AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day

Current as of Saturday, September 27, 2014 00:26:40

Central Fall Sectional Meeting
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI
September 20-21, 2014 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1102

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

Sunday September 21, 2014

• Sunday September 21, 2014, 7:30 a.m.-10:15 a.m.
  Special Session on Directions in Commutative Algebra: Past, Present, Future (dedicated to the memory of H.-B. Foxby), III
  Room 211, Hibbard Hall
  Organizers:
  Joseph P. Brennan, University of Central Florida Joseph.Brennan@ucf.edu
  Robert M. Fossum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  

  • 7:30 a.m.
    Closure operations in commutative algebra.
    Neil Epstein*, George Mason University
    (1102-13-266)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    On the Edge Homomorphism of a Spectral Sequence.
    Sankar P Dutta*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1102-13-83)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Geometric modeling and barycentric coordinates for polygons.
    Corey Irving, Santa Clara University
    Hal Schenck*, University of Illinois
    (1102-14-224)
• Sunday September 21, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  First Floor Lobby, Hibbard Hall
• Sunday September 21, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  First Floor Lobby, Hibbard Hall
• Sunday September 21, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics, III
  Room 321, Hibbard Hall
  Organizers:
  Pavlo Pylyavskyy, University of Minnesota
  Victor Reiner, University of Minnesota
  Dennis Stanton, University of Minnesota stanton@math.umn.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Catalan Combinatorics of Borel Ideals and Generalizations.
    Eric S. Egge*, Carleton College
    (1102-05-118)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Hopf algebra structure of the ring of $k$-Schur functions.
    Aaron Lauve*, Loyola University Chicago
    Franco Saliola, University of Quebec at Montreal
    (1102-16-214)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Colored partitions with restrictions on the colors appearing.
    William J Keith*, Michigan Tech University
    (1102-05-50)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Proof of Blum's conjecture on hexagonal dungeons.
    Mihai Ciucu, Indiana University Bloomington
    Tri Lai*, Indiana University Bloomington
    (1102-05-45)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: A triangular gap of size two in a sea of dimers on a 60 degree angle.
    Mihai Ciucu*, Indiana University
    Ilse Fischer, University of Vienna, Austria
    (1102-05-232)
• Sunday September 21, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:15 a.m.
  Special Session on Analysis and Geometry on Lie Groups, III
  Room 322, Hibbard Hall
  Organizers:
  Chal Benson, East Carolina University
  Gail Ratcliff, East Carolina University ratcliffg@ecu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Dual Tetrahedra and their Nets.
    Derege H Mussa*, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M, university commerce
    (1102-51-26)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    On Riesz Decomposition of Super-Polyharmonic Functions.
    Alexander (Oleksandr) V Tovstolis*, Oklahoma State University
    (1102-31-192)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Weak admissibility for monomial representations of exponential Lie groups.
    Brad Currey*, Saint Louis University
    Vignon Oussa, Bridgewater State University
    (1102-22-190)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Integrability of unitary representations on reproducing kernel spaces and reflection positivity.
    S. Merigon, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg
    H.K. Neeb, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg
    Gestur Olafsson*, Luisiana State University
    (1102-22-122)
• Sunday September 21, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Cohomology and Representation Theory of Groups and Related Structures, III
  Room 324, Hibbard Hall
  Organizers:
  Christopher Bendel, University of Wisconsin-Stout bendelc@uwstout.edu
  Christopher Drupieski, De Paul University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Polynomials for symmetric orbit closures in the flag variety.
    Benjamin Wyser, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and l'Institut Fourier
    Alexander Yong*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1102-05-93)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Staggered Sheaves and $K$-Theory of Toric Varieties.
    William Graham, University of Georgia
    Amber Russell*, University of Georgia
    (1102-19-174)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Rank varieties for reductions of cyclic Knörr lattices.
    Michael Geline*, Northern Illinois University
    (1102-20-160)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Self-Normalizing Sylow 2-Subgroups and Galois Automorphisms: Type A in Characteristic 2.
    Amanda A. Schaeffer Fry*, Metropolitan State University of Denver
    (1102-20-132)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Jordan decomposition of real-valued characters of finite reductive groups with connected center.
    Bhama Srinivasan, University of Illinois at Chicago
    C. Ryan Vinroot*, College of William and Mary
    (1102-20-99)
• Sunday September 21, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Ring Theory, III
  Room 203, Hibbard Hall
  Organizers:
  Michael Axtell, University of St. Thomas
  Joe Stickles, Millikin University jstickles@mail.millikin.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Facet ideals of trees and free resolutions of Stanley-Reisner ideals.
    Kyle A Roy*, Miami University
    (1102-13-67)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Frobenius Functor and Flat and Injective Dimension.
    Thomas Marley, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    Marcus Webb*, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    (1102-13-77)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Kronecker function rings of ring extensions.
    Simplice Tchamna*, Georgia College & State University
    Lokendra Paudel, New Mexico State University
    (1102-13-90)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Semidualizing modules over tensor products.
    Hannah L Altmann*, North Dakota State University
    (1102-13-108)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Two questions about Ext.
    Sean Sather-Wagstaff*, North Dakota State University
    Benjamin Anderson, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
    Anders Frankild, n/a
    Richard Wicklein, MacMurray College
    Roger Wiegand, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1102-13-141)
• Sunday September 21, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Knot Concordance and 4-Manifolds, III
  Room 310, Hibbard Hall
  Organizers:
  Christopher W. Davis, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire daviscw@uwec.edu
  Taylor Martin, Sam Houston State University
  Carolyn Otto, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Homology cobordism of graph manifolds.
    Margaret Doig, Syracuse University
    Peter Horn*, Syracuse University
    (1102-57-63)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Fibered twisted torus knots.
    Brandy Guntel Doleshal*, Sam Houston State University
    (1102-57-198)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Shake-concordance of knots.
    Tim D Cochran, Rice University
    Arunima Ray*, Brandeis University
    (1102-57-166)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The concordance classification of low crossing number knots.
    Julia Collins, University of Edinburgh
    Paul Kirk, Indiana University, Bloomington
    Charles Livingston*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (1102-57-125)
• Sunday September 21, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Lie Algebras and Representation Theory, III
  Room 320, Hibbard Hall
  Organizers:
  Michael Lau, Université Laval
  Ian Musson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  Matthew Ondrus, Weber State University mattondrus@weber.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Whittaker modules for the Insertion-Elimination Algebra.
    Emilie B Wiesner*, Ithaca College
    Matthew Ondrus, Weber State University
    (1102-17-170)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A $p$-adic interpretation of some integral identities for Hall-Littlewood polynomials.
    Vidya Venkateswaran*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1102-33-189)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    BGG Reciprocity for Current Algebras.
    Vyjayanthi Chari*, University of California, Riverside
    (1102-17-217)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Hall algebras and quantum groups arising from 2-periodic derived categories.
    Xueqing Chen*, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
    Jie Xiao, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
    Fan Xu, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
    (1102-16-13)
• Sunday September 21, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on New Trends in Toric Varieties, III
  Room 229, Hibbard Hall
  Organizers:
  Christine Berkesch Zamaere, University of Minnesota cberkesc@math.umn.edu
  Daniel Erman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Hal Schenck, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Transformations of $A$-hypergeometric functions.
    Laura Felicia Matusevich*, Texas A&M University
    Jens Forsgård, Stockholm University
    (1102-14-258)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Characters of equivariant $D$--modules on Veronese cones.
    Claudiu Raicu*, University of Notre Dame
    (1102-14-220)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Smooth Projective Toric Generators of Complex Cobordism.
    Andrew Wilfong*, Eastern Michigan University
    (1102-57-17)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Which varieties are global quotients by finite groups?
    Matthew Satriano*, Johns Hopkins University
    (1102-14-250)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday September 21, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Patterns in Permutations and Words, and Applications, III
  Room 315, Hibbard Hall
  Organizers:
  Manda Riehl, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
  Alex Woo, University of Idaho awoo@uidaho.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Competition graphs induced by permutations.
    Brian K Nakamura*, CCICADA/DIMACS, Rutgers University
    Elizabeth Yang, Princeton University
    (1102-05-208)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    2-chains in layer polyominoes.
    Mitch Phillipson*, Texas A&M University
    Catherine H. Yan, Texas A&M University
    (1102-05-42)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Patterns in Random Walks.
    Megan Martinez*, Dartmouth College
    (1102-05-242)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Shift Equivalence in Consecutive Pattern Avoidance.
    Brian K. Miceli*, Trinity University
    Jay Pantone, University of Florida
    (1102-05-114)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Asymptotics of the Extremal Excedance Set Statistic.
    Rodrigo Ferraz de Andrade*, Purdue University
    Erik Lundberg, Purdue University
    Brendan Nagle, University of South Florida
    (1102-05-245)
• Sunday September 21, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Problem Solving in Extremal Combinatorics and Combinatorial Geometry, III
  Room 323, Hibbard Hall
  Organizers:
  Jeremy Alm, Illinois College
  Jacob Manske, Epic jmanske@epic.com
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Erdos Magic.
    Joel H. Spencer*, Courant Institute (New York)
    (1102-05-60)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Rainbow arithmetic progressions in the integers.
    Michael Young*, Iowa State University
    (1102-05-123)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Coloring the integers modulo n.
    N. Warnberg*, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
    S. Butler, Iowa State University
    L. Hogben, Iowa State University
    R. Martin, Iowa State University
    D. Stolee, Iowa State University
    M. Young, Iowa State University
    C. Erickson, Grand View University
    K. Hogenson, Iowa State University
    J. Lin, Iowa State University
    R. Kramer, Iowa State University
    L. Kramer, Iowa State University
    (1102-05-213)
• Sunday September 21, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on von Neumann Algebras and Related Fields, III
  Room 223, Hibbard Hall
  Organizers:
  Stephen Avsec, Texas A&M University
  Ken Dykema, Texas A&M University kdykema@math.tamu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Elementary equivalence of II$_1$ factors.
    Isaac Goldbring*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1102-03-87)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Existentially closed C$^*$-algebras.
    Thomas Sinclair*, UCLA
    Isaac Goldbring, University of Illinois, Chicago
    (1102-46-184)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Taylor approximations of multivariate operator functions.
    Anna Skripka*, University of New Mexico
    (1102-47-126)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Upper Triangular Forms and Spectral Orderings in a II$_1$-factor.
    Joseph C Noles*, Texas A&M University
    (1102-47-139)
• Sunday September 21, 2014, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Number Theory, III
  Room 230, Hibbard Hall
  Organizers:
  Colleen Duffy, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
  Rafe Jones, Carleton College rfjones@carleton.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Weak harmonic Maass forms of weight $5/2$.
    Scott Ahlgren*, University of Illinois
    Nickolas Andersen, University of Illinois
    (1102-11-179)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Singular invariants, mock modular forms of weight $5/2$, and partitions.
    Nickolas Andersen*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1102-11-182)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Geometric statistics of Ford circles.
    J. Athreya, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    S. Chaubey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Amita Malik*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    A. Zaharescu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1102-11-265)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    From a Langlands Duality to a Duality of Quantum Field Theories.
    Martin T Luu*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1102-11-180)
• Sunday September 21, 2014, 8:30 a.m.-10:15 a.m.
  Special Session on Random Spaces, III
  Room 308, Hibbard Hall
  Organizers:
  Matthew Kahle, Ohio State University mkahle@math.osu.edu
  Dylan Thurston, Indiana University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Random knots: their properties and algorithmic challenges.
    Nathan M Dunfield*, University of Illinois
    (1102-57-162)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Casson invariants of random Heegaard splittings.
    Alexander Lubotzky, Hebrew University
    Joseph Maher*, College of Staten Island, CUNY
    Conan Wu, Princeton University
    (1102-57-149)
• Sunday September 21, 2014, 9:00 a.m.-10:15 a.m.
  Special Session on Algorithms in Arithmetic Geometry, III
  Room 231, Hibbard Hall
  Organizers:
  Adriana Salerno, Bates College
  Ursula Whitcher, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire whitchua@uwec.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Congruences for k-regular partition functions.
    David Penniston*, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
    (1102-11-104)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Linear Forms in Logarithms and Fast Topology Computation for Positive Zero Sets of Sparse Polynomials.
    Frédéric Bihan, Université de Savoie
    Kaitlyn Phillipson*, Texas A&M University
    Erika Refsland, Mills College
    Robert Rennie, Reed College
    J. Maurice Rojas, Texas A&M University
    (1102-14-44)
• Sunday September 21, 2014, 9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Graph and Hypergraph Theory, III
  Room 303, Hibbard Hall
  Organizers:
  Sergei Bezrukov, University of Wisconsin-Superior
  Dalibor Froncek, University of Minnesota Duluth
  Xiaofeng Gu, University of Wisconsin-Superior xgu@uwsuper.edu
  Uwe Leck, University of Wisconsin-Superior
  Steven Rosenberg, University of Wisconsin-Superior
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Group testing matrices via latin hypercube-based MDS codes.
    Gergely T. Balint, University of Debrecen
    Robert B. Ellis*, Illinois Institute of Technology
    (1102-05-113)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The center stable matchings and the centers of cover graphs of distributive lattices.
    Christine T. Cheng*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    Eric McDermid, Apple, Texas
    Ichiro Suzuki, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    (1102-06-221)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    New Constructions for Symmetric Hamilton Cycle System of Complete Multipartite Graphs.
    Michael W Schroeder*, Marshall University
    (1102-05-269)
• Sunday September 21, 2014, 9:00 a.m.-9:45 a.m.
  Special Session on The Mathematical Education of Future K--12 Teachers, III
  Room 226, Hibbard Hall
  Organizers:
  Charles Bingen, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire bingencw@uwec.edu
  Ryan Harrison, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Developing Specialized Content Knowledge for Teaching: Integrating Content and Pedagogy in Secondary Mathematics Teacher Education.
    Michael D. Steele*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    (1102-97-11)
• Sunday September 21, 2014, 10:35 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Elliptic PDEs and localization of eigenfunctions in rough media.
  Room 100, Hibbard Hall
  Svitlana Mayboroda*, University of Minnesota
  (1102-35-263)
• Sunday September 21, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-1:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Interaction Functionals in Dispersive and Hyperbolic PDE.
  Room 100, Hibbard Hall
  Markus Keel*, University of Minnesota
  (1102-35-02)
• Sunday September 21, 2014, 2:00 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics, IV
  Room 321, Hibbard Hall
  Organizers:
  Pavlo Pylyavskyy, University of Minnesota
  Victor Reiner, University of Minnesota
  Dennis Stanton, University of Minnesota stanton@math.umn.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    The Devron property.
    Max Glick*, University of Minnesota
    (1102-37-257)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Insertion algorithms and Little maps.
    Sara Billey, University of Washington
    Zachary Hamaker*, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications
    Austin Roberts, University of Washington
    Benjamin Young, University of Oregon
    (1102-05-200)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Tiling by triangles and rhombi is hard.
    Jed Yang*, University of Minnesota
    (1102-05-168)
• Sunday September 21, 2014, 2:00 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Algorithms in Arithmetic Geometry, IV
  Room 231, Hibbard Hall
  Organizers:
  Adriana Salerno, Bates College
  Ursula Whitcher, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire whitchua@uwec.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: On the P-integer conjecture of Pomerance.
    Alain Togbe*, Purdue University North Central
    Shichun Yang, ABa Teacher's College, Wenchuan, Sichuan, China
    (1102-11-243)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Hasse Invariants and Mod p Solutions of A-Hypergeometric Systems.
    Steven Sperber*, University of Minnesota
    Alan Adolphson, Oklahoma State Univesity
    (1102-14-107)
• Sunday September 21, 2014, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Cohomology and Representation Theory of Groups and Related Structures, IV
  Room 324, Hibbard Hall
  Organizers:
  Christopher Bendel, University of Wisconsin-Stout bendelc@uwstout.edu
  Christopher Drupieski, De Paul University
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    A Burnside-type theorem for faithful characters of the symmetric group.
    David J Hemmer*, University at Buffalo, SUNY
    (1102-20-159)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Modules over EI-categories with finite projective dimension.
    Cihan Bahran*, University of Minnesota
    (1102-18-229)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Noetherian Property of infinite EI categories.
    Wee-Liang Gan, University of California, Riverside
    Liping Li*, University of California, Riverside
    (1102-16-64)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The projective dimension of Mackey functors.
    Peter Webb*, University of Minnesota
    Serge Bouc, Université de Picardie
    Radu Stancu, Université de Picardie
    (1102-20-136)
• Sunday September 21, 2014, 2:00 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Ring Theory, IV
  Room 203, Hibbard Hall
  Organizers:
  Michael Axtell, University of St. Thomas
  Joe Stickles, Millikin University jstickles@mail.millikin.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Gorenstein Dimensions over Some Rings of the Form $R \oplus C$.
    Pye Phyo Aung*, North Dakota State University
    (1102-13-272)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Connections between partially ordered groups, factorization, and homological algebra.
    Brandon G Goodell*, Clemson University
    (1102-18-273)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Finiteness of Homological Dimensions with Respect to a Semidualizing Complex.
    Sean Sather-Wagstaff, North Dakota State University
    Jonathan Totushek*, North Dakota State University
    (1102-13-223)
• Sunday September 21, 2014, 2:00 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Directions in Commutative Algebra: Past, Present, Future (dedicated to the memory of H.-B. Foxby), IV
  Room 211, Hibbard Hall
  Organizers:
  Joseph P. Brennan, University of Central Florida Joseph.Brennan@ucf.edu
  Robert M. Fossum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Square-free Monomial Ideals: Where Commutative Algebra, Graph Theory and Combinatorics Meet.
    Susan Morey*, Texas State University
    (1102-13-68)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Asymptotic growth of multiplicity functions.
    Catalin Ciuperca*, North Dakota State University
    (1102-13-176)
• Sunday September 21, 2014, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Graph and Hypergraph Theory, IV
  Room 303, Hibbard Hall
  Organizers:
  Sergei Bezrukov, University of Wisconsin-Superior
  Dalibor Froncek, University of Minnesota Duluth
  Xiaofeng Gu, University of Wisconsin-Superior xgu@uwsuper.edu
  Uwe Leck, University of Wisconsin-Superior
  Steven Rosenberg, University of Wisconsin-Superior
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    On the structure of oriented graphs and digraphs with forbidden tournaments or cycles.
    Daniela Kühn, University of Birmingham, UK
    Deryk Osthus, University of Birmingham, UK
    Timothy Townsend, University of Birmingham, UK
    Yi Zhao*, Georgia State University
    (1102-05-88)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Maximizing the number of rainbow triangles.
    Jozsef Balogh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Ping Hu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Bernard Lidicky*, Iowa State University
    Florian Pfender, University of Colorado Denver
    Jan Volec, University of Warwick
    Michael Young, Iowa State University
    (1102-05-154)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Edge-decompositions of graphs with high minimum degree.
    Ben Barber, University of Birmingham
    Daniela Kühn, University of Birmingham
    Allan Lo*, University of Birmingham
    Deryk Osthus, University of Birmingham
    (1102-05-158)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Near Perfect Matchings in k-uniform Hypergraphs.
    Jie Han*, Georgia State University
    (1102-05-55)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Union of distance magic graphs.
    Sylwia Cichacz*, AGH University of Science and Technology, University of Minnesota Duluth
    Mateusz Nikodem, AGH University of Science and Technology
    (1102-05-102)
• Sunday September 21, 2014, 2:00 p.m.-3:15 p.m.
  Special Session on Lie Algebras and Representation Theory, IV
  Room 320, Hibbard Hall
  Organizers:
  Michael Lau, Université Laval
  Ian Musson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  Matthew Ondrus, Weber State University mattondrus@weber.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Tensor product multiplicities for rational representations of GL(n) via contingency tables.
    Mark Colarusso*, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
    Jeb Willenbring, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
    (1102-22-165)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Subfactor-like realisations of nonunitary fusion categories.
    Terry Gannon*, University of Alberta
    (1102-18-253)
• Sunday September 21, 2014, 2:00 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Special Session on New Trends in Toric Varieties, IV
  Room 229, Hibbard Hall
  Organizers:
  Christine Berkesch Zamaere, University of Minnesota cberkesc@math.umn.edu
  Daniel Erman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Hal Schenck, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday September 21, 2014, 2:00 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Patterns in Permutations and Words, and Applications, IV
  Room 315, Hibbard Hall
  Organizers:
  Manda Riehl, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
  Alex Woo, University of Idaho awoo@uidaho.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Baxter Permutations, Snow Leopard Permutations, and Restricted Catalan Paths.
    Kailee Rubin*, Epic
    Jon Ver Steegh, Mahtomedi, MN
    Ben Caffrey, Epic
    Gregory Michel, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
    Eric Egge, Carleton College
    (1102-05-129)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Packing the Smallest Non layered Set Partition Pattern.
    Adam M Goyt*, Minnesota State University Moorhead, Moorhead, MN
    Lara K Pudwell, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN
    (1102-05-133)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Pattern avoidance in double lists.
    Lara Pudwell*, Valparaiso University
    (1102-05-86)
• Sunday September 21, 2014, 2:00 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Problem Solving in Extremal Combinatorics and Combinatorial Geometry, IV
  Room 323, Hibbard Hall
  Organizers:
  Jeremy Alm, Illinois College
  Jacob Manske, Epic jmanske@epic.com
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Highly constrained edge-colorings of complete graphs, part I.
    Jeremy F Alm*, Illinois College
    Jacob Manske, Epic Systems Corporation
    (1102-05-219)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Highly constrained edge-colorings of complete graphs, part II.
    Jacob Manske*, Epic
    Jeremy Alm, Illinois College
    (1102-05-196)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday September 21, 2014, 2:00 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Random Spaces, IV
  Room 308, Hibbard Hall
  Organizers:
  Matthew Kahle, Ohio State University mkahle@math.osu.edu
  Dylan Thurston, Indiana University
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Topological Similarity of Random Cell Complexes and Applications to Dislocation Configurations.
    Benjamin Schweinhart*, Princeton University
    Jeremy Mason, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey
    Robert MacPherson, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Mathematics
    (1102-57-206)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Pants decompositions of random surfaces.
    Larry Guth*, MIT
    (1102-51-177)
• Sunday September 21, 2014, 2:00 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Special Session on von Neumann Algebras and Related Fields, IV
  Room 223, Hibbard Hall
  Organizers:
  Stephen Avsec, Texas A&M University
  Ken Dykema, Texas A&M University kdykema@math.tamu.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Discussion