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Spring Central Sectional Meeting
Iowa State University, Ames, IA
April 26-28, 2013 (Friday - Sunday)
Meeting #1090

Associate secretaries:

Georgia M. Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

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Special Session on Stochastic Processes with Applications to Physics and Control

• Saturday April 27, 2013, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Stochastic Processes with Applications to Physics and Control, I
  Room 196, Carver
  Organizers:
  Jim Evans, Iowa State University evans@ameslab.gov
  Arka Ghosh, Iowa State University
  Jon Peterson, Purdue University
  Alexander Roitershtein, Iowa State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Busemann functions and variational formulas for last passage percolation and polymer models.
    Nicos Georgiou*, University of Utah
    Firas Rassoul-Agha, University of Utah
    Timo Seppalainen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Atilla Yilmaz, Bogazici University
    (1090-60-136)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Isoperimetry in Supercritical Percolation.
    Oren Louidor*, UCLA
    Marek Biskup, UCLA
    Eviatar Procaccia, Weizmann Institute Israel
    Ron Rosenthal, Herbew University of Jerusalem
    (1090-60-12)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Geodesics in first-passage percolation.
    Antonio Auffinger*, University of Chicago
    (1090-60-75)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Diffusion with Redistribution.
    Iddo Ben-Ari*, University of Connecticut
    (1090-60-175)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Large deviations for random walks in a random environment on a strip.
    Jonathon Peterson*, Purdue University
    (1090-60-73)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Generalized hydrodynamic treatment of the interplay between single-file diffusion and conversion reaction in nanopores.
    Jing Wang*, Ames Laboratory -- USDOE, and Departments of Mathematics, Iowa State University, Ames,50011
    David Michael Ackerman, Ames Laboratory -- USDOE, and Departments of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, 50011
    James W Evans, Ames Laboratory -- USDOE, and Departments of Mathematics, and Physics & Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, 50011
    (1090-60-234)
• Saturday April 27, 2013, 2:45 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
  Special Session on Stochastic Processes with Applications to Physics and Control, II
  Room 196, Carver
  Organizers:
  Jim Evans, Iowa State University evans@ameslab.gov
  Arka Ghosh, Iowa State University
  Jon Peterson, Purdue University
  Alexander Roitershtein, Iowa State University
  

  • 2:45 p.m.
    From asymmetric exclusion processes to protein synthesis.
    Beate Schmittmann*, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Iowa State University
    Jiajia Dong, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Bucknell University
    Royce K.P. Zia, Department of Physics, Virginia Tech
    (1090-60-233)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Nonequilibrium First-Order Transition in the Quadratic Contact Process or Schloegl's second Model.
    Da-Jiang Liu*, Ames Laboratory (USDOE)
    Chi-Jen Wang, Iowa State University
    J. W. Evans, Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University
    (1090-60-314)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Inhomogeneous Tilings of the Aztec Diamond.
    Gregory Shinault*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1090-60-85)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Emergence of Spatial Community Structure in Biological Metacommunities.
    Per Arne Rikvold*, Florida State University
    Elise Filotas, Universite de Montreal
    Lael Parrott, University of British Columbia
    Martin Grant, Mc Gill University
    (1090-60-164)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Tuning the kinetics of cell-cell adhesion.
    Sanjeevi Sivasankar*, Iowa State University
    Kristine Manibog, Iowa State University
    Sabyasachi Rakshit, Iowa State University
    Hui Li, Iowa State University
    (1090-92-333)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Modeling evaporation & phase-separation in thin film evaporation: Cahn-Hilliard-Cook equations, adaptive time-stepping and Linear stability analysis.
    Baskar Ganapathysubramanian*, Iowa State University
    (1090-35-437)
• Sunday April 28, 2013, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Stochastic Processes with Applications to Physics and Control, III
  Room 196, Carver
  Organizers:
  Jim Evans, Iowa State University evans@ameslab.gov
  Arka Ghosh, Iowa State University
  Jon Peterson, Purdue University
  Alexander Roitershtein, Iowa State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Small-time asymptotics of stopped Lévy bridges and simulation schemes with controlled bias.
    Jose E Figueroa-Lopez*, Purdue University
    Peter Tankov, Universite Paris-Diderot (Paris 7)
    (1090-60-358)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Large deviations in multi-time scale stochastic systems.
    Rohini Kumar*, Wayne State University
    Jin Feng, Kansas University
    Jean-Pierre Fouque, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1090-60-265)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Large Deviations for Stochastic Partial Differential Equations Driven by a Poisson Random Measure.
    Amarjit Budhiraja, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
    Jiang Chen*, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
    Paul Dupuis, Lefschetz Center for Dynamical Systems, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University
    (1090-60-08)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Dynamic Scheduling for Markov Modulated Single-server Multiclass Queueing Systems in Heavy Traffic.
    Xin Liu*, University of Minnesota
    Arka Ghosh, Iowa State University
    Amarjit Budhiraja, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (1090-60-244)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Optimal rate for a queueing system in heavy traffic with superimposed On-Off arrivals.
    Arka P Ghosh*, Iowa State University
    (1090-60-325)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Accumulation and spread of mutations in a spatially structured population.
    Jasmine Foo*, University of Minnesota
    (1090-60-339)
• Sunday April 28, 2013, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Stochastic Processes with Applications to Physics and Control, IV
  Room 196, Carver
  Organizers:
  Jim Evans, Iowa State University evans@ameslab.gov
  Arka Ghosh, Iowa State University
  Jon Peterson, Purdue University
  Alexander Roitershtein, Iowa State University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Wave and droplet solutions for a spatial epidemic model exhibiting a discontinuous transition to an all-healthy state.
    Chi-Jen Wang*, Ames Laboratory-USDOE, Departments of Mathematics, Iowa State University
    Da-Jiang Liu, Ames Laboratory-USDOE
    James W. Evans, Ames Laboratory-USDOE, Departments of Mathematics and Physics & Astronomy, Iowa State University
    (1090-60-307)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Extraordinary variability and sharp transitions in a maximally frustrated dynamic network.
    Wenjia Liu*, Department of Physics, Virginia Tech and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University
    Beate Schmittmann, Department of Physics, Virginia Tech and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University
    R. K. P. Zia, Department of Physics, Virginia Tech and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University
    (1090-60-124)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Fluctuations and 1D decay during coarsening in 2D anisotropic systems.
    Yong Han*, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University
    Selena M. Russell, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State Unversity
    Patricia A. Thiel, Departments of Chemistry, and Materials Science & Engineering, Iowa State University; Ames Laboratory - USDOE
    James W. Evans, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University; Ames Laboratory - USDOE
    (1090-60-223)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Ontological models for quantum theory: some recent perspectives.
    Raffaele Romano*, Iowa State University, Department of Mathematics
    (1090-81-07)

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