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Central Fall Sectional Meeting
Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL
October 2-4, 2015 (Friday - Sunday)
Meeting #1112

Associate secretaries:

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

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Saturday October 3, 2015

• Saturday October 3, 2015, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  First Floor Hall, Cuneo Hall
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  First Floor Hallway, Cuneo Hall
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Developments in Graph and Matroid Theory, I
  Room 103, Cuneo Hall
  Organizers:
  Sergei Bezrukov, University of Wisconsin-Superior
  Dalibor Froncek, University of Minnesota Duluth
  Xiaofeng Gu, University of West Georgia xgu@westga.edu
  Steven Rosenberg, University of Wisconsin-Superior
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Chvátal-type results for degree sequence Ramsey numbers.
    Michael Ferrara`*, University of Colorado Denver
    Christopher Cox, Carnegie Mellon University
    Ryan Martin, Iowa State University
    Benjamin Reiniger, Ryerson University
    (1112-05-357)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Graph realizations of a degree sequence constrained by a vertex partition.
    Stephen G. Hartke*, University of Colorado Denver
    (1112-05-539)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Pancyclic, Bipancyclic and Oddly Bipancyclic Graphs.
    Abdollah Khodkar*, University of West Georgia
    (1112-05-219)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Linkage and Hadwiger's conjecture.
    Guantao Chen*, Georgia State University
    Zhiquan Hu, Central China Normal University
    Feifei Song, Central China Normal University
    (1112-05-460)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Packing of edge-disjoint odd $(u,v)$-trails.
    Ross Churchley, Simon Fraser University
    Bojan Mohar, Simon Fraser University
    Hehui Wu*, University of Mississippi
    (1112-05-590)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Signed circuit covers of signed graphs.
    Jian Cheng, Department of Mathematics, West Virginia University
    You Lu, Department of Mathematics, West Virginia University
    Rong Luo*, Department of Mathematics, West Virginia University
    Cun-Quan Zhang, Department of Mathematics, West Virginia University
    (1112-05-341)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Developments in the Theory and Applications of Reaction Network Models, I
  Room 407, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  Carsten Conradi, Max Planck Institute
  Moderators:
  Badal Joshi, California State University San Marcos
  Organizers:
  Casian Pantea, West Virginia University cpantea@math.wvu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    MESSI biological systems.
    Alicia Dickenstein*, Department of Mathematics, FCEN, University of Buenos Aires
    Mercedes Perez Millan, Department of Mathematics, FCEN, University of Buenos Aires
    (1112-14-150)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Mixed and basic MESSI biological systems.
    Mercedes Perez Millan*, Universidad de Buenos Aires
    Alicia Dickenstein, Universidad de Buenos Aires; IMAS-CONICET
    (1112-92-422)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Overload breakdown in models of photosynthesis.
    Alan D. Rendall*, University of Mainz
    (1112-92-230)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Algebraic Systems Biology: A Case Study for the Wnt Pathway.
    Elizabeth Gross, San Jose State University
    Heather A Harrington, Oxford University
    Zvi Rosen*, Pennsylvania State University
    Bernd Sturmfels, University of California, Berkeley
    (1112-92-650)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Model rejection using differential algebra.
    Nicolette Meshkat*, Santa Clara University
    Heather Harrington, University of Oxford
    Kenneth Ho, Stanford University
    (1112-92-532)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Methods Common to Association Schemes, Hopf Algebras, Tensor Categories, Finite Geometry, and Related Areas, I
  Room 311, Cuneo Hall
  Organizers:
  Harvey Blau, Northern Illinois University
  Sung Y. Song, Iowa State University
  Bangteng Xu, Eastern Kentucky University Bangteng.Xu@eku.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Lowering-Raising Triples of Linear Transformations.
    Paul M Terwilliger*, Math Department U. Wisconsin-Madison
    (1112-15-57)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Two Class of Finite Nilpotent Groups and Related Table Algebras.
    Harvey Blau, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Northern Illinois University
    Gang Chen*, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, 430079, China
    Rulin Shen, Department of Mathematics, Hubei University for Nationalities
    (1112-20-119)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Torsion units of integral table algebras and RBAs.
    Allen Herman*, University of Regina
    (1112-16-127)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Control of Fusion in Table Algebras.
    Harvey I. Blau*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Northern Illinois University
    (1112-20-477)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Upper Triangular Matrices and Billiard Arrays.
    Yang Yang*, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    (1112-05-129)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Statistics and its Interactions with Combinatorics, Computation, and Network Science, I
  Room 303, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  Sonja Petrovic, Illinois Institute of Technology sonja.petrovic@iit.edu
  Despina Stasi, University of Cyprus and Illinois Institute of Technology
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Score Equivalence and Polyhedral Approaches to Learning Bayesian Networks.
    David Haws*, IBM Watson
    James Cussens, University of York
    Milan Studeny, The Institute of Information Theory and Automation of the CAS
    (1112-62-445)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Identifiability of Gaussian DAG models with one latent source.
    Hisayuki Hara*, Niigata University
    (1112-62-549)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The maximum likelihood threshold of a graph.
    Elizabeth Gross*, San Jose State University
    Seth Sullivant, North Carolina State University
    (1112-62-620)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The maximum likelihood degree for rank 2 matrices via Euler characteristics.
    Jose Israel Rodriguez*, University of Notre Dame
    (1112-14-556)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Polynomial Homotopy Continuation in the Cloud.
    Nathan Bliss, University of Illinois Chicago
    Jeff Sommars*, University of Illinois Chicago
    Xiangcheng Yu, University of Illinois Chicago
    Jan Verschelde, University of Illinois Chicago
    (1112-05-447)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic and Combinatorial Invariants of Knots, I
  Room 312, Cuneo Hall
  Organizers:
  Micah Chrisman, Monmouth University
  Heather Dye, McKendree University hadye@mckendree.edu
  Aaron Kaestner, North Park University amkaestner@northpark.edu
  Louis Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Emily Peters, Loyola University Chicago
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Dehn coloring and the dimer model for knots.
    Heaher M Russell*, University of Richmond
    Alexander Madaus, Washington College
    Maisie Newman, Washington College
    (1112-57-604)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Polynomial Time Knot Polynomials.
    Dror Bar-Natan*, University of Toronto
    (1112-57-186)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Positivity of the Kauffman Bracket Skein Algebra of the Torus.
    Charles D Frohman*, The University of Iowa
    (1112-57-120)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Quantum Enhancements of Biquandle Counting Invariants.
    Sam Nelson*, Claremont McKenna College
    (1112-55-91)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Unital Shelves.
    Alissa S. Crans*, Loyola Marymount University
    (1112-54-601)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Automorphic Forms and Representations, I
  Room 606, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  Moshe Adrian, University of Toronto
  Shuichiro Takeda, University of Missouri-Columbia takedas@missouri.edu
  Aaron Wood, University of Missouri-Columbia
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Principal series representations on p-adic Banach spaces.
    Dubravka Ban*, Southern Illinois University
    Joseph Hundley, University at Buffalo
    (1112-22-299)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Fixers of stable functionals.
    Sean J Rostami*, University of Wisconsin (Madison)
    (1112-22-426)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Stable vectors in the Moy-Prasad filtration.
    Jessica Fintzen*, Harvard University
    (1112-20-421)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Local Langlands Correspondence: New Examples from the Epipelagic Zone.
    Beth Romano*, Boston College
    (1112-11-173)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Geometry of Orbital Integrals.
    Cheng-Chiang Tsai*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1112-22-337)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Automorphisms of Riemann Surfaces and Related Topics, I
  Room 218, Cuneo Hall
  Organizers:
  S. Allen Broughton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
  Peter Turbek, Purdue University Calumet
  Anthony Weaver, Bronx Community College, the City University of New York
  Aaron Wootton, University of Portland wootton@up.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Nielsen Transformations and Primitive curve Lengths on Pairs of Pants.
    Jane Gilman*, Rutgers-Newark
    (1112-20-141)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Some quasiconformal homeomorphisms of compact Riemann surfaces.
    Clifford J. Earle*, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University
    (1112-30-224)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The action of the absolute Galois group on quasiplatonic curves.
    Gabino Gonzalez-Diez*, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. Spain.
    (1112-14-35)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Galois Theory of a Quaternion Group Origami.
    Rachel Davis*, Purdue University
    Edray Herber Goins, Purdue University
    (1112-12-123)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Coding Theory and Its Applications, I
  Room 304, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  W. Cary Huffman, Loyola University Chicago whuffma@luc.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Lattice geometry of toric codes.
    Ivan Soprunov, Cleveland State University
    Jenya Soprunova*, Kent State University
    (1112-52-346)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Self-dual codes from smooth Fano polytopes.
    Ivan Soprunov*, Cleveland State University
    (1112-14-345)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Quantum stabilizer codes from toric varieties.
    Roy Joshua*, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
    Reza Akhtar, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
    (1112-14-85)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Stopping sets of algebraic geometric codes from hyperelliptic curves.
    Sarah E. Anderson*, University of St. Thomas
    (1112-94-512)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On locally decodable codes from AG codes.
    Gretchen Matthews*, Clemson University
    (1112-94-506)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Cohomology of Algebras and Deformation Theory, I
  Room 116, Cuneo Hall
  Organizers:
  Anthony Giaquinto, Loyola University Chicago
  Mihai D. Staic, Bowling Green State University mstaic@bgsu.edu
  Alin Stancu, Columbus State University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Hochschild homology of a proper Lie groupoid.
    Markus Pflaum, University of Colorado at Boulder
    Hessel Posthuma, University of Amsterdam
    Xiang Tang*, Washington University in St. Louis
    (1112-16-189)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Hochschild cohomology of finite group extensions of some quantum complete intersections.
    Lauren Grimley*, Texas A&M University
    (1112-16-139)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Finite generation of cohomology rings.
    Van C. Nguyen*, Northeastern University
    Sarah Witherspoon, Texas A&M University
    (1112-16-236)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Twisting Cochains and Hochschild Cohomology.
    Cris Negron*, Louisiana State University
    (1112-18-160)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Deformations of graded bialgebras.
    Mitja Mastnak*, Saint Mary's University
    (1112-16-298)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial and Computational Algebra, I
  Room 002, Cuneo Hall
  Organizers:
  David Cook II, Eastern Illinois University dwcook@eiu.edu
  Sonja Mapes, University of Notre Dame
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Order Partition and Subposet Lattices.
    Jay Schweig*, Oklahoma State University
    Russ Woodroofe, Mississippi State University
    (1112-05-535)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A description of Boij-Söderberg decomposition for lex ideals.
    Sema Gunturkun*, University of Michigan
    (1112-13-167)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Pure resolutions from lcm lattices.
    Christopher A Francisco, Oklahoma State Universit
    Jeff Mermin*, Oklahoma State University
    Jay Schweig, Oklahoma State University
    (1112-13-525)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Regularity of Tor for Weakly Stable Ideals.
    Katie Ansaldi*, University of Notre Dame
    Nicholas Clarke, University of Manchester
    Luigi Ferraro, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1112-13-302)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Projective Dimensions of Square-Free Monomial Ideals.
    Kuei-Nuan Lin*, Penn State University, Greater Allegheny
    Paolo Mantero, University of Arkansas
    (1112-13-180)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial and Geometric Representation Theory, I
  Room 210, Cuneo Hall
  Organizers:
  Ben Salisbury, Central Michigan University
  Peter Tingley, Loyola University Chicago ptingley@luc.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Mirabolic quantum $\mathfrak{sl}_2$.
    Daniele Rosso*, University of California, Riverside
    (1112-16-378)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Truncated shifted Yangians.
    Alex Weekes*, University of Toronto
    (1112-16-494)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A cactus group action on crystals.
    Iva Halacheva*, University of Toronto
    Joel Kamnitzer, University of Toronto
    Leonid Rybnikov, Higher School of Economics
    Alex Weekes, University of Toronto
    (1112-16-558)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    KKR-type bijection in exceptional types.
    Travis Scrimshaw*, University of California Davis
    (1112-05-478)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The influence of the Kirillov-Reshetikhin crystal $B^{1,1}$ on the structure of simple cyclotomic KLR modules.
    Henry Kvinge*, UC Davis
    Monica Vazirani, UC Davis
    (1112-05-271)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra, I
  Room 202, Cuneo Hall
  Organizers:
  Youngsu Kim, University of California, Riverside
  Paolo Mantero, University of California, Riverside
  Jonathan Montaño, University of Kansas jmontano@ku.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Conductor ideals vs multiplier ideals on a singular curve.
    Wenbo Niu*, University of Arkansas
    (1112-13-365)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the bimodule structure of bounded cohomology.
    Luigi Ferraro*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1112-13-354)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Adams operations for matrix factorizations and a conjecture of H. Dao.
    Michael Brown, University of Nebraska
    Claudia Miller*, Syracuse University
    Peder Thompson, University of Nebraska
    Mark Walker, University of Nebraska
    (1112-18-391)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A counterexample to a conjecture of Ding.
    Alessandro De Stefani*, University of Virginia
    (1112-13-108)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Serre's Condition $R_k$ for sums of geometric links.
    Mark Johnson*, University of Arkansas
    (1112-13-172)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Computability Theory and Applications, I
  Room 204, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  Denis Hirschfeldt, University of Chicago drh@math.uchicago.edu
  Steffen Lempp, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Coarse reducibility and algorithmic randomness.
    Denis R. Hirschfeldt, University of Chicago
    Carl G. Jockusch*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Rutger Kuyper, University of Wisconsin at Madison
    Paul E. Schupp, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1112-03-225)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Bounded low and high sets.
    Bernard Anderson, Gordon College
    Barbara Csima, University of Waterloo
    Karen Lange*, Wellesley College
    (1112-03-31)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Computable categoricity and Scott families.
    Valentina Harizanov*, George Washington University
    (1112-03-170)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Feedback Turing Computability, and Turing Computability as Feedback.
    Nathanael L. Ackerman, Harvard University
    Cameron E. Freer*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Robert S. Lubarsky, Florida Atlantic University
    (1112-03-144)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Computable Information in Ultraproducts.
    Henry P Towsner*, University of Pennsylvania
    (1112-01-380)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Enumerative Algebraic and Geometric Combinatorics, I
  Room 217, Cuneo Hall
  Organizers:
  Kyle Petersen, DePaul University tpeter21@depaul.edu
  Steven Klee, Seattle University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Generating functions and triangulations for lecture hall cones.
    Benjamin Braun*, University of Kentucky
    Matthias Beck, San Francisco State University
    Matthias Koeppe, University of California, Davis
    Carla D. Savage, North Carolina State University
    Zafeirakis Zafeirakopoulos, Galatasaray University
    (1112-05-442)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Polyhedral Description of Extremal PSD Matrices for Certain Graphs.
    Liam Solus*, University of Kentucky
    Caroline Uhler, MIT/IST Austria
    Ruriko Yoshida, University of Kentucky
    (1112-05-138)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Realizing subword complexes via triangulations of root polytopes.
    Laura Escobar, UIUC
    Karola Meszaros*, Cornell University
    (1112-05-178)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Poset polytopes and some conjectured tree polytopes.
    Lisa Berry, Bio-Med Science Academy
    Devadoss Satyan, Williams College
    Stefan Forcey*, University of Akron
    Stephen Reisdorff, University of Akron
    Patrick Showers, University of Akron
    (1112-05-314)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Quotients of sums of distinct powers of three.
    Bruce Reznick*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1112-11-175)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Generalized Derivatives, I
  Room 508, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  J. Marshall Ash, DePaul University
  Paul Musial, Chicago State University pmusial@csu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Forming generalized derivatives in analysis and probability theory.
    Peter A Loeb*, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
    (1112-26-113)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On Peano derivatives in several variables.
    Hajrudin Fejzic*, California State University San Bernardino
    (1112-26-145)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Tangents of curves and differentiability of functions.
    Marianna Csornyei*, University of Chicago
    (1112-28-509)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Discussion.
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Groups, Rings, Group Rings, and Hopf Algebras (celebrating the 75th birthday of Donald S. Passman), IV
  Room 109, Cuneo Hall
  Organizers:
  Jeffrey Bergen, DePaul University
  Stefan Catoiu, DePaul University scatoiu@condor.depaul.edu
  William Chin, DePaul University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    My collaboration with Don Passman.
    Jairo Z Goncalves*, Dep Mathematics Univ of Sao Paulo, SP, 05508-090, Brazil
    (1112-16-81)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Free groups and free algebras in division rings of Ore extensions.
    Jason P Bell*, University of Waterloo
    Jairo Z Goncalves, University of Sao Paulo
    (1112-16-179)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Noncommutative Galois theory: from subgroups to right coideal subalgebras.
    Vladislav K. Kharchenko*, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
    (1112-16-164)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Quasi-Permutation Singular Matrices are Products of Idempotents.
    S K Jain*, King Abdulaziz University, KSA and Ohio University, USA
    (1112-16-67)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Group Ring Groups.
    Eric Jespers*, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
    (1112-16-411)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Analysis and Computation of Nematic Liquid Crystals, I
  Room 503, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  Patricia Bauman, Purdue University
  Daniel Phillips, Purdue University
  Changyou Wang, Purdue University wang2482@purdue.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Discussion.
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Weak Anchoring for 2D Liquid Crystals.
    Stan Alama, McMaster University
    Lia Bronsard*, McMaster University
    Bernardo Galvão Sousa, University of Toronto
    (1112-35-671)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Scalings and Limits of the Landau-deGennes Model for Nematic Liquid Crystals.
    Eugene Gartland*, Kent State University
    (1112-35-511)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Some techniques to decouple the computations of phase field model of complex fluids.
    Xiaofeng Yang*, University of South Carolina
    (1112-65-666)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A model of polydisperse nematics.
    Ibrahim Fatkullin*, University of Arizona
    Valeriy Slastikov, University of Bristol
    (1112-35-554)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Minimizers of the Landau-de Gennes energy around a spherical colloid particle.
    Stan Alama*, McMaster University
    Lia Bronsard, McMaster University
    Xavier Lamy, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
    (1112-35-667)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematics of Evolution, I
  Room 403, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  Ruth Davidson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign redavid2@illinois.edu
  Ruriko Yoshida, University of Kentucky
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Species Tree Estimation in the presence of Incomplete Lineage Sorting.
    Tandy Warnow*, University of Illinois
    Siavash Mirarab, University of California at San Diego
    Shamsuzzoha Bayzid, University of Texas at Austin
    Bastien Boussau, Universite de Lyon
    (1112-60-207)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Gene trees in phylogenetic networks.
    Luay Nakhleh*, Rice University
    (1112-60-105)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Tree-based phylogenetic networks.
    Andrew R Francis*, Western Sydney University
    (1112-05-294)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Displayed Trees Do Not Determine Distinguishability Under the Network Multispecies Coalescent.
    James H Degnan*, University of New Mexico
    Sha Zhu, University of Oxford
    (1112-92-192)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Discussion.
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear PDEs and Calculus of Variations, I
  Room 520, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  Emmanuel Barron, Loyola University Chicago
  Marian Bocea, Loyola University Chicago mbocea@luc.edu
  Robert Jensen, Loyola University Chicago
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Second Order Gamma-Convergence for the Modica-Mortola Functional.
    Irene Fonseca*, Carnegie Mellon University
    Gianni Dal Maso, SISSA
    Giovanni Leoni, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1112-49-59)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Gradient Holder continuity for the parabolic homogeneous p-Laplacian equation.
    Luis Silvestre*, University of Chicago
    Tianling Jin, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    (1112-35-93)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Chevrons in Smectic Liquid Crystals.
    Daniel Phillips*, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University
    (1112-49-246)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A degenerate isoperimetric problem and traveling waves to a Hamiltonian bi-stable system.
    Peter Sternberg*, Indiana University
    Stan Alama, McMaster University
    Lia Bronsard, McMaster University
    Andres Contreras, New Mexico State University
    Jiri Dadok, Indiana University
    (1112-49-77)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Nonuniqueness of infinity ground states.
    Ryan Hynd, Department of math, University of Pennsylvania
    Charles Smart, Department of math, University of Chicago
    Yifeng Yu*, Department of math, University of California at Irvine
    (1112-35-275)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlocal Diffusions, I
  Room 504, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  Jinqiao Duan, Illinois Institute of Technology
  Xiaofan Li, Illinois Institute of Technology
  Xiaoxia Xie, Illinois Institute of Technology xxie12@iit.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Pathwise entropy solutions for conservation laws with nonlinear rough path dependence.
    Panagiotis Souganidis*, University of Chicago
    (1112-60-675)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Diffusion phenomenon and decay rates for nonlocal wave equations with damping.
    Petronela Radu*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Grozdena Todorova, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
    Boris Yordanov, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
    (1112-45-508)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Attractors for wave equations with nonlinear damping on time-dependent space.
    Meihua Yang*, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
    (1112-35-542)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A min-max formula for nonlinear elliptic operators and its applications.
    Nestor Daniel Guillen*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    Russell Schwab, Michigan State University
    (1112-35-636)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Special Session on Probability Theory, I
  Room 406, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  Antonio Auffinger, Northwestern University
  Jian Ding, University of Chicago
  Sebastien Roch, University of Wisconsin-Madison roch@math.wisc.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Fluctuations of the free energy of spherical spin glass.
    Jinho Baik*, University of Michigan
    (1112-60-130)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Self-averaging in spin glasses with Gaussian disorder.
    Wei-Kuo Chen*, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago and University of Minnesota
    Dmitry Panchenko, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto
    (1112-60-171)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Quantum Unique Ergodicity as a tool for Universality for random matrices.
    Paul Bourgade*, New York University
    (1112-60-567)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Discussion.
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Double Roots of Random Integer Polynomials.
    Ohad Feldheim, Stanford University
    Ron Peled, Tel Aviv University
    Arnab Sen*, University of Minnesota
    Ofer Zeitouni, Weizmann Institute of Science and New York University
    (1112-60-599)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Non-Commutative Analysis, I
  Room 414, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  Hari Bercovici, Indiana University
  John Williams, Universitát des Saarlandes williams@math.uni-sb.de
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Some distributions.
    March Boedihardjo, Texas A&M University
    Ken Dykema*, Texas A&M University
    (1112-46-528)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Fourier continuation method, and discrete orthogonal polynomials on an arc.
    Karl Liechty*, DePaul University
    Jeff Geronimo, Georgia Tech
    (1112-65-628)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Structured Non-Hermitian Random Matrices.
    David Renfrew*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (1112-60-451)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Singularities in Algebra, Geometry and Topology, I
  Room 203, Cuneo Hall
  Organizers:
  Manuel Gonzalez Villa, University of Wisconsin-Madison villa@math.wisc.edu
  Laurentiu Maxim, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Linear sections of Pfaffians.
    Anatoly Libgober*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1112-14-94)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Heegaard Floer homology of algebraic links.
    Eugene Gorsky*, UC Davis
    Andras Nemethi, Renyi Mathematical Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
    (1112-14-97)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Alexander Invariant and Application to Milnor Fiber of Hyperplane Arrangements.
    KaiHo Tommy Wong*, University of Wisconsin
    (1112-55-60)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Stochastic Analysis With Applications to Quantitative Finance, I
  Room 415, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  Igor Cialenco, Illinois Institute of Technology igor@math.iit.edu
  Ruoting Gong, Illinois Institute of Technology
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Dynamic Conic Finance via Backward Stochastic Difference Equations.
    Tomasz R Bielecki*, Illinois Institute of Technology
    Igor Cialenco, Illinois Institute of Technology
    Tao Chen, Illinois Institute of Technology
    (1112-91-339)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Optimal Consumption under Habit Formation In Markets with Transaction Costs and Random Endowments.
    Xiang Yu*, The University of Michigan
    (1112-60-568)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Multiportfolio Time Consistency of Multivariate Dynamic Risk Measures and Equivalent Formulations.
    Zachary Feinstein*, Washington University in St. Louis
    Birgit Rudloff, Vienna University of Economics and Business
    (1112-60-297)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Optimal Investment for Large Positions in Contingent Claims, A Gartner-Ellis Approach.
    Scott P Robertson*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1112-60-602)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Robust Replication of Variance Derivatives.
    Oleg Bondarenko*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1112-91-648)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on The Langlands Program and Related Topics, I
  Room 605, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  Andrei Jorza, University of Notre Dame
  Martin Luu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign mluu@illinois.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Local and global aspects of p-adic Langlands for $GL_2(Q_p)$.
    Ana Caraiani*, Princeton University
    Matthew Emerton, University of Chicago
    Toby Gee, Imperial College
    David Geraghty, Boston College
    Vytautas Paskunas, University of Essen
    Sug Woo Shin, Berkeley
    (1112-11-642)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Discussion.
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Strata Hasse invariants, Hecke algebras and Galois representations.
    Wushi Goldring*, Washington University in St. Louis
    Jean-Stefan Koskivirta, Universität Paderborn
    (1112-11-514)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Automorphic points in Mazur's deformation space.
    Patrick Allen*, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    (1112-11-612)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Topics in Graph Theory, Hypergraphs and Set Systems, I
  Room 003, Cuneo Hall
  Organizers:
  John Engbers, Marquette University john.engbers@marquette.edu
  David Galvin, University of Notre Dame
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Fall Coloring of Graphs.
    Hemanshu Kaul*, Illinois Institute of Technology
    Christodoulos Mitillos, Illinois Institute of Technology
    (1112-05-573)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    I,F-Partitions of Sparse Graphs.
    Axel Brandt, University of Colorado Denver
    Michael Ferrara, University of Colorado Denver
    Mohit Kumbhat, Iowa State University
    Sarah Loeb, University of Illinois
    Derrick Stolee*, Iowa State University
    Matthew Yancey, Department of Defense
    (1112-05-471)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Precoloring extension for planar graphs.
    Zdeněk Dvořák, Charles University in Prague
    Bernard Lidický*, Iowa State University
    (1112-05-143)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Rainbow Structures in Random Graphs.
    Deepak Bal*, Montclair State University
    (1112-05-399)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On Ramsey-type problems for sequences.
    Andrzej Dudek*, Western Michigan University
    (1112-05-435)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Variational Analysis, Optimization, and Control (Dedicated to Terry Rockafellar on the occasion of his 80th birthday), I
  Room 514, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  Rafal Goebel, Loyola University Chicago rafal.k.goebel@gmail.com
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    A blended proof of the vectorial Ekeland variational principle.
    Bao Q Truong*, Northern Michigan University
    (1112-49-146)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    ARock: an Algorithmic Framework for Asynchronous Parallel Coordinate Updates.
    Zhimin Peng, UCLA
    Yangyang Xu, University of Waterloo
    Ming Yan*, Michigan State University
    Wotao Yin, UCLA
    (1112-49-322)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On the Weak Differentiability in Variational Analysis.
    Bingwu Wang*, Department of Mathematics, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI 48197, USA
    (1112-49-454)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Optimal control under finite set of evolution scenarios.
    Yuri S. Ledyaev*, Department of Mathematics Western Michigan University
    (1112-49-669)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Risk Preferences on the Space of Quantile Functions.
    Andrzej Ruszczynski*, Rutgers University
    Darinka Dentcheva, Stevens Institute of Technology
    (1112-90-29)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 8:45 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Session on Session for Contributed Papers I
  Room 107, Cuneo Hall
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Red-Black Khovanov Homology for Virtuals.
    Heather A Dye*, McKendree University
    (1112-57-344)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: The lowest volume 3-orbifolds with high torsion.
    Christopher K Atkinson*, University of Minnesota, Morris
    David Futer, Temple University
    (1112-57-446)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Colorings of the n-sphere and Inversive Geometry.
    Joel Clarke Gibbons*, Saint Joseph, Michigan, 49085
    Yusheng Luo, National University of Singapore
    (1112-51-7)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    A Symbolic-Numeric Method for Higher-Dimensional Newton-Puiseux Expansions.
    Nathan Bliss*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Jan Verschelde, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1112-14-635)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Generators for Comonoids and Universal Constructions.
    Adnan H Abdulwahid*, University of Iowa
    Miodrag C Iovanov, University of Iowa
    (1112-18-11)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Quantum Drinfeld Hecke algebras in low dimension.
    Christine Uhl*, University of North Texas
    (1112-16-625)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Extensions of the Multivariable Alexander Polynomial.
    Iva Halacheva*, University of Toronto
    (1112-16-310)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Groupoids with root systems that resmble Coxeter groups.
    Timothy D. Ferdinands*, Mercer University
    (1112-20-403)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 8:55 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Enumerative Combinatorics and Graph Theoretic Applications, I
  Room 104, Cuneo Hall
  Organizers:
  Adam Goyt, Minnesota State University
  Lara Pudwell, Valparaiso University Lara.Pudwell@valpo.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Enumerating two-ball prime juggling patterns.
    Esther Banaian, College of St. Benedict
    Steve Butler*, Iowa State University
    Christopher Cox, Iowa State University
    Jeffrey Davis, University of South Carolina
    Jacob Landgraf, Michigan State University
    Scarlitte Ponce, Cal State, Monterey Bay
    (1112-05-115)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Expansion Formulae for Top to Random Shuffling.
    Roger Tian*, UC Davis
    (1112-05-407)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Laplace Transform and Some Combinatorial Identities.
    Brian K Miceli*, Trinity University
    (1112-05-577)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On Proofs of Certain Combinatorial Identities.
    Akalu Tefera*, Grand Valley State University
    (1112-05-181)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations and Fluid Dynamics, I
  Room 506, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  Mimi Dai, University of Illinois at Chicago mdai@uic.edu
  Vera Mikyoung Hur, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Yao Yao, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Nonlinear maximum principle with boundary.
    Peter Constantin*, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University
    Mihaela Ignatova, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University
    (1112-35-304)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Instability index, exponential trichotomy and invariant manifolds for Hamiltonian PDEs.
    Zhiwu Lin*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Chongchun Zeng, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1112-35-591)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A determining form for the SQG equation.
    Michael S. Jolly*, Indiana University
    Vincent R. Martinez, Tulane University
    Tural Sadigov, SUNY Polytechnic Institute
    Edriss S. Titi, Texas A&M University
    (1112-35-607)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Diffusion of low modes in the 3D NSE.
    Zachary Bradshaw, The University of British Columbia
    Zoran Grujic*, University of Virginia
    (1112-76-323)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Ergodic and Symbolic Actions of Amenable Groups, I
  Room 404, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  Ayşe Şahin, DePaul University
  Ilie Ugarcovici, DePaul University iugarcov@depaul.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Shifts of low complexity.
    Bryna Kra*, Northwestern University
    Van Cyr, Bucknell University
    (1112-37-208)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Growth in the automorphism group of a minimal subshift.
    Van Cyr*, Bucknell University
    Bryna Kra, Northwestern University
    (1112-37-652)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On automorphism groups of "small" subshifts.
    Michael H. Schraudner*, CMM - Universidad de Chile
    (1112-37-624)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Face transformations on dynamical cubes and its applications.
    Wenbo Sun*, Northwestern University
    (1112-37-513)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Partial Differential Equations, I
  Room 519, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  Morgan Sherman, California Polytechnic State University
  Valentino Tosatti, Northwestern University
  Ben Weinkove, Northwestern University weinkove@math.northwestern.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Singular Sets of Harmonic Maps and Minimal Surfaces.
    Aaron Naber*, Northwestern University
    (1112-51-101)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Geometry of Two-dimensional Self-shrinkers.
    Lu Wang*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1112-53-169)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on History of Mathematics, I
  Room 203, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  Steven Jordan, Loyola University Chicago sjorda2@luc.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Continuing Influence of Sophie Germain.
    Amanda Marie Steckly*, Loyola University Chicago Undergraduate Student, Mathematics Major
    Marie Turano, Loyola University Chicago Undergraduate Student, Chemistry Major
    Kathryn Pantell, Graduate of Loyola University Chicago, Class of 2015
    (1112-01-53)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    1600 Women with U.S. Doctorates in the Mathematical Sciences, 1960-1979. Preliminary report.
    Anne Leggett McDonald*, Loyola University Chicago
    (1112-01-54)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom.
    Stephen M. Stigler*, Department of Statistics/University of Chicago
    (1112-01-52)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Hopf Algebraic Combinatorics, I
  Room 117, Cuneo Hall
  Organizers:
  Marcelo Aguiar, Cornell University
  Aaron Lauve, Loyola University Chicago lauve@math.luc.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    On symmetric group and partition algebra characters.
    Mike Zabrocki*, York University, Toronto, Canada
    Rosa Orellana, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
    (1112-05-615)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Littlewood-Richardson rules for symmetric skew quasisymmetric Schur functions.
    Christine Bessenrodt, Leibniz Universitat Hannover
    Vasu Tewari*, University of British Columbia
    Steph van Willigenburg, University of British Columbia
    (1112-05-330)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A generalization of dual stable Grothendieck polynomials.
    Darij Grinberg*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Pavel Galashin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Gaku Liu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1112-05-257)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Extending the theory of PSD algebras to Hopf monoids in species.
    Eric Marberg*, Stanford University
    (1112-05-409)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Metric Spaces: Geometry, Group Theory, and Dynamics, I
  Room 302, Cuneo Hall
  Organizers:
  Tullia Dymarz, University of Wisconsin-Madison dymarz@math.wisc.edu
  Anton Lukyanenko, University of Michigan
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Trees and Cantor sets; Sobolev spaces and Besov spaces; rough quasiisometries and quasisymmetries.
    Nageswari Shanmugalingam*, University of Cincinnati
    Anders Bjorn, Linkoping University
    Jana Bjorn, Linkoping University
    James T. Gill, St. Luis University
    (1112-31-114)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Using Equilateral Triangles to Show Mappings are Quasiconformal.
    Colleen Ackermann*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Peter Haïssinsky, Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse
    Aimo Hinkkanen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1112-51-450)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Logarithmic Potentials and Quasiconformal Flows on the Heisenberg Group.
    Alex D Austin*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1112-51-489)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Conformal dimension of boundaries of John domains.
    Kyle Kinneberg*, Rice University
    (1112-30-433)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Model Theory, I
  Room 205, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  Uri Andrews, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Isaac Goldbring, University of Illinois at Chicago isaac@math.uic.edu
  Maryanthe Malliaris, University of Chicago
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Remarks on uncountable recursively saturated real closed fields.
    David Marker*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1112-03-260)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Unions of chains of signatures.
    Alice Medvedev*, The City College of New York, CUNY
    (1112-03-674)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 9:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Session on Session for Contributed Papers II
  Room 111, Cuneo Hall
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Multi-resolution method for co-propagating high intensity pulses.
    Alexey Sukhinin*, Southern Methodist University
    (1112-65-24)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Identities Satisfied by Roots of Vortex Polynomials.
    Nicholas O Cox-Steib*, University of Tulsa and the University of Missouri Columbia
    Kevin O'Neil, University of Tulsa
    (1112-76-503)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Exact solutions and symmetry classification of wave equation on surfaces of revolution.
    M T Mustafa*, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar
    (1112-53-320)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Mann iteration presses for a new approach of nonexpansive mappings.
    Buthinah A Bin Dehaish*, KAU
    (1112-46-649)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Hardy Type Commutators on Function Spaces.
    Chunping Xie*, Milwaukee School of Engineering
    (1112-47-210)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    On Parametric Generalized Implicit Quasi Variational-like Inclusion Problem.
    Kaleem Raza Kazmi, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh UP India
    Shakeel Ahmad Alvi*, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
    (1112-47-9)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Modeling the efficacy of an immunochemotherapy against colorectal cancer.
    Qing Wang*, Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, WV
    Zhijun Wang, Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, WV
    David J Klinke, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
    (1112-34-673)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Quasi-linear PDEs and uniform rectifiability.
    Steve Hofmann, University of Missouri-Columbia
    Phi Le*, University of Missouri-Columbia
    Jose Maria Martell, Instituto de Ciencias Matematicas CSIC-UAM-UC3M-UCM, Madrid, Spain
    Kaj Nystrom, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
    (1112-35-30)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 9:30 a.m.-11:05 a.m.
  Special Session on Frontiers in Computational Mathematics, I
  Room 507, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  Sou-Cheng (Terrya) Choi, NORC at the University of Chicago, and Illinois Institute of Technology sctchoi@uchicago.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Coupled: Link Prediction in Coupled Networks.
    Nitesh V Chawla*, University of Notre Dame
    (1112-00-500)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Extensions, interpolation and matching in $R^D$.
    Steven B Damelin*, American Mathematical Society
    Charles Fefferman, Princeton
    (1112-68-575)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Perspectives in Knot Theory, I
  Room 324, Cuneo Hall
  Organizers:
  David Krcatovich, Rice University
  Allison Moore, Rice University ahm6@rice.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Discussion.
  • 9:30 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Cable links and L-space surgeries.
    Eugene Gorsky*, University of California, Davis
    Jennifer Hom, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1112-57-149)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Stable homology of torus links, and a conjecture of Gorsky-Rasmussen.
    Matthew T Hogancamp*, Indiana University Bloomington
    Michael Abel, Duke University
    (1112-54-657)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Slicing Obstruction From The 10/8 Theorem.
    Andrew Donald, Michigan State University
    Faramarz Vafaee*, California Institute of Technology
    (1112-57-639)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on K-loops, Neardomains, Loops, and Nonassociative Division Algebras, I
  Room 307, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  Alper Bulut, American University of the Middle East
  C. E. Ealy Jr., Western Michigan University clifton.e.ealy@wmich.edu
  Hubert Kiechle, University of Hamburg
  Benjamin Phillips, University of Michigan Dearborn
  J. D. Phillips, Northern Michigan University
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    Engel groups and Bruck loops.
    Jonathan D.H. Smith*, Iowa State University
    (1112-20-266)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    K-loops arising as transversal loops from real reductive Lie groups.
    Alper Bulut*, American University of the Middle East
    (1112-17-46)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Excluded Grid Theorem: Improved and Simplified.
  Quinlan Auditorium, Life Sciences Building
  Julia Chuzhoy*, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
  (1112-05-385)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Some new geometric applications of quantum field theory.
  Quinlan Auditorium, Life Sciences Building
  Andrew Neitzke*, The University of Texas at Austin
  (1112-81-3)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Methods Common to Association Schemes, Hopf Algebras, Tensor Categories, Finite Geometry, and Related Areas, II
  Room 311, Cuneo Hall
  Organizers:
  Harvey Blau, Northern Illinois University
  Sung Y. Song, Iowa State University
  Bangteng Xu, Eastern Kentucky University Bangteng.Xu@eku.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Fission of S-rings and association schemes.
    Kenneth W Johnson*, Penn State University, Abington College
    (1112-20-516)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A family of $q$-analog partially balanced $t$-designs over $GF(q)$.
    Sung Y. Song*, Iowa State University
    Grant Bowling, University of Michigan
    Kavi Duvvoori, Brown University
    Robert Lazar, Iowa State University
    (1112-05-196)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The Incidence Algebra of the Attenuated Space Poset.
    Wen Liu*, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA & Hebei Normal University, China
    (1112-05-349)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Hypergroups of cardinality six.
    Paul-Hermann Zieschang*, University of Texas
    (1112-20-434)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Terwilliger Algebras of Wreath Products of Association Schemes.
    Mikhail Muzychuk, Netanya Academic College
    Bangteng Xu*, Eastern Kentucky University
    (1112-05-64)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Statistics and its Interactions with Combinatorics, Computation, and Network Science, II
  Room 303, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  Sonja Petrovic, Illinois Institute of Technology sonja.petrovic@iit.edu
  Despina Stasi, University of Cyprus and Illinois Institute of Technology
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    An abstract approach to network models of uncertainty.
    Jason Morton*, Penn State
    (1112-08-526)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Combinatorial and geometric view of the chip firing game and its application on system reliability theory.
    Fatemeh Mohammadi*, IST Austria and Technical University of Berlin
    Maria Kateri, Institute of Statistics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
    Bernd Sturmfels, University of California, Berkeley
    (1112-05-32)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Critical exponents of graphs.
    Dominique Guillot, Department of Mathematics, University of Delaware
    Apoorva Khare*, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University
    Bala Rajaratnam, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
    (1112-05-136)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Hierarchical models: normality and related properties.
    Daniel Irving Bernstein*, North Carolina State University
    Seth Sullivant, North Carolina State University
    (1112-05-243)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The facets of the cut polytope and the extreme rays of cone of concentration matrices of certain graphs.
    Liam Solus, University of Kentucky
    Caroline Uhler, Institute of Science and Technology Austria
    Ruriko Yoshida*, University of Kentucky
    (1112-05-8)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic and Combinatorial Invariants of Knots, II
  Room 312, Cuneo Hall
  Organizers:
  Micah Chrisman, Monmouth University
  Heather Dye, McKendree University hadye@mckendree.edu
  Aaron Kaestner, North Park University amkaestner@northpark.edu
  Louis Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Emily Peters, Loyola University Chicago
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Geometric, homological, and categorical considerations of local crossings of $n$-foams.
    J Scott Carter*, University of South Alabama
    (1112-57-241)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Curtain homology: 2-(co)cycle invariants from Yang-Baxter operators.
    Jozef H. Przytycki*, George Washington University
    (1112-57-174)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The torsion of rack and quandle homology groups of some finite quandles.
    Seung Yeop Yang*, The George Washington University
    Jozef H. Przytycki, The George Washington University
    (1112-55-420)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Homology for quandles with partial group operations.
    J. Scott Carter, University of South Alabama
    Atsushi Ishii, University of Tsukuba
    Masahico Saito*, University of South Florida
    Kokoro Tanaka, Tokyo Gakugei University
    (1112-57-267)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Milnor's triple linking and Index.
    Micah Chrisman, Monmouth University
    Robert G. Todd*, Mount Mercy University
    (1112-55-487)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations and Fluid Dynamics, II
  Room 506, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  Mimi Dai, University of Illinois at Chicago mdai@uic.edu
  Vera Mikyoung Hur, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Yao Yao, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Determining wavenumber for fluid equations.
    Alexey Cheskidov*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1112-35-653)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Determining modes for the surface quasi-geostrophic equation.
    Alexey Cheskidov, University of Illinois Chicago
    Mimi Dai*, University of Illinois Chicago
    (1112-35-195)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The patch dynamics for the two-dimensional active scalar equations: steady states and singularity formation.
    Sergey Denisov*, UW-Madison
    (1112-35-92)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Finite time blow-up for the $\alpha$-patch model.
    Alexander Kiselev, Rice University
    Lenya Ryzhik, Stanford University
    Yao Yao, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Andrej Zlatos*, UW-Madison
    (1112-35-364)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Homogeneous solutions to the Euler equation.
    Roman Shvydkoy*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1112-35-202)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Automorphic Forms and Representations, II
  Room 606, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  Moshe Adrian, University of Toronto
  Shuichiro Takeda, University of Missouri-Columbia takedas@missouri.edu
  Aaron Wood, University of Missouri-Columbia
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Regularized theta liftings and CM values.
    Tonghai Yang*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1112-11-455)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On cuspidality of global Arthur packets of quasi-split classical groups.
    Baiying Liu*, Institute for Advance Study
    (1112-11-497)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On equality of local factors for an arbitrary representation of GL(n,C).
    Freydoon Shahidi*, Purdue Uiversity
    (1112-11-259)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The characterization of theta-distinguished representations of GL(n).
    Eyal Kaplan*, The Ohio State University
    (1112-11-15)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Automorphisms of Riemann Surfaces and Related Topics, II
  Room 218, Cuneo Hall
  Organizers:
  S. Allen Broughton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
  Peter Turbek, Purdue University Calumet
  Anthony Weaver, Bronx Community College, the City University of New York
  Aaron Wootton, University of Portland wootton@up.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Kulkarni's Theorem and finite groups acting on a surface of genus $g$ with $g-1$ prime.
    Thomas W. Tucker*, Colgate University, Hamilton NY 13346
    (1112-30-324)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A coarse classification of elementary abelian $p$-group actions.
    Anthony Weaver*, Bronx Community College, City University of New York
    (1112-55-151)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Isogenous decomposition of the Jacobian of generalized Fermat curves.
    Mariela Carvacho*, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria
    (1112-51-157)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Lifting the hyperelliptic involution of a Klein surface.
    Emilio Bujalance, Departamento de Matematicas Fundamentales, UNED, Madrid, Spain
    Javier Cirre*, Departamento de Matematicas Fundamentales, UNED, Madrid, Spain
    Peter Turbek, Purdue University Calumet
    (1112-30-142)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Sufficiency of the Riemann-Hurwitz Formula for the Existence of a Group Action.
    Sebastian Bozlee, University of Colorado
    Aaron Wootton*, University of Portland
    (1112-14-226)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Coding Theory and Its Applications, II
  Room 304, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  W. Cary Huffman, Loyola University Chicago whuffma@luc.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    The weight distribution of the self-dual $[128,64]$ polarity design code.
    Vladimir D Tonchev*, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931
    (1112-94-82)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Graph spectra and coding.
    Ian F. Blake*, University of British Columbia
    (1112-94-89)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Thirty-six officers and their codes.
    Harold N. Ward*, University of Virginia
    (1112-94-200)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Bruhat Decompositions and the Koetter and Vardy Conjecture.
    Iwan M. Duursma*, Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1112-15-439)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Cohomology of Algebras and Deformation Theory, II
  Room 116, Cuneo Hall
  Organizers:
  Anthony Giaquinto, Loyola University Chicago
  Mihai D. Staic, Bowling Green State University mstaic@bgsu.edu
  Alin Stancu, Columbus State University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    An extension of the Fedosov construction.
    Boris Tsygan*, Northwestern University
    (1112-81-215)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    What do homotopy algebras form?
    Vasily A. Dolgushev*, Department of Mathematics, Temple University
    Alexander E. Hoffnung, Middle College Program, Gateway Community College, New Haven, CT 06510
    Christopher L. Rogers, Institut fuer Mathematik und Informatik, Universitaet Greifswald, Deutschland
    (1112-18-14)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    What do homotopy algebras form?
    Christopher L Rogers*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    (1112-18-332)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    $r_\infty$-Matrices, Triangular $L_\infty$-Bialgebras and Quantum$_\infty$ Groups.
    Denis Bashkirov, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
    Alexander A. Voronov*, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
    (1112-17-363)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Azumaya spaces and deformation quantization.
    Dima Arinkin, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Andrei Caldararu*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Marton Hablicsek, University of Pennsylvania
    (1112-14-480)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial and Computational Algebra, II
  Room 002, Cuneo Hall
  Organizers:
  David Cook II, Eastern Illinois University dwcook@eiu.edu
  Sonja Mapes, University of Notre Dame
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Posets underlying resolutions of multigraded modules.
    Amanda Beecher, Ramapo College of New Jersey
    Timothy B. P. Clark*, Loyola University Maryland
    Alexandre Tchernev, University at Albany, SUNY
    (1112-13-561)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Minimal Free Resolutions of Path Ideals of Rooted Trees.
    Rachelle Bouchat*, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
    Tricia Brown, Armstrong State University
    (1112-13-440)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Partition and plane partition promotion and rowmotion.
    Jessica Striker*, North Dakota State University
    (1112-05-597)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Unimodal f-vectors and h-vectors of trees.
    Russ Woodroofe*, Mississippi State University
    (1112-05-672)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Bouquet algebra of toric ideals.
    Sonja Petrović*, Illinois Institute of Technology
    Apostolos Thoma, University of Ioannina, Greece
    Marius Vladoiu, University of Bucharest, Romania
    (1112-13-63)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial and Geometric Representation Theory, II
  Room 210, Cuneo Hall
  Organizers:
  Ben Salisbury, Central Michigan University
  Peter Tingley, Loyola University Chicago ptingley@luc.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Lattice Properties of Oriented Exchange Graphs.
    Alexander C Garver*, University of Minnesota
    Thomas McConville, MIT
    (1112-16-211)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Pattern avoidance and quasisymmetric functions - an update.
    Zachary Hamaker, Dartmouth College
    Joel Lewis, University of Minnesota
    Brendan Pawlowski, University of Minnesota
    Bruce E Sagan*, Michigan State University
    (1112-05-73)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The prism tableau model for Schubert polynomials.
    Anna Weigandt*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Alexander Yong, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1112-05-400)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Knutson-Vakil puzzles compute equivariant $K$-theory of Grassmannians.
    Oliver Pechenik*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Alexander Yong, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1112-05-351)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Genomic tableaux and Equivariant K-theory of Grassmannians.
    Oliver Pechenik, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Alexander Yong*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1112-05-352)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra, II
  Room 202, Cuneo Hall
  Organizers:
  Youngsu Kim, University of California, Riverside
  Paolo Mantero, University of California, Riverside
  Jonathan Montano, Purdue University jmontano@purdue.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Some quadratic Gorenstein rings which are Koszul.
    Giulio Caviglia*, Purdue University
    (1112-13-402)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Generalized mixed Hilbert multiplicities.
    Yu Xie*, Penn State Altoona
    (1112-13-48)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Fourth Veronese embeddings of projective spaces.
    Thanh Q Vu*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1112-13-334)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Rees Algebras and Almost Linearly Presented Ideals.
    Vivek Mukundan*, Purdue University
    Jacob A Boswell, Purdue University
    (1112-12-95)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the limit as $p \to \infty$ of the Hilbert-Kunz Multiplicity.
    Kevin Tucker*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1112-13-463)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Computability Theory and Applications, II
  Room 204, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  Denis Hirschfeldt, University of Chicago drh@math.uchicago.edu
  Steffen Lempp, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Robust Biomolecular Finite Automata.
    Titus H. Klinge, Iowa State University
    James I. Lathrop, Iowa State University
    Jack H. Lutz*, Iowa State University
    (1112-03-665)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Application of computable continuous model theory to a question in proof theory.
    Jason M Rute*, Pennsylvania State University
    (1112-03-359)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    $RT^1_k$, $SRT^2_{\ell}$ and sc-reducibility.
    Damir Dzhafarov, University of Connecticut
    Ludovic Patey, University of Paris VII
    Reed Solomon*, University of Connecticut
    Linda Brown Westrick, Victoria University
    (1112-03-466)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Computable copies of lp spacces.
    Timothy McNicholl*, Iowa State University
    (1112-03-26)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Strong jump inversion.
    Wesley Calvert, Southern Illinois University
    Andrey N. Frolov, Kazan Federal University,
    Valentina Harizanov, George Washington University
    Julia F. Knight*, University of Notre Dame
    Charles McCoy, University of Portland
    Alexandra Soskova, Sofia University
    Stefan Vatev, Sofia University
    (1112-03-242)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Enumerative Algebraic and Geometric Combinatorics, II
  Room 217, Cuneo Hall
  Organizers:
  Kyle Petersen, DePaul University tpeter21@depaul.edu
  Steven Klee, Seattle University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    A non-partitionable Cohen-Macaulay simplicial complex.
    Art Duval, University of Texas at El Paso
    Bennet Goeckner, University of Kansas
    Caroline Klivans*, Brown University
    Jeremy Martin, University of Kansas
    (1112-05-240)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Further developments on decompositions of Cohen-Macaulay simplicial complexes.
    Art Duval, University of Texas at El Paso
    Bennet Goeckner*, University of Kansas
    Caroline Klivans, Brown University
    Jeremy Martin, University of Kansas
    (1112-05-658)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The geometric lower bound theorem.
    Karim Adiprasito, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Eran Nevo, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Jose Alejandro Samper*, University of Washington
    (1112-05-282)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A family of symmetric functions associated with Stirling permutations.
    Rafael S. González D'León*, University of Kentucky
    (1112-05-214)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Face numbers of manifolds with boundary.
    Satoshi Murai, Osaka University
    Isabella Novik*, University of Washington
    (1112-05-292)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Enumerative Combinatorics and Graph Theoretic Applications, II
  Room 104, Cuneo Hall
  Organizers:
  Adam Goyt, Minnesota State University
  Lara Pudwell, Valparaiso University Lara.Pudwell@valpo.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Pattern avoidance in RGFs and Catalan analogues.
    Samantha Dahlberg*, Michigan State University
    Robert Dorward, Oberlin College
    Jonathan Gerhard, James Madison University
    Thomas Grubb, Michigan State University
    Carlin Purcell, Vassar College
    Lindsey Reppuhn, Kalamazoo College
    Bruce Sagan, Michigan State University
    (1112-05-640)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Pattern-Avoiding Inversion Sequences.
    Megan Martinez*, Ithaca College
    (1112-05-634)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Unimodal inversion sequences and pattern-avoiding classes.
    Alexander Burstein*, Howard University
    (1112-05-606)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Sorting with two stacks in series.
    Michael Schroeder, Marshall University
    Rebecca Smith*, SUNY Brockport
    (1112-05-441)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Asymptotics of Permutation Classes and the Method of Differential Approximants.
    Jay Pantone*, Dartmouth College
    (1112-05-401)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Ergodic and Symbolic Actions of Amenable Groups, II
  Room 404, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  Ayşe Şahin, DePaul University
  Ilie Ugarcovici, DePaul University iugarcov@depaul.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Strongly aperiodic SFTs on surface groups.
    David Bruce Cohen*, University of Chicago
    (1112-20-492)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Periodic points on shifts of finite type and commensurability invariants of groups.
    David Carroll, Texas A & M University
    Andrew Penland*, Western Carolina University
    (1112-20-358)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Explicit Return Times for a Subsystem of the Kari-Culik Tilings.
    Jason Siefken*, Northwestern University
    (1112-37-307)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A rigidity theorem for generalized odometers.
    Maria Isabel cortez, Universidad de Santiago de Chile
    Konstantin Medynets*, United States Naval Academy
    (1112-37-134)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Techniques and concepts of amenability of discrete groups.
    Kate Juschenko*, Northwestern University
    (1112-20-413)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Frontiers in Computational Mathematics, II
  Room 507, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  Sou-Cheng (Terrya) Choi, NORC at the University of Chicago, and Illinois Institute of Technology sctchoi@uchicago.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Sentiment Analysis and Lifelong Machine Learning.
    Bing Liu*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1112-68-284)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    New machine learning methods for network inference.
    Qingming Tang, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
    Jinbo Xu*, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
    (1112-68-574)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Approximations of Markov Chains and High-Dimensional Bayesian Inference.
    James E Johndrow*, Duke University
    Jonathan C Mattingly, Duke University
    Sayan Mukherjee, Duke University
    David B Dunson, Duke University
    (1112-60-353)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Generalized Derivatives, II
  Room 508, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  J. Marshall Ash, DePaul University
  Paul Musial, Chicago State University pmusial@csu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    On generalized Riemann derivatives for functions on $\mathbb{R}^n$ and on $\mathbb{C}$.
    J. Marshall Ash*, DePaul University
    Stefan Catoiu, DePaul University
    William Chin, DePaul University
    (1112-26-493)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Generalized Riemann Derivatives with Variable Coefficients.
    J. Marshall Ash, DePaul University
    Stefan Catoiu*, DePaul University
    (1112-26-668)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Integrating the $L^{r}$-Derivative.
    Paul M Musial*, Chicago State University
    (1112-26-622)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A Stieltjes Type Extension of the $L^{r}$-Perron Integral.
    Eyad Massarwi*, Kennedy-King College, Chicago, IL
    Paul Musial, Chicago State University, Chicago, IL
    (1112-00-34)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Perspectives in Knot Theory, II
  Room 324, Cuneo Hall
  Organizers:
  David Krcatovich, Rice University
  Allison Moore, Rice University ahm6@rice.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Geometrically similar knots.
    David Futer*, Temple University
    Christian Millichap, Linfield College
    (1112-57-560)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Slope Conjecture and 3-string pretzel knots.
    Christine Ruey Shan Lee*, University of Texas at Austin
    Roland van der Veen, University of Amsterdam
    (1112-57-163)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Density spectra for knots.
    Abhijit Champanerkar*, College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, CUNY
    Ilya Kofman, College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, CUNY
    Jessica Purcell, IAS, Princeton
    (1112-57-536)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The probability of choosing the unknot among 2-bridge knots using random Chebyshev billiard table diagrams.
    Moshe Cohen*, Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology
    Sunder Ram Krishnan, Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology
    (1112-57-419)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Quasi-alternating links with small determinant.
    Tye Lidman, Institute for Advanced Study
    Steven Sivek*, Princeton University
    (1112-57-499)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Groups, Rings, Group Rings, and Hopf Algebras (celebrating the 75th birthday of Donald S. Passman), V
  Room 109, Cuneo Hall
  Organizers:
  Jeffrey Bergen, DePaul University
  Stefan Catoiu, DePaul University scatoiu@condor.depaul.edu
  William Chin, DePaul University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Group Rings, Jordan Decomposition and Don Passman.
    Alfred W. Hales*, IDA Center for Communications Research
    (1112-20-125)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    SSN groups, NCN groups, and multiplicative Jordan decomposition in group rings.
    Chia-Hsin Liu*, National Taiwan Normal University
    (1112-16-183)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the classification of Hopf algebras of dimension 8p.
    Siu-Hung Ng*, Louisiana State University
    (1112-16-565)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On classification of semisimple Hopf algebras of dimension 32.
    Yevgenia Kashina*, DePaul University
    (1112-16-662)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Graded modules over simple Lie algebras with a group grading.
    Alberto Elduque, University of Zaragoza
    Mikhail Kochetov*, Memorial University of Newfoundland
    (1112-17-593)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on History of Mathematics, II
  Room 203, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  Steven Jordan, Loyola University Chicago sjorda2@luc.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Al-Samaw'al's Curious Approach to Trigonometry.
    Yousuf Kerai*, Haque Academy, Aga Khan University, and Habib University, Karachi, Pakistan.
    Glen Van Brummelen, Quest University, Squamish, BC, Canada.
    Taro Mimura, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom.
    (1112-01-12)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Al-Kashi's Two Methods for Finding $\sin 1^{\circ}$.
    Glen R Van Brummelen*, Quest University
    (1112-01-18)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Semicentennial Anniversary of University of Illinois at Chicago.
    Steven Hurder*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1112-01-288)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Hopf Algebraic Combinatorics, II
  Room 117, Cuneo Hall
  Organizers:
  Marcelo Aguiar, Cornell University
  Aaron Lauve, Loyola University Chicago lauve@math.luc.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Hopf algebra on c-clusters.
    Nantel Bergeron*, York University
    Cesar Ceballos, York University
    (1112-05-217)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Representation theoretic Hopf structures on transportation polytopes.
    Nathaniel Thiem*, University of Colorado Boulder
    (1112-20-203)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A combinatorial Hopf algebra of simplicial complexes.
    Carolina Benedetti, Fields Institute
    Joshua Hallam*, Wake Forest University
    John Machacek, Michigan State University
    (1112-05-249)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A Hopf Algebra on Involutions.
    Samantha Dahlberg*, Michigan State University
    (1112-05-632)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Permutation patterns and Hopf algebra of permutations.
    Yannic Vargas*, York University, Fields Institute
    (1112-05-521)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on K-loops, Neardomains, Loops, and Nonassociative Division Algebras, II
  Room 307, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  Alper Bulut, American University of the Middle East
  C. E. Ealy Jr., Western Michigan University clifton.e.ealy@wmich.edu
  Hubert Kiechle, University of Hamburg
  Benjamin Phillips, University of Michigan Dearborn
  J. D. Phillips, Northern Michigan University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Bol loops and Bruck loops of order $pq$.
    Petr Vojtěchovský*, University of Denver
    (1112-20-376)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Automorphism-invariant integral forms in Griess algebras.
    Gregory G. Simon*, University of Michigan
    (1112-17-128)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Solvable Moufang loops.
    Jonathan I Hall*, Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University
    (1112-20-637)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The $2\times2$ magic square of Lie groups.
    Tevian Dray*, Oregon State University
    John Huerta, Instituto Superior Tecnico (Lisboa)
    Joshua Kincaid, Oregon State University
    (1112-17-190)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Analysis and Computation of Nematic Liquid Crystals, II
  Room 503, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  Patricia Bauman, Purdue University
  Daniel Phillips, Purdue University
  Changyou Wang, Purdue University wang2482@purdue.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Line Defects in a Modified Ericksen Model.
    Robert Hardt*, Rice University
    (1112-76-468)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Bifurcation in smectic A liquid crystals at the critical magnetic field.
    Andres Contreras*, NMSU
    Carlos Garcia-A, UNAM
    Carlos Garcia-C., UCSB
    Sookyung Joo, Old Dominion University
    (1112-35-552)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Sawtooth profile of smectic A liquid crystals.
    Sookyung Joo*, Old Dominion University
    Carlos J. Garcia-Cervera, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Tiziana Giorgi, New Mexico State University
    (1112-35-255)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A Multiphasic Complex Fluids Model for Cytokinesis of Eukaryotes.
    Jia Zhao*, University of South Carolina
    Qi Wang, University of South Carolina
    (1112-76-547)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Decoupled energy stable schemes for phase-field models of two-phase complex fluids.
    Jie Shen*, Purdue University
    (1112-65-238)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematics of Evolution, II
  Room 403, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  Ruth Davidson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign redavid2@illinois.edu
  Ruriko Yoshida, University of Kentucky
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Developing a Statistically Powerful Measure for Phylogenetic Tree Inference using Phylogenetic and Markov Invariants.
    Barbara Holland, University of Tasmania
    Peter D. Jarvis, University of Tasmania
    Jeremy G. Sumner, University of Tasmania
    Amelia Taylor*, Colorado College and OSU-Cascades
    (1112-92-76)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Nearest Point Phylogenetic Reconstruction using Numerical Algebraic Geometry.
    Emily Castner, Mount Holyoke College
    Brent Davis, Colorado State University
    Joe Rusinko*, Geneva
    (1112-92-360)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Tying Up Loose Strands: Defining Equations of the Strand Symmetric Model.
    Colby Long*, North Carolina State University
    Seth Sullivant, North Carolina State University
    (1112-92-155)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Complete intersections for equivariant models.
    Marta Casanellas, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
    Jesús Fernández-Sánchez*, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
    Mateusz Michałek, Polish Academy of Sciences
    (1112-14-338)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Statistically consistent k-mer methods for phylogenetic tree reconstruction.
    Elizabeth Allman, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
    John Rhodes, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
    Seth Sullivant*, North Carolina State University
    (1112-92-23)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Model Theory, II
  Room 205, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  Uri Andrews, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Isaac Goldbring, University of Illinois at Chicago isaac@math.uic.edu
  Maryanthe Malliaris, University of Chicago
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Unstable theories without the strict order property.
    Gabriel Conant*, University of Notre Dame
    (1112-03-490)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Ergodic invariant Keisler measures.
    Alex Kruckman*, University of California, Berkeley
    (1112-03-659)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Sufficient conditions for tight control of the asymptotics of definable sets.
    Cameron Donnay Hill*, Wesleyan University
    (1112-03-476)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear PDEs and Calculus of Variations, II
  Room 520, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  Emmanuel Barron, Loyola University Chicago
  Marian Bocea, Loyola University Chicago mbocea@luc.edu
  Robert Jensen, Loyola University Chicago
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Homogenization for some mean field models.
    Panagiotis Souganidis*, University of Chicago
    (1112-35-664)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Explicit solutions of some degenerate elliptic equations.
    Charles K Smart*, University of Chicago
    (1112-49-641)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the lower semicontinuity of $L^\infty$-functionals.
    Francesca Agnese Prinari*, Department of Maths and Computer Science, University of Ferrara (Italy)
    (1112-49-58)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Short-time existence of smooth solutions for semigeostrophic system with variable Coriolis coefficient.
    Jingrui Cheng, UW-Madison
    Michael J.P. Cullen, Met. Office UK
    Mikhail Feldman*, UW-Madison
    (1112-35-159)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Uniqueness of absolute minimizeres of $L^\infty$-functional associated with $x$-dependent Hamiltonians.
    Qianyun Miao, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
    Changyou Wang*, Purdue University
    Yuan Zhou, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
    (1112-35-84)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlocal Diffusions, II
  Room 504, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  Jinqiao Duan, Illinois Institute of Technology
  Xiaofan Li, Illinois Institute of Technology
  Xiaoxia Xie, Illinois Institute of Technology xxie12@iit.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Persistence criteria in some nonlocal model in unbounded domain and application.
    Jerome Coville*, French National Institute for Agricultural Research, Research unit BioSP
    (1112-35-546)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Global estimates of solutions of the porous medium equation with boundary flux governed by memory.
    Jeffrey R Anderson*, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
    (1112-35-592)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Nonlocal in time diffusions as effective models of collective motion in animal groups.
    Michael Raghib*, IBM Research - Brazil
    (1112-60-605)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Traveling Pulses in a Lateral Inhibition Neural Network.
    Aijun Zhang*, University of Arkansas
    Yixin Guo, Drexel University
    (1112-37-515)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Spreading Speeds and Linear Determinacy for Two Species Competition Systems with Nonlocal Dispersal in Periodic Habitats.
    L. Kong*, University of Illinois at Springfield
    N. Rawal, Hampton University
    W. Shen, Auburn University
    (1112-35-529)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
  Special Session on Probability Theory, II
  Room 406, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  Antonio Auffinger, Northwestern University
  Jian Ding, University of Chicago
  Sebastien Roch, University of Wisconsin-Madison roch@math.wisc.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Chaining and convexity.
    Ramon Van Handel*, Princeton University
    (1112-60-507)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Busemann functions and geodesics for the corner growth model.
    Nicos Georgiou, University of Sussex
    Firas Rassoul-Agha*, University of Utah
    Timo Seppalainen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1112-60-495)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Limit Theorems for Monotone Subsequences in Mallows Permutations.
    Nayantara Bhatnagar*, University of Delaware
    (1112-60-548)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Longest increasing path within the critical strip.
    Partha Sarathi Dey*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Matthew Joseph, University of Sheffield
    Ron Peled, Tel Aviv University
    (1112-60-213)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The maximal particle of branching random walk in random environment.
    Alexander Drewitz*, Universität zu Köln
    (1112-60-161)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Non-Commutative Analysis, II
  Room 414, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  Hari Bercovici, Indiana University
  John Williams, Universitát des Saarlandes williams@math.uni-sb.de
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Subgroups of the interval exchange transformation group.
    Kate Juschenko*, Northwestern University
    (1112-00-684)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    An example of full von Neumann algebras under non-tracial finite free Fisher information assumptions.
    Brent A Nelson*, University of California, Berkeley
    (1112-46-470)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The $\ell^1$-Strong Bass Conjecture for semi-hyperbolic groups.
    Ronghui Ji*, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ. Indianapolis
    Crichton Ogle, The Ohio State University
    Bobby Ramsey, The Ohio State University
    (1112-19-239)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    W$^*$-rigidity for products of hyperbolic groups.
    Ionut Chifan, Univeristy of Iowa
    Rolando de Santiago, University of Iowa
    Thomas Sinclair*, Purdue University
    (1112-46-390)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Developments in Graph and Matroid Theory, II
  Room 103, Cuneo Hall
  Organizers:
  Sergei Bezrukov, University of Wisconsin-Superior
  Dalibor Froncek, University of Minnesota Duluth
  Xiaofeng Gu, University of West Georgia xgu@westga.edu
  Steven Rosenberg, University of Wisconsin-Superior
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Graphs with many strong orientations.
    Sinan Aksoy, University of California, San Diego
    Paul Horn*, University of Denver
    (1112-05-619)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Equidistant set in ${\mathbb R}^d$ under $\ell_1$-norm.
    Jeong Hyun Kang*, Department of Mathematics, University of West Georgia
    (1112-05-629)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A note on chromatic number and induced odd cycles.
    Baogang Xu, Nanjing Normal University
    Gexin Yu*, College of William and Mary
    Xiaoya Zha, Middle Tennessee State University
    (1112-05-545)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On $r$-hued colorings of graphs.
    Hong-Jian Lai*, West Virginia University
    Murong Xu, West Virginia University
    (1112-05-220)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On linear $r$-hued colorings of sparse graphs.
    Murong Xu*, West Virginia University
    Jiangxu Kong, Xiamen University
    Hong-Jian Lai, West Virginia University
    (1112-05-222)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Developments in the Theory and Applications of Reaction Network Models, II
  Room 407, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  Carsten Conradi, Max Planck Institute
  Moderators:
  Badal Joshi, California State University San Marcos
  Organizers:
  Casian Pantea, West Virginia University cpantea@math.wvu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    A proof of the Global Attractor Conjecture.
    Gheorghe Craciun*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1112-37-414)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Reaction Networks, Species Composition, and Reversibility.
    Gilles Gnacadja*, Amgen
    (1112-92-584)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Permanence of power law systems.
    James D Brunner*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Gheorghe Craciun, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1112-92-461)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the existence of positive steady states for deficiency-one mass action systems with two linkage classes.
    Balázs Boros*, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
    (1112-92-383)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Singularities in Algebra, Geometry and Topology, II
  Room 203, Cuneo Hall
  Organizers:
  Manuel Gonzalez Villa, University of Wisconsin-Madison villa@math.wisc.edu
  Laurentiu Maxim, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Higher order generalized Euler characteristics of a complex quasi-projective manifold with a finite group action and some generating series.
    Alejandro Melle-Hernández*, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, (Spain)
    (1112-14-152)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On The Milnor Fiber of a Quasi-Ordinary Hypersurface.
    Gary Kennedy, The Ohio State University
    Lee J McEwan*, The Ohio State University
    (1112-14-428)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Homological Properties of Determinants Arrangements.
    Arnold H Yim*, Purdue University
    (1112-14-176)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Stochastic Analysis With Applications to Quantitative Finance, II
  Room 415, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  Igor Cialenco, Illinois Institute of Technology igor@math.iit.edu
  Ruoting Gong, Illinois Institute of Technology
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    How Leverage Shifts and Scales a Volatility Skew: Asymptotics for Continuous and Jump Dynamics.
    Roger Lee*, University of Chicago, Department of Mathematics
    Ruming Wang, University of Chicago, Department of Statistics
    (1112-60-663)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Extreme-strike asymptotics for general Gaussian stochastic volatility models.
    Archil Gulisashvili, Department of Mathematics, Ohio University
    Frederi Viens, Department of Statistics, Purdue University
    Xin Zhang*, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University
    (1112-60-540)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Small-time expansions for state-dependent local jump-diffusion models with infinite jump activity.
    Jose E. Figueroa-Lopez*, Department of Mathematics, Washington University
    Yankeng Luo, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University
    (1112-60-534)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On small time asymptotics for rough differential equations driven by fractional Brownian motions.
    Fabrice Baudoin, Purdue University
    Cheng Ouyang*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1112-60-417)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Short-term asymptotic properties of option prices and implied volatility under financial models with jumps.
    Sveinn Ólafsson*, Purdue University
    (1112-60-367)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on The Langlands Program and Related Topics, II
  Room 605, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  Andrei Jorza, University of Notre Dame
  Martin Luu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign mluu@illinois.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    p-adic families of Eisenstein series and applications.
    Ellen Eischen*, University of Oregon
    (1112-11-333)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Double Dirichlet Series and Voronoi Formula.
    Fan Zhou*, Ohio State University
    (1112-11-191)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Geometric foundations of the theory of vector valued modular forms.
    Luca Candelori, LSU
    Cameron Franc*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (1112-11-464)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The wedge map on the Lubin-Tate space.
    Mohammad Hadi Hedayatzadeh*, Purdue University
    (1112-11-633)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Explicit forms of the trace formula and analytic number theory.
    Salim Ali Altug*, Ritt Assistant Professor/Columbia University
    (1112-11-300)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Topics in Graph Theory, Hypergraphs and Set Systems, II
  Room 003, Cuneo Hall
  Organizers:
  John Engbers, Marquette University john.engbers@marquette.edu
  David Galvin, University of Notre Dame
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Stability in the Erdős--Gallai Theorem on cycles and paths.
    Z. Füredi, Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Hungary
    A. Kostochka*, University of Illinois at Urbana--Champaign, Urbana
    J. Verstraëte, University of California at San Diego
    (1112-05-201)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Directed paths: from Ramsey to Ruzsa and Szemeredi.
    Po-Shen Loh*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1112-05-79)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On problems of Cameron and Erdos.
    Jozsef Balogh*, UIUC
    Hong Liu, UIUC
    Maryam Sharifzadeh, UIUC
    Andrew Treglown, Birmingham University, UK
    (1112-05-326)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On "stability" in the Erdős-Ko-Rado theorem.
    Patrick R Devlin*, Rutgers University
    Jeff Kahn, Rutgers University
    (1112-05-586)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Turan numbers of linear sunflowers.
    David Irwin, Ohio State University
    Tao Jiang*, Miami University
    (1112-05-585)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Variational Analysis, Optimization, and Control (Dedicated to Terry Rockafellar on the occasion of his 80th birthday), II
  Room 514, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  Rafal Goebel, Loyola University Chicago rafal.k.goebel@gmail.com
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    A Proximal Method for Composite Minimization.
    Stephen J Wright*, Madison
    Adrian S Lewis, Cornell University
    (1112-90-393)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Exact Regularization and Weak Sharp Minima in Optimization.
    S. Deng*, Dept of Math Sciences, Northern Illinois University
    (1112-90-557)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Convex Duality and the Fundamental Theorem of Asset Pricing.
    Qiji J. Zhu*, Western Michigan University
    (1112-90-274)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Applying Variational Analysis to the Stability of Economic Equilibrium.
    Terry Rockafellar*, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington
    (1112-49-510)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 2:45 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
  Session on Session for Contributed Papers III
  Room 107, Cuneo Hall
  

  • 2:45 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: On linear $r$-hued colorings of sparse graphs.
    Jiangxu Kong, Dept. of Math in WVU
    Hong-Jian Lai, Dept. of Math in WVU
    Murong Xu*, Dept. of Math in WVU
    (1112-05-154)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Decomposition Theorem for Weakly 4-Connected Graphs.
    Kimberly D'souza*, Louisiana State University
    Guoli Ding, Louisiana State University
    (1112-05-235)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Group connectivity, graph strength and degree sequence realization.
    Jiaao Li*, West Virginia University
    (1112-05-231)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Coverings of Profinite Graphs.
    Amrita Acharyya*, University of Toledo
    Jon M Corson, University of Alabama
    Bikash C Das, University of North Georgia
    (1112-00-280)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Cofinite Graphs and Groupoids and their Profinite Completions.
    Amrita Acharyya, University of Toledo
    Jon M Corson, University of Alabama
    Bikash C Das*, University of North Georgia
    (1112-00-277)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Proof of a conjecture of Kenyon and Wilson on semicontiguous minors.
    Tri Lai*, Institute for Mathematics and it Applications
    (1112-05-42)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Types in the theory of $\mathbb{R}$-trees.
    Sylvia Carlisle*, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
    (1112-03-474)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Packing spanning trees and spanning 2-connected $k$-edge-connected essentially $(2k-1)$-edge-connected subgraphs.
    Xiaofeng Gu*, University of West Georgia
    (1112-05-677)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Partial Differential Equations, II
  Room 519, Mundelein Center
  Organizers:
  Morgan Sherman, California Polytechnic State University
  Valentino Tosatti, Northwestern University
  Ben Weinkove, Northwestern University weinkove@math.northwestern.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the Kahler Ricci flow on projective manifolds of general type.
    Bin Guo*, Department of Mathematics, Columbia University
    (1112-53-168)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A Riemannian structure on space of conformal metrics.
    Matthew J Gursky*, University of Notre Dame
    (1112-53-49)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Metric Spaces: Geometry, Group Theory, and Dynamics, II
  Room 302, Cuneo Hall
  Organizers:
  Tullia Dymarz, University of Wisconsin-Madison dymarz@math.wisc.edu
  Anton Lukyanenko, University of Michigan
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Quasi-isometry embeddings of non-uniform lattices.
    David Fisher, Indiana University
    Thang Nguyen*, Indiana University
    (1112-51-498)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The geometry of Radon Nikodym Lipschitz differentiability spaces.
    David Bate*, University of Chicago
    (1112-58-467)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    BiLipschitz decomposition for Carnot groups.
    Sean Li*, University of Chicago
    (1112-58-117)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Thurston's Lipschitz metric on the Teichmüller space of the punctured torus.
    Kasra Rafi*, University of Toronto
    David Dumas, University of Illinois at Chicago.
    Anna Lenzhen, University of Rennes
    Jing Tao, University of Oklahoma
    (1112-51-452)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-4:25 p.m.
  Session on Session for Contributed Papers IV
  Room 111, Cuneo Hall
  

  • 3:15 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: World Record Largest Mersene Prime Exponent Discoverer.
    Avery Beau Wolinsky*, Danville
    (1112-00-369)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Special Configurations of Triangle Centers.
    Hyun Jin Kim*, Hofstra University
    Hyun Sun Kim, Hofstra University
    (1112-52-165)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    The Uncertainty Principle of the Pythagorean Theorem.
    Donald A. Sokol*, retired
    (1112-01-5)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Constants of Convergences and Divergences both Mathematical and Physical.
    Stewart E. Brekke*, Downers Grove, IL
    (1112-00-86)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Optimal Control in PDE/DE Model for an Anthrax Epizootic.
    Buddhi Pantha*, University of Tennessee
    Suzanne Lenhart, University of Tennessee
    Judy Day, University of Tennessee
    (1112-37-188)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 5:10 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
  Introduction to the Erdős Memorial Lecture
  MC Auditorium, Mundelein Center
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 5:15 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
  Erdős Memorial Lecture
  Markoff Surfaces, Numbers and Strong Approximation.
  MC Auditorium, Mundelein Center
  Peter Sarnak*, Princeton University and IAS, Princeton.
  (1112-11-436)
• Saturday October 3, 2015, 6:15 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
  Reception for the Erdős Lecture
  All are welcome.
  First Floor Lobby, Institute of Environmental Sustainability

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