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2010 Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting
Newark, NJ, May 22-23, 2010 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1060

Associate secretaries:
Steven H Weintraub, AMS steve.weintraub@lehigh.edu

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Saturday May 22, 2010

• Saturday May 22, 2010, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Lobby, 2nd Floor, Kupfrian Hall
• Saturday May 22, 2010, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Room 202, Kupfrian Hall
• Saturday May 22, 2010, 8:55 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Computational Topology Applied to the Global Dynamics of Nonlinear Systems.
  Jim Wise Theater, 2nd Floor, Kupfrian Hall
  Konstantin Mischaikow*, Rutgers University
  (1060-37-02)
• Saturday May 22, 2010, 10:00 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory, I
  Room 104, Tiernan Hall
  Organizers:
  Nathan W. Kahl, Seton Hall University Nathan.Kahl@shu.edu
  Michael J. Ferrara, University of Colorado at Denver
  Arthur H. Busch, University of Dayton
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    Balanced bipartite subgraphs with at least half the degree of each vertex.
    Stephen G. Hartke*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Tyler Seacrest, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1060-05-104)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    An Extremal Characterization of Projective Planes.
    Stefaan De Winter, Department of Mathematics and Computer Algebra, Ghent University
    Felix Lazebnik*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware
    Jacques Verstraëte, Department of Mathematics, University of California San Diego
    (1060-05-236)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Another Extremal Property of Turán Graphs.
    Spencer N. Tofts*, University of Delaware
    Felix Lazebnik, University of Delaware
    (1060-05-226)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    On generalized Ramsey numbers of Erd{ő}s and Rogers.
    Andrzej Dudek*, Carnegie Mellon University
    Vojta R{ö}dl, Emory University
    (1060-05-66)
  • 12:00 p.m.
    Minimum Saturated Graphs and Ramsey Graphs.
    Guantao Chen, Georgia State University
    Michael J. Ferrara, University Colorado Denver
    Ron Gould, Emory University
    Colton Magnant, Lehigh University
    John R. Schmitt*, Middlebury College
    (1060-05-58)
  • 12:30 p.m.
    Finding Large Subgraphs.
    Hemanshu Kaul*, Illinois Institute of Technology
    (1060-05-210)
• Saturday May 22, 2010, 10:00 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Elliptic and Parabolic Problems in Geometry, I
  Room 112, Tiernan Hall
  Organizers:
  Simon Brendle, Stanford University brendle@math.stanford.edu
  Mu-Tao Wang, Columbia University
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    Curvature conditions for extending the mean curvature flow and the Ricci flow.
    Natasa Sesum*, University of Pennsylvania
    (1060-35-243)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Complex Monge-Ampere equations on compact manifolds.
    Valentino Tosatti*, Columbia University
    Ben Weinkove, University of California, San Diego
    (1060-53-36)
  • 12:00 p.m.
    Regularity for non-local almost minimal boundaries.
    M Cristina Caputo*, The University of Texas at Austin
    Nestor Guillen, The University of Texas at Austin
    (1060-35-57)
• Saturday May 22, 2010, 10:00 a.m.-1:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematics and Computations of Fluid Dynamics
  Room 107, Tiernan Hall
  Organizers:
  Yuan N. Young, New Jersey Institute of Technology yyoung@oak.njit.edu
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    Shape Optimization of Peristaltic Pumping.
    Shawn W Walker*, New York University, Courant Institute
    Michael J Shelley, New York University, Courant Institute
    (1060-76-49)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Current Results on the Interaction of Electric Fields with Soap Films.
    John A Pelesko*, University of Delaware
    (1060-76-211)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Solving the immersed interface problem using the decomposition with boundary integral approach.
    Anita T Layton*, Duke University
    (1060-65-118)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Modeling and simulation of biologically active suspensions.
    David Saintillan*, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1060-76-137)
  • 12:00 p.m.
    Front tracking and its coupling with convection dominated problems.
    Xiaolin Li*, SUNY at Stony Brook
    Wurigen Bo, SUNT at Stony Brook
    Brian Fix, SUNY at Stony Brook
    JoungDong Kim, SUNY at Stony Brook
    James Glimm, SUNY at Stony Brook
    (1060-65-154)
  • 12:30 p.m.
    Microhydrodynamics of soft particles.
    Petia M Vlahovska*, Dartmouth College
    (1060-76-175)
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Dynamic Behavior of Lipid Vesicles in Viscous Flows.
    David Salac*, Northwestern University
    Michael Miksis, Northwestern University
    (1060-76-229)
• Saturday May 22, 2010, 10:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Logic and Groups, I
  Room 208, Kupfrian Hall
  Organizers:
  Peggy Dean, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York
  Claire Wladis, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York cwladis@gmail.com
  Marcos Zyman, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    A negative result regarding the construction of groups with word problem of a given Turing degree.
    Jay R. Williams*, Rutgers University
    (1060-20-133)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Automorphism groups of nonstandard models of arithmetic.
    Roman Kossak*, City University of New York
    (1060-03-160)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Something for Nothing: Some Consequences of the Solution to the Tarski Problems.
    Benjamin Fine*, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT
    Gerhard Rosenberger, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
    (1060-20-138)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Groups with logspace normal forms.
    Gillian Z. Elston, Hofstra University
    Gretchen Ostheimer*, Hofstra University
    (1060-20-208)
  • 12:00 p.m.
    Equations in groups, actions on trees, algorithmic topology and dynamical systems.
    Olga Kharlampovich*, McGill University, Dept of Math and Stats
    (1060-20-179)
• Saturday May 22, 2010, 10:00 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Groups, Computations, and Applications, I
  Room 207, Kupfrian Hall
  Organizers:
  Delaram Kahrobaei, City University of New York dkahrobaei@gc.cuny.edu
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    Complexity of computations on compressed words.
    Robert H. Gilman*, Stevens Institute of Technology
    (1060-20-164)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    $\mathbb{Z}$-forms of Kac-Moody groups.
    Lisa Carbone*, Rutgers University
    (1060-20-98)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Rewriting systems and geometry of groups.
    Susan Hermiller*, University of Nebraska
    (1060-20-171)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Infinitely presented groups: constructions and algorithmic problems.
    Alexei Miasnikov*, Stevens Institute
    (1060-20-205)
  • 12:00 p.m.
    Frameworks for Parallel and Distributed Computational Algebra.
    Stephen A. Linton*, University of St Andrews, Scotland
    (1060-20-200)
  • 12:30 p.m.
    Fuzzy authentication.
    Vladimir Shpilrain*, The City College of New York
    (1060-94-109)
• Saturday May 22, 2010, 10:00 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Invariants of Knots, Links, and 3-Manifolds, I
  Room 205, Kupfrian Hall
  Organizers:
  Abhijit Champanerkar, College of Staten Island, CUNY abhijit@math.csi.cuny.edu
  Ilya S. Kofman, College of Staten Island, CUNY
  Philip J. P. Ording, Medgar Evers College, CUNY
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    Twisted Alexander Polynomials and Representation Shifts.
    Daniel S Silver*, University of South Alabama
    Susan G Williams, University of South Alabama
    (1060-57-185)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Alexander-Lin Twisted Polynomials.
    Daniel S. Silver, University of South Alabama
    Susan G. Williams*, University of South Alabama
    (1060-57-196)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The combinatorics of the domain of discontinuity.
    Genevieve S. Walsh*, Tufts University
    (1060-57-183)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Higher-order signature cocycles for subgroups of the mapping class group.
    Peter D Horn*, Columbia University
    Tim D Cochran, Rice University
    Shelly L Harvey, Rice University
    (1060-57-197)
  • 12:00 p.m.
    Random Heegaard splittings.
    Joseph Maher*, CUNY College of Staten Island
    (1060-57-61)
  • 12:30 p.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday May 22, 2010, 10:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Teichmüller Theory, Hyperbolic Geometry, and Complex Dynamics, I
  Room 114, Tiernan Hall
  Organizers:
  Zheng Huang, College of Staten Island, CUNY huangz@mail.csi.cuny.edu
  Ren Guo, University of Minnesota
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    Shear parametrization of the universal Teichmuller space.
    Dragomir Saric*, Queens College and The Graduate Center of CUNY
    (1060-32-181)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Growth of the Weil-Petersson Diameter of Moduli Space.
    William P. Cavendish*, Princeton University
    (1060-51-39)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Function Model of the Teichmuller space of a closed hyperbolic Riemann Surface.
    Yunping Jiang*, CUNY Queens College and Graduate Center
    (1060-30-108)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    The Hopf differential and harmonic maps on branched hyperbolic surfaces.
    Evelyn J Lamb*, Rice University
    (1060-53-233)
  • 12:00 p.m.
    The Topology of Deformation Spaces of Kleinian Groups.
    Aaron D Magid*, University of Maryland
    (1060-57-125)
• Saturday May 22, 2010, 10:00 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Automorphic Forms, L-functions, and Applications, I
  Room 111, Tiernan Hall
  Organizers:
  Ameya Pitale, American Institute of Mathematics pitale@aimath.org
  Anantharam Raghuram, Oklahoma State University
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    On Certain Bessel Functions.
    James W. Cogdell*, Ohio State University
    (1060-11-139)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    L factors for the p-adic Group GSP(4).
    Yusuf Danisman*, The Ohio State University
    (1060-11-247)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    The Twisted Tensor $L$-function of $\mathrm{GSp}_4$.
    Justin N Young*, Ohio State University
    (1060-11-217)
  • 12:00 p.m.
    On the degree 5 L-function for GSp(4).
    Daniel W File*, The Ohio State University
    (1060-11-157)
  • 12:30 p.m.
    On the Berkovich-Jagy S-genus identites.
    Jonathan P. Hanke*, University of Georgia, Athens
    (1060-11-254)
• Saturday May 22, 2010, 10:00 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Lie Algebras and Representation Theory, I
  Room 210, Kupfrian Hall
  Organizers:
  Gautam Chinta, City College, City University of New York
  Andrew Douglas, New York City College of Technology, City University of New York
  Bart Van Steirteghem, Medgar Evers College, City University of New York bartvs@mec.cuny.edu
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    Eigenvalues of generalized Capelli operators and binomial coefficients.
    Siddhartha Sahi*, Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
    (1060-33-71)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Moment polytopes and semigroup of representations with tensor product.
    Kiumars Kaveh*, McMaster University
    Askold Khovanskii, University of Toronto
    (1060-22-56)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Spherical nilpotent orbits and asymptotics of $K$-types of Harish Chandra modules.
    Donald R King*, Department of Mathematics
    (1060-22-79)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Fourier Transforms of Nilpotent, Coadjoint Orbits for $\text{GL}(n,\mathbb{R})$.
    Benjamin Harris*, MIT
    (1060-22-88)
  • 12:00 p.m.
    Differential Operators on the free algebra.
    Uma N Iyer*, Bronx Community College.
    Timothy C McCune, Great Neck, New York
    (1060-16-78)
  • 12:30 p.m.
    Hecke Algebras for p-adic Loop Groups.
    Manish M. Patnaik*, Harvard University
    (1060-22-77)
• Saturday May 22, 2010, 10:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Financial Mathematics, I
  Room 106, Tiernan Hall
  Organizers:
  Tim S.T. Leung, Johns Hopkins University timleung@jhu.edu
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    Energy price correlations: Understanding the links between coal, gas, electricity and carbon prices.
    Michael Coulon*, Princeton University
    (1060-60-207)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Arbitrage-Free Models In Markets With Transaction Costs.
    Hasanjan Sayit*, Assistant professor, Mathematics Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
    Frederi Viens, Professor, Statistics Department, Purdue University,
    (1060-60-95)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On refined volatility smile expansion in the Heston model.
    Peter Friz, TU and WIAS Berlin, partially supported by MATHEON
    Stefan Gerhold, TU Wien, partially supported by the Austrian Federal Financing Agency and the Christian-Doppler-Gesellschaft
    Archil Gulisashvili, Ohio University
    Stephan Sturm*, ORFE Department, Princeton University
    (1060-91-163)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Heat Polynomials, boundary crossing probabilities and applications in finance.
    Gerardo Hernandez-del-Valle*, Columbia University
    (1060-35-53)
  • 12:00 p.m.
    Risk measures for multivariate variables in markets with random solvency cones.
    Birgit Rudloff*, Princeton University
    Andreas Hamel, Princeton University/ Yeshiva University
    (1060-60-166)
• Saturday May 22, 2010, 10:30 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Biomembranes: Modeling, Analysis, and Computation, I
  Room 105, Tiernan Hall
  Organizers:
  Ricardo H. Nochetto, University of Maryland rhn@math.umd.edu
  Dionisios Margetis, University of Maryland
  

  • 10:30 a.m.
    Phase field modeling and simulations of vesicle membranes.
    Qiang Du*, Penn State Unviersity
    (1060-92-103)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    A phase field model for elastic confined structures.
    Patrick W. Dondl*, University of Bonn
    Luca Mugnai, Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
    Matthias Roeger, University of Dortmund
    (1060-35-191)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Modeling and Simulation of Director Fields on Flexible Surfaces.
    Sören Bartels*, Institute for Numerical Simulation, University of Bonn, Germany
    (1060-65-129)
  • 12:00 p.m.
    A Parametric FEM for Biomembrane.
    M. Sebastian Pauletti*, Texas A&M University
    (1060-65-170)
  • 12:30 p.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday May 22, 2010, 10:30 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Topological and Computational Dynamics, I
  Room 206, Kupfrian Hall
  Organizers:
  Jean-Philippe Lessard, Institute for Advanced Study and Rutgers University lessard@math.rutgers.edu
  Konstantin M. Mischaikow, Rutgers University
  

  • 10:30 a.m.
    What Do We Know about Static Packings: From Hard Spheres to Ellipsoidal Particles and from Collapsed Polymers to Folded Proteins?
    Corey S OHern*, Yale University
    (1060-82-13)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Granular materials: from discrete to continuum description.
    Lou Kondic*, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Miroslav Kramar, Rutgers University
    Konstantin Mischaikow, Rutgers University
    Robert P. Behringer, Duke University
    (1060-70-24)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Topology of force chains in dense granular materials.
    Miroslav Kramar*, Rutgers
    Konstantin Mischaikow, Rutgers
    Lou Kondic, NJIT
    (1060-14-123)
  • 12:00 p.m.
    Discrete Morse Theory for Homology Computation.
    Shaun R Harker*, Rutgers University
    (1060-57-151)
  • 12:30 p.m.
    Rational Maps and Maximum Likelihood Decoding: Duality in Algebraic Geometry Codes.
    Yasuaki Hiraoka*, Hiroshima University/University of Pennsylvania/JST
    (1060-94-16)
• Saturday May 22, 2010, 11:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Trends in Cayley Graphs to Model Interconnection Networks, I
  Room 211, Kupfrian Hall
  Organizers:
  Daniela Ferrero, Texas State University
  Beth Novick, Clemson University nbeth@clemson.edu
  

  • 11:00 a.m.
    Channel assignment on Cayley graphs.
    Patrick Bahls*, University of North Carolina, Asheville
    (1060-05-21)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Using cosets to bound neighbor-connectivity of abelian Cayley graphs.
    Lynne L. Doty*, Marist College
    (1060-05-46)
  • 12:00 p.m.
    The normal quotient method for analysing the structure of highly symmetric graphs.
    Joy Morris*, University of Lethbridge
    (1060-05-44)
• Saturday May 22, 2010, 11:00 a.m.-12:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Homology Theories for Knots and Skein Modules, I
  Room 204, Kupfrian Hall
  Organizers:
  Mikhail Khovanov, Columbia University
  Jozef H. Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@gwu.edu
  Radmila Sazdanovic, George Washington University
  

  • 11:00 a.m.
    Turaev genus, knot signature, and the knot homology concordance invariants: Part 1.
    Oliver T Dasbach*, Louisiana State University
    Adam M Lowrance, University of Iowa
    (1060-57-96)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Turaev genus, knot signature, and the knot homology concordance invariants: Part 2.
    Oliver T Dasbach, Louisiana State University
    Adam M Lowrance*, University of Iowa
    (1060-57-97)
  • 12:00 p.m.
    Cube Diagrams: The Topology and Geometry of Knots in Three Dimensions.
    Scott Baldridge*, Louisiana State University
    Adam Lowrance, University of Iowa
    (1060-57-220)
  • 12:30 p.m.
    The theory of classical theta functions from a topological perspective.
    Razvan Gelca*, Texas Tech University
    Alejandro Uribe, University of Michigan
    (1060-57-117)
• Saturday May 22, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Curvature Driven Flows in Deformable Domains.
  Jim Wise Theater, 2nd Floor, Kupfrian Hall
  Ricardo H. Nochetto*, University of Maryland
  (1060-65-03)
• Saturday May 22, 2010, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory, II
  Room 104, Tiernan Hall
  Organizers:
  Nathan W. Kahl, Seton Hall University Nathan.Kahl@shu.edu
  Michael J. Ferrara, University of Colorado at Denver
  Arthur H. Busch, University of Dayton
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    A surgery reducing the All-Terminal Reliability of threshold graphs having a specified degree condition.
    John T. Saccoman*, Seton Hall University, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
    (1060-05-110)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the Weighted Component Line Connectivity of Trees and Unicycles.
    C L Suffel*, Stevens Institute of Technology
    L Iswara Chandra, Stevens Institute of Technology
    A Suhartomo, Stevens Institute of Technology
    D Gross, Seton Hall University
    (1060-05-219)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Proper and rainbow paths and cycles.
    Shinya Fujita, Gunma National College of Technology
    Aydin Gerek, Lehigh University
    Colton Magnant*, Lehigh University
    (1060-05-69)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The Thickness and Chromatic Number of $r$-Inflated Graphs.
    Michael O Albertson, Smith College
    Debra L Boutin, Hamilton College
    Ellen Gethner*, University of Colorado Denver
    (1060-05-173)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Degree Improvements to Bounds on the Binding Number and Toughness of a Graph.
    Michael R. Yatauro*, Research Fellow/Stevens Institute of Technology
    (1060-05-47)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    Graphs with the Maximum or Minimum Number of 1-Factors.
    Daniel J Gross*, Seton Hall University
    Nathan W Kahl, Seton Hall University
    John T Saccoman, Seton Hall University
    (1060-05-85)
• Saturday May 22, 2010, 4:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Elliptic and Parabolic Problems in Geometry, II
  Room 112, Tiernan Hall
  Organizers:
  Simon Brendle, Stanford University brendle@math.stanford.edu
  Mu-Tao Wang, Columbia University
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Stability of the Minimal Surface System and Convexity of Area Functional.
    Mao-Pei Tsui*, Department of Mathematics, University of Toledo
    Yng-Ig Lee, Department of Mathematics, National Taiwan University
    Mu-Tao Wang, Department of Mathematics, Columbia University
    (1060-53-73)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The Asymptotic Geometry of Genus-g Helicoids.
    Jacob Bernstein*, Stanford University
    Christine Breiner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1060-53-90)
• Saturday May 22, 2010, 4:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematics of Optics and Matter Waves
  Room 107, Tiernan Hall
  Organizers:
  Roy Goodman, New Jersey Institute of Technology goodman@njit.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Dynamics of Dark Soliton and Vortex Matter Waves.
    Panos Kevrekidis*, UMass, Amherst
    (1060-35-52)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Long time dynamics near the symmetry breaking bifurcation for Nonlinear Schrödinger/Gross-Pitaevskii Equations.
    Jeremy Louis Marzuola*, Columbia University
    Michaeil I Weinstein, Columbia University
    (1060-35-50)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Bifurcations of large bound states in nonlinear Schroedinger equation.
    Eduard-Wilhelm Kirr*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1060-35-155)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Nonlinear dynamics in the linear search problem.
    Vadim Zharnitsky*, University of Illinois
    Yuliy M. Baryshnikov, Bell Labs
    (1060-37-209)
• Saturday May 22, 2010, 4:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Neuroscience: Modeling, Analysis, and Simulations
  Room 113, Tiernan Hall
  Organizers:
  Horacio G. Rotstein, New Jersey Institute of Technology horacio@njit.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Synchronization of coupled limit cycles.
    Georgi S. Medvedev*, Department of Mathematics, Drexel Univeristy
    (1060-37-177)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A model of two interacting accumulators for reach and saccade reaction time behavior.
    Daniel Martí*, Center for Neural Science / New York University
    Heather Dean, Center for Neural Science / New York University
    John Rinzel, Center for Neural Science / New York University/Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
    Bijan Pesaran, Center for Neural Science / New York University
    (1060-92-239)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Canard dynamic structures and their roles in generating abrupt transitions between firing frequency regimes in neural models: The stellate cell case.
    Horacio G. Rotstein*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Tilman Kispersky, Program in Neuroscience, Boston University
    John A. White, Department of Bioengineering and The Brain Institute, University of Utah
    (1060-92-112)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday May 22, 2010, 4:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Biomembranes: Modeling, Analysis, and Computation, II
  Room 105, Tiernan Hall
  Organizers:
  Ricardo H. Nochetto, University of Maryland rhn@math.umd.edu
  Dionisios Margetis, University of Maryland
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Coupling of membrane shape and local protein and lipid composition and its relevance to intracellular trafficking.
    Benjamin R. Capraro*, University of Pennsylvania
    Aiwei Tian, University of Pennsylvania
    Michael C Heinrich, University of Pennsylvania
    Tobias Baumgart, University of Pennsylvania
    (1060-92-231)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Phase Separation in Two Phase Lipid Membrane Vesicle.
    Sanjay M Dharmavaram*, Cornell University
    Timothy J Healey, Cornell University
    (1060-00-193)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Implications of Ising Criticality in Live Cell Membranes.
    Benjamin B Machta*, Department of Physics, Cornell University
    Stefanos Papanikolaou, Department of Physics, Cornell University
    James P Sethna, Department of Physics, Cornell University
    Sarah L Veatch, Department of Biophysics, University of Michigan
    (1060-92-204)
• Saturday May 22, 2010, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Logic and Groups, II
  Room 208, Kupfrian Hall
  Organizers:
  Peggy Dean, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York
  Claire Wladis, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York cwladis@gmail.com
  Marcos Zyman, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    How tall is the automorphism tower of a group?
    Joel David Hamkins*, The City University of New York
    (1060-03-22)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The generic word problem.
    Robert H. Gilman*, Stevens Institute of Technology
    (1060-20-167)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Almost Locally Free Groups and a Theorem of Magnus.
    Anthony M Gaglione*, U.S. Naval Academy
    Seymour Lipschutz, Temple University
    Dennis M Spellman, Temple University
    (1060-20-18)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Symmetric Logic of Proofs and Provability.
    Elena Y. Nogina*, BMCC, CUNY
    (1060-03-29)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    Pseudofinite abelian groups.
    Philipp Rothmaler*, BCC CUNY
    (1060-20-146)
• Saturday May 22, 2010, 4:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Trends in Cayley Graphs to Model Interconnection Networks, II
  Room 211, Kupfrian Hall
  Organizers:
  Daniela Ferrero, Texas State University
  Beth Novick, Clemson University nbeth@clemson.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Survey of hamiltonian cycles in Cayley graphs.
    Dave Witte Morris*, University of Lethbridge
    (1060-05-75)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Matching preclusion and condition matching preclusion of folded Petersen Cubes.
    Eddie Cheng, Oakland University
    Christopher C Melekian*, Oakland University
    (1060-05-93)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The Number of Shortest Paths in the $(n, k)$-Star Graphs.
    Eddie Cheng, Oakland University
    Ke Qiu, Brock University
    Zhizhang Shen*, Plymouth State University
    (1060-05-33)
• Saturday May 22, 2010, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Groups, Computations, and Applications, II
  Room 207, Kupfrian Hall
  Organizers:
  Delaram Kahrobaei, City University of New York dkahrobaei@gc.cuny.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    $L^2$ Betti numbers.
    Andrzej Zuk*, University of Paris 7
    (1060-20-149)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Computing fundamental domains for congruence subgroups of $\text{SL}_2$.
    Lisa Carbone, Rutgers University
    Leigh Cobbs, Rutgers University
    Scott H. Murray*, University of Canberra
    (1060-20-145)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Graphs of groups and the Grzegorczyk hierarchy.
    Andrew J Duncan*, Newcastle University
    (1060-20-120)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Adapting Hilbert's Tenth Problem to Group Based Cryptography.
    Gilbert Baumslag, City University, New York City
    Benjamin Fine*, Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut
    Douglas Troeger, City Unviersity, New York
    (1060-20-135)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    A public key exchange using semidirect products of groups.
    Maggie Habeeb*, CUNY Graduate Center
    Delaram Kahrobaei, CUNY Graduate Center
    Vladmir Shpilrain, CUNY Graduate Center
    (1060-20-128)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    Factor Groups of the Baumslag-Solitar Groups and Subgroups of the Additive Group of Rational Numbers.
    Anthony E Clement*, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
    (1060-20-99)
• Saturday May 22, 2010, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Homology Theories for Knots and Skein Modules, II
  Room 204, Kupfrian Hall
  Organizers:
  Mikhail Khovanov, Columbia University
  Jozef H. Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@gwu.edu
  Radmila Sazdanovic, George Washington University
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Continuous Quandles and Knot Homology theories.
    Charles D Frohman*, The University of Iowa
    (1060-57-60)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The second quandle homology of the Takasaki quandle of an odd abelian group is an exterior square of the group.
    Maciej Niebrzydowski, UL at Lafayette
    Jozef H. Przytycki*, George Washington University and U.T. at Dallas
    (1060-57-253)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On the relationship between sutured Khovanov homology and sutured Floer homology.
    Stephan M. Wehrli*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (Berkeley)
    J. Elisenda Grigsby, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (Berkeley) / Boston College
    (1060-57-248)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Link Floer homology via bordered sutured Floer homology.
    Rumen Zarev*, Columbia University
    (1060-57-192)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Bordered Heegaard Floer homology and the $\tau$-invariant of cable knots.
    Jennifer Hom*, University of Pennsylvania
    (1060-57-188)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    A 2-category of dotted cobordisms and odd link homologies with parameters.
    Krzysztof Putyra*, Columbia University
    (1060-57-252)
• Saturday May 22, 2010, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Invariants of Knots, Links, and 3-Manifolds, II
  Room 205, Kupfrian Hall
  Organizers:
  Abhijit Champanerkar, College of Staten Island, CUNY abhijit@math.csi.cuny.edu
  Ilya S. Kofman, College of Staten Island, CUNY
  Philip J. P. Ording, Medgar Evers College, CUNY
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Indicatrices and Superinvariants of Knots.
    Colin Adams*, Williams College
    Dan Collins, Cornell University
    Katherine Hawkins, Williams College
    Charmaine Sia, MIT
    Robert Silversmith, Williams College
    Bena Tshishiku, Washington and Lee University
    (1060-57-158)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Character varieties of a family of 2-bridge knot complements.
    Ronald van Luijk, Universiteit Leiden
    Melissa Macasieb*, Univeristy of Maryland
    Kathleen Petersen, Florida State University
    (1060-57-147)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Polynomial and contact invariants of links in lens spaces.
    Christopher R Cornwell*, Michigan State University
    (1060-54-83)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Toward an Arithmetic theory of Chekhov-Fock Algebras.
    Neal W. Stoltzfus*, Dept. of Math., Louisiana State University
    (1060-57-150)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    The W-Polynomial and the Mahler Measure of the Kauffman Bracket.
    Robert Todd*, University of Nebraska at Omaha
    (1060-57-25)
• Saturday May 22, 2010, 4:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Teichmüller Theory, Hyperbolic Geometry, and Complex Dynamics, II
  Room 114, Tiernan Hall
  Organizers:
  Zheng Huang, College of Staten Island, CUNY huangz@mail.csi.cuny.edu
  Ren Guo, University of Minnesota
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Holomorphic maps from the unit disk into generalized Teichmüller spaces.
    Sudeb Mitra*, Queens College of the City University of New York
    (1060-32-130)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Dynamics on the $PSL(2,\mathbb{C})$-character variety of a twisted $I$-bundle.
    Lee Michelle*, University of Michigan
    (1060-51-114)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A Recipe for Short-word Pseudo-Anosovs.
    Johanna Mangahas*, University of Michigan
    (1060-57-31)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Holomorphic Motions and Holomorphic Maps into Teichmuller Spaces.
    Zhe Wang*, The Graduate Center of The City University of New York
    (1060-30-240)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Discrete sets and dynamics on parameter spaces.
    Siddhanta Athreya Jayadev*, Yale University
    (1060-37-37)
• Saturday May 22, 2010, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Automorphic Forms, L-functions, and Applications, II
  Room 111, Tiernan Hall
  Organizers:
  Ameya Pitale, American Institute of Mathematics pitale@aimath.org
  Anantharam Raghuram, Oklahoma State University
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Local newforms for the metaplectic group.
    Ralf Schmidt*, University of Oklahoma
    (1060-11-180)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Some Explicit Results Regarding Theta Dichotomy for Metaplectic/Orthogonal Dual Pairs.
    Christian A Zorn*, The Ohio State University
    (1060-11-72)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Exact averages of central values of triple product L-functions.
    Brooke Feigon*, University of Toronto
    David Whitehouse, MIT
    (1060-11-80)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Determination of GL(3) cusp forms by central values of GL(3) $\times$ GL(2) L-functions.
    Sheng-Chi Liu*, Texas A&M University
    (1060-11-100)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    Stable Trace Formulas and Discrete Series Multiplicities.
    Steven T Spallone*, University of Oklahoma
    (1060-11-136)
• Saturday May 22, 2010, 4:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Topological and Computational Dynamics, II
  Room 206, Kupfrian Hall
  Organizers:
  Jean-Philippe Lessard, Institute for Advanced Study and Rutgers University lessard@math.rutgers.edu
  Konstantin M. Mischaikow, Rutgers University
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Chaotic braided solutions via forcing and rigorous numerics.
    Jan Bouwe van den Berg*, VU University Amsterdam
    Jean-Philippe Lessard, Rutgers University
    (1060-37-17)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Quantifying Patterns in a Coupled-Patch Population Model.
    Sarah Day*, College of William and Mary
    Benjamin Holman, College of William and Mary
    Sebastian Schreiber, UC Davis
    (1060-37-19)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Computing Global Dynamics of Multiparameter Systems.
    Bill Kalies*, Florida Atlantic Univ.
    (1060-37-238)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Rigorous Computation of Connecting Orbits for Flows I: Problem Description and Parameterization of Invariant Manifolds.
    J D Mireles James*, Rutgers University
    J P Lessard, Institute for Advanced Study, and Rutgers University
    K M Mischaikow, Rutgers University
    J B van den Berg, VU University Amsterdam
    (1060-37-14)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Rigorous Computations of Connecting Orbits for Flows. Part II: Contraction mapping, Radii polynomials and the Gray-Scott equation.
    J.B. van den Berg, VU University Amsterdam
    J.D. Mireles James, Rutgers University
    J.P. Lessard*, IAS and Rutgers University
    K. Mischaikow, Rutgers University
    (1060-34-106)
• Saturday May 22, 2010, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Lie Algebras and Representation Theory, II
  Room 210, Kupfrian Hall
  Organizers:
  Gautam Chinta, City College, City University of New York
  Andrew Douglas, New York City College of Technology, City University of New York
  Bart Van Steirteghem, Medgar Evers College, City University of New York bartvs@mec.cuny.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Superinvolutions on graded superalgebras.
    Marina Tvalavadze*, University of Saskatchewan
    (1060-17-67)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Quotients for graded Lie algebras.
    Juana Sanchez Ortega*, University of Malaga (Malaga, Spain)
    (1060-17-43)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Overlap coefficients in representations of the $q$-deformed algebra $U_{q}(so_{4})$.
    Alexander Rozenblyum*, Mathematics Department, New York City College of Technology, CUNY
    (1060-33-55)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    On PBW bases.
    Bogdan Ion*, University of Pittsburgh
    (1060-16-84)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Finite-dimensional representations of equivariant map algebras.
    Erhard Neher*, University of Ottawa
    Alistair Savage, University of Ottawa
    Prasad Senesi, The Catholic University of America
    (1060-17-63)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    Automata and affine Kazhdan--Lusztig cells.
    Paul E Gunnells*, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    (1060-20-70)
• Saturday May 22, 2010, 4:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Financial Mathematics, II
  Room 106, Tiernan Hall
  Organizers:
  Tim S.T. Leung, Johns Hopkins University timleung@jhu.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    The set-valued approach for conical markets models: risk measures and utility functions.
    Andreas H Hamel*, Princeton University
    (1060-49-34)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Horizon dependency of utility optimizers in incomplete models.
    Kasper Larsen*, Carnegie Mellon University
    Hang Yu, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1060-91-48)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Forward Indifference Valuation of American Options in Incomplete Markets.
    Tim S.T. Leung*, Johns Hopkins University
    Ronnie Sircar, Princeton University
    Thaleia Zariphopoulou, University of Texas at Austin; University of Oxford
    (1060-60-82)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Maximum Drawdown of a Jump-Diffusion Process and the Corresponding Partial Integro-Differential Equations.
    Libor Pospisil*, Columbia University
    Jan Vecer, Columbia University
    (1060-60-161)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Drawdowns, drawups and risk management.
    Hongzhong Zhang, City University of New York
    Olympia Hadjiliadis*, City University of New York
    (1060-60-28)

Sunday May 23, 2010

• Sunday May 23, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Lobby, 2nd Floor, Kupfrian Hall
• Sunday May 23, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory, III
  Room 104, Tiernan Hall
  Organizers:
  Nathan W. Kahl, Seton Hall University Nathan.Kahl@shu.edu
  Michael J. Ferrara, University of Colorado at Denver
  Arthur H. Busch, University of Dayton
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The Cost of 2-Distinguishing.
    Debra L Boutin*, Hamilton College
    (1060-05-225)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    List colorings of $K_5$-minor-free graphs with special list assignments.
    Daniel W. Cranston*, Virginia Commonwealth University
    Anja Pruchnewski, Technical University of Ilmenau
    Zsolt Tuza, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
    Margit Voigt, University of Applied Sciences Dresden
    (1060-05-27)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    List-Distinguishing Colorings of Graphs.
    Breeann Tonnsen*, University of Colorado Denver
    Michael Ferrara, University of Colorado Denver
    Ellen Gethner, University of Colorado Denver
    (1060-05-202)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Ribbon graphs and twisted duality.
    Joanna A. Ellis-Monaghan*, Saint Michael's College
    Iain Moffatt, University of South Alabama
    (1060-05-35)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Extremal problems for homomorphisms.
    Jonathan Cutler*, Montclair State University
    A. J. Radcliffe, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1060-05-140)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The typical structure of $H$-colourings of regular bipartite graphs.
    David Galvin*, University of Notre Dame
    John Engbers, University of Notre Dame
    (1060-05-15)
• Sunday May 23, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Elliptic and Parabolic Problems in Geometry, III
  Room 112, Tiernan Hall
  Organizers:
  Simon Brendle, Stanford University brendle@math.stanford.edu
  Mu-Tao Wang, Columbia University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Optimal curvature decays on asymptotically locally Euclidean manifolds.
    Szu-yu Sophie Chen*, Institute for Advanced Study
    (1060-35-153)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The harmonic conformal class and the Penrose inequality.
    Jeffrey L. Jauregui*, Duke University
    (1060-53-102)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Static uniqueness and the Penrose inequality.
    Dan A Lee*, Queens College CUNY
    (1060-83-141)
• Sunday May 23, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Invariants of Knots, Links, and 3-Manifolds, III
  Room 205, Kupfrian Hall
  Organizers:
  Abhijit Champanerkar, College of Staten Island, CUNY abhijit@math.csi.cuny.edu
  Ilya S. Kofman, College of Staten Island, CUNY
  Philip J. P. Ording, Medgar Evers College, CUNY
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On the Hyperbolic Gluing Equations and Representations of Fundamental Groups of Closed $3$-Manifolds.
    Tian Yang*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
    (1060-57-122)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    On volumes of hyperbolic orbifolds.
    Ilesanmi Adeboye*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1060-57-30)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the volume and Chern-Simons invariant.
    Christian Krogager Zickert*, University of California, Berkeley
    (1060-57-186)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Knots with long unknotting tunnels.
    Daryl Cooper, UC Santa Barbara
    David Futer*, Temple University
    Jessica S Purcell, Brigham Young University
    (1060-57-156)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Margulis numbers for Haken manifolds.
    Marc Culler*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Peter B. Shalen, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1060-57-222)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Do norm minimizing surfaces remain norm minimizing after filling?
    David Gabai*, Princeton University
    (1060-57-94)
• Sunday May 23, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Room 202, Kupfrian Hall
• Sunday May 23, 2010, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Groups, Computations, and Applications, III
  Room 207, Kupfrian Hall
  Organizers:
  Delaram Kahrobaei, City University of New York dkahrobaei@gc.cuny.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Nonassociative algebra structures on sl(2)-modules.
    Andrew Douglas*, City University of New York
    Murray Bremner, University of Saskatchewan
    (1060-17-224)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    How to compute the Wedderburn decomposition of an associative algebra.
    Murray R. Bremner*, Mathematics and Statistics, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
    (1060-16-45)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Equations in torsion feee hyperbolic groups.
    Olga Kharlampovich*, McGill University, Dept Math and Stats
    (1060-20-228)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    How to cubulate a group.
    Tim Hsu*, San Jose State University
    Daniel T. Wise, McGill University
    (1060-20-144)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the Growth of Finitely Presented Rees Quotients of Free Inverse Semigroups.
    Lev M Shneerson*, Hunter College of CUNY
    (1060-20-143)
• Sunday May 23, 2010, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Automorphic Forms, L-functions, and Applications, III
  Room 111, Tiernan Hall
  Organizers:
  Ameya Pitale, American Institute of Mathematics pitale@aimath.org
  Anantharam Raghuram, Oklahoma State University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Examples illustrating basic analytic issues in the spectral theory of automorphic forms.
    Paul B Garrett*, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
    (1060-11-178)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Average formulas for Rankin-Selberg L-functions.
    Abhishek Saha*, ETH Zurich
    (1060-11-116)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Bloch-Kato conjecture for convolution $L$-functions.
    Mahesh Agarwal*, University of Michigan-Dearborn
    (1060-11-148)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Congruence primes of Saito-Kurokawa lifts.
    Jim Brown*, Clemson University
    (1060-11-105)
• Sunday May 23, 2010, 8:45 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers, I
  Room 113, Tiernan Hall
  

  • 8:45 a.m.
    The Gâteaux Derivative and Integral over Division Ring.
    Aleks Kleyn*, New York, NY
    (1060-16-05)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Some contractive type mappings and their applications to difference equations.
    Yong-Zhuo Chen*, University of Pittsburgh at Bradford
    (1060-47-51)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Topological Aspects of Products of Lattices.
    Carmen Vlad*, PACE University, New York
    (1060-28-132)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On convergence and convexity properties of probabilistic metric spaces.
    Patricia Giurgescu*, Danbury, CT
    (1060-60-194)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Homomorphisms and derivations in proper Lie $CQ^*$-algebras.
    Choonkil Park*, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea
    Zaman G. Eskandani, University of Tabriz
    (1060-17-26)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Approximation algorithms for some modified Bessel functions.
    Juri M. Rappoport*, Russian Academy of Sciences
    (1060-33-124)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Euler's Constant and Integrals of Fractional Parts.
    Huizeng Qin, Shandong University of Technology, P.R. China
    Youmin Lu*, Bloomsburg University
    (1060-00-65)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A monotonicity property of Riemann's xi function and a reformulation of the Riemann Hypothesis.
    Jonathan Sondow*, New York, NY
    Cristian Dumitrescu, Kitchener, Ontario
    (1060-11-176)
• Sunday May 23, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Logic and Groups, III
  Room 208, Kupfrian Hall
  Organizers:
  Peggy Dean, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York
  Claire Wladis, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York cwladis@gmail.com
  Marcos Zyman, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Lower Bound on the Asymptotic Density of Minimal Automata.
    Parisa Babaali*, York College of The City University of New York
    (1060-68-198)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Rank two free groups and the non-Euclidean Euclidean algorithm.
    Jane Gilman*, Rutgers University, Newark and the National Science Foundation
    (1060-20-195)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Schreier graphs of the action of Thompson's group $F$ on the Cantor set.
    Dmytro M Savchuk*, Binghamton University
    (1060-20-174)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday May 23, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Trends in Cayley Graphs to Model Interconnection Networks, III
  Room 211, Kupfrian Hall
  Organizers:
  Daniela Ferrero, Texas State University
  Beth Novick, Clemson University nbeth@clemson.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Applications of the Cayley graphs to the Degree/Diameter Problem.
    Dominique Buset*, Université Libre de Bruxelles
    (1060-05-91)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Large graphs of given degree and diameter.
    Rinovia Simanjuntak*, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia
    Miller Mirka, The University of Newcastle, Australia
    Tomas Vetrik, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia
    (1060-05-216)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The use of de Bruijn graphs in ChIP-sequencing.
    Frank Hsu*, Fordham University
    (1060-05-159)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Cellular Automata on Cayley Graphs and Amenability for Finitely Generated Groups.
    Paul E. Schupp*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL 61801
    (1060-20-165)
• Sunday May 23, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Homology Theories for Knots and Skein Modules, III
  Room 204, Kupfrian Hall
  Organizers:
  Mikhail Khovanov, Columbia University
  Jozef H. Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@gwu.edu
  Radmila Sazdanovic, George Washington University
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Adventures in categorification.
    Mikhail Khovanov*, Columbia University
    (1060-57-169)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Graphical calculus of Soergel bimodules in Khovanov-Rozansky link homology.
    Daniel Krasner*, MSRI
    Ben Elias, Columbia Univeristy
    (1060-57-212)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Link cohomology and extended TQFTs.
    Carmen L Caprau*, California State University, Fresno
    (1060-57-134)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Homologically $\mathbb{Z}_2$-thin knots have no 4-torsion in Khovanov homology.
    Alexander N. Shumakovitch*, The George Washington University
    (1060-57-237)
• Sunday May 23, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Teichmüller Theory, Hyperbolic Geometry, and Complex Dynamics, III
  Room 114, Tiernan Hall
  Organizers:
  Zheng Huang, College of Staten Island, CUNY huangz@mail.csi.cuny.edu
  Ren Guo, University of Minnesota
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Cross-ratio distortion and Douady-Earle extension: A new upper bound on quasiconformality.
    Jun Hu*, CUNY - Brooklyn College and Graduate Center
    Oleg Muzician, CUNY - Brooklyn College and Graduate Center
    (1060-30-189)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Cross-ratio distortion and Douady-Earle extension: An numerical experiment.
    Jun Hu, CUNY - Brooklyn College and Graduate Center
    Oleg Muzician*, CUNY - Brooklyn College and Graduate Center
    (1060-30-190)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Quasiconformal maps for grafted surfaces.
    Subhojoy Gupta*, Yale University
    (1060-37-244)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Asymptotics for pseudo-Anosov's in Teichmuller lattices.
    Joseph Maher*, CUNY College of Staten Island
    (1060-57-38)
• Sunday May 23, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Lie Algebras and Representation Theory, III
  Room 210, Kupfrian Hall
  Organizers:
  Gautam Chinta, City College, City University of New York
  Andrew Douglas, New York City College of Technology, City University of New York
  Bart Van Steirteghem, Medgar Evers College, City University of New York bartvs@mec.cuny.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Tensor products and blocks of finite-dimensional representations of quantum affine algebras at roots of unity.
    Dijana Jakelic*, University of North Carolina Wilmington
    Adriano Adrega de Moura, University of Campinas, Brazil
    (1060-17-76)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Gelfand pairs and invariant distributions.
    Dmitry Gourevitch*, Institute for Advanced Study
    (1060-22-126)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A realization of the general global Weyl module for $\mathfrak{sl}_2$.
    Samuel Herron Chamberlin*, University of California, Riverside
    (1060-17-127)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Determining multivariate quasi-polynomials for weight multiplicities and Clebsch--Gordan coefficients.
    Thomas Bliem*, San Francisco State University
    (1060-05-81)
• Sunday May 23, 2010, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Curvature, sphere theorems, and the Ricci flow.
  Jim Wise Theater, 2nd Floor, Kupfrian Hall
  Simon Brendle*, Stanford University
  (1060-53-01)
• Sunday May 23, 2010, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Polygonal outer billiards.
  Jim Wise Theater, 2nd Floor, Kupfrian Hall
  Richard E. Schwartz*, Brown University
  (1060-51-04)
• Sunday May 23, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Trends in Cayley Graphs to Model Interconnection Networks, IV
  Room 211, Kupfrian Hall
  Organizers:
  Daniela Ferrero, Texas State University
  Beth Novick, Clemson University nbeth@clemson.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    An Algebraic Approach to Finding Disjoint Paths in the Alternating Group Graph.
    Lazaros D Kikas*, University of Detroit Mercy
    (1060-05-87)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Cubic graphs with diameter $k$.
    Jicheng Ma*, University of Auckland
    (1060-05-113)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Power domination of honeycomb mesh networks.
    Daniela Ferrero*, Texas State University
    Seema Varguese, Cochin University of Science and Technology
    A Vijaykumar, Cochin University of Science and Technology
    (1060-05-213)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Conditional fault Hamiltonicity of the star graph.
    Cheng-Kuan Lin, National Chiao Tung University
    Jimmy J.M. Tan, National Chiao Tung University
    Lih-Hsing Hsu, Providence University
    Eddie Cheng*, Oakland University
    Laszlo Liptak, Oakland University
    (1060-05-74)
• Sunday May 23, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Waves
  Room 104, Tiernan Hall
  Organizers:
  A. David Trubatch, Montclair State University trubatchd@mail.montclair.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Bifurcations of standing waves in the cubic-quintic Schrödinger equation with a multi-well potential.
    Russell K. Jackson*, United States Naval Academy
    (1060-35-227)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Nonlinear Dispersive Evolution Equations, and Stability of their Solitary Waves.
    Yi A Li*, Stevens Institute of Technology
    (1060-35-241)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Inverse Scattering Transform (IST) for the Multicomponent Nonlinear Schrodinger (NLS) Equation Under Non-Vanishing Boundary Conditions.
    Barbara Prinari*, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
    (1060-35-142)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Impact of stochastic perturbations on ultra-short solitons.
    Levent Kurt*, Physics Department, The Graduate Center, CUNY
    Tobias Schaefer, Department of Mathematics, College of Staten Island
    (1060-35-206)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Pulse interaction in the Short-Pulse Equation: progress report.
    A. David Trubatch*, Montclair State University
    Jose Barrios, Montclair State University
    (1060-35-221)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    A Master Mode-locking Equation for Ultra-short Laser Pulses.
    Edward D. Farnum*, Kean University, New Jersey Center for Science, Technology & Mathematics
    J. Nathan Kutz, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington
    (1060-78-199)
• Sunday May 23, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Groups, Computations, and Applications, IV
  Room 207, Kupfrian Hall
  Organizers:
  Delaram Kahrobaei, City University of New York dkahrobaei@gc.cuny.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Structures related to intersection of curves on surfaces.
    Moira Chas*, Stony Brook University
    Anthony V. Phillips, Stony Brook University
    Steve Lalley, University of Chicago
    (1060-00-121)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Comparing Free Abelian Groups and Purely Transcendental Fields.
    Russell Miller*, Queens College & Graduate Center, CUNY
    (1060-03-182)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A computational approach to the Andrews-Curtis Conjecture.
    Alex D Myasnikov*, Stevens Institute of Technology
    (1060-20-184)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Length-based attack on a cryptosystem based on polycyclic groups.
    David Garber*, Holon Institute of Technology, Israel
    (1060-20-131)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Averaging Group Elements.
    Alexander Ushakov*, Stevens Institute of Technology
    Natalia Mosina, CUNY
    (1060-20-230)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Group-Theoretic Cryptography: Respice, Adspice, Prospice.
    Nelly Fazio, CUNY Graduate Center and City College of New York
    William Skeith*, CUNY Graduate Center and City College of New York
    (1060-20-223)
• Sunday May 23, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Homology Theories for Knots and Skein Modules, IV
  Room 204, Kupfrian Hall
  Organizers:
  Mikhail Khovanov, Columbia University
  Jozef H. Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@gwu.edu
  Radmila Sazdanovic, George Washington University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Generic deformations of the colored sl(N)-homology for links.
    Hao Wu*, George Washington University
    (1060-57-119)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The topology of two-row Springer varieties.
    Heather M. Russell*, Louisiana State University
    (1060-57-203)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A categorification of the polynomial ring.
    Radmila Sazdanovic*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
    Mikhail Khovanov, Columbia University
    (1060-18-246)
• Sunday May 23, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Invariants of Knots, Links, and 3-Manifolds, IV
  Room 205, Kupfrian Hall
  Organizers:
  Abhijit Champanerkar, College of Staten Island, CUNY abhijit@math.csi.cuny.edu
  Ilya S. Kofman, College of Staten Island, CUNY
  Philip J. P. Ording, Medgar Evers College, CUNY
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the monodromy maps of certain fibered twisted torus knots.
    Joan Birman*, Columbia University
    Peter Brinkmann, The City College of New York, CUNY
    Keiko Kawamuro, University of Iowa
    (1060-57-115)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Invariants of psedo-Anosov maps.
    Keiko Kawamuro*, University of Iowa
    (1060-57-172)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Lawrence-Krammer-Bigelow Representations of the Braid Groups via Quantum $\mathfrak{sl}_2$.
    Craig Jackson*, Ohio Wesleyan University
    Thomas Kerler, Ohio State University
    (1060-81-11)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Walks Along Braids and the Colored Jones Polynomial.
    Cody Armond*, Louisiana State University
    (1060-57-86)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On the cube number of a knot.
    Ben McCarty*, Louisiana State University
    (1060-57-242)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    analytic link theory in a complex surface singularity link.
    Anne Pichon*, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France
    (1060-32-234)
• Sunday May 23, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Topological and Computational Dynamics, III
  Room 206, Kupfrian Hall
  Organizers:
  Jean-Philippe Lessard, Institute for Advanced Study and Rutgers University lessard@math.rutgers.edu
  Konstantin M. Mischaikow, Rutgers University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The topological and geometrical evolution of cellular structures.
    Emanuel A Lazar*, Princeton University
    (1060-51-89)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Invariant solutions and state-space dynamics of low-Reynolds turbulence.
    John F. Gibson*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Predrag Cvitanović, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1060-76-20)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The tangled edge of turbulence in bursting Couette flow.
    Lennaert van Veen*, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
    Genta Kawahara, Osaka University
    Atsushi Matsumura, Osaka University
    (1060-76-07)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Liquid crystals in polyhedral domains: topological problems.
    Maxim Zyskin*, Department of mathematics, University of Texas, Brownsville
    (1060-55-201)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Iterates of Quasicontinuous Functions.
    Annalisa Crannell*, Franklin & Marshall College
    Sohaib Alam, U. Texas
    (1060-37-59)
• Sunday May 23, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Lie Algebras and Representation Theory, IV
  Room 210, Kupfrian Hall
  Organizers:
  Gautam Chinta, City College, City University of New York
  Andrew Douglas, New York City College of Technology, City University of New York
  Bart Van Steirteghem, Medgar Evers College, City University of New York bartvs@mec.cuny.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Universal enveloping algebras of $n$-Lie algebras.
    Murray R. Bremner*, Mathematics and Statistics, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
    Hader A. Elgendy, Mathematics and Statistics, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
    (1060-17-42)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The adjoint L function for SU(2,1).
    Joseph Andrew Hundley*, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
    (1060-11-68)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Recent developments on logarithmic tensor category theory for generalized modules for a conformal vertex algebra.
    James Lepowsky*, Rutgers University
    (1060-17-218)
• Sunday May 23, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers, II
  Room 113, Tiernan Hall
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Boom Model: Trader Herding and Autocorrelation from Communication.
    Suneal K. Chaudhary*, Monmouth University
    (1060-91-23)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Compartmental SIS/SIR models with Multiple Strains.
    Nadarajah Kirupaharan*, Manhattan Community College - The City University of New York
    Channa Navaratna, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
    (1060-92-249)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A new constitutive framework for biological materials with elastic behavior.
    Kai-Bin Fu*, Department of Mathematics, Prairie View A&M University
    (1060-74-107)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    A note on real non-commutative locally JB-algebras.
    Alexander A. Katz*, St. John's University, NY
    (1060-46-232)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On continuity of derivations on real locally C*-algebras.
    Alexander A. Katz, St. John's University, NY
    Oleg Friedman*, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa
    (1060-46-235)
• Sunday May 23, 2010, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Vortex Dynamics: Theory and Applications
  Room 114, Tiernan Hall
  Organizers:
  Denis Blackmore, New Jersey Institute of Technology deblac@m.njit.edu
  Morten Brøns, Technical University of Denmark
  Chjan Lim, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    A new calculus for two dimensional vortex dynamics.
    Darren G Crowdy*, Imperial College London
    (1060-31-62)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    THE NON-POLYNOMIAL CONSERVATION LAWS AND INTEGRABILITY ANALYSIS OF A GENERALIZED RIEMANN TYPE HYDRODYNAMICAL EQUATION.
    Anatoliy K. Prykarpatsky*, The AGH University of Science and Technology of Krakow, Poland
    Ziemowit Popowicz, The Institute of Theoretical Physics,
    (1060-76-06)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Viscous evolution of a point vortex equilibrium.
    Eva Kanso*, University of Southern California
    (1060-37-92)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Wake Structure and Energy Efficiency in Idealized Fishlike Locomotion.
    Scott David Kelly*, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
    (1060-76-251)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Anomalous expansion and negative specific heat in quasi-2D plasmas.
    Timothy D Andersen*, Hampton, VA
    Chjan C Lim, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    (1060-70-12)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    On the motion of point vortices on the sphere and hyperbolic sphere.
    Mohamed I Jamaloodeen*, Georgia Gwinnett College
    (1060-37-32)

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