Program of the Sessions Irvine, California, November 10–11, 2001

10:30AM Indiscernible versus exchangeable sequences of Saturday, November 10 (6) non-commutating random variables. Preliminary report. Meeting Registration Haskell Rosenthal, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX (972-46-128) 7:30 AM –4:30PM Lobby, Rowland Hall

AMS Exhibit and Book Sale

7:30 AM –4:30PM Room 188, Rowland Hall Special Session on Quantum

Special Session on Operator Spaces, Operator 8:30 AM –10:50AM Room 114, Rowland Hall Algebras, and Applications Organizers: Louis Kauffman, University of Illinois 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 118, Multipurpose at Chicago Science and Technology Jozef Przytycki, George Washington University Organizers: Marius Junge, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Fernando Souza,Universityof Waterloo Timur Oikhberg,UniversityofTexas and University of California Irvine 8:30AM Computing Kauffman bracket skein modules. (7) Doug Bullock*, Boise State University, and Walter 8:00AM Ranking functions on operator spaces and (1) completely rank-nonincreasing linear maps. LoFaro, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point Preliminary report. (972-57-156) David Larson*, Texas A&MUniversity, and Donald 9:00AM The Hochshild homology of a Heegaard splitting. Hadwin, University of New Hampshire (972-47-180) (8) Preliminary report. 8:30AM Composition Operators on Uniform Algebras. Charles D Frohman*andMikeMcLendon ,The (2) Theodore W Gamelin, UCLA (972-46-99) (972-57-12) 9:00AM A prime C*-algebra that is not primitive. 9:30AM Limiting behavior of the Yang-Mills measure. (3) Nik Weaver, Washington University (972-46-45) (9) Charles Frohman, University of Iowa, and Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska*, Boise State University 9:30AM Geometric characterizations of some classes of (972-57-63) (4) operators in C*-algebras and von Neumann algebras. 10:00AM Skein modules and the Berezin quantization of the Charles A. Akemann*, University of California, (10) moduli space of SU(2)-flat connections on the torus. Santa Barbara, and Nik Weaver, Washington Razvan Gelca*, Texas Tech University, and University (972-46-37) Alejandro Uribe, University of Michigan (972-57-75) 10:00AM Vector-valued noncommutative Lp spaces and (5) martigales. Preliminary report. 10:30AM Skein Modules and String Topology. Preliminary Marius Junge, University of Illinois at (11) report. Urbana-Champaign (972-46-182) UweKaiser , Boise State University (972-57-83)

Thetimelimit for each contributed paper in the sessions is ten minutes. found in Volume 22, 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 paperswith morethan oneauthor, 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

Appendix–2 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 48, NUMBER 11 Irvine, CA, Saturday, November 10 – Program of theSessions

Special Session on Extremal Metrics and Moduli Special Session on Partial Differential Equations and Spaces Applications

8:40 AM –10:50AM Room 108, Rowland Hall 9:00 AM –10:55AM Room 120, Multipurpose Science and Technology Organizers: Steven Bradlow, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Organizer: Edriss S. Titi, University of California ClaudeLeBrun , State University of Irvine New York, Stony Brook 9:00AM On zero mass solutions of viscous conservation Yat Sun Poon, University of California (22) laws. Riverside Maria E Schonbek*, University of California Santa 8:40AM Function Spaces of Ka¨hler Metrics. Preliminary Cruz, and Grzegorz Karch, Uniwersytet Woclawy (12) report. (972-76-44) Eugenio Calabi, University of Pennsylvania (emer.) 9:30AM Number of Determining Modes in Numerical 2D (972-53-129) (23) Turbulence. Preliminary report. 9:30AM The uniqueness of Extremal Kaehler metrics. Eric Olson*, University of Nevada, Reno, and Edriss (13) Preliminary report. Titi, University of California, Irvine (972-35-162) Xiuxiong Chen, (972-53-125) 10:00AM Atomistic Theory of Elasticity for Epitaxial Thin 10:00AM Existence and Geodesic Stability. Preliminary report. (24) Films. (14) Zhuang-dan D Guan, The University of California at Russel E Caflisch*andCameron Connell,UCLA Riverside (972-53-31) (972-35-40) 10:30AM On a class of extremal Kaehler metrics on toric 10:30AM A mathematical model of microbial growth.  (15) varieties.  (25) Don A Jones, Arizona State University (972-35-42) Vestislav Apostolov*, UQAM, Montreal, David Calderbank, Edinbourgh, Scotland, and Paul Gauduchon, CNRS, Palaiseau (972-53-91) Special Session on Groups and Covering Spaces in Algebraic Geometry Special Session on Random and Deterministic Schrodinger¨ Operators 9:00 AM –10:50AM Room 114, Multipurpose Science and Technology 8:45 AM –10:50AM Room 122, Multipurpose Organizers: Michael Fried, University of California Science and Technology Irvine Organizers: Svetlana Jitomirskaya,Universityof Helmut Voelklein, University of Florida California Irvine 9:00AM Identity representations in characteristic Frattini Abel Klein, University of California (26) modules and their effect on the inverse Galois Irvine problem. 8:45AM Nonperturbative localization for the quantum Michael D Fried, UC Irvine (972-20-98) (16) kicked rotor model. Preliminary report. 9:40AM Davenport Polynomials over Finite Fields. Jean Bourgain,IAS,andSvetlana Jitomirskaya*, (27) WayneE Aitken *, Linda Holt, California State UCI (972-81-140) University, San Marcos, and MikeFried ,University 9:15AM Transition from quenched to annealed asymptotics of California Irvine (972-11-167)  (17) for the reaction-diffusion equation in random 10:20AM Exceptional Covers of Curves. environment.  (28) Robert M Guralnick,UniversityofSouthern Stanislav A Molchanov, UNC, Charlotte California (972-12-25) (972-60-74) 9:55AM A Fluctuation Analysis of Localization in One (18) Dimension. Michael Aizenman, Alex Elgart and Jeffrey H Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Complex Schenker*, Princeton University (972-81-148) Analysis 10:25AM Sparse Potentials with Fractional Hausdorff 9:00 AM –10:50AM Room 124, Multipurpose (19) Dimension. Science and Technology Andrej Zlatos, Caltech (972-34-58) Organizers: Xiaojun Huang,RutgersUniversity Special Session on Topology of Algebraic Varieties Song-Ying Li, University of California, Irvine 9:00 AM –10:40AM Room 210, Physical 9:00AM Compactness of the ∂-Neumann problem and lowest Sciences Classroom Bldg (29) eigenvalues of Schrodinger¨ operators. Preliminary report. Organizers: Eriko Hironaka,FloridaState Siqi Fu, University of Wyoming, and Emil J University Straube*, Texas A&MUniversity (972-32-165) Grigory Mikhalkin,UniversityofUtah 9:30AM Szego and Bergman projections for non-smooth 9:00AM Monodromy representations and Szpiro type (30) planar domains. Preliminary report. (20) inequalities. Preliminary report. Loredana Lanzani, University of Arkansas Fedor A. Bogomolov, Courant Institute of (972-30-164) Mathematical Sciences (972-00-198) 10:00AM Analytic hypoellipticity in the sense of germs for an 10:00AM Topology of Stein Surfaces. (31) operator with Treves curves. Preliminary report. (21) Selman Akbulut*andBurak Ozbagci,MSU Nicholas Hanges, Lehman College/CUNY (972-57-143) (972-35-59)

DECEMBER 2001 NOTICES OF THE AMS Appendix–3 Program of theSessions– Irvine, CA, Saturday, November 10 (cont’d.)

10:30AM Hearing a pseudoconvex domain. Preliminary 3:00PM Why Turaev-Viro Theory is not a Modular Functor (32) report. (41) and Why That’s OK. Preliminary report. Siqi Fu, University of Wyoming and Princeton Stephen French Sawin*, Fairfield University, and University (972-32-184) John W. Barrett, University of Nottingham (972-81-201) Special Session on Harmonic Analyses and Partial 3:30PM Generalizations of the Kashaev conjecture. Differential Equations (42) Preliminary report. Hitoshi Murakami, Tokyo Institute of Technology 9:00 AM –10:50AM Room 220, Physical (972-57-49) Sciences Classroom Bldg 4:00PM The integer valued SU(3) Casson invariant for (43) Brieskorn spheres. Preliminary report. Organizers: Gustavo Ponce,Universityof Hans U Boden, McMaster University, Paul Kirk, California Santa Barbara Indiana University, and Christopher M Herald*, Gigliola Staffilani, Stanford University University of Nevada, Reno (972-57-145) 9:00AM Avortexdegreeestimateforthestationary 4:30PM Cut numbers of 3-manifolds. Preliminary report. (33) Ginzburg-Landau equation. (44) AdamSSikora, ISM/CRM (972-57-154) Igor Kukavica, University of Southern California (972-35-149) 5:00PM Resolutions of p-Modular TQFT’s and the Alexander (45) Polynomial of 3-manifolds. 9:40AM Inverse Elasticity. Preliminary report. Thomas Kerler, The Ohio State University  (34) James V Ralston*andGregory Eskin,Universityof (972-57-192) California at Los Angeles (972-35-94) 5:30PM Some structure theory for semisimple monoidal 10:20AM Long Time Existence for Nonlinear Wave Equations. (46) categories. Preliminary report. (35) Markus A Keel*, University of Minnesota, Hart Greg Kuperberg, UC Davis (972-18-174) Smith, University of Washington, and Christopher D Sogge, Johns Hopkins (972-35-163) Special Session on Topology of Algebraic Varieties Special Session on Dynamical Systems of Billiard Type 3:00 PM –5:40PM Room 210, Physical 9:00 AM –10:50AM Room 240, Physical Sciences Classroom Bldg Sciences Classroom Bldg Organizers: Eriko Hironaka,FloridaState Organizers: Marek Rychlik, University of Arizona University Andrew Torok, University of Houston Grigory Mikhalkin,UniversityofUtah 9:00AM The of Typical Hard Sphere Systems in 3:00PM Computing Amoebas. Preliminary report. (36) 2D: Geometric Aspects.  (47) Bernd Sturmfels*, UC Berkeley, and Thorsten Nandor Simanyi, The University of Alabama at Theobald, Technical University Munich (972-14-21) Birmingham (972-37-104) 4:00PM Link theoretic invariants of real algebraic curves. 9:40AM Periodic theory analysis of simple variants of (48) Preliminary report. (37) familiar two dimensional billiard systems. Patrick M Gilmer, Louisiana State university Richard W Robinett, Penn State University (972-57-101) (972-37-117) 5:00PM Lehmer’s polynomial and isolated hypersurface 10:20AM The measure of periodic points of billiards - a (49) singularities. Preliminary report. (38) computational algebraic geometry approach. Eriko Hironaka, Florida State University Marek R Rychlik, University of Arizona (972-14-166) (972-70-194)

Invited Address Special Session on Partial Differential Equations and Applications 11:10 AM – NOON Room 104, Rowland Hall 3:00 PM –5:55PM Room 120, Multipurpose (39) Amoebas of algebraic varieties. Science and Technology Grigory Mikhalkin, University of Utah (972-14-03) Organizer: Edriss S. Titi, University of California Invited Address Irvine 3:00PM Remarks on the primitive equations of the ocean. 1:30 PM –2:20PM Room 104, Rowland Hall (50) Mohammed B Ziane,UniversityofSouthern California (972-35-171) (40) Recent directions in automorphic forms and analytic number theory. 3:30PM Structure of three-wave interactions and regularity William Duke, University of California Los Angeles (51) of solutions of Euler equations for rapidly rotating (972-11-04) fluids. Anatoli V Babin, UC Irvine (972-76-73) Special Session on Quantum Topology 4:00PM Global Well–posedness and Finite Dimensional (52) Global for a 3–D Planetary Geostrophic 3:00 PM –5:50PM Room 114, Rowland Hall Viscous Model. Chongsheng Cao*, Los Alamos National Organizers: Louis Kauffman, University of Illinois Laboratory, and Edriss S Titi,Universityof at Chicago California, Irvine (972-35-61) Jozef Przytycki, George Washington 4:30PM Global existence and non-existence theorems for University (53) nonlinear wave equations. Fernando Souza,Universityof Mohammad A Rammaha*andDavid R Pitts, Waterloo University of Nebraska-Lincoln (972-35-39)

Appendix–4 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 48, NUMBER 11 Irvine, CA, Saturday, November 10 – Program of theSessions

5:00PM Finite dimensionality and regularity of Special Session on Extremal Metrics and Moduli (54) for 2-D semilinear wave equation with non-linear Spaces dissipation. Irena Lasiecka and Anastasia A Ruzmaikina*, 3:00 PM –5:30PM Room 108, Rowland Hall University of Virginia (972-35-146) Organizers: Steven Bradlow, University of Illinois, 5:30PM Nevalinna-Pick Interpolation of Attractors. Urbana-Champaign (55) Ciprian Foias, Indiana Univ./ Texas A&M, Michael S. Jolly*, Indiana University, and Wing-Suet Li, ClaudeLeBrun , State University of Georgia Tech/Virginia Tech (972-35-169) New York, Stony Brook Yat Sun Poon, University of California Riverside Special Session on Groups and Covering Spaces in 3:00PM A Gradient Estimate for the Ricci-Kahler¨ Flow. (65) Bennett Chow, UCSD (972-58-16) Algebraic Geometry 3:30PM On complete Kahler-Ricci¨ solitons of nonnegative 3:00 PM –5:50PM Room 114, Multipurpose (66) curvatures. Science and Technology Huai-Dong Cao, Texas A&MUniversity (972-53-78) 4:00PM On Einstein manifolds of non-negative sectional Organizers: Michael Fried, University of California (67) curvature. Irvine Jimmy Petean*andGabriel Paternain,CIMAT Helmut Voelklein, University of Florida (972-53-138) 3:00PM Sufficiency of Projective Polynomials. 4:20PM break (56) Shreeram S. Abhyankar, Purdue University  4:40PM A-genus on non-spin manifolds and classification of (972-14-20) (68) positive quaternion-Kahler¨ 12-manifolds. 3:40PM Abhyankar’s Local Conjecture on Fundamental Rafael Herrera*, University of California, Riverside, (57) Groups. and Haydee Herrera, Tufts University (972-53-34) Stevenson F Katherine*, Cal. State Northridge, and 5:10PM SO(3) monopoles and spin polynomials. Preliminary David Harbater, University of Pennsylvania (69) report. (972-14-102) Paul Feehan, Rutgers, and Thomas G Leness*, 4:20PM break Florida International University (972-58-29) 4:40PM Rigidity, Reduction and Ramification. (58) Irene Bouw, Max Planck Institute, and Rachel Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Complex Pries*, Columbia University (972-14-65) Analysis 5:20PM Orthogonal deformations of Galois representations. (59) Preliminary report. 3:00 PM –6:00PM Room 124, Multipurpose Ted C Chinburg*, Univ. of Pennsylvania, and Science and Technology Frauke M Bleher, Univ. of Iowa (972-14-70) Organizers: Xiaojun Huang,RutgersUniversity Song-Ying Li, University of California, Irvine Special Session on Random and Deterministic Schrodinger¨ Operators 3:00PM Mappings between holomorphically nondegenarate (70) generic submanifolds in Cn. Preliminary report. 3:00 PM –5:45PM Room 122, Multipurpose Salah Baouendi, UCSD (972-32-181) n Science and Technology 3:30PM The Schur class of the unit ball of C . (71) Mihai Putinar, University of California (972-47-51) Organizers: Svetlana Jitomirskaya,Universityof 4:00PM Algebraicity of real analytic hypersurfaces and California Irvine (72) blowing-down. Abel Klein, University of California Shanyu Ji,DeptofMath,Univ.ofHouston Irvine (972-32-53) 3:00PM Spectral and scattering theory of the surface 4:20PM break (60) Maryland model. 4:40PM Constructing plurisubharmonic functions and Vojkan Jaksic*, McGill University, and Stanislav (73) harmonic (m,0) forms. Molchanov, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Lei Ni, Stanford University (972-53-76) (972-47-52) 5:10PM A strong uniqueness theorem for planar vector 3:40PM A characterization of the Anderson metal-insulator (74) fields. Preliminary report. (61) transport transition. Preliminary report. Shiferaw Berhanu,TempleUniversity,andJorge Abel Klein*, University of California, Irvine, Hounie*, Universidade Federal de S˜ao Carlos and Franois Germinet, Universite de Lille 1 (972-35-50) (972-81-108) 5:40PM On the Oka principle in a Banach space. Preliminary 4:10PM A general contraction property in PSL(2,R) by T. (75) report. (62) Wolff. ImrePatyi , UC Irvine (972-32-126) Carol A Shubin, CSUN (972-81-112) 4:40PM A diamagnetic inequality for semigroup differences. Special Session on Harmonic Analyses and Partial  (63) Preliminary report. Dirk Hundertmark*andBarry Simon,Caltech Differential Equations (972-46-168) 3:00 PM –4:50PM Room 220, Physical 5:10PM Absence of Exponential Localization for Sciences Classroom Bldg (64) Multidimensional Lattice Hamiltonians With Fast Local Periodic Approximation. Organizers: Gustavo Ponce,Universityof Alexander Y Gordon, Charlotte, NC (972-47-187) California Santa Barbara

DECEMBER 2001 NOTICES OF THE AMS Appendix–5 Program of theSessions– Irvine, CA, Saturday, November 10 (cont’d.)

Gigliola Staffilani, Stanford University 4:45PM Chaos in Accelerated Billiards.  3:00PM The Mathematical Theory of Self-organized-critical (88) BruceN Miller , Texas Christian University (76) Systems. (972-37-173) Bjorn Birnir*, Dept. of Math. UCSB, Jorge 5:20PM Semi-dispersing billiards with a non-compact cusp. Hernandez,UCSB,Raisa Feldman, Dept. of (89) Marco Lenci, SUNY at Stony Brook (972-37-82) Statistics and Appl. Probab. UCSB, and Terrence 5:55PM A convex generalized 3D stadium billiard. Smith, Dept. of Geography, UCSB (972-35-144)  (90) Preliminary report. 3:40PM The motion of the free surface of a liquid. Gianluigi Del Magno, School of , (77) Hans Lindblad, UCSD (972-35-115) Georgia Institute of Technology (972-37-186) 4:20PM A cheap Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequality for (78) Navier-Stokes equations with hyper-dissipation. Nets H Katz, Washington University, St. Louis, and Natasa Pavlovic*, University of Illinois at Chicago (972-35-57) Special Session on Symplectic Geometry

Special Session on Operator Spaces, Operator 3:00 PM –5:55PM Room 230, Physical Algebras, and Applications Sciences Classroom Bldg Organizer: Jonathan Weitsman,Universityof 3:00 PM –5:50PM Room 118, Multipurpose California, Santa Cruz Science and Technology 3:00PM Calculating the Cohomology Ring of Symplectic Organizers: Marius Junge, University of Illinois, (91) Quotients. Urbana-Champaign Rebecca F Goldin, University of Maryland Timur Oikhberg,UniversityofTexas (972-51-157) and University of California Irvine 3:45PM The equivariant cohomology of the real loci of 3:00PM Grothendieck’s Theorem for Operator Spaces (joint (92) Hamiltonian symplectic manifolds. (79) work with Dimitri Shlyakhtenko). Tara S Holm, MIT (972-53-123) Gilles Pisier, Texas A&MUniversity (972-46-41) 4:30PM Non-degenerate abstract moment maps. 3:30PM Nonlinear heat kernel analysis on von Neumann (93) Viktor L Ginzburg, UC Santa Cruz (972-58-80) (80) algebras. 5:15PM Moment maps and reductive symmetric pairs. Maria Gordina, University of California at San (94) Preliminary report. Diego (972-60-27) Reyer Sjamaar*andYi Lin, Cornell University 4:00PM A Functional Calculus for Completely Bounded (972-58-81) (81) L∞-bimodule Maps. Vern I Paulsen*, University of Houston, and Aristides Katavolos,UniversityofAthens (972-46-155)

4:30PM Strongly singular masas in type II1 factors. Session for Contributed Papers (82) Allan M Sinclair, University of Edinburgh, and Roger R Smith*, Texas A&MUniversity 4:00 PM –5:55PM Room 101, Rowland Hall (972-46-118) 4:00PM Approximating the Solution to the HJB PDE. 5:00PM Ideals of operator algebras. Preliminary report. (95) Preliminary report. (83) David P Blecher, University of Houston Rod A Freed, California State University at (972-46-122) Dominguez Hills (972-35-14) 5:30PM Operator Hilbert Spaces without the Operator 4:15PM Quasi-stationary states of Indy500 model. (84) Approximation Property. (96) Anastasia A Ruzmaikina*, University of Virginia, Alvaro Arias, University of Denver (972-46-120) Michael Aizenman, Princeton University, and Pierluigi Contucci, University of Bologna Special Session on Dynamical Systems of Billiard Type (972-60-71) 4:30PM Viscous flow over a flat surface, an integral solution 3:00 PM –6:25PM Room 240, Physical (97) of the Navier-Stokes PDE. Sciences Classroom Bldg Leonard D’Attorre, AMS (972-00-199) Organizers: Marek Rychlik, University of Arizona 4:45PM Mathematics, Today and Tomorrow. (98) Doc J. Castellano, PhD co., Maphics Dept., Simi Andrew Torok, University of Houston Valley, CA (972-00-124) 3:00PM A Central Limit Theorem for al large class of (85) maps. 5:00PM Measure Dependable Extrafunctions. (99) , UCLA (972-26-09) Nicolai T Haydn, University of Southern California Mark Burgin (972-37-151) 5:15PM Generalized Solutions for the Cauchy Problem for (100) Partial Differential Equations. Preliminary report. 3:35PM Absolutely Continuous Invariant Measures for (86) Non-Uniformly Expanding Maps. Preliminary report. Mark Burgin and James Ralston*, UCLA Huyi Hu*, University of Southern California, and (972-35-05) Sandro Vaienti,CentredePhysiqueTh´eorique, 5:30PM Intersection Homology theory via rectifiable CNRS (972-37-183) (101) currents. 4:10PM Rotations by pi/7 and examples of rational Qinglan Xia, Rice University (972-49-133)  (87) piecewise rotations with an unbounded return time 5:45PM Static Coefficient and Unit Fields, Recent Ideas, to one of the atoms. Preliminary report. (102) Comments, and Outcomes. Preliminary report. Arek Goetz, San Francisco State University C.S. Felicitas, CFCTE Foundation and Gottlieb (972-37-105) Library (972-86-08)

Appendix–6 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 48, NUMBER 11 Irvine, CA, Sunday, November 11 – Program of theSessions

10:30AM Burau representation of string links and its Sunday, November 11 (113) applications. Preliminary report. Xiao-Song Lin, University of California, Riverside Meeting Registration (972-57-116)

8:00 AM – NOON Lobby, Rowland Hall Special Session on Groups and Covering Spaces in Special Session on Operator Spaces, Operator Algebraic Geometry Algebras, and Applications 8:30 AM –10:50AM Room 114, Multipurpose 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 118, Multipurpose Science and Technology Science and Technology Organizers: Michael Fried, University of California Organizers: Marius Junge, University of Illinois, Irvine Urbana-Champaign Helmut Voelklein, University of Florida Timur Oikhberg,UniversityofTexas 8:30AM The number of conjugacy classes in the upper and University of California Irvine (114) triangular group. Preliminary report. 8:00AM Non-commutative Banach Principle and its John G Thompson, University of Florida (103) applications. Preliminary report. (972-20-161) Semyon N Litvinov, Pennsylvania State University, 9:10AM Group representations and lattice minima. Hazleton (972-46-137) (115) Preliminary report. ∗ 8:30AM C -convex sets in representable bimodules. Pham Huu Tiep, University of Florida (972-20-87) (104) Preliminary report. 9:50AM The Hurwitz space of genus 2 covers of an elliptic Ciprian S Pop, Texas A&MUniversity (972-46-179) (116) curve. 9:00AM Local properties of TRO’s associated with their Ernst Kani, Queen’s University at Kingston, Canada (105) linking C∗-algebras. (972-14-195) Manmohan Kaur and Zhong-Jin Ruan*, University 10:30AM Automorphisms and elliptic subfields of genus 2 of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (972-46-130) (117) fields. 9:30AM A holomorphic characterization of TRO’s and Tony Shaska*, UC Irvine, and Helmut Voelklein, (106) C*-algebras. University of Florida (972-14-47) Matthew P Neal*, Denison University, and Bernie Russo, University of California, Irvine (972-46-22) Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Complex 10:00AM Algebraic Structures Determined by 3 by 3 Matrix (107) Geometry. Analysis Martin E Walter, University of Colorado, Boulder 8:30 AM –10:50AM Room 124, Multipurpose (972-46-43) Science and Technology 10:30AM Commutators of ideals and modules of II∞–factors. (108) Preliminary report. Organizers: Xiaojun Huang,RutgersUniversity Ken Dykema*, Texas A&MUniversity, and Nigel Song-Ying Li, University of California, Kalton, Univeristy of Missouri (972-47-127) Irvine 8:30AM discussion AMS Exhibit and Book Sale 9:00AM Equivalence of real submanifolds in complex space. (118) Linda P Rothschild, UCSD (972-32-172) 8:00 AM – NOON Room 188, Rowland Hall 9:30AM CR embeddings into strictly pseudoconvex (119) hypersurfaces. Preliminary report. Special Session on Quantum Topology Peter F Ebenfelt, University of California, San Diego (972-32-72) 8:30 AM –10:50AM Room 114, Rowland Hall 10:00AM Normalization of complex-valued planar vector Organizers: Louis Kauffman, University of Illinois (120) fields which degenerate along a real curve. at Chicago Paulo D Cordaro*, University of S.Paulo - Brazil, Jozef Przytycki, George Washington and Xianghong Gong, University of Wisconsin, University Madison (972-35-69) Fernando Souza,Universityof 10:30AM A nonlinear Fourier transform. Preliminary report. Waterloo (121) Camil Muscalu, Terence Tao and Christoph Thiele*, UCLA (972-42-176) 8:30AM Algebraic versions of Markov’s theorem in (109) three-spaces. Preliminary report. Sofia Lambropoulou, National Technical University Special Session on Random and Deterministic of Athens (972-57-153) Schrodinger¨ Operators 9:00AM Diagrams of Divide Links. (110) Sergei V Chmutov, Ohio State University, Mansfield 8:35 AM –10:50AM Room 122, Multipurpose (972-57-15) Science and Technology 9:30AM Homfly polynomials and quantum sl(N) invariants (111) of decorated Hopf links. Organizers: Svetlana Jitomirskaya,Universityof Hugh R Morton*andSascha G Lukac,Universityof California Irvine Liverpool, UK (972-57-18) Abel Klein, University of California 10:00AM Quantum Morphing and the . Irvine (112) Preliminary report. 8:35AM On Spectral Properties of Periodic Polyharmonic Oliver T Dasbach*, Oklahoma State University, and (122) Matrix Operators. Xiao-Song Lin, UC Riverside (972-57-132) Yulia Karpeshina, UAB (972-35-193)

DECEMBER 2001 NOTICES OF THE AMS Appendix–7 Program of theSessions– Irvine, CA, Sunday, November 11 (cont’d.)

9:15AM Charge transport in the adiabatic limit – proof of 9:30AM Shedding and interaction of solitons in imperfect (123) the Kubo formula for 2D Hall current. (133) medium. Alexander Elgart*, Jeffrey H Schenker and Misha Chertkov*, Ildar Gabitov,LANL,Igor Michael Aizenman, Princeton University Kolokolov, Budker Institute, Russia, and Vladimir (972-81-139) Lebedev, Landau Institute, Russia (972-82-119) 9:45AM Scattering for one-dimensional Schrodinger¨ 10:00AM Inertial Manifolds and Gevrey Regularity for the (124) operators with slowly decaying potentials. (134) Moore–Greitzer model of Turbo–Machine Engine. Michael Christ, University of California, Berkeley, Yeojin Chung*andEdriss S Titi,Universityof and Alexander Kiselev*, University of Chicago California, Irvine (972-35-48) (972-81-121) 10:30AM The Level-Set Method for Modeling Epitaxial Growth. 10:25AM Localization and Delocalization for Random (135) Christian Ratsch*, Russel Caflisch, Myungjoo (125) Polymer Chains. Kang,UCLA,Max Petersen,UCLAandGeorgia Svetlana Jitomirskaya,UCIrvine,Hermann Tech, Mark Gyure, HRL Laboratories, and Dimitri Schulz-Baldes, UC Irvine and TU Berlin, and Gunter Vvedensky, Imperial College (972-35-36) Stolz*, Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham (972-82-38) Special Session on Harmonic Analyses and Partial Special Session on Extremal Metrics and Moduli Differential Equations Spaces 9:00 AM –10:50AM Room 220, Physical 8:40 AM –10:50AM Room 108, Rowland Hall Sciences Classroom Bldg Organizers: , University of Illinois, Steven Bradlow Organizers: Gustavo Ponce,Universityof Urbana-Champaign California Santa Barbara ClaudeLeBrun , State University of Gigliola Staffilani, Stanford University New York, Stony Brook 9:00AM A characterization of finite sets that tile the , University of California Yat Sun Poon (136) integers. Riverside Izabella Laba, University of British COlumbia 8:40AM Canonical metrics in Kahler geometry. (972-11-185) (126) Gang Tian, M.I.T. (972-53-134) 9:40AM Besov-Morrey spaces and applications to PDE. 9:30AM K Energy and K stability. (137) Anna L Mazzucato, Yale University and MSRI, (127) Zhiqin Lu, UC Irvine (972-53-30) Berkeley (972-35-141) 10:00AM Direct images of stable triples. 10:20AM On the initial value problem for the fully non-linear (128) Donghoon Hyeon, Rice University (972-14-79) (138) 1-D Schrodinger¨ equation. Preliminary report. 10:30AM Hitchin-Kobayashi correspondence, moduli, quivers Gustavo Ponce*andWee Keong Lim,Universityof (129) and vortices. Preliminary report. California-Santa Barbara (972-35-32) Luis Alvarez-Consul*, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Oscar Garcia-Prada,Departamentode Special Session on Dynamical Systems of Billiard Type Matematicas, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (972-58-135) 9:00 AM –10:50AM Room 240, Physical Sciences Classroom Bldg Special Session on Topology of Algebraic Varieties Organizers: Marek Rychlik, University of Arizona Andrew Torok, University of Houston 9:00 AM –10:40AM Room 210, Physical 9:00AM Periodic billiard orbits in non-euclidean polygons. Sciences Classroom Bldg  (139) Preliminary report. Organizers: Eriko Hironaka,FloridaState Eugene Gutkin, Santa Monica, CA (972-37-55) University 9:40AM Mushrooms and Other Billiards With Divided Phase Grigory Mikhalkin,UniversityofUtah  (140) Space. Leonid A Bunimovich, Georgia Institute of 9:00AM On arrangements of a plane real quintic curve with (130) respect to a pair of lines. Technology (972-37-64) Anatoly B. Korchagin, Texas Tech University 10:20AM Statistics and ergodicity on a class of partially (972-14-10) (141) hyperbolic symmetric attractors. Michael Field, University of Houston (972-58-131) 10:00AM On the Mapping Class Group of S3 × S3. (131) Nikolai A Krylov, University of Illinois at Chicago (972-55-106) Special Session on Symplectic Geometry

Special Session on Partial Differential Equations and 9:00 AM –10:45AM Room 230, Physical Applications Sciences Classroom Bldg Organizer: Jonathan Weitsman,Universityof 9:00 AM –10:55AM Room 120, Multipurpose California, Santa Cruz Science and Technology 9:00AM Constrained quantization of the harmonic Organizer: Edriss S. Titi, University of California (142) oscillator. Preliminary report. Irvine Ranee Brylinski, Penn State Univ (972-81-109) 9:00AM Solitary pulses in optical fibers with dispersion 10:00AM Cohomological induction and the quantization of (132) management at second and third order.  (143) noncompact coadjoint orbits Session Name: Special Jamison T Moeser,BrownUniversity,Ildar R Session on Symplectic Geometry. Gabitov*, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Gregg J Zuckerman, Mathematics Department, C.K.R.T. Jones, Brown University (972-35-177) Yale University (972-22-86)

Appendix–8 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 48, NUMBER 11 Irvine, CA, Sunday, November 11 – Program of theSessions

Invited Address 4:30PM Critical Thresholds vs. Finite Time Breakdown in (154) Euler Dynamics. 11:10 AM – NOON Room 104, Rowland Hall Hailiang Liu*, UCLA, Mathematics Department,, and Eitan Tadmor, UCLA (972-76-35) (144) Dispersive Equations and Almost Conservation Laws. 5:00PM A Pseudospectral Method for the Solution of the Gigliola Staffilani, Brown University (Providence, RI) (155) Partial Differential Equations in an Inverse and Stanford University (Stanford, CA) (972-35-200) Scattering Problem. Mohsen Razzaghi, Depattment of Mathematics and Statistics (972-35-67) Invited Address

1:30 PM –2:20PM Room 104, Rowland Hall Special Session on Groups and Covering Spaces in (145) The topology of Hamiltonian Loop Group spaces. Algebraic Geometry Jonathan Weitsman, University of California,Santa Cruz (972-00-202) 3:00 PM –5:50PM Room 114, Multipurpose Science and Technology Special Session on Quantum Topology Organizers: Michael Fried, University of California Irvine 3:00 PM –5:20PM Room 114, Rowland Hall Helmut Voelklein, University of Florida Organizers: Louis Kauffman, University of Illinois 3:00PM Basic algebras for sporadic simple groups in GAP. at Chicago (156) Preliminary report. Jozef Przytycki, George Washington Klaus Lux*andT Hoffman, University of Arizona University (972-20-159) Fernando Souza,Universityof 3:40PM Maximal automorphism groups of curves of small Waterloo (157) genus. Preliminary report. 3:00PM Virtual Knots, Biquandles and Bioriented Quantum Kay Magaard, Wayne State University, Sergey (146) Algebras. Shpectorov*, Bowling Green State University, and Louis H Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago Helmut Voelklein, University of Florida (972-20-95) (972-57-147) 4:20PM break 3:30PM Extensions and cocycle invariants from twisted 4:40PM Computing braid orbits with GAP. Preliminary (147) cohomology theory of quandles. (158) report. J. Scott Carter, University of South Alabama, Kay Magaard*, Wayne State University, Sergey Mohamed Elhamdadi and Masahico Saito*, Shpectorov, Bowling Green State University, and University of South Florida (972-57-96) Helmut Voelklein, University of Florida (972-20-97) 4:00PM Untwisted 2-cocycles and twisted 3-cocycles. 5:20PM Families of covers of the sphere and their images in  (148) J. Scott Carter*, University of South Alabama, (159) Mg. Preliminary report. Mohamed Elhamdadi, Marina A Nikiforou and Helmut Voelklein, University of Florida (972-14-46) Masahico Saito, University of South Florida (972-55-77) 4:30PM A move on diagrams that generates S-equivalence Special Session on Random and Deterministic (149) of knots. Schrodinger¨ Operators Swatee Naik*, University of Nevada, Reno and University of California, Irvine, and Theodore 3:00 PM –5:55PM Room 122, Multipurpose Stanford, New Mexico State University (972-57-190) Science and Technology 5:00PM 3-manifold invariants and periodicity of homology Organizers: Svetlana Jitomirskaya,Universityof (150) spheres. California Irvine Patrick M Gilmer*, Louisiana Stae University, Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska, Boise State University, Abel Klein, University of California and Jozef H Przytycki, George Washington Irvine (972-57-100) 3:00PM Spectral analysis of two-dimensional quasicrystal (160) models. Preliminary report. Special Session on Partial Differential Equations and David Damanik, California Institute of Technology (972-81-56) Applications 3:30PM On the application of some M.G.Krein ideas to the 3:00 PM –5:25PM Room 120, Multipurpose (161) spectral analysis of Schrodinger¨ operators. Science and Technology Serguei Denissov, California Institute of Technology, Moscow State University (972-34-28) Organizer: Edriss S. Titi, University of California 4:00PM Three-Dimensional Thin-film Photonic Crystals. Irvine (162) Alexander Figotin, University of California at Irvine 3:00PM Instabilities in fluid motion. (972-78-142) (151) Susan Friedlander, U of Illinois-chicago 4:30PM Nonlinear wavepacket interactions in periodic (972-76-175) (163) media. 3:30PM Space analyticity for solutions of the 2D Anatoli V Babin, UC Irvine (972-78-54) (152) Navier-Stokes system. 5:00PM Fractional Moment Methods for Finite Rank Igor Kukavica, University of Southern California (164) Perturbations. Preliminary report. (972-35-150) Robert J Sims*, University of California, Irvine, 4:00PM New scale of regularity spaces for the Gunter Stolz, University of Alabama at Birmingham, (153) incompressible Euler equations. and Sergi Naboko, St. Petersburg, Russia Eitan Tadmor, UCLA (972-35-33) (972-81-158)

DECEMBER 2001 NOTICES OF THE AMS Appendix–9 Program of theSessions– Irvine, CA, Sunday, November 11 (cont’d.)

5:30PM Laplacians with singular continuous 3:30PM Smoothness and strict convexity in operator spaces.  (165) spectrum. Preliminary report. (174) Edward G Effros, UCLA (972-46-92) Alexander Teplyaev, UC Riverside (972-81-103) 4:00PM Applications of free entropy to certain type (175) II1-subfactors. Special Session on Extremal Metrics and Moduli Marius B Stefan, UCLA (972-46-189) Spaces 4:30PM An alternative Daugavet Property. Preliminary (176) report. 3:00 PM –5:20PM Room 108, Rowland Hall Miguel Martin, Universidad de Granada, Spain (972-46-68) Organizers: Steven Bradlow, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 5:00PM The structure of Lie derivations on C*-algebras (177) (Work in progress with Armando R. Villena). ClaudeLeBrun , State University of Preliminary report. New York, Stony Brook Martin Mathieu, Queen’s University Belfast Yat Sun Poon, University of California (972-46-60) Riverside 5:30PM Lacunary matrices. 3:00PM Three remarks on the geometry of special (178) Asma Harcharras*, University of (166) Lagrangian 3-cycles. Preliminary report. Missouri-Columbia, Stefan Neuwirth,Universit´ede Robert L Bryant, Duke University (972-53-17) Franche-Comt´e, and Krzysztof Oleszkiewicz, 3:50PM On Moduli Spaces of Sasakian Structures. Warsaw University (972-47-114) (167) Preliminary report. Charles P Boyer, University of New Mexico Special Session on Symplectic Geometry (972-53-85) 4:20PM break 3:00 PM –5:55PM Room 230, Physical Sciences Classroom Bldg 4:30PM Deformations of Hypercomplex Structures (168) associated to Heisenberg Groups. Organizer: Jonathan Weitsman,Universityof Gueo V Grantcharov*, University of Connecticut, California, Santa Cruz Henrik Pedersen, University of Southern Denmark, 3:00PM Projective flatness in geometric quantization and and Yat Sun Poon, University of California, (179) the Maslov index. Riverside (972-32-107) SiyeWu , University of Colorado, Boulder 5:00PM Mirror symmetry, Langlands duality and Hitchin (972-53-62) (169) systems. 3:45PM Equivariant cohomology of Grassmannians via Tamas Hausel, Miller Institute, University of (180) equivariant puzzles. California, Berkeley (972-14-19) Allen Knutson*, UC Berkeley, and Terence Tao, UCLA (972-05-93) Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Complex 4:30PM Dirac Operators on Homogeneous Loop Spaces. Analysis (181) Gregory D Landweber,UniversityofOregon (972-81-88) 3:00 PM –4:20PM Room 124, Multipurpose 5:15PM Symplectic geometry and symplectic topology. Science and Technology (182) Susan Tolman, University of Illinois at Organizers: Xiaojun Huang,RutgersUniversity Urbana-Champaign (972-51-191) Song-Ying Li, University of California, Irvine Bernard Russo Associate Secretary 3:00PM Convex mappings in several complex variables. Irvine, California (170) Preliminary report. Sheng Gong, University of California, San Diego (972-32-196) 3:30PM Bundle rigidtiy of tangent bundles over Kahler (171) manifolds. Preliminary report. Bun Wong*, UC Riverside, Wing Sum Cheung, Univ. of Hong-Kong, and Stephen Yau,Univ.of Illinois at Chicago (972-32-197) 4:00PM Nonlinear Riemann-Hilbert problems on domains in (172) several complex variables. Marshall A Whittlesey, California State University, San Marcos (972-32-178)

Special Session on Operator Spaces, Operator Algebras, and Applications

3:00 PM –5:50PM Room 118, Multipurpose Science and Technology Organizers: Marius Junge, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Timur Oikhberg,UniversityofTexas and University of California Irvine 3:00PM One parameter semigroups of endomorphisms of (173) B(H) and of factors of type II1. Alexis Alevras, UCSB (972-46-113)

Appendix–10 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 48, NUMBER 11