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2008 Fall Central Section Meeting
Kalamazoo, MI, October 17-19, 2008 (Friday - Sunday)
Meeting #1043

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

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Friday October 17, 2008

• Friday October 17, 2008, 12:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Lobby, Fetzer Center
• Friday October 17, 2008, 12:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book SAle
  Lobby, Fetzer Center
• Friday October 17, 2008, 2:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Representations of Real and P-adic Lie Groups, I
  Room 1060, Fetzer Center
  Organizers:
  Alessandra Pantano, University of California Irvine apantano@math.uci.edu
  Annegret Paul, Western Michigan University annegret.paul@wmich.edu
  Susana Alicia Salamanca-Riba, New Mexico State University ssalaman@nmsu.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 2:30 p.m.
    On dual $R$-groups for classical $p$-adic groups.
    David Goldberg*, Purdue University
    Alan Roche, University of Oklahoma
    (1043-22-179)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Theta dichotomy for the rank 2 metaplectic group.
    Christian A Zorn*, The Ohio State University
    (1043-22-149)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Restrictions of Supercuspidal Representations to Maximal Compact Subgroups: the Case of SL(2).
    Monica Nevins*, University of Ottawa
    (1043-20-42)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Branching laws for representations of real reductive groups.
    David Vogan*, MIT
    (1043-22-34)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Friday October 17, 2008, 2:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Linear Codes Over Rings and Modules, I
  Room 2020, Fetzer Center
  Organizers:
  Steven T. Dougherty, University of Scranton doughertys1@Scranton.edu
  Jay A. Wood, Western Michigan University jay.wood@wmich.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Higher Weights for Codes over Rings.
    Steven T. Dougherty*, University of Scranton
    Sunghyu Han, University of Louisville
    Hongwei Liu, Huazhong Normal University
    (1043-13-30)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Building-up Constructions for Self-Dual Codes.
    Jon-Lark Kim*, University of Louisville
    Yoonjin Lee, Ewha Womans University
    (1043-94-29)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Generalized Gleason-Pierce-Ward Theorem.
    Xiaoyu Liu*, Wright State University
    Jon-Lark Kim, University of Louisville
    (1043-94-10)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Toric codes.
    John B Little*, College of the Holy Cross
    (1043-94-38)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Average Min-Sum Decoding Algorithm.
    Nathan Axvig*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1043-94-182)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Rational power series and sequential codes.
    Xiang-dong Hou*, University of South Florida
    S. R. Lopez-Permouth, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701
    B. R. Parra-Avila, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701
    (1043-13-160)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Problem Session
• Friday October 17, 2008, 2:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Computational Group Theory, I
  Room 2030, Fetzer Center
  Organizers:
  Luise-Charlotte Kappe, State University of New York Binghamton menger@math.binghamton.edu
  Arturo Magidin, University of Louisiana--Lafayette magidin@member.ams.org
  Robert F. Morse, University of Evansville rfmorse@evansville.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    A Sharp Bound on the Diameter of the Rubik's Cube Group.
    David Letscher*, Saint Louis University
    (1043-20-138)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Using nonassociative rings for $p$-groups.
    James B Wilson*, The Ohio State University
    (1043-20-107)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    "Geometric" Resolutions of Bieberbach Groups.
    Marc Roeder*, National University of Ireland, Galway
    (1043-57-168)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Computing homological functors of polycyclic groups.
    Robert Fitzgerald Morse*, University of Evansville
    (1043-20-144)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the Covering Number of Small Alternating Groups.
    Luise-Charlotte Kappe, State University of New York at Binghamton
    Joanne L Redden*, Elmira College
    (1043-20-143)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A new classification of $2$-generated $p$-groups of class $2$.
    Arturo Magidin*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    Robert F Morse, University of Evansville
    Azhana Ahmad, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
    (1043-20-68)
• Friday October 17, 2008, 2:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Analysis and Applications, I
  Room 1320, Schneider Hall
  Organizers:
  S. P. Singh, University of Western Ontario ssingh2@uwo.ca
  Bruce B. Watson, Memorial University bruce2@math.mun.ca
  Mahi Singh, University of Western Ontario msingh@uwo.ca
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Rational Approximation for a Quasi-linear Parabolic Equation Occurring in Aerodynamics.
    Paul M Gauthier*, Universite de Montreal
    Nikolai N Tarkhanov, Universitaet Potsdam
    (1043-35-17)
  • 2:20 p.m.
    Global Asymptotic Stability of Equilibria.
    Mario Martelli*, Claremont Graduate University
    (1043-37-115)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Landweber method and its application to an inverse scattering problem.
    Tzu-Chu Lin*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    (1043-47-156)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Nonlinear density matrix method and its application to nanophotonics.
    Mahi R Sigh*, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
    (1043-78-82)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Nonlinear Schrödinger equation method and its application to metallic crystals.
    Ali Hatef, PhD student, The Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Western Ontario,
    R Singh Mahi*, Faculty,The Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Western Ontario,
    (1043-81-96)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Infinite matrix theoretic interpretations of Gollnitz-Gordon analytic identities.
    A K Agarwal*, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
    (1043-05-58)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On a Parabolic-Hyperbolic System in Linear Thermo elasticity with nonlocal integral boundary conditions.
    Lazhar Bougoffa, Faculty of Science , Department of Mathematics, Al-Imam University, Saudi Arabia
    Ammar Khanfer*, Department of Mathematics, Western Michigan University, USA
    (1043-35-157)
• Friday October 17, 2008, 2:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Computation in Modular Representation Theory and Cohomology, I
  Room 2016/2018, Fetzer Center
  Organizers:
  Christopher P. Bendel, University of Wisconsin-Stout bendelc@uwstout.edu
  Terrell L. Hodge, Western Michigan University terrell.hodge@wmich.edu
  Brian J. Parshall, University of Virginia bjp8w@virginia.edu
  Cornelius Pillen, University of South Alabama pillen@jaguar1.usouthal.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    On affine Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials.
    Leonard L Scott*, Dept. Mathematics, The University of Virginia
    (1043-20-88)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Support Varieties of Tilting Modules for $GL_n$.
    Bobbe J Cooper*, University of Minnesota
    (1043-20-178)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Cohomology and Support Varieties for W(n).
    Irfan Bagci*, The University of Georgia
    (1043-17-46)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Friday October 17, 2008, 2:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Graph Labeling, Graph Coloring, and Topological Graph Theory, I
  Room 2345, Schneider Hall
  Organizers:
  Arthur T. White, Western Michigan University arthur.white@wmich.edu
  David L. Craft, Muskingum College craft@muskingum.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Graph Labelings, Imbeddings, and Colorings.
    Arthur T. White*, Western Michigan University
    (1043-05-06)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    On Graceful Labelings of Cycles.
    Jay S. Bagga*, Ball State University
    (1043-05-36)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Separation number of trees.
    Zevi Miller*, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Miami University
    Tao Jiang, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Miami University
    Daniel Pritikin, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Miami University
    (1043-05-71)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On Generalizing the "Lights Out" Game and a Generalization of Parity Domination.
    Alexander Giffen, University of Dayton
    Darren B Parker*, Grand Valley State University
    (1043-05-08)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Bimagic Labellings.
    Alison Marr, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX, USA 78626
    N. C.K. Phillips, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale IL, USA 62901
    W. D. Wallis*, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale IL, USA 62901
    (1043-05-59)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Multiplicative and Combinatorial Labelings of Graphs.
    Lowell W Beineke*, Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne
    Suresh M Hegde, National Institute of Technology Karnataka
    (1043-05-128)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Construction of a Small Regular Graph of Girth 5 and Degree 19.
    Allen J. Schwenk*, Western Michigan University
    (1043-05-31)
• Friday October 17, 2008, 2:00 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching, I
  Room 2335, Schneider Hall
  Organizers:
  Kate Kline, Western Michigan University kate.kline@wmich.edu
  Christine Browning, Western Michigan University christine.browning@wmich.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Mathematical knowledge for teaching: Coordinating mathematical and pedagogical perspectives.
    Mark Thames*, University of Michigan
    Hyman Bass, University of Michigan
    (1043-97-130)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Discussion Session of Bass and Thaymes Presentation
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Exploring the Mathematical Knowledge Needed to Teach Fraction Division.
    Theresa J. Grant*, Western Michigan University
    Jane-Jane Lo, Western Michigan University
    (1043-97-91)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Structure of the Content Knowledge for Teaching-Mathematics (CKT-M) Instrument with Pre-service Teachers.
    Jim Gleason*, The University of Alabama
    (1043-97-11)
• Friday October 17, 2008, 2:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Affine Algebraic Geometry, I
  Room 1040/1050, Fetzer Center
  Organizers:
  Shreeram Abhyankar, Purdue University ram@cs.purdue.edu
  Anthony J. Crachiola, Saginaw Valley State University crachiola@member.ams.org
  Leonid G. Makar-Limanov, Wayne State University lml@math.wayne.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Revisiting triangular derivations of k[X,Y,Z].
    Daniel Daigle*, University of Ottawa (Canada)
    (1043-14-154)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Automorphisms of elliptic Poisson algebras.
    Leonid Makar-Limanov, Wayne State University
    Umut Turusbekova, Eurasian National University
    Ualbai Umirbaev*, Eurasian National University
    (1043-16-108)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Topological aspect of the Jacobian conjecture.
    Teruo Asanuma*, Faculty of Science University of Toyama
    (1043-14-89)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Break
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Embeddings of Danielewski hypersurfaces.
    Lucy Moser-Jauslin*, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
    Pierre-Marie Poloni, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
    (1043-14-23)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A note on $k[z]$-automorphisms in two variables.
    Eric Edo, University of New Caledonia
    Arno van den Essen*, Radboud University Nijmegen
    Stefan Maubach, Radboud University Nijmegen
    (1043-13-122)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Singular points of affine ML-surfaces.
    Ratnadha Kolhatkar*, Ottawa University
    (1043-14-114)
• Friday October 17, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Variational Analysis and its Applications, I
  Room 1340, Schneider Hall
  Organizers:
  Yuri Ledyaev, Western Michigan University ledyaev@wmich.edu
  Jay S. Treiman, Western Michigan University jay.treiman@wmich.edu
  Ilya Shvartsman, Penn State Harrisburg ius13@psu.edu
  Qiji J. Zhu, Western Michigan University qiji.zhu@wmich.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Convex Functions: Characterizations, Constructions and Counterexamples.
    Jonathan M Borwein*, University of Newcastle NSW and Dalhousie Univeesity NS
    (1043-49-196)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    8 Queens, Sudoku, and Projection Methods.
    Heinz Bauschke*, University of British Columbia Okanagan
    (1043-90-67)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On Chebyshev functions and Klee functions.
    Shawn Xianfu Wang*, Mathematics, University of British Columbia
    (1043-49-100)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Spectral Manifolds.
    A Daniilidis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
    J Malick, INRIA, France
    A Lewis, Cornel University, USA
    H Sendov*, The University of Western Ontario, Ontario, Canada
    (1043-53-69)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Finding Best Approximation Pairs Relative to a Convex and a Prox-regular Set in a Hilbert Space.
    D. Russell Luke*, University of Delaware
    (1043-90-50)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Co-Jacobian for Locally Lipschitz Functions in Infinite Dimension.
    Zsolt Páles, University of Debrecen
    Vera M Zeidan*, Michigan State University
    (1043-49-172)
• Friday October 17, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Optimization/Midwest Optimization Seminar, I
  Room 1350, Schneider Hall
  Organizers:
  Jay S. Treiman, Western Michigan University jay.treiman@wmich.edu
  Yuri Ledyaev, Western Michigan University iouri.lediaev@wmich.edu
  Ilya Shvartsman, Penn State Harrisburg ius13@psu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Sensitivity analysis in set-valued optimization.
    Douglas E. Ward*, Miami University
    Akhtar A. Khan, Rochester Institute of Technology
    (1043-90-97)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Necessary optimality conditions for bilevel programming problems.
    Hung M Phan*, Wayne State University
    (1043-49-188)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Min-max game theory problems for coupled systems of PDEs and associated non-standard Riccati equations.
    Jing Zhang*, University of Virginia
    (1043-35-79)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Monotone Linear Relations: Maximality and Fitzpatrick Functions.
    Heinz H Bauschke, UBC Okanagan
    Xianfu Wang, UBC Okanagan
    Liangjin Yao*, UBC Okanagan
    (1043-46-137)
• Friday October 17, 2008, 4:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
  Special Session on Topological Field Theory, I
  Room 1010, Fetzer Center
  Organizers:
  David Nadler, Northwestern University nadler@math.northwestern.edu
  

  • 4:30 p.m.
    Symmetric Functions and Caps.
    Erik L Carlsson*, Northwestern University
    (1043-05-205)
• Friday October 17, 2008, 5:40 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Variational analysis: New trends and applications.
  Room 1005, Fetzer Center
  Boris S. Mordukhovich*, Wayne State University
  (1043-49-05)

Saturday October 18, 2008

• Saturday October 18, 2008, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Lobby, Fetzer Center
• Saturday October 18, 2008, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book SAle
  Lobby, Fetzer Center
• Saturday October 18, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
  Special Session on Representations of Real and P-adic Lie Groups, II
  Room 1060, Fetzer Center
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Supercuspidal characters and applications.
    Jeffrey D Adler, American University
    Stephen DeBacker, University of Michigan
    Loren R Spice*, University of Michigan
    (1043-22-141)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Dirac cohomology of small representations.
    Victor Protsak*, Cornell University
    (1043-22-158)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Dirac cohomology of some small unitary representations.
    Pavle Pandzic*, University of Zagreb
    Victor Protsak, Cornell University
    (1043-22-165)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Dirac cohomology and the unitary dual of complex reductive groups at half integral infinitesimal character.
    Dan M Barbasch*, Cornell University
    Pavle Pandzic, University of Zagreb
    (1043-22-163)
• Saturday October 18, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
  Special Session on Topological Field Theory, II
  Room 1010, Fetzer Center
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Combinatorial Heegaard-Floer invariants for four-dimensional cobordisms.
    Ciprian Manolescu*, UCLA
    Robert Lipshitz, Columbia University
    Jiajun Wang, Caltech
    (1043-57-124)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Renormalization and Effective Field Theory.
    Kevin Costello*, Northwestern University
    (1043-81-211)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    String Topology and Floer Homology.
    Mohammed Abouzaid*, MIT
    (1043-81-212)
• Saturday October 18, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Computational Group Theory, II
  Room 2030, Fetzer Center
  Organizers:
  Luise-Charlotte Kappe, State University of New York Binghamton menger@math.binghamton.edu
  Arturo Magidin, University of Louisiana--Lafayette magidin@member.ams.org
  Robert F. Morse, University of Evansville rfmorse@evansville.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Extremely primitive groups.
    Tim Burness, University of Southhampton, United Kingdom
    Avinoam Mann, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
    Cheryl Praeger, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Australia
    Ákos Seress*, The Ohio State University
    (1043-20-112)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Computer Algebra in Undergraduate Algebra Courses.
    Alexander Hulpke*, Colorado State University
    (1043-00-116)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Recent progress on nonabelian tensor squares of groups.
    Russell D Blyth*, Saint Louis University
    (1043-20-169)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Finite groups have short rewriting systems.
    Jack Schmidt*, University of Kentucky
    (1043-20-98)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Groups of minimal order such that for given n the $n$-th powers of elements do not form a subgroup.
    Luise-Charlotte Kappe, SUNY at Binghamton
    Gabriela Mendoza*, Riverside Community College
    (1043-20-37)
• Saturday October 18, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Quasigroups, Loops, and Nonassociative Division Algebras, I
  Room 2040, Fetzer Center
  Organizers:
  Clifton E. Ealy, Jr., Western Michigan University ealy@wmich.edu
  David Richter, Western Michigan University david.richter@wmich.edu
  Petr Vojtechovsky, University of Denver petr@math.du.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    On the automorphism group of a finitely generated free loop. Preliminary report.
    C E Ealy Jr.*, Department of Mathematics, Western Michigan University
    (1043-20-177)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Burnside problem for power associative loops.
    Tuval Foguel*, Auburn Montgomery
    (1043-20-26)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On the pseudo normalizer of a homogeneous loop.
    Patricia Zoungrana*, University of Ouagadogu, Burkina Faso
    (1043-05-183)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A combinatorial description of the simple Bol loops arising from matched pairs in groups.
    Kenneth W Johnson*, Penn State Abington
    (1043-20-56)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the smallest simple, unipotent Bol loop.
    Kenneth W. Johnson, Pennsylvania State University Abington
    Jonathan D.H. Smith*, Iowa State University
    (1043-20-61)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The Zome system is not Desarguesian.
    David A Richter*, Western Michigan University
    (1043-08-140)
• Saturday October 18, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Analysis and Applications, II
  Room 1320, Schneider Hall
  Organizers:
  S. P. Singh, University of Western Ontario ssingh2@uwo.ca
  Bruce B. Watson, Memorial University bruce2@math.mun.ca
  Mahi Singh, University of Western Ontario msingh@uwo.ca
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Elliptic Equations with Nonlinear Boundary Conditions.
    M. N. Nkashama*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    (1043-35-201)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Bounded Solutions of Nonlinear Parabolic Systems with Nonlinear Boundary Conditions.
    Nsoki Mavinga*, University of Rochester
    Marius Nkashama, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    (1043-35-136)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Nemytsky Operator and a Variable-Coefficient Version of Lusin's Theorem.
    Josefina Alvarez*, New Mexico State University
    (1043-47-102)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Some Recent Advances and New Directions in Computational Complexity of Linear Programming Algorithms.
    Jai Narain Singh*, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, Barry University
    (1043-90-76)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Some Results in Metric Trees.
    Asuman G Aksoy*, Professor of Mathematics
    (1043-46-190)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Fixed Point and Solvability Theorems for Nonlinear Operators.
    G. Isac*, Royal Military College of Canada
    (1043-47-75)
• Saturday October 18, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
  Special Session on Computation in Modular Representation Theory and Cohomology, II
  Room 2016/2018, Fetzer Center
  Organizers:
  Christopher P. Bendel, University of Wisconsin-Stout bendelc@uwstout.edu
  Terrell L. Hodge, Western Michigan University terrell.hodge@wmich.edu
  Brian J. Parshall, University of Virginia bjp8w@virginia.edu
  Cornelius Pillen, University of South Alabama pillen@jaguar1.usouthal.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Computing Lie algebra Cohomology for $p=2$.
    Caroline B. Wright*, University of Arizona
    (1043-18-150)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On Kostant's Theorem for Lie Algebra Cohomology.
    University of Georgia VIGRE Algebra Group, University of Georgia
    Jonathan Kujawa*, University of Oklahoma
    (1043-17-53)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Cohomology of quantum groups: An analog of Kostant's Theorem.
    Brian D. Boe*, University of Georgia
    University of Georgia VIGRE Algebra Group, University of Georgia
    (1043-20-166)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Adjoint actions on integral forms in quantized enveloping algebras: the mixed case.
    Christopher M Drupieski*, University of Virginia
    (1043-20-133)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday October 18, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Graph Labeling, Graph Coloring, and Topological Graph Theory, II
  Room 2345, Schneider Hall
  Organizers:
  Arthur T. White, Western Michigan University arthur.white@wmich.edu
  David L. Craft, Muskingum College craft@muskingum.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Recognizable Colorings of Graphs.
    Gary Chartrand, Western Michigan University
    Linda Lesniak*, Drew University
    Donald VanderJagt, Grand Valley University
    Ping Zhang, Western Michigan University
    (1043-05-20)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Injective coloring of graphs.
    Daniel Cranston, DIMACS, Rutgers University
    Seog-Jin Kim, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea
    Gexin Yu*, College of Williams and Mary
    (1043-05-60)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Rainbow Connectivities of Graphs.
    Ping Zhang*, Western Michigan University
    (1043-05-101)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Skolem-type Difference Sets for Cycle Systems.
    Darryn Bryant, University of Queensland
    Heather Jordon*, Illinois State University
    Alan C. H. Ling, University of Vermont
    (1043-05-27)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Recent Results on Saturation Numbers.
    Ronald J Gould*, Emory University
    (1043-05-35)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    n-maps.
    David L. Craft*, Muskingum College
    (1043-05-13)
• Saturday October 18, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Optimization/Midwest Optimization Seminar, II
  Room 1350, Schneider Hall
  Organizers:
  Jay S. Treiman, Western Michigan University jay.treiman@wmich.edu
  Yuri Ledyaev, Western Michigan University iouri.lediaev@wmich.edu
  Ilya Shvartsman, Penn State Harrisburg ius13@psu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    A Few of my Favourite Convexity Results.
    Jonathan M Borwein*, Dalhousie University and University of Newcastle, NSW
    (1043-46-198)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Applications of the Two Nonzero Component Lemma.
    Morteza Seddighin*, Indiana University East
    (1043-49-195)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Simple and Elementary Proof of the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker Theorem for Inequality-Constrained Optimization.
    Olga A. Brezhneva*, Miami University, Ohio
    Alexey A. Tret'yakov, University of Podlasie in Siedlce, Poland
    Stephen E. Wright, Miami University, Ohio
    (1043-90-193)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Fields of extremals and sufficient conditions for the simplest problem of the calculus of variations in $n$-variables.
    Dean A. Carlson*, American Mathematical Society, Mathematical Reviews
    (1043-49-200)
• Saturday October 18, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching, II
  Room 2335, Schneider Hall
  Organizers:
  Kate Kline, Western Michigan University kate.kline@wmich.edu
  Christine Browning, Western Michigan University christine.browning@wmich.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching at the secondary level based on mathematical situations from high school classrooms: A challenge for collegiate mathematics.
    Patricia S. Wilson*, University of Georgia
    M. Kathleen Heid, Penn State University
    (1043-97-121)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Discussion Session of Heid and Wilson Presentation
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Using a Practice-based Approach to Develop the Mathematical Knowledge Needed for Teaching Concepts Related to Rational Number and Proportionality.
    Judith Flowers*, University of Michigan-Dearborn
    Nesrin Cengiz, University of Michigan-Dearborn
    (1043-97-202)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Mathematics Curriculum Standards and Deep Mathematical Structure.
    James J Madden*, Louisiana State University
    (1043-97-192)
• Saturday October 18, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Homotopy Theory, I
  Room 1030, Fetzer Center
  Organizers:
  Michele Intermont, Kalamazoo College intermon@kzoo.edu
  John R. Martino, Western Michigan University john.martino@wmich.edu
  Jeffrey A. Strom, Western Michigan University jeff.strom@wmich.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Gauge groups and related structures in rational homotopy theory.
    Samuel B. Smith*, Saint Joseph's University
    (1043-55-80)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Rational homotopy of gauge groups.
    Yves Felix, Universite Catholique de Louvain
    John Oprea*, Cleveland State University
    (1043-55-57)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Computational motivic homotopy theory.
    Daniel Isaksen*, Wayne State University
    (1043-55-73)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Topological Modular Forms and Level Structures.
    Valentina Joukhovitski*, University of Michigan
    (1043-55-181)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Rational Homotopy Type of Spaces of Self-Equivalences of a Fibration.
    Gregory Lupton*, Cleveland State University
    Yves F{é}lix, l'Universit{é} Catholique de Louvain
    Samuel B Smith, St. Joseph's University
    (1043-55-186)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Connective K-theory of certain symmetric groups.
    Son P Nguyen*, Wayne State University
    (1043-55-44)
• Saturday October 18, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Affine Algebraic Geometry, II
  Room 1040/1050, Fetzer Center
  Organizers:
  Shreeram Abhyankar, Purdue University ram@cs.purdue.edu
  Anthony J. Crachiola, Saginaw Valley State University crachiola@member.ams.org
  Leonid G. Makar-Limanov, Wayne State University lml@math.wayne.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    StableTameness of Two-Dimensional Polynomial Automorphisms Over a Regular Ring.
    Joost Berson, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
    Arno van den Essen, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
    David Wright*, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
    (1043-14-22)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Revisiting a differential approach to the 2-variable Jacobian Conjecture.
    Hyman Bass*, University of Michigan
    (1043-13-131)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Russell's hypersurface from a geometric point of view.
    Karl-Heinz Fieseler*, Dept. of Math., Uppsala University, Sweden
    (1043-14-84)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Unipotent group quotients of affine varieties.
    Harm Derksen*, University of Michigan
    Gregor Kemper, Technical University Munich
    (1043-13-147)
• Saturday October 18, 2008, 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Linear Codes Over Rings and Modules, II
  Room 2020, Fetzer Center
  Organizers:
  Steven T. Dougherty, University of Scranton doughertys1@Scranton.edu
  Jay A. Wood, Western Michigan University jay.wood@wmich.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    On list decoding algebraic geometry codes over rings.
    Nathan Drake*, Clemson University
    Gretchen L. Matthews, Clemson University
    (1043-14-171)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Recent results on codes designed from permutation matrices.
    Christine A. Kelley*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1043-94-199)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the weight distribution of extended $\mathbb{Z}_4$-linear quadratic residue codes.
    Michael Kiermaier*, Universität Bayreuth
    Alfred Wassermann, Universität Bayreuth
    (1043-11-120)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The use of Frobenius rings in coding theory: a personal view.
    Jay A. Wood*, Western Michigan University
    (1043-94-39)
• Saturday October 18, 2008, 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Finance, I
  Room 1330, Schneider Hall
  Organizers:
  Qiji J. Zhu, Western Michigan University zhu@wmich.edu
  George Yin, Wayne State University gyin@math.wayne.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Volatility Models of the Yield Curve.
    Victor Goodman*, Indiana University
    (1043-90-21)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Term structure of risk premium, risk aversion, and humped yield curves.
    Srdjan Stojanovic*, University of Cincinnati
    (1043-60-129)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Measurements of Risk for Hedging with Short-Term Futures.
    Chaoqun Ma, Hunan University
    Fei Wang, Valuation Group, International Fund Services
    Zhijian Wu*, The University of Alabama
    (1043-91-134)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    A Risk-Averse Utility-Function Framework for Rebalancing a Portfolio (Preliminary Report).
    Stanley L. Sclove*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1043-62-167)
• Saturday October 18, 2008, 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Variational Analysis and its Applications, II
  Room 1340, Schneider Hall
  Organizers:
  Yuri Ledyaev, Western Michigan University ledyaev@wmich.edu
  Jay S. Treiman, Western Michigan University jay.treiman@wmich.edu
  Ilya Shvartsman, Penn State Harrisburg ius13@psu.edu
  Qiji J. Zhu, Western Michigan University qiji.zhu@wmich.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    A hyperelastic rod model with nonlocal potential.
    Thomas I. Seidman*, University of Maryland Baltimore County
    Kathleen A. Hoffman, UMBC
    (1043-49-77)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Strong Solutions to a Nonlinear Fluid Structure Interaction System.
    Amjad Tuffaha*, University of Southern California
    Igor Kukavica, University of Southern California
    Mohammed Ziane, University of Southern California
    (1043-35-208)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Dual Optimal Control Problems of Neutral Differential Equations.
    Lianwen Wang*, University of Central Missouri
    (1043-49-126)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On Regularity Properties of Optimal Solutions.
    Ilya Shvartsman*, Penn State Harrisburg
    (1043-49-94)
• Saturday October 18, 2008, 11:40 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Representation theory via topological field theory.
  Room 1005, Fetzer Center
  David Nadler*, Northwestern University
  (1043-22-02)
• Saturday October 18, 2008, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Mathematical problems and applications of elasticity and liquid crystals.
  Room 1005, Fetzer Center
  M. Carme Calderer*, University of Minnesota
• Saturday October 18, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Representations of Real and P-adic Lie Groups, III
  Room 1060, Fetzer Center
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Some Problems and Results in Harmonic Analysis with Origins in Automorphic Forms.
    Freydoon Shahidi*, Purdue University
    (1043-22-95)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Genuine Representations of $\widetilde{\text{Spin}}(n+1,n)$.
    Scott P Crofts*, University of Utah
    (1043-22-51)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A non-commutative sharp and symmetric uncertainty inequality.
    Murad Ozaydin, University of Oklahmoa
    Tomasz Przebinda*, University of Oklahoma
    (1043-22-123)
• Saturday October 18, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Linear Codes Over Rings and Modules, III
  Room 2020, Fetzer Center
  Organizers:
  Steven T. Dougherty, University of Scranton doughertys1@Scranton.edu
  Jay A. Wood, Western Michigan University jay.wood@wmich.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Negacyclic codes over Galois rings.
    Sergio R López-Permouth*, Ohio University
    Steve Szabo, Ohio University
    (1043-94-204)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Isometries for convolutional codes.
    Heide Gluesing-Luerssen*, U. of Kentucky, Dept. of Mathematics, 715 Patterson Office Tower, Lexington, KY 40506
    (1043-94-105)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Repeated-root constacyclic codes of prime power length over polynomial residue rings.
    Hai Q Dinh*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Kent State University, Warren, OH 44483, USA
    (1043-94-197)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Problem Session
• Saturday October 18, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Topological Field Theory, III
  Room 1010, Fetzer Center
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Categories coming from symplectic singularities, or on the Ext-algebra of hot fudge.
    Ben Webster*, MIT
    (1043-81-213)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Localization for THH and TC of spectral categories.
    Andrew Blumberg*, University of Chicago
    (1043-81-214)
• Saturday October 18, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Computational Group Theory, III
  Room 2030, Fetzer Center
  Organizers:
  Luise-Charlotte Kappe, State University of New York Binghamton menger@math.binghamton.edu
  Arturo Magidin, University of Louisiana--Lafayette magidin@member.ams.org
  Robert F. Morse, University of Evansville rfmorse@evansville.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Can the finite simple groups be classified at all?
    Gerhard O. Michler*, Dept. Math. Cornell University, Ithaca NY
    (1043-20-40)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Supercharacter theories of finite cyclic groups.
    Anders O.F. Hendrickson*, Concordia College
    (1043-20-173)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Generalized Symmetric Groups with the Best Possible Strong Symmetric Genus.
    Michael A Jackson*, Grove City College
    (1043-20-16)
• Saturday October 18, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Quasigroups, Loops, and Nonassociative Division Algebras, II
  Room 2040, Fetzer Center
  Organizers:
  Clifton E. Ealy, Jr., Western Michigan University ealy@wmich.edu
  David Richter, Western Michigan University david.richter@wmich.edu
  Petr Vojtechovsky, University of Denver petr@math.du.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The existence of Sylow $p$-subloops in finite Moufang loops.
    Stephen M Gagola III*, University of Arizona
    (1043-20-24)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The structure of moufang loops arising from zorn vector matrix algebras.
    Andrew Wells*, Iowa State University
    (1043-17-41)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Moufang loops and groups with triality are essentially the same thing.
    Jonathan I Hall*, Michigan State University
    (1043-20-70)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Moufang Elements.
    J. D. Phillips*, Wabash College
    (1043-20-93)
• Saturday October 18, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Analysis and Applications, III
  Room 1320, Schneider Hall
  Organizers:
  S. P. Singh, University of Western Ontario ssingh2@uwo.ca
  Bruce B. Watson, Memorial University bruce2@math.mun.ca
  Mahi Singh, University of Western Ontario msingh@uwo.ca
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Fixed Points and Common Fixed Points in Hausdorff Spaces Via Generalized Continuities.
    Gerald F. Jungck*, Bradley University
    (1043-54-111)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Unbounded representations of partial *-algebras and generalized Stinespring theorem.
    Camillo Trapani*, Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita' di Palermo
    (1043-47-90)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Economic development and sustainability in a two-sector model with variable population growth rate.
    Massimiliano Ferrara*, Dept. of History, Law, Economics and Social Sciences - University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria- Italy
    Luca Guerrini, Dept. of Mathematical Economics - University of Bologna- Italy
    (1043-37-83)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On some fixed point theorems and applications.
    Ashok K. Singh*, Department of Science and Technology
    (1043-47-65)
• Saturday October 18, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Computation in Modular Representation Theory and Cohomology, III
  Room 2016/2018, Fetzer Center
  Organizers:
  Christopher P. Bendel, University of Wisconsin-Stout bendelc@uwstout.edu
  Terrell L. Hodge, Western Michigan University terrell.hodge@wmich.edu
  Brian J. Parshall, University of Virginia bjp8w@virginia.edu
  Cornelius Pillen, University of South Alabama pillen@jaguar1.usouthal.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    $Ext^{1}$-quivers for the Witt algebra W(1,1).
    Brian D. Boe, University of Georgia
    Daniel K. Nakano*, University of Georgia
    Emilie Wiesner, Ithaca College
    (1043-17-110)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Cohomology and generic cohomology for Specht modules of the symmetric group.
    David J Hemmer*, University at Buffalo, SUNY
    (1043-20-125)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday October 18, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Finance, II
  Room 1330, Schneider Hall
  Organizers:
  Qiji J. Zhu, Western Michigan University zhu@wmich.edu
  George Yin, Wayne State University gyin@math.wayne.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    An Optimal Stopping Problem for SDEs with Random Coefficients.
    Jiongmin Yong*, University of Central Florida
    (1043-49-43)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Regime-Switching Recombining Tree for Option Pricing.
    Ruihua Liu*, University of Dayton
    (1043-60-135)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Pricing Asian Options for Jump Diffusions.
    Erhan Bayraktar, University of Michigan
    Hao Xing*, University of Michigan
    (1043-60-206)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Implementing a Robust Option Replacement Strategy.
    Anirban Dutta*, Western Michigan University
    Qiji J. Zhu, Western Michigan University
    (1043-91-104)
• Saturday October 18, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Variational Analysis and its Applications, III
  Room 1340, Schneider Hall
  Organizers:
  Yuri Ledyaev, Western Michigan University ledyaev@wmich.edu
  Jay S. Treiman, Western Michigan University jay.treiman@wmich.edu
  Ilya Shvartsman, Penn State Harrisburg ius13@psu.edu
  Qiji J. Zhu, Western Michigan University qiji.zhu@wmich.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Parabolic-Hyperbolic Fluid-Structure Interaction.
    Roberto Triggiani*, University of Virginia
    (1043-35-55)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Wellposedness of Solutions for the Wave Equation with Supercritical Interior and Boundary Sources and Damping.
    Lorena Bociu*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Irena Lasiecka, University of Virginia
    (1043-35-66)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Well-posedness and trace regularity of a plate equation with non-dissipative boundary conditions.
    Daniel Toundykov*, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    Irena Lasiecka, University of Virginia
    (1043-35-153)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Long time behavior in nonlinear hyperbolic eveolutions.
    Irena m Lasiecka*, University of Virginia
    (1043-35-74)
• Saturday October 18, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Graph Labeling, Graph Coloring, and Topological Graph Theory, III
  Room 2345, Schneider Hall
  Organizers:
  Arthur T. White, Western Michigan University arthur.white@wmich.edu
  David L. Craft, Muskingum College craft@muskingum.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Imbeddings of Graph Products: a Survey.
    Ghidewon Abay-Asmerom*, Virginia Commonwealth University
    (1043-05-33)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Counting minimum genus embeddings of $K_{3,n}$.
    Mark N. Ellingham*, Vanderbilt University
    Adam Weaver, Vanderbilt University
    (1043-05-28)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Simple closed curves in $N_3$.
    Xiaoya Zha*, Middle Tennessee State University
    (1043-05-92)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Representativity of Cayley maps of some Abelian groups.
    D. Christopher Stephens*, Middle Tennessee State University
    Thomas W. Tucker, Colgate University
    Xiaoya Zha, Middle Tennessee State University
    (1043-05-191)
• Saturday October 18, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Optimization/Midwest Optimization Seminar, III
  Room 1350, Schneider Hall
  Organizers:
  Jay S. Treiman, Western Michigan University jay.treiman@wmich.edu
  Yuri Ledyaev, Western Michigan University iouri.lediaev@wmich.edu
  Ilya Shvartsman, Penn State Harrisburg ius13@psu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Simultaneously Inpainting in Image and Transformed Domains.
    Lixin Shen*, Syracuse University
    (1043-42-161)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    An Infeasible Interior-Point Algorithm for Linear Complementarity Problems.
    Olena Shevchenko*, Western Michigan University
    (1043-90-176)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Randomized Methods for Linear Constraints: Convergence Rates and Conditioning.
    Dennis Leventhal*, Cornell University
    Adrian Lewis, Cornell University
    (1043-90-113)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Robust Parameters Estimation of Least Norm problems with Uncertain Data.
    Saïd Bahi*, Southern Utah University
    (1043-90-155)
• Saturday October 18, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching, III
  Room 2335, Schneider Hall
  Organizers:
  Kate Kline, Western Michigan University kate.kline@wmich.edu
  Christine Browning, Western Michigan University christine.browning@wmich.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching Algebra: Recent Recommendations and Research.
    Sharon L. Senk*, Michigan State University
    (1043-97-209)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Developing preservice teachers' understanding of linearity.
    Laura R. Van Zoest*, Western Michigan University
    (1043-97-203)
• Saturday October 18, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Homotopy Theory, II
  Room 1030, Fetzer Center
  Organizers:
  Michele Intermont, Kalamazoo College intermon@kzoo.edu
  John R. Martino, Western Michigan University john.martino@wmich.edu
  Jeffrey A. Strom, Western Michigan University jeff.strom@wmich.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Algebraic $K$-theory of the dual numbers.
    Vigleik Angeltveit, University of Chicago
    Teena M Gerhardt*, Indiana University
    Lars Hesselholt, Nagoya University
    (1043-19-148)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the Tate spectrum of tmf at the prime 2.
    Scott M Bailey*, University of Rochester
    (1043-55-49)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Generalized Cohomology and Generalized Witt Schemes.
    Justin Noel*, University of Chicago
    (1043-55-47)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Towards the unstable $v_2$--periodic homotopy of odd spheres.
    Nicholas J. Kuhn*, University of Virginia
    (1043-55-185)
• Saturday October 18, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Affine Algebraic Geometry, III
  Room 1040/1050, Fetzer Center
  Organizers:
  Shreeram Abhyankar, Purdue University ram@cs.purdue.edu
  Anthony J. Crachiola, Saginaw Valley State University crachiola@member.ams.org
  Leonid G. Makar-Limanov, Wayne State University lml@math.wayne.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Arithmetic Dynamics and the Characterization of Finite Solvable Groups.
    Tatiana M Bandman*, Bar Ilan University, Israel
    (1043-14-18)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Shestakov-Umirbaev reductions and Nagata's conjecture on a polynomial automorphism.
    Shigeru Kuroda*, Department of Mathematics and Information Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University
    (1043-14-78)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Relations between the Leading Terms of a Polynomial Automorphism.
    Stéphane Vénéreau*, Departement Mathematik, Basel University
    (1043-14-48)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The variety of plane polynomial automorphisms.
    Jean-Philippe Furter*, Univ. of La Rochelle (France).
    (1043-14-19)
• Saturday October 18, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
  Contributed Paper Session
  Room 2050, Fetzer Center
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Vertex operator algebras and integrable system.
    SHR-JING Chen*, Rutgers University
    (1043-47-106)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Canonical decomposition of graphs and antimagic labeling.
    Michael D Barrus*, University of Illinois
    (1043-05-175)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The non-abelian tensor product of finite groups is finite: a homology free proof.
    Viji Z Thomas*, Binghamton University
    (1043-20-187)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Persisting mathematics and science high school teachers: A Q-methodology study.
    Michelle M. LaVicka*, Little Rock, AR
    (1043-97-45)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Multipliers and Operators on the Tempered Ultradistribution Spaces of Roumieu Type for the Distributional Hankel-Type Transformation Spaces.
    Shrideh Khalaf Al-omari*, Assisstant Prof. ,faculty of Engineering Technology,Al-balqa Applied University,Jordan
    Pradeep K. Banerji, Prof.,j.n.v.University,India
    (1043-00-25)
• Saturday October 18, 2008, 5:10 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Global Schrodinger maps: Small data in the critical Sobolev spaces.
  Room 1005, Fetzer Center
  Alexandru Ionescu*, University of Wisconsin
  (1043-35-03)
• Saturday October 18, 2008, 6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
  Reception hosted by the Department of Mathematics
  Lobby, Fetzer Center

Sunday October 19, 2008

• Sunday October 19, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Representations of Real and P-adic Lie Groups, IV
  Room 1060, Fetzer Center
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Computing unipotent representations using the Atlas software.
    Jeffrey Adams*, Mathematics Department, University of Maryland
    (1043-22-170)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Singularities of K-orbits in flag varieties.
    Monty McGovern*, University of Washington
    (1043-22-14)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the geometry of certain components of the Springer fiber.
    Leticia Barchini*, Oklahoma State University
    (1043-22-86)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On Functoriality for the Classical Groups.
    James W. Cogdell*, Ohio State University
    (1043-11-174)
  • 12:00 p.m.
    Archimedean Bessel models for GSp(4).
    Ralf Schmidt*, University of Oklahoma
    (1043-20-159)
• Sunday October 19, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Topological Field Theory, IV
  Room 1010, Fetzer Center
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Localization for W-algebras.
    Kobe Kremnizer*, MIT
    (1043-81-215)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Tangle category actions.
    Rina Anno*, The University of Chicago
    (1043-18-162)
• Sunday October 19, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Computational Group Theory, IV
  Room 2030, Fetzer Center
  Organizers:
  Luise-Charlotte Kappe, State University of New York Binghamton menger@math.binghamton.edu
  Arturo Magidin, University of Louisiana--Lafayette magidin@member.ams.org
  Robert F. Morse, University of Evansville rfmorse@evansville.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Constructing the group preserving a system of forms.
    Peter A Brooksbank*, Bucknell University
    James B Wilson, The Ohio State University
    (1043-20-145)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    An Example of Counting Generators in Finite Groups.
    Bret Jordan Benesh*, College of St. Benedict/St. John's University
    (1043-20-189)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    GAP package AutomGrp for computations in groups and semigroups generated by automata and its applications.
    Dmytro M Savchuk*, Texas A&M University
    Yevgen V Muntyan, Texas A&M University
    (1043-20-152)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Metabelian groups with all cyclic subgroups n-subnormal having all subgroups subnormal.
    David J. Garrison*, Lockheed Martin
    (1043-20-87)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Minimal groups with isomorphic tables of marks.
    Alberto Gerardo Raggi-Cardenas, UNAM Morelia, Mexico
    Eder Vieyra-Sanchez, UMSNH, Morelia, Mexico
    Luis Valero-Elizondo*, UMSNH, Morelia, Mexico
    (1043-20-15)
• Sunday October 19, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Analysis and Applications, IV
  Room 1320, Schneider Hall
  Organizers:
  S. P. Singh, University of Western Ontario ssingh2@uwo.ca
  Bruce B. Watson, Memorial University bruce2@math.mun.ca
  Mahi Singh, University of Western Ontario msingh@uwo.ca
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    On a Sequence of Fourier Coefficients.
    Madan Lal Mittal*, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
    Uaday Singh, ISM University Dhanbad
    (1043-42-72)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Ky Fan's Best Approximation and Applications.
    S P Singh*, Memorial University of Newfoundland
    Mahi Singh, University of Western Ontario
    (1043-47-63)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Numerical Methods for Solving Singular Perturbation Problems.
    Manoj Kumar*, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad-India
    (1043-65-119)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    An Initial-Value Approach for Second-Order Singularly Perturbed Boundary Value Problems.
    Hradyesh Kumar Mishra*, SPMIT
    Manoj Kumar, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology
    (1043-47-109)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Fuzzy Fixed Point Theorem and its Application.
    Anil Rajput*, Sadhu Vaswani College
    (1043-47-62)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    On implicit iterations for strongly pseudocontractive and quasinonexpansive mappings.
    Neeta Singh*, University of Allahabad
    (1043-47-09)
  • 12:00 p.m.
    The Random Fixed Point Theory and Applications.
    Umesh Singh*, Banaras Hindu University
    (1043-47-64)
• Sunday October 19, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Computation in Modular Representation Theory and Cohomology, IV
  Room 2016/2018, Fetzer Center
  Organizers:
  Christopher P. Bendel, University of Wisconsin-Stout bendelc@uwstout.edu
  Terrell L. Hodge, Western Michigan University terrell.hodge@wmich.edu
  Brian J. Parshall, University of Virginia bjp8w@virginia.edu
  Cornelius Pillen, University of South Alabama pillen@jaguar1.usouthal.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Frobenius twisted conjugacy classes of matrices.
    Zongzhu Lin*, Kansas State University
    (1043-20-184)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Nilpotent orbits of a reductive group over a local field.
    George J McNinch*, Tufts University
    (1043-20-180)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Fixed Point Sets and Lefschetz Modules for Subgroup Complexes.
    John S. Maginnis*, Kansas State University
    Silvia E. Onofrei, The Ohio State University
    (1043-20-118)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday October 19, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Variational Analysis and its Applications, IV
  Room 1340, Schneider Hall
  Organizers:
  Yuri Ledyaev, Western Michigan University ledyaev@wmich.edu
  Jay S. Treiman, Western Michigan University jay.treiman@wmich.edu
  Ilya Shvartsman, Penn State Harrisburg ius13@psu.edu
  Qiji J. Zhu, Western Michigan University qiji.zhu@wmich.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Limiting Subgradients of Minimal Time Functions in Banach Spaces.
    Boris Mordukhovich, Wayne State University
    Nguyen Mau Nam*, University of Texas-Pan American
    (1043-49-12)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Normal Compactness and Lipschitz Mappings.
    Bingwu Wang*, Department of Mathematics, Eastern Michigan University
    (1043-49-99)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Some Applications of Mordukhovich Coderivative for Set-Valued Mappings to Multiobjective Optimization.
    Bao Quang Truong*, Northern Michigan University
    (1043-49-85)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Linear/conical approximation of hybrid dynamical systems.
    Rafal Goebel*, Department of mathematics and Statistics, Loyola University Chicago
    (1043-93-194)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    A duality method for micromagnetics.
    Baisheng Yan*, Michigan State University
    (1043-49-151)
• Sunday October 19, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Homotopy Theory, III
  Room 1030, Fetzer Center
  Organizers:
  Michele Intermont, Kalamazoo College intermon@kzoo.edu
  John R. Martino, Western Michigan University john.martino@wmich.edu
  Jeffrey A. Strom, Western Michigan University jeff.strom@wmich.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On interpreting cohomological obstructions to topologically realizing $\Pi$-algebras.
    David Blanc, University of Haifa, Israel
    Mark W Johnson, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona
    James M Turner*, Calvin College
    (1043-55-142)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    An introduction to directed homotopy theory.
    Peter Bubenik*, Cleveland State University
    (1043-55-81)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Equivariant fixed point theory.
    Kate Ponto*, University of Notre Dame
    (1043-55-139)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Operads, co-rings, and homotopy morphisms.
    Jonathan Scott*, Cleveland State University
    (1043-55-146)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Homotopy theory of colored PROPs.
    Mark W. Johnson*, Penn State Altoona
    Donald Yau, The Ohio State University at Newark
    (1043-55-117)
• Sunday October 19, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Affine Algebraic Geometry, IV
  Room 1040/1050, Fetzer Center
  Organizers:
  Shreeram Abhyankar, Purdue University ram@cs.purdue.edu
  Anthony J. Crachiola, Saginaw Valley State University crachiola@member.ams.org
  Leonid G. Makar-Limanov, Wayne State University lml@math.wayne.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Some Open Problems Raised by the Jacobian Conjecture.
    Wenhua Zhao*, Illinois State University
    (1043-13-164)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Cancellation Problem for the Koras-Russell cubic threefold.
    Adrien Dubouloz*, CNRS - Institut de Mathématiques de Bourgogne
    (1043-14-52)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Nagata automorphism is shifted linearizable.
    Stefan Maubach*, Radboud University Nijmegen
    (1043-14-54)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    ${\mathbb A}^2$-Fibrations over the Affine Plane.
    Gene Freudenburg*, Western Michigan University
    (1043-14-210)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Proper algebraic actions of the additive group on complex four space.
    David R Finston*, New Mexico State University
    James K Deveney, Virginia Commonwealth University
    (1043-14-32)

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