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2012 Spring Central Section Meeting
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
March 30 - April 1, 2012 (Friday - Sunday)
Meeting #1081

Associate secretaries:

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

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Friday March 30, 2012

• Friday March 30, 2012, 2:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  Book Sale and Exhibit
  Room 4021, Wescoe Hall
• Friday March 30, 2012, 2:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Outside Room 4011, Wescoe Hall
• Friday March 30, 2012, 2:45 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Welcome.
  Room 3931, Wescoe Hall
  Complexity of surface homeomorphisms.
  Room 3931, Wescoe Hall
  Christopher J. Leininger*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Benson Farb, University of Chicago
  Dan Margalit, Georgia Instittute of Technology
  (1081-57-02)
• Friday March 30, 2012, 4:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and its Applications, I
  Room 4023, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Yasuyuki Kachi, University of Kansas
  B. P. Purnaprajna, University of Kansas purna@math.ku.edu
  Sarang Sane, University of Kansas
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Integral Bases for the Universal Enveloping Algebras of Map Algebras.
    Samuel H Chamberlin*, Park University
    (1081-17-160)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Numerical dimension of nef line bundles.
    Dincer Guler*, Park University
    (1081-14-394)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Use of Locales in Algebraic Geometry.
    John Iskra*, Emory and Henry College
    (1081-14-405)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Connections between real algebraic geometry, topology and combinatorics.
    Chris Peterson*, Colorado State University
    (1081-14-343)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Filtered local systems and parabolic Higgs bundles.
    Botong Wang*, Purdue University
    (1081-14-155)
• Friday March 30, 2012, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Complex Analysis, Geometry and Probability, I
  Room 4007, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Pietro Poggi-Corradini, Kansas State University pietro@math.ksu.edu
  Hrant Hakobyan, Kansas State University
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Quasisymmetric graphs and Zygmund functions.
    Leonid V Kovalev*, Syracuse University
    Jani Onninen, Syracuse University
    (1081-30-91)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Uniformization of rectifiable surfaces.
    Kai Rajala*, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
    (1081-30-90)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Geometric properties of Schur class mappings of the unit ball in $\mathbb C^n$.
    Michael Jury*, University of Florida
    (1081-32-317)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Parabolic dynamics in the disk and in the ball.
    Olena Ostapyuk*, University of Northern Iowa
    (1081-30-335)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Non-uniqueness of convex bodies with prescribed volumes of sections and projections.
    Dmitry Ryabogin*, Kent State University
    (1081-52-15)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    Energy minimal diffeomorphisms: existence and nonexistence.
    Tadeusz Iwaniec, Syracuse University
    Ngin-Tee Koh, Ohio University
    Leonid V. Kovalev, Syracuse University
    Jani Onninen*, Syracuse University
    (1081-30-383)
• Friday March 30, 2012, 4:00 p.m.-6:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Dynamics and Stability of Nonlinear Waves, I
  Room 4041, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Mat Johnson, University of Kansas matjohn@math.ku.edu
  Myunghyun Oh, University of Kansas
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Refined Stability of Combustion Waves.
    Gregory D Lyng*, University of Wyoming
    (1081-35-362)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Fronts in a model for gasless combustion with heat loss.
    Anna R Ghazaryan*, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
    Stephen Schecter, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
    Peter Simon, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
    (1081-35-37)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Various families of traveling wave solutions of Gray-Scott model.
    Vahagn Manukian*, Miami University Hamilton
    (1081-35-241)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Traveling waves in reaction-diffusion equations coupled to a conservation law.
    Alin Pogan*, Indiana University
    (1081-35-354)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Nonlinear stability of defects.
    Bjorn Sandstede*, Brown University
    (1081-35-20)
• Friday March 30, 2012, 4:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Representation Theory, I
  Room 4033, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Zongzhu Lin, Kansas State University zlin@math.ksu.edu
  Zhiwei Yun, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Presenting Schur Superalgebras.
    Houssein El Turkey, University of Oklahoma
    Jonathan Kujawa*, University of Oklahoma
    (1081-16-22)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A generalized Koszul theory and its application.
    Liping Li*, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
    (1081-16-10)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Geometric Langlands and the inverse Galois problem.
    Zhiwei Yun*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1081-11-398)
• Friday March 30, 2012, 4:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Topology and Group Theory, I
  Room 4035, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Richard P. Kent IV, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Christopher J. Leininger, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign clein@math.uiuc.edu
  Kasra Rafi, University of Oklahoma
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Combinatorics of hyperbolic structures on 3-manifolds.
    Hossein Namazi*, The University of Texas at Austin
    (1081-57-366)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Cusp geometry of fibered 3-manifolds.
    David Futer*, Temple University
    Saul Schleimer, University of Warwick
    (1081-57-225)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The Sunada construction and the simple length spectrum.
    Rasimate Maungchang*, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
    (1081-57-181)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Shrinking targets in moduli space.
    Spencer Dowdall*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Jayadev Athreya, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1081-37-332)
• Friday March 30, 2012, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Applications, I
  Room 4002, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Arpad Benyi, Western Washington University
  David Cruz-Uribe, Trinity College
  Rodolfo Torres, University of Kansas torres@math.ku.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the Rate of a.e. Convergence of Certain Classic Integral Means.
    Alex Stokolos*, Georgia Southern University
    (1081-42-205)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the distances from Lipschitz functions to Morrey spaces.
    Zhijian Wu*, The University of Alabama
    (1081-46-295)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Uniform estimates for the X-ray transform restricted to polynomial curves.
    Spyridon Dendrinos, University of Jyväskylä
    Betsy Stovall*, UCLA
    (1081-42-196)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Fourier analysis and uniform distribution.
    Dmitriy Bilyk*, University of South Carolina
    (1081-42-282)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Almost-orthogonality in weighted spaces.
    James Michael Wilson*, University of Vermont
    (1081-42-217)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    3-point configurations in dense subsets of $P^2$.
    A Magyar*, University of British Columbia
    T Titichetrakun, University of British Columbia
    (1081-42-403)
• Friday March 30, 2012, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Interplay between Geometry and Partial Differential Equations in Several Complex Variables, I
  Room 4001, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Jennifer Halfpap, University of Montana
  Phil Harrington, University of Arkansas psharrin@uark.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Duality of holomorphic function spaces and smoothing properties of the Bergman projection.
    Anne-Katrin Herbig, Universität Wien
    Jeffery D. McNeal, Ohio State University
    Emil J. Straube*, Texas A&M University
    (1081-32-170)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Real hypersurfaces with constant Möbius-invariant curvature.
    Michael D Bolt*, Calvin College
    (1081-32-340)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The Bergman projection in $L^p$ for domains with minimal smoothness.
    Loredana Lanzani*, University of Arkansas
    Elias M. Stein, Princeton University
    (1081-32-126)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Boundaries of Holomorphic Chains in Holomorphic Vector Bundles.
    Ronald A Walker*, Penn State Harrisburg
    (1081-32-390)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    The Szegö Kernel for Certain Non-pseudoconvex Domains in $\mathbb C^2$.
    Michael A Gilliam*, The College of New Rochelle
    Jennifer Halfpap, University of Montana
    (1081-47-244)
• Friday March 30, 2012, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Invariants of Knots, I
  Room 4071, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Heather A. Dye, McKendree University hadye@mckendree.edu
  Aaron Kaestner, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Louis H. Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Projective Representations of Mapping Classes of Surfaces coming from the Kauffman bracket.
    Charles Frohman*, The University of Iowa
    Michael Fitzpatrick, The University of Iowa
    Joanna Kania-Brtoszynska, The National Science Foundation
    (1081-57-06)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Computing 4-move invariants.
    Robert Todd*, University of Nebraska at Omaha
    (1081-57-64)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    An invariant for handlebody-tangles.
    Carmen Caprau*, California State University, Fresno
    (1081-57-92)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    On torsion in the Khovanov homology of knots.
    Alexander N. Shumakovitch*, The George Washington University
    (1081-57-401)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    Khovanov homology for knotted webs.
    David A Clark*, Randolph-Macon College
    Scott Morrison, UC Berkeley
    Kevin Walker, Microsoft Station Q
    (1081-57-360)
• Friday March 30, 2012, 4:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Statistics, I
  Room 4012, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Zsolt Talata, University of Kansas talata@math.ku.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Distribution-Free Test in Tobit Mean Regression Model.
    Weixing Song*, Kansas State University
    (1081-62-208)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Generalized Likelihood Inference in the Multivariate Normal for Heterogeneous Data.
    Ibrahim A. Ahmad, Oklahoma State University
    Lichi Lin*, Oklahoma State University
    (1081-62-248)
• Friday March 30, 2012, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Mirror Symmetry, I
  Room 4076, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Ricardo Castano-Bernard, Kansas State University rcastano@math.ksu.edu
  Paul Horja, Oklahoma State University
  Zheng Hua, Kansas State University
  Yan Soibelman, Kansas State University
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Toric degeneration and non-displaceable Lagrangian tori in $S^2 \times S^2$.
    Kenji Fukaya, Kyoto Unversity
    Yong-Geun Oh*, University of Wisconsin-Madison & Institute for Advanced Study
    Hiroshi Ohta, Nagoya University
    Kaoru Ono, Hokkaido Unveristy
    (1081-58-99)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Secondary Stacks and Toric Hypersurface Degenerations.
    Colin Diemer*, University of Miami
    (1081-14-378)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Degenerations of LG models and relations in symplectomorphism groups.
    Gabriel D Kerr*, University of Miami
    (1081-53-201)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    Dehn twists and free subgroups of the symplectic mapping class group.
    Ailsa M Keating*, M.I.T.
    (1081-51-291)
• Friday March 30, 2012, 4:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and Applications, I
  Room 4043, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Weishi Liu, University of Kansas
  Erik Van Vleck, University of Kansas evanvleck@math.ku.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Degeneracy, Complexity, and Robustness of Bio-systems.
    Yingfei Yi*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1081-37-127)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Global Dynamics of a Plant-Herbivore Model with Toxin-Determined Functional Response.
    Wenzhang Huang*, University of Alabama in Huntsville
    Zhilan Feng, Purdue University
    (1081-34-204)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Concerning the uniform of a structural acoustic PDE model.
    George Avalos*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1081-35-220)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    On the relationship of continuous and discrete models in systems biology.
    Alan Veliz-Cuba*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    J. Arthur, North Carolina State University
    L. Hochstetler, Asbury University
    V. Klomps, Northwestern College
    E. Korpi, University of Wisconsin-River Falls
    (1081-34-11)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    A Circuit Model of Neuron.
    Bo Deng*, Department of Mathematics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1081-92-165)
• Friday March 30, 2012, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing, I
  Room 4051, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Weizhang Huang, University of Kansas huang@math.ku.edu
  Xuemin Tu, University of Kansas
  Erik Van Vleck, University of Kansas
  Honggou Xu, University of Kansas
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Error estimates for Gaussian beam superpositions.
    Hailiang Liu*, Iowa State University, Department of Mathematics, Ames, IA 50010-2064, USA.
    Olog Runborg, KTH, 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
    Nicolay M. Tanushev, The University of Texas at Austin
    (1081-65-348)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A local discontinuous Galerkin method for the second-order wave equation.
    Mahboub Baccouch*, University of Nebraska at Omaha
    (1081-65-326)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A Local Discontinuous Galerkin method for Hamilton-Jacobi Equations.
    Jue Yan*, Iowa State University
    (1081-65-14)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Alternating evolution schemes for Hamilton-Jacobi equations.
    Michael James Pollack*, Iowa State University
    (1081-65-325)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Simulations of Discontinuous Shallow Water flows by Weighted Essential Non-oscillatory Schemes.
    C. Lu*, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
    (1081-76-125)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    An $h$-adaptive RKDG method with different troubled-cell indicators for hyperbolic conservation laws.
    Hongqiang Zhu, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications
    Jianxian Qiu*, Xiamen University
    (1081-65-104)
• Friday March 30, 2012, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Partial Differential Equations, I
  Room 4040, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Milena Stanislavova, University of Kansas
  Atanas Stefanov, University of Kansas stefanov@math.ku.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the Cauchy problem of the CH and DP equations.
    Alex A. Himonas*, University of Notre Dame
    Curtis Holliman, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    (1081-35-61)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    An Improved Local Well-posedness Result for the Periodic "Good" Boussinesq Equation.
    Seungly Oh*, University of Kansas
    Atanas Stefanov, University of Kansas
    (1081-35-47)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On the nonlocal symmetries of the $\mu$-Camassa-Holm equation.
    Ognyan Borisov Christov*, Sofia University, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgaria
    (1081-35-215)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Stability and the Synchronization Phase transition in the Kuramoto model.
    Jared C Bronski*, University of Illinois
    Lee DeVille, University of Illinois
    Moon Jip Park, University of Illinois
    (1081-35-264)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    The cauchy problem for strongly dispersive two-dimensional surface waves.
    Felipe Linares, Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA)
    Didier Pilod*, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
    Jean-Claude Saut, Université Paris-Sud
    (1081-35-44)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    Equivariant Schroedinger Maps in 2D with large data.
    Ioan Bejenaru*, Univ of Chicago
    A Ionescu, Princeton
    C Kenig, Univ of Chicago
    D Tataru, UC Berkeley
    (1081-35-258)
• Friday March 30, 2012, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Singularities in Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, I
  Room 4020, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Hailong Dao, University of Kansas
  Lance E. Miller, University of Utah lmiller@math.utah.edu
  Karl Schwede, Pennsylvania State University
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    The dimension and radius of a subcategory of modules.
    Hailong Dao, University of Kansas
    Ryo Takahashi*, Nagoya University/University of Nebraska
    (1081-13-113)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Local volumes.
    Mihai Fulger*, University of Michigan
    (1081-14-110)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A Transversality theorem for some Classical Varieties.
    Chih-Chi Chou*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1081-14-227)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    $P$-bounded closure operations and semiprime operations on the nodal curve.
    Janet Cowden Vassilev*, University of New Mexico
    (1081-13-53)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Test Ideals in F-Regular Rings.
    Kevin Tucker*, Princeton University
    (1081-13-323)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    Multi-variable topological zeta functions.
    Nero Budur*, University of Notre Dame
    (1081-14-118)
• Friday March 30, 2012, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Stochastic Analysis, I
  Room 4008, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Jin Feng, University of Kansas
  Yaozhong Hu, University of Kansas
  David Hualart, University of Kansas nualart@math.ku.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    A Stochastic Differential Game for the Infinity Laplacian.
    Rami Atar, Department of EE, Technion
    Amarjit Budhiraja*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (1081-60-131)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Generalized Maliavin Calculus and Stochastic PDEs.
    Boris Rozovsky*, Brown University
    (1081-60-123)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    New Results for the Stochastic PDEs of Fluid Dynamics.
    Nathan Edward Glatt-Holtz*, Indiana University
    (1081-60-385)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    An approximation scheme for reflected stochastic differential equations.
    Lawrence Christopher Evans*, University of Missouri, Columbia
    (1081-60-60)
• Friday March 30, 2012, 4:30 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Topics in Commutative Algebra, I
  Room 4019, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Hailong Dao, University of Kansas hdao@math.ku.edu
  Craig Huneke, University of Kansas
  Daniel Katz, University of Kansas
  

  • 4:30 p.m.
    An approach to study the liaison classes of non-licci ideals.
    Paolo Mantero*, Purdue University
    (1081-13-17)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Local cohomology and FH-finite rings.
    Florian Enescu*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State University
    (1081-13-319)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The Grade Conjecture and Asymptotic Intersection Multiplicity.
    Jesse Beder*, University of Illinois
    (1081-13-228)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Generalized Lyubeznik Numbers.
    Luis Núñez-Betancourt, University of Michigan
    Emily E. Witt*, University of Minnesota
    (1081-13-284)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    Symbolic powers of ideals of lines in projective space and a conjecture of Nagata type.
    Brian Harbourne*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1081-14-236)

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