AMS Sectional Meeting Full Program

Current as of Saturday, November 13, 2010 00:34:10

---

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

---

2010 Fall Central Section Meeting
Notre Dame, IN, November 5-7, 2010 (Friday - Sunday)
Meeting #1064

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

---

Friday November 5, 2010

• Friday November 5, 2010, 12:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Lobby/Foyer Area, McKenna Hall
• Friday November 5, 2010, 1:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Book Sale and Exhibit
  Lobby/Foyer Area, McKenna Hall
• Friday November 5, 2010, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Speakers:
  David Fisher, Indiana University fisherdm@indiana.edu
  Coarse geometry of solvable groups.
  McKenna Lecture Hall, McKenna Hall
  David Fisher*, Indiana University
  (1064-22-02)
• Friday November 5, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Computability and Its Applications, I
  Room 120, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Peter Cholak, University of Notre Dame Peter.Cholak.1@nd.edu
  Peter Gerdes, University of Notre Dame gerdes@invariant.org
  Karen Lange, University of Notre Dame klange1@nd.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Degrees of Categoricity.
    Barbara F. Csima, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
    Johanna N.Y Franklin, Department of Mathematics, Dartmouth College
    Richard A. Shore*, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University
    (1064-03-61)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Symbolic dynamics: entropy = Hausdorff dimension = Kolmogorov complexity.
    Stephen G. Simpson*, Department of Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University
    (1064-03-243)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Recovering randomness from an asymptotic Hamming distance.
    Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen*, University of Hawaii at Manoa
    (1064-03-270)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Games in Computability Theory.
    Robert Irving Soare*, The University of Chicago
    (1064-03-77)
• Friday November 5, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Undergraduate Mathematics Education: A Vision for the 21st Century, I
  Room 136, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Steven Broad, St. Mary's College sbroad@alumni.nd.edu
  Nahid Erfan, University of Notre Dame erfan.1@nd.edu
  Alex Himonas, University of Notre Dame himonas.1@nd.edu
  Morteza Shafii-Mousavi, Indiana University South Bend mshafii@iusb.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Engaging Digital Students: A 21st Century Challenge.
    Barbara E Reynolds, SDS*, Cardinal Stritch University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    (1064-97-271)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Panel Discussion
• Friday November 5, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Topology, Geometry and Physics, I
  Room 214, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Ralph Kaufmann, Purdue University rkaufman@math.purdue.edu
  Stephan Stolz, University of Notre Dame Stolz.1@nd.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Supersymmetry, Lie n-algebras and division algebras.
    John Huerta*, University of California, Riverside
    John C. Baez, University of California, Riverside
    (1064-18-369)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics, Infinite-Dimensional Matthai-Quillen, and the Gauss-Bonnet-Chern Theorem.
    Stephen F Sawin*, Fairfield University
    Dana Fine, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
    (1064-81-13)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Chern-Simons Theory and the Todd Genus.
    Ryan E. Grady*, University of Notre Dame
    (1064-58-371)
• Friday November 5, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Differential Geometry and its Applications, I
  Room 213, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Jianguo Cao, University of Notre Dame cao.7@nd.edu
  Brian Smyth, University of Notre Dame smyth.1@nd.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    A simple proof of Perelman's collapsing theorem for $3$-manifolds.
    Jianguo Cao, University of Notre Dame
    Jian Ge*, University of Notre Dame
    (1064-53-224)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Index formulas for Loewner vector fields.
    Steven Broad*, Saint Mary's College
    (1064-37-267)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Alexandrov spaces of relatively maximal volumes.
    Nan Li*, University of Notre Dame
    Xiaochun Rong, Rutgers University
    (1064-53-43)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The CR Obata-Type Theorem in a Closed Pseudohermitian Manifold.
    Shu-Cheng Chang*, National Taiwan University
    (1064-53-200)
• Friday November 5, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Graphs and Hypergraphs, I
  Room 119, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  David Galvin, University of Notre Dame David.Galvin.12@nd.edu
  Hemanshu Kaul, Illinois Institute of Technology kaul@math.iit.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    The number of non-crossing perfect matchings compatible with a 2-coloring.
    Todd Kemp, Math Dept, University of California San Diego
    Karl Mahlburg, Math Dept, Princeton University
    Amarpreet Rattan, Department of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics, Birbeck, University of London
    Clifford Smyth*, Dept of Math University of North Carolina Greensboro
    (1064-05-279)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Vertex Identifying Codes on The Hexagonal Grid.
    Brendon Stanton*, Iowa State University
    (1064-05-178)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A poset-based approach to embedding median graphs in hypercubes and lattices.
    Christine T. Cheng*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    (1064-05-58)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Realizability of Graphs and Linkages.
    Marcus Schaefer*, DePaul University
    (1064-05-249)
• Friday November 5, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Modeling and Computation with Applications in Biology, I
  Room 216, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Mark Alber, University of Notre Dame malber@nd.edu
  Zhiliang Xu, University of Notre Dame zxu2@nd.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Arterial blood flow modeling.
    Giovanna Guidoboni*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Indiana University and Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI)
    (1064-35-291)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Modeling of Heart Valve Disease: State-of-the-Art and Future Directions.
    Philippe Sucosky*, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame
    (1064-76-381)
• Friday November 5, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Rigidity, I
  Room 209, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  David Fisher, Indiana University fisherdm@indiana.edu
  Ralf Spatzier, University of Michigan spatzier@umich.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Volume entropy rigidity for hyperbolic manifolds.
    Francois Ledrappier*, CNRS, France, and University of Notre Dame
    (1064-53-94)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Latice envelops.
    Uri Bader, The Technion, Haifa
    Alex Furman*, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
    Roman Sauer, University of Munster
    (1064-26-168)
• Friday November 5, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Group Actions on Affine Varieties, I
  Room 118, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Harm Derksen, University of Michigan hderksen@umich.edu
  Gene Freudenburg, University of Western Michigan gene.freudenburg@wmich.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Additive group actions in positive chracteristic.
    Emilie Dufresne*, Universität Basel
    Andreas Maurischat, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
    (1064-13-126)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Counting Generating Invariants for Representations of Semisimple Groups.
    Harlan Kadish*, University of Michigan
    (1064-14-368)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Modular Invariants From Classical Covariants.
    David L Wehlau*, Royal Military College of Canada
    (1064-13-163)
• Friday November 5, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Groups, Representations, and Characters, I
  Room 116, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  James P. Cossey, University of Akron cossey@uakron.edu
  Mark Lewis, Kent State University lewis@math.kent.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Bounding the order of a group with a large character degree.
    I. Martin Isaacs*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    (1064-20-46)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Characters Inducing to Characters all having the same Degree.
    Stephen M. Gagola, Jr*, Kent State University
    Sezgin Sezer, Cankaya University
    (1064-20-221)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Regular and p-regular orbits of solvable linear groups.
    Thomas Michael Keller*, Texas State University
    Yong Yang, Texas State University
    (1064-20-158)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Decomposing Tensor Products and Exterior and Symmetric Squares.
    Michael JJ Barry*, Allegheny College
    (1064-20-11)
• Friday November 5, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Interdisciplinary Session on Deterministic and Stochastic Partial Differential Equations, I
  Room 320, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Nathan Glatt-Holtz, Indiana University negh@indiana.edu
  Vlad Vicol, University of Chicago vicol@math.uchicago.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Rogue Waves in Optical Cables.
    Jerry L Bona*, Univeristy of Illinois at Chicago
    (1064-35-285)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On energy cascade and flux locality in physical scales of the 3D Navier-Stokes Equations.
    Radu Dascaliuc*, University of Virginia
    Zoran Grujic, University of Virginia
    (1064-35-327)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Explicit parametrices for time-dependent Fokker-Planck equations.
    Anna L Mazzucato*, Pennsylvania State University
    Victor Nistor, Pennsylvania State University
    Wen Cheng, Pennsylvania State University
    (1064-35-191)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Strong Unique Continuation Problem and Complexity of Solutions to Higher Order Elliptic and Parabolic Partial Differential Equations with Gevrey Coefficients.
    Mihaela Ignatova*, Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089
    Igor Kukavica, Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089
    (1064-35-286)
• Friday November 5, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Quasigroups, Loops, and Nonassociative Division Algebras, I
  Room 117, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Clifton E. Ealy, Western Michigan University clifton.e.ealy@wmich.edu
  Stephen Gagola, III, Bowling Green State University sgagola@bgsu.edu
  Julia Knight, University of Notre Dame knight.1@nd.edu
  J. D. Phillips, Northern Michigan University jophilli@nmu.edu
  Petr Vojtechovsky, University of Denver petr@math.du.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    On Properties of Topological Linear Loops.
    Alper Bulut*, Department of Mathematics,Western Michigan University,Kalamazoo,MI
    (1064-17-48)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Presentations of universal groups with triality.
    Jonathan I Hall*, Michigan State University
    (1064-20-132)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Hall's Theorem for Moufang loops.
    Stephen M Gagola III*, Bowling Green State University
    (1064-20-138)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Notes towards a nonassociative quantum theory.
    Jens Koeplinger*, Greensboro, NC, USA
    Vladimir Dzhunushaliev, Eurasian National University
    (1064-81-390)
• Friday November 5, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Number Theory and Physics, I
  Room 215, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Adrian Clingher, University of Missouri St. Louis clinghera@umsl.edu
  Charles Doran, University of Alberta doran@math.ualberta.ca
  Shabnam N. Kadir, Wilhelm Leibniz Universitat kadir@math.uni-hannover.de
  Rolf Schimmrigk, Indiana University rschimmr@iusb.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Computing Picard-Fuchs equations for hypersurfaces in toric varieties.
    Ursula A. Whitcher*, Harvey Mudd College
    (1064-14-316)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    $E_{8} $lattice and del Pezzo surface.
    Jae-Hyouk Lee*, KIAS, Seoul, South Korea
    (1064-14-338)
• Friday November 5, 2010, 4:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Speakers:
  Jared Wunsch, Northwestern University jwunsch@math.northwestern.edu
  Geometry and analysis of diffracted waves.
  McKenna Lecture Hall, McKenna Hall
  Jared Wunsch*, Northwestern University
  (1064-35-03)

Saturday November 6, 2010

• Saturday November 6, 2010, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Book Sale and Exhibit
  Lobby/Foyer Area, McKenna Hall
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Lobby/Foyer Area, McKenna Hall
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometry and Lie Theory, I
  Room 131, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  John Caine, University of Notre Dame John.A.Caine.2@nd.edu
  Samuel Evens, University of Notre Dame Samuel.R.Evens.1@nd.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On geometry and symmetries of filtered structures on manifolds and curves of flags.
    Igor Zelenko*, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University
    (1064-53-31)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Non-compact symplectic toric manifolds.
    Eugene Lerman*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    Yael Karshon, University of Toronto
    (1064-58-308)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Equivariant cohomology for Hamiltonian torus actions on symplectic orbifolds.
    Tomoo Matsumura*, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University
    Tara Holm, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University
    (1064-53-287)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Computability and Its Applications, II
  Room 120, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Peter Cholak, University of Notre Dame Peter.Cholak.1@nd.edu
  Peter Gerdes, University of Notre Dame gerdes@invariant.org
  Karen Lange, University of Notre Dame klange1@nd.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Computability and uncountable linear orders.
    Noam Greenberg, Victoria University of Wellington
    Asher M. Kach, University of Connecticut-Storrs
    Steffen Lempp*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Daniel D. Turetsky, Victoria University of Wellington
    (1064-03-238)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Degrees of members of $\Pi^0_1$ classes.
    Keng Meng Ng*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1064-03-325)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Martin-Löf randomness and Birkhoff's ergodic theorem.
    Johanna N.Y. Franklin*, Dartmouth College
    Noam Greenberg, Victoria University of Wellington
    Joseph S. Miller, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    Keng Meng Ng, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    (1064-03-202)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Low LR upper bounds.
    David Diamondstone*, University of Chicago
    (1064-03-177)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A bounded jump for the bounded Turing degrees.
    Barbara F. Csima*, University of Waterloo
    Bernard A. Anderson, University of Waterloo
    (1064-03-239)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Structural Characteristics of Recursion Theoretic Properties.
    Theodore A. Slaman*, University of California Berkeley
    Antonio Montalban, University of Chicago
    Noam Greenberg, Victoria University of Wellington
    (1064-03-303)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Undergraduate Mathematics Education: A Vision for the 21st Century, II
  Room 136, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Steven Broad, St. Mary's College sbroad@alumni.nd.edu
  Nahid Erfan, University of Notre Dame erfan.1@nd.edu
  Alex Himonas, University of Notre Dame himonas.1@nd.edu
  Morteza Shafii-Mousavi, Indiana University South Bend mshafii@iusb.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Technology in the classroom: From slide rules to graphing calculators to computer applets.
    Mike May*, Saint Louis University
    (1064-97-264)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    When students choose their own technology.
    Steven Broad*, Saint Mary's College
    (1064-97-273)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Derivatives without Limits: Do We Need to Rethink Elementary Calculus?
    R. Michael Range*, State University of New York at Albany
    (1064-97-96)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Research in mathematics by undergraduates: past, present and future.
    Joseph A. Gallian*, University of Minnesota Duluth
    (1064-00-60)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Math is to English as Duck is to Water.
    Michele Intermont*, Kalamazoo College
    (1064-97-288)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Contributions made by the Project NExT community to undergraduate mathematics education.
    Aparna W. Higgins*, University of Dayton
    (1064-00-405)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Numerical Algebraic Geometry, I
  Room 210, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Daniel J. Bates, Colorado State University bates@math.colostate.edu
  Jonathan D. Hauenstein, Texas A&M University jhauenst@math.tamu.edu
  Andrew J. Sommese, University of Notre Dame sommese@nd.edu
  Charles W. Wampler, General Motors charles.w.wampler@gm.com
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Compatible discretization of constrained partial differential equations.
    Greg J Reid*, University of Western Ontario
    (1064-35-373)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Homotopy continuation and tumor growth.
    Wenrui Hao*, University of Notre Dame
    (1064-65-29)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Extensions of Filtering Techniques and Applications to Zebrafish.
    Timothy M McCoy*, University of Notre Dame
    (1064-65-375)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Parallel computation of the mixed volume.
    Tianran Chen, Department of Math, Michgan State University, E. Lansing, MI
    Tsung-Lin Lee, Department of Math, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
    T.Y. Li*, Department of Math, Michgan State University, E. Lansing, MI
    (1064-65-75)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Witness sets of projections.
    Jonathan D Hauenstein*, Texas A&M University
    Andrew J Sommese, University of Notre Dame
    (1064-65-127)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Topology, Geometry and Physics, II
  Room 214, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Ralph Kaufmann, Purdue University rkaufman@math.purdue.edu
  Stephan Stolz, University of Notre Dame Stolz.1@nd.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Kontsevich's Swiss Cheese Conjecture.
    Justin D. Thomas*, Notre Dame University
    (1064-55-184)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Ribbon Graphs and Mirror Symmetry I.
    Eric Zaslow*, Northwestern University
    (1064-55-63)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Monoidal categories and 3-dimensional TQFTs.
    Vladimir Turaev*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (1064-57-247)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Complex Analysis and Dynamical Systems, I
  Room 311, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Laura DeMarco, University of Illinois at Chicago demarco@math.uic.edu
  Jeffrey Diller, University of Notre Dame diller.1@nd.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Critical heights on the moduli space of polynomials.
    Kevin M. Pilgrim*, Indiana University (Bloomington)
    Laura DeMarco, University of Illinois, Chicago
    (1064-37-232)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Skinning maps are finite-to-one.
    David Dumas*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1064-30-358)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Schwarzian derivative of a polynomial and it's iterates
    Hexi Ye*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1064-37-80)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Potential theory and a characterization of polynomials in complex dynamics.
    Yusuke Okuyama, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan
    Malgorzata Stawiska*, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
    (1064-30-28)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Control of cancellations, growth, and Catalan numbers.
    Magnus Aspenberg, Jakobs University, Bremen
    Rodrigo A Perez*, IUPUI
    (1064-37-106)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Multivalued Dynamical Systems and Iterated Monodromy Groups.
    Suzanne Hruska*, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
    Rodrigo Perez, IUPUI
    John Smillie, Cornell University
    (1064-37-208)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Singularities in Algebraic Geometry, I
  Room 207, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Nero Budur, University of Notre Dame nbudur@nd.edu
  Lawrence Ein, University of Illinois at Chicago ein@math.uic.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Non-archimedean geometry and the incidence complex of singularities.
    Francois Loeser*, University Pierre et Marie Curie, France
    (1064-14-179)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    2 Bernstein--Sato polynomials.
    Uli Walther*, Purdue University
    (1064-14-236)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Valuations and invariants of graded sequences of ideals.
    Mircea I Mustata*, University of Michigan
    (1064-14-344)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Motivic Milnor fibers associated to quasi-ordinary surfaces.
    Mirel Caibar, Ohio State University at Mansfield
    Manuel Gonzalez Villa, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
    Gary Kennedy*, Ohio State University at Mansfield
    Lee McEwan, Ohio State University at Mansfield
    (1064-14-66)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Relative Vanishing Cycles and Distinguished Bases.
    David B. Massey*, Northeastern University
    (1064-32-91)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Alexnader modules and Mordell Weil groups.
    Anatoly Libgober*, University of Illinois at Chicago and University of Miami.
    (1064-14-101)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Applications of Stochastic Processes in Cell Biology, I
  Room 319, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Peter Thomas, Case Western University pjt9@case.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Multi-scale analysis of stochastic reaction networks.
    Hans G Othmer*, School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
    (1064-92-54)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Multiscale Challenges in Stochastic Simulation of Biochemical Systems.
    Yang Cao*, Virginia Tech
    (1064-68-129)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Numerical methods for stochastic models of biochemical reaction networks.
    David F. Anderson*, University of Wisconsin
    (1064-60-171)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Numerical methods for stochastic bio-chemical reacting networks with multiple time scales.
    Di Liu*, Michigan State U.
    (1064-60-33)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Modeling and Computation with Applications in Biology, II
  Room 316, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Mark Alber, University of Notre Dame malber@nd.edu
  Zhiliang Xu, University of Notre Dame zxu2@nd.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A lattice-Boltzmann based immersed boundary method in three dimensions with application.
    Luoding Zhu*, Dept of Mathematical Sciences, Indiana Univ-Purdue Univ Indianapolis
    (1064-65-304)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Mathematical Methods in Cardiovascular Applications.
    Suncica Canic*, Department of Mathematics, University of Houston
    (1064-76-302)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Invariant manifolds and blood flow.
    Shawn C Shadden*, Illinois Institute of Technology
    (1064-37-385)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Group Actions on Affine Varieties, II
  Room 118, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Harm Derksen, University of Michigan hderksen@umich.edu
  Gene Freudenburg, University of Western Michigan gene.freudenburg@wmich.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Saturation theorems for the classical groups.
    Steven V Sam*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1064-20-122)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Orbit closures in representations with finitely many orbits.
    Witold Kraskiewicz, N. Copernicus University
    Jerzy Weyman*, Northeastern University
    (1064-15-340)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On factoring out the birational part of a morphism.
    Daniel Daigle*, University of Ottawa (Canada)
    (1064-14-365)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Contractible normal affine surfaces.
    Peter Russell*, Centre de Recherches Mathematiques, Montreal
    (1064-14-229)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Groups, Representations, and Characters, II
  Room 116, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  James P. Cossey, University of Akron cossey@uakron.edu
  Mark Lewis, Kent State University lewis@math.kent.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A recognition theorem for the generic simple groups.
    Ronald Solomon*, The Ohio State University
    (1064-20-35)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Nonsolvable groups with no prime dividing three character degrees.
    Mark L. Lewis, Kent State University
    Donald L. White*, Kent State University
    (1064-20-83)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Results Concerning Huppert's Conjecture.
    Thomas Philip Wakefield*, Youngstown State University
    (1064-20-34)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Complex characters of small degrees of the orthogonal groups.
    Hung Ngoc Nguyen*, The University of Akron
    (1064-20-105)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On the vertices of indecomposable summands of certain Lefschetz modules.
    John Maginnis, Kansas State University
    Silvia Onofrei*, The Ohio State University
    (1064-20-181)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Orbits of finite solvable linear groups.
    Yong Yang*, Texas State University at San Marcos
    (1064-20-173)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Interdisciplinary Session on Deterministic and Stochastic Partial Differential Equations, II
  Room 320, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Nathan Glatt-Holtz, Indiana University negh@indiana.edu
  Vlad Vicol, University of Chicago vicol@math.uchicago.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Dynamic Transition Theory and its Application to Gas-Liquid Phase Transitions.
    Tian Ma, Sichuan University
    Shouhong Wang*, Indiana University
    (1064-82-388)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Partial viscosity models for geophysical fluid dynamics.
    Qingshan Chen*, Florida State University
    Max Gunzburger, Florida State University
    Xiaoming Wang, Florida State University
    (1064-35-278)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Statistical inference for nonlinear Stochastic PDEs.
    Igor Cialenco*, Illinois Institute of Technology
    Nathan Glatt-Holtz, Indiana University
    (1064-60-124)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Inviscid Large Deviation Principle and the 2D Navier-Stokes Equations with a free boundary condition.
    Hakima Bessaih*, Department of Mathematics, University of Wyoming
    Annie Millet, Universite Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne
    (1064-60-280)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Local well-posedness for a fluid-structure interaction model.
    Igor Kukavica*, University of Southern California
    Amjad Tuffaha, University of Southern California
    Mohammed Ziane, University of Southern California
    (1064-35-392)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Quasigroups, Loops, and Nonassociative Division Algebras, II
  Room 117, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Clifton E. Ealy, Western Michigan University clifton.e.ealy@wmich.edu
  Stephen Gagola, III, Bowling Green State University sgagola@bgsu.edu
  Julia Knight, University of Notre Dame knight.1@nd.edu
  J. D. Phillips, Northern Michigan University jophilli@nmu.edu
  Petr Vojtechovsky, University of Denver petr@math.du.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Quasigroup Factorization Theorems, a non-associative adventure.
    Julienne Dare Houck*, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Mi
    (1064-17-141)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Linear hyperquasigroups and group representations.
    Jonathan D.H. Smith*, Iowa State University
    (1064-20-21)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Searching for simple automorphic loops.
    Petr Vojtěchovský*, Department of Mathematics, University of Denver
    (1064-20-157)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Multiplicative structures arising from Cayley-Dickson doubling process.
    Jenya Kirshtein*, University of Denver
    (1064-20-89)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    {\bf Half-Isomorphisms in Loops}.
    Maria de Lourdes Merlini Giuliani*, Universidade Federal do ABC
    Kenneth Jonhson, Pennsylvania State University
    (1064-08-203)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Constructions of Diassociative Loops.
    Mark B Greer*, University of Denver
    (1064-20-374)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Evolution Equations, I
  Room 318, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Alex Himonas, University of Notre Dame himonas.1@nd.edu
  Gerard Misiolek, University of Notre Dame Gerard.Misiolek.1@nd.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Coupled Systems of Nonlinear, Dispersive Wave Equations.
    Jerry L. Bona*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1064-35-353)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Solitary waves and stability of some systems of nonlinear, dispersive equations.
    H Chen*, University of Memphis
    Jerry L Bona, University of Illionis at Chcago
    Ohannes A Karakashian, University of Tennessee
    (1064-35-323)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On the Well-Posedness of the Degasperis-Procesi Equation.
    Curtis A Holliman*, University of Notre Dame
    Alex Himonas, University of Notre Dame
    (1064-35-196)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Regularity properties for solutions to the gKdV equation.
    Gerson Petronilho*, Department of Mathematics, Federal University of São Carlos, SP, Brazil
    Alex Himonas, Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
    Heather Hannah, Department of Mathematics, East Central University, Ada, OK.
    (1064-35-195)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The periodic Cauchy problem for Novikov's equation.
    Feride Tiglay*, The Fields Institute
    (1064-35-205)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Number Theory and Physics, II
  Room 215, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Adrian Clingher, University of Missouri St. Louis clinghera@umsl.edu
  Charles Doran, University of Alberta doran@math.ualberta.ca
  Shabnam N. Kadir, Wilhelm Leibniz Universitat kadir@math.uni-hannover.de
  Rolf Schimmrigk, Indiana University rschimmr@iusb.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Supersymmetric gauge theory in four dimensions and mock modular forms.
    Andreas Malmendier*, Colby College
    Ken Ono, Emory University
    (1064-81-334)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The motive associated to the nilpotent monodromy operator.
    Adrian Clingher, University of Missouri, St. Louis.
    Ravindra V Girivaru*, University of Missouri, St. Louis.
    Ramesh Sreekantan, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore.
    (1064-11-305)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    What is ... the mirror of an algebraic cycle?
    Matthew D Kerr*, Washington University in St. Louis
    (1064-14-342)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic and Topological Combinatorics, I
  Room 129, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  John Shareshian, Washington University shareshi@math.wustl.edu
  Bridget Tenner, DePaul University bridget@math.depaul.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Shortest path poset of Bruhat intervals.
    Saúl A. Blanco*, Cornell University
    (1064-05-335)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Eulerian quasisymmetric functions for the type B Coxeter group and other wreath product groups.
    Matthew Hyatt*, University of Miami
    (1064-05-290)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On the shape of separable permutations.
    Gregory S. Warrington*, University of Vermont
    Andrew Crites, University of Washington
    Greta Panova, Harvard University
    (1064-05-367)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Deformation Retracts of Neighborhood Complexes of Stable Kneser Graphs.
    Benjamin J Braun*, University of Kentucky
    Matthew Zeckner, University of Kentucky
    (1064-05-131)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Towards a kicking basis for Garsia-Haiman modules.
    Sami Assaf*, MIT
    (1064-05-276)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Differential Geometry and its Applications, II
  Room 213, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Jianguo Cao, University of Notre Dame cao.7@nd.edu
  Brian Smyth, University of Notre Dame smyth.1@nd.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Exotic Capillary Tubes.
    Henry C. Wente*, University of Toledo
    (1064-49-379)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Spherical Rank Rigidity.
    Benjamin Schmidt*, Michigan State University
    (1064-51-24)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A positive mass theorem in Cauchy-Riemann geometry.
    Jih-Hsin Cheng*, Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, Taipei
    (1064-53-57)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Magnetic Geodesics in two-step Nilmanifolds.
    Maura B. Mast*, University of Massachusetts Boston
    Ruth Gornet, University of Texas at Arlington
    (1064-53-404)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the bottom of spectrum of certain complete Kahler manifolds.
    Xiaodong Wang*, Michigan State University
    (1064-53-121)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Computation, Analysis, Modeling in PDE and their Applications, I
  Room 312, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Bei Hu, University of Notre Dame b1hu@nd.edu
  Yongtao Zhang, University of Notre Dame zhang.103@nd.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    An Efficient Method for Linear PDE with Stochastic Input*.
    Frederic Y. M. Wan*, University of California, Irvine
    (1064-35-154)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Ideal free distribution and evolution of dispersal.
    Yuan Lou*, Ohio State University
    (1064-92-67)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Norm inflation for incompressible magneto-hydrodynamic system in $\dot{B}_{\infty}^{-1,\infty}$.
    Mimi Dai*, Math Department, University of California, Santa Cruz
    Jie Qing, Professor at Math Department, University of California, Santa Cruz
    Maria Schonbek, Professor at Math Department, University of California, Santa Cruz
    (1064-35-143)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Graphs and Hypergraphs, II
  Room 119, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  David Galvin, University of Notre Dame David.Galvin.12@nd.edu
  Hemanshu Kaul, Illinois Institute of Technology kaul@math.iit.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Cycle-saturated graphs with minimum number of edges.
    Zoltan Furedi*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL 61801, USA
    (1064-05-281)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Edge-connectivity, eigenvalues, and matchings in regular graphs.
    Suil O*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Sebastian Cioaba, University of Delaware at Newark
    Douglas B. West, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1064-05-119)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Minimum $H$-decompositions of graphs: edge-critical case.
    Lale Ozkahya*, Iowa State University
    Yury Person, Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin
    (1064-05-268)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Classification of $Z_2^k$-magic graphs.
    Jeong Ok Choi*, Trinity College, CT
    John P. Georges, Trinity College, CT
    David W. Mauro, Trinity College, CT
    (1064-05-274)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The block-cutpoint tree characterization of a covering polynomial of a graph.
    Robert B. Ellis*, Illinois Institute of Technology
    James P. Ferry, Metron, Inc.
    Darren P. Lo, Metron, Inc.
    Dhruv Mubayi, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1064-05-282)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Hilbert Functions in Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Combinatorics, I
  Room 138, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Fabrizio Zanello, Michigan Technological University fabrizio.zanello@gmail.com
  Juan Migliore, University of Notre Dame juan.c.migliore.1@nd.edu
  Uwe Nagel, University of Kentucky uwenagel@ms.uky.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    When do two nilpotent matrices commute?
    Anthony A. Iarrobino, Jr.*, Northeastern University
    Roberta Basili, Perugia
    Leila Khatami, Northeastern University
    (1064-13-383)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Fat points, graded Betti numbers and geometry.
    Brian Harbourne*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1064-14-118)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Star configuration points and hypersurfaces.
    Enrico Carlini*, Politecnico di Torino
    (1064-13-231)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Locally Cohen-Macaulay unions of surfaces in $P^4$.
    Hirotachi Abo, University of Idaho
    Chris Peterson*, Colorado State University
    (1064-14-332)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Revisiting the Spreading and Covering Numbers.
    Ben Babcock, Lakehead University
    Adam Van Tuyl*, Lakehead University
    (1064-13-377)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 8:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers, I
  Room 140, DeBartolo Hall
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Reconstructing Trees from their Wiener Matrix or Subtree Matrix.
    Andrew B Ray*, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    (1064-05-311)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    On Hyperstar Decompositions of Hypergraphs.
    Dan Roberts*, Auburn University, Auburn, AL
    Amin Bahmanian, Auburn University, Auburn, AL
    (1064-05-72)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On a Fibonacci-type recursion involving Euler's totient function.
    Mihai Caragiu*, Ohio Northern University
    (1064-11-307)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Centers of various cyclotomic algebras.
    Oliver Ruff*, Kent State University at Stark
    (1064-20-318)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Real, Complex, and Quaternion Uniform Algebras.
    Krzysztof Jarosz*, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
    (1064-46-396)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Cluster Analysis of Heterogeneous Data on Rankings and Flags.
    Paige E. Rinker*, Dartmouth College
    (1064-00-389)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 8:40 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on The Geometry of Submanifolds, I
  Room 217, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Yun Myung Oh, Andrews University ohy@andrews.edu
  Mihaela Vajiac, Chapman University mbvajiac@chapman.edu
  Ivko Dimitric, Pennsylvania State University imd1@psu.edu
  

  • 8:40 a.m.
    Classification of isoparametric hypersurfaces with four principal curvatures.
    Quo-Shin Chi*, Washington University
    (1064-53-137)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Hypersurfaces of Space forms with constant $m^{th}$ curvature.
    Oscar M Perdomo*, Central Connecticut State University
    (1064-53-20)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Curvature-adapted hypersurfaces of 2-type in projective spaces and a question of stability.
    Ivko M. Dimitric*, Pennsylvania State University Fayette
    (1064-53-301)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Ruled Austere 4-folds and Holomorphic Curves.
    Marianty Ionel, University of Toledo
    Thomas A. Ivey*, College of Charleston
    (1064-53-213)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Arithmetic, Groups and Geometry, I
  Room 310, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Jordan Ellenberg, University of Wisconsin ellenber@math.wisc.edu
  Michael Larsen, Indiana University larsen@math.indiana.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Heights, modular correspondences, and complex dynamics.
    Kevin M. Pilgrim*, Indiana University (Bloomington)
    (1064-37-235)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Discussion Bainbridge
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Rigidity, II
  Room 209, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  David Fisher, Indiana University fisherdm@indiana.edu
  Ralf Spatzier, University of Michigan spatzier@umich.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Counting points and circles in orbits of geometrically finite hyperbolic groups.
    Nimish A Shah*, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
    Hee Oh, Brown University, Providence, RI
    (1064-22-192)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Inhomogeneous quadratic forms.
    Amir Mohammadi*, University of Chicago
    (1064-22-88)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Its Interactions with Algebraic Geometry, I
  Room 208, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Claudia Polini, University of Notre Dame cpolini@nd.edu
  Alberto Corso, University of Kentucky corso@ms.uky.edu
  Bernd Ulrich, Purdue University ulrich@math.purdue.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Exact zero divisors and totally acyclic complexes.
    Lars Winther Christensen, Texas Tech University
    David A Jorgensen, University of Texas--Arlington
    Hamidreza Rahmati, Syracuse University
    Janet Striuli, Fairfield University
    Roger Wiegand*, University of Nebraska
    (1064-13-226)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Infinite families of totally reflexive modules.
    Janet Striuli*, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Fairfield University
    W. Lars Christensen, Department of Mathematics,University of Texas Tech
    David Jorgensen, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas Arlington
    Hamid Rahmati, Department of Mathematics, Syracuse University
    Roger Wiegand, Department of Mathematics, University of Lincoln Nebraska
    (1064-13-269)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The $F$-Signature.
    Kevin Tucker*, University of Utah
    (1064-13-336)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Finite Generation of Ext and ascent of module structures.
    Sean Sather-Wagstaff*, North Dakota State University
    Benjamin Anderson, North Dakota State University
    (1064-13-201)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Speakers:
  Laura DeMarco, University of Illinois at Chicago demarco@math.uic.edu
  Polynomial dynamics: Critical points and moduli.
  McKenna Lecture Hall, McKenna Hall
  Laura DeMarco*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1064-37-01)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Speakers:
  Jordan Ellenberg, University of Wisconsin ellenber@math.wisc.edu
  Geometric analytic number theory.
  McKenna Lecture Hall, McKenna Hall
  Jordan S. Ellenberg*, University of Wisconsin
  (1064-11-04)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometry and Lie Theory, II
  Room 131, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  John Caine, University of Notre Dame John.A.Caine.2@nd.edu
  Samuel Evens, University of Notre Dame Samuel.R.Evens.1@nd.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Quantum Schubert cells.
    Milen Yakimov*, Louisiana State University
    (1064-16-297)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Quaternionic Analysis, Representation Theory and Physics.
    Matvei Libine*, Indiana University
    (1064-20-320)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Linear and nonlinear Gelfand-Zeitlin integrable systems.
    Mark A Colarusso*, Université de Laval
    Sam Evens, University of Notre Dame
    (1064-22-329)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Computability and Its Applications, III
  Room 120, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Peter Cholak, University of Notre Dame Peter.Cholak.1@nd.edu
  Peter Gerdes, University of Notre Dame gerdes@invariant.org
  Karen Lange, University of Notre Dame klange1@nd.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Effective geometric measure theory.
    Jan S Reimann*, Pennsylvania State University
    (1064-03-230)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Sets automorphic to low sets.
    Rebecca Weber*, Department of Mathematics, Dartmouth College
    (1064-03-210)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Reverse mathematics and the finite intersection principle.
    Damir D Dzhafarov*, University of Chicago
    (1064-03-261)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Reverse mathematics and infinite traceable graphs.
    Peter Cholak, University of Notre Dame
    David Galvin, University of Notre Dame
    Reed Solomon*, University of Connecticut
    (1064-03-215)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The search for natural definability in the Turing degrees.
    Andrew Edwin Marcus Lewis*, University of Leeds, UK
    (1064-03-298)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Computable Categoricity for Algebraic Fields.
    Denis R. Hirschfeldt*, University of Chicago
    Russell Miller, Queens College and The Graduate Center, C.U.N.Y.
    Alexandra Shlapentokh, East Carolina University
    (1064-03-120)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Undergraduate Mathematics Education: A Vision for the 21st Century, III
  Room 136, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Steven Broad, St. Mary's College sbroad@alumni.nd.edu
  Nahid Erfan, University of Notre Dame erfan.1@nd.edu
  Alex Himonas, University of Notre Dame himonas.1@nd.edu
  Morteza Shafii-Mousavi, Indiana University South Bend mshafii@iusb.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    The Old Family Recipe.
    Diane L Herrmann*, University of Chicago
    (1064-97-111)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Supporting deep learning in mathematics outside the classroom.
    Nahid A. Erfan*, University of Notre Dame
    (1064-97-284)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Assessing Attitudes in College Mathematics Courses.
    Natalie Domelle*, Saint Mary's College
    Bogdan Vajiac, Saint Mary's College
    (1064-97-299)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Using Service-Learning to Connect Mathematics Content to the World beyond the Classroom.
    Morteza Shafii-Mousavi*, Indiana University South Bend
    Paul Kochanowski, Indiana University South Bend
    (1064-97-123)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Panel Discussion
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Panel Discussion
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Numerical Algebraic Geometry, II
  Room 210, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Daniel J. Bates, Colorado State University bates@math.colostate.edu
  Jonathan D. Hauenstein, Texas A&M University jhauenst@math.tamu.edu
  Andrew J. Sommese, University of Notre Dame sommese@nd.edu
  Charles W. Wampler, General Motors charles.w.wampler@gm.com
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Developing Solution Sets with Polyhedral Methods.
    Danko Adrovic, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science
    Jan Verschelde*, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science
    (1064-65-109)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Multiprecision Path Tracking on Multicore Workstations.
    Jan Verschelde, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science
    Genady Yoffe*, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science
    (1064-65-108)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The Numerical Irreducible Factorization of Multivariate Polynomials.
    Wenyuan Wu, Michigan State University
    Zhonggang Zeng*, Northeastern Illinois University
    (1064-65-113)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A computational challenge in algebraic statistics.
    Sonja Petrovic*, Univeristy of Illinois at Chicago
    (1064-62-110)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Computational Aspects of Gale Duality.
    Daniel Bates, Colorado State University
    Jon Hauenstein, Texas A&M University
    Matthew Niemerg*, Colorado State University
    Frank Sotille, Texas A&M University
    (1064-14-357)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    alphaCertified: Software for certifying solutions to polynomial systems.
    Frank Sottile*, Texas A&M University
    Jonathan D. Hauenstein, Texas A&M University
    (1064-65-104)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Topology, Geometry and Physics, III
  Room 214, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Ralph Kaufmann, Purdue University rkaufman@math.purdue.edu
  Stephan Stolz, University of Notre Dame Stolz.1@nd.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Fibered WZW models and Lipsky's cocycle construction.
    Matthew Ando*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1064-55-362)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Higher Categories and TQFTs.
    Mark Feshbach, University of Minnesota
    Alexander A Voronov*, University of Minnesota
    (1064-57-326)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the extension of a TCFT to the boundary of the moduli space.
    Alastair Hamilton*, Texas Tech University
    (1064-55-185)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Complex Analysis and Dynamical Systems, II
  Room 311, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Laura DeMarco, University of Illinois at Chicago demarco@math.uic.edu
  Jeffrey Diller, University of Notre Dame diller.1@nd.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Semi-parabolic implosion in $C^2$.
    Eric Bedford*, Indiana University
    (1064-37-55)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Dynamical properties to solve a problem in group theory.
    Julie Deserti*, Université Paris 7 / Indiana University
    (1064-20-49)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Degree growth of monomial maps.
    Jan-Li Lin*, Department of Mathemmatics, Indiana University.
    (1064-37-40)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Degree growth of monomial maps.
    Elizabeth Aino Rebecka Wulcan*, University of Michigan / Department of Mathematics
    (1064-37-45)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Degree growth of birational maps related to matrix inversions.
    Tuyen Trung Truong*, Department of mathematics, Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405
    (1064-37-174)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Linear Fractional Recurrences as Birational maps of 3-space: Periodicities and pseudo-automorphisms of positive entropy.
    Eric Bedford, Indiana University, Bloomington IN
    Kyounghee Kim*, Florida State University, Tallahassee FL
    (1064-37-130)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Differential Geometry and its Applications, III
  Room 213, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Jianguo Cao, University of Notre Dame cao.7@nd.edu
  Brian Smyth, University of Notre Dame smyth.1@nd.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Volumes of nodal sets of Laplace eigenfunctions.
    Steve Zelditch*, Northwestern University
    (1064-35-76)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Conformal, complex, and $p$-harmonic geometry.
    Shihshu Walter Wei*, The University of Oklahoma
    (1064-53-254)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Harmonic measures on laminations by locally symmetric spaces.
    Chris Connell*, Indiana University
    Matilde Martinez, Universidad de la Republica
    (1064-53-382)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Some Non-Riemannian Curvatures In Finsler Geometry.
    Zhongmin Shen*, Indiana Univ. Purdue Univ Indianapolis (IUPUI)
    (1064-53-125)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The *-Ricci tensor for hypersurfaces in complex space forms.
    Thomas A. Ivey, Department of Mathematics, College of Charleston, Charleston SC 29424
    Patrick J Ryan*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University, Hamilton ON L8S4K1, Canada
    (1064-53-259)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Form-type equations on Kähler manifolds.
    Damin Wu*, The Ohio State University
    (1064-53-107)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Computation, Analysis, Modeling in PDE and their Applications, II
  Room 312, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Bei Hu, University of Notre Dame b1hu@nd.edu
  Yongtao Zhang, University of Notre Dame zhang.103@nd.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Noise attenuation and computational tools for biological systems.
    Qing Nie*, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine
    (1064-92-217)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A boundary integral method for simulating the dynamics of an epitaxial island.
    Shuwang Li*, Department of Applied Mathematics, Il linois Institute of Technology,Chicago
    (1064-65-41)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Robustness of Pattern Formation in Development.
    Hans G Othmer*, School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
    (1064-35-47)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Computational Electromagnetics and Acoustics, I
  Room 313, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  David Peter Nicholls, University of Illinois at Chicago nicholls@math.uic.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    High-Order Integral Equations Methods for High-Frequency Scattering by Diffraction Gratings.
    David Nicholls*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Reitich Fernando, University of Minnesota
    (1064-65-180)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    An efficient high-order time-integration method based on Krylov appraoximations for electromagnetic modeling.
    Misun Min*, Argonne National Laboratory
    Paul Fischer, Argonne National Laboratory
    (1064-65-350)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    High Order Solvers for Large Driven Wire Arrays.
    Michael C Haslam*, York University
    (1064-78-378)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Complete Radiation Boundary Conditions on Rectangular Domains.
    Thomas Hagstrom*, Southern Methodist University
    Seungil Kim, Southern Methodist University
    Kurt Stein, Southern Methodist University
    Timothy Warburton, Rice University
    (1064-65-354)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Graphs and Hypergraphs, III
  Room 119, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  David Galvin, University of Notre Dame David.Galvin.12@nd.edu
  Hemanshu Kaul, Illinois Institute of Technology kaul@math.iit.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    The Structure of Typical Hypergraphs with Local Constraints.
    Jozsef Balogh, UIUC
    Dhruv Mubayi*, UIC
    (1064-05-182)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Hypergraph independent sets.
    Jonathan Cutler*, Montclair State University
    A. J. Radcliffe, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1064-05-161)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Detachments of Amalgamated 3-uniform Hypergraphs.
    Amin Bahmanian*, Auburn University
    (1064-05-19)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Set systems without a strong simples.
    Tao Jiang, Miami University
    Oleg Pikhurko, Carnegie Mellon University
    Zelealem B Yilma*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1064-05-159)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Online Ramsey Games for Triangles in Random Graphs.
    Jane V. Butterfield*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    József Balogh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1064-05-214)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On the Chvatal-Erdos triangle game.
    Jozsef Balogh*, University of Illinois at UC, UCSD
    Wojtek Samotij, UIUC, University of Tel Aviv, Israel
    (1064-05-186)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Applications of Stochastic Processes in Cell Biology, II
  Room 319, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Peter Thomas, Case Western University pjt9@case.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Macroscopic model of self-propelled bacteria swarming with regular reversals.
    Mark Alber*, Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics, University of Notre Dame
    Pavel Lushnikov, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Mexico
    Richard Gejji, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, The Ohio State University
    (1064-92-44)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Gradient Sensing as a Statistical Estimation Problem: Comparison with Experimental Data.
    Peter J Thomas*, Case Western Reserve University, Department of Mathematics
    Stephen J Fleming, Case Western Reserve University
    (1064-92-380)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Information Processing by the \em{ E. coli} Chemotaxis Network.
    Sima Setayeshgar*, Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington
    Lin Wang, Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (1064-92-399)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Fluctuations and stability in front propagation.
    Leonard M Sander*, Physics Dept., University of Michigan
    (1064-92-366)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on The Geometry of Submanifolds, II
  Room 217, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Yun Myung Oh, Andrews University ohy@andrews.edu
  Mihaela Vajiac, Chapman University mbvajiac@chapman.edu
  Ivko Dimitric, Pennsylvania State University imd1@psu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    A global result for the Bonnet problem.
    Gary R Jensen*, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
    Emilio Musso, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
    (1064-53-193)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Bjorling problem for timelike surfaces in the Lorentz-Minkowski space.
    Martha P. Dussan Angulo*, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Departamento de Matematica IME. Sao Paulo, S.P.
    (1064-51-65)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Minimal submanifolds, $p$-harmonic maps, and geometric flows.
    Shihshu Walter Wei*, The University of Oklahoma
    (1064-53-257)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Geometric Inequalities on Manifolds with Applications.
    Shihshu Walter Wei, University of Oklahoma
    Ye Li*, University of Oklahoma
    (1064-53-227)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Geometry of Bicomplex Spaces.
    Mihaela B Vajiac*, Chapman University
    (1064-53-387)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Arithmetic, Groups and Geometry, II
  Room 310, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Jordan Ellenberg, University of Wisconsin ellenber@math.wisc.edu
  Michael Larsen, Indiana University larsen@math.indiana.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Cohomology of arithmetic groups.
    Kevin Wortman*, University of Utah
    Mladen Bestvina, University of Utah
    Alex Eskin, University of Chicago
    (1064-20-283)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Representation stability, configuration spaces, and points over finite fields.
    Thomas Church*, University of Chicago
    (1064-57-372)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Discussion Putnam
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Cohomology of Bianchi groups with coefficients in $Sym^n (\mathbb{C}^2)$.
    Seyfi Turkelli*, Postdoc at University of Georgia-Athens
    (1064-11-114)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Rigidity, III
  Room 209, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  David Fisher, Indiana University fisherdm@indiana.edu
  Ralf Spatzier, University of Michigan spatzier@umich.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Positively curved manifolds with large conjugate radius.
    Benjamin Schmidt*, Michigan State University
    (1064-51-25)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Homomorphisms between mapping class groups.
    Javier Aramayona, National University of Ireland
    Juan Souto*, University of Michigan
    (1064-20-51)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Weakly commensurable arithmetic groups and isospectral locally symmetric spaces.
    Gopal Prasad*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (1064-22-153)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Group Actions on Affine Varieties, III
  Room 118, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Harm Derksen, University of Michigan hderksen@umich.edu
  Gene Freudenburg, University of Western Michigan gene.freudenburg@wmich.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Universal enveloping algebras and universal derivations of Poisson algebras.
    Ualbai Umirbaev*, Department of Mathematics, Wayne State University
    (1064-16-356)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Wildness of polynomial automorphisms in three variables.
    Shigeru Kuroda*, Department of Mathematics and Information Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University
    (1064-13-148)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Twin triangular derivations revisited Part 1.
    Adrien Dubouloz, Université de Bourgogne
    David R Finston*, New Mexico State University
    (1064-14-242)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Twin triangular derivations revisited Part 2.
    Adrien Dubouloz*, CNRS, Institut de Mathematiques de Bourgogne
    David Finston, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
    (1064-14-322)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Essential Dimension of the Moduli Stack of Vector Bundles over a Curve.
    Nicole Marie Lemire*, University of Western Ontario
    Ajneet Dhillon, University of Western Ontario
    Indranil Biswas, Tata Institute
    (1064-14-296)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Its Interactions with Algebraic Geometry, II
  Room 208, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Claudia Polini, University of Notre Dame cpolini@nd.edu
  Alberto Corso, University of Kentucky corso@ms.uky.edu
  Bernd Ulrich, Purdue University ulrich@math.purdue.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Wild Hypersurfaces.
    Andrew Crabbe, Syracuse University
    Graham J Leuschke*, Syracuse University
    (1064-13-341)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Poset Structures in Boij--Söderberg Theory: I - Modules with pure resolution.
    Christine Berkesch, Stockholm University
    Daniel Erman*, Stanford University
    Manoj Kummini, Purdue University
    Steven V Sam, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1064-13-99)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Poset Structures in Boij--Söderberg Theory: II - Supernatural sheaves.
    Christine Berkesch, Stockholm University
    Daniel Erman, Stanford University
    Manoj Kummini*, Purdue University
    Steven V Sam, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1064-14-100)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    An application of Chow groups to Hilbert-Kunz functions.
    C-Y. Jean Chan*, Central Michigan University
    Kazuhiko Kurano, Meiji University, Japan
    (1064-13-317)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Associated Primes of Powers of Monomial Ideals.
    Susan Morey*, Texas State University
    (1064-13-255)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The positivity of the first normalized Hilbert coefficients.
    Shiro Goto, Meiji University
    Jooyoun Hong*, Southern Connecticut State University
    Mousumi Mandal, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
    (1064-13-258)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Hilbert Functions in Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Combinatorics, II
  Room 138, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Fabrizio Zanello, Michigan Technological University fabrizio.zanello@gmail.com
  Juan Migliore, University of Notre Dame juan.c.migliore.1@nd.edu
  Uwe Nagel, University of Kentucky uwenagel@ms.uky.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Face rings of complexes with singularities.
    Ezra Miller, Duke University
    Isabella Novik*, University of Washington , Seattle
    Ed Swartz, Cornell University
    (1064-13-116)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Borel ideals via Borel generators, I.
    Christopher A Francisco, Oklahoma State University
    Jeff Mermin*, Oklahoma State University
    Jay Schweig, University of Kansas
    (1064-13-337)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Borel Ideals Via Borel Generators II.
    Jay Schweig*, University of Kansas
    Christopher Francisco, Oklahoma State University
    Jeffrey Mermin, Oklahoma State University
    (1064-13-361)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Depth of Edge Rings Arising from Finite Graphs.
    Takayuki Hibi, Osaka University
    Akihiro Higashitani, Osaka University
    Kyouko Kimura, Shizuoka University
    Augustine B. O'Keefe*, Tulane University
    (1064-13-240)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Updown numbers and the initial monomials of the slope variety.
    Jeremy L Martin*, University of Kansas
    Jennifer D Wagner, Washburn University
    (1064-05-162)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The unimodality of pure O-sequences of type three in three variables.
    Bernadette M Boyle*, University of Notre Dame
    (1064-13-256)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Groups, Representations, and Characters, III
  Room 116, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  James P. Cossey, University of Akron cossey@uakron.edu
  Mark Lewis, Kent State University lewis@math.kent.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Brauer's height zero conjecture for the 2-blocks of maximal defect.
    Gabriel Navarro, Universitat de València, València, Spain
    Pham Huu Tiep*, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
    (1064-20-62)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Rational defect groups and 2-rational characters.
    David H. Gluck*, Wayne State University
    (1064-20-12)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Integral representations of defect groups, and irreducible character heights.
    Michael Aaron Geline*, Northern Illinois University
    (1064-20-135)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Explicit Shintani lifting from finite unitary groups to general linear groups.
    Nathaniel Thiem*, University of Colorado at Boulder
    C R Vinroot, College of William and Mary
    (1064-20-222)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Strong reality properties of normalizers of parabolic subgroups in finite Coxeter groups.
    Klaus Lux, University of Arizona
    Amanda Schaeffer, University of Arizona
    C. Ryan Vinroot*, College of William and Mary
    (1064-20-250)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Normally serially monomial $p$-groups.
    Tim Bonner*, Texas State University - San Marcos
    (1064-20-313)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Interdisciplinary Session on Deterministic and Stochastic Partial Differential Equations, III
  Room 320, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Nathan Glatt-Holtz, Indiana University negh@indiana.edu
  Vlad Vicol, University of Chicago vicol@math.uchicago.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Active Scalar Equations and a Geodynamo Model.
    Susan Friedlander*, University of Southern California
    Vlad Vicol, University of Chicago
    (1064-35-310)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Attractor Dimension Estimates for 2D Boussinesque System with Low Fractional Dissipation.
    Ning Ju*, Oklahoma State University
    (1064-37-395)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The defocusing cubic energy-supercritical nonlinear wave equation in dimensions six and higher.
    Aynur Bulut*, University of Texas at Austin
    (1064-35-253)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On scaling laws of fully developed turbulence.
    Roman Shvydkoy*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1064-76-355)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Existence of solutions to Boundary Value Problems for Smectic Liquid Crystals.
    Jinhae Park*, Seoul National University, South Korea
    (1064-35-339)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Quasigroups, Loops, and Nonassociative Division Algebras, III
  Room 117, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Clifton E. Ealy, Western Michigan University clifton.e.ealy@wmich.edu
  Stephen Gagola, III, Bowling Green State University sgagola@bgsu.edu
  Julia Knight, University of Notre Dame knight.1@nd.edu
  J. D. Phillips, Northern Michigan University jophilli@nmu.edu
  Petr Vojtechovsky, University of Denver petr@math.du.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Complete Mappings of Finite Moufang Loops.
    J Kyle Pula*, University of Denver
    (1064-20-87)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Moufang loops of odd order $pq^4$.
    Andrew Rajah*, School of Mathematical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia
    Wing Loon Chee, School of Mathematical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia
    (1064-20-398)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The existence of strong complete mappings of finite groups.
    Anthony B Evans*, Dept. of Math. and Stat./Wright State University
    (1064-20-263)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Integral Octonions, Octonion XY-Product, and the Leech Lattice.
    Geoffrey M Dixon*, Durham, NH
    (1064-17-155)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Boolean and Profinite Loops.
    Peter Plaumann*, Universität Erlangen, Germany
    Wolfgang Herfort, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
    (1064-20-147)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The structure of free Moufang A-loops.
    Liudmila Sabinina*, UAEM, Cuernavaca, Mexico
    Alexander Grishkov, USP, Sao Paulo, Brazil
    Peter Plaumann, University of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
    (1064-20-146)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Evolution Equations, II
  Room 318, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Alex Himonas, University of Notre Dame himonas.1@nd.edu
  Gerard Misiolek, University of Notre Dame Gerard.Misiolek.1@nd.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Damping in Hyperbolic Equations with Parabolic Degeneracy.
    Katarzyna Saxton, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA
    Ralph Saxton*, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
    (1064-35-351)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The motion and geometry of whips and chains.
    Stephen C. Preston*, University of Colorado at Boulder
    (1064-35-401)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the Cauchy Problem for the Hyperelastic Rod Equation.
    David Karapetyan*, University of Notre Dame
    (1064-35-245)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Energy arguments for a semilinear Skyrme model.
    Dan Andrei Geba*, Department of Mathematics, University of Rochester
    (1064-35-151)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Cubic Schrodinger Equation with a Periodic Delta Interaction: Existence and Stability of Periodic Standing Wave.
    Jaime Angulo Pava*, Department of Mathematics, IME-USP
    Gustavo Ponce, Department of Mathematics, University of California/Santa Barbara
    (1064-35-27)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Number Theory and Physics, III
  Room 215, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Adrian Clingher, University of Missouri St. Louis clinghera@umsl.edu
  Charles Doran, University of Alberta doran@math.ualberta.ca
  Shabnam N. Kadir, Wilhelm Leibniz Universitat kadir@math.uni-hannover.de
  Rolf Schimmrigk, Indiana University rschimmr@iusb.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Quantum Statistical Mechanics, L-series and Anabelian Geometry.
    Gunther Cornelissen, University of Utrecht
    Matilde Marcolli*, Caltech
    (1064-11-188)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Ribbon Graphs and Mirror Symmetry II.
    Eric Zaslow*, Northwestern University
    (1064-55-64)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Some remarks on the Verlinde Algebra.
    Igor Kriz*, University of Michigan
    (1064-55-212)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic and Topological Combinatorics, II
  Room 129, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  John Shareshian, Washington University shareshi@math.wustl.edu
  Bridget Tenner, DePaul University bridget@math.depaul.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Chains of modular elements and shellability.
    Russ Woodroofe*, Washington University in St. Louis
    (1064-05-406)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Mask formulas for Kazhdan--Lusztig polynomials.
    Brant Jones*, James Madison University
    Alexander Woo, St. Olaf College
    (1064-05-352)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Pattern characterization of rationally smooth affine Schubert varieties of type A.
    Andrew Crites*, University of Washington
    Sara Billey, University of Washington
    (1064-05-95)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Cointerval Simplicial Complexes and Ordered Hom Complexes.
    Steven Klee*, UC Davis
    Benjamin Braun, University of Kentucky
    Jonathan Browder, University of Washington
    (1064-05-333)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Face Numbers of Cohen-Macaulay Flag Complexes.
    Jonathan Browder*, University of Washington
    (1064-05-189)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Poset pinball and cohomology rings.
    Julianna Tymoczko*, University of Iowa
    (1064-05-198)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers, II
  Room 140, DeBartolo Hall
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Singular Perturbation and Bifurcation of Transition Layers in Inhomogeneous Media.
    Chaoqun Huang*, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University
    Aaron Nung Kwan Yip, Purdue University, Department of Mathematics
    (1064-35-59)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    A Generalization of the Fujisawa-Kuh Global Inversion Theorem.
    E Cabral Balreira*, Trinity University
    (1064-58-15)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Continuous Symmetry of the Wedge and Other Shapes.
    Dennis Glenn Collins*, Winamac, IN or University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez (retired)
    (1064-51-167)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    A note of quasi-static thermal deflection in a thin circular plate.
    Kishor Ramrao Gaikwad*, Dept. of Mathematics, Savitribai Phule Womens Engineering College, Aurangabad-431004, Maharashtra, India.
    Kirtiwant P Ghadle, Dept. of Mathematics, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad-431004, Maharashtra, India.
    (1064-80-251)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Classification of One-sided Incompressible Surfaces in Two Infinite Families of Seifert Fibered Spaces.
    Zhenyi Liu*, Schaumburg, IL (Recent graduate of Oklahoma State University)
    (1064-57-277)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Model Selection for an Outbreak of Influenza in a Boarding School.
    Alex Capaldi*, Valparaiso University
    (1064-92-312)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Results from a Groebner Basis Study in Gait Analysis.
    Kimberly D Kendricks*, Central State University
    Ronald F Tuttle, Air Force Institute of Technology
    Adam M Fullenkamp, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson Air Force Base
    (1064-92-346)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Hyperbolic Invariants for Collective Dynamics of Massive Data Sets of Time-Series.
    Adel Ardalan*, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
    Hesam Dashti, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
    James Driver, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
    Larry Rolen, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
    Amir Assadi, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
    (1064-00-152)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Division algebra technology for supersymmetric physics.
    John Huerta*, University of California, Riverside
    John C. Baez, University of California, Riverside
    (1064-17-402)

Sunday November 7, 2010

• Sunday November 7, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometry and Lie Theory, III
  Room 131, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  John Caine, University of Notre Dame John.A.Caine.2@nd.edu
  Samuel Evens, University of Notre Dame Samuel.R.Evens.1@nd.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Generalizing Springer representations to Hessenberg varieties.
    Julianna Tymoczko*, University of Iowa
    Robert MacPherson, Institute for Advanced Studies
    (1064-14-199)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Symplectic Groupoids of Radko Surfaces.
    Songhao T Li*, University of Toronto
    (1064-53-225)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Some examples of symplectic groupoids.
    David S Li-Bland*, University of Toronto
    (1064-53-359)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The Variety of Lagrangian Subalgebras of Real Semisimple Lie algebras.
    Sasha Lyapina*, The University of Hong Kong
    (1064-22-260)
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Computability and Its Applications, IV
  Room 120, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Peter Cholak, University of Notre Dame Peter.Cholak.1@nd.edu
  Peter Gerdes, University of Notre Dame gerdes@invariant.org
  Karen Lange, University of Notre Dame klange1@nd.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Revisiting Cooper's jump inversion theorem.
    Joseph S. Miller*, University of Wisconsin---Madison
    (1064-03-219)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A hyperimmune-low basis theorem for infinitely branching trees.
    Chris J. Conidis*, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
    (1064-03-315)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Birkhoff's theorem and reverse mathematics.
    Paul Shafer*, Cornell University
    (1064-03-272)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The non-hyperarithmetic degrees form a spectrum.
    Antonio Montalban*, University of Chicago
    (1064-03-78)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Jump Degrees of Countable Structures.
    Brooke M. Andersen, Assumption College
    Asher M. Kach*, University of Connecticut - Storrs
    Bakhadyr Khoussainov, University of Auckland
    Alexander G. Melnikov, University of Auckland
    D. Reed Solomon, University of Connecticut - Storrs
    (1064-03-241)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A direct construction of a hyperimmune minimal degree.
    Mingzhong Cai*, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University
    (1064-03-265)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Definability and Automorphisms of the C.E. Sets.
    Rachel Epstein*, Harvard University
    (1064-03-183)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Generic computability, Turing degrees, and asymptotic density.
    Carl Jockusch*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Paul Schupp, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1064-03-166)
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Undergraduate Mathematics Education: A Vision for the 21st Century, IV
  Room 136, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Steven Broad, St. Mary's College sbroad@alumni.nd.edu
  Nahid Erfan, University of Notre Dame erfan.1@nd.edu
  Alex Himonas, University of Notre Dame himonas.1@nd.edu
  Morteza Shafii-Mousavi, Indiana University South Bend mshafii@iusb.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Matrix Representations in Group Theory and Geometry.
    Paul E. Becker*, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
    Mark Medwid, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
    (1064-97-38)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Incorporating Dynamical Geometry and Fractals into Undergraduate Mathematics Education.
    Jiu Ding*, University of Southern Mississippi
    (1064-37-16)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Rethinking Calculus.
    Michael Livshits*, Cambridge, MA
    (1064-97-10)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Mathematics Education at Community Colleges -Where we've been, where we are, where we need to go-.
    Raju Hegde*, Grand Rapids Community College
    Yumi Watanabe, Grand Rapids Community College
    (1064-97-314)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Mathematical Preparation for First Statistics Courses.
    Paul Kochanowski*, Indiana University South Bend
    Morteza Shafii-Mousavi, Indiana University South Bend
    (1064-97-128)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Changing the Culture: A 20th Century Vision Delayed.
    David A. Smith*, Duke University
    (1064-97-207)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Topology, Geometry and Physics, IV
  Room 214, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Ralph Kaufmann, Purdue University rkaufman@math.purdue.edu
  Stephan Stolz, University of Notre Dame Stolz.1@nd.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Open-closed moduli spaces and related algebraic structures.
    Eric Harrelson, Austin, Texas
    Alexander Voronov, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
    J. Javier Zúñiga*, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University
    (1064-55-175)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    BV Structures and Modular Operads.
    Ben C Ward*, Purdue University
    (1064-55-228)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Higher String Topology - Old and New.
    Po Hu*, Wayne State University
    (1064-55-209)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Topological Hermitian cobordism and related topics.
    Hu Po, Wayne State University
    Igor Kriz*, University of Michigan
    (1064-55-211)
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Graphs and Hypergraphs, IV
  Room 119, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  David Galvin, University of Notre Dame David.Galvin.12@nd.edu
  Hemanshu Kaul, Illinois Institute of Technology kaul@math.iit.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Degree Conditions for $H$-Linked Digraphs.
    Michael Ferrara*, University of Colorado Denver
    Michael Jacobson, University of Colorado Denver
    Florian Pfender, Universität Rostock, Rostock, Germany
    (1064-05-150)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Each sparse graph decomposes into a forest and a graph with bounded degree.
    Seog-Jin Kim, Konkuk University, Seoul, South Korea
    Alexandr Kostochka*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Douglas B. West, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Hehui Wu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Xuding Zhu, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, China
    (1064-05-102)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Modular orientations of random regular graphs.
    Pawel Pralat*, Department of Mathematics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
    (1064-05-117)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Longest cycles in k-connected graphs with given independence number.
    Suil O, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Douglas West, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Hehui Wu*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1064-05-56)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The typical structure of $H$-colorings of the Hamming cube.
    John Engbers*, University of Notre Dame
    David Galvin, University of Notre Dame
    (1064-05-197)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The Number of Matchings of a Given Size.
    Liviu Ilinca*, Indiana University
    Jeff Kahn, Rutgers University
    (1064-05-223)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Extremal Trees for Homomorphism Enumeration.
    Andrew J Radcliffe*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Andrew Ray, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1064-05-233)
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Applications of Stochastic Processes in Cell Biology, III
  Room 319, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Peter Thomas, Case Western University pjt9@case.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Stochastic within-host models of malaria infection: calibration and Agent-Based Communities.
    David Gurarie*, Case Western Reserve University
    (1064-92-97)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    3D Multi-Cell Simulation of Angiogeneis and Its Application in Tumor Growth and Choroidal Neovascularization.
    Abbas Shirinifard*, Biocomplexity Institute, Physics Department, Indiana University
    James Alexander Glazier, Biocomplexity Institute, Physics Department, Indiana University
    (1064-92-42)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Migration and clustering of glioma cells.
    Evgeniy Khain*, Department of Physics, Oakland University, Rochester MI 48309
    (1064-92-136)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    What can noise do for you? Understanding the role of molecular noise in mammalian time-keeping.
    Richard Yamada*, University of Michigan, Department of Mathematics
    (1064-92-32)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Arithmetic, Groups and Geometry, III
  Room 310, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Jordan Ellenberg, University of Wisconsin ellenber@math.wisc.edu
  Michael Larsen, Indiana University larsen@math.indiana.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Discussion Zieve
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Quasi-isometric rigidities of nilpotent-by-cyclic groups.
    Irine Peng*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (1064-51-53)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Measure rigidity in positive characteristic.
    Amir Mohammadi*, University of Chicago
    (1064-22-92)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Submanifold spectra of Riemannian manifolds.
    David Ben McReynolds*, University of Chicago
    (1064-20-407)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Title: On the Davenport-Heilbronn theorems and second order terms.
    Manjul Bhargava, Princeton University
    Arul Shankar*, Princeton University
    Jacob Tsimerman, Princeton University
    (1064-11-133)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Hodge Theory and Liftability Results for Quotients by Groups.
    Matthew Satriano*, University of Michigan
    (1064-14-98)
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Group Actions on Affine Varieties, IV
  Room 118, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Harm Derksen, University of Michigan hderksen@umich.edu
  Gene Freudenburg, University of Western Michigan gene.freudenburg@wmich.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The geometry of eight points in projective space.
    Benjamin Howard*, University of Michigan
    John Millson, University of Maryland College Park
    Andrew Snowden, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Ravi Vakil, Stanford University
    (1064-14-345)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Flexible varieties.
    Ivan Arzhantsev, Moscow State University
    Hubert Flenner, Ruhr Universität Bochum
    Shulim Kaliman*, University of Miami
    Frank Kutzschebauch, University of Bern
    Mikhail Zaidenberg, Fourier University
    (1064-14-82)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Counter-examples to cancellation for exotic complex spaces of dimension 3.
    Lucy Moser-Jauslin*, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
    Adrien Dubouloz, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
    Pierre-Marie Poloni, University of Basel, Switzerland
    (1064-14-295)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A property of a Jacobian mate.
    Leonid Makar-Limanov*, Wayne State University, USA; Weizmann Instutute of Sciense, Israel
    (1064-14-347)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    A note on the Venereau polynomials.
    Drew Lewis*, Washington University in St. Louis
    (1064-13-71)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    New conjectures related to the Jacobian Conjecture.
    David Wright*, Washington University
    Arno van den Essen, Radboud University
    Wenhua Zhao, Illinois State University
    (1064-13-220)
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Groups, Representations, and Characters, IV
  Room 116, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  James P. Cossey, University of Akron cossey@uakron.edu
  Mark Lewis, Kent State University lewis@math.kent.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Saturated fusion systems as idempotents in the double Burnside ring.
    Kari Ragnarsson*, DePaul University
    Radu Stancu, Universite de Picardie
    (1064-20-142)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Distinguishing exponentially many non-isomorphic groups having no known isomorphism invariants.
    Mark L. Lewis, Kent State University
    James B. Wilson*, The Ohio State University
    (1064-20-73)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Duality for normal subgroups of wreath product $p$-groups.
    Jeffrey M Riedl*, University of Akron
    (1064-20-292)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Character tables of 2--generator $p$--groups of class two.
    Adriana Nenciu*, Otterbein University
    (1064-20-165)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Some subgroups of finite algebra groups.
    Darci L. Kracht*, Kent State University
    (1064-20-330)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Minimal groups with isomorphic tables of marks.
    Luis Valero-Elizondo*, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo
    Alberto Gerardo Raggi-Cardenas, UNAM
    (1064-20-14)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Determining Group Structure from the Sets of Character Degrees.
    Kamal Aziziheris*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242
    (1064-20-06)
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Quasigroups, Loops, and Nonassociative Division Algebras, IV
  Room 117, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Clifton E. Ealy, Western Michigan University clifton.e.ealy@wmich.edu
  Stephen Gagola, III, Bowling Green State University sgagola@bgsu.edu
  Julia Knight, University of Notre Dame knight.1@nd.edu
  J. D. Phillips, Northern Michigan University jophilli@nmu.edu
  Petr Vojtechovsky, University of Denver petr@math.du.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The Bruck Functor.
    Ben Phillips*, Western Michigan University
    (1064-08-85)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Loops with abelian inner mapping groups: recent progress.
    Michael Kinyon*, University of Denver
    (1064-20-370)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Independent varieties of loops.
    Tomasz Kowalski*, Centro de Algebra da Universidade de Lisboa
    (1064-17-403)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A New Look at the Freudenthal-Tits Magic Square.
    Tevian Dray*, Oregon State University
    (1064-17-176)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Moufang and extra elements.
    J. D. Phillips*, Northern Michigan University
    (1064-20-22)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Zorn vector matrix algebra over $\mathbb{Z}/4\mathbb{Z}$.
    Andrew T. Wells*, East Central University
    (1064-17-170)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On the existence of simple loops with two non-trivial conjugacy classes.
    Kenneth W. Johnson*, Penn State University, Abington
    (1064-20-204)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    On Computable Loops.
    Clifton E Ealy*, Department of Mathematics, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo MI
    Julia F Knight, Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame
    Clifton F Ealy, Department of Mathematics, Western Illinois University
    (1064-20-384)
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Evolution Equations, III
  Room 318, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Alex Himonas, University of Notre Dame himonas.1@nd.edu
  Gerard Misiolek, University of Notre Dame Gerard.Misiolek.1@nd.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Nonlinear Asymptotic Stability for Semi-Strong Pulse Interactions.
    Thomas Bellsky*, Michigan State University
    (1064-35-17)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the asymptotics of the Birkhoff map.
    Peter Topalov*, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
    Thomas Kappeler, University of Zurich
    Beat Schaad, University of Zurich
    (1064-35-252)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Steady water waves with multiple critical layers.
    Mats Ehrnstrom*, Leibniz University, Hanover
    (1064-35-266)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Wave breaking in the dispersive wave equations.
    Dmitry E. Pelinovsky*, McMaster University (Canada)
    (1064-35-23)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A variational method for quasilinear dispersive equations.
    Erik Wahlén*, Lund University
    (1064-35-156)
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Number Theory and Physics, IV
  Room 215, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Adrian Clingher, University of Missouri St. Louis clinghera@umsl.edu
  Charles Doran, University of Alberta doran@math.ualberta.ca
  Shabnam N. Kadir, Wilhelm Leibniz Universitat kadir@math.uni-hannover.de
  Rolf Schimmrigk, Indiana University rschimmr@iusb.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Orlov Spectra of Categories Arising in Mirror Symmetry.
    M. Ballard*, University of Pennsylvania
    D. Favero, University of Vienna
    L. Katzarkov, University of Vienna
    (1064-14-293)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Toda lattices and Galois invariants.
    Jimmy Dillies*, University of Utah
    (1064-14-331)
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic and Topological Combinatorics, III
  Room 129, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  John Shareshian, Washington University shareshi@math.wustl.edu
  Bridget Tenner, DePaul University bridget@math.depaul.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Computing Node Polynomials for Plane Curves.
    Florian Block*, University of Michigan
    (1064-05-216)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Critical group of a simplicial complex.
    Art Duval*, University of Texas at El Paso
    Caroline Klivans, University of Chicago
    Jeremy Martin, University of Kansas
    (1064-05-79)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The boolean complex of a Coxeter system.
    Kari Ragnarsson*, DePaul University
    Bridget E. Tenner, DePaul University
    (1064-05-145)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Hyperplane Arrangements and Diagonal Harmonics.
    Drew Armstrong*, University of Miami
    (1064-05-306)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Shi arrangement and the Ish arrangement.
    Drew Armstrong, University of Miami
    Brendon Rhoades*, MIT
    (1064-05-194)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Crystals and total positivity on orientable surfaces.
    Thomas Lam, University of Michigan
    Pavlo Pylyavskyy*, University of Minnesota
    (1064-05-164)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Homology of the k-Parabolic Arrangement and Discrete Morse Theory.
    Jacob Anthony White*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
    Helene Barcelo, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
    Christopher Severs, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
    (1064-05-172)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Face numbers of pseudomanifolds with isolated singularities.
    Isabella Novik*, University of Washington, Seattle
    Ed Swartz, Cornell University
    (1064-05-115)
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 8:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Differential Geometry and its Applications, IV
  Room 213, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Jianguo Cao, University of Notre Dame cao.7@nd.edu
  Brian Smyth, University of Notre Dame smyth.1@nd.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Fill Radius and the Fundamental Group.
    Jon Wolfson*, Michigan State University
    (1064-53-206)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Compact proper Dupin hypersurfaces.
    Thomas E Cecil*, College of the Holy Cross
    (1064-53-134)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Riesz transforms and $L^p$-estimates of $\bar\partial$ on complete Kahler manifolds.
    Xiangdong Li*, Institute of Applied Mathematics, AMSS, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    (1064-53-289)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Comparison geometry, total curvature, and pursuit-evasion games.
    Stephanie B. Alexander, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Richard L. Bishop*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Robert Ghrist, University of Pennsylvania
    (1064-53-348)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Singular time of the mean curvature flow.
    Andrew A Cooper*, Michigan State University
    (1064-51-309)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Comparison theorems for number of conjugate points along sub-Riemannian extremals.
    Igor Zelenko*, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University
    (1064-53-30)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Discussion Robert Gulliver
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 8:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Singularities in Algebraic Geometry, II
  Room 207, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Nero Budur, University of Notre Dame nbudur@nd.edu
  Lawrence Ein, University of Illinois at Chicago ein@math.uic.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    The valuation space of an isolated normal singularity.
    Sebastien Boucksom, Institut de Mathematiques de Jussieu
    Tommaso de Fernex*, University of Utah
    Charles Favre, Centre de Mathematiques Laurent Schwartz Ecole Polytechnique
    (1064-14-262)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Characteristic classes of complex hypersurfaces.
    Sylvain Cappell, Courant Institute, New York University
    Laurentiu Maxim*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Joerg Schuermann, University of Muenster, Germany
    Julius Shaneson, University of Pennsylvania
    (1064-14-144)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Free divisors, adjoint divisors, and partial normalizations.
    Mathias Schulze*, Oklahoma State University
    (1064-14-112)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Multigraded Fujita approximation.
    Shin-Yao Jow*, University of Pennsylvania
    (1064-14-52)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Singularity of a Holomorphic Map.
    Jing Zhang*, State University of New York at Albany
    (1064-14-08)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On resolution of singularities in positive characteristic.
    Jaroslaw Wlodarczyk*, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University
    (1064-14-364)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Geometry of arcs under birational maps.
    Roi Docampo*, University of Utah
    Tommaso de Fernex, University of Utah
    (1064-14-360)
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 8:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Hilbert Functions in Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Combinatorics, III
  Room 138, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Fabrizio Zanello, Michigan Technological University fabrizio.zanello@gmail.com
  Juan Migliore, University of Notre Dame juan.c.migliore.1@nd.edu
  Uwe Nagel, University of Kentucky uwenagel@ms.uky.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Thirty years and counting.
    Edward Swartz*, Cornell University
    (1064-05-139)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Generalized permutohedra, h-vector of cotransversal matroids and pure O-sequences.
    SuHo Oh*, MIT
    (1064-05-69)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Pure $O$-sequences and Matroid $h$-vectors.
    Huy Tai Ha, Tulane University
    Erik Stokes*, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
    Fabrizio Zanello, Michigan Technological University
    (1064-13-275)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Points, regularity, minimum distance.
    Stefan O Tohaneanu*, Department of Mathematics / The University of Western Ontario
    (1064-13-103)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Minimal Free Resolutions of General Points on Cubic Surfaces.
    Juan Migliore, University of Notre Dame
    Megan Patnott*, University of Notre Dame
    (1064-13-218)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Stable monomial ideals with a given Hilbert polynomial.
    Dennis K. Moore*, University of Kentucky
    Uwe R. Nagel, University of Kentucky
    (1064-13-321)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Componentwise linear ideals arising from simplicial trees.
    Massimo Caboara, University of Pisa, Italy
    Sara Faridi*, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
    (1064-13-363)
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 8:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Interdisciplinary Session on Deterministic and Stochastic Partial Differential Equations, IV
  Room 320, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Nathan Glatt-Holtz, Indiana University negh@indiana.edu
  Vlad Vicol, University of Chicago vicol@math.uchicago.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Zakharov-Kuznetsov (KZ) equation.
    Roger M. Temam*, Indiana University-Department of Mathematics
    (1064-35-169)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A determining form for the 2-D Navier-Stokes equations.
    C. Foias, Texas A&M University
    M. S. Jolly*, Indiana University
    R. Kravchenko, Texas A&M University
    (1064-76-237)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Beale-Kato-Majda type regularity criteria for the 3D Navier-Stokes equations.
    Alexey Cheskidov*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1064-35-397)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Wick Product in Stochastic Burgers Equation: A Curse or a Cure?
    Sivaditya Kaligotla*, University of Southern California
    Sergey V Lototsky, University of Southern California
    (1064-60-68)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Phase transition of binary systems.
    Honghu Liu*, Department of Mathematics, Indiana University, Bloomington
    M. Taylan Sengul, Department of Mathematics, Indiana University, Bloomington
    Shouhong Wang, Department of Mathematics, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (1064-35-391)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Discussion Mickael Chekroun
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Complex Analysis and Dynamical Systems, III
  Room 311, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Laura DeMarco, University of Illinois at Chicago demarco@math.uic.edu
  Jeffrey Diller, University of Notre Dame diller.1@nd.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    A fundamental dichotomy for Fatou components of polynomial skew products.
    Roland Roeder*, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis
    (1064-37-187)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Basins of Attraction.
    Liz Raquel Vivas*, Purdue University
    (1064-32-244)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Common boundary values of holomorphic functions for two-sided complex structures.
    Florian Bertrand, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Xianghong Gong*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Jean-Pierre Rosay, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1064-32-343)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On Proper Polynomial Maps of $\mathbb{C}^n$.
    Cinzia Bisi*, Dipartimento Matematica, Universita' di Ferrara
    Francesco Polizzi, Dipartimento Matematica, Universita' della Calabria
    (1064-32-81)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Equidistribution to the Green current.
    Rodrigo Parra*, University of Michiga
    (1064-37-90)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Non-archimedean pluripotential theory.
    Jonsson Mattias*, University of Michigan
    S{é}bastien Boucksom, Institut de Math{é}matiques de Jussieu, France
    Charles Favre, Ecole Polytechnique, France
    (1064-32-07)
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Computation, Analysis, Modeling in PDE and their Applications, III
  Room 312, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Bei Hu, University of Notre Dame b1hu@nd.edu
  Yongtao Zhang, University of Notre Dame zhang.103@nd.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    A multi-scale mathematical model of tumor-microenvironment interactions.
    Yangjin Kim*, University of Michigan-Dearborn
    Hans G. Othmer, University of Minnesota
    Magdalena A. Stolarska, University of St. Thomas
    (1064-92-36)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Noise Filtering in Spatial Gradient Sensing and Response during Yeast Cell Polarization.
    Ching-Shan Chou*, Department of Mathematics, Ohio State University
    Qing Nie, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine
    Tau-Mu Yi, Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine
    (1064-92-37)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    An Epidemic S-I-R Model with Directed Spatial Diffusion.
    Ruijun Zhao*, Department of Computer Science, Purdue University
    Fabio A. Milner, School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Arizona State University
    (1064-92-84)
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Computational Electromagnetics and Acoustics, II
  Room 313, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  David Peter Nicholls, University of Illinois at Chicago nicholls@math.uic.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Boundary integral equations on the sphere- discretization and applications.
    Nilima Nigam*, Dept. of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University
    Simon Gemmrich, D-Fine, Berlin, Germany.
    (1064-65-400)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Quasi-Optimal Convergence of Non Overlapping Domain Decomposition Method: the Helmholtz Equation.
    Yassine Boubendir*, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Xavier Antoine, University of Nancy
    Christophe Geuzaine, University of Liege
    (1064-65-328)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Well posed integral equation formulations for the solution of three dimensional scattering problems in Lipschitz domains.
    Catalin Turc*, Department of Mathematics Case Western Reserve University
    Oscar Bruno, ACM Caltech
    Akash Anand, IIT Kanpur
    (1064-65-234)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Non-Deteriorating Algorithm for Computational Electromagnetism Based on Quasi-Lacunae of Maxwell's Equations.
    Sergey V Petropavlovsky, Finance Academy under the Government of the Russian Federatrion
    Semyon V Tsynkov*, North Carolina State University
    (1064-78-09)
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on The Geometry of Submanifolds, III
  Room 217, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Yun Myung Oh, Andrews University ohy@andrews.edu
  Mihaela Vajiac, Chapman University mbvajiac@chapman.edu
  Ivko Dimitric, Pennsylvania State University imd1@psu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Geometry of normal complex contact metric manifolds.
    David E. Blair*, Michigan State University
    Verónica Martín-Molina, Universidad de Sevilla
    Adela Mihai, University of Bucharest
    (1064-53-39)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Calibrated Submanifolds in the Deformed G2-conifold.
    Marianty Ionel*, University of Toledo
    Maung Min-Oo, McMaster University
    (1064-51-324)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Negative curvature obstructs small skewloops.
    Bruce M Solomon*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (1064-53-349)
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Rigidity, IV
  Room 209, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  David Fisher, Indiana University fisherdm@indiana.edu
  Ralf Spatzier, University of Michigan spatzier@umich.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Cusp Excursions for Horocycles.
    Jayadev S Athreya*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    (1064-37-50)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Assouad-Nagata dimension of Lie groups.
    Irine Peng*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (1064-51-70)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Invariant and stationary measures for the SL(2,R) action on moduli space.
    Alex Eskin*, University of Chicago
    (1064-37-248)
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Its Interactions with Algebraic Geometry, III
  Room 208, DeBartolo Hall
  Organizers:
  Claudia Polini, University of Notre Dame cpolini@nd.edu
  Alberto Corso, University of Kentucky corso@ms.uky.edu
  Bernd Ulrich, Purdue University ulrich@math.purdue.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    The resolution of Frobenius powers of the maximal ideal in diagonal hypersurface rings.
    Andrew Kustin, University of South Carolina
    Hamid Rahmati, Syracuse University
    Adela Vraciu*, University of South Carolina
    (1064-13-74)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Ascent and Descent modulo quasi-complete intersections.
    Inês Bonacho dos Anjos Henriques*, University of California, Riverside
    Luchezar L. Avramov, University of Nebraska
    Liana M. Şega, University of Missouri
    (1064-13-394)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Minimal $j$-multiplicity.
    Claudia Polini, University of Notre Dame
    Yu Xie*, University of Notre Dame
    (1064-13-86)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The shape of the core of certain monomial ideals.
    Bonnie Smith*, University of Kentucky
    Angela Kohlhaas, Loras College
    (1064-13-386)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On applications of regularity bounds to length complexity of tensor product and HomAB problems.
    Kia Dalili*, University of Missouri-Columbia
    (1064-13-393)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Building examples using power series.
    William Heinzer, Purdue University
    Christel Rotthaus, Michigan State University
    Sylvia M Wiegand*, University of Nebraska
    (1064-13-246)

Inquiries: meet@ams.org

---