Fall Western Sectional Meeting, AMS Special Session

AMS Sectional Meeting AMS Special Session

Current as of Saturday, November 3, 2012 01:09:58

Associate secretaries:

Saturday October 27, 2012, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Differential Equations and Biological Systems, I
Room 402, Modern Languages
Organizers:
Patrick Shipman, Colorado State University
Zoi Rapti, University of IIlinois at Urbana-Champaign zrapti@illinois.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  A Mosquito-borne Disease Model Comparing Dynamics of Chikungunya and Dengue.
  Carrie Manore*, Tulane University
  Helen Wearing, University of New Mexico
  James Hyman, Tulane University
  Sen Xu, Tulane University
  (1085-92-207)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Modeling the nonlocal dispersal of invasive plant species in heterogeneous landscapes.
  Christopher Strickland*, Colorado State University
  Patrick Shipman, Colorado State University
  Gerhard Dangelmayr, Colorado State University
  (1085-45-196)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Modelling Culling in Avian Influenza.
  Hayriye Gulbudak*, University of Florida
  Maia Martcheva, University of Florida
  (1085-92-77)

Sunday October 28, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-9:20 a.m.
Special Session on Differential Equations and Biological Systems, II
Room 402, Modern Languages
Organizers:
Patrick Shipman, Colorado State University
Zoi Rapti, University of IIlinois at Urbana-Champaign zrapti@illinois.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Density-cluster NMA: A new protein decomposition technique for coarse-grained normal mode analysis.
  Julie C Mitchell*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
  Omar NA Demerdash, University of Wisconsin - Madison
  (1085-92-265)
- 8:30 a.m.
  DNA and chromatin as space curves constructed with 1 to 1,000,000 base pairs.
  Thomas C Bishop*, Depts. Chemistry & Physics, Louisiana Tech University
  (1085-92-261)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Low-dimensional descriptions of neural networks.
  Andrea K Barreiro*, Southern Methodist University
  Eli Shlizerman, University of Washington
  Eric Shea-Brown, University of Washington
  J Nathan Kutz, University of Washington
  (1085-92-193)

Sunday October 28, 2012, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Differential Equations and Biological Systems, III
Room 402, Modern Languages
Organizers:
Patrick Shipman, Colorado State University
Zoi Rapti, University of IIlinois at Urbana-Champaign zrapti@illinois.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Why Fibonacci: Pattern-Forming Fronts as a Model for Phyllotaxis.
  Matthew Pennybacker*, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
  (1085-35-248)
- 3:30 p.m.
  A Measure of Orbit Ergodicity.
  Francis C Motta*, Colorado State University
  Bethany Springer, Colorado State University
  Patrick D Shipman, Colorado State University
  (1085-37-233)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Viscosity solutions for the Hamilton-Jacobi equation with Toda potentials.
  J. Adrian Espinola-Rocha*, CIMAT, A.C.
  Pablo Padilla-Longoria, IIMAS-FENOMEC. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.
  (1085-35-289)