall
  

  • 3:15 p.m.
    A Mean Value Theorem for Quadrinomials.
    Mohammed A. Qazi*, Tuskegee University
    (1000-30-73)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Eliminating Redundant Linear Constraints in Semidefinite Programming.
    Shafiu Jibrin*, Northern Arizona University
    James Swift, Northern Arizona University
    Daniel Stover, Northen Ariozona University
    (1000-90-61)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Techniques of Statistical Mechanics Applied to Macroeconomics.
    Rod Freed*, California State University Dominguez Hills
    Lily Llamas, California State University at Dominguez Hills
    (1000-62-218)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A study on the Johnson noise in transient temperatures using the sum of random sinusoidal signals.
    Byung Soo Moon*, Utah State University
    (1000-65-209)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    An initial value problem for eigenvalues of certain matrices.
    Donald Beken, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
    Ralph DeMarr*, University of New Mexico
    (1000-15-24)
• Saturday October 16, 2004, 6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
  Reception (Hosted by the Department of Mathematics)
  Atrium, Dane Smith Hall

Sunday October 17, 2004

• Sunday October 17, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Atrium, Dane Smith Hall
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Regularity in PDEs and Harmonic Analysis, III
  Room 325, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Marianne Korten, Kansas State University marianne@math.ksu.edu
  Charles Nelson Moore, Kansas State University cnmoore@math.ksu.edu
  Maria C. Pereyra, University of New Mexico crisp@math.unm.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On the two phase Stefan problem.
    Marianne Korten, Kansas State University
    Charles Moore*, Kansas State University
    (1000-35-116)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Generalized Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequalities and Hodge systems in $\mathbb R^n$.
    Loredana Lanzani*, University of Arkansas
    Elias M. Stein, Princeton University
    (1000-35-89)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Hele-Shaw problem as a Mesa type limit of Stefan problems in exterior domains.
    Ivan A Blank*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    Marianne K Korten, Kansas State University
    Charles N Moore, Kansas State University
    (1000-35-164)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On the pointwise jump condition at the free boundary in the one phase Stefan problem with a "mushy" zone.
    Marianne K Korten*, Kansas State University
    Donatella Danielli, Purdue University
    (1000-35-129)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Divergence-Measure Fields, Sets of Finite Perimeter, and Conservation Laws.
    Monica Torres*, Northwestern University
    Gui-Qiang Chen, Northwestern University
    (1000-35-79)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Non-smooth change of variables.
    David Swanson*, University of Louisville
    (1000-26-175)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Braids and Knots, III
  Room 127, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Theodore Stanford, New Mexico State University stanford@nmsu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Knots with Unknotting Number 1.
    Cameron McA Gordon*, University of Texas at Austin
    John E Luecke, University of Texas at Austin
    (1000-57-189)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Discretized configuration spaces.
    Aaron D. Abrams*, Emory University and MSRI
    (1000-57-213)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Braid representations and braided tensor categories.
    Imre Tuba*, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    (1000-20-223)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Braid Groups on Graphs.
    Lucas A Sabalka*, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Daniel Farley, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1000-20-201)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Three-Eigenvalue Problem and Applications to the Braid Group.
    Eric C Rowell*, Indiana University
    Michael Larsen, Indiana University
    Zhenghan Wang, Indiana University
    (1000-20-90)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Several Complex Variables and CR Geometry, III
  Room 327, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Peter Ebenfelt, University of California San Diego pebenfel@ucsd.edu
  Marshall A. Whittlesey, California State University, San Marcos mwhittle@csusm.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The minimum principle and disk envelopes.
    Evgeny A. Poletsky*, Syracuse University
    (1000-32-121)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    CR Umbilic Points on Real Ellipsoids in Complex 2-Spaces.
    Xiaojun Huang*, Rutgers University at New Brunswick
    (1000-32-140)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Ideal sheaves in Banach spaces.
    Laszlo Lempert*, Purdue University
    (1000-32-98)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Financial Mathematics: The Mathematics of Derivative Securities, III
  Room 224, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Maria Cristina Mariani, New Mexico State University mmariani@nmsu.edu
  Osvaldo Mendez, University of Texas at El Paso mendez@math.utep.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Pricing Functionals and Pricing Measures.
    Ambar Niel Sengupta*, Louisiana State University
    (1000-91-06)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Asymptotic option pricing under a pure jump process.
    Seongjoo Song*, Purdue University
    (1000-60-143)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Consistent aggregation of risk factor models.
    Greg Anderson, Florida State University
    Lisa Goldberg, Florida State University
    Alec Kercheval*, Florida State University
    Guy Miller, Florida State University
    Kathy Sorge, Florida State University
    (1000-90-173)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Categories and Operads in Topology, Geometry, Physics and Other Applications, III
  Room 128, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Hanna Ewa Makaruk, Los Alamos National Laboratory hanna_m@lanl.gov
  Robert Michal Owczarek, Los Alamos National Laboratory rmo@lanl.gov
  Zbigniew Oziewicz, Universidad Nacional Aut\'onoma de M\'exico
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    NonEquilibrium Systems and Irreversible Processes - from the perspective of Continuous Topological Evolution.
    R. M. Kiehn*, Physics Department, University of Houston
    (1000-80-31)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Rota-Baxter algebras in renormalization of QFT.
    K Ebrahimi-Fard, University of Bonn, Germany
    L Guo*, Rutgers University at Newark
    D Kreimer, IHES
    (1000-81-200)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    MathAction - Collaborative Mathematics on the Web using Axiom and REDUCE.
    William S Page*, Kingston, Ontario
    (1000-68-157)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A functor from cyclic operads to chain complexes.
    James Conant*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    Karen Vogtmann, Cornell University
    (1000-18-63)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Non-Commutative Worlds and the Feynman-Dyson Derivation of Electromagnetism.
    Louis H. Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1000-78-193)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Spectral Geometry, III
  Room 326, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Ivan G. Avramidi, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology iavramid@nmt.edu
  Thomas Patrick Branson, University of Iowa thomas-branson@uiowa.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The spectral function for spinors.
    Doojin Hong*, Grinnell College
    (1000-53-168)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Zeta and eta invariants for chiral bag boundary conditions.
    Klaus Kirsten*, Baylor University
    (1000-58-46)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Topics in Spectral and Fractal Geometry.
    Michel L. Lapidus*, University of California, Riverside
    Ben Hambly, Oxford University, UK
    (1000-58-35)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A tube formula for the Koch snowflake curve, with applications to complex dimensions.
    Michel L. Lapidus, University of California, Riverside
    Erin P.J. Pearse*, University of California, Riverside
    (1000-37-18)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Atrium, Dane Smith Hall
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, III
  Room 136, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Hirotachi Abo, Colorado State University abo@math.colostate.edu
  Chris Peterson, Colorado State University peterson@math.colostate.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Polyhedral geometry of representations of the McKay quiver.
    Alastair Craw, SUNY Stonybrook
    Diane Maclagan*, Rutgers University
    Rekha R. Thomas, University of Washington
    (1000-14-198)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The maximum likelihood degree and the likelihood equations.
    Fabrizio Catanese, Universitaet Bayreuth
    Serkan Hosten*, San Francisco State University, Mathematics Department
    Amit Khetan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    Bernd Sturmfels, University of California, Berkeley
    (1000-14-185)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Associated primes of local cohomology modules and Frobenius powers.
    Anurag K. Singh, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Irena Swanson*, New Mexico State University
    (1000-13-66)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Proper Actions of the Additive Group.
    David R. Finston*, New Mexico State University
    James K. Deveney, Virginia Commonwealth University
    (1000-14-104)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Construction of hyperplane arrangements with non-vanishing local system cohomology.
    Yukihito Kawahara*, MSRI / Tokyo Metropolitan University
    (1000-14-53)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Methods in Turbulence, III
  Room 226, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Monika Nitsche, University of New Mexico nitsche@math.unm.edu
  Vachtang Poutkaradze, University of New Mexico putkarad@math.unm.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    The physical mechanisms of two-dimensional turbulence: Inverse and direct cascade processes.
    Robert E Ecke*, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    (1000-76-216)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Shock-driven transition to turbulence: curiouser and curiouser.
    Peter Vorobieff*, The University of New Mexico
    (1000-76-204)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Hydrodynamic Spatio-temporal Complexity.
    Juan M Lopez*, Arizona State University
    (1000-76-122)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Simulation of geophysical turbulence: Dynamic grid deformation.
    Piotr K. Smolarkiewicz*, National Center for Atmospheric Research
    Joseph M. Prusa, Iowa State University
    (1000-39-105)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Braiding Patterns on an Inclined Plane.
    Vakhtang Putkaradze*, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Mexico
    Keith Mertens, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Mexico
    Peter Vorobieff, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of New Mexico
    (1000-76-154)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations Applied to Materials Science, III
  Room 225, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Patricia Bauman, Purdue University bauman@math.purdue.edu
  Tiziana Giorgi, New Mexico State University tgiorgi@nmsu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Vortices in the Ginzburg-Landau model of superconductivity.
    Sylvia Serfaty*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
    (1000-35-124)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Localization of vortices for the Ginzburg-Landau energy functional.
    Daniel Spirn*, University of Minnesota
    (1000-35-96)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Vortices and current in the three-dimensional thin-film Ginzburg-Landau model of superconductivity.
    Dmitry Glotov*, University of Connecticut
    (1000-35-194)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Time-Dependent Ginzburg-Landau Equations in Three Dimensions.
    P. Bauman, Purdue University
    H. Jadallah*, New Mexico Tech
    D. Phillips, Purdue University
    (1000-35-176)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Analysis and Geometry in Carnot-Caratheodory Spaces, III
  Room 329, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Luca Capogna, University of Arkansas capogna@lagrange.uark.edu
  Robert Smits, New Mexico State University rsmits@nmsu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Notions of convexity in Carnot groups.
    Duy-Minh Nhieu*, Department of Mathematics, Georgetown University
    (1000-26-92)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Properties of Subelliptic Cones in Carnot Groups.
    Thomas J. Bieske*, University of South Florida
    Juan J. Manfredi, University of Pittsburgh
    (1000-35-158)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Intrinsic graphs and minimal surfaces in the Heisenberg group.
    Francesco Serra Cassano*, Department of Mathematics-University of Trento
    (1000-49-109)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Singular Integral Operators Associated to Curves with Rational Components.
    Magali Folch-Gabayet*, Instituto de Matematicas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
    James Wright, School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh
    (1000-43-39)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Random Matrix Theory and Growth Processes, III
  Room 328, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Craig A. Tracy, University of California Davis tracy@math.ucdavis.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Distribution Functions for Edge Eigenvalues in Orthogonal and Symplectic Ensembles: Painlev\'e Representations.
    Momar Dieng*, University of California, Davis
    Craig Tracy, University of California, Davis
    (1000-60-159)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Poisson statistics for the largest eigenvalues of Wigner and sample covariance random matrices with heavy tails of matrix entries distributions.
    Alexander Soshnikov*, University of California at Davis
    (1000-60-10)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Arithmetic Geometry, III
  Room 129, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Alexandru Buium, University of New Mexico buium@math.unm.edu
  Michael J. Nakamaye, University of New Mexico nakamaye@math.unm.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Moduli spaces of p-divisible groups with relation to the local Langlands correspondences.
    Elena Mantovan*, University of California at Berkeley
    (1000-11-196)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Variations on a Theme of Stark.
    Stefan Erickson*, University of California, San Diego
    (1000-11-190)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Interactions in Riemannian Geometry, III
  Room 324, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Charles P. Boyer, University of New Mexico cboyer@math.unm.edu
  Krzysztof Galicki, University of New Mexico galicki@math.unm.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    On Lagrangian Catenoids.
    David E. Blair*, Michigan State University
    Alfonso Carriazo, Universidad de Sevilla
    (1000-53-149)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Isoparametric hypersurfaces by Lie sphere geometry.
    Gary R. Jensen*, Washington University
    Thomas E. Cecil, College of the Holy Cross
    Quo-Shin Chi, Washington University
    (1000-53-117)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Weyl curvature and almost Kahler geometry.
    Tedi Draghici*, Florida International University
    (1000-53-59)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    K-nullity interactions with contact metric geometry.
    Philippe Rukimbira*, Florida International University
    (1000-53-80)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  The universality of the distribution functions of random matrix theory.
  Room 125, Dane Smith Hall
  Craig A. Tracy*, UC Davis
  Harold Widom, UC Santa Cruz
  (1000-60-04)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Analytic and geometric properties of CR manifolds and their mappings.
  Room 125, Dane Smith Hall
  Peter Ebenfelt*, University of California San Diego
  (1000-32-02)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations Applied to Materials Science, IV
  Room 225, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Patricia Bauman, Purdue University bauman@math.purdue.edu
  Tiziana Giorgi, New Mexico State University tgiorgi@nmsu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Mathematical problems of gel swelling.
    M C Calderer*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
    (1000-35-226)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The phase transition between the chiral nematic and smectic liquid crystals.
    Sookyung Joo*, IMA, University of Minnesota
    Daniel Phillips, Purdue Univesity
    (1000-35-60)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Time Evolution of Nematic Liquid Crystals.
    Dmitry Golovaty*, The University of Akron
    (1000-35-211)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Continuum theory for flows of liquid crystal polymers.
    Qi Wang, Florida State University
    Zhenlu Cui*, Florida State University
    (1000-76-224)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Regularity in PDEs and Harmonic Analysis, IV
  Room 325, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Marianne Korten, Kansas State University marianne@math.ksu.edu
  Charles Nelson Moore, Kansas State University cnmoore@math.ksu.edu
  Maria C. Pereyra, University of New Mexico crisp@math.unm.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the positive solutions to the linearized Monge-Ampere equation.
    Diego M Maldonado*, University of Kansas
    (1000-35-77)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Decay and Strichartz estimates for the discrete Schr\"odinger and Klein-Gordon equations.
    Atanas Stefanov*, University of Kansas
    Panos Kevrekidis, University of Massachusetts
    (1000-35-69)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On some Schr\"odinger and wave equations with time dependent potentials.
    Virginia Naibo*, Department of Mathematics. University of Kansas.
    Atanas Stefanov, Department of Mathematics. University of Kansas.
    (1000-35-70)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Weak solutions for semilinear wave equations with damping and source terms.
    Petronela Radu*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    (1000-35-64)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Conditions sufficient for partial regularity of a minimzer in nonlinear elasticity.
    Mikil Foss*, Kansas State University
    (1000-49-51)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Harmonic Tangent Unit Vector Fields on Polyhedra.
    A Majumdar, Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol, and Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK
    J M Robbins, Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol
    M Zyskin*, Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol
    (1000-35-29)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Braids and Knots, IV
  Room 127, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Theodore Stanford, New Mexico State University stanford@nmsu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Alexander invariants of line arrangements and great circle links.
    Michael Falk*, Northern Arizona University and MSRI
    (1000-57-220)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    $L^2$--Alexander invariants for knots.
    Weiping Li*, Oklahoma State University
    (1000-58-155)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Towards the computation of the noncommutative A-polynomial of twist knots.
    Razvan Gelca*, Texas Tech University
    Fumikazu Nagasato, Kyushu University
    (1000-57-215)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A variation on finite type knot invariants.
    James Conant*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    Jacob Mostovoy, Instituto de Matematicas (Unidad Cuernavaca) Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
    Ted Stanford, New Mexico State University
    (1000-57-81)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Several Complex Variables and CR Geometry, IV
  Room 327, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Peter Ebenfelt, University of California San Diego pebenfel@ucsd.edu
  Marshall A. Whittlesey, California State University, San Marcos mwhittle@csusm.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Compact Solution Operators for $\overline\partial_b$.
    P. S. Harrington*, University of South Dakota
    (1000-32-123)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Examples for the $\bar{\partial}_b$-Neumann problem.
    Robert K Hladky*, Dartmouth College
    (1000-32-188)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Semi-global approximation of CR functions on Bloom-Graham model graphs in $\mathbb{C}^n$.
    Albert Boggess, Texas A & M University
    Daniel Jupiter*, Texas A & M University
    (1000-32-33)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Financial Mathematics: The Mathematics of Derivative Securities, IV
  Room 224, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Maria Cristina Mariani, New Mexico State University mmariani@nmsu.edu
  Osvaldo Mendez, University of Texas at El Paso mendez@math.utep.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Origin of Crashes in 3 US stock markets: Shocks and Bubbles.
    Anders Johansen*, Humlebaek, Denmark
    (1000-90-15)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    American options: the EPV pricing model.
    Svetlana Boyarchenko, Department of Economics, The University of Texas at Austin
    Sergei Levendorskii*, Department of Economics, The University of Texas at Austin
    (1000-90-19)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Categories and Operads in Topology, Geometry, Physics and Other Applications, IV
  Room 128, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Hanna Ewa Makaruk, Los Alamos National Laboratory hanna_m@lanl.gov
  Robert Michal Owczarek, Los Alamos National Laboratory rmo@lanl.gov
  Zbigniew Oziewicz, Universidad Nacional Aut\'onoma de M\'exico
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Applications of Hopf algebra cohomology in quantum field theory and representation theory.
    Bertfried Fauser*, Max Planck Institut fuer Mathematik in den Naturwissensachaften
    (1000-16-132)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Classical mechanics on Lie algebras, and more.
    Jerzy Kocik*, Mathematics Department, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
    (1000-53-181)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Magnus mapping for free loops.
    Liudmila Sabinina*, UAEM, Cuernavaca,Morelos, Mexico
    Ricardo Diaz Gutierrez, UAEM, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
    (1000-20-179)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On the full "momentum space" in Double Special Relativity.
    Piotr Stachura*, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
    (1000-20-166)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity and its Two Complementary Theories.
    Pavol Valent*, University KF Nitra, Slovak Republik, Europe
    (1000-83-67)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Interactions in Riemannian Geometry, IV
  Room 324, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Charles P. Boyer, University of New Mexico cboyer@math.unm.edu
  Krzysztof Galicki, University of New Mexico galicki@math.unm.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Non-zero contact and Sasakian reduction.
    Oana Dr\u agulete, EPFL (Lausanne) and University "Politehnica" of Bucharest
    Liviu Ornea*, University of Bucharest (Romania) and UNM at Albuquerque
    (1000-53-30)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Kodaira surface, its extended deformation and mirror image.
    Yat Sun Poon*, University of California, Riverside
    (1000-53-95)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Dirac structures and Riemannian Geometry.
    Aissa Wade*, Penn State University
    (1000-53-147)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Deformations of Hypercomplex Structures associated to Heisenberg Groups.
    G Grantcharov*, Florida International University
    H. Pedersen, Southern Denmark University
    Y.S. Poon, University of California Riverside
    (1000-53-118)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    $p$-harmonic morphisms, minimal foliations, and rigidity of metrics.
    Ye-Lin Ou*, University of Oklahoma, USA.
    (1000-53-85)
• Sunday October 17, 2004, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Methods in Turbulence, IV
  Room 226, Dane Smith Hall
  Organizers:
  Monika Nitsche, University of New Mexico nitsche@math.unm.edu
  Vachtang Poutkaradze, University of New Mexico putkarad@math.unm.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Modeling Small Vortical Scales as Nonlinear Solitary Waves.
    John Steinhoff*, University of Tennessee Space Institute
    (1000-76-212)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 4:00 p.m.
    New Scenario for Transition to slow Turbulence. Turbulence like quantum chaos in three dimensional model of Euclidian quantum field theory.
    Foukzon JSF Jaykov*, Israel Institute of Technology,Israel, Tel-Aviv
    (1000-76-07)

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