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Spring Western Sectional Meeting
Washington State University, Pullman, WA
April 22-23, 2017 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1128

Associate secretaries:

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

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Saturday April 22, 2017

• Saturday April 22, 2017, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Atrium, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Atrium, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Analysis on the Navier-Stokes equations and related PDEs, I
  Room 316, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Kazuo Yamazaki, University of Rochester kyamazak@ur.rochester.edu
  Litzheng Tao, University of California, Riverside
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On the global regularity of the 2D critical Boussinesq system with $\alpha>2/3$.
    Fazel Hadadifard*, University of Kansas
    (1128-35-39)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Global regularity for the fractional Euler alignment system.
    Tam Do, Rice University
    Alexander Kiselev, Rice University
    Lenya Ryzhik, Stanford University
    Changhui Tan*, Rice University
    (1128-35-86)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Stochastic Quasilinear Evolution Equations in UMD Banach Spaces.
    Manil Thankamani Mohan*, National Research Council(NRC) Postdoctoral Fellow, Air Force Institute of Technology
    Sivaguru S Sritharan, Provost \& Vice-Chancellor, Air Force Institute of Technology
    (1128-76-50)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Suppression of chemotactic explosion by mixing.
    Xiaoqian Xu*, Carnegie Mellon University and ICERM
    Alexander Kiselev, Rice University
    Gautam Iyer, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1128-35-41)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Well-posedness and dispersive decay of small data solutions for the Benjamin-Ono equation.
    Mihaela Ifrim*, UC Berkeley
    Daniel Ioan Tataru, UC Berkeley
    (1128-35-103)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The 3D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with partial hyperdissipation.
    Jiahong Wu*, Oklahoma State University
    (1128-35-48)
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Inverse Problems, I
  Room 202, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Hanna Makaruk, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
  Robert Owczarek, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque \& Los Alamos rowczare@unm.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Properties of lbo homology.
    Sujoy Mukherjee*, The George Washington University
    (1128-57-230)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Topology and Computability of Orders on Some Algebraic Structures.
    Trang T Ha*, The George Washington University
    (1128-06-218)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Structure of orders on structures.
    Valentina Harizanov*, George Washington University
    (1128-03-187)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Circles in configuration: from geometry to physics.
    Jerzy Kocik*, Department of Mathematics, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
    (1128-15-323)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Are there common features for Chebyshev polynomials, Lucas and Fibonacci polynomials, and Kauffman bracket formulation of the Jones polynomial?
    Robert M Owczarek*, University of New Mexico
    (1128-55-152)
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical and Computational Neuroscience, I
  Room 419, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Alexander Dimitrov, Washington State University Vancouver alex.dimitrov@wsu.edu
  Andrew Oster, Eastern Washington University
  Predrag Tosic, Washington State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Mesoscale stochastic modeling of receptor-mediated bioparticle transport.
    Prashanta Dutta*, Washington State University
    Deng Hua, Washington State University
    Jin Liu, Washington State University
    (1128-92-325)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Reduced efficacy of the KCC2 cotransporter promotes epileptic oscillations in a subiculum network model.
    Anatoly AB Buchin*, Allen Institute
    Anton AC Chizhov, Ioffe Institute, Computational Physics Laboratory
    Gilles GH Huberfeld, Universit\'e Pierre et Marie Curie, Piti\'e-Salp\^etri\`ere H\^opital
    Richard RM Miles, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epini\`ere, Cortex et Epilepsie Group
    Boris BG Gutkin, \'Ecole normale sup\'erieure, PSL Research University
    (1128-92-225)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Circadian Clocks and Disease: Some Opportunities for Dialogue between Mathematics and Biology.
    Ilia Karatsoreos*, Department of Integrative Physiology \& Neuroscience, WSU - Pullman
    (1128-92-354)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Effect of Neuromodulation of Short-term Plasticity on Information Processing in Hippocampal Interneuron Synapses.
    Emily Stone*, University of Montana
    Elham Bayat-Mokhtari, University of Montana
    J. Josh Lawrence, Texas Tech University
    (1128-92-178)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    An overview of Allen Institute for Brain Science data.
    Gabriel Koch Ocker*, Allen Institute for Brain Science
    Ramakrishnan Iyer, Allen Ins
    (1128-92-347)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Modeling approaches to the understanding of cortical computations at the Allen Institute for Brain Science.
    Ramakrishnan Iyer*, Allen Institute for Brain Science
    Gabriel Koch Ocker, Allen Institute for Brain Science
    (1128-92-349)
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Microlocal Analysis and Spectral Theory, I
  Room 119, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Michael Hitrik, University of California, Los Angeles hitrik@math.ucla.edu
  Semyon Dyatlov, Masssachusetts Institute of Technology
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    100 Years of Weyl's Law.
    Victor Ivrii*, University of Toronto
    (1128-35-163)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Semi-classical Hermite states and applications.
    Alejandro Uribe*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (1128-81-288)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Resolvent estimates and wave asymptotics for mildly trapping manifolds with cylindrical ends.
    Tanya Christiansen, University of Missouri
    Kiril Datchev*, Purdue University
    (1128-58-52)
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry and Related Topics, I
  Room 319, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Daniel Rogalski, University of California, San Diego drogalski@ucsd.edu
  James Zhang, University of Washington
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Families of quantum projective schemes.
    Alexandru Chirvasitu*, University of Washington
    S. Paul Smith, University of Washington
    Michaela Vancliff, University of Texas at Arlington
    (1128-16-95)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Some algebras having relations like the 4-dimensional Sklyanin algebras.
    S. Paul Smith*, University of Washington
    Alex Chirvasitu, University of Washington
    (1128-16-37)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Isomorphism problems in noncommutative algebra.
    Jason Gaddis*, Wake Forest University
    (1128-16-96)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Modular subcategories of Drinfel'd centers of quadratic categories and their associated modular data.
    Henry J Tucker*, University of California, San Diego
    (1128-18-344)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On some properties modular categories of odd dimension.
    Siu-Hung Ng*, Louisiana State University
    (1128-16-263)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Embeddings of derived categories.
    Elizabeth Wicks*, University of Washington
    (1128-16-165)
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Optimization and Statistical Learning, I
  Room 216, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Hongbo Dong, Washington State University hongbo.dong@wsu.edu
  Bala Krishnamoorthy, Washington State University
  Haijun Li, Washington State University
  Robert Mifflin, Washington State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Structural properties of affine sparsity constraints.
    Hongbo Dong, Washington State University
    Miju Ahn, University of Southern California
    Jong-Shi Pang*, University of Southern California
    (1128-90-297)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Accelerated first-order methods beyond convexity.
    Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy*, University of Washington
    (1128-90-108)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Interior point methods for two-stage stochastic semidefinite programming in dual standard form.
    Bo Han*, ProCogia
    Hongbo Dong, Washington State Univeristy
    Ari Ariyawansa, Pullman, Washington
    (1128-90-259)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Tail Mutual Information of Multivariate Distributions.
    Yan Xing*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics,Washington State University
    (1128-62-107)
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Contributed Paper Session
  Room 416, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Interesting Examples of Iterated Holomorphic Function Systems.
    Kourosh Tavakoli*, Oklahoma City University
    (1128-30-340)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Some Notes on the boundary operator on the n-cube.
    Kenneth J. Prevot*, Metropolitan State University of Denver
    (1128-05-333)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Arc Graphs and Free Distributive Lattices.
    Danny Rorabaugh*, Queen's University
    Claude Tardif, Royal Military College of Canada; Queen's University
    David Wehlau, Royal Military College of Canada; Queen's University
    Imed Zaguia, Royal Military College of Canada
    (1128-05-184)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Oscillation of Graphene Plates.
    Siamak Haghshenas, University of Texas at Arlington
    Mostafa Ghandehari*, University of Texas at Arlington
    Kambiz Alavi, University of Texas at Arlington
    (1128-34-64)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Interface asymptotics for spectral projections.
    Steve Zelditch*, Northwestern University
    Boris Hanin, MIT
    (1128-35-212)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Binary Floating-Point Subtraction of a Floating-Point Square Accurate to the Antepenultimate Digit by Deflation Without Fused Multiply-Subtract or Fused Multiply-Add.
    Yves Nievergelt*, Eastern Washington University
    (1128-65-127)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    A Sequential Approach to the Henstock Integral.
    Laramie S Paxton*, Washington State University
    (1128-28-4)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Compact Weighted Composition Operators between Generalized Fock Spaces.
    Waleed K. Al-Rawashdeh*, Montana Tech
    (1128-47-82)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Structuring Concurrency as Knots Based on the Lamport's Theorem in Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System.
    Justin N Theriot*, Washington State University
    (1128-55-67)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    On the Belousov Variety.
    Yuri Movsisyan*, Yerevan State University
    (1128-08-211)
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Clustering of Graphs: Theory and Practice, I
  Room 114, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Stephen J. Young, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory stephen.young@pnnl.gov
  Jennifer Webster, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Geometric Spectrum of Graphs.
    Tobias Hagge, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    Patrick Mackey, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    Kathleen Nowak, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    Carlos Ortize Marrero, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    Jenny Webster, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    Stephen J Young*, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    (1128-05-229)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Non-backtracking random walks and graph clustering.
    Mark Kempton*, Harvard University, Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications
    (1128-05-244)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Higher-order graph clustering.
    Austin R Benson*, Stanford University
    David F Gleich, Purdue University
    Jure Leskovec, Stanford University
    Hao Yin, Stanford University
    (1128-68-116)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Detectability Limits in Dynamic Networks.
    Amir Ghasemian*, Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA
    Pan Zhang, CAS Key Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
    Aaron Clauset, Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA
    Cristopher Moore, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
    Leto Peel, ICTEAM, Universit\'e catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
    (1128-68-123)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Mining for Communities in Large-Scale Graphs.
    Mahantesh Halappanavar*, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    Ananth Kalyanaraman, Washington State University
    Hao Lu, Washington State University
    Craig Bakker, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    Arun Sathanur, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    (1128-68-112)
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial and Algebraic Structures in Knot Theory, I
  Room 13, Wilson-Short Hall
  Organizers:
  Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna College knots@esotericka.org
  Allison Henrich, Seattle University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Legendrian/Transverse Knots and Knot Floer Homology.
    Jose Ceniceros*, Louisiana State University
    (1128-55-295)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Find the action of Kauffman bracket skein algebra on the skein module of the 3-twist knot complement.
    Hongwei Wang*, Texas Tech Univeristy
    Razvan Gelca, Texas Tech University
    (1128-55-38)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Minimal Intersection Number of Flat Virtual Links.
    David Freund*, Dartmouth College
    (1128-57-11)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Equivalence of edge bicolored graphs on surfaces.
    Heather M. Russell*, University of Richmond
    Oliver T. Dasbach, Louisiana State University
    (1128-57-19)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Simplicial Homotopy Theory, Link Homology and Khovanov Homology.
    Louis H Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1128-55-24)
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial and Computational Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, I
  Room 418, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Hirotachi Abo, University of Idaho abo@uidaho.edu
  Stefan Tohaneanu, University of Idaho
  Alexander Woo, University of Idaho
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Difference Between Symbolic and Regular Powers: An Asymptotic Approach.
    Susan Marie Cooper*, North Dakota State University
    (1128-13-169)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Vanishing ideals for points from cluster algebras.
    Kyungyong Lee, University of Nebraska - Lincoln and Korea Institute for Advanced Study
    Matthew R Mills*, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    Alexandra Seceleanu, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    (1128-14-226)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Homological characterizations of quasi-complete intersections.
    Jason M Lutz*, Gonzaga University
    (1128-13-36)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Computation, expectation, and symmetry for combinatorial problems in real algebraic geometry.
    Saugata Basu, Purdue University
    Antonio Lerario, SISSA (Trieste)
    Erik Lundberg, Florida Atlantic University
    Chris Peterson*, Colorado State University
    (1128-14-101)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Using algebraic geometry for computer vision.
    Joe Kileel*, UC Berkeley
    (1128-14-193)
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra, I
  Room 318, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Jason Lutz, Gonzaga University
  Katharine Shultis, Gonzaga University shultis@gonzaga.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Cosupport computations for finitely generated modules over commutative noetherian rings.
    Peder Thompson*, Texas Tech University
    (1128-13-81)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Complete intersection injective dimensions.
    Sean Sather-Wagstaff*, Clemson University
    Jonathan Totushek, University of Wisconsin - Superior
    (1128-13-210)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Direct sum decomposability of forms.
    Weronika Buczy\'nska, IMPAN
    Jaros{\l}aw Buczy\'nski, IMPAN, University of Warsaw
    Johannes Kleppe, Buskerud and Vestfold University College
    Zach Teitler*, Boise State University
    (1128-13-44)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Local Cohomology of Thickenings.
    Jennifer Kenkel*, University of Utah
    (1128-13-139)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Ext-algebras and minimal multiplicity.
    John Myers*, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    (1128-13-180)
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometry and Optimization in Computer Vision, I
  Room 4, Wilson-Short Hall
  Organizers:
  Bala Krishnamoorthy, Washington State University bkrishna@math.wsu.edu
  Sudipta Sinha, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    A brief tour of optimization methods used in 3D computer vision.
    Sudipta N Sinha*, Microsoft Research
    (1128-68-352)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Problems in Algebraic Vision.
    Hon Leung Lee*, Redwood City, California
    (1128-15-286)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Submodular Optimization and Data Summarization with Applications to Computer Vision.
    Rishabh K Iyer*, Microsoft Corporation
    (1128-90-300)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Efficient Minimization of Higher Order Submodular Functions using Monotonic Boolean Functions.
    Srikumar Ramalingam*, School of Computing, University of Utah
    (1128-05-117)
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Several Complex Variables and PDEs, I
  Room 219, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Andrew Raich, University of Arkansas araich@uark.edu
  Phillip Harrington, University of Arkansas
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Uniform Large-Scale CR Control Geometry on Model Unbounded Pseudoconvex Domains in $\mathbb{C}^2$.
    Aaron J Peterson*, Northwestern University
    (1128-32-191)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Estimates on the Fundamental Solution to the Complex Green Operator in Higher Codimension.
    Albert Boggess*, Arizona State University
    Andrew Raich, University of Arkansas
    (1128-32-282)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The $\overline{\partial}$-problem on annuli.
    Debraj Chakrabarti*, Central Michigan University
    Christine Laurent-Thi\'ebaut, University of Grenoble, France
    Mei-Chi Shaw, University of Notre Dame
    (1128-32-13)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Kohn-Laplace equation on abstract CR manifolds: Global regularity.
    Andrew S Raich*, University of Arkansas
    Khanh Tran, University of Wollongong
    (1128-32-243)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The $L^p$ estimate of an integral solution operator for $\bar \partial$ on the bidisk.
    Liwei Chen*, Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University
    (1128-32-110)
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Theory and Applications of Linear Algebra, I
  Room 407, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Judi McDonald, Washington State University jmcdonald1@wsu.edu
  Michael Tsatsomeros, Washington State University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Properties of Nonnegative Matrices That are True for General Matrices.
    Mashael Albaidani*, Washington State University
    (1128-15-31)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On Characterising Eventually Positive Linear Operators and Invariance.
    Michael Kasigwa*, Washington State University
    (1128-15-194)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Skew Adjacency Matrices of Cacti.
    Amy Streifel*, Washington State University
    (1128-15-335)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Inertia Tables for Clique Galaxies.
    Amy Ann Yielding*, Eastern Oregon University
    Ryan Blanchard, Eastern Oregon University
    Joel Jacobs, Eastern Oregon University
    Mico Murphy, Eastern Oregon University
    Taylor Rhoton, Eastern Oregon University
    (1128-15-21)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Sign and ray patterns that allow k-potence.
    Jeffrey L Stuart*, Pacific Lutheran University
    (1128-15-326)
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Analytic Number Theory and Automorphic Forms, I
  Room 3, Wilson-Short Hall
  Organizers:
  Steven J. Miller, Williams College sjm1@williams.edu
  Sheng-Chi Liu, Washington State University
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Higher weight on GL(3).
    Jack Buttcane*, SUNY Buffalo
    (1128-11-10)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The multiplicity one theorem for paramodular forms.
    Ralf Schmidt*, University of Oklahoma
    (1128-11-179)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Counter-examples to Ramanujan conjecture for GL(2,D) over a division quaternion algebra D.
    Ameya Pitale*, University of Oklahoma
    (1128-11-220)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Bounding $\ell$-torsion in class groups.
    Lillian Pierce, Duke University
    Caroline Turnage-Butterbaugh*, Duke University / MSRI
    Melanie Matchett Wood, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1128-11-261)
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Fixed Point Methods in Differential and Integral Equations, I
  Room 6, Wilson-Short Hall
  Organizers:
  Theodore A. Burton, Southern Illinois University in Carbondale taburton@olypen.com
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Some Multivalued Versions of Krasnosel'skii's Fixed Point Theorem.
    John R. Graef*, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
    (1128-47-188)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Modeling the Financial Stock Market with Functional Differential Equations.
    Tingxiu Wang*, Texas A University-Commerce
    (1128-34-156)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Stability by Schauder's Fixed Point Theorem for Nonlinear Delay and Fractional Differential Equations.
    Bo Zhang*, Fayetteville State University
    (1128-47-1)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Large Contraction and Existence of Periodic Solutions in Totally Nonlinear Delay Differential Equations.
    Youssef N Raffoul*, University of Dayton
    Murat Adivar, Fayetville State University
    Muhammad Islam, University of Dayton
    (1128-34-69)
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 9:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Modeling of Forest and Landscape Change, I
  Room 209, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Demetrios Gatziolis, US Forest Service
  Nikolay Strigul, Washington State University Vancouver nick.strigul@wsu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Epistemic uncertainties in global-scale modeling of secondary forest dynamics.
    Leonardo Calle*, Montana State University, Department of Ecology
    Benjamin Poulter, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory
    (1128-92-303)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Voxel-based assessment of sun light in forests.
    Demetrios Gatziolis*, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station
    (1128-86-260)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Predicting forest mortality and landscape change under novel climates using an analytical approach to drought response physiology and probabilistic scaling.
    Brandon McNellis*, University of Idaho
    Tara Hudiburg, University of Idaho
    (1128-92-266)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Data-intensive modeling of Pitch Pine range in North America.
    Olga Alekseevna Rumyantseva*, Washington State University Vancouver
    Nikolay S Strigul, Washington State University Vancouver
    (1128-92-219)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Existence, unicity and positivity of the solution of an analytically tractable forest dynamics model.
    Amael Le Squin*, Universite de Sherbrooke
    (1128-35-355)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Partial Differential Equations and Applications, I
  Room 412, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  V. S. Manoranjan, Washington State University
  C. Moore, Washington State University
  Lynn Schreyer, Washington State University
  Hong-Ming Yin, Washington State University hyin@wsu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Visco-elastic Consolidation.
    Ralph Showalter*, Oregon State University
    Dwight Holland, Oregon State University
    (1128-35-151)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The method of approximate fundamental solutions for non-linear thermal explosions.
    Haiyan Tian*, The University of Southern Mississippi
    (1128-35-29)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Modeling Swelling Polymers with a Nonlinear Volterra Partial Integrodifferential Equation.
    Keith Wojciechowski, University of Wisconsin - Stout
    Lynn Schreyer*, Washington State University
    (1128-45-242)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Phase transitions in porous media: new applications and results.
    Malgorzata Peszynska*, Mathematics, Oregon State University
    (1128-35-3)
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Applied Algebraic Topology, I
  Room 5, Wilson-Short Hall
  Organizers:
  Henry Adams, Colorado State University
  Bala Krishnamoorthy, Washington State University bkrishna@math.wsu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Comparing Directed and Weighted Graphs.
    Courtney M Thatcher*, University of Puget Sound
    (1128-55-321)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Refinement based persistent (co)homology.
    Yuriy Mileyko*, University of Hawaii at Manoa
    (1128-55-341)
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 9:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances on Mathematical Biology and Their Applications, I
  Room 207, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Robert Dillon, Washington State University
  Xueying Wang, Washington State University xueying@math.wsu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Unconventional mechanisms of population renewal: Analysis of spontaneous cloning in marine invertebrate larvae.
    Daniel Grunbaum*, School of Oceanography, University of Washington
    (1128-92-281)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Statistical methods for causal inference in genomics.
    Md Bahadur Badsha, Department of Statistical Science, University of Idaho
    Evan Martin, The Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program, University of Idaho
    Audrey Qiuyan Fu*, Department of Statistical Science, University of Idaho
    (1128-62-216)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Yeast Cell Cycle and Metabolism can be Coupled in Nontrivial Ways.
    Todd Ray Young*, Ohio University
    (1128-92-161)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A mathematical theory of biological population dynamics: From cells to ecology, small and large systems with and without stochasticity.
    Hong Qian*, Seattle
    (1128-60-185)
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Spectra for non-self-adjoint operators and integrable dynamics.
  Room 203, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Michael Hitrik*, Department of Mathematics, UCLA
  (1128-35-264)
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Noncommutative Projective Surfaces.
  Room 203, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Daniel Rogalski*, University of California, San Diego
  (1128-16-192)
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Analysis on the Navier-Stokes equations and related PDEs, II
  Room 316, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Kazuo Yamazaki, University of Rochester kyamazak@ur.rochester.edu
  Litzheng Tao, University of California, Riverside
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Multiplicative cascades approach to regularity: a case-study of the complex Burgers equation.
    Radu Dascaliuc*, Oregon State University
    (1128-35-267)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Data Assimilation on Geophysical and fluid dynamics.
    Yuan Pei*, University of Nebraka-Lincoln
    (1128-35-16)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Striated H\"{o}lder regularity of active scalar equations.
    Hantaek Bae, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)
    James P Kelliher*, University of California Riverside
    (1128-76-285)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Uniformly rotating smooth solutions for active scalars.
    Angel Castro, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
    Diego Cordoba, Instituto de Ciencias Matematicas
    Javier Gomez-Serrano*, Princeton University
    (1128-35-287)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Invariant measures and singular parameter limits for stochastic PDEs from fluid mechanics.
    Juraj F\"oldes, Department of Mathematics, University of Virginia
    Susan Friedlander, Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California
    Nathan Glatt-Holtz, Department of Mathematics, Tulane University
    Geordie Richards*, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Utah State University
    Jared Whitehead, Department of Mathematics, Brigham Young University
    (1128-35-346)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Blowup for model equations of fluid mechanics.
    Vu Hoang*, Rice university
    (1128-35-129)
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Analytic Number Theory and Automorphic Forms, II
  Room 3, Wilson-Short Hall
  Organizers:
  Steven J. Miller, Williams College sjm1@williams.edu
  Sheng-Chi Liu, Washington State University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On simultaneous non-vanishing of the central $L$-values.
    Wenzhi Luo*, The Ohio State University
    (1128-11-26)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Effective nonvanishing of CM biquadratic L-functions.
    Riad Masri*, Texas A University
    Adrian Barquero-Sanchez, University of Costa Rica
    (1128-11-256)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Large Sieve Type Inequality for the Roots of Quadratic Congruence.
    Stephen Choi*, Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University
    Peter Cho-Ho Lam, Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University
    (1128-11-30)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Examples of Paramodular Surfaces.
    Jennifer Johnson-Leung*, University of Idaho
    (1128-11-272)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Volumes of hyperbolic three-manifolds associated to modular links.
    Alex Brandts, McGill University
    Tali Pinsky, Tata Institute for Fundamental Research
    Lior Silberman*, The University of British Columbia
    (1128-57-238)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Higher congruences between newforms and Eisenstein series of squarefree level.
    Catherine M Hsu*, University of Oregon
    (1128-11-65)
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Clustering of Graphs: Theory and Practice, II
  Room 114, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Stephen J. Young, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory stephen.young@pnnl.gov
  Jennifer Webster, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Accelerating the mining of influential nodes in a complex network via community detection.
    Arun V Sathanur*, Pacific Northwest National Labs, Richland, WA
    (1128-68-154)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Iterated Local Anti-Transitivity Network.
    Ewa Joanna Infeld*, Ryerson University
    (1128-05-155)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    An information theoretic approach for hierarchically clustering large acyclic graphs.
    Jevin D West*, University of Washington
    Jason Portenoy, University of Washington
    (1128-68-120)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The InfoMap Community Detection Algorithm: Techniques for Scaling to Very Large Networks.
    Jason Portenoy*, University of Washington
    Jevin D West, University of Washington
    (1128-00-246)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Kemeny's constant and the normalized Laplacian.
    Steve Butler*, Iowa State University
    (1128-05-121)
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial and Algebraic Structures in Knot Theory, II
  Room 13, Wilson-Short Hall
  Organizers:
  Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna College knots@esotericka.org
  Allison Henrich, Seattle University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Geometric realization of partial presimplicial sets and the almost extreme Khovanov homology.
    Jozef H. Przytycki*, George Washington University
    (1128-57-299)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The Jones polynomial of an almost alternating link.
    Adam Lowrance*, Vassar College
    (1128-57-119)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Jones slopes and coarse volume for near-alternating links.
    Christine Ruey Shan Lee*, University of Texas at Austin
    (1128-57-141)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the virtual singular braid monoid.
    Carmen Caprau*, California State University, Fresno
    Sarah McGahan, California State University, Fresno
    (1128-57-186)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Parity in Knotoids.
    Neslihan G\"ug\"umc\"u*, National Technical University of Athens
    (1128-51-79)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Diagrammatic Moves on 3-Diagrams.
    Jim Hoste*, Pitzer College
    Colin Adams, Williams College
    Martin Palmer, University of Bonn
    (1128-57-106)
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial and Computational Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, II
  Room 418, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Hirotachi Abo, University of Idaho abo@uidaho.edu
  Stefan Tohaneanu, University of Idaho
  Alexander Woo, University of Idaho
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Toroidal Zero-Divisor Graphs and Book Embeddings.
    Shannon Overbay*, Spokane
    (1128-05-308)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A Graph of Separable Polynomials.
    Thomas McKenzie*, Gonzaga University
    (1128-13-324)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Periods of Prym Varieties.
    James S. Wolper*, Idaho State University
    (1128-14-269)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Towards Newton-Okounkov bodies of Hessenberg varieties.
    Hiraku Abe, Osaka City University Advanced Mathematical Institute
    Lauren DeDieu, The University of Minnesota
    Federico Galetto*, McMaster University
    Megumi Harada, McMaster University
    (1128-14-227)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Cohomological Consequences of the Pattern Map.
    Praise Adeyemo*, Fields Institute
    Frank Sottile, Texas A \& M University
    (1128-14-149)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Rhombic tilings and Bott-Samelson varieties.
    Laura Escobar*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Oliver Pechenik, Rutgers University
    Bridget Eileen Tenner, DePaul University
    Alexander Yong, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1128-05-162)
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra, II
  Room 318, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Jason Lutz, Gonzaga University
  Katharine Shultis, Gonzaga University shultis@gonzaga.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Associated primes of powers of ideals.
    Irena Swanson*, Reed College
    (1128-13-132)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Construction of an Ogoma-like normal Noetherian non-catenary domain.
    William J J Heinzer, Purdue University
    Christel Rotthaus, Michigan State University
    Sylvia M Wiegand*, University of Nebraska Lincoln
    (1128-13-130)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Toric rings arising from strongly stable sets of monomials with two generators.
    Gabriel E Sosa*, Amherst College
    (1128-13-356)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Restriction of Test Ideals to Hypersurfaces.
    Andrew T Bydlon*, University of Utah
    (1128-14-126)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Rees Rings of Artinian Gorenstein Ideals.
    Whitney I Liske*, University of Notre Dame
    (1128-13-54)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Detecting Koszulness from the algebra structure of Koszul homology.
    J Hoffmeier*, Northwest Missouri State University
    A Croll, Concordia University Irvine
    R Dellaca, University of California, Irvine
    A Gupta, Universit Degli Studi di Genova
    V Mukundan, Purdue University
    D R Tracy, Manhattan College
    L M Sega, University of Missouri, Kansas City
    G Sosa, Amherst College
    P Thompson, Texas Tech University
    (1128-13-76)
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Fixed Point Methods in Differential and Integral Equations, II
  Room 6, Wilson-Short Hall
  Organizers:
  Theodore A. Burton, Southern Illinois University in Carbondale taburton@olypen.com
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Local and Nonlocal Boundary Quenching in a Subdiffusive Medium.
    Colleen Margarita Kirk*, California Polytechnic State University, SLO
    W. E. Olmstead, Northwestern University
    (1128-45-71)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Positive Solutions for a Fourth Order Boundary Value Problem.
    Bo Yang*, Kennesaw State University
    (1128-34-276)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Existence of solutions for a second order iterative boundary value problem.
    Eric R Kaufmann*, University of Arkansas Little Rock
    (1128-34-72)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A Complete Analysis for a Differential Equation with Two Delays.
    Liancheng Wang*, Kennesaw State University
    (1128-34-75)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Asymptotically $P$-Periodic Solutions of a Quantum Volterra Integral Equation.
    M N Islam*, University of Dayton
    J T Neugebauer, Eastern Kentucky University
    (1128-39-109)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    A Singular Fractional Boundary Value Problem.
    Jeffery Thomas Neugebauer*, Eastern Kentucky University
    (1128-34-124)
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometry and Optimization in Computer Vision, II
  Room 4, Wilson-Short Hall
  Organizers:
  Bala Krishnamoorthy, Washington State University bkrishna@math.wsu.edu
  Sudipta Sinha, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Algorithms and Software for Efficient Computation of Sparse Derivative Matrices.
    Assefaw H Gebremedhin*, Washington State University
    (1128-68-181)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Linear Convergence of Gradient and Proximal-Gradient Methods Under the Polyak-\L{}ojasiewicz Condition.
    Mark Schmidt*, University of British Columbia
    (1128-49-73)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    HC-Search: A Learning Framework for Search-based Structured Prediction.
    Jana Doppa*, Washington State University, Pullman
    (1128-01-233)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Image correspondence recovery via binary quadratic programming.
    Bala Krishnamoorthy*, Washington State University
    Sudipta N Sinha, Microsoft Research
    (1128-90-314)
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Inverse Problems, II
  Room 202, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Hanna Makaruk, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
  Robert Owczarek, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque \& Los Alamos rowczare@unm.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Majorana Fermions and Topological Quantum Information.
    Louis H Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1128-55-23)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Mode Reduction Methods for Data Assimilation: Subspace Projection using Koopman Operators.
    Humberto C Godinez*, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Nicholas W Hengartner, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    (1128-49-32)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Determination of Photon Energy Spectra using Compton Spectrometer.
    Marc Louis Klasky*, LANL
    Michelle Espy, LANL
    David Moir, LANL
    (1128-65-279)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Temperature dependence of nuclear fusion.
    James R. Langenbrunner*, XCP-8 Verification and Analysis, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
    Hanna Makaruk, P-21 Aplied Modern Physics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
    (1128-37-20)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Reconstruction of a dynamical system from toy model experimental trajectories.
    Hanna Makaruk*, P-21 Aplied Modern Physics, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    James R Langenbrunner, XCP-8 Verification and Analysis , Los Alamos National Laboratory
    (1128-37-170)
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Modeling of Forest and Landscape Change, II
  Room 209, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Demetrios Gatziolis, US Forest Service
  Nikolay Strigul, Washington State University Vancouver nick.strigul@wsu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Spatiotemporal Insect Epidemic Modeling: Predicting Outbreak Severity in a Changing Climate.
    Jacob P Duncan*, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame
    James Powell, Utah State University
    (1128-92-28)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Simulation power analysis informs design of regional occupancy monitoring for a forest management focal species.
    Quresh S Latif*, Rocky Mountain Research Station, U.S. Forest Service
    Martha M Ellis, Rocky Mountain Research Station, U.S. Forest Service
    Victoria A Saab, Rocky Mountain Research Station, U.S. Forest Service
    Kim Mellen-McLean, Pacific Northwest Region 6, U.S. Forest Service
    (1128-62-134)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Future Carbon Dynamics of the Northern Rockies Ecoregion due to Climate Impacts and Fire Effects.
    Eric S. Walsh*, University of Idaho
    Tara Hudiburg, University of Idaho
    (1128-92-231)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Linking mathematical models of forest dynamics operating at different scales.
    Nikolay S Strigul*, Washington State University Vancouver
    (1128-92-205)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical and Computational Neuroscience, II
  Room 419, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Alexander Dimitrov, Washington State University Vancouver alex.dimitrov@wsu.edu
  Andrew Oster, Eastern Washington University
  Predrag Tosic, Washington State University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On Quantitative Models of Associative Memory from Discrete Dynamical Systems and Computer Science Standpoints.
    Predrag T. Tosic*, WSU - Pullman
    (1128-68-203)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Deep Learning for Connectomics.
    Shuiwang Ji*, School of EECS, Washington State University
    (1128-92-351)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Model selection for dynamical systems via sparse regression and information criteria.
    Niall M Mangan*, University of Washington, Seattle
    J N Kutz, University of Washington, Seattle
    S L Brunton, University of Washington, Seattle
    J L Proctor, Institute for Disease Modeling, Bellevue, WA
    (1128-92-247)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    An invariant winding number for the FitzHugh-Nagumo system.
    Eric Cytrynbaum*, University of British Colimbia
    (1128-92-92)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Maintaining spatial working memory across time in bump attractor models.
    Zachary P Kilpatrick*, University of Colorado Boulder
    (1128-92-83)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Artificially-induced synaptic plasticity in motor cortex: a theoretical model of a bidirectional brain-computer interface.
    Guillaume Lajoie*, University of Washington
    (1128-92-345)
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Microlocal Analysis and Spectral Theory, II
  Room 119, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Michael Hitrik, University of California, Los Angeles hitrik@math.ucla.edu
  Semyon Dyatlov, Masssachusetts Institute of Technology
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the trace of Schr\"odinger heat kernels and regularity of potentials.
    Hart F Smith*, University of Washington, Seattle
    (1128-35-249)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Averages of Laplace eigenfunctions over curves.
    Yaiza Canzani*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    John Toth, McGill University
    (1128-35-239)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Resolvent Estimates for Non-Self-Adjoint Semiclassical Schr\"{o}dinger Operators.
    Ben Bellis*, Los Angeles
    (1128-35-234)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Spectral statistics for random Schr\"odinger operators.
    Peter D. Hislop*, Mathematics Department, University of Kentucky
    (1128-81-176)
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry and Related Topics, II
  Room 319, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Daniel Rogalski, University of California, San Diego drogalski@ucsd.edu
  James Zhang, University of Washington
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Graded and non-graded Clifford algebras and their homomorphic images.
    Rajesh S Kulkarni*, Michigan State University
    (1128-16-304)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Discriminants of Polynomial Identity Quantized Weyl Algebras.
    Jesse S. F. Levitt*, University of Southern California
    Milen Yakimov, Louisiana State University
    (1128-16-257)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Azumaya loci and discriminant ideals of PI algebras.
    Ken A Brown, University of Glasgow
    Milen T Yakimov*, Louisiana State University
    (1128-16-167)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Deformations of semisimple Hopf algebras.
    Chelsea Walton*, Temple University
    (1128-81-148)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Small quantum groups associated to Belavin-Drinfeld triples.
    Cris Negron*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1128-16-302)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Twisted Calabi-Yau and Artin-Schelter regularity properties for locally finite algebras.
    Manuel L. Reyes*, Bowdoin College
    Daniel Rogalski, University of California, San Diego
    (1128-16-118)
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Partial Differential Equations and Applications, II
  Room 412, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  V. S. Manoranjan, Washington State University
  C. Moore, Washington State University
  Lynn Schreyer, Washington State University
  Hong-Ming Yin, Washington State University hyin@wsu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the Stefan problem with internal heat generation in a cylinder.
    Lyudmyla L. Barannyk*, University of Idaho, Department of Mathematics
    John C. Crepeau, University of Idaho, Department of Mechanical Engineering
    (1128-35-329)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Portfolio optimization near horizon.
    Rohini Kumar, Wayne State University
    Hussein Nasralah*, Wayne State University
    (1128-60-9)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On a Cross-Diffusion System Modelling Vegetation Spots and Strips in a Semi-arid or Arid Landscape.
    Hong-Ming Yin*, Washington State University
    Xinfu Chen, University of Pittsburgh
    Lihe Wang, University of Iowa
    (1128-35-12)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Discusion
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Applied Algebraic Topology, II
  Room 5, Wilson-Short Hall
  Organizers:
  Henry Adams, Colorado State University
  Bala Krishnamoorthy, Washington State University bkrishna@math.wsu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Configurations with Sinks and on Graphs.
    Safia Chettih*, Reed College
    (1128-57-197)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Description Sheaves for Topological Information Fusion.
    Cliff A Joslyn*, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    (1128-55-294)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Applications and advances in topology of graphs.
    Emilie Purvine*, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    (1128-55-291)
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Optimization and Statistical Learning, II
  Room 216, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Hongbo Dong, Washington State University hongbo.dong@wsu.edu
  Bala Krishnamoorthy, Washington State University
  Haijun Li, Washington State University
  Robert Mifflin, Washington State University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Compositions of Convex Functions and Fully Linear Models.
    Warren Hare*, University of British Columbia
    (1128-49-84)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Robust optimization of infrastructure networks.
    Krishnamurthy Dvijotham*, Pacifc Northwest National Laboratory/Washington State University
    (1128-93-213)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Faster estimation and calculation of standard errors for vine copulas with automatic differentiation.
    Hongbo Dong*, Washington State University
    Wei Li, Washington State University
    Haijun Li, Washington State University
    (1128-62-215)
  • 5:40 p.m.
    Sparse model selection for high-dimensional vine copulas via penalized optimization.
    Wei Li*, Department of Math and Statistics, Washington State University, Pullman
    Hongbo Dong, Department of Math and Statistics, Washington State University, Pullman
    Haijun Li, Department of Math and Statistics, Washington State University, Everett
    (1128-00-268)
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 3:00 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances on Mathematical Biology and Their Applications, II
  Room 207, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Robert Dillon, Washington State University
  Xueying Wang, Washington State University xueying@math.wsu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Traveling waves for a reaction-difusion-advection predator-prey model.
    Yu Jin*, Department of Mathematics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1128-92-33)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Global stability and uniform persistence of the reaction-convection-diffusion cholera epidemic model.
    Kazuo Yamazaki*, Department of Mathematics, University of Rochester
    Xueying Wang, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Washington State University
    (1128-92-5)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Modeling the role of synchronized Hes1 oscillations in the developing chick limb skeleton.
    Tilmann Glimm*, Western Washington University
    (1128-92-91)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Mathematical Modeling of sleep-wake state dynamics in a rodent model of night shift work.
    Michael J. Rempe*, Whitworth University / Washington State University Spokane
    Jonathan P. Wisor, Sleep and Performance Research Center, Washington State University, Spokane
    Janne Gronli, Dept. of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen
    (1128-92-317)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A Computational Model for Iron Transport across Blood-Brain Barrier.
    Aminul Islam Khan*, Washington State University
    Prashanta Dutta, Washington State University
    (1128-92-322)
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Several Complex Variables and PDEs, II
  Room 219, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Andrew Raich, University of Arkansas araich@uark.edu
  Phillip Harrington, University of Arkansas
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Estimates for the complex Green operator: symmetry.
    S\'{e}verine Biard, University of Iceland
    Emil Straube*, Texas A University
    (1128-32-200)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Unbounded $Z(q)$ Domains.
    Phillip S Harrington*, University of Arkansas
    Andrew S Raich, University of Arkansas
    (1128-32-278)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Friedrichs Operator on Pseudoconvex Domains in $\mathbb{C}^n$.
    Sivaguru Ravisankar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
    Yunus E. Zeytuncu*, University of Michigan - Dearborn
    (1128-32-133)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Bergman kernel and the obstruction function in strictly pseudoconvex domains in $\mathbb C^2$.
    Peter Ebenfelt*, University of California San Diego
    (1128-32-138)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The BMO-Dirichlet Problem for Elliptic Systems in the Upper-Half Space.
    Irina Mitrea*, Department of Mathematics, Temple University
    (1128-35-277)
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Theory and Applications of Linear Algebra, II
  Room 407, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Judi McDonald, Washington State University jmcdonald1@wsu.edu
  Michael Tsatsomeros, Washington State University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Iterative Methods and Numerical Range of Matrices.
    Abbas Salemi Parizi*, Shahid Bahonar University
    Faranges Kyanfar, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman
    (1128-15-358)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On Descartes' rule of signs for matrix polynomials.
    Thomas R Cameron*, The College of Idaho
    (1128-15-237)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A matricial view of the Karpelevi\v{c} Theorem.
    Pietro Paparella*, University of Washington Bothell
    (1128-15-177)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A New Proof that Any Disk Containing the Numerical Range is a 2-Spectral Set.
    Anne Greenbaum*, University of Washington
    (1128-15-140)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Fast, stable computation of the eigenvalues of unitary-plus-rank-one matrices, including companion matrices.
    David S Watkins*, Washington State University
    (1128-15-89)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Hadamard Diagonalizable Graphs and Perfect State Transfer.
    Nathaniel Johnston, Mount Allison Univerity
    Steve Kirkland*, University of Manitoba
    Sarah Plosker, Brandon University
    Rebecca Storey, Brandon University
    Xiaohong Zhang, University of Manitoba
    (1128-15-99)
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Undergraduate Research Experiences in the Classroom, I
  Room 409, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Heather Moon, Lewis-Clark State College hamoon@lcmail.lcsc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Development and Implementation of a Research Methods Course.
    Carolyn A Otto*, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
    Michael Penkava, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
    (1128-97-173)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Mathematical modeling with math, biology, and computer science majors.
    Brian Dietel*, Lewis-Clark State College
    (1128-97-305)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Introducing Research through a Computational Problem Solving Course.
    Tom Richmond*, Western Kentucky University
    (1128-03-217)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Support for a Variety of Pathways to Undergraduate Research.
    Tyler Kloefkorn*, University of Arizona
    (1128-97-293)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Choose your own adventure.
    Jonas D'Andrea*, Westminster College
    (1128-97-350)
• Saturday April 22, 2017, 5:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
  Reception
  Atrium, WSU Museum of Art

Sunday April 23, 2017

• Sunday April 23, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Atrium, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
• Sunday April 23, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Atrium, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
• Sunday April 23, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra, III
  Room 318, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Jason Lutz, Gonzaga University
  Katharine Shultis, Gonzaga University shultis@gonzaga.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Modules with infinite regularity.
    Luigi Ferraro*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1128-13-46)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Lower Bounds on Projective Levels of Complexes.
    Hannah Altmann*, University of Minnesota, Morris
    Eloisa Grifo, University of Virginia
    Jonathan Montano, University of Kansas
    William Sanders, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
    Thanh Vu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1128-13-221)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Subadditivity formulas for test ideals.
    Daniel Smolkin*, University of Utah
    (1128-13-182)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Asymptotic behavior of certain Koszul cohomology modules.
    Patricia Jacobs Klein*, University of Michigan
    (1128-13-204)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Rigid ideals in one-dimensional Gorenstein domains.
    Craig Huneke, University of Virginia
    Srikanth Iyengar, University of Utah
    Roger Wiegand*, University of Nebraska
    (1128-13-175)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Frobenius Complexity of Hibi Rings.
    Janet Page*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1128-13-199)
• Sunday April 23, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Measure Theory and it's Applications, I
  Room 518, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Kevin R. Vixie, Washington State University vixie@speakeasy.net
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Almgren Almost Minimal Sets.
    Jean E Taylor*, Courant Institute, NYU
    (1128-49-144)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Median Shapes.
    Yunfeng Hu*, Pullman
    Mattew Hudelson, Washington State University
    Bala krishnamoorthy, Washington State University
    Altansuren Tumurbaatar, Washington State University
    Kevin Vixie, Washington State University
    (1128-28-153)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Some network flows optimizing ramified transport.
    Robert M. Hardt*, Rice University
    (1128-49-135)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A Lower Bound on the Reach of Flat Norm Minimizers.
    Enrique G Alvarado, Washington State University
    Kevin R Vixie*, Washington State University
    (1128-53-168)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Isoperimetric Problem with Density.
    Frank Morgan*, Williams College
    (1128-49-125)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Some minimal shape decompositions are nice.
    Sharif Ibrahim*, Intel
    Bala Krishnamoorthy, Washington State University
    Kevin Vixie, Washington State University
    (1128-53-146)
• Sunday April 23, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Inverse Problems, III
  Room 202, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Hanna Makaruk, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
  Robert Owczarek, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque \& Los Alamos rowczare@unm.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Asymptotic behavior of sequences generated by linear recurrences.
    Igor Szczyrba*, University of Northern Colorado
    (1128-11-164)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    On the categorification of the magnitude of a graph.
    Radmila Sazdanovic*, NC State University
    Victor Summers, NC State University
    (1128-05-271)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On the generalization of the Third Inverse Lie's Theorem for smooth loops.
    Larissa V. Sbitneva*, Morelos State University, Cuernavaca, Morelos, M\'exico
    (1128-20-207)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Algebra possesses eight bilinear forms - why for?
    Zbigniew Oziewicz*, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Facultad de Estudios Superiores Cuautitlan
    William Stewart Page, 1219 Thousand Islands Parkway Mallorytown, Ontario, Canada K0E 1R0
    (1128-18-202)
• Sunday April 23, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical and Computational Neuroscience, III
  Room 419, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Alexander Dimitrov, Washington State University Vancouver alex.dimitrov@wsu.edu
  Andrew Oster, Eastern Washington University
  Predrag Tosic, Washington State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Modeling perceptual invariances in biological auditory processing.
    Alexander G Dimitrov*, Washington State University Vancouver
    (1128-92-228)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Multidimensional nonlinear code of the retina.
    Neda Nategh*, Montana State University - Bozeman
    (1128-92-111)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Laminar Development of the Primary Visual Cortex.
    Andrew M. Oster*, Eastern Washington University
    Paul C. Bressloff, University of Utah
    (1128-92-315)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Noise-limited Inference Predicts Facilitatory Normalization in the Visual Cortex.
    Gabriel Barello, University of Oregon
    Yashar Ahmadian*, University of Oregon
    (1128-92-313)
• Sunday April 23, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Microlocal Analysis and Spectral Theory, III
  Room 119, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Michael Hitrik, University of California, Los Angeles hitrik@math.ucla.edu
  Semyon Dyatlov, Masssachusetts Institute of Technology
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The stability of Kerr-de Sitter black holes.
    Peter Hintz, University of California, Berkeley
    Andras Vasy*, Stanford University
    (1128-35-171)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Resonances for obstacles in hyperbolic space.
    Peter Hintz*, University of California, Berkeley
    Maciej Zworski, University of California, Berkeley
    (1128-35-270)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Grazing Beam.
    Neelesh Tiruviluamala*, University of Southern California
    James Ralston, University of California at Los Angeles
    (1128-35-59)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Eigenvalues for Schr\"odinger operators modelling high disorder.
    Alexis Drouot*, UC Berkeley
    (1128-35-87)
• Sunday April 23, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry and Related Topics, III
  Room 319, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Daniel Rogalski, University of California, San Diego drogalski@ucsd.edu
  James Zhang, University of Washington
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Categories of modules over noncommutative Kleinian fiber products.
    Jonas T Hartwig*, Iowa State University
    (1128-16-310)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Enveloping algebras of double Poisson-Ore extensions.
    Jiafeng L\"u, Zhejiang Normal University, Zhejiang Provice, China
    Sei-Qwon Oh, Chungnam National University, Korea
    Xingting Wang*, Temple University
    Xianlan Yu, Hangzhou Normal Univeristy, Zhejiang Province, China
    (1128-16-42)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Genus zero phenomena in noncommutative algebraic geometry.
    Adam Nyman*, Western Washington Universit
    (1128-14-128)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Auslander's Theorem for permutation actions on noncommutative algebras.
    Robert Won*, Wake Forest University
    Jason Gaddis, Wake Forest University
    Ellen Kirkman, Wake Forest University
    W. Frank Moore, Wake Forest University
    (1128-16-97)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Invariant Theory of Preprojective Algebras.
    Stephan Weispfenning*, UC San Diego
    (1128-16-150)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Invariant subrings of noetherian graded down-up algebras under group coactions.
    Ellen E. Kirkman*, Wake Forest University
    Jianmin Chen, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China
    James J. Zhang, University of Washington, Seattle
    (1128-16-245)
• Sunday April 23, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Applied Algebraic Topology, III
  Room 5, Wilson-Short Hall
  Organizers:
  Henry Adams, Colorado State University
  Bala Krishnamoorthy, Washington State University bkrishna@math.wsu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Decomposing Vineyards using Sheaf Theory.
    Joshua Cruz*, Duke University
    (1128-55-342)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Topology of Data: A special topic.
    Mimi Tsuruga*, University of California, Davis
    (1128-00-301)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Minimum Homotopy Area of a Closed Curve.
    Bala Krishnamoorthy, Washington State University
    Ben Rapone*, Washington State University
    (1128-55-250)
• Sunday April 23, 2017, 8:30 a.m.-9:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Analysis on the Navier-Stokes equations and related PDEs, III
  Room 316, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Kazuo Yamazaki, University of Rochester kyamazak@ur.rochester.edu
  Litzheng Tao, University of California, Riverside
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Exponential convergence of the stochastic micropolar and magneto-micropolar fluid systems.
    Kazuo Yamazaki*, Department of Mathematics, University of Rochester
    (1128-35-166)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Inviscid Limit Problem for Navier Stokes Equations with Fractional Laplacian.
    Lizheng Tao*, University of California, Riverside
    (1128-35-296)
• Sunday April 23, 2017, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Analytic Number Theory and Automorphic Forms, III
  Room 3, Wilson-Short Hall
  Organizers:
  Steven J. Miller, Williams College sjm1@williams.edu
  Sheng-Chi Liu, Washington State University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Biases in Fourier Coefficients of Elliptic Curve $L$-functions.
    Steven J Miller*, Williams College
    (1128-11-159)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Applications of the Petersson trace formula as a delta-method.
    Roman Holowinsky*, The Ohio State University
    (1128-11-115)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Mock modularity of a generalized rank for overpartitions.
    Chris Jennings-Shaffer, Oregon State University
    Holly Swisher*, Oregon State University
    (1128-11-51)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The structure of newforms in metaplectic representations.
    Brooks Roberts*, University of Idaho
    Ralf Schmidt, University of Oklahoma
    (1128-11-198)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Quantum mock modular forms arising from eta-theta functions.
    A. Folsom, Amherst College
    S. Garthwaite, Bucknell University
    S.-Y. Kang, Kangwon National University
    H. Swisher, Oregon State University
    S. Treneer*, Western Washington University
    (1128-11-292)
• Sunday April 23, 2017, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial and Algebraic Structures in Knot Theory, III
  Room 13, Wilson-Short Hall
  Organizers:
  Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna College knots@esotericka.org
  Allison Henrich, Seattle University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    A table of prime 2-bouquet graphs with up to seven crossings.
    Natsumi Oyamaguchi*, Shumei University
    (1128-57-160)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Augmented Alexander matrices and generalizations of twisted Alexander invariants and quandle cocycle invariants.
    Kanako Oshiro*, Sophia University
    Atsushi Ishii, University of Tsukuba
    (1128-57-113)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Signatures of 4-manifolds via linking numbers of knots in dihedral covers of $S^3$.
    Patricia Cahn*, Smith College
    Alexandra Kjuchukova, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1128-57-209)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On unified Khovanov homology and its computations.
    Krzysztof K. Putyra, ETH Z\"urich, Switzerland
    Alexander N. Shumakovitch*, The George Washington University
    (1128-57-331)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Torsion in Khovanov link homology.
    Radmila Sazdanovic*, NC State University
    Adam Lowrance, Vassar College
    (1128-57-265)
• Sunday April 23, 2017, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial and Computational Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, III
  Room 418, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Hirotachi Abo, University of Idaho abo@uidaho.edu
  Stefan Tohaneanu, University of Idaho
  Alexander Woo, University of Idaho
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Systems of parameters and the Cohen-Macaulay property.
    Katharine Shultis*, Gonzaga University
    (1128-13-55)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Geometry of high rank loci.
    Jaros{\l}aw Buczy\'nski, IMPAN, University of Warsaw
    Kangjin Han, Daegu-Gyeongbuk Institute of Science \& Technology (DGIST)
    Massimiliano Mella, Universit\`a di Ferrara
    Zach Teitler*, Boise State University
    (1128-14-45)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Multi-derivations on the moduli of the $X_3$ arrangement.
    Michael R DiPasquale*, Oklahoma State University
    Max Wakefield, United States Naval Academy
    (1128-13-114)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Gr\"obner basis for the graph of the reciprocal plane.
    Alex Fink*, Queen Mary University of London
    David E Speyer, University of Michigan
    Alexander Woo, University of Idaho
    (1128-05-273)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Simplicial complexes associated to matrix orbit closures.
    Andrew Berget*, Western Washington University
    (1128-05-190)
• Sunday April 23, 2017, 8:30 a.m.-10:25 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances on Mathematical Biology and Their Applications, III
  Room 207, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Robert Dillon, Washington State University
  Xueying Wang, Washington State University xueying@math.wsu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Behavior of a Population Interaction-Diffusion Equation in its Subcritical Regime.
    David J Wollkind*, Department of Mathematics, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-2930
    Mitchell G Davis, Department of Mathematics, Washington State University, Pullman WA USA
    Richard A Cangelosi, Department of Mathematics, Gonzaga University, Spokane WA USA
    Bonni J Dichone, Department of Mathematics, Gonzaga University, Spokane WA USA
    (1128-92-235)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Multistage models in HIV infection and treatment.
    Libin Rong*, Oakland University
    (1128-92-122)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Bayesian Network and Parameter Estimation for the nonlinear ODE System.
    Jie Zhao*, Washington State University
    Robert H. Dillon, Washington State University
    (1128-62-34)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Modeling the TGF$\beta$--SMAD signaling pathway interactions in a tumor microenvironment.
    Adnan Morshed*, Washington State University
    Prashanta Dutta, Washington State University
    Robert Dillon, Washington State University
    (1128-92-312)
• Sunday April 23, 2017, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Several Complex Variables and PDEs, III
  Room 219, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Andrew Raich, University of Arkansas araich@uark.edu
  Phillip Harrington, University of Arkansas
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Projective dual CR structures.
    David E Barrett*, University of Michigan
    Dusty Grundmeier, Harvard University
    (1128-32-251)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Global $L^q$ Gevrey Functions, Paley-Weiner Theorems, and the FBI Transform.
    Gustavo Hoepfner*, Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos
    Andrew Seth Raich, University of Arkansas
    (1128-35-357)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Geometric Analysis on the Diederich--Forn\ae ss index.
    Bingyuan Liu*, University of California, Riverside
    (1128-32-15)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On torsion and cotorsion of differentials on certain complete intersection rings.
    Claudia Miller, Syracuse University
    Sophia Vassiliadou*, Georgetown University
    (1128-32-284)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Characterizing strongly pseudoconvex domains.
    Andrew Zimmer*, University of Chicago
    (1128-32-223)
• Sunday April 23, 2017, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Clustering of Graphs: Theory and Practice, III
  Room 114, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Stephen J. Young, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory stephen.young@pnnl.gov
  Jennifer Webster, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Uncertainty in Community Detection.
    Jennifer B Webster*, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    Stephen J Young, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    Patrick Mackey, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    (1128-00-214)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Spectral gap of random bipartite biregular graphs with application to clustering.
    Gerandy Brito*, University of Washington
    Ioana Dumitriu, University of Washington
    Kameron Harris, University of Washington
    (1128-15-224)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Measuring and modeling bipartite graphs with community structure.
    Sinan G Aksoy*, UC San Diego
    Tamara G Kolda, Sandia National Laboratories
    Ali Pinar, Sandia National Laboratories
    (1128-05-208)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Polynomial Time Solution for Correlation Clustering on Low-Rank Positive Semidefinite Matrices.
    L. Nate Veldt*, Purdue University
    (1128-68-14)
• Sunday April 23, 2017, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Fixed Point Methods in Differential and Integral Equations, III
  Room 6, Wilson-Short Hall
  Organizers:
  Theodore A. Burton, Southern Illinois University in Carbondale taburton@olypen.com
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Fixed Point Theory, Integral Equations, and Resolvents.
    D. P. Dwiggins*, Deptartment of Mathematical Sciences, University of Memphis
    (1128-45-137)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Fixed Point Methods and Boundary Value Problems at Resonance.
    Paul Eloe*, Dayton
    (1128-34-174)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Compactness Criterion for Sets of Solutions of Fractional Differential Equations.
    Paul Eloe, Dayton
    Tyler Masthay*, University of Dayton
    (1128-26-172)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Integro-differential Equations:Progressive Contractions.
    T. A. Burton*, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois
    (1128-45-43)
• Sunday April 23, 2017, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Undergraduate Research Experiences in the Classroom, II
  Room 409, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Heather Moon, Lewis-Clark State College hamoon@lcmail.lcsc.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    PIC Math -- a course for undergraduate students to do research on actual problems from industry.
    Michael Dorff*, Brigham Young University
    (1128-00-98)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Application-Inspired Linear Algebra.
    Tom Asaki*, Washington State University
    Marie Snipes, Kenyon College
    Chris Camfield, Hendrix College
    Heather A Moon, Lewis-Clark State College
    (1128-97-195)
• Sunday April 23, 2017, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Theory and Applications of Linear Algebra, III
  Room 407, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Judi McDonald, Washington State University jmcdonald1@wsu.edu
  Michael Tsatsomeros, Washington State University
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday April 23, 2017, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Closed range of the Cauchy-Riemann operator on domains in $\mathbb {C}^{n}$.
  Room 203, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Andrew S Raich*, University of Arkansas
  (1128-32-136)
• Sunday April 23, 2017, 12:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
  Internships and Postgraduate Positions in Industry and the National Labs
  \& with Discussion
  Room 518, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Laramie Paxton, Washington State University realtimemath@gmail.com
  Justin Theriot, EMSI
  Kevin R Vixie, Washington State University and Sailfan Research
  Moderators:
  Kevin R Vixie, Washington State University and Sailfan Research
  Panelists:
  Patrick Campbell, Multiscale Health Systems
  Rick Chartrand, Descartes Labs
  Pieter Swart, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  Sharif Ibrahim, Intel
  Cliff Joslyn, Pacific Northwest National Lab
  Eric Larson, University of California, Los Angeles/Los Alamos National Laboratory
  Gavin Smith, Intel
  Matt Sottile, Noddle.io
• Sunday April 23, 2017, 2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Early Career Research and Exposition: Posters and Discussions
  5th Floor, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Enrique Alvarado, Washington State University
  Yunfeng Hu, Washington State University Yunfeng.Hu90@gmail.com
  Kevin R Vixie, Washington State University and Sailfan Research
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Median Shapes.
    Yunfeng Hu*, Washington State University
    Bala Krishnamoorthy, Washington State University
    Matthew Hudelson, Washington State University
    Altansuren Tumurbaatar, Washington State University
    Kevin Vixie, Washington State University
    (1128-51-22)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Cubical Coverings of sets in $\mathbb{R}^n$.
    Kevin R. Vixie, Washington State University
    Laramie S. Paxton*, Washington State University
    (1128-28-25)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Mathematical Modeling of Signaling Pathways of Fibroblast in Breast Cancer.
    Jie Zhao*, Washington State University
    Robert H. Dillon, Washington State University
    (1128-92-35)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Detection and classification of liver with tumor.
    Yufeng Cao*, Pullman
    (1128-49-49)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Student Agency and Engagement in an Active-Learning Business Calculus Class.
    Abigail L. Higgins*, Washington State University
    (1128-97-56)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Critical Components of a Developmental Online Mathematics Course.
    Candace Mae Chappelle*, Washington State University
    (1128-97-57)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Uses of Neurocognitive Measures to Evaluate Cognitive Load During the Mathematical Proving Process.
    Shiv Karunakaran*, Washington State University
    James Whitbread, Washington State University
    Abigail L. Higgins, Washington State University
    (1128-97-58)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Spectrally Arbitrary Zero-Nonzero Patterns over Rings with Unity.
    Jillian Louise Glassett*, Washington State Unviersity
    Judith McDonald, Washington State Unviersity
    (1128-15-60)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Finding fixed points of Boolean networks.
    Vladyslav Oles*, Washington State University
    (1128-14-61)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    A energy-based interaction model for population opinion dynamics with topic coupling.
    Hossein Noorazar*, Washington State University
    (1128-00-62)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Median Shapes on Simplicial Complexes.
    Yunfeng Hu, Washington State University
    Bala Krishnamoorthy, Washington State University
    Matthew Hudelson, Washington State University
    Altansuren Tumurbaatar*, Washington State University
    Kevin R Vixie, Washington State University
    (1128-51-63)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    On the Measure of a Cantor Set Packing in $\mathbb{R}$.
    Yunfeng Hu, Pullman
    Enrique Alvarado*, Washington State University
    (1128-28-66)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Strengthening an inequality due to Chang, Wilson, and Wolff.
    Henry Riely*, Washington State Univeristy
    (1128-26-70)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Nested Archimedean Copulas and Tail Dependences.
    Rui Huang*, Washington State University, Pullman WA
    (1128-60-74)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    partial differentiation for composed linear functions in N dimensions.
    Maximillian Vaughn Hart*, Washington State University
    (1128-46-77)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    The Viscous Dysthe equation with and without surface tension.
    Sean Bassler*, seattle university
    John Carter, Seattle University
    (1128-35-78)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    The Inverse and Implicit Function Theorems.
    Eric Foley*, Washington State University
    (1128-58-80)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    The Wulff Problem.
    Kellan R Toman*, Washington State University
    (1128-51-85)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Most Economical Common Dissection of a Square and Equilateral Triangle.
    Trent A DeGiovanni*, Gonzaga University
    (1128-51-90)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Convolution neural network for sentence classification of text data.
    Prashant Gupta*, PULLMAN
    (1128-68-93)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Reconstructing the water-wave profile from pressure measurements in a moving body of water.
    Joseph Nakao*, Seattle University
    Katie Oliveras, Seattle University
    (1128-35-94)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Let Them Tweet Cake: Estimating Political Stability Using Twitter Data.
    Ethan Spangler*, Washington State University
    Ben Smith, University of Nebraska-Omaha
    (1128-91-102)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Sharpening the Volume Bound on a Class of Hyperbolic Augmented Links.
    Hayley Anne Olson*, Gonzaga University
    (1128-57-104)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Klein Knots and Links.
    Steven R Beres*, Gonzaga University
    Rachael R Kuhn, Gonzaga University
    (1128-57-131)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    A New Perspective of Steady Flow over Bathymetry.
    Daniel Ferguson*, Seattle University
    Katie Oliveras, Seattle University
    Vishal Vasan, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences
    (1128-35-142)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Student mathematical connections in an introductory linear algebra course employing inquiry-oriented teaching.
    Spencer Payton*, Washington State University
    (1128-97-143)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Synaptic Plasticity in Excitatory and Inhibitory Hippocampal Neuron Circuit Dynamics.
    Dominika W Dec, University of Montana
    Claire Seibold*, University of Montana
    Emily Stone, University of Montana
    (1128-00-183)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Modelling a Biological Membrane as a Two Phase Viscous Fluid with Curvature Elasticity.
    Ross E. Magi*, Walla Walla University
    James P. Keener, University of Utah
    (1128-76-196)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Analyzing the Algebra of the Schr\"odinger Equation.
    Paula R. Kimmerling*, Washington State University
    Jacob W. Hastings, Washington State University
    (1128-70-206)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Piracy Detection Algorithms for Obfuscated Copyrighted Videos.
    Ethan Moon Mahintorabi*, Gonzaga University
    Justin Dickinson Marks, Gonzaga University
    (1128-68-236)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    GABAergic Synaptic Mechanisms in Information Transmission.
    Ellie Bayat*, The University of Montana
    Emily F. Stone, The University of Montana
    (1128-60-240)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Intercomparison of photogrammetry methods for 3D modeling of vegetation.
    Alexandra Probst*, University of Washington
    Demetrios Gatziolis, Pacific Northwest Research Station, US Forest Service
    Nikolay S Strigul, Washington State University Vancouver
    (1128-68-248)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Minimum Homotopy Area of a Closed Curve.
    Bala Krishnamoorthy, Washington State University
    Ben Rapone*, Washington State University
    (1128-55-252)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Determination of Character Table for $D_{3h}$ Point Group.
    Carlee Ann Walker*, Walla Walla University
    (1128-15-254)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Transport of Particles in a Biofilm-lined Hot Spring Effluent Channel.
    Benjamin D. Jackson*, Department of Mathematics, Walla Walla University
    (1128-92-258)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Student's Perceived Barriers to Higher Education in Belize.
    Jillian Jinelle Morrison*, Washington State University
    (1128-62-262)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Modeling Tree Species Distribution as a Function of Climate.
    Keefe Koenig*, Washington State University Vancouver
    Nikolay S. Strigul, Washington State University Vancouver
    (1128-92-275)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Finding Order in Chaos: Modeling Hidden Markov States.
    Gabrielle I. Warren*, Department of Mathematics, Walla Walla University
    Benjamin D. Jackson, Department of Mathematics, Walla Walla University
    (1128-60-289)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Representations of the Quantum Double.
    John E. Foster*, Walla Walla University
    (1128-16-298)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Decomposing leaf hydraulic conductance with a hybrid numerical method.
    Frank H Lynch*, EWU
    (1128-92-306)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Metapopulation Dynamics Incorporating an Allee Effect.
    Ernie Tsybulnik*, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA 99258
    (1128-34-307)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Divergence, Permutations, and the Axiom of Choice: Exploring Cardinalities of Infinite Symmetric Groups.
    Michael Newsham*, Washington State University
    (1128-00-311)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Cluster algebras and their connection to triangulated $n$-gons and Coxeter groups.
    Sharon Henzler*, Gonzaga University
    Cameron Healy, Gonzaga University
    (1128-16-316)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Measuring Salary Inequality at Master's Colleges and Universities.
    Kevin E Henrickson, Gonzaga University
    Joseph B Kincanon*, Gonzaga University
    Thomas McKenzie, Gonzaga University
    (1128-91-318)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Uber meets UPS--Dynamic Delivery Routing.
    Sahar Nesaei*, Washington State University Vancouver
    Sepideh Nesaei, Washington State University Vancouver
    (1128-90-319)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Finding Structure In Cancer Gene Expression Data Using Topology.
    Sepideh Nesaei*, Washington State University Vancouver
    Sahar Nesaei, Washington State University Vancouver
    (1128-55-320)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Grassmann Manifold Means.
    Justin Dickinson Marks*, Gonzaga University
    (1128-15-327)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Optimizing nitrogen management for simultaneous control of yield and protein content for wheat.
    Xin Gao*, Washington State University
    Hongbo Dong, Washington State University
    Haiying Tao, Washington State University
    David R Huggins, USDA-ARS, Washington State University
    Tabitha T Brown, Washington State University
    (1128-92-328)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Fractional calculus and applications of the Riesz Potential.
    Adebo James Sijuwade*, Washington State University Pullman Campus
    (1128-31-330)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Recent Developments on the Component Reduction Results of Serrin-type Regularity Criterion for Equations Concerning Fluid.
    Kazuo Yamazaki*, Department of Mathematics, University of Rochester
    (1128-35-332)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Comparing the Growth Rates of $(ax)!$ and $x^x$.
    Daniel Gallab*, Gonzaga University
    (1128-26-334)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Direct Canopy Interception Measurements using the Euler Bernoulli Equation.
    Matthew J. Pruett*, Washington State University Vancouver
    Nikolay Strigul, Washington State University Vancouver
    Kevan B. Moffett, Washington State University Vancouver
    (1128-92-336)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    A Lower Bound on the Reach of Flat Norm Minimizers.
    Enrique G Alvarado*, Washington State University
    Kevin R Vixie, Washington State University
    (1128-51-337)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Symbol System Flexibility and Justifications in Multiplying Polynomials.
    Cameron Sweet*, Washington State University
    (1128-97-338)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    A Computational and Discrete Dynamical Systems View of The Brain As An Associative Memory: Some Insights into Why Determining Memory Capacity Is An Intrinsically Hard Problem.
    Predrag T Tosic*, Washington State University
    (1128-92-339)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Detecting Evasion Paths in Sensor Networks.
    Matthew S Broussard*, Washington State University
    (1128-55-343)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Ion Channels in Neurons.
    Allison Beth Fisher*, Washington State University
    (1128-92-348)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Loops in a Generalized Collatz Mapping.
    Caleb N Hunter*, Walla Walla University
    (1128-11-353)
• Sunday April 23, 2017, 2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Fixed Point Methods in Differential and Integral Equations, IV
  Room 6, Wilson-Short Hall
  Organizers:
  Theodore A. Burton, Southern Illinois University in Carbondale taburton@olypen.com
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday April 23, 2017, 2:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Inverse Problems, IV
  Room 202, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Hanna Makaruk, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
  Robert Owczarek, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque \& Los Alamos rowczare@unm.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Does extreme Khovanov homology lead to bouquets of spheres?
    Jozef H. Przytycki*, George Washington University
    Marithania Silvero, IMPAN, Warsaw, Poland
    (1128-57-274)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Search for torsion in Khovanov homology.
    Sujoy Mukherjee, The George Washington University, Washington DC
    J\'ozef H. Przytycki, The George Washington University, Washington DC and University of Gdansk, Poland
    Marithania Silvero, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain and Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
    Xiao Wang*, The George Washington University, Washington DC
    Seung Yeop Yang, The George Washington University, Washington DC
    (1128-57-253)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On quandle homology of the abelian extension of a quasigroup quandle.
    J\'ozef H. Przytycki, George Washington University
    Seung Yeop Yang*, George Washington University
    (1128-55-222)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Catalan States of Lattice Crossing: Application of Plucking Polynomial.
    M K Dabkowski*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, UTD
    J H Przytycki, Department of Mathemathics, GWU
    (1128-57-283)
• Sunday April 23, 2017, 2:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Microlocal Analysis and Spectral Theory, IV
  Room 119, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Michael Hitrik, University of California, Los Angeles hitrik@math.ucla.edu
  Semyon Dyatlov, Masssachusetts Institute of Technology
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    The radiation field on conic manifolds.
    Dean Baskin*, Texas A University
    (1128-35-280)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Equidistribution properties of toral eigenfunctions.
    Hamid Hezari*, UC Irvine
    (1128-35-290)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Interfaces in spectral and Berman kernel asymptotics.
    Steve Zelditch*, Northwestern University
    Peng Zhou, Northwestern University
    (1128-58-47)
• Sunday April 23, 2017, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Several Complex Variables and PDEs, IV
  Room 219, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Andrew Raich, University of Arkansas araich@uark.edu
  Phillip Harrington, University of Arkansas
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday April 23, 2017, 2:00 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Undergraduate Research Experiences in the Classroom, III
  Room 409, The Smith Center for Undergraduate Education
  Organizers:
  Heather Moon, Lewis-Clark State College hamoon@lcmail.lcsc.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Town Hall Research Project in Introductory Statistics.
    J OShaughnessy*, Shenandoah University
    (1128-97-40)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Using Image and Data Problems to Introduce Research-Like Experiences for Undergraduate Students.
    Heather A. Moon*, Lewis-Clark State College
    (1128-97-189)

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