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2006 Fall Eastern Section Meeting
Storrs, CT, October 28-29, 2006 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1021

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

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Saturday October 28, 2006

• Saturday October 28, 2006, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Exhibits and Book Sale
  Atrium, ITE Building, Information Technology Engineering Building
• Saturday October 28, 2006, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meetings Registration
  Atrium, ITE Building, Information Technology Engineering Building
• Saturday October 28, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic and Analytic Combinatorics, I
  Room 227, Business School
  Organizers:
  Richard Ehrenborg, University of Kentucky and MIT jrge@ms.uky.edu
  Margaret A. Readdy, University of Kentucky and MIT readdy@ms.uky.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A Conjectured Combinatorial Interpretation of the Normalized Irreducible Character Values of the Symmetric Group.
    Richard P. Stanley*, M.I.T.
    (1021-05-60)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A Markov chain on permutation-tableaux whose quotient is the asymmetric exclusion process.
    Lauren K Williams*, Harvard University
    Sylvie Corteel, CNRS, Universite Paris-Sud
    (1021-05-144)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Generating functions: converting algebraic information into asymptotic estimates.
    Robin Pemantle*, University of Pennsylvania
    (1021-05-41)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Counting permutations by $3$-descents.
    Denis Chebikin*, MIT
    (1021-05-231)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Tchebyshev transforms and the roots of the derivative polynomials for tangent and secant.
    Gabor Hetyei*, UNC-Charlotte
    (1021-05-168)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Combinatorics of Grassmann cells.
    Alexander Postnikov*, M.I.T.
    (1021-05-138)
• Saturday October 28, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Methods in Equivariant Topology, I
  Room 226, Business School
  Organizers:
  Tara Holm, University of Connecticut, Storrs tsh@math.uconn.edu
  Tom C. Braden, University of Massachusetts, Amherst braden@math.umass.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Localization via cobordisms and polytope decompositions.
    Megumi Harada*, McMaster University
    Yael Karshon, University of Toronto
    (1021-53-46)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Gauged Gromov-Witten Theory for Hamiltonian $G$-manifolds.
    Eduardo Gonzalez*, Rutgers University
    Chris Woodward, Rutgers University
    (1021-53-146)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Combinatorics of the toric symplectic ball packing problem and the topology of spaces of toric symplectic embeddings.
    Alvaro Pelayo*, University of Michigan
    (1021-51-180)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The toric geometry of triangulated polygons in Euclidean space.
    Benjamin J Howard*, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota
    Chris Manon, University of Maryland College Park
    John Millson, University of Maryland College Park
    (1021-51-66)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Chow classes in toric varieties via tropicalization.
    Kevin Purbhoo*, University of British Columbia
    (1021-14-202)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    GIT and Chow quotients of toric varieties.
    Alastair Craw, University of Glasgow
    Diane Maclagan*, Rutgers University
    (1021-14-59)
• Saturday October 28, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Computability Theory in Honor of Manuel Lerman's Retirement, I
  Room 211, Business School
  Organizers:
  Joseph S. Miller, University of Connecticut, Storrs josephmiller@math.uconn.edu
  David Reed Solomon, University of Connecticut, Storrs solomon@math.uconn.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Solution to a problem on computable embeddings.
    J. Chisholm, Western Illinois University
    J. F. Knight*, University of Notre Dame
    S. Miller, University of Notre Dame
    (1021-03-134)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Automorphism Spectra of Computable Structures.
    Valentina Harizanov, Department of Mathematics, George Washington University
    Russell Miller*, Mathematics Dept., Queens College -- CUNY; Ph.D. Program in Computer Science, CUNY Graduate Center
    Andrei Morozov, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics
    (1021-03-94)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Non-Branching (and Branching) degrees in the Medvedev Lattice of $\Pi^0_1$ classes.
    Christopher Poulin Alfeld*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
    (1021-03-69)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Coding structures into structures.
    Valentina Harizanov*, George Washington University
    (1021-03-213)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Relatively r.e. Reals.
    Bernard A. Anderson*, University of California at Berkeley
    (1021-03-122)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Mass Problems and Hyperarithmeticity.
    Stephen G. Simpson*, Pennsylvania State University
    (1021-03-179)
• Saturday October 28, 2006, 8:25 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Analysis and Probability on Fractals, I
  Room 127, Business School
  Organizers:
  Robert S. Strichartz, Cornell University str@math.cornell.edu
  Alexander Teplyaev, University of Connecticut, Storrs teplyaev@math.uconn.edu
  

  • 8:25 a.m.
    Structure of rationally ramified self-similar sets.
    Jun Kigami*, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University
    (1021-28-126)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Random walk on the incipient infinite cluster for oriented percolation in high dimensions.
    Takashi Kumagai*, Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University
    (1021-60-81)
  • 9:25 a.m.
    Asymptotics of eigenvalue clusters for Schr\"odinger operators on the Sierpinski gasket.
    Kasso A Okoudjou*, Department of Mathematics/University of Maryland, College Park
    Robert S Strichartz, Department of Mathematics/Cornell University
    (1021-35-64)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    An example of singular fractal homogenization.
    Umberto Mosco*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    (1021-31-109)
  • 10:25 a.m.
    A Method using Perron-Frobenius Theory in Problems concerning Dirichlet Forms on Fractals.
    Roberto Peirone*, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Dipartimento di Matematica, via della Ricerca Scientifica, 00133 Roma, Italy
    (1021-31-145)
• Saturday October 28, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Moduli Spaces, I
  Room 112, Business School
  Organizers:
  Dan Abramovich, Brown University abrmovic@math.brown.edu
  Ralph M. Kaufmann, University of Connecticut, Storrs kaufmann@math.uconn.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Integrable Hierarchies and Mirror Symmetry for Quasi-homogeneous Singularities.
    Huijun Fan, Peking University
    Tyler Jarvis*, Brigham Young University
    Yongbin Ruan, University of Michigan
    (1021-14-53)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The small quantum Chow ring of $[{\rm Sym}^2 {\bf P}^2]$.
    Jonathan Wise*, Brown University
    (1021-14-128)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Discussion.
• Saturday October 28, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Teichmuller Theory and Hyperbolic Geometry, I
  Room 202, Business School
  Organizers:
  Martin Bridgeman, Boston College martin.bridgeman.1@bc.edu
  Jeffrey F. Brock, Brown University Jeffrey_Brock@brown.edu
  Linda Keen, Lehman College, CUNY linda.keen@lehman.cuny.edu
  Kasra Rafi, University of Connecticut, Storrs rafi@math.uconn.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Hyperbolicity in the arc and disk complex.
    Howard Masur*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Saul Schleimer, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
    (1021-57-130)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Trees and convex cocompactness.
    Richard P Kent, Brown U
    Christopher J Leininger*, U. Illinois at Urbana--Champaign
    Saul Schleimer, Rutgers U, New Brunswick
    (1021-51-112)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Bounded length curves in hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
    Kenneth Bromberg*, University of Utah
    Jeffrey Brock, Brown University
    (1021-57-236)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Teichmuller-type extremal maps for the universal hyperbolic solenoid.
    Adam Epstein, University of Warwick
    Vladimir Markovic, University of Warwick
    Dragomir Saric*, Queens College CUNY
    (1021-30-190)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Weil-Petersson Geometry in the Thick Part of Teichmuller Space.
    Zheng Huang*, University of Michigan
    (1021-53-184)
• Saturday October 28, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Homotopy Theory of Compactified Moduli Spaces, I
  Room 122, Business School
  Organizers:
  Thomas J. Lada, North Carolina State University lada@math.ncsu.edu
  Jim Stasheff, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill jds@math.upenn.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    A compact set of compactified moduli spaces.
    Jim Stasheff*, U Penn and Emeritus UNC-CH
    (1021-55-15)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Moduli Space Actions on the Hochschild co-chains of a Frobenius algebra.
    Ralph M Kaufmann*, University of Connecticut
    (1021-55-67)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Gromov-Witten potential associated to a topological conformal field theory.
    Kevin Costello*, Northwestern University
    (1021-18-21)
• Saturday October 28, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Number Theory, I
  Room 203, Business School
  Organizers:
  Keith Conrad, University of Connecticut, Storrs kconrad@math.uconn.edu
  David Pollack, Wesleyan University dpollack@wesleyan.edu
  Thomas A. Weston, University of Massachusetts, Amherst weston@math.umass.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    A Survey of Recent Progress in Multiple Dirichlet Series: Moments of L-functions, Eisenstein Series, and more.
    Ben Brubaker*, Department of Mathematics, MIT
    (1021-11-222)
  • 9:05 a.m.
    Large values of eigenfunctions on arithmetic hyperbolic manifolds.
    Djordje Milicevic*, University of Michigan
    (1021-11-211)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    An Elliptic $BC_n$ Bailey Lemma and Euler's Pentagonal Number Theorems.
    Hasan Coskun*, Texas A&M University-Commerce
    (1021-11-44)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Oppenheim Summation and Moments of the Riemann Zeta Function.
    Jennifer Beineke*, Western New England College
    Daniel Bump, Stanford University
    (1021-11-181)
• Saturday October 28, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Elliptic and Parabolic Equations, I
  Room 119, Information Technology Engineering Building
  Organizers:
  Yung-Sze Choi, University of Connecticut, Storrs choi@math.uconn.edu
  Changfeng Gui, University of Connecticut, Storrs gui@math.uconn.edu
  Joseph McKenna, University of Connecticut, Storrs mckenna@math.uconn.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Stability and Related Properties of Shadow Systems.
    Wei-Ming Ni*, University of Minnesota
    Fang Li, University of Minnesota
    Kimie Nakashima, Kyoto University of Marine Science and Technology
    (1021-35-198)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the stability of Equilibria for the Stefan Problem with surface tension.
    Gieri Simonett*, Vanderbilt University
    Jan Pruess, Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg
    (1021-35-124)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Subsonic solutions for transonic potential flows.
    Eun Heui Kim*, California State University Long Beach
    (1021-35-229)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Existence of nontrivial patterns to a reaction diffusion system.
    Huiqiang Jiang*, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
    Wei-Ming Ni, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
    (1021-35-118)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On characterization of multiple solutions to two classes of nonlinear elliptic systems.
    Xianjin Chen*, Texas A&M University, College Station
    Jianxin Zhou, Texas A&M University, College Station
    (1021-35-96)
• Saturday October 28, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Integral Geometry, I
  Room 218, Business School
  Organizers:
  William O. Bray, University of Maine bray@math.umaine.edu
  Wolodymyr R. Madych, University of Connecticut, Storrs madych@math.uconn.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Invariant differential operators and the range of the matrix Radon transform.
    Fulton B Gonzalez*, Tufts University
    (1021-43-218)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Microlocal analysis of the linearized attenuated Radon transform.
    Allan Greenleaf*, Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Rochester
    Ramaseshan Karthik, Vancouver, British Columbia
    (1021-44-115)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A moment variant of Gauss-Bonnet for hypersurfaces of spaces of constant curvature.
    Eric L Grinberg*, University of New Hampshire
    Haizhong Li, Tsinghua University
    (1021-53-206)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Support Theorems for the Spherical Radon Transform on Manifolds.
    Eric Todd Quinto*, Tufts University
    (1021-44-65)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The action of Riesz transforms on BMO$({\bf R}^n):$ a Bellman function approach.
    Leonid Slavin*, University of Connecticut
    (1021-42-234)
• Saturday October 28, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Undergraduate Mathematics Education, I
  Room 215, Business School
  Organizers:
  Tom Roby, University of Connecticut, Storrs tom.roby@uconn.edu
  Fabiana Cardetti, University of Connecticut, Storrs
  Tom DeFranco, University of Connecticut, Storrs
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Developing Mathematical Ideas: A course for in-service and pre-service teachers of K-8 mathematics at Mount Holyoke College.
    Harriet Pollatsek*, Mount Holyoke College
    (1021-97-73)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    An innovative mathematics course for undergraduate preservice secondary mathematics teachers.
    Pete Johnson*, Eastern Connecticut State University
    (1021-97-20)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Mathematics needed for high school teaching -- from a funder's point of view.
    Irwin Kra*, Math for America, New York, NY 10003
    (1021-97-50)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Mathematics Standard Study Group.
    Roger Howe*, Yale University
    (1021-97-135)
• Saturday October 28, 2006, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Analysis, I
  Room 127, Information Technology Engineering Building
  Organizers:
  Jesse Ratzkin, University of Connecticut ratzkin@math.uconn.edu
  Rob Kusner, University of Massachusetts kusner@math.umass.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Manifolds with Ricci Curvature Bounded Below.
    Christina A Sormani*, Lehman College and CUNY Graduate Center
    (1021-58-140)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Rigidity and flexibility of homogeneous varieties.
    C. Robles*, Texas A&M University
    J.M. Landsberg, Texas A&M University
    (1021-53-200)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Volume minimization and estimates for isotropic submanifolds.
    Edward Goldstein*, Brandeis University
    (1021-53-45)
• Saturday October 28, 2006, 9:10 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Geometric PDEs, I
  Room 125, Information Technology Engineering Building
  Organizers:
  Wenxiong Chen, Yeshiva University wchen@yu.edu
  Zheng-Chao Han, Rutgers University zchan@math.rutgers.edu
  

  • 9:10 a.m.
    Lower dimensional obstacle problems.
    Luis E. Silvestre*, Courant Institute
    (1021-35-151)
  • 9:50 a.m.
    Free Boundary Problems arising from singular perturbations.
    Eduardo V. Teixeira*, Rutgers University
    (1021-35-114)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Hele-Shaw problem as a mesa limit of Stefan problems: existence, uniqueness, and regularity of the free boundary.
    Ivan A Blank*, Kansas State University
    Marianne K Korten, Kansas State University
    Charles N Moore, Kansas State University
    (1021-35-233)
• Saturday October 28, 2006, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Entire Solutions and Their Symmetries.
  Room C80, Information Technology Engineering Building
  Changfeng Gui*, University of Connecticut, Storrs
  (1021-35-01)
• Saturday October 28, 2006, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Zeta!
  Room C80, Information Technology Engineering Building
  Niranjan Ramachandran*, University of Maryland, College Park
  (1021-11-04)
• Saturday October 28, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Geometric PDEs, II
  Room 125, Information Technology Engineering Building
  Organizers:
  Wenxiong Chen, Yeshiva University wchen@yu.edu
  Zheng-Chao Han, Rutgers University zchan@math.rutgers.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    On the renormalized volumes for conformally compact Einstein manifolds.
    Alice Chang, Princeton University
    Jie Qing*, UC Santa Cruz
    Paul Yang, Princeton University
    (1021-58-214)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    A class of non-linear equations with measure data.
    Phuc Cong Nguyen*, Purdue University
    Igor E. Verbitsky, University of Missouri-Columbia
    (1021-35-61)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Equality case for Zhong-Yang's eigenvalue estimate.
    Fengbo Hang*, Princeton University
    Xiaodong Wang, Michigan State University
    (1021-53-85)
  • 4:40 p.m.
    The Weingarten Curvature Problem: Prescribing Gauss-Kronecker on Group Invariant Convex Hypersurfaces.
    Richard Mikula*, William Paterson University
    (1021-35-08)
• Saturday October 28, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic and Analytic Combinatorics, II
  Room 227, Business School
  Organizers:
  Richard Ehrenborg, University of Kentucky and MIT jrge@ms.uky.edu
  Margaret A. Readdy, University of Kentucky and MIT readdy@ms.uky.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    The complete {\bf cd}-index of a Bruhat interval and a simple expression for its Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomial.
    Louis J. Billera*, Cornell University
    Francesco Brenti, Universit\'a di Roma ``Tor Vergata''
    (1021-05-210)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Sum/Product theorems in finite fields via Kloosterman sums
    Alex Iosevich*, University of Missouri
    (1021-05-39)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    How many edges can a centrally symmetric polytope have?
    Alexander Barvinok, Department of Mathematics , University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    Isabella Novik*, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle
    (1021-05-153)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Counting Pattern-Avoiding Permutations with Perron and Frobenius.
    Richard Ehrenborg, University of Kentucky
    Sergey Kitaev, University of Reykjavik
    Peter Perry*, University of Kentucky
    (1021-05-97)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A bijection between $2$-triangulations and pairs of non-crossing Dyck paths.
    Sergi Elizalde*, Dartmouth College
    (1021-05-42)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Cyclotomic Polytopes and Growth Series of Cyclotomic Lattices.
    Matthias Beck*, San Francisco State University
    Serkan Hosten, San Francisco State University
    (1021-05-38)
• Saturday October 28, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Moduli Spaces, II
  Room 112, Business School
  Organizers:
  Dan Abramovich, Brown University abrmovic@math.brown.edu
  Ralph M. Kaufmann, University of Connecticut, Storrs kaufmann@math.uconn.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Stacks of curves of low gonality and group actions.
    Angelo Vistoli*, Universita' di Bologna
    (1021-14-129)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The Drinfel'd double in stringy cohomology.
    David Pham*, University of Connecticut
    (1021-14-189)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Moduli spaces of curves with group actions and stringy algebraic structures.
    Takashi Kimura*, Boston University
    (1021-53-242)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Moduli spaces related to iteration of rational maps of $\mathbb{P}^1$.
    Michelle A Manes*, Brown University
    (1021-14-74)
• Saturday October 28, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Homotopy Theory of Compactified Moduli Spaces, II
  Room 122, Business School
  Organizers:
  Thomas J. Lada, North Carolina State University lada@math.ncsu.edu
  Jim Stasheff, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill jds@math.upenn.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    The moduli space of n points on the line is cut out by quadrics when n is not six.
    Benjamin J Howard*, University of Maryland College Park
    John Millson, University of Maryland College Park
    Andrew Snowden, Princeton University
    Ravi Vakil, Stanford University
    (1021-14-33)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Solving the $A_{\infty}$-Deligne Conjecture with Polytopes.
    Rachel Schwell*, University of Connecticut
    (1021-57-201)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Realization of graph-associahedra.
    Satyan L Devadoss*, Williams College
    (1021-57-22)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Quantum Master Equation of Open-Closed String Theory.
    Alexander Voronov, University of Minnesota
    Eric Harrelson, University of Minnesota
    J Javier Zuniga*, University of Minnesota
    (1021-55-13)
• Saturday October 28, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Methods in Equivariant Topology, II
  Room 226, Business School
  Organizers:
  Tara Holm, University of Connecticut, Storrs tsh@math.uconn.edu
  Tom C. Braden, University of Massachusetts, Amherst braden@math.umass.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    The photo space of a matroid.
    Mike Develin, American Institute of Mathematics
    Jeremy L Martin*, University of Kansas
    Victor Reiner, University of Minnesota
    (1021-05-131)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Algebraic combinatorics of hypertoric varieties.
    Nicholas J Proudfoot*, Columbia University
    (1021-14-83)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Matroid Invariants and $K$-Theory.
    David E Speyer*, University of Michigan
    (1021-14-176)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Schubert calculus, matroids, and shifting.
    Allen Knutson*, UCSD
    Ravi Vakil, Stanford University
    (1021-55-228)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Total positivity on the Grassmannian.
    Alexander Postnikov*, M.I.T.
    (1021-05-137)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Total positivity for real flag varieties.
    Lauren K Williams*, Harvard University
    (1021-05-143)
• Saturday October 28, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Number Theory, II
  Room 203, Business School
  Organizers:
  Keith Conrad, University of Connecticut, Storrs kconrad@math.uconn.edu
  David Pollack, Wesleyan University dpollack@wesleyan.edu
  Thomas A. Weston, University of Massachusetts, Amherst weston@math.umass.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    K3 surfaces of high rank and Kummer surfaces.
    Abhinav Kumar*, Microsoft Research
    (1021-11-175)
  • 3:05 p.m.
    Regularity properties of integral quadratic forms.
    Wai Kiu Chan*, Wesleyan University
    (1021-11-91)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Towards an "ordinary" Iwasawa theory for trianguline representaitons.
    Kiran Kedlaya, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Ruochuan Liu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Jonathan Pottharst*, Harvard University
    (1021-11-207)
  • 4:20 p.m.
    Base change and K-types.
    Joshua Lansky*, American University
    (1021-11-241)
• Saturday October 28, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Analysis and Probability on Fractals, II
  Room 127, Business School
  Organizers:
  Robert S. Strichartz, Cornell University str@math.cornell.edu
  Alexander Teplyaev, University of Connecticut, Storrs teplyaev@math.uconn.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Fractals and Zeta Functions.
    Michel L. Lapidus*, University of California, Riverside
    (1021-28-88)
  • 2:55 p.m.
    Self-similar systems and their complex dimensions.
    Erin P. J. Pearse*, Cornell University
    (1021-52-19)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Poincar\'e functional equations, eigenvalues of fractal Laplacians, and fractal Zeta functions.
    Peter J. Grabner*, Vanderbilt University -- Graz University of Technology
    (1021-39-111)
  • 3:55 p.m.
    Polynomial Sampling of Fractal Measures: I.F.S.--Pade' Approximants and Fourier--Bessel Functions.
    Giorgio Mantica*, Center for Nonlinear and Complex Systems, Universita' dell'Insubria, Como Italy
    (1021-42-159)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Cauchy Transform on Sierpinski Gasket and Boundary Behavior.
    Xinhan Dong, Department of Mathematics, Hunnan Normal University
    Ka-Sing Lau*, Department of Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    (1021-28-82)
  • 4:55 p.m.
    Eigenvalue behavior of fractal Laplacians defined by iterated function systems with overlaps.
    Sze-Man Ngai*, Georgia Southern University
    (1021-28-160)
• Saturday October 28, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Computability Theory in Honor of Manuel Lerman's Retirement, II
  Room 211, Business School
  Organizers:
  Joseph S. Miller, University of Connecticut, Storrs josephmiller@math.uconn.edu
  David Reed Solomon, University of Connecticut, Storrs solomon@math.uconn.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Subclasses of the $K$-trivial sets.
    Denis R. Hirschfeldt*, University of Chicago
    (1021-03-125)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Computably Enumerable Sets: Open Questions.
    Peter Cholak*, Notre Dame
    (1021-03-162)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Hyperimmune-free degrees and Schnorr triviality.
    Johanna N.Y. Franklin*, University of California, Berkeley
    (1021-03-192)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A decomposition of the Rogers semilattice of a family of d.c.e. sets.
    Steffen Lempp*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Serikzhan A. Badaev, Kazakh National University
    (1021-03-80)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Two approaches to Vaught's Conjecture.
    Gerald E Sacks*, Harvard University
    (1021-03-123)
• Saturday October 28, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Elliptic and Parabolic Equations, II
  Room 119, Information Technology Engineering Building
  Organizers:
  Yung-Sze Choi, University of Connecticut, Storrs choi@math.uconn.edu
  Changfeng Gui, University of Connecticut, Storrs gui@math.uconn.edu
  Joseph McKenna, University of Connecticut, Storrs mckenna@math.uconn.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Large-time behavior in nonautonomous parabolic equations on $R^N$.
    Peter Polacik*, University of Minnesota
    (1021-35-119)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Suppression of the Dirichlet eigenvalues of a coated body.
    Steve Rosencrans, Department of Mathematics, Tualne University
    Xuefeng Wang*, Department of Mathematics, Tulane University
    (1021-49-101)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Sharp estiamtes of minimum speed of travelling wave solutions to autocatalytic chemical reaction systems.
    Yuanwei Qi*, Department of Mathematics, University of Central Florida
    (1021-35-113)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Bifurcation and Multiple Solutions to Boundary Value Problems.
    James R. Ward*, The University of Alabama at Birmingham
    (1021-35-227)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A class of quasilinear elliptic problems with large diffusion.
    Chunshan Zhao*, Georgia Southern University
    (1021-35-49)
• Saturday October 28, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Topology and Computing
  Room 204, Business School
  Organizers:
  Thomas J. Peters, University of Connecticut, Storrs tpeters@engr.uconn.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Computing Topologically Correct Spline Curve Approximations by Subdivision.
    Edward L F Moore*, University of Connecticut
    (1021-54-148)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Neighborhoods for Computational Geometric Objects.
    Denis Blackmore*, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    (1021-57-71)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Recursive algorithms for calculating link invariants by functorial extensions to tangles.
    John Armstrong*, Yale University
    (1021-55-31)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Approximating topologies using finite posets and order preserving maps.
    Ralph Kopperman*, City College of CUNY
    (1021-54-29)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Adaptive methods for the computation of open covers on compact curves.
    Lance Edward Miller*, University of Connecticut
    Thomas J Peters, University of Connecticut
    Alexander Russell, University of Connecticut
    (1021-54-25)
• Saturday October 28, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Integral Geometry, II
  Room 218, Business School
  Organizers:
  William O. Bray, University of Maine bray@math.umaine.edu
  Wolodymyr R. Madych, University of Connecticut, Storrs madych@math.uconn.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Hankel operators in several complex variables and product $BMO$.
    Michael Lacey, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Erin Terwilleger*, University of Connecticut
    (1021-47-76)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Construction of Sampling Theorems for Unions of Shifted Lattices.
    David F Walnut*, George Mason University
    (1021-41-220)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The intrinsic square function.
    J Michael Wilson*, University of Vermont
    (1021-42-36)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Transplantation formulas for spherical functions.
    William O. Bray*, University of Maine
    (1021-42-127)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Irregular Poisson Type Summation.
    Yu. Lyubarskii, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
    W. R. Madych*, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269
    (1021-42-87)
• Saturday October 28, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Undergraduate Mathematics Education, II
  Room 215, Business School
  Organizers:
  Tom Roby, University of Connecticut, Storrs tom.roby@uconn.edu
  Fabiana Cardetti, University of Connecticut, Storrs
  Tom DeFranco, University of Connecticut, Storrs
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    A partnership of mathematicians, teachers, and educators.
    Al Cuoco*, Center for Mathematics Education, EDC
    (1021-97-78)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Masters Program in Mathematics for Teaching.
    Glenn Stevens*, Boston University
    (1021-97-133)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Mathematics as a unifying theme for teacher professional development.
    Darryl H Yong*, Harvey Mudd College
    (1021-97-77)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Role of "A Fundamental Theorem of Summation" in Calculus Instruction (Preliminary Report).
    Kurt Kreith*, University of California at Davis
    (1021-97-14)
• Saturday October 28, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Analysis, II
  Room 127, Information Technology Engineering Building
  Organizers:
  Jesse Ratzkin, University of Connecticut ratzkin@math.uconn.edu
  Rob Kusner, University of Massachusetts kusner@math.umass.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Equivariant isospectrality and isospectral deformations of metrics on orbifolds.
    Craig J. Sutton*, Dartmouth College
    (1021-53-226)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Thread-wire Surfaces.
    Ben Stephens*, University of Toronto
    (1021-53-246)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Area of the Disk of Unduloids which Share a Fixed Axis.
    Eli Damon Cooper*, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
    (1021-53-188)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Ancient solutions for mean curvature flow.
    Maria Calle*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
    (1021-53-84)
• Saturday October 28, 2006, 2:45 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers
  Room 336, Information Technology Engineering Building
  

  • 2:45 p.m.
    Noncommutative invariants and coinvariants of the symmetric group.
    Fran\c cois Bergeron, LaCIM, University of Quebec at Montreal
    Aaron Lauve*, LaCIM, University of Quebec at Montreal
    (1021-05-28)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Fixing the Decimal Number System for Posterity to Obviate Millinium Confusion.
    Pal S. Asija*, OUR PAL LLC
    (1021-11-06)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    The zeta function of a hypergraph.
    Christopher K. Storm*, Dartmouth College
    (1021-11-150)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Riemann Hypothesis Proof.
    H. Vic Dannon*, California
    (1021-11-05)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Group Gradings in Incidence Algebras.
    Lance Edward Miller*, University of Connecticut
    Eugene Spiegel, University of Connecticut
    (1021-16-26)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The game of Infinity : The Study of Numbers tending to Infinty; in case of additions, Multiplication, Division and Subtraction.
    Syed K Shahwali*, Shah-e-Alam; Brooklyn, New York
    (1021-26-07)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    On Submodular and Supermodular Measures.
    Carmen Vlad*, Pace University, New York
    (1021-28-62)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Invariant currents for dynamical systems via actions on sheaf cohomology.
    John W Robertson*, Wichita State University
    (1021-37-34)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Shifted Convergence of Convolution Powers to the Haar Measure of a Compact Subgroup.
    Todd Retzlaff*, Penn State University -- Lehigh Valley
    (1021-60-223)
• Saturday October 28, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Teichmuller Theory and Hyperbolic Geometry, II
  Room 202, Business School
  Organizers:
  Martin Bridgeman, Boston College martin.bridgeman.1@bc.edu
  Jeffrey F. Brock, Brown University Jeffrey_Brock@brown.edu
  Linda Keen, Lehman College, CUNY linda.keen@lehman.cuny.edu
  Kasra Rafi, University of Connecticut, Storrs rafi@math.uconn.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Teichm\"uller Geodesics that do not have a limit in $\mathcal{PMF}$.
    Anna B Lenzhen*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (1021-51-243)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Exceptional surfaces, the J-invariant and algebraic periodicity.
    Kariane Calta*, Cornell University
    John Smillie, Cornell University
    (1021-37-235)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Divergence of geodesics in Teichmuller space and the mapping class group.
    Moon Duchin*, UC Davis
    Kasra Rafi, University of Connecticut
    (1021-51-217)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Billiards near triangles with the lattice property.
    W. Patrick Hooper*, Northwestern University
    (1021-37-199)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Siegel-Veech constants for billiards in genus two.
    Matt Bainbridge*, University of Chicago
    (1021-51-187)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    A lattice point problem in Teichmuller Space
    Jayadev Athreya*, Yale University
    (1021-37-51)
• Saturday October 28, 2006, 5:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
  University of Connecticut, Storrs, Mathematics Department Reception
  Nathan Hale Tent, Nathan Hale Inn

Sunday October 29, 2006

• Sunday October 29, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibits and Book Sale
  Atrium, ITE Building, Information Technology Engineering Building
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meetings Registration
  Atrium, ITE Building, Information Technology Engineering Building
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic and Analytic Combinatorics, III
  Room 227, Business School
  Organizers:
  Richard Ehrenborg, University of Kentucky and MIT jrge@ms.uky.edu
  Margaret A. Readdy, University of Kentucky and MIT readdy@ms.uky.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Harmonic analysis of Boolean functions.
    Gil Kalai*, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Yale University
    (1021-05-147)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Polyhedral theta functions.
    Sinai Robins*, Temple Unviersity
    (1021-52-166)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    An index for non-regular spheres.
    Michael Slone*, University of Kentucky
    (1021-05-110)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Non-Crossing Tableaux.
    Pavlo Pylyavskyy*, MIT
    (1021-05-40)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Coloring complexes and arrangements.
    Patricia Hersh*, Indiana University-Bloomington
    Edward Swartz, Cornell University
    (1021-05-43)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Is Analysis Necessary?
    Ira M Gessel*, Brandeis University
    (1021-05-155)
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Moduli Spaces, III
  Room 112, Business School
  Organizers:
  Dan Abramovich, Brown University abrmovic@math.brown.edu
  Ralph M. Kaufmann, University of Connecticut, Storrs kaufmann@math.uconn.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    New Moduli Spaces for K3 Surfaces.
    Daniele Arcara*, St. Vincent College
    Aaron Bertram, University of Utah
    (1021-14-56)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Picard group of the moduli stack of elliptic curves.
    Martin Olsson*, UC Berkeley
    (1021-14-132)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Mirror Symmetry for Finite Quotients of Tori.
    Michael Thaddeus*, Columbia University
    (1021-14-225)
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Homotopy Theory of Compactified Moduli Spaces, III
  Room 122, Business School
  Organizers:
  Thomas J. Lada, North Carolina State University lada@math.ncsu.edu
  Jim Stasheff, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill jds@math.upenn.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The Category of $A_{\infty}$-Bialgebras and Applications.
    Samson Saneblidze, A. Razmadze Mathematical Institute; Georgian Academy of Sciences
    Ronald N Umble*, Millesville University of Pennsylvania
    (1021-55-12)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Brace and $\infty$ - algebras.
    Tom Lada*, North Carolina State University
    (1021-08-24)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The orbifold structure of moduli spaces of algebras.
    Michael Robert Penkava*, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
    (1021-18-121)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Moduli spaces of $L_{\infty}$ structures.
    Marilyn Daily*, Max Planck Institute
    Alice Fialowski, E\"otv\"os Lor\'and University
    Michael Penkava, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
    (1021-55-30)
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Methods in Equivariant Topology, III
  Room 226, Business School
  Organizers:
  Tara Holm, University of Connecticut, Storrs tsh@math.uconn.edu
  Tom C. Braden, University of Massachusetts, Amherst braden@math.umass.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A generalized Schubert calculus for symplectic circle manifolds.
    Rebecca F Goldin*, George Mason University
    Susan Tolman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1021-05-70)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Strong Equivalence of Three Definitions of the Bruhat Order and Consequences for the Equivariant Cohomology of Flag Manifolds.
    Catalin Zara*, University of Massachusetts Boston
    (1021-05-237)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Equivariant Pieri rules.
    Julianna S Tymoczko*, University of Michigan
    (1021-05-221)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A combinatorial rule for (co)minuscule Schubert calculus.
    Alexander Yong*, Math Dept., University of Minnesota; Fields Institute/Statistics Department, University of Toronto
    Hugh Thomas, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Brunswick
    (1021-05-55)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Double Schubert varieties and double Schubert polynomials.
    Dave Anderson*, University of Michigan
    (1021-14-158)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Affine (Grassmannian) Schubert Calculus: polynomial representatives and Pieri rules.
    Thomas F. Lam*, Harvard University
    (1021-05-47)
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Analysis and Probability on Fractals, III
  Room 127, Business School
  Organizers:
  Robert S. Strichartz, Cornell University str@math.cornell.edu
  Alexander Teplyaev, University of Connecticut, Storrs teplyaev@math.uconn.edu
  

  • 8:25 a.m.
    Operator algebras, groups and Julia sets.
    Volodymyr Nekrashevych*, Texas A&M University, College Station
    (1021-37-164)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Schreier spectra and self-similar groups.
    Zoran {\v S}uni\'c*, Texas A&M University
    Rostislav Grigorchuk, Texas A&M University
    (1021-37-177)
  • 9:25 a.m.
    Spectral self-similarity on a group.
    Alexander Teplyaev*, University of Connecticut
    (1021-31-105)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Local behavior of harmonic and smooth functions on fractals.
    Anders Pelander*, Department of Mathematics, Uppsala University, Sweden
    (1021-60-90)
  • 10:25 a.m.
    Smooth bumps and a Borel Theorem on P.C.F Fractals.
    Luke G Rogers*, Cornell University
    Robert S Strichartz, Cornell University
    Alexander Teplyaev, University of Connecticut
    (1021-28-170)
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Computability Theory in Honor of Manuel Lerman's Retirement, III
  Room 211, Business School
  Organizers:
  Joseph S. Miller, University of Connecticut, Storrs josephmiller@math.uconn.edu
  David Reed Solomon, University of Connecticut, Storrs solomon@math.uconn.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Degrees of Homogeneous Models.
    Robert I. Soare*, The University of Chicago
    (1021-03-37)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Algorithmic randomness of closed sets and continuous functions.
    Douglas Cenzer*, University of Florida
    (1021-03-191)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Computable Shuffle Sums of Ordinals.
    Asher M. Kach*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
    (1021-03-197)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Lowness properties for randomness in higher recursion theory.
    C T Chong*, National University of Singapore
    (1021-03-216)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Settling Time Reducibility Ordering.
    Barbara F. Csima*, University of Waterloo
    Richard A. Shore, Cornell University
    (1021-03-185)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    $\eta$-Representation of Sets and Degrees.
    Kenneth Allen Harris*, University of Chicago
    (1021-03-196)
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Geometric PDEs, III
  Room 125, Information Technology Engineering Building
  Organizers:
  Wenxiong Chen, Yeshiva University wchen@yu.edu
  Zheng-Chao Han, Rutgers University zchan@math.rutgers.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    A sup + inf inequality for a semilinear elliptic equation.
    Wenxiong Chen*, Yeshiva University
    Congming Li, University of California, Riverside
    (1021-35-93)
  • 9:10 a.m.
    Harmonic maps from a simplicial complex and geometric rigidity.
    Georgios Daskalopoulos, Brown University
    Chikako Mese*, Johns Hopkins University
    (1021-53-68)
  • 9:50 a.m.
    Stability and uniqueness of minimal graphs of higher codimensions.
    Mu-Tao Wang*, Columbia University
    (1021-53-172)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Lagrangian mean curvature flow.
    Andre Neves*, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University
    (1021-53-238)
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Teichmuller Theory and Hyperbolic Geometry, III
  Room 202, Business School
  Organizers:
  Martin Bridgeman, Boston College martin.bridgeman.1@bc.edu
  Jeffrey F. Brock, Brown University Jeffrey_Brock@brown.edu
  Linda Keen, Lehman College, CUNY linda.keen@lehman.cuny.edu
  Kasra Rafi, University of Connecticut, Storrs rafi@math.uconn.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Kleinian groups with discrete length spectrum.
    Richard D Canary*, University of Michigan
    Christopher J Leininger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1021-57-232)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The skinning map.
    Richard P Kent*, Brown University
    (1021-57-224)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Volumes of hyperbolic orbifolds.
    Ilesanmi D. Adeboye*, University of Southern California
    (1021-57-139)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Bending Invariants of Jordan Curves.
    Reza Chamanara*, SUNY at Stony Brook
    (1021-51-205)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Bounds on the geometry of torus cusps.
    Richard Evans, University of Auckland
    John Holt*, Massey University
    (1021-57-156)
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Number Theory, III
  Room 203, Business School
  Organizers:
  Keith Conrad, University of Connecticut, Storrs kconrad@math.uconn.edu
  David Pollack, Wesleyan University dpollack@wesleyan.edu
  Thomas A. Weston, University of Massachusetts, Amherst weston@math.umass.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Cuspidal Cohomology for GL(3).
    Avner Ash*, Boston College
    (1021-11-18)
  • 9:05 a.m.
    Lifting CM abelian varieties to characteristic 0.
    Brian David Conrad*, University of Michigan
    (1021-11-09)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Class field theory for a semi-global field.
    Karen Acquista*, Boston University
    (1021-11-63)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    A p-adic method for (conjecturally) constructing points on elliptic curves.
    Robert Pollack*, Boston University
    (1021-11-154)
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Elliptic and Parabolic Equations, III
  Room 119, Information Technology Engineering Building
  Organizers:
  Yung-Sze Choi, University of Connecticut, Storrs choi@math.uconn.edu
  Changfeng Gui, University of Connecticut, Storrs gui@math.uconn.edu
  Joseph McKenna, University of Connecticut, Storrs mckenna@math.uconn.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    On the Stability of the Positive Steady States for a Nonhomogeneous Semilinear Cauchy Problem.
    YinBin Deng, Huazhong Normal University
    Yi Li*, University of Iowa & Hunan Normal University
    Fen Yang, Huazhong Normal University
    (1021-35-141)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Multiphase Image Segmentation via Modica-Mortola Phase Transition.
    Jackie J. Shen*, University of Minnesota
    Sung-Ha Kang, University of Kentucky
    Yoon-Mo Jung, University of Minnesota
    (1021-49-102)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Computer-assisted Proofs for Nonlinear Elliptic Boundary Value Problems.
    Michael Plum*, University of Karlsruhe, Faculty of Mathematics, Institute for Analysis
    (1021-35-209)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Bistable dynamics in autocatalytic chemical reactions.
    Junping Shi*, College of William and Mary
    (1021-35-103)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Numerical Method for Computing Nonlinear Eigenpairs.
    Xudong Yao*, Department of Mathematics, University of Connecticut
    (1021-49-167)
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Undergraduate Mathematics Education, III
  Room 215, Business School
  Organizers:
  Tom Roby, University of Connecticut, Storrs tom.roby@uconn.edu
  Fabiana Cardetti, University of Connecticut, Storrs
  Tom DeFranco, University of Connecticut, Storrs
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Proving Minkowski's Inequality as a Tool for Student Research.
    Karen S. Adams*, Morgan State University
    Xiao-Xiong Gan, Morgan State University
    (1021-97-149)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Teaching Graduate Students to Teach Mathematics.
    Thomas W Judson*, Harvard University
    (1021-97-75)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Preparation for Sciences:Integrating Intermediate Algebra and Mathematical Modeling.
    Sarah Glaz*, University of Connecticut
    (1021-97-58)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Effects of highly contextualized learning activities on students' mathematical and non-mathematical recall.
    Dale J Winter*, University of Michigan
    (1021-97-16)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Computer manipulatives in an Ordinary Differential Equations Course: Development, Implementation, and Assessment.
    Haynes Miller*, MIT
    Deborah Upton, Stonehill College
    (1021-97-54)
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Analysis, III
  Room 127, Information Technology Engineering Building
  Organizers:
  Jesse Ratzkin, University of Connecticut ratzkin@math.uconn.edu
  Rob Kusner, University of Massachusetts kusner@math.umass.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    A Rigidity result for Conformally Compact Manifolds with the round sphere as the Conformal Infinity.
    Satyaki Dutta*, State University of New York, StonyBrook
    (1021-53-157)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Minimal surfaces and isoperimetric domains in sub-Riemannian geometry.
    Robert K Hladky*, University of Rochester
    (1021-53-120)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Renormalization and blow up for charge one equivariant critical wave maps.
    Joachim Krieger*, Harvard University
    (1021-35-161)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A view on affine differential geometry from the perspective of illumination bodies.
    Alina Stancu*, Concordia University & University of Massachusetts Lowell
    (1021-53-169)
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Pretentious characters and the Polya-Vinogradov inequality.
  Room C80, Information Technology Engineering Building
  Kannan Soundararajan*, University of Michigan
  (1021-11-03)
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Floer theories in symplectic topology and gauge theory.
  Room C80, Information Technology Engineering Building
  Katrin Wehrheim*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (1021-54-02)
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic and Analytic Combinatorics, IV
  Room 227, Business School
  Organizers:
  Richard Ehrenborg, University of Kentucky and MIT jrge@ms.uky.edu
  Margaret A. Readdy, University of Kentucky and MIT readdy@ms.uky.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    On the Torsion Part of the Homology of the Matching Complex.
    Jakob Jonsson*, Department of Mathematics, MIT, Cambridge, MA
    (1021-05-98)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Rank of Random Graphs.
    Kevin P Costello*, Rutgers University
    Van H Vu, Rutgers University
    (1021-05-215)
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and Moduli Spaces, IV
  Room 112, Business School
  Organizers:
  Dan Abramovich, Brown University abrmovic@math.brown.edu
  Ralph M. Kaufmann, University of Connecticut, Storrs kaufmann@math.uconn.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Explicit equations for and degenerations of $\overline{M}_{0,n}$.
    Angela Gibney*, University of Pennsylvania
    Diane Maclagan, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    (1021-14-183)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the Moduli of $\mathrm{SL} (3,\mathbb{C})$-Bundles over a Surface of Euler Characteristic -1.
    Sean Lawton*, Kansas State University
    (1021-14-23)
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Homotopy Theory of Compactified Moduli Spaces, IV
  Room 122, Business School
  Organizers:
  Thomas J. Lada, North Carolina State University lada@math.ncsu.edu
  Jim Stasheff, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill jds@math.upenn.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Discussion.
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Hopf algebras of graphs, multiple zeta values and motives.
    Abhijnan Rej*, Max-Planck-Institut fur Mathematik, Bonn
    (1021-14-72)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The orbifold cohomology of a global quotient of a manifold by an abelian Lie group.
    Rebecca Goldin*, George Mason University
    (1021-14-95)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Poisson and other algebras on bordism groups of garlands.
    Vladimir V Chernov*, Dartmouth College
    (1021-57-35)
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Methods in Equivariant Topology, IV
  Room 226, Business School
  Organizers:
  Tara Holm, University of Connecticut, Storrs tsh@math.uconn.edu
  Tom C. Braden, University of Massachusetts, Amherst braden@math.umass.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Symplectic geometry.
    Jonathan Weitsman*, UC Santa Cruz
    (1021-51-212)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Chern-Schwartz-MacPherson classes for Schubert varieties in the Grassmannian.
    Paolo Aluffi, Florida State University
    Leonardo Constantin Mihalcea*, Duke University
    (1021-14-48)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Quiver coefficients of Dynkin type.
    Anders S. Buch*, Rutgers University
    (1021-14-163)
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Analysis and Probability on Fractals, IV
  Room 127, Business School
  Organizers:
  Robert S. Strichartz, Cornell University str@math.cornell.edu
  Alexander Teplyaev, University of Connecticut, Storrs teplyaev@math.uconn.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Outer approximation: a new approach to studying fractal Laplacians.
    Tyrus Berry, Ohio State University
    Stacey Goff, New College of Florida
    Robert S Strichartz*, Cornell University
    (1021-28-116)
  • 2:55 p.m.
    Spectra of self-similar Laplacians on the Sierpinski gasket with twists.
    Anna Blasiak*, Middlebury college
    Robert S Strichartz, Cornell Univ.
    Baris Evren Ugurcan, Bilkent Univ.
    (1021-28-99)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Dirichlet Forms on Higher-Dimensional Analogues of the Sierpinski Gasket.
    Michael Jeremy Barany*, Cornell University
    Luke Rogers, Cornell University
    (1021-28-204)
  • 3:55 p.m.
    Harmonic Gradients of Eigenfunction on the Sierpinski Gasket.
    Jessie L DeGrado*, Cornell University
    Luke G Rogers, Cornell University
    Robert S Strichartz, Cornell University
    (1021-28-195)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    What Happens to the Spectrum When You Perturb a Fractal Graph?
    Marya Bessonov, North Carolina State University
    Michael Jennings, Cornell University
    Robyn L Miller*, Cornell University
    Robert S Strichartz, Cornell University
    (1021-26-171)
  • 4:55 p.m.
    Analogs of the quantum mechanical harmonic oscillator on the Sierpinski gasket.
    Edward Fan, Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Zuhair Khandker*, Princeton University
    Robert S Strichartz, Cornell University
    (1021-28-117)
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Computability Theory in Honor of Manuel Lerman's Retirement, IV
  Room 211, Business School
  Organizers:
  Joseph S. Miller, University of Connecticut, Storrs josephmiller@math.uconn.edu
  David Reed Solomon, University of Connecticut, Storrs solomon@math.uconn.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Logic and Control Theory.
    Anil Nerode*, Cornell University
    (1021-03-182)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Subsystems of 2nd-order arithmetic below $WKL_0$.
    Stephen Binns*, University of Connecticut
    (1021-03-186)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Complex oscillations and the law of the iterated logarithm.
    Bjoern Kjos-Hanssen*, Cornell University
    Anil Nerode, Cornell University
    (1021-03-165)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Direct definitions of the Turing Jump from degree classes.
    Richard A Shore*, Cornell University
    (1021-03-52)
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Analysis and Nonlinear Geometric PDEs, IV
  Room 336, Information Technology Engineering Building
  Organizers:
  Jesse Ratzkin, University of Connecticut ratzkin@math.uconn.edu
  Rob Kusner, University of Massachusetts kusner@math.umass.edu
  Wenxiong Chen, Yeshiva University
  Zheng-Chao Han, Rutgers University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    On the extinction profile of solutions to the fast diffusion.
    Panagiota Daskalopoulos, Columbia University
    Natasa Sesum*, Columbia University
    (1021-41-142)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Ancient Solutions of the Affine Normal Flow.
    John C Loftin*, Rutgers Newark
    Mao-Pei Tsui, University of Toledo
    (1021-35-219)
  • 4:10 p.m.
    On the Penrose Inequality of General Relativity.
    Marcus A. Khuri*, Stony Brook University
    (1021-83-173)
• Sunday October 29, 2006, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Teichmuller Theory and Hyperbolic Geometry, IV
  Room 202, Business School
  Organizers:
  Martin Bridgeman, Boston College martin.bridgeman.1@bc.edu
  Jeffrey F. Brock, Brown University Jeffrey_Brock@brown.edu
  Linda Keen, Lehman College, CUNY linda.keen@lehman.cuny.edu
  Kasra Rafi, University of Connecticut, Storrs rafi@math.uconn.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Grafting Coordinates for Teichm\"uller space.
    David Dumas*, Brown University
    Michael Wolf, Rice University
    (1021-30-100)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Grafting lines fellow travel Teichmuller geodesics.
    Young-Eun Choi*, Penn State Altoona
    Kasra Rafi, University of Connecticut
    (1021-32-174)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Coarse geometry of mapping class groups.
    Yair N Minsky*, Yale University
    (1021-20-193)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A structure theorem for two-parabolic space.
    Jane Gilman*, Rutgers Univesity-Newark
    (1021-20-86)

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