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Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting
University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL
March 27-29, 2015 (Friday - Sunday)
Meeting #1109

Associate secretaries:

Brian D. Boe, AMS brian@math.uga.edu

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Friday March 27, 2015

• Friday March 27, 2015, 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Lobby, Shelby Center
• Friday March 27, 2015, 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Lobby, Shelby Center
• Friday March 27, 2015, 1:55 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Welcome remarks.
  Room 107, Shelby Center
  Big doings with small gaps.
  Room 107, Shelby Center
  Paul Pollack*, University of Georgia
  (1109-11-269)
• Friday March 27, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Advances in the Theory and Applications of Dynamical Systems, I
  Room 121, Shelby Center
  Organizers:
  Shangbing Ai, University of Alabama in Huntsville ais@uah.edu
  Wenzhang Huang, University of Alabama in Huntsville
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Quasi-periodic and almost periodic solutions in coupled systems.
    Ernest Fontich, Univ. de Barcelona
    Rafael de la Llave*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Yannick Sire, Universite de marseille
    (1109-37-279)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Multiscale computations for highly oscillatory dynamical systems.
    Seong Jun Kim*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Gil Ariel, Bar-Ilan University
    Bjorn Engquist, University of Texas at Austin
    Richard Tsai, University of Texas at Austin
    Haomin Zhou, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1109-65-32)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Computation of normally hyperbolic invariant manifolds.
    Marta Canadell*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Alex Haro, Universitat de Barcelona
    (1109-37-226)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Existence and stability of synchronous and mirror-reflecting equilibria of a neural network.
    Israel Ncube*, Alabama A & M University
    (1109-37-87)
• Friday March 27, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Analytic Methods in Elementary Number Theory, I
  Room 105, Shelby Center
  Organizers:
  Paul Pollack, University of Georgia pollack@uga.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Lattice points close to a smooth curve and applications.
    Ognian Trifonov*, University of South Carolina
    (1109-11-283)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A zero-free region for the Riemann zeta-function.
    Michael J. Mossinghoff*, Davidson College
    Timothy S. Trudgian, Australian National University
    (1109-11-272)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Irreducibility of Polynomials with Nexus Numbers modulo $m$ as Coefficients.
    Carrie E. Finch*, Washington and Lee University
    (1109-11-268)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Variants of Carmichael numbers.
    Tom Wright*, Wofford College
    (1109-11-294)
• Friday March 27, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Fractal Geometry and Ergodic Theory, I
  Room 207, Shelby Center
  Organizers:
  Mrinal Kanti Roychowdhury, University of Texas-Pan American roychowdhurymk@utpa.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Connectivity of random geometric graphs in domains with smooth or fractal boundaries.
    Carl P Dettmann*, University of Bristol, UK
    Orestis Georgiou, Toshiba TRL and University of Bristol
    Justin P Coon, University of Oxford
    (1109-60-148)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Recurrence theorems for admissible superadditive processes.
    Dogan Comez*, Department of Mathematics, North Dakota State University
    (1109-37-144)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Measures on path spaces of Bratteli diagrams.
    Sergey Bezuglyi*, University of Iowa
    (1109-37-92)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Fractal Dimension of the Canopy of Tree Fractals.
    Elizabeth Sattler*, North Dakota State University
    (1109-37-141)
• Friday March 27, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Group Theory and Topology, I
  Room 205, Shelby Center
  Organizers:
  Tara Brendle, University of Glasgow
  Christopher Leininger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Dan Margalit, Georgia Institute of Technology margalit@math.gatech.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Efficient geodesics and distance in the complex of curves.
    Joan S Birman*, Barnard-Columbia
    (1109-57-117)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    MICC: A tool for computing short distances in the curve complex.
    William W Menasco*, University at Buffalo---SUNY
    Matthew Morse, University at Buffalo---SUNY
    Paul Glenn, University at Buffalo---SUNY
    Kayla Morrell, Buffalo State College---SUNY
    (1109-55-48)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The distribution of gaps for saddle connections on the octagon.
    Caglar Uyanik*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Grace Work, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1109-20-89)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Using the geometry of the mapping class group to solve combinatorial problems.
    Tarik Aougab*, Yale University
    (1109-57-81)
• Friday March 27, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory, I
  Room 216, Business Administration Building
  Organizers:
  Chris Stephens, Middle Tennessee State University
  Dong Ye, Middle Tennessee State University dong.ye@mtsu.edu
  Xiaoya Zha, Middle Tennessee State University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Decompositions into paths and cycles.
    John Asplund*, Dalton State College
    Joe Chaffee, Huntsville, Alabama
    James Hammer, Auburn University
    (1109-05-221)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Geometric Decomposition Graphs.
    Robert E. Jamison*, Clemson University
    (1109-05-209)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Padmakar - Ivan index of $k$-trees.
    Shaohui Wang*, The University of Mississippi
    Bing Wei, The University of Mississippi
    (1109-05-100)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Edge-connectivity in regular multigraphs from eigenvalues.
    Suil O*, Georgia State University
    (1109-05-97)
• Friday March 27, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on New Developments in Population Dynamics and Epidemiology, I
  Room 109, Shelby Center
  Organizers:
  Jia Li, University of Alabama in Huntsville
  Maia Martcheva, University of Florida
  Necibe Tuncer, Florida Atlantic University ntuncer@fau.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Dynamics of Low and High Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Wild and Domestic Bird Populations.
    Necibe Tuncer, Florida Atlantic University
    Juan Torres, University of Florida
    Maia Martcheva*, University of Florida
    Mike Barfield, University of Florida
    Robert D. Holt, University of Florida
    (1109-92-85)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Environmental change and life history strategies: cannibalism and reproductive synchrony I.
    James L. Hayward*, Department of Biology, Andrews University
    Shandelle M. Henson, Department of Mathematics, Andrews University
    J. M. Cushing, Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona
    (1109-92-224)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Environmental change and life history strategies: cannibalism and reproductive synchrony II.
    J M Cushing*, Department of Mathematics & Interdisciplinary Program in Applied Mathematics, University of Arizona
    Amy Veprauskas, Interdisciplinary Program in Applied Mathematics, University of Arizona
    Shandelle M. Henson, Andrews University
    James L. Hayward, Department of Biology, Andrews University
    (1109-92-57)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Environmental change and life history strategies: cannibalism and reproductive synchrony III.
    Shandelle M. Henson*, Andrews University
    J. M. Cushing, University of Arizona
    James L. Hayward, Andrews University
    (1109-92-128)
• Friday March 27, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Numerical Methods for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, I
  Room 216, Shelby Center
  Organizers:
  S. S. Ravindran, University of Alabama in Huntsville ravinds@uah.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Discrete and continuous spectra for the linearized Navier-Stokes equation in an exterior domain: A Computational simulation.
    Jonathan Gustafsson*, Naval Postgraduate School
    Sivaguru S. Sritharan, Air Force Institute of Technology
    (1109-76-165)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Multiphase flow and Encapsulation simulations using the moment of fluid method.
    Guibo Li, Shenyang Normal University
    Yongsheng Lian, University of Louisville
    Yisen Guo, University of Louisville
    Matthew Jemison, Florida State University
    Mark Sussman*, Florida State University
    Trevor Helms, Florida State University
    Marco Arienti, Sandia National Laboratory, Livermore
    (1109-76-66)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Analysis of a Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin Method for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations.
    Aycil Cesmelioglu*, Oakland University
    Bernardo Cockburn, University of Minnesota
    Weifeng Qiu, City University of Hong Kong
    (1109-65-236)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Well-balanced discontinuous Galerkin methods for the Euler equations under gravitational fields.
    Yulong Xing*, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and University of Tennessee
    (1109-65-227)
• Friday March 27, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Stochastic Analysis and Applications, I
  Room 222, Business Administration Building
  Organizers:
  Parisa Fatheddin, University of Alabama in Huntsville Parisa.Fatheddin@uah.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Volatility, Variance and Covariance swaps for Lévy process driven financial market.
    Indranil SenGupta*, North Dakota State University
    Semere Habtemicael, North Dakota State University
    (1109-60-46)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    An approximate formula for option pricing under a stochastic volatility model with two noises.
    Ibukun O.O. Amusan*, Kentucky State University
    (1109-60-315)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Large and Moderate Deviations and Central Limit Theorem for A Class of SPDEs.
    Parisa Fatheddin*, University of Alabama, Huntsville
    Jie Xiong, University of Macau
    (1109-60-108)
• Friday March 27, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Stochastic Processes and Related Topics, I
  Room 220, Business Administration Building
  Organizers:
  Paul Jung, University of Alabama at Birmingham pjung@uab.edu
  Erkan Nane, Auburn University
  Dongsheng Wu, University of Alabama in Huntsville
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Stochastic processes on a space with a binary relation.
    Kyle Siegrist*, University of Alabama in Huntsville
    (1109-60-200)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Some highlights from the general theory of random measures.
    Olav Kallenberg*, Auburn University
    (1109-60-58)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Intermittency and high moment asymptotics for parabolic Anderson equation with an (1 + 1)-dimensional white noise.
    Xia Chen*, UT Knoxville
    (1109-60-42)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Dissipation and High Disorder.
    Le Chen, University of Kansas
    Michael Cranston, University of California Irvine
    Davar Khoshnevisan*, University of Utah
    Kunwoo Kim, University of Utah
    (1109-60-98)
• Friday March 27, 2015, 3:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Operator Theory and Partial Differential Equations, I
  Room 158, Shelby Center
  Organizers:
  Craig Cowan, University of Manitoba
  Claudio Morales, University of Alabama in Huntsville morales@uah.edu
  

  • 3:30 p.m.
    Existence of positive solutions to certain Schrödinger equations.
    Michael Frazier*, University of Tennessee
    Igor Verbitsky, University of Missouri - Columbia
    (1109-35-245)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Degenerate Sobolev spaces, elliptic equations, and matrix $A_p$ weights.
    David Cruz-Uribe, Trinity College
    Moen Kabe*, University of Alabama
    Rodney Scott, Cape Breton University
    (1109-35-240)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Solving the Camassa-Holm Equation by Inverse Scattering.
    Rudi Weikard*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    (1109-35-162)
• Friday March 27, 2015, 5:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Algebraic, geometric, and dynamical aspects of surfaces.
  Room 107, Shelby Center
  Dan Margalit*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (1109-57-181)
• Friday March 27, 2015, 6:00 p.m.-7:15 p.m.
  University of Alabama in Huntsville, Department of Mathematics Reception
  All are welcome.
  Lobby, Bevill Conference Center and Hotel

Saturday March 28, 2015

• Saturday March 28, 2015, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Lobby, Shelby Center
• Saturday March 28, 2015, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Lobby, Shelby Center
• Saturday March 28, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Advances in the Theory and Applications of Dynamical Systems, II
  Room 121, Shelby Center
  Organizers:
  Shangbing Ai, University of Alabama in Huntsville ais@uah.edu
  Wenzhang Huang, University of Alabama in Huntsville
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Spreading Speeds and Semi-Wave Solutions of Diffusive KPP Equations with a Free Boundary in Time Almost Periodic Environments.
    Fang Li, Auburn University, Alabama, USA
    Xing Liang, University of Science and Technology of China, PRC
    Wenxian Shen*, Auburn University, Alamaba, USA
    (1109-35-195)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Persistence and spread of a species with a shifting habitat edge.
    Bingtuan Li*, University of Louisville
    Sharon Bewick, University of Maryland
    Jin Shang, University of Louisville
    William F Fagan, University of Maryland
    (1109-35-123)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Trajectory Attractor for a Reaction-Diffusion Problem from Climate Modeling.
    Georg Hetzer*, Auburn University
    (1109-35-207)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Further Studies of a Reaction-Diffusion System for an Unstirred Chemostat with Internal Storage.
    Sze-Bi Hsu, National Tsing Hua University
    Junping Shi*, College of William and Mary
    Feng-Bin Wang, Chang Gung University
    (1109-35-56)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Global Attractivity of a Nonlinear Difference Equation of Higher Order and Applications.
    Chuanxi Qian*, Mississippi State University
    (1109-39-234)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Blow-up at the boundary in polyharmonic elliptic equations with power-type nonlinearities.
    Paul G. Schmidt*, Auburn University
    Monica Lazzo, Universita di Bari
    (1109-35-191)
• Saturday March 28, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Analysis on Nonlinear Integral and Partial Differential Equations, I
  Room 154, Shelby Center
  Organizers:
  Tadele Mengesha, The University of Tennessee mengesha@utk.edu
  Tuoc Phan, The University of Tennessee
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Some recent developments in the spectral stability of waves in Hamiltonian PDE's.
    Atanas G. Stefanov*, The University of Kansas
    (1109-35-228)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Stability of traveling waves of Gross-Pitaevskii equation.
    Zhiwu Lin*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1109-35-139)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    End point weighted global gradient estimates for quasilinear equations with applications.
    Karthik Adimurthi*, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
    Cong Phuc Nguyen, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
    (1109-35-180)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A study of the oval problem.
    Jochen Denzler*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    (1109-49-230)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Estimates of the modular-type operator norm of the general geometric mean operator.
    Chang-Pao Chen*, Hsuan Chuang University
    Jin-Wen Lan, Municipal Jianguo High School
    (1109-47-29)
• Saturday March 28, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Analytic Methods in Elementary Number Theory, II
  Room 105, Shelby Center
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Squarefree numbers of the form $[p^c]$.
    Roger C Baker, Brigham Young University
    William D Banks*, University of Missouri
    Zhenyu V Guo, University of Missouri
    Igor E Shparlinski, University of New South Wales
    (1109-11-189)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The distribution of primes in determining classes of irreducible polynomials.
    Michael Filaseta*, University of South Carolina
    (1109-11-261)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Benford Behavior of Generalized Zeckendorf Decompositions.
    Brian McDonald*, University of Rochester
    Andrew Best, Williams College
    Patrick Dynes, Clemson University
    Xixi Edelsbrunner, Williams College
    Steven J. Miller, Williams College
    Kimsy Tor, Manhattan College
    Caroline Turnage-Butterbaugh, North Dakota State University
    Madeleine Weinstein, Harvey Mudd College
    (1109-11-256)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    An effective version of Hilbert's Irreducibility Theorem.
    Abel Castillo*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Rainer Dietmann, Royal Holloway, University of London
    (1109-11-78)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    An explicit universal Hilbert set with asymptotic density 1.
    Michael Filaseta, University of South Carolina
    Robert Wilcox*, University of South Carolina
    (1109-11-249)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Consecutive Primes in Tuples.
    William D. Banks, University of Missouri
    Tristan Freiberg, University of Missouri
    Caroline Turnage-Butterbaugh*, North Dakota State University
    (1109-11-190)
• Saturday March 28, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Fractal Geometry and Ergodic Theory, II
  Room 207, Shelby Center
  Organizers:
  Mrinal Kanti Roychowdhury, University of Texas-Pan American roychowdhurymk@utpa.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Ergodic theory of expanding Thurston maps.
    Zhiqiang Li*, UCLA
    (1109-37-136)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Fractal Spectra Arising in Models of Quasicrystals.
    May Mei*, Denison University
    (1109-37-289)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Quadratic Weyl sums, Automorphic Functions, and Invariance Principles.
    Francesco Cellarosi*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
    (1109-37-301)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    An Alpern tower independent of a given partition.
    James T Campbell*, University of Memphis
    Jared T Collins, Freed-Hardeman University
    Steven Kalikow, University of Memphis
    Raena King, Christian Brothers University
    Randall McCutcheon, University of Memphis
    (1109-37-212)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Differentiation and the ergodic theorem compared.
    Máté Wierdl*, memphis
    (1109-37-202)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    More on constructions of R.H. Bing's pseudo-circle in surface dynamics.
    Jan P. Boroński*, National Supercomputing Center IT4 Innovations, Ostrava
    Piotr Oprocha, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow
    (1109-37-182)
• Saturday March 28, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Group Theory and Topology, II
  Room 205, Shelby Center
  Organizers:
  Tara Brendle, University of Glasgow
  Christopher Leininger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Dan Margalit, Georgia Institute of Technology margalit@math.gatech.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Tori in the double handlebody.
    Matt Clay*, University of Arkansas
    Funda Gultepe, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    Kasra Rafi, University of Toronto
    (1109-20-170)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Stability and convex cocompactness in mapping class groups.
    Matthew Durham, University of Michigan
    Samuel J Taylor*, Yale University
    (1109-20-106)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The geometry of purely loxodromic subgroups of right-angled Artin groups.
    Thomas Koberda, Yale University
    Johanna Mangahas*, University at Buffalo
    Samuel J Taylor, Yale University
    (1109-20-113)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The primitivity index function for a free group, and untangling closed curves on surfaces.
    Neha Gupta*, UIUC
    (1109-20-147)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Palindromic automorphisms of free groups.
    Neil J. Fullarton*, Rice University
    (1109-20-120)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Separability Properties of Right-Angled Artin Groups.
    Priyam Patel*, Purdue University
    (1109-20-109)
• Saturday March 28, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory, II
  Room 216, Business Administration Building
  Organizers:
  Chris Stephens, Middle Tennessee State University
  Dong Ye, Middle Tennessee State University dong.ye@mtsu.edu
  Xiaoya Zha, Middle Tennessee State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Induced Forests in Bipartite Planar Graphs.
    Yan Wang*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Qiqin Xie, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Xingxing Yu, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1109-05-124)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Edge-disjoint spanning 2-connected $k$-edge-connected subgraphs and spanning trees.
    Xiaofeng Gu*, University of Wisconsin-Superior
    (1109-05-183)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Bounds on multiplicative Zagreb indices of $k$-trees.
    Shaohui Wang, Department of Mathematics, University of Mississippi
    Bing Wei*, Department of Mathematics, University of Mississippi
    (1109-05-184)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Acquisition and Domination: Paths, Randomness, and Abundance.
    Anant Godbole*, East Tennessee State University
    (1109-05-79)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Well-covered Pentagonalizations.
    Michael D. Plummer*, Vanderbilt University
    Art Finbow, St. Marys University
    Bert Hartnell, St. Marys University
    (1109-05-140)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Peg Solitaire on Graphs: 2015 and Beyond!
    Robert A. Beeler*, East Tennessee State University
    (1109-05-74)
• Saturday March 28, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on New Developments in Population Dynamics and Epidemiology, II
  Room 109, Shelby Center
  Organizers:
  Jia Li, University of Alabama in Huntsville
  Maia Martcheva, University of Florida
  Necibe Tuncer, Florida Atlantic University ntuncer@fau.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The study of population resilience subject to the Allee effect using potential functions.
    Eddy A Kwessi*, Trinity University
    Saber N Elaydi, Trinity University
    Laila Assas, King Abdul Aziz University
    Brian Dennis, Idaho University
    Georges Livadiotis, Southwest Research Institute
    (1109-39-308)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Hierarchical models with the eAllee effects and fluctuating habitats.
    Saber N. Elaydi*, Trinity University
    Laila Assas, King Abdelaziz University
    Eddy Kwessi, Trinity University
    George Livadiotis, Southwest Research Institute
    Brian Dennis, University of Idaho
    (1109-39-297)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Structured Population Models for Daphnia magna.
    H. Thomas Banks*, N. C. State University
    (1109-92-216)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Propagation of Growth Uncertainty in a Physiologically Structured Population.
    H. T. Banks, North Carolina State University
    Shuhua Hu*, North Carolina State University
    (1109-92-163)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Model of Ebola Incorporating Age of Infection.
    Glenn F Webb*, Vanderbilt University
    Cameron Browne, Vanderbilt University
    (1109-92-84)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Modeling the Geographic Spread of Rabies in China.
    Jing Chen, University of Miami
    Lan Zou, Sichuan University
    Zhen Jin, Shanxi University
    Shigui Ruan*, University of Miami
    (1109-92-305)
• Saturday March 28, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Operator Theory and Partial Differential Equations, II
  Room 158, Shelby Center
  Organizers:
  Craig Cowan, University of Manitoba
  Claudio Morales, University of Alabama in Huntsville morales@uah.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Parameter Estimation for a Nonlinear Parabolic System arising from Oilfield Modeling.
    Fatin Alawam*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    Ian Knowles, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    (1109-35-130)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Helmholtz's equation and its inverse problems.
    Tzu-Chu Lin*, Department of Mathematical Sciences,University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    (1109-35-307)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On a strong comparison principle for the p-Laplacian.
    Hai Dang*, Mississippi State University
    (1109-35-231)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Analytical problems in the theory of thin free films.
    Thomas Hagen*, The University of Memphis
    (1109-35-223)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Phase Retrieval.
    Peter G Casazza*, University of Missouri - Frame Research Center
    (1109-46-82)
• Saturday March 28, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Quadratic Forms in Arithmetic and Geometry, I
  Room 103, Shelby Center
  Organizers:
  Asher Auel, Yale University asher.auel@yale.edu
  Jorge Morales, Louisiana State University
  Anne Quéguiner-Mathieu, Université Paris 13
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Subspaces of zeros of pairs of quadratic forms and the u-invariant of a rational function field.
    David B. Leep*, University of Kentucky
    (1109-12-213)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Automorphisms of pencils of quadrics.
    Alexander R Duncan*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (1109-14-167)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Clifford Algebra of a Finite Morphism.
    Daniel Krashen*, University of Georgia
    Max Lieblich, University of Washington
    (1109-16-282)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Rational Bundles in the Grothendieck group of a Twisted Grassmannian.
    Caroline Junkins*, Western University
    (1109-14-259)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Local-global principle for reduced norms.
    Suresh Venapally*, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
    (1109-11-156)
• Saturday March 28, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Numerical Methods for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, II
  Room 216, Shelby Center
  Organizers:
  S. S. Ravindran, University of Alabama in Huntsville ravinds@uah.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Computing the electromagnetic wave propagation in random media with thermal effects.
    Jonathan Gustafsson, Naval Postgraduate School
    Sivaguru S. Sritharan*, Air Force Institute of Technology
    (1109-78-166)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A parallel solution approach for crack propagation using adaptive mesh refinement.
    Timo Heister*, Clemson University
    Mary F Wheeler, The University of Texas at Austin
    Thomas Wick, The University of Texas at Austin
    (1109-35-206)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Iterative Methods for Nonlinear Systems Arising in Diblock CoPolymer Systems.
    Bobby Philip*, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    Rajeev Kumar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    (1109-65-263)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Finite element method for flows in poroelasstic media.
    Yanzhao Cao*, Auburn University
    (1109-65-293)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Concurrent Multiscale Blending Scheme for Local/Nonlocal Coupling.
    Pablo Seleson*, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    Youn Doh Ha, Kunsan National University
    Samir Beneddine, ONERA Meudon
    Serge Prudhomme, École Polytechnique de Montréal
    (1109-35-262)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Transformation Optics based FDTD method for solving nonlinear Maxwell's equations.
    Jinjie Liu*, Delaware State University
    (1109-65-158)
• Saturday March 28, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Progress in Differential Equations, I
  Room 150, Shelby Center
  Organizers:
  Mathew Gluck, University of Alabama in Huntsville mrg0019@uah.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Front propagation in reaction-diffusion equations.
    Zhongwei Shen*, Auburn University
    (1109-35-116)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Within-host virus model with multidrug therapy: optimizing the treatment.
    Sergei S. Pilyugin*, University of Florida
    Cameron J Browne, Vanderbilt University
    (1109-92-247)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Within-host virus models with cell infection-age structure.
    Cameron J Browne*, Vanderbilt University
    (1109-35-160)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Nonlinear convection in unbounded regions.
    Layachi Hadji*, The University of Alabama
    Rishad Shahmurov, The University of Alabama
    (1109-34-26)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Asymptotic stability for KdV solitons in weighted spaces via iteration.
    Brian Pigott*, Wofford College
    Sarah Raynor, Wake Forest University
    (1109-35-138)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Asymptotic Stability of KdV Solitons in Weighted $H^s$ spaces.
    Brian Pigott, Wofford College
    Sarah Raynor*, Wake Forest University
    (1109-35-65)
• Saturday March 28, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Stochastic Analysis and Applications, II
  Room 222, Business Administration Building
  Organizers:
  Parisa Fatheddin, University of Alabama in Huntsville Parisa.Fatheddin@uah.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Stochastic Dynamic Modeling, Method and Applications.
    Gangaram S Ladde*, University of South Florida
    (1109-92-239)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    On integration with respect to the $q$-Brownian motion.
    Wlodek Bryc*, University of Cincinnati
    (1109-60-43)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Homogenization of the stochastic Navier-Stokes equation in perforated domains.
    Hakima Bessaih*, University of Wyoming, Department of Mathematics.
    Florian Maris, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology,CEMSE Division
    Yalchin Efendiev, Texas A&M
    (1109-35-53)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Alfvenic fluctuations and Alfven Simple Waves in the Solar Wind.
    Gary Webb*, University of Alabama, Huntsville
    Qiang Hu, University of Alabama, Huntsville
    Gang Li, University of Alabama, Huntsville
    (1109-60-132)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    McKean -Vlasov equations with jumps and associated PDEs in statistical physics.
    P. Sundar*, Louisiana State University
    Sergio Albeverio, Univ. Bonn
    Barbara Ruediger, Bergische Univ. Wuppertal
    (1109-60-238)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Modeling the radiation quality factor as a linear 'time'-dependent Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process.
    A. F. Barghouty*, Astrophysics Office, NASA-Marshall Space Flight Center
    (1109-60-152)
• Saturday March 28, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Stochastic Processes and Related Topics, II
  Room 220, Business Administration Building
  Organizers:
  Paul Jung, University of Alabama at Birmingham pjung@uab.edu
  Erkan Nane, Auburn University
  Dongsheng Wu, University of Alabama in Huntsville
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Correlation structure of time-changed fractional Brownian motion.
    Jebessa B. Mijena*, Georgia College & State University
    (1109-60-257)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Baby Fock spaces - commutative and noncommutative Rademacher systems.
    Jerzy Szulga*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Auburn University, AL
    (1109-81-270)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Break.
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On infinitely divisible semimartingales.
    Andreas Basse-O'Connor, Aarhus University
    Jan Rosinski*, University of Tennessee
    (1109-60-193)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Geometric/analytic properties of ground state eigenfunctions for the fractional Laplacian.
    Rodrigo Banuelos*, Purdue University
    Dante DeBlassie, New Mexico State University
    (1109-60-39)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Excursion Probability of Gaussian Random Fields on Sphere.
    Dan Cheng, North Carolina State University
    Yimin Xiao*, Michigan State University
    (1109-60-52)
• Saturday March 28, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers, I
  Room 50, Shelby Center
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A Note on Stable Matchings.
    Adam Blumenthal*, Auburn University
    Peter Johnson, Auburn University
    (1109-00-260)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    A Classification of Alpha Graphs.
    Christian Barrientos, Clayton State University
    Sarah Minion*, Georgia State University
    (1109-05-70)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Note on the Secure-Domination Number of a Graph.
    Matthew Devilbiss, University of Dayton
    Bradley Fain*, Auburn University
    Ryan Matzke, Gettysburg College
    Peter Johnson, Auburn University
    (1109-05-114)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    The fractional chromatic number versus the Hall ratio.
    Johnathan Barnett*, Auburn University
    Peter Johnson, Auburn University
    (1109-05-248)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Exact covering systems and Ramanujan's forty identities for the Rogers-Ramanujan functions.
    Zhu Cao*, Kennesaw State University
    Yong Hu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P. R.China
    (1109-11-317)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    On Conjectures of Somos for identities for the Rogers-Ramanujan functions.
    Chadwick Gugg*, Georgia Southwestern State University
    (1109-11-318)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On rigid components of the Hilbert scheme of smooth projective curves.
    Changho Keem*, Seoul National Universtiy
    Yun-Hwan Kim, Seoul National University
    (1109-14-25)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Parabolic Lie algebras are zero product determined.
    Daniel Brice*, Tuskegee University
    (1109-16-277)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Some Remarks on the Covering Groups of a Topological Group.
    Dongwen Qi*, Georgia Southwestern State University
    (1109-22-312)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Growth of Polynomials not vanishing inside a circle.
    Eze R. Nwaeze*, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA.
    Narendra K. Govil, Auburn University
    (1109-30-59)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Stability results for positive solutions for classes of semilinear elliptic boundary value problems with nonlinear boundary conditions.
    Jerome Goddard II*, Auburn University Montgomery
    R. Shivaji, University of North Carolina Greensboro
    (1109-35-320)
• Saturday March 28, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Modeling in Ecology and Epidemiology, I
  Room 219, Shelby Center
  Organizers:
  Andrew Nevai, University of Central Florida
  Zhisheng Shuai, University of Central Florida shuai@ucf.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Modeling impulsive subcutaneous insulin delivery with time delay and a frame work for artificial pancreas.
    Jiaxu Li*, University of Louisville
    (1109-92-314)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Mathematical Model for the Interactions of MMP-1, TIMP-1, and ECM in a Wound.
    Nitin Krishna, University of Chicago
    Hannah Pennington, Western Kentucky University
    Caanan Coppola, University of Buffalo
    Marisa Eisenberg, University of Michigan
    Richard Schugart*, Western Kentucky University
    (1109-92-290)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Optimal Control of a Parabolic PDE System Arising in Wound Healing.
    Stephen Guffey*, Western Kentucky University
    (1109-49-24)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Synchrony in Metapopulations with on-off Stochastic Dispersal: Windows of Opportunity.
    Russell Jeter*, Georgia State University
    Igor Belykh, Georgia State University
    (1109-37-295)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Long Time Behavior for a Reaction-Diffusion Population Model with Delay.
    Yixiang Wu*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    Keng Deng, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    (1109-35-45)
• Saturday March 28, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Trends in Mathematical Biology, I
  Room 218, Shelby Center
  Organizers:
  Wandi Ding, Middle Tennessee State University wandi.ding@mtsu.edu
  Zachariah Sinkala, Middle Tennessee State University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Optimal control of insects through sterile insect release and habitat modification.
    K. Renee Fister*, Murray State University
    Maeve McCarthy, Murray State University
    Seth Oppenheimer, Mississippi State University
    (1109-34-10)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Mathematical Modeling of Parthenogenisis Induced {\em Wolbachia} Infections in a Population.
    Michael A. Saum*, Georgia Gwinnett College
    James E. Russell, Georgia Gwinnett College
    (1109-92-73)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Models for Individual Breast Cancer Risk.
    Philip S Crooke*, Vanderbilt University
    Derek Smith, Vanderbilt University
    Jeffrey D Blume, Vanderbilt University
    William D Dupont, Vanderbilt University
    Fritz F Parl, Vanderbilt University
    (1109-92-232)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Stage-structured wild and sterile mosquito population models and their dynamics.
    Jia Li*, University of Alabama in Huntsville
    (1109-92-278)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Implications of Stochasticity in Cellular Proliferation.
    Rachel Leander, Middle Tennessee State University
    Zack Jones*, Middle Tennessee State University
    Darren Tyson, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    (1109-60-310)
• Saturday March 28, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Topology and Topological Methods in Dynamical Systems, I
  Room 203, Shelby Center
  Organizers:
  John Mayer, University of Alabama at Birmingham jcmayer@uab.edu
  Lex Oversteegen, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Equivalence of $\mathbb{Z}_4$-actions on handlebodies of genus $g$.
    Jesse T. Prince-Lubawy*, University of North Alabama
    (1109-54-154)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Bordered Khovanov homology: spanning tree models and a planar algebra structure.
    Nguyen D Duong*, The University of Alabama
    Lawrence P Roberts, The University of Alabama
    (1109-57-187)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A complete classification of homogeneous plane continua.
    Logan Hoehn, Nipissing University
    Lex Oversteegen*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    (1109-54-271)
• Saturday March 28, 2015, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  On the Euclidean Division.
  Room 107, Shelby Center
  Eva Bayer-Fluckiger*, EPFL (Lausanne)
  (1109-11-197)
• Saturday March 28, 2015, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Mathematics of Living Fluids.
  Room 107, Shelby Center
  M. Gregory Forest*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  (1109-92-281)
• Saturday March 28, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Advances in the Theory and Applications of Dynamical Systems, III
  Room 121, Shelby Center
  Organizers:
  Shangbing Ai, University of Alabama in Huntsville ais@uah.edu
  Wenzhang Huang, University of Alabama in Huntsville
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Katznelson-Tzafriri Type Theorem for almost periodic linear evolution equations.
    Minh V Nguyen*, Columbus State University
    (1109-34-276)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Traveling Wave Solutions for Some Classes of Diffusive Predator-Prey Models.
    Wenzhang Huang*, University of Alabama in Huntsville
    (1109-35-264)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Traveling wave solutions for a chemotaxis model.
    Shangbing Ai*, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville
    Reem Albashaireh, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville
    (1109-35-303)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Mixed mode oscillations in a singular perturbed three-species model.
    Susmita Sadhu*, Georgia College & State University
    (1109-34-265)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Oscillation and driving mechanism in a model of West Nile virus with time delay.
    Guihong Fan*, Columbus State University, Georgia State, US
    Huaiping Zhu, York Unviersity
    (1109-39-214)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Effects of (small) permanent charge and channel geometry on ionic flows via classical Poisson-Nernst-Planck models.
    Shuguan Ji, Jilin University
    Weishi Liu, University of Kansas
    Mingji Zhang*, Michigan State University
    (1109-92-69)
• Saturday March 28, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Analysis on Nonlinear Integral and Partial Differential Equations, II
  Room 154, Shelby Center
  Organizers:
  Tadele Mengesha, The University of Tennessee mengesha@utk.edu
  Tuoc Phan, The University of Tennessee
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Quasilinear elliptic equations with singular gradient terms of natural growth.
    Cao Tien Dat, University of Missouri
    Igor Verbitsky*, University of Missouri
    (1109-35-178)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    General Forchheimer-Ward equations for compressible fluids.
    Emine Celik*, Texas Tech University
    Luan Thach Hoang, Texas Tech University
    Thinh Tri Kieu, University of North Georgia
    (1109-35-71)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Potential theory for sublinear elliptic equations.
    Dat Tien Cao*, University of Missouri-Columbia
    Igor E. Verbitsky, Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri-Columbia
    (1109-35-186)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Global second derivative estimates for the second boundary value problem of the prescribed affine mean curvature equation.
    Nam Q. Le*, Department of Mathematics, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (1109-35-159)
• Saturday March 28, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Analytic Methods in Elementary Number Theory, III
  Room 105, Shelby Center
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Runs of consecutive primes via the Maynard-Tao method.
    Paul Pollack, University of Georgia
    Lola Thompson*, Oberlin College
    (1109-11-192)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Piatetski-Shapiro primes from almost primes.
    Roger C. Baker, Department of Mathematics, Brigham Young University
    William D. Banks, Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri
    Victor Z. Guo*, Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri
    Aaron M. Yeager, Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri
    (1109-11-151)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A Search Technique for Identifying Abundancy Outlaws of the form $(\sigma(N) + t)/N$.
    Judy Holdener*, Kenyon College
    Zachary Weiner, Kenyon College
    (1109-11-266)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The most popular largest prime divisors.
    Nathan G McNew*, Dartmouth College
    (1109-11-188)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On practical numbers and related topics.
    Andreas Weingartner*, Southern Utah University
    (1109-11-179)
• Saturday March 28, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Fractal Geometry and Ergodic Theory, III
  Room 207, Shelby Center
  Organizers:
  Mrinal Kanti Roychowdhury, University of Texas-Pan American roychowdhurymk@utpa.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Pseudorectifiability and topological rigidity of Kleinian groups and IFSes in infinite-dimensions.
    Tushar Das*, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
    (1109-37-258)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Weak Rational Ergodicity Does Not Imply Rational Ergodicity.
    Terrence M. Adams, Department of Defense
    Cesar E. Silva*, Williams College
    (1109-37-287)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On positive linear operators in $L^p-$spaces, $1\leq p\leq \infty$, of a semifinite measure.
    Semyon Litvinov*, Pennsylvania State University Hazleton
    Vladimir Chilin, The National University of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
    (1109-37-118)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Geometric (re)definitions of Patterson--Sullivan measures.
    David Samuel Simmons*, Ohio State University
    (1109-37-99)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Quantization dimension and fractal dimensions.
    Mrinal K Roychowdhury*, University of Texas-Pan American
    Nina Snigireva, University College Dublin
    (1109-37-210)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Two fourth-degree families: A comparison of Julia sets.
    Joanna Furno*, Wesleyan University
    Lorelei Koss, Dickinson College
    (1109-37-286)
• Saturday March 28, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Group Theory and Topology, III
  Room 205, Shelby Center
  Organizers:
  Tara Brendle, University of Glasgow
  Christopher Leininger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Dan Margalit, Georgia Institute of Technology margalit@math.gatech.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Dual Digraphs and Entropy.
    Eriko Hironaka*, Florida State University and AMS
    Kasra Rafi, University of Toronto
    Yael Algom-Kfir, Haifa University
    (1109-57-131)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Unbounded asymmetry of free group automorphism stretch factors.
    Spencer Dowdall*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Ilya Kapovich, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Christopher J. Leininger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1109-20-111)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Computations in the mapping class group via global coordinates.
    Dan Margalit, Georgia Tech
    S Oyku Yurttas*, Georgia Tech
    (1109-20-122)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Pseudo-Anosov mapping classes not arising from Penner's construction.
    Hyunshik Shin*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Balazs Strenner, University of Wisconsin at Madison
    (1109-57-125)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Algebraic degrees of pseudo-Anosov mapping classes.
    Balazs Strenner*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1109-57-96)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Problem session.
• Saturday March 28, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory, III
  Room 216, Business Administration Building
  Organizers:
  Chris Stephens, Middle Tennessee State University
  Dong Ye, Middle Tennessee State University dong.ye@mtsu.edu
  Xiaoya Zha, Middle Tennessee State University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Automorphism groups of codes.
    Edward Dobson*, Mississippi State University and the University of Primorska
    (1109-05-237)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Clone Sets in Matroids.
    Joshua Adam Gray, The University of Mississippi
    Talmage James Reid*, The University of Mississippi
    Xiangqian Zhou, Wright State University
    (1109-05-229)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Completeness of the Graph Bicycle Spectrum.
    Laura Sheppardson*, University of Mississippi
    (1109-05-217)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Minimum vertex degree threshold for tiling complete $3$-partite $3$-graphs.
    Jie Han, Georgia State University
    Chuanyun Zang, Georgia State University
    Yi Zhao*, Georgia State University
    (1109-05-198)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Unavoidable Multicoloured Families of Configurations.
    Richard P Anstee, University of British Columbia, Canada
    Linyuan Lu*, University of South Carolina
    (1109-05-161)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Vector Flows and Integer Flows.
    Jian Cheng*, West Virginia University
    (1109-05-86)
• Saturday March 28, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Modeling in Ecology and Epidemiology, II
  Room 219, Shelby Center
  Organizers:
  Andrew Nevai, University of Central Florida
  Zhisheng Shuai, University of Central Florida shuai@ucf.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Population persistence in temporally varying river environments.
    Yu Jin*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1109-92-11)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Identifiability Issues In A Nested Model Of Immuno-Epidemiological Model: The case of Rift Valley Fever Virus.
    Necibe Tuncer*, Florida Atlantic University
    Hayriye Gulbudak, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Vincent Cannataro, University of Florida
    Maia Martcheva, University of Florida
    (1109-35-129)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Predicting Population Extinction or Disease Outbreaks with Stochastic Models.
    Linda Allen, Texas Tech University
    Sophia Jang, Texas Tech University
    Lih-Ing W. Roeger*, Texas Tech University
    (1109-60-38)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A Model of Infectious Salmon Anemia Virus with Viral Diffusion between Wild and Farmed Patches.
    Evan M Milliken*, University of Florida
    (1109-92-6)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Agent-based Modeling of Seasonal Influenza.
    Anna Mummert*, Marshall University
    Jessica Shiltz, West Virginia University
    Robert Hughes, Marshall University
    Roger Estep, Marshall University
    Marcia Harrison, Marshall University
    (1109-92-288)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Mathematical Studies of Heterogeneous Cholera Models.
    Zhisheng Shuai*, University of Central Florida
    Marisa C. Eisenberg, University of Michigan
    Joseph H. Tien, Ohio State University
    Pauline van den Driessche, University of Victoria
    (1109-92-311)
• Saturday March 28, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on New Developments in Population Dynamics and Epidemiology, III
  Room 109, Shelby Center
  Organizers:
  Jia Li, University of Alabama in Huntsville
  Maia Martcheva, University of Florida
  Necibe Tuncer, Florida Atlantic University ntuncer@fau.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Hybrid Multiscale Models for Forecasting and Mitigating an Outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease.
    James M Hyman*, Tulane University
    (1109-92-241)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Competitive Exclusion and Coexistence in a Two-Strain Pathogen Model with Diffusion.
    Azmy S. Ackleh, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    Keng Deng*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    Yixiang Wu, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    (1109-92-75)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Dispersal in advective environments.
    King-Yeung Lam, Ohio State University
    Yuan Lou*, Ohio State University
    Frithjof Lutscher, University of Ottawa
    Peng Zhou, Shanghai Jiaotong University
    (1109-35-31)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Modeling the spatial dynamics of cholera.
    J. Wang*, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
    (1109-92-155)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Dynamics and Bifurcation in Models for Hormonal Regulation of the Menstrual Cycle.
    James F. Selgrade*, North Carolina State University
    (1109-92-137)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Qualitative Behaviors of Degenerate Reaction-Diffusion Systems.
    Zhaosheng Feng*, University of Texas-Pan American
    (1109-35-41)
• Saturday March 28, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Operator Theory and Partial Differential Equations, III
  Room 158, Shelby Center
  Organizers:
  Craig Cowan, University of Manitoba
  Claudio Morales, University of Alabama in Huntsville morales@uah.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Equilibrium quasi-periodic configurations in quasi-periodic media.
    Lei Zhang*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Xifeng Su, Beijing Normal University
    Rafael de la Llave, Georgia Inst. of Technology
    (1109-82-246)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Maximal Regularity for Banach Spaces.
    Bentuo Zheng*, University of Memphis
    (1109-46-300)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Maximal monotone operators in Locally convex spaces.
    Claudio H Morales*, University of Alabama in Huntsville
    (1109-47-298)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Fixed Points of Random Operators.
    Anthony Hester*, QIE
    (1109-47-251)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Nonlinear stability of fronts and pulses for a class of partly parabolic systems that arise in chemical reaction models.
    Anna Ghazaryan*, Miami University
    Yuri Latushkin, University of Missouri, Columbia
    Stephen Schecter, North Carolina State University
    (1109-35-30)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Surjective Isometries and Hermitian Operators on Zygmund spaces.
    F Botelho*, University of Memphis
    (1109-46-51)
• Saturday March 28, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Quadratic Forms in Arithmetic and Geometry, II
  Room 103, Shelby Center
  Organizers:
  Asher Auel, Yale University asher.auel@yale.edu
  Jorge Morales, Louisiana State University
  Anne Quéguiner-Mathieu, Université Paris 13
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Quadratic Forms and the Geometry of Numbers.
    Pete L. Clark*, University of Georgia
    (1109-11-284)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Height bounds on zeros of quadratic forms over $\overline{\mathbb Q}$.
    Wai Kiu Chan, Wesleyan University
    Lenny Fukshansky*, Claremont McKenna College
    Glenn R. Henshaw, LaGuardia Community College
    (1109-11-142)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Break.
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The representation of integers by positive ternary quadratic polynomials.
    Wai Kiu Chan*, Wesleyan University
    James Ricci, Daemen College
    (1109-11-93)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Division algebras and separable subfields.
    David J Saltman*, CCR-Princeton
    (1109-16-103)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Subfields of quaternion algebras in characteristic 2.
    Adam Chapman*, Michigan State University
    (1109-16-27)
• Saturday March 28, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Numerical Methods for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, III
  Room 216, Shelby Center
  Organizers:
  S. S. Ravindran, University of Alabama in Huntsville ravinds@uah.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Green's function by the 3D $F_N$ method for inverse transport problems.
    Manabu Machida*, University of Michigan
    (1109-65-72)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Further study of back and forth error compensation and correction method for advection and Hamilton-Jacobi equations.
    Lili Hu, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Yao Li, Courant Institute of Mathematics, New York University
    Yingjie Liu*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1109-65-169)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Simulation of parameterized differential systems with multi-fidelity models.
    Akil Narayan*, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
    Dongbin Xiu, University of Utah
    Xueyu Zhu, University of Utah
    Claude Gittelson, Zurich, Switzerland
    (1109-65-18)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Bayesian Principle Component Analysis: A Random Subspace Approach.
    Kenny Chowdhary*, Sandia National Laboratories
    (1109-60-253)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A PDE approach to the fractional obstacle problem.
    Abner J Salgado*, University of Tennessee
    (1109-65-176)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Numerical Simulation of System of Multidimensional Time Dependent PDEs with Locally Extrapolated ETD Scheme.
    Harish P Bhatt*, Middle Tennessee State University
    Abdul Q.M. Khaliq, Middle Tennessee State University
    (1109-65-199)
• Saturday March 28, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Progress in Differential Equations, II
  Room 150, Shelby Center
  Organizers:
  Mathew Gluck, University of Alabama in Huntsville mrg0019@uah.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Gradient estimates and global existence of smooth solutions to a cross-diffusion system.
    Luan Hoang, Texas Tech University
    Truyen Nguyen, University of Akron
    Tuoc Phan*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    (1109-35-62)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Asymptotic behavior for neutral functional PDEs with general boundary conditions.
    M. N. Nkashama*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    (1109-35-164)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Intermittence and time fractional stochastic partial differential equations.
    Erkan Nane*, Auburn University
    (1109-35-36)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Einstein-Navier-Stokes system.
    Marcelo M Disconzi*, Department of Mathematics, Vanderbilt University
    (1109-35-220)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On a thermodynamically consistent Stefan problem with surface tension.
    Gieri Simonett*, Vanderbilt University
    Jan Prüss, Martin-Luther University Halle- Wittenberg, Germany
    Rico Zacher, University of Ulm, Germany
    (1109-35-211)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Regularity of the interface of a thermo-dynamically consistent two-phase Stefan problem.
    Pruss Jan, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
    Gieri Simonett, Vanderbilt University
    Yuanzhen Shao*, Vanderbilt University
    (1109-35-34)
• Saturday March 28, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Trends in Mathematical Biology, II
  Room 218, Shelby Center
  Organizers:
  Wandi Ding, Middle Tennessee State University wandi.ding@mtsu.edu
  Zachariah Sinkala, Middle Tennessee State University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Modeling HIV persistence and slow CD4+ T cell decline.
    Libin Rong*, Oakland University
    (1109-92-208)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Optimal Control in Multi-group Coupled Within-host and Between-host Models.
    Eric S Numfor*, Georgia Regents University
    Souvik Bhattacharya, University of Trento, Italy
    Maia Martcheva, University of Florida
    Suzanne Lenhart, University of Tennessee
    (1109-92-133)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    3D Mathematical Modeling and Simulations of Cell Mitosis by a Phase Field Approach.
    Jia Zhao*, University of South Carolina
    Qi Wang, University of South Carolina
    (1109-92-5)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Computational Modeling and Simulation of a Multiscale Tumor Induced Angiogenesis Model.
    Richard C Ewool*, Department of Computational Science, Middle Tennessee State University
    Zachariah Sinkala, Department of Computational Science, Middle Tennessee State University
    (1109-34-244)
• Saturday March 28, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Stochastic Analysis and Applications, III
  Room 222, Business Administration Building
  Organizers:
  Parisa Fatheddin, University of Alabama in Huntsville Parisa.Fatheddin@uah.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Stationary Distribution of an SPDE Associated with a Many-Server Queue.
    Kavita Ramanan*, Brown University
    Mohammadreza Aghajani, Brown University
    (1109-60-145)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Explicit Optimal Controls for Some Stochastic Control Problems.
    Tyrone E. Duncan*, University of Kansas
    (1109-60-83)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Large deviations for additive functionals of Markov processes and applications.
    Adina Oprisan*, Barry University
    Andrzej Korzeniowski, University of Texas at Arlington
    (1109-60-101)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Limit Cycles with Random Perturbations Involving Fast Switching and Small Diffusion.
    Dang Hai Nguyen, Wayne State University
    Nguyen Huu Du, Hanoi National University
    George Yin*, Wayne State University
    (1109-60-77)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Intermittency for a family of parabolic and hyperbolic SPDEs driven by fractional noise.
    Raluca M Balan, University of Ottawa
    Daniel Conus*, Lehigh University
    (1109-60-296)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    A Hölder-Young inequality for norms of generalized Gaussian Wick products.
    Aurel Iulian Stan*, The Ohio State University at Marion
    (1109-60-60)
• Saturday March 28, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Stochastic Processes and Related Topics, III
  Room 220, Business Administration Building
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the uniqueness and properties of the Parisi measure.
    Wei-Kuo Chen*, University of Chicago
    Antonio Auffinger, Northwestern University
    (1109-60-61)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Rate of convergence of the mean for sub-additive ergodic sequences.
    Antonio Auffinger*, Northwestern University
    Michael Damron, Indiana University
    Jack T Hanson, Indiana University
    (1109-60-13)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Break.
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Time-changed extremal process as a random sup measure.
    Celine Lacaux, Universite de Lorraine
    Gennady Samorodnitsky*, Cornell University
    (1109-60-14)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Brox Diffusion and its stochastic differential equations.
    Yaozhong Hu*, University of Kansas
    Khoa Le, University of Kansas
    (1109-60-15)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Computational Stochastic Filtering and Large Deviations.
    Vasileios Maroulas*, University of Tennessee
    (1109-60-255)
• Saturday March 28, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Topology and Topological Methods in Dynamical Systems, II
  Room 203, Shelby Center
  Organizers:
  John Mayer, University of Alabama at Birmingham jcmayer@uab.edu
  Lex Oversteegen, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On homotopical rotation numbers.
    Nandor J Simanyi*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    Caleb C Moxley, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    (1109-37-219)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Topological R-trees and applications.
    Paul Fabel*, Mississippi State University
    (1109-54-254)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The topology of spaces that admit mixing homeomorphisms.
    Christopher G. Mouron*, Rhodes College
    Veronica Martinez-de-la-Vega, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
    Jorge Matinez, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
    (1109-54-274)
• Saturday March 28, 2015, 3:00 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers, II
  Room 50, Shelby Center
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    How sticky is the chaos/order boundary?
    Carl P Dettmann*, University of Bristol, UK
    (1109-37-149)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Lattice differential equation analysis of wave and droplet-like behavior in spatial epidemic models.
    Chi-Jen Wang*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Xiaofang Guo, Iowa State University
    Da-Jiang Liu, Iowa State University, Ames Laboratory
    James Evans, Iowa State University, Ames Laboratory
    (1109-39-316)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A global solution to the Schrodinger equation: from Henstock to Feynman.
    Ekaterina Nathanson*, Georgia Gwinnett College
    Palle Jorgensen, University of Iowa
    (1109-46-33)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Complete Multinets.
    Jeremiah D Bartz*, Francis Marion University
    (1109-52-19)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Rank Based Two-Sample Tests Under a General Alternative.
    Jamye Nichelle Curry*, Georgia Gwinnett College
    (1109-62-76)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Dynamics of Co-Orbital Moons Near Collision.
    Kimberly E Stubbs*, UNC-Asheville
    (1109-70-9)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Tear Film Rippling During Blinks.
    Nicholas Gewecke*, Dalton State College
    Rich Braun, University of Delaware
    P. Ewen King-Smith, Ohio State University
    (1109-76-304)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Exact Solution to A SIR Model with Population Growth.
    Garrett Divens*, Morehouse College
    Ronald E. Mickens, Clark Atlanta University
    (1109-92-134)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A New Phenomenological Law of Cooling.
    'Kale Oyedeji*, Morehouse College
    Ronald E. Mickens, Clark Atlanta University
    (1109-92-135)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Combining Flipped-Classroom and Traditional Techniques in Teaching Algebraic Concepts.
    Tyler L Turner*, Austin Peay State University
    (1109-97-319)

Sunday March 29, 2015

• Sunday March 29, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Analytic Methods in Elementary Number Theory, IV
  Room 105, Shelby Center
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The number of prime factors of $s(n)$.
    Lee T Troupe*, University of Georgia
    (1109-11-185)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A generalization of a series for the density of abundant numbers.
    Mits Kobayashi*, Cal Poly Pomona
    (1109-11-175)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A note on square totients.
    Tristan Freiberg*, University of Missouri
    Carl Pomerance, Dartmouth College
    (1109-11-68)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    New constructions of normal continued fraction expansions.
    Joseph A Vandehey*, University of Georgia
    (1109-11-54)
• Sunday March 29, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Fractal Geometry and Ergodic Theory, IV
  Room 207, Shelby Center
  Organizers:
  Mrinal Kanti Roychowdhury, University of Texas-Pan American roychowdhurymk@utpa.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Unexpected distribution phenomenon resulting from Cantor series expansions.
    Dylan Airey*, University of Texas at Austin
    Bill Mance, University of North Texas
    (1109-11-91)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Invariant Measure for the Time-Dependent Navier-Stokes Equations.
    Gregory Varner*, John Brown University
    (1109-37-40)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Some Properties of the Pascal Adic Transformation and a Related Subsystem.
    Brian Chapman*, North Dakota State University
    (1109-37-280)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On the rotation set of a 3D flat torus with three obstacles.
    Caleb C Moxley*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    Nandor J Simanyi, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    (1109-37-222)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Subshift Conjecture.
    Artur Avila, Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu, IMPA
    David Damanik, Rice University
    Zhenghe Zhang*, Rice University
    (1109-37-201)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Groups lacking nice topologies in interval and circle dynamics.
    Michael P Cohen*, North Dakota State University
    Robert R Kallman, University of North Texas
    (1109-37-292)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Loci in strata of meromorphic differentials with special Lyapunov spectrum.
    Martin J Schmoll*, Clemson University
    (1109-37-309)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    The Hausdorff dimension of sets of numbers defined by their $Q$-Cantor series expansions.
    Dylan Airey, University of Texas
    Bill Mance*, University of North Texas
    (1109-11-218)
• Sunday March 29, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Group Theory and Topology, IV
  Room 205, Shelby Center
  Organizers:
  Tara Brendle, University of Glasgow
  Christopher Leininger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Dan Margalit, Georgia Institute of Technology margalit@math.gatech.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Thoughts on convex cocompactness in mapping class groups.
    Richard Kent*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
    (1109-20-90)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Mapping class groups and simple covers.
    Rebecca R. Winarski*, Wittenberg University
    (1109-57-112)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Spectral rigidity for q-differential metrics.
    Anja Bankovic*, Boston College
    Christopher Leininger, University of Illinois
    (1109-51-94)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Finite rigid sets and homologically nontrivial spheres in the curve complex of a surface.
    Joan Birman, Barnard-Columbia University
    Nathan Broaddus*, Ohio State University
    William Manasco, University at Buffalo--SUNY
    (1109-20-110)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On the geometry of the flip graph.
    Valentina Disarlo*, Indiana University Bloomington
    (1109-20-88)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Random graphs and applications to Coxeter groups.
    Jason Behrstock*, Columbia University and CUNY
    (1109-05-49)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    A logarithm law for the earthquake flow.
    Ser-Wei Fu*, Temple University
    (1109-57-47)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Word metrics for arithmetic groups.
    Kevin Wortman*, University of Utah
    (1109-20-127)
• Sunday March 29, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory, IV
  Room 216, Business Administration Building
  Organizers:
  Chris Stephens, Middle Tennessee State University
  Dong Ye, Middle Tennessee State University dong.ye@mtsu.edu
  Xiaoya Zha, Middle Tennessee State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A list analog of Vizing's theorem for graphs without long odd cycles.
    Jessica McDonald*, Auburn University
    (1109-05-174)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Strong Chromatic Index of Subcubic Planar Multigraphs.
    A. V. Kostochka, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Xiangwen Li, Huazhong Normal University
    W. Ruksasakchai, KhonKaen University
    Mike Santana, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Tao Wang, Henan University
    Gexin Yu*, The College of William and Mary
    (1109-05-104)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Neighbor distinguishing and Neighbor sum distinguishing edge colorings and total colorings.
    Rong Luo*, West Virginia University
    (1109-05-102)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Fractional chromatic number of random subgraphs.
    Hehui Wu*, University of Mississippi
    Bojan Mohar, Simon Fraser University
    (1109-05-242)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Chromatic Numbers Under Scheduling Restrictions.
    Peter D. Johnson*, Auburn University
    Xiaoya Zha, Middle Tennessee State University
    (1109-05-105)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Forbidden Pairs for Spanning Halin Subgraphs.
    Guantao Chen*, Georgia State University
    (1109-05-157)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Link graphs and an unexpected application of topological graph theory.
    Mark Ellingham*, Vanderbilt University
    Bin Jia, University of Melbourne, Australia
    (1109-05-203)
• Sunday March 29, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on New Developments in Population Dynamics and Epidemiology, IV
  Room 109, Shelby Center
  Organizers:
  Jia Li, University of Alabama in Huntsville
  Maia Martcheva, University of Florida
  Necibe Tuncer, Florida Atlantic University ntuncer@fau.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A Comparative Analysis of Single Population Growth Models.
    Ronald E. Mickens*, Clark Atlanta University
    (1109-92-126)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Deterministic and stochastic nutrient-phytoplankton-zooplankton models with periodic toxin producing phytoplankton.
    Sophia Jang*, Texas Tech University
    Edward Allen, Texas Tech University
    (1109-92-50)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Disease dynamics of Honeybees with Varroa destructor as parasite and virus vector.
    Yun Kang*, Sciences and Mathematics, Arizona State University
    Krystal Blanco, Simon A. Levin Mathematical and Computational Modeling Sciences Center, Arizona State University
    Talia Davis Kang, School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Arizona State University
    (1109-34-146)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Revisiting Global Stability in the 2D Ricker Model.
    Brian C Ryals*, University of Southern California
    Bob Sacker, University of Southern California
    (1109-37-235)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Modeling the Spread and Control of Dengue with Limited Public Health Resources.
    Ahmed Abdelrazec*, Arizona State University
    Jacques Belair, University of Montreal
    Huaiping Zhu, York University
    (1109-92-275)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Persistence in a 2-patch SIV model coupled via diffusion.
    Evan M Milliken*, University of Florida
    Sergei S Pilyugin, University of Florida
    (1109-34-115)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Phenologically Explicit Reaction-Diffusion Model.
    Garrett L Otto*, Universtity of Louisville
    Sharon Bewick, University of Maryland
    Bingtuan Li, University of Louisville
    Bill Fagan, University of Maryland
    (1109-35-173)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Stability analysis and Hopf bifurcation of a host-parasitoid model.
    Shouzong Liu*, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
    John Reeve, Department of Zoology, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
    Mingqing Xiao, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
    Dashun Xu, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
    (1109-34-204)
• Sunday March 29, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Quadratic Forms in Arithmetic and Geometry, III
  Room 103, Shelby Center
  Organizers:
  Asher Auel, Yale University asher.auel@yale.edu
  Jorge Morales, Louisiana State University
  Anne Quéguiner-Mathieu, Université Paris 13
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Kneser-Hecke operators for quaternary codes.
    Anna Haensch*, Duquesne University
    (1109-11-119)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A space of weight 1 modular forms attached to totally real cubic number fields.
    Guillermo Mantilla-Soler*, Universidad de los Andes.
    (1109-11-150)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On some implications of 1907 Hurwitz formula.
    Alexander Berkovich*, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fl
    (1109-11-205)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Codimension one sublattices of quadratic lattices.
    Andrew G. Earnest*, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
    (1109-11-153)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Break.
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A proof by patching of the cyclicity of prime degree algebras over $p$-adic curves.
    Nivedita Bhaskhar*, Emory University
    (1109-14-225)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On algebraic groups with the same tori.
    Andrei S. Rapinchuk*, University of Virginia
    (1109-14-28)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Explicit obstructions to embedding maximal tori in classical groups.
    Raman Parimala*, Emory University
    Eva Bayer-Fluckiger, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
    Ting-Yu Lee, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
    (1109-11-194)
• Sunday March 29, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Numerical Methods for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, IV
  Room 216, Shelby Center
  Organizers:
  S. S. Ravindran, University of Alabama in Huntsville ravinds@uah.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On the stability and diusive characteristics of Roe-MUSCL and Runge-Kutta schemes for Implicit LES.
    Sarma L. Rani*, University of Alabama in Huntsville
    Shreyas Bidadi, University of Alabama in Huntsville
    (1109-76-291)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Analysis and Computation of Electromagnetic Field Enhancement for Metallic Nano-gaps.
    Junshan Lin*, Auburn University
    (1109-65-171)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Generalized Cahn-Hilliard Equations.
    Andreas Aristotelous*, Temple University
    Ohannes Karakashian, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    Steven Wise, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    (1109-65-177)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The reduced order NS-$\alpha$ model for incompressible flow.
    Leo Rebholz*, Clemson University
    (1109-65-95)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A decoupling algorithm for fluid-structure interaction problems based on optimization.
    Paul Kuberry, Clemson Univeristy
    Hyesuk Lee*, Clemson University
    (1109-65-80)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Defect Correction Approach to Turbulence Modeling.
    Alexander Labovsky*, Michigan Technological University
    (1109-65-55)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Partitioned two-step second-order method for magnetohydrodynamics in Elsässer variables.
    Yong Li, University of Pittsburgh
    Catalin Trenchea*, University of Pittsburgh
    (1109-65-63)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    An Eulerian Model for Particles Nonisothermally Carried by a Compressible Fluid.
    Babak Shotorban*, University of Alabama in Huntsville
    (1109-76-299)
• Sunday March 29, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Trends in Mathematical Biology, III
  Room 218, Shelby Center
  Organizers:
  Wandi Ding, Middle Tennessee State University wandi.ding@mtsu.edu
  Zachariah Sinkala, Middle Tennessee State University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    An Individual-Based Model for Feral Hogs in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
    Rene A. Salinas*, Appalachian State University
    (1109-92-233)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Quantifying the impact of decay in bed-net efficacy on malaria transmission.
    Jemal S Mohammed-Awel*, Valdosta State University, Georgia USA
    C. N. Ngonghala, Harvard Medical School
    S. Y. Del Valle, Los alamos laboratory
    R. Zhao, Minnesota State University Mankato
    (1109-92-23)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Competition Between Low Pathogenic and High Pathogenic Avian Influenza in a Two Patch System.
    Omar Saucedo*, University of Florida
    Maia Martcheva, University of Florida
    Juliet Pulliam, University of Florida
    (1109-34-267)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Bifurcations in A Discrete Time Model Composed of Beverton-Holt Function and Ricker Function.
    Jin Shang, University of Louisville
    Bingtuan Li, University of Louisville
    Michael Barnard*, University of Louisville
    (1109-92-168)
• Sunday March 29, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Stochastic Processes and Related Topics, IV
  Room 220, Business Administration Building
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    A strong and weak approximation scheme for stochastic differential equations driven by a time-changed Brownian motion.
    Ernest Jum, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    Kei Kobayashi*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    (1109-60-143)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Large Deviations for a Stochastic Burgers' Equation.
    Leila Setayeshgar*, Providence College
    (1109-60-21)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Fluctuations in the Mallows measure on permutations.
    Shannon L Starr*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    Meg Walters, University of Rochester
    (1109-60-22)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Break.
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Phenomena of critical regimes in invariance principles for operator-scaling Gaussian random fields.
    Hermine Biermé, Université de Poitiers
    Olivier Durieu, Université François-Rabelais de Tours
    Yizao Wang*, University of Cincinnati
    (1109-60-37)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Hitting probabilities for stochastic differential systems driven by fractional Brownian motions.
    F Baudoin, Purdue University
    E Nualart, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona
    C Ouyang*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    S Tindel, Universite de Lorraine
    (1109-60-67)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    A filtering problem in stochastic tomography.
    Tyler Gomez, University of Central Florida
    Jason Swanson*, University of Central Florida
    Alexandru Tamasan, University of Central Florida
    (1109-60-313)
• Sunday March 29, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Topology and Topological Methods in Dynamical Systems, III
  Room 203, Shelby Center
  Organizers:
  John Mayer, University of Alabama at Birmingham jcmayer@uab.edu
  Lex Oversteegen, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Finite Dimensional Uniquely Homogeneous Spaces.
    Stewart Baldwin*, Auburn University
    (1109-54-285)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Laminations corresponding to periodic polygons.
    Brandon L Barry*, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
    (1109-54-302)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On families of complex cubic polynomials.
    Alexander Blokh*, Birmingham
    Lex Oversteegen, UAB
    Ross Ptacek, University of Florida
    Vladlen Timorin, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
    (1109-37-243)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Limited information strategies for a topological proximal game.
    Steven Clontz*, Auburn University
    (1109-54-107)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Category Theoretic Characterizations of Generalized Inverse Limits.
    Alan C Bertl*, Auburn University
    (1109-54-252)
• Sunday March 29, 2015, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Operator Theory and Partial Differential Equations, IV
  Room 158, Shelby Center
  Organizers:
  Craig Cowan, University of Manitoba
  Claudio Morales, University of Alabama in Huntsville morales@uah.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Perturbations of Lane-Emden equations.
    Craig Cowan*, University of Manitoba
    Shangbing Ai, UAH
    (1109-35-215)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: New variational principles of symmetric boundary value problems.
    Abbas Momeni*, Carleton University
    (1109-35-64)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Continuous maximal regularity on manifolds with singularities and applications to geometric flows.
    Yuanzhen Shao*, Vanderbilt University
    (1109-35-35)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The $p$-Harmonic Equation and Extremal Problems in Bergman Spaces.
    Tim Ferguson*, University of Alabama
    (1109-30-172)

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