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2006 Spring Central Sectional Meeting
Notre Dame, IN, April 8-9, 2006 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1016

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

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Sunday April 9, 2006

• Sunday April 9, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  First Floor, McKenna Hall
• Sunday April 9, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-11:35 a.m.
  Special Session on New Developments in Optimization, II
  Room 117, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Leonid Faybusovich, University of Notre Dame leonid.faybusovich.1@nd.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Sparse solution recovery by L1-minimization.
    Yin Zhang*, Rice University
    (1016-49-33)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Nonconvex problems and Symmetric relaxations.
    Leonid Faybusovich*, University of Notre Dame
    (1016-90-89)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Nonsmooth analysis and convex sets on smooth manifolds.
    Yuri S. Ledyaev*, Department of Mathematics, Western Michigan University
    (1016-49-27)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Generalized Matchings.
    David Hartvigsen*, University of Notre Dame
    (1016-05-207)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Sparse reconstruction from random Gaussian and Fourier measurements.
    Mark Rudelson*, University of Missouri
    Roman Vershynin, University of California, Davis
    (1016-68-176)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Bilinear complementary conditions for the cone of positive polynomials.
    Farid Alizadeh*, RUTCOR and MSIS Department, Rutgers University
    Gabor Rudolf, RUTCOR, Rutgers University
    Nilay Noyan, RUTCOR, Rutgers University
    (1016-90-106)
• Sunday April 9, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Holomorphic Methods and Heat Kernels in Harmonic Analysis and Quantization Theory, III
  Room 140, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Brian Hall, University of Notre Dame bhall@nd.edu
  William Kirwin, University of Notre Dame wkirwin@nd.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Strong hypercontractivity for subharmonic functions.
    Todd Kemp*, Cornell University
    Piotr Graczyk, Universite d'Angers
    Jean-Jacques Loeb, Universite d'Angers
    (1016-46-163)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A deformation of quantum mechanics and its heat kernel.
    Stephen Bruce Sontz*, Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas, A.C. (CIMAT)
    (1016-81-117)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Taylor Map for Complex Path Groups.
    Matthew S. Cecil*, UCSD
    (1016-60-222)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Levy processes in matrix Lie groups.
    Maria Gordina*, Department of Mathematics, University of Connecticut.
    (1016-60-126)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Chern-Simons theory in the (complexified) axial gauge and the Kontsevich integral.
    Atle Hahn*, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
    (1016-81-322)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Large N limit of 2D Yang-Mills on the cylinder.
    Steve Zelditch*, Johns Hopkins University
    (1016-81-124)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    An Infinite Dimensional Integral Identity for the Segal-Bargmann Transform.
    Jeremy James Becnel*, Louisiana State University
    Ambar N Sengupta, Louisiana State University
    (1016-46-25)
• Sunday April 9, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Analysis and Geometry of Non-linear Evolution Equations, III
  Room 136, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Alexandrou A. Himonas, University of Notre Dame himonas.1@nd.edu
  Gerard K. Misiolek, University of Notre Dame misiolek.1@nd.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Geometric Boundary Conditions for a Constrained First Order Hyperbolic System of Differential Equations.
    Nicolae Tarfulea*, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University Calumet
    (1016-35-51)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Some Infinite Energy Solutions to the Euler Equations.
    Ralph Saxton*, Department of Mathematics/University of New Orleans
    (1016-35-327)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Conjugate points on volumorphism groups.
    Stephen C. Preston*, Stony Brook University
    (1016-35-70)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Attractors for the viscous Camassa-Holm equation.
    Milena O. Stanislavova*, University of Kansas
    Atanas G. Stefanov, University of Kansas
    (1016-35-53)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Weakly nonlinear geometric optics for the incompressible Euler equations.
    Roman Shvydkoy*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1016-76-161)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Solutions of mKdV in classes of functions unbounded at infinity.
    Peter Topalov*, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
    (1016-35-109)
• Sunday April 9, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, III
  Room 213, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Alberto Corso, University of Kentucky corso@ms.uky.edu
  Claudia Polini, University of Notre Dame cpolini@nd.edu
  Bernd Ulrich, Purdue University ulrich@math.purdue.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Embedding modules of finite projective dimension.
    Melvin Hochster*, Mathematics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
    Yongwei Yao, Mathematics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
    (1016-13-307)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Ring extensions with trivial generic fiber.
    William Heinzer, Purdue University
    Christel Rotthaus, Michigan State University
    Sylvia M Wiegand*, University of Nebraska
    (1016-13-169)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Annihilation of elements of local cohomology modules.
    Anurag K. Singh*, University of Utah
    (1016-13-227)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Buchsbaum-Rim multiplicity and Hilbert-Samuel multiplicities.
    C-Y. Jean Chan*, University of Arkansas
    Jung-Chen Liu, National Taiwan Normal University
    Bernd Ulrich, Purdue University
    (1016-13-271)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Matroids arising from certain closure operations on ideals.
    Neil Epstein*, University of Michigan
    (1016-13-311)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Resolution of singularities in characteristic zero.
    Jaroslaw Wlodarczyk*, Purdue University
    (1016-13-220)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Adjoint ideals.
    L M. H. Ein*, Universityh of Illinois at Chicago
    (1016-14-153)
• Sunday April 9, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Developments and Applications in Differential Geometry, III
  Room 208, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Jianguo Cao, University of Notre Dame Jianguo.Cao.7@nd.edu
  Xiaobo Liu, University of Notre Dame Xiaobo.Liu.43@nd.edu
  Brian Smyth, University of Notre Dame Brian.B.Smyth.1@nd.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Characteristic Classes of Bad Orbifold Vector Bundles.
    Christopher W Seaton*, Rhodes College
    (1016-53-157)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Floer homology for Almost Hamiltonian Isotopies.
    Christopher L. Saunders*, Westminster College
    (1016-53-17)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Q-curvature functions for Ricci flat manifolds.
    Yuxin Ge, Storrs, CT
    Xingwang Xu*, Storrs, CT
    (1016-58-217)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Break
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Associative submanifolds of a G2 Manifold.
    Selman Akbulut*, Michigan State University
    Sema Salur, Northwestern University
    (1016-53-264)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Calibrated Geometries.
    Sema Salur*, Northwestern University
    (1016-53-244)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Characterizing Diffeomorphisms by the Topology of the Pullback of Hyperplane Foliations.
    Eduardo Cabral Balreira*, University of Notre Dame
    (1016-58-100)
• Sunday April 9, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Special Functions and Orthogonal Polynomials, III
  Room 126, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Diego Dominici, State University of New York at New Paltz dominicd@newpaltz.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A q-analogue of Wigner's 9-j symbols.
    Mizan Rahman*, Carleton University
    (1016-33-330)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Umemora polynomials associated to Painleve III .
    Tewodros Amdeberhan*, Princeton Univ./Tulane Univ.
    Doron Zeilberger, Rutgers University
    (1016-34-20)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Fractional group operators and the classical special functions.
    Loyal Durand*, Physics Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1016-33-105)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Dilogarithms and four-body atomic Coulomb interaction integrals for fully correlated exponential wavefunctions.
    Frank E Harris*, Quantum Theory Project, University of Florida
    (1016-33-181)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Differentiation evens out zero spacing.
    David W. Farmer*, American Institute of Mathematics
    (1016-30-72)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Using integrals of squares of real-valued functions to prove that certain entire functions have only real zeros.
    George Gasper*, Northwestern University,
    (1016-33-239)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Matrix valued orthogonal polynomials and differential equations.
    Mirta Castro, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
    F. Alberto Grunbaum*, math dept UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720
    (1016-33-118)
• Sunday April 9, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Model Theory and Computability, III
  Room 155, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Steven Allen Buechler, University of Notre Dame Steven.A.Buechler.1@nd.edu
  Julia Knight, University of Notre Dame knight.1@nd.edu
  Steffen Lempp, University of Wisconsin lempp@math.wisc.edu
  Sergei Starchenko, University of Notre Dame starchenko.1@nd.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Ranked sets and weak truth-table reducibility.
    John Chisholm, Western Illinois University
    Jennifer Chubb, George Washington University
    Valentina Harizanov, George Washington University
    Denis Hirschfeldt, University of Chicago
    Carl G. Jockusch, Jr.*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Timothy McNicholl, Lamar University
    Sarah Pingrey, George Washington University
    (1016-03-156)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Strong degree spectra of relations.
    John Chisholm, Western Illinois University
    Jennifer Chubb, George Washington University
    Valentina S. Harizanov*, George Washington University
    Denis Hirschfeldt, University of Chicago
    Carl G. Jockusch, Jr., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Timothy McNicholl, Lamar University
    Sarah Pingrey, George Washington University
    (1016-03-184)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    More than counting quantifiers.
    Michael C Laskowski*, University of Maryland
    (1016-03-225)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Filters on computable posets.
    Steffen Lempp, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    Carl Mummert*, Appalachian State University
    (1016-03-146)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Categoricity spectrum for uncountable continuous theories.
    Alex Usvyatsov*, UCLA
    (1016-03-270)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Countable dense subsets in second-order arithmetic.
    Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen*, Department of Mathematics, University of Connecticut, Storrs
    (1016-03-122)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Computable linearizations of well-partial-orderings.
    Antonio Montalban*, University of Chicago
    (1016-03-32)
• Sunday April 9, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  First Floor, McKenna Hall
• Sunday April 9, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Dynamical Systems, III
  Room 207, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Francois Ledrappier, University of Notre Dame fledrapp@nd.edu
  Amie Wilkinson, Northwestern University amw73024@northwestern.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Convergence rates of the transfer operators for sigma finite measures.
    Nicolai Haydn, University of Southern California
    Huyi Hu*, Michigan State University
    (1016-37-228)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Groups acting by diffeomorphisms close to the identity.
    Anne E McCarthy*, Northwestern University
    (1016-37-314)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A thermodynamic formalism for noncontinuous potentials.
    Anna Mummert*, Penn State
    (1016-37-11)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Accessibility is generic for partially hyperbolic maps with 1-dimensional center distribution.
    Anna Talitskaya*, Northwestern University
    Keith Burns, Northwestern University
    Hertz Jana, Universidad de la Republica,Uruguay
    Hertz Federico, Universidad de la Republica
    Raul Ures, Universidad de la Republica
    (1016-37-290)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Topological Pressure via Saddle Points.
    C. P. Wolf*, Wichita State University
    K. Gelfert, Max-Planck Institute Dresden
    (1016-37-15)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Compact Lorentz manifolds with local symmetry.
    Karin H. Melnick*, University of Chicago
    (1016-37-40)
• Sunday April 9, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:15 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Biology, III
  Room 116, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Mark Alber, University of Notre Dame malber@nd.edu
  Bei Hu, University of Notre Dame b1hu@nd.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Finite-time perturbations of dynamical systems and applications.
    Paul Jianjun Tian*, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, the Ohio State University
    (1016-37-92)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A 3D Off-lattice Radial Eden Cluster Growth Model.
    Eric W Kuennen*, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
    C Y Wang, Michigan State University
    (1016-82-143)
• Sunday April 9, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Water Waves, II
  Room 119, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  David Nicholls, University of Illinois at Chicago nicholls@math.uic.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Dynamics of double-humped solitary waves in the fifth-order KdV model.
    Dmitry E Pelinovsky*, McMaster University, Canada
    (1016-35-45)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Existence and linear stability of solitary waves in coupled KdV equations.
    J. Douglas Wright*, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
    Arnd Scheel, University of Minnesota
    (1016-35-36)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Nonlinear dispersive approximation to the water wave problem.
    Yi Li*, Stevens Institute of Technology
    (1016-35-328)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Existence of two-dimensional doubly periodic wave patterns.
    Min Chen*, Purdue University
    (1016-76-132)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Model equations for nearly planar water waves.
    Jerry L Bona*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1016-76-259)
• Sunday April 9, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Waves, III
  Room 138, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Mark S. Alber, University of Notre Dame malber@nd.edu
  Pavel Lushnikov, University of Notre Dame lushnikov.1@nd.edu
  Ildar Gabotiv, University of Arizona gabitov@math.arizona.edu
  Vladimir E. Zakharov, University of Arizona zakharov@math.arizona.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    On subsonic detonation waves in inert porous medium.
    Peter Gordon, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Chris Jones, SAMSI and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Anna Ghazaryan*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (1016-35-280)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Multifilamented femtosecond pulses propagation in the atmosphere.
    Stephanie Champeaux*, CEA/DAM Ile de France, France
    Luc Berge, CEA/DAM Ile de France, France
    Stefan Skupin, CEA/DAM Ile de France, France
    Guillaume Mejean, Teramobile, LASIM, Univeraite C. Bernard Lyon 1, France
    (1016-78-88)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Double resonance in nonlinear nanostructured materials: negative refraction and solitary waves.
    Ildar R Gabitov*, University of Arizona
    Andrei I. Maimistov, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute
    (1016-78-215)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Break
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Hydrodynamics with free surface in conformal coordinates.
    Vladimir E Zakharov*, University of Arizona
    Alexander I Dyachenko, Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics
    (1016-76-101)
• Sunday April 9, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Undergraduate Mathematical Research, I
  Room 216, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Francis X. Connolly, University of Notre Dame Francis.X.Connolly.1@nd.edu
  Zsuzsanna Szaniszlo, Valparaiso University zsuzsanna.szaniszlo@valpo.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Using Sets of Winning Coalitions to Generate Feasible Banzhaf Power Distributions.
    Audrey L De Guire*, University of Notre Dame
    Allison B Cuttler, Haverford
    Sara K Rowell, Xavier University
    (1016-00-111)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the transience class of the Abelian Sandpile Model.
    Igor Gorodezky*, University of Chicago
    (1016-05-172)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Dynamics of Loafing, Thermoregulation, and Territory Abundance in a Seabird Colony.
    Andrea L Moore*, Andrews University
    (1016-92-152)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Mysterious 19 and the Hausdorff Metric Geometry.
    Chantel C Blackburn*, Andrews University/Grand Valley State University REU
    (1016-51-140)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Circle Packing and Penrose Tiling.
    Matthew T. Stamps*, Grand Valley State University
    (1016-52-133)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Using lattice packings to create extended codebooks.
    Daniel H. Sikora*, University of Michigan
    Anna Gilbert, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
    (1016-94-116)
• Sunday April 9, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on PDEs and Geometric Analysis, III
  Room 131, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Matt Gursky, University of Notre Dame gursky.1@nd.edu
  Qing Han, University of Notre Dame Qing.Han.7@nd.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Liouvlle Type Theorem on some fully nonlinear degenerate differential equations.
    Aobing Li*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1016-35-164)
  • 9:05 a.m.
    Soap films spanning rectangular prisms.
    Robert Huff*, Indiana University
    (1016-51-204)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Normal traces and Gauss-Green formula for weakly differentiable vector fields.
    Monica Torres*, Purdue University
    (1016-35-177)
  • 10:50 a.m.
    The large time behavior of the zero dispersion limit of the higher order KdV.
    Fei-Ran Tian*, The Ohio State University
    (1016-35-272)
• Sunday April 9, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Several Complex Variables, III
  Room 129, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Nancy K. Stanton, University of Notre Dame stanton.1@nd.edu
  Jeffrey A. Diller, University of Notre Dame diller.1@nd.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Group-Invariant Mappings from Spheres to Hyperquadrics.
    John P D'Angelo*, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    (1016-32-21)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    CR Extension for Tube-like CR Manifolds of CR Dimension 1.
    Jennifer Halfpap*, University of Montana
    (1016-32-114)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Dolbeault isomorphism theorem in infinite dimensions.
    Scott B. Simon*, Purdue University
    (1016-32-77)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Global regularity of the Bergman projection on forms.
    Anne-Katrin Herbig*, University of Michigan
    Jeffery D McNeal, Ohio State University
    (1016-32-86)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Finite Jet Determination of local real-analytic CR-diffeomorphisms.
    Robert Juhlin*, University of Notre Dame
    (1016-32-269)
• Sunday April 9, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Structures of Exactly Solvable Models, III
  Room 209, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Michael Gekhtman, University of Notre Dame gekhtman.1@nd.edu
  Mikhail Shapiro, Michigan State University mshapiro@math.msu.edu
  Alexander Stolin, University of Gothenburg astolin@math.chalmers.se
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Toeplitz operators and integrable systems.
    Tatyana Foth*, University of Western Ontario, Canada
    (1016-58-131)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On Dirac submanifolds and Poisson involutions in the theory of integrable systems.
    Luen-Chau Li*, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
    (1016-58-230)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Discrete Cubic String and Peakons.
    Jacek Szmigielski*, University of Saskatchewan
    (1016-58-142)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Positive Grassmann cells and N-soliton solutions of the KP equation.
    Yuji Kodama*, Ohio State University
    (1016-35-243)
• Sunday April 9, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis, PDE and Geometric Function Theory, III
  Room 141, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  John L. Lewis, University of Kentucky
  Steve C. Hofmann, University of Missouri hofmann@math.missouri.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Uniqueness of viscosity solutions of Aronsson's equation.
    Robert Jensen, Loyola University of Chicago
    Changyou Wang*, University of Kentucky
    Yifeng Yu, University of Texas at Austin
    (1016-35-171)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A square function estimate related to singularity of non-divergence harmonic measures.
    Jorge Rivera-Noriega*, Facultad de Ciencias. Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos
    (1016-42-249)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Partial Solution of the Isoperimetric Problem for the Heisenberg Group.
    Donatella Danielli*, Purdue University
    Nicola Garofalo, Purdue University
    Duy-Minh Nhieu, Georgetown University
    (1016-35-318)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for the Solvability of the $L^p$ Dirichlet Problem on Lipschitz Domains.
    Zhongwei Shen*, University of Kentucky
    (1016-35-30)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Overdetermined boundary value problems, uniform rectifiability and symmetry.
    John L Lewis, University of Kentucky
    Andrew L Vogel*, Syracuse University
    (1016-35-18)
• Sunday April 9, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Topology and Physics, III
  Room 102, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Stephan A. Stolz, University of Notre Dame stolz.1@nd.edu
  Bruce Williams, University of Notre Dame williams.4@nd.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Canonical metric connections associated to string structures.
    D. Corbett Redden*, University of Notre Dame
    (1016-55-112)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Physical free loopspaces.
    Jack Morava*, Johns Hopkins University
    Nitu Kitchloo, University of California at San Diego
    (1016-57-315)
• Sunday April 9, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry, III
  Room 210, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Juan C. Migliore, University of Notre Dame migliore.1@nd.edu
  Uwe R. Nagel, University of Kentucky uwenagel@ms.uky.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Stable reflexive sheaves associated to the Paley graph.
    Hirotachi Abo*, Colorado State University
    (1016-14-147)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On the dimension and degree of secant varieties of toric varieties.
    David Cox, Amherst College
    Jessica Sidman*, Mount Holyoke College
    (1016-14-84)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Fibrations of $\overline{M}_{0,n}$.
    Diane Maclagan*, Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University
    (1016-14-247)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    What's special about points in special position, from the point of view of matroids and Hilbert functions.
    Anthony Geramita, Queens University, Kingston Ontario
    Brian Harbourne*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Juan Migliore, University of Notre Dame
    (1016-14-199)
• Sunday April 9, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Numerical Solution of Polynomial Systems, III
  Room 118, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Christopher S. Peterson, Colorado State University peterson@math.colostate.edu
  Andrew J. Sommese, University of Notre Dame Sommese@nd.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Approximate Local Rings and Local Solution of Nonlinear Systems.
    Barry H Dayton*, Northeastern Illinois University
    (1016-65-12)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Application of Newton's method with Deflation.
    Anton Leykin, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Jan Verschelde, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Ailing Zhao*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1016-65-234)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Approximate Radical of Ideals with Clusters of Roots.
    Itnuit Janovitz-Freireich*, North Carolina State University
    Lajos Ronyai, Computer and Automation Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Budapest University of Technology and Economics.
    Agnes Szanto, North Carolina State University
    (1016-13-59)
• Sunday April 9, 2006, 9:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
  Special Session on Topics in Representation Theory, III
  Room 215, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Sam Evens, University of Notre Dame sevens@nd.edu
  Jiu-Kang Yu, Purdue University jyu@math.purdue.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Kazhdan-Lusztig bases of maximal parabolic modules of affine Hecke algebras.
    Bogdan Ion*, University of Pittsburgh
    (1016-20-233)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Some motivic calculations in SL(2).
    J Gordon*, University of Toronto
    C Cunningham, University of Calgary
    (1016-20-141)
• Sunday April 9, 2006, 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Number Theory, III
  Room 214, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Scott T. Parsell, Butler University sparsell@butler.edu
  Jonathan P. Sorenson, Butler University sorenson@butler.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Congruences for modular forms of weights 2 and 4.
    Scott Ahlgren*, University of Illinois
    (1016-11-300)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Central critical values of modular $L$-functions modulo $\ell$.
    Scott Ahlgren, University of Illinois
    Matthew Boylan*, University of South Carolina
    (1016-11-282)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Freeman Dyson's "Challenge for the Future": The mock theta functions.
    Kathrin Bringmann*, university of Wisconsin
    (1016-11-286)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Small Rational Points on Elliptic Curves Over Number Fields.
    Clayton Petsche*, University of Georgia
    (1016-11-121)
• Sunday April 9, 2006, 11:40 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Local Tb theorems and applications in PDE.
  Room 101, DeBartolo Hall
  Steve C. Hofmann*, University of Missouri - Columbia
  (1016-42-187)
• Sunday April 9, 2006, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Representation Zeta Functions.
  Room 101, DeBartolo Hall
  Michael J. Larsen*, Indiana University
  Alexander Lubotzky, Hebrew University
  (1016-11-83)
• Sunday April 9, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Biology, IV
  Room 116, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Mark Alber, University of Notre Dame malber@nd.edu
  Bei Hu, University of Notre Dame b1hu@nd.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Effect of Compliance on TGI Efficiency: experimental and mathematical analyses.
    Sanjukta Hota*, Department of Mathematics/Fisk University
    (1016-34-09)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Cancer as somatic evolution.
    Natalia L Komarova*, University of California Irvine
    (1016-92-79)
• Sunday April 9, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Waves, IV
  Room 138, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Mark S. Alber, University of Notre Dame malber@nd.edu
  Pavel Lushnikov, University of Notre Dame lushnikov.1@nd.edu
  Ildar Gabotiv, University of Arizona gabitov@math.arizona.edu
  Vladimir E. Zakharov, University of Arizona zakharov@math.arizona.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Ill posedness results for water wave models and rogue waves.
    Jerry L Bona*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Jean-Claude Saut, Universite de Paris - Sud
    (1016-76-65)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Numerical Solution of the Nonlinear Helmholtz Equation Using Nonorthogonal Expansions.
    Gadi Fibich, Tel Aviv University
    Semyon Tsynkov*, North Carolina State University
    (1016-78-119)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    How much laser power can propagate through fusion plasma?
    Pavel M. Lushnikov*, University of Notre Dame
    Harvey A. Rose, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    (1016-78-61)
• Sunday April 9, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Special Session on New Developments in Optimization, III
  Room 117, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Leonid Faybusovich, University of Notre Dame leonid.faybusovich.1@nd.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Convex Optimization and Investment Systems.
    Qiji Jim Zhu*, Western Michigan University
    (1016-90-22)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Analysis and control issues of complementarity systems.
    Jinglai Shen*, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    (1016-90-91)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Generalized differentiation of set-valued mappings and marginal functions with some applications.
    Boris Mordukhovich, Department of Mathematics, Wayne State University
    Mau Nam Nguyen*, Department of Mathematics, Wayne State University
    (1016-49-29)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Positive Semidefinite Approximations of Convex Bodies.
    Ellen Veomett*, University of Michigan
    (1016-52-127)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    An exact characterization of badly behaved semidefinite systems.
    Gabor Pataki*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (1016-90-81)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Sampled Fictitious Play algorithms for discrete optimization problems.
    Marina A Epelman*, University of Michigan
    Archis Ghate, University of Michigan
    Robert L Smith, University of Michigan
    (1016-90-206)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    A Stochastic Programming Approach to Inventory Centralization Games.
    Xin Chen, University of Illinoise at Urbana-Champaign
    Jiawei Zhang*, New York University
    (1016-91-261)
• Sunday April 9, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Holomorphic Methods and Heat Kernels in Harmonic Analysis and Quantization Theory, IV
  Room 140, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Brian Hall, University of Notre Dame bhall@nd.edu
  William Kirwin, University of Notre Dame wkirwin@nd.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A real analytic infinite dimensional manifold for a problem in critical nonlinearity.
    Leonard Gross*, Cornell University
    (1016-46-198)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Quantization and automorphic forms.
    Tatyana Foth*, University of Western Ontario, Canada
    (1016-32-130)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Manifolds of compatible almost-complex structures and geometric quantization.
    Alejandro Uribe*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
    (1016-58-265)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the Noncommutativity of Quantization and Symplectic Reduction.
    Brian C Hall, University of Notre Dame
    William D. Kirwin*, University of Notre Dame
    (1016-53-313)
• Sunday April 9, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Topics in Representation Theory, IV
  Room 215, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Sam Evens, University of Notre Dame sevens@nd.edu
  Jiu-Kang Yu, Purdue University jyu@math.purdue.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Mapping Class Groups and Characteristic Polynomials: An Application of Representation Theory.
    Steven T Spallone*, Purdue University
    Dan Margalit, University of Utah
    (1016-22-194)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On generic supercuspidal representations.
    Julee Kim*, University of Illinois at Chicagao
    (1016-22-308)
• Sunday April 9, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, IV
  Room 213, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Alberto Corso, University of Kentucky corso@ms.uky.edu
  Claudia Polini, University of Notre Dame cpolini@nd.edu
  Bernd Ulrich, Purdue University ulrich@math.purdue.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Comparison of local and global liaison questions.
    Robin Hartshorne*, University of California, Berkeley
    (1016-14-162)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On Extension of Gabber's Work.
    Sankar P Dutta*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1016-13-52)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Asymptotic behavior of multigraded regularity.
    H. Tai Ha, Tulane University
    Brent Strunk*, Purdue University
    (1016-13-277)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the Cohen-Macaulayness of residual intersections and extended Rees rings.
    Christine K Cumming*, Purdue University
    (1016-13-254)
• Sunday April 9, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Number Theory, III
  Room 214, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Scott T. Parsell, Butler University sparsell@butler.edu
  Jonathan P. Sorenson, Butler University sorenson@butler.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Computing Prime Harmonic Sums.
    Eric Bach*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    Jonathan Sorenson, Butler University
    (1016-11-306)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Differential addition chains.
    Daniel J. Bernstein*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1016-11-253)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Distribution of Some Sequences of Points on Elliptic Curves.
    Tanja Lange*, Technical University of Denmark
    Igor E. Shparlinski, Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Australia
    (1016-11-279)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Mapping the Discrete Logarithm.
    Daniel R Cloutier*, Cincinnati, OH, USA
    Joshua R Holden, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
    (1016-11-263)
• Sunday April 9, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Developments and Applications in Differential Geometry, IV
  Room 208, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Jianguo Cao, University of Notre Dame Jianguo.Cao.7@nd.edu
  Xiaobo Liu, University of Notre Dame Xiaobo.Liu.43@nd.edu
  Brian Smyth, University of Notre Dame Brian.B.Smyth.1@nd.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Rigidity of the Identity.
    Frederico Xavier*, University of Notre Dame
    (1016-32-274)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Some Geometric Aspects of Nonlinear PDE's.
    Hongyou Wu*, Northern Illinois University
    (1016-53-96)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Special Hypersurfaces in $CP^2$ and $CH^2$.
    Thomas A. Ivey*, College of Charleston
    Patrick J. Ryan, McMaster University
    (1016-53-13)
• Sunday April 9, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Special Functions and Orthogonal Polynomials, IV
  Room 126, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Diego Dominici, State University of New York at New Paltz dominicd@newpaltz.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Arithmetic of the partition function.
    Scott Ahlgren*, University of Illinois
    (1016-11-299)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Univalency of Hypergeometric Functions.
    Roger W Barnard*, Texas Tech University
    Samy Ponnusamy, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
    (1016-30-67)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Special functions and the Mellin transforms of Laguerre and Hermite functions.
    Mark W Coffey*, Colorado School of Mines
    (1016-33-82)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Instability intervals of the Ince and Hill equations.
    Hans W Volkmer*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    (1016-33-93)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A classs of probability distribution functions relevant to turbulence.
    Bruce R. Fabijonas*, Department of Mathematics, Southern Methodist University
    Mogens V. Melander, Department of Mathematics, Southern Methodist University
    (1016-33-148)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Critical behavior of Gaussian random matrices with external source.
    Pavel Bleher*, IUPUI
    (1016-33-335)
• Sunday April 9, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Several Complex Variables, IV
  Room 129, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Nancy K. Stanton, University of Notre Dame stanton.1@nd.edu
  Jeffrey A. Diller, University of Notre Dame diller.1@nd.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Holomorphic motions in several complex variables.
    Gregery T Buzzard*, Purdue University
    (1016-37-196)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Unfolding CR singularities of real $4$-manifolds in ${\mathbb{C}}^5$.
    Adam Coffman*, Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne
    (1016-32-94)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Further Normalizations of Poincar\'{e}-Dulac Normal Forms in ${\mathbf{C}}^{n+1}$.
    Adrian Jenkins*, Purdue University
    (1016-32-39)
• Sunday April 9, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Model Theory and Computability, IV
  Room 155, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Steven Allen Buechler, University of Notre Dame Steven.A.Buechler.1@nd.edu
  Julia Knight, University of Notre Dame knight.1@nd.edu
  Steffen Lempp, University of Wisconsin lempp@math.wisc.edu
  Sergei Starchenko, University of Notre Dame starchenko.1@nd.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Integral-definite rational functions in theories of valued fields.
    Deirdre Haskell*, McMaster University
    Yoav Yaffe, McMaster University
    (1016-12-188)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The Complexity of Ideals and Subspaces.
    Rod Downey, Victoria University of Wellington
    Steffen Lempp, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    Joseph R Mileti*, University of Chicago
    (1016-03-231)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Definability theory in model complete o-minimal structures with applications.
    Alex J. Wilkie*, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.
    (1016-03-57)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Model Theory and Enumeration Reducibility.
    Thomas F Kent*, Brigham Young University
    (1016-03-296)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Hilbert's Tenth Problem for function fields over $p$-adic fields.
    Kirsten Eisentraeger*, University of Michigan
    (1016-11-134)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    A Remark on Zilber's Pseudoexponentiation.
    David Marker*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1016-03-179)
• Sunday April 9, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Structures of Exactly Solvable Models, IV
  Room 209, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Michael Gekhtman, University of Notre Dame gekhtman.1@nd.edu
  Mikhail Shapiro, Michigan State University mshapiro@math.msu.edu
  Alexander Stolin, University of Gothenburg astolin@math.chalmers.se
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Fusion products and the Kirillov Reshetikhin conjecture.
    Rinat Kedem*, University of Illinois
    (1016-17-203)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Rank One Operators, Rank Six Quadrics and the Hirota Bilinear Difference Equation.
    Alex Kasman*, College of Charleston
    (1016-15-23)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The critical set of a product of powers of linear forms.
    Daniel C Cohen, Louisiana State University
    Graham C Denham*, University of Western Ontario
    Michael Falk, Northern Arizona University
    Alexander Varchenko, University of North Carolina
    (1016-57-260)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Quantum vertex algebras and symmetric polynomials.
    Iana I Anguelova*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1016-81-256)

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