AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day
Current as of Saturday, April 13, 2013 00:24:55
Inquiries: meet@ams.org
Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting
Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
April 6-7, 2013 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1088
Associate secretaries:
Steven H. Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu
Saturday April 6, 2013
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Saturday April 6, 2013, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Meeting Registration
Welch Dining Room, Lyons Hall -
Saturday April 6, 2013, 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Exhibit and Book Sale
Welch Dining Room, Lyons Hall -
Saturday April 6, 2013, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Discrete Geometry of Polytopes, I
Room 230, Fulton Hall
Organizers:
Barry Monson, University of New Brunswick
Egon Schulte, Northeastern University schulte@neu.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Regular Polyhedra of Index $3$.
Anthony Cutler*, Newton, MA
(1088-52-243) -
8:30 a.m.
Quotients of abstract regular polytopes by linear codes.
Luis A. Ruiz-Lopez*, National Autonomous University of Mexico
(1088-05-158) -
9:00 a.m.
Orbit graphs and face-transitivity of k-orbit polytopes.
Gabe Cunningham*, University of Massachusetts Boston
(1088-05-28) -
9:30 a.m.
Some relations among equivelar 3-toroids.
Isabel Hubard*, Instituto de Matematicas, UNAM
Javier Bracho, Instituto de Matematicas, UNAM
Daniel Pellicer, Centro de Ciencias Matematicas, UNAM
(1088-52-284) -
10:00 a.m.
Equivelar toroids in the projective space.
Daniel Pellicer*, National University of Mexico
Isabel Hubard, National University of Mexico
Javier Bracho, National University of Mexico
(1088-52-138) -
10:30 a.m.
From maps to polytopes.
Thomas W, Tucker*, Colgate University
(1088-05-114)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday April 6, 2013, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Financial Mathematics, I
Room 220, Fulton Hall
Organizers:
Hasanjan Sayit, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Stephan Sturm, Worcester Polytechnic Institute ssturm@wpi.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Vanilla-like Options.
Roger Lee*, University of Chicago
(1088-60-257) -
9:00 a.m.
Implied volatility for general local-stochastic volatility models.
Matthew Lorig*, ORFE Department, Princeton University.
(1088-60-96) -
9:30 a.m.
Effect of volatility clustering on indifference pricing of options by convex risk measures.
Rohini Kumar*, Wayne State University
(1088-60-157) -
10:00 a.m.
Implied Volatility of Leveraged ETF Options.
Tim Leung*, Columbia University
Ronnie Sircar, Princeton University
(1088-60-12) -
10:30 a.m.
A Regime-Switching Heston Model for VIX and S&P 500 Implied Volatilities.
A. Papapanicolaou*, postdoc
R. Sircar, professor
(1088-60-194)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday April 6, 2013, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on History and Philosophy of Mathematics, I
Room S109, Stokes Hall
Organizers:
James J. Tattersall, Providence College tat@providence.edu
V. Frederick Rickey, United States Military Academy
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8:00 a.m.
"Epistemic Cultures" and the History of Mathematics.
Hardy Grant*, York University, Toronto
(1088-01-104) -
8:30 a.m.
Mathematics as Mind Training: The History of a Complex of Educational Ideas.
David Lindsay Roberts*, Prince George's Community College
(1088-01-53) -
9:00 a.m.
Mathematical Tables in Nineteenth Century America.
Scott B. Guthery*, Docent Press
(1088-01-16) -
9:30 a.m.
Pre-computer number crunching: computational aids and techniques in Indian mathematics.
Kim Plofker*, Union College
(1088-01-285) -
10:00 a.m.
The Evolution of Mathematics in Ancient China: From the Newly Discovered Shu and Suan shu shu Bamboo Texts to the Nine Chapters on the Art of Mathematics.
Joseph W. Dauben*, Lehman College, City University of New York
(1088-01-69) -
10:30 a.m.
Correcting an Error in Book I of Archimedes' "On Floating Bodies".
Chris Rorres*, University of Pennsylvania, Kennett Square, PA
(1088-01-38)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday April 6, 2013, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Homological Invariants in Low-dimensional Topology, I
Room S295, Stokes Hall
Organizers:
John Baldwin, Boston College
Joshua Greene, Boston College joshua.greene@bc.edu
Eli Grigsby, Boston College
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8:00 a.m.
On the Plamenevskaya invariant.
Robert Lipshitz, University of North Carolina
Lenhard Ng, Duke University
Sucharit Sarkar*, Princeton University
(1088-57-214) -
8:30 a.m.
Triply graded coloured homology.
Sabin Cautis*, University of Southern California
(1088-16-225) -
9:00 a.m.
The characteristic-2 Rasmussen invariant and mutation.
Thomas C Jaeger*, Syracuse University
(1088-57-261) -
9:30 a.m.
Open books, twist numbers, and Floer homology.
Matthew Hedden, Michigan State University
Thomas E. Mark*, University of Virginia
(1088-57-221) -
10:00 a.m.
Open book foliation and fractional Dehn twist coefficients.
Keiko Kawamuro*, University of Iowa
(1088-57-215) -
10:30 a.m.
Transverse knots, infinite cyclic covers and Heegaard Floer homology.
Tye Lidman, University of Texas, Austin
Robert Lipshitz, University of North Carolina
Sucharit Sarkar, Princeton University
David Shea Vela-Vick*, Louisiana State University
(1088-57-262)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday April 6, 2013, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Homology and Cohomology of Arithmetic Groups, I
Room S117, Stokes Hall
Organizers:
Avner Ash, Boston College
Darrin Doud, Brigham Young University doud@math.byu.edu
David Pollack, Wesleyan University
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8:00 a.m.
Cohomology growth and modularity lifting.
David Geraghty*, Princeton University and Institute for Advanced Study
(1088-11-209) -
9:00 a.m.
Multiplicities of automorphic forms on $GL_2$.
Simon Marshall*, Northwestern University
(1088-11-34) -
10:00 a.m.
On the parity of coefficients of modular forms.
Joel Bellaiche*, Brandeis University
(1088-11-39)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday April 6, 2013, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Hopf Algebras and their Applications, I
Room S113, Stokes Hall
Organizers:
Timothy Kohl, Boston University tkohl@math.bu.edu
Robert Underwood, Auburn University Montgomery
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8:00 a.m.
The search for a left quantum universal enveloping algebra.
Uma Iyer, Bronx Community College
Earl J. Taft*, Rutgers University
(1088-16-13) -
8:30 a.m.
Noetherian Algebras of Quantum Differential Operators.
Uma N Iyer*, Bronx
David A Jordan, University of Sheffield, UK
Timothy C McCune, Great Neck, NY
(1088-16-19) -
9:00 a.m.
Hopf algebras, Yang-Baxter equations and related structures.
Florin Felix Nichita*, IMAR Bucharest
(1088-16-115) -
9:30 a.m.
Quasi-bialgebra Structures and Torsion-free Abelian Groups.
Alessandro Ardizzoni*, University of Turin
(1088-16-155) -
10:00 a.m.
Quasi-Yetter-Drinfield Data.
Claudia Menini*, Departmen of Mathematics, University of Ferrara (Italy)
(1088-17-150) -
10:30 a.m.
Reduction of tensor categories modulo primes.
Pavel Etingof*, MIT
Shlomo Gelaki, Technion, Israel
(1088-18-17)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday April 6, 2013, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Moduli Spaces in Algebraic Geometry, I
Room 110, Fulton Hall
Organizers:
Dawei Chen, Boston College dawei.chen@bc.edu
Maksym Fedorchuk, Boston College
Joe Harris, Harvard University
Yu-Jong Tzeng, Harvard University
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8:00 a.m.
Effective Divisors on the Moduli Space of One-dimensional Sheaves on the Projective Plane.
Matthew Woolf*, Harvard University
(1088-14-126) -
9:00 a.m.
Stability of Second Hilbert Points of Canonical Curves.
David Jensen*, Stony Brook University
(1088-14-93) -
10:00 a.m.
Rigid curves on moduli spaces of stable rational curves and arithmetic breaks.
Ana-Maria Castravet*, Ohio State University
Jenia Tevelev, University of Massachusetts Amherst
(1088-14-164)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday April 6, 2013, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Real and Complex Dynamics of Difference Equations with Applications, I
Room S111, Stokes Hall
Organizers:
Ann Brett, Johnson and Wales University
M. R. S. Kulenovic, University of Rhode Island mkulenovic@mail.uri.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Global Behavior of Some Rational Second Order Difference Equations.
Mustafa R.S. Kulenovic*, University of Rhode Island
Midhat Mehuljic, University of Sarajevo
(1088-39-60) -
8:30 a.m.
A system of Four Difference Equations for Exploring the Dynamics of Dengue Spread, and its Control.
Tamara Awerbuch*, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health
Richard Levins, Harvard School of Public Health
Michaela Predescu, Bentley University, Waltham MA 0245
(1088-92-267) -
9:00 a.m.
On the Asymptotic Behavior of Convergent Solutions to Difference Equations of the type $x_{n+1}=Jx_{n}=f_{n}(x_{n})$.
William T Jamieson*, University of Rhode Island
Orlando Merino, University of Rhode Island
(1088-39-123) -
9:30 a.m.
Global Dynamics of Some Anti-competitive Systems of Difference Equations in the Plane.
M.R.S. Kulenovic, Department of Mathematics University of Rhode Island
M. DiPippo*, Department of Mathematics Rhode Island College
(1088-39-122) -
10:00 a.m.
Anti-Competitive Systems of Rational Difference Equations.
Chris D Lynd*, University of Rhode Island
(1088-39-128)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday April 6, 2013, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Research by Undergraduates and Students in Post-Baccalaureate Programs, I
Room 130, Fulton Hall
Organizers:
Chi-Keung Cheung, Boston College
David Damiano, College of the Holy Cross
Steven J. Miller, Williams College sjm1@williams.edu
Suzanne L. Weekes, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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8:00 a.m.
Population Demographics of Amphibians: Using Probabilistic Models to Estimate Abundance.
Meghan E Reynolds*, College of the Holy Cross
(1088-92-84) -
8:30 a.m.
Modelling Cancer Stem Cell and Non-Stem Cancer Cell Population Growth.
Sarah Jean Bober*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
(1088-34-97) -
9:00 a.m.
Modeling Calcium Dynamics on Muscle Force Generation of Frog.
Weifan Liu*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
(1088-92-78) -
9:30 a.m.
Toggling between gamma-frequency activity and suppression of cell assemblies.
Christoph Borgers, Tufts University
Bryan Walker*, Tufts University
(1088-92-288) -
10:00 a.m.
Modeling the Limited Immune Reconstitution of HIV-1 Patients on HAART: The Damaged Niche Hypothesis.
Leah DeCoste*, College of the Holy Cross
(1088-92-101) -
10:30 a.m.
Chemotactic Signalling in {\em A. punctulata} Sperm.
Daniel M. A. Duhaney*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
(1088-92-109)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday April 6, 2013, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic and Geometric Structures of 3-manifolds, I
Room S115, Stokes Hall
Organizers:
Ian Biringer, Boston College
Tao Li, Boston College taoli@bc.edu
Robert Meyerhoff, Boston College
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8:30 a.m.
Commensurability of hyperbolic knot complements.
Michel Boileau, Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse
Steven Boyer, UQAM
Radu Cebanu*, Boston College
Genevieve Walsh, TUFTS
(1088-51-211) -
9:00 a.m.
Thurston's gluing equations for PGL(n,C).
Christian K Zickert*, University of Maryland
(1088-57-289) -
9:30 a.m.
Virtual positivity of representation volumes.
Yi Liu*, Pasadena
(1088-57-166) -
10:00 a.m.
Small volume link orbifolds.
Christopher K Atkinson, University of Minnesota, Morris
David Futer*, Temple University
(1088-57-66) -
10:30 a.m.
Convex Projective Deformations of the Figure-8 Knot Complement.
Sam Aaron Ballas*, University of Texas at Austin
(1088-57-172)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday April 6, 2013, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algorithmic Problems of Group Theory and Applications to Information Security, I
Room 245, Fulton Hall
Organizers:
Delaram Kahrobaei, City University of New York Graduate Center and New York College of Technology dkahrobaei@gc.cuny.edu
Vladimir Shpilrain, City College of New York and City University of New York Graduate Center
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8:30 a.m.
Classification of embeddings of abelian extensions of $D_n$ into $E_{n+1}$.
Andrew Douglas*, City University of New York
Delaram Kahrobaei, City University of New York
Joe Repka, University of Toronto
(1088-17-239) -
9:00 a.m.
The word problem in the automorphism groups of right-angled Artin groups is in P.
Carrie A. Whittle*, University of Arkansas
(1088-20-47) -
9:30 a.m.
An Algorithmic and Geometric Property of Cayley Graphs.
Ashley Johnson*, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
(1088-20-178) -
10:00 a.m.
Constructive faithful representations into PSL(2,C) and PSL(2,R).
Benjamin Fine*, Fairfield University
Martin Kreuzer, University of Passau
Gerhard Rosenberger, University of Hamburg
(1088-20-167) -
10:30 a.m.
Dimension of Matrix Representations of Finitely Generated Torsion Free Nilpotent Groups.
Maggie E Habeeb*, California University of PA
Delaram Kahrobaei, CUNY Graduate Center
(1088-20-198)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday April 6, 2013, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Combinatorics and Classical Integrability, I
Room 423, Fulton Hall
Organizers:
Amanda Redlich, Rutgers University aredlich@math.rutgers.edu
Shabnam Beheshti, Rutgers University
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8:30 a.m.
An Integrability Toolkit for Combinatorialists.
Shabnam Beheshti*, Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University
(1088-35-271) -
9:00 a.m.
On a relationship between reflectionless potentials, Lax operators, Bogoliubov-de Gennes Liouvillians of integrable PDEs, and supersymmetric chains.
Maxim Olshanii*, University of Massachusetts Boston
Zaijong Hwang, University of Massachusetts Boston
Andrew Koller, University of Colorado
(1088-35-18) -
9:30 a.m.
Wronskian Formulations of the Boussinesq Equations.
Wen-Xiu Ma*, University of South Florida
(1088-35-24) -
10:00 a.m.
Near amplitude crossing of mKdV double solitons.
Justin Holmer*, Brown University
Donlapark Pornnopparath, Brown University
(1088-35-187) -
10:30 a.m.
Apollonian structure in the Abelian sandpile.
Wesley Pegden*, Courant Institute, NYU
Charles K Smart, MIT
Lionel Levine, Cornell University
(1088-37-287)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday April 6, 2013, 8:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Contributed Paper Session
Room S201, Stokes Hall
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8:30 a.m.
Mathematics and Wikiversity.
Jeffrey J Beyerl*, Furman University
(1088-97-22) -
8:45 a.m.
Simulation-based Metaheuristic Optimization of Logistics Systems.
Baiba Zvirgzdina*, Riga, Latvia
(1088-49-20) -
9:00 a.m.
Portfolio Selection with Downside Risk and Upside Potential.
Zhen Huang*, Otterbein University
Zengxiang Tong, Otterbein University
(1088-90-91) -
9:15 a.m.
Examining a Seismic Imaging Algorithm With Band Limited Data.
Bogdan G Nita*, Montclair State University
Catherine Wilshusen, The Johns Hopkins University
Marcus Jeffrey, North Carolina A&T State University
(1088-86-54) -
9:30 a.m.
Hyperinvariance for a class of operators.
Driss Drissi*, Kuwait university
(1088-47-290) -
9:45 a.m.
Global Attractors of the Hyperbolic Relaxation of Reaction-Diffusion Equations with Dynamic Boundary Conditions.
Joseph L Shomberg*, Providence College
Ciprian G Gal, Florida International University
(1088-35-36) -
10:00 a.m.
Seifert fibered surgery on hyperbolic pretzel knots.
Jeffrey Meier*, University of Texas at Austin
(1088-57-30) -
10:15 a.m.
A Note on the Prison Yard Problem.
Val Pinciu*, Southern Connecticut State University
(1088-05-248) -
10:30 a.m.
The Application of the connectivity between uniserial module over an Artinian ring with its Jacobson Radical.
Irawati Oetoyo Soeryodinoto*, Algebra research group. Institut Teknologi Bandung
(1088-16-25)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday April 6, 2013, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Arithmetic Dynamics and Galois Theory, I
Room S209, Stokes Hall
Organizers:
John Cullinan, Bard College cullinan@bard.edu
Farshid Hajir, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Siman Wong, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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9:00 a.m.
Isotriviality of Algebraic Dynamical Systems over Function Fields.
Anupam Bhatnagar*, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
Alon Levy, University of British Columbia
(1088-37-185) -
9:30 a.m.
Finding $p$-class towers of length 3.
Michael R. Bush*, Dept. of Mathematics, Washington and Lee University
Daniel C. Mayer, Graz, Austria.
(1088-11-254) -
10:00 a.m.
A Thompson Group for the Basilica.
James M Belk*, Bard College
Bradley T Forrest, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
(1088-20-255) -
10:30 a.m.
Dynamical Degrees and Arithmetic Degrees for Rational Maps and Morphisms.
Joseph H Silverman*, Mathematics Department, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912
(1088-11-37)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday April 6, 2013, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Commuting Matrices and the Hilbert Scheme, I
Room 453, Fulton Hall
Organizers:
Anthony Iarrobino, Northeastern University a.iarrobino@neu.edu
Leila Khatami, Union College
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9:00 a.m.
The invariant Hilbert scheme of V. Alexeev and M. Brion: a survey.
Bart Van Steirteghem*, Medgar Evers College (CUNY)
(1088-14-203) -
10:00 a.m.
Some Combinatorics of Dynkin-Kostant Diagrams.
Alfred Gerard Noel*, University of Massachusetts Boston
(1088-22-49) -
10:30 a.m.
Nilpotent commuting varieties.
Nham Vo Ngo*, University of Wisconsin-Stout
(1088-20-65)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday April 6, 2013, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Complex Geometry and Microlocal Analysis, I
Room 117, Fulton Hall
Organizers:
Victor W. Guillemin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Richard B. Melrose, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Yanir A. Rubinstein, Stanford University yanir@member.ams.org
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9:00 a.m.
Semiclassical spectral invariants for perturbed harmonic oscillators.
Zuoqin Wang*, The University of Michigan
(1088-35-161) -
9:30 a.m.
On the evolution of APEs.
Eric Bahuaud*, Seattle University
(1088-53-112) -
10:00 a.m.
On the singularities of the pluricomplex Green's function.
Duong H Phong*, Columbia University
(1088-32-129)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday April 6, 2013, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Counting and Equidistribution on Symmetric Spaces, I
Room 425, Fulton Hall
Organizers:
Dubi Kelmer, Boston College kelmer@bc.edu
Alex Kontorovich, Yale University
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9:00 a.m.
Effective Equidistributions of Farey Sequence and Limit Distributions of Frobenius Numbers.
Han Li*, Yale University
(1088-37-74) -
10:00 a.m.
Equidistribution of generalized Farey points and applications to counting.
Ilya Vinogradov*, University of Bristol
(1088-37-134)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday April 6, 2013, 11:05 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
Invited Address
Canonical bases and geometry.
Room 127, Merkert Chemistry Center
Roman Bezrukavnikov*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(1088-20-01) -
Saturday April 6, 2013, 1:55 p.m.-2:45 p.m.
Invited Address
Discrete objects with maximum possible symmetry.
Room 127, Merkert Chemistry Center
Marston Conder*, University of Auckland, New Zealand
(1088-20-02) -
Saturday April 6, 2013, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic and Geometric Structures of 3-manifolds, II
Room S115, Stokes Hall
Organizers:
Ian Biringer, Boston College
Tao Li, Boston College taoli@bc.edu
Robert Meyerhoff, Boston College
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3:00 p.m.
The classification of bridge surfaces for torus knots.
Alexander Zupan*, University of Texas at Austin
(1088-57-67) -
3:30 p.m.
Dehn surgery and bridge number of knots in handlebodies.
R Sean Bowman*, Oklahoma State University
(1088-57-199) -
4:00 p.m.
Right-angled Coxeter groups and acute triangulations.
Genevieve S. Walsh*, Tufts University
(1088-57-139) -
4:30 p.m.
The Kakimizu complex of a knot.
Piotr Przytycki, Polish Academy of Sciences
Jennifer Schultens*, University of California, Davis
(1088-57-57) -
5:00 p.m.
Minimal genus Seifert surfaces for prime, special alternating links.
Jessica E. Banks*, CRM-ISM, Montreal
(1088-57-88)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday April 6, 2013, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Algorithmic Problems of Group Theory and Applications to Information Security, II
Room 245, Fulton Hall
Organizers:
Delaram Kahrobaei, City University of New York Graduate Center and New York College of Technology dkahrobaei@gc.cuny.edu
Vladimir Shpilrain, City College of New York and City University of New York Graduate Center
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3:00 p.m.
Diffie-Hellman Problems with Deterministic Hard-Core Bits.
Nelly Fazio, City College, CUNY
Rosario Gennaro*, City College, CUNY
Milinda Pereira, City College, CUNY
William E. Skeith, City College, CUNY
(1088-12-269) -
3:30 p.m.
Current Challenges in Information Security.
Shafi Goldwasser*, MIT
(1088-20-275) -
4:00 p.m.
Public key exchange using semidirect product of (semi)groups.
M. Habeeb, California University of Pennsylvania
D. Kahrobaei, City University of New York
C. Koupparis, City University of New York
V. Shpilrain*, City University of New York
(1088-94-152) -
4:30 p.m.
Implementing Binary Elliptic Curve Addition as Quantum Circuit.
Rainer Steinwandt*, Florida Atlantic University
(1088-94-222) -
5:00 p.m.
Complicated residually finite groups.
Mark Sapir*, Nashville
(1088-20-71) -
5:30 p.m.
Using automata to solve algorithmic problems in relatively hyperbolic groups.
Olga Kharlampovich*, Hunter College, CUNY
(1088-20-253)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday April 6, 2013, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Arithmetic Dynamics and Galois Theory, II
Room S209, Stokes Hall
Organizers:
John Cullinan, Bard College cullinan@bard.edu
Farshid Hajir, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Siman Wong, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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3:00 p.m.
The distribution of torsion group schemes among abelian varieties over finite fields.
Jeffrey D Achter*, Colorado State University
(1088-11-249) -
3:30 p.m.
On the field of definition of a $p^n$-torsion point on an elliptic curve defined over a number field.
Alvaro Lozano-Robledo*, University of Connecticut
(1088-11-154) -
4:00 p.m.
Galois Theory of Iterated Morphisms on Reducible Elliptic Curves.
Domenico Aiello*, University of Massachusetts Amherst
(1088-11-204) -
4:30 p.m.
Computing images of Galois representations attached to elliptic curves.
Andrew V Sutherland*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(1088-11-48) -
5:00 p.m.
Dynamics associated with Jacobians of Hermitian curves.
Rachel Pries*, Colorado State University
Colin Weir, University of Calgary
(1088-11-236)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday April 6, 2013, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Combinatorics and Classical Integrability, II
Room 423, Fulton Hall
Organizers:
Amanda Redlich, Rutgers University aredlich@math.rutgers.edu
Shabnam Beheshti, Rutgers University
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3:00 p.m.
A Combinatorial Toolkit for Nonlinear Analysts.
Amanda Redlich*, Rutgers
(1088-05-274) -
3:30 p.m.
$\beta$-Gaussian Ensembles and the Non-orientability of Polygonal Glueings.
Michael La Croix*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(1088-05-286) -
4:00 p.m.
An invitation to the Weingarten calculus.
Jonathan Novak*, MIT
(1088-05-144) -
4:30 p.m.
The toggle group and its application to statistical physics.
Jessica Striker*, University of Minnesota
(1088-05-276) -
5:00 p.m.
Bijections and symmetries for the factorizations of the long cycle.
Olivier Bernardi, Brandeis University
Alejandro H. Morales*, LaCIM, Université du Québec à Montréal
(1088-05-23)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday April 6, 2013, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Commuting Matrices and the Hilbert Scheme, II
Room 453, Fulton Hall
Organizers:
Anthony Iarrobino, Northeastern University a.iarrobino@neu.edu
Leila Khatami, Union College
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3:00 p.m.
Hilbert Schemes and Jacobi Factors of Plane Curve Singularities.
Mikhail Mazin*, Stony Brook University
(1088-14-231) -
3:30 p.m.
Cherednik algebras, Hilbert schemes and knot invariants.
Eugene Gorsky*, Stony Brook University
(1088-14-62) -
4:00 p.m.
Cohomology rings of the elliptic Affine Springer Fibers in type $A$.
Alexei Oblomkov*, University of Massachuetts, Amherst
Zhiwei Yun, Stanford
(1088-14-145) -
4:30 p.m.
Enumeration of singular curves with tangency conditions.
Yu-jong Tzeng*, Harvard University
(1088-14-177) -
5:00 p.m.
Ideals of conjugacy classes of nilpotent matrices.
Riccardo Biagioli, University of Lyon
Sara Faridi*, Dalhousie University
Mercedes Rosas, University of Sevilla
(1088-13-169) -
5:30 p.m.
Equations for isospectral Hilbert schemes of $n\leq 4$ points on the plane.
Fatimah Ahmed Alsmaeel, Wayne State University
Christopher E. Creighton, Wayne State University
Bogdan Gheorghe, Wayne State University
Kyungyong Lee*, Wayne State University
(1088-05-72)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday April 6, 2013, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Complex Geometry and Microlocal Analysis, II
Room 117, Fulton Hall
Organizers:
Victor W. Guillemin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Richard B. Melrose, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Yanir A. Rubinstein, Stanford University yanir@member.ams.org
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3:00 p.m.
Curvature, Cones, and Characteristic Numbers.
Michael F. Atiyah, University of Edinburgh
Claude R. LeBrun*, Stony Brook University
(1088-53-235) -
4:00 p.m.
Construction of conic Kahler-Einstein metrics.
Chi Li*, Stony Brook University
Song Sun, Imperial College, UK
(1088-53-61) -
4:30 p.m.
Positivity in Kähler-Einstein theory.
Luca Fabrizio Di Cerbo*, Duke University Math Department
Gabriele Di Cerbo, Princeton University Math Department
(1088-53-50) -
5:00 p.m.
Smooth gluing theorems for Kähler metrics.
Michael Singer*, University College London
Richard B Melrose, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(1088-58-79)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday April 6, 2013, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Special Session on Counting and Equidistribution on Symmetric Spaces, II
Room 425, Fulton Hall
Organizers:
Dubi Kelmer, Boston College kelmer@bc.edu
Alex Kontorovich, Yale University
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3:00 p.m.
Equidistribution of primitive rational points on expanding horosphere.
Nimish A Shah*, Ohio State University
Manfred Einsiedler, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland
Shahar Mozes, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Uri Schapira, Technion, Haifa, Israel
(1088-22-245) -
4:00 p.m.
Unipotent flows and infinite measures.
Amir Mohammadi*, The University of Texas at Austin
(1088-37-59) -
5:00 p.m.
Effective circle count for Apollonian packings and closed horospheres.
Min Lee*, Brown University
Hee Oh, Brown University
(1088-11-92)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday April 6, 2013, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Discrete Geometry of Polytopes, II
Room 230, Fulton Hall
Organizers:
Barry Monson, University of New Brunswick
Egon Schulte, Northeastern University schulte@neu.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Isometric Point-Circle Configurations and Unit-Distance Polycirculants.
Marko Boben, University of Ljubljana, FRI
Gábor Gévay, Bolyai Institute, University of Szeged
Tomaž Pisanski*, University of Ljubljana, FMF
(1088-52-119) -
3:30 p.m.
From Ehrhart theory to almost-neighborly polytopes.
Benjamin T Nill*, Case Western Reserve University
Arnau Padrol, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
(1088-52-168) -
4:00 p.m.
Vertex-Transitive Polyhedra in 3-Space.
Undine Leopold*, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
(1088-52-142) -
4:30 p.m.
Abstract polytopes with O'Nan as automorphism group.
Dimitri Leemans*, University of Auckland
(1088-52-146) -
5:00 p.m.
Simple groups acting on polytopes.
Peter A Brooksbank*, Bucknell University
(1088-20-213) -
5:30 p.m.
Residues of Bruhat-Tits buildings.
Richard M Weiss*, Tufts University
Holger P Petersson, FernUniversität Hagen
Bernhard Mühlherr, Universität Giessen
(1088-20-32)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday April 6, 2013, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Financial Mathematics, II
Room 220, Fulton Hall
Organizers:
Hasanjan Sayit, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Stephan Sturm, Worcester Polytechnic Institute ssturm@wpi.edu
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3:00 p.m.
An Optimal Timing Approach to Mean-Reversion Trading.
Xin Li*, Columbia University
Tim Leung, Columbia University
(1088-60-11) -
3:30 p.m.
Optimal Hedging in a Discrete Time Incomplete Market with Transaction Costs.
Victoria Steblovskaya*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Bentley University
Norm Josephy, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Bentley University
Lucy Kimball, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Bentley University
(1088-91-165) -
4:00 p.m.
Optimal Consumption with Transaction Cost and Random Endowment: Shadow Prices and Connections to Duality.
Xiang Yu*, University of Michigan
Erhan Bayraktar, University of Michigan
Yuchong Zhang, University of Michigan
(1088-60-94) -
4:30 p.m.
Consumption Dynamics in Incomplete Markets.
Paolo Guasoni, Boston University and Dublin City University
Gu Wang*, Boston University
(1088-60-188) -
5:00 p.m.
Most Likely Path to Systemic Failure.
Kontantinos Spiliopoulos*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University
Kay Giesecke, Stanford University
Richard Sowers, University of Illionis at Urbana-Champaign
(1088-60-131) -
5:30 p.m.
Two-Dimensional Sequential Hypothesis Testing in the Brownian Motion Model.
Michael Carlisle, Department fo Mathematics, Baruch College, CUNY
Olympia Hadjiliadis*, Department of Mathematics Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of CUNY
(1088-62-176)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday April 6, 2013, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on History and Philosophy of Mathematics, II
Room S109, Stokes Hall
Organizers:
James J. Tattersall, Providence College tat@providence.edu
V. Frederick Rickey, United States Military Academy
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3:00 p.m.
The Burial of Euclid: Defacing Geometry in Early-Nineteenth-Century America.
Andrew P Fiss*, Vassar College
(1088-01-250) -
3:30 p.m.
Soldiers and Scholars: Descriptive Geometry on the Blackboard.
Christopher J. Phillips*, Harvard University
(1088-01-55) -
4:00 p.m.
Learning vector calculus circa 1900.
Eisso J Atzema*, University of Maine
(1088-01-182) -
4:30 p.m.
Perspective, Painting, Publishing, and Patronage: Joshua Kirby and Brook Taylor.
Duncan J Melville*, St. Lawrence University
(1088-01-174) -
5:00 p.m.
Sectors at the Smithsonian.
Amy Ackerberg-Hastings*, NMAH/UMUC
(1088-01-26) -
5:30 p.m.
Episodes from American Mathematics in the Age of Jefferson.
Dick Jardine*, Keene State College
(1088-01-135)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday April 6, 2013, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Homological Invariants in Low-dimensional Topology, II
Room S295, Stokes Hall
Organizers:
John Baldwin, Boston College
Joshua Greene, Boston College joshua.greene@bc.edu
Eli Grigsby, Boston College
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3:00 p.m.
Trisections of 4-manifolds.
David T Gay*, University of Georgia and Euclid Lab
Robion Kirby, University of California Berkeley
(1088-57-246) -
3:30 p.m.
Surface diagrams and Floer homology.
Jonathan D Williams*, University of Georgia
(1088-57-136) -
4:00 p.m.
Computing Higher-order Alexander Polynomials of Knots.
Peter D Horn*, Syracuse University
(1088-57-121) -
4:30 p.m.
The pillowcase and perturbations of traceless representations of knot groups.
Matthew Hedden*, Michigan State University
Chris Herald, University of Nevada, Reno
Paul Kirk, University of Indiana, Bloomington
(1088-57-125) -
5:00 p.m.
Heegaard Floer homology and the Alexander trick.
Liam Watson*, UCLA
(1088-57-256) -
5:30 p.m.
The Seifert form, Alexander module, and bordered Floer homology.
Jennifer Hom*, Columbia
Sam Lewallen, Princeton
Tye Lidman, UT Austin
Liam Watson, UCLA
(1088-57-244)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday April 6, 2013, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Homology and Cohomology of Arithmetic Groups, II
Room S117, Stokes Hall
Organizers:
Avner Ash, Boston College
Darrin Doud, Brigham Young University doud@math.byu.edu
David Pollack, Wesleyan University
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3:00 p.m.
Analytic $p$-adic $L$-functions for $\mathrm{GL}_2$.
David Hansen*, Boston College
(1088-11-52) -
4:00 p.m.
Modular Forms and Elliptic Curves Over the Cubic Field of Discriminant $-23$.
Paul E. Gunnells, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Dan Yasaki*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Carolina Greensboro
(1088-11-80) -
4:30 p.m.
Equivariant cohomology of $SL_2$ over imaginary quadratic integers.
Ethan Berkove*, Lafayette College
(1088-11-130) -
5:00 p.m.
Arthur packet of small symplectic groups.
Birgit Speh*, Cornell university
Mahdi Asgari, Oklahoma State Univwrsity
(1088-22-195) -
5:30 p.m.
Mod 2 Cohomology for GL(4) and Galois Representations.
Mark McConnell*, Princeton University
(1088-11-240)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday April 6, 2013, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Hopf Algebras and their Applications, II
Room S113, Stokes Hall
Organizers:
Timothy Kohl, Boston University tkohl@math.bu.edu
Robert Underwood, Auburn University Montgomery
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3:00 p.m.
Hopf Galois structures on Galois extensions of fields of degree $mp$.
Lindsay N. Childs*, University at Albany
(1088-12-189) -
3:30 p.m.
Matrices with correspond to Hopf orders in high ramification.
Alan Koch*, Agnes Scott College
(1088-11-63) -
4:00 p.m.
Scaffolds in local Galois module theory with implications for the classification of Hopf orders.
G. Griffith Elder*, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Nigel P. Byott, University of Exeter
(1088-11-108) -
4:30 p.m.
Locally Nilpotent Skew Derivations.
Jeffrey Bergen*, DePaul University
Piotr Grzeszczuk, Bialystok University of Technology
(1088-16-190) -
5:00 p.m.
Semilinear Actions of General Linear Groups on Character Rings of Hopf Algebras.
Yorck Sommerhäuser*, University of South Alabama
(1088-16-191) -
5:30 p.m.
Classifying Hopf algebras of dimension $8p$.
Margaret Beattie*, Mount Allison University, Canada
Gaston Andres Garcia, Universidad Nacional de la Plata, Argentina
(1088-16-183)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday April 6, 2013, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Special Session on Moduli Spaces in Algebraic Geometry, II
Room 110, Fulton Hall
Organizers:
Dawei Chen, Boston College dawei.chen@bc.edu
Maksym Fedorchuk, Boston College
Joe Harris, Harvard University
Yu-Jong Tzeng, Harvard University
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3:00 p.m.
Boundary divisors in the moduli space of stable quintic surfaces.
Julie Rana*, University of Massachusetts Amherst
(1088-14-175) -
4:00 p.m.
The Abel--Jacobi map and cycles on the moduli space of curves.
Dmitry Zakharov*, Stony Brook University
Samuel Grushevsky, Stony Brook University
(1088-14-179) -
5:00 p.m.
The tautological ring of the moduli space of stable curves.
Aaron Pixton*, Princeton University
(1088-14-160)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday April 6, 2013, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Real and Complex Dynamics of Difference Equations with Applications, II
Room S111, Stokes Hall
Organizers:
Ann Brett, Johnson and Wales University
M. R. S. Kulenovic, University of Rhode Island mkulenovic@mail.uri.edu
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3:00 p.m.
Attractivity and Global Stability for Linear Fractional Difference Equation.
A. Brett*, Johnson & Wales University
M. Kulenovic, University of Rhode Island
(1088-39-68) -
3:30 p.m.
Patterns of Boundedness of Rational Systems in the Plane.
Emmanouil Drymonis*, Department of Mathematics, University of Rhode Island
(1088-39-241) -
4:00 p.m.
Toward a Classification of Periodic Trichotomies.
Frank J Palladino*, University of Rhode Island
(1088-39-151) -
4:30 p.m.
An application of the Kulenovic-Ladas-Sizer Theorem on a system of rational difference equations.
Evelina G Lapierre*, Johnson & Wales University
Dan Hadley, University of Rhode Island
Edward Grove, University of Rhode Island
Sam Schultz, Providence College
(1088-39-95) -
5:00 p.m.
Global dynamics of some second order quadratic fractional difference equation.
Daniel M Hadley*, University of Rhode Island
(1088-39-266)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday April 6, 2013, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Research by Undergraduates and Students in Post-Baccalaureate Programs, II
Room 130, Fulton Hall
Organizers:
Chi-Keung Cheung, Boston College
David Damiano, College of the Holy Cross
Steven J. Miller, Williams College sjm1@williams.edu
Suzanne L. Weekes, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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3:00 p.m.
Solving the Diffusion Equation on the Sphere with the Finite Element Method and Multigrid Solvers.
Jay A. Stotsky*, Tufts University
(1088-65-82) -
3:30 p.m.
Extreme Cases of the $p$-Laplace Operator.
Xiao Shen*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
(1088-35-140) -
4:00 p.m.
The Average Gap Distribution for Generalized Zeckendorf Decompositions.
Louis Gaudet*, Yale University
Olivia Beckwith, Harvey Mudd College
Amanda Bower, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Rachel Insoft, Wellesley College
Shiyu Li, University of California, Berkeley
Steven J. Miller, Williams College
Philip Tosteson, Williams College
(1088-11-102) -
4:30 p.m.
Frobenius Pseudoprimes and a Cubic Primality Test.
Eric Kimball*, Bates College
(1088-12-29) -
5:00 p.m.
Elliptic Reciprocity.
Liljana Babinkostova, Boise State University
Kevin Bombardier, Wichita State University
Matthew Cole, University of Notre Dame
Thomas Morrell*, Washington University in St. Louis
Cory Scott, Colorado College
(1088-11-31) -
5:30 p.m.
AES-like ciphers over any finite field.
Liljana Babinkostova, Department of Mathematics, Boise State University
Kevin Bombardier, Wichita State University
Matthew Cole*, University of Notre Dame
Thomas Morrell, Washington University in St. Louis
Cory Scott, Colorado College
(1088-20-35)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday April 6, 2013, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Special Session on Topology and Generalized Cohomologies in Modern Condensed Matter Physics, I
Room S201, Stokes Hall
Organizers:
Claudio Chamon, Boston University
Robert Kotiuga, Boston University prk@bu.edu
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3:00 p.m.
The mathematical language to describe many-body quantum entanglement: fusion category theory and group cohomology theory.
Xiao-Gang Wen*, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
(1088-18-232) -
4:00 p.m.
Raoul Bott's later work on physics-inspired mathematics.
Loring Tu*, Tufts University
(1088-57-279) -
5:00 p.m.
Configuration space integrals in the study of knot and link spaces.
Ismar Volic*, Wellesley College
(1088-55-21)
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3:00 p.m.
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Saturday April 6, 2013, 6:15 p.m.-7:45 p.m.
Reception Sponsored by Boston College, College of Arts and Sciences and Department of Mathematics
Welch Dining Room, Lyons Hall
Inquiries: meet@ams.org