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2010 Fall Western Section Meeting
Los Angeles, CA, October 9-10, 2010 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1063

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

Special Session on Mathematical Models of Random Phenomena

Saturday October 9, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Mathematical Models of Random Phenomena, I
BH 2444, Boelter Hall
Organizers:
Mark Burgin, University of California Los Angeles mburgin@math.ucla.edu
Alan C. Krinik, California State Polytechnic University Pomona ackrinik@csupomona.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Disrupting Terrorist Networks.
  Susan E. Martonosi*, Harvey Mudd College
  Douglas Altner, U.S. Naval Academy
  (1063-90-41)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Near linear time perfect simulation of corrugated surfaces.
  Mark L Huber*, Claremont McKenna College
  (1063-60-60)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Sequential Hypothesis Testing for Pest Count Spatial GLMM Models.
  Judy X. Li, Federal Drug Administration
  Daniel R. Jeske*, University of California, Riverside
  Jesus Lara, University of California, Riverside
  Mark Hoddle, University of California, Riverside
  (1063-62-57)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Optimization in Baseball Lineups.
  Brandi Bailes, Cal Poly Pomona
  Jenny Switkes*, Cal Poly Pomona
  (1063-60-52)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Birthdays, Coupons, Hat-checks and Schur.
  Barry C. Arnold*, University of California, Riverside
  (1063-60-23)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The Mathematics of Cause and Effect.
  Judea Pearl*, Department of Computer Science, UCLA,
  (1063-91-85)

Saturday October 9, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Mathematical Models of Random Phenomena, II
BH 2444, Boelter Hall
Organizers:
Mark Burgin, University of California Los Angeles mburgin@math.ucla.edu
Alan C. Krinik, California State Polytechnic University Pomona ackrinik@csupomona.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Probabilistic Approach to the Zeros of Zeta Functions.
  M M Rao*, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521
  (1063-11-25)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Chaos and the Fourth Moment.
  Todd Kemp*, UCSD
  Ivan Nourdin, Universite Henri Poincare
  Giovanni Peccati, Universite du Luxembourg
  Roland Speicher, Universitat des Saarlandes
  (1063-60-248)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Bridging Scales in Kinesin Motor Models.
  John Fricks*, Penn State University
  John P Hughes, Penn State University
  William O Hancock, Penn Stat University
  (1063-60-44)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Information channels and channel operators.
  Yuichiro Kakihara*, California State University, San Bernardino
  (1063-94-59)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Performance Analysis of Compressive Spectral Clustering.
  Blake A Hunter*, University of California, Davis
  Thomas Strohmer, University of California, Davis
  (1063-15-285)

Sunday October 10, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Mathematical Models of Random Phenomena, III
BH 2444, Boelter Hall
Organizers:
Mark Burgin, University of California Los Angeles mburgin@math.ucla.edu
Alan C. Krinik, California State Polytechnic University Pomona ackrinik@csupomona.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  A Mathematical Model for Stimuli Dependent Neuron Responses.
  Joe Latulippe*, Cal Poly Pomona
  (1063-92-213)
- 8:30 a.m.
  The Role of Symmetric and Asymmetric Division of Cancer Cells in Developing Drug Resistance.
  Cristian Tomasetti*, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland
  Doron Levy, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland
  (1063-60-66)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The Wright-Fisher Diffusion Process and an Application to Queues and Bacterial Recombination.
  Joseph C Watkins*, Deaprtment of Mathematics, University of Arizona
  Xavier Didelot, Oxford Centre for Gene Function, University of Oxford
  Jesse E Taylor, Department of Mathematics, Arizona State University
  (1063-60-229)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A PCR birth process subject to an enzyme death process.
  Randall Swift*, California State Polytechnic University Pomona
  Joe Gani, The Australian National University
  (1063-60-128)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Speed of Convergence of Certain Markov Processes to Equilibrium.
  Rabi Bhattacharya*, Department of Mathematics, The University of Arizona
  (1063-60-171)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Conditional Hyperprobability.
  Mark Burgin, UCLA
  A. C. Krinik,*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, California State Polytechnic University
  (1063-60-35)

Sunday October 10, 2010, 2:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Mathematical Models of Random Phenomena, IV
BH 2444, Boelter Hall
Organizers:
Mark Burgin, University of California Los Angeles mburgin@math.ucla.edu
Alan C. Krinik, California State Polytechnic University Pomona ackrinik@csupomona.edu
- 2:00 p.m.
  Skew Diffusion in Highly Heterogeneous Environments.
  Edward C Waymire*, Oregon State University
  Thilanka A Appuhamillage, Oregon State University
  Vrushali A Bokil, Oregon State University
  Enrique A Thomann, Oregon State University
  Brian D Wood, Oregon State University
  (1063-60-67)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Systems of Dependent Components.
  Sheldon Ross*, University of Southern California
  (1063-60-205)
- 3:00 p.m.
  On modeling and analysing P2P networks.
  Gerardo Rubino*, INRIA Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique, France
  (1063-60-26)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Sharp inequalities of Zygmund type for Riesz transforms.
  Jorge Aarao, University of South Australia, Adelaide
  Mike O'Neill*, Claremont McKenna College
  (1063-60-141)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Mathematical Theory of Negative Probability and Models of Financial Processes.
  Mark Burgin, UCLA
  Gunter Meissner*, University of Hawaii
  (1063-60-31)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Variations of the Absorption Process: Probabilistic Models for q-identities in Combinatorics and Number Theory.
  Don Paul Rawlings*, Mathematics Department, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
  (1063-60-76)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Geometric properties of the majority rule model.
  Nicolas Lanchier*, Arizona State University
  Jared Neufer, Arizona State University
  (1063-60-83)
- 5:30 p.m.
  No-arbitrage conditions for limit-price orders.
  David German*, Claremont McKenna College
  Henry Schellhorn, Claremont Graduate University
  (1063-60-174)
- 6:00 p.m.
  Heat kernel and random matrices from compact Lie groups.
  Jason Fulman*, University of Southern California
  (1063-60-17)

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