AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day
Current as of Sunday, November 2, 2008 00:29:44
2008 Fall Southeastern Meeting
Huntsville, AL, October 24-26, 2008 (Friday - Sunday)
Meeting #1044
Associate secretaries: Matthew Miller, AMS miller@math.sc.edu
Saturday October 25, 2008
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Saturday October 25, 2008, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Meeting Registration
First Floor Foyer, Shelby Center for Science and Technology -
Saturday October 25, 2008, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Book Sale and Exhibit
First Floor Foyer, Shelby Center for Science and Technology -
Saturday October 25, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Applied Probability
Room 158, Shelby Center for Science and Technology
Organizers:
Moonyu Park, University of Alabama in Huntsville mp0002@email.uah.edu
Boris Kunin, University of Alabama in Huntsville
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8:00 a.m.
Discussion. -
8:30 a.m.
Density Estimation Using Pseudo Monte Carlo Method With Applications.
Xiaoping A. Shen*, Ohio University
Haibo He, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology
Yuan Cao, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology
(1044-65-221) -
9:00 a.m.
Probabilistic models in the quantum mechanics of disordered media.
Gunter Stolz*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
(1044-82-220) -
9:30 a.m.
Fitting geometric curves in Errors-In-Variables models.
Nikolai Chernov*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Ali Al-Sharadqah, University of Alabama at Birmingham
(1044-62-159) -
10:00 a.m.
Renormalizing Operator-Stable Lagrangian Velocities for Microbial Dynamics Simulations.
Moongyu Park*, University of Alabama in Huntsville
(1044-82-251) -
10:30 a.m.
A probabilistic model for slow crack propagation.
Boris I Kunin*, University of Alabama in Huntsville
(1044-60-145)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 25, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Homotopy Theory and Algebraic Topology, II
Room 203, Shelby Center for Science and Technology
Organizers:
Mark Behrens, Massachusetts Institute of Technology mbehrens@math.mit.edu
Michael Hill, University of Virginia
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8:00 a.m.
From multicategories of permutative categories to multicategories of $S$-modules.
Vigleik Angeltveit*, University of Chicago
J Peter May, University of Chicago
(1044-55-127) -
9:00 a.m.
Using Postnikov towers to form iterated homotopy fixed point spectra.
Daniel G. Davis*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
(1044-55-174) -
10:00 a.m.
Stabilization of Homotopy Limits.
Eric Lee Finster*, University of Virginia
(1044-55-205)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 25, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Inverse Limits and Their Applications, II
Room 205, Shelby Center for Science and Technology
Organizers:
Judy A. Kennedy, Lamar University kennedy9905@gmail.com
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8:00 a.m.
Subdivisions and Transgressive Chains.
Jer-Chin Chuang*, Duke University
(1044-57-52) -
8:30 a.m.
Adding Machines and Endpoints.
Leslie B. Jones*, Baylor University
(1044-54-104) -
9:00 a.m.
Recovering an Indecomposable Continuum from its Composant Equivalence Relation.
David Ryden*, Baylor University
(1044-54-192) -
9:30 a.m.
Inverse Limits of Compact Hausdorff Spaces with Upper Semi-Continuous Bonding Maps.
Alexander Cornelius*, Baylor University
(1044-54-137) -
10:00 a.m.
Inverse Limits with Set Valued Functions.
Van C. Nall*, University of Richmond
(1044-54-90) -
10:30 a.m.
Inverse limits of inverse sequences of unit intervals and upper semi-continuous multivalued bonding functions.
Iztok Banic*, Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics
(1044-37-176)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 25, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Set-Theoretic Topology, II
Room 207, Shelby Center for Science and Technology
Organizers:
Gary Gruenhage, Auburn University
Peter J. Nyikos, University of South Carolina nyikos@math.sc.edu
Robert M. Stephenson, Jr, University of South Carolina
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8:00 a.m.
an update on differentiability as continuity.
David Gauld, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Frederic Mynard*, Georgia Southern University
(1044-54-133) -
8:30 a.m.
A theory of convergence and cluster points based on $\kappa$-nets.
Richard E. Hodel*, Duke University
(1044-54-138) -
9:00 a.m.
On L*-spaces.
Wladyslaw Kulpa, Card. Wyszynski University, Warsaw, and Silesian University, Katowice
Andrzej Szymanski*, Slippery Rock University
(1044-54-115) -
9:30 a.m.
Minimal Size of Basic Families.
Ziqin Feng*, Universtiy of Pittsburgh
(1044-54-97) -
10:00 a.m.
Open Ultrafilters that are Regular.
Nathan Carlson, University of Arizona
Jack Porter*, University of Kansas
(1044-54-95) -
10:30 a.m.
Topological Algebraic Structure on R with The Density Topology.
Robert W. Heath*, University Of Pittsburgh
Thomas J. Poerio, University of Pittsburgh
(1044-54-135)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 25, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Mathematical Biology: Modeling, Analysis, and Simulations, II
Room 109, Shelby Center for Science and Technology
Organizers:
Jia Li, University of Alabama in Huntsville li@math.uah.edu
Azmy S. Ackleh, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Maia Martcheva, University of Florida
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8:00 a.m.
Modeling HIV outbreaks: The Male to Female Prevalence Ratio in the Core Population.
James A. Yorke*, Univ. of Maryland
(1044-34-126) -
8:30 a.m.
Dynamics and implications of some models of hepatitis B virus infection.
Yang Kuang*, Arizona State University
(1044-92-49) -
9:00 a.m.
Finite difference approximation for a nonlinear juvenile-adult population model with age-size structure.
Azmy S Ackleh*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Keng Deng, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Qihua Huang, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
(1044-92-202) -
9:30 a.m.
An Integer-Valued SIR Model With Square-Root Dynamics.
Ronald E. Mickens*, Clark Atlanta University
(1044-34-30) -
10:00 a.m.
Periodically forced models with Allee effect.
Saber N Elaydi*, Trinity University
(1044-39-119) -
10:30 a.m.
Semigroups of Maps and Periodic Difference Equations.
Robert J. Sacker*, University of Southern California
(1044-37-56)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 25, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Dynamics and Applications of Differential Equations, II
Room 105, Shelby Center for Science and Technology
Organizers:
Wenzhang Huang, University of Alabama in Huntsville huangw@email.uah.edu
Shangbing Ai, University of Alabama in Huntsville
Weishi Liu, University of Kansas
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8:00 a.m.
Oscillations and Multiscale Dynamics in a Closed Chemical Reaction System.
Yingfei Yi*, Georgia Institute of Technology
(1044-34-180) -
8:30 a.m.
Exact Solutions and Theire Dynamics of Traveling Waves in Three Typical Nonlinear Wave Equations.
Jibin Li*, Zhejiang Normal University/Kunming University of Science and Technology
Yi Zhang, Zhejiang Normal University
Guanrong Chen, City University of Hong Kong
(1044-35-130) -
9:00 a.m.
A nonresonance condition for boundary value problems.
James Robert Ward*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
(1044-34-199) -
9:30 a.m.
Differential Equation Models of Immune Response to HTLV-I Infection of CD4 T Cells.
Michael Y Li*, University of Alberta
(1044-34-246) -
10:00 a.m.
Bifurcations in a schistosomiasis model with delay in snail infections.
H. Zhu*, York University
(1044-37-245) -
10:30 a.m.
Exponential Analysis of Solutions of Differential Equations with Unbounded Terms.
Youssef Naim Raffoul*, University of Dayton
(1044-34-63)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 25, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Gaussian Analysis and Stochastic Partial Differential Equations, I
Room 050, Shelby Center for Science and Technology
Organizers:
Davar Khoshnevisan, University of Utah davar@math.utah.edu
Dongsheng Wu, University of Alabama in Huntsville
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8:00 a.m.
Smoothness Properties of Measures Induced by Stochastic Differential Equations in Hilbert Space.
Fariborz Asadian*, Fort Valley State University
(1044-60-35) -
9:00 a.m.
Stochastic partial differential equations with fractal noise.
Michael Hinz*, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
Martina Zähle, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
(1044-60-38) -
10:00 a.m.
Fractional Cauchy problems.
Erkan Nane*, Auburn University
(1044-60-58)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 25, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Applications of PDEs and ODEs (in honor of Karen Ames), I
Room 121, Shelby Center for Science and Technology
Organizers:
Suzanne M. Lenhart, University of Tennessee, Knoxville lenhart@math.utk.edu
Philip W. Schaefer, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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8:00 a.m.
Energy and Pointwise Bounds in Some Non-Standard Parabolic Problems.
Philip W. Schaefer*, University of Tennessee
(1044-35-22) -
8:30 a.m.
On increasing stability of the continuation and in inverse problems for elliptic partial differential equations.
Victor Isakov*, Wichita State University
(1044-35-60) -
9:00 a.m.
Positive Solutions for $n\times n$ Elliptic Systems with Combined Nonlinear Effects.
Jaffar Ali Shahul Hameed*, Florida Gulf Coast University
Ken Brown, Heriott-Watt University
Ratnasingham Shivaji, Mississippi State University
(1044-35-18) -
9:30 a.m.
Optimal boundary control of a time dependent thermistor problem.
Volodymyr Hrynkiv*, University of Houston-Downtown
Suzanne Lenhart, University of Tennessee
Vladimir Protopopescu, Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, ORNL
(1044-49-26) -
10:00 a.m.
Simple Malaria Transmission Models with Stage-Structured Mosquito Populations and Backward Bifurcation.
Jia Li*, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL 35899
(1044-92-40) -
10:30 a.m.
Optimal Control of Growth Coefficient on a Steady State Population Model.
Wandi Ding*, Middle Tennessee State University
Heather Finotti, University of Tennessee
Suzanne Lenhart, University of Tennessee
Yuan Lou, Ohio State University
Yuquan Ye, Shanghai University of Economics and Finance
(1044-49-11)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 25, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Operator Theory and Partial Differential Equations, II
Room 103, Shelby Center for Science and Technology
Organizers:
Claudio H. Morales, University of Alabama in Huntsville morales@math.uah.edu
Pei-Kee Lin, University of Memphis
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8:00 a.m.
Nonlinear convective stability of traveling fronts near Turing and Hopf instabilities.
Anna Ghazaryan*, University of Kansas, Lawrence KS
Margaret Beck, Brown University
Bjorn Sandstede, Brown University
(1044-35-142) -
8:30 a.m.
The Change in Electric Potential due to Lightning.
Beyza Caliskan Aslan*, University of North Forida
William Hager, University of Florida
(1044-35-184) -
9:00 a.m.
Multiple Existence of Nonradial Positive Solutions for a Coupled Nonlinear Schrödinger System.
Norimichi Hirano*, Professor/Yokohama National University
(1044-35-120) -
9:30 a.m.
Common Fixed Points of Commuting Maps.
W. A. Kirk*, University of Iowa
(1044-47-36) -
10:00 a.m.
Uniform normal structure is equivalent to the Jaggi* uniform fixed point property.
Eduardo Castillo Santos, University of Newcastle
Chris Lennard*, University of Pittsburgh
Brailey Sims, University of Newcastle
(1044-46-183) -
10:30 a.m.
The Kadison-Singer Problem in Mathematics and Engineering.
Peter G. Casazza*, University of Missouri
(1044-47-29)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 25, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Random Matrices, I
Room 150, Shelby Center for Science and Technology
Organizers:
Leonard N. Choup, University of Alabama in Huntsville lnc0002@uah.edu
Jack Silverstein, North Carolina State University
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8:30 a.m.
On the Limiting Shape of Random Young Tableaux for Markovian Words.
Christian Houdre, Georgia Institute of Technology
Trevis Litherland*, Georgia Institute of Technology
(1044-60-121) -
9:00 a.m.
The correspondence between different approaches to derivation of PDE for random matrix gap probabilities and orthogonal functions.
Igor Rumanov*, University of California at Davis
(1044-60-201) -
9:30 a.m.
Edgeworth Expansion of the Probability Distribution of the Largest Eigenvalue from GSE.
Leonard Choup*, University of Alabama in Huntsville
(1044-60-242) -
10:00 a.m.
Wishart distributions for decomposable graphs.
Helene Massam*, York University
(1044-62-231)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday October 25, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Graph Theory, II
Room 219, Shelby Center for Science and Technology
Organizers:
Peter J. Slater, University of Alabama in Huntsville
Grant Zhang, University of Alabama in Huntsville zhangg@email.uah.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Some Curious Graph Definitions.
D G Hoffman*, Auburn University
(1044-05-224) -
9:00 a.m.
Some results on $\lambda_x$-invertible graphs.
John Georges, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
David Mauro, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
Yan Wang*, Millsaps College, Jackson, MS
(1044-05-193) -
9:30 a.m.
The Average Order of a Subtree of a Tree.
A. Vince, University of Florida
H. Wang*, Georgia Southern University
(1044-05-151) -
10:00 a.m.
$\mathcal{R}$-Parametric Chains.
Anne C Sinko*, Oberlin College
Peter J. Slater, University of Alabama in Huntsville
(1044-05-203) -
10:30 a.m.
The paranoid watchman: a search problem on graphs.
Janet Dalzell, Ivy Tech Community College
C. David Leach, University of West Georgia
Matthew Walsh*, Indiana-Purdue University Fort Wayne
(1044-05-204)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday October 25, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Probability on Discrete and Algebraic Structures, I
Room 216, Shelby Center for Science and Technology
Organizers:
Kyle T. Siegrist, University of Alabama in Huntsville siegrist@math.uah.edu
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8:30 a.m.
On the square dependence problem.
Ernie Croot*, Georgia Institute of Technology
(1044-11-181) -
9:00 a.m.
Random clusters and selfdecomposability.
Jerzy Szulga*, Dept. of Math. and Stats., Auburn University, Auburn, AL
(1044-60-173) -
9:30 a.m.
A Path Guessing Game on Graphs, with Applications to the Lying Oracle Problem.
Marcus Pendergrass*, Hampden-Sydney College
(1044-60-164) -
10:00 a.m.
An introduction to Markovian image models.
Bruce W Atkinson*, Samford University
(1044-60-84) -
10:30 a.m.
Monochromatic boxes in colored grids.
Joshua N Cooper*, University of South Carolina
Semmy Purewal, University of South Carolina
Stephen Fenner, University of South Carolina
(1044-05-76)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday October 25, 2008, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Session for Contributed Papers
Room 218, Shelby Center for Science and Technology
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9:00 a.m.
A Finite Family of $q$-Orthogonal Polynomials.
Jemal E Gishe*, Western Kentucky University
Mourad Ismail, University of Central Florida
(1044-33-47) -
9:15 a.m.
Minimum Degree Conditions for Subdivision Extensions and Pan-$H$-linked Graphs.
Michael Ferrara, University of Akron
Colton Magnant, Lehigh University
Jeffrey Powell*, Samford University
(1044-05-211) -
9:30 a.m.
A Theoretical Study of a Self Guided Light Beam with a Non-Local Potential.
Sihon H. Crutcher*, US Army Research, Development, & Engineering Command, Applied Sensors, Guidance, and Electronics Directorate
Albert J. Osei, Oakwood University
(1044-35-206) -
9:45 a.m.
Vertex operator algebras and integrable system.
Shr-Jing Chen*, Rutgers University
(1044-47-85) -
10:00 a.m.
Topologies from Semigroup Actions.
Bettina Richmond*, Western Kentucky University
(1044-54-233) -
10:15 a.m.
Domain decomposition method for solving parabolic partial differential equations.
Younbae Jun*, University of West Alabama
(1044-65-248) -
10:30 a.m.
Mathematical Analysis of HIV Models with Treatment.
Liancheng Wang*, Kennesaw State University
(1044-37-213)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 25, 2008, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Invited Address
Variational Principles and Nonholonomic Dynamics.
Room 107, Shelby Center for Science and Technology
Anthony Michael Bloch*, University of Michigan
(1044-34-02) -
Saturday October 25, 2008, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
Invited Address
Congruences amongst modular forms and the stable homotopy groups of spheres.
Room 107, Shelby Center for Science and Technology
Mark Behrens*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(1044-55-03) -
Saturday October 25, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
Special Session on Homotopy Theory and Algebraic Topology, III
Room 203, Shelby Center for Science and Technology
Organizers:
Mark Behrens, Massachusetts Institute of Technology mbehrens@math.mit.edu
Michael Hill, University of Virginia
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2:30 p.m.
On the Tate spectrum of $tmf$ at the prime 2.
Scott M Bailey*, University of Rochester
(1044-55-114) -
3:30 p.m.
Homology of topological modular forms.
Paul Thomas Pearson*, University of Rochester
(1044-55-182) -
4:30 p.m.
Topological modular forms and Igusa tower.
Valentina Joukhovitski*, University of Michigan
(1044-55-250)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday October 25, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Inverse Limits and Their Applications, III
Room 205, Shelby Center for Science and Technology
Organizers:
Judy A. Kennedy, Lamar University kennedy9905@gmail.com
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2:30 p.m.
Inverse limits and trees.
H. Murat Tuncali*, Nipissing University
(1044-54-185) -
3:00 p.m.
Entropy of shift maps of the pseudo-arc.
Christopher Garrett Mouron*, Rhodes College
(1044-54-140) -
3:30 p.m.
Continuous Images of Arcs: Extensions of Cornette's Theorem.
D. Daniel*, Lamar University
J. Nikiel, Opole University
L. B. Treybig, Texas A&M University
M. Tuncali, Nipissing University
E. D. Tymchatyn, University of Saskatchewan
(1044-54-146) -
4:00 p.m.
Period-doubling cascades in systems having generic bifurcations.
James A. Yorke*, University of Maryland
(1044-37-108)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday October 25, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Set-Theoretic Topology, III
Room 207, Shelby Center for Science and Technology
Organizers:
Gary Gruenhage, Auburn University
Peter J. Nyikos, University of South Carolina nyikos@math.sc.edu
Robert M. Stephenson, Jr, University of South Carolina
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2:30 p.m.
Forcing and non-trivial copies of $\beta\omega\setminus\omega$.
Alan Dow*, UNC Charlotte
(1044-54-189) -
3:00 p.m.
On a strengthening of separability.
Angelo Bella, University of Catania, Italy
Maddalena Bonanzinga, University of Messina, Italy
Mikhail V. Matveev, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
Vladimir V Tkachuk*, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City, Mexico
(1044-54-67) -
3:30 p.m.
Monotone versions of Lindelöf-type properties.
Maddalena Bonanzinga*, Department of Mathematics, University of Messina, Italy
Mikhail Matveev, George Mason University
(1044-54-48) -
4:00 p.m.
Construction of a non $D$-space with large extent from $\diamondsuit^+$.
Tetsuya Ishiu*, Miami University
(1044-54-124) -
4:30 p.m.
On (strong) $\alpha$-favorability of the Wijsman hyperspace.
Laszlo Zsilinszky*, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
(1044-54-194) -
5:00 p.m.
Bivariate Markov kernels and selections.
Alexander Shibakov*, Tennessee Technological University
(1044-54-198)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday October 25, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Mathematical Biology: Modeling, Analysis, and Simulations, III
Room 109, Shelby Center for Science and Technology
Organizers:
Jia Li, University of Alabama in Huntsville li@math.uah.edu
Azmy S. Ackleh, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Maia Martcheva, University of Florida
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2:30 p.m.
A Model for Hormonal Control of the Menstrual Cycle: Structural Integrity but Sensitivity with Regard to Data.
James F Selgrade*, Department of Mathematics and Biomathematics Program
Leona A Harris, Department of Mathematics
Drew Pasteur, Department of Mathematics
(1044-92-103) -
3:00 p.m.
Towards a Model of a Viral Quasispecies.
T V Kostova*, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
(1044-92-117) -
3:30 p.m.
Emerging Paradigms in Modeling the Spread of Epidemics.
James M Hyman*, Los Alamos National Laboratory
(1044-92-83) -
4:00 p.m.
Multi-strain virus dynamics with mutations: A global analysis.
Patrick De Leenheer, University of Florida
Sergei S Pilyugin*, University of Florida
(1044-92-99) -
4:30 p.m.
Spectral bound and reproduction number for infinite dimensional population structure and time heterogeneity.
Horst R. Thieme*, Arizona State University
(1044-92-69) -
5:00 p.m.
Evolutionary reversals in competitive interactions: experimental occurrences and model explanations using Darwinian dynamics.
J. M. Cushing*, Department of Mathematics & Interdisciplinary Program in Applied Mathematics, University of Arizona
Robert F Costantino, Ecology/Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona
Rosalyn Rael, Interdisciplinary Program in Applied Mathematics, University of Arizona
Thomas L Vincent, Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, University of Arizona
(1044-92-51)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday October 25, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Graph Decompositions
Room 218, Shelby Center for Science and Technology
Organizers:
Robert A. Beeler, East Tennessee State University beelerr@mail.etsu.edu
Robert B. Gardner, East Tennessee State University
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2:30 p.m.
Triple Systems from Graph Decompositions.
Robert B. Gardner*, East Tennessee State University
(1044-05-143) -
3:00 p.m.
Intersection Graphs of Star Packings in Subdivided Multigraphs.
Robert E. Jamison*, University of Haifa
(1044-05-77) -
3:30 p.m.
Automorphic Decompositions of Graphs.
Robert A. Beeler*, East Tennessee State University
Robert E. Jamison, Clemson University
(1044-05-25) -
4:00 p.m.
Cycle Systems - Some recent progress.
Chris Rodger*, Auburn University
(1044-05-24) -
4:30 p.m.
Partitioning cyclic groups into cosets of different subgroups.
Saad El Zanati, Illinois State University
Peter Johnson*, Auburn University
Wenhau Zhao, Illinois State University
(1044-05-14) -
5:00 p.m.
Current work on variations of the Oberwolfach problem.
S H Holliday*, Southern Polytechnic State University
(1044-05-08) -
5:30 p.m.
On Rosa-type labelings and cyclic graph decompositions.
Saad El-Zanati*, Illinois State University
(1044-05-07)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday October 25, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Dynamics and Applications of Differential Equations, III
Room 105, Shelby Center for Science and Technology
Organizers:
Wenzhang Huang, University of Alabama in Huntsville huangw@email.uah.edu
Shangbing Ai, University of Alabama in Huntsville
Weishi Liu, University of Kansas
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2:30 p.m.
Chaotic behavior in nonautonomous equations without any time periodicity.
Kening Lu*, Brigham Young University
Qiudong Wang, University of Arizona
(1044-34-229) -
3:00 p.m.
Two Species Competition Systems with Different Dispersal Strategies.
Chiu-Yen Kao, Ohio State University
Yuan Lou, Ohio State University
Wenxian Shen*, Auburn University
(1044-35-102) -
3:30 p.m.
Trajectory Attractors for a Class of Functional Reaction-Diffusion Problems.
Georg Hetzer*, Auburn University
(1044-35-106) -
4:00 p.m.
Viscous standing asymptotic states of isentropic compressible flows through a nozzle.
John M. Hong, National Central University, Taiwan
Cheng-hsiung Hsu*, National Central University, Taiwan
Liu Weishi, University of Kansas
(1044-35-123) -
4:30 p.m.
Local semiflows for Kurzweil equations leading to LaSalle Invariance Principle for non-autonomous retarded systems with impulses.
Everaldo M. Bonotto, Universidade de Sao Paulo
Marcia Federson*, Universidade de Sao Paulo
Stefan Schwabik, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
(1044-39-10) -
5:00 p.m.
Effects of some turning points on global dynamics.
Weishi Liu*, University of Kansas
(1044-34-139)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday October 25, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
Special Session on Gaussian Analysis and Stochastic Partial Differential Equations, II
Room 050, Shelby Center for Science and Technology
Organizers:
Davar Khoshnevisan, University of Utah davar@math.utah.edu
Dongsheng Wu, University of Alabama in Huntsville
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2:30 p.m.
Self-intersection local time of the fractional Brownian motion.
David Nualart*, The University of Kansas
(1044-60-15) -
3:30 p.m.
Large deviations for local and intersection local times of fractional Brownian motions.
Xia Chen*, University of Tennessee
(1044-60-13) -
4:30 p.m.
Self-intersections of Gaussian random fields.
Dongsheng Wu, University of Alabama in Huntsville
Yimin Xiao*, Michigan State University
(1044-60-23) -
5:30 p.m.
Local times and Gaussian processes.
Wenbo Li*, University of Delaware
(1044-60-200)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday October 25, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Graph Theory, III
Room 219, Shelby Center for Science and Technology
Organizers:
Peter J. Slater, University of Alabama in Huntsville
Grant Zhang, University of Alabama in Huntsville zhangg@email.uah.edu
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2:30 p.m.
On graphs and codes.
Gretchen L. Matthews*, Clemson University
(1044-05-175) -
3:00 p.m.
Long Cycles in 4-connected Graphs.
Guantao Chen*, Georgia State University
Zhiquan Hu, Central China Normal University
Yaping Wu, Central China Normal University
(1044-05-154) -
3:30 p.m.
On the upper bound for the Turán density of $K^r_{r+1}$.
Linyuan Lu, University of South Carolina
Yi Zhao*, Georgia State University
(1044-05-147) -
4:00 p.m.
Recent Results on Saturation Numbers.
Ronald J. Gould*, Emory University
(1044-05-101) -
4:30 p.m.
Path Spectrum Sets.
Ralph Faudree*, University of Memphis
(1044-05-42) -
5:00 p.m.
Discussion.
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday October 25, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Applications of PDEs and ODEs (in honor of Karen Ames), II
Room 121, Shelby Center for Science and Technology
Organizers:
Suzanne M. Lenhart, University of Tennessee, Knoxville lenhart@math.utk.edu
Philip W. Schaefer, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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2:30 p.m.
Optimal Control of Kuramoto Oscillators.
Rachel N. Leander*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
(1044-34-78) -
3:00 p.m.
Optimal Control Study of Neuroblastoma.
K. Renee Fister*, Murray State University
Craig Collins, Murray State University
Molly Williams, Murray State University
(1044-34-12) -
3:30 p.m.
A mathematical model for cell signaling and endothelial migration in a living zebra fish embryos.
Khalid Boushaba*, Department of Mathematics
J. Essner, Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology
H. A. Levine, Department of Mathematics
(1044-35-39) -
4:00 p.m.
Measure-valued Solutions for a Kinetic Model of Cell Movement in Network Tissues.
Thomas Hillen, Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
Peter Hinow*, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications
Zhian Wang, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications
(1044-35-34) -
4:30 p.m.
Optimal Control of an ODE Model for Rabies in Raccoons with a Birth Pulse.
Tim Clayton*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
(1044-34-64) -
5:00 p.m.
On Bean's critical state model for superconductors.
Frank Jochmann*, Berlin, Germany
(1044-35-113)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday October 25, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Operator Theory and Partial Differential Equations, III
Room 103, Shelby Center for Science and Technology
Organizers:
Claudio H. Morales, University of Alabama in Huntsville morales@math.uah.edu
Pei-Kee Lin, University of Memphis
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2:30 p.m.
On a notion of category depending on a functional and an application to a perturbed Hamiltonian system.
Marlene Frigon*, University of Montreal
(1044-58-100) -
3:00 p.m.
There is an equivalent norm of $\ell_1$ that has the fixed point property for nonexpansive mappings.
Pei-Kee Lin*, University of Memphis, Memphis TN 38152
(1044-47-37) -
3:30 p.m.
Semigroups Generated by Pseudo-contractive Mappings Under the Nagumo Condition.
C. Anthony Hester*, Huntsville, AL
(1044-47-62) -
4:00 p.m.
The Leray-Schauder condition for continuous pseudo-contractive mappings.
Claudio H. Morales*, The University of AlabamaD in Huntsville
(1044-47-230) -
4:30 p.m.
On the Principle of Optimality.
Jinlu Li*, Shawnee State University
(1044-90-222) -
5:00 p.m.
Discussion.
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday October 25, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Mechanics, Control, and Integrability, II
Room 158, Shelby Center for Science and Technology
Organizers:
Anthony M. Bloch, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Dmitry Zenkov, North Carolina State University dvzenkov@ncsu.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Communication by Means of Controlled Dynamical System Motions.
J. Baillieul*, Boston University
(1044-93-195) -
3:00 p.m.
On the semiclassical limit of the sine-Gordon equation.
Peter D Miller*, University of Michigan
(1044-35-110) -
3:30 p.m.
Local error analysis of variational integrators.
George W. Patrick*, University of Saskatchewan
(1044-70-160) -
4:00 p.m.
Discrete Dirac Structures and Variational Discrete Dirac Mechanics.
Melvin Leok*, Purdue University
Tomoki Ohsawa, University of Michigan
(1044-53-158) -
4:30 p.m.
Stability of Relative Equilibria of Nonholonomic Integrators.
Cameron Lynch, North Carolina State University
Dmitry Zenkov*, North Carolina State University
(1044-70-210)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday October 25, 2008, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Probability on Discrete and Algebraic Structures, II
Room 216, Shelby Center for Science and Technology
Organizers:
Kyle T. Siegrist, University of Alabama in Huntsville siegrist@math.uah.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Constant rate distributions on partially ordered sets.
Kyle Siegrist*, University of Alabama in Huntsville
(1044-60-71) -
3:00 p.m.
Thermodynamic limit for random plane trees.
Yuri Bakhtin*, Georgia Tech
(1044-60-70) -
3:30 p.m.
Some discrete structures underlying Dawson-Watanabe superprocesses.
Olav Kallenberg*, Auburn University
(1044-60-65) -
4:00 p.m.
Markovian Arrival Processes and Applications in Queueing Systems.
Patrick P. Wang*, University of Alabama
Minqing Gong, Guizhou University
(1044-60-55)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday October 25, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Random Matrices, II
Room 150, Shelby Center for Science and Technology
Organizers:
Leonard N. Choup, University of Alabama in Huntsville lnc0002@uah.edu
Jack Silverstein, North Carolina State University
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3:00 p.m.
Universality of the Toda lattice for integrable hierarchies.
Yuji Kodama, The Ohio State University
Virgil U Pierce*, The University of Texas -- Pan American
(1044-35-118) -
3:30 p.m.
Asymptotics of large random strict plane partitions and generalized MacMahon's formula.
Mirjana Vuletic*, California Institute of Technology
(1044-60-209) -
4:00 p.m.
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4:30 p.m.
The Fluctuations of Kesten's Law.
James A. Mingo*, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
(1044-60-152)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday October 25, 2008, 4:30 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Applications of Topology to Dynamical Systems, I
Room 205, Shelby Center for Science and Technology
Organizers:
John C. Mayer, University of Alabama at Birmingham mayer@math.uab.edu
Lex G. Oversteegen, University of Alabama at Birmingham
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4:30 p.m.
Continuum theory found in dynamical systems.
James T. Rogers, Jr.*, Tulane University
(1044-37-214) -
5:00 p.m.
Fixed points in non-invariant plane continua.
Lex G Oversteegen*, UAB
Alexander M Blokh, UAB
(1044-54-234) -
5:30 p.m.
Fatou-Douady-Hubbard-Shishikura inequality and wandering ray-continua.
A. Blokh*, UAB
D. Childers, UAB
Lex Oversteegen, UAB
D. Schleicher, Jacobs University
G. Levin, Hebrew University
(1044-37-239) -
6:00 p.m.
Buried points in Julia sets.
John C. Mayer*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Clinton P. Curry, University of Alabama at Birmingham
(1044-37-215)
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4:30 p.m.