AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day
Current as of Saturday, November 10, 2007 00:30:01
2007 Fall Southeastern Meeting
Murfreesboro, TN, November 3-4, 2007 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1033
Associate secretaries: Matthew Miller, AMS miller@math.sc.edu
Saturday November 3, 2007
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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
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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)
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8:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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8:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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8:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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8:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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8:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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8:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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8:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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8:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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8:00 a.m.
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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
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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)
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8:00 a.m.
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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
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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.
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8:30 a.m.
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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
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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)
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8:30 a.m.
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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
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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)
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2:30 p.m.
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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
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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)
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2:30 p.m.
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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
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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)
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2:30 p.m.
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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
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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)
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2:30 p.m.
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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
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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)
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2:30 p.m.
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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
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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)
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2:30 p.m.
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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
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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)
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2:30 p.m.
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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
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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)
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2:30 p.m.
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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
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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.
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2:30 p.m.
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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
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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)
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2:30 p.m.
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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
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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)
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2:30 p.m.
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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
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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)
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2:30 p.m.
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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
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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)
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2:30 p.m.
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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
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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)
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2:30 p.m.
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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
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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)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday November 3, 2007, 2:30 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
Session for Contributed Papers
Room S277, Business and Aerospace Building
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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)
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2:30 p.m.