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2006 Spring Western Section Meeting
San Francisco, CA, April 29-30, 2006 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1018
Associate secretaries: Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu
Sunday April 30, 2006
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Sunday April 30, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Meeting Registration
Room 331, Thornton Hall
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Sunday April 30, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Enumerative Aspects of Polytopes, II
Room 107, Business
Organizers:
Federico Ardila, San Francisco State University fardila@alum.mit.edu
Matthias Beck, San Francisco State University beck@math.sfsu.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Minkowski Sums of Simplices - Preliminary Report.
Geir Agnarsson, Mathematical Sciences, George Mason University
Walter Morris*, Mathematical Sciences, George Mason University
(1018-05-233)
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8:30 a.m.
Permutohedra reshaped.
Alexander Postnikov*, MIT
(1018-05-45)
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9:00 a.m.
Realizations of the associahedron and cyclohedron.
Christophe Hohlweg, The Fields Institute
Carsten E. M. C. Lange*, University of Washington
(1018-05-198)
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9:30 a.m.
Title: Integer linear programming using differentiable Dedekind sums from analytic number theory.
Sinai Robins*, Temple University
Helaman Ferguson, Center for Communications Research
(1018-52-143)
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10:00 a.m.
Fundamental holes and saturation points of a commutative semigroup and their applications to contingency tables.
Akimichi Takemura, University of Tokyo
Ruriko Yoshida*, Duke University
(1018-05-46)
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10:30 a.m.
A canonical form for polytopes and its algorithmic consequences.
Jesus A. De Loera*, University of California, Davis
Shmuel Onn, Technion- Haifa
(1018-52-57)
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Sunday April 30, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Hilbert Functions and Resolutions, III
Room 111, Business
Organizers:
Benjamin Richert, California Polytechnic State University brichert@calpoly.edu
Sean Sather-Wagstaff, California State University, Dominguez Hills ssather@csudh.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Whiskers and sequencially Cohen-Macaulay graphs.
H. Tai Ha*, Tulane University
C. Francisco, University of Missouri-Columbia
(1018-13-33)
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8:30 a.m.
Reconstruction of Hilbert function and Betti numbers of a graph.
K. Dalili*, Dalhousie University
S. Faridi, Dalhousie University
W. Traves, United States Naval Academy
(1018-13-214)
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9:00 a.m.
Bounds on Betti numbers and criteria for the Gorenstein property.
David A. Jorgensen*, University of Texas at Arlington
Graham J. Leuschke, Syracuse University
(1018-13-197)
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9:30 a.m.
Non-commutative desingularization of the generic determinant.
Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz, University of Toronto
Graham J Leuschke*, Syracuse University
Michel Van den Bergh, Free University of Brussels
(1018-13-193)
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10:00 a.m.
Normality of Rees Algebras.
Mark R. Johnson, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Susan E. Morey*, Texas State University, San Marcos
(1018-13-180)
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10:30 a.m.
Normalization of monomial ideals and Hilbert functions.
Rafael H. Villarreal*, CINVESTAV-IPN
(1018-13-22)
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Sunday April 30, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Computational Arithmetic Geometry, III
Room 104, Business
Organizers:
Kenneth A. Ribet, University of California Berkeley ribet@math.berkeley.edu
Kristin Estrella Lauter, Microsoft Corporation klauter@microsoft.com
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8:00 a.m.
Computing zeta functions of surfaces using $p$-adic cohomology.
Kiran S. Kedlaya*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Timothy G. Abbott, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David Roe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(1018-11-74)
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8:30 a.m.
Divisibility of function field class numbers.
Jeffrey D Achter*, Colorado State University
(1018-11-247)
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9:00 a.m.
Frobenius fields for Drinfeld modules of rank 2.
Alina Cojucaru*, Princeton University
(1018-11-270)
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9:30 a.m.
Some applications of the graph of supersingular elliptic curves.
Denis Charles*, Microsoft Research
Eyal Goren, McGill University
Kristin Lauter, Microsoft Research
(1018-11-189)
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10:00 a.m.
Jacobians in isogeny classes of supersingular surfaces over finite fields.
Everett W Howe*, Center for Communications Research, La Jolla
Enric Nart, Universitat Aut\`onoma de Barcelona
Christophe Ritzenthaler, Institut de Math\'ematiques de Luminy
(1018-11-132)
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10:30 a.m.
Constructing elliptic curves in almost polynomial time.
Peter Stevenhagen*, UC San Diego/Universiteit Leiden
Reinier Br\"oker, Universiteit Leiden
(1018-14-176)
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Sunday April 30, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometry of Gr\"obner Bases, I
Room 108, Business
Organizers:
Bernd Sturmfels, University of California Berkeley bernd@math.berkeley.edu
Alexander Yong, University of Minnesota and Fields Institute ayong@fields.utoronto.ca
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8:00 a.m.
Gr\"obner degenerations of subvarieties: subschemes vs. branchvarieties.
Valery Alexeev, University of Georgia
Allen Knutson*, UCSD
(1018-13-212)
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8:30 a.m.
Gr\"obner bases arising in the McKay correspondence.
Diane Maclagan*, Rutgers University
(1018-14-147)
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9:00 a.m.
Free resolutions from quivers of sections.
Gregory G Smith*, Queen's University
Alastair Craw, Stony Brook University
(1018-14-225)
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9:30 a.m.
On the Hilbert scheme of 2-regular schemes.
David Eisenbud, MSRI and UC Berkeley
Sorin Popescu*, SUNY at Stony Brook
(1018-13-254)
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10:00 a.m.
Every codimension two normal toric ideal has a Cohen-Macaulay initial ideal.
Serkan Hosten*, San Francisco State University
Pierre Dueck, UC Davis
(1018-13-242)
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10:30 a.m.
Detecting total dual integrality and perfect graphs.
Edwin O'Shea*, University of Washington
Andr{\' a}s Seb{\" o}, Laboratoire Leibniz, IMAG, C.N.R.S., France
(1018-05-160)
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Sunday April 30, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Elliptic Methods in Geometry, III
Room 120, Business
Organizers:
C. Robin Graham, University of Washington robin@math.washington.edu
Rafe Mazzeo, Stanford University mazzeo@riley.stanford.edu
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Sunday April 30, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Fractal Geometry: Connections to Dynamics, Geometric Measure Theory, Mathematical Physics and Number Theory, III
Room 325, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Michel L. Lapidus, University of California Riverside lapidus@math.ucr.edu
Erin P. Pearse, University of California Riverside epearse@math.ucr.edu
Machiel van Frankenhuijsen, Utah Valley State College vanframa@uvsc.edu
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8:00 a.m.
A Survey of Results Involving Vertex Replacement Rules.
Michelle Previte*, Penn State Erie
(1018-51-18)
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8:30 a.m.
Semilinear PDE on Regions with Fractal Boundary and Semilinear PdE on Graphs; Automated Branch Following and Symmetry.
John M Neuberger*, Northern Arizona University
Nandor Sieben, NAU
James W Swift, NAU
(1018-35-240)
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9:00 a.m.
Harmonic coordinates on fractals with finitely ramified cell structure.
Alexander Teplyaev*, University of Connecticut
(1018-28-154)
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9:30 a.m.
Localization on Snowflake Domains.
Britta Daudert*, UC Riverside
(1018-65-110)
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10:00 a.m.
Hausdorff and Packing Dimension Results for Random Fields.
Yimin Xiao*, Michigan State University
(1018-60-29)
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10:30 a.m.
Parabolic Harnack Inequality for jump processes on fractal spaces.
M. T. Barlow*, University of British Columbia
R. F. Bass, University of Connecticut
T. Kumagai, RIMS, Kyoto University
(1018-60-47)
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Sunday April 30, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Probability and Statistical Physics, III
Room 329, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Marek Biskup, University of California Los Angeles biskup@math.ucla.edu
Noam Berger, California Institute of Technology and University of California Los Angeles berger@its.caltech.edu
Balint Virag, University of Toronto balint@math.toronto.edu
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Sunday April 30, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Liapunov Exponents and Nonuniform Hyperbolicity, III
Room 429, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Anton Gorodetski, California Institute of Technology asgor@caltech.edu Caltech
Vadim Kaloshin, California Institute of Technology kaloshin@its.caltech.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Stable transitivity of non-compact extensions.
Viorel Nitica*, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Andrew Torok, University of Houston
Ian Melbourne, University of Surrey, UK
(1018-37-244)
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9:00 a.m.
Analytic reparametrization of semialgebraic sets and local entropy bounds.
Y. Yomdin*, The Weizmann Institute of Science
(1018-37-136)
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10:00 a.m.
Nonremovable zero Lyapunov exponents.
Anton Gorodetski*, Caltech
Yulij Ilyashenko, Cornell University, Moscow State University, Independent Moscow University
Victor Kleptsyn, Moscow State University, ENS Lyon, Independent Moscow University
Maxim Nalsky, Moscow State University
(1018-37-252)
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10:30 a.m.
Whitney regularity for solutions to the coboundary equation on Cantor sets.
Andrew Torok*, University of Houston
Matthew Nicol, University of Houston
(1018-37-202)
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Sunday April 30, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Q-series and Partitions, III
Room 110, Business
Organizers:
Neville Robbins, San Francisco State University robbins@math.sfsu.edu
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Sunday April 30, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on Lie Algebras and Applications, III
Room 106, Business
Organizers:
Dimitar Grantcharov, San Jose State University grantcharov@math.sjsu.edu
Vera Serganova, University of California Berkeley serganova@math.berkeley.edu
Arturo Pianzola, University of Alberta a.pianzola@ualberta.ca
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8:00 a.m.
Versal Deformations and Moduli Spaces of Lie Algebras.
Michael R Penkava*, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Alice Fialowski, E\"otv\"os Lor\'and University
(1018-17-43)
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8:30 a.m.
Root Multiplicities of the Indefinite Kac-Moody Algebras $HC_n^{(1)}$.
Vicky Williams Klima*, Appalachian State University
Kailash C. Misra, North Carolina State University
(1018-17-182)
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9:00 a.m.
Kostant modules in blocks of category ${\mathcal O}_{S}$.
Brian D. Boe*, University of Georgia
Markus Hunziker, Baylor University
(1018-17-94)
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9:30 a.m.
Norton algebras attached to Weyl group quotients.
Fernando Levstein*, FaMAF, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba
Carolina Maldonado, FaMAF, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba
Daniel Penazzi, FaMAF, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba
(1018-17-101)
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10:00 a.m.
Schur-Weyl duality for higher levels.
Jonathan Brundan*, University of Oregon
Alexander Kleshchev, University of Oregon
(1018-20-44)
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10:30 a.m.
Discussion
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Sunday April 30, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Exhibit and Book Sale
Room 331, Thornton Hall
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Sunday April 30, 2006, 8:15 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
Session for Contributed Papers, II
Room 113, Business
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8:00 a.m.
The matrix analogs of Firey's Extension of Minkowski inequality and of Firey's Extension of Brunn-Minkowski inequality.
Poramate Pranayanuntana*, Dept. of Control Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand
John Gordon, Queensborough Community College, Bayside, NY, USA 11364
(1018-52-263)
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8:15 a.m.
Mathematical, Physical, and Biological Fractal Sphere-packings.
Benjamin Wells*, University of San Francisco
(1018-51-23)
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8:30 a.m.
Population Dynamics of Developmental Disorders Due to an Environmental Neurotoxicant.
Thomas J Emerson*, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
(1018-92-195)
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8:45 a.m.
A Modified Jacobi Iteration Method for Linear System.
Joshua Z. Du*, Kennesaw State University
(1018-15-123)
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9:00 a.m.
The Periodic and Quasiperiodic Orbits of a Fractal Billiard.
Robert G. Niemeyer*, University of California, Riverside
(1018-37-194)
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9:15 a.m.
Moment Estimates and Almost Sure Asymptotic Estimates for the Solution of the Stochastic Differential Delay Equations.
Matina John Rassias*, University of Strathclyde, UK
Xuerong Mao, University of Strathclyde, UK
(1018-60-21)
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9:30 a.m.
Analysis of Solutions to a Coupled Ginzburg-Landau System for Superconductors of Layered Structure.
Yangsuk Ko*, California Sate University at Bakersfield
Patricia Bauman, Purdue University
(1018-35-24)
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9:45 a.m.
Diagonalizing Similarity Transformations for Variable-Coefficient Differential Operators.
James V Lambers*, Stanford University
Patrick Guidotti, University of California, Irvine
(1018-35-170)
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10:00 a.m.
Two-level atoms: A normal form approach.
Raghu Gompa*, Jackson State University
(1018-81-28)
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10:15 a.m.
Cooperative Binding Enzyme/Substrate Systems; Chaos/Catastrophe Analysis, Existence of Bifurcation Fold Catastrophe. Applied to Hemoglobin/Oxygen Neuroreceptors/Neurotransmitter and Microtubulin/Taxol
David Lee Blackman*, Retired UC Berkeley
(1018-92-36)
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10:30 a.m.
The Mathematical Foundations of Game Theory and the Social Sciences.
Jonathan Barzilai*, Dalhousie University
(1018-90-68)
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10:45 a.m.
Gauss-Legendre Quadrature Formula in Runge-Kutta Method with Modified Model of Newton Cooling Law.
Maitree Podisuk*, KMITL, Bangkok Thailand
Sirirat Khuntidilokwongsa, KMUTT, Bangkok Thailand
Witchasya Rattanametawee, MU, Mahasarakham Thailand
(1018-65-16)
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Sunday April 30, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Partial Differential Equations and Their Applications, III
Room 432, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Steve Shkoller, University of California Davis shkoller@math.ucdavis.edu
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Sunday April 30, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Dynamics and Ergodic Theory, III
Room 211, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Yitwah Cheung, San Francisco State University cheung@math.sfsu.edu
Arek Goetz, San Francisco State University goetz@sfsu.edu
Slobodan Simic, San Jose State University simic@math.sjsu.edu
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Sunday April 30, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on History and Philosophy of Mathematics, III
Room 116, Business
Organizers:
Shawnee L. McMurran, California State University, San Bernardino mcmurran@math.csusb.edu
James J. Tattersall, Providence College tat@providence.edu
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Sunday April 30, 2006, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Invited Address
Nonlocal instabilities in the planar three body problem.
Room 101, Science
Vadim Kaloshin*, Caltech and PSU
Timothy Nguyen, Caltech
Dmitry Pavlov, Caltech
(1018-37-260)
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Sunday April 30, 2006, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
Invited Address
Mean-Field Approach to the Problem of Phase Transitions in Physically Realistic Systems.
Room 101, Science
L. Chayes*, UCLA Department of Mathematics
(1018-82-135)
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Sunday April 30, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Hilbert Functions and Resolutions, IV
Room 111, Business
Organizers:
Benjamin Richert, California Polytechnic State University brichert@calpoly.edu
Sean Sather-Wagstaff, California State University, Dominguez Hills ssather@csudh.edu
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3:00 p.m.
The Regularity of Powers of an Ideal.
David Eisenbud*, MSRI and UC Berkeley
(1018-13-216)
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3:30 p.m.
Growth of powers of ideals.
Catalin Ciuperca*, North Dakota State University
Florian Enescu, Georgia State University
Sandra Spiroff, University of Utah
(1018-13-190)
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4:00 p.m.
Buchsbaum-Rim multiplicity in terms of Hilbert-Samuel multiplicities.
C-Y. Jean Chan*, University of Arkansas
Jung-Chen Liu, National Taiwan Normal University
Bernd Ulrich, Purdue University
(1018-13-241)
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4:30 p.m.
C-Strict Resolutions.
Diana White*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
(1018-13-236)
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5:00 p.m.
Cohomology over Fiber Products of Local Rings.
W. Frank Moore*, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
(1018-13-203)
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5:30 p.m.
Explicit generalized Pieri maps and their inverses.
Carrie E. Finch*, University of South Carolina
(1018-13-142)
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6:00 p.m.
Almost regular sequences.
Florian Enescu*, Georgia State University
(1018-13-168)
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Sunday April 30, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
Special Session on Computational Arithmetic Geometry, IV
Room 104, Business
Organizers:
Kenneth A. Ribet, University of California Berkeley ribet@math.berkeley.edu
Kristin Estrella Lauter, Microsoft Corporation klauter@microsoft.com
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3:00 p.m.
The p-torsion of curves in characteristic p.
Rachel Pries*, Colorado State University
(1018-11-146)
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3:30 p.m.
Local Galois theory in dimension two.
Katherine F. Stevenson*, California State University, Northridge
David Harbater, University of Pennsylvania
(1018-14-55)
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4:00 p.m.
Solvability of small curves of genus 2.
Nils Bruin*, Simon Fraser University
Michael Stoll, International University Bremen
(1018-11-120)
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4:30 p.m.
Gonality of modular curves in characteristic p.
Bjorn Poonen*, University of California at Berkeley
(1018-14-165)
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5:00 p.m.
Reflection principles and l-parts of class groups.
Jordan S Ellenberg*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Akshay Venkatesh, New York University
(1018-11-71)
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5:30 p.m.
Modular curves and semistable abelian varieties over~$\bf Q$.
Rene Schoof*, Universita' di Roma "Tor Vergata" / MSRI
(1018-11-125)
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6:00 p.m.
Discussion
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Sunday April 30, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Partial Differential Equations and Their Applications, IV
Room 432, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Steve Shkoller, University of California Davis shkoller@math.ucdavis.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Global Well-Posedness of Partial Differential Equations of Fluid Type.
Congming Li*, Applied Math, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder
Thomas Y Hou, Calif. Int. of Tech, CAM
(1018-35-249)
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3:30 p.m.
Variational systems of nonlinear wave equations.
John K Hunter*, University of California at Davis
(1018-35-82)
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4:00 p.m.
Feature-preserving higher-order geometric evolution problems in image processing.
Marc Droske*, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles
Andrea Bertozzi, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles
(1018-53-78)
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4:30 p.m.
Level Set Dynamics and the Non-blowup of the 2D Quasi-geostrophic Equation.
Xinwei Yu*, University of California, Los Angeles
Thomas Y Hou, California Institute of Technology
Ruo Li, California Institute of Technology, Peking University
Jian Deng, Fudan University
(1018-35-70)
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Sunday April 30, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometry of Gr\"obner Bases, II
Room 108, Business
Organizers:
Bernd Sturmfels, University of California Berkeley bernd@math.berkeley.edu
Alexander Yong, University of Minnesota and Fields Institute ayong@fields.utoronto.ca
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3:00 p.m.
Secant varieties of rational homogeneous varieties.
Joseph M Landsberg*, Texas A&M University
(1018-14-185)
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3:30 p.m.
Local Neighborhoods of Schubert Varieties.
Alexander Woo*, University of California at Davis
Alexander Yong, University of Minnesota, Fields Institute
(1018-14-266)
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4:00 p.m.
Tropical Implicitization.
Bernd Sturmfels, UC Berkeley
Jenia Tevelev, UT Austin
Josephine Yu*, UC Berkeley
(1018-14-234)
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4:30 p.m.
Some progress on the Lex-Plus-Power conjecture.
Giulio Caviglia*, University of California, Berkeley
(1018-13-267)
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5:00 p.m.
The Fibers of a Rational Map.
David Eisenbud*, MSRI and UC Berkeley
(1018-14-217)
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5:30 p.m.
Computing characteristic cycles of local cohomology modules.
Anton Leykin*, University of Illinois at Chicago
Josep \`Alvarez Montaner, Universitat Polit\`ecnica de Catalunya
(1018-14-151)
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Sunday April 30, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Elliptic Methods in Geometry, IV
Room 120, Business
Organizers:
C. Robin Graham, University of Washington robin@math.washington.edu
Rafe Mazzeo, Stanford University mazzeo@riley.stanford.edu
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Sunday April 30, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Fractal Geometry: Connections to Dynamics, Geometric Measure Theory, Mathematical Physics and Number Theory, IV
Room 325, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Michel L. Lapidus, University of California Riverside lapidus@math.ucr.edu
Erin P. Pearse, University of California Riverside epearse@math.ucr.edu
Machiel van Frankenhuijsen, Utah Valley State College vanframa@uvsc.edu
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Sunday April 30, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
Special Session on Probability and Statistical Physics, IV
Room 329, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Marek Biskup, University of California Los Angeles biskup@math.ucla.edu
Noam Berger, California Institute of Technology and University of California Los Angeles berger@its.caltech.edu
Balint Virag, University of Toronto balint@math.toronto.edu
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Sunday April 30, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Liapunov Exponents and Nonuniform Hyperbolicity, IV
Room 429, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Anton Gorodetski, California Institute of Technology asgor@caltech.edu Caltech
Vadim Kaloshin, California Institute of Technology kaloshin@its.caltech.edu
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Sunday April 30, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Q-series and Partitions, IV
Room 110, Business
Organizers:
Neville Robbins, San Francisco State University robbins@math.sfsu.edu
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Sunday April 30, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Lie Algebras and Applications, IV
Room 106, Business
Organizers:
Dimitar Grantcharov, San Jose State University grantcharov@math.sjsu.edu
Vera Serganova, University of California Berkeley serganova@math.berkeley.edu
Arturo Pianzola, University of Alberta a.pianzola@ualberta.ca
Inquiries: meet@ams.org
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