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 Southeastern Section Meeting
Richmond, VA, November 6-7, 2010 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1065

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

---

Saturday November 6, 2010

• Saturday November 6, 2010, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Atrium, Gottwald Science Center
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Lobby, Gottwald Science Center
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Models in Biology and Medicine, I
  Room 331, Tyler Haynes Commons
  Organizers:
  Lester Caudill, University of Richmond lcaudill@richmond.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The Replicability of Oncolytic Virus: Defining Conditions in Tumor Virotherapy.
    Jianjun Paul Tian*, College of William and Mary
    (1065-34-177)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Comparing the Effects of Delay and No Delay in a Model for Hormonal Regulation of the Menstrual Cycle.
    James F Selgrade*, Dept. of Mathematics, North Carolina State University
    Alison Margolskee, Dept. of Mathematics, North Carolina State University
    (1065-92-139)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Model assumptions and corresponding implications for control of a cholera outbreak.
    Elsa Schaefer*, Marymount University
    (1065-93-228)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Age Structured Investigation of Cholera with Optimal Control.
    Renee Fister*, Murray State University
    Glenna Buford, Murray State University
    Bryce Norris, Murray State University
    Suzanne Lenhart, University of Tennessee, Knoxville and NIMBioS
    Peng Zhong, University of Tennessee
    Elsa Schaefer, Marymount University
    Holly Gaff, Old Dominion University
    (1065-34-244)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Boundaries of Sustainability in Simple and Elaborate Models of Agricultural Pest Control with a Pesticide and a Nontoxic Refuge.
    Jemal S Mohammed-Awel*, Valdosta State University
    John Bantle, University at Buffalo
    Aaron Festinger, University at Buffalo
    Ryan Klafehn, University at Buffalo
    Hee-Joon Jo, University at Buffalo
    John Ringland, University at Buffalo
    (1065-92-49)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A model for parathion desulfuration in a liver sinusoid revisited.
    Seth F Oppenheimer*, Mississippi State University
    Janice Chambers, CVM Basic Science Department, Mississippi State University
    Shane Burgess, CVM Basic Science Department, Mississippi State University
    (1065-35-203)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometry of Banach Spaces and Connections with Other Areas, I
  Room C112, Gottwald Science Center
  Organizers:
  Frank Sanacory, College at Old Westbury sanacoryf@oldwestbury.edu
  Kevin Beanland, Virginia Commonwealth University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The Daugavet property and weak neighborhoods in Banach lattices.
    Anna Kamińska*, The University of Memphis
    (1065-46-171)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Renormings and Symmetry Properties of One-Greedy Bases.
    E. Odell*, The University of Texas at Austin
    (1065-46-128)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Branch greedy algorithms.
    S. J. Dilworth, University of South Carolina
    Denka Kutzarova*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Thomas Schlumprecht, Texas A&M
    P. Wojtaszczyk, University of Warsaw
    (1065-46-207)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A model for Mott hopping conductivity.
    George Androulakis*, University of South Carolina
    Jean Bellissard, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Christian Sadel, University of California, Irvine
    (1065-81-186)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Redundant frames for vector bundles.
    Daniel Freeman*, University of Texas
    Ryan Hotovy, University of Nebraska
    Eileen Martin, University of Texas
    Daniel Poore, Pomona College
    A. Rebecca Wei, Case Western Reserve University
    Madeline Wyse, Pomona College
    (1065-46-160)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Frames and n-Cesáro bases in Hilbert space.
    Chris Lennard, University of Pittsburgh
    Dan Radelet*, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
    (1065-46-241)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Topics in Graph Theory, I
  Room A201, Gottwald Science Center
  Organizers:
  Daniel W. Cranston, Virginia Commonwealth University dcranston@vcu.edu
  Gexin Yu, College of William & Mary
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Independent cycles and chorded cycles in graphs.
    Ronald J. Gould*, Emory University
    Kazuhide Hirohata, Ibaraki National College of Technology
    Paul Horn, Emory University
    (1065-05-43)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Vizing's independence number conjecture on edge chromatic critical graphs.
    R Luo, Middle Tennessee State University
    Nick Zhao*, University of Central Florida
    (1065-05-59)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On cycle double cover conjecture.
    Cun-Quan Zhang*, West Virginia University
    (1065-05-140)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On list-coloring extensions for planar graphs.
    Maria Axenovich*, Iowa State University
    Joan Hutchinson, Macalester College
    Michelle Lastrina, Iowa State University
    (1065-05-56)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A lower bound of circumferences involving connectivities and independence numbers of subgraphs.
    Guantao Chen*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State University
    Zhiquan Hu, Central China Normal University
    Yaping Wu, Central China Normal University
    (1065-05-73)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Extending subgraphs to 2-factors in regular bipartite graphs.
    Jennifer Vandenbussche*, Southern Polytechnic State University
    Douglas B. West, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1065-05-134)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Operator Theory, I
  Room C114, Gottwald Science Center
  Organizers:
  Stefan Richter, University of Tennessee
  William T. Ross, University of Richmond wross@richmond.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Interpolation theorems for multiparameter dirichlet space and subalgebras of $H^\infty$.
    Mrinal Raghupathi*, Vanderbilt University
    (1065-47-74)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Deterministic Properties of Anderson-type Hamiltonians.
    Constanze D Liaw*, Texas A&M University, College Station
    (1065-30-100)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Rational inner functions in the Schur-Agler class.
    Greg Knese*, University of Alabama
    (1065-47-105)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Nevanlinna-Pick interpolation in hypo-Dirichlet and related algebras.
    Michael Jury*, University of Florida
    Scott McCullough, University of Florida
    (1065-47-191)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    An Abel-Jacobi map for hypo-Dirichlet algebras.
    Michael Jury, University of Florida
    Scott McCullough*, University of Florida
    (1065-47-88)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Spatial Isomorphisms of Truncated Toeplitz Operators.
    Warren Wogen*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    (1065-47-81)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Minimum Rank Problems, I
  Room D308, Gottwald Science Center
  Organizers:
  Lon H. Mitchell, Virginia Commonwealth University lmitchell2@vcu.edu
  Sivaram K. Narayan, Central Michigan University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Zero Forcing Parameters and Minimum Rank of a Graph.
    Shaun M Fallat*, University of Regina
    (1065-15-230)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    When $\operatorname{mr}^-(G)=\operatorname{MR}^-(G)$ in Skew Symmetric Matrices.
    Amy Wangsness Wehe*, Fitchburg State University
    Luz Maria DeAlba, Drake University
    Judith J McDonald, Washington State University
    (1065-15-104)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Minimum skew rank of powers of paths.
    Luz M. DeAlba*, Drake University
    (1065-15-94)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Discussion.
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Dot product representations of graphs.
    Tobias Mueller*, centrum wiskunde & informatica
    Ross J Kang, Durham University
    (1065-05-276)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Statistical Properties of Dynamical Systems, I
  Room 327, Tyler Haynes Commons
  Organizers:
  Michael J. Field, University of Houston
  Matthew J. Nicol, University of Houston nicol@math.uh.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Billiards, Markov chains, and classical scattering.
    Renato Feres*, Department of Mathematics, Washington University, St. Louis
    Hong-Kun Zhang, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    (1065-37-103)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Products of random matrices and the randomly forced Hill's equation.
    Anthony Michael Bloch*, University of Michigan
    Fred C Adams, University of Michigan
    (1065-37-108)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Ergodicity of the Weil-Petersson geodesic flow.
    Keith Burns*, Northwestern University
    Howard Masur, University of Chicago
    Amie Wilkinson, Northwestern University
    (1065-37-231)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Ensemble Methods and Data Assimilation.
    Cecilia Gonzalez-Tokman, University of Victoria
    Brian R Hunt*, University of Maryland
    (1065-37-266)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Structurally Stable Nonholonomic Integrators.
    Dmitry V Zenkov*, North Carolina State University
    Cameron Lynch, North Carolina State University
    (1065-70-78)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Transitivity of non-compact extensions of hyperbolic systems.
    Ian Melbourne, University of Surrey, UK
    Viorel Ni{ţ}ic{ă}, West Chester University
    Andrew T{ö}r{ö}k*, University of Houston
    (1065-37-158)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematics and the Arts, I
  Interfaith Room, Wilton Center
  Organizers:
  Michael J. Field, University of Houston
  Gary R. Greenfield, University of Richmond ggreenfi@richmond.edu
  Reza Sarhangi, Towson University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A Mathematician's Guide to Research in Mathematical Music Theory.
    Rachel Wells Hall*, Saint Joseph's University
    (1065-00-213)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Groupoid Model for Voice Leading in Music.
    James R. Hughes*, Elizabethtown College
    (1065-18-142)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Mathematical Property-Preserving Shellings of Musical Rhythms.
    Godfried T. Toussaint*, Department of Music, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
    (1065-51-35)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Musical Side of Wroński.
    Leon Harkleroad*, Bowdoin College
    (1065-00-39)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Flight of the Relativistic Bumble Bee: Developing a System to Fly the Bee at Light Speeds.
    Tarynn Madysyn Witten*, Virginia Commonwealth University
    (1065-92-252)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Applications of Non-Archimedean Geometry, I
  Room C200, Gottwald Science Center
  Organizers:
  Matthew H. Baker, Georgia Institute of Technology mbaker@math.gatech.edu
  Xinyi Yuan, Harvard University yxy@math.harvard.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Attacking the Dynamical Uniform Boundedness Conjecture.
    Robert L. Benedetto*, Amherst College
    (1065-11-136)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Rigid Cohomology for Algebraic Stacks.
    David M Brown*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    (1065-11-45)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Discussion break.
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Explicit iterated Coleman integration for hyperelliptic curves and the nonabelian Chabauty method.
    Jennifer S. Balakrishnan*, MIT
    (1065-11-246)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On a conjecture of Rapoport and Zink.
    Ruochuan Liu*, Member/IAS
    (1065-11-268)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Kac-Moody Algebras, Vertex (Operator) Algebras, and Applications, I
  Room 348, Tyler Haynes Commons
  Organizers:
  William J. Cook, Appalachian State University cookwj@appstate.edu
  Kailash C. Misra, North Carolina State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Hilbert series of algebras associated to directed graphs.
    Robert Lee Wilson*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
    Vladimir Retakh, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
    Shirlei Serconek, Federal University of Goias, Goiania, Goias, Brasil
    (1065-16-254)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Spinor construction of representations of affine Kac-Moody algebras of types $G_2^{(1)}$ and $D_4^{(3)}$.
    Alex J Feingold*, State University of New York, Binghamton
    Quincy Loney, State University of New York, Binghamton
    (1065-17-214)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Whittaker vectors and the AGT conjecture.
    A Milas*, SUNY Albany
    (1065-17-264)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Vertex operator algebras associated to modified regular representations of the Virasoro algebra.
    Minxian Zhu*, Rutgers University
    (1065-17-210)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Local endomorphisms of vertex algebras.
    Bojko Bakalov*, North Carolina State University
    Nikolay M Nikolov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
    (1065-17-193)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Vertex algebras in higher dimensions and their restrictions to dimension one.
    Bojko Bakalov, North Carolina State University
    Nikolay M. Nikolov*, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
    (1065-17-55)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Differential Equations and Applications to Physics and Biology, I
  Room 305, Tyler Haynes Commons
  Organizers:
  Junping Shi, College of William and Mary
  Zhifu Xie, Virginia State University zxie@vsu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Stabilization of a Chemostat Model with Haldane Growth Functions and a Delay in the Measurements.
    Frederic Mazenc, Projet INRIA DISCO
    Michael Malisoff*, Louisiana State University
    (1065-92-144)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Existence and uniqueness of solutions for a class of $p$-Laplace equations on a ball.
    Philip L. Korman*, University of Cincinnati
    (1065-35-114)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Steady-States of the Vlasov-Poisson System.
    Juergen Batt, University of Munich
    Yi Li*, University of Iowa & Xian Jiaotong University
    (1065-35-68)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On the Travelling Wave Solutions for Some High-Order Nonlinear Wave Equations:Dynamical System Approach.
    Jibin Li*, Zhejiang Normal University, China, and Kunming University of Science and Technology, China
    (1065-35-65)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Predator-prey model with strong Allee effect on prey population.
    Jinfeng Wang, Harbin Institute of Technology
    Junping Shi*, College of William and Mary
    Junjie Wei, Harbin Institute of Technology
    (1065-92-66)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Langevin description of the stochastic dynamics of calcium release sites composed of multiple intracellular channels.
    Yan Hao*, The College of William and Mary
    Gregory D Smith, The College of William and Mary
    (1065-92-41)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Convexity and Combinatorics, I
  Room A001, Gottwald Science Center
  Organizers:
  Valeriu Soltan, George Mason University vsoltan@gmu.edu
  James F. Lawrence, George Mason University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On Minkowski sum of simplices and their flags.
    Geir Agnarsson*, George Mason University
    (1065-05-95)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Higher integrality conditions and volumes of slices.
    Fu Liu*, University of California, Davis
    (1065-05-169)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Some topics and notions from convexity extended to normed linear spaces.
    Horst Martini*, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany
    (1065-52-31)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Some combinatorial results for staircase visibility.
    Marilyn Breen*, University of Oklahoma
    (1065-52-13)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Interval decompositions of $k$-edges and applications.
    Carlos M. Nicolas*, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    (1065-52-262)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Intrinsic volumes.
    Rick Vitale*, University of Connecticut
    (1065-52-194)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Codes and Designs, I
  Room E303, Gottwald Science Center
  Organizers:
  James A. Davis, University of Richmond jdavis@richmond.edu
  Qing Xiang, University of Delaware
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Families of optimal OOCs with $\lambda = 2$.
    Keith E Mellinger*, University of Mary Washington
    Tim L Alderson, University of New Brunswick, Saint John
    (1065-94-20)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Binary Representations of Regular Graphs.
    Yury J Ionin*, Central Michigan University
    (1065-05-44)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Quantum Codes from Combinatorial Designs and Finite Geometry.
    Vladimir D Tonchev*, Michigan Technological University
    (1065-94-98)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Discussion.
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on History of Mathematics: A Transnational Discourse, I
  Living Room, Westhampton Center
  Organizers:
  Della Fenster, University of Richmond dfenster@richmond.edu
  Frédéric Brechenmacher, University of Lille-North of France-Université d'Artois
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Circulations of algebraic practices (1870-1940) : networks, communities and disciplines formations, evolutions and connections.
    Frédéric Brechenmacher*, Univ. Lille North of France (U. Artois) & CNRS. Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu. Paris.
    (1065-01-71)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Claude Chevalley's "elements ideaux" - a new concept in number theory.
    Joachim Schwermer*, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna
    Della D. Fenster, Dept.Mathematics, University of Richmond
    (1065-01-247)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    George Whaples: A Novice in Emil Artin's Mathematical Circle.
    Della D. Fenster*, University of Richmond
    Joachim Schwermer, University of Vienna
    (1065-01-235)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Discussion.
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 9:15 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers, I
  Room G13, Puryear Hall
  

  • 9:15 a.m.
    Spread of pine wilt disease subject to early eradication of infected trees.
    Luis F. Gordillo*, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez
    Yongkuk Kim, Kyungpook National University
    (1065-92-180)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Global stability of the endemic equilibrium of multigroup SIR model with nonlinear incidence.
    Sun Ruoyan*, College of William and Mary
    (1065-92-109)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Epidemic Models for H1N1 Influenza in Hong Kong.
    Ka Ying Lam*, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
    May Boggess, Texas A & M University
    (1065-92-72)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Explicit Solutions for Transcendental Equations: A Technical Note.
    J. A. De la Cruz, Barry University
    Jai N. Singh*, Barry University
    (1065-65-166)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    On surface energy minimizing partitions of $R^{n}$ into regions having specified volumes.
    David George Caraballo*, Georgetown University
    (1065-49-189)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Iterates of Order-Preserving Homogeneous Maps and the Perron-Frobenius Theorem.
    Philip Chodrow, Swarthmore College
    Cole Franks, University of South Carolina
    Brian Lins*, Hampden-Sydney College
    (1065-47-23)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Discussion.
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Computational and Applied Mathematics, I
  Room 346, Tyler Haynes Commons
  Organizers:
  Ludwig Kohaupt, Beuth University kohaupt@beuth-hochschule.de
  Mohammad Siddique, Fayetteville State University
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Stability Analysis of Wavelet-Controlled Dynamical Systems.
    Yan Wu*, Georgia Southern University
    (1065-93-46)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Contributions to optimal bounds on the solution of vibration problems.
    Ludwig Kohaupt*, Beuth University of Technology Berlin, Department of Mathematics
    (1065-34-05)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Scale Invariant Statistical Theory of Turbulence and Hydrodynamic Foundations of Schrödinger and Dirac Wave Equations.
    Siavash H. Sohrab*, Northwestern University
    (1065-81-18)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 11:05 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Model perspectives on self-organizing tissues.
  Alice Haynes Room, Tyler Haynes Commons
  Sharon R. Lubkin*, North Carolina State University
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 1:25 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Preperiodic points and unlikely intersections.
  Alice Haynes Room, Tyler Haynes Commons
  Matthew H. Baker*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Laura DeMarco, University of Illinois Chicago
  (1065-11-01)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Models in Biology and Medicine, II
  Room 331, Tyler Haynes Commons
  Organizers:
  Lester Caudill, University of Richmond lcaudill@richmond.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Modeling the Impact of Antibiotic Resistance in Gram-Negative Bacteria.
    Mary Ann Horn*, National Science Foundation & Vanderbilt University
    (1065-92-263)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Mathematical Model for Antimalarial Drug Resistance.
    David Chan*, Virginia Commonwealth University
    Jean M Tchuenche, University of Dar es Salaam
    Christinah Chiyaka, University of Florida
    Ghislaine Mayer, Virginia Commonwealth University
    Amanda Matthews, Virginia Commonwealth University
    (1065-92-96)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the Dynamics of Cancer Stem Cells and Drug Resistance.
    Doron Levy*, University of Maryland, College Park
    (1065-92-77)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Tracking control and Robustness Analysis for a Nonlinear Model of Human Heart Rate During Exercise.
    Frederic Mazenc, Projet INRIA DISCO
    Michael Malisoff*, Louisiana State University
    Marcio de Queiroz, Louisiana State University
    (1065-92-143)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Periodically Forced Discrete-Time SIS Epidemic Model With Disease Induced Mortality.
    John E. Franke*, North Carolina State University
    Abdul-Aziz Yakubu, Howard University
    (1065-92-240)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Computational and Applied Mathematics, II
  Room 346, Tyler Haynes Commons
  Organizers:
  Ludwig Kohaupt, Beuth University kohaupt@beuth-hochschule.de
  Mohammad Siddique, Fayetteville State University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Modeling of gene regulatory networks.
    Jonas Denissen*, Freie Universität Berlin
    (1065-92-19)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Modified Algorithm for Verification of Homology Computations of Nodal Domains.
    S. S. Gregory Cochran*, George Mason University
    Thomas Wanner, George Mason University
    (1065-65-29)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Hazard Identification: Sensitivity and Optimal Location of Sensors.
    Robert E White*, Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State Univeristy
    (1065-65-219)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Discussion.
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometry of Banach Spaces and Connections with Other Areas, II
  Room C112, Gottwald Science Center
  Organizers:
  Frank Sanacory, College at Old Westbury sanacoryf@oldwestbury.edu
  Kevin Beanland, Virginia Commonwealth University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    On the closed ideals of operators on $(\oplus _{n=1}^\infty\ell_1^n)_{c_o}$.
    Niels Jacob Laustsen, University of Lancaster
    Edward Odell, University of Texas at Austin
    Thomas Schlumprecht*, Texas A&M University
    Andras Zsak, Cambridge University
    (1065-46-117)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Geometry of the Banach spaces $C(\beta {\mathbb N} \times K, l_{p})$ for compact metric spaces $K$.
    Dale Alspach*, Oklahoma State University
    Eloi M. Galego, University of Sao Paulo
    (1065-46-119)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Hereditary Approximation Property.
    A. T. Szankowski*, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
    (1065-46-112)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Weak Grothendieck compactness principles.
    Patrick Dowling*, Miami University
    Christopher Lennard, University of Pittsburgh
    Beata Randrianantoanina, Miami University
    Barry Turett, Oakland University
    (1065-46-125)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Some open problems on narrow operators.
    Mikhail Popov*, Distinguished Visiting Professor
    (1065-46-229)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Complex uniform rotundity in symmetric spaces of measurable operators.
    Malgorzata Marta Czerwinska*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
    (1065-47-206)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Codes and Designs, II
  Room E303, Gottwald Science Center
  Organizers:
  James A. Davis, University of Richmond jdavis@richmond.edu
  Qing Xiang, University of Delaware
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Discussion.
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Partial Difference Sets and Association Schemes.
    John B. Polhill*, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
    (1065-05-127)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Cyclotomic Strongly Regular Graphs.
    Tao Feng*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware
    Qing Xiang, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware
    (1065-05-204)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Construction of circulant weighing matrices.
    Ken W Smith*, TX
    (1065-05-153)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Reversible and DRAD difference sets via tiling structures.
    Jordan D. Webster*, Mid Michigan Community College
    (1065-05-146)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Numerical Methods for Solving Partial Differential Equations in Practice
  Room G13, Puryear Hall
  Organizers:
  Kathryn Trapp, University of Richmond ktrapp@richmond.edu
  Katie Gurski, Howard University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    An Explicit Super-Time-Stepping Scheme for Non-Symmetric Parabolic Problems.
    Katharine F Gurski*, Howard University
    (1065-65-190)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    High accuracy solution of partial differential equations of fluid mechanics.
    Murli M Gupta*, The George Washington University
    (1065-65-135)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Multigrid preconditioning of linear systems for interior point methods applied to a class of box-constrained optimal control problems.
    Andrei Draganescu*, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
    Cosmin Petra, Argonne National Laboratory
    (1065-65-126)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Numerical Methods for Multi-physics Applications with Fluid-structure Interaction.
    Padmanabhan Seshaiyer*, Mathematical Sciences, George Mason University
    (1065-65-211)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    High-order deferred correction time integration methods for climate models.
    Judith C Hill*, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    Katherine Evans, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    George Fann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    Jun Jia, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    (1065-35-250)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Point-IBCell model for growth of multicellular tissues.
    Magdalena M Musielak*, The George Washington University
    (1065-70-253)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Discussion.
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Topics in Graph Theory, II
  Room A201, Gottwald Science Center
  Organizers:
  Daniel W. Cranston, Virginia Commonwealth University dcranston@vcu.edu
  Gexin Yu, College of William & Mary
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Turan numbers of subdivided graphs.
    Tao Jiang*, Miami University
    Robert Seiver, Miami University
    (1065-05-200)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Variation of the Classical Turán Type Problem.
    Zi-Xia Song*, University of Central Florida
    (1065-05-131)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Decomposition of Sparse Graphs into Forests and a Graph with Bounded Degree.
    Seog-Jin Kim*, Konkuk University, 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, China
    (1065-05-54)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Balanced Bisections and Results Towards a Conjecture of Bollobás and Scott.
    Stephen G. Hartke*, University of Nebrask--Lincoln
    Tyler Seacrest, University of Nebraska--Lincoln
    (1065-05-174)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Degree sequences and graphs with disjoint spanning trees.
    Hong-Jian Lai*, West Virginia University
    Yanting Liang, West Virginia University
    Ping Li, West Virginia University
    (1065-05-52)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Recent results on the edit distance of graphs.
    Ryan Martin*, Iowa State University
    Tracy McKay, Iowa State University
    (1065-05-51)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Operator Theory, II
  Room C114, Gottwald Science Center
  Organizers:
  Stefan Richter, University of Tennessee
  William T. Ross, University of Richmond wross@richmond.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Interpolation and weak interpolation in backward shift invariant subspaces.
    Eric Amar, Université de Bordeaux
    Andreas Hartmann*, Université de Bordeaux - University of Richmond
    (1065-30-99)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Distance in the Calkin algebra between composition operators.
    Thomas L. Kriete*, University of Virginia
    Barbara D. MacCluer, University of Virginia
    (1065-47-149)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Non-commutative Andô inequalities.
    John E. McCarthy*, Washington University
    Richard M Timoney, Trinity College, Dublin
    (1065-47-60)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Regularity of Extremal Problems in Bergman Spaces and Extensions of Ryabykh's Theorem.
    Tim Ferguson*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (1065-30-37)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    $n$-Weakly Hypercyclic Operators.
    Nathan S Feldman*, Washington & Lee University
    (1065-47-182)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Toeplitz operators with matrix almost periodic symbols: the state of affairs.
    Ilya M Spitkovsky*, The College of William and Mary
    (1065-47-162)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
  Special Session on Minimum Rank Problems, II
  Room D308, Gottwald Science Center
  Organizers:
  Lon H. Mitchell, Virginia Commonwealth University lmitchell2@vcu.edu
  Sivaram K. Narayan, Central Michigan University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Open Problems in Minimum Semidefinite Rank.
    Lon Mitchell*, Virginia Commonwealth University
    (1065-15-272)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Discussion.
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Statistical Properties of Dynamical Systems, II
  Room 327, Tyler Haynes Commons
  Organizers:
  Michael J. Field, University of Houston
  Matthew J. Nicol, University of Houston nicol@math.uh.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Local dimensions for iterated function systems.
    De-Jun Feng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Huyi Hu*, Michigan State University
    (1065-37-248)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    SRB measures for non-uniformly hyperbolic systems.
    Vaughn Climenhaga*, University of Maryland
    Yakov Pesin, The Pennsylvania State University
    Dmitry Dolgopyat, University of Maryland
    (1065-37-115)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Subshift factors of the $\beta$-shift are intrinsically ergodic.
    Daniel J. Thompson*, Pennsylvania State University
    Vaughn Climenhaga, University of Maryland
    (1065-37-121)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Some new results on martingale approximation for stationary processes.
    Manfred Denker*, Mathematics Department, Pennsylvania State University
    (1065-60-10)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Return times statistics for Markov towers.
    Nicolai T Haydn*, University of Southern California
    (1065-37-179)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Extremal index in dynamical systems.
    A C Freitas, University of Porto, Portugal
    J M Freitas, University of Porto, Portugal
    Mike Todd*, Boston University
    (1065-37-101)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematics and the Arts, II
  Interfaith Room, Wilton Center
  Organizers:
  Michael J. Field, University of Houston
  Gary R. Greenfield, University of Richmond ggreenfi@richmond.edu
  Reza Sarhangi, Towson University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Counting and Illustrating Rep-Tiles.
    Carolyn A. Yackel*, Mercer University
    (1065-00-61)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Compass and Straightedge Constructions and Modularity.
    Reza Sarhangi*, Department of Mathematics, Towson University, Maryland
    (1065-51-34)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Reconstructing Bourgoin's 14-Pointed Star Polygon Designs.
    B Lynn Bodner*, Monmouth University
    (1065-00-30)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Reflections on Spheres.
    Annalisa Crannell*, Franklin & Marshall College
    (1065-00-17)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Constrained Mosaicking: Less Can Be More.
    Robert Bosch*, Oberlin College
    (1065-90-172)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Hyperbolic Truchet Tilings: First Steps.
    Dunham Douglas*, University of Minnesota Duluth
    (1065-51-176)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
  Special Session on Applications of Non-Archimedean Geometry, II
  Alice Haynes Room, Tyler Haynes Commons
  Organizers:
  Matthew H. Baker, Georgia Institute of Technology mbaker@math.gatech.edu
  Xinyi Yuan, Harvard University yxy@math.harvard.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    P-adic parametrization of orbits.
    Thomas J. Tucker*, University of Rochester
    (1065-12-168)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Monge-Ampere measures and Calabi-Yau theorem on Berkovich spaces.
    Xinyi Yuan*, Columbia University
    (1065-11-265)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A non-archimedean Calabi-Yau theorem for totally degenerate abelian varieties.
    Yifeng Liu*, Columbia University, New York
    (1065-14-122)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Projective curves over small fields.
    Fedor A Bogomolov*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
    (1065-14-256)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Kac-Moody Algebras, Vertex (Operator) Algebras, and Applications, II
  Room 348, Tyler Haynes Commons
  Organizers:
  William J. Cook, Appalachian State University cookwj@appstate.edu
  Kailash C. Misra, North Carolina State University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    $T$-Generalized Vertex Algebras and Twisted Modules.
    Maarten J Bergvelt*, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    (1065-17-90)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A vertex algebra-like construction of modules for toroidal algebras.
    Alexander Retakh*, USMMA
    (1065-17-187)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Homotopy BV algebras, Courant algebroids and String Field Theory.
    Anton Zeitlin*, Yale University
    (1065-18-82)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Decomposition of a rank 2 hyperbolic Kac-Moody Lie algebra with respect to the Nicolai-Olive principal $so(1,2)$ subalgebra.
    Alex J Feingold, Binghamton University SUNY
    Jurisich Elizabeth*, College of Charleston
    (1065-17-225)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Twisted affine quantized enveloping superalgebra of type $Q$.
    Nicolas Guay*, Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Alberta
    (1065-17-69)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Chevalley restriction theorem for vector-valued functions on quantum groups.
    Martina Balagovic*, MIT
    (1065-16-233)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Differential Equations and Applications to Physics and Biology, II
  Room 305, Tyler Haynes Commons
  Organizers:
  Junping Shi, College of William and Mary
  Zhifu Xie, Virginia State University zxie@vsu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    S-Shaped Bifurcation Curves in Ecosystems.
    Eunkyoung Lee, Pusan National University
    Sarath Sasi, Mississippi State University
    Ratnasingham Shivaji*, Mississippi State University
    (1065-35-129)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the Minimal Wave Speed for a Lotka Volterra System.
    Xiaojie Hou*, UNC-Wilmington
    (1065-35-124)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Existence and Stability of Symmetric Periodic Simultaneous Binary Collision Orbits in the Pairwise Symmetric Four-Body Problem.
    Lennard F Bakker*, Brigham Young University
    (1065-34-53)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Dynamical aspects of an equilateral restricted four body problem.
    Martha Alvarez-Ramirez*, Departamento de Matemáticas Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana - Iztapalapa
    Claudio Vidal, Universidad del Bio Bio
    (1065-34-76)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Number of Central Configurations in the Collinear Four-body Problem.
    Tiancheng Ouyang, Brigham Young University
    Zhifu Xie*, Virginia State University
    (1065-70-33)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The Dynamics of Recombinant and Burst Size Effects in Tumor Viro-therapy.
    Daniel Vasiliu*, Christopher Newport University
    (1065-34-275)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Convexity and Combinatorics, II
  Room A001, Gottwald Science Center
  Organizers:
  Valeriu Soltan, George Mason University vsoltan@gmu.edu
  James F. Lawrence, George Mason University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    The set of packing and covering densities of convex disks.
    Wlodzimierz Kuperberg*, Auburn University, Alabama
    (1065-52-123)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Cross-section measures and their applications in Minkowski spaces.
    Zokhrab Mustafaev*, Department of Mathematics, University of Houston-Clear Lake
    Horst Martini, University of Technology Chemnitz, Germany
    (1065-52-12)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Helly Type theorems and intersection graphs, one nice relation.
    Deborah Oliveros*, Instituto de Matematicas, National University of Mexico, UNAM.
    (1065-52-14)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Regular Polyhedra of Index Two in Space.
    Egon Schulte*, Northeastern University
    (1065-51-102)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the maximal distance between convex bodies in ${\mathbb R}^n$.
    Márton Naszódi*, Eötvös University, Budapest
    (1065-52-07)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Convex surfaces with planar quadric sections.
    Valeriu Soltan*, George Mason University
    (1065-52-06)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers, II
  Room C200, Gottwald Science Center
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Admissible Orders on Quotients of the Free Associative Algebra.
    Jeremiah William Johnson*, Penn State Harrisburg
    (1065-06-181)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Ramanujan Congruence Properties of the Restricted Partition Function $p(n,m)$.
    J. Brandt Kronholm*, Saint Mary's College of Maryland
    (1065-11-167)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Calculation invariant measure using stieltjes transform approach.
    Ghasemi Gader, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili
    Sodeif Ahadpour*, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili
    (1065-37-08)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Birkhoff's Individual Ergodic Theorem and Piecewise Constant Maximum Entropy Method.
    J. Ding*, University of Southern Mississippi
    (1065-37-25)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the Pinsky phenomenon and the Kahane theorem.
    Ravshan Ashurov*, Institute of Advanced Technology (ITMA), Univarsity Puta Malaysia
    Almaz Butaev, Institute of Advanced Technology (ITMA), Univarsity Puta Malaysia
    (1065-42-09)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    On measurable bundles of $JB$-algebras.
    Alexander A. Katz, St. John's University, NY, USA
    Roman Kushnir*, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa
    (1065-46-47)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On Maharam traces on $JBW$-algebras.
    Alexander A. Katz*, St. John's University, NY, USA
    (1065-46-62)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Generalized Roundness Of The Schatten Class.
    Alfred M Dahma*, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
    (1065-46-232)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Break.
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Edge Spectrum of Small Path.
    Wenliang Tang*, Department of Mathematics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, 26505, USA
    (1065-05-150)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Edge-Spectrum of Saturated Graphs for Matchings.
    Ronald Gould, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322
    Dong Ye*, Department of Mathematics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506-6310
    Cun-Quan Zhang, Department of Mathematics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506-6310
    (1065-05-163)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Mininum cardinality of feedback sets for line graphs.
    Yezhou Wu*, Department of Mathematics West Virginia University
    (1065-05-164)
• Saturday November 6, 2010, 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  Special Session on History of Mathematics: A Transnational Discourse, II
  Living Room, Westhampton Center
  Organizers:
  Della Fenster, University of Richmond dfenster@richmond.edu
  Frédéric Brechenmacher, University of Lille-North of France-Université d'Artois
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The works of G.D. Birkhoff and the reception of Poincaré's researches on qualitative theory of differential equations in the USA.
    Tatiana Roque*, Instituto de Matemática - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
    (1065-01-132)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    What do we know about exchanges in mathematics in Europe under German control (1940-1944) ?
    Jean Dhombres*, Centre Koyré, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
    (1065-01-238)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Gertrude Cox in Egypt: A Case Study in Science Patronage and International Statistics Education during the Cold War.
    Patti Wilger Hunter*, Westmont College
    (1065-01-137)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Discussion.

Sunday November 7, 2010

• Sunday November 7, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Atrium, Gottwald Science Center
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Lobby, Gottwald Science Center
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Models in Biology and Medicine, III
  Room 331, Tyler Haynes Commons
  Organizers:
  Lester Caudill, University of Richmond lcaudill@richmond.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The Effect of Immune System Attack on Intrahost HIV Genealogies.
    Sivan Leviyang*, Georgetown Universtiy
    (1065-92-165)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Estimating tick-borne disease risk with an agent-based model.
    Holly D Gaff*, Old Dominion University
    (1065-92-48)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Computational Method for Psycho-Physiological Assessment of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
    Raina Robeva*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Sweet Briar College, VA
    Jennifer Kim Penberthy, Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, University of Virginia
    (1065-92-155)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    "Waves" of healing, the critical size defect and keloid scars: some speculation.
    John A Adam*, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
    (1065-92-36)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Model of Wound Healing via Collagen Accumulation.
    Rebecca Segal*, Virginia Commonwealth University
    Angela Reynolds, Virginia Commonwealth University
    (1065-92-107)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Intermorph cannibalism amongst Arizona Tiger Salamanders.
    Maeve Lewis McCarthy*, Murray State University
    (1065-92-209)
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometry of Banach Spaces and Connections with Other Areas, III
  Room C112, Gottwald Science Center
  Organizers:
  Frank Sanacory, College at Old Westbury sanacoryf@oldwestbury.edu
  Kevin Beanland, Virginia Commonwealth University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Explicit Constructions of RIP Matrices and Related Problems.
    Jean Bourgain, Institute for Advanced Study
    Stephen J Dilworth*, University of South Carolina
    Kevin Ford, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Sergei Konyagin, Steklov Mathematical Institute
    Denka Kutzarova, Institute of Mathematics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
    (1065-46-106)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Recent results in metric fixed point theory for affine maps.
    Thomas M Everest, University of Pittsburgh
    Chris Lennard*, University of Pittsburgh
    Veysel Nezir, University of Pittsburgh
    (1065-46-218)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Fixed point properties of semigroups of nonexpansive mappings.
    Narcisse Randrianantoanina*, Miami University
    (1065-46-32)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Fixed points of asymptotically non-expansive maps and uniformly Lipschitzian maps on certain closed, bounded, convex subsets of $\ell^1$.
    Thomas Michael Everest*, University of Pittsburgh
    Chris Lennard, University of Pittsburgh
    (1065-46-249)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The closed, convex hull of every ai $c_0$-summing basic sequence fails the FPP for affine nonexpansive mappings.
    Chris J. Lennard, University of Pittsburgh
    Veysel Nezir*, University of Pittsburgh
    (1065-46-216)
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Topics in Graph Theory, III
  Room A201, Gottwald Science Center
  Organizers:
  Daniel W. Cranston, Virginia Commonwealth University dcranston@vcu.edu
  Gexin Yu, College of William & Mary
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Ricci Curvature of Graphs.
    Yong Lin, Renmin University of China
    Linyuan Lu*, University of South Carolina
    S.-T. Yau, Harvard University
    (1065-05-199)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    On a conjecture concerning the Petersen Graph.
    Donald Nelson, Middle Tennessee State University
    Michael Plummer, Vanderbilt University
    Neil Robertson, Ohio State University
    Xiaoya Zha*, Middle Tennessee State University
    (1065-05-42)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Counting $(3,6)$-fullerenes.
    Mark Ellingham*, Vanderbilt University
    Xiaoya Zha, Middle Tennessee State University
    (1065-05-185)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Subdivisions of $K_5$ in Graphs Embedded on Surfaces With Face-Width at least Five.
    D. Christopher Stephens*, Middle Tennessee State University
    Roi Krakovski, Ben Gurion University
    Xiaoya Zha, Middle Tennessee State University
    (1065-05-255)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A tripling construction for the genus of joins of complete and edgeless graphs.
    Mark N Ellingham, Vanderbilt University
    Justin Z Schroeder*, Vanderbilt University
    (1065-05-202)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Acyclic sets in $k$-majority tournaments.
    Kevin G Milans*, University of South Carolina
    Daniel Schreiber, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Douglas B West, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1065-05-224)
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Operator Theory, III
  Room C114, Gottwald Science Center
  Organizers:
  Stefan Richter, University of Tennessee
  William T. Ross, University of Richmond wross@richmond.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    An index formula in connection with meromorphic approximation.
    Alberto A. Condori*, Florida Gulf Coast University
    (1065-47-75)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    C*-algebras Generated by Linear-fractionally-induced Composition Operators.
    Katie Spurrier Quertermous*, James Madison University
    (1065-47-89)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Multiplication operators on Lipschitz-type spaces over a tree.
    Robert F Allen, University of Wisconsin--La Crosse, La Crosse, WI 54601
    Flavia Colonna*, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, George Mason University
    Glenn R Easley, Arlington, Virginia
    (1065-47-145)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Unitary Equivalence of One-parameter Groups of Toeplitz and Composition Operators.
    Carl C. Cowen*, IUPUI (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis)
    Eva A. Gallardo-Gutiérrez, Universidad de Zaragoza e IUMA
    (1065-47-16)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On the basis properties of complex exponentials.
    Mishko Mitkovski*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1065-30-133)
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Statistical Properties of Dynamical Systems, III
  Room 327, Tyler Haynes Commons
  Organizers:
  Michael J. Field, University of Houston
  Matthew J. Nicol, University of Houston nicol@math.uh.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Boundary regularity of rotation sets.
    Christian Wolf*, City College of New York
    (1065-37-215)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Rigid properties of some measures on the torus.
    Aaron W Brown*, Tufts University
    (1065-37-86)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Dynamical Borel-Centelli lemmas for some nonuniformly hyperbolic dynamical systems.
    Chinmaya Gupta*, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
    Matthew Nicol, University of Houston, Houston, TX
    William Ott, University of Houston, Houston,TX
    (1065-37-170)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Statistical properties of dynamical systems of mixed type and skew extensions.
    Michael Field*, University of Houston
    (1065-37-227)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Erdös-Rényi laws for hyperbolic dynamical systems.
    Manfred Denker, Mathematics Department, Penn State University
    Matthew Nicol*, Mathematics Department, University of Houston
    (1065-37-159)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    From limit cycles to strange attractors.
    William Raymond Ott*, University of Houston
    Mikko Stenlund, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
    (1065-37-270)
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematics and the Arts, III
  Interfaith Room, Wilton Center
  Organizers:
  Michael J. Field, University of Houston
  Gary R. Greenfield, University of Richmond ggreenfi@richmond.edu
  Reza Sarhangi, Towson University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Geometry beyond the Euclidean plane for teachers.
    Andrew Bennett, Kansas State University
    Rachel Manspeaker, Kansas State University
    Peter Nguyen, Kansas State University
    Xuan Hien Nguyen*, Kansas State University
    (1065-97-22)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Understanding geometry in the dance studio.
    Jason Parsley*, Wake Forest University
    Christina Tsoules Soriano, Wake Forest University
    (1065-97-257)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Poetry in the mathematics classroom.
    Sarah Glaz*, University of Connecticut
    (1065-97-91)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    An image is worth a thousand numbers: visual thinking in science.
    Leslie D Hayes*, Saint Joseph's University
    (1065-00-212)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Interactive Art and the Dimensions of Appreciation.
    Thomas F. Banchoff*, Brown University
    (1065-00-87)
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Applications of Non-Archimedean Geometry, III
  Room C200, Gottwald Science Center
  Organizers:
  Matthew H. Baker, Georgia Institute of Technology mbaker@math.gatech.edu
  Xinyi Yuan, Harvard University yxy@math.harvard.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Discussion.
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Metric aspects of the tropicalization of a Berkovich curve.
    Joseph D Rabinoff*, Harvard University
    (1065-14-201)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Specialization of divisors from curves to graphs.
    Matthew Baker*, Georgia Tech
    (1065-11-157)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Lifting Tropical Curves in Space and Linear Systems on Graphs.
    Eric Katz*, University of Texas
    (1065-14-195)
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Kac-Moody Algebras, Vertex (Operator) Algebras, and Applications, III
  Room 348, Tyler Haynes Commons
  Organizers:
  William J. Cook, Appalachian State University cookwj@appstate.edu
  Kailash C. Misra, North Carolina State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Representations of the $\mathcal E$-algebra.
    Evgeny Mukhin*, IUPUI
    (1065-16-64)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The center of the symmetric group algebra and three generalizations.
    Weiqiang Wang*, Department of Mathematics, University of Virginia
    (1065-16-58)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the category of bounded weight modules of $\mathfrak{sl} (n)$.
    D Grantcharov*, University of Texas, Arlington
    Vera Serganova, University of California, Berkeley
    (1065-17-197)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Bicharacter construction for the boson-fermion correspondence of type B.
    Iana I Anguelova*, College of Charleston
    (1065-81-97)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Integral bases for the universal enveloping algebra of $\mathfrak{g}\otimes A$.
    Samuel Chamberlin*, University of California at Riverside
    (1065-17-173)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On maximal weights of integrable $\widehat{sl}(n, \mathbb{C})$-modules.
    Rebecca L Jayne*, North Carolina State University
    (1065-17-184)
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Differential Equations and Applications to Physics and Biology, III
  Room 305, Tyler Haynes Commons
  Organizers:
  Junping Shi, College of William and Mary
  Zhifu Xie, Virginia State University zxie@vsu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Reactive flows of monostable type and its applications in phase transitions.
    Haitao Fan*, Dept. of Math., Georgetown Univ.,
    (1065-35-278)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Well-posedness and exponential decay for the quasilinear Westervelt equation arising in modeling of high intensity ultrasound.
    Irena Lasiecka*, University of Virginia
    Barbara Kaltenbacher, University of Graz, Austria
    (1065-35-120)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Validated Continuation: a study of the Swift-Hohenberg Equation.
    Sarah Day*, The College of William and Mary
    Jean-Philippe Lessard, Basque Center for Applied Mathematics
    Konstantin Mischaikow, Rutgers University
    (1065-65-116)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Some studies on non-smooth systems.
    Maoan Han*, Shanghai Normal University
    (1065-34-79)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Almost and Pseudo-almost Limit Cycles for Differential Systems.
    Bourama Toni*, Virginia State University
    (1065-34-234)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Extinction Equilibria of Stage Structured Populations.
    Georgia Pfeiffer*, College of William and Mary
    Masami Fujiwara, Texas A&M University, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences
    Jay Walton, Texas A&M University, Department of Mathematics
    (1065-92-113)
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Convexity and Combinatorics, III
  Room A001, Gottwald Science Center
  Organizers:
  Valeriu Soltan, George Mason University vsoltan@gmu.edu
  James F. Lawrence, George Mason University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Permutation Polytopes and Ehrhart Polynomials.
    Jesus De Loera, University of California, Davis
    Katherine Jones, University of California, Davis
    Mohamed Omar*, University of California, Davis
    (1065-52-245)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Tangent Cones and Regularity of Convex Sets.
    Mohammad Ghomi, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Ralph Howard*, Department of Mathematics, University of South Carolina
    (1065-14-85)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Convexity and geometric measure theory.
    David George Caraballo*, Georgetown University Department of Mathematics and Statistics
    (1065-52-188)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The T(5) Property of Families of Overlapping Unit Disks.
    T. Bisztriczky*, University of Calgary
    K. Boroczky, Eotvos University
    A. Heppes, Renyi Institute
    (1065-52-83)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A measure of symmetry for convex sets and its application to moduli for minimal immersions of spheres.
    Gabor A Toth*, Rutgers University, Department of Mathematics
    (1065-52-40)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Thin covering of the sphere with various convex spherical sets.
    Andras Bezdek*, Auburn University, AL and Rényi Institute, Hungary
    (1065-52-118)
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on History of Mathematics: A Transnational Discourse, III
  Living Room, Westhampton Center
  Organizers:
  Della Fenster, University of Richmond dfenster@richmond.edu
  Frédéric Brechenmacher, University of Lille-North of France-Université d'Artois
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    "Splendidly isolated"? Some reflections on the transnationality of 19th-century British mathematics.
    Adrian Rice*, Randolph-Macon College
    (1065-01-111)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Discussion of two Schools of Mathematics in 19th century Russia.
    Maryam Vulis*, Norwalk CC
    (1065-01-221)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Discussion.
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Minimum Rank Problems, III
  Room D308, Gottwald Science Center
  Organizers:
  Lon H. Mitchell, Virginia Commonwealth University lmitchell2@vcu.edu
  Sivaram K. Narayan, Central Michigan University
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    A role for the Lovász theta function in Quantum Mechanics: entanglement assisted capacity and noncontextuality.
    Simone Severini*, University College London
    (1065-05-223)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Lower bounds for the minimum positive semidefinite rank via sign patterns.
    Andrew M. Zimmer*, University of Michigan
    (1065-05-260)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The incidence graph of a Steiner triple system and its minimum semidefinite rank.
    Louis Deatt*, University of Victoria
    (1065-15-261)
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Computational and Applied Mathematics, III
  Room 346, Tyler Haynes Commons
  Organizers:
  Ludwig Kohaupt, Beuth University kohaupt@beuth-hochschule.de
  Mohammad Siddique, Fayetteville State University
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Karmarkar's Algorithm in Linear Programming and its Consequences in Computational Mathematics.
    Jai N. Singh*, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, Barry University, Miami FL 33161.
    Prabhat Kumar, Independent Researcher
    (1065-90-57)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Soccer World Cup 2010 - Did the man in the street benefit?
    Thomas Schwarz*, Beuth University Berlin, Germany
    (1065-62-152)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Entropy revisited: A brief review and new developments.
    Xiaoping A Shen*, Department of Mathematics, Ohio University
    Katheryn A Farris, Air Force Research Laboratory
    David J Rieksts, Department of Mathematics, Ohio University
    Paul R Havig, Air Force Research Laboratory
    (1065-65-27)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Maximum Entropy Method Based on Orthogonal Polynomials for Frobenius-Perron Operators.
    Jiu Ding*, University of Southern Mississippi
    Noah Rhee, University of Missouri at Kansas City
    (1065-65-24)
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Codes and Designs, III
  Room E303, Gottwald Science Center
  Organizers:
  James A. Davis, University of Richmond jdavis@richmond.edu
  Qing Xiang, University of Delaware
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Dimensions of some binary codes arising from a conic in $PG(2,q)$.
    Peter Sin, The University of Florida
    Junhua Wu*, Lane College
    Qing Xiang, The University of Delaware
    (1065-05-217)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A family of blocking semiovals containing conics.
    Jeremy Dover, Dover Networks LLC
    Keith Mellinger, University of Mary Washington
    Kenneth Wantz*, Regent University
    (1065-05-259)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Linked systems of designs.
    Edwin R. van Dam, Dept. Econometrics and Operations Research, Tilburg University
    William J. Martin*, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences and Dept. of Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    Mikhail E. Muzychuk, Dept. of Mathematics, Netanya Academic College
    (1065-05-267)
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 11:05 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Boundary behavior and invariant subspaces in spaces of analytic functions.
  Alice Haynes Room, Tyler Haynes Commons
  Stefan Richter*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  (1065-47-04)
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 1:25 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Symmetry, structure, and stochastic fluctuations associated to some models of neural dynamics.
  Alice Haynes Room, Tyler Haynes Commons
  Michael J. Field*, University of Houston
  (1065-37-02)
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Models in Biology and Medicine, IV
  Room 331, Tyler Haynes Commons
  Organizers:
  Lester Caudill, University of Richmond lcaudill@richmond.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Geometry and Dynamics of Activity-Dependent Homeostatic Regulation in Neurons.
    Andrei V. Olifer*, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
    Astrid A. Prinz, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
    (1065-34-154)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Viscous flow through arrays of cylinders with applications to biological protective layers and filtering.
    Laura A Miller*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Christina Hamlet, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Arvind Santhanakrishnan, Georgia Tech
    (1065-92-130)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Predicting arterial flow and pressure dynamics using a 1D fluid dynamics model coupled with a generalized viscoelastic wall model.
    Mette S Olufsen*, Department of Mathematics, Nort Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
    Brooke N Steele, Department of Biomedical Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
    Daniela Valdez-Jasso, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
    Mansoor A Haider, Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
    (1065-92-92)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Analytical and Computational Methods for Fluid-Structure Interaction Applications to Aneurysms.
    Andrew N Samuelson*, George Mason University
    Padmanabhan Seshaiyer, George Mason University
    (1065-92-21)
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-3:15 p.m.
  Special Session on Computational and Applied Mathematics, IV
  Room 346, Tyler Haynes Commons
  Organizers:
  Ludwig Kohaupt, Beuth University kohaupt@beuth-hochschule.de
  Mohammad Siddique, Fayetteville State University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Introduction to semi-discrete calculus.
    Amir Finkelstein*, Haifa, Israel
    (1065-68-38)
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometry of Banach Spaces and Connections with Other Areas, IV
  Room C112, Gottwald Science Center
  Organizers:
  Frank Sanacory, College at Old Westbury sanacoryf@oldwestbury.edu
  Kevin Beanland, Virginia Commonwealth University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Groups modeled on Banach Spaces.
    Per Enflo*, Dept. of Mathematics, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio
    (1065-46-236)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Kalton's last (?) theorem on uniform homeomorphisms.
    Bunyamin Sari*, University of North Texas
    (1065-46-239)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Duality for Lipschitz $p$-summing operators.
    J. Alejandro Chavez Dominguez*, Texas A&M University
    (1065-46-242)
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematics and the Arts, IV
  Interfaith Room, Wilton Center
  Organizers:
  Michael J. Field, University of Houston
  Gary R. Greenfield, University of Richmond ggreenfi@richmond.edu
  Reza Sarhangi, Towson University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Phase Portraits from Varying Parameters in Families of Systems of Differential Equations.
    Douglas E Norton*, Villanova University
    (1065-34-148)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Confluence of Chaos and Computation in Generative Visual Art.
    Nathan M. Selikoff*, Orlando, FL
    (1065-01-205)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The Use of Color in Animating Dynamical Systems.
    Anne Burns*, Long Island University
    (1065-00-80)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Newton Maps for Complex Polynomials with Complex Exponents.
    Robert M Spann*, Washington, DC
    (1065-37-161)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Reaction-diffusion in pattern formation and the fine arts.
    Gary R. Greenfield*, University of Richmond
    (1065-92-67)
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Kac-Moody Algebras, Vertex (Operator) Algebras, and Applications, IV
  Room 348, Tyler Haynes Commons
  Organizers:
  William J. Cook, Appalachian State University cookwj@appstate.edu
  Kailash C. Misra, North Carolina State University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Quantum TKK algebra.
    Naihuan Jing*, North Carolina State University
    (1065-17-208)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    DJKM algebras: Their universal central extension.
    Ben L. Cox*, College of Charleston
    Vyatcheslav futorny, University of Sao Paulo
    (1065-17-110)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    equivariant map algebras and their irreducible finite-dimensional representations.
    Erhard Neher, University of Ottawa
    Alistair Savage, University of Ottawa
    Prasad Senesi*, Catholic University of America
    (1065-17-269)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Finite-dimensional representations of quantum affine algebras at roots of unity.
    Dijana Jakelić*, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
    Adriano Moura, University of Campinas, Brazil
    (1065-16-258)
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Differential Equations and Applications to Physics and Biology, IV
  Room 305, Tyler Haynes Commons
  Organizers:
  Junping Shi, College of William and Mary
  Zhifu Xie, Virginia State University zxie@vsu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Global uniqueness and stability in an inverse problem for a second order hyperbolic equation with non-homogeneous Neumann boundary term.
    Roberto Triggiani*, University of Virginia
    (1065-35-226)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Ansatz solutions to a problem of mean curvature and Newtonian potential.
    Xiaofeng Ren*, George Washington University
    (1065-35-84)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Global dynamics of pulse-coupled oscillators.
    M. Drew LaMar*, The College of William and Mary
    Sarah Day, The College of William and Mary
    (1065-37-198)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the global stability of cholera models.
    Jianjun Paul Tian*, College of William and Mary
    (1065-34-138)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Global uniqueness in determining electric potentials for a system of strongly coupled Schrödinger equations with magnetic potential terms.
    Shitao Liu*, University of Virginia
    Roberto Triggiani, University of Virginia
    (1065-35-70)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Hopf bifurcation of a delayed diffusive predator-prey system with Holling type-II predator functional response.
    Shanshan Chen*, Harbin Institute of Technology
    Junping Shi, College of William and Mary
    Junjie Wei, Harbin Institute of Technology
    (1065-35-251)
• Sunday November 7, 2010, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Convexity and Combinatorics, IV
  Room A001, Gottwald Science Center
  Organizers:
  Valeriu Soltan, George Mason University vsoltan@gmu.edu
  James F. Lawrence, George Mason University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Only Solid Spheres Admit a False Axis of Revolution.
    Efren Morales*, University of Guerrero
    Jesus Jeronimo, University of Guerrero
    Luis Montejano, National University of Mexico
    (1065-52-93)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Enumerating isodiametric and isoperimetric polygons.
    Michael J. Mossinghoff*, Davidson College
    (1065-52-11)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Oriented matroids and intersection of simplices generated by a family of segments.
    Walter D Morris*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, George Mason University
    (1065-05-178)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Convex subdivisions for point sets.
    Csaba D Toth*, University of Calgary
    (1065-05-175)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Near Cubes: A relatively simple family of simple relatives of the cube.
    James E. Mihalisin*, Meredith College
    (1065-52-222)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Intersections of Descending Sequences of Affinely Equivalent Polytopes.
    Jim Lawrence*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, George Mason University
    (1065-52-192)

Inquiries: meet@ams.org

---