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ABSTRACTS Mailing Offi MATHEMATICS and Additional of Papers Presented to the Periodicals Postage 2010 A ces BSTRACTS ABSTRACTS mailing offi MATHEMATICS and additional of Papers Presented to the Periodicals postage 2010 paid at Providence, RI American Mathematical Society SUBJECT CLASSIFICATION Volume 33, Number 4, Issue 170 Fall 2012 Compiled in the Editorial Offices of MATHEMATICAL REVIEWS and ZENTRALBLATT MATH 00 General 44 Integral transforms, operational calculus 01 History and biography 45 Integral equations Editorial Committee 03 Mathematical logic and foundations 46 Functional analysis 05 Combinatorics 47 Operator theory Robert J. Daverman, Chair Volume 33 • Number 4 Fall 2012 Volume 06 Order, lattices, ordered 49 Calculus of variations and optimal Georgia Benkart algebraic structures control; optimization 08 General algebraic systems 51 Geometry Michel L. 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ABSTRACT ABSTRACT MEETING # DATE PLACE DEADLINE ISSUE 1086 January 9–12, 2013 San Diego, CA September 25 Vol 34, No. 1 1087 March 1–3, 2013 Oxford, MS December 4 Vol 34, No. 2 1088 April 6–7, 2013 Chestnut Hill, MA February 12 Vol 34, No. 2 1089 April 13–14, 2013 Boulder, CO February 19 Vol 34, No. 2 1090 April 27–28, 2013 Ames, IA March 5 Vol 34, No. 2 1091 June 27–30, 2013 Alba Iulia, Romania TBA None 1092 October 5–6, 2013 Louisville, KY August 13 Vol 33, No. 3 1093 October 12–13, 2013 Philadelphia, PA August 20 Vol 33, No. 3 1094 October 18–20, 2013 St. Louis, MO August 27 Vol 33, No. 4 1095 November 2–3, 2013 Riverside, CA September 10 Vol 33, No. 4 1096 January 15–18, 2014 Baltimore, MD TBA Vol 35, No. 1 AKRON, OH, October 20–21, 2012 Abstracts of the 1084th Meeting. 00 General 1084-00-157 Mikhail Belkin*, Computer Science and Engineering, 2015 Neil Ave, DL 395, Columbus, OH 43210, and Qichao Que, Yusu Wang and Xueyuan Zhou. Toward understanding complex spaces: graph Laplacians on manifolds with singularities and boundaries. Algorithms based on graph Laplacian have received considerable attention both in practical applications and theoretical analysis. Much of the existing work has been done under the assumption that the data is sampled from a manifold without boundaries. However, singularities and boundaries are an important aspect of the geometry of realistic data. Boundaries occur whenever the data has a constraint; while singularities appear when two different manifolds intersect or if a process undergoes a “phase transition”, changing non-smoothly as a function of a parameter. We consider the behavior of graph Laplacians at points at or near boundaries and two main types of singularities: intersections, wheremanifolds come together and sharp “edges”. We show that the behavior of graph Laplacian near these singularities is different from that in the interior of the manifolds. Unlike in the interior of the domain, where graph Laplacian converges to the Laplace-Beltrami operator, near singularities graph Laplacian tends to a first-order differential operator, with different scaling behavior. One implication is that while points near the singularities occupy only a small part of the total volume, the difference in scaling results in a large contribution to the total behavior. (Received August 30, 2012) 01 History and biography 1084-01-102 Michael Todd Edwards* ([email protected]), Department of Teacher Education, 401 McGuffey Hall, Oxford, OH 45056.
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