Program of the Sessions Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 6–7, 2004

9:00AM Theories and applications of minimizing Saturday, November 6 (6) nonstandard growth functionals. Yunmei Chen*, University of Florida, Stacey Meeting Registration Levine,Duquesne University, Murali Rao, University of Florida, and Jon Stanich,Duquesne 7:30 AM –4:00PM Room 1175, Benedum Hall University (1002-35-202) 9:30AM Image denoising using mean curvature information. AMS Exhibit Book Sale (7) Wei Zhu*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, NY, Tony Chan and Selim 7:30 AM –4:00PM Room 1175, Benedum Hall Esedoglu,UniversityofCalifornia Los Angeles (1002-35-136) Special Session on Modularity of Galois 10:00AM Fourth order diffusions for image processing. Representations and Serre’s Conjecture, I (8) John B Greer,Courant Institute (1002-35-112) 10:30AM Decomposition of images into cartoon and texture 8:00 AM –10:45AM Room 521, Benedum Hall (9) using the total variation and div(BMO). Preliminary report. Organizer: Mark E. T. Dickinson,Universityof Luminita Aura Vese*andTriet Le,UCLA Pittsburgh (1002-49-141) 8:00AM An introduction to Serre’s conjecture. (1) Robert J Pollack,Boston University (1002-11-46) 9:00AM The nonexistence of certain Galois representations Special Session on Convexity and Combinatorics, I (2) with small ramification. Preliminary report. Sharon Brueggeman,UniversityofTennessee at 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 1022, Benedum Hall Chattanooga (1002-11-29) 10:00AM Ageneralization of Serre’s conjecture to GL(3). Organizers: James F. Lawrence,GeorgeMason (3) Avner Ash,Boston College (1002-11-32) University Valeriu Soltan,GeorgeMason Special Session on PDE-Based Methods in Imaging and University Vision, I 8:00AM Reconstruction of polytopes as Eulerian posets. (10) Preliminary report. 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 520, Benedum Hall Margaret M. Bayer,UniversityofKansas (1002-52-21) Organizers: Stacey E. Levine,Duquesne University 8:30AM Simplicial Neighbourly 5-Polytopes with Nine Yunmei Chen,UniversityofFlorida
(11) Vertices. 8:00AM ANumericalScheme for Target Recognition. Wendy A Finbow-Singh,AcadiaUniversity (4) Mohsen Razzaghi,Mississippi State University (1002-52-31) (1002-41-40) 9:00AM Some Construction Techniques for Convex 8:30AM Loss and Recovery of Fine Structures in PDE-based (12) Polytopes. Preliminary report. (5) Image Denoising. Preliminary report. Carl W. Lee*, University of Kentucky, Matt Menzel, Seongjai Kim,UniversityofKentucky Marietta College, and Laura Schmidt,Universityof (1002-65-159) Wisconsin-Stout (1002-52-103)

The time limit for each contributed paper in the sessions is ten minutes. found in Volume 25, Issue 4 of Abstracts of papers presented to the In the Special Sessions the time limit varies from session to session and American Mathematical Society,ordered according to the numbers in within sessions. To maintain the schedule, time limits will be strictly parentheses following the listings. The middle two digits, e.g., 897-20- enforced. 1136, refer to the Mathematical Reviews subject classification assigned For papers with morethanone author, an asterisk follows the name of by the individual author. Groups of papers for each subject are listed the author who plans to present the paper at the meeting. chronologically in the Abstracts.The last one to four digits, e.g., 897-20- Papers flagged with a solid triangle (
) have been designated by the 1136,refer to the receipt number of the abstract; abstracts are further author as being of possible interest to undergraduate students. sorted by the receipt number within each classification. Abstracts of papers presented in the sessions at this meeting will be

NOVEMBER 2004 NOTICES OF THE AMS Appendix–3 Program of the Sessions – Pittsburgh, PA, Saturday, November 6 (cont’d.)

9:30AM AGeneralization of the Holt-Klee Theorem. Special Session on Multivariate Hypergeometric
(13) Walter D Morris*, George Mason University, Bernd Functions: Combinatorial and Algebro-Geometric Gaertner and Leo Ruest,Inst.Theor.CS,ETH Aspects, I Zurich (1002-52-78) 10:00AM Orienting the Rigidity Matroid. Preliminary report. 8:00 AM –10:20AM Room 1020, Benedum Hall (14) Ileana Streinu,Smith College (1002-52-240) Organizers: Eduardo Cattani,Universityof 10:30AM Multiplication in the Polytope Groups. Massachusetts, Amherst
(15) Jim Lawrence,GeorgeMasonUniversity Fairfax, VA 22030 (1002-52-171) Alicia M. Dickenstein,Universidad de Buenos Aires Laura Felicia Matusevich,Harvard Special Session on The History of Mathematics, I University 8:00AM Micro-support of solution sheaves of D-Modules. 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 426, Benedum Hall (27) Teresa Monteiro Fernandes,CAULand Universidade de Lisboa (1002-58-149) Organizers: Robert E. Bradley,AdelphiUniversity 8:30AM On computing the characteristic cycles of Lawrence A. D’Antonio,Ramapo (28) localizations. Preliminary report. College of New Jersey Josep Alvarez` Montaner,Universitat Polite`cnica de 8:00AM Graphs and Equations: an 18th Century Paridigm Catalunya, and Anton Leykin*, University of Illinois
(16) Shift. at Chicago (1002-14-90) Robert E. Bradley,AdelphiUniversity 9:00AM Elliptic Generalizations and Applications of Certain (1002-01-105) (29) Important Summation and Transformation 8:30AM The gap in Lambert’s proof (1767) that pi is Identities for Multiple Hypergeometric Series.
(17) irrational. Hasan Coskun,TexasA&MUniversity-Commerce Christopher Baltus,SUNYCollege at Oswego (1002-33-68) (1002-01-153) 9:30AM Closed form summation of C-finite sequences. 9:00AM Mathematics the World Forgot: Euler’s Work on the
(30) Curtis Greene,HaverfordCollege, and Herbert S.
(18) ElasticCurve. Wilf*, University of Pennsylvania (1002-05-69) Lawrence D’Antonio,Ramapo College of New Jersey (1002-01-91) 10:00AM New Lambert series formulas for 12 and 20 (31) squares, and multiple basic hypergeometric series. 9:30AM Lagrange’s Proof of the Fundamental Theorem of
Preliminary report. (19) Algebra. Preliminary report. Stephen C. Milne,TheOhioStateUniversity Jeff A Suzuki,Bard College (1002-01-53) (1002-11-235) 10:00AM What’s in the Library? (1730-1790).
(20) Paul C. Pasles,Villanova University (1002-01-118) 10:30AM Thomas Clausen: Factoring Fermat numbers and
(21) Generating Graeco-Latin squares. Lee J. Stemkoski,Dartmouth College Special Session on Geometric Analysis and Partial (1002-01-194) Differential Equations in Subelliptic Structures, I

8:20 AM –10:50AM Room 424, Benedum Hall Special Session on Partial Differential Equations and Organizers: Cristian E. Gut´ierrez,Temple Applications, I University

8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 420, Benedum Hall Guozhen Lu,WayneState University Juan J. Manfredi,Universityof Organizers: Xinfu Chen,UniversityofPittsburgh Pittsburgh Dehua Wang,UniversityofPittsburgh 8:20AM On Monge-Ampere type equations in the Heisenberg 8:00AM Discussion. (32) group. 8:30AM An alternative approach to W 2,p estimates of the Cristian E Gutierrez,TempleUniversity (22) heat equation in a domain Ω ⊂ Rn. (1002-35-195) Gavin J Waters,UniversityofDelaware 9:00AM The Comparsison Principle for Viscosity Solutions to (1002-35-211) (33) Some Fully Nonlinear Subelliptic Equations on 9:00AM BV instability for Godunov and Lax-Friedrich Carnot Groups. Preliminary report. (23) schemes. ChangYou Wang,UniversityofKentucky Helge Kristian Jenssen,NorthCarolina State (1002-35-94) University (1002-35-65) 9:30AM Fefferman – Poincare inequality and regularity for 9:30AM Semi-cooperative Strategies for Differential Games. (34) quasilinear subelliptic equations. (24) Alberto Bressan,PennState University, and Wen Giuseppe Di Fazio*andPietro Zamboni, Shen*, Math Dept., Penn State University, PA, USA University of Catania - Italy (1002-35-38) (1002-35-210) 10:00AM Convex functions on Carnot groups. Preliminary 10:00AM Burgers-type equations with vanishing (35) report. (25) hyper-viscosity. Petri Juutinen,University of Jyv¨askyl¨a, Guozhen Eitan Tadmor,UniversityofMaryland. College Park Lu,WayneState University, Juan Manfredi, (1002-35-18) University of Pittsburgh, and Bianca Stroffolini*, 10:30AM Global solutions to the Camassa-Holm equations. University of Naples (1002-35-87) (26) Preliminary report. 10:30AM Properties of Cones in Riemannian Spaces. Alberto Bressan,PennState University (36) Thomas J. Bieske,UniversityofSouth Florida (1002-35-106) (1002-35-128)

Appendix–4 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 51, NUMBER 10 Pittsburgh, PA, Saturday, November 6 –ProgramoftheSessions

Special Session on Trends in Operator Theory and Adam S. Sikora,SUNYatBuffalo Banach Spaces, I 8:30AM Comparing Hopf-algebraic invariants of (47) three-manifolds. Preliminary report. 8:30 AM –10:50AM Room 423, Benedum Hall Fernando J. O. Souza*, University of Iowa, Louis H. Organizers: ChristopherJ.Lennard,Universityof Kauffman and David E. Radford,Universityof Pittsburgh Illinois at Chicago (1002-57-239) Thomas A. Metzger,Universityof 9:00AM Discussion. Pittsburgh 9:30AM The representation of the Mapping Class Group (48) induced by the TQFT(s) of the LMO and the 8:30AM New fixed point free nonexpansive maps on weakly universal quantum invariant of 3-manifolds. (37) compact, convex subsets of L1[0, 1]. Preliminary report. P. N. Dowling,MiamiUniversity, Oxford, OH, C. J. Dorin Cheptea,SUNY at Buffalo (1002-57-230) Lennard,UniversityofPittsburgh, and B. Turett*, Oakland University (1002-46-146) 10:00AM Integral Lattices in TQFT. Preliminary report. (49) Patrick M Gilmer*, Louisiana State University, and 9:00AM New Criteria of Carleson Type Measures. Gregor Masbaum,Institue de Mathematiques de (38) Preliminary report. Jussieu, Universite Paris 7 (1002-57-176) Ruhan Zhao,University of Toledo (1002-47-126) 10:30AM Eigenvalue varieties of 2-bridge links. Preliminary 9:30AM Type and order convexity of Marcinkiewicz and (50) report. (39) Lorentz spaces and applications. Jim Hoste*, Pitzer College, and Patrick D. Nigel J Kalton,UniversityofMissouri Columbia, Shanahan,Loyola Marymount University and Anna H Kaminska´ *, The University of Memphis (1002-57-173) (1002-46-142) 10:00AM Carleson embeddings with closed range. (40) Alec L Matheson,Lamar University (1002-30-137) Special Session on Multiscale Algorithms in 10:30AM The Busemann-Petty problem for arbitrary Computational Fluid Dynamics, I
(41) measures. Artem Zvavitch,KentState University 8:30 AM –10:50AM Room 522, Benedum Hall (1002-52-116) Organizers: William J. Layton,Universityof Special Session on Mathematical Biology, I Pittsburgh Anastasios Liakos,U.S.Naval 8:30 AM –10:30AM Room 820, Benedum Hall Academy 8:30AM Adaptive mortar upscaling for flow in porous Organizers: Jonathan E. Rubin,Universityof (51) media. Pittsburgh Ivan Yotov,University of Pittsburgh (1002-65-157) Bard Ermentrout,Universityof 9:00AM Induced Pressure Regularization and Eddy Pittsburgh (52) Viscosity for Equilibrium Navier-Stokes Equations. 8:30AM Equilibrium states of chemical reaction networks. Preliminary report. (42) Preliminary report. Leo G Rebholz,UniversityofPIttsburgh David Swigon,UniversityofPittsburgh (1002-76-150) (1002-37-219) 9:30AM Subgrid Stabilization of Evolutionary 8:55AM Pattern Formation in Small Arrays of Locally
(53) Convection-Diffusion Equations: Analysis and
(43) Coupled Oscillators. Experimental Results of a Finite Difference Scheme. Rebecca Ellison, Virginia Gardner, Joel Lepak, Preliminary report. Meghan O’Malley, Joseph Paullet*, Joseph Noel F Heitmann,Millersville University of Previte, Beth Ann Reid and Katy Vizzard,Penn Pennsylvania (1002-76-242) State Erie (1002-92-61) 10:00AM Computational Methods for Feedback Control of 9:20AM Chaos and Self-Oscillatory Regimes in Ecological
(54) Distributed Parameter Systems. (44) System of two Competing Prey and One Predator. Lizette Zietsman*, George Mason University, Jeff T Tolibjon E. Buriyev*andVafokul Ergashevich Borggaard and John A Burns,VirginiaTech Ergashev,Samarkand State University (1002-34-24) (1002-65-233) 9:45AM AReduced Model of the Immune Response to 10:30AM Sensitivity Analysis for Large Eddy Simulation (45) Endotoxin and Trauma with a Geometric Approach. (55) Modeling. Judy Day*, Jonathan Rubin, Claudio Lagoa, Jeff Borggaard*, Traian Iliescu and Alexey Yoram Vodovotz, Gilles Clermont,Universityof Miroshnikov,Virginia Tech (1002-76-229) Pittsburgh, and Carson C. Chow,Laboratoryfor Biological Modeling, NIDDK, NIH (1002-37-247) 10:10AM Palindromes in random letter generation. Special Session on Knots and Macromolecules, I
(46) Preliminary report. Anant P. Godbole,EastTennessee State University 8:30 AM –10:50AM Room 722, Benedum Hall (1002-60-30) Organizers: Kenneth C. Millett,Universityof California Santa Barbara Special Session on Invariants of Knots and 3-Manifolds, I Eric J. Rawdon,Duquesne University 8:30AM Linear random knots and their scaling behaviour. 8:30 AM –10:50AM Room 823, Benedum Hall
(56) Akos Dobay*, University of Lausanne, Laboratory of Ultrastructural Analysis, Kenneth Millett, Organizers: Marta M. Asaeda,Universityof University of California Santa Barbara, Jacques Maryland Dubochet and Andrzej Stasiak,Universityof Jozef H. Przytycki,George Lausanne, Laboratory of Ultrastructural Analysis Washington University (1002-92-196)

NOVEMBER 2004 NOTICES OF THE AMS Appendix–5 Program of the Sessions – Pittsburgh, PA, Saturday, November 6 (cont’d.)

9:00AM Counting almost unknotted embeddings. 4:00PM Characterization of Hardy/Bergmann Spaces on (57) Preliminary report. (68) finitely connected domain that support compact De Witt Sumners,FloridaStateUniversity, and Stu composition operators. Preliminary report. Whittington*, University of Toronto (1002-57-67) Abebaw Tadesse,UniversityOfPittsburgh 9:30AM Probability distribution ofdistance between two (1002-47-25) (58) given nodes of a random knot. 4:30PM Convergence of a greedy algorithm in Bergman Tetsuo Deguchi,Department of Physics, (69) spaces. Preliminary report. Ochanomizu University (1002-82-120) Stephen J. Dilworth*, University of South Carolina, 10:00AM Topological Properties of Polymer Chains: The Denka Kutzarova,University of Illinois at
(59) Influence of Model. Preliminary report. Urbana-Champaign, and Karen Shuman,Grinnell Alex Vologodskii,NewYorkUniversity College (1002-46-212) (1002-82-132) 5:00PM Linear-fractional composition operators. 10:30AM On the analogy between trivial knots and (70) Barbara D MacCluer,UniversityofVirginia (60) self-avoiding walks. (1002-47-71) Nathan T. Moore, Rhonald C. Lua and Alexander 5:30PM Schur multiplier projections on the Y. Grosberg*, Physics Department, University of (71) von Neumann-Schatten classes. Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (1002-82-169) Ian Doust*, University of New South Wales, and TA Gillespie,University of Edinburgh (1002-47-37) Special Session on Mathematical Finance, I Special Session on Mathematical Finance, II 9:00 AM –10:20AM Room 1220, Benedum Hall Organizers: David Saunders,Universityof 3:00 PM –5:20PM Room 1220, Benedum Hall Pittsburgh Organizers: David Saunders,Universityof John Chadam,UniversityofPittsburgh Pittsburgh 9:00AM Pricing Default Correlation Products within a John Chadam,UniversityofPittsburgh (61) structural framework. Preliminary report. 3:00PM Interest Rate Explosions in HJM Bond Models. Marcos Escobar and Luis A Seco*, University of (72) Preliminary report. Toronto (1002-60-237) Victor W. Goodman,Indiana University 9:30AM Valuation of Basket Default Swaps. (1002-60-225) (62) Ian Iscoe and Alexander Kreinin*, Algorithmics 3:30PM Inverse of First-Crossing Boundary Problem. Inc. (1002-60-101) (73) Lan Cheng*, Xinfu Chen, John Chadam and David 10:00AM On a Representation for a Class of Self-financing Saunders,University of Pittsburgh (1002-35-207) (63) Portfolios of Securities which Contain Equities 4:00PM Games with Exhaustible Resources. Driven by Certain Geometric L´evy Processes. (74) Chris Harris,Department of Economics, University Vladimir Vinogradov,Ohio University (1002-60-96) of Cambridge, Sam Howison,Mathematical Institute, Oxford University, and Ronnie Sircar*, Invited Address Department of Operations Research & Financial Engineering, Princeton University (1002-91-224) 11:10 AM – NOON Auditorium, Benedum Hall 4:30PM On the two-times differentiability of the value (64) Geometric analysis on a class of degenerate elliptic (75) functions in the problem of optimal investment in operators. incomplete markets. Der-Chen Chang,Georgetown University Dmitry Kramkov,CarnegieMellon University (1002-35-01) (1002-60-83) 5:00PM Risk-Tolerance Wealth Processes and Sensitivity Invited Address (76) Analysis of Utility Based Prices. Dmitry Kramkov,CarnegieMellon University, and 2:00 PM –2:50PM Auditorium, Benedum Hall Mihai Sirbu*, Columbia University (1002-90-123) (65) Ending laminations, tame ends, and the classification of hyperbolic 3-manifolds. Special Session on Geometric Analysis and Partial Jeffrey F. Brock,Brown University (1002-57-03) Differential Equations in Subelliptic Structures, II

Special Session on Trends in Operator Theory and 3:00 PM –5:20PM Room 424, Benedum Hall Banach Spaces, II Organizers: Cristian E. Gut´ierrez,Temple University 3:00 PM –5:50PM Room 423, Benedum Hall Guozhen Lu,WayneState University Organizers: ChristopherJ.Lennard,Universityof Juan J. Manfredi,Universityof Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Thomas A. Metzger,Universityof 3:00PM Mean curvature flow in the Heisenberg group. Pittsburgh (77) Preliminary report. 3:00PM On convergence to the Denjoy-Wolff point. Luca Capogna*, University of Arkansas, and Mario (66) Paul S. Bourdon*, Washington and Lee University, Bonk,University of Michigan (1002-35-135) Valentin Matache,UniversityofNebraskaat 3:30PM Minimal and constant mean curvature surfaces in Omaha, and Joel H. Shapiro,MichiganState (78) Carnot groups. Preliminary report. University (1002-30-74) Scott D. Pauls,Dartmouth College (1002-53-145) 3:30PM Vector spaces contained in the zero set of a 4:00PM One side Liouville-type theorems for some classes of
(67) polynomial. (79) Hormander operators. Richard M Aron,KentState University Ermanno Lanconelli,Universita’di Bologna (1002-46-201) (1002-35-191)

Appendix–6 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 51, NUMBER 10 Pittsburgh, PA, Saturday, November 6 –ProgramoftheSessions

4:30PM On Regularity of Some Convex Functions in Carnot Special Session on PDE-Based Methods in Imaging and (80) Groups. Preliminary report. Vision, II Xiaoping Yang,School of Sciences, Nanjing University of Science & Technology (1002-35-119) 3:00 PM –5:50PM Room 520, Benedum Hall 5:00PM ACRPoincareinequality on the sphere in complex Organizers: Stacey E. Levine,Duquesne University (81) space. Lijing Sun,Wayne State University (1002-35-113) Yunmei Chen,UniversityofFlorida 3:00PM Threshold dynamics for the piecewise (91) Mumford-Shah Functional. Richard Tsai*, University of Texas at Austin, and Special Session on Mathematical Biology, II Selim Esedoglu,UCLA (1002-65-111) 3:30PM Computational Conformal Geometry and Its
3:00 PM –5:25PM Room 820, Benedum Hall (92) Applications. Xianfeng Gu,Computer Science, Stony Brook Organizers: Jonathan E. Rubin,Universityof University (1002-68-199) Pittsburgh 4:00PM Anew approach for 3D segmentation of cellular Bard Ermentrout,Universityof
(93) tomograms obtained using three-dimensional Pittsburgh electron microscopy. 3:00PM Giant Squids and Hidden Canards. Alberto Bartesaghi*, Guillermo Sapiro,University (82) Martin Wechselberger,MathematicalBiosciences of Minnesota, Stanton Lee, Jon Lefman, Sharon Institute, Ohio State University (1002-92-163) Wahl, Sriram Subramaniam,NationalInstitutes of Health, and Jan Orenstein,GeorgeWashington 3:25PM ANeuronal Circuit Implementing the Logic of University (1002-35-122)
(83) Learning Behavior in Limax. Preliminary report. Pranay Goel*, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, 4:30PM Maximum Likelihood Ultrasound Image and Alan Gelperin,MonellChemicalSensesCenter (94) Segmentation with Level Sets. (1002-92-218) Hemant D Tagare*andZhong Tao,YaleUniversity (1002-35-13) 3:50PM Model of electrically induced phosphenes. (84) Jonathan D Drover,UniversityofPittsburgh 5:00PM Image-based Elastic Registration for Patient-Specific (1002-92-155) (95) Finite Element Model Generation. Omar Ghattas*, Carnegie Mellon University, Larisa 4:15PM Thalamicortical cell relay fidelity with various Goldmints,RPI,andBranislav Jaramaz,Western
(85) pattern of internal pallidum input. Preliminary Pennsylvania Hospital/CMU (1002-49-139) report. Yixin Guo*, MBI, The Ohio State University, 5:30PM Application of local times of Markov processes to Jonathan Rubin,UniversityofPittsburgh, and (96) visual contours. David Terman,TheOhioStateUniversity Jonas August,Healthcare Robotics Center, (1002-92-222) Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University (1002-35-236) 4:40PM Frequency Separation in Neuronal Systems.
(86) Preliminary report. Alla Borisyuk, Janet A. Best*, Mathematical Special Session on Invariants of Knots and Biosciences Institute, and David H. Terman, 3-Manifolds, II Mathematical BiosciencesInstitute and Ohio State University (1002-92-214) 3:00 PM –5:50PM Room 823, Benedum Hall 5:05PM A Computational Study of the Role of Potassium Organizers: Marta M. Asaeda,Universityof (87) Diffusion in the Generation and Propagation of Zero Maryland Ca2+ Non-Synaptic SustainedEpileptiform Activity. Eun-Hyoung Park*andDominique M. Durand, Jozef H. Przytycki,George Neural Engineering Center, Biomedical Engineering, Washington University Case Western Reserve University (1002-92-170) Adam S. Sikora,SUNYatBuffalo 3:00PM Rasmussen invariant, Slice-Bennequin Inequality, (97) and sliceness of knots. Alexander N. Shumakovitch,Dartmouth College Special Session on Modularity of Galois (1002-57-232) Representations and Serre’s Conjecture, II 3:30PM The Khovanov-Jacobsson number of a large class of (98) knotted surfaces is trivial. 3:00 PM –5:45PM Room 521, Benedum Hall J. Scott Carter,UniversityofSouth Alabama (1002-57-243) Organizer: Mark E. T. Dickinson,Universityof 4:00PM Computing Khovanov-Homology. Preliminary report. Pittsburgh (99) Charles Frohman,TheUniversityofIowa 3:00PM Dual Selmer Groups and the number of congruent (1002-57-183) (88) eigenforms. 4:30PM AHomology theory for graphs: From a graph, we RRamakrishna,Cornell University (1002-11-47) (100) produce a chain complex whose graded Euler 4:00PM Three-dimensional Galois representations and a Characteristic is the chromatic polynomial of the (89) generalization of Serre’s conjecture. Preliminary graph. Preliminary report. report. Laure Helme-Guizon*andYongwu Rong,George Darrin M Doud,BrighamYoung University Washington University (1002-05-234) (1002-11-39) 5:00PM Properties of the Khovanov type homology theory 5:00PM Modular representations on some Riemann-Roch (101) for graphs. Preliminary report. (90) spaces of some modular curves. Preliminary report. Yongwu Rong*, Laure Helme-Guizon and Jozef David Joyner*andAmy Ksir,U.S.Naval Academy Przytycki,TheGeorgeWashington University (1002-14-245) (1002-57-186)

NOVEMBER 2004 NOTICES OF THE AMS Appendix–7 Program of the Sessions – Pittsburgh, PA, Saturday, November 6 (cont’d.)

5:30PM Discussion on Khovanov Homolgy. Special Session on Partial Differential Equations and Applications, II

Special Session on Convexity and Combinatorics, II 3:00 PM –5:50PM Room 420, Benedum Hall Organizers: Xinfu Chen,UniversityofPittsburgh 3:00 PM –5:50PM Room 1022, Benedum Hall Dehua Wang,UniversityofPittsburgh Organizers: James F. Lawrence,GeorgeMason 3:00PM High energy tails for energy dissipative Boltzmann University (115) equations. Valeriu Soltan,GeorgeMason Irene M. Gamba,TheUniversityofTexas at Austin University (1002-35-246) 3:00PM Some new results on geometric graphs. 3:30PM Numerical methods for multiscale kinetic equations. (102) Horst Martini,UniversityofTechnology Chemnitz (116) Shi Jin,UniversityofWisconsin-Madison (1002-52-16) (1002-35-127) 3:30PM Helly-type theorems for intersections of starshaped 4:00PM Two-dimensional regular shock reflection for
(103) sets. (117) systems of conservation laws. Preliminary report. Marilyn Breen,UniversityofOklahoma Yuxi Zheng,Penn State (1002-35-73) (1002-52-49) 4:30PM Isentropic Gas Dynamics with Arbitrary BV Data. 4:00PM Large transversals to small families of unit disks. (118) Robin Young,UMass, Amherst (1002-35-188) (104) T. Bisztriczky*, University of Calgary, F. Fodor, 5:00PM Discontinuous Solutions for Some Hyperbolic University of Szeged, and D. Oliveros,Universityof (119) Systems with Relaxation. Calgary (1002-52-11) Tao Luo,Georgetown University (1002-35-80) 4:30PM On distinct distances from a vertex of a convex 5:30PM Wave breaking in aclassofnonlocal dispersive
(105) polygon. (120) wave equations. Adrian Dumitrescu,Computer Science, University Hailiang Liu,Iowa State University (1002-35-175) of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (1002-52-77) 5:00PM ADensePlanar Set From Iterated Line Intersections. Special Session on Multiscale Algorithms in
(106) Dan Ismailescu,Hofstra University (1002-05-172) Computational Fluid Dynamics, II 5:30PM Sylvester-Gallai Theorems for Complex Numbers (107) and Quaternions. 3:00 PM –5:20PM Room 522, Benedum Hall Noam Elkies,HarvardUniversity,Lou M Pretorius, University of Pretoria, and Konrad J Swanepoel*, Organizers: William J. Layton,Universityof University of South Africa (1002-52-52) Pittsburgh Anastasios Liakos,U.S.Naval Academy Special Session on The History of Mathematics, II 3:00PM ANewStrategyfor Turbulence Simulation. (121) Peyman Givi*, Reza M.H. Sheikhi, Tom G Drozda 3:00 PM –6:20PM Room 426, Benedum Hall and Server Levent Yilmaz,UniversityofPittsburgh Organizers: Robert E. Bradley,AdelphiUniversity (1002-76-181) 3:30PM The approximate deconvolution method for the Lawrence A. D’Antonio,Ramapo (122) large eddy simulation of turbulent flows in a College of New Jersey bounded domain. Preliminary report. 3:00PM Purpose through Publication: Catalysts for Research Argus Adrian Dunca,UnivofMichigan at Ann
(108) by Junior Mathematicians in Nineteenth-Century Arbor (1002-76-156) Britain. 4:00PM Multiscale Algorithms and Models for Turbulent Sloan Evans Despeaux,WesternCarolina (123) Flows. University (1002-01-164) William J. Layton,UniversityofPittsburgh 3:30PM Some Questions about the History of the (1002-76-88)
(109) Equivalence Problem. Preliminary report. 4:30PM Boundary Conditions for Large Eddy Simulation of Paul R Wolfson,WestChester University of (124) Transitional Turbulent Flows. Preliminary report. Pennsylvania (1002-01-162) Traian Iliescu*, Jeff Borggaard, Alexey 4:00PM An Episode in the Early Development of Automated Miroshnikov and Grant Boquet,VirginiaTech
(110) Deduction. Lewis Carroll’s Symbolic Logic. (1002-76-130) Preliminary report. 5:00PM Slip with friction boundary condition for the Francine F. Abeles,Kean University (1002-01-19)
(125) Navier-Stokes equations – numerical studies for 4:30PM The Maturity of Mathematical Logic. Preliminary time dependent laminar flows. Preliminary report. (111) report. Anastasios Liakos*, U.S. Naval Academy, and John Thomas Drucker,Universityof Volker,Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg Wisconsin–Whitewater (1002-01-26) (1002-65-152) 5:00PM The Social Role of Temperance Arithmetic.
(112) Antonella Cupillari*, Penn State Erie-The Behrend Special Session on Knots and Macromolecules, II College, and Jessica Pflueger,Pittsburgh, PA (1002-01-27) 3:00 PM –5:20PM Room 722, Benedum Hall 5:30PM What Teachers Taught and How: The Potential and
(113) the Pitfalls of the Study of the History of Organizers: Kenneth C. Millett,Universityof Mathematics Teaching. Preliminary report. California Santa Barbara Eisso J. Atzema,University of Maine (1002-01-166) Eric J. Rawdon,Duquesne University 6:00PM What Can We Learn From the History of 3:00PM Identifying Those Links in Solid Tori Which are
(114) Enrollments. (126) Braids Made of Braids. Preliminary report. Walter Meyer,Adelphi University (1002-01-63) J. R. Bozeman,Lyndon State College (1002-57-45)

Appendix–8 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 51, NUMBER 10 Pittsburgh, PA, Sunday, November 7 –ProgramoftheSessions

3:30PM Local versus global structure in knot space. 4:30PM Adifferential operators approach to rank-jumps in (127) Kenneth C Millett,UniversityofCalifornia, Santa (140) hypergeometric systems. Preliminary report. Barbara (1002-57-117) William N. Traves,U.S.Naval Academy 4:00PM C2 Smooth Knots of Constant Curvature. (1002-13-144) (128) Jenelle Marie McAtee,UniversityofIowa 5:00PM Nonsolvability of Holonomic Systems of Equations (1002-54-98) (141) by Quadratures. 4:30PM Braid Index, Genus and Crossing Number of Links. Askold Khovanskii,UniversityofToronto, (129) Preliminary report. Independent University of Moscow and Institute for Yuanan Diao*, UNC Charlotte, Claus Ernst, System Studies, Moscow (1002-35-131) Western Kentucky University, and Morwen Thistlethwaite,UniversityofTennessee Session for Contributed Papers (1002-57-64) 5:00PM Geometry and physics of proteins. 3:00 PM –4:55PM Room 920, Benedum Hall
(130) Jayanth R Banavar*, Penn State, and Amos 3:00PM Mathematics in Ancient India. Preliminary report. Maritan,University of Padova (1002-82-89)
(142) Vijay Kumar Bhat,Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan (1002-01-06) Special Session on Graph Polynomials, I 3:15PM Affine Cyclic Codes. Preliminary report.
(143) Nuh Aydin,Kenyon College (1002-05-138) 3:00 PM –5:50PM Room 523, Benedum Hall 3:30PM Letter Representations of Rectangular m x n x p
Organizer: E. Glen Whitehead, Jr.,Universityof (144) Proper Arrays. Preliminary report. Pittsburgh Jocelyn Quaintance,KutztownUniversity (1002-05-54) 3:00PM An Introduction to Graph Polynomials. 3:45PM Nilpotent N-Lie Algebras. Preliminary report. (131) Earl Glen Whitehead,UniversityofPittsburgh (1002-05-99) (145) Michael Peretzian Williams,NorthBethesda,MD (1002-17-108) 3:30PM Totally Matchable Graphs. 4:00PM Notes on regularity and smoothness of outer (132) Kimberly J Burch*, Montclair State University, and (146) measures. Earl Glen Whitehead, Jr.,UniversityofPittsburgh ,PaceUniversity, New York, NY. (1002-05-86) Carmen D Vlad (1002-28-133) 4:00PM Abrute-force method for studying chromatic 4:15PM Constraint-Preserving Boundary Conditions for (133) equivalence of homeomorphic graphs. (147) Some Hyperbolic Systems of Differential Equations. Ronald C. Read,Department of Combinatorics and ,School of Mathematics, Optimization, University of Waterloo (1002-05-14) Nicolae Tarfulea University of Minnesota (1002-35-35) 4:30PM Acategorification for the chromatic polynomial. 4:30PM Generalizations of Kantrovich and Strang (134) Yongwu Rong*andLaure Helme-Guizon,The (148) Inequalities. George Washington University (1002-05-187) Morteza Seddighin,Indiana University East 5:00PM Computation of Tutte Polynomials. Preliminary (1002-47-34)
(135) report. 4:45PM Development of The Phase Function Method for Gary Haggard*, Bucknell University, and Gordon (149) Systems of N Charged Particles. Royle,University of Western Australia (1002-05-15) Lia Leon Chachanidze-Margolin,Universityof 5:30PM Acharacteristic polynomial for chordal graphs and Phoenix (1002-70-05)
(136) rooted graphs. Elizabeth W. McMahon*, Lafayette College, Beth Shimkus,LehighUniversity, and Jessica Wolfson, Department of Mathematics of the University of Lafayette College (1002-05-161) Pittsburgh Reception

6:30 PM –7:30PM Ball Room, William Pitt Union Special Session on Multivariate Hypergeometric Functions: Combinatorial and Algebro-Geometric Aspects, II

3:00 PM –5:20PM Room 1020, Benedum Hall Sunday, November 7 Organizers: Eduardo Cattani,Universityof Meeting Registration Massachusetts, Amherst Alicia M. Dickenstein,Universidadde 8:00 AM – NOON Room 1175, Benedum Hall Buenos Aires Laura Felicia Matusevich,Harvard AMS Exhibit and Book Sale University 3:00PM Ranks of A-hypergeometric systems. 8:00 AM – NOON Room 1175, Benedum Hall (137) Laura Felicia Matusevich*, University of Pennsylvania, Ezra Miller,UniversityofMinnesota, and Uli Walther,Purdue University (1002-14-84) Special Session on Modularity of Galois Representations and Serre’s Conjecture, III 3:30PM Generalized A-hypergeometric systems and duality. (138) Preliminary report. 8:00 AM –10:45AM Room 521, Benedum Hall Uli Walther,Purdue University (1002-14-81) 4:00PM The holonomic rank formula for A-hypergeometric Organizer: Mark E. T. Dickinson,Universityof (139) system in the case where the rank of A is three. Pittsburgh Preliminary report. 8:00AM Eisenstein Deformation Rings. Go Okuyama,Hokkaido University (1002-14-75) (150) Francesco Calegari,Harvard (1002-11-33)

NOVEMBER 2004 NOTICES OF THE AMS Appendix–9 Program of the Sessions – Pittsburgh, PA, Sunday, November 7 (cont’d.)

9:00AM Functoriality and Serre’s Conjecture. Preliminary 10:30AM An Isomorphism Between Affine (151) report.
(164) Birman-Murakami-Wenzl Algebras and Tangles in David Pollack,Wesleyan University (1002-11-43) the Solid Torus. Preliminary report. 10:00AM Weights of Galoisrepresentations associated to Frederick Goodman and Holly M Hauschild*, (152) Hilbert modular forms. Preliminary report. University of Iowa (1002-54-220) Michael M. Schein,Harvard University (1002-11-28) Special Session on Convexity and Combinatorics, III

Special Session on PDE-Based Methods in Imaging and 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 1022, Benedum Hall Vision, III Organizers: James F. Lawrence,GeorgeMason 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 520, Benedum Hall University Valeriu Soltan,GeorgeMason Organizers: Stacey E. Levine,Duquesne University University Yunmei Chen,UniversityofFlorida 8:00AM On the space of affine classes of convex bodies. 8:00AM Information Theoretic Mean. Preliminary report. (165) Preliminary report.
(153) Murali Rao,University Of Florida (1002-94-200) Wlodzimierz Kuperberg,Auburn University 8:30AM Nonlinear Energy Minimization in Signal/Image (1002-52-124) (154) Analysis by Stochastic Differential Equations. 8:30AM Ball-Polytopes. Hamid Krim*, North Carolina State University, and (166) Karoly Bezdek,University of Calgary (1002-52-179) Elena Zhizhina,Institute for Information and 9:00AM Determining a convex body by minor subsets of the Transmission Problems (1002-62-58)
(167) boundary. Preliminary report. 9:00AM Geometric Analysis of Statistical Manifolds with David G. Larman*, University College (155) Applications to Object Recognition. Preliminary London,London,U.K., and Grzegorz Sojka, report. Mathematics Institute, University of Warsaw Washington Mio*andDennis Badlyans,Florida (1002-52-51) State University (1002-68-205) 9:30AM On Lebesgue’s universal cover problem. Preliminary 9:30AM Existence and Local Uniqueness of Certain Optimal
(168) report. (156) Correspondences between Plane Curves. Peter Brass,CityCollege New York, CUNY David Groisser,University of Florida (1002-49-134) (1002-52-104) 10:00AM Error Analysis for Image Inpainting. Preliminary 10:00AM On the number of mutually touching cylinders. (157) report. (169) Preliminary report. Tony Chan,UniversityofCalifornia, Los Angeles, Andras Bezdek,Auburn University, AL and R´enyi and Sung Ha Kang*, University of Kentucky Inst. of Mathematics, Budapest, Hunagry (1002-65-115) (1002-52-184) 10:30AM Inpainting of BV Images in the Wavelets Domain. 10:30AM Covering with Fat Convex Discs. (158) Jackie Jianhong Shen*, University of Minnesota,
(170) G´abor Fejes Toth´ ,Alfr´ed R´enyi Mathematical Haomin Zhou,GeorgiaInstitute of Technology, and Institute (1002-52-193) Tony F. Chan,UCLA (1002-94-59) Special Session on The History of Mathematics, III

Special Session on Invariants of Knots and 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 426, Benedum Hall 3-Manifolds, III Organizers: Robert E. Bradley,AdelphiUniversity 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 823, Benedum Hall Lawrence A. D’Antonio,Ramapo College of New Jersey Organizers: Marta M. Asaeda,Universityof Maryland 8:00AM Numbers: Regular, irregular and prime. Some (171) thoughts on the Old Babylonian sexagesimal Jozef H. Przytycki,George system. Washington University Duncan J. Melville,St.LawrenceUniversity Adam S. Sikora,SUNYatBuffalo (1002-01-158) 8:00AM Relative Framing of Transverse Knots. 8:30AM When did Trigonometry Begin? (159) Vladimir V. Chernov,Dartmouth College
(172) Glen R. Van Brummelen,Bennington College (1002-57-244) (1002-01-76) 8:30AM Markov Traces on Framed Braids. Preliminary 9:00AM Changing Proofs for the Quadrature of the (160) report.
(173) Parabola. Preliminary report. Sofia Lambropoulou*, National Technical Gordon A. Swain,Ashland University (1002-01-22) University of Athens, and Jesus Juyumaya, 9:30AM The development of the mathematicalthought of University of Valparaiso (1002-57-241)
(174) the young Descartes. 9:00AM Knot Polynomials vs. Hyperbolic Volume. Michel Pierre Serfati,Institut de Recherche sur (161) Preliminary report. l’Enseignement des Mathe´matiques. Universite´Paris Oliver T Dasbach*, Louisiana State University, VII. Denis Diderot. (1002-01-107) Baton Rouge, and Xiao-Song Lin,Universityof 10:00AM How the Cartesian Revolution renders Plato’s California, Riverside (1002-57-174)
(175) hope for a mathematical basis for philosophy 9:30AM Anti-homotopy skein theory for hyperbolic implausible. (162) 3-manifolds. Preliminary report. Samuel S Kutler,St.John’s College in Annapolis, Uwe Kaiser,Boise State University (1002-57-165) Maryland (1002-01-109) 10:00AM Traces on the skein algebra of the torus. 10:30AM Gertrude Blanch of the WPA. (163) Michael McLendon,Washington College
(176) David Alan Grier,GeorgeWashington University (1002-55-125) (1002-01-07)

Appendix–10 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 51, NUMBER 10 Pittsburgh, PA, Sunday, November 7 –ProgramoftheSessions

Special Session on Partial Differential Equations and Alicia M. Dickenstein,Universidad de Applications, III Buenos Aires Laura Felicia Matusevich,Harvard 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 420, Benedum Hall University Organizers: Xinfu Chen,UniversityofPittsburgh 8:00AM Algebraic functions as solutions of holonomic Dehua Wang,UniversityofPittsburgh (188) systems of partial differential equations. Alicia Dickenstein,UniversityofBuenos Aires, 8:00AM Discussion. Argentina, Laura Felicia Matusevich,Harvard 8:30AM Global Existence for 3D Incompressible Isotropic University, and Timur Sadykov*, The University of (177) Elastodynamics via the Incompressible Limit. Western Ontario, London, Canada (1002-14-62) Thomas C Sideris,UniversityofCalifornia, Santa 8:30AM Planar configurations and gkz-rationality. Barbara, and Becca Thomases*, Courant Institute (189) Alicia Dickenstein*, Universidad de Buenos Aires, of Mathematical Sciences, New York University and Eduardo Cattani,UniversityofMassachusetts (1002-35-82) (1002-14-70) 9:00AM On Viscoelastic Fluids. Preliminary report. 9:00AM Picard-Fuchs differential equation for the An family (178) Chun Liu,Penn State University (1002-35-129) (190) of Calabi-Yau varieties. 9:30AM Another way to say subsolution: the maximum HAVerrill,Louisiana State University (1002-14-48) (179) principle and sums of Green functions. 9:30AM Integral sub-variations of Hodge structure and Richard S. Laugesen*, University of Illinois, (191) moduli of Calabi-Yau complete intersections. Urbana-Champaign, and Neil A. Watson,University Preliminary report. of Canterbury (1002-35-92) Charles Doran*, University of Washington, and 10:00AM On a Multidimensional Model for the Dynamic John Morgan,Columbia University (1002-14-227) (180) Combustion of Compressible Reacting Flows. 10:00AM Hypergeometric series and discriminant amoebas. D. Donatelli,UniversityofL’Aquila, and K. Trivisa*, (192) Mikael Passare,StockholmUniversity, Sweden University of Maryland at College Park (1002-35-60) (1002-33-203) 10:30AM Lotka-Volterra competition model with small or (181) intermediate diffusion coeffcients. Yuan Lou,The Ohio State University (1002-35-114) Special Session on Trends in Operator Theory and Banach Spaces, III Special Session on Knots and Macromolecules, III 8:30 AM –10:50AM Room 423, Benedum Hall 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 722, Benedum Hall Organizers: ChristopherJ.Lennard,Universityof Organizers: Kenneth C. Millett,Universityof Pittsburgh California Santa Barbara Thomas A. Metzger,Universityof Eric J. Rawdon,Duquesne University Pittsburgh 8:00AM The shape of DNA bound by Mu transposase. 8:30AM Positive functionals on general Operator Algebras.
(182) Isabel K Darcy*, University of Iowa, John Luecke, (193) Victor I Lomonosov,KentState University UT Austin, and Mariel Vazquez,UCBerkeley (1002-47-221) (1002-92-213) 9:00AM Sublgebras of Hardy spaces. 8:30AM Classification of Tangle Solutions for Integrases. (194) Michael I Stessin,SUNY at Albany (1002-30-72) (183) Dorothy Buck*, UC Davis and Imperial College, UK, and Cynthia Verjovsky Marcotte,StEdwards 9:30AM Banach lattices and tensor norms. Preliminary University (1002-92-192) (195) report. Joe N. Diestel,Kent State University (1002-46-08) 9:00AM Packing, curvature, and tangling of filaments.
(184) Jonathan K. Simon*, University of Iowa, and 10:00AM Convexity properties of ψ-direct sums of Banach Gregory R. Buck,St. Anselm College (1002-53-216) (196) spaces. Patrick Dowling,Miami University (1002-46-121) 9:30AM Periodic table of knots. Preliminary report. (185) Alessandro Flammini,School of Informatics, 10:30AM Discussion. Indiana University, and Andrzej Stasiak*, Universite´deLausanne (1002-54-143) 10:00AM Tight knots and links: a universal energy spectrum Special Session on Geometric Analysis and Partial (186) for physical systems. Differential Equations in Subelliptic Structures, III Thomas W Kephart*, TN, and Roman V. Buniy,U. of Oregon (1002-70-178) 8:30 AM –10:50AM Room 424, Benedum Hall 10:30AM On pearl-number and ropelength of knots and links.
(187) Preliminary report. Organizers: Cristian E. Gut´ierrez,Temple Rob Kusner*, Center for Geometry, Analysis, University Numerics and Graphics (GANG), and Woden¨ Guozhen Lu,WayneState University Kusner,Haverford College (1002-52-228) Juan J. Manfredi,Universityof Pittsburgh Special Session on Multivariate Hypergeometric 8:30AM Apollonian metric of domains in Heisenberg group. (197) Preliminary report. Functions: Combinatorial and Algebro-Geometric Zair Ibragimov,UniversityofCincinnati Aspects, III (1002-30-57)

8:00 AM –10:20AM Room 1020, Benedum Hall 9:00AM Ageneralization of the Coifman Lions Meyer and (198) Semmes theorem to mappings between manifolds. Organizers: Eduardo Cattani,Universityof Piotr Hajłasz,UniversityofPittsburgh Massachusetts, Amherst (1002-35-238)

NOVEMBER 2004 NOTICES OF THE AMS Appendix–11 Program of the Sessions – Pittsburgh, PA, Sunday, November 7 (cont’d.)

9:30AM Sharp weighted Young’s inequalities and 10:30AM Properties of the interlace polynomial. (199) Moser-Trudinger inequalities in groups of (211) Joanna Anthony Ellis-Monaghan*, St. Michael’s Heisenberg type. Preliminary report. College, and Irasema Sarmiento,CINEVESTAV, Jeremy T. Tyson,University of Illinois Mexico (1002-05-85) (1002-43-215) 10:00AM The horizontal Hessian matrix of the distance (200) function in the Heisenberg group. AMS Workshop Fausto Ferrari,Universita`Piazza di Porta S. Donato 9:30 AM –2:00PM Room 525, Benedum Hall and C.I.R.A.M. (1002-35-93) 10:30AM About a Liouville phenomenon for supersolutions of T.A. development using case studies: A workshop (201) elliptic partial differential equations. for faculty. Vasilii V. Kurta,MathematicalReviews,AMS Organizer: Solomon Friedberg,BostonUniversity (1002-35-147) Invited Address

Special Session on Multiscale Algorithms in 11:10 AM – NOON Auditorium, Benedum Hall Computational Fluid Dynamics, III (212) The boosting approach to machine learning. 8:30 AM –10:50AM Room 522, Benedum Hall Robert Schapire,Princeton University (1002-68-04) Organizers: William J. Layton,Universityof Pittsburgh Invited Address Anastasios Liakos,U.S.Naval Academy 2:00 PM –2:50PM Auditorium, Benedum Hall 8:30AM Time Averaged Statistics and Navier-Stokes (213) Homogenization in asymmetrical random media:
(202) Equations. Recent results and challenges. Carolina C Manica,UniversityofPittsburgh Ofer Zeitouni,UniversityofMinnesota, (1002-65-140) Minneapolis (1002-60-02) 9:00AM FENE dumbbell model for complex fluids and its (203) closure approximations. Qiang Du*, Chun Liu and Peng Yu,PennState Special Session on Modularity of Galois University (1002-65-95) Representations and Serre’s Conjecture, IV 9:30AM Local Dynamics of Navier-Stokes Equations in 3:00 PM –5:45PM Room 521, Benedum Hall (204) Exterior Domains. Giovanni P Galdi,Department of Mechanical Organizer: Mark E. T. Dickinson,Universityof Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA (1002-76-100) 3:00PM An algorithm for verifying Artin’s conjecture. 10:00AM Mathematical Analysis of Orientation of Rigid (214) Preliminary report. (205) Bodies Falling in Newtonian and Non-Newtonian Andrew R Booker,UniversityofMichigan Fluids. (1002-11-42) Ashwin Vaidya,CarnegieMellon University 4:00PM The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture, (1002-76-97) (215) Tamagawa Numbers, and Level Lowering. 10:30AM Advances in MHD Flow Simulations. Preliminary report. (206) A. J. Meir*, Auburn University, and P. G. Schmidt, William A Stein,Harvard University (1002-11-36) Mathematics and Statistics / Auburn University 5:00PM Problem session. (1002-76-167) Special Session on Invariants of Knots and Special Session on Graph Polynomials, II 3-Manifolds, IV

3:00 PM –6:00PM Room 823, Benedum Hall 8:30 AM –10:50AM Room 523, Benedum Hall Organizer: E. Glen Whitehead, Jr.,Universityof Organizers: Marta M. Asaeda,Universityof Pittsburgh Maryland Jozef H. Przytycki,George 8:30AM Reconstructing (and not reconstructing) trees from (207) probability data. Washington University David Eisenstat,UniversityofRochester, Adam S. Sikora,SUNYatBuffalo Rochester, NY, and Gary Gordon*, Lafayette 3:00PM Alexander groups of long virtual knots. College, Easton, PA (1002-05-160) (216) Daniel S. Silver and Susan G Williams*, University 9:00AM On the sandpile group of regular trees. of South Alabama (1002-57-204) (208) Evelin Toumpakari,UniversityofChicago 3:30PM Knots and Lehmer’s Question. (1002-05-41) (217) Daniel S Silver*andSusan G Williams,University 9:30AM Astrange tree–enumeration formula from electrical of South Alabama (1002-57-209)
(209) network theory. 4:00PM Presentations of groups of n-trivial knots. David G. Wagner,UniversityofWaterlooC&O (218) Preliminary report. Department (1002-05-23) Ted Stanford,NewMexicoStateUniversity 10:00AM Monomial Bases for NBC Complexes. Preliminary (1002-57-231) (210) report. 4:30PM On the quantization of the moduli space of flat Jason I Brown,Dalhousie University, and Bruce E (219) SU(2)-connections on the torus. Sagan*, Michigan State University (1002-05-102) Razvan Gelca,Texas Tech University (1002-57-79)

Appendix–12 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 51, NUMBER 10 Pittsburgh, PA, Sunday, November 7 –ProgramoftheSessions

5:00PM String Link Invariants via Representation Theory. Special Session on Knots and Macromolecules, IV (220) Preliminary report. Craig Jackson,UniversityofChicago, and Thomas 3:00 PM –5:50PM Room 722, Benedum Hall Kerler*, The Ohio State University (1002-16-226) Organizers: Kenneth C. Millett,Universityof 5:30PM Discussion. California Santa Barbara Eric J. Rawdon,Duquesne University Special Session on Convexity and Combinatorics, IV 3:00PM Numeric results on upper bounds of rope length.
(232) Preliminary report. 3:00 PM –5:20PM Room 1022, Benedum Hall Claus Ernst*, Western Kentucky University, Yuanan Diao,UniversityofNorthCarolina, Charlotte, and Organizers: James F. Lawrence,GeorgeMason Uta Ziegler,WesternKentucky University University (1002-57-206) Valeriu Soltan,GeorgeMason 3:30PM Numerics issues in ropelength minimization. University (233) Michael Piatek*, Eric Rawdon,Duquesne 3:00PM Tilings of the sphere with congruent spherical University, and Jason Cantarella,Universityof
(221) triangles. Georgia, Athens (1002-65-182) Robert J. MacG. Dawson,SaintMary’s University 4:00PM What do we know about kinked tubes? On shortest (1002-52-154) (234) curves of constrained curvature. Preliminary report. 3:30PM Antipodality in Hyperbolic Space. Jason Cantarella*, Joseph Fu,University
(222) Karoly Bezdek, Marton Naszodi and Deborah of Georgia, Robert Kusner,Universityof Oliveros*, University of Calgary (1002-52-56) Massachusetts, John Sullivan,Technische 4:00PM An angle in Minkowski space. Univeristat Berlin, and Nancy Wrinkle,Northern (223) Boris V. Dekster,Mount Allison University Illinois University (1002-53-208) (1002-51-09) 4:30PM Upper Bounds for the Minimum Ropelength of 4:30PM On the perimeter and area of the unit disc in (235) Knots.
(224) Minkowski planes. Preliminary report. Justyna Baranska, Piotr Pieranski, Sylwester Zokhrab Mustafaev,Ithaca College (1002-52-10) Przybyl,PoznanTechnical University, and Eric J 5:00PM Pairs of Convex Bodies with Centrally Symmetric Rawdon*, Duquesne University (1002-57-180) (225) Intersections of Translates. 5:00PM Discussion. Valeriu Soltan,GeorgeMasonUniversity (1002-52-197) Lesley M. Sibner Associate Secretary Brooklyn, New York Special Session on Mathematical Modeling of Nonlinear Phenomena in Biology and Mechanics

3:00 PM –5:50PM Room 720, Benedum Hall Organizers: Anna Vainchtein,Universityof Pittsburgh William C. Troy,Universityof Pittsburgh 3:00PM On long range electrical interactions in DNA
(226) elasticity. Bernard D Coleman,RutgersUniversity, Department of Mechanics and Materials Science (1002-74-110) 3:25PM Influence of intrinsic curvature and coupling on (227) configurations of DNA minicircles. David Swigon*, University of Pittsburgh, Wilma K Olson and Bernard D Coleman,RutgersUniversity (1002-74-217) 3:50PM Atwodimensional neural model.
(228) William C Troy,UniversityofPittsburgh (1002-92-189) 4:15PM Modeling and Analysis of Two-Phase Equilibira of (229) Bilayer Membranes. Preliminary report. Tim Healey,Theoretical & Applied Mechanics/Cornell University (1002-74-198) 4:40PM Composites of Hyperelastic Materials with (230) Prescribed Lavrentiev Gap Functions. Preliminary report. Victor J. Mizel,CarnegieMellon University (1002-35-223) 5:05PM Kinetics of lattice phase transitions. Preliminary
(231) report. Anna Vainchtein*, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Mathematics, and Lev Truskinovsky,Ecole Polytechnique (1002-70-148) 5:30PM Discussion.

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