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2011 Spring Western Section Meeting
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
April 30 - May 1, 2011 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1071

Associate secretaries:

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

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Saturday April 30, 2011

• Saturday April 30, 2011, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Book Sale and Exhibit
  Foyer/Hallway to A112, Classroom Building Complex - Building A
• Saturday April 30, 2011, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Foyer/Hallway to A112, Classroom Building Complex - Building A
• Saturday April 30, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Advances in Modeling, Numerical Analysis and Computations of Fluid Flow Problems, I
  Room C222, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Monika Neda, University of Nevada, Las Vegas monika.neda@unlv.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Application of barycenter refined meshes in linear elasticity and incompressible fluid dynamics.
    Maxim A Olshanskii, Moscow State Lomonosov University
    Leo G Rebholz*, Clemson University
    (1071-65-44)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Stability of two IMEX methods, CNLF and BDF2-AB2, for uncoupling systems of evolution equations.
    William Layton, University of Pittsburgh
    Catalin Trenchea*, University of Pittsburgh
    (1071-35-139)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Proper Orthogonal Decomposition Nonlinear Closure Models of Engineering and Geophysical Flows.
    Zhu Wang*, Virginia Tech
    Traian Iliescu, Virgina Tech
    (1071-65-71)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A Leray-Deconvolution Model of Turbulence for the Magnetohydrodynamics Equations.
    Nicholas E. Wilson*, Clemson University
    (1071-76-157)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Convergence Analysis of the NS-$\alpha Model$.
    Atife Caglar*, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
    (1071-65-267)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Finite element analysis and computations of regularized Navier-Stokes equations by time relaxation.
    Elena Nikonova*, University of Nevada Las Vegas
    Monika Neda, University of Nevada Las Vegas
    David Hannasch, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Shipra De, University of Nevada Las Vegas
    (1071-76-109)
• Saturday April 30, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Lie Algebras, Algebraic Transformation Groups and Representation Theory, I
  Room C118, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Andrew Douglas, City University of New York adouglas@citytech.cuny.edu
  Bart Van Steirteghem, City University of New York
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Cayley's hyperdeterminant: a combinatorial approach via representation theory.
    Murray R Bremner*, Mathematics and Statistics, University of Saskatchewan
    Mikelis G Bickis, Mathematics and Statistics, University of Saskatchewan
    (1071-17-30)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Finite gradings of Lie algebras.
    Juana Sanchez Ortega*, Dpto. Algebra, Geometria y Topologia, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Malaga (Spain)
    (1071-17-54)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Irreducible $SL_{n+1}$--Representations remain Indecomposable restricted to some Abelian Subalgebras.
    Paolo Casati*, University of Milano Bicocca
    (1071-22-144)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Some unitary representations of the metaplectic group.
    Susana A. Salamanca-Riba*, New Mexico State University
    Pantano Alessandra, University of California, Irvine
    Annegret Paul, Western Michigan University
    (1071-22-274)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Metaplectic Whittaker functions.
    Gautam Chinta*, CCNY
    Omer Offen, Technion
    (1071-22-225)
• Saturday April 30, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Set Theory, I
  Room C124, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Douglas Burke, University of Nevada, Las Vegas dburke@unlv.nevada.edu
  Derrick DuBose, University of Nevada, Las Vegas derrick.dubose@unlv.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    $F_\sigma$ filters.
    Andreas R. Blass*, Univ. of Michigan
    (1071-03-273)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Stable homogeneous Trees.
    Steve Jackson*, University of North Texas
    (1071-03-153)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A sharp for the Chang model.
    William J. Mitchell*, University of Florida
    (1071-03-228)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Random Reals and Arithmetic Conservation.
    Theodore A. Slaman*, University of California Berkeley
    Chris Conidis, University of Waterloo
    (1071-03-212)
• Saturday April 30, 2011, 8:15 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Session on Contributed Papers I
  Room C224, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Chairs:
  Jason P Bell, Simon Fraser University, Canada jpb@math.sfsu.ca
  

  • 8:15 a.m.
    An improved pseudorecursive property of finite spectra.
    Benjamin Wells*, University of San Francisco
    (1071-08-126)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    On the set of zero coefficients of an algebraic power series.
    Boris Adamczewski, Universite Claude-Bernard, Lyon 1
    Jason P Bell*, Simon Fraser University
    (1071-11-43)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Applications of Number theory - Information Security and Mobile Computing.
    Vijayarangan Natarajan*, Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS)
    (1071-11-41)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Markov Bases for Noncommutative Harmonic Analysis of Partially Ranked Data.
    Ann Johnston*, Harvey Mudd College
    Michael Orrison, Harvey Mudd College
    Michael Hansen, Berkeley, CA
    (1071-13-27)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    On theorems of Halmos and Roth.
    Paul A Fuhrmann*, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
    Uwe Helmke, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany
    (1071-15-122)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Break
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Intermediate report of automorphisms of simple Lie algebras G(n) over GF(2).
    Young Jo Kwak*, Colorado
    (1071-17-79)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Parametric Representations of Finite Groups with-two Independent Generators with, one Being of Given Order.
    Sameh F. Elhadidi*, Helwan univeristy ,cairo,Egypt
    Nahed gamal el sharkawy, Helwan univeristy
    (1071-20-86)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Some issues of optimization theory on solutions of operator equations.
    Leonid Andreevich Muravey*, "MATI"-Russian State University of Aviation Technology, 121552, Orshanskaya, 3, Moscow, Russia
    Ismail Gabulla Ogly Ismailov, "MATI"-Russian State University of Aviation Technology, 121552, Orshanskaya, 3, Moscow, Russia
    El'chin Teyubovich Eyniev, "MATI"-Russian State University of Aviation Technology, 121552, Orshanskaya, 3, Moscow, Russia
    (1071-35-24)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A new approach to the integrals of Barnes, Mellin and Hecke.
    Gopala Krishna Srinivasan*, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
    (1071-33-18)
• Saturday April 30, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Computational Algebra, Groups, and Applications, I
  Room C138, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Benjamin Fine, Fairfield University ben1902@aol.com
  Gerhard Rosenberger, University of Hamburg, Germany Gerhard.Rosenberger@math.uni-hamburg.de
  Delaram Kahrobaei, City University of New York dkahrobaei@gc.cuny.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Automorphisms of wreath products.
    Margaret H Dean, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
    Gretchen Ostheimer, Hofstra University
    Marcos Zyman*, Borough of Manhattan Community College
    (1071-20-249)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Rewriting using a Stalling Subgroup Graph.
    Ellen M Ziliak*, Benedictine University
    Alexander Hulpke, Colorado State University
    (1071-20-19)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Optimal black-box algorithms for the symmetric groups.
    Robert M Beals*, IDA Center for Communications Research
    (1071-20-254)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Cryptography without one-way functions.
    Dima Grigoriev, Université de Lille
    Vladimir Shpilrain*, The City College of New York
    (1071-94-114)
• Saturday April 30, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Discrete Dynamical Systems in Graph Theory, Combinatorics, and Geometry, I
  Room C113, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Eunjeong Yi, Texas A&M University at Galveston yie@tamug.edu
  Cong X. Kang, Texas A&M University at Galveston
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Iteration Index of a Zero Forcing Set in a Graph.
    Kiran Chilakamarri, Texas Southern University
    Nathaniel Dean, Texas State University, San Marcos
    Cong X Kang, Texas A&M University at Galveston
    Eunjeong Yi*, Texas A&M University at Galveston
    (1071-05-59)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Power domination and zero forcing in graphs.
    Daniela Ferrero*, Department of Mathematics, Texas State University
    (1071-05-218)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Knight's Tours Using External Squares.
    Grady Bullington, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
    Linda Eroh*, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
    Garry Johns, Saginaw Valley State University
    Steven J Winters, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
    (1071-05-110)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On the hardness of recognizing triangular line graphs.
    Pranav G Anand, University of California-Santa Cruz
    Henry G Escuadro, Juniata College
    Ralucca G Gera, Naval Postgraduate School
    Stephen G Hartke, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Derrick G Stolee*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1071-05-75)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Classification of nodes based on signal behavior in a network.
    Bonnie C Jacob*, National Technical Institute for the Deaf/Rochester Institute of Technology
    (1071-05-61)
• Saturday April 30, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Extremal Combinatorics, I
  Room C115, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Jozsef Balogh, University of California San Diego jbalog@ucsd.edu
  Ryan Martin, Iowa State University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Equitable list coloring of graphs with bounded degree.
    H. A. Kierstead*, Arizona State University
    A. V. Kostochka, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA and Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk, Russia
    (1071-05-146)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Coverage and Percolation in Random Geometric Graphs.
    Amites Sarkar*, Western Washington University
    Martin Haenggi, University of Notre Dame
    (1071-05-168)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On crossing numbers of geometric proximity graphs.
    Bernardo M. Ábrego*, Department of Mathematics, California State University, Northridge
    Ruy Fabila-Monroy, Departamento de Matem\'ticas, CINVESTAV
    Silvia Fernández-Merchant, Department of Mathematics, California State University, Northridge
    David Flores-Peñaloza, Department of Mathematics, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
    Ferran Hurtado, Departament de Matemática Aplicada II, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
    Vera Sacristán, Departament de Matemática Aplicada II, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
    Maria Saumell, Departament de Matemática Aplicada II, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
    (1071-05-234)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Minimum Degree and Disjoint Cycles in Claw-free Graphs.
    Ralph J. Faudree, University of Memphis
    Ronald J. Gould*, Emory University
    Michael S. Jacobson, University of Colorado Denver
    (1071-05-81)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Minimum Degree and Disjoint Cycles in Generalized Claw-free Graphs.
    Michael S Jacobson*, University of Colorado Denver
    (1071-05-194)
• Saturday April 30, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Knots, Surfaces and 3-manifolds, I
  Room C122, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Stanislav Jabuka, University of Nevada, Reno jabuka@unr.edu
  Swatee Naik, University of Nevada, Reno naik@unr.edu
  Chris Herald, University of Nevada, Reno herald@unr.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Unlink detection and the Khovanov module.
    Matthew Hedden*, Michigan State University
    Yi Ni, California Institute of Technology
    (1071-57-188)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A spanning tree model for delta-graded knot Floer homology.
    John A Baldwin*, Princeton University
    Adam S Levine, Brandeis University
    (1071-57-48)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Conway mutation and alternating links.
    Joshua Evan Greene*, Columbia University
    (1071-57-33)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Knotted tori in $\mathbb{R}^4$ and hypercube diagrams.
    Scott Baldridge*, Louisiana State University
    (1071-57-142)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Symplectic surgeries from mapping class group relations.
    Thomas E. Mark*, University of Virginia
    (1071-57-208)
• Saturday April 30, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Variational Methods, I
  Room C223, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  David Costa, University of Nevada, Las Vegas costa@unlv.nevada.edu
  Hossein Tehrani, University of Nevada, Las Vegas tehranih@unlv.nevada.edu
  Zhi-Qiang Wang, Utah State University zhi-qiang.wang@usu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    A Bernstein condition for nonlinear elliptic PDEs.
    Nguyen Hoang Loc, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah, 155 South 1400 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84112
    Klaus Schmitt*, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah, 155 South 1400 East, Salt lake City, UT 84112
    (1071-35-51)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Using a Lie generator to determine if a semidynamical system is local or global.
    John W Neuberger*, University of North Texas
    (1071-35-28)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Variational justification of the dimensional scaling method in chemical physics.
    Zhonghai Ding*, University of Nevada Las Vegas
    (1071-35-60)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Bifurcation results for a nonlinear Schrödinger system.
    Thomas Bartsch, University of Giessen, Germany
    Norman Dancer, The University of Sydney, Australia
    Zhi-Qiang Wang*, Utah State University
    (1071-35-99)
• Saturday April 30, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Partial Differential Equations Modeling Fluids, I
  Room C225, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Quansen Jiu, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
  Jiahong Wu, Oklahoma State University jiahong@math.okstate.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Blow-up problems in the strained vorticity dynamics and critical exponents.
    Hisashi Okamoto*, Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University
    (1071-76-87)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The behavior of helical flow at the limit of their parameters.
    Dongjuan Niu*, Capital Normal University
    (1071-35-223)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Nonlinear Landau damping and inviscid damping.
    Zhiwu Lin*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1071-35-206)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On the local well-posedness of the Prandtl boundary layer equations.
    Igor Kukavica, University of Southern California
    Vlad Vicol*, University of Chicago
    (1071-76-210)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On a new 3D Model for incomprehensible Euler AND Navier-Stokes Equations.
    Shu Wang*, College of Applied Sciences, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
    (1071-35-62)
• Saturday April 30, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Finite Element Methods, I
  Room C226, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Jichun Li, University of Nevada, Las Vegas jichun@unlv.nevada.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Recent progress in a posteriori estimation of pointwise errors in FEM.
    Alan Demlow*, University of Kentucky
    (1071-65-102)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A framework for robust eigenvalue error estimation and ritz value convergence enhancement.
    Jeffrey Ovall*, University of Kentucky
    Randolph Bank, University of California, San DIego
    Luka Grubisic, University of Zagreb, Croatia
    (1071-65-105)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Central Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for ideal MHD Equations with the Exactly Divergence-Free Magnetic Field.
    Fengyan Li, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180
    Liwei Xu*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180
    (1071-65-85)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Good numerical solutions of fully nonlinear elliptic equations.
    Gerard Awanou*, Northern Illinois University
    (1071-65-241)
• Saturday April 30, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Topics in Modern Complex Analysi, I
  Room C126, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Zair Ibragimov, California State University, Fullerton zibragimov@fullerton.edu
  Zafar Ibragimov, Urgench State University hab@ursu.uzpak.uz
  Hrant Hakobyan, Kansas State University hakobyan@math.ksu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Properties of the solutions to elliptic PDEs adapted to convex functions.
    Diego M Maldonado*, Kansas State University
    (1071-35-213)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Quasispheres generated by quasicircles.
    Vyron Sarantis Vellis*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Jang-Mei Wu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1071-58-197)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Modulus estimates in slit carpets and Menger curves.
    Hrant Hakobyan*, Kansas State University
    (1071-30-243)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Quasisymmetric uniformization and rigidity.
    Mario Bonk*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (1071-30-167)
• Saturday April 30, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Arithmetic Dynamics, I
  Room C116, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Arthur Baragar, University of Nevada, Las Vegas baragar@unlv.nevada.edu
  Patrick Ingram, University of Waterloo pingram@math.uwaterloo.ca
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Berkovich dynamics of certain quadratic rational maps.
    Xander Faber, University of Georgia
    Michelle Manes*, University of Hawaii at Manoa
    (1071-11-183)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Resultant and Conductor of Geometrically Semi-stable Self Maps of the Projective Line Over a Number Field or Function Field.
    Lucien Szpiro, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
    Michael Tepper, Penn State Abington
    Phillip O Williams*, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
    (1071-37-151)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On the prime divisors in zero orbits of polynomials.
    Jason Bell, Simon Fraser University
    Kevin Doerksen*, Simon Fraser University
    (1071-11-164)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Post-critically finite polynomials.
    Patrick Ingram*, University of Waterloo
    (1071-11-261)
• Saturday April 30, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Computational and Mathematical Finance, I
  Room C230, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Hongtao Yang, University of Nevada, Las Vegas hongtao.yang@unlv.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Numerical Pricing of Bond Options under the Quadratic Interest Rate Model.
    Kai Huang*, Florida International University
    (1071-65-205)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Energy Portfolio Investment with Delayed Entry Decisions.
    Zhen Liu*, Missouri University of Science & Technology
    (1071-90-132)
• Saturday April 30, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Group Theory and Dynamics, I
  Room C128, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Matthew Day, California Institute of Technology mattday@caltech.edu
  Danny Calegari, California Institute of Technology dannyc@caltech.edu
  Joel Louwsma, California Institute of Technology louwsma@caltech.edu
  Andy Putman, Rice University andyp@rice.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Planar Subdivision Rule in Geometric Group Theory and Dynamical Systems.
    James W. Cannon*, Brigham Young University
    (1071-20-112)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Quantitative shrinking target results.
    Jon Chaika*, University of Chicago
    (1071-37-128)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Distortion in Wreath Products of Cyclic Groups.
    Tara C Davis*, Vanderbilt University
    Alexander Yu. Olshanskii, Vanderbilt University
    (1071-20-38)
• Saturday April 30, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Partial Differential Equations, I
  Room C218, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Matthew Gursky, Notre Dame University mgursky@nd.edu
  Emmanuel Hebey, Université de Cergy-Pontoise Emmanuel.Hebey@u-cergy.fr
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Non-local notions of curvature.
    Nestor Guillen*, University of Texas at Austin
    (1071-35-55)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Variational Characterization of the Catenoid.
    Jacob Bernstein*, Stanford University
    Christine Breiner, MIT
    (1071-53-91)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday April 30, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Multilevel Mesh Adaptation and Beyond: Computational Methods for Solving Complex Systems, I
  Room C146, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Pengtao Sun, University of Nevada, Las Vegas pengtao.sun@unlv.edu
  Long Chen, University of California Irvine chenlong@math.uci.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Analysis and approximations of nonlocal balance laws and peridynamics.
    Qiang Du*, Department of Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University
    (1071-74-173)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Parallel High-Order Accurate Finite Element Nonlinear Stokes Ice-Sheet Model and Benchmark Experiments.
    Wei Leng, State Key Laboratory of Scientific and Engineering Computing, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
    Lili Ju*, Department of Mathematics, University of South Carolina, USA
    Max Gunzburger, Department of Scientific Computing, Florida State University, USA
    Stephen Price, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
    Todd Ringler, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
    (1071-65-88)
• Saturday April 30, 2011, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Developments in Stochastic Partial Differential Equations, I
  Room C235, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Igor Cialenco, Illinois Institute of Technology igor@math.iit.edu
  Nathan Glatt-Holtz, Indiana University, Bloomington negh@indiana.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Long time behavior of the randomly forced barotropic quasi-geostrophic equation.
    Xiaoming Wang*, Florida State University
    (1071-76-179)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Unbounded Solutions of Some Semilinear Stochastic PDEs.
    Pao-Liu Chow*, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
    (1071-35-36)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Linear filtering of stochastic evolution equations.
    Sergey V Lototsky*, Unversity of Southern California
    (1071-60-97)
• Saturday April 30, 2011, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Evolutionary trees and phylogenetics: An algebraic perspective.
  Room A112, Classroom Building Complex - Building A
  Elizabeth Allman*, University of Alaska
  (1071-92-03)
• Saturday April 30, 2011, 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Immersed boundaries in complex fluids
  Room A112, Classroom Building Complex - Building A
  Hector Ceniceros*, University of California Santa Barbara
  (1071-65-01)
• Saturday April 30, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Advances in Modeling, Numerical Analysis and Computations of Fluid Flow Problems, II
  Room C222, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Monika Neda, University of Nevada, Las Vegas monika.neda@unlv.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian method for unsteady non-Newtonian flows in a moving domain.
    Hyesuk Lee*, Clemson University
    (1071-76-72)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Analysis of a numerical method for the velocity-vorticity-helicity formulation of the Navier-Stokes equations.
    Keith J Galvin*, Clemson University
    Hyesuk K Lee, Clemson University
    Maxim A Olshanskii, Moscow State Lomonosov University
    Leo G Rebholz, Clemson University
    (1071-65-50)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Numerical solution of the exterior boundary value problems for the Helmholtz's equation via modified Green's functions approach for the Pseudosphere.
    Y M Warnapala, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI.
    J Pleskunas, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI.
    Jane Pleskunas*, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI.
    (1071-65-11)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Large eddy simulation for fluid-fluid interaction: evolve, filter and relax.
    Jeffrey M Connors*, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    William J Layton, University of Pittsburgh
    (1071-65-263)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A numerical study of regularized Navier-Stokes equations.
    Tae-Yeon Kim, McGill University
    Monika Neda*, University of Nevada Las Vegas
    Leo Rebholz, Clemson University
    Eliot Fried, McGill University
    (1071-76-138)
• Saturday April 30, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Arithmetic Dynamics, II
  Room C116, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Arthur Baragar, University of Nevada, Las Vegas baragar@unlv.nevada.edu
  Patrick Ingram, University of Waterloo pingram@math.uwaterloo.ca
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Morphisms of projective space with automorphisms.
    Benjamin Hutz*, CUNY Graduate Center
    (1071-37-195)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Bounding Preperiodic Points for Some Twisted Families of Rational Maps.
    Bianca A. Thompson*, University of Hawaii at Manoa
    (1071-11-239)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Zhang's Conjecture for upper-triangular polynomial dynamical systems on $\mathbb{A}^n$.
    Alice Medvedev*, University of California, Berkeley
    Thomas Scanlon, University of California, Berkeley
    (1071-11-283)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Backward Orbits Conjecture.
    Vijay Sookdeo*, The Catholic University of America
    (1071-11-182)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Reducible arboreal Galois representations.
    Rafe Jones*, College of the Holy Cross
    (1071-11-253)
• Saturday April 30, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Computational Algebra, Groups, and Applications, II
  Room C138, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Benjamin Fine, Fairfield University ben1902@aol.com
  Gerhard Rosenberger, University of Hamburg, Germany Gerhard.Rosenberger@math.uni-hamburg.de
  Delaram Kahrobaei, City University of New York dkahrobaei@gc.cuny.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Groebner Bases Techniques in Cryptography.
    Ludovic Perret*, UMPC/INRIA/LIP6/SALSA
    (1071-42-247)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Reviewing Computational Papers in Cryptography Conferences.
    Alexander W. Dent*, Royal Holloway, University of London
    (1071-94-133)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Homological finiteness conditions of hyperbolic groups.
    Matthias Neumann-Brosig*, TU Braunschweig
    Gerhard Rosenberger, University of Hamburg
    (1071-20-224)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Groups with Logspace Normal Form.
    Murray Elder, Department of Mathematics, University of Newcastle, Australia
    Gillian Z. Elston, Department of Mathematics, Hofstra University
    Gretchen Ostheimer*, Department of Computer Science, Hofstra University
    (1071-20-279)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday April 30, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Computational and Mathematical Finance, II
  Room C230, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Hongtao Yang, University of Nevada, Las Vegas hongtao.yang@unlv.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Jump diffusion price modeling in hedge strategy analysis.
    Manny A. Macatangay*, Transaction and Market Analysis, Resource Optimization Department, NV Energy Inc., Las Vegas, NV 89146
    Alebachew Yimer, Transaction and Market Analysis, Resource Optimization Department, NV Energy Inc., Las Vegas, NV 89146
    Denis Wang, Transaction and Market Analysis, Resource Optimization Department, NV Energy Inc., Las Vegas, NV 89146
    (1071-65-271)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    An iterative method for pricing {A}merican options under jump-diffusion models.
    Santtu Salmi, University of Jyvaskyla
    Jari Toivanen*, Stanford University
    (1071-65-125)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Volatility Analysis for High Frequency Financial Data.
    Zhijian Wu*, The University of Alabama
    Chunhui Yu, Alabama A&M University
    Xiaohua Zheng, The University of Alabama
    (1071-60-113)
• Saturday April 30, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Discrete Dynamical Systems in Graph Theory, Combinatorics, and Geometry, II
  Room C113, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Eunjeong Yi, Texas A&M University at Galveston yie@tamug.edu
  Cong X. Kang, Texas A&M University at Galveston
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On random graphs with given diameter.
    Younjin Kim*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Zoltan Furedi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1071-05-219)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Quantum Diffusion-Limited Aggregation.
    David B Johnson, Butler University
    Gonzalo E Ordonez*, Butler University
    (1071-82-184)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Maximal Subgroups of Sandpile Monoids on Directed Graphs.
    Martin E. Malandro*, Sam Houston State University
    (1071-05-53)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Interactions Between Commutative Algebra and Discrete Mathematics.
    Susan E. Morey*, Texas State University
    (1071-13-145)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On Weierstrass semigroups arising from finite graphs.
    Gretchen L. Matthews, Clemson University
    Justin D. Peachey*, Clemson University
    (1071-05-137)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Iterative error correction for codes on graphs.
    Wittawat Kositwattanarerk*, Clemson University
    Gretchen L. Matthews, Clemson University
    (1071-94-135)
• Saturday April 30, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Extremal Combinatorics, II
  Room C115, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Jozsef Balogh, University of California San Diego jbalog@ucsd.edu
  Ryan Martin, Iowa State University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Ramsey-goodness.
    Peter Allen, Universidade de Sao Paulo
    Graham Brightwell, London School of Economics
    Jozef Skokan*, London School of Economics
    (1071-05-209)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the Ramsey-Turan numbers of graphs and hypergraphs.
    Jozsef Balogh*, U. of Illinois at UC and UC San Diego
    John Lenz, U. of Illinois at UC
    (1071-05-131)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Forbidden Configurations: Progress towards a Conjecture.
    Richard Anstee*, Mathematics, UBC, Vancouver
    Miguel Raggi, Mathematics, UBC, Vancouver
    Attila Sali, Renyi Institute, Budapest
    (1071-05-35)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Embedding Spanning Trees.
    Bela Csaba*, Dept. of Mathematics and Comp. Sci., Western Kentucky University
    Asif Jamshed, Dept. of Computer Science, Rutgers University
    Endre Szemeredi, Dept. of Computer Science, Rutgers University
    (1071-05-172)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Maximizing the number of $k$-sets.
    Silvia Fernández-Merchant*, Department of Mathematics, California State University, Northridge.
    Bernardo M. Ábrego, Department of Mathematics, California State University, Northridge.
    Canek Peláez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
    (1071-05-232)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Pósa's Conjecture.
    Phong Châu, Glendale Community College
    Louis DeBiasio*, Arizona State University
    Hal Kierstead, Arizona State University
    (1071-05-69)
• Saturday April 30, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Flow-Structure Interaction, I
  Room C216, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Paul Atzberger, University of California Santa Barbara atzberg@math.ucsb.edu
  Hector D. Ceniceros, University of California Santa Barbara hdc@math.ucsb.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Stochastic models for complex fluid structure interactions.
    Qiang Du*, Penn State University
    (1071-35-10)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Arbitrary-Lagragian-Eulerian Numerical Simulation of Biomembranes.
    Andrea Bonito*, Texas A&M University
    Irene Kyza, University of Maryland
    Ricardo H. Nochetto, University of Maryland
    Miguel S. Pauletti, Texas A&M University
    (1071-65-16)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Stochastic Eulerian Lagrangian Methods for Fluid-Structure Interactions Subject to Thermal Fluctuations.
    Paul J. Atzberger*, University of California Santa Barbara
    (1071-60-90)
• Saturday April 30, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Group Theory and Dynamics, II
  Room C128, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Matthew Day, California Institute of Technology mattday@caltech.edu
  Danny Calegari, California Institute of Technology dannyc@caltech.edu
  Joel Louwsma, California Institute of Technology louwsma@caltech.edu
  Andy Putman, Rice University andyp@rice.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Promotion maps and Smith theory.
    Max Forester*, University of Oklahoma
    (1071-55-147)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A Combinatorial Curvature Condition for Triangle-Square Complexes.
    Rena M.H. Levitt*, Claremont McKenna College
    (1071-57-129)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Factoring euclidean isometries.
    Jon McCammond*, UC Santa Barbara
    (1071-20-73)
• Saturday April 30, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Partial Differential Equations, II
  Room C218, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Matthew Gursky, Notre Dame University mgursky@nd.edu
  Emmanuel Hebey, Université de Cergy-Pontoise Emmanuel.Hebey@u-cergy.fr
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On Proper Horospherically Convex Hypersurfaces in ${\Bbb{H}}^{n+1}$ and Complete Conformal Metrics on Domains of ${\Bbb{S}}^n$.
    Vincent Bonini*, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
    José Espinar, Departmento de Geometría y Topología, Universidad de Granada
    Jie Qing, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Cruz
    (1071-53-258)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Rigidity and stability of Einstein metrics for quadratic curvature functionals.
    Jeff A. Viaclovsky*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    (1071-53-140)
  • 4:40 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Improved Moser-Trudinger inequalities and singular Liouville equations.
    Andrea Malchiodi*, SISSA, Trieste, ITALY
    (1071-35-63)
  • 5:40 p.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday April 30, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Knots, Surfaces and 3-manifolds, II
  Room C122, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Stanislav Jabuka, University of Nevada, Reno jabuka@unr.edu
  Swatee Naik, University of Nevada, Reno naik@unr.edu
  Chris Herald, University of Nevada, Reno herald@unr.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The fractal nature of knot concordance.
    Constance Leidy*, Wesleyan University
    Tim Cochran, Rice University
    Shelly Harvey, Rice University
    (1071-57-282)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The significances of links in knot concordance.
    John R Burke*, Wesleyan University
    (1071-57-276)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Knot Concordance and Homology Cobordism.
    Tim D Cochran*, Rice University
    Bridget D Franklin, Rice University
    Matthew Hedden, Michigan State University
    Peter D Horn, Columbia University
    (1071-57-251)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Filtering smooth concordance classes of topologically slice knots.
    Tim D. Cochran, Rice University
    Shelly Harvey*, Rice University
    Peter D. Horn, Columbia University
    (1071-57-252)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Mapping tori of self-homotopy equivalences of lens spaces.
    James F. Davis*, Indiana University
    Shmuel Weinberger, University of Chicago
    (1071-57-281)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Concordance of Bing doubles and boundary genus.
    Charles Livingston, Indiana University
    Cornelia A. Van Cott*, University of San Francisco
    (1071-57-96)
• Saturday April 30, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Lie Algebras, Algebraic Transformation Groups and Representation Theory, II
  Room C118, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Andrew Douglas, City University of New York adouglas@citytech.cuny.edu
  Bart Van Steirteghem, City University of New York
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Primitive Orthogonal Idempotents for $R$-trivial monoids.
    Nantel Bergeron*, York University
    Chris Berg, Fields Institute/York University
    Sandeep Bhargava, Fields Institute/York University
    Franco Saliola, Fields Institute/York University
    (1071-08-245)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On Pairs of Commuting Nilpotent Matrices.
    Anthony Iarrobino, Northeastern University
    Leila Khatami*, Northeastern University
    (1071-15-174)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Pattern avoidance and affine Schubert varieties of type A.
    Andrew Crites*, University of Washington
    Sara Billey, University of Washington
    (1071-05-89)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Littlewood Richardson coefficients for Kac-Moody flag varieties.
    Edward L Richmond*, University of British Columbia
    Arkady Berenstein, University of Oregon
    (1071-14-108)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Multiplicity-free Super Vector Spaces.
    Tobias Pecher*, Department Mathematik (Emmy-Noether-Zentrum), University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
    (1071-16-123)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Abelian ideals of a Borel subalgebra, generalized Young diagrams, and subsets of simple roots.
    Markus Hunziker*, Baylor University
    Mark R. Sepanski, Baylor University
    (1071-22-74)
• Saturday April 30, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Multilevel Mesh Adaptation and Beyond: Computational Methods for Solving Complex Systems, II
  Room C146, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Pengtao Sun, University of Nevada, Las Vegas pengtao.sun@unlv.edu
  Long Chen, University of California Irvine chenlong@math.uci.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Implicit integration factor methods for stiff systems.
    Xinfeng Liu*, Department of Mathematics, University of South Carolina
    Qing Nie, Department of Mathematics, University of California at Irvine
    (1071-65-127)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Regeneration and Noise Attenuation During Development.
    Lei Zhang*, University of California, Irvine
    Qing Nie, University of California, Irvine
    (1071-92-94)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Adaptive Finite Element Methods for H(curl) and H(div) Problems.
    Long Chen*, University of California at Irvine
    (1071-65-255)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Modeling Studies and efficient numerical methods for proton exchange membrane fuel cell.
    Pengtao Sun*, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
    (1071-65-287)
• Saturday April 30, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Variational Methods, II
  Room C223, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  David Costa, University of Nevada, Las Vegas costa@unlv.nevada.edu
  Hossein Tehrani, University of Nevada, Las Vegas tehranih@unlv.nevada.edu
  Zhi-Qiang Wang, Utah State University zhi-qiang.wang@usu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Regularity of Extremal Solutions in Fourth Order Nonlinear Eigenvalue Problems on General Domains.
    Craig Cowan, Stanford University
    Nassif Ghoussoub*, University of British Columbia
    Pierpaolo Esposito, Università degli Studi "Roma Tre
    (1071-35-196)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Multiple solutions to a magnetic nonlinear Choquard equation.
    Silvia Cingolani, Politecnico di Bari
    Mónica Clapp*, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
    Simone Secchi, Università di Milano-Bicocca
    (1071-35-116)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Continua of local minimizers in a non smooth model of phase transitions.
    Stephen Robinson*, Wake Forest University
    Pavel Drabek, University of West Bohemia, Plzen, Cz. Rep.
    (1071-34-180)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Asymptotic statistical characterizations of $p$-harmonic functions of two variables.
    David Hartenstine*, Western Washington University
    Matthew Rudd, University of the South
    (1071-35-216)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Applications of Sub-supersolution theorems to singular nonlinear elliptic problems.
    Loc H Nguyen*, University of Utah
    Klaus Schmitt, University of Utah
    (1071-35-21)
• Saturday April 30, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Partial Differential Equations Modeling Fluids, II
  Room C225, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Well-posedness Results for Systems of Nonlinear Dispersive Wave Equations.
    Jerry L. Bona*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1071-35-169)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Solitary-waves and their stability for coupled KdV-type systems of equations.
    Jerry L Bona, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Hongqiu Chen*, UNiversity of Memphis
    Ohannes Karakashian, University of Tennessee
    (1071-35-171)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Asymptotic linear stability of solitary water waves.
    Robert L. Pego, Carnegie Mellon University
    Shu-Ming Sun*, Virginia Tech
    (1071-76-244)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Some Develops on the Multi-dimensional Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations with Density-dependent Viscosity Coefficients.
    Zhenhua Guo*, Center for Nonlinear Studies and Department of Mathematics,Northwest University, Xi'an 710069, P.R. China
    (1071-35-152)
• Saturday April 30, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Finite Element Methods, II
  Room C226, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Jichun Li, University of Nevada, Las Vegas jichun@unlv.nevada.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Conservative discontinuous Galerkin methods for the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation.
    Jerry lloyd Bona, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Hongqiu Chen, University of Memphis
    Ohannes Karakashian, University of Tennessee
    Yulong Xing*, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    (1071-65-78)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin methods for higher order partial differential equations.
    Fatih Celiker*, Wayne State University
    Bernardo Cockburn, University of Minnesota
    Ke Shi, University of Minnesota
    (1071-65-37)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Finite element approximations of glacier flows with sliding.
    Sum Chow*, Brigham Young University
    Warren Crutcher, Brigham Young University
    (1071-65-178)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Mesh adaptation for the finite element solution of heterogeneous anisotropic diffusion problems.
    Weizhang Huang*, University of Kansas
    (1071-65-83)
• Saturday April 30, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Developments in Stochastic Partial Differential Equations, II
  Room C235, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Igor Cialenco, Illinois Institute of Technology igor@math.iit.edu
  Nathan Glatt-Holtz, Indiana University, Bloomington negh@indiana.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Cauchy problem for a stochastic quasi-linear symmetric hyperbolic system.
    Jong Uhn Kim*, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24060-0123
    (1071-35-84)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    New Malliavin calculus techniques for densities, and applications to stochastic PDEs.
    Frederi G Viens*, Department of Statistics, Purdue University,
    (1071-60-214)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A change of variable formula with Itô correction term.
    Jason Swanson*, University of Central Florida
    (1071-60-221)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Approximate solutions to forward Kolmogorov equations.
    Anna L Mazzucato*, Penn State University
    (1071-35-246)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Existence and regularities of the density of the solution of a stochastic heat equation.
    Pejman Mahboubi*, Salt Lake City, UT
    (1071-60-185)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday April 30, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Set Theory, II
  Room C124, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Douglas Burke, University of Nevada, Las Vegas dburke@unlv.nevada.edu
  Derrick DuBose, University of Nevada, Las Vegas derrick.dubose@unlv.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Applications of forcing with sequences of models.
    Itay Neeman*, UCLA
    (1071-03-220)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The tree property and failure of SCH for small cardinals.
    Dima Sinapova*, University of California Irvine
    (1071-03-156)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Coding with extenders.
    W Hugh Woodin*, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720 USA
    (1071-03-159)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Consistency results on stationary set reflection using modest large cardinal hypotheses.
    Martin Zeman*, University of California at Irvine
    (1071-03-207)
• Saturday April 30, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Topics in Modern Complex Analysis, II
  Room C126, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Zair Ibragimov, California State University, Fullerton zibragimov@fullerton.edu
  Zafar Ibragimov, Urgench State University hab@ursu.uzpak.uz
  Hrant Hakobyan, Kansas State University hakobyan@math.ksu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Two conjectures of Astala on distortion under planar quasiconformal mappings and related removability problems.
    Michael T. Lacey, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Prause Istvan, University of Helsinki
    Tolsa Xavier, ICREA & Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
    Sawyer T. Eric, McMaster University
    Uriarte-Tuero Ignacio*, Michigan State University
    (1071-30-70)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Complex Hyperbolic Mapping Problems.
    Anton Lukyanenko*, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    (1071-51-272)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the spectral operator and its invertibility.
    Hafedh Herichi*, Mathematics department , University of California, Riverside
    Michel. L. Lapidus, Mathematics department, University of California, Riverside
    (1071-46-285)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Distortion property of a class of embeddings.
    Abdelkrim Brania*, Morehouse College
    (1071-30-264)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The third symmetric product of lines and circles.
    Marina Borovikova*, California State University, Fullerton
    Zair Ibragimov, California State University, Fullerton
    (1071-30-250)
• Saturday April 30, 2011, 3:15 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
  Session on Contributed Papers II
  Room C224, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Chairs:
  Shafiu Jibrin, Northern Arizona University Shafiu.Jibrin@nau.edu
  

  • 3:15 p.m.
    A Riemann problem for two-dimensional isentropic gas dynamics equations.
    Katarina Jegdic*, University of Houston - Downtown
    (1071-35-242)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Fractional Trigonometric Functions.
    Amera H Almusharrf*, Bowling green Ky
    Ferhan Atici, Bowling green KY
    (1071-39-40)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Solving a Type of Nonlinear Integro-Differential Equations Using Variation Iteration Method.
    Shishen S Xie*, University of Houston-Downtown
    (1071-41-269)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A Note On L Convergence of Certain Cosine Sums.
    Maher M.H. Marzuq*,
    (1071-42-130)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Closure properties of matrix operators with application to continuous-time Markov chains.
    John J. Coffey*, Purdue University Calumet
    (1071-47-204)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Linear independence of Whitehead doubles of torus knots.
    Paul Kirk*, Indiana University
    Matt Hedden, Michigan State University
    (1071-57-49)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Parameter Estimation for Nonlinear Stochastic Partial Differential Equations.
    Nathan E Glatt-Holtz*, Indiana University
    Igor Cialenco, Illinois Institute of Technology
    (1071-60-284)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A Blackjack Pseudo Card Counting System with Simulation-Based Comparisons.
    Siamak Ardekani*, The University of Texas at Arlington
    Mostafa Ghandehari, The University of Texas at Arlington
    (1071-91-05)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Triangular Distribution for Scheduling of Construction.
    Pourya Hajyalikhani*, University of Texas at Arlington
    Zoha Niazi, University of Texas at Arlington
    Mostafa Ghandehari, University of Texas at Arlington
    (1071-60-25)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    A Discrete Optimal Control in Pharmacokinetics.
    Dina Miqdadi*, Univ. of Texas at Arlington
    Mostafa Ghandehari, Univ. of Texas at Arlington
    (1071-92-14)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Constraint Consensus Methods for Finding Strictly Feasible Points of Linear Matrix Inequalities.
    Shafiu Jibrin*, Northern Arizona University
    Jim Swift, Northern Arizona University
    (1071-90-17)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Dense Subalgebra read as a linguistic model.
    Gunwon Lee*, Seoul, Korea
    (1071-03-277)

Sunday May 1, 2011

• Sunday May 1, 2011, 7:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Book Sale and Exhibit
  Foyer/Hallway to A112, Classroom Building Complex - Building A
• Sunday May 1, 2011, 7:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Foyer/Hallway to A112, Classroom Building Complex - Building A
• Sunday May 1, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Variational Methods, III
  Room C223, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  David Costa, University of Nevada, Las Vegas costa@unlv.nevada.edu
  Hossein Tehrani, University of Nevada, Las Vegas tehranih@unlv.nevada.edu
  Zhi-Qiang Wang, Utah State University zhi-qiang.wang@usu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Existence of seven solutions for an asymptotically linear boundary value problem.
    Alfonso Castro*, Harvey Mudd College
    Jorge Cossio, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellin
    Carlos A Velez, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellin
    (1071-35-95)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    S-Shaped Bifurcation Curves in Ecosystems.
    Eunkyoung Lee, Pusan National University
    Sarath Sasi, Mississippi State University
    Ratnasingham Shivaji*, Mississippi State University
    (1071-35-106)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Uniqueness of positive solution to semilinear elliptic systems.
    Jann-Long Chern, National Central University, Taiwan
    Changshou Lin, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
    Junping Shi*, College of William and Mary
    (1071-35-98)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    $R_0$ analysis of a spatiotemporal model for stream populations.
    Jon Jacobsen*, Harvey Mudd College
    Yu Jin, University of Alberta
    Hannah McKenzie, University of Alberta
    Mark Lewis, University of Alberta
    (1071-35-199)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Multiple Solitary Wave Solutions of Nonlinear Schrödinger Systems.
    R.-S. Tian*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Utah State University
    Z.-Q. Wang, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
    (1071-35-68)
• Sunday May 1, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Set Theory, III
  Room C124, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Douglas Burke, University of Nevada, Las Vegas dburke@unlv.nevada.edu
  Derrick DuBose, University of Nevada, Las Vegas derrick.dubose@unlv.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Monotone Borel hull operations for the meager and null ideals.
    Andrzej Roslanowski*, University of Nebraska at Omaha
    Saharon Shelah, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    (1071-03-121)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Topological groups and covering dimension.
    Liljana Babinkostova*, Boise State University
    (1071-54-238)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On generalizations of Borel's Conjecture.
    Fred Galvin, University of Kansas
    Marion Scheepers*, Boise State University
    (1071-03-230)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Partition Questions and Resources.
    Jean A Larson*, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
    (1071-03-201)
• Sunday May 1, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Arithmetic Dynamics, III
  Room C116, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Arthur Baragar, University of Nevada, Las Vegas baragar@unlv.nevada.edu
  Patrick Ingram, University of Waterloo pingram@math.uwaterloo.ca
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    A lattice point problem on hyperboloids of one sheet.
    Arthur Baragar*, University of Nevada Las Vegas
    (1071-11-181)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Canonical Height Zero over Function Fields.
    Anupam Bhatnagar*, Lehman College, City University of New York
    (1071-14-175)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Dynamical Units.
    Katherine E Stange*, Stanford University
    Michelle Manes, University of Hawaii
    (1071-11-270)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Proportion of Periodic Points in $\mathbb{F}_p$.
    Kalyani K. Madhu*, University of Rochester
    (1071-11-77)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Post-Critically Finite Locus for Cubic Polynomials.
    Joseph H Silverman*, Mathematics Department / Brown University
    (1071-37-31)
• Sunday May 1, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Extremal Combinatorics, III
  Room C115, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Jozsef Balogh, University of California San Diego jbalog@ucsd.edu
  Ryan Martin, Iowa State University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Recent Progress on Bipartite Turán Numbers.
    J A Verstraete*, University of California, San Diego
    P Keevash, University of London
    B Sudakov, University of California, Los Angeles
    (1071-05-67)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Cops and robbers in random graphs.
    Gabor Kun*, DIMACS
    Bela Bollobas, University of Cambridge & University of Memphis
    Imre Leader, University of Cambridge
    (1071-05-231)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Saturation Numbers for Families of Graph Subdivisions.
    Michael Ferrara*, University of Colorado Denver
    Michael Jacobson, University of Colorado Denver
    Kevin Milans, University of South Carolina
    Craig Tennenhouse, University of New England
    Paul Wenger, University of Colorado Denver
    (1071-05-150)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Extremal problems for homomorphisms.
    Jonathan Cutler*, Montclair State University
    A. J. Radcliffe, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1071-05-162)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Marking lines in $[k]^n$.
    Steve Butler*, UCLA
    Ron Graham, UC San Diego
    (1071-05-202)
• Sunday May 1, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Group Theory and Dynamics, III
  Room C128, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Matthew Day, California Institute of Technology mattday@caltech.edu
  Danny Calegari, California Institute of Technology dannyc@caltech.edu
  Joel Louwsma, California Institute of Technology louwsma@caltech.edu
  Andy Putman, Rice University andyp@rice.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    The connectivity threshold and automorphisms of random right-angled Artin groups.
    Matthew B. Day*, California Institute of Technology
    (1071-20-229)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the Geometry of a Proposed Curve Complex Analogue for $Out(F_n)$.
    Lucas Sabalka*, Binghamton University
    Dmytro Savchuk, Binghamton University
    (1071-20-136)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Isometric endomorphisms of free groups.
    Danny Calegari, Caltech
    Alden Walker*, Caltech
    (1071-20-56)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Virtually Geometric Multiwords.
    Christopher H. Cashen*, University of Utah
    (1071-20-39)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Abelian quotients of subgroups of the mapping class group and higher Pyrm representations.
    Andrew Putman*, Rice University
    Ben Wieland, Providence, RI
    (1071-57-256)
• Sunday May 1, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Knots, Surfaces and 3-manifolds, III
  Room C122, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Stanislav Jabuka, University of Nevada, Reno jabuka@unr.edu
  Swatee Naik, University of Nevada, Reno naik@unr.edu
  Chris Herald, University of Nevada, Reno herald@unr.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    An SU(n) Casson-Lin invariant for links with n components.
    Hans U. Boden*, McMaster University
    Eric Harper, University of Quebec
    (1071-57-211)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Homology cobordism of 3-manifolds and Cheeger-Gromov invariants.
    Jae Choon Cha, Pohang University of Science and Technology
    Kent E Orr*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (1071-57-280)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Jones polynomial and boundary slopes of alternating knots.
    Cynthia L. Curtis*, The College of New Jersey
    Samuel J. Taylor, University of Texas at Austin
    (1071-57-93)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Tangle sums and factorization of A-polynomials.
    Masaharu Ishikawa, Mathematical Institute, Tohoku University
    Thomas W Mattman*, Department of Math, California State University, Chico
    Koya Shimokawa, Department of Mathematics, Saitama University
    (1071-57-187)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Colored Morton-Franks-Williams inequalities.
    Hao Wu*, George Washington University
    (1071-57-47)
• Sunday May 1, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Lie Algebras, Algebraic Transformation Groups and Representation Theory, III
  Room C118, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Andrew Douglas, City University of New York adouglas@citytech.cuny.edu
  Bart Van Steirteghem, City University of New York
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Lie Group Magic Square.
    Tevian Dray*, Oregon State University
    (1071-17-66)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Reductive groups, their Weyl groups and the field with one element.
    Oliver Lorscheid*, City University of New York
    (1071-14-148)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Integral forms and integral bases for the universal enveloping algebras of map algebras.
    Samuel H Chamberlin*, University of California, Riverside
    (1071-17-165)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Quantum groups with nonzero integral arising from path and incidence (co)algebras.
    Sorin Dascalescu, University of Bucharest, Romania
    Miodrag C Iovanov*, University of Southern California & University of Bucharest, Romania
    Constantin Nastasescu, University of Bucharest, Romania
    (1071-16-20)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The biHecke monoid of a finite Coxeter group and its representations.
    Florent Hivert, Universite Rouen, France
    Anne Schilling*, UC Davis
    Nicolas M Thiery, Paris Sud, Orsay, France
    (1071-05-46)
• Sunday May 1, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Partial Differential Equations Modeling Fluids, III
  Room C225, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Norm inflation for incompressible magneto-hydrodynamic system in $\dot{B}_{\infty}^{-1,\infty}$.
    Mimi Dai*, Math Department, University of California, Santa Cruz
    Jie Qing, Professor at Math Department, University of California, Santa Cruz
    Maria Schonbek, Professor at Math Department, University of California, Santa Cruz
    (1071-35-06)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Axisymmetric Euler-$\alpha$ Equations without Swirl.
    Quansen Jiu*, School of Mathematical Sciences, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, P.R.China
    (1071-35-203)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Complexity of solutions for parabolic equations with Gevrey coefficients.
    Mihaela Ignatova, University of Southern California
    Igor Kukavica*, University of Southern California
    (1071-35-265)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Recent progress on the surface quasi-geostrophic and related equations.
    Jiahong Wu*, Oklahoma State University
    (1071-35-103)
• Sunday May 1, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Finite Element Methods, III
  Room C226, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Jichun Li, University of Nevada, Las Vegas jichun@unlv.nevada.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    An ADI extrapolated Crank-Nicolson orthogonal spline collocation method for nonlinear reaction-diffusion systems.
    Ryan Fernandes, The Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi
    Graeme Fairweather*, American Mathematical Society
    (1071-65-65)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    An Analysis of the Uniaxial PML Model For Maxwell's Equations in Dispersive Media.
    Vrushali A. Bokil*, Oregon State University
    (1071-65-26)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Interior penalty DG methods for Maxwell's equations in dispersive media.
    Jichun Li*, Dept of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV 89154-4020, USA
    Yunqing Huang, Hunan Key Laboratory for Computation and Simulation in Science and Engineering, Xiangtan University, China
    Wei Yang, Hunan Key Laboratory for Computation and Simulation in Science and Engineering, Xiangtan University, China
    (1071-65-237)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Maximum Principle for Finite Element Methods.
    Junping Wang*, National Science Foundation
    (1071-65-227)
• Sunday May 1, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Topics in Modern Complex Analysis, III
  Room C126, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Zair Ibragimov, California State University, Fullerton zibragimov@fullerton.edu
  Zafar Ibragimov, Urgench State University hab@ursu.uzpak.uz
  Hrant Hakobyan, Kansas State University hakobyan@math.ksu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    $K$ - Harmonic function.
    Bakhrom Ismoilovich Abdullaev*, Urgench State University
    Rasul Ahmedovich Sharipov, Urgench State University
    (1071-32-259)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Creterion of pluriharmonicity of harmonic functions.
    Ruzimbay Masharipovich Madrakhimov*, Urgench State University
    (1071-32-260)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Theorem of uniqueness for quasianalytic functions of several variables in thew sense of Gonchar.
    Sevdiyor Akramovich Imomkulov*, Navoi State Pedagogial Institute
    Zafar Shavkatovich Ibragimov, Urgench State University
    (1071-32-226)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Energy minimizing planar maps.
    Jan Cristina, University of Helsinki
    Tadeusz Iwaniec, Syracuse University and University of Helsinki
    Ngin-Tee Koh, Syracuse University
    Leonid V. Kovalev*, Syracuse University
    Jani Onninen, Syracuse University
    (1071-30-115)
• Sunday May 1, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Computational Algebra, Groups, and Applications, III
  Room C138, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Benjamin Fine, Fairfield University ben1902@aol.com
  Gerhard Rosenberger, University of Hamburg, Germany Gerhard.Rosenberger@math.uni-hamburg.de
  Delaram Kahrobaei, City University of New York dkahrobaei@gc.cuny.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Public Key Exchange Using Matrices Over Group Rings.
    Delaram Kahrobaei, Graduate Center, CUNY
    Charalambos Koupparis*, Graduate Center, CUNY
    Vladimir Shpilrain, Graduate Center, CUNY
    (1071-20-117)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Groups covered by dihedral groups.
    Bernhard Amberg*, University of Mainz, Germany
    (1071-20-45)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Primitive and almost primitive elements of free non-associative algebras.
    Alexander A. Mikhalev*, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
    (1071-17-134)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Solving word problems in groups by data compression.
    Volker Diekert*, FMI, University Stuttgart, Germany
    (1071-20-80)
• Sunday May 1, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Computational and Mathematical Finance, III
  Room C230, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Hongtao Yang, University of Nevada, Las Vegas hongtao.yang@unlv.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Numerical Methods for Option Pricing and Calibration of the Extended CIR Model.
    Shuhua Zhang*, Tianjin University of Finance and Economics
    (1071-65-155)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Risk Management in Mortgage Market.
    Yongmin Zhang*, University of Nottingham Ningbo China
    (1071-62-262)
• Sunday May 1, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Partial Differential Equations, III
  Room C218, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Matthew Gursky, Notre Dame University mgursky@nd.edu
  Emmanuel Hebey, Université de Cergy-Pontoise Emmanuel.Hebey@u-cergy.fr
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    About the Geometry and Regularity of Largest Subsolutions for a Free Boundary Problem in $R^2$: Elliptic Case.
    Betul Orcan*, PostDoc-MSRI
    (1071-35-104)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Normalized Ricci flow on asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds.
    Jie Qing, University of California, Santa Cruz
    Yuguang Shi, Peking University
    Jie Wu*, Peking University
    (1071-53-222)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday May 1, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Multilevel Mesh Adaptation and Beyond: Computational Methods for Solving Complex Systems, III
  Room C146, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Pengtao Sun, University of Nevada, Las Vegas pengtao.sun@unlv.edu
  Long Chen, University of California Irvine chenlong@math.uci.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    An efficient multi-level method for radiative transport equation with applications to optical imaging.
    Hao Gao, UCLA
    Hongkai Zhao*, UC Irvine
    (1071-65-120)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Constructing and Analyzing Non-Standard Error Estimators of Hierarchical Type.
    Jeffrey Ovall*, University of Kentucky
    Michael Holst, University of California, San DIego
    Ryan Szypowski, University of California, San Diego
    (1071-65-158)
• Sunday May 1, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Developments in Stochastic Partial Differential Equations, III
  Room C235, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Igor Cialenco, Illinois Institute of Technology igor@math.iit.edu
  Nathan Glatt-Holtz, Indiana University, Bloomington negh@indiana.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Stochastic Stefan Problem.
    Kunwoo Kim*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Richard Sowers, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Zhi Zheng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1071-60-163)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Well-Posedness Results for the Stochastic Primitive Equations of the Oceans and Atmosphere.
    Roger Temam*, The Institute for Scientific Computing and Applied Mathematics; Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
    (1071-35-240)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Itô-Taylor expansions for the solution to non-linear stochastic parabolic and hyperbolic spde's.
    Daniel Conus*, University of Utah
    (1071-60-176)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Local well-posedness for a fluid-structure interaction model.
    Igor Kukavica*, University of Southern California
    Amjad Tuffaha, The Petroleum Institute
    (1071-35-266)
• Sunday May 1, 2011, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Flow-Structure Interaction, II
  Room C216, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Paul Atzberger, University of California Santa Barbara atzberg@math.ucsb.edu
  Hector D. Ceniceros, University of California Santa Barbara hdc@math.ucsb.edu
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    When do cilia stop beating?
    Sorin Mitran*, University of North Carolina
    (1071-92-09)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Mathematical Models of Phototaxis.
    Doron Levy*, University of Maryland, College Park
    (1071-92-12)
• Sunday May 1, 2011, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Stable commutator length in free groups.
  Room A112, Classroom Building Complex - Building A
  Danny Calegari*, California Institute of Technology
  (1071-20-02)
• Sunday May 1, 2011, 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Hilbert's sixth problem.
  Room A112, Classroom Building Complex - Building A
  Tai-Ping Liu*, Stanford University
  (1071-70-04)
• Sunday May 1, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Computational Algebra, Groups, and Applications, IV
  Room C138, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Benjamin Fine, Fairfield University ben1902@aol.com
  Gerhard Rosenberger, University of Hamburg, Germany Gerhard.Rosenberger@math.uni-hamburg.de
  Delaram Kahrobaei, City University of New York dkahrobaei@gc.cuny.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the Group Isomorphism problem.
    Laszlo Babai, The University of Chicago, Department of Computer Science
    Paolo Codenotti*, The University of Chicago, Department of Computer Science
    Youming Qiao, Tsinghua University
    (1071-20-278)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    An algorithm that decides conjugacy in a certain generalized free product.
    Anthony E Clement*, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
    (1071-20-160)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    $IA$-automorphisms of groups with constant upper central series.
    Margaret H Dean*, BMCC/CUNY
    Marcos Zyman, BMCC/CUNY
    Marianna Bonanome, CityTech/CUNY
    (1071-20-215)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday May 1, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Extremal Combinatorics, IV
  Room C115, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Jozsef Balogh, University of California San Diego jbalog@ucsd.edu
  Ryan Martin, Iowa State University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Discrepancy inequalities for directed graphs.
    Fan Chung, University of California, San Diego
    Franklin Kenter*, University of California, San Diego
    (1071-05-149)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Nonnegative $k$-sums, fractional covers, and probability of small deviations.
    Hao Huang*, University of California-Los Angeles
    Benny Sudakov, University of California-Los Angeles
    Noga Alon, Tel Aviv University
    (1071-05-186)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Diameter of Random Cubic Sum Graphs.
    Fan Chung, University of California, San Diego
    Stephen J Young*, University of California, San Diego
    (1071-05-192)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Extremal Systems for the Fair and Biased Erdős-Selfridge Theorem.
    Eric Lars Sundberg*, Occidental College
    (1071-05-189)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Maximum union-free subfamilies.
    Jacob Fox, MIT
    Choongbum Lee*, University of California, Los Angeles
    Benny Sudakov, UCLA
    (1071-05-200)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Induced saturation number.
    Ryan Martin*, Iowa State University
    Jason J Smith, Iowa State University
    (1071-05-143)
• Sunday May 1, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Group Theory and Dynamics, IV
  Room C128, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Matthew Day, California Institute of Technology mattday@caltech.edu
  Danny Calegari, California Institute of Technology dannyc@caltech.edu
  Joel Louwsma, California Institute of Technology louwsma@caltech.edu
  Andy Putman, Rice University andyp@rice.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Immersed surfaces in the modular orbifold.
    Danny Calegari, California Institute of Technology
    Joel Louwsma*, California Institute of Technology
    (1071-57-236)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Geometry, arithmetic, and group theory.
    Matthew Stover*, University of Michigan
    (1071-22-58)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Mapping classes, finite covers and large hyperbolic $3$--manifolds.
    Thomas Koberda*, Harvard University
    (1071-57-118)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Coarse differentiation and the rank of Teichmüller space.
    Kasra Rafi*, University of Oklahoma
    Alex Eskin, University of Chicago
    Howard Masur, University of Chicago
    (1071-51-119)
• Sunday May 1, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Partial Differential Equations, IV
  Room C218, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Matthew Gursky, Notre Dame University mgursky@nd.edu
  Emmanuel Hebey, Université de Cergy-Pontoise Emmanuel.Hebey@u-cergy.fr
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Fractional conformal Laplacians and fractional Yamabe problems.
    Maria del Mar Gonzalez, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya
    Jie Qing*, UC Santa Cruz
    (1071-53-141)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Free boundary problem for embedded minimal surfaces.
    Martin Man-chun Li*, Stanford University
    (1071-53-177)
  • 4:40 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The complex Monge-Ampere equation on compact Kahler manifolds.
    Xiuxiong Chen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Weiyong He*, University of Oregon
    (1071-53-107)
  • 5:40 p.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday May 1, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Knots, Surfaces and 3-manifolds, IV
  Room C122, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Stanislav Jabuka, University of Nevada, Reno jabuka@unr.edu
  Swatee Naik, University of Nevada, Reno naik@unr.edu
  Chris Herald, University of Nevada, Reno herald@unr.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Bar-Natan modules and tunneling graphs.
    Uwe Kaiser*, Boise State University
    (1071-57-235)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Khovanov Homology on Certain Symmetric Unions.
    T.J. Gaffney*, University of Nevada, Reno
    (1071-57-193)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Prime knots whose arc index is smaller than the crossing number.
    Gyo Taek Jin*, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Hwa Jeong Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    (1071-57-217)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Equivalence Classes of Knots and Links of two components in Family 6* modulo 4-moves.
    Noureen Khan*, University of North Texas at Dallas
    M Dabkowski, University of Texas at Dallas
    (1071-55-52)
• Sunday May 1, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Multilevel Mesh Adaptation and Beyond: Computational Methods for Solving Complex Systems, IV
  Room C146, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Pengtao Sun, University of Nevada, Las Vegas pengtao.sun@unlv.edu
  Long Chen, University of California Irvine chenlong@math.uci.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Optimality of an adaptive FEM for controlling $L_2$ errors.
    Alan Demlow*, University of Kentucky
    Rob Stevenson, University of Amsterdam
    (1071-65-101)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Convergence of Adaptive Finite Element Methods with Inexact Solvers for Poisson-Boltzmann Equations.
    Michael Holst, Department of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego
    Ryan Szypowski, Department of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego
    Yunrong Zhu*, Department of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego
    (1071-65-166)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A New Approach to $p$-Adaptive Finite Element Method.
    Hieu Nguyen*, University of California, Davis
    Randolph E Bank, University of California, San Diego
    (1071-65-248)
• Sunday May 1, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Variational Methods, IV
  Room C223, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  David Costa, University of Nevada, Las Vegas costa@unlv.nevada.edu
  Hossein Tehrani, University of Nevada, Las Vegas tehranih@unlv.nevada.edu
  Zhi-Qiang Wang, Utah State University zhi-qiang.wang@usu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Maximum and antimaximum principles: beyond the first eigenvalue.
    J. Fleckinger, Université de Toulouse
    J.-P. Gossez*, Université Libre de Bruxelles
    F. de Thélin, Universté de Toulouse
    (1071-35-64)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Periodic Boundary Value Problems and the Dancer--Fučík Spectrum Under Conditions of Resonance.
    Adolfo J. Rumbos*, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
    David A. Bliss, Claremont Graduate University
    (1071-34-198)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    An inequality for a two-level domain decomposition preconditioner in processing high-contrast images.
    Jianxin Zhou*, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
    Yalchin Efendiev, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
    Juan Galvis, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
    (1071-35-124)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Newton's Method for Nonlinear Elliptic Systems.
    John M. Neuberger*, Northern Arizona University
    Christopher Tyler Diggans, Northern Arizona University
    (1071-35-154)
• Sunday May 1, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Developments in Stochastic Partial Differential Equations, IV
  Room C235, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Igor Cialenco, Illinois Institute of Technology igor@math.iit.edu
  Nathan Glatt-Holtz, Indiana University, Bloomington negh@indiana.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Unbiased Perturbations of the Navier-Stokes Equation: Steady state solutions and long time convergence.
    Chia Ying Lee*, Brown University
    Boris Rozovsky, Brown University
    (1071-60-190)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Stationary Gibbs measures for shell models of turbulence: the viscous and inviscid case.
    Hakima Bessaih*, Department of Mathematics University of Mathematics
    Benedetta Ferrario, Department of Mathematics, University of Pavia, Italy
    (1071-60-34)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday May 1, 2011, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Set Theory, IV
  Room C124, Classroom Building Complex - Building C
  Organizers:
  Douglas Burke, University of Nevada, Las Vegas dburke@unlv.nevada.edu
  Derrick DuBose, University of Nevada, Las Vegas derrick.dubose@unlv.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Lifting results on analytic/Suslin sets to $\infty$-Borel sets.
    Richard Ketchersid*, University of Texas at Dallas
    (1071-03-275)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Complexity of the isomorphism relation on quotient Boolean algebras.
    Su Gao, University of North Texas
    Michael Ray Oliver*, Los Altos, California
    (1071-03-257)

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