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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

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

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

Saturday April 22, 2017

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