Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by Day

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Joint Mathematics Meetings
San Diego, CA, January 6-9, 2002
Meeting #973

Sunday January 6, 2002

• Sunday January 6, 2002, 7:00 a.m.-7:45 a.m.
  Ecumenical Christian Worship Service
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Joint Meetings Registration
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 7:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
  Employment Center
  Registration, orientation, and interview center (see article for specific hours.
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  AMS-MAA-MER Special Session on Mathematics and Education Reform, I
  Organizers:
  William H. Barker, Bowdoin College
  Jerry L. Bona, University of Texas at Austin
  Naomi D. Fisher, University of Illinois at Chicago ndfisher@uic.edu
  Kenneth C. Millett, University of California Santa Barbara
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    International Aspects of Mathematics Education.
    Deborah Hughes Hallett*, University of Arizona
    (973-97-983)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Japanese High Schools.
    Kazuko I West*, Teachers College, Columbia University
    (973-97-1106)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Cross-National Comparison of Curriculum Variables in School Mathematics Achievement.
    Curtis C McKnight*, University of Oklahoma
    (973-97-1032)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Mathematics Education Around the World: Bridging Policy and Practice.
    Gail Burrill*, Michigan State University
    Joan Ferrini-Mundy, Michigan State University
    (973-97-1293)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS-ASL Special Session on Set Theory and Classification Problems, I
  Organizers:
  Simon R. Thomas, Rutgers University sthomas@math.rutgers.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Break
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Some new results concerning forcing with measure algebras.
    James Hirschorn*, University of Helsinki
    (973-03-777)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On Borel and Dual Borel Conjecture.
    Tomek Bartoszynski*, Boise State University
    (973-03-722)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Strength of the Continuum Hypothesis in Topology.
    Todd Eisworth*, University of Northern Iowa
    (973-03-651)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Bounding by canonical functions, with CH.
    Paul B Larson*, Univerity of Toronto
    Saharon Shelah, Hebrew University
    (973-03-775)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Large Creatures.
    Andrzej Roslanowski*, University of Nebraska at Omaha
    Saharon Shelah, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    (973-03-782)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Symbolic Dynamics, I
  Organizers:
  Aimee S. A. Johnson, Swarthmore College aimee@swarthmore.edu
  Kathleen M. Madden, Drew University kmadden@drew.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Some open problems in exponential symbolic dynamics.
    Robert L Devaney*, Boston University
    (973-37-278)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Entropy of skew products with commuting group automorphisms.
    Douglas Lind*, University of Washington
    Manfred Einsiedler, Pennsylvania State University
    (973-37-987)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Automorphisms of ordered shifts.
    William Geller*, IUPUI
    Michal Misiurewicz, IUPUI
    (973-37-1443)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Cantor Sets which are Minimal Sets.
    Bill Basener*, Rochester Institute of Technology
    (973-37-719)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Break.
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Symmetries of Shifts of Finite Type.
    Daniel S Silver, University of South Alabama
    Susan G Williams*, University of South Alabama
    (973-37-1369)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, I
  Organizers:
  Paul C. Roberts, University of Utah roberts@math.utah.edu
  Anurag K. Singh, University of Utah singh@math.utah.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Remarks on bounding local cohomology of Frobenius powers of ideals.
    Ian M Aberbach*, University of Missouri
    (973-13-1342)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Frobenius action on local cohomology modules.
    Florian Enescu*, University of Utah
    (973-13-1119)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Tight closure and linkage classes in Gorenstein rings.
    Adela N Vraciu*, University of Kansas
    (973-13-690)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Break.
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Break.
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Limit Hilbert-Kunz Multiplicities.
    Claudia Miller*, University of Toronto
    Anurag K Singh, University of Utah
    (973-13-1356)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Computability Theory with Applications, I
  Organizers:
  Douglas Cenzer, University of Florida cenzer@math.ufl.edu
  Jeffrey B. Remmel, University of California San Diego jremmel@ucsd.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Invariance and Noninvariance in the Lattice of $\Pi_1^0$ Classes.
    Peter A Cholak, University of Notre Dame
    Rod G Downey*, Victoria University, NZ
    (973-03-945)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A Decision Procedure for the $AE$-theory of the Lattice of $\Pi^0_1$ Classes.
    Linda Lawton*, Western Illinois University
    (973-03-1208)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Definability and structural properties for the lattice of $Pi^0_1$--classes.
    Andr\'e Nies*, University of Chicago
    (973-03-1385)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Lattice of $\Pi^0_1$ Classes.
    Douglas Cenzer, University of Florida
    Farzan Riazati*, Savannah College of Art and Design
    (973-03-742)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Medevev degrees of $\Pi^0_1$ classes are dense.
    Douglas A Cenzer, University of Florida
    Peter G Hinman*, University of Michigan
    (973-03-821)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Computability of the Common Derivation in Locally Determined Logic Programs.
    Amy K. C. S. Vanderbilt*, Xavier University
    (973-03-929)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Fractal Geometry and Applications: A Jubilee of Benoit Mandelbrot, I
  Organizers:
  Michel L. Lapidus, University of California Riverside lapidus@math.ucr.edu
  Machiel van Frankenhuysen, Rutgers University machiel@math.rutgers.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The wavelet formalism for multifractal analysis.
    Jes\'us Ur{\'\i}as*, IICO--UASLP
    Salom\'e J Murgu{\'\i}a, IICO--UASLP
    (973-37-1154)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Multifractal products of poissonian random weights.
    Julien Barral*, I.N.R.I.A.
    (973-60-1480)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Directional entropy and complexity in lattice dynamical systems.
    Valentin S Afraimovich*, IICO-UASLP
    (973-37-1140)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Multifractal Rigidity: More Questions Than Answers.
    Yakov B Pesin*, Pennsylvania State University
    (973-37-1239)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Graph Directed Markovian Systems.
    Daniel R Mauldin*, University of North Texas
    Mariusz Urbanski, University of North Texas
    (973-37-1133)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The role of the Mandelbrot set in complex dynamics.
    Mitsuhiro Shishikura*, Kyoto University
    (973-37-1273)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Graph Theory, I
  Organizers:
  Andre Kundgen, California State University, San Marcos akundgen@csusm.edu
  K. Brooks Reid, California State University, San Marcos breid@csusm.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The Relaxed Game Chromatic Number of Graphs.
    Charles Dunn, Arizona State University
    H. A Kierstead*, Arizona State University
    (973-05-1194)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Relaxed Game Chromatic Index of $k$-degenerate Graphs.
    Charles L Dunn*, Arizona State University
    (973-05-175)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Splittable colorings.
    Radhika Ramamurthi*, University of California at San Diego
    Zoltan Furedi, University of Illinois / Renyi Institute
    Andre Kundgen, California State University at San Marcos
    (973-05-1057)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On Anti-Ramsey numbers of graphs.
    Maria Axenovich*, Iowa State University
    (973-05-892)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Constrained Ramsey numbers of graphs.
    Tao Jiang*, Miami University (Ohio)
    (973-05-859)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Pattern Ramsey Numbers.
    Robert E Jamison, Clemson University
    Douglas B West*, University of Illinois
    (973-05-1236)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Low Dimensional Topology, I
  Organizers:
  Tim D. Cochran, Rice University cochran@rice.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    3-Manifolds, tangles and persistent invariants.
    Jozef H Przytycki, The George Washington University
    Daniel S Silver*, University of South Alabama
    Susan G Williams, University of South Alabama
    (973-57-94)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Distance $\ge 3$ Heegaard splittings.
    John P Hempel*, Rice University
    (973-57-1366)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On Injective Homomorphisms of Mapping Class Groups.
    Elmas Irmak*, Michigan State University
    (973-57-1372)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Topological Symmetry Groups of Graphs Embedded in $S^{3}$.
    Erica L Flapan*, Pomona College
    (973-57-716)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Seifert Surfaces for Graphs, Planarity, and Associated Links.
    Simrat M Ghuman*, New York City Technical College, CUNY
    (973-57-902)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    One relator 3-orbifolds.
    James D Borkowski*, University of Tennessee
    (973-57-1316)
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#13: Part A
  Getting students involved in undergraduate research.
  Organizers:
  Aparna W. Higgins, University of Dayton
  Joseph A. Gallian, University of Minnesota, Duluth
  Stephen G. Hartke, Rutgers University
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse \#9: Part A
  The Fibonacci and Catalan numbers.
  Organizers:
  Ralph P. Grimaldi, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
• Sunday January 6, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  SIAM Minisymposium on Modeling and Simulation for Thin Films
  Organizers:
  Russel Caflisch, University of California Los Angeles caflisch@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Connecting Ab Inito and Kinetic Models: Simulation of the Equilibrium and Growth Kinetics of III-V Semiconductor Surfaces.
    Mark F Gyure, HRL Laboratories
    Frank Grosse*, HRL Laboratories
    (973-82-1486)
  • 8:35 a.m.
    Kinetic Monte-Carlo simulations and approximations.
    Tim P Schulze*, University of Tennessee
    (973-82-1474)
  • 9:10 a.m.
    Atomistic Theory of Elasticity for Epitaxial Systems.
    Cameron R Connell*, UCLA
    Russel E Caflisch, UCLA
    (973-74-1478)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Morphological stability of strained alloy film growth.
    Brian J Spencer*, University at Buffalo
    (973-74-1476)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Feedback Control of Plasma Etching of Silicon Nitride Thin Films.