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2006 Spring Eastern Section Meeting
Durham, NH, April 22-23, 2006 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1017

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

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Saturday April 22, 2006

• Saturday April 22, 2006, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Lobby, Murkland Hall
• Saturday April 22, 2006, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Room G02, Murkland Hall
• Saturday April 22, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Quantum Invariants of Knots and 3-Manifolds, I
  Room 115, Murkland Hall
  Organizers:
  Charles D. Frohman, University of Iowa
  Razvan Gelca, Texas Tech University rgelca@gmail.com
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Combinatorial patterns in Khovanov type graph homology.
    Jozef H Przytycki*, GWU
    Milena D Pabiniak, GWU
    Radmila Sazdanovic, GWU
    (1017-57-222)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Behavior of knot invariants under genus~$2$ mutation.
    Nathan M. Dunfield, California Institute of Technology
    Stavros Garoufalidis, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Alexander Shumakovitch*, The George Washington University
    Morwen Thislethwaite, The University of Tennessee
    (1017-57-220)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Khovanov Homology and The Geometry of Alternating Knots.
    Robert G. Todd*, Universtiy of Iowa
    (1017-00-81)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Discovering torsion in chromatic graph homology.
    Radmila Sazdanovic*, George Washington University
    Milena D. Pabiniak, GWU
    Jozef H. Przytycki, GWU
    (1017-57-34)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Introduction to Quandle Algebras.
    J. Scott Carter*, University of South Alabama
    (1017-55-113)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Reidemeister torsion of a 3-dimensional homology sphere at the trivial representation.
    Charles D. Frohman, The University of Iowa
    Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska*, National Science Foundation
    (1017-57-148)
• Saturday April 22, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Banach Spaces of Analytic Functions, I
  Room 201, Murkland Hall
  Organizers:
  Rita A. Hibschweiler, University of New Hampshire rah2@cisunix.unh.edu
  Thomas H. MacGregor, SUNY Albany and Bowdoin College
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Pluripolarity of manifolds of Gevrey class and asymptotics of $n$-width.
    Oleg Eroshkin*, University of New Hampshire
    (1017-32-20)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    On a question of Korevaar and Br\'ezis concerning a class of square summable sequences.
    Richard Fournier*, Université de Montréal
    (1017-30-95)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Composition operators on $\mu$-Bloch spaces.
    Huaihui Chen, Nanjing Normal University
    Paul M Gauthier*, Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
    (1017-30-117)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Algebraic aspects of the Dirirchlet problem.
    Steven R. Bell, Purdue University
    Peter Ebenfelt, University of California San Diego at La Jolla
    Dima Khavinson*, University of Arkansas and National Science Foundation
    Harold S. Shapiro, Royal Institute of Technology
    (1017-31-12)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Interpolation of Bergman-type spaces and applications.
    Marc R Lengfield*, Western Kentucky University
    (1017-47-22)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Fractional Cauchy Transforms and Compositions, Preliminary Report.
    Thomas H. Mac Gregor*, Bowdoin College/SUNY at Albany
    (1017-30-38)
• Saturday April 22, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:35 a.m.
  Special Session on Banach Lattices, Regular Operators, and Applications, I
  Room G01, Murkland Hall
  Organizers:
  A. K. Kitover, Community College of Philadelphia
  M. Orhon, University of New Hampshire
  A. W. Wickstead, Queen's University of Belfast a.wickstead@queens-belfast.ac.uk
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    When do the regular operators between two Banach lattices form a lattice?
    Anthony W Wickstead*, Queens University Belfast
    (1017-47-144)
  • 8:55 a.m.
    The de Schipper formula and squares of Banach lattices.
    Gerard J Buskes*, University of Mississippi
    (1017-46-109)
  • 9:50 a.m.
    Martingales in Banach Lattices.
    Vladimir Troitsky*, University of Alberta
    (1017-46-164)
• Saturday April 22, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Galois Theory in Arithmetic and Geometry, I
  Room 202, Murkland Hall
  Organizers:
  Florian Pop, University of Pennsylvania pop@math.upenn.edu
  David Harbater, University of Pennsylvania harbater@math.upenn.edu
  Rachel J. Pries, Colorado State University pries@math.colostate.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Galois groups of unramified extensions.
    Romyar T Sharifi*, McMaster University
    (1017-11-167)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Realizing Groups with Minimal Ramification.
    Nigel Boston*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    (1017-11-150)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Mild pro-$p$ groups and $p$-extensions with restricted ramification.
    Michael R. Bush*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    John Labute, McGill University, Canada
    (1017-11-112)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Open conditions for infinite multiplicity eigenvalues on elliptic curves.
    Bo-Hae Im*, University of Utah
    Michael Larsen, Indiana University
    (1017-11-105)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A finiteness conjecture for abelian varieties over number fields.
    Christopher Rasmussen*, Rice University
    (1017-14-138)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Obstructions to deformations of complexes.
    Frauke M. Bleher*, University of Iowa
    Ted Chinburg, University of Pennsylvania
    Luc Illusie, Universit\'{e} Paris-Sud
    (1017-11-137)
• Saturday April 22, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Topological Algebras and Applications, I
  Room G18, Murkland Hall
  Organizers:
  Alexander A. Katz, St. John's University katza@stjohns.edu
  Genady Y. Grabarnik, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center genady@us.ibm.com
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Flows of weighs of real type III factors.
    Shukhrat M. Usmanov*, Department of Mathematics, North Dakota State University
    (1017-46-129)
  • 9:25 a.m.
    On the Hahn-Banach Theorem.
    Lawrence Narici*, St. John's University, NY
    (1017-46-149)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    On real Hilbert modules over real C*- and real locally C*-algebras.
    Alexander A Katz, St. John's University, NY
    Roman Kushnir*, St. John's University, NY
    (1017-46-162)
• Saturday April 22, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Hopf Algebras and Galois Module Theory, I
  Room 204, Murkland Hall
  Organizers:
  Timothy Kohl, Boston University tkohl@it.bu.edu
  Robert G. Underwood, Auburn University Montgomery runderwo@mail.aum.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Counting Hopf-Galois structures on field extensions.
    Nigel P. Byott*, University of Exeter, UK
    (1017-16-50)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Groups of Order 4p, Twisted Wreath Products and Hopf-Galois Theory.
    Timothy Kohl*, Boston University
    (1017-16-51)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Counting Hopf Galois structures on Galois extensions of fields.
    Lindsay N. Childs*, University at Albany
    (1017-12-39)
• Saturday April 22, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Groups, I
  Room 104, Murkland Hall
  Organizers:
  George J. McNinch, Tufts University george.mcninch@tufts.edu
  Eric Sommers, University of Massachusetts-Amherst esommers@math.umass.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Tilting modules for semisimple groups in characteristic $p$.
    James E. Humphreys*, U. Massachusetts, Amherst
    (1017-20-86)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On special pieces, unipotent classes, and complex reflection groups.
    Pramod N Achar*, Louisiana State University
    (1017-20-190)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Alvis-Curtis duality for admissible complexes.
    J. Matthew Douglass*, University of North Texas
    (1017-20-185)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Bruhat-Tits Buildings of Rank Three.
    Richard M Weiss*, Tufts University
    (1017-20-25)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Semi-infinite moment graphs.
    Jared Anderson, New York, NY
    Tom Braden*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    Mikhail Kogan, New York, NY
    Robert MacPherson, IAS, Princeton, NJ
    (1017-14-186)
• Saturday April 22, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Arithmetic Geometry and Modular Forms, I
  Room 102, Murkland Hall
  Organizers:
  Paul E. Gunnells, University of Massachusetts, Amherst gunnells@math.umass.edu
  Farshid Hajir, University of Massachusetts, Amherst hajir@math.umass.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Congruences of modular forms and vertex algebras.
    Antun Milas*, University at Albany (SUNY)
    (1017-11-108)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Independence of Heeger Points.
    Joseph H Silverman*, Brown University
    Michael Rosen, Brown University
    (1017-11-23)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Divisibility properties of the torsion subgroup of two-dimensional abelian varieties.
    J Cullinan*, Colby College
    (1017-11-154)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Trivial bounds and elliptic curves of maximal rank.
    Alvaro Lozano-Robledo*, Cornell University
    (1017-11-91)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Ranks of elliptic curves over towers of Kummer extensions.
    Henri Darmon*, McGill University
    (1017-11-30)
• Saturday April 22, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Symplectic and Contact Topology, I
  Room 118, Murkland Hall
  Organizers:
  Weimin Chen, University of Massachusetts, Amherst wchen@math.umass.edu
  Michael G. Sullivan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst sullivan@math.umass.edu
  Hao Wu, University of Massachusetts, Amherst wu@math.umass.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    On the Morse Index of a Functional Arising in Contact Geometry.
    Abbas Bahri, Rutgers University, Math dept
    Yongzhong Xu*, Courant Institute, NYU
    (1017-53-191)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Existence of Engel structures.
    Thomas Vogel*, University of Pennsylvania/Institute for Advanced Study
    (1017-57-93)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Tight Beltrami fields with symmetry.
    Rafal Komendarczyk*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1017-51-114)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Reduction and duality in generalized geometry.
    Shengda Hu*, Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
    (1017-53-160)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Right veering diffeomorphisms of surfaces with boundary and.
    Ko Honda, University of Southern California
    William H. Kazez, University of Georgia
    Gordana Matic*, University of Georgia
    (1017-57-226)
• Saturday April 22, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Arrangements and Configuration Spaces, I
  Room 203, Murkland Hall
  Organizers:
  Graham C. Denham, University of Western Ontario gdenham@uwo.ca
  Alexander I. Suciu, Northeastern University a.suciu@neu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Critical loci of products of integral powers of linear forms.
    Michael J Falk*, Northern Arizona University
    Daniel C. Cohen, Louisiana State University
    Graham Denham, University of Western Ontario
    Alexander N. Varchenko, University of North Carolina
    (1017-14-179)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    On nets and orthogonal Latin squares.
    Corey Dunn, Graduate Teaching Fellow/University of Oregon
    Matt S Miller, Graduate Teaching Fellow/University of Oregon
    Max D Wakefield*, Graduate Teaching Fellow/University of Oregon
    Sebastian Zwicknagl, Graduate Teaching Fellow/University of Oregon
    (1017-52-208)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Right-angled mock reflection groups.
    Richard Scott*, Santa Clara University
    (1017-57-202)
• Saturday April 22, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Challenges in Physical and Engineering Sciences, I
  Room 116, Murkland Hall
  Organizers:
  Marianna A. Shubov, University of New Hampshire marianna.shubov@euclid.unh.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Construction and Analysis of Perturbation and Methods for `Truly Nonlinear' Oscillatory Systems.
    Ronald E. Mickens*, Clark Atlanta University
    (1017-41-56)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Applications of the Directional Wavelet and Ridgelet Transforms in Texture Identification.
    Ahmed I. Zayed*, DePaul University
    Lucia Dettori, School of Computer Science, Telecommunications, and Information Systems, DePaul University
    (1017-42-134)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Mathematical Modeling of Cellular Signaling: Lipid Signaling Kinetics.
    Hannah L. Callender, Vanderbilt University
    Mary Ann Horn*, Vanderbilt University
    (1017-92-145)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On equations of fluid suspensions.
    Victor Shubov*, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
    (1017-76-199)
• Saturday April 22, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Discrete and Convex Geometry, I
  Room G04, Murkland Hall
  Organizers:
  Daniel A. Klain, University of Massachusetts (Lowell)
  Barry R. Monson, University of New Brunswick
  Egon Schulte, Northeastern University schulte@neu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Radon, cosine, and sine transforms on the hyperbolic space.
    Boris Rubin*, Louisiana State University
    (1017-42-64)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Continuity of intrinsic volumes with respect to the $L_1$ metric.
    Rick Vitale*, University of Connecticut
    (1017-52-102)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Isothetic parallelotopes and the binary intersection property.
    Valeriu Soltan*, George Mason University
    (1017-52-33)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Composite Cosine Transforms on Stiefel Manifolds.
    Elena Ournycheva*, Kent State University
    Boris Rubin, Louisiana State University
    (1017-42-103)
• Saturday April 22, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Methods in Group Theory and Topology, I
  Room G17, Murkland Hall
  Organizers:
  Kim Ruane, Tufts University kim.ruane@tufts.edu
  Jennifer Taback, Bowdoin College jtaback@bowdoin.edu
  Peter N. Wong, Bates College pwong@bates.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    On Trivalent Directed Graphs and Conjugacy Classes of Thompson's Group $F$.
    Francesco Matucci*, Cornell University
    James M. Belk, Texas A&M University
    (1017-20-170)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Wreath products in a group of homeomorphisms.
    Collin Bleak*, Binghamton University
    (1017-20-49)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Thompson's group $F(p+1)$ is not minimally almost convex.
    Claire W Wladis*, City University of New York
    (1017-20-104)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Ruinous Subsets of Richard Thompson's Group F.
    John Donnelly*, Mount Union College
    (1017-20-41)
• Saturday April 22, 2006, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  On the dynamics of binary fluid mixtures.
  Room 115, Murkland Hall
  Konstantina Trivisa*, University of Maryland, College Park
  (1017-35-01)
• Saturday April 22, 2006, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Algebraic theory of tensor categories.
  Room 115, Murkland Hall
  Dmitri Nikshych*, University of New Hampshire
  (1017-18-02)
• Saturday April 22, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Arrangements and Configuration Spaces, II
  Room 203, Murkland Hall
  Organizers:
  Graham C. Denham, University of Western Ontario gdenham@uwo.ca
  Alexander I. Suciu, Northeastern University a.suciu@neu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Configuration spaces of algebraic varieties.
    Stefan Papadima*, Institute of Mathematics "Simion Stoilow", Bucharest
    Barbu Berceanu, Institute of Mathematics "Simion Stoilow", Bucharest
    Martin Markl, Mathematical Institute of the Academy, Prague
    (1017-55-131)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    The projective invariants of ordered points on the line.
    Benjamin J Howard*, University of Maryland College Park
    John J Millson, University of Maryland College Park
    Andrew Snowden, Princeton University
    Ravi Vakil, Stanford University
    (1017-14-37)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    Configurations of points in $R^3$.
    Richard Randell*, University of Iowa
    (1017-57-176)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Moduli spaces and Coxeter operads.
    Satyan L Devadoss*, Williams College
    (1017-55-155)
  • 5:10 p.m.
    Topological Criteria for $k-$Formal Arrangements.
    Stefan O Tohaneanu*, Texas A&M University
    (1017-52-55)
• Saturday April 22, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Quantum Invariants of Knots and 3-Manifolds, II
  Room 115, Murkland Hall
  Organizers:
  Charles D. Frohman, University of Iowa
  Razvan Gelca, Texas Tech University rgelca@gmail.com
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Unitary Representations of the Braid Group.
    Louis H. Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1017-57-153)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    p-adic framed braids.
    Sofia Lambropoulou*, National Technical University of Athens
    Jesus Juyumaya, University of Valparaiso, Chile
    (1017-57-192)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Categorifying the Tutte polynomial and more.
    Yongwu Rong*, The George Washington University
    E Fanny Jasso-Hernandez, The George Washington University
    (1017-57-183)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Chromatic graph $A_3$ homology from geometric properties of graphs.
    Milena Dorota Pabiniak*, George Washington University, Washington DC
    Jozef H Przytycki, GWU
    Radmila Sazdanovic, GWU
    (1017-57-32)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On Kauffman bracket quantization.
    Uwe Kaiser*, Boise State University
    Nikolaos Apostolakis, CUNY New York
    (1017-57-158)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Torus knot complements: A natural series for the natural logarithm.
    Oliver T Dasbach*, Louisiana State University
    (1017-57-206)
• Saturday April 22, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Topological Algebras and Applications, II
  Room G18, Murkland Hall
  Organizers:
  Alexander A. Katz, St. John's University katza@stjohns.edu
  Genady Y. Grabarnik, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center genady@us.ibm.com
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Representations of quantum algebras $U_q(so(3))$ and $U_q(so(4))$ and $q$-orthogonal polynomials.
    Alexander Rozenblyum*, New York City College of Technology, CUNY
    (1017-33-152)
  • 3:25 p.m.
    Stochastic Banach Principle.
    Genady Ya Grabarnik*, IBM TJ Watson Research
    Larisa Shwartz, UNISA
    (1017-47-142)
  • 4:20 p.m.
    Some remarks on stochastic convergence of the Bounded Besickovitch sequences in semifinite von Neumann algebras.
    Larisa Shwartz*, UNISA
    Genady Ya Grabarnik, IBM TJ Watson Research
    (1017-37-143)
• Saturday April 22, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Global Perspectives on the Geometry of Riemann Surfaces, I
  Room G16, Murkland Hall
  Organizers:
  Eran Makover, Central Connecticut State University makovere@ccsu.edu
  Jeffrey K. McGowan, Central Connecticut State University mcgowan@ccsu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Geodesics on quilted flute surfaces.
    Perry Susskind*, Connecticut College
    Andy Haas, University of Connecticut
    (1017-30-140)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The distribution of geodesic excursions.
    Andy Haas*, University of Connecticut
    (1017-30-96)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Determinants of laplacians over Riemann surfaces in flat metrics with conical singularities.
    Dmitry Korotkin*, Concordia University
    (1017-53-88)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Break.
  • 4:30 p.m.
    How large can the first eigenvalue be on a surface of genus two?
    Dmitry Jakobson*, McGill University
    I Polterevich, University of Montreal
    M Levitin, Heriot-Watt University
    N Nadirashvili, University of Chicago
    N Nigam, McGill University
    (1017-58-66)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Fundamental tone, volume concentration and conformal degeneracy.
    Alexandre Girouard*, University of Montreal
    (1017-53-15)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Sharp upper bounds for the first eigenvalue on surfaces and mixed isospectrality.
    Iosif Polterovich*, University of Montreal
    (1017-58-61)
• Saturday April 22, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Discrete and Convex Geometry, II
  Room G04, Murkland Hall
  Organizers:
  Daniel A. Klain, University of Massachusetts (Lowell)
  Barry R. Monson, University of New Brunswick
  Egon Schulte, Northeastern University schulte@neu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Gray graph as a medial layer graph of a polytope.
    Monson, University of New Brunswick
    Pisanski, University of Ljubljana
    Schulte, Northeastern University
    Weiss*, York University
    (1017-52-126)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Abstract Archimedean Polyhedra - Preliminary Report.
    Gordon I Williams*, Ursinus College
    Michael Hartley, School of CS & IT, University of Nottingham (Malaysia Campus)
    (1017-52-107)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On fully-transitive maps.
    Isabel A Hubard*, York University
    (1017-52-127)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    CPR-graphs and regular polytopes.
    Daniel Pellicer-Covarrubias*, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City
    (1017-52-205)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Statistical Estimation of Topological and Integral-Geometric Invariants of Non-Convex Bodies in 3D: Mathematical Challenges.
    Konstantin Rybnikov*, University of Massachusetts at Lowell
    (1017-52-228)
• Saturday April 22, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Banach Spaces of Analytic Functions, II
  Room 201, Murkland Hall
  Organizers:
  Rita A. Hibschweiler, University of New Hampshire rah2@cisunix.unh.edu
  Thomas H. MacGregor, SUNY Albany and Bowdoin College
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Continuous functions in star-invariant subspaces.
    Alec L Matheson*, Lamar University
    (1017-30-201)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Hardy space of a slit disk.
    William T Ross*, University of Richmond
    (1017-47-116)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Nevanlinna functions in hyperconvex domains.
    Michael I Stessin*, SUNY at Albany
    (1017-47-97)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Taylor coefficients of functions in Fock spaces.
    James Tung*, Michigan State University
    (1017-30-79)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Approximation In Weighted Hardy Spaces.
    Changzhong Zhu*, Univ. of Montreal
    (1017-41-213)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On invertibility of analytic mappings.
    Joseph A. Cima*, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C.
    Warren Wogen, UNC, Chapel Hill, NC
    (1017-46-13)
• Saturday April 22, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Banach Lattices, Regular Operators, and Applications, II
  Room G01, Murkland Hall
  Organizers:
  A. K. Kitover, Community College of Philadelphia
  M. Orhon, University of New Hampshire
  A. W. Wickstead, Queen's University of Belfast a.wickstead@queens-belfast.ac.uk
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Products of weak log convex operators are weak log convex.
    Anton R. Schep*, Univ. of SC
    (1017-46-169)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    Injective Hulls of Commutative C*-algebras Revisited.
    Don W. Hadwin*, University of New Hampshire
    Vern Paulsen, University of Houston
    (1017-47-221)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    A Spectrum Theorem for Some Perturbed Linear Operators.
    Jiu Ding*, The University of Southern Mississippi
    Aihui Zhou, Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific/Engineering Computing
    (1017-47-80)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Extreme Points of Stochastic Operators.
    Don Hadwin, University of New Hampshire
    Eric Nordgren*, University of New Hampshire
    Heydar Radjavi, University of Waterloo
    (1017-47-219)
  • 5:10 p.m.
    Conjugations of a transitive operator by special matrices.
    Gleb Sirotkin*, Northern Illinois University
    (1017-47-197)
• Saturday April 22, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Hopf Algebras and Galois Module Theory, II
  Room 204, Murkland Hall
  Organizers:
  Timothy Kohl, Boston University tkohl@it.bu.edu
  Robert G. Underwood, Auburn University Montgomery runderwo@mail.aum.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Leopoldt and Hilbert-Speiser fields of given type.
    James E Carter*, College of Charleston
    (1017-11-177)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Calculation of Hopf Orders via Breuil Modules.
    Alan Koch*, Agnes Scott College
    (1017-13-98)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Realizable Hopf orders in $KC_{p^3}$.
    Robert G Underwood*, Auburn University Montgomery
    (1017-13-74)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Elementary abelian extensions of local fields.
    Griff Elder*, Virginia Tech
    (1017-11-120)
• Saturday April 22, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Groups, II
  Room 104, Murkland Hall
  Organizers:
  George J. McNinch, Tufts University george.mcninch@tufts.edu
  Eric Sommers, University of Massachusetts-Amherst esommers@math.umass.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Cluster-tilted algebras.
    Ralf Schiffler*, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
    (1017-16-59)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Continuous Hecke algebras.
    Pavel Etingof, MIT
    Wee Liang Gan*, MIT
    Victor Ginzburg, University of Chicago
    (1017-20-92)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Poisson homogeneous spaces.
    Sam Evens*, University of Notre Dame
    (1017-22-135)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A t-structure on coherent sheaves on cotangent bundle of a flag variety.
    Ivan Mirkovic*, U. of Masachusetts, Amherst
    (1017-14-224)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the purity of Springer fibres.
    G. Lusztig*, MIT
    (1017-22-53)
• Saturday April 22, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Arithmetic Geometry and Modular Forms, II
  Room 102, Murkland Hall
  Organizers:
  Paul E. Gunnells, University of Massachusetts, Amherst gunnells@math.umass.edu
  Farshid Hajir, University of Massachusetts, Amherst hajir@math.umass.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Shintani zeta-functions and Gross-Stark units for totally real fields.
    Samit Dasgupta*, Harvard University
    (1017-11-132)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Weil group of a two-dimensional local field.
    Karen Acquista*, Boston University
    (1017-11-73)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Dedekind sums for higher-order Eisenstein series.
    Jay Jorgenson*, CCNY and Graduate Center
    Cormac O' Sullivan, Bronx Community College
    (1017-11-75)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On zeros of Eisenstein series for genus zero Fuchsian groups.
    Heekyoung Hahn*, University of Rochester
    (1017-11-125)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A relative trace formula and period integrals.
    Kimball Martin*, Columbia University
    (1017-11-168)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Maximal unramified $3$-extensions and $SL_2({\mathbb{Z}}_3)$.
    Michael R. Bush*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    Laurent Bartholdi, L'Ecole Polytechnique F\'ed\'erale de Lausanne
    (1017-11-111)
• Saturday April 22, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Symplectic and Contact Topology, II
  Room 118, Murkland Hall
  Organizers:
  Weimin Chen, University of Massachusetts, Amherst wchen@math.umass.edu
  Michael G. Sullivan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst sullivan@math.umass.edu
  Hao Wu, University of Massachusetts, Amherst wu@math.umass.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Duality for Legendrian Contact Homology.
    Joshua M Sabloff*, Haverford College
    (1017-57-174)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Legendrian Torus Links.
    Jennifer Dalton, Bryn Mawr College
    John Etnyre, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Lisa Traynor*, Bryn Mawr College
    (1017-53-198)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    "Relative Framing of Transverse Knots".
    Vladimir V Chernov*, Dartmouth College
    (1017-57-07)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Genera of links in homology spheres.
    Yi Ni*, Princeton University
    (1017-57-67)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Smooth knot concordance invariants.
    Matthew Hedden*, MIT/Princeton
    (1017-51-26)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Transversal knots and Khovanov-Rozansky cohomology.
    Hao Wu*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    (1017-57-211)
• Saturday April 22, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Galois Theory in Arithmetic and Geometry, II
  Room 202, Murkland Hall
  Organizers:
  Florian Pop, University of Pennsylvania pop@math.upenn.edu
  David Harbater, University of Pennsylvania harbater@math.upenn.edu
  Rachel J. Pries, Colorado State University pries@math.colostate.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Families of abelian varieties: rigidity and isogenies.
    Yuri G Zarhin*, Pennsylvania State University
    (1017-14-99)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Galois theory for elliptic subfields of a genus 2 function field.
    Ernst Kani*, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
    (1017-11-207)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The 2-ranks of elementary abelian 2-covers of the projective line.
    Darren B Glass*, Gettysburg College
    (1017-11-118)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Group representations on some Riemann-Roch spaces of Hurwitz curves.
    David Joyner, United States Naval Academy
    Amy Ksir*, United States Naval Academy
    Roger Vogeler, Ohio State University
    (1017-14-200)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Riemann Roch theorems for the Weil etale topology.
    Ted Chinburg*, University of Pennsylvania
    Stephen Lichtenbaum, Brown University
    Georgios Pappas, Michigan State University
    Martin Taylor, University of Manchester
    (1017-11-136)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Determining the Zeta Function of Gauss' Curve.
    Jeremy Muskat*, Colorado State University
    (1017-11-182)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Simultaneous surface resolution in quadratic and biquadratic Galois extensions.
    Shreeram S Abhyankar*, Purdue University
    (1017-12-47)
• Saturday April 22, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Methods in Group Theory and Topology, II
  Room G17, Murkland Hall
  Organizers:
  Kim Ruane, Tufts University kim.ruane@tufts.edu
  Jennifer Taback, Bowdoin College jtaback@bowdoin.edu
  Peter N. Wong, Bates College pwong@bates.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Fundamental groups in fixed point theory.
    Peter N Wong*, Bates College
    (1017-55-65)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Conjugacy separability for virtual surface groups and Seifert fibred 3-manifolds.
    Armando Martino*, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
    (1017-20-45)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Twisted classes for some torsion free groups.
    Daciberg Lima Gon\c calves*, IME-Universidade de Sao Paulo
    Peter Wong, Bates College-Lewiston-Maine
    Felshtyn, Boise State University
    (1017-20-35)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Twisted Burnside-Frobenius theory for infinite groups.
    Alexander Fel'shtyn*, Boise State University and University of Szczecin
    Evgenij Troitsky, Moscow State University Moscow State University
    (1017-20-60)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The universal functorial equivariant Lefschetz invariant.
    Julia Weber*, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Mathematik, Bonn, Germany
    (1017-55-54)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Computation of Reidemeister classes by nilpotentization.
    P. Christopher Staecker*, Mesiah College
    (1017-20-180)
• Saturday April 22, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers
  Room 116, Murkland Hall
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Fixing \& Teaching the Decimal Number System to Obviate Millennium Confusion.
    Pal S. Asija*, Shelton, CT
    (1017-11-29)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Superquadratic functions in several variables.
    Shoshana Abramovich*, University of Haifa, Israel
    Senka Banic, Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Split, Croatia
    Marko Matic, University of Split, Croatia
    (1017-26-43)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Topological Aspects of Products of Measures.
    Carmen Vlad*, Pace University - New York
    (1017-28-58)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    On Fractional Fourier transform of tempered distributions.
    Bharat N. Bhosale*, University of Mumbai.
    (1017-35-08)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Shape Evolution of the Metatarsal Length Pattern from Nonhuman Primates to Modern Humans.
    Philip H. Demp*, Temple University
    (1017-92-24)

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