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2008 Spring Central Section Meeting
Bloomington, IN, April 5-6, 2008 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1038

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

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Saturday April 5, 2008

• Saturday April 5, 2008, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  East Lounge - Mezzanine Level, Indiana Memorial Union
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Distinguished Alumni Room, Indiana Memorial Union
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial and Geometric Aspects of Commutative Algebra, I
  Room 228, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Juan Migliore, University of Notre Dame migliore.1@nd.edu
  Uwe Nagel, University of Kentucky uwenagel@ms.uky.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Determinantal Equations.
    Gregory G. Smith*, Queen's University
    Jessica Sidman, Mount Holyoke College
    (1038-14-294)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Free Resolutions of Edge Ideals Corresponding to Simple Graphs.
    Rachelle R Bouchat*, University of Kentucky
    (1038-13-253)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Detecting properties of graphs via commutative algebra.
    Christopher A. Francisco*, Oklahoma State University
    Tai H. Ha, Tulane University
    Adam Van Tuyl, Lakehead University
    (1038-13-90)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Arrangements of hyperplanes, poset resolutions of monomial ideals, and free resolutions of multigraded modules.
    A. Beecher, United States Military Academy
    T. Clark, University at Albany, SUNY
    A. Tchernev*, University at Albany, SUNY
    (1038-13-129)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Some results on the $h$-vectors of matroids.
    Erik Stokes*, University of Kentucky
    (1038-13-250)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The first Picard-graded Betti numbers of some Cox rings.
    Mauricio F Velasco*, UC Berkeley
    (1038-13-194)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Representation Theory, Topological Combinatorics, and Interactions Between Them, I
  Room 217, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Patricia Hersh, Indiana University phersh@indiana.edu
  Cristian P. Lenart, State University of New York at Albany lenart@albany.edu
  Michelle Wachs, University of Miami wachs@math.miami.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    The complete {\bf cd}-index of a Bruhat interval.
    Louis J. Billera*, Cornell University
    (1038-05-148)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Bruhat order structure via permutation patterns.
    Bridget Eileen Tenner*, DePaul University
    (1038-05-52)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The numbers game and Dynkin diagram classification results.
    Robert G. Donnelly*, Murray State University
    (1038-05-138)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Sorting orders on finite reflection groups and quotient-closed subcategories of representations of quivers.
    Drew Armstrong, University of Minnesota
    Hugh Thomas*, University of New Brunswick
    (1038-05-130)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Hyperbolic and Kinetic Equations, I
  Room 304, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Shi Jin, University of Wisconsin jin@math.wisc.edu
  Marshall Slemrod, University of Wisconsin slemrod@math.wisc.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Nonlinear waves with constant frequency and surface waves on vortex patches.
    Joseph Biello, University of California at Davis
    John K Hunter*, University of California at Davis
    (1038-35-338)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Stability of traveling waves in quasi-linear hyperbolic systems with relaxation and diffusion.
    Tong Li*, University of Iowa
    (1038-35-334)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On the Linearized Balescu-Lenard Equation.
    Robert M Strain*, Harvard University
    (1038-35-330)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Non-Oscillatory Central Schemes for a Traffic Flow Model with Arrhenius Look-Ahead Dynamics.
    Alexander Kurganov*, Tulane University, Mathematics Department
    Anthony Polizzi, University of Michigan
    (1038-65-309)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Regular reflection below the sonic angle.
    Volker W Elling*, University of Michigan
    (1038-76-305)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Aspects of Coding Theory, I
  Room 247, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Heide Gluesing-Luerssen, University of Kentucky heidegl@ms.uky.edu
  Roxana Smarandache, San Diego State University rsmarand@sciences.sdsu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Sequential Codes.
    Sergio R L\'opez-Permouth*, Ohio University
    Benigno R Parra-Avila, Ohio University
    (1038-94-323)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Dual Codes over Finite Rings---Cautions and Compromises.
    Jay A. Wood*, Western Michigan University
    (1038-94-59)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    An exact bound on dimension of binary divisible codes.
    Xiaoyu Liu*, Wright State University
    (1038-05-246)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Constacyclic Codes Of Length $p^s$ Over $\mathbb F_{p^m} + u\mathbb F_{p^m}$.
    Hai Q. Dinh*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Kent State University, 4314 Mahoning Avenue, Warren, OH 44483, USA
    (1038-94-285)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Convolutional Codes with Additional Structure.
    Steve Szabo*, Ohio University
    Sergio R. L\'opez-Permouth, Ohio University
    (1038-16-273)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Finite Element Methods and Applications, I
  Room 305, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Nicolae Tarfulea, Purdue University Calumet Tarfulea@calumet.purdue.edu
  Sheng Zhang, Wayne State University sheng@math.wayne.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Saddle Point System Discretization Without the Discrete LBB Condition.
    Constantin Bacuta*, University of Delaware
    (1038-65-75)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Adaptive stabilization of discontinuous Galerkin methods for nonlinear elasticity.
    Fatih Celiker*, Wayne State University
    Alexander Ten Eyck, Stanford University
    Adrian Lew, Stanford University
    (1038-65-78)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Hybridization of Finite Element Methods for the Helmholtz Equation.
    Peter B Monk*, University of Delaware
    (1038-65-220)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Quasi-optimal meshes for transmission problems in the plane.
    Victor Nistor*, Pennsylvania State University
    Hengguang Li Li, Pennsylvania State University
    Anna Mazzucato, Pennsylvania State University
    (1038-65-216)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Flux Recovery and Accurate A Posteriori Error Estimation for Elliptic Equations.
    Z. Cai*, Purdue University
    (1038-65-34)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Probability and Spatial Systems, I
  Room 319, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Russell D. Lyons, Indiana University rdlyons@indiana.edu
  Alexander Holroyd, University of British Columbia holroyd@math.ubc.ca
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Diffusion at RMT's hard edge.
    Brian Rider*, CU Boulder
    Jose Ramirez, Universidad de Costa Rica
    (1038-60-198)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Matchings of exponential tail on coin flips in $Z^d$.
    Adam Timar*, The University of British Columbia
    (1038-60-304)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Internal aggregation with multiple sources.
    Lionel Levine, University of California, Berkeley
    Yuval Peres*, Microsoft Research
    (1038-60-245)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Discrete Structures in Conformal Dynamics and Geometry, I
  Room 005, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Kevin M. Pilgrim, Indiana University pilgrim@indiana.edu
  William J. Floyd, Virginia Polytech Institute & State University floyd@math.vt.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Postcritically-finite maps on the sphere.
    Mario Bonk*, University of Michigan
    (1038-30-209)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    From Starburst to Barycenter: the combinatorial structure of two rational maps.
    James W. Cannon*, Brigham Young University
    William J. Floyd, Virginia Tech
    Walter R. Parry, Eastern Michigan University
    (1038-37-255)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Latt\`{e}s Maps and Finite Subdivision Rules.
    Walter Parry*, Eastern Michigan University
    (1038-37-290)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Special Session on Operator Algebras and Applications, I
  Room 317, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Hari Bercovici, Indiana University bercovic@indiana.edu
  Marius Dadarlat, Purdue University mdd@math.purdue.edu
  Mihai Popa, Indiana University mipopa@indiana.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Connes' embedding problem and Horn's inequalities.
    Benoit Collins, University of Ottawa and CNRS, France
    Kenneth J Dykema*, Texas A&M University
    (1038-46-98)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Non-stable K-Theory and Extramally Rich C*-algebras.
    Lawrence G. Brown*, Purdue University
    Gert K. Pedersen, deceased
    (1038-46-121)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Non-embedding of the Jiang-Su algebra.
    Andrew S Toms*, York University
    Marius Dadarlat, Purdue University
    Ilan Hirshberg, Ben Gurion University
    Wilhelm Winter, University of Nottingham
    (1038-47-123)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Essential representations of product systems.
    Remus Floricel*, University of Regina
    (1038-46-238)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on D-modules, I
  Room 219, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Mathias Schulze, Oklahoma State University mschulze@math.okstate.edu
  Hans Ulrich Walther, Purdue University walther@math.purdue.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Hodge numbers and exponential sums on ${\mathbb P}^n$.
    Alan Adolphson*, Oklahoma State University
    Steven Sperber, University of Minnesota
    (1038-14-240)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    p-adic analytic formulas for unit-roots of L-functions for exponential sums.
    Steven Sperber*, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
    (1038-14-170)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On 'maximal' poles of zeta functions, roots of Berstein-Sato polynomials and monodromy Jordan blocks.
    Willem Veys*, K.U.Leuven
    (1038-14-41)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Ramified Langlands Duality in Characteristic $p$.
    Thomas Nevins*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1038-14-05)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Classical and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, I
  Room 103, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Roger Temam, Indiana University temam@indiana.edu
  Shouhong Wang, Indiana University showang@indiana.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the partial regularity for solutions of the Navier-Stokes system.
    Igor Kukavica*, University of Southern California
    (1038-35-328)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On the dyadic model of the Navier-Stokes equations.
    Alexey Cheskidov*, University of Chicago
    (1038-35-336)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On the blow-up problem and a priori estimates for the 3D Euler equations.
    Dongho Chae*, Sungkyunkwan University
    (1038-76-156)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A posteriori error analysis of cell-centered finite volume method for convection diffusion problems with interface.
    Du X Pham*, Colorado State University
    (1038-65-349)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Applications of Ring Spectra, I
  Room 209, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Randy McCarthy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign randy@math.uiuc.edu
  Ayelet Lindenstrauss, Indiana University ayelet@math.indiana.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    What are E infinity ring spaces and E infinity ring spectra?
    J. P. May*, University of Chicago
    (1038-55-186)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Lubin-Tate space and Morava E-theory.
    Paul G Goerss*, Northwestern University
    (1038-55-261)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory, I
  Room 246, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Jozsef Balogh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign jobal@math.uiuc.edu
  Hemanshu Kaul, Illinois Institute of Technology kaul@math.iit.edu
  Tao Jiang, Miami University jiangt@muohio.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Explicit construction of small Folkman graphs.
    Linyuan Lu*, University of South Carolina
    (1038-05-169)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Variance of the subgraph count for sparse Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi graphs.
    Robert B Ellis*, Illinois Institute of Technology
    James P Ferry, Metron, Inc.
    (1038-05-157)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Minimal Size of Restricted Difference Bases.
    Jozsef Balogh, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois
    Wojciech Samotij, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois
    Sujith Vijay*, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois
    (1038-05-213)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The number of induced subgraphs with distinct size or order.
    Noga Alon, Tel Aviv Univesity, Israel
    Jozsef Balogh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Alexandr V. Kostochka, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Wojciech Samotij*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1038-05-73)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Modeling of Cell Motility: From Molecular Events to Mechanical Movement, I
  Room 149, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Anastasios Matzavinos, Ohio State University tasos@math.ohio-state.edu
  Nicoleta Eugenia Tarfulea, Purdue University Calumet ntarfule@calumet.purdue.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Instability Mechanisms and Wavelength Selection during Vasculogenesis and Angiogenesis.
    James A. Glazier*, Indiana University, Department of Physics and Biocomplexity Institute
    Abbas Shirinifard, Indiana University, Department of Physics and Biocomplexity Institute
    (1038-92-127)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A model of fibroblast motility on substrates with different rigidities.
    Maria E Gracheva*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1038-92-168)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A simple model for the mechanical behaviour of thin layers of collagen gel.
    J. E. F. Green*, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, The Ohio State University
    A. Friedman, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, The Ohio State University
    (1038-76-214)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Minimal and CMC Surfaces, I
  Oak Room, Indiana Memorial Union
  Organizers:
  Bruce Michael Solomon, Indiana University solomon@indiana.edu
  Matthias Weber, Indiana University matweber@indiana.edu
  Adam Weyhaupt, Southern Illinois University aweyhau@siue.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Perturbed Genus-One Scherk Surfaces.
    Casey Douglas*, Rice University
    (1038-53-61)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Conelike soap films spanning tetrahedra.
    Robert Huff*, Indiana University South Bend
    (1038-51-106)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Limits of Minimal Surfaces with Increasing Genus.
    Soomin Kim*, Purdue University
    (1038-49-146)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Rigidity and deformations of constant mean curvature surfaces.
    Jesse Ratzkin*, University of Georgia
    Karsten Grosse-Brauckmann, Technische Universitat Darmstadt
    Nick Korevaar, University of Utah
    Rob Kusner, University of Massachusetts
    John Sullivan, Technische Univeristat Berlin
    (1038-53-33)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic K-theory and Nil groups in Algebra and Topology, I
  Room 204, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  James F. Davis, Indiana University jfdavis@indiana.edu
  Christian Haesemeyer, University of Illinois at Chicago chh@math.uic.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Formulas for $NK_*(R)$ for $\Bbb Q$-algebras.
    Charles A Weibel*, Rutgers University
    Guillermo Cortinas, Universities of Buenos Aires and of Valladolid
    Christian Haesemeyer, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Mark E Walker, University of Nebraska
    (1038-19-232)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On a question of Bass.
    G Cortinas, Universities of Buenos Aires and of Valladolid
    C Haesemeyer, University of Illinois-Chicago
    Mark Walker*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    C Weibel, Rutgers University
    (1038-19-258)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis Methods in Mathematical Fluid Dynamics, I
  Room 144, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Zoran Grujic, University of Virginia zg7c@virginia.edu
  Irina Mitrea, University of Virginia im3p@virginia.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Energy of singular solutions to the Euler equations.
    Roman Shvydkoy*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1038-76-21)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    An Estimate on the Number of Rapid Oscillations of an Undular Bore.
    Zoran Grujic, University of Virginia
    Henrik Kalisch*, University of Bergen
    (1038-35-206)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Well-posedness and Optimal Control of System of Fluid Structure Interaction.
    Amjad Tuffaha*, University of Southern California
    Viorel Barbu, Romanian Academy
    Zoran Grujic, University of Virginia
    Irena Lasiecka, University of Virginia
    (1038-35-348)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the regularity of weak solutions to the 3D Navier-Stokes equations in critical spaces.
    Alexey Cheskidov*, University of Chicago
    (1038-35-333)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Financial Mathematics, I
  Room 345, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Victor Goodman, Indiana University goodmanv@indiana.edu
  Kiseop Lee, University of Louisville kiseop.lee@louisville.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Multi-start Approach for Parameter Optimization of Asset Flow Differential Equations.
    Ahmet Duran*, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
    Gunduz Caginalp, Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh
    (1038-91-247)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Existence criteria for solutions of linear stochastic differential equations with skew-symmetric differential operator and additive fractional Brownian noise.
    Boris P Belinskiy, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
    Peter Caithamer*, Indiana University Northwest
    (1038-60-92)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Large Deviations in Multifactor Portfolio Credit Risk.
    Wanmo Kang*, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Paul Glasserman, Columbia University
    Perwez Shahabuddin, Columbia University
    (1038-60-234)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Bottom-Up Intensity Based Jump Model for Pricing CDOs.
    Jesus F Rodriguez*, Rutgers University
    (1038-60-326)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Birational Algebraic Geometry, I
  Room 215, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Mircea I. Mustata, University of Michigan mmustata@umich.edu
  Mihnea Popa, University of Illinois at Chicago mpopa@math.uic.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Upper and lower bounds for nef cones.
    Angela C Gibney*, The University of Pennsylvania
    Diane Maclagan, University of Warwick
    (1038-14-142)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Extension theorems.
    Lawrence Man Hou Ein*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Mihnea Popa, University Of Illinois at Chicago
    (1038-14-79)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Weak Dependence in Probability and Statistics, I
  Room 344, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Richard C. Bradley, Indiana University bradleyr@indiana.edu
  Lahn T. Tran, Indiana University tran@indiana.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    A strictly stationary, ``causal,'' 5-tuplewise independent counterexample to the central limit theorem.
    Richard C. Bradley*, Indiana University
    (1038-60-39)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Rates of convergence for minimal distances in the CLT under projective criteria.
    Florence Merlevede*, University Paris VI. LPMA
    (1038-60-50)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Moment and maximal inequalities for some classes of dependent variables.
    Magda Peligrad*, University of Cincinnati
    Sergey Utev, University of Nottingham
    (1038-60-162)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    q-Wishart matrices.
    Wlodek Bryc*, University of Cincinnati
    (1038-60-69)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Some Mathematical Problems in Biology, from Macromolecules to Ecosystems, I
  Room 148, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Santiago David Schnell, Indiana University schnell@indiana.edu
  Roger Temam, Indiana University temam@indiana.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Mathematical and computational methods for understanding the dynamics of biochemical networks.
    Gheorghe Craciun*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1038-92-84)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Modeling Mammalian Circadian Rhythms.
    Daniel B Forger*, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan
    (1038-92-149)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A neurobiological model of the human sleep/wake cycle.
    Michael Rempe, MBI; Ohio State University
    Janet Best, Ohio State University
    David Terman*, Ohio State University
    (1038-92-57)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometry and Dynamics, I
  Room 006, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Chris Connell, Indiana University connell@indiana.edu
  David M. Fisher, Indiana University fisherdm@indiana.edu
  Marlies Gerber, Indiana University gerber@indiana.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Insecurity and the growth of the number of geodesics between two points.
    Keith Burns*, Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University
    Eugene Gutkin, Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika w Toruniu
    (1038-53-301)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Three Gap Theorem in Riemannian Geometry.
    Benjamin Schmidt*, University of Chicago
    Ian Biringer, University of Chicago
    (1038-53-153)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A new isomorphism invariant for free group actions.
    Lewis Phylip Bowen*, University of Hawaii
    (1038-37-256)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Anosov rigidity -- Nonuniform hyperbolicity everywhere implies uniform hyperbolicity.
    Yakov Pesin*, Penn State University
    (1038-37-314)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Related Topics, I
  Room 146, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Ciprian Demeter, Institute for Advance Study demeter@math.ias.edu
  Nets Katz, Indiana University nhkatz@indiana.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    On Additive Doubling and Energy.
    Paul H. Koester*, Indiana University
    Nets Hawk Katz, Indiana University
    (1038-05-299)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Recent progress on multilinear commutators.
    Rodolfo H. Torres*, University of Kansas
    (1038-42-295)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Quasi-linear dynamics in nonlinear Schrodinger equation with periodic boundary conditions.
    M Burak Erdogan*, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
    Vadim Zharnitsky, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
    (1038-35-165)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Discrepancy, small ball probabilities and entropy estimates.
    Dmitriy Bilyk*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Michael Lacey, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Armen Vagharshakyan, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1038-46-283)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Solving equations in finite groups.
  Room 122, Chemistry Building
  Michael J. Larsen*, Indiana University
  (1038-20-02)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Invariants of singularities in algebraic geometry.
  Room 122, Chemistry Building
  Mircea Mustata*, University of Michigan
  (1038-14-03)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Probability and Spatial Systems, II
  Room 319, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Russell D. Lyons, Indiana University rdlyons@indiana.edu
  Alexander Holroyd, University of British Columbia holroyd@math.ubc.ca
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Critical percolation on finite graphs.
    Asaf Nachmias*, U.C. Berkeley
    (1038-60-193)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Random matrices: The Circular Law.
    Van H. Vu*, Department of Mathematics, Rutgers
    (1038-60-200)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The TASEP speed process.
    Omer Angel*, University of Toronto
    Gideon Amir, Univ. of Toronto
    Benedek Valko, Univ. of Toronto
    (1038-60-204)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Discrete Structures in Conformal Dynamics and Geometry, II
  Room 005, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Kevin M. Pilgrim, Indiana University pilgrim@indiana.edu
  William J. Floyd, Virginia Polytech Institute & State University floyd@math.vt.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Hyperbolic pseudogroups.
    Volodymyr Nekrashevych*, Texas A&M University
    (1038-37-318)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Quasisymmetric rigidity properties of relative Schottky sets.
    Sergiy Merenkov*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1038-30-210)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Invariant Peano curves of expanding Thurston maps.
    Daniel Meyer*, University of Michigan
    (1038-37-289)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Thermodynamic formalism for Siegel disks.
    Lukas Geyer*, Montana State University
    (1038-37-331)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
  Special Session on Operator Algebras and Applications, II
  Room 317, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Hari Bercovici, Indiana University bercovic@indiana.edu
  Marius Dadarlat, Purdue University mdd@math.purdue.edu
  Mihai Popa, Indiana University mipopa@indiana.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Some probabilistic and topological properties of the free quantum orthogonal group $A_o(n)$.
    Benoit V P Collins*, University of Ottawa and CNRS
    (1038-46-105)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Application of multilinear function series in non-commutative probability with amalgamation.
    Mihai Popa*, Indiana University at Bloomington
    (1038-47-154)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Noncommutative independence from the braid group $\mathbb{B}_\infty$.
    Claus M Koestler*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1038-46-286)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Conditionally free convolutions of probability measures with unbounded support.
    Serban T. Belinschi*, University of Saskatchewan
    (1038-46-131)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Some applications of free stochastic calculus: absence of Cartan subalgebras in q-deformed free group factors.
    Dimitri Shlyakhtenko*, UCLA Department of Mathematics
    (1038-46-118)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Representation Theory, Topological Combinatorics, and Interactions Between Them, II
  Room 217, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Patricia Hersh, Indiana University phersh@indiana.edu
  Cristian P. Lenart, State University of New York at Albany lenart@albany.edu
  Michelle Wachs, University of Miami wachs@math.miami.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Smooth and palindromic Schubert varieties in affine Grassmannians.
    Stephen A. Mitchell*, University of Washington (Seattle)
    Sara C. Billey, University of Washington (Seattle)
    (1038-05-20)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Schubert Polynomials for the affine Grassmannian of the symplectic group.
    Thomas Lam, Harvard
    Anne Schilling*, UC Davis
    Mark Shimozono, Virginia Tech
    (1038-05-23)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Geometric representations through Springer fibers and related varieties.
    Julianna Tymoczko*, University of Iowa
    (1038-14-346)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Singular sensations in the KGB picture.
    William M. McGovern*, University of Washington
    (1038-22-12)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Cluster algebras associated with bordered surfaces.
    Sergey Fomin*, University of Michigan
    Michael Z. Shapiro, Michigan State University
    Dylan P. Thurston, Barnard College, Columbia University
    (1038-05-176)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Classical and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, II
  Room 103, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Roger Temam, Indiana University temam@indiana.edu
  Shouhong Wang, Indiana University showang@indiana.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Energy balance for the fluid equations.
    Susan Friedlander*, UIC and USC
    (1038-35-145)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Controlling the morphology of viscous fingering patterns: A surprising discovery.
    John S Lowengrub*, University of California, Irvine
    (1038-76-278)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A stability and bifurcation analysis of the doubly-diffusive convection.
    Jerry L. Bona, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, The University of Illinois at Chicago
    Chun-Hsiung Hsia*, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, The University of Illinois at Chicago
    Tian Ma, Department of Mathematics, Sichuan University
    Shouhong Wang, Department of Mathematics, Indiana University
    (1038-35-270)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Break
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Modeling and simulation of multiphase incompressible flows using an energetic variational phase field model.
    Jie Shen*, Purdue University
    (1038-65-174)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Vorticity concentration for 2D circularly symmetric flows in the presence of moving boundaries.
    M. C. Lopes, UniCamp, Brazil
    A. L. Mazzucato*, Penn State University
    H. J. Nussenzveig-Lopes, UniCamp, Brazil
    M. E. Taylor, UNC-Chapel Hill
    (1038-76-310)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Attractors for nonautonomous 2D Navier-Stokes equations with normal external forces.
    Chengkui Zhong*, Lanzhou University
    (1038-35-345)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Applications of Ring Spectra, II
  Room 209, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Randy McCarthy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign randy@math.uiuc.edu
  Ayelet Lindenstrauss, Indiana University ayelet@math.indiana.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Representing objects in algebraic $K$-theory.
    Anthony D Elmendorf*, Purdue University Calumet
    (1038-55-66)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Equivariant homotopy and algebraic $K$-theory.
    Teena M Gerhardt*, Indiana University
    (1038-55-217)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A Parameterized A-theory of Space and Lefschetz Trace.
    Yuichi Iwashita*, University of Illinois at Springfield
    (1038-55-55)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Equivariant Intersection Theory.
    Bruce Williams*, University of Notre Dame
    John Klein, Wayne State University
    (1038-57-325)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory, II
  Room 246, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Jozsef Balogh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign jobal@math.uiuc.edu
  Hemanshu Kaul, Illinois Institute of Technology kaul@math.iit.edu
  Tao Jiang, Miami University jiangt@muohio.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    A fast algorithm for equitable coloring.
    H. A. Kierstead, Arizona State University
    A. V Kostochka*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1038-05-77)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Generalized regularity lemma for graphs.
    Bela Csaba*, Department of Mathematics, Western Kentucky University
    (1038-05-152)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Complete H-decompositions.
    Zoltan Furedi*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1038-05-158)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On-line Ramsey theory in bounded-degree graphs.
    Jane Butterfield, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Tracy Grauman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Bill Kinnersley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Kevin Milans*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Christopher Stocker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Douglas B. West, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1038-05-275)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The edit distance function.
    J\'ozsef Balogh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Ryan Martin*, Iowa State University
    (1038-05-119)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Nordhaus-Gaddum Bounds for $k$-Domination in Graphs.
    Noah Prince*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1038-05-189)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Cycles in edge-colored graphs.
    Tao Jiang*, Miami University
    (1038-05-192)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Minimal and CMC Surfaces, II
  Oak Room, Indiana Memorial Union
  Organizers:
  Bruce Michael Solomon, Indiana University solomon@indiana.edu
  Matthias Weber, Indiana University matweber@indiana.edu
  Adam Weyhaupt, Southern Illinois University aweyhau@siue.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Discussions
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic K-theory and Nil groups in Algebra and Topology, II
  Room 204, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  James F. Davis, Indiana University jfdavis@indiana.edu
  Christian Haesemeyer, University of Illinois at Chicago chh@math.uic.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Nil-groups, convex geometry, and discrete geometry.
    Joseph Gubeladze*, San Francisco State University
    (1038-19-112)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Algebraic K-theory over the infinite dihedral group.
    James F Davis, Department of Mathematics, Indiana University
    Qayum Khan*, Department of Mathematics, Vanderbilt University
    Andrew Ranicki, School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh
    (1038-19-248)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Splitting formulas for certain Waldhausen Nil-groups.
    Ivonne J. Ortiz*, Miami University
    Jean-Francois Lafont, Ohio State University
    (1038-19-296)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-4:25 p.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis Methods in Mathematical Fluid Dynamics, II
  Room 144, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Zoran Grujic, University of Virginia zg7c@virginia.edu
  Irina Mitrea, University of Virginia im3p@virginia.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Vanishing viscosity limits of solutions to Navier-Stokes equations.
    Michael E. Taylor*, Mathematics Dept., University of North Carolina
    (1038-35-64)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Vanishing viscosity limit for flow in a channel and related singular perturbation problems.
    Anna L Mazzucato*, Department of Mathematics, Penn State University
    Michael E Taylor, Department of Mathematics, UNC-Chapel Hill
    (1038-35-141)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Transmission Problems for Higher Order Operators.
    Matthew Wright*, University of Missouri
    Marius Mitrea, University of Missouri
    (1038-35-150)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A regularity criterion for the dissipative quasi-geostrophic equations.
    Hongjie Dong, Brown University
    Natasa Pavlovic*, University of Texas at Austin
    (1038-35-126)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Financial Mathematics, II
  Room 345, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Victor Goodman, Indiana University goodmanv@indiana.edu
  Kiseop Lee, University of Louisville kiseop.lee@louisville.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Foreign exchange rates and foreign exchange derivatives: an optimal portfolio based theory.
    Srdjan Stojanovic*, University of Cincinnati
    (1038-60-115)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Trading the line strategy using fractional Brownian motion.
    Oana Mocioalca*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Kent State University
    Vilen Abramov, Cleveland, Ohio
    Kazim Khan, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Kent State University
    (1038-60-229)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    State-dependent utility maximization in markets driven by additive Levy processes.
    Jose E. Figueroa-Lopez*, Purdue University
    (1038-60-211)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Portfolio optimization under stochastic volatility and discrete observations.
    Andrew B Vizcarra*, Purdue University
    (1038-60-183)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Disequilibrium asset price dynamics with heterogeneous agents.
    Alec N Kercheval*, Florida State University
    Paul Beaumont, Florida State University
    Andrew Culham, FPL Energy, Juno Beach, FL
    (1038-91-117)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Pricing Caps When Bond Prices Follow Jump-diffusion Processes and Have Log Price Volatility.
    Siyu Zhang*, Indiana University Bloomington
    (1038-60-266)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Tradeable Measures of Risk.
    Libor Pospisil, Columbia University
    Jan Vecer, Columbia University
    Mingxin Xu*, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
    (1038-60-46)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Hyperbolic and Kinetic Equations, II
  Room 304, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Shi Jin, University of Wisconsin jin@math.wisc.edu
  Marshall Slemrod, University of Wisconsin slemrod@math.wisc.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Instantaneous boundary-tangency of singularity curves in compressible fluid flow.
    David Hoff*, Indiana University
    Mikhail Perepelitsa, Vanderbilt University
    (1038-35-292)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Critical thresholds in Euler-Poisson equations with pressure.
    Dongming Wei*, University of Maryland, College Park, Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling (CSCAMM)
    Eitan Tadmor, University of Maryland, College Park, Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling (CSCAMM)
    (1038-35-222)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Shock Reflection, Transonic Flow, and Free Boundary Problems (Part II).
    Gui-Qiang Chen, Northwestern University
    Mikhail Feldman*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1038-35-201)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Shock Reflection, Transonic Flow, and Free Boundary Problems (Part I).
    Gui-Qiang G. Chen*, Northwestern University
    Mikhail Feldman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1038-35-175)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    From the dynamics of gaseous stars to the incompressible Euler equations.
    Donatella Donatelli, University of L'Aquila
    Konstantina Trivisa*, University of Maryland
    (1038-35-96)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Time Decay for a One-Dimensional, Two-Component Plasma.
    Robert Glassey, Indiana University
    Jack Schaeffer, Carnegie Mellon University
    Stephen Pankavich*, Indiana University
    (1038-35-72)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The Initial-Boundary Riemann Problem for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws and the Time-Dependent Vanishing Viscosity Method.
    Cleopatra Christoforou*, University of Houston
    Laura Spinolo, Northwestern University
    (1038-35-51)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Aspects of Coding Theory, II
  Room 247, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Heide Gluesing-Luerssen, University of Kentucky heidegl@ms.uky.edu
  Roxana Smarandache, San Diego State University rsmarand@sciences.sdsu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Recent Results on Asymptotically Good Code Ensembles.
    Daniel J. Costello*, University of Notre Dame
    (1038-94-300)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    List Decoding of Burst Errors.
    Ron M. Roth, Computer Science Department, Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
    Pascal O. Vontobel*, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA
    (1038-94-32)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Spherical codes for sparse digital fingerprinting.
    Dai Wei, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    Negar Kiyavash, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    Olgica Milenkovic*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    (1038-05-188)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Pseudocodeword weights and the parity-check matrix redundancy of linear codes.
    Christine A. Kelley*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Deepak Sridhara, Seagate Technology
    (1038-94-288)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Pseudocodewords of LDPC codes from voltage graphs.
    Deanna T. Dreher*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    (1038-94-260)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Convergences of the Sum-Product Algorithm on Some Small Multi-Edged Graphs.
    Shayne Michael Vargo*, San Diego State University
    (1038-94-203)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Some Mathematical Problems in Biology, from Macromolecules to Ecosystems, II
  Room 148, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Santiago David Schnell, Indiana University schnell@indiana.edu
  Roger Temam, Indiana University temam@indiana.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Synchronization in Basal Ganglia Networks.
    Leonid L Rubchinsky*, Dept of Math Sciences and Center for Math Biosci, IUPUI; Stark Neuroscience Res Inst, Indiana Univ School of Medicine
    Choongseok Park, Departmen of Mathematical Sciences and Center for Mathematical Biosciences, IUPUI
    Robert M Worth, Dept of Neurosurgery, Indiana Univ School of Medicine; Dept of Math Sciences and Center for Math Biosciences, IUPUI
    (1038-92-139)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Bifurcation theory for a model of the oculomotor neural integrator.
    Andrea K Barreiro*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Mathematics
    Jared C Bronski, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Mathematics
    Thomas J Anastasio, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Molecular and Integrative Physiology
    (1038-92-27)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Break
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Impact of fluid flow on modeling bacterial biofilms.
    David Chopp*, Northwestern University
    (1038-92-82)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A multiscale model of blood clot development.
    Mark Alber*, Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame
    (1038-92-17)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometry and Dynamics, II
  Room 006, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Chris Connell, Indiana University connell@indiana.edu
  David M. Fisher, Indiana University fisherdm@indiana.edu
  Marlies Gerber, Indiana University gerber@indiana.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Amenable groups that act on the line.
    Dave Witte Morris*, University of Lethbridge, Canada
    (1038-37-81)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Totally geodesic submanifolds in locally symmetric spaces of non-compact type.
    Jean-Francois Lafont*, Ohio State University
    Benjamin Schmidt, University of Chicago
    (1038-53-302)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Ergodic Frame Flow and Rank Rigidity.
    David Constantine*, University of Michigan
    (1038-53-315)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Irreducibility of boundary representation of hyperbolic group.
    Roman Muchnik*, Lehman College
    (1038-37-341)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Real Saddle-Node Bifurcation from the Complex Viewpoint.
    Michal Misiurewicz, Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis
    Rodrigo A Perez*, Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis
    (1038-37-308)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Metrics and rigidity questions for hyperbolic groups.
    Igor Mineyev*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1038-20-268)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Related Topics, II
  Room 146, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Ciprian Demeter, Institute for Advance Study demeter@math.ias.edu
  Nets Katz, Indiana University nhkatz@indiana.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    The Bilinear Hilbert Transform in 2D.
    Ciprian Demeter, IU Bloomington
    Christoph Thiele*, UCLA
    (1038-42-277)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Rooted trees, AKNS systems and Fourier analysis.
    Camil Muscalu*, Cornell University
    Terence Tao, UCLA
    Christoph Thiele, UCLA
    (1038-42-265)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Multiparameter Riesz Commutators.
    Brett D. Wick*, University of South Carolina
    Michael Lacey, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Stefanie Petermichl, Institut de Math\'ematiques de Bordeaux
    Jill Pipher, Brown University
    (1038-42-239)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the Sum Product estimates and 2-variables expanders.
    Nets Katz, Department of Mathematics, Indiana University Bloomington
    Chun-Yen Shen*, Department of Mathematics, Indiana University Bloomington
    (1038-05-48)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Sharp nonremovability examples for BMO and H\"{o}lder quasiregular mappings.
    Kari Astala, University of Helsinki
    Albert Clop, University of Helsinki - University of Jyvaskyla - Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
    Joan Mateu, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
    Joan Orobitg, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
    Ignacio Uriarte-Tuero*, University of Missouri - Columbia & Fields Institute
    (1038-30-101)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Spaces between $H^{1}$ and $L^{1}$.
    Alberto Torchinsky*, Indiana University
    (1038-42-171)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    ``Around a problem of E. Sawyer for the Hilbert transform and weights".
    Carlos Perez*, Universidad de Sevilla and University of Kansas
    Sheldy Ombrosi, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahia Blanca
    (1038-42-236)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Finite Element Methods and Applications, II
  Room 305, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Nicolae Tarfulea, Purdue University Calumet Tarfulea@calumet.purdue.edu
  Sheng Zhang, Wayne State University sheng@math.wayne.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    New and Old Rectangular Mixed Finite Elements for Plane Elasticity.
    Gerard Awanou*, Northern Illinois University
    (1038-65-99)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Adaptive Finite Element Methods for Multiphysics Coupled Problems.
    Pavel Solin*, University of Texas at El Paso
    Jakub Cerveny, University of Texas at El Paso
    Lenka Dubcova, University of Texas at El Paso
    (1038-65-36)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Exact Non-Reflecting Boundary Conditions on General Domains and hp-Finite Elements.
    David P. Nicholls*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    T. Binford, Rice University
    N. Nigam, McGill University
    T. Warburton, Rice University
    (1038-65-297)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Verification and Validation in Ocean Modeling.
    Traian Iliescu*, Virginia Tech
    (1038-86-179)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Reproducing Polynomial(Singularity) Particle Methods and Adaptive Meshless Methods for 2-Dim Elliptic Boundary Value Problems.
    Hae-Soo Oh*, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte
    Jae-Woo Jeong, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte
    (1038-65-40)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Solving a Second Order Hyperbolic Equation with Differential Boundary Conditions.
    Alexander Alekseenko*, California State University, Northridge
    (1038-65-337)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Applications of the FEM on elliptic PDEs with singular coefficients.
    Hengguang Li*, The Pennsylvania State University
    Victor Nistor, The Pennsylvania State University
    (1038-65-280)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Contributed Paper Session
  Maple Room, Indiana Memorial Union
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Non-conservative mechanical systems of cofactor type.
    Willy Sarlet*, Ghent University, Belgium
    (1038-37-15)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    The invariant inverse problem of the calculus of variations.
    Tom Mestdag*, University of Michigan
    (1038-34-16)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    $E_{6}$, $E_{7}$, $E_{8}$, and the Finite Simple Group $Sp(6,2)$.
    Cecil Andrew Ellard*, Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana
    (1038-20-22)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Monomial sequences of linear type.
    Hamid Kulosman*, University of Louisville
    (1038-13-25)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Holomorpic extensions in toric varieties.
    Marciniak Aneta Malgorzata*, Missouri University of Science and Technology
    (1038-32-128)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Kostant's partition function and the topology of toric arrangements.
    Luca Moci*, Roma Tre University, Italy - visiting at Berkeley University.
    (1038-05-37)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A Class of Finite Topological Spaces with no Corresponding Semigroup Structures.
    Bettina Richmond*, Western Kentucky University
    (1038-06-218)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Minimum Rank, Boolean Rank, and Schein Rank of Nonnegative Sign Pattern Matrices.
    Frank J Hall*, Georgia State University
    (1038-15-95)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    On $R$-automorphisms of $R[X]$.
    Bryan G Sandor*, Western Kentucky University
    (1038-08-269)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A population-process model for HIV infection.
    John J. Coffey*, Purdue University Calumet
    (1038-60-233)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Practical numbers and Egyptian fraction theorem.
    Bhaskara Rao Kopparty*, Departmet of Mathematics and Computer Science, Indiana State University
    (1038-11-207)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The Method of Infinite Ascent.
    Susil Kumar Jena*, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India
    (1038-11-284)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on D-modules, II
  Room 219, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Mathias Schulze, Oklahoma State University mschulze@math.okstate.edu
  Hans Ulrich Walther, Purdue University walther@math.purdue.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Critical modules of rings of differential operators of affine semigroup algebras.
    Mutsumi Saito*, Hokkaido University
    (1038-16-164)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Weyl closure of hypergeometric systems.
    Laura Felicia Matusevich*, Texas A&M University
    (1038-33-190)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Rational hypergeometric functions in two variables.
    Eduardo Cattani*, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    Alicia Dickenstein, Universidad de Buenos Aires
    Fernando Rodriguez Villegas, University of Texas at Austin
    (1038-33-205)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Bivariate rational hypergeometric functions and residues.
    Eduardo Cattani, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
    Alicia Dickenstein*, Departamento de Matematica, FCEN, Universidad de Buenos Aires
    Fernando Rodriguez Villegas, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin
    (1038-14-181)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Rank Jumps of $\mathcal{A}$-hypergeometric Systems.
    Christine Berkesch*, Purdue University
    (1038-14-237)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Connections between $\mathcal{D}$-modules and multiplier ideals.
    Nero Budur*, University of Notre Dame
    (1038-14-147)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Modeling of Cell Motility: From Molecular Events to Mechanical Movement, II
  Room 149, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Anastasios Matzavinos, Ohio State University tasos@math.ohio-state.edu
  Nicoleta Eugenia Tarfulea, Purdue University Calumet ntarfule@calumet.purdue.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Modeling actin cytoskeleton dynamics in fission yeast.
    Dimitrios Vavylonis*, Lehigh University
    (1038-92-327)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A mathematical model for wound angiogenesis as a function of tissue oxygen tension.
    Richard C. Schugart*, The Ohio State University
    Avner Friedman, The Ohio State University
    Rui Zhao, University of California, Irvine
    Chandan K. Sen, The Ohio State University
    (1038-92-38)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A multi-scale model for avascular tumor growth.
    Yangjin Kim*, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, The Ohio State University
    Hans G. Othmer, School of mathematics/University of Minnesota
    Magdalena Stolarska, Department of Mathematics/ University of St. Thomas
    (1038-00-62)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A Spatial Model of Tumour-Host Interaction: Application of Chemotherapy.
    Peter Hinow*, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications
    (1038-92-63)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial and Geometric Aspects of Commutative Algebra, II
  Room 228, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Juan Migliore, University of Notre Dame migliore.1@nd.edu
  Uwe Nagel, University of Kentucky uwenagel@ms.uky.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A vanishing theorem for log-canonical pairs.
    Lawrence Man Hou Ein*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Tomaso de Fernex, University of Utah
    (1038-18-80)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Toroidalization of Locally Toroidal Morphisms from $N$-folds to Surfaces.
    Krishna C Hanumanthu*, University of Missouri
    (1038-14-191)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Newton filtration on a semigroup ring.
    Mathias Schulze, Oklahoma State University
    Uli Walther*, Purdue University
    (1038-13-31)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Properties of cut ideals of certain graphs.
    Uwe Nagel, University of Kentucky
    Sonja Petrovi\'c*, University of Kentucky
    (1038-13-279)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Cup product of line bundles on complete flag varieties and Weyl group combinatorics.
    Mike Roth*, Queen's University
    (1038-14-287)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    On the Equations of Blowup Algebras.
    C Polini*, University of Notre Dame
    (1038-13-177)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Birational Algebraic Geometry, II
  Room 215, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Mircea I. Mustata, University of Michigan mmustata@umich.edu
  Mihnea Popa, University of Illinois at Chicago mpopa@math.uic.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Flops and ample cones of holomorphic symplectic fourfolds.
    Brendan Hassett*, Rice University
    Yuri Tschinkel, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
    (1038-14-104)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the Minimal Model Program.
    Paolo Cascini*, UC Santa Barbara
    (1038-14-97)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Title: Resolution algorithm in characteristic zero and its possible extension in positive characteristic.
    Jaroslaw Wlodarczyk*, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University
    (1038-14-93)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Weak Dependence in Probability and Statistics, II
  Room 344, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Richard C. Bradley, Indiana University bradleyr@indiana.edu
  Lahn T. Tran, Indiana University tran@indiana.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Nonparametric estimation of the regression function under mixing conditions.
    Lanh Tat Tran, Indiana University
    Jiexiang Li*, College of Charleston
    (1038-62-29)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Self-normalized L\'{e}vy process distributional convergence at small times.
    Ross A Maller, Australian National University
    David M Mason*, University of Delaware
    (1038-60-09)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Empirical Process Invariance Principle for Markov Chains.
    Herold Dehling*, Ruhr-Universit\"at Bochum, Germany
    Olivier Durieu, Universit\'e de Rouen, France
    Dalibor Volny, Universit\'e de Rouen, France
    (1038-60-124)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    What is Dependence?
    Wei B Wu*, University of Chicago
    (1038-60-94)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Isotonic regression with applications to global warming.
    Ou Zhao*, University of Michigan
    Michael Woodroofe, University of Michigan
    (1038-62-87)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    A continuous spectral density for a random field of continuous-index.
    Jason T Shaw*, Truman State University
    (1038-60-144)
• Saturday April 5, 2008, 6:15 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
  Indiana University Department of Mathematics Reception
  Alumni Hall, Indiana Memorial Union

Sunday April 6, 2008

• Sunday April 6, 2008, 7:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  East Lounge - Mezzanine Level, Indiana Memorial Union
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 7:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Distinguished Alumni Room, Indiana Memorial Union
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic K-theory and Nil groups in Algebra and Topology, III
  Room 204, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  James F. Davis, Indiana University jfdavis@indiana.edu
  Christian Haesemeyer, University of Illinois at Chicago chh@math.uic.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The Behavior of Nil-Groups under Localization and the Relative Assembly Map.
    Grunewald Joachim*, Bonn University
    (1038-19-249)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Higher Grothendieck-Witt groups of schemes.
    Marco Schlichting*, Louisiana State University
    (1038-19-85)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Generation and computation of Nil-groups.
    Ian Hambleton*, McMaster University
    (1038-19-293)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Hyperbolic and Kinetic Equations, III
  Room 304, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Shi Jin, University of Wisconsin jin@math.wisc.edu
  Marshall Slemrod, University of Wisconsin slemrod@math.wisc.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Subsonic Flows for Full Euler Equations in Half Plane.
    Jun Chen*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    (1038-35-49)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Stability of strong ideal gas shock layers.
    J Humpherys, Dept. Math., BYU
    G Lyng, Dept. Math., Univ. Wyoming
    K Zumbrun*, Dept. Math., Indiana Univ.
    (1038-35-42)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Alternating evolution methods for hyperbolic conservation laws.
    Haseena Ahmed, Iowa State University
    Hailiang Liu*, Iowa State University
    (1038-65-28)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Evolution of Discontinuity and Triple-Shock Pattern for a Two-Dimensional System of Conservation Laws.
    Dehua Wang*, University of Pittsburgh
    (1038-35-19)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Vlasov type kinetic model for Cucker-Smale's flocking: Modeling and Analysis.
    Seung-Yeal Ha*, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland-College Park
    Eitan Tadmor, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland
    (1038-35-18)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Transonic flow and supersonic differential geometry.
    Marshall Slemrod*, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1038-35-14)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Birational Algebraic Geometry, III
  Room 215, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Mircea I. Mustata, University of Michigan mmustata@umich.edu
  Mihnea Popa, University of Illinois at Chicago mpopa@math.uic.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Analytic extension of pluri-adjoint sections.
    Dror Varolin*, SUNY Stony Brook
    (1038-32-151)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Deformations of canonical pairs.
    Tommaso de Fernex*, University of Utah
    (1038-14-120)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Geometry of zeroes of polynomials.
    James McKernan*, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1038-14-35)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Representation Theory, Topological Combinatorics, and Interactions Between Them, III
  Room 217, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Patricia Hersh, Indiana University phersh@indiana.edu
  Cristian P. Lenart, State University of New York at Albany lenart@albany.edu
  Michelle Wachs, University of Miami wachs@math.miami.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Cyclic Sieving Phenomenon, Jeu-de-taquin Promotion, and Representation Theory.
    Brendon Rhoades*, University of Minnesota
    (1038-05-143)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Generalized degree sequences and plethysm.
    Caroline J Klivans*, University of Chicago
    Vic Reiner, University of Minnesota
    (1038-05-122)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Parabolic Kazhdan-Lusztig and R-polynomials for quasi-minuscule quotients.
    Francesco Brenti*, Universita' di Roma ``Tor Vergata''
    (1038-05-320)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Webs and promotion.
    Pavlo Pylyavskyy*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (1038-05-116)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial and Geometric Aspects of Commutative Algebra, III
  Room 228, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Juan Migliore, University of Notre Dame migliore.1@nd.edu
  Uwe Nagel, University of Kentucky uwenagel@ms.uky.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    A sharp bound on the multiplicity of almost complete intersections.
    Giulio Caviglia*, Purdue University
    (1038-13-347)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Interval Conjectures for level Hilbert functions.
    Fabrizio Zanello*, Michigan Technological University
    (1038-13-180)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Cremona maps by way of ideals of linear type and linear syzygies.
    Francesco Russo, Federal University of Pernambuco
    Aron Simis*, Federal University of Pernambuco
    (1038-14-91)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Persistence complexes for graphs.
    Chris Frederick, Colorado State University
    Chris Peterson*, Colorado State University
    (1038-13-276)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Ulrich bundles on cubic surfaces.
    Marta Casanellas, Universitat Polit`ecnica de Catalunya
    Robin Hartshorne*, University of Calfornia, Berkeley
    (1038-14-227)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Aspects of Coding Theory, III
  Room 247, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Heide Gluesing-Luerssen, University of Kentucky heidegl@ms.uky.edu
  Roxana Smarandache, San Diego State University rsmarand@sciences.sdsu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Linear programming bounds for secret sharing thresholds.
    Iwan Duursma*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Radoslav Kirov, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1038-94-202)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On quantum codes from multipoint AG codes.
    Gretchen L. Matthews*, Clemson University
    Jon-Lark Kim, University of Louisville
    (1038-94-219)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Unit-derived codes.
    Ted Hurley*, National University of Ireland, Galway. Galway, Ireland.
    (1038-94-53)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Spread Codes for Network Coding, a Grassmannian Approach.
    Joachim Rosenthal*, University of Zurich
    Elisa Gorla, University of Zurich
    Felice Manganiello, University of Zurich
    (1038-94-208)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Finite Element Methods and Applications, III
  Room 305, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Nicolae Tarfulea, Purdue University Calumet Tarfulea@calumet.purdue.edu
  Sheng Zhang, Wayne State University sheng@math.wayne.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Discontinuous Galerkin fast sweeping methods.
    Yong-Tao Zhang*, Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556-4618
    (1038-65-185)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Fast and Robust Multigrid method for Stokes-like equations.
    Young Ju Lee*, Rutgers University
    (1038-65-332)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Sharply local pointwise a posteriori error estimates for parabolic problems.
    Alan Demlow*, University of Kentucky
    Charalambos Makridakis, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete
    (1038-65-251)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Spurious-Free Maxwell Eigensolvers.
    Fengyan Li*, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    (1038-65-195)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Probability and Spatial Systems, III
  Room 319, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Russell D. Lyons, Indiana University rdlyons@indiana.edu
  Alexander Holroyd, University of British Columbia holroyd@math.ubc.ca
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Velocity gain for a self-repelling Brownian particle.
    Nathanael Berestycki*, Cambridge University
    (1038-60-212)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Natural parametrization for Schramm-Loewner evolution (SLE).
    Gregory F Lawler*, University of Chicago
    (1038-60-166)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Discrete Structures in Conformal Dynamics and Geometry, III
  Room 005, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Kevin M. Pilgrim, Indiana University pilgrim@indiana.edu
  William J. Floyd, Virginia Polytech Institute & State University floyd@math.vt.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Informal Session
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A new link between Teichmueller theory and complex dynamics.
    Sarah C. Koch*, Cornell University
    (1038-30-65)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Hanoi Towers group and complex dynamics.
    Zoran Sunic*, Texas A&M University
    Rostislav Grigorchuk, Texas A&M University
    Volodymyr Nekrashevych, Texas A&M University
    (1038-37-316)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:25 a.m.
  Special Session on Operator Algebras and Applications, III
  Room 317, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Hari Bercovici, Indiana University bercovic@indiana.edu
  Marius Dadarlat, Purdue University mdd@math.purdue.edu
  Mihai Popa, Indiana University mipopa@indiana.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Some applications of operator space techniques in quantum information.
    Marius Junge*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
    (1038-46-167)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Applications of Quantum Groups to Quantum Information Theory.
    Marius Junge, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801
    Matthias Neufang, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1S 5B6
    Zhong-Jin Ruan*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801
    (1038-46-132)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Diagonals of positive operators.
    Victor Kaftal*, University of Cincinnati
    (1038-47-134)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on D-modules, III
  Room 219, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Mathias Schulze, Oklahoma State University mschulze@math.okstate.edu
  Hans Ulrich Walther, Purdue University walther@math.purdue.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Lyubeznik numbers of projective schemes.
    Wenliang Zhang*, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
    (1038-13-226)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Normal Forms, K3 Surface Moduli, and Modular Parametrizations.
    Adrian Clingher, University of Missouri
    Charles F Doran*, University of Washington
    Jacob Lewis, University of Washington
    Ursula Whitcher, University of Washington
    (1038-14-197)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Characteristic variety of D-modules in positive characteristic.
    Josep Alvarez-Montaner*, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
    (1038-13-114)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Degree bounds for Gr\"obner bases in algebras of solvable type.
    Matthias Aschenbrenner, Univercity of California, Los Angeles
    Anton Leykin*, IMA, University of Minnesota
    (1038-13-56)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Classical and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, III
  Room 103, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Roger Temam, Indiana University temam@indiana.edu
  Shouhong Wang, Indiana University showang@indiana.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Numerical Simulations of two-dimensional Boussinesq systems for three-dimensional water waves.
    Min Chen*, Purdue University
    (1038-76-263)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Group foliation and the Korteweg-de Vries equation.
    Jeffrey J. Early*, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University
    Juha Pohjanpelto, Department of Mathematics, Oregon State University
    Roger M. Samelson, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University
    (1038-86-272)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Unstable solitary water waves and wave breaking.
    Zhiwu Lin*, University of Missouri-Columbia
    (1038-76-322)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Negative specific heat in nearly parallel vortex lines - applications to open ocean convection.
    Chjan C Lim*, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    (1038-76-137)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Applications of Ring Spectra, III
  Room 209, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Randy McCarthy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign randy@math.uiuc.edu
  Ayelet Lindenstrauss, Indiana University ayelet@math.indiana.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Motivic homological algebra.
    Dan Isaksen*, Wayne State University
    (1038-55-100)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Enriched Model Categories and Diagram Categories.
    Bertrand J Guillou*, University of Chicago
    J Peter May, University of Chicago
    (1038-55-262)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory, III
  Room 246, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Jozsef Balogh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign jobal@math.uiuc.edu
  Hemanshu Kaul, Illinois Institute of Technology kaul@math.iit.edu
  Tao Jiang, Miami University jiangt@muohio.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Computer Methods for Finding Graph Decompositions.
    Stephen G Hartke*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1038-05-113)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The maximum spectral radius of C4-free graphs.
    Vladimir Nikiforov*, University of Memphis
    (1038-05-221)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Kneser representations of graphs.
    Peter Hamburger, Department of Mathematics, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green KY
    Attila Por*, Department of Mathematics, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green KY
    Matt Walsh, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Indiana-Purdue University, Fort Wayne IN
    (1038-20-136)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Independence number of 2-factor-plus-triangles graphs.
    Jennifer Vandenbussche, University of Illinois - Urbana
    Douglas B. West*, University of Illinois - Urbana
    (1038-05-244)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Minimal and CMC Surfaces, III
  Oak Room, Indiana Memorial Union
  Organizers:
  Bruce Michael Solomon, Indiana University solomon@indiana.edu
  Matthias Weber, Indiana University matweber@indiana.edu
  Adam Weyhaupt, Southern Illinois University aweyhau@siue.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Discussions
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis Methods in Mathematical Fluid Dynamics, III
  Room 144, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Zoran Grujic, University of Virginia zg7c@virginia.edu
  Irina Mitrea, University of Virginia im3p@virginia.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Singular estimates of transfer functions arising in Riccati and H-J equations corresponding to fluid-structure ineteractions.
    Irena M Lasiecka*, University of Virginia
    (1038-35-88)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Wellposedness and stability theory for a PDE which governs fluid-structure interactions.
    George Avalos*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1038-35-107)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On local uniqueness of weak solutions to the Navier-Stokes system with $BMO^{-1}$ initial datum.
    Igor Kukavica, University of Southern California
    Vlad Vicol*, University of Southern California
    (1038-35-11)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Convolution inequalities in locally compact abelian groups and Navier-Stokes equations.
    Animikh Biswas*, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
    David Swanson, University of Louisville
    (1038-76-24)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Financial Mathematics, III
  Room 345, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Victor Goodman, Indiana University goodmanv@indiana.edu
  Kiseop Lee, University of Louisville kiseop.lee@louisville.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Option Pricing in a Regime-Switching Black-Scholes Market.
    Richard H. Stockbridge*, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
    Katharina Zaglauer, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
    (1038-60-257)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Convergence Studies on Monte Carlo Methods for Pricing Mortgage-Backed Securities.
    Tao Pang*, Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University
    Yipeng Yang, Operations Research Program, North Carolina State University
    Dai Zhao, ZM Financial Systems, Inc
    (1038-90-264)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Partial hedging in financial markets with a large agent.
    Jungmin Choi*, Postdoctoral Felow, Florida State University
    (1038-90-102)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Derivatives of Asian Call option prices.
    Kyounghee Kim*, Florida State University
    Jungmin Choi, Florida State University
    (1038-60-159)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Weak Dependence in Probability and Statistics, III
  Room 344, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Richard C. Bradley, Indiana University bradleyr@indiana.edu
  Lahn T. Tran, Indiana University tran@indiana.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Geometric Ergodicity and beta-mixing Property for a Seasonal GARCH model with Periodic Coefficients.
    Oesook Lee*, Ewha Womans University, Department of Statistics
    (1038-60-111)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Spatial fixed design nonparametric regression.
    Soyeon Lee*, Occidental college
    (1038-62-163)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Density estimation by frequency polygons on random fields.
    Michel Carbon*, Rennes 2 University
    (1038-62-108)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Erd\"os-Renyi Law For Gibbs Markov Systems.
    M Denker*, Mathematische Stochastik, Universit\"at G\"ottingen
    (1038-60-70)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Some Mathematical Problems in Biology, from Macromolecules to Ecosystems, III
  Room 148, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Santiago David Schnell, Indiana University schnell@indiana.edu
  Roger Temam, Indiana University temam@indiana.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Multi-Cell Modeling of Biological Development using the GGH Model and CompuCell3D: Applications, Technology and Open Problems.
    James A. Glazier*, Indiana University, Department of Physics and Biocomplexity Institute
    (1038-92-125)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Two-Sex, Age-Structured, Logistic Population Models.
    Fabio Augusto Milner*, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067
    Kai Yang, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067
    (1038-92-86)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A new mathematical model of syphilis.
    Ruijun Zhao*, Purdue University
    (1038-92-110)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometry and Dynamics, III
  Room 006, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Chris Connell, Indiana University connell@indiana.edu
  David M. Fisher, Indiana University fisherdm@indiana.edu
  Marlies Gerber, Indiana University gerber@indiana.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the tip of the tongue.
    Micha{\l} Misiurewicz*, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
    Ana Rodrigues, Universidade do Porto
    (1038-37-103)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Liouville property on regular covers.
    Anders Karlsson, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
    Fran\c cois Ledrappier*, University of Notre Dame
    (1038-58-83)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Continued fractions, natural extension maps and their geometric structure.
    Ilie D Ugarcovici*, DePaul University
    (1038-37-235)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    An intrinsic proof of Gromoll-Grove diameter rigidity theorem.
    Jianguo Cao, University of Notre Dame
    Hongyan Tang*, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
    (1038-58-67)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Related Topics, III
  Room 146, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Ciprian Demeter, Institute for Advance Study demeter@math.ias.edu
  Nets Katz, Indiana University nhkatz@indiana.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Generalization of the Theorem of Whittaker-Shannon-Kotelnikov.
    Yufang Hao*, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo
    (1038-43-281)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The (weak-$L^2$) Boundedness of The Quadratic Carleson Operator.
    Victor D. Lie*, UCLA
    (1038-42-224)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A critical-exponent Balian-Low theorem.
    S. Zubin Gautam*, UCLA
    (1038-42-223)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Applications of interpolation theorems.
    Chaoyuan Mary Liu*, Eastern Kentucky University
    (1038-46-06)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Non-derivative optimization: Mathematics, heuristics, or hack?
  Room 122, Chemistry Building
  Margaret H. Wright*, Courant Institute, NYU
  (1038-49-04)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Hamiltonian systems and Liouville equations with discontinuous Hamiltonians: Computational methods for high frequency waves in heterogeneous media.
  Room 122, Chemistry Building
  Shi Jin*, University of Wisconsin
  (1038-35-01)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Probability and Spatial Systems, IV
  Room 319, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Russell D. Lyons, Indiana University rdlyons@indiana.edu
  Alexander Holroyd, University of British Columbia holroyd@math.ubc.ca
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    The scaling limits of dynamical and near-critical percolation, and the Minimal Spanning Tree.
    Christophe Garban, Universite Paris-Sud and ENS
    G\'abor Pete*, Microsoft Research
    Oded Schramm, Microsoft Research
    (1038-60-321)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Quasi-units in Zhang's sandpile model.
    Anna Fey-den Boer*, VU Amsterdam
    Haiyan Liu, VU Amsterdam
    Ronald Meester, VU Amsterdam
    Corrie Quant, VU Amsterdam
    Frank Redig, Leiden University
    (1038-60-231)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Sampling $3$-colourings of the discrete torus.
    David Galvin*, University of Notre Dame
    (1038-60-187)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A different approach to strong embeddings.
    Sourav Chatterjee*, University of California at Berkeley
    (1038-60-199)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Discrete Structures in Conformal Dynamics and Geometry, IV
  Room 005, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Kevin M. Pilgrim, Indiana University pilgrim@indiana.edu
  William J. Floyd, Virginia Polytech Institute & State University floyd@math.vt.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Homotopy Pseudo-Orbits and Iterated Monodromy Groups (Part I).
    Suzanne Hruska, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
    Rodrigo A Perez*, Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis
    John Smillie, Cornell University
    (1038-37-307)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Homotopy Pseudo-Orbits and Iterated Monodromy Groups, Part II.
    Suzanne Hruska*, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
    Rodrigo Perez, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
    John Smillie, Cornell University
    (1038-37-306)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Polynomial combinatorics.
    Laura DeMarco*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1038-37-173)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Pinching Deformations of Rational Maps.
    Robert W. O'Connell*, Indiana University-Bloomington
    (1038-37-252)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Representation Theory, Topological Combinatorics, and Interactions Between Them, IV
  Room 217, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Patricia Hersh, Indiana University phersh@indiana.edu
  Cristian P. Lenart, State University of New York at Albany lenart@albany.edu
  Michelle Wachs, University of Miami wachs@math.miami.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    From total positivity to positroids (via the Grassmannian, the Bruhat order, and pattern avoidance).
    Alexander Postnikov*, MIT
    (1038-05-259)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Discrete Morse theory and the totally non-negative part of G/P.
    Lauren K Williams*, Harvard University
    (1038-05-161)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A quantization of a theorem of Goulden and Jackson.
    Matjaz Konvalinka, MIT
    Mark Skandera*, Lehigh University
    (1038-05-271)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Rees product of the cubical lattice with the chain.
    Patricia Muldoon, University of Kentucky
    Margaret A. Readdy*, University of Kentucky
    (1038-05-215)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Exponential Dowling structures.
    Richard Ehrenborg*, University of Kentucky
    Margaret Readdy, University of Kentucky
    (1038-05-291)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Inversion arrangements and lower intervals in the Bruhat order.
    Axel Hultman, KTH, Stockholm
    Svante Linusson, KTH, Stockholm
    John Shareshian*, Washington University
    Jonas Sj\"ostrand, KTH, Stockholm
    (1038-05-324)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Classical and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, IV
  Room 103, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Roger Temam, Indiana University temam@indiana.edu
  Shouhong Wang, Indiana University showang@indiana.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    The primitive equations of the atmosphere at small viscosity.
    Roger Temam*, Indiana University
    C.-Y. Jung, Indiana University
    (1038-35-350)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The predictability of two-dimensional and quasi-geostrophic turbulence.
    Joseph J Tribbia*, NCAR
    (1038-76-335)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A scheme for stationary statistical properties of the infinite Prandtl number model.
    Wenfang Cheng, Florida State University
    Xiaoming Wang*, Florida State University
    (1038-76-329)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Break
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Regularity results of the primitive equations.
    I Kukavica, University of Southern California
    M Ziane*, University of Southern California
    (1038-35-311)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Recent Carleman estimates for the Stokes system and applications.
    Oleg Yu. Emanouilov*, Colorado State University
    (1038-35-274)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Dynamic Transitions and Stability for Equatorial Flows.
    Tian Ma, Sichuan University
    Shouhong Wang*, Indiana University
    (1038-35-312)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
  Special Session on Applications of Ring Spectra, IV
  Room 209, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Randy McCarthy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign randy@math.uiuc.edu
  Ayelet Lindenstrauss, Indiana University ayelet@math.indiana.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Enriched Reedy Categories.
    Vigleik Angeltveit*, University of Chicago
    (1038-18-254)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Elliptic cohomology and abelian surfaces.
    Tyler D Lawson*, University of Minnesota
    Mark Behrens, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1038-55-303)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    $v_2$-periodicity at the prime $2$.
    M. Behrens*, MIT
    M. Hill, Univeristy of Virginia
    M. J. Hopkins, Harvard
    M. Mahowald, Northwestern University
    (1038-55-317)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory, IV
  Room 246, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Jozsef Balogh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign jobal@math.uiuc.edu
  Hemanshu Kaul, Illinois Institute of Technology kaul@math.iit.edu
  Tao Jiang, Miami University jiangt@muohio.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    On circular flows of graphs.
    Hong-Jian Lai*, Department of Mathematics, West Virginia University
    Rui Xu, Department of Mathematics, University of West Georgia
    Cunquan Zhang, Department of Mathematics, West Virginia University
    (1038-05-43)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Lower Bound for Potentially $H$-graphic Sequences.
    Michael Ferrara*, The University of Akron
    John Schmitt, Middlebury College
    (1038-05-60)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A min-max theorem for chordal bipartite graphs.
    Atif Abuieda, University of Dayton
    Arthur Busch*, University of Dayton
    R Sritharan, University of Dayton
    (1038-05-76)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Decompositions of planar graphs into a forest and another graph.
    Naeem N. Sheikh*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Oleg V. Borodin, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk, Russia
    Alexandr V. Kostochka, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk, Russia
    A. O. Ivanova, Yakutsk State University, Yakutsk, Russia
    Gexin Yu, Vanderbilt University
    (1038-05-243)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Structure of $K_{3,4}$-Free Projective Planar Graphs.
    John Maharry*, The Ohio State University
    Daniel Slilaty, Wright State University
    (1038-05-172)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Separation in trees.
    Tao Jiang, Miami University
    Zevi Miller*, Miami University
    Dan Pritikin, Miami University
    (1038-05-196)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Modulo $n$ Representations of Graphs.
    Anthony B. Evans, Wright State University
    Dan Pritikin*, Miami University
    (1038-05-160)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic K-theory and Nil groups in Algebra and Topology, IV
  Room 204, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  James F. Davis, Indiana University jfdavis@indiana.edu
  Christian Haesemeyer, University of Illinois at Chicago chh@math.uic.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    On the Cappell UNil-groups.
    Andrew Ranicki*, University of Edinburgh
    (1038-57-133)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    An approach to the Farrell-Jones conjecture.
    Frank Quinn*, Virginia Tech
    (1038-19-340)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Algebraic K-theory of hyperbolic reflection groups.
    Jean-Francois Lafont*, Ohio State University
    Ivonne J. Ortiz, Miami University
    Bruce Magurn, Miami University
    (1038-19-298)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Financial Mathematics, IV
  Room 345, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Victor Goodman, Indiana University goodmanv@indiana.edu
  Kiseop Lee, University of Louisville kiseop.lee@louisville.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Arbitrage Free Models In Markets With Transaction Costs.
    Hasanjan Sayit*, Assistant professor, Mathematics Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
    Erhan Bayraktar, Assistant professor, University of Michigan
    (1038-60-178)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Mathematical Model for Power Derivatives.
    Chunfeng She*, Indiana University
    (1038-60-228)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The Additive-Interactive Nonlinear Arch Model and its Estimation.
    Michael Levine*, Department of Statistics, Purdue University
    Tony Li, Purdue University
    (1038-62-241)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Principal Component Analysis of Forward Interest Rates.
    Victor Goodman*, Indiana University
    (1038-91-71)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Estimation of Liquidity Cost.
    Kiseop Lee*, Department of Mathematics, University of Louisville
    (1038-60-44)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Aspects of Coding Theory, IV
  Room 247, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Heide Gluesing-Luerssen, University of Kentucky heidegl@ms.uky.edu
  Roxana Smarandache, San Diego State University rsmarand@sciences.sdsu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    List Decoding BCH Codes Using Gr\"obner Bases.
    Philip R. Busse*, University of Kentucky
    (1038-14-230)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Self-dual codes over finite chain rings.
    Steven T. Dougherty, University of Scranton
    Jon-Lark Kim*, University of Louisville
    Hongwei Liu, Central China Normal University
    (1038-94-89)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Code loops of both parities.
    Petr Vojt\v{e}chovsk\'y*, University of Denver, Department of Mathematics
    (1038-05-26)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On self-dual codes over $\mathbb{F}_5$.
    Sunghyu Han*, Department of Mathematics, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA
    Jon-Lark Kim, Department of Mathematics, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA
    (1038-94-54)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Related Topics, IV
  Room 146, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Ciprian Demeter, Institute for Advance Study demeter@math.ias.edu
  Nets Katz, Indiana University nhkatz@indiana.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Some problems on multilinear oscillatory integrals.
    Xiaochun Li*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1038-42-319)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Maximal averages along one-variable vector fields.
    Michael Bateman*, Indiana University
    (1038-42-313)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Tent spaces associated with semigroup of operators.
    Tao Mei*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1038-42-225)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Finite Element Methods and Applications, IV
  Room 305, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Nicolae Tarfulea, Purdue University Calumet Tarfulea@calumet.purdue.edu
  Sheng Zhang, Wayne State University sheng@math.wayne.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Consistency \& Numerical Smoothing -$>$ Long-time Error Estimation.
    Tong Sun*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Bowling Green State University
    (1038-65-30)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    An {\it A Posteriori} Error Estimator for a Quadratic $C^0$ Interior Penalty Method for the Biharmonic Problem.
    Susanne C. Brenner, Department of Mathematics and Center for Computation and Technology, Louisiana State University
    Thirupathi Gudi*, Center for Computation and Technology , Louisiana State University
    Li Yeng Sung, Department of Mathematics, Louisiana State University
    (1038-65-68)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A Scattering Problem in Near-Field Optics.
    Peijun Li*, University of Michigan
    (1038-78-182)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Efficient and reliable error estimation for elliptic eigenvalue problems.
    Jeffrey S Ovall*, California Institute of Technology
    (1038-65-74)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Finite Element Assembly on Arbitrary Meshes.
    Matthew G Knepley, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Lab
    Andy R Terrel*, Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago
    (1038-35-242)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Towards flexible geometric multigrid solvers for finite element problems.
    Peter R Brune*, University of Chicago
    Matthew G Knepley, Argonne National Lab
    (1038-65-282)
• Sunday April 6, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Weak Dependence in Probability and Statistics, IV
  Room 344, Ballantine Hall
  Organizers:
  Richard C. Bradley, Indiana University bradleyr@indiana.edu
  Lahn T. Tran, Indiana University tran@indiana.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Weak Convergence of the Standard Empirical Process of Stationary Sequences.
    Juan Carlos Escanciano*, Indiana University, Economics Department
    (1038-60-135)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Conditional U-Statistics with Applications in Discriminant Analysis, ARMA Processes and Hidden Markov Models and Hidden Markov Models.
    Madan L Puri*, Indiana University, Bloomington,Indiana
    Michel Harel, C.N.R.S., Toulouse, France
    (1038-60-109)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Spectrum Estimation for Isotropic Intrinsically Stationary Spatial Processes.
    Chunfeng Huang*, Department of Statistics, Indiana University
    Tailen Hsing, University of MIchigan
    Noel Cressie, The Ohio State University
    (1038-62-140)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Hazard rate estimation on random fields.
    Jiexiang Li, College of Charleston, South Carolina
    Lanh T Tran*, Indiana University
    (1038-62-155)

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