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2007 Fall Southeastern Meeting
Murfreesboro, TN, November 3-4, 2007 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1033

Associate secretaries:
Matthew Miller, AMS miller@math.sc.edu

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Saturday November 3, 2007

• Saturday November 3, 2007, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  South Lobby, Business and Aerospace Building
• Saturday November 3, 2007, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  East Lobby, Business and Aerospace Building
• Saturday November 3, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Physical Knots and Links, I
  Room S332, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  Claus Ernst, Western Kentucky University claus.ernst@wku.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    DNA Knotting: Occurrences, Consequences \& Resolution.
    Jennifer K Mann*, The University of Texas at Austin
    Richard W Deibler, Harvard Medical School
    Zhirong Liu, University of Toronto
    De Witt L Sumners, Florida State University
    Lynn Zechiedrich, Baylor College of Medicine
    Hue Sun Chan, University of Toronto
    (1033-92-255)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Polynomial invariants, knot distances and topoisomerase action.
    Hyeyoung Moon*, University of Iowa
    (1033-57-200)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Tangle analysis of protein-DNA complexes.
    Isabel K. Darcy*, University of Iowa
    (1033-57-185)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Modelling DNA unknotting by Type II Topoisomerases.
    Mariel Vazquez*, San Francisco State University
    (1033-92-161)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Intrinsic linking and knotting is arbitrarily complex.
    Erica Flapan*, Pomona College
    Blake Mellor, Loyola Marymount University
    Ramin Naimi, Occidental College
    (1033-57-32)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On certain vector field invariants in $R^3$.
    Jason Parsley*, Wake Forest University
    (1033-53-244)
• Saturday November 3, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Lie and Representation Theory, I
  Room S328, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Terrell L. Hodge, Western Michigan University terrell.hodge@wmich.edu
  Daniel K. Nakano, University of Georgia
  Brian J. Parshall, University of Virginia
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Cohomology and support varieties for Lie superalgebras II.
    Brian D. Boe*, University of Georgia
    Jonathan R. Kujawa, University of Oklahoma
    Daniel K. Nakano, University of Georgia
    (1033-17-80)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Second Cohomology Groups for Frobenius Kernels.
    Caroline B Wright*, University of Georgia
    (1033-18-123)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    AR Aproach to affine canonical bases.
    Zongzhu Lin*, Kansas State University
    Yiqiang Li, Yale University
    (1033-16-139)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Representations of Lie superalgebras.
    Jonathan Kujawa*, University of Oklahoma
    (1033-17-88)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Cyclotomic Specht filtrations and $\Delta$-filtrations.
    Wesley J Cramer*, University of Virginia
    (1033-20-235)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Extending real-valued characters of finite linear and unitary groups.
    Rod Gow, National University of Ireland, Dublin
    C. Ryan Vinroot*, University of Arizona
    (1033-20-135)
• Saturday November 3, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Algebraic Topology, I
  Room S330, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Mark W. Johnson, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona mwj3@psu.edu
  Donald Yau, The Ohio State University at Newark
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Multiplihedra: polytopes, pasting, and parameterized enrichment.
    Stefan A. Forcey*, Tennessee State University
    (1033-55-10)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Homotopy fiber products of homotopy theories.
    Julie Bergner*, Kansas State University
    (1033-55-46)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Loop spaces and coherence for braided monoidal bicategories.
    Nick Gurski*, Yale University
    (1033-19-187)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Fixed point theory and trace for bicategories.
    Kate Ponto*, University of Notre Dame
    (1033-55-209)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Clifford Algebras and Conformal Nets.
    Christopher L. Douglas*, University of California, Berkeley
    Arthur Bartels, University of Muenster
    Andre Henriques, University of Utrecht
    (1033-55-136)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Representing objects in algebraic $K$-theory.
    A. D. Elmendorf*, Purdue University Calumet
    (1033-19-72)
• Saturday November 3, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Enumeration, Optimization, Geometry, and Statistics, I
  Room S324, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Nicholas A. Loehr, College of William and Mary
  Gabor Pataki, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  Margaret A. Readdy, University of Kentucky and M.I.T.
  Carla D. Savage, North Carolina State University savage@csc.ncsu.edu
  Ruriko Yoshida, University of Kentucky
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A solid angle theory for real polytopes.
    Sinai Robins*, Temple University
    (1033-52-239)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Fibonacci Numbers, Basis Reduction, and Integer Programming.
    Gabor Pataki*, Dept of Statistics and Operations Research, UNC Chapel Hill
    Mustafa Tural, Dept of Statistics and Operations Research, UNC Chapel Hill
    (1033-90-61)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Inversion arrangements and the Bruhat order.
    Axel Hultman, KTH, Stockholm
    Svante Linusson, KTH, Stockholm
    John Shareshian*, Washington University, St. Louis
    Jonas Sj\"ostrand, KTH, Stockhom
    (1033-05-215)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Relations among conditional probabilities.
    Jason R Morton*, University of California, Berkeley
    (1033-14-223)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Likelihood ratio tests and singularities.
    Mathias Drton*, University of Chicago
    (1033-62-137)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Polyhedral geometry for univeristy ranking data.
    Peter McKinley Huggins*, UC Berkeley
    (1033-52-162)
• Saturday November 3, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications, I
  Room S260, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Emmanuele DiBenedetto, Vanderbilt University
  Mikhail Perepelitsa, Vanderbilt University mikhail.perepelitsa@vanderbilt.edu
  Gieri Simonett, Vanderbilt University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Gauss-Green Theorem for Weakly Differentiable Vector Fields, Sets of Finite Perimeter, and Balance Laws.
    Gui-Qiang Chen*, Northwestern University
    Monica Torres, Purdue University
    William Ziemer, Indiana University
    (1033-35-79)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Hyperbolic Conservation Laws with Involutions and Contingent Entropies.
    Constantine M. Dafermos*, Brown University
    (1033-35-37)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Numerical determination of stability of viscous shock waves.
    Kevin Zumbrun*, Indiana University
    (1033-34-144)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Stationary gas dynamical shocks with symmetry.
    Kris Jenssen*, Penn State
    Erik Endres, Penn State
    Mark Williams, UNC CHapel Hill
    (1033-35-141)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    ODEs with fast transitions and spherical viscous shocks.
    Mark Williams*, Univ. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill
    (1033-76-158)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Quasilinear hyperbolic system of partial differential equations and the associated wave interaction phenomena.
    V D Sharma*, I I T Bombay, India
    (1033-35-38)
• Saturday November 3, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems, I
  Room S270, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Wenzhang Huang, University of Alabama, Huntsville
  Jia Li, University of Alabama, Huntsville
  Zachariah Sinkala, Middle Tennessee State University zsinkala@mtsu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Uniqueness Results for CMV Operators with Verblunsky Coefficients.
    S Clark*, University of Missouri-Rolla
    F. Gesztesy, University of Missouri-Columbia
    M. Zinchenko, California Institute of Technology
    (1033-34-204)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Steklov Eigenproblem and Elliptic Equations with Nonlinear Boundary Conditions.
    M. N. Nkashama*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    Nsoki Mavinga, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    (1033-35-201)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Bounded Solutions of Nonlinear Parabolic Systems.
    Nsoki Mavinga*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    Marius Mubenga Nkashama, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    (1033-35-118)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A generalization of Lyapunov Theorem for the strong stability and the asymptotic behavior of linear dynamical systems.
    Minh Van Nguyen*, University of West Georgia
    (1033-37-31)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Restoration from Incomplete Data in the Transformed Domain.
    Lixin Shen*, Syracuse University
    (1033-42-207)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Sign of wave speed for bistable traveling wave solutions of a competition model.
    Wenzhang Huang*, University of Alabama in Huntsville 5
    (1033-34-191)
• Saturday November 3, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory, I
  Room S301, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Rong Luo, Middle Tennessee State University
  Don Nelson, Middle Tennessee State University
  Chris Stephens, Middle Tennessee State University cstephen@mtsu.edu
  Xiaoya Zha, Middle Tennessee State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On Minimally $k$-Connected Matroids.
    Xiangqian Zhou*, Marshall University
    Talmage J Reid, University of Mississippi
    Haidong Wu, University of Mississippi
    (1033-05-64)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    On the Largest Eigenvalue of Non-regular Graphs.
    Bolian Liu, South China Normal University
    Jian Shen*, Texas State University
    Xinmao Wang, University of Science and Technology of China
    (1033-05-230)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On Vizing's Independence Number Conjecture of Critical Graphs.
    Rong Luo, Middle Tennessee State University
    Yue Zhao*, University of Central Florida
    (1033-05-28)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Adapted list coloring of graphs and hypergraphs.
    Alexandr Kostochka*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Xuding Zhu, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
    (1033-05-25)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Acyclic colorings of Hamming graphs.
    Gretchen L Matthews*, Clemson University
    (1033-05-117)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Colored problems are NP-complete for paths.
    Peter John Slater*, University of Alabama in Huntsville
    (1033-05-213)
• Saturday November 3, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Splines and Wavelets with Applications, I
  Room S274, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Don Hong, Middle Tennessee State University dhong@mtsu.edu
  Qingtang Jiang, University of Missouri-St. Louis
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Existence of MRA Tight Frames on NURBS.
    Wenjie He, University of Missouri-St. Louis
    Weiwei Zhu*, Uniersity of Missouri-St. Louis
    (1033-41-181)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Wavelet Parameterizations and Image Compression.
    David W Roach*, Murray State University
    (1033-41-241)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Refinable macroelements and semi-regular multiresolutions on triangulations.
    Douglas P Hardin*, Vanderbilt University
    Bruce Kessler, Western Kentucky University
    David Roach, Murray State University
    (1033-41-238)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Construction of Filter Banks for Hexagonal Data Image Processing.
    Qingtang Jiang*, University of Missouri - St. Louis
    (1033-42-192)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A New Canonical Form of a Matrix Mask and Balanced Biorthogonal Wavelets.
    Bin Han*, University of Alberta, Canada
    (1033-41-113)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Univariate 3-channel Wavelet Filter Banks from Centrally Symmetric Matrices.
    Junqiao You, Hubei University China
    Qiuhui Chen, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China
    Yi Wang*, Auburn University Montgomery
    (1033-42-245)
• Saturday November 3, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Billiards and Related Topics, I
  Room S334, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Sergei Tabachnikov, Pennsylvania State University tabachni@math.psu.edu
  Richard Schwartz, Brown University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Speed of ergodicity for rational polygonal billiards.
    Giovanni Forni*, University of Maryland
    Jayadev Athreya, Princeton University
    (1033-37-160)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Billiards in L-shaped tables with barriers.
    Matt C Bainbridge*, University of Chicago
    (1033-51-233)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Defocusing Fails for Non-Absolutely Focusing Components.
    Leonid A. Bunimovich, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Alexander Grigo*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1033-37-114)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Galton Board: limit theorems and recurrence.
    Nikolai Chernov*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    Dmitry Dolgopyat, PennState
    (1033-37-68)
• Saturday November 3, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Methods in Continuum Theory (dedicated to Jo Heath, Auburn University, on the occasion of her retirement), I
  Room S316, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Judy A. Kennedy, University of Delaware and Lamar University
  Krystyna M. Kuperberg, Auburn University kuperkm@auburn.edu
  Van C. Nall, University of Richmond
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Open questions concerning k-to-1 maps defined on continua.
    Jo W. Heath*, Auburn University
    (1033-54-29)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Inverse Limits with Upper Semi-continuous Functions That Are Unions of Mappings.
    W. T. Ingram*, Spring Branch, TX
    (1033-54-122)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Creating homogeneous twisted fiber bundles from higher dimensional Menger manifolds.
    Kevin B. Gammon*, Auburn University
    (1033-57-87)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Concerning Indecomposability of Preimages of Planar Continua Under the Map $z \mapsto z^n$.
    R Patrick Vernon*, Rhodes College
    (1033-54-47)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Mappings of continua with some special properties.
    Andrew Lelek*, Auburn University
    (1033-54-85)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Local Separating Points and Finite Oscillation.
    Dale Daniel*, Lamar University
    (1033-54-103)
• Saturday November 3, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Using National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Data to Enhance Assessment and Inform Instruction
  Room S279, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Michaele F. Chappell, Middle Tennessee State University chappell@mtsu.edu
  Judith H. Hector, Walters State Community College
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Exploring Students' Mathematical Thinking with Open-Ended Questions.
    Judith E. Hector*, Walters State Community College
    Jackie Vogel, Austin Peay State University
    (1033-97-52)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Audience Participation Workshop will follow the talk.
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Assessing Students' Mathematical Thinking with Open-Ended Questions.
    Jackie Vogel*, Austin Peay State University
    Judith H. Hector, Walters State Community College
    (1033-97-57)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Audience Participation Workshop will follow the talk.
• Saturday November 3, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Advances in Algorithmic Methods for Algebraic Structures, I
  Room S276, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  James B. Hart, Middle Tennessee State University jhart@mtsu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Computable algebra.
    Valentina S. Harizanov*, George Washington University
    (1033-03-188)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Ramification Targeted Polynomial Searches.
    Sharon Brueggeman*, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
    (1033-12-66)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Space Complexity of Torsion-Free Abelian Groups.
    Douglas Cenzer, University of Florida
    Zia Uddin*, University of Wisconsin-Platteville
    (1033-03-165)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Index sets of fields.
    Sara Quinn*, University of Notre Dame
    V. Harizanov, George Washington University
    J.F. Knight, University of Notre Dame
    K. Lange, University of Chicago
    C. Maher, University of Notre Dame
    C. McCoy, University of Notre Dame
    (1033-03-173)
• Saturday November 3, 2007, 11:05 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Ubiquitous billiards.
  Room S102, Business and Aerospace Building
  Sergei Tabachnikov*, Pennsylvania State University
  (1033-37-03)
• Saturday November 3, 2007, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Bridging algebra and geometry via cohomology.
  Room S102, Business and Aerospace Building
  Daniel K. Nakano*, University of Georgia
  (1033-20-01)
• Saturday November 3, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Physical Knots and Links, II
  Room S332, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  Claus Ernst, Western Kentucky University claus.ernst@wku.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Thin Position in KNots and Manifolds.
    Hugh N Howards*, Wake Forest University
    (1033-57-157)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Cobordism of surface knots and iterated intersection theory.
    Kent E Orr*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    Vladimir Turaev, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (1033-57-131)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Using Tutte Polynomials of Tensor Products to find Jones Polynomials of Large Knots.
    Kenneth Edward Hinson*, UNC -Charlotte
    (1033-00-143)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Tutte polynomials of tensor products of colored graphs.
    Yuanan Diao, UNC-Charlotte
    Gabor Hetyei*, UNC-Charlotte
    Kenneth Hinson, UNC-Charlotte
    (1033-05-133)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Entanglement Complexity of Systems of Self-Avoiding Walks in Lattice Tubes.
    Christine E Soteros*, University of Saskatchewan
    (1033-82-176)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The Linking Probability for 2-Component Links which Span a Lattice Tube.
    Mahshid Atapour*, University of Saskatchewan
    Christine Soteros, University of Saskatchewan
    (1033-82-98)
• Saturday November 3, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Lie and Representation Theory, II
  Room S328, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Terrell L. Hodge, Western Michigan University terrell.hodge@wmich.edu
  Daniel K. Nakano, University of Georgia
  Brian J. Parshall, University of Virginia
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Semistandard filtrations in highest weight categories.
    Leonard L Scott*, The University of Virginia
    (1033-18-147)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Factorial Schur Functions in Representation Theory.
    Victor Kreiman*, University of Georgia
    (1033-13-206)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Orbit closures in the enhanced nilpotent cone.
    Pramod N. Achar*, Louisiana State University
    Anthony Henderson, University of Sydney
    (1033-20-148)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Homology of the Steinberg variety and Weyl group coinvariants.
    J. Matthew Douglass*, University of North Texas
    (1033-20-146)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Some vanishing theorems for the twisted Dolbealt cohomology of the Complete flag varieties.
    Paramasamy Karuppuchamy*, University of Virginia
    (1033-14-166)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Horn Recursion for a new product in the cohomology of partial flag varieties SLn/P.
    Edward L Richmond*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (1033-14-97)
• Saturday November 3, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Algebraic Topology, II
  Room S330, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Mark W. Johnson, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona mwj3@psu.edu
  Donald Yau, The Ohio State University at Newark
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Twisted Equivariant $K$-theory and the Baum-Connes isomorphism conjecture.
    Christopher Dwyer*, Binghamton University
    Marco Varisco, Binghamton University
    (1033-19-112)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Computational work towards $K(ko)$.
    Michael A Hill*, University of Virginia
    (1033-55-127)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the $ku$-homolgy of ${\mathbb Z}_{p^e} \times {\mathbb Z}_{p^e}$.
    Leticia Zarate*, CINVESTAV - IPN
    (1033-55-13)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Chain rules for Goodwillie calculus of functors.
    Michael C Ching*, Johns Hopkins University
    (1033-55-177)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Finite generation of Tate cohomology and Freyd's generating hypothesis.
    Jon F Carlson, University of Georgia
    Sunil K Chebolu*, University of Western Ontario
    J\'{a}n Min\'{a}\v{c}, University of Western Ontario
    (1033-55-106)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Recovering a simplicial algebra from its normalized chains.
    James M Turner*, Calvin College
    (1033-55-178)
• Saturday November 3, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Enumeration, Optimization, Geometry, and Statistics, II
  Room S324, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Nicholas A. Loehr, College of William and Mary
  Gabor Pataki, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  Margaret A. Readdy, University of Kentucky and M.I.T.
  Carla D. Savage, North Carolina State University savage@csc.ncsu.edu
  Ruriko Yoshida, University of Kentucky
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Generating Functions of Rational Polyhedra and Dedekind-Carlitz Polynomials.
    Matthias Beck*, San Francisco State University
    Asia Matthews, Queen's University
    (1033-05-54)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    $h^*$-Vectors for Lattice Polytopes.
    Benjamin J. Braun*, University of Kentucky
    (1033-52-109)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Combinatorial Proofs of Various $q$-Pell Identities via Tilings.
    Karen S Briggs*, North Georgia College & State University
    David P Little, Penn State University
    James A Sellers, Penn State University
    (1033-05-211)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Break for discussions.
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The combinatorics of treks.
    Seth Sullivant*, Harvard University
    (1033-05-49)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Polytopes and Arrangements: Diameter and Curvature.
    Antoine Deza*, McMaster University
    Tamas Terlaky, McMaster University
    Yuriy Zinchenko, McMaster University
    (1033-52-50)
• Saturday November 3, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications, II
  Room S260, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Emmanuele DiBenedetto, Vanderbilt University
  Mikhail Perepelitsa, Vanderbilt University mikhail.perepelitsa@vanderbilt.edu
  Gieri Simonett, Vanderbilt University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Variability of the Single Photon Response in Rod Phototransduction.
    Emmanuele DiBenedetto*, Vanderbilt University
    (1033-35-248)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Wiener's Criterion at $\infty$ for the Heat Equation and its Measure-theoretical Counterpart.
    Ugur G. Abdulla*, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida
    (1033-35-48)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Boundary Behaviour of $p$-Harmonic Functions in Domains Beyond Lipschitz Domains.
    John Lewis, University of Kentucky
    Kaj Nystr{\"o}m*, Ume{\aa} University
    (1033-35-55)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Flow of a surfactant-laden thin liquid film down an inclined plane.
    Michael Shearer*, North Carolina State University
    (1033-35-56)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Asymptotic analysis of viscoelastic sink flow in a wedge.
    Thomas Hagen*, The University of Memphis
    (1033-76-42)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The mushy zone free boundary problem.
    Tim P. Schulze*, University of Tennessee
    M. Grae Worster, University of Cambridge
    (1033-80-107)
• Saturday November 3, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
  Special Session on Using National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Data to Enhance Assessment and Inform Instruction
  Room S279, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Michaele F. Chappell, Middle Tennessee State University chappell@mtsu.edu
  Judith H. Hector, Walters State Community College
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Using Extended Multiple-Choice Assessment to Investigate Mathematical Thinking and Inform Instruction.
    Jason D. Johnson*, Middle Tennessee State University
    Michaele F. Chappell*, Middle Tennessee State University
    L. Diane Miller*, Middle Tennessee State University
    (1033-97-183)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Audience Participation Workshop will follow the talk.
  • 4:20 p.m.
    Using NAEP Items to Assess and Develop Preservice Teachers' Mathematical Content Knowledge.
    Holly G. Anthony*, Tennessee Tech University
    (1033-97-194)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Using Open-Ended NAEP Items, Student Work, and Verbalization to Build Teachers' Mathematical Understanding.
    Jacob T Klerlein*, Middle Tennessee State University
    (1033-97-179)
• Saturday November 3, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems, II
  Room S270, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Wenzhang Huang, University of Alabama, Huntsville
  Jia Li, University of Alabama, Huntsville
  Zachariah Sinkala, Middle Tennessee State University zsinkala@mtsu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Spatial Spread of Sexually-Transmitted Diseases Susceptible Populations at Demographic Steady State.
    Bingtuan Li*, University of Louisville
    Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Arizona State University
    (1033-92-172)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Dynamics of a Mathematical Model for Sickle Cell Depolymerization.
    Mingxiang Chen*, Department of Mathematics, North Carolina A & T State University
    (1033-34-83)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Mathematical Modeling of Malaria with Partial Immunity.
    Jia Li*, University of Alabama in Huntsville
    (1033-92-51)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Numerical Approximation of Solutions of Singular Second Order Differential Equations.
    Daniel C. Biles*, Western Kentucky University
    (1033-34-27)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Traveling Waves in a Bioremediation Model.
    Shangbing Ai*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Alabama in Huntsville
    (1033-34-20)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Linear Multistep Methods for $y'''=f(x,y,y',y'')$.
    Samuel Nemsefor Jator*, Austin Peay State University
    (1033-34-17)
• Saturday November 3, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory, II
  Room S301, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Rong Luo, Middle Tennessee State University
  Don Nelson, Middle Tennessee State University
  Chris Stephens, Middle Tennessee State University cstephen@mtsu.edu
  Xiaoya Zha, Middle Tennessee State University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Minimum Degree and Edge Hamiltonian Digraphs.
    J. R Faudree, University of Alaska - Fairbanks
    R. J. Faudree*, University of Memphis
    L. Lesniak, Drew University
    (1033-05-145)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Some recent results on strong connectivity.
    Ronald J Gould*, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322
    (1033-05-102)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Partitioning Tournaments into Two Transitive Subtournaments.
    Guantao Chen*, Georgia State University
    Arthur Busch, University of Dayton
    Michael S Jacobson, University of Colorado at Denver
    (1033-05-124)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On judicious partitions of graphs.
    Baogang Xu, Nanjing Normal Unversity
    Xingxing Yu*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1033-05-69)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Vertex-disjoint chorded cycles in graphs.
    Hong-Jian Lai*, West Virginia University
    Yehong Shao, Ohio University Southern
    Mingquan Zhan, Millersville University
    (1033-05-33)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Parity and Disparity Subgraphs.
    Terry A. McKee*, Wright State University
    (1033-05-14)
• Saturday November 3, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Advances in Algorithmic Methods for Algebraic Structures, II
  Room S276, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  James B. Hart, Middle Tennessee State University jhart@mtsu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Effective Transformations of Classes of Structures.
    John D Wallbaum*, University of Notre Dame
    (1033-03-184)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Embedding Problem for Some Classes of Computable Structures.
    Jacob Carson, University of Notre Dame
    Ekaterina Fokina, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Acadamy of Sciences
    Valentina Harizanov, George Washington University
    Julia F Knight, University of Notre Dame
    Christina M Maher*, University of Notre Dame
    Sara Miller, University of Notre Dame
    John Wallbaum, University of Notre Dame
    (1033-03-234)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Describing classes of structures and structures within a class.
    Ekaterina Fokina, Novosibirsk State University
    Julia F. Knight*, University of Notre Dame
    Christina Maher, University of Notre Dame
    Alexander Melnikov, Novosibirsk State University
    Sara Miller Quinn, University of Notre Dame
    (1033-03-170)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Informal discussion and problem session.
• Saturday November 3, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Applied Partial Differential Equations
  Room S275, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Yuri A. Melnikov, Middle Tennessee State University ymelniko@mtsu.edu
  Alain J. Kassab, University of Central Florida
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Optimal Harvesting of a Spatially Explicit Fishery Model.
    Wandi Ding*, Middle Tennessee State University
    Suzanne Lenhart, University of Tennessee - Knoxville
    (1033-49-11)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Optimal control of a time dependent thermistor problem.
    Volodymyr Hrynkiv*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    Suzanne Lenhart, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    Vladimir Protopopescu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Sciences and Engineering Division
    (1033-49-16)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    An unlooked-for outcome from a standard procedure for the construction of Green's functions for Laplace equation.
    Yuri A. Melnikov*, Middle Tennessee State University
    (1033-35-22)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Polynomial Particular Solutions of Some Elliptic PDE's Using Chebyshev Polynomials.
    Jiu Ding*, University of Southern Mississippi
    Joseph Kolibal, University of Southern Mississippi
    (1033-35-24)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    3D immersed-boundary finite-element analysis of heat and flow patterns in a two-roll mill.
    C.M. Fan*, University of Southern Mississippi
    C.L. Chiu, National Taiwan University
    D.L. Young, National Taiwan University
    (1033-35-159)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Existence and blow-up for semilinear integro-differential equations with nonlocal boundary conditions.
    H. T. Liu*, University of Southern Mississippi
    (1033-35-195)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Symmetry reductions for parameter identification problems.
    Nicoleta V. Bila*, Fayetteville State University
    (1033-35-254)
• Saturday November 3, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Splines and Wavelets with Applications, II
  Room S274, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Don Hong, Middle Tennessee State University dhong@mtsu.edu
  Qingtang Jiang, University of Missouri-St. Louis
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    The Homogeneous Approximation Property for Wavelet Frames.
    Christopher Heil*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Gitta Kutyniok, Princeton University
    (1033-42-65)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Sampling and Reconstruction of Signals with Finite Rate of Innovation.
    Qiyu Sun*, University of Central Florida
    (1033-94-30)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The Construction of Compactly Supported Shearlet Frames.
    Wang-Q Lim*, Lehigh University
    (1033-41-226)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    An Equivalent Condition for the Exact Dimension of Bivariate Spline Spaces.
    Wai Wah Lau*, Seattle Pacific University
    (1033-41-142)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Degree of Approximating Splines and an Identity on Stirling Numbers of the Second Kind.
    Xin Li*, Department of Mathematics, University of Central Florida
    (1033-41-228)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A Baskakov Type Generalization of Statistical Korovkin Theory.
    George A Anastassiou*, University of Memphis
    Oktay A Duman, TOBB Economics and Technology
    (1033-41-12)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Two Kinds of Balanced Multifilter Banks.
    Babin Li*, Peking University
    (1033-43-229)
• Saturday November 3, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
  Special Session on Billiards and Related Topics, II
  Room S334, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Sergei Tabachnikov, Pennsylvania State University tabachni@math.psu.edu
  Richard Schwartz, Brown University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Topological dichotomy versus strict ergodicity.
    Yitwah Cheung*, San Francisco State University
    Pascal Hubert, LATP, Case cour A, Facult\'e des Sciences de Saint J\'er\^ome
    Howard Masur, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1033-37-203)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Symbolic dynamics of geodesics on surfaces of non-positive curvature.
    Yuliy Baryshnikov*, Bell Labs
    (1033-58-91)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Periodic orbits in outer billiards.
    Vadim Zharnitsky*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Alex Tumanov, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1033-37-186)
• Saturday November 3, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Tools for Survival Analysis and Medical Data Analysis
  Room S264, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Curtis Church, Middle Tennessee State University
  Chang Yu, Vanderbilt University
  Ping Zhang, Middle Tennessee State University pzhang@mtsu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    General Outlier Detection and Goodness of Fit for Recurrent Event Data.
    Jonathan T. Quiton*, Western Kentucky University
    Edsel A. Pe\~na, University of South Carolina
    (1033-62-222)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    SCPRT Procedures for Survival Data.
    Xiaoping Xiong*, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
    (1033-62-237)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A maximum entropy approach for nucleosome DNA sequence alignment.
    Liqun Xi*, Department of Statistics, Northwestern University
    Jonathan Widom, BMBCB, Northwestern University
    Ji-Ping Wang, Department of Statistics, Northwestern University
    (1033-62-89)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A Stochastic and State Space Model for Cancer Risk Assessment Via Initiation-Promotion Experiments.
    Waiyuan Tan*, The University of Memphis
    Ping Zhang, Middle Tennessee State University
    (1033-82-205)
• Saturday November 3, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Methods in Continuum Theory (dedicated to Jo Heath, Auburn University, on the occasion of her retirement), II
  Room S316, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Judy A. Kennedy, University of Delaware and Lamar University
  Krystyna M. Kuperberg, Auburn University kuperkm@auburn.edu
  Van C. Nall, University of Richmond
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Lifting Paths on Quotient Spaces.
    D. Daniel, Lamar University
    J. Nikiel, Opole University
    L.B. Treybig, Texas A&M University
    Murat Tuncali*, Nipissing University
    E.D. Tymchatyn, University of Saskatchewan
    (1033-54-167)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Buried points in rational Julia sets.
    John C Mayer*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    (1033-54-242)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Recognizing Indecomposable Continua in Surfaces from their Complements.
    Clinton P Curry*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    (1033-54-224)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Difficulties in the approximation of convex bodies by polytopes.
    Edwin H Smith*, Jacksonville State University
    (1033-52-219)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Path Curvature on a convex roof (or off it).
    Robert Ford*, Auburn University
    (1033-52-169)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A brief review of the mathematical works of Jo Heath up to 2007.
    Van C Nall*, University of Richmond
    (1033-54-95)
• Saturday November 3, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Modeling in Biological Systems
  Room S262, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Terrence J. Quinn, Middle Tennessee State University tquinn@mtsu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    NMR Protein Structure Refinement through Mean Force Potentials.
    Di Wu*, Department of Mathematics, Bioinformatics and Information Sciences Center, Western Kentucky University
    (1033-92-81)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Levy Motions and Evolution of Generic Information in Porous Media.
    Moongyu Park*, University of Alabama in Huntsville
    (1033-92-53)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Stability and Bifurcations of a Differential Equation Model for Hormonal Control of the Menstrual Cycle.
    R. Drew Pasteur*, North Carolina State University
    James F. Selgrade, North Carolina State University
    (1033-92-119)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Using Mathematical Modeling to Reduce Ventilator-induced Lung Injury.
    Philip S. Crooke*, Vanderbilt University
    Murat Kuynar, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Critical Care Medicine
    John R. Hotchkiss, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Critical Care Medicine
    (1033-92-84)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Conditions under which Vectors Develope Resistance to Spray.
    Jemal S. Mohammed-Awel*, Valdosta State University
    Blayneh W. Kebenesh, Florida A and M University
    (1033-92-60)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Modeling Species-Specific Diacylglycerol Dynamics in the RAW 264.7 Macrophage.
    Hannah L Callender*, Vanderbilt University
    Mary Ann Horn, Vanderbilt University, National Science Foundation
    Dianne L DeCamp, University of Texas South Western
    Paul C Sternweis, University of Texas South Western
    H Alex Brown, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    (1033-92-09)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Rabies in Raccoons: Optimal Control for a Discrete Time Model on a Spatial Grid.
    Suzanne Lenhart*, University of Tennessee
    Wandi Ding, Middle Tennessee State University
    Louis Gross, University of Tennessee
    Keith Langston, University of Tennessee
    Leslie Real, Emory University
    (1033-92-06)
• Saturday November 3, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers
  Room S277, Business and Aerospace Building
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    On the hyperfactorial function, hyper triangular function, and the discriminants of certain polynomials.
    Mohammad K Azarian*, University of Evansville
    (1033-11-45)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    The method of infinite ascent applied on $ A^3 + nB^3 = C^3 $.
    Susil Kumar Jena*, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India
    (1033-11-74)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Subgroups Of Some Fuchsian Groups Defined By Two Linear Congruences.
    O. Yayenie*, Murray State University
    (1033-11-126)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Grading intersection matrix algebras.
    Sandeep Bhargava*, York University, Toronto
    (1033-17-140)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Semigroup Constructions and their Topological Structures.
    Bettina Richmond*, Western Kentucky University
    (1033-20-168)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Multiple positive solutions for classes of elliptic systems with combined nonlinear effects.
    Jaffar Ali*, Mississippi State University
    Mythily Ramaswamy, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
    Ratnasingham Shivaji, Mississippi State University
    (1033-35-18)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Nonexistence Results For Classes Of Elliptic Systems.
    Ratnasingham Shivaji, Mississippi State University
    Jinglong Ye*, Mississippi State University
    (1033-35-19)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Paratopological groups on generalized ordered spacess are linearly quarter-stratifiable, hence hereditarily paracompact.
    Ziqin Feng, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA15260
    Robert W. Jeath*, University of Pittsburgh/Auburn University
    (1033-54-216)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Using Eigenvector Methods to Find Sociological Patterns in Facebook Networks.
    Amanda L Traud*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Peter J Mucha, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (1033-91-36)

Sunday November 4, 2007

• Sunday November 4, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  South Lobby, Business and Aerospace Building
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  East Lobby, Business and Aerospace Building
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Physical Knots and Links, III
  Room S332, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  Claus Ernst, Western Kentucky University claus.ernst@wku.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Tabulating Composite Knots and Links.
    Jason Cantarella*, University of Georgia
    Eric Rawdon, St. Thomas University
    Tom Kephart, Vanderbilt University
    (1033-57-221)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Results and challenges in the analysis of ropelength.
    Joseph Fu*, University of Georgia
    (1033-49-208)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Further results on the ``Square Peg" problem.
    Jason Cantarella, University of Georgia, Athens
    Elizabeth Denne*, Smith College
    John McCleary, Vassar College
    (1033-54-196)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Measuring tangling with the {\em average bridging number}.
    Jonathan K. Simon*, University of Iowa
    Robert G Scharein, Hypnagogic Software - Vancouver
    (1033-57-134)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Asphericity of Random Equilateral Polygons.
    Eric J Rawdon*, University of St. Thomas
    Andrzej Stasiak, University of Lausanne
    John C Kern, Duquesne University
    Michael Piatek, University of Washington
    Patrick Plunkett, University of California Santa Barbara
    Kenneth C Millett, University of California Santa Barbara
    (1033-57-71)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Knotting in Stretched Lattice Polygons.
    Esaias J Janse van Rensburg*, Mathematics and Statistics/ York University
    (1033-82-182)
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Algebraic Topology, III
  Room S330, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Mark W. Johnson, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona mwj3@psu.edu
  Donald Yau, The Ohio State University at Newark
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A splitting of $Q_GS^0$ at a prime $p$.
    Christopher P French*, Grinnell College
    (1033-55-44)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Equivariant homotopy and algebraic $K$-theory.
    Teena Meredith Gerhardt*, Indiana University
    (1033-55-86)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Level structures and topological modular forms.
    Valentina Joukhovitski*, University of Michigan
    (1033-55-193)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Homology of topological modular forms.
    Paul Thomas Pearson*, University of Rochester
    (1033-55-120)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The splitting of $b {\rm o} \wedge tmf$.
    Scott M Bailey*, Northwestern University
    (1033-55-90)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Categorical Sequences and the Lusternik-Schnirelmann Category of Spaces with Free Fundamental Groups.
    Jeff Strom*, Western Michigan University
    (1033-55-121)
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Enumeration, Optimization, Geometry, and Statistics, III
  Room S324, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Nicholas A. Loehr, College of William and Mary
  Gabor Pataki, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  Margaret A. Readdy, University of Kentucky and M.I.T.
  Carla D. Savage, North Carolina State University savage@csc.ncsu.edu
  Ruriko Yoshida, University of Kentucky
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Affine and toric hyperplane arrangements.
    Richard Ehrenborg, University of Kentucky
    Margaret A. Readdy*, University of Kentucky
    Michael Slone, University of Kentucky
    (1033-05-70)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Bernoulli type games and combinatorial enumeration.
    Gabor Hetyei*, UNC-Charlotte
    (1033-05-132)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the division of space by topological hyperplanes.
    David Forge, LRI, Universit\'e Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
    Thomas Zaslavsky*, Binghamton University (SUNY)
    (1033-52-59)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Compositions and skew tableaux.
    Sarah K Mason*, Davidson College
    (1033-05-225)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Quantum Lattice Paths and Bijective Subtraction.
    Nicholas A Loehr*, Virginia Tech
    (1033-05-130)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Upper bounds for the number of polygons in the minimum convex subdivisions of points in the plane.
    Carlos M. Nicolas*, University of Kentucky
    (1033-52-202)
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications, III
  Room S260, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Emmanuele DiBenedetto, Vanderbilt University
  Mikhail Perepelitsa, Vanderbilt University mikhail.perepelitsa@vanderbilt.edu
  Gieri Simonett, Vanderbilt University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Asymptotic behavior of solutions to a model for the combustion of a compressible, reacting fluid.
    David Hoff*, Indiana University
    Gui-Qiang Chen, Northwestern University
    Konstantina Trivisa, University of Maryland
    (1033-35-39)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the regularity of weak solutions of the 3D Navier-Stokes equations in $B^{-1}_{\infty,\infty}$.
    Alexey Cheskidov*, University of Chicago
    Roman Shvydkoy, University of Illinois
    (1033-35-77)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Local existence and regularity of solutions to the $d$-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations with weighted initial data.
    David Swanson*, University of Louisville
    (1033-35-155)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Global strong solutions of equations in geophysical fluid dynamics.
    Luan T. Hoang*, University of Minnesota
    George R. Sell, University of Minnesota
    (1033-35-164)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Moving interface problems for the Euler equations.
    Steve Shkoller*, University of California at Davis
    (1033-35-236)
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Financial Mathematics
  Room S277, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Abdul Khaliq, Middle Tennessee State University akhaliq@mtsu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Fast Numerical Valuation of European and American Options under Kou's Jump-Diffusion Model.
    Jari Toivanen*, Stanford University
    (1033-65-253)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    High Order Compact Finite Difference Scheme for Solving Nonlinear Black-Scholes equation with Transaction Costs.
    Wenyuan Liao*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Calgary
    Abdul Q. M. Khaliq, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Middle Tennessee State University
    (1033-65-174)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Valuation of Guaranteed Equity-Linked Life Insurance with Option of Early Surrender.
    Ruihua Liu*, University of Dayton
    (1033-60-153)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Long correlations and Normalized Truncated Levy Models applied to the study of Financial Indices, Agricultural Indices and Farm Portfolios.
    Vijay Kumar Mani*, New Mexico State University
    Maria C. Mariani, New Mexico State University
    James Libbin, New Mexico State University
    Christopher Erickson, New Mexico State University
    Delia J. Valles Rosales, New Mexico State University
    Maria P. Beccar Varela, New Mexico State University
    (1033-91-125)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    An iterative semi-analytic procedure for pricing American options.
    Max Melnikov*, Cumberland University
    (1033-90-26)
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory, III
  Room S301, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Rong Luo, Middle Tennessee State University
  Don Nelson, Middle Tennessee State University
  Chris Stephens, Middle Tennessee State University cstephen@mtsu.edu
  Xiaoya Zha, Middle Tennessee State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Finite duality of minor closed classes.
    Jaroslav Nesetril, Charles University, Prague
    Yared Nigussie*, East Tennessee State University
    (1033-05-63)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Some Properties of k-trees.
    James Shook, University of Mississippi
    Bing Wei*, University of Mississippi
    (1033-05-43)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On circuit sizes of matroids.
    Talmage James Reid*, The University of Mississippi
    Haidong Wu, The University of Mississippi
    Manoel Lemos, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
    (1033-05-110)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Transit graphs.
    R. Douglas Chatham*, Morehead State University
    Gerd H. Fricke, Morehead State University
    Joe Harless, Morehead State University
    R. Duane Skaggs, Morehead State University
    Nick Wahle, Morehead State University
    (1033-05-15)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Non-separating cocircuits in binary matroids.
    Haidong Wu*, University of Mississippi
    (1033-05-100)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Universal Cycles of Functions.
    Anant P Godbole*, East Tennessee State University
    (1033-05-93)
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Advances in Algorithmic Methods for Algebraic Structures, III
  Room S276, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  James B. Hart, Middle Tennessee State University jhart@mtsu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Algorithmic methods for equivalence relations.
    Douglas Cenzer*, University of Florida
    (1033-03-129)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Complexity of Relations on Computable Structures.
    Sarah Pingrey*, The George Washington University
    J. Chisholm, Western Illinois University
    J. Chubb, The George Washington University
    V. S. Harizanov, The George Washington University
    D. R. Hirschfeldt, University of Chicago
    C. G. Jockusch, University of Illinois
    T. McNicholl, Lamar University
    (1033-03-152)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Degree spectra of successor in linear orderings.
    Jennifer Chubb*, George Washington University
    (1033-03-180)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Dependence Degrees of co-atoms in the Lattice of Computably Enumerable Vector Spaces.
    Rumen D Dimitrov*, Western Illinois University
    (1033-03-197)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Some results in $\mathbb{R}$-computable model theory.
    Wesley C Calvert*, Murray State University
    J E Porter, Murray State University
    (1033-03-08)
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Billiards and Related Topics, III
  Room S334, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Sergei Tabachnikov, Pennsylvania State University tabachni@math.psu.edu
  Richard Schwartz, Brown University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Birkhoff sums of non-integrable functions over rotations and IETs.
    Corinna Ulcigrai*, University of Bristol and MSRI
    (1033-37-78)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Modular fibers.
    Martin J Schmoll*, Clemson University
    (1033-58-151)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Traps in Polygonal Billiards.
    Gregory Galperin*, Eastern Illinois University
    (1033-37-199)
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Methods in Continuum Theory (dedicated to Jo Heath, Auburn University, on the occasion of her retirement), III
  Room S316, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Judy A. Kennedy, University of Delaware and Lamar University
  Krystyna M. Kuperberg, Auburn University kuperkm@auburn.edu
  Van C. Nall, University of Richmond
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Problems on distinguishing inverse limit spaces.
    Stewart Baldwin*, Auburn University
    (1033-54-227)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The topology of continua that are approximated by subcontinua.
    Christopher G. Mouron*, Rhodes College
    (1033-54-175)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Ingram's Conjecture for a unimodal map with a non-recurrent critical point.
    Brian E Raines*, Baylor University
    Sonja Stimac, University of Zagreb
    (1033-54-218)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Composant Structure in Inverse Limits of Tent Cores.
    David J. Ryden*, Baylor University
    (1033-54-231)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Hereditarily Indecomposable Subcontinua of the Inverse Limit of Lexicographic Arcs are Metric.
    Michel Smith*, Auburn University
    (1033-54-35)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Union of two non-metric spaces that each support a Whitney map does not necessarily support a Whitney map.
    Jennifer W. Stone*, Auburn University
    (1033-54-101)
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Lie and Representation Theory, III
  Room S328, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Terrell L. Hodge, Western Michigan University terrell.hodge@wmich.edu
  Daniel K. Nakano, University of Georgia
  Brian J. Parshall, University of Virginia
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Fixed point sets and Lefschetz modules.
    Silvia E Onofrei*, Kansas State University
    (1033-20-198)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Computing Schur algebras.
    Jon F Carlson*, University of Georgia
    (1033-20-73)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Cohomology of finite groups of Lie type.
    Christopher P Bendel, University of Wisconsin-Stout
    Daniel K Nakano, University of Georgia
    Cornelius Pillen*, University of South Alabama
    (1033-20-82)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Whittaker Modules for the Virasoro Algebra.
    Emilie Wiesner*, Ithaca College
    Matt Ondrus, Weber State University
    (1033-17-104)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the Cohomology of Modular Lie Algebras.
    J\"org Feldvoss*, University of South Alabama
    (1033-17-76)
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems, III
  Room S270, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Wenzhang Huang, University of Alabama, Huntsville
  Jia Li, University of Alabama, Huntsville
  Zachariah Sinkala, Middle Tennessee State University zsinkala@mtsu.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Compatible Spatial Discretizations and Discrete Exact Sequences.
    Kathryn A Trapp*, University of Richmond
    (1033-35-23)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Optimal control applied to native-invasive population dynamics.
    Daniel L Kern, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
    Suzanne Lenhart, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    Rachael Miller*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    Jiongmin Yong, University of Central Florida, Orlando
    (1033-34-07)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Simulation of the Dynamics of Protein Chains using Metropolis Algorithm.
    Zachariah Sinkala*, Middle Tennessee State University
    Terrance Quinn, Middle Tennessee State University
    Abdul Khaliq, Middle Tennessee State University
    Mary Farone, Biology Department, Middle Tennessee State University
    Anthony Farone, Biology Department, Middle Tennessee State University
    Paul Kline, Chemistry Department, Middle Tennessee State University
    (1033-37-94)
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 11:05 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Mathematical models of speciation.
  Room S102, Business and Aerospace Building
  Sergey Gavrilets*, University of Tennessee
  (1033-37-04)
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  The mathematics of lecture hall partitions.
  Room S102, Business and Aerospace Building
  Carla D. Savage*, North Carolina State University
  (1033-05-02)
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Physical Knots and Links, IV
  Room S332, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  Claus Ernst, Western Kentucky University claus.ernst@wku.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Higher Order Topological Invariants from the Chern-Simons Action.
    Roman V. Buniy*, Indiana University
    Thomas W. Kephart, Vanderbilt University
    (1033-81-150)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Generalizing the Aharonov-Bohm Effect: Higher Order Topological Phases.
    Roman V. Buniy, Indiana University
    Thomas W. Kephart*, Vanderbilt University
    (1033-81-149)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    An Algorithm for Generating 4-regular Hamiltonian Plane Graphs.
    O. Ascigil, Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington
    Y. Diao, University of North Caroline at Charlotte
    C. Ernst, Western Kentucky University
    D. High, Western Kentucky University
    U. Ziegler*, Department of Computer Science, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY 42101
    (1033-57-232)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The rope length of most knots grows at most linearly with crossing number.
    Claus Ernst*, Western Kentucky University
    Yuanan Diao, UNCC
    Uta Ziegler, WKU
    (1033-57-246)
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Lie and Representation Theory, IV
  Room S328, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Terrell L. Hodge, Western Michigan University terrell.hodge@wmich.edu
  Daniel K. Nakano, University of Georgia
  Brian J. Parshall, University of Virginia
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Realizations of Demazure crystals for the quantum affine algebra $U_q(\widehat{sl}(n))$.
    Kailash C. Misra*, North Carolina State University
    (1033-17-163)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Bloch-Okounkov correlation functions and dimension formulas for modules of infinite-dimensional Lie algebras.
    David G Taylor*, Roanoke College
    (1033-17-41)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Singular Chern Classes of Schubert Cells and Varieties Via Small Resolution.
    Benjamin F Jones*, University of Georgia
    (1033-22-105)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Positivity in equivariant K-theory: conjectures and results.
    William Graham*, University of Georgia
    Shrawan Kumar, University of North Carolina
    (1033-22-217)
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Algebraic Topology, IV
  Room S330, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Mark W. Johnson, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona mwj3@psu.edu
  Donald Yau, The Ohio State University at Newark
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Uniqueness of Morava K-theory.
    Vigleik Angeltveit*, University of Chicago
    (1033-55-220)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Categorical algebra of mapping spaces.
    Wojciech Dorabiala*, Penn State Altoona
    Bernard Badzioch, University at Buffalo (SUNY)
    (1033-55-116)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Smooth parametrized Reidemester torsion - a manifold approach.
    Bernard Badzioch*, University at Buffalo, SUNY
    Wojciech Dorabiala, Penn State University, Altoona
    John Klein, Wayne State University
    Bruce Williams, University of Notre Dame
    (1033-55-115)
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Enumeration, Optimization, Geometry, and Statistics, IV
  Room S324, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Nicholas A. Loehr, College of William and Mary
  Gabor Pataki, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  Margaret A. Readdy, University of Kentucky and M.I.T.
  Carla D. Savage, North Carolina State University savage@csc.ncsu.edu
  Ruriko Yoshida, University of Kentucky
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Markov Bases for Two-way Subtable Sum Problems.
    Hisayuki Hara, University of Tokyo
    Akimichi Takemura, University of Tokyo
    Ruriko Yoshida*, University of Kentucky
    (1033-05-34)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On Finding Pipes and Cables: The Opaque Cover Problem.
    Scott Provan*, University of North Carolina
    Marcus Brazil, University of Melbourne
    Doreen Thomas, University of Melbourne
    Jia Weng, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology of Australia
    (1033-52-210)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Combinatorial properties of permutation tableaux.
    Alexander Burstein*, Howard University
    Niklas Eriksen, Chalmers University of Technology and G\"oteborg University
    (1033-05-252)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Some Statistics on Linear and Circular $r$-Mino Arrangements.
    Mark A. Shattuck*, University of Tennessee
    Carl G. Wagner, University of Tennessee
    (1033-05-58)
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications, IV
  Room S260, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Emmanuele DiBenedetto, Vanderbilt University
  Mikhail Perepelitsa, Vanderbilt University mikhail.perepelitsa@vanderbilt.edu
  Gieri Simonett, Vanderbilt University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Well-Posedness and Stability Conditions for Some Darcy Flows.
    David M. Ambrose*, Clemson university
    (1033-35-75)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Regularity of the free boundary for solutions of the Hele-Shaw problem.
    Ivan Blank*, Kansas State University
    (1033-35-249)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the Stefan problem with surface tension.
    Gieri Simonett*, Vanderbilt University
    Jan Pruss, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
    (1033-35-171)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Elliptic and parabolic model problems with singular coefficients in an angular domain.
    Borys Bazaliy*, Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Ukraine
    (1033-35-189)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Boundary behavior of compressible, viscous fluid flows with discontinuous density.
    Mikhail Perepelitsa*, Vanderbilt University
    (1033-35-251)
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory, IV
  Room S301, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Rong Luo, Middle Tennessee State University
  Don Nelson, Middle Tennessee State University
  Chris Stephens, Middle Tennessee State University cstephen@mtsu.edu
  Xiaoya Zha, Middle Tennessee State University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Discussion.
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The orientable genus of $K_{\ell,m,n}$ with $m \equiv 3 \pmod 4$ and $n \equiv 2 \pmod 4$.
    Mark N. Ellingham*, Vanderbilt University
    D. Christopher Stephens, Middle Tennessee State University
    Xiaoya Zha, Middle Tennessee State University
    (1033-05-154)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Equimatchable graphs in surfaces.
    Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi, National Institute for Informatics
    Michael D. Plummer*, Vanderbilt University
    (1033-05-111)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Edge-partitions of planar graphs.
    O. Borodin, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics
    A. Kostochka, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    N. Sheikh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Gexin Yu*, Vanderbilt University
    (1033-05-99)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Book Embeddings of Chessboard Graphs.
    Casey Hufford, Morehead State Universtiy
    Robin Blankenship*, Morehead State University
    (1033-05-21)
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Billiards and Related Topics, IV
  Room S334, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Sergei Tabachnikov, Pennsylvania State University tabachni@math.psu.edu
  Richard Schwartz, Brown University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Cone Exchange Systems.
    Arek Goetz*, San Franicisco State University
    (1033-37-250)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Dynamics on an infinite surface with the lattice property.
    W Patrick Hooper*, Northwestern University
    (1033-37-67)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Stability of periodic billiard trajectories in polyhedra.
    Yaroslav Vorobets*, Texas A&M University
    (1033-37-247)
• Sunday November 4, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Methods in Continuum Theory (dedicated to Jo Heath, Auburn University, on the occasion of her retirement), IV
  Room S316, Business and Aerospace Building
  Organizers:
  Judy A. Kennedy, University of Delaware and Lamar University
  Krystyna M. Kuperberg, Auburn University kuperkm@auburn.edu
  Van C. Nall, University of Richmond
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Cohomology of some non-metric mapping tori.
    George Kozlowski*, Auburn University
    (1033-55-138)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    An Inverse Limit of Lexicographic Arcs.
    Regina Greiwe*, Auburn University
    Michel Smith, Auburn University
    (1033-54-128)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A simple extension of the bagpipe lemma to dimension 3.
    Alexander Y. Shibakov*, Tennessee Tech University
    (1033-54-156)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Julia sets of basic uniCremer polynomials of arbitrary degree.
    Lex G Oversteegen*, UAB
    A Blokh, UAB
    (1033-37-96)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Inverse limits of simplicial trees and the problem of small retractions of dendroids onto trees.
    Piotr Minc*, Auburn University
    (1033-54-92)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Counting Wandering Continua.
    Alexander Blokh*, UAB
    (1033-37-256)

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