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Fall Western Sectional Meeting
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
October 25-26, 2014 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1104

Associate secretaries:

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

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Saturday October 25, 2014

• Saturday October 25, 2014, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Room 404, Thorton Hall
• Saturday October 25, 2014, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Room 404 Lobby, Thorton Hall
• Saturday October 25, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Geometry I
  Room 210, Business Building
  Organizers:
  Renzo Cavalieri, Colorado State University renzo@math.colostate.edu
  Noah Giansiracusa, University of California, Berkeley
  Burt Totaro, University of California, Los Angeles
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A proof of the Landau-Ginzburg/Calabi-Yau correspondence via the crepant resolution conjecture.
    Y.P. Lee, University of Utah
    Nathan Priddis, Institute of Algebraic Geometry, Leibniz Universität Hannover
    Mark Shoemaker*, University of Utah
    (1104-14-101)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Projectivity of Moduli Spaces of Bridgeland Semistable Objects on Del Pezzo Surfaces.
    Eric Miles*, University of Minnesota, Morris
    Daniele Arcara, Saint Vincent College
    (1104-14-141)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Change of polarization for moduli spaces of sheaves on surfaces as Bridgeland wall-crossing.
    Aaron Bertram, University of Utah
    Cristian Martinez*, University of Utah
    (1104-14-274)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Gabriel's Theorem and Points.
    John Calabrese*, Rice
    (1104-14-77)
• Saturday October 25, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Applications of Knot Theory to the Entanglement of Biopolymers I
  Room 543, Hensill Hall
  Organizers:
  Javier Arsuaga, San Francisco State University jarsuaga@sfsu.edu
  Michael Szafron, University of Saskatchewan
  Mariel Vazquez, San Francisco State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    DNA topology confers sequence specificity to non-specific architectural proteins.
    Wilma K. Olson*, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
    Juan Wei, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
    Luke Czapla, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
    Michael A. Grosner, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
    David Swigon, University of Pittsburgh
    (1104-92-100)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Multidisciplinary approaches to study the topological complexity in kinetoplast DNA.
    Michele M Klingbeil*, Department of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA 01003
    Yuanan Diao, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223, USA
    Javier Arsuaga, Department of Mathematics and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, CA USA
    (1104-92-329)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Nullification of torus knots and links.
    Claus Ernst*, Western Kentucky University
    (1104-57-270)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Structural diversity of positively and negatively supercoiled DNA revealed by electron cryo-tomography.
    Rossitza N. Irobalieva, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX USA
    Jonathan M. Fogg, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX USA
    Daniel J. Catanese, Jr., Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX USA
    Thana Sutthibutpong, University of Leeds, Leeds, U.K.
    Steven J. Ludtke, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX USA
    Sarah A. Harris, University of Leeds, Leeds, U.K.
    Michael F. Schmid, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX USA
    Wah Chiu, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX USA
    Lynn Zechiedrich*, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX USA
    (1104-92-293)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Lattice Polygon Models of Polymer and Biopolymer Entanglements.
    Christine Soteros*, University of Saskatchewan
    (1104-82-263)
• Saturday October 25, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorics and Algebraic Geometry I
  Room 215, Business Building
  Organizers:
  Madhusudan Manjunath, University of California, Berkeley madhu@berkeley.edu
  Farbod Shokrieh, Cornell University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Martens' theorem and the tropical Brill-Noether locus.
    Yoav Len*, Yale University
    (1104-14-103)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Young tableaux and Brill-Noether theory.
    Nathan Pflueger*, Brown University
    (1104-14-203)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Riemann-Roch theory for graph orientations.
    Spencer Backman*, University of Rome Sapienza
    (1104-05-164)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Curves in the Tropical Plane.
    Sarah Brodsky, TU Berlin
    Michael Joswig, TU Berlin
    Ralph Morrison, UC Berkeley
    Bernd Sturmfels*, UC Berkeley
    (1104-14-19)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Moduli of Hyperelliptic Tropical Plane Curves.
    Sarah Brodsky, Technische Universität Berlin
    Michael Joswig, Technische Universität Berlin
    Ralph Morrison*, UC Berkeley
    Bernd Sturmfels, UC Berkeley
    (1104-05-131)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Tropical $K_4$ quartics.
    Melody Chan*, Harvard University
    Pakawut Jiradilok, Harvard University
    (1104-14-253)
• Saturday October 25, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometry of Submanifolds I
  Room 409, Thorton Hall
  Organizers:
  Yun Myung Oh, Andrews University
  Bogdan D. Suceava, California State University, Fullerton bsuceava@fullerton.edu
  Mihaela B. Vajiac, Chapman University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Multicomplex Manifolds.
    Mihaela Brindusa Vajiac*, Chapman University
    (1104-53-278)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A Weitzenböck formula for generalized quasi-Einstein manifolds.
    Peng Wu*, Cornell University
    (1104-53-35)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Complex Riemannian foliations of Hermitian locally symmetric spaces.
    Tommy Murphy*, California State University, Fullerton.
    (1104-53-114)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Stark Hypersurfaces in Complex Projective Space.
    Thomas A Ivey*, College of Charleston
    (1104-53-118)
• Saturday October 25, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on High-Dimensional Convexity and Applications I
  Room 327, Thorton Hall
  Organizers:
  Luis Rademacher, Ohio State University lrademac@cse.ohio-state.edu
  Stanislaw Szarek, Case Western Reserve University and Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6
  Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University, Université de Lille 1, UFR de Mathématique
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Improved Holder and reverse Holder inequalities for Gaussian random vectors.
    Wei-Kuo Chen, University of Chicago
    Nikos Dafnis, University of Crete
    Grigoris Paouris*, Texas A&M University
    (1104-60-298)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Functional analogues of Busemann-type inequalities.
    Susanna Dann, Vienna University of Technology
    Grigoris Paouris, Texas A&M University
    Peter Pivovarov*, University of Missouri
    (1104-52-257)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Minimizing the Hilbert-Schmidt norm of the inverse of submatrices.
    Pierre Youssef*, Department of Statistical and Mathematical sciences, University of Alberta
    (1104-15-111)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The limit of the smallest singular value of random matrices with i.i.d. entries.
    Konstantin Tikhomirov*, University of Alberta
    (1104-60-222)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Estimation in high-dimensional random geometric graph.
    Sebastien Bubeck*, Microsoft Research/Princeton University
    (1104-62-328)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On Talagrand's convolution conjecture in Gaussian space.
    Ronen Eldan*, Microsoft Research
    (1104-00-189)
• Saturday October 25, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Homotopy Theory I
  Room 201, Hensill Hall
  Organizers:
  Julie Bergner, University of California, Riverside
  Angélica Osorno, Reed College aosorno@reed.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Dg-manifolds as derived manifolds.
    David Carchedi*, University of British Columbia
    (1104-55-287)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Topology of Configuration Spaces on Graphs.
    Safia Chettih*, University of Oregon
    (1104-55-326)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Connective, effective, and essential covers in motivic homotopy theory.
    Michael Hill, University of Virginia
    Kyle Ormsby*, Reed College
    (1104-55-213)
• Saturday October 25, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Interactions between Knots and Manifolds I
  Room 206, Hensill Hall
  Organizers:
  Stanislav Jabuka, University of Nevada, Reno
  Swatee Naik, University of Nevada, Reno naik@unr.edu
  Cornelia Van Cott, University of San Francisco
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Concordance homomorphisms from knot Floer homology.
    Peter S Ozsvath*, Princeton University
    Andras Stispicz, Renyi Institute, Budapest
    Zoltan Szabo, Princeton University
    (1104-57-242)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    An infinite rank summand of topologically slice knots.
    Jennifer Hom*, Columbia University
    (1104-57-168)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Stable Concordance Genus.
    M Kate Kearney*, Gonzaga University
    (1104-57-243)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Fibered disks and 2--knots.
    Kyle Larson, The University of Texas at Austin
    Jeffrey Meier*, Indiana University
    (1104-57-208)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Montesinos knots, Hopf plumbings, and L-space surgeries.
    Kenneth L Baker, University of Miami
    Allison H Moore*, Rice University
    (1104-57-176)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Stabilization in $4$-dimensional topology.
    Daniel Ruberman*, Brandeis University
    David Auckly, Kansas State University
    Hee Jung Kim, POSTECH
    Paul Melvin, Bryn Mawr College
    (1104-57-110)
• Saturday October 25, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations I
  Room 329, Thorton Hall
  Organizers:
  Nathan Glatt-Holtz, Virginia Tech negh@vt.edu
  Geordie Richards, University of Rochester
  Vlad Vicol, Princeton University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Discussion.
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Discussion.
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Computer-assisted proofs in incompressible fluids.
    Javier Gomez-Serrano*, Princeton University
    (1104-35-308)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Global existence and finite time blow-up for the Muskat problem.
    Rafael Granero-Belinchon*, University of California, Davis
    (1104-35-209)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On well-posedness and small data global existence for a damped free boundary fluid-structure model.
    M. Ignatova*, Princeton University
    I. Kukavica, University of Southern California
    I. Lasiecka, University of Memphis
    A. Tuffaha, The Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE
    (1104-35-152)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Global regularity for 2d water waves with surface tension.
    Fabio Pusateri*, Princeton University
    Alexandru D. Ionescu, Princeton University
    (1104-35-81)
• Saturday October 25, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Progress in Geometric Analysis I
  Room 210, Thorton Hall
  Organizers:
  David Bao, San Francisco State University
  Ovidiu Munteanu, University of Connecticut ovidiu.munteanu@uconn.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The Weyl Criterion for the Spectrum.
    Nelia Charalambous*, University of Cyprus
    Zhiqin Lu, University of California at Irvine
    (1104-58-69)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Morse index and uniqueness results for free boundary minimal surfaces.
    Ailana Fraser*, University of British Columbia
    (1104-53-158)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Dynamical stability of algebraic Ricci solitons.
    Michael Bradford Williams, UCLA
    Haotian Wu*, University of Oregon
    (1104-53-72)
• Saturday October 25, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Progress in Harmonic Analysis and Several Complex Variables I
  Room 326, Thorton Hall
  Organizers:
  Gustavo Hoepfner, Universidade Federal de São Carlos
  Paulo Liboni, Universidade Federal de São Carlos
  Irina Mitrea, Temple University imitrea@temple.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Pseudoconvex Mizohata Structures on Compact Manifolds.
    Abdelhamid Meziani*, Florida International University
    (1104-58-126)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Mapping Properties of the Bergman Projection on Reinhardt Domains.
    Zeljko Cuckovic, University of Toledo
    Yunus E. Zeytuncu*, University of Michigan-Dearborn
    (1104-32-194)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Hardy Spaces and the Geometry of Sets.
    Ryan Alvarado*, University of Missouri at Columbia
    Marius Mitrea, University of Missouri at Columbia
    (1104-43-146)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Gelfand-Shilov regularity of SG elliptic boundary value problems.
    Pedro Tavares Paes Lopes*, Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos
    (1104-35-199)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Kato square root problem for degenerate elliptic operators revisited.
    David Cruz-Uribe, Trinity College
    José María Martell*, ICMAT
    Cristian Rios, University of Calgary
    (1104-42-36)
• Saturday October 25, 2014, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Hamiltonian Partial Differential Equations I
  Room 429, Thorton Hall
  Organizers:
  Marius Beceanu, University of California, Berkeley
  Magdalena Czubak, Binghamton University czubak@math.binghamton.edu
  Dong Li, University of British Columbia
  Xiaoyi Zhang, University of Iowa
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Regularity of constraints and reduction in the Minkowski space Yang-Mills-Dirac theory.
    Jedrzej Z. Sniatycki*, University of Calgary
    Guenter Schwarz, Munich, Germany
    (1104-58-41)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the evolution of scattering data under perturbations of the Toda lattice.
    Deniz Bilman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Irina Nenciu, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1104-35-237)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Algorithms for Nonlinear Bound States in Hamiltonian PDE.
    Gideon Simpson*, Drexel University
    (1104-65-154)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    "Long Range Scattering for the Klein-Gordon equation with nonhomogeneous nonlinearities".
    Avy Soffer*, Rutgers University
    Hans Lindblad, Johns Hopkins University
    (1104-35-45)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Wave maps from the hyperbolic plane.
    Andrew Lawrie, University of California, Berkeley
    Sung-Jin Oh*, University of California, Berkeley
    Sohrab Shahshahani, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (1104-35-277)
• Saturday October 25, 2014, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Topological Combinatorics and Combinatorial Commutative Algebra I
  Room 108, Hensill Hall
  Organizers:
  Anton Dochtermann, University of Miami anton@math.miami.edu
  Augustine O'Keefe, University of Kentucky
  Alexander Engstrom, Aalto University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Connectivity of dual graphs of algebraic varieties.
    Bruno Benedetti*, Freie Univ. Berlin
    Matteo Varbaro, Univ. di Genova
    (1104-05-52)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Gorenstein Algebras and Lefschetz Properties.
    Uwe Nagel*, University of Kentucky
    (1104-13-155)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Projective Dimension and Domination in Graphs and Clutters.
    Hailong Dao, University of Kansas
    Jay Schweig*, Oklahoma State University
    (1104-05-182)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Projective Dimensions of Square-Free Monomial Ideals.
    Kuei-Nuan Lin*, Penn State Greater Allegheny
    Paolo Mantero, University of California, Riverside
    (1104-13-119)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Algebraic invariants of fiber products.
    Tai Ha*, Tulane University
    Ngo Viet Trung, Institute of Mathematics, VAST, Vietnam
    Tran Nam Trung, Institute of Math, VAST, Vietnam
    (1104-13-44)
• Saturday October 25, 2014, 8:45 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers I
  Room 325, Thorton Hall
  Chairs:
  Craig Timmons, California State University Sacramento craig.timmons@csus.edu
  

  • 8:45 a.m.
    Berenstein-Zelevinsky triangles and group-based models.
    Kaie Kubjas*, Aalto University / Simons Institute
    Christopher Manon, George Mason University
    (1104-05-61)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Counting Artin-Schreier Curves over Finite Fields.
    Anne M. Ho*, Colorado State University
    (1104-11-165)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    On the chromatic number of the Erdős-Rényi orthogonal polarity graph.
    Craig Timmons*, California State University Sacramento
    (1104-05-206)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A revolute 9-chain can interlock with a flexible open 2-chain.
    Jianyuan Zhong*, California State University Sacramento
    Bin Lu, California State University Sacramento
    (1104-05-307)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Optimal Pinching for the Holomorphic Sectional Curvature on Hirzebruch Surfaces.
    Angelynn R Alvarez*, University of Houston
    Gordon Heier, University of Houston
    Ananya Chaturvedi, University of Houston
    (1104-14-31)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Transformation of Data Matrix to Higher and Lower Dimensional Spaces for Data Identification.
    Kourosh Modarresi*, Stanford University and Adobe Inc.
    (1104-15-280)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Some non-Koszul algebras from rational homotopy theory.
    Peter Goetz*, Humboldt State University
    Andrew Conner, Saint Mary's College of California
    (1104-16-310)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The ${K}$-theory of the Category of $\mathcal{O}$-module objects over an Algebra Object over an Unital Operad $\mathcal{C}^\otimes$.
    Sanath K Devalapurkar*, West High School
    (1104-19-181)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Fundamental Theorem of Functions.
    Gezahagne Mulat Addis*, Dilla University
    (1104-00-51)
• Saturday October 25, 2014, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Statistics I
  Room 432, Thorton Hall
  Organizers:
  Elizabeth Gross, San Jose State University elizabeth.gross@sjsu.edu
  Kaie Kubjas, Aalto University
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    A family of statistical models for k-core decompositions of graphs.
    Sonja Petrovic*, Illinois Institute of Technology
    Dane Wilburne, Illinois Institute of Technology
    Despina Stasi, Illinois Institute of Technology
    Michael Pelsmajer, Illinois Institute of Technology
    Vishesh Karwa, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1104-62-249)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Algebraic Graph Limits.
    Alexander Engstrom*, Alexander Engstrom
    (1104-05-58)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Orthogonal Tensor Decomposition.
    Elina M Robeva*, UC Berkeley
    (1104-00-161)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Boundary stratification of tensors with nonnegative rank two.
    Serkan Hosten*, San Francisco State University Mathematics Department
    (1104-62-255)
• Saturday October 25, 2014, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Categorical Methods in Representation Theory I
  Room 217, Business Building
  Organizers:
  Eric Friedlander, University of Southern California
  Srikanth Iyengar, University of Utah
  Julia Pevtsova, University of Washington julia@math.washington.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Separable extensions of triangulated categories.
    Paul Balmer*, UCLA
    (1104-18-63)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Odd structures arising from categorified quantum groups.
    Aaron D Lauda*, University of Southern California
    (1104-16-156)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Rigidity in higher representation theory.
    Sabin Cautis*, UBC
    (1104-18-74)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Categorifying the tensor product of a level $1$ highest weight and perfect crystal.
    Henry Kvinge, UC Davis
    Monica Vazirani*, UC Davis
    (1104-05-218)
• Saturday October 25, 2014, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Computational Algebraic Geometry and Applications to Science and Engineering I
  Room 439, Hensill Hall
  Organizers:
  Daniel Brake, North Carolina State University, Raleigh
  Dhagash Mehta, North Carolina State University, Raleigh dbmehta@ncsu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Newton homotopies and applications.
    Jonathan Hauenstein*, University of Notre Dame
    Tianran Chen, Michigan State University
    Alan Liddell, University of Notre Dame
    Dhagash Mehta, University of Notre Dame
    David Wales, University of Cambridge
    (1104-65-297)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On Numerical Algebraic Geometry and Topological Neighborhoods of Spline Curves.
    Eric M Hanson*, Colorado State University
    (1104-14-315)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Data discriminants of likelihood equations.
    Jose Israel Rodriguez*, University of Notre Dame
    Xiaoxian Tang, NIMS
    (1104-14-336)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Maximum likelihood degree in the presence of data zeros.
    Elizabeth Gross*, San Jose State University
    Jose Israel Rodriguez, University of Notre Dame
    (1104-62-327)
• Saturday October 25, 2014, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Developments from MSRI Programs in Commutative Algebra and Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory I
  Room 113, Hensill Hall
  Organizers:
  Kenneth Chan, University of Washington kenhchan@math.washington.edu
  Jack Jeffries, University of Utah
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Decorated Minimal Model Program.
    Daniel Chan, University of New South Wales
    Kenneth Chan, University of Washington
    Louis de Thanhoffer de Volcsey, University of Hasselt
    Colin Ingalls*, University of New Brunswick
    Kelly Jabbusch, University of Michigan - Dearborn
    Sandor Kovacs, University of Washington
    Rajesh Kulkarni, Michigan State University
    Boris Lerner, University of New South Wales
    Basil Nanayakkara, Brock University
    Shinnosuke Okawa, Osaka University
    Michel Van den Bergh, University of Hasselt
    (1104-14-286)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Computing the global spectrum of a commutative ring.
    Eleonore Faber*, University of Toronto at Scarborough
    (1104-16-235)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Rings of differential operators on curves.
    Jason P Bell*, University of Waterloo
    Colin Ingalls, University of New Brunswick
    Ritvik Ramkumar, University of Waterloo
    (1104-16-333)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Equivalences of categories involving graded modules over path algebras of finite GK-dimension.
    Cody Holdaway*, University of Washington
    (1104-16-319)
• Saturday October 25, 2014, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Probabilistic and Statistical Problems in Stochastic Dynamics I
  Room 213, Business Building
  Organizers:
  Alexandra Piryatinska, San Francisco State University alpiryat@sfsu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Monitoring Large-Scale Data Streams via Shrinkage.
    Yajun Mei*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1104-62-197)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Parameter estimation in second-order continuous time Gaussian autoregressions.
    Sergey Lototsky*, University of Southern California
    (1104-60-32)
• Saturday October 25, 2014, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Polyhedral Number Theory I
  Room 335, Thorton Hall
  Organizers:
  Matthias Beck, San Francisco State University mattbeck@sfsu.edu
  Martin Henk, Universität Magdeburg
  Joseph Gubeladze, San Francisco State University
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Lattice programming gaps, circulant graphs and Frobenius numbers.
    Iskander Aliev*, Cardiff University
    (1104-05-136)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Numerical properties of lattice polytopes.
    Mateusz J Michalek*, Polish Academy of Sciences/UC Berkeley
    (1104-52-86)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Integrally Closed Polytopes and an Application to Symmetric Magic Squares.
    Robert Davis*, University of Kentucky
    (1104-05-67)
• Saturday October 25, 2014, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  A brief history of perfectoid spaces.
  Room 201, Science Building
  Kiran S. Kedlaya*, University of California, San Diego
  (1104-11-02)
• Saturday October 25, 2014, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Applications of geometry to modular representation theory.
  Room 201, Science Building
  Julia Pevtsova*, University of Washington, Seattle
  (1104-16-03)
• Saturday October 25, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Geometry II
  Room 210, Business Building
  Organizers:
  Renzo Cavalieri, Colorado State University renzo@math.colostate.edu
  Noah Giansiracusa, University of California, Berkeley
  Burt Totaro, University of California, Los Angeles
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Line bundles on degenerations of higher-dimensional varieties.
    Atoshi Chowdhury*, University of California Berkeley
    (1104-14-292)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Varieties with Euler Characteristic 1.
    Martí Lahoz Vialta, Institut de Mathématiques Jussieu - Université Paris Diderot
    Zhi Jiang, Equipe d'Arithmétique et Géométrie Algébrique Université Paris-Sud
    Sofia Tirabassi*, Mathematics Department - University of Utah
    (1104-14-76)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    About an MMP without flips.
    Alberto Chiecchio*, University of Arkansas
    (1104-14-226)
• Saturday October 25, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Statistics II
  Room 432, Thorton Hall
  Organizers:
  Elizabeth Gross, San Jose State University elizabeth.gross@sjsu.edu
  Kaie Kubjas, Aalto University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Identifiability of Linear Models.
    Nicolette Meshkat*, North Carolina State University
    Seth Sullivant, North Carolina State University
    (1104-14-214)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Schubert varieties and the distance between linear subspaces of different dimensions.
    Lek-Heng Lim, University of Chicago
    Ke Ye*, University of Chicago
    (1104-14-145)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Equivariant lattice generators and Markov bases.
    Thomas Kahle, OvGU Magdeburg
    Robert Krone*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Anton Leykin, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1104-13-217)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Remarks on non-{S}hannon information inequalities.
    Michael E O'Sullivan*, San Diego State University
    (1104-94-337)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Sequential Importance Sampling for Two-dimensional Ising Models.
    Jing Xi*, Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University
    Seth Sullivant, Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University
    (1104-62-83)
• Saturday October 25, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Applications of Knot Theory to the Entanglement of Biopolymers II
  Room 543, Hensill Hall
  Organizers:
  Javier Arsuaga, San Francisco State University jarsuaga@sfsu.edu
  Michael Szafron, University of Saskatchewan
  Mariel Vazquez, San Francisco State University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Folding RNA by a Hierarchical Graph Sampling Approach.
    Tamar Schlick*, New York University
    Namhee Kim, New York University
    Mai Zahran, New York University
    Shereef Elmetwaly, New York University
    (1104-92-105)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The effect of confinement conditions on topological and geometric properties of random polygons.
    Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
    Claus Ernst, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Ky
    Eric Rawdon, University of St. Thomas, Saint Paul, Minnesota
    U Ziegler*, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Ky
    (1104-57-318)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Application of a Skein Relation to Difference Topology Experiments.
    Candice R Price*, United States Military Academy, West Point
    Isabel K Darcy, University of Iowa
    (1104-57-252)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    DNA looping and knotting in the wormlike limit: normal modes and the harmonic approximation.
    Stefan M Giovan, University of Texas at Dallas
    Andreas Hanke, University of Texas at Brownsville
    Stephen D Levene*, University of Texas at Dallas
    (1104-82-251)
• Saturday October 25, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Categorical Methods in Representation Theory II
  Organizers:
  Eric Friedlander, University of Southern California
  Srikanth Iyengar, University of Utah
  Julia Pevtsova, University of Washington julia@math.washington.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Modular representations and indicators for bismash product Hopf algebras.
    Susan Montgomery*, University of Southern California
    Andrea Jedwab, St. Mary's College
    (1104-20-299)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On $p$-permutation bimodules and equivalences between blocks of group algebras.
    Robert Boltje*, University of California, Santa Cruz
    Philipp Perepelitsky, Paris, France
    (1104-20-240)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Perspectives in higher representation theory.
    Raphael Rouquier*, UCLA
    (1104-22-325)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    One Parameter Subgroups of Reductive Groups.
    Paul G Sobaje*, University of Southern California
    (1104-20-324)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Semiperfect coalgebras as dualizable 2-abelian groups.
    Alexandru Chirvasitu*, University of Washington
    (1104-18-149)
• Saturday October 25, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorics and Algebraic Geometry II
  Room 215, Business Building
  Organizers:
  Madhusudan Manjunath, University of California, Berkeley madhu@berkeley.edu
  Farbod Shokrieh, Cornell University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Tropicalizing the positive semidefinite cone.
    Josephine Yu*, Georgia Tech
    (1104-05-20)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Face rings of cycles, associahedra, and standard tableaux.
    Anton Dochtermann*, University of Miami
    (1104-05-140)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Finite generation of symmetric toric ideals.
    Jan Draisma, TU - Eindhoven
    Rob Eggermont, TU - Eindhoven
    Robert Krone*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Anton Leykin, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1104-13-219)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Robust toric ideals.
    Adam Boocher, University of Edinburgh
    Elina M Robeva*, UC Berkeley
    (1104-05-210)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Powers of linear forms and splines.
    Jimmy Shan*, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    (1104-14-290)
• Saturday October 25, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
  Special Session on Computational Algebraic Geometry and Applications to Science and Engineering II
  Room 439, Hensill Hall
  Organizers:
  Daniel Brake, North Carolina State University, Raleigh
  Dhagash Mehta, North Carolina State University, Raleigh dbmehta@ncsu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Numerical methods to analyze phylogenetic tree models.
    Brent R Davis*, Colorado State Unversity
    Joseph Rusinko, Winthrop University
    (1104-14-283)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Energy Landscape of the Finite-Size Mean-field 2-Spin Spherical Model and Topology Trivialization.
    D. B. Mehta, Notre Dame University
    J. D. Hauenstein, Notre Dame University
    M. E. Niemerg*, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing
    N. J. Simm, University of London
    D. E. Stariolo, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
    (1104-70-129)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Algebraic geometrization of the Kuramoto model: equilibria and stability analysis.
    Noah S. Daleo*, North Carolina State University
    Jonathan D. Hauenstein, University of Notre Dame
    Dhagash Mehta, University of Notre Dame
    (1104-14-50)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Printing Algebraic Surfaces with Singularities.
    Daniel A Brake*, University of Notre Dame
    (1104-14-301)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Exploring Potential Energy Landscapes of different models arising from science and technology using Computational Algebraic Geometry.
    Dhagash Mehta*, Dept of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics, University of Notre Dame
    (1104-65-295)
• Saturday October 25, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Developments from MSRI Programs in Commutative Algebra and Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory II
  Room 113, Hensill Hall
  Organizers:
  Kenneth Chan, University of Washington kenhchan@math.washington.edu
  Jack Jeffries, University of Utah
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The classification of 3-Calabi-Yau potentials in $V^{\otimes 3}$ when ${\rm dim}(V)=3$.
    S Paul Smith*, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195.
    (1104-16-163)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The syzygies of some thickenings of determinantal varieties.
    Claudiu Raicu*, University of Notre Dame
    Jerzy Weyman, University of Connecticut
    (1104-13-322)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the Projective Dimension of Four Quadrics.
    Craig Huneke, University of Virginia
    Paolo Mantero, University of California Riverside
    Jason McCullough*, Rider University
    Alexandra Seceleanu, University of Nebraska
    (1104-13-96)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    m-adic constancy of F-pure thresholds.
    Daniel J. Hernandez, University of Utah
    Luis Nunez-Betancourt*, University of Virginia
    Emily E. Witt, University of Minnesota
    (1104-13-275)
• Saturday October 25, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometry of Submanifolds II
  Room 409, Thorton Hall
  Organizers:
  Yun Myung Oh, Andrews University
  Bogdan D. Suceava, California State University, Fullerton bsuceava@fullerton.edu
  Mihaela B. Vajiac, Chapman University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Sasaki-Einstein manifolds.
    Weiyong He*, University of Oregon
    (1104-53-123)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Characterizations of almost contact Lagrangian submanifolds of nearly Kaehler unit 6-sphere.
    Ramesh Sharma*, University of New haven
    (1104-53-15)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    $\phi$-hyperbolic duals of spacelike hypersurfaces in the lightcone as wave front sets.
    Handan Yildirim*, Istanbul University
    (1104-53-134)
• Saturday October 25, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Hamiltonian Partial Differential Equations II
  Room 429, Thorton Hall
  Organizers:
  Marius Beceanu, University of California, Berkeley
  Magdalena Czubak, Binghamton University czubak@math.binghamton.edu
  Dong Li, University of British Columbia
  Xiaoyi Zhang, University of Iowa
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Decay of electromagnetic waves on black hole backgrounds.
    Jason Metcalfe*, University of North Carolina
    (1104-35-246)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Nonlinear Schrödinger equations at non-conserved critical regularity.
    Jason C. Murphy*, UC Berkeley
    (1104-35-247)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Dispersive Estimates for Schrödinger Operators with a Threshold Eigenvalue.
    Michael J Goldberg*, University of Cincinnati
    William Green, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
    (1104-35-230)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On Strichartz and localized energy estimates for dispersive equations in domains.
    Matthew D Blair*, University of New Mexico
    (1104-35-269)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Some new results on partial Schauder estimates.
    Hongjie Dong*, Brown University
    (1104-35-316)
• Saturday October 25, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on High-Dimensional Convexity and Applications II
  Room 327, Thorton Hall
  Organizers:
  Luis Rademacher, Ohio State University lrademac@cse.ohio-state.edu
  Stanislaw Szarek, Case Western Reserve University and Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6
  Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University, Université de Lille 1, UFR de Mathématique
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    From the Mahler conjecture to the isotropic constant conjecture?
    Greg Kuperberg*, UC Davis
    (1104-52-188)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A general framework for entropies.
    Tom Leinster, University of Edinburgh
    Mark Meckes*, Case Western Reserve University
    (1104-94-232)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Cone-volume measure of convex bodies.
    Martin Henk*, Technische Universitaet Berlin
    (1104-52-54)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On uniqueness questions of convex bodies in $R^3$ and $R^4$.
    Dmitry Ryabogin*, Kent State University
    (1104-52-260)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Rotations of projections of convex bodies.
    M. Alfonseca-Cubero*, North Dakota State University
    M. Cordier, Kent State University
    D. Ryabogin, Kent State University
    (1104-52-244)
• Saturday October 25, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Homotopy Theory II
  Room 201, Hensill Hall
  Organizers:
  Julie Bergner, University of California, Riverside
  Angélica Osorno, Reed College aosorno@reed.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Morita Theory and Categorification.
    Marcy Robertson*, UCLA
    (1104-55-91)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Determinantal $K$--theory and a few applications.
    Eric Peterson*, University of California, Berkeley
    (1104-55-144)
• Saturday October 25, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Interactions between Knots and Manifolds II
  Room 206, Hensill Hall
  Organizers:
  Stanislav Jabuka, University of Nevada, Reno
  Swatee Naik, University of Nevada, Reno naik@unr.edu
  Cornelia Van Cott, University of San Francisco
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Cuspidal curves in complex projective space.
    Maciej Borodzik, University of Warsaw
    Matthew Hedden, Michigan State University
    Charles Livingston*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (1104-57-115)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Surgery obstructions and Heegaard Floer homology.
    Jennifer Hom, Columbia University
    Cagri Karakurt, Boğaziçi University
    Tye Lidman*, University of Texas at Austin
    (1104-57-49)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Combinatorial tangle Floer homology.
    Ina Petkova*, Rice University
    Vera Vertesi, Universite de Strasbourg
    (1104-57-48)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A spectral sequence for the Floer cohomology of symplectomorphisms of trivial polarization class.
    Kristen Hendricks*, UCLA
    (1104-57-264)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Concordance Classes of Knots.
    Mark Norfleet*, University of Nevada, Reno
    (1104-57-228)
• Saturday October 25, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations II
  Room 329, Thorton Hall
  Organizers:
  Nathan Glatt-Holtz, Virginia Tech negh@vt.edu
  Geordie Richards, University of Rochester
  Vlad Vicol, Princeton University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Long-time behavior of the nonlinear Schroedinger equation confined by domain or potential.
    Zaher Hani*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Laurent Thomann, Université de Nantes
    (1104-35-175)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Hypoellipticity beyond Hormander's bracket criterion.
    Timur Akhunov*, University of Rochester
    Cristian Rios, University of Calgary
    (1104-35-314)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Dispersion dynamics of the defocusing generalized Korteweg - de Vries equation.
    Stefan Steinerberger*, Yale University
    (1104-35-66)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Global solutions to 2-D quasilinear wave equations.
    John A Helms*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Thomas Sideris, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1104-35-207)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Global existence for the Euler-Maxwell equation for electrons in dimension 2.
    Benoit Pausader*, Princeton University
    Yu Deng, Princeton University
    Alexandru Ionescu, Princeton University
    (1104-35-78)
• Saturday October 25, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Polyhedral Number Theory II
  Room 335, Thorton Hall
  Organizers:
  Matthias Beck, San Francisco State University mattbeck@sfsu.edu
  Martin Henk, Universität Magdeburg
  Joseph Gubeladze, San Francisco State University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Lattice-point generating functions for free sums of polytopes.
    Matthias Beck, San Francisco State University
    Pallavi Jayawant, Bates College
    Tyrrell B McAllister*, University of Wyoming
    (1104-52-317)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The lecture hall parallelopiped.
    Fu Liu*, University of California, Davis
    (1104-05-106)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Inflated Eulerian Polynomials.
    Carla D Savage*, North Carolina State University
    (1104-05-174)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Convex-normal (pairs of) polytopes.
    Jan Hofmann*, Goethe Universität Frankfurt
    Christian Haase, Goethe Universität Frankfurt
    (1104-13-259)
• Saturday October 25, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Probabilistic and Statistical Problems in Stochastic Dynamics II
  Room 213, Business Building
  Organizers:
  Alexandra Piryatinska, San Francisco State University alpiryat@sfsu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Interfacial Dispersion and Continuity of Local Time.
    Edward C Waymire*, Oregon State University
    Thilanka Appuhamillage, University of Hawaii
    Vrushali Bokil, Oregon State University
    Jorge Ramirea, Nacional University of Colombia
    Enrique Thomann, Oregon State University
    (1104-60-39)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The growth model: Busemann functions, shape, geodesics, and other stories.
    Nicos Georgiou, University of Sussex
    Firas Rassoul-Agha*, University of Utah
    Timo Seppalainen, University of Madison-Wisconsin
    (1104-60-122)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Some Remarks on Concentration Inequalities via Size Biased Couplings.
    Subhankar Ghosh, University of Southern California
    Umit Islak, University of Minnesota
    Gokhan Yildirim*, University of Southern California
    (1104-60-212)
• Saturday October 25, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Progress in Geometric Analysis II
  Room 210, Thorton Hall
  Organizers:
  David Bao, San Francisco State University
  Ovidiu Munteanu, University of Connecticut ovidiu.munteanu@uconn.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Ricci flow through singularities.
    John Lott*, UC-Berkeley
    Bruce Kleiner, NYU
    (1104-58-29)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Entropy and Gauss curvature flow.
    Pengfei Guan, McGill University
    Lei Ni*, University of California, San Diego
    (1104-58-47)
• Saturday October 25, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Progress in Harmonic Analysis and Several Complex Variables II
  Room 326, Thorton Hall
  Organizers:
  Gustavo Hoepfner, Universidade Federal de São Carlos
  Paulo Liboni, Universidade Federal de São Carlos
  Irina Mitrea, Temple University imitrea@temple.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Characterizing Lyapunov domains via Riesz transforms on Hölder spaces.
    Dorina Mitrea*, University of Missouri
    (1104-42-84)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Pseudodifferential operators and localizable Sobolev-Hardy spaces.
    Tiago Henrique Picon*, University of Sao Paulo
    (1104-35-179)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A smooth version of reflection principle for mappings between CR manifolds.
    Shiferaw Berhanu, Temple University
    Ming Xiao*, Rutgers University
    (1104-32-204)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A Unified Approach to Radiation Conditions for Helmholtz, Dirac, and Maxwell Operators.
    Marius Mitrea*, University of Missouri
    (1104-35-56)
• Saturday October 25, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Topological Combinatorics and Combinatorial Commutative Algebra II
  Room 108, Hensill Hall
  Organizers:
  Anton Dochtermann, University of Miami anton@math.miami.edu
  Augustine O'Keefe, University of Kentucky
  Alexander Engstrom, Aalto University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Betti numbers of barycentric and edgewise subdivisions.
    Aldo Conca, University of Genova
    Martina Kubitzke, University of Frankfurt
    Volkmar Welker*, University of Marburg
    (1104-13-87)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Resolutions of monomial ideals and simplicial collapses.
    Sara Faridi*, Dalhousie University
    (1104-13-127)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Resolutions of ideals of powers of linear forms.
    Jimmy Shan*, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    (1104-13-153)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Polar Self-Dual Polytopes and Simplicial Spheres.
    Stephen Sturgeon*, San Antonio, TX
    (1104-13-55)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Generalized edge and cover ideals.
    Jennifer Biermann*, Mount Holyoke College
    Elena Guardo, Universita di Catania
    Adam Van Tuyl, Lakehead University
    (1104-13-171)
• Saturday October 25, 2014, 3:15 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers II
  Room 325, Thorton Hall
  Chairs:
  Jesus R. Oliver, University of California, San Diego jroliver@math.ucsd.edu
  

  • 3:15 p.m.
    Construction of Hoffman-Singleton graph using a well known peculiarity of $\mathbb{A}_{6}$.
    Krishna B Thapa magar*, Florida Atlantic University
    Spyros S Magliveras, Florida Atlantic University
    (1104-05-312)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Boolean-like algebras and Boolean-like functions.
    Yuri Movsisyan*, Yerevan State University
    (1104-06-18)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Equivariant bigraded cohomologies on Grothendieck sites, equivariant higher regulators and their arithmetic applications.
    S. T. Edward Fan*, California Institute of Technology
    (1104-14-27)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Geometry of Lorentz-Conformal Transformations in the Plane.
    Barbara A. Shipman*, University of Texas at Arlington
    Patrick D. Shipman, Colorado State University
    Stephen P. Shipman, Louisiana State University
    (1104-53-321)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    A Vector Field Method for Non-trapping, Radiating Spacetimes.
    Jesus R Oliver*, University of California, San Diego
    (1104-35-24)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Real Integer Physics.
    Michael George Dombroski*, Los Angeles City College
    (1104-81-37)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Point rupture solutions of singular elliptic equations in N-D.
    Attou A. Miloua*, AA1424
    (1104-35-25)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED Random dynamics and averaging for nonautonomous stochastic wave equations.
    Yuncheng You*, University of South Florida
    (1104-35-227)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Surface waves on water over a bump with critical surface tension.
    Jeongwhan Choi*, Korea Universiy. Seoul, Korea
    Shu-Ming Sun, Verginiatech, Blacksburg, VA
    Sung-Im Whang, Ajou University, Suwan, Korea
    (1104-76-201)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Generalization of famous numbers.
    Hung-ping Tsao*, Novato, CA
    (1104-11-06)
• Saturday October 25, 2014, 6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
  Einstein Public Lecture in Mathematics
  Mathematics, common sense, and good luck.
  Atrium, Towers Conference Center
  Jim Simons*, Euclidean Capital
  (1104-00-13)
• Saturday October 25, 2014, 7:15 p.m.-8:45 p.m.
  Reception for the Einstein Lecture
  Reception for the Einstein Lecture
  Atrium, Seven Hills Conference Center

Sunday October 26, 2014

• Sunday October 26, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Room 404, Thorton Hall
• Sunday October 26, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Room 404 Lobby, Thorton Hall
• Sunday October 26, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Geometry III
  Room 210, Business Building
  Organizers:
  Renzo Cavalieri, Colorado State University renzo@math.colostate.edu
  Noah Giansiracusa, University of California, Berkeley
  Burt Totaro, University of California, Los Angeles
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Factorization of birational maps for qe schemes in characteristic 0.
    Dan Abramovich*, Brown University
    Michael Temkin, Hebrew University
    (1104-14-40)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Chow Quotient Stack.
    Samouil Molcho*, University of Colorado, Boulder
    (1104-14-331)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Log rational curves on log pairs.
    Qile Chen, Columbia University
    Yi Zhu*, University of Utah
    (1104-14-147)
• Sunday October 26, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Applications of Knot Theory to the Entanglement of Biopolymers III
  Room 543, Hensill Hall
  Organizers:
  Javier Arsuaga, San Francisco State University jarsuaga@sfsu.edu
  Michael Szafron, University of Saskatchewan
  Mariel Vazquez, San Francisco State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    DNA Recombination Through Spatial Graphs.
    Nataša Jonoska*, Tampa
    Masahico Saito, University of South Florida
    (1104-92-130)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Knots in thick, self avoiding random walks in 3-space.
    Laura Plunkett*, Holy Names University
    (1104-54-70)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    What knots lurk inside other knots?
    Eric J Rawdon*, University of St. Thomas
    (1104-57-139)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Knot complexity: an analysis of subknots.
    Kenneth C Millett*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1104-57-148)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    New Algorithms for Sampling Closed Equilateral Random Walks in $\mathbb{R}^3$ based on Symplectic Geometry.
    Jason H Cantarella*, University of Georgia
    Clayton Shonkwiler, Colorado State University
    (1104-53-98)
• Sunday October 26, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorics and Algebraic Geometry III
  Room 215, Business Building
  Organizers:
  Madhusudan Manjunath, University of California, Berkeley madhu@berkeley.edu
  Farbod Shokrieh, Cornell University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A quantitative version of Mnev's theorem.
    Dustin Cartwright*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    (1104-14-151)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    From combinatorics to motives: Cutting and pasting in algebraic geometry.
    Melanie Matchett Wood, University of Wisconsin at Madison
    Ravi Vakil*, Stanford University
    (1104-14-183)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Spectral Spaces.
    Andrew J Dudzik*, UC Berkeley
    (1104-14-186)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Artin fans.
    Dan Abramovich*, Brown University
    (1104-14-64)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Artin fans in tropical geometry.
    Martin Ulirsch*, Brown University
    (1104-14-142)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Recent progress on limit linear series.
    Brian Osserman*, UC Davis
    (1104-14-109)
• Sunday October 26, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometry of Submanifolds III
  Room 409, Thorton Hall
  Organizers:
  Yun Myung Oh, Andrews University
  Bogdan D. Suceava, California State University, Fullerton bsuceava@fullerton.edu
  Mihaela B. Vajiac, Chapman University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Curvature estimates based on various classes of algebraic inequalities.
    Bogdan D. Suceavă*, California State University, Fullerton
    (1104-53-14)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Scalar invariants of surfaces in conformal 3-sphere.
    Jie Qing*, UC Santa Cruz
    Changping Wang, Normal University of Fujian
    Jingyang Zhong, University of California, Santa Cruz
    (1104-53-342)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The total absolute torsion of open curves in $E^3$.
    Kazuyuki Enomoto*, Tokyo University of Science
    (1104-53-09)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Geometric inequalities and the topology of noncompact submanifolds.
    Shihshu Walter Wei*, The University of Oklahoma
    (1104-53-303)
• Sunday October 26, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on High-Dimensional Convexity and Applications III
  Room 327, Thorton Hall
  Organizers:
  Luis Rademacher, Ohio State University lrademac@cse.ohio-state.edu
  Stanislaw Szarek, Case Western Reserve University and Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6
  Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University, Université de Lille 1, UFR de Mathématique
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Non-central sections of convex bodies.
    Vladyslav Yaskin*, University of Alberta
    Ning Zhang, University of Alberta
    (1104-52-261)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    On the version of the Gaussian Brunn-Minkowski inequality.
    Galyna V Livshyts*, Kent State University
    (1104-52-216)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the equivalence of modes of convergence for log-concave measures.
    Elizabeth Meckes*, Case Western Reserve University
    Mark Meckes, Case Western Reserve University
    (1104-52-229)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Spherical Convex Floating Body.
    Florian Besau*, Vienna University of Technology / Institute of Discrete Mathematics and Geometry
    Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University / Department of Mathematics
    (1104-52-193)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Surface Area Defect of the Euclidean Ball and a Polytope.
    Steven D Hoehner*, Case Western Reserve University
    Carsten Schuett, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel
    Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University
    (1104-52-143)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Mixed $f$-divergence and inequalities for log concave functions.
    Umut Caglar*, Case Western Reserve University
    Elisabeth M. Werner, Case Western Reserve University
    (1104-52-202)
• Sunday October 26, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Interactions between Knots and Manifolds III
  Room 206, Hensill Hall
  Organizers:
  Stanislav Jabuka, University of Nevada, Reno
  Swatee Naik, University of Nevada, Reno naik@unr.edu
  Cornelia Van Cott, University of San Francisco
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Pin(2)-equivariant KO-theory and intersection forms of spin four-manifolds.
    Jianfeng Lin*, University of California Los Angeles
    (1104-57-191)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Embedding 3-manifolds smoothly in $S^4$.
    Andrew Donald*, Michigan State University
    (1104-57-254)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Twisted linking numbers.
    Tynan B Kelly*, Brandeis University
    (1104-57-265)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    From odd Khovanov homology to instantons.
    Christopher W Scaduto*, UCLA
    (1104-57-239)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Kakimizu complex of a surface.
    Jennifer Schultens*, UC Davis
    (1104-57-117)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Alexander invariants of virtual knots.
    Hans U Boden*, Mathematics & Statistics, McMaster University
    Emily Dies, Mathematics & Statistics, McMaster University
    Anne Isabel Gaudreau, Mathematics & Statistics, McMaster University
    Adam Gerlings, Mathematics & Statistics, University of Calgary
    Eric Harper, Mathematics & Statistics, McMaster University
    Andrew J Nicas, Mathematics & Statistics, McMaster University
    (1104-57-128)
• Sunday October 26, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations III
  Room 329, Thorton Hall
  Organizers:
  Nathan Glatt-Holtz, Virginia Tech negh@vt.edu
  Geordie Richards, University of Rochester
  Vlad Vicol, Princeton University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Discussion.
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Discussion.
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Existence and Uniqueness of Solutions for Linear and Nonlinear Inviscid Shallow Water Equations.
    Roger M Temam*, Mathematics Department, Indiana University
    (1104-35-184)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Stability results and fractal dimension estimates for three-dimensional fluid flows.
    Michele Coti Zelati*, University of Maryland
    Ciprian Gal, Florida International University
    (1104-35-205)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A model for studying double exponential growth in the 2d Euler equations.
    Andrew Tapay*, Indiana University
    Nets Hawk Katz, California Institute of Technology
    (1104-35-73)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Stochastic Shell Model for Turbulence.
    Susan Friedlander*, University of Southern California
    Nathan Glatt-Holtz, Virginia Tech
    Vlad Vicol, Princeton University
    (1104-35-104)
• Sunday October 26, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Progress in Geometric Analysis III
  Room 210, Thorton Hall
  Organizers:
  David Bao, San Francisco State University
  Ovidiu Munteanu, University of Connecticut ovidiu.munteanu@uconn.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Extremal Metrics On Ruled Manifolds.
    Zhiqin Lu*, UC Irvine
    Reza Seyyedali, University of Waterloo
    (1104-57-38)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A notion of the weighted $\sigma_k$-curvature for manifolds with density.
    Jeffrey S Case*, Princeton University
    (1104-53-113)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Ends of moduli spaces of Higgs bundles.
    Rafe Mazzeo*, Stanford University
    Hartmut Weiss, University of Kiehl
    Jan Swoboda, LMU Munich
    Frederik Witt, University of Muenster
    (1104-53-273)
• Sunday October 26, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Progress in Harmonic Analysis and Several Complex Variables III
  Room 326, Thorton Hall
  Organizers:
  Gustavo Hoepfner, Universidade Federal de São Carlos
  Paulo Liboni, Universidade Federal de São Carlos
  Irina Mitrea, Temple University imitrea@temple.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Characterization of the complex domians by their holomorphic automorphism groups.
    Bingyuan Liu*, Washington University
    (1104-32-196)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Integral Representation Formulas and Radiation Conditions for Clifford valued functions.
    Emilio Marmolejo-Olea*, Instituto de Matematicas, Unidad Cuernavaca, UNAM; MEXICO
    Dorina Mitrea, Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211
    Irina Mitrea, Department of Mathematics Temple University 1805 N. broad St phil, PA
    Marius Mitrea, Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211
    (1104-42-159)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Perturbation of Globally Gevrey Hypoelliptic Operators.
    Gregorio Chinni*, University of Sâo Paulo
    (1104-35-305)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Layer Potential Methods for Elliptic PDE's in Rough Subdomains of Riemannian Manifolds.
    Brock Schmutzler*, University of Missouri
    (1104-35-107)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On Riesz Decomposition of Super-Polyharmonic Functions.
    Alexander (Oleksandr) V Tovstolis*, Oklahoma State University
    (1104-31-82)
• Sunday October 26, 2014, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Developments from MSRI Programs in Commutative Algebra and Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory III
  Room 113, Hensill Hall
  Organizers:
  Kenneth Chan, University of Washington kenhchan@math.washington.edu
  Jack Jeffries, University of Utah
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Annihilation of cohomology and decompositions of derived categories.
    Srikanth B Iyengar*, University of Utah
    Ryo Takahashi, Nagoya University
    (1104-16-90)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Blowing up finitely supported complete ideals in a regular local ring.
    William Heinzer, Purdue University
    Youngsu Kim*, University of California, Riverside
    Matthew Toeniskoetter, Purdue University
    (1104-13-296)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Frobenius action on local cohomology.
    Anurag K Singh*, University of Utah
    (1104-13-92)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Artin-Nagata properties, minimal multiplicities, and depth of fiber cones.
    Jonathan Montaño*, Purdue University
    (1104-13-57)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Projective dimension of ideals generated by 3 cubics.
    Paolo Mantero*, University of California at Riverside
    Jason McCullough, Rider University
    (1104-13-99)
• Sunday October 26, 2014, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Hamiltonian Partial Differential Equations III
  Room 429, Thorton Hall
  Organizers:
  Marius Beceanu, University of California, Berkeley
  Magdalena Czubak, Binghamton University czubak@math.binghamton.edu
  Dong Li, University of British Columbia
  Xiaoyi Zhang, University of Iowa
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    On summability of moments for the Boltzmann equation without Grad's cutoff.
    Ricardo J. Alonso, PUC-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    Irene M. Gamba, The University of Texas at Austin
    Nataša Pavlović, The University of Texas at Austin
    Maja Tasković*, The University of Texas at Austin
    (1104-35-236)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    motion of an invading heavy tracer particle in a Bose gas.
    Gang Zhou*, California Institute of Technology
    Juerg Froehlich, ETH Zurich
    (1104-35-16)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Motion of non-isentropic compressible Euler equations with damping and error of isentropic approximation.
    Ronghua Pan, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Kun Zhao*, Tulane University
    (1104-35-120)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Regularity criteria of MHD system involving one velocity and one current density component.
    Kazuo Yamazaki*, Oklahoma State University
    (1104-35-23)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The existence of a global attractor for the forced critical surface quasi-geostrophic Equation in $L^2$.
    Alexey Cheskidov, University of Illinois Chicago
    Mimi Dai*, University of Illinois Chicago
    (1104-35-53)
• Sunday October 26, 2014, 8:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Probabilistic and Statistical Problems in Stochastic Dynamics III
  Room 213, Business Building
  Organizers:
  Alexandra Piryatinska, San Francisco State University alpiryat@sfsu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Parameter estimation for a partially observed Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process with degenerate noise.
    Fei Lu*, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
    Alexandre J. Chorin, University of California, Berkeley
    (1104-60-258)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Asymptotics and critical behavior for nonlinear and nonlocal evolution equations driven by jump Markov (Levy) processes.
    Wojbor A Woyczynski*, Case Western Reserve University
    (1104-60-95)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Stochastic solutions for fractional wave equations.
    Mark M. Meerschaert, Michigan State University
    Renè L. Schilling, Institut für Mathematische Stochastik, Technische Universität Dresden
    Alla Sikorskii*, Michigan State University
    (1104-60-88)
• Sunday October 26, 2014, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Topological Combinatorics and Combinatorial Commutative Algebra III
  Room 108, Hensill Hall
  Organizers:
  Anton Dochtermann, University of Miami anton@math.miami.edu
  Augustine O'Keefe, University of Kentucky
  Alexander Engstrom, Aalto University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    On bijections between rooted trees and the comb basis for the cohomology of the weighted partition poset.
    Fu Liu*, University of California, Davis
    (1104-05-162)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the free Lie algebra with multiple brackets.
    Rafael S. González D'León*, University of Kentucky
    (1104-05-169)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    An Orlik-Solomon theorem for matroids.
    Alexander Engström, Aalto University, Helsinki
    Matthew T. Stamps*, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
    (1104-05-112)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Coset lattices are noncontractible, even for groups with alternating factors.
    John Shareshian, Washington University in St. Louis
    Russ Woodroofe*, Mississippi State University
    (1104-05-223)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Lower bound theorems for balanced simplicial manifolds.
    Steven Klee*, Seattle University
    Isabella Novik, University
    (1104-05-173)
• Sunday October 26, 2014, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Statistics III
  Room 432, Thorton Hall
  Organizers:
  Elizabeth Gross, San Jose State University elizabeth.gross@sjsu.edu
  Kaie Kubjas, Aalto University
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Modeling the distribution of distance data in Euclidean space.
    Ruth E Davidson*, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Joseph Rusinko, Winthrop University
    Jing Xi, North Carolina State University
    (1104-62-132)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Algebraic geometry of tree tensor network states.
    Shahrzad Jamshidi*, Pennsylvania State University
    Jason Morton, Pennsylvania State University
    (1104-14-138)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Identifiability of 3-Class Jukes-Cantor Mixtures.
    Colby Long*, North Carolina State University
    Seth Sullivant, North Carolina State University
    (1104-14-97)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Distribution of k-Interval Cospeciation metric.
    Ruriko Yoshida*, University of Kentucky
    Jin Xie, University of Kentucky
    (1104-05-224)
• Sunday October 26, 2014, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Categorical Methods in Representation Theory III
  Room 217, Business Building
  Organizers:
  Eric Friedlander, University of Southern California
  Srikanth Iyengar, University of Utah
  Julia Pevtsova, University of Washington julia@math.washington.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    BGG equivalence for complete intersections.
    Jesse Burke*, UCLA
    (1104-13-335)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Detecting projectivity in sheaves associated to representations of restricted Lie algebras.
    Jim Stark*, University of Washington
    (1104-20-248)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Computing vector bundles for modules of constant Jordan type.
    Shawn Baland*, University of Washington
    (1104-16-330)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The classification of thick tensor ideals for Lie superalgebras.
    Brian Boe, University of Georgia
    Jonathan Kujawa*, University of Oklahoma
    Daniel Nakano, University of Georgia
    (1104-17-33)
• Sunday October 26, 2014, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Homotopy Theory III
  Room 201, Hensill Hall
  Organizers:
  Julie Bergner, University of California, Riverside
  Angélica Osorno, Reed College aosorno@reed.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Homotopy coherence for hypercovering functors on Grothendieck sites and its application to etale motivic regulators.
    S. T. Edward Fan*, California Institute of Technology
    (1104-18-28)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Categories, graphs, and Goodwillie calculus.
    Deborah Vicinsky*, University of Oregon
    (1104-55-262)
• Sunday October 26, 2014, 9:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers III
  Room 325, Thorton Hall
  Chairs:
  Aleksey S. Telyakovskiy, University of Nevada, Reno alekseyt@unr.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    On limit laws for the lengths of longest common subsequences.
    Umit Islak*, University of Minnesota, School of Mathematics
    Christian Houdre, Georgia Institute of Technology , School of Mathematics
    (1104-60-266)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Second Order Parallel Tensors on LP-Sasakian Manifolds with a Coefficient alpha.
    Lovejoy S Das*, Kent State University
    (1104-53-12)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Weakly Increasing Subsequences of Random Words.
    Alperen Y Ozdemir*, University of Southern California
    Umit Islak, University of Minnesota
    (1104-60-289)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Analytical analysis of nonlinear differential equations from hydrology.
    Jeff Mortensen, University of Nevada, Reno
    Aleksey S Telyakovskiy*, University of Nevada, Reno
    (1104-76-288)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Computing wave breaking times of the inviscid Burgers equation using finite difference methods.
    Ravi A Shankar*, California State University Chico
    Tucker Hartland, California State University Chico
    Sergei Fomin, California State University Chico
    (1104-76-282)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Principal Series Representations and Calculations of Intertwining Operators for $Mp(2)$ over local fields.
    Shiang Tang*, Dept of Mathematics, University of Utah
    (1104-20-22)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Characterization of the Smoothness of the One Dimensional Dirac Opearators Subject to General Boundary Conditions.
    Ilker Arslan*, Sabanci University
    Plamen Borissov Djakov, Sabanci University
    (1104-47-284)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Applied Mathematics with Information Technology: Alignment of Exit Competencies with Current Job Competencies.
    Rowena Angeles Monfero*, Far Eastern University, Manila Philippines
    Priscilla Altares, Far Eastern University Manila
    (1104-62-05)
• Sunday October 26, 2014, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Polyhedral Number Theory III
  Room 335, Thorton Hall
  Organizers:
  Matthias Beck, San Francisco State University mattbeck@sfsu.edu
  Martin Henk, Universität Magdeburg
  Joseph Gubeladze, San Francisco State University
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    On Coloring Box Graphs.
    Ellen Veomett*, Saint Mary's College of California
    (1104-05-180)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Plethysm and lattice point counting.
    Thomas Kahle*, Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg
    Mateusz Michalek, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, Berkeley
    (1104-20-137)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Non-commutative Hilbert Modular Symbols.
    Ivan E. Horozov*, Washington University in St. Louis
    (1104-11-30)
• Sunday October 26, 2014, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  The fundamental group of an algebraic variety, and hyperbolic complex manifolds.
  Room 201, Science Building
  Burt Totaro*, University of California, Los Angeles
  (1104-14-04)
• Sunday October 26, 2014, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  The virtual fundamental class and "derived" symplectic geometry.
  Room 201, Science Building
  Kai Behrend*, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
  (1104-14-01)
• Sunday October 26, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Geometry IV
  Room 210, Business Building
  Organizers:
  Renzo Cavalieri, Colorado State University renzo@math.colostate.edu
  Noah Giansiracusa, University of California, Berkeley
  Burt Totaro, University of California, Los Angeles
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The link of a linear meromorphic ordinary differential equation.
    Vivek Shende*, UC Berkeley
    (1104-34-332)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Hermitian determinantal representations of plane curves.
    Daniel Plaumann, Universität Konstanz, Germany
    Rainer Sinn, Georgia Institute of Technology
    David Speyer, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    Cynthia Vinzant*, North Carolina State University
    (1104-14-279)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Hodge type questions on Shimura varieties of orthogonal type.
    Zhiyuan Li*, Stanford
    (1104-14-320)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Non-Abelian Lefschetz Hyperplane Theorems.
    Daniel Litt*, Stanford University
    (1104-14-108)
• Sunday October 26, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Statistics IV
  Room 432, Thorton Hall
  Organizers:
  Elizabeth Gross, San Jose State University elizabeth.gross@sjsu.edu
  Kaie Kubjas, Aalto University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Linear Gaussian Covariance Models.
    Piotr Zwiernik*, University of California, Berkeley
    (1104-62-170)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Generalized Fréchet bounds and correlation inequalities for multidimensional contingency tables.
    Caroline Uhler*, IST Austria
    Donald Richards, Penn State University
    (1104-62-177)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Identifiability of acyclic directed Gaussian graphical models with one latent variable.
    Dennis Leung*, University of Washington
    Hisayuki Hara, Niigata University
    Mathias Drton, University of Washington
    (1104-62-220)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Solving the dual likelihood equations.
    Jose Israel Rodriguez*, University of Notre Dame
    (1104-14-334)
• Sunday October 26, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Applications of Knot Theory to the Entanglement of Biopolymers IV
  Room 543, Hensill Hall
  Organizers:
  Javier Arsuaga, San Francisco State University jarsuaga@sfsu.edu
  Michael Szafron, University of Saskatchewan
  Mariel Vazquez, San Francisco State University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Site-specific recombination modeled as a band surgery.
    Koya Shimokawa*, Department of Mathematics, Saitama University
    Kai Ishihara, Faculty of Education, Yamaguchi University
    Mariel Vazquez, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Davis
    (1104-57-198)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Beyond Crystal Structure- Picture Perfect: The mechanics of DNA shape and flexibility in site-specific recombination.
    Massa Shoura*, The University of Texas at Dallas
    Stephen Levene, The University of Texas at Dallas
    (1104-92-231)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Further adventures in Hopfs.
    Andrew Rechnitzer*, UBC
    (1104-82-267)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Writhe and mutual entanglement combine to give the entanglement length.
    Eleni Panagiotou*, University of California Santa Barbara
    Martin Kroeger, ETH Zurich
    Kenneth Millett, University of California Santa Barbara
    (1104-92-160)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    A Metric on the Space of Framed Curves.
    Tom R Needham*, University of Georgia
    (1104-53-271)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Topological friction strongly affects viral DNA ejection.
    De Witt Sumners*, Florida State University
    (1104-92-166)
• Sunday October 26, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Categorical Methods in Representation Theory IV
  Room 217, Business Building
  Organizers:
  Eric Friedlander, University of Southern California
  Srikanth Iyengar, University of Utah
  Julia Pevtsova, University of Washington julia@math.washington.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Irreducible components of varieties of representations.
    Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann*, University of California at Santa Barbara
    (1104-16-192)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The Category of Elementary Subalgebras of a Restricted Lie Algebra.
    Jared Warner*, University of Southern California
    (1104-20-62)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Deligne's category GL(t) and the general linear supergroup.
    Vera Serganova*, UC Berkeley
    (1104-17-89)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Models of logic from commutative algebra.
    Daniel Murfet*, University of Southern California
    (1104-13-313)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Noncommutative McKay correspondence.
    Kenneth Chan*, University of Washington
    Ellen Kirkman, Wake Forest University
    Chelsea Walton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    James Zhang, University of Washington
    (1104-16-285)
• Sunday October 26, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorics and Algebraic Geometry IV
  Room 215, Business Building
  Organizers:
  Madhusudan Manjunath, University of California, Berkeley madhu@berkeley.edu
  Farbod Shokrieh, Cornell University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Tropical geometry, p-adic integration, and uniformity.
    David Zureick-Brown*, Emory University
    (1104-11-187)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Tropical schemes and the Berkovich analytification.
    Noah Giansiracusa*, University of Georgia
    Jeffrey H Giansiracusa, Swansea University
    (1104-14-124)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Ehrhart theory of subdivisions and mixed Hodge theory.
    Eric Katz*, University of Waterloo
    (1104-14-150)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Faithful tropicalization of the Grassmannian of planes.
    Maria Angelica Cueto*, Columbia University
    Mathias Haebich, University of Frankfurt
    Annette Werner, University of Frankfurt
    (1104-14-167)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Characterizing the smoothability of limit linear series of rank one on metrized complexes by integral points in polyhedrons.
    Ye Luo*, Rice University
    Madhusudan Manjunath, UC Berkeley
    (1104-14-221)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Skeletons of spaces of maps and Hurwitz theory.
    Renzo Cavalieri, Colorado State University
    Hannah Markwig, Universität des Saarlandes
    Dhruv Ranganathan*, Yale University
    (1104-14-75)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Some calculations with vector bundles.
    Tyler Foster*, University of Michigan
    (1104-14-135)
• Sunday October 26, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Developments from MSRI Programs in Commutative Algebra and Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory IV
  Room 113, Hensill Hall
  Organizers:
  Kenneth Chan, University of Washington kenhchan@math.washington.edu
  Jack Jeffries, University of Utah
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Roots of Bernstein-Sato polynomials via characteristic $p>0$ methods.
    Daniel J. Hernández, University of Utah
    Emily E. Witt*, University of Utah
    (1104-13-304)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    An Alternate Approach to the Lie Bracket on Hochschild Cohomology.
    Cris Negron*, University of Washington
    (1104-18-341)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Zeta Functions of Derived Equivalent Varieties.
    Katrina Honigs*, UC Berkeley
    (1104-14-121)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Syzygy gap fractals and F-thresholds.
    Daniel J Hernandez*, University of Utah
    Pedro Teixeira, Knox College
    (1104-13-306)
• Sunday October 26, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Hamiltonian Partial Differential Equations IV
  Room 429, Thorton Hall
  Organizers:
  Marius Beceanu, University of California, Berkeley
  Magdalena Czubak, Binghamton University czubak@math.binghamton.edu
  Dong Li, University of British Columbia
  Xiaoyi Zhang, University of Iowa
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Wind-driven water waves.
    Oliver Buhler, New York University
    Jalal Shatah, New York University
    Samuel Walsh, University of Missouri
    Chongchun Zeng*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1104-35-215)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The lifespan of two dimensional water waves.
    Mihaela Ifrim, UC Berkeley
    Daniel Tataru*, UC Berkeley
    (1104-35-245)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Tow dimensional water waves in holomorphic coordinates.
    Mihaela Ifrim*, University of California at Berkeley
    Daniel Tataru, Univeristy of California at Berkeley
    (1104-35-256)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The lifespan of small data solutions to the KP-I.
    Benjamin Harrop-Griffiths*, University of California, Berkeley
    Mihaela Ifrim, University of California, Berkeley
    Daniel Tataru, University of California, Berkeley
    (1104-35-268)
• Sunday October 26, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Special Session on High-Dimensional Convexity and Applications IV
  Room 327, Thorton Hall
  Organizers:
  Luis Rademacher, Ohio State University lrademac@cse.ohio-state.edu
  Stanislaw Szarek, Case Western Reserve University and Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6
  Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University, Université de Lille 1, UFR de Mathématique
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Monotonicity and concavity of integral functionals defined on $n$-dimensional convex bodies.
    Andrea Colesanti*, University of Florence
    (1104-52-190)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On Orlicz Affine Isoperimetric Inequalities.
    Deping Ye*, Memorial University of Newfoundland
    (1104-52-185)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the isotropic constant of random polytopes.
    David Alonso-Gutiérrez, Universitat Jaume I
    Alexander E. Litvak, University of Alberta
    Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann*, University of Alberta
    (1104-52-276)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The module of Riemannian curvature measures.
    Joseph H.G. Fu*, Department of Mathematics, University of Georgia
    (1104-53-294)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Optimal concentration of information for log-concave distributions.
    Mokshay Madiman*, University of Delaware
    Liyao Wang, New York
    (1104-52-281)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Covering and packing convex bodies by cylinders.
    Karoly Bezdek, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
    Alexander E. Litvak*, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
    (1104-52-338)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    The logarithmic Minkowski problem for polytopes.
    Guangxian Zhu*, New York University
    (1104-52-93)
• Sunday October 26, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Homotopy Theory IV
  Room 201, Hensill Hall
  Organizers:
  Julie Bergner, University of California, Riverside
  Angélica Osorno, Reed College aosorno@reed.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Perturbative sigma models and elliptic cohomology with complex coefficients.
    Daniel Berwick-Evans*, Stanford University
    (1104-55-172)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Constructing equivariant spectra.
    Anna Marie Bohmann*, Northwestern University
    Angelica M. Osorno, Reed College
    (1104-55-241)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The embedding calculus and finite-type invariants.
    Dev P. Sinha*, University of Oregon
    Ryan Budney, University of Victoria
    James Conant, University of Tennessee
    Robin Koytcheff, University of Victoria
    (1104-57-238)
• Sunday October 26, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Interactions between Knots and Manifolds IV
  Room 206, Hensill Hall
  Organizers:
  Stanislav Jabuka, University of Nevada, Reno
  Swatee Naik, University of Nevada, Reno naik@unr.edu
  Cornelia Van Cott, University of San Francisco
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Lagrangian-Floer theory in the pillowcase arising from traceless representations of knot groups.
    Christopher M. Herald*, University of Nevada, Reno
    Matthew Hedden, Michigan State University
    Paul Kirk, Indiana University Bloomington
    (1104-57-291)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Three manifold mutations and Heegaard Floer homology.
    Corrin Clarkson*, Indiana University
    (1104-57-309)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Splicing integer framed knot complements.
    Jonathan Hanselman*, UT Austin
    (1104-54-302)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Instanton Knot Floer Homology via Equivariant Gauge Theory.
    Prayat Poudel*, University of Miami
    Nikolai Saveliev, University of Miami
    (1104-57-225)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On the Homotopy type of the Configuration Spaces of Lens Spaces.
    Kyle Evans-Lee*, University of Miami
    (1104-57-234)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Exceptional and cosmetic surgeries on knots.
    Ryan Blair, CSU Long Beach
    Marion Campisi*, Stanford University
    Jesse Johnson, Oklahoma State University
    Scott Taylor, Colby College
    Maggy Tomova, University of Iowa
    (1104-57-323)
• Sunday October 26, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations IV
  Room 329, Thorton Hall
  Organizers:
  Nathan Glatt-Holtz, Virginia Tech negh@vt.edu
  Geordie Richards, University of Rochester
  Vlad Vicol, Princeton University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Onsager's Conjecture.
    Tristan Buckmaster*, Courant Institute, NYU
    (1104-35-68)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A New Abridged Continuous Data Assimilation Algorithm for the 2D NSE and the 3D $\alpha$-Models of Turbulence.
    Aseel Farhat*, Indiana University Bloomington
    Evelyn Lunasin, The United States Naval Academy
    Edriss Titi, The Weizmann Institute of Science and Texas A&M University
    (1104-76-311)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Regularity of turbulent flows: Kolmogorov's dissipation range and intermittency.
    Alexey Cheskidov*, UIC
    (1104-35-340)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The rate of heat transport in the vertical direction.
    Xiaoming Wang*, Florida State University
    (1104-76-178)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On global existence for the 2D Boussinesq system.
    Weiwei Hu, University of Southern California
    Igor Kukavica*, University of Southern California
    Fei Wang, University of Southern California
    Mohammed Ziane, University of Southern California
    (1104-35-339)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Gibbs' measure and almost sure global well-posedness for one dimensional periodic fractional Schrödinger equation.
    Seckin Demirbas*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1104-35-195)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Discussion.
• Sunday October 26, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Polyhedral Number Theory IV
  Room 335, Thorton Hall
  Organizers:
  Matthias Beck, San Francisco State University mattbeck@sfsu.edu
  Martin Henk, Universität Magdeburg
  Joseph Gubeladze, San Francisco State University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Integral versions of Helly's theorem and Applications.
    Jesus A. De Loera*, University of California, Davis
    (1104-52-42)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Real multi-parameter Ehrhart theory: Highest degree terms.
    Velleda Baldoni, Università degli studi di Roma "Tor Vergata"
    Nicole Berline, École Polytechnique, Centre de Mathématiques Laurent Schwartz
    Jesús A. De Loera, University of California, Davis
    Matthias Köppe*, University of California, Davis
    Michèle Vergne, Institut Mathématique de Jussieu
    (1104-52-272)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Finiteness of the polyhedral $\mathbb Q$-codegree spectrum.
    Andreas Paffenholz*, TU Darmstadt
    (1104-52-85)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Recent extensions of Normaliz.
    Winfried Bruns*, Universität Osnabrück
    (1104-52-43)
• Sunday October 26, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
  Special Session on Probabilistic and Statistical Problems in Stochastic Dynamics IV
  Room 213, Business Building
  Organizers:
  Alexandra Piryatinska, San Francisco State University alpiryat@sfsu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Simultaneous break point detection and variable selection in quantile (auto)regression models.
    Alexander Aue*, University of California, Davis
    Rex Cheung, University of California, Davis
    Thomas Lee, University of California, Davis
    Ming Zhong, University of California, Davis
    (1104-62-46)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Novel Methodology for Segmentation of Time Series Generated by Arbitrary Mechanism.
    Alexandra Piryatinska*, San Francisco State University
    Boris Darkhovsky, Institute for Systems Analysis, RAS
    (1104-62-200)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Least squares approximations of Stationary Densities of Dynamical Systems.
    J Ding*, University of Southern Mississippi
    (1104-65-79)
• Sunday October 26, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Progress in Geometric Analysis IV
  Room 210, Thorton Hall
  Organizers:
  David Bao, San Francisco State University
  Ovidiu Munteanu, University of Connecticut ovidiu.munteanu@uconn.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Asymptotic Behavior of Non Round Neckpinches in Ricci Flow.
    Jim Isenberg*, University of Oregon
    (1104-35-133)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the volume growth of Kahler manifolds with nonnegative bisectional curvature.
    Gang Liu*, University of California, Berkeley
    (1104-53-60)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Star-shaped mean curvature flow.
    Longzhi Lin*, University of California, Santa Cruz
    Robert Haslhofer, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
    (1104-53-65)
• Sunday October 26, 2014, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Topological Combinatorics and Combinatorial Commutative Algebra IV
  Room 108, Hensill Hall
  Organizers:
  Anton Dochtermann, University of Miami anton@math.miami.edu
  Augustine O'Keefe, University of Kentucky
  Alexander Engstrom, Aalto University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The closure of a linear space in a product of lines.
    Federico Ardila*, San Francisco State University / Universidad de Los Andes
    Adam Boocher, University of Edinburgh
    (1104-05-211)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Catenary Degrees of Elements in Numerical Monoids.
    Christopher ONeill*, Texas A&M University
    Vadim Ponomarenko, San Diego State University
    Reuben Tate, University of Hawaii Hilo
    Gautam Webb, Colorado College
    (1104-08-94)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Matrix Completion for the Independence Model.
    Zvi H Rosen*, University of California, Berkeley
    (1104-05-102)

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