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2007 Fall Eastern Section Meeting
New Brunswick, NJ, October 6-7, 2007 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1031

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

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Saturday October 6, 2007

• Saturday October 6, 2007, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Exhibits and Book Sale
  Room 105, Scott Hall
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meetings Registration
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Noncommutative Geometry and Arithmetic Geometry, I
  Room 119, Scott Hall
  Organizers:
  Caterina Consani, Johns Hopkins University kc@math.jhu.edu
  Li Guo, Rutgers University liguo@andromeda.rutgers.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 8:50 a.m.
    Modular Hecke algebras and quantum statistical mechanics of Q-lattices: an overview.
    Alain Connes*, College de France, Paris; IHES, France; Vanderbilt U.
    (1031-81-88)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Hypersurfaces from Feynman graphs.
    Abhijnan Rej*, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics
    (1031-14-89)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra, I
  Room 101, Scott Hall
  Organizers:
  Jooyoun Hong, University of California Riverside hongucr@gmail.com
  Wolmer V. Vasconcelos, Rutgers University vasconce@math.rutgers.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Indices of Normalization of Ideals.
    Claudia Polini*, University of Notre Dame
    (1031-13-129)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Blow-ups in monomialization problems.
    Laura Ghezzi*, New York City College of Technology (CUNY)
    (1031-13-19)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Integral closure and estimation of jdeg.
    Thuy Pham*, University of Toronto
    (1031-13-96)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    An explicit, characteristic-free, equivariant homology equivalence between Koszul complexes.
    Andrew R. Kustin*, University of South Carolina
    (1031-13-93)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A (weak) embedding theorem for modules of finite (phantom) projective dimension.
    Mel Hochster, University of Michigan
    Yongwei Yao*, Georgia State University
    (1031-13-82)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Triple resultants and the explicit calculation of certain Hilbert-Kunz series.
    Pedro Teixeira*, Knox College
    (1031-13-13)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Partial Differential Equations of Mathematical Physics, I (Dedicated to the Memory of Tom Branson)
  Room 204, Scott Hall
  Organizers:
  Sagun Chanillo, Rutgers University chanillo@math.rutgers.edu
  Michael K.-H. Kiessling, Rutgers University miki@math.rutgers.edu
  Avy Soffer, Rutgers University soffer@math.rutgers.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Opening Remarks in Honor of Tom Branson
  • 8:10 a.m.
    Applications of nonlinear hyperbolic problems to the theory of water waves.
    Timothy A. Smith*, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University (Daytona Beach campus)
    (1031-35-10)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Extension to a classical theorem of Liouville and applications.
    Y. Y. Li*, Rutgers University
    (1031-35-116)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Break
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Prescribing $Q$-curvature on four manifolds and related issues.
    A. Malchiodi*, SISSA
    (1031-35-113)
  • 10:10 a.m.
    The $p$-mean curvature equation in 3D pseudohermitian geometry.
    P. Yang*, Princeton University
    (1031-35-114)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Probability and Combinatorics, I
  Room 206, Scott Hall
  Organizers:
  Jeffry N. Kahn, Rutgers University jkahn@math.rutgers.edu
  Van Ha Vu, Rutgers University vanvu@math.rutgers.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    A probabilistic method for graphs of large girth.
    Nicholas C Wormald*, University of Waterloo
    (1031-05-87)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Collision Time in Pollard's Rho for the Discrete Log Problem.
    Prasad Tetali*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1031-11-86)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Non-linear index coding outperforming the linear optimum.
    Eyal Lubetzky*, Microsoft Research
    Uri Stav, Tel Aviv University
    (1031-05-107)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The big vague probabilistic conjecture.
    Jozsef Beck*, Rutgers University
    (1031-05-102)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Set Theory of the Continuum, I
  Room 214, Scott Hall
  Organizers:
  Simon R. Thomas, Rutgers University sthomas@math.rutgers.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Open colorings and automorphisms of the Calkin algebra.
    Ilijas Farah*, York University
    (1031-03-35)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Steinhaus sets for finite configurations.
    Su Gao*, University of North Texas
    (1031-03-62)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    The stationary set splitting game.
    Paul B Larson*, Miami University
    Saharon Shelah, Hebrew University
    (1031-03-60)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Toric Varieties, I
  Room 104, Scott Hall
  Organizers:
  Milena S. Hering, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications hering@ima.umn.edu
  Diane Maclagan, Rutgers University maclagan@math.rutgers.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Syzygies of varieties lying on toric varieties.
    Jessica Sidman*, Mount Holyoke College
    (1031-13-64)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Tate Resolutions for Products of Projective Spaces.
    Evgeny Materov*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    (1031-14-97)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Algebraic properties of cut ideals.
    Uwe Nagel, University of Kentucky
    Sonja Petrovic*, University of Kentucky
    (1031-13-58)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Triangulated categories and toric varieties.
    R. Paul Horja*, Oklahoma State University
    Lev A. Borisov, University of Wisconsin at Madison
    (1031-14-135)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Analysis of Complex Laplacians, I
  Room 205, Scott Hall
  Organizers:
  Siqi Fu, Rutgers University, Camden sfu@camden.rutgers.edu
  Xiaojun Huang, Rutgers University, New Brunswick huangx@math.rutgers.edu
  Howard J. Jacobowitz, Rutgers University, Camden jacobowi@camden.rutgers.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Compactness of the complex Green operator.
    Andrew S. Raich, Texas A&M University
    Emil J. Straube*, Texas A&M University
    (1031-32-27)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Compactness of the complex Green operator II.
    Andrew S Raich*, Texas A&M University
    Emil J. Straube, Texas A&M University
    (1031-32-45)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Equivalence of Types.
    Andreea Carina Nicoara*, Harvard University
    (1031-32-78)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Invariants of Lie Group Actions and Their Quotients, I
  Room 116, Scott Hall
  Organizers:
  Tara S. Holm, Cornell University tsh@math.cornell.edu
  Rebecca F. Goldin, George Mason University rgoldin@math.gmu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Kirwan surjectivity for Hamiltonian LG-spaces in K-theory.
    Megumi Harada*, McMaster University
    Paul Selick, University of Toronto
    (1031-51-39)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Symplectic actions of two\--tori on four\--manifolds.
    Alvaro Pelayo*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1031-58-92)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Torsion and abelianization in equivariant cohomology and equivariant Chow theory.
    Tara S. Holm, Cornell University
    Reyer Sjamaar*, Cornell University
    (1031-55-33)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the $S^1-$equivariant cohomology of a compact symplectic manifold.
    Silvia Sabatini*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1031-53-81)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Act globally, compute locally: Localization in symplectic geometry.
  Room 123, Scott Hall
  Tara S. Holm*, Cornell University
  (1031-53-04)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Isometric embeddings and quasi-local mass.
  Room 123, Scott Hall
  Mu-Tao Wang*, Columbia University
  (1031-53-03)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Noncommutative Geometry and Arithmetic Geometry, II
  Room 119, Scott Hall
  Organizers:
  Caterina Consani, Johns Hopkins University kc@math.jhu.edu
  Li Guo, Rutgers University liguo@andromeda.rutgers.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Hecke operators and distributions in characteristic p.
    David M. Goss*, The Ohio State University
    (1031-11-24)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    Modular forms in noncommutative geometry.
    Matilde Marcolli*, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics
    (1031-58-50)
  • 4:40 p.m.
    Arithmetic and $t$-structures.
    Niranjan Ramachandran*, University of Maryland
    (1031-14-84)
  • 5:20 p.m.
    Phase transitions for Bost Connes systems for number fields.
    Marcelo Laca*, University of Victoria
    Nadia S. Larsen, University of Oslo
    Sergey Neshveyev, University of Oslo
    (1031-46-67)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Probability and Combinatorics, II
  Room 206, Scott Hall
  Organizers:
  Jeffry N. Kahn, Rutgers University jkahn@math.rutgers.edu
  Van Ha Vu, Rutgers University vanvu@math.rutgers.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On rainbow trees and cycles.
    Alan M. Frieze*, Carnegie Mellon University
    Michael Krivelevich, Tel Aviv University
    (1031-05-29)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The Power of Choice in a Generalized Polya Urn Model.
    Gregory B Sorkin*, IBM Research
    (1031-60-137)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Nullspace of Random Graphs.
    Kevin P Costello*, Institute for Advanced Study/Rutgers
    Van H Vu, Rutgers University
    (1031-05-124)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra, II
  Room 101, Scott Hall
  Organizers:
  Jooyoun Hong, University of California Riverside hongucr@gmail.com
  Wolmer V. Vasconcelos, Rutgers University vasconce@math.rutgers.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Complete Intersections on Hypersurfaces of projective n-space.
    Anthony Vito Geramita*, Queen's Univ. Kingston, Ont./ Univ. of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
    Enrico Carlini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
    Luca Chiantini, Univ. di Siena, Siena, Italia
    (1031-14-20)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Specialization of Ferrers ideals.
    Alberto Corso*, Department of Mathematics, University of Kentucky
    (1031-13-126)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Odd-Cycle-Free Complexes and the Koenig Property.
    Massimo Caboara, University of Pisa, Italy
    Sara Faridi*, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
    (1031-13-66)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    When is tight closure determined by the test ideal?
    Janet C Vassilev, University of California, Riverside
    Adela N Vraciu*, University of South Carolina
    (1031-13-51)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    When is the Gorenstein Colength of an Artinian Local Ring Two or Less?
    Ananthnarayan Hariharan*, University of Kansas
    (1031-13-30)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Full ideals.
    Jooyoun Hong, University of California, Riverside
    Heisook Lee, Ewha Womans University
    Sunsook Noh*, Ewha Womans University
    David E. Rush, University of California, Riverside
    (1031-13-134)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Set Theory of the Continuum, II
  Room 214, Scott Hall
  Organizers:
  Simon R. Thomas, Rutgers University sthomas@math.rutgers.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Essentially enslaved countable Borel equivalence relations.
    Greg Hjorth*, University of Melbourne
    (1031-03-57)
  • 3:35 p.m.
    Compactifications of the Natural Numbers and Polishable Subgroups of $S_\infty$.
    Todor Tsankov*, California Institute of Technology
    (1031-22-95)
  • 4:10 p.m.
    Banach spaces without minimal subspaces.
    Valentin Ferenczi, Universit\'e Paris 6 and Universidade de Sa\~o Paulo
    Christian Rosendal*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1031-46-28)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Localized cohomology in orbit equivalence and Borel reducibility theory.
    Asger Dag Tornquist*, University of Toronto
    (1031-03-69)
  • 5:20 p.m.
    Borel chromatic number of actions of $Z^n$.
    Steve C Jackson*, University Of North Texas
    (1031-03-85)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Toric Varieties, II
  Room 104, Scott Hall
  Organizers:
  Milena S. Hering, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications hering@ima.umn.edu
  Diane Maclagan, Rutgers University maclagan@math.rutgers.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Multiplier ideals of sums via cellular resolutions.
    Shin-Yao Jow, University of Michigan
    Ezra Miller*, University of Minnesota
    (1031-14-63)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the multiplier ideals of a monomial curve.
    Howard Thompson*, Spring Arbor University
    (1031-14-120)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Combinatorial descriptions of the Mori cone of a toric variety.
    Christine von Renesse*, Westfield State College, MA
    (1031-14-54)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Lower bounds for the minimum distance of a toric code.
    Leah Gold, Cleveland State University
    Ivan Soprunov*, Cleveland State University
    Jenya Soprunova, Kent State University
    (1031-14-75)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Big Witt vectors and K-thery of toric varieties.
    Joseph Gubeladze*, San Francisco State University
    (1031-19-53)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Partial Differential Equations of Mathematical Physics, II (Dedicated to the Memory of Tom Branson)
  Room 204, Scott Hall
  Organizers:
  Sagun Chanillo, Rutgers University
  Michael K.-H. Kiessling, Rutgers University miki@math.rutgers.edu
  Avy Soffer, Rutgers University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On a class of variational functional in conformal geometry.
    S.-Y. A. Chang*, Princeton University
    H. Fang, IAS Princeton
    (1031-35-115)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Break
  • 4:00 p.m.
    An estimate on the blowing-up solutions of a fourth order equation.
    Y. Xu*, Department of Mathematics, Courant Institute, NYU
    (1031-35-112)
  • 4:40 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 5:20 p.m.
    Discussion and Closing Remarks
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Analysis of Complex Laplacians, II
  Room 205, Scott Hall
  Organizers:
  Siqi Fu, Rutgers University, Camden sfu@camden.rutgers.edu
  Xiaojun Huang, Rutgers University, New Brunswick huangx@math.rutgers.edu
  Howard J. Jacobowitz, Rutgers University, Camden jacobowi@camden.rutgers.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Bergman kernels, Bernstein polynomials and Monge-Ampere.
    Steve Zelditch*, Johns Hopkins University
    (1031-30-23)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Geodesics in the space of K\"ahler metrics.
    Jacob Sturm*, Rutgers University (Newark campus)
    (1031-53-103)
  • 4:20 p.m.
    Boundary value problems for Maxwell's equations in exterior domains.
    Charles L Epstein*, University of PA
    (1031-35-123)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Einstein equations and Local Embedding of 3-dim CR manifolds.
    C. Denson Hill*, Stony Brook University
    (1031-35-42)
  • 5:40 p.m.
    Rigidity and Holomorphic Segre Transversality for Holomorphic Segre Maps.
    Yuan Zhang*, Rutgers University
    (1031-32-55)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Invariants of Lie Group Actions and Their Quotients, II
  Room 116, Scott Hall
  Organizers:
  Tara S. Holm, Cornell University tsh@math.cornell.edu
  Rebecca F. Goldin, George Mason University rgoldin@math.gmu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Stringy Algebraic Structures on Orbifolds and Topological Field Theory.
    Takashi Kimura*, Boston University
    (1031-53-133)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Gauged Gromov-Witten invariants on surfaces with cylindrical ends.
    Eduardo Gonzalez*, Rutgers University
    Chris Woodward, Rutgers University
    (1031-53-101)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Equivariant Gromov-Witten theory: quantum Martin formula and quantum Kirwan map.
    Chris T Woodward*, Rutgers New Brunswick
    Eduardo Gonzalez, Rutgers New Brunswick
    (1031-58-52)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Twisted cohomology for differentiable stacks.
    Ping Xu*, Penn State University
    Jean-Louis Tu, Universite Metz
    (1031-53-106)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 3:00 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers, I
  Room 201, Scott Hall
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Some philosophical thoughts of Quantum Field Theory.
    Julio Cesar Bueno de Andrade*, State S\~ao Paulo University - UNESP.
    (1031-03-06)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Extension of Menalus theorem and cyclic quadrilateral theorem for any polygon in a generalized form.
    Shree Ram Gupta, Kendriya Vidhylaya, Jhansi, UP, India
    Madhusuden Agrawal*, ANSYS Inc
    (1031-03-32)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Discussion.
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Random Search with Memory.
    William G Kolata*, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
    Stefan Kolata, Department of Psychology, Rutgers University
    (1031-05-15)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A Pair of Formulas Involving the Difference and Shift Operators and Fibonacci-Like Sequences.
    Fangjun Arroyo*, Francis Marion University
    Johnny Sun, Jilin University
    (1031-05-38)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Hopf Cyclic homology (in the sense of dual theory) of Connes Moscovici Hopf algebra .
    Bahram Rangipour*, The University of New Bruswick
    (1031-18-36)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Convergence of Galerkin approximations for differential eigenvalue problems with derivative discontinuities.
    Richard B Evans*, Rensselaer, Troy, NY
    (1031-41-139)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    On commuting powers of Banach and Hilbert space operators.
    Fotios C Paliogiannis*, St. Francis College
    (1031-46-08)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A topological vector space is Fr\'echet-Urysohn iff it has bounded tightness.
    J. K\c akol, A. Mickiewicz University, Pozna/'n, Poland
    M. L\'opez-Pellicer, Universidad Polit\'ecnica, Valencia, Spain
    A. R. Todd*, Baruch College, CUNY
    (1031-46-49)
• Saturday October 6, 2007, 8:00 p.m.-8:50 p.m.
  Einstein Public Lecture in Mathematics
  Spacetime conformal geometry, and a new extended cosmology.
  Room 123, Scott Hall
  Sir Roger Penrose*, University of Oxford
  (1031-53-01)

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