AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Sunday, November 2, 2008 00:29:44

Program | Deadlines | Registration/Housing/Etc. | Inquiries: meet@ams.org

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

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
- 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)

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
- 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)

Inquiries: meet@ams.org