AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day

Current as of Saturday, March 14, 2015 03:30:12

Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting
Georgetown University, Washington, DC
March 7-8, 2015 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1107

Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu

Saturday March 7, 2015

• Saturday March 7, 2015, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Second Floor, Regents Hall
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Second Floor, Regents Hall
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Asymptotic Problems for Stochastic Processes and PDEs, I
  Room 120, Bunn, ICC (Intercultural Center)
  Organizers:
  Sandra Cerrai, University of Maryland
  Dmitry Dolgopyat, University of Maryland
  Mark Freidlin, University of Maryland
  Leonid Koralov, University of Maryland koralov@math.umd.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Freidlin-Wentzell exit problems for stochastic equations in Banach spaces.
    Michael Salins*, University of Maryland, College Park
    (1107-60-162)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Absolute Continuity for SPDEs.
    Jonathan C Mattingly*, Duke University
    (1107-60-482)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Burgers equation in noncompact setting with space-continuous kick forcing.
    Yuri Bakhtin*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
    (1107-60-83)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Computable Structure Theory, I
  Room 103, Healy Hall
  Organizers:
  Rumen Dimitrov, Western Illinois University
  Valentina Harizanov, George Washington University harizanv@gwu.edu
  Russell Miller, Queens College and Graduate Center, City University of New York
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Computing power of the ordered field of real numbers.
    Gregory Igusa, University of Notre Dame
    Julia F. Knight*, University of Notre Dame
    Noah D. Schweber, UC Berkeley
    (1107-03-182)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    On Borel complexity and constants.
    Michael C. Laskowski*, University of Maryland
    (1107-03-353)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Scott sentences and index sets of some computable groups.
    Karen Lange*, Wellesley College
    Abigail Raz, Rutgers University
    (1107-03-257)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    An automorphism analysis for the $\Delta^0_2$ Turing degrees.
    Mariya I Soskova*, Sofia University
    Theodore A. Slaman, University of California, Berkeley
    (1107-03-156)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Computable ordered abelian groups and generalized power series.
    Reed Solomon*, University of Connecticut
    (1107-03-354)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The complexity of primes in computable UFDs.
    Damir D Dzhafarov*, University of Connecticut
    Joseph R Mileti, Grinnell College
    (1107-03-413)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Convexity and Combinatorics, I
  Room 264, Reiss Hall
  Organizers:
  Jim Lawrence, George Mason University
  Valeriu Soltan, George Mason University vsoltan@gmu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A Mihalisin - Klee Theorem for Fans.
    Rachel E Locke, Mathematical Sciences Department, George Mason University
    Walter D Morris*, Mathematical Sciences Department, George Mason University
    (1107-05-88)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Low Dimensional Neighbourly Simplicial Polytopes.
    Wendy Finbow-Singh*, Saint Mary's University
    (1107-52-451)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Generalization of the Secondary Polytope Induced by Lifting and Deleting.
    Carl W. Lee*, University of Kentucky
    Clifford Taylor, University of Kentucky
    (1107-52-438)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Flip distances and Hamiltonian triangulations.
    Csaba D. Toth*, California State University, Northridge
    (1107-05-338)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Unimodality problems in Ehrhart theory.
    Benjamin Braun*, University of Kentucky
    (1107-05-302)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    General permutahedra.
    Geir Agnarsson*, George Mason University
    (1107-05-215)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Data Assimilation: Recent Progress in Theory, Methods and Applications, I
  Room 108, Bunn, ICC (Intercultural Center)
  Organizers:
  Evelyn M. Lunasin, United States Naval Academy lunasin@usna.edu
  Reza Malek-Madani, United States Naval Academy
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A Bimodality Trap in Model Projections.
    Christopher Jones*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Naratip Santitissadeekorn, University of Surrey
    (1107-15-300)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Local Method to Hybrid Data Assimilation.
    Kayo Ide*, University of Maryland
    (1107-60-266)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Ensemble filtering and low-resolution model error: Covariance inflation, stochastic parameterization, and model numerics.
    Ian Grooms*, New York University, Courant Institute
    Yoonsang Lee, New York University, Courant Institute
    Andrew J Majda, New York University, Courant Institute
    (1107-86-249)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Difference Equations and Applications, I
  Room 101, Bunn, ICC (Intercultural Center)
  Organizers:
  Michael Radin, Rochester Institute of Technology marsma@rit.edu
  Steven J. Miller, Williams College
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    From the Kentucky Sequence to Benford's Law through Zeckendorf Decompositions.
    Steven Miller*, Williamstown
    Minerva Catral, Xavier
    Pari Ford, University of Nebraska at Kearney
    Pamela Harris, USMA
    Dawn Nelson, Saint Peters University
    (1107-39-140)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    This Fibonacci Quilt Sequence.
    Pari L Ford*, University of Nebraska at Kearney
    Minerva Catral, Xavier University
    Pamela Harris, Unites States Military Academy
    Steven J Miller, Williams College
    Dawn Nelson, Saint Peter's University
    (1107-39-444)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Global Stability and Periodic Solutions for a Second Order Rational Equation.
    Nika Lazaryan*, Virginia Commonwealth University
    Hassan Sedaghat, Virginia Commonwealth University
    (1107-39-243)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Global Dynamics of Discrete Planar Systems that Model Stage-structured Populations.
    H. Sedaghat*, Virginia Commonwealth University
    N. Lazaryan, Virginia Commonwealth University
    (1107-39-128)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Existence of bounded solutions for almost linear Volterra difference equations using fixed point theory and Lyapunov functionals.
    Youssef Naim Raffoul*, University of Dayton
    Ernest Yankson, University of Cape Coast, Ghana
    (1107-39-71)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A generalized almost periodicity notion for functions on hybrid domains.
    Murat Adivar*, Izmir University of Economics
    (1107-39-50)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Structures on Low-Dimensional Manifolds and their Invariants, I
  Room 206, White-Gravenor Hall
  Organizers:
  Cagatay Kutluhan, University at Buffalo
  Thomas E. Mark, University of Virginia tmark@virginia.edu
  Bulent Tosun, University of Virginia
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Approximating taut foliations.
    William H. Kazez, University of Georgia
    Rachel Roberts*, Washington University in St Louis
    (1107-57-411)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Tori in contact 3-manifolds.
    John Etnyre*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Bulent Tosun, University of Virginia
    (1107-57-351)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Contact topology and reducible surgeries.
    Tye Lidman*, University of Texas at Austin
    Steven Sivek, Princeton University
    (1107-57-197)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Knots Transverse to a Vector Field.
    Patricia Cahn*, University of Pennsylvania
    Vladimir Chernov, Dartmouth College
    (1107-57-492)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Fluid Dynamics and Turbulence, I
  Room 106, Bunn, ICC (Intercultural Center)
  Organizers:
  Zachary Bradshaw, University of British Columbia zbradshaw@math.ubc.ca
  Aseel Farhat, Indiana University
  Michele Coti Zelati, University of Maryland
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Scaling vs. dynamics in the 3D NSE.
    Zachary Bradshaw, Department of Mathematics, The University of British Columbia
    Zoran Grujic*, Department of Mathematics, University of Virginia
    (1107-76-103)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Enstrophy Cascade in Physical Scales for the 3D Navier-Stokes Equations.
    Keith Leitmeyer*, University of Virginia
    (1107-35-168)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Lower Bounds for Sobolev Norms of Potential Blow Up Solutions to the Three-dimensional Navier-Stokes Equations.
    Alexey Cheskidov, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Karen Zaya*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1107-35-247)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Ergodicity results for stochastic Boussinesq equations.
    Juraj Foldes, Universite Libre de Bruxelles
    Nathan Glatt-Holtz, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    Geordie Richards*, University of Rochester
    Enrique Thomann, Oregon State University
    (1107-35-418)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Onsager's Conjecture.
    Tristan Buckmaster*, Courant Institute, New York University
    (1107-35-262)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Operator Theory on Analytic Function Spaces, I
  Room 103, Reiss Hall
  Organizers:
  Robert F. Allen, University of Wisconsin, La Cross
  Flavia Colonna, George Mason University fcolonna@gmu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Extremal Problems in Bergman spaces.
    Pritha Chakraborty*, Texas Tech University
    Alexander Yu. Solynin, Texas Tech University
    (1107-30-14)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Hyperbolic distortion, finite Blaschke products and uniform local univalence.
    Nina Zorboska*, University of Manitoba
    (1107-47-399)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Closed range composition operators on Hilbert function spaces.
    Pratibha Ghatage, Cleveland State University
    Maria Tjani*, University of Arkansas
    (1107-47-211)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Adjoints of linear fractional composition operators on weighted Hardy spaces.
    Zeljko Cuckovic, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
    Trieu Le*, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
    (1107-47-187)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Eigenvalues of Adjoints of Certain Composition Operators on the Hardy Space.
    Maria Neophytou*, Belmont University
    (1107-47-316)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Spectra of Composition Operators with Symbols in $\mathcal{S}(2)$.
    Paul S. Bourdon*, University of Virginia
    (1107-47-357)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Optimization Theory, Algorithms and Applications, I
  Room 262, Reiss Hall
  Organizers:
  Olga Brezhneva, Miami University, Oxford, OH
  Igor Griva, George Mason University igriva@gmu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Common fixed points of three contractive-like operators by a three-step iterative algorithm.
    Safeer Hussain Khan*, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics, Qatar University, Doha 2713, State of Qatar.
    Fukhar ud-din Hafiz, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia
    (1107-47-6)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Techniques for Gomory and Johnson's "Infinite Group" Problem.
    Amitabh Basu*, Johns Hopkins University
    Robert Hildebrand, ETH Zurich
    Matthias Koeppe, University of California, Davis
    (1107-90-229)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Dynamic Optimization on Infinite-Dimensional Manifolds.
    Yuri Ledyaev*, Department of Mathematics, Western Michigan University
    Robert Kipka, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Queens University
    (1107-49-495)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Practical Challenges in Using Multilevel Optimization.
    Stephen G Nash*, George Mason University
    (1107-90-189)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Optimal control of Magnetic Nanoparticles.
    Harbir Antil, Department of Mathematical Sciences, George Mason University
    Ricardo Nochetto, Department of Mathematics and Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland College Park
    Pablo Venegas*, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742, USA
    (1107-49-92)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Optimality conditions for irregular nonlinear programming problems.
    Olga Brezhneva*, Miami University
    Alexey Tret'yakov, University of Podlasie in Siedlce, Poland
    (1107-90-341)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Quantum Algebras, Representations, and Categorifications, I
  Room 211, White-Gravenor Hall
  Organizers:
  Sean Clark, University of Virginia sic5ag@virginia.edu
  Weiqiang Wang, University of Virginia
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Kirillov-Reshetikhin modules, Macdonald polynomials, and categorification.
    Cristian Lenart*, State University of New York at Albany
    Satoshi Naito, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
    Daisuke Sagaki, University of Tsukuba, Japan
    Anne Schilling, University of California Davis
    Mark Shimozono, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
    (1107-17-479)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Yangians, quantum loop algebras and elliptic quantum groups.
    Valerio Toledano Laredo*, Northeastern University
    (1107-17-477)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A diagrammatic categorification of quantum sl(1,1) via contact topology.
    Yin Tian*, Simons center for geometry and physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook
    (1107-18-208)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Braid group actions and Heisenberg categorification.
    Joshua Sussan*, CUNY
    (1107-16-396)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A New Year Resolution.
    You Qi*, Yale University
    (1107-16-278)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Uniqueness (or lack thereof) for categorical modules.
    Ben Webster*, University of Virginia
    (1107-18-195)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Somos Sequences and Nonlinear Recurrences, I
  Room 105, Bunn, ICC (Intercultural Center)
  Organizers:
  Andrew Vogt, Georgetown University vogta@georgetown.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Laurent Phenomenon Sequences.
    Joshua Alman*, Stanford University
    Cesar Cuenca, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Jiaoyang Huang, Harvard University
    (1107-05-421)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Riordan arrays and Catalan numbers as a source of Somos sequences.
    Paul Barry*, Waterford Institute of Technology
    (1107-40-507)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Robbins $p$-adic stability for Somos sequences.
    Joe Buhler*, Center for Communications Research, La Jolla
    (1107-13-488)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Sufficient conditions for integrality of sequences produced by a certain non-homogeneous non-linear family of recurrences.
    Emilie Hogan*, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    (1107-11-56)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Condensation Approach to Enumerating Cyclically Symmetric Plane Partitions.
    Eric H. Kuo*, The MathWorks
    (1107-05-260)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Integrality of Terms in Somos Sequences.
    K. J. Mourad*, Georgetown University
    (1107-11-503)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Topology in Biology, I
  Room 204, White-Gravenor Hall
  Organizers:
  Paul Kainen, Georgetown University kainen@georgetown.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Topological and geometric symmetries of knotted molecules.
    Erica Flapan*, Pomona College
    (1107-92-31)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Tangle analysis of protein-DNA complexes.
    Isabel K. Darcy*, University of Iowa
    (1107-92-77)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Clique topology reveals intrinsic geometric structure in neural correlations.
    Carina Curto*, Penn State
    (1107-92-333)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Session on Session for Contributed Papers, I
  Room 209, Regents Hall
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Ultraproducts of Computable Structures and Diagonailization: Skolem's Legacy.
    K J Mourad*, Georgetown University
    (1107-03-32)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    A generalized graph metric for mitigating cyber attacks.
    Emilie Hogan*, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    John R Johnson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    (1107-68-28)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Strong Matching Preclusion of Burnt Pancake Graphs.
    Eddie Cheng, Oakland University
    Justin Kelm, Oakland University
    Roi Orzach*, Oakland University
    Brian Xu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1107-05-52)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Fault-Tolerant Hamiltonian Connectivity of 2-Tree Generated Networks.
    Mohamad Abdallah*, Oakland University
    Eddie Cheng, Oakland University
    (1107-05-232)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Self-dual embeddings of $K_{4m,4n}$ in pseudosurfaces.
    Steven Schluchter*, George Mason University
    Justin Z Schroeder, George Mason University
    (1107-05-398)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Relationship between the energy of a directed graph and the energy of its underlying graph.
    Nafiseh Jahanbakht*, University of Central Oklahoma
    Kourosh Tavakoli, Oklahoma City University
    (1107-05-496)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    $M$-sequences, the Fibonacci sequence, and integer partitions.
    Tom Enkosky*, U.S. Coast Guard Academy
    Branden Stone, Adelphi University
    (1107-05-410)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Efficient Covering Systems of Congruences and Perfect Powers Riesel Numbers.
    William Kang*, Bergen County Academies, Hackensack, NJ 07601
    (1107-11-148)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Gaussian Behavior of Generalized Zeckendorf Decompositions over Small Scales.
    Patrick Joseph Dynes*, Clemson University
    Brian J McDonald, University of Rochester
    Kimsy Tor, Manhattan College
    (1107-11-481)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    New Summation Series Form Presenting Mathematical Permutations and Combinations for Powerful Parallel Computing.
    Mohamed Hanafy Sayed Radwan*, Mentor Graphics Corporation, Cairo Site, Egypt
    (1107-05-16)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Session on Session for Contributed Papers, II
  Room 284, Reiss Hall
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Using Utility Theory for Academic Grouping of Students.
    Sarah E. Geiger*, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
    Eric T. MacCallum, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
    Gayan Warahena Liyanage, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
    Suzanne Z. Smedberg, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
    (1107-90-391)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Teaching in College without Calculator.
    Mulugeta Markos*, Atlanta Metropolitan State College
    (1107-97-102)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The zeros of linear recurring sequences over finite fields.
    Yasanthi Kottegoda*, University of New Haven
    (1107-12-165)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Matrix Algebras: Equivalent Ring Relations and Special Presentations.
    Samuel Mendelson*, George Mason University
    Geir Agnarsson, George Mason University
    (1107-16-382)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A Daniell-Stone characterization for Aumann integrals.
    Cagin Ararat*, Princeton University
    Birgit Rudloff, Princeton University
    (1107-28-29)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Variable Exponent Bergman Spaces.
    Gerardo R Chacon*, Gallaudet University
    (1107-30-368)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On Properties of Conformal-Like Metrics.
    Kourosh Tavakoli*, Oklahoma City University
    (1107-30-493)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Construction of Duality between Boolean Rings and Relatively Complemented Distributive Lattices with least elements.
    Seblework Molalign Alefe*, Dilla
    Meron Dessalegn Abate, Dilla
    (1107-00-145)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Construction of the Duality between Boolean Rings and locally compact totally disconnected topological spaces with compact open bases.
    Meron Dessalegn Abate*, Dilla
    Seblework Molalign Abebe, Dilla
    (1107-00-146)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Cubic Spline interpolation with some of its Applications.
    Wondwosen Gebeyaw Melesse*, Dilla University
    (1107-65-150)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebra and Representation Theory, I
  Room 201A, White-Gravenor Hall
  Organizers:
  Ela Celikbas, University of Connecticut
  Olgur Celikbas, University of Connecticut
  Frank Moore, Wake Forest University moorewf@wfu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Gorenstein projectives and Gorenstein flats.
    Greg Piepmeyer*, Columbia Basin College
    (1107-13-287)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Nilpotent matrices having a given Jordan type as maximum commuting nilpotent orbit.
    Anthony Iarrobino, Northeastern University
    Leila Khatami*, Union College
    Bart Van Steirteghem, Medgar Evers College
    Rui Zhao, University of Missouri, Columbia
    (1107-15-110)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Some Algebras Similar to the $2\times 2$ Jordanian Matrix Algebra.
    Jason Gaddis*, Wake Forest University
    Kenneth L. Price, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
    (1107-16-389)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Betti categories.
    A. Tchernev*, University at Albany, SUNY
    M. Varisco, University at Albany, SUNY
    (1107-13-434)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Macaulay-Lex Rings and the Hilbert Functions of Colored Quotient Rings.
    Kai Fong Ernest Chong*, Cornell University
    (1107-13-242)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Structures Motivated by and Applied to Knot Theory, I
  Room 202, White-Gravenor Hall
  Organizers:
  Jozef H. Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@gwu.edu
  Radmilla Sazdanovic, North Carolina State University
  Alexander N. Shumakovitch, George Washington University
  Hao Wu, George Washington University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Effectiveness of transverse knot invariants.
    Lenhard Ng*, Duke University
    (1107-57-212)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Triangular surfaces with Latin quandle actions.
    Masahico Saito*, University of South Florida
    (1107-57-184)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Torsion subgroups of rack homology groups of some finite quandles.
    Seung Yeop Yang*, The George Washington University
    Jozef H. Przytycki, The George Washington University
    (1107-57-408)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Heegaard-Floer homology of algebraic links.
    Evgeny Gorskiy*, Columbia University
    Andras Nemethi, Renyi Mathematical Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
    (1107-14-219)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Bases and Frames in Hilbert Spaces and Applications, I
  Room 117, Bunn, ICC (Intercultural Center)
  Organizers:
  Laura De Carli, Florida International University decarlil@fiu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Density of frames and spectra.
    Alex Iosevich*, University of Rochester
    Steen Pedersen, Wright State University
    Yang Wang, Hong-Kong University of Science and Technology
    (1107-42-335)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Frames of exponentials on small sets.
    Jean-Pierre Gabardo*, McMaster University
    Chun-Kit Lai, San Francisco State University
    (1107-42-214)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Tiling the line by affine shifts of a prototile.
    Darrin Speegle*, Saint Louis University
    Robert Steward, Saint Louis University
    (1107-42-437)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Parseval-frames in Hilbert spaces over infinite networks of resistors.
    Palle E.T. Jorgensen*, University of Iowa
    (1107-46-73)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Closure Operations in Commutative Algebra, I
  Room 208, White-Gravenor Hall
  Organizers:
  Neil Epstein, George Mason University nepstei2@gmu.edu
  Lance Edward Miller, University of Arkansas
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Hilbert-Kunz multiplicity of products of ideals.
    Javid Validashti*, Cleveland State University
    Neil Epstein, George Mason University
    (1107-13-422)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On generalized Hilbert-Kunz multiplicities.
    Adela Vraciu*, University of South Carolina
    (1107-13-240)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Cohen-Macaulay cone and an application in positive characteristic.
    C-Y. Jean Chan*, Central Michigan University
    Kazuhiko Kurano, Meiji University
    (1107-13-426)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Closures That Give Big Cohen-Macaulay Modules and Algebras, and Smallest Closures.
    Rebecca R.G.*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (1107-13-356)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A bijection in prime characteristic algebra.
    George E Whelan*, George Mason University
    (1107-13-453)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Iterated Integrals and Applications, I
  Room 281, Reiss Hall
  Organizers:
  Ivan Horozov, Washington University in St. Louis horozov@math.wustl.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Iterated Integrals in Control and Feedback Transformations.
    Matthias Kawski*, Arizona State University
    (1107-93-111)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Combinatorial algebras for iterated integrals in nonlinear control theory.
    W. Steven Gray*, Old Dominion University
    (1107-93-144)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Input-output operators with non-commutative iterated integrals.
    Luis A Duffaut Espinosa*, George Mason University
    (1107-93-167)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    When does a group have a Taylor expansion?
    Dror Bar-Natan*, University of Toronto
    (1107-20-349)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Dispersive and Wave Equations with Applications to Fluids, I
  Room 102, Bunn, ICC (Intercultural Center)
  Organizers:
  Pierre Germain, New York University
  Zaher Hani, New York University hani@cims.nyu.edu
  Benoit Pausader, Princeton University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    On the existence of global solutions of certain fluid models in low dimensions.
    Alexandru D. Ionescu*, Princeton University
    (1107-76-284)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Capillary water waves in 2d.
    Fabio Pusateri*, Princeton University
    (1107-35-136)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Global solutions to $3D$ Klein-Gordon systems.
    Yu Deng*, Princeton University
    (1107-35-185)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Global infinite energy solutions for the 2D gravity water waves system.
    Xuecheng Wang*, Princeton University
    (1107-35-178)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations in Sciences and Engineering, I
  Room 104, Bunn, ICC (Intercultural Center)
  Organizers:
  Lorena Bociu, North Carolina State University lvbociu@ncsu.edu
  Ciprian Gal, Florida International University
  Daniel Toundykov, University of Nebraska
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Averaging of a multi-layer quasi-geostrophic equations with oscillating external forces.
    Theodore Tachim Medjo*, Florida International University
    (1107-35-402)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Panel flutter: Asymptotic-in-time regularity or uniform-in-time Hadamard continuity.
    Justin T Webster*, North Carolina State University; College of Charleston
    Irena Lasiecka, University of Memphis
    (1107-35-109)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Global Wellposedness and Uniform Stability of a Quasilinear Thermo-elastic PDE system.
    Xiang Wan*, Ph.D student, Department of Mathematics, University of Virginia
    Irena Lasiecka, Distinguished University Professor and Chair, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Memphis
    (1107-35-228)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Attractors for Damped Semilinear Wave Equations with a Robin--Acoustic Boundary Perturbation.
    Sergio P. Frigeri, Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics
    Joseph L. Shomberg*, Providence College
    (1107-35-119)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The decay study of Moore-Gibson-Thompson(MGT) equation with memory.
    Irena Lasiecka, University of Memphis
    Xiaojun Wang*, University of Memphis
    (1107-35-365)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Number Theory in Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, I
  Room 103, Bunn, ICC (Intercultural Center)
  Organizers:
  Joe Herning, Northern Virginia Community College
  Erblin Mehmetaj, George Washington University and Georgetown University erblinm@gwmail.gwu.edu
  E. Arthur Robinson Jr., George Washington University
  Tyler White, Northern Virginia Community College
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    A Minimal Subsystem of the Kari Culik Tilings.
    Jason Siefken*, University of Victoria
    (1107-00-256)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Strong shift equivalence and algebraic K-theory.
    Scott Schmieding*, University of Maryland
    Mike Boyle, University of Maryland
    (1107-37-400)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Group extensions for shifts of finite type: K-theory, Parry and Livsic.
    Mike Boyle*, University of Maryland
    Scott Schmieding, University of Maryland
    (1107-37-478)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Dynamical Classification of Primitive Constant Length Substitutions.
    Michael Sylvester Keane*, Wesleyan University, Delft University of Technology, Leiden University
    (1107-37-154)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Sequences with long range exclusions.
    Kari V Eloranta*, Department of Mathematics, Aalto University, Finland
    (1107-37-206)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Patterns in Permutations and Words, I
  Room 283, Reiss Hall
  Organizers:
  Alexander Burstein, Howard University aburstein@howard.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Wilf-classification for vincular patterns.
    Andrew M Baxter*, Pennsylvania State University
    (1107-05-143)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On two recent conjectures involving permutation patterns and statistics.
    Jonathan Bloom*, Rutgers University
    (1107-05-250)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Depth for signed permutations.
    Alexander Woo*, University of Idaho
    (1107-05-340)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Equivalence of Words in the Generalized Factor Order.
    Brian Miceli, Trinity University
    Jay Pantone*, University of Florida
    Vincent Vatter, University of Florida
    (1107-05-449)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Patterns in Young tableaux of rectangular shape.
    Jefffrey Remmel B. Remmel*, Department of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego
    Ran Pan, Department of Mathematics, University of California, San Diego
    (1107-05-366)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Qualitative Behavior of Solutions of Partial Differential Equations, I
  Room 116, Bunn, ICC (Intercultural Center)
  Organizers:
  Junping Shi, College of William and Mary
  Jiuyi Zhu, John Hopkins University jzhu43@math.jhu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Long time existence for magnetic nonlinear Schrödinger equations.
    Shijun Zheng*, Georgia Southern University
    (1107-35-319)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    One-dimensional symmetry for some nonlinear problems on the torus.
    Marcello Lucia*, College of Staten Island
    (1107-35-344)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Sharp singular Trudinger-Moser inequality with exact growth and its extremals..
    Nguyen Lam, Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh
    Guozhen Lu, Department of Mathematics, Wayne State University
    Lu Zhang*, Department of Mathematics, Wayne State University
    (1107-35-322)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The impact of the domain boundary on an inhibitory system: existence and location of a half disc stationary set.
    Xiaofeng Ren*, George Washington University
    David Shoup, George Washington University
    (1107-82-94)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Elliptic Systems of Schrödinger type with quadratic nonlinearities.
    Leiga Zhao, Beijing University of Chemical Technology
    Fukun Zhao, Yunnan Normal University
    Junping Shi*, College of William and Mary
    (1107-35-352)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Within-Host Disease Modeling, I
  Room 109, Regents Hall
  Organizers:
  Stanca Ciupe, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
  Sivan Leviyang, Georgetown University sr286@georgetown.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Statistical and computational approaches to microbiome analyses.
    Keith A Crandall*, George Washington University
    (1107-92-138)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Viral evolution in heterogeneous host environments.
    Alison L Hill*, Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
    Stefany Moreno-Gamez, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies, University of Groningen, Groningen, 9747 AG, Netherlands
    Daniel IS Rosenbloom, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
    Mark Freeman, Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
    Pleuni Pennings, Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA 94132, USA
    Martin A Nowak, Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
    (1107-92-225)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Computational modeling of mechanisms underlying immune responses to Helicobacter pylori.
    Raquel Hontecillas, Nutritional Immunology & Molecular Medicine Lab, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24060
    Monica Viladomiu, Nutritional Immunology & Molecular Medicine Lab, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24060
    Vida Abedi, Nutritional Immunology & Molecular Medicine Lab, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24060
    Casandra Philipson, Nutritional Immunology & Molecular Medicine Lab, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24060
    Stefan Hoops, Nutritional Immunology & Molecular Medicine Lab, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24060
    Josep Bassaganya-Riera*, Nutritional Immunology & Molecular Medicine Lab, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24060
    (1107-34-472)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Simple mathematical models do not accurately predict early SIV dynamics.
    Cecilia Noecker, University of Washington
    Krista Schaefer, Valparaiso University
    Kelly Zaccheo, University of Scranton
    Yiding Yang, University of Tennessee
    Judy Day, University of Tennessee
    Vitaly V Ganusov*, University of Tennessee
    (1107-92-70)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The regulatory effect of microRNAs on the DNA mismatch repair pathway.
    Claus T Kadelka*, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute & Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech
    Seda Arat, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute & Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech
    Ross Donatelli, Florida Institute of Technology
    Marschall Furman, North Carolina State University
    Madeleine Weinstein, Harvey Mudd College
    Chris Heinen, University of Connecticut Health Center
    Reinhard Laubenbacher, University of Connecticut Health Center
    (1107-92-430)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Dynamical Systems Models of Physiological Processes, I
  Room 104, Healy Hall
  Organizers:
  Paula Grajdeanu, Shenandoah University pgrajdea@su.edu
  Talitha Washington, Howard University
  Abdul-Aziz Yakubu, Howard University
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Understanding Lamprey Locomotion.
    Kathleen A Hoffman*, UMBC
    Nicole Massarelli, UMBC
    Christina Hamlet, Tulane University
    Eric Tytell, Tufts University
    Tim Kiemel, UMCP
    (1107-37-373)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Malaria Incidence and Anopheles Mosquito Density in Irrigated and Adjacent Non-Irrigated Villages of Niono in Mali.
    Moussa Doumbia*, Howard University
    (1107-37-76)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Initiation of intracellular calcium spiral waves in a stochastic fire-diffuse-fire model.
    Zana A Coulibaly*, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
    Matthias K Gobbert, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
    Bradford E Peercy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
    (1107-92-471)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    An Examination of Social Migration within a Cholera Outbreak.
    Evelyn Kamaria Thomas*, UMBC
    Jonathan Bell, UMBC
    (1107-37-465)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on History and Philosophy of Mathematics, I
  Room 239, Regents Hall
  Organizers:
  V. Frederick Rickey, West Point Military Academy
  James J. Tattersall, Providence College TAT@providence.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Training Women in Mathematical Research: The First Fifty Years of Bryn Mawr College (1885-1935).
    Karen V. H. Parshall*, University of Virginia
    (1107-01-82)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Who's Anna? Burying Mathematics Books in order to Remember the Civil War Dead at Nineteenth-Century New England Colleges.
    Andrew Fiss*, Michigan Technological University
    (1107-01-377)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    International Influences on American Mathematicians, 1750--1850.
    Amy Ackerberg-Hastings*, University of Maryland University College
    (1107-01-33)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Inverse Problems for Non-destructive Testing, I
  Room 115, Bunn, ICC (Intercultural Center)
  Organizers:
  Nicolas Valdivia, Naval Research Laboratory nicolas.valdivia@nrl.navy.mil
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Transmission Eigenvalues for Spherically Stratified Media.
    David Colton*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware
    (1107-34-176)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Qualitative Approach to the Inverse Scattering Problem for Inhomogeneous Media.
    Fioralba Cakoni*, University of Delaware
    (1107-35-191)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Singularities: Algebraic and Analytic Aspects, I
  Room 213, White-Gravenor Hall
  Organizers:
  Claudia Miller, Syracuse University
  Sophia Vassiliadou, Georgetown University sv46@georgetown.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Hodge Cohomology of Cheeger spaces.
    Pierre Albin*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Eric Leichtnam, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu
    Paolo Piazza, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza"
    Rafe Mazzeo, Stanford University
    (1107-58-196)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A New Invariant for 1-dimensional Hypersurface Singularities.
    David B. Massey*, Northeastern University
    (1107-32-239)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Stochastic Analysis and Stochastic PDEs, I
  Room 118, Bunn, ICC (Intercultural Center)
  Organizers:
  Sandra Cerrai, University of Maryland cerrai@math.umd.edu
  Frederi Viens, Purdue University
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Inviscid limits for a stochastically forced shell model of turbulent flow.
    Susan Friedlander, USC
    Nathan Glatt-Holtz, Virginia Tech
    Vlad Vicol*, Princeton University
    (1107-35-296)
  • 9:30 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
    (1107-60-310)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Sequential Monte Carlo with Parameter Learning for Long-Memory Processes.
    Alexandra Chronopoulou*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1107-60-466)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Pattern formation in the stochastic Swift-Hohenberg equation with delay.
    Chia Ying Lee*, University of British Columbia
    Rachel Kuske, University of British Columbia
    Vivi Rottschafer, Leiden University
    (1107-60-53)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 11:05 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  Invited Address
  TALK CANCELLED
  Lohrfink Auditorium, Hariri Hall
  Yitang Zhang*, University of New Hampshire
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebra and Representation Theory, II
  Room 201A, White-Gravenor Hall
  Organizers:
  Ela Celikbas, University of Connecticut
  Olgur Celikbas, University of Connecticut
  Frank Moore, Wake Forest University moorewf@wfu.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    The More I Think of Hilbert...
    David A. Buchsbaum*, Department of Mathematics, Brandeis University
    (1107-13-46)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Examples of rings that do not have any non-free totally reflexive modules.
    Adela Vraciu*, University of South Carolina
    (1107-13-241)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Generalized Auslander-Reiten Condition for $n$-Symmetric Algebras.
    Maciej Karpicz, Nicolaus Copernicus University
    Marju Purin*, St. Olaf College
    (1107-16-205)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Almost Gorenstein rings of higher dimension.
    Naoki Taniguchi*, Meiji University
    (1107-13-149)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Decomposing Gorenstein rings as connected sums.
    H Ananthnarayan*, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
    Ela Celikbas, University of Connecticut
    Zheng Yang, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    (1107-13-429)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A Description of the Isomorphism Classes of Totally Reflexive Modules for a Class of non-Gorenstein Rings.
    Denise A. Rangel Tracy*, Syracuse University
    (1107-13-132)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Structures Motivated by and Applied to Knot Theory, II
  Room 202, White-Gravenor Hall
  Organizers:
  Jozef H. Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@gwu.edu
  Radmilla Sazdanovic, North Carolina State University
  Alexander N. Shumakovitch, George Washington University
  Hao Wu, George Washington University
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Khovanov homology and the Burnside category.
    Tyler Lawson, University of Minnesota
    Robert Lipshitz, Columbia University
    Sucharit Sarkar*, Princeton University
    (1107-57-129)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Homology of Small Categories and Its Applications to Quiver Cohomology.
    Jing Wang*, George Washington University
    Jozef H. Przytycki, George Washington University
    (1107-57-401)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Planar algebra structure in bordered Khovanov homology.
    Nguyen D Duong*, The University of Alabama
    Lawrence P Roberts, The University of Alabama
    (1107-57-22)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Left-orderability and cyclic branched coverings.
    Ying Hu*, Louisiana State University
    (1107-57-35)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Skew Howe duality and comparison of knot invariants.
    Ben Webster*, University of Virginia
    (1107-18-194)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 2:00 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Asymptotic Problems for Stochastic Processes and PDEs, II
  Room 120, Bunn, ICC (Intercultural Center)
  Organizers:
  Sandra Cerrai, University of Maryland
  Dmitry Dolgopyat, University of Maryland
  Mark Freidlin, University of Maryland
  Leonid Koralov, University of Maryland koralov@math.umd.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    A simple PDE argument for the logarithmic term in the asymptotics of branching Brownian motion.
    James Nolen*, Duke University
    (1107-35-116)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Conditional Speed of Branching Brownian Motion, Skeleton Decomposition and Application to Random Obstacles.
    Janos Englander*, University of Colorado Boulder
    Mine Caglar, Koc University, Turkey
    Mehmet Oz, Koc University, Turkey and Leiden University, the Netherlands
    (1107-60-51)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Bases and Frames in Hilbert Spaces and Applications, II
  Room 117, Bunn, ICC (Intercultural Center)
  Organizers:
  Laura De Carli, Florida International University decarlil@fiu.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Haar Basis in Spaces of Homogeneous Type.
    David E Weirich*, University of New Mexico
    (1107-43-454)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Dynamical sampling with a constant forcing term.
    Akram Aldroubi, Vanderbilt University
    Keri Kornelson*, University of Oklahoma
    (1107-42-309)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Bases and frames from iterates of operators.
    Akram Aldroubi*, Vanderbilt University
    (1107-47-170)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Structures of minimal scalings in $R^n$.
    Yeonhyang Kim*, Central Michigan University
    Rachel Domagalski, Central Michigan University
    Sivaram K. Narayan, Central Michigan University
    Hong Suh, Pomona College
    Xingyu Zhang, Penn State
    (1107-15-235)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Scalability of a multi-Wilson frame.
    Roza Aceska*, Ball State University
    (1107-42-72)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Characterizing Uncertainty for Modeling Physical Processes, I
  Room 284, Reiss Hall
  Organizers:
  Ali Arab, Georgetown University ali.arab@georgetown.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Model validation of a single degree-of-freedom oscillator: a case study.
    Edward L Boone*, Virginia Commonwealth University
    (1107-62-152)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Mixture of inhomogeneous matrix models for species-rich ecosystems.
    Frédéric Mortier*, CIRAD, UPR B, Montpellier, France
    (1107-62-190)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Sequential Estimation of Dynamic Spatio-Temporal Models.
    Jonathan R Stroud*, George Washington University
    (1107-62-360)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A case study in combining a physical model and experimental measurements for atomic nuclei.
    Dave Higdon*, SDAL, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech University
    (1107-62-446)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Closure Operations in Commutative Algebra, II
  Room 208, White-Gravenor Hall
  Organizers:
  Neil Epstein, George Mason University nepstei2@gmu.edu
  Lance Edward Miller, University of Arkansas
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Test ideals in rings with finitely generated anti-canonical algebras.
    Alberto Chiecchio, University of Arkansas
    Florian Enescu, Georgia State University
    Lance E Miller, University of Arkansas
    Karl Schwede*, University of Utah
    (1107-13-273)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Multiplicities and Łojasiewicz exponents of generic linear sections of ideals.
    Carles Bivià-Ausina*, Universitat Politècnica de València
    (1107-13-188)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A real nullstellensatz with multiplicity.
    James F. McEnerney*, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    (1107-14-68)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Conjectures on Symbolic Powers.
    Louiza Fouli*, New Mexico State University
    Paolo Mantero, University of California, Riverside
    Yu Xie, Penn State Altoona
    (1107-13-442)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Ringed space structures on spaces of valuation rings.
    Bruce Olberding*, New Mexico State University
    (1107-13-419)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Computable Structure Theory, II
  Room 103, Healy Hall
  Organizers:
  Rumen Dimitrov, Western Illinois University
  Valentina Harizanov, George Washington University harizanv@gwu.edu
  Russell Miller, Queens College and Graduate Center, City University of New York
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Definability and index sets of computable models.
    Sergey S. Goncharov*, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics and Novosibirsk State University
    (1107-03-151)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Isomorphism notions restricted to particular classes of structures.
    Barbara Csima*, University of Waterloo
    Keng Meng (Selwyn) Ng, Nanyang Technological University
    (1107-03-409)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Computable functors and effective interpretability.
    Matthew Harrison-Trainor*, University of California, Berkeley
    Alexander Melnikov, University of California, Berkeley
    Russell Miller, Queens College - City University of New York
    Antonio Montalbán, University of California, Berkeley
    (1107-03-371)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Spaces of orderings of computable groups.
    Jennifer C Chubb*, University of San Francisco
    (1107-03-326)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Conceptual Mathematical Models in Climate Science, I
  Room 209, Regents Hall
  Organizers:
  Hans Engler, Georgetown University engler@georgetown.edu
  Hans Kaper, Georgetown University
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Introduction to Conceptual Mathematical Climate Models.
    Hans G Kaper*, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057, USA
    Hans P Engler, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057
    (1107-86-394)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    New Budyko-type models of a slushball Earth.
    James Walsh*, Oberlin College
    Christopher Rackauckas, University of California--Irvine
    (1107-34-142)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Temperature Dependence of Feedbacks and Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity.
    Jonah Bloch-Johnson*, University of Chicago
    Raymond T Pierrehumbert, University of Chicago
    (1107-86-423)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Smooth and Nonsmooth Bifurcation Structures in an Ocean Convection Model.
    Juliann Leifeld*, University of Minnesota
    (1107-34-483)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Lorenz '96 Model with Spatial Inhomogeneities.
    Hans P Engler, Georgetown University, Washington DC 20057
    John Kerin*, Georgetown University, Washington DC 20057
    (1107-86-456)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Convexity and Combinatorics, II
  Room 264, Reiss Hall
  Organizers:
  Jim Lawrence, George Mason University
  Valeriu Soltan, George Mason University vsoltan@gmu.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Ehrhart positivity for generalized permutohedra.
    Fu Liu*, University of California, Davis
    Federico Castillo, University of California, Davis
    (1107-05-130)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Colorful Polytopes, Associahedra and Cyclohedra.
    Egon Schulte*, Northeastern University
    (1107-52-121)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Contractions of Polygons in Abstract Polytopes.
    Ilya Scheidwasser*, Northeastern University
    (1107-52-30)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Characterizations of Cyclic Polytopes.
    T. Bisztriczky*, University of Calgary
    (1107-52-61)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Chains of Antiprisms.
    Jim Lawrence*, George Mason University
    (1107-52-416)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 2:00 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Data Assimilation: Recent Progress in Theory, Methods and Applications, II
  Room 108, Bunn, ICC (Intercultural Center)
  Organizers:
  Evelyn M. Lunasin, United States Naval Academy lunasin@usna.edu
  Reza Malek-Madani, United States Naval Academy
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    A Data Assimilation Algorithm for the Bénard Convection Model and Other Models of Turbulence.
    Aseel Farhat*, Indiana University Bloomington
    Michael S. Jolly, Indiana University Bloomington
    Edriss S. Titi, Texas A&M University
    (1107-76-321)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Data assimilation challenges: predicting weather and climate on intraseasonal time scales.
    Bradford S Barrett*, U.S. Naval Academy
    (1107-86-60)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Difference Equations and Applications, II
  Room 101, Bunn, ICC (Intercultural Center)
  Organizers:
  Michael Radin, Rochester Institute of Technology marsma@rit.edu
  Steven J. Miller, Williams College
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Periodic & Eventually periodic solutions of piecewise and max type difference equations.
    Michael A. Radin*, Rochester Institute of Technology
    (1107-39-406)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Piecewise-Defined Difference Equations: Open Problem.
    Candace M. Kent*, Virginia Commonwealth University
    (1107-39-358)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A numerical study of eventual periodicity of the Korteweg-de Vries type equation using sinc collocation method.
    Muhammad Usman*, University of Dayton
    Nicholas Haynes, Duke University
    Kamel Al-khaled, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
    William Schiesser, Lehigh University
    (1107-65-508)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Discrete Model and Mechanical Analog of the n-Bounce Resonance of Solitary Waves.
    Aminur Rahman*, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    (1107-37-98)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Representation of the delta function via the exponential function on a space scale.
    Gro Hovhannisyan*, Kent State University
    (1107-39-100)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Dynamical Systems Models of Physiological Processes, II
  Room 104, Healy Hall
  Organizers:
  Paula Grajdeanu, Shenandoah University pgrajdea@su.edu
  Talitha Washington, Howard University
  Abdul-Aziz Yakubu, Howard University
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Predator-prey-shared resource model in tumor-immune interactions.
    Irina Kareva, Boston MS
    Faina Berezovskaya*, Mathematics Department Howard University Washington DC 20059
    (1107-92-467)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    A stochastic model of the melanopsin phototransduction cascade.
    Kathleen A. Hoffman, Department of Mathematics and Statistics/University of Maryland, Baltimore County
    Hye-Won Kang*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics/University of Maryland, Baltimore County
    Phyllis R. Robinson, Department of Biology/University of Maryland, Baltimore County
    (1107-92-180)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Immune Response to Infection by Leishmania: A Mathematical Model.
    Nourridine Siewe*, Howard University
    Abdul-Aziz Yakubu, Howard University
    Abhay R Satoskar, Ohio State University
    Avner Friedman, Ohio State University
    (1107-34-127)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Mathematical Model of Classically and Alternatively Activated Macrophage Cells.
    Meagan Herald*, Virginia Military Institute
    (1107-92-161)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Intermittent Preventive Treatment (IPT) and the spread of drug resistant malaria.
    Miranda Teboh-Ewungkem, Lehigh University
    Olivia Prosper, Dartmouth College
    Katharine Gurski*, Howard University
    Carrie Manore, Tulane University
    Angela Peace, National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis
    Zhilan Feng, Purdue University
    (1107-92-135)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Structures on Low-Dimensional Manifolds and their Invariants, II
  Room 206, White-Gravenor Hall
  Organizers:
  Cagatay Kutluhan, University at Buffalo
  Thomas E. Mark, University of Virginia tmark@virginia.edu
  Bulent Tosun, University of Virginia
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Knot Floer homology and concordance.
    Jennifer Hom*, Columbia University
    (1107-57-315)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Obstructions to Lagrangian concordance.
    Christopher R Cornwell, Université du Québec à Montréal
    Lenhard Ng, Duke University
    Steven Sivek*, Princeton University
    (1107-57-320)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Cylindrical Contact Homology: An Abridged Retrospective.
    Jo Nelson*, IAS and Columbia University
    Michael Hutchings, UC Berkeley
    (1107-53-38)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Abelian Gauge Theory and Khovanov Homology.
    Aliakbar Daemi*, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics
    (1107-58-494)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The quilted Atiyah-Floer conjecture and the Yang-Mills heat flow.
    David L Duncan*, Michigan State University
    (1107-53-307)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on History and Philosophy of Mathematics, II
  Room 239, Regents Hall
  Organizers:
  V. Frederick Rickey, West Point Military Academy
  James J. Tattersall, Providence College TAT@providence.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    The Role of Third Millennium Metrology in the Development of the Mesopotamian Sexagesimal Place-Value System.
    Duncan J. Melville*, St. Lawrence University
    (1107-01-285)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    The Law of the Lever: Archimedes vs. Mach.
    Chris Rorres*, University of Pennsylvania
    (1107-01-66)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Stratification in the American Mathematical Community a Century Ago, Viewed Objectively.
    Peggy Aldrich Kidwell*, Smithsonian Institution
    (1107-01-277)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    More about American Women in Mathematics.
    Judy Green*, Marymount University
    (1107-01-380)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 2:00 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
  Special Session on Inverse Problems for Non-destructive Testing, II
  Room 115, Bunn, ICC (Intercultural Center)
  Organizers:
  Nicolas Valdivia, Naval Research Laboratory nicolas.valdivia@nrl.navy.mil
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    The Factorization Method for a Defective Region in an Anisotropic Material.
    Isaac Harris*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware
    Fioralba Cakoni, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware
    (1107-35-15)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Globally convergent numerical methods for coefficient inverse problems with experimental data.
    Michael Victor Klibanov*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
    (1107-34-12)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Increasing stability in inverse scattering and inverse source problems.
    Victor Isakov*, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, USA
    (1107-35-362)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 2:00 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
  Special Session on Iterated Integrals and Applications, II
  Room 281, Reiss Hall
  Organizers:
  Ivan Horozov, Washington University in St. Louis horozov@math.wustl.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Equivariant holonomy via iterated integrals.
    Thomas - Tradler*, City University of New York - College of Technology
    (1107-16-133)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Iterated integrals for Local Zig-Zag Hochschild Complexes.
    Cheyne Miller*, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY
    (1107-53-283)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Loop Differential K-theory.
    Mahmoud Zeinalian*, Long Island University
    Scott O. Wilson, CUNY, Queens College
    Thomas Tradler, CUNY, NYC College of Technology
    (1107-19-323)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Fluid Dynamics and Turbulence, II
  Room 106, Bunn, ICC (Intercultural Center)
  Organizers:
  Zachary Bradshaw, University of British Columbia zbradshaw@math.ubc.ca
  Aseel Farhat, Indiana University
  Michele Coti Zelati, University of Maryland
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    The vanishing viscosity limit in porous media.
    Anna L Mazzucato*, Penn State University
    Christophe La Cave, Universite' de Paris-Diderot (Paris 7)
    (1107-35-376)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Approximating long time statistical properties of dissipative complex systems.
    Xiaoming Wang*, Florida State University
    (1107-65-397)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A model for studying double exponential growth in the two-dimensional Euler equations.
    Nets Hawk Katz, California Institute of Technology
    Andrew Tapay*, Indiana University
    (1107-35-107)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Navier-Stokes equations in a special Constantin-Chen Gevrey class.
    Animikh Biswas*, University of Maryland Baltimore County
    (1107-76-313)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Numerical analysis of stochastic partial differential equations in fluids.
    Nathan Glatt-Holtz*, Virginia Tech
    (1107-76-226)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Dispersive and Wave Equations with Applications to Fluids, II
  Room 102, Bunn, ICC (Intercultural Center)
  Organizers:
  Pierre Germain, New York University
  Zaher Hani, New York University hani@cims.nyu.edu
  Benoit Pausader, Princeton University
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    The derivation of 1D focusing NLS from 3D quantum many-body evolution.
    Justin Holmer*, Brown University
    Xuwen Chen, Brown University
    (1107-35-332)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Scattering vs. blow-up in the focusing dispersive equations.
    Svetlana Roudenko*, The George Washington University
    (1107-35-329)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The I - method and the radial cubic nonlinear Schrodinger equation in three dimensions.
    Benjamin G Dodson*, Johns Hopkins University
    (1107-35-291)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The lifespan of small data solutions in two dimensional water waves.
    Mihaela Ifrim*, Univeristy of California at Berkeley
    Daniel Tataru, Univeristy of California at Berkeley
    (1107-35-104)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Asymptotic behavior via testing against wave packets.
    Benjamin Harrop-Griffiths*, University of California, Berkeley
    Mihaela Ifrim, University of California, Berkeley
    Daniel Tataru, University of California, Berkeley
    (1107-35-294)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations in Sciences and Engineering, II
  Room 104, Bunn, ICC (Intercultural Center)
  Organizers:
  Lorena Bociu, North Carolina State University lvbociu@ncsu.edu
  Ciprian Gal, Florida International University
  Daniel Toundykov, University of Nebraska
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    From the maximum principle to inverting the future.
    Michael Renardy*, Virginia Tech
    (1107-35-44)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    The phase-field crystal model with a logarithmic nonlinear term.
    Alain Miranville*, Universite de Poitiers
    (1107-35-42)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Scaling and renormalization methods for higher order differential equations.
    Gunduz Caginalp*, Univ of Pittsburgh
    (1107-35-63)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The Pohozaev identity for the regional fractional Laplacian with fractional Neumann type boundary conditions.
    Mahamadi Warma*, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus
    (1107-35-114)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Uniform stabilization to equilibria of a nonlinear fluid structure interaction model.
    Yongjin Lu*, Virginia State University
    (1107-35-24)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Number Theory in Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, II
  Room 103, Bunn, ICC (Intercultural Center)
  Organizers:
  Joe Herning, Northern Virginia Community College
  Erblin Mehmetaj, George Washington University and Georgetown University erblinm@gwmail.gwu.edu
  E. Arthur Robinson Jr., George Washington University
  Tyler White, Northern Virginia Community College
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    On multi-recurrence and families of sets of integers.
    Dominik Kwietniak, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Krakow, Poland
    Jian Li, Shantou University, Shantou, P.R. China
    Piotr Oprocha*, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland
    Xiangdong Ye, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, P.R. China
    (1107-37-367)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Polynomial multiple recurrence over rings of integers.
    Vitaly Bergelson, Ohio State University
    Donald Robertson*, Ohio State University
    (1107-37-255)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Partition regularity over Gaussian integers.
    Wenbo Sun*, Northwestern University
    (1107-00-141)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The Fried average entropy for smooth group actions and connections with algebraic number theory.
    Svetlana Katok*, The Pennsylvania State University
    (1107-37-275)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Computing the entropy of certain $p$-adic dynamical systems.
    Robert L. Benedetto*, Amherst College
    Dvij Bajpai, Amherst College
    Ruqian Chen, University of Illinois
    Edward Kim, Amherst College
    Owen Marschall, Amherst College
    Darius Onul, Amherst College
    Yang Xiao, Brown University
    (1107-37-101)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Optimization Theory, Algorithms and Applications, II
  Room 262, Reiss Hall
  Organizers:
  Olga Brezhneva, Miami University, Oxford, OH
  Igor Griva, George Mason University igriva@gmu.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Cubic Regularization in Quasi-Newton Methods.
    Hande Y Benson*, Drexel University
    David F Shanno, Rutgers University - RUTCOR (Emeritus)
    (1107-90-64)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Interior point methods for sufficient weighted complementarity problems.
    Florian A Potra*, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
    (1107-90-81)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Optimal Inversion Matrices for Inverse Problems.
    Matthias Chung*, Virginia Tech
    Julianne Chung, Virginia Tech
    Dianne O'Leary, University of Maryland, College Park
    (1107-65-55)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Fast Projected Gradient Method for training Support Vector Machines.
    Veronica Bloom, School of Physics, Astronomy, and Computational Sciences, George Mason University
    Igor Griva*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, George Mason University
    Fabio Quijada, Department of Mathematical Sciences, George Mason University
    (1107-49-251)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Patterns in Permutations and Words, II
  Room 283, Reiss Hall
  Organizers:
  Alexander Burstein, Howard University aburstein@howard.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    The Generating Functions Enumerating 12..d-Avoiding Words with r occurrences of each of 1,2, ..., n are D-finite for all d and all r.
    Shalosh B. Ekhad, Rutgers University (NB)
    Doron Zeilberger*, Rutgers University (NB)
    (1107-05-75)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Recent progress on the Noonan-Zeilberger Conjecture.
    Scott Garrabrant*, University of California, Los Angeles
    Igor Pak, University of California, Los Angeles
    (1107-05-490)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A quick method for counting permutations avoiding 4231 and 4123.
    Nathaniel Shar*, Rutgers University
    (1107-05-234)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    An involution on involutions.
    Miklos Bona, University of Florida
    Rebecca Smith*, SUNY Brockport
    (1107-05-443)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Qualitative Behavior of Solutions of Partial Differential Equations, II
  Room 116, Bunn, ICC (Intercultural Center)
  Organizers:
  Junping Shi, College of William and Mary
  Jiuyi Zhu, John Hopkins University jzhu43@math.jhu.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Sharp Moser-Trudinger inequality on hyperbolic spaces and Adams inequality with the exact growth condition.
    Guozhen Lu*, Wayne State University, USA
    Hanli Tang, Beijing Normal University
    Maochun Zhu, Beijing Normal University
    (1107-35-248)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Existence of multiple traveling waves in an isothermal diffusion system with linear decay.
    Yuanwei Qi*, Department of Mathematics, University of Central Florida
    Xinfu Chen, Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh
    YJ Zhang, Department of Mathematics, Shanxi University
    (1107-35-463)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Evaen Symmetry of Axially Symmetric Solutions of the Allen-Cahn Equation.
    Changfeng Gui*, University of Connecticut and NSF
    (1107-35-209)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Some problems related to the sharp Li-Yau type Harnack estimates on Riemannian Manifolds with Negative Curvature.
    Xiangjin Xu*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Binghamton University-SUNY
    (1107-58-292)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Rigidity of scalar curvature and vacuum static spaces.
    Wei Yuan*, Department of Mathematics, UC Santa Cruz
    Jie Qing, Department of Mathematics, UC Santa Cruz
    (1107-53-343)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Quantum Algebras, Representations, and Categorifications, II
  Room 211, White-Gravenor Hall
  Organizers:
  Sean Clark, University of Virginia sic5ag@virginia.edu
  Weiqiang Wang, University of Virginia
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Rigid character tables of affine Hecke algebras.
    Xuhua He*, University of Maryland/HKUST
    (1107-00-126)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Canonical bases arising from quantum symmetric pairs.
    Huanchen Bao*, University of Virginia
    (1107-17-192)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Positivity vs negativity of canonical bases.
    Yiqiang Li*, University at Buffalo, SUNY
    Weiqiang Wang, University of Virginia
    (1107-17-89)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    An elementary approach to monomial and canonical bases of quantum affine $\mathfrak{gl}_n$.
    Chun-Ju Lai*, University of Virginia
    Li Luo, East China Normal University
    (1107-16-213)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Geometric Schur duality of type D.
    Zhaobing Fan*, Kansas State University
    Yiqiang Li, University at Buffalo, SUNY
    (1107-16-304)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Singularities: Algebraic and Analytic Aspects, II
  Room 213, White-Gravenor Hall
  Organizers:
  Claudia Miller, Syracuse University
  Sophia Vassiliadou, Georgetown University sv46@georgetown.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Polynomial growth of Betti sequences over local rings.
    Luchezar L Avramov*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Alexandra Seceleanu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Zheng Yang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1107-13-200)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    An algebraic proof of the Barannikov-Kontsevich theorem.
    Dima Arinkin, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Andrei Caldararu*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Marton Hablicsek, University of Pennsylvania
    (1107-14-379)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Matrix Factorizations and the K-theory of the Milnor Fiber.
    Michael Brown*, University of Nebraska
    (1107-19-67)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 2:00 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Somos Sequences and Nonlinear Recurrences, II
  Room 105, Bunn, ICC (Intercultural Center)
  Organizers:
  Andrew Vogt, Georgetown University vogta@georgetown.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Automated exploration of Somos-like sequences, noncommutative recursions, and the Laurent phenomenon.
    Matthew C Russell*, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    (1107-11-484)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Cryptographic Applications for Somos Sequences.
    R. Wm. Gosper, Los Altos Hills, California
    Hilarie Orman, Purplestreak Inc.
    Rich Schroeppel*, Sandia National Laboratories
    (1107-11-342)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Observations on Somos-4 polynomials.
    Michael Somos*, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
    (1107-11-231)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Spatial Evolutionary Models and Biological Invasions, I
  Room 105, Healy Hall
  Organizers:
  Judith Miller, Georgetown University jrm32@georgetown.edu
  Yuan Lou, Ohio State University
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Evolution of Population over Social Network.
    Min Wang, Department of Mathematics, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
    Wen Zhou, Department of Statistics, Colorado State University
    Zhijun Wu*, Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University
    (1107-92-439)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Fitness gradient flux in evolutionary games: numerical and analytic results.
    Russ deForest, Dept of Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University
    Andrew Belmonte*, Dept of Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University
    (1107-91-489)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Management of invasive allee species.
    David Chan*, VCU
    Derek Johnson, VCU
    Candace Kent, VCU
    (1107-92-237)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Invasion dynamics of competing species: revisiting the red/grey squirrel system with a spatial, stage-structured model.
    Sharon Bewick*, University of Maryland, Department of Biology
    Guoqing Wang, University of Maryland
    Hannah Younes, University of Maryland
    Bingtuan Li, University of Louisville, Department of Mathematics
    William F. Fagan, University of Maryland, Department of Biology
    (1107-92-412)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Modeling Allee Effect on Population Invasion of a Patchy, Heterogeneous Environment.
    Donald L. DeAngelis*, University of Miami
    Bo Zhang, University of Miami
    Wei-Ming Ni, University of Minnesota
    (1107-34-147)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Stochastic Analysis and Stochastic PDEs, II
  Room 118, Bunn, ICC (Intercultural Center)
  Organizers:
  Sandra Cerrai, University of Maryland cerrai@math.umd.edu
  Frederi Viens, Purdue University
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Noise excitability of the stochastic heat equation.
    Eulalia Nualart*, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
    (1107-60-86)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Distribution Free Approach to Stochastic PDEs.
    B. L. Rozovsky*, Brown University, Division of Applied Mathematics
    R. Mikulevicius, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
    (1107-60-363)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Stochastic heat equation with rough multiplicative noise.
    David Nualart*, University of Kansas
    (1107-60-435)
  • 4:00 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
    (1107-60-427)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Topology in Biology, II
  Room 204, White-Gravenor Hall
  Organizers:
  Paul Kainen, Georgetown University kainen@georgetown.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Bipartite Communities.
    Matthew Yancey*, IDA
    (1107-05-106)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Correcting error in groupoid diagrams.
    Paul C. Kainen*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgetown University
    (1107-68-259)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Remarks on the structure of DNA in bacteriophage capsids.
    Senja Barthel*, Imperial College London
    (1107-92-346)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Within-Host Disease Modeling, II
  Room 109, Regents Hall
  Organizers:
  Stanca Ciupe, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
  Sivan Leviyang, Georgetown University sr286@georgetown.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Innate immunity in the purple sea urchin and diversity of the Sp185/333 system.
    L Courtney Smith*, George Washington University
    (1107-92-58)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Sensitivity Analysis and Treatment of Hepatitis C Virus Infection.
    Ariel Cintron-Arias*, East Tennessee State University
    (1107-92-157)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Dynamic programming of innate immunity and inflammatory diseases.
    Liwu Li*, Virginia Tech
    (1107-92-137)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Optimal Control for a Delay Model of HBV Treatment.
    Jonathan Forde*, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
    Stanca Ciupe, Virginia Tech
    Ariel Cintron-Arias, East Tennessee State University
    Suzanne Lenhart, University of Tennessee
    (1107-92-172)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A human challenge experiment points towards the importance of viral load dynamics and viral genetics in driving influenza symptoms.
    Ashley Sobel*, Duke University Medical Scientist Training Program
    Micah McClain, Duke University School of Medicine
    Chris Woods, Duke University School of Medicine
    Katia Koelle, Duke University Department of Biology
    (1107-92-501)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Operator Theory on Analytic Function Spaces, II
  Room 103, Reiss Hall
  Organizers:
  Robert F. Allen, University of Wisconsin, La Cross
  Flavia Colonna, George Mason University fcolonna@gmu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Composition operators on the Fock space in several complex variables.
    Gabriel T Prajitura*, SUNY Brockport
    Lingyang Jiang, Shanghai, PRC
    Ruhan Zhao, SUNY Brockport
    (1107-47-263)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Weak factorization and Hankel forms for weighted Bergman spaces on the unit ball.
    Jordi Pau, Universitat de Barcelona
    Ruhan Zhao*, SUNY Brockport
    (1107-47-204)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Unitary Equivalence of Composition C*-algebras on the Hardy and Weighted Bergman Spaces.
    Katie Spurrier Quertermous*, James Madison University
    (1107-47-461)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Multiplication operators on the Zygmund space over a tree.
    Flavia Colonna, George Mason University
    Rachel Locke*, George Mason University
    (1107-47-450)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 5:10 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  Einstein Public Lecture in Mathematics
  Cancer by the numbers.
  Lohrfink Auditorium, Hariri Hall
  Simon Tavaré*, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute & DAMTP, University of Cambridge
  (1107-92-440)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
  Einstein Lecture Reception
  Second Floor, Regents Hall