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2010 Spring Central Section Meeting
St. Paul, MN, April 10-11, 2010 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1058

Associate secretaries:
Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

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Saturday April 10, 2010

• Saturday April 10, 2010, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Lobby, Olin Rice Hall
• Saturday April 10, 2010, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Lobby, Olin Rice Hall
• Saturday April 10, 2010, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Differential Equations and Applications, I
  Room 009, Old Main
  Organizers:
  Nicolai Tarfulea, Purdue University Calumet tarfulea@calumet.purdue.edu
  Catalin Turc, Case Western Reserve University catalin.turc@case.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    An Inverse Random Source Problem for the Helmholtz Equation in One Dimension.
    Gang Bao, Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824
    Shui-Nee Chow, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332
    Peijun Li*, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907
    Haomin Zhou, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332
    (1058-78-129)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Interior Transmission Problem in Acoustics.
    Peter B Monk*, University of Delaware
    (1058-65-252)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Analysis of transmission and mixed boundary value problems with applications to the Finite Element Method.
    Hengguang Li, Syracuse University
    Anna Mazzucato, Pennsylvania State University
    Victor Nistor*, Pennsylvania State University
    (1058-65-204)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Some Recent Developments in Particle Methods.
    Robert Krasny*, University of Michigan
    Hualong Feng, Nanjing University of Science and Technology
    Leon Kaganovskiy, New College of Florida
    Lei Wang, University of Michigan
    (1058-65-53)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A New Spectral-Galerkin Method for High-Dimensional PDEs.
    Jie Shen*, Purdue University
    (1058-65-299)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Exponential convergence of $hp$-version DG methods for linear elliptic PDEs in three dimensions.
    Dominik M Schoetzau*, University of British Columbia
    (1058-65-89)
• Saturday April 10, 2010, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Quantum Invariants of 3-manifolds and Modular Categories, I
  Room 226, Humanities Building
  Organizers:
  Thang Le, Georgia Institute of Technology letu@math.gatech.edu
  Eric Rowell, Texas A&M University rowell@math.tamu.edu
  Vladimir Touraev, Indiana University vtouraev@indiana.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Fusion categories in terms of graphs and relations.
    Hendryk Pfeiffer*, The University of British Columbia,
    (1058-20-113)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    How to recognize $U_q(\mathfrak{g}_2)$ or $S_t$.
    Noah J Snyder*, Columbia University
    (1058-17-228)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Tensor functors on a certain category constructed from spherical categories.
    Marta Asaeda*, Univ of California, Riverside
    (1058-57-273)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Turaev-Viro Invariants as an Extended TQFT.
    Alexander Kirillov, Jr, Stony Brook University
    Benjamin Balsam*, Stony Brook University
    (1058-81-254)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Second Quantization of Categorical Quantum Mechanics.
    Spencer D Stirling*, University of Utah
    Yong-Shi Wu, University of Utah
    (1058-81-236)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Some properties of quantum representations of mapping class groups.
    Jens Fjelstad*, Karlstad University/Department of Physics
    (1058-18-222)
• Saturday April 10, 2010, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Matrices and Graphs, I
  Room 100, Olin Rice Hall
  Organizers:
  Luz M. DeAlba, Drake University luz.dealba@drake.edu
  Adam Berliner, St. Olaf College berliner@stolaf.edu
  Leslie Hogben, Iowa State University lhogben@iastate.edu
  In-Jae Kim, Minnesota State University in-jae.kim@mnsu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Progress on the Graph Complement Conjecture.
    Shaun M Fallat*, University of Regina
    (1058-15-115)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Minimum semidefinite rank and the Heawood graph.
    Louis A Deaett*, University of Victoria
    (1058-15-210)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Lower Bounds in Minimum Rank Problems.
    Sivaram K. Narayan*, Central Michigan University
    (1058-15-163)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Minimum Semidefinite Rank of Outerplanar Graphs.
    Francesco Barioli, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
    Shaun M Fallat, University of Regina
    Lon H Mitchell*, Virginia Commonwealth University
    Sivaram K Narayan, Central Michigan University
    (1058-15-174)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Minimum Rank of Outerplanar Graphs.
    Mark Kempton*, Brigham Young University
    (1058-15-245)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The Minimum Rank Problem for Outerplanar Graphs.
    John Sinkovic*, Brigham Young University
    Mark Kempton, Brigham Young University
    (1058-15-285)
• Saturday April 10, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Physical Knotting and Linking and its Applications, I
  Room 213, Humanities Building
  Organizers:
  Eric Rawdon, University of St. Thomas ejrawdon@stthomas.edu
  Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte yuanandiao@uncc.edu
  Claus Ernst, Western Kentucky University claus.ernst@wku.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Are large codimension 2 spheres knotted with high probability?
    De Witt Sumners*, Florida State University
    (1058-57-111)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Knotted 2-spheres in tubes in $Z^4$.
    Stu Whittington*, University of Toronto
    (1058-57-101)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Knotting statistics after a local strand passage in self-avoiding polygons on $\mathbb{Z}^3$.
    Chris Soteros*, University of Saskatchewan
    Michael Szafron, University of Saskatchewan
    (1058-82-262)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Mechanics and Energetics of DNA Loops in Complex Nucleoprotein Assemblies.
    Stephen D Levene*, University of Texas at Dallas
    (1058-92-211)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Laundry Embedded Surfaces and Protein Folding.
    Victor A Nicholson*, Kent State University
    (1058-57-243)
• Saturday April 10, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Hecke Algebras and Deformations in Geometry and Topology, I
  Room 250, Olin Rice Hall
  Organizers:
  Matthew Douglass, University of North Texas douglass@unt.edu
  Anne Shepler, University of North Texas ashepler@unt.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    An application of the Hecke algebras of permutation representations to representation theory.
    Shigeo Koshitani*, Dept of Mathematics, Graduate School of Science, Chiba University, Japan
    (1058-22-78)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Hecke Algebras and Markov traces.
    Rosa C Orellana*, Dartmouth College
    (1058-16-271)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Littlewood-Richardson rule for Macdonald polynomials.
    Martha Yip*, UW-Madison
    (1058-05-199)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Motzkin Paths and Representation Theory.
    Georgia Benkart*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Tom Halverson, Macalester College
    (1058-05-59)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Twisted symplectic reflection algebras.
    Tatyana S Chmutova*, University of Michigan
    (1058-16-177)
• Saturday April 10, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Pattern Formation in Biological Systems, I
  Room 001, Old Main
  Organizers:
  Magdalena Skolarska, University of St. Thomas mastolarska@stthomas.edu
  Chad Topaz, Macalester College ctopaz@macalester.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Locust swarms: Discrete models, homogenization, and variational minimization.
    Chad M. Topaz*, Dept. of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, Macalester College
    Andrew J. Bernoff, Dept. of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College
    Sheldon Logan, Baskin School of Engineering, University of California at Santa Cruz
    Wyatt Toolson, The Brattle Group
    (1058-92-235)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Asymptotic dynamics of attractive-repulsive swarms.
    Andrew J. Bernoff*, Dept. of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College
    Andrew J. Leverentz, Dept. of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College
    Chad M. Topaz, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Macalester College
    (1058-37-279)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Two dimensional swarming patterns: from discrete to continuum descriptions.
    Maria R D'Orsogna*, California State University at Northridge
    (1058-92-140)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Volcano Effect in Bacterial Chemotaxis.
    Paul A Milewski*, UW-Madison, Mathematics
    Julie Simons, UW-Madison, Mathematics
    (1058-92-244)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Mathematical models of pattern formation in baterium Proteus mirabilis colonies.
    chuan xue*, Mathematical Biosciences Institute
    (1058-92-51)
• Saturday April 10, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Fractals, Convolution Measures, and Frames, I
  Room 112, Humanities Building
  Organizers:
  Keri Kornelson, University of Oklahoma kkornelson@math.ou.edu
  Karen Shuman, Grinnell College shumank@math.grinnell.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Identifying a Basis in a Frame.
    Dominic Donald Kramer*, Iowa State University
    (1058-46-282)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Exponential Frames and Bases on the Cantor-3 set.
    Eric S Weber*, Iowa State University
    (1058-42-205)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Orthogonal harmonic analysis of selfsimilar measures.
    Palle E. T. Jorgensen*, University of Iowa
    (1058-42-48)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Fourier frames on fractal measures.
    Dorin Ervin Dutkay*, University of Central Florida
    (1058-42-27)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Slanted matrices, Banach frames and sampling.
    Akram Aldroubi*, Vanderbilt University
    Ilya Krishtal, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb
    (1058-47-91)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Frame multipliers and commutative Banach algebras.
    Fumiko Futamura*, Southwestern University
    (1058-42-253)
• Saturday April 10, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Developments in Cell and Systems Biology, I
  Room 002, Old Main
  Organizers:
  Anastasios Matzavinos, Iowa State University tasos@iastate.edu
  Nicoleta Eugenia Tarfulea, Purdue University Calumet ntarfule@calumet.purdue.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Multi-scale analysis of chemical reaction networks.
    Hans G Othmer*, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
    (1058-92-268)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The maximal compartment size in stochastic modeling of chemical reaction-diffusion networks.
    Hye Won Kang*, University of Minnesota/School of Mathematics
    Likun Zheng, University of Minnesota/School of Mathematics
    Hans Othmer, University of Minnesota/School of Mathematics
    (1058-92-195)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Numerical Solution of Stochastic Partial Differential Equations using Wiener-Ito Chaos Expansions.
    Fernando Miranda-Mendoza*, Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University
    (1058-65-237)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    A model of fibroblast motility with substrate rigidity sensing.
    Maria E. Gracheva*, Department of Physics, Clarkson University
    Irina V. Dokukina, Department of Physics, Clarkson University
    (1058-92-87)
• Saturday April 10, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Applications of a Geometric Approach to Chaotic Dynamics, I
  Room 010, Old Main
  Organizers:
  Evelyn Sander, George Mason University esander@gmu.edu
  Judy Kennedy, Lamar University kennedy9905@gmail.com
  James Yorke, University of Maryland yorke@umd.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Topology of Tank Stirring.
    Barry A. Peratt*, Winona State University
    Judy A. Kennedy, Lamar University
    (1058-54-160)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Finite-to-one Maps into Euclidean Manifolds and Spaces with Disjoint Disks Properties.
    Alex Karasev, Nipissing University
    Murat Tuncali*, Nipissing University
    Vesko Valov, Nipissing University
    (1058-54-134)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Chaotic Sets and Chaos for a Class of Differential Inclusions that Arise in Economic Models.
    David R Stockman*, University of Delaware
    Brian E Raines, Baylor University
    (1058-37-135)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Factor maps and chaos.
    Piotr Oprocha*, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
    Paweł Wilczyński, Jagiellonian University, Poland
    (1058-37-30)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The Dynamics of Nucleation in Stochastic Cahn-Morral Systems.
    Jonathan P. Desi, UMBC
    Hanein H. Edrees, George Mason University
    Joseph J. Price, George Mason University
    Evelyn Sander*, George Mason University
    Thomas Wanner, George Mason University
    (1058-35-145)
• Saturday April 10, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Probabilistic and Extremal Combinatorics, I
  Room 150, Olin Rice Hall
  Organizers:
  Ryan Martin, Iowa State University rymartin@iastate.edu
  Maria Axenovich, Iowa State University axenovic@iastate.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    On Saturated Graphs.
    Ronald J. Gould*, Emory University
    (1058-05-72)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Stability results on covering of triangles by edges.
    P. Haxell, University of Waterloo
    A. Kostochka*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    S. Thomasse, Universite Montpellier II
    (1058-05-196)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Extremal trees for homomorphism enumeration.
    A. Jamie Radcliffe*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Andrew Ray, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1058-05-119)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Covering complete $r$-graphs with complete $r$-partite $r$-graphs.
    André Kündgen*, California State University San Marcos
    Sebastian Cioabă, University of Delaware
    Craig Timmons, University of California San Diego
    (1058-05-267)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Decomposition of graphs into given sample graphs.
    Zoltan Furedi*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1058-05-269)
• Saturday April 10, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Representation Theory, I
  Room 241, Olin Rice Hall
  Organizers:
  Tom Halverson, Macalester College halverson@macalester.edu
  Victor Reiner, University of Minnesota reiner@math.umn.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Hyperspecies and hyperoperads.
    Marcelo Aguiar*, Texas A&M University
    Swapneel Mahajan, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai
    (1058-05-180)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A simple bijection between alternating sign matrices with no $-1$'s and descending plane partitions with no special parts.
    Jessica Striker*, Minneapolis, MN
    (1058-05-209)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Cyclic sieving and Eulerian quasisymmetric functions.
    Bruce Sagan, Michigan State University
    John Shareshian*, Washington University
    Michelle Wachs, University of Miami
    (1058-05-223)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the algebra and combinatorics of $q,t$-Catalan numbers.
    Lee Kyungyong, Purdue University
    Li Li*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1058-05-178)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Crystal graphs and dual equivalence graphs.
    Sami Assaf*, MIT
    (1058-05-191)
• Saturday April 10, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Universal Algebra and Order, I
  Room 301, Olin Rice Hall
  Organizers:
  Jeffrey Olson, Norwich University jolson@norwich.edu
  Jeremy Alm, Illinois College alm.academic@gmail.com
  Kristi Meyer, Wisconsin Lutheran College kristi.meyer@wlc.edu
  Japheth Wood, Bard College jwood@bard.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Algebraic Linear Orderings.
    Stephen L Bloom*, Stevens Institute of Technology
    Zoltan Esik, University of Szeged
    (1058-06-18)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Categorical terms for congruence-modularity.
    Zurab Janelidze*, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
    (1058-08-14)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Portraits of Kuratowski monoid orbits.
    Fred E.J. Linton*, Wesleyan Univ. Math/CS (Emeritus)
    (1058-06-25)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Lambda-rings of automorphisms.
    Jonathan D.H. Smith*, Iowa State University
    (1058-08-13)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On finitely related clones.
    Peter Mayr*, Centro de Algebra de Universidade de Lisboa
    Erhard Aichinger, Department of Algebra, JKU Linz, Austria
    (1058-08-20)
• Saturday April 10, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Ring Theory, I
  Room 353, Olin Rice Hall
  Organizers:
  Michael Axtell, University of St. Thomas maxtell@stthomas.edu
  Joe Stickles, Millikin University jstickles@millikin.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    $\tau_{[ ]}$-UFD's, UCFD's, and CK-domains.
    Jeremiah N. Reinkoester*, The University of Iowa
    (1058-13-84)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Prime Ideals in Birational Extensions of Two-Dimensional Power Series Rings.
    Christina Eubanks-Turner*, university of Louisiana at Lafayette
    Melissa Luckas, Madison, Wisconsin
    Serpil Saydam, University of Louisiana at Monroe
    (1058-13-153)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Integer-valued Polynomials on Subsets of a Noncommutative Ring.
    Nicholas Werner*, The Ohio State University
    (1058-13-166)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Quasi-complete local rings.
    Dan D. Anderson*, The University of Iowa
    (1058-13-58)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Using going-up to characterize going-down domains.
    David E. Dobbs*, University of Tennessee
    Andrew J. Hetzel, Tennessee Technological University
    (1058-13-80)
• Saturday April 10, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Partition Theory and the Combinatorics of Symmetric Functions, I
  Room 350, Olin Rice Hall
  Organizers:
  Eric S. Egge, Carleton College eegge@carleton.edu
  Kristina Garrett, St. Olaf College garrettk@stolaf.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    The lattice of finite vector space partitions and its Möbius function.
    Fusun Akman*, Illinois State University
    Papa Amar Sissokho, Illinois State University
    (1058-06-86)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Multiple special numbers.
    Hasan Coskun*, Texas A&M University-Commerce
    (1058-05-94)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Sand Piles and Related Partition Dynamics.
    Brian Hopkins*, Saint Peter's College
    (1058-05-33)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Explicit bounds for the number of $p$-core partitions.
    Byungchan Kim*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Jeremy Rouse, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champain
    (1058-11-07)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Infinitely many new partition statistics.
    Gregory S. Warrington*, University of Vermont
    Nicholas A. Loehr, Virginia Tech
    (1058-05-296)
• Saturday April 10, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Cohomology and Representation Theory of Algebraic Groups and Related Structures, I
  Room 243, Olin Rice Hall
  Organizers:
  Christopher Bendel, University of Wisconsin-Stout bendelc@uwstout.edu
  Bobbe Cooper, University of Minnesota bcooper@math.umn.edu
  Terrell Hodge, Western Michigan University terrell.hodge@wmich.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    The classification of tridiagonal pairs.
    Paul M Terwilliger*, Math Department, University of Wisconsin
    (1058-15-108)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Thin Hessenberg Pairs of Linear Transformations.
    Ali Godjali*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1058-15-218)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Dual polar graphs and the quantum algebra $U_q(sl_2)$.
    Chalermpong Worawannotai*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1058-05-226)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The measurement of quantum entanglement and enumeration of graph coverings.
    Michael W. Hero, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
    Lauren Kelly Williams, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
    Jeb F. Willenbring*, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
    (1058-20-131)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Generalized Trace and Dimension Functions in Ribbon Categories.
    Nathan Geer, Utah State University
    Jonathan Kujawa*, University of Oklahoma
    Bertrand Patureau-Mirand, Universite de Bretagne-Sud
    (1058-18-122)
• Saturday April 10, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Flows, Moving Frames and Integrable Systems, I
  Room 110, Humanities Building
  Organizers:
  Gloria Mari-Beffa, University of Wisconsin-Madison maribeff@math.wisc.edu
  Peter Olver, University of Minnesota olver@math.umn.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Algebra of Differential Invariants.
    Evelyne Hubert*, INRIA Mediterannee
    (1058-08-137)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Symbolic Computation of Conservation Laws of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations in Multiple Space Dimensions.
    Willy A Hereman*, Colorado School of Mines
    Loren Douglas Poole, Colorado School of Mines
    (1058-35-79)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Linear stability of small-amplitude torus knot solutions of the Vortex Filament Equation.
    Annalisa Calini*, Department of Mathematics, College of Charleston
    Thomas Ivey, Department of Mathematics, College of Charleston
    Scott Keith, Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Stephane Lafortune, Department of Mathematics, College of Charleston
    (1058-35-217)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Solving Equivalence Problems with the Equivariant Moving Frame Method.
    Francis Valiquette*, McGill University
    (1058-53-95)
• Saturday April 10, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-10:25 a.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers
  Room 101, Olin Rice Hall
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    On a Hankel transform integral.
    Ibrahim A. Salehbhai*, S.V. National Institute of Technology, Surat-395 007, INDIA
    A. K. Shukla, S.V. National Institute of Technology, Surat-395 007, INDIA
    (1058-33-40)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Generating relation for Laguerre type polynomial containing Mittag-Leffler function.
    Jyotindra C Prajapati, Charotar University of Science and Technology, Changa, Anand-388 421, India
    Amitkumar Dilipbhai Patel*, S. V. National Institute of Technology, Surat-395007, Gujarat, INDIA
    Ajay K Shukla, S. V. National Institute of Technology, Surat-395007, Gujarat, INDIA
    (1058-33-45)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Asymptotic analysis of the shape and composition of alloy islands in epitaxial solid films.
    Mihaela Blanariu*, Columbia College Chicago, IL
    B J Spencer, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY
    (1058-74-37)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Complemented Subspaces of Linear Bounded Operators.
    Manijeh Bahreini, University of Isfahan, Iran
    Elizabeth Bator, University of North Texas, TX
    Ioana Ghenciu*, University of Wisconsin-River Falls
    (1058-46-34)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Krein-Milman Type Conclusions.
    Jay Kangel*, Minneapolis, Minnesota
    (1058-52-28)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Calculus students: Learn from others' mistakes.
    Semail Ulgen Yildirim*, Northwestern University
    (1058-97-32)
• Saturday April 10, 2010, 11:45 a.m.-12:35 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Welcome Remarks by Kathleen M. Murray, Provost and Dean of the Faculty, and Georgia Benkart, AMS Associate Secretary
  J. B. Davis Lecture Hall, Campus Center
  Representations and cohomology of categories.
  J. B. Davis Lecture Hall, Campus Center
  Peter Webb*, University of Minnesota
  (1058-18-03)
• Saturday April 10, 2010, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Physical Knotting and Linking and its Applications, II
  Room 213, Humanities Building
  Organizers:
  Eric Rawdon, University of St. Thomas ejrawdon@stthomas.edu
  Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte yuanandiao@uncc.edu
  Claus Ernst, Western Kentucky University claus.ernst@wku.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Minimal step number of cubic lattice knots in thin slabs.
    Robert G. Scharein*, San Francisco State University
    (1058-55-289)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    DNA unknotting, topoisomerases and bacteriophages.
    Mariel Vazquez*, San Francisco State University
    Javier Arsuaga, San Francisco State University
    Robert Scharein, San Francisco State Unviersity
    (1058-92-281)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    DNA knotting in bacteriophage spooling like conformations.
    Javier Arsuaga*, San Francisco State University
    Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
    (1058-92-221)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Tangle analysis of protein-DNA complexes.
    Isabel K. Darcy*, University of Iowa
    (1058-92-93)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the square writhe of a minimal alternating knot diagram.
    Yuanan Diao, UNCC
    Claus Ernst*, WKU
    Uta Ziegler, WKU
    (1058-57-173)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A Topological Model of Protein-Mediated Localized DNA Transformations.
    Dorothy Buck*, Imperial College London
    Ken Baker, University of Miami
    Andrew Lobb, MSRI and SUNY-Stony Brook
    (1058-57-39)
• Saturday April 10, 2010, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Hecke Algebras and Deformations in Geometry and Topology, II
  Room 250, Olin Rice Hall
  Organizers:
  Matthew Douglass, University of North Texas douglass@unt.edu
  Anne Shepler, University of North Texas ashepler@unt.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Functors for unitary representations of real groups and affine Hecke algebras.
    Dan Ciubotaru*, University of Utah
    (1058-22-73)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Localization of Cohomologically Induced Modules to Partial Flag Varieties.
    S. N. Kitchen*, University of Utah
    (1058-22-181)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Unitary representations of the graded Hecke algebra of type $H_3$.
    Cathy Kriloff*, Idaho State University
    Yu Chen, Idaho State University
    (1058-16-288)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Green functions via hyperbolic localization.
    Pramod N Achar*, Louisiana State University
    (1058-20-126)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Non-emptiness for affine Deligne-Lusztig varieties associated to dominant Weyl chambers.
    Elizabeth T Beazley*, University of Michigan
    (1058-20-241)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Formal deformation quantizations of singular symplectically reduced spaces.
    Hans-Christian Herbig, University of Aarhus, Denmark
    Srikanth Iyengar, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
    Markus J Pflaum*, Department of Mathematics, University of Colorado at Boulder
    (1058-53-83)
• Saturday April 10, 2010, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Pattern Formation in Biological Systems, II
  Room 001, Old Main
  Organizers:
  Magdalena Skolarska, University of St. Thomas mastolarska@stthomas.edu
  Chad Topaz, Macalester College ctopaz@macalester.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Pattern formation of glioma cells (brain tumor) outside the tumor spheroid core.
    Yangjin Kim*, University of Michigan
    Avner Friedman, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University
    Sean Lawler, Ohio State University
    Michal Nowicki, Ohio State University
    E. Antonio Chiocca, Ohio State University
    (1058-35-35)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    A model of cellular movement and its effect on substrate traction patterns.
    Magdalena A Stolarska*, University of St. Thomas
    (1058-92-96)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Robustness of Pattern Formation in Development.
    Hans G. Othmer*, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
    (1058-92-105)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Forced patterns near a Turing-Hopf bifurcation.
    Anne J Catlla*, Wofford College
    Chad M Topaz, Macalester College
    (1058-37-234)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A cAMP Signaling Model Explains the Benefit of Maintaining Two Forms of Phosphodiesterase in {\it Dictyostelium}.
    Eirikur Palsson*, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
    (1058-92-283)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A multicellular mathematical model for the initiation of gene-expression waves during somitogenesis.
    Mark B Campanelli*, Montana State University
    (1058-92-247)
• Saturday April 10, 2010, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Fractals, Convolution Measures, and Frames, II
  Room 112, Humanities Building
  Organizers:
  Keri Kornelson, University of Oklahoma kkornelson@math.ou.edu
  Karen Shuman, Grinnell College shumank@math.grinnell.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Bi-Lipschitz equivalence of dust-like Cantor sets.
    Yang Wang*, Michigan State University
    (1058-42-239)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Multifractal analyis for Bedford-McMullen carpets.
    Thomas M Jordan*, The University of Bristol, UK
    (1058-28-107)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Fractals as Boundaries.
    Erin P. J. Pearse*, University of Iowa
    Palle E. T. Jorgensen, University of Iowa
    (1058-37-255)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Fractal Laplacians defined by iterated function systems with overlaps.
    Sze-Man Ngai*, Georgia Southern University
    (1058-28-112)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A Filter-based Construction for Fractal Wavelet Frames.
    Jonas D'Andrea*, Westminster College
    (1058-46-290)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the spectral operator for generalized fractal strings.
    Hafedh Herichi*, University of California, Riverside
    (1058-46-56)
• Saturday April 10, 2010, 2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Developments in Cell and Systems Biology, II
  Room 002, Old Main
  Organizers:
  Anastasios Matzavinos, Iowa State University tasos@iastate.edu
  Nicoleta Eugenia Tarfulea, Purdue University Calumet ntarfule@calumet.purdue.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Stochastic Model for Spatial Epidemics: Quadratic Contact Process.
    Jim Evans*, Iowa State University
    Da-Jiang Liu, Ames Laboratory - USDOE
    Xiaofang Guo, Iowa State University
    (1058-82-162)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Mixed Mode Oscillations in a Neuroendocrine Cell Model.
    Sayanti Banerjee, Ohio State University
    Janet Best*, Ohio State University
    Jung Eun Kim, Ohio State University
    (1058-92-286)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A hyperbolic system of conservation laws for fluid flows through compliant axisymmetric vessels.
    Gui-Qiang Chen, Northwestern University
    Weihua Ruan*, Purdue University Calumet
    (1058-35-185)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Semigroup Analysis of Structured Parasite Populations.
    Peter Hinow*, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
    (1058-35-54)
• Saturday April 10, 2010, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Differential Equations and Applications, II
  Room 009, Old Main
  Organizers:
  Nicolai Tarfulea, Purdue University Calumet tarfulea@calumet.purdue.edu
  Catalin Turc, Case Western Reserve University catalin.turc@case.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Flux and slope limiters for finite element approximations to convection-dominated transport equations.
    Dmitri Kuzmin*, University of Houston
    (1058-35-52)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    An approximate Green-function algorithm for solving Fokker-Planck equations.
    Anna L Mazzucato*, Pennsylvania State University
    Wen Cheng, Pennsylvania State University
    Nicola D Costanzino, Pennsylvania State University
    Victor Nistor, Pennsylvania State University
    (1058-35-250)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Numerical methods for fully nonlinear elliptic equations.
    Gerard Awanou*, Northern Illinois University
    (1058-65-197)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Some numerical methods for shell models.
    Sheng Zhang*, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
    (1058-65-257)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Modeling and numerical simulations of immiscible multi-phase fluids.
    James Brannick*, Penn State University
    (1058-35-292)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The FEM for axisymmetric elliptic PDEs.
    Hengguang Li*, Department of Mathematics, Syracuse University
    (1058-65-266)
• Saturday April 10, 2010, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Applications of a Geometric Approach to Chaotic Dynamics, II
  Room 010, Old Main
  Organizers:
  Evelyn Sander, George Mason University esander@gmu.edu
  Judy Kennedy, Lamar University kennedy9905@gmail.com
  James Yorke, University of Maryland yorke@umd.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Comparing the period doubling cascades of two maps.
    James A Yorke*, University of Maryland
    (1058-37-143)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Entropy Efficiency of Braids.
    Philip Boyland*, University of Florida
    (1058-37-176)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Applications of KAM theory to population dynamics.
    Marian Gidea*, Northeastern Illinois University
    James Meiss, University of Colorado at Boulder
    Ilie Ugarcovici, DePaul University
    Howard Weiss, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1058-37-172)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Exact topological entropy for some non-hyperbolic maps.
    Jean-Luc Thiffeault*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
    Sarah E. Matz, University of Wisconsin - Madison
    Kevin A. Mitchell, University of California, Merced
    (1058-37-132)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday April 10, 2010, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Quantum Invariants of 3-manifolds and Modular Categories, II
  Room 226, Humanities Building
  Organizers:
  Thang Le, Georgia Institute of Technology letu@math.gatech.edu
  Eric Rowell, Texas A&M University rowell@math.tamu.edu
  Vladimir Touraev, Indiana University vtouraev@indiana.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Topological Quantum Information, Khovanov Homology and the Jones Polynomial.
    Louis H. Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1058-57-212)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Polynomial 6j-Symbols and States Sums on Triangulated 3-Manifolds.
    Nathan Geer*, Utah State University
    Bertrand Patureau, Université de Bretagne-Sud
    (1058-57-155)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Integrality of the Quantum SU(2) Invariant of 3-manifolds.
    Qi Chen*, Department of Mathematics, Winston-Salem State University
    (1058-57-71)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Colored $\mathfrak{sl}(N)$-homology for links and its deformations.
    Hao Wu*, George Washington University
    (1058-57-154)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Categorical Quandles and Knots.
    J. Scott Carter*, University of South Alabama
    Alissa Crans, Loyola University Marymount
    Mohamed Elhamdadi, University of South Florida
    Masahico Saito, University of South Florida
    (1058-55-128)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The second quandle homology of odd Takasaki quandles and exterior algebra.
    Maciej Niebrzydowski, U.L. at Lafayette
    Jozef H. Przytycki*, George Washington University and U.T. at Dallas
    (1058-57-139)
• Saturday April 10, 2010, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Probabilistic and Extremal Combinatorics, II
  Room 150, Olin Rice Hall
  Organizers:
  Ryan Martin, Iowa State University rymartin@iastate.edu
  Maria Axenovich, Iowa State University axenovic@iastate.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Fractional Chromatic Number of Triangle-free Graphs with $\Delta\leq 3$.
    Linyuan Lu*, University of South Carolina
    Xing Peng, University of South Carolina
    (1058-05-261)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    The Steiner problem in the hypercube.
    Tao Jiang, Miami University
    Zevi Miller, Miami University
    Dan Pritikin*, Miami University
    (1058-05-158)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    An Extremal Characterization of Projective Planes.
    Felix Lazebnik*, University of Delaware
    Stefaan De Winter, Department of Mathematics and Computer Algebra, Gent University
    Jacques Verstraëte, Department of Mathematics, UCSD
    (1058-05-280)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Set systems without a strong simplex.
    Tao Jiang*, Miami University
    Oleg Pikhurko, Carnegie Mellon University
    Zelealem Yilma, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1058-05-103)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Lubell function and $H$-free families of subsets.
    Jerrold R. Griggs*, University of South Carolina
    Wei-Tian Li, University of South Carolina
    Linyuan Lu, University of South Carolina
    (1058-05-284)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the Size of Maximal Antichains and the Number of Pairwise Disjoint Maximal Chains.
    William T Trotter*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    David M Howard, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1058-05-60)
• Saturday April 10, 2010, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Representation Theory, II
  Room 241, Olin Rice Hall
  Organizers:
  Tom Halverson, Macalester College halverson@macalester.edu
  Victor Reiner, University of Minnesota reiner@math.umn.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    A simple construction of the irreducible webs in the spider for $\mathfrak{sl}_3$.
    Julianna Tymoczko*, University of Iowa
    (1058-05-66)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    The cluster and dual canonical bases of $\mathbb{Z}[x_{11}, ... , x_{33}]$ are equal.
    Brendon Rhoades*, MIT
    (1058-05-258)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Exceptional sequences and rational invariants for quivers.
    Calin Ioan Chindris*, University of Iowa
    (1058-16-248)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A Cambrian approach to cluster algebras.
    Nathan Reading*, North Carolina State University
    David Speyer, MIT
    (1058-05-278)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Non commutative rank 2 cluster algebras and the Kontsevich conjecture.
    Philippe Di Francesco, CEA/Saclay, France
    Rinat Kedem*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1058-05-85)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Representation Types of Finite EI-Categories.
    Liping Li*, University of Minnesota, Twin Citeis
    (1058-16-43)
• Saturday April 10, 2010, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Universal Algebra and Order, II
  Room 301, Olin Rice Hall
  Organizers:
  Jeffrey Olson, Norwich University jolson@norwich.edu
  Jeremy Alm, Illinois College alm.academic@gmail.com
  Kristi Meyer, Wisconsin Lutheran College kristi.meyer@wlc.edu
  Japheth Wood, Bard College jwood@bard.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Approximate satisfaction of equations.
    Walter Taylor*, Professor Emeritus, University of Colorado, Boulder
    (1058-08-23)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    CSP Dichotomy for Idempotent, Right Quasigroups.
    Robert McGrail*, Bard College
    James Belk, Bard College
    Japheth Wood, Bard College
    (1058-08-26)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Pattern operations, strict pattern operations, and varieties.
    Joel Berman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1058-08-15)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On fully invariant and verbal congruences.
    Clifford Bergman*, Iowa State University
    Joel David Berman, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1058-08-12)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A Dozen Easy Problems.
    George F. McNulty*, University of South Carolina
    (1058-08-16)
• Saturday April 10, 2010, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Ring Theory, II
  Room 353, Olin Rice Hall
  Organizers:
  Michael Axtell, University of St. Thomas maxtell@stthomas.edu
  Joe Stickles, Millikin University jstickles@millikin.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    The partially ordered set of prime ideals in a two-dimensional Noetherian domain.
    Roger A. Wiegand*, University of Nebraska
    Sylvia M. Wiegand, University of Nebraska
    (1058-13-168)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Integral domains which admit only finitely many star operations.
    Evan Houston*, UNC Charlotte
    Abdeslam Mimouni, King Faud University of Petroleum & Minerals
    Mi Hee Park, Chung-Ang University
    (1058-13-264)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Topology and integer-valued polynomials on valuation domains.
    K Alan Loper*, Ohio State University
    (1058-13-260)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On Cohen-Kaplansky Domains.
    Jim Coykendall*, North Dakota State University
    Chris Spicer, Morningside College
    (1058-13-219)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Embedding dimension, multiplicity and Cohen-Macaulayness of subintegral extensions of local Noetherian domains.
    Bruce Olberding*, New Mexico State University
    (1058-13-240)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Non-unique factorization, Cohen-Kaplansky Domains, and the invariant \overline{\Lambda}(R).
    Jason Laska*, University of Tennessee
    (1058-13-70)
• Saturday April 10, 2010, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Partition Theory and the Combinatorics of Symmetric Functions, II
  Room 350, Olin Rice Hall
  Organizers:
  Eric S. Egge, Carleton College eegge@carleton.edu
  Kristina Garrett, St. Olaf College garrettk@stolaf.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    q,t Counting Dyck Paths with Forced and Forbidden Touch Points.
    Mike Zabrocki*, Mathematics and Statistics Dept, York University
    (1058-05-171)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Hall Littlewood operators in the Theory of Parking Functions.
    Adriano M. Garsia*, UCSD
    Guoce Xin, Nankai University
    Mike Zabrocki, York University
    (1058-05-138)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Two Bijections in the Theory of Parking Functions.
    Angela Hicks*, University of California- San Diego
    (1058-05-231)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    From Macdonald polynomials to a charge statistic in classical Lie types.
    Cristian Lenart*, State University of New York at Albany
    (1058-05-265)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Jeu de taquin for increasing tableaux.
    Alexander Yong*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1058-05-61)
• Saturday April 10, 2010, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Cohomology and Representation Theory of Algebraic Groups and Related Structures, II
  Room 243, Olin Rice Hall
  Organizers:
  Christopher Bendel, University of Wisconsin-Stout bendelc@uwstout.edu
  Bobbe Cooper, University of Minnesota bcooper@math.umn.edu
  Terrell Hodge, Western Michigan University terrell.hodge@wmich.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Factoring tilting modules for algebraic groups.
    Stephen Doty*, Loyola University Chicago
    (1058-20-200)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Ext and Donkin's tilting module conjecture.
    Leonard L Scott*, University of Virginia Department of Mathematics
    (1058-20-263)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Soergel's character formula for tilting modules via derived equivalences.
    Rahbar Virk*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    (1058-22-238)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Killing Forms of Isotropic Lie Algebras.
    Audrey Malagon*, Mercer University
    (1058-17-198)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Nilpotent Orbit Theory and Infinitesimal Blocks of the Parabolic Category $\mathcal{O}_S$.
    Kenyon J Platt*, Brigham Young University
    Bobbe J Cooper, University of Minnesota
    (1058-17-149)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Complexity of Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials and Koszul structures.
    Brian Parshall*, Dept. of Mathematics/ University of Virginia
    Leonard Scott, Dept. of Mathematics/University of Virginia
    (1058-20-206)
• Saturday April 10, 2010, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Flows, Moving Frames and Integrable Systems, II
  Room 110, Humanities Building
  Organizers:
  Gloria Mari-Beffa, University of Wisconsin-Madison maribeff@math.wisc.edu
  Peter Olver, University of Minnesota olver@math.umn.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Integrable curve flows in flat space.
    Chuu-Lian Terng*, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine
    Gudlaugur Thorbergsson, Mathematisches Institut der Universität zu Köln Weyertal , Germany
    (1058-53-193)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Integrable Curve Flows in Centro-Affine Space.
    Annalisa Calini, College of Charleston
    Thomas Ivey*, College of Charleston
    Gloria Marí Beffa, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    (1058-35-124)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Bi-Hamiltonian geometric curve flows in semi-simple Klein geometries.
    Stephen Anco*, Department of Mathematics, Brock University
    (1058-35-256)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Light Cone and the Conformal Sphere: Differential Invariants and their Relations.
    Theresa C Anderson*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1058-53-102)
• Saturday April 10, 2010, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Matrices and Graphs, II
  Room 100, Olin Rice Hall
  Organizers:
  Luz M. DeAlba, Drake University luz.dealba@drake.edu
  Adam Berliner, St. Olaf College berliner@stolaf.edu
  Leslie Hogben, Iowa State University lhogben@iastate.edu
  In-Jae Kim, Minnesota State University in-jae.kim@mnsu.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Zero Forcing Numbers for Graphs.
    Seth A. Meyer*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
    (1058-05-192)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Results for improving computation of zero forcing number.
    Darren D. Row*, Iowa State University
    (1058-15-130)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Computation of Minimum Rank.
    Jason Grout*, Drake University
    Laura DeLoss, DMACC
    Leslie Hogben, Iowa State University
    Tracy McKay, Iowa State University
    Jason Smith, Iowa State University
    Geoff Tims, Iowa State University
    H. Tracy Hall, Provo, UT
    Josh Lagrange, Iowa State University
    (1058-15-242)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    (0,1)-Matrices and Nonnegative Eigenvalues.
    Richard A Brualdi*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1058-15-47)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Acyclic matrices with a small number of distinct eigenvalues.
    Reshmi Nair*, University of Wyoming
    Bryan Shader, University of Wyoming
    (1058-05-64)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Symmetric Hamilton Cycle Decompositions of Graphs.
    Michael William Schroeder*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
    Richard A Brualdi, University of Wisconsin - Madison
    (1058-05-293)
• Saturday April 10, 2010, 5:05 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Fluctuations versus spatial variation in the competition between fast and slow dispersers.
  J. B. Davis Lecture Hall, Campus Center
  Charles Doering*, University of Michigan
  (1058-92-01)
• Saturday April 10, 2010, 6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
  Macalester College Department of Mathematics Reception
  Smail Gallery, Olin Rice Hall

Sunday April 11, 2010

• Sunday April 11, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Lobby, Olin Rice Hall
• Sunday April 11, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Lobby, Olin Rice Hall
• Sunday April 11, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Differential Equations and Applications, III
  Room 009, Old Main
  Organizers:
  Nicolai Tarfulea, Purdue University Calumet tarfulea@calumet.purdue.edu
  Catalin Turc, Case Western Reserve University catalin.turc@case.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A study of incompressible flow with surfactant monolayer.
    Yuen-Yick Kwan, Tulane University
    Jinhae Park*, Purdue University
    Jie Shen, Purdue University
    (1058-76-207)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Local adaptive radiation condition and overlapping domain decomposition methods for Helmholtz equation.
    Yassine Boubendir*, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    (1058-65-229)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Numerical Solution of Coupled Stokes-Darcy Flow.
    Svetlana Tlupova*, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan
    (1058-35-146)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Magnetohydrodynamics.
    James A Rossmanith*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
    (1058-65-69)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Application of Discontinuous Galerkin Methods to Kinetic Problems with Gas-Surface Interaction.
    Alexander Alekseenko*, California State University, Northridge
    (1058-65-295)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Exponential Stability And Instability In Finite Delay Nonlinear Volterra Integro-differential Equations.
    Youssef N Raffoul*, University of Dayton
    (1058-34-65)
• Sunday April 11, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Matrices and Graphs, III
  Room 100, Olin Rice Hall
  Organizers:
  Luz M. DeAlba, Drake University luz.dealba@drake.edu
  Adam Berliner, St. Olaf College berliner@stolaf.edu
  Leslie Hogben, Iowa State University lhogben@iastate.edu
  In-Jae Kim, Minnesota State University in-jae.kim@mnsu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Sign patterns that require or allow power-positivity.
    Minerva Catral*, Iowa State University
    Leslie Hogben, Iowa State University
    D. D. Olesky, University of Victoria
    P. van den Driessche, University of Victoria
    (1058-15-136)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Strongly Eventually Nonnegative Matrices.
    Minerva Catral, Iowa State University
    Craig Erickson*, Iowa State University
    Leslie Hogben, Iowa State University
    D. D. Olesky, University of Victoria
    P. van den Driessche, University of Victoria
    (1058-15-147)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Spectrally arbitrary patterns over finite fields.
    Elizabeth J. Bodine*, Washington State University
    Judith J. McDonald, Washington State University
    (1058-15-275)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Complex Spectrally Arbitrary Patterns.
    Amy A Yielding*, Eastern Oregon University
    (1058-15-55)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Spectrally Arbitrary Ray Patterns.
    Judith J. McDonald*, Washington State University
    Jeff Stuart, Pacific Luthern University
    (1058-15-214)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Preliminary Report on Sets of Inertias for Matrix Patterns.
    Michael S. Cavers*, University of Regina
    (1058-15-42)
• Sunday April 11, 2010, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Physical Knotting and Linking and its Applications, III
  Room 213, Humanities Building
  Organizers:
  Eric Rawdon, University of St. Thomas ejrawdon@stthomas.edu
  Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte yuanandiao@uncc.edu
  Claus Ernst, Western Kentucky University claus.ernst@wku.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Intrinsic symmetries of knots and links.
    Jason Cantarella, University of Georgia
    Jason Parsley*, Wake Forest University
    (1058-57-277)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the Ropelength of Alternating Conformations.
    R Trapp*, Cal State San Bernardino
    S. Sadjadi, SUNY Buffalo
    J. Alley, University of Nebraska
    C. Mathes, Willamette University
    (1058-57-201)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Lessons from the \texttt{ridgerunner} collection of tight knots.
    Jason Cantarella*, University of Georgia
    Ted Ashton, None.
    Michael Piatek, University of Washington
    Eric Rawdon, University of St. Thomas
    (1058-53-259)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Flat Ribbon Links in $\mathbb{R}^2$.
    Elizabeth Denne*, Smith College
    John M Sullivan, TU Berlin
    Nancy Wrinkle, Northeastern Illinois University
    (1058-57-106)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Knots and Links as Collections of Annuli with Minimal Modulus.
    Robert B. Kusner*, GANG & Math: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
    (1058-53-127)
• Sunday April 11, 2010, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Hecke Algebras and Deformations in Geometry and Topology, III
  Room 250, Olin Rice Hall
  Organizers:
  Matthew Douglass, University of North Texas douglass@unt.edu
  Anne Shepler, University of North Texas ashepler@unt.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Graded Hecke algebras and deformations of crossed products.
    Anne V. Shepler, University of North Texas
    Sarah Witherspoon*, Texas A&M University
    (1058-16-144)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A conjecture of Duflo and the Ext algebra of branes.
    Andrei Caldararu*, UW Madison
    Junwu Tu, UW Madison
    Damien Calaque, University of Lyon, France
    (1058-14-300)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    From Hecke Algebras to Brauer Graph Algebras.
    Sibylle Schroll*, University of Leicester
    (1058-16-183)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Hochschild invariants for curved algebras and Landau-Ginzburg models.
    Junwu Tu*, Math Department, UW madison
    (1058-18-159)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Koszul self-injective algebras and their deformations.
    Nicole J. Snashall*, University of Leicester, UK
    (1058-16-116)
• Sunday April 11, 2010, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Fractals, Convolution Measures, and Frames, III
  Room 112, Humanities Building
  Organizers:
  Keri Kornelson, University of Oklahoma kkornelson@math.ou.edu
  Karen Shuman, Grinnell College shumank@math.grinnell.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Building fractal space GMRAs from filters.
    Kathy D. Merrill*, Colorado College
    (1058-41-227)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Abstract generalized multiresolution structures.
    Lawrence W. Baggett*, University of Colorado
    Veronika Furst, Fort Lewis College
    Kathy Merrill, The Colorado College
    Judith Packer, University of Colorado
    (1058-43-92)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On induced representations of Baumslag-Solitar groups and existence of wavelet sets.
    Judith A Packer*, University of Colorado at Boulder
    (1058-42-170)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On Common Fundamental Domains.
    Dorin Dutkay, University of Central Florida
    Deguang Han, University of Central Florida
    Palle Jorgensen, University of Iowa
    Gabriel Picioroaga*, University of South Dakota
    (1058-22-117)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Non-irreducible Gibbs States over Finite and Infinite Alphabets.
    E Andrei Ghenciu*, East Central University
    (1058-37-184)
• Sunday April 11, 2010, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Developments in Cell and Systems Biology, III
  Room 002, Old Main
  Organizers:
  Anastasios Matzavinos, Iowa State University tasos@iastate.edu
  Nicoleta Eugenia Tarfulea, Purdue University Calumet ntarfule@calumet.purdue.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Stochastic analysis of the motion of DNA nanomechanical bipeds.
    Iddo Ben-Ari, University of Connecticut
    Khalid Boushaba, Iowa State University
    Anastasios Matzavinos, Iowa State University
    Alexander Roitershtein*, Iowa State University
    (1058-60-246)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Role of microenvironment in cancer progression : A mathematical model.
    Yangjin Kim*, University of Michigan
    Avner Friedman, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University
    Julie Wallace, Human Cancer Genetics, Ohio State University
    Fu Li, Ohio State University
    Michael Ostrowski, Ohio State University
    (1058-92-41)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Modeling ischemic cutaneous wounds.
    chuan xue*, Mathematical Biosciences Institute\unknownmultibyte{xFF0C} Ohio State University
    (1058-92-76)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Novel clustering methods for the analysis of biological data.
    Sijia Liu*, Iowa State University, Department of Mathematics
    (1058-92-225)
• Sunday April 11, 2010, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Applications of a Geometric Approach to Chaotic Dynamics, III
  Room 010, Old Main
  Organizers:
  Evelyn Sander, George Mason University esander@gmu.edu
  Judy Kennedy, Lamar University kennedy9905@gmail.com
  James Yorke, University of Maryland yorke@umd.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Dynamic Classification of Sierpinski Curve Julia Sets.
    Robert L. Devaney*, Boston University
    (1058-37-08)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The classification of expansive attractors on surfaces.
    Brian F Martensen*, Minnesota State University
    Marcy Barge, Montana State University
    (1058-37-121)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Complex Dynamics of Rational Maps.
    Elizabeth D Russell*, US Military Academy (West Point)
    (1058-37-125)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Pseudoarcs and generalized inverse limits.
    Sina Greenwood, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
    Judy A. Kennedy*, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX
    (1058-37-156)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Spaces of sigma finite linear measure.
    Edward D Tymchatyn*, University of Saskatchewan
    Ihor Stasyuk, University of Saskatchewan
    (1058-37-109)
• Sunday April 11, 2010, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Quantum Invariants of 3-manifolds and Modular Categories, III
  Room 226, Humanities Building
  Organizers:
  Thang Le, Georgia Institute of Technology letu@math.gatech.edu
  Eric Rowell, Texas A&M University rowell@math.tamu.edu
  Vladimir Touraev, Indiana University vtouraev@indiana.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    How to obtain invariants of linked surfaces in the 4-space from a link homology theory.
    Oleg Viro*, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Stony Brook University, NY
    (1058-57-186)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Commutative Frobenius Algebras and 3-dimensional Compression Bordisms.
    Uwe Kaiser*, Boise State University
    (1058-57-224)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A Generalization of the Turaev Cobracket and the Minimal Self-Intersection Number.
    Patricia Cahn*, Dartmouth College
    (1058-57-74)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Maslov index, Lagrangians, Mapping Class Groups and TQFT.
    Patrick M Gilmer*, Louisiana State Univiersity
    Gregor Masbaum, Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu (UMR 7586 du CNRS)
    (1058-57-90)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Virtual linking numbers and the Conway polynomial.
    Sergei Chmutov*, Ohio State University, Mansfield
    (1058-57-249)
• Sunday April 11, 2010, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Probabilistic and Extremal Combinatorics, III
  Room 150, Olin Rice Hall
  Organizers:
  Ryan Martin, Iowa State University rymartin@iastate.edu
  Maria Axenovich, Iowa State University axenovic@iastate.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    On characterising Vizing's edge colouring bound.
    Penny Haxell*, University of Waterloo
    (1058-05-157)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A spectral version of the degree-diameter problem.
    M Cioaba Sebastian*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19713 USA
    (1058-05-100)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Finding a large balanced bipartite subgraph with high minimum degree.
    Stephen G Hartke*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Tyler Seacrest, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1058-05-208)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Graph Classes Determined by Convexity Notions in Graphs.
    Ortrud R Oellermann*, University of Winnipeg
    (1058-05-151)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Rainbow Matching in Edge-Colored Graphs.
    Timothy D. LeSaulnier, University of Illinois
    Christopher Stocker, University of Illinois
    Paul S. Wenger, University of Illinois
    Douglas B. West*, University of Illinois
    (1058-05-67)
• Sunday April 11, 2010, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Ring Theory, III
  Room 353, Olin Rice Hall
  Organizers:
  Michael Axtell, University of St. Thomas maxtell@stthomas.edu
  Joe Stickles, Millikin University jstickles@millikin.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Cut-Vertices and Cut-Sets on Zero-Divisor Graphs.
    Benjamin Coté, University of Idaho
    Caroline Ewing, Colorado College
    Michael Huhn, Minneapolis, Minnesota
    Chelsea M Plaut, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    Darrin Weber*, Millikin University
    (1058-13-75)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Almost principal ideals in R[x].
    Thomas G Lucas*, University of North Carolina Charlotte
    (1058-13-99)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Erd{ő}s-Zaks All Divisor Sets.
    Scott T Chapman*, Sam Houston State University
    William W Smith, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (1058-13-270)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Zero-divisors, zero-divisor graphs, and cut vertices.
    Shane P Redmond*, Eastern Kentucky University
    (1058-13-49)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Block diagonal matrices and sums of units over Pruefer domains.
    Peter Vamos, University of Exeter
    Sylvia M Wiegand*, University of Nebraska
    (1058-13-167)
• Sunday April 11, 2010, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Cohomology and Representation Theory of Algebraic Groups and Related Structures, III
  Room 243, Olin Rice Hall
  Organizers:
  Christopher Bendel, University of Wisconsin-Stout bendelc@uwstout.edu
  Bobbe Cooper, University of Minnesota bcooper@math.umn.edu
  Terrell Hodge, Western Michigan University terrell.hodge@wmich.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    On cohomology and support varieties for Lie superalgebras.
    Irfan Bagci*, University of California, Riverside
    (1058-17-120)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Cohomology rings of infinitesimal unipotent algebraic and quantum groups.
    Christopher M. Drupieski*, University of Georgia
    Daniel K. Nakano, University of Georgia
    Nham Ngo, University of Georgia
    (1058-20-169)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Computing Lie Algebra Cohomology for $p=2$.
    Caroline B. Wright*, University of Arizona
    (1058-18-230)
  • 10:00 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
    (1058-20-188)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Finite generation of cohomology rings for classes of infinite groups.
    Lizhen Ji, University of Michgan, Ann Arbor, MI
    Zongzhu Lin*, Kansas State University
    (1058-20-291)
• Sunday April 11, 2010, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Flows, Moving Frames and Integrable Systems, III
  Room 110, Humanities Building
  Organizers:
  Gloria Mari-Beffa, University of Wisconsin-Madison maribeff@math.wisc.edu
  Peter Olver, University of Minnesota olver@math.umn.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Totally quasi-umbilic timelike surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{1,2}$.
    Jeanne N. Clelland*, University of Colorado, Boulder
    (1058-53-216)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Object-image correspondence for curves under central and parallel projections.
    Joseph M Burdis, North Carolina State University
    Irina A Kogan*, North Carolina State University
    (1058-53-142)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On geometric integrability of discrete systems.
    Adam Doliwa*, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland
    (1058-37-68)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Integrable evolution equations on spaces of tensor densities.
    Jonatan Lenells, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK
    Gerard Misiolek, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
    Feride Tiglay*, EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne), Switzerland
    (1058-35-104)
• Sunday April 11, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Representation Theory, III
  Room 241, Olin Rice Hall
  Organizers:
  Tom Halverson, Macalester College halverson@macalester.edu
  Victor Reiner, University of Minnesota reiner@math.umn.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Some degenerations of Kazhdan-Lusztig ideals and multiplicities of Schubert varieties.
    Alexander Yong*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Li Li, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1058-14-63)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Exploring the cohomology ring of generalized Springer varieties.
    Aba Mbirika*, University of Iowa
    (1058-05-175)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Deodhar sets for cograssmannian permutations.
    Alexander Woo*, Saint Olaf College
    Brant C Jones, University of California at Davis
    (1058-05-164)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Sorting orders, subword complexes and a map to Bruhat order.
    Drew Armstrong, University of Miami
    Patricia Hersh*, North Carolina State University
    (1058-05-123)
• Sunday April 11, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Universal Algebra and Order, III
  Room 301, Olin Rice Hall
  Organizers:
  Jeffrey Olson, Norwich University jolson@norwich.edu
  Jeremy Alm, Illinois College alm.academic@gmail.com
  Kristi Meyer, Wisconsin Lutheran College kristi.meyer@wlc.edu
  Japheth Wood, Bard College jwood@bard.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    On algebras of relations with operations of cylindrification.
    Dmitry Bredikhin*, Saratov State Technical University
    (1058-03-22)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Constructing relation algebras from semiassociative relation algebras.
    Andrew Ylvisaker*, Iowa State University
    Roger D Maddux, Iowa State University
    (1058-06-21)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Finite axiomatizability and commutative directoids.
    Kate S Owens*, Texas A&M University
    (1058-06-09)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Free Products of Pseudocomplemented Semilattices -- Revisited.
    M E Adams*, State University of New York at New Paltz
    Jürg Schmid, University of Bern
    (1058-06-19)
• Sunday April 11, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Partition Theory and the Combinatorics of Symmetric Functions, III
  Room 350, Olin Rice Hall
  Organizers:
  Eric S. Egge, Carleton College eegge@carleton.edu
  Kristina Garrett, St. Olaf College garrettk@stolaf.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Modified Inverse Kostka Matrix.
    Eric S. Egge, Carleton College
    Nicholas A. Loehr*, Virginia Tech
    Gregory S. Warrington, University of Vermont
    (1058-05-150)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A skew Pieri rule.
    Sami H Assaf*, MIT
    Peter R.W. McNamara, Bucknell University
    (1058-05-189)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A basis for the coinvariant space for quasisymmetric polynomials.
    Sarah K Mason*, University of California, San Diego
    Aaron Lauve, Texas A&M University
    (1058-05-287)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Generating functions for the number of consecutive occurrences of non-overlapping patterns in permutations and cycles.
    Jeffrey B. Remmel*, University of California, San Diego
    (1058-05-220)
• Sunday April 11, 2010, 11:05 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  Invited Address
  From monoidal categories to 3-manifold invariants and back.
  J. B. Davis Lecture Hall, Campus Center
  Vladimir Turaev*, Indiana University
  (1058-57-02)
• Sunday April 11, 2010, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Reciprocity laws in number theory.
  J. B. Davis Lecture Hall, Campus Center
  Matthew James Emerton*, Northwestern University
• Sunday April 11, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Physical Knotting and Linking and its Applications, IV
  Room 213, Humanities Building
  Organizers:
  Eric Rawdon, University of St. Thomas ejrawdon@stthomas.edu
  Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte yuanandiao@uncc.edu
  Claus Ernst, Western Kentucky University claus.ernst@wku.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Transport properties of knotted polymers and DNA.
    Marc L. Mansfield*, Dept. of Chemistry, Chemical Biology, and Biomedical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology
    (1058-82-213)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Supercoiled DNA minicircles.
    Lynn Zechiedrich*, Baylor College of Medicine
    Jonathan M. Fogg, Baylor College of Medicine
    Daniel J. Catanese, Jr., Baylor College of Medicine
    Donald Schrock, University of Texas M.D. Anderson
    Brian Gilbert, Baylor College of Medicine
    Nianxi Zhao, Methodist Hospital
    Youli Zu, Methodist Hospital
    (1058-92-77)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Physical Knots.
    Thomas W Kephart*, Vanderbilt University
    (1058-51-44)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The linking number and writhe of uniform random walks and polygons in confined spaces.
    Kenneth C Millett*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    E. Panagiotou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
    S. Lambropoulou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
    (1058-57-98)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Using tangling to distinguish polymer packing.
    Jonathan K Simon*, Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa
    Eric J Rawdon, Department of Mathematics, University of St. Thomas
    Robert G Scharein, Hypnagogic Software
    (1058-82-179)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Symmetry-breaking in cumulative measures of shapes of polymer models.
    Kenneth C. Millett, University of California Santa Barbara
    Eric J. Rawdon*, University of Saint Thomas
    Andrzej Stasiak, University of Lausanne
    Vy Tran, University of Saint Thomas
    (1058-57-187)
• Sunday April 11, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Hecke Algebras and Deformations in Geometry and Topology, IV
  Room 250, Olin Rice Hall
  Organizers:
  Matthew Douglass, University of North Texas douglass@unt.edu
  Anne Shepler, University of North Texas ashepler@unt.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Catalan numbers and diagonal coinvariant rings for complex reflection groups.
    Iain Gordon, University of Edinburgh
    Stephen Griffeth*, University of Edinburgh
    (1058-05-36)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Unitary Representations of Rational Cherednik Algebras and Hecke Algebras.
    Emanuel I Stoica*, MIT
    (1058-16-294)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Representations of Gan-Ginzburg algebras and quiver-related differential operators.
    Silvia Montarani*, University of Toronto
    (1058-16-110)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Quantum D-modules and the DAHA.
    David A Jordan*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1058-20-141)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Infinitesimal Hecke algebras.
    Apoorva Khare*, Yale University
    (1058-16-276)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Representations of Infinitesimal Hecke algebras in positive characteristic.
    Akaki Tikaradze*, University of Toledo
    (1058-16-203)
• Sunday April 11, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Fractals, Convolution Measures, and Frames, IV
  Room 112, Humanities Building
  Organizers:
  Keri Kornelson, University of Oklahoma kkornelson@math.ou.edu
  Karen Shuman, Grinnell College shumank@math.grinnell.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Kadison-Singer Meets Signal Processing.
    Peter G. Casazza*, University of Missouri
    Janet C. Tremain, University of Missouri
    Matt Fickus, Air Force Institute of Technology
    Dustin Mixon, Princeton University
    (1058-42-46)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday April 11, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Developments in Cell and Systems Biology, IV
  Room 002, Old Main
  Organizers:
  Anastasios Matzavinos, Iowa State University tasos@iastate.edu
  Nicoleta Eugenia Tarfulea, Purdue University Calumet ntarfule@calumet.purdue.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Homogenization of partial differential equations in random environments.
    Dimitris Kontogiannis*, ISU
    (1058-35-202)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Mathematical modeling of MHC class II mediated immune responses in tissues.
    Wen Zhou*, Dept Math, Iowa State University
    (1058-92-161)
• Sunday April 11, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Differential Equations and Applications, IV
  Room 009, Old Main
  Organizers:
  Nicolai Tarfulea, Purdue University Calumet tarfulea@calumet.purdue.edu
  Catalin Turc, Case Western Reserve University catalin.turc@case.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday April 11, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Quantum Invariants of 3-manifolds and Modular Categories, IV
  Room 226, Humanities Building
  Organizers:
  Thang Le, Georgia Institute of Technology letu@math.gatech.edu
  Eric Rowell, Texas A&M University rowell@math.tamu.edu
  Vladimir Touraev, Indiana University vtouraev@indiana.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Quantum form of the Reidemeister torsion of a knot complement.
    Charles D Frohman, The University of Iowa
    Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska*, National Science Foundation
    (1058-57-152)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Reidemeister Torsion and the A-polynomial.
    Charles D Frohman*, The University of Iowa
    Joanna M Kania-Bartoszynska, National Science Foundation
    (1058-57-06)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The Kauffman bracket skein algebra and the quantum Teichmuller space.
    Francis Bonahon, Univeristy of Southern California
    Helen Wong*, Carleton College
    (1058-57-190)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Quantum Teichmüller space and Kashaev algebra.
    Ren Guo*, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
    Xiaobo Liu, Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    (1058-57-31)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday April 11, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Probabilistic and Extremal Combinatorics, IV
  Room 150, Olin Rice Hall
  Organizers:
  Ryan Martin, Iowa State University rymartin@iastate.edu
  Maria Axenovich, Iowa State University axenovic@iastate.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    On a conjecture of Erdos and Simonovits.
    Jacques A Verstraete*, Department of Mathematics, University of California San Diego
    Peter Keevash, University of London
    Benny Sudakov, University of California, Los Angeles
    (1058-05-301)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    How to find a two coloring of ${1,2, ... ,n}$ that has few monochromatic constellations.
    Steve Butler*, UCLA
    Kevin Costello, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Ron Graham, UCSD
    (1058-05-62)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Planar graphs are 1-relaxed, 4-choosable.
    H. A. Kierstead*, Arizona State University
    William Cushing, Arizona State University
    (1058-05-97)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    An extension of Thomassen's results on 2- and 3-extendable planar graphs.
    Joan P. Hutchinson*, Macalester College
    (1058-05-148)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Exit frequency matrices for finite Markov chains.
    Andrew J Beveridge*, Macalester College
    Laszlo Lovasz, Eotvos Lorand University
    (1058-05-298)
• Sunday April 11, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Representation Theory, IV
  Room 241, Olin Rice Hall
  Organizers:
  Tom Halverson, Macalester College halverson@macalester.edu
  Victor Reiner, University of Minnesota reiner@math.umn.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Cellularity and the Jones basic construction.
    Frederick M. Goodman*, University of Iowa
    John Graber, Bethel College
    (1058-16-251)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Branching coefficients in the finite unipotent upper-triangular groups.
    Stephen Lewis, University of Washington at Seattle
    Nathaniel Thiem*, University of Colorado at Boulder
    (1058-05-194)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The degenerate two-boundary Hecke algebra.
    Zajj B Daugherty*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
    (1058-16-215)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Differential Posets and Smith Normal Forms.
    Alex Miller*, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
    Victor Reiner, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
    (1058-05-233)
• Sunday April 11, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Universal Algebra and Order, IV
  Room 301, Olin Rice Hall
  Organizers:
  Jeffrey Olson, Norwich University jolson@norwich.edu
  Jeremy Alm, Illinois College alm.academic@gmail.com
  Kristi Meyer, Wisconsin Lutheran College kristi.meyer@wlc.edu
  Japheth Wood, Bard College jwood@bard.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Divisibility in Psedo Valuation Domains.
    Elijah J Stines*, Iowa State University (Mathematics Department)
    (1058-06-10)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Embedding $M_\ell$ in $Sub(\mathbb{Z}_n \times \mathbb{Z}_n)$.
    Jeremy F Alm*, Illinois College
    Aaron Van Winkle, Illinois College
    (1058-06-29)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Fixed elements in involutive residuated lattices.
    Jeffrey S Olson*, Norwich University
    (1058-06-05)
• Sunday April 11, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Ring Theory, IV
  Room 353, Olin Rice Hall
  Organizers:
  Michael Axtell, University of St. Thomas maxtell@stthomas.edu
  Joe Stickles, Millikin University jstickles@millikin.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Monoids of Modules over Rings with Infinite Representation Type.
    Nicholas R Baeth*, University of Central Missouri
    Silvia Saccon, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    (1058-13-50)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Projective Line Over The Integers.
    Ela Celikbas*, University of Nebraska--Lincoln
    Christina Eubanks-Turner, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    (1058-13-232)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 3:30 p.m.
    $\Gamma$-rings and their zero-divisor graphs.
    Ryan E Clark*, University of Tennessee
    (1058-13-297)
• Sunday April 11, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Flows, Moving Frames and Integrable Systems, IV
  Room 110, Humanities Building
  Organizers:
  Gloria Mari-Beffa, University of Wisconsin-Madison maribeff@math.wisc.edu
  Peter Olver, University of Minnesota olver@math.umn.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Symmetries, conservation laws, and variational principles in classical field theories.
    Juha Pohjanpelto*, Department of Mathemtics, Oregon State University
    (1058-58-88)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    GL(2) geometry, integrability and hyperbolicity in high dimensions.
    Abraham D Smith*, MSRI and McGill University
    (1058-53-38)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Cohomology of the Euler-Lagrange complex.
    Robert Thompson*, University of Minnesota
    (1058-49-274)
• Sunday April 11, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Matrices and Graphs, IV
  Room 100, Olin Rice Hall
  Organizers:
  Luz M. DeAlba, Drake University luz.dealba@drake.edu
  Adam Berliner, St. Olaf College berliner@stolaf.edu
  Leslie Hogben, Iowa State University lhogben@iastate.edu
  In-Jae Kim, Minnesota State University in-jae.kim@mnsu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    On nearly complete bipartite graphs.
    Yi-Fan Chen, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
    Hung-Lin Fu, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
    In-Jae Kim*, Minnesota State University, Mankato
    Eryn Stehr, Minnesota State University, Mankato
    Brendon Watts, University of Oklahoma, Norman
    (1058-15-118)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Connected Graphs with Minimum Skew Rank Equal to Four.
    Luz M. DeAlba*, Drake University
    (1058-15-114)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Computing the Modular Chromatic Number of Trees.
    Todd G Will*, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
    Futaba Okamoto, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
    (1058-05-133)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On decomposition of a complete graph into Latin square graphs.
    Jianmin Ma*, Oxford College, Emory University
    (1058-05-165)

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