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Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting
University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY
September 16-17, 2017 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1132

Associate secretaries:

Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu

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Sunday September 17, 2017

• Sunday September 17, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Second Floor, Knox Lecture Hall
• Sunday September 17, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Second Floor, Knox Lecture Hall
• Sunday September 17, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Topology, III
  Room 214, O'Brian Hall
  Organizers:
  Claudia Miller, Syracuse University
  Inna Zakharevich, Cornell University zakh@math.cornell.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The Leopoldt conjecture via computational stable homotopy theory.
    A. Salch*, Wayne State University
    (1132-55-163)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Higher-Dimensional Homologically Persistent Skeleton.
    Sara Kalisnik*, Max Planck Institute, Leipzig
    Davorin Lesnik, University of Ljubljana
    Vitaliy Kurlin, University of Liverpool
    (1132-55-181)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    What we don't know about free loop spaces and closed geodesics.
    John McCleary*, Vassar College
    (1132-55-287)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Periodic orbits and topological restriction homology.
    Cary Malkiewich*, SUNY Binghamton
    (1132-55-207)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Cubical sets and the homotopy coherent nerve.
    Krzysztof R Kapulkin*, University of Western Ontario
    Vladimir A Voevodsky, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
    (1132-55-103)
• Sunday September 17, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, III
  Room 209, O'Brian Hall
  Organizers:
  Joel Louwsma, Niagara University jlouwsma@niagara.edu
  Johanna Mangahas, University at Buffalo-SUNY
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Relatively hyperbolic groups vs 3-manifold groups.
    Genevieve S Walsh*, Tufts University
    (1132-20-104)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Counting loxodromics for actions of relatively hyperbolic groups.
    Giulio Tiozzo*, University of Toronto
    (1132-20-172)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Lifting curve pairs simply via hyperbolic geometry.
    Tarik Aougab*, Providence
    Priyam Patel, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Samuel Taylor, Temple University
    (1132-57-187)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Efficient geodesics in the complex of curves and the complex of arcs and curves: Preliminary report.
    William W Menasco*, University at Buffalo---SUNY
    Joan Birman, Barnard College of Columbia Univ.
    (1132-54-140)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Left-invariant pseudo-metrics on big mapping class groups.
    Matthew Gentry Durham, Yale University
    Federica Fanoni, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics
    Nicholas G Vlamis*, University of Michigan
    (1132-20-126)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Soficity and variations on Higman's group.
    Martin Kassabov, Cornell University
    Vivian Kuperberg, Cornell University
    Timothy Riley*, Cornell University
    (1132-20-56)
• Sunday September 17, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Dispersive Partial Differential Equations, II
  Room 222, Natural Sciences Complex
  Organizers:
  Santosh Bhattrai, Trocaire College BhattaraiS@trocaire.edu
  Sharad Silwal, Jefferson College of Health Sciences
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Gibbsian dynamics and ergodicity of stochastic micropolar fluid system.
    Kazuo Yamazaki*, Department of Mathematics, University of Rochester
    (1132-76-20)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Wiener Test on the Removability of the Logarithmic Singularity for the Elliptic PDEs with Measurable Coefficients and Its Consequences.
    Ugur G. Abdulla*, Florida Institute of Technology
    (1132-35-226)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    An existence result for superlinear semipositone $p$-Laplacian systems on the exterior of a ball.
    Maya Chhetri, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    Lakshmi Sankar, Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad
    Ratnasingham Shivaji, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    Byungjae Son*, Wayne State University
    (1132-35-31)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Steady states for classes of reaction-diffusion equations with U-shaped density dependent dispersal on the boundary.
    Jerome Goddard II, Auburn University at Montgomery
    Quinn A. Morris*, Swarthmore College
    Catherine Payne, Winston-Salem State University
    R. shivaji, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    (1132-35-11)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On a class of asymptotically linear systems.
    Maya Chhetri*, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    (1132-35-30)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Standing waves for pseudo-relativistic nonlinear Schrodinger equations.
    Santosh Bhattarai*, Trocaire College, 360 Choate Ave, Buffalo, NY 14220, USA
    (1132-35-132)
• Sunday September 17, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Evolution Equations, III
  Room 220, Natural Sciences Complex
  Organizers:
  Marius Beceanu, SUNY Albany mbeceanu@albany.edu
  Dan-Andrei Geba, University of Rochester
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Pair excitations and the mean field approximation of interacting Bosons.
    Manoussos G. Grillakis*, University of Maryland, College Park
    Matei Machedon, University of Maryland, College Park
    (1132-35-239)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Instabiity of solitons in Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation.
    Luiz Gustavo Farah, UFMG, Brazil
    Justin Holmer, Brown University
    Svetlana Roudenko*, The George Washington University
    (1132-35-344)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Scattering for the defocusing critical wave equation on Schwarzschild backgrounds.
    Mihai H Tohaneanu*, University of Kentucky
    (1132-35-267)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Asymptotics and blow-up at infinity for quasilinear wave equations.
    Fabio Pusateri*, Princeton University
    Yu Deng, Courant Institute - New Your University
    (1132-35-243)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Limiting Absorption Principle for Dirac Operators in Two and Higher Dimensions.
    Burak Erdogan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Michael Goldberg*, University of Cincinnati
    William Green, Rose-Hulman Institute of Tecnology
    (1132-35-183)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Growth of Sobolev norms for the Nonlinear Schrodinger equation.
    Benoit Pausader*, Brown University
    (1132-35-310)
• Sunday September 17, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations Arising from Life Science, III
  Room 218, Natural Sciences Complex
  Organizers:
  Junping Shi, College of William and Mary shij@math.wm.edu
  Xingfu Zou, University of Western Ontario
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Mathematical modeling of mechanisms making arterial plaques vulnerable.
    Jonathan G Bell*, University of Maryland Baltimore County
    (1132-92-35)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Pattern formation of the attraction-repulsion Keller-Segel system.
    Ping Liu*, School of Mathematical Sciences, Harbin Normal University, heilongjiang,China
    (1132-39-345)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    An age-structured virus model with two routs of infection in heterogeneous environments.
    Chang-Yuan Cheng*, Department of Applied Mathematics, National Pingtung University
    Yueping Dong, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University
    Yasuhiro Takeuchi, Department of Physics and Mathematics, Aoyama Gakuin University
    (1132-03-330)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Combination therapy of cancer with cancer vaccine and immune checkpoint inhibitors: A mathematical model.
    Xiulan Lai*, Renmin University of China & Ohio State University
    Avner Friedman, Ohio State University
    (1132-35-96)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Numerical treatment of degenrate cross-diffusion equations arising in biofilm modeling.
    Hermann J Eberl*, University of Guelph
    (1132-92-269)
• Sunday September 17, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Polynomials in Enumerative, Algebraic, and Geometric Combinatorics, III
  Room 213, Norton Hall
  Organizers:
  Robert Davis, Michigan State University davisr@math.msu.edu
  Bruce Sagan, Michigan State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Inversion and Major Index Statistics on Standard Young Tableaux.
    Jim Haglund*, University of Pennsylvania
    Emily Sergel, University of Pennsylvania
    (1132-05-190)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    On restricted Smirnov words enumerated by descent number.
    Brittney Ellzey*, University of Miami
    Michelle L. Wachs, University of Miami
    (1132-05-294)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Dual immaculate quasisymmetric functions expand positively into quasisymmetric Schur functions.
    Edward Allen, Wake Forest University
    Joshua Hallam, Wake Forest University
    Sarah Mason*, Wake Forest University
    (1132-05-279)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Rational Dyck Paths in the Non-Relatively Prime Case.
    Mikhail Mazin*, Kansas State University
    Eugene Gorsky, UC Davis
    Monica Vazirani, UC Davis
    (1132-05-248)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Euler-Mahonian statistics and descent bases for semigroup algebras.
    Benjamin Braun, University of Kentucky
    McCabe Olsen*, University of Kentucky
    (1132-05-58)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Box polynomials.
    Richard Ehrenborg*, University of Kentucky
    Alex Happ, University of Kentucky
    Dustin Hedmark, Montgomery Bell Academy
    Cyrus Hettle, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1132-05-228)
• Sunday September 17, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advancements in Representation Theory, III
  Room 109, O'Brian Hall
  Organizers:
  Yiqiang Li, University at Buffalo-SUNY yiqiang@buffalo.edu
  Gufang Zhao, University of Massachusetts
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On the Humphreys conjecture on support varieties of tilting modules.
    Pramod N. Achar*, Louisiana State University
    William Hardesty, Louisiana State University
    Simon Riche, Université Clermont Auvergne
    (1132-20-286)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Schur algebras with unequal parameters.
    Chun-Ju Lai*, University of Georgia
    Li Luo, East China Normal University
    (1132-17-66)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Isomorphisms between $U_{\hbar}(\mathfrak{sl}_n)$ and $U(\mathfrak{sl}_n)$.
    Sachin Gautam*, The Ohio State University
    Andrea Appel, University of Edinburgh
    (1132-17-276)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Irreducible components of exotic Springer fibres and Robinson-Schensted correspondence.
    Vinoth Nandakumar, University of Sidney
    Daniele Rosso*, Indiana University Northwest
    Neil Saunders, University of Greenwich
    (1132-14-205)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A quantum analogue of generalized cluster algebras.
    Liqian Bai, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an. P.R. China
    Xueqing Chen*, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. WI. 53190. USA.
    Ming Ding, Nankai University, Tianjin, P.R.China
    Fan Xu, Tsinghua University. Beijing. P. R. China
    (1132-16-254)
• Sunday September 17, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Progress in Geometric Analysis, III
  Room 210, Natural Sciences Complex
  Organizers:
  Ovidiu Munteanu, University of Connecticut ovidiu.munteanu@uconn.edu
  Terrence Napier, Lehigh University
  Mohan Ramachandran, University at Buffalo
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Geometry of Riemannian manifolds with density.
    William Wylie*, Syracuse University
    (1132-53-263)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Non-degeneracy conditions perturbation constructions.
    Stephen J Kleene*, University of Rochester
    (1132-53-259)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    NEW TIME: Embeddedness of the solutions to the H-Plateau Problem.
    Baris Coskunuzer*, Boston College
    (1132-53-18)
• Sunday September 17, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Structural and Chromatic Graph Theory, III
  Room 210, Norton Hall
  Organizers:
  Hong-Jian Lai, West Virginia University
  Rong Luo, West Virginia University rluo@math.wvu.edu
  Cun-Quan Zhang, West Virginia University
  Yue Zhao, University of Central Florida
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Some results for graphs without long cycles.
    Ruth Luo*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Zoltan Furedi, Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics
    Alexandr Kostochka, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Jacques Verstraete, University of California at San Diego
    (1132-05-275)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Extremal $C_6$-free or $P_k$-free Planar Graphs for Small $k$.
    Yongxin Lan, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
    Suil O, The State University of New York, Incheon, Korea
    Yongtang Shi, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
    Zi-Xia Song*, Department of Mathematics, University of Central Florida
    (1132-05-100)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Some stability results on the circumference of a graph.
    Jie Ma*, University of Science and Technology of China
    (1132-05-250)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Circuit Covers of Signed Graphs.
    Dong Ye*, Middle Tennessee State University
    Yezhou Wu, Zhejiang University
    (1132-05-204)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Orientable cycle double covers of toroidal graphs.
    Mark Ellingham*, Vanderbilt University
    Wenzhong Liu, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
    Dong Ye, Middle Tennessee State University
    Xiaoya Zha, Middle Tennessee State University
    (1132-05-171)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    An Approximate Ore-type Result for Tight Hamilton Cycles in Uniform Hypergraphs.
    Guiying Yan*, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science (AMSS),Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS),Beijing,100190
    (1132-05-214)
• Sunday September 17, 2017, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Advanced Techniques in Graph Theory, III
  Room 209, Norton Hall
  Organizers:
  Sogol Jahanbekam, Rochester Institute of Technology sxjsma@rit.edu
  Paul Wenger, Rochester Institute of Technology
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Saturation Number of Induced Subposets of the Boolean Lattice.
    Michael Ferrara, University of Colorado Denver
    Bill Kay, Emory University
    Lucas Kramer, Briar Cliff University
    Ryan C. Martin, Iowa State University
    Benjamin Reiniger, Illinois Institute of Technology
    Heather C. Smith, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Eric Sullivan*, University of Colorado Denver
    (1132-05-284)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Combinatorial Nullstellensatz in Graph Theory.
    Danny Rorabaugh*, Queen's University
    (1132-05-301)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Bounding the tripartite-circle crossing number of complete tripartite graphs.
    Charles Camacho, Oregon State University
    Silvia Fernandez-Merchant, California State University, Northridge
    Marija Jelic, University of Belgrade
    Rachel Kirsch, University of Nebraska
    Linda Kleist, Technische Universitat Berlin
    Elizabeth Bailey Matson, Auburn University
    Jennifer White*, Saint Vincent College
    (1132-05-242)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Degree Ramsey numbers for even cycles.
    Michael Tait*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1132-05-260)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Zarankiewicz's problem for semi-algebraic hypergraphs.
    Thao T. Do*, MIT
    (1132-05-47)
• Sunday September 17, 2017, 8:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Automorphic Forms and L-functions, III
  Room 112, O'Brian Hall
  Organizers:
  Mahdi Asgari, Oklahoma State University
  Joseph Hundley, University at Buffalo-SUNY jahundle@buffalo.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    A Preliminary Report on Extending Cohen's Construction of a Maass Form.
    Karen Taylor*, Bronx Community College, CUNY
    (1132-11-338)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the Signs of Coefficients of General Dirichlet Series.
    Wladimir de Azevedo Pribitkin*, College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center, City University of New York
    (1132-11-195)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Spectral asymptotics on sequences of elliptically degenerating Riemann surfaces.
    Daniel J Garbin*, Queensborough Community College - CUNY
    (1132-11-15)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Langlands L-functions and counting geodesic cycles in complexes.
    Wen-Ching Winnie Li*, Pennsylvania State University
    (1132-11-52)
• Sunday September 17, 2017, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Cohomology, Deformations, and Quantum Groups: A Session Dedicated to the Memory of Samuel D. Schack, III
  Room 214, Norton Hall
  Organizers:
  Miodrag Iovanov, University of Iowa
  Mihai D. Staic, Bowling Green State University
  Alin Stancu, Columbus State University stancu_alin1@columbusstate.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Homology Operations in Symmetric Homology.
    Shaun V. Ault*, Valdosta State University
    (1132-55-10)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The unicity of homotopy transfer: A deformation theoretic proof.
    Christopher L Rogers*, University of Nevada, Reno
    (1132-18-216)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On homotopy Lie bialgebroids.
    Denis Bashkirov*, University of Minnesota
    Alexander A. Voronov, University of Minnesota
    (1132-17-298)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Quantum master equation and deformation theory.
    Alexander A Voronov*, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
    (1132-18-143)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Representation Theory of the Kauffman Bracket Skein algebra.
    Charles Frohman*, The University of Iowa
    Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska, National Science Foundation
    Thang Le, Georgia Tech University
    (1132-57-12)
• Sunday September 17, 2017, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Infinite Groups and Geometric Structures: A Session in Honor of the Sixtieth Birthday of Andrew Nicas, III
  Room 210, O'Brian Hall
  Organizers:
  Hans Boden, McMaster University
  David Rosenthal, St. John's University rosenthd@stjohns.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Morse moves in framed flow categories.
    Dirk Schuetz*, Durham University
    (1132-55-41)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Metric-transforms of $\delta$-hyperbolic spaces.
    George C. Dragomir*, McMaster University
    (1132-54-203)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Quasimorphisms on groups that act on trees.
    Matt Clay, University of Arkansas
    Max Forester, The University of Oklahoma
    Joel Louwsma*, Niagara University
    (1132-20-218)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Triple linking numbers and surface systems.
    Christopher W. Davis, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
    Matthias Nagel*, Université du Québec à Montréal
    Patrick Orson, Université du Québec à Montréal
    Mark Powell, Université du Québec à Montréal
    (1132-57-136)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Enhanced efficient geodesics in the complex of curves.
    William W Menasco*, University at Buffalo---SUNY
    (1132-54-182)
• Sunday September 17, 2017, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Knots, 3-manifolds and their Invariants, III
  Room 212, O'Brian Hall
  Organizers:
  William Menasco, University at Buffalo-SUNY
  Adam Sikora, University at Buffalo-SUNY asikora@buffalo.edu
  Stephan Wehrli, Syracuse University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    The ribbonlength of knot diagrams.
    Elizabeth Denne, Washington & Lee University
    John M. Sullivan, Technische Universitat, Berlin
    Nancy C. Wrinkle*, Northeastern Illinois University
    (1132-54-316)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On factorization and chromatic graph homology.
    Radmila Sazdanovic*, North Carolina State University
    Vladimir Baranovsky, Department of Mathematics, UC Irvine
    (1132-57-244)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Checkerboard plumbings.
    Thomas Kindred*, University of Iowa
    (1132-57-178)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    $\tau$-invariants for knots in rational homology spheres.
    Katherine Raoux*, Michigan State University
    (1132-57-296)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Volume conjectures for Reshetikhin-Turaev and Turaev-Viro invariants.
    Tian Yang*, Texas A&M University
    (1132-57-27)
• Sunday September 17, 2017, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Wave Equations, Inverse Scattering and Applications, III
  Room 216, Natural Sciences Complex
  Organizers:
  Gino Biondini, University at Buffalo-SUNY biondini@buffalo.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Multi-Component Nonlinear Waves in Optics and Atomic Condensates: Theory, Computations and Experiments.
    Panayotis Kevrekidis*, UMass, Amherst
    (1132-35-38)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Granular systems in 1D go to thermodynamic equilibrium.
    Surajit Sen*, Physics Dept, SUNY Buffalo
    Michelle Przedborski, Physics Dept, Brock Univ, Canada
    Thad A Harroun, Physics Dept., Brock Univ, Canada
    (1132-70-188)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Sampling switching dynamics in micromagnetic devices.
    Yiming Yu, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Richard O. Moore*, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Cyrill Muratov, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    (1132-60-288)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Integrable multi-component peakon equations from a modified AKNS scheme.
    Stephen Anco*, Brock University
    (1132-35-335)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Whitham modulation theory for (2+1)-dimensional evolution equations.
    Mark Ablowitz, University of Colorado
    Gino Biondini, University at Buffalo
    Qiao Wang*, University at Buffalo
    (1132-35-324)
• Sunday September 17, 2017, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on CR Geometry and Partial Differential Equations in Complex Analysis, III
  Room 205, Natural Sciences Complex
  Organizers:
  Ming Xiao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign mingxiao@illinois.edu
  Yuan Yuan, Syracuse University
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Bergman kernel on forms: General theory.
    Andrew S Raich*, University of Arkansas
    (1132-32-86)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Weighted Pluriregularity.
    Muhammed A. Alan*, Syracuse University
    (1132-32-312)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Flattening a non-degenerate CR singular point of real codimension two.
    Hanlong Fang*, Rutgers University
    Xiaojun Huang, Rutgers University
    (1132-32-63)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Geometric properties of upper level Sets of Lelong numbers of currents on $\mathbb{P}^n$.
    James J Heffers*, Syracuse University
    (1132-32-202)
• Sunday September 17, 2017, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on p-adic Aspects of Arithmetic Geometry, III
  Room 216, Norton Hall
  Organizers:
  Liang Xiao, University of Connecticut liang.xiao@uconn.edu
  Hui June Zhu, University at Buffalo-SUNY
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Adic eigenvarieties and locally analytic distributions.
    Daniel R. Gulotta*, Columbia University
    (1132-11-89)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Slopes of Hilbert modular forms.
    Chris D Birkbeck*, University College London
    (1132-11-79)
• Sunday September 17, 2017, 11:05 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  Invited Address
  The protean chromatic polynomial.
  Room 104, Knox Lecture Hall
  Bruce E Sagan*, Michigan State University
  (1132-05-4)
• Sunday September 17, 2017, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Topology, IV
  Room 214, O'Brian Hall
  Organizers:
  Claudia Miller, Syracuse University
  Inna Zakharevich, Cornell University zakh@math.cornell.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    On Some Applications of Topology Based on Polyhedral Product Spaces.
    Elizabeth Vidaurre*, University of Rochester
    (1132-55-194)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Genus-2 arithmetic and homotopy theory.
    Carl McTague*, University of Rochester
    (1132-55-212)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Localizing the $E_2$ term of the Adams spectral sequence.
    Eva Belmont*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1132-55-268)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Mackey functor homotopy in equivariant homotopy theory.
    Yan Zou*, University of Rochester
    (1132-55-217)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    $RO(G)$-graded Homotopy Mackey Functor of $H\underline{\mathbb{Z}}$ for cyclic p-groups.
    Mingcong Zeng*, University of Rochester
    (1132-55-220)
• Sunday September 17, 2017, 2:00 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Automorphic Forms and L-functions, IV
  Room 112, O'Brian Hall
  Organizers:
  Mahdi Asgari, Oklahoma State University
  Joseph Hundley, University at Buffalo-SUNY jahundle@buffalo.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Hyperbolic Fourier coefficients of modular forms and associated Dirichlet type series.
    Cormac O'Sullivan*, City University of New York
    (1132-11-97)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Automorphic distributions and the functional equation for metaplectic Eisenstein distributions.
    Brandon F Bate*, Houghton College
    (1132-11-317)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Kuznetsov, Petersson and Weyl on $GL(3)$.
    Jack Buttcane*, SUNY Buffalo
    (1132-11-102)
• Sunday September 17, 2017, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Cohomology, Deformations, and Quantum Groups: A Session Dedicated to the Memory of Samuel D. Schack, IV
  Room 214, Norton Hall
  Organizers:
  Miodrag Iovanov, University of Iowa
  Mihai D. Staic, Bowling Green State University
  Alin Stancu, Columbus State University stancu_alin1@columbusstate.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    $\varphi$ dimension of cyclic Nakayama algebras.
    Emre Sen*, Northeastern University
    (1132-18-300)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Preprojective algebras of tree type quivers.
    Shijie Zhu*, Northeastern University
    (1132-16-261)
• Sunday September 17, 2017, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, IV
  Room 209, O'Brian Hall
  Organizers:
  Joel Louwsma, Niagara University jlouwsma@niagara.edu
  Johanna Mangahas, University at Buffalo-SUNY
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Subgroup distortion in hyperbolic groups.
    Pallavi Dani*, Louisiana State University
    Timothy Riley, Cornell University
    (1132-20-110)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    NEW TIME: Quasiconvexity and Dehn filling.
    Daniel Groves, University of Illinois Chicago
    Jason Fox Manning*, Cornell University
    (1132-20-155)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Finiteness Properties of Nekrashevych groups.
    Rachel Skipper*, Binghamton University
    Matthew C.B. Zaremsky, University of Albany
    (1132-20-186)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Mapping class groups, coverings, braids and groupoids.
    Tyrone Ghaswala*, University of Waterloo
    Alan McLeay, University of Glasgow
    (1132-20-87)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Pseudo-Anosov mapping classes from pure mapping classes.
    Yohsuke Watanabe*, University of Hawaii at Manoa
    (1132-57-108)
• Sunday September 17, 2017, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Knots, 3-manifolds and their Invariants, IV
  Room 212, O'Brian Hall
  Organizers:
  William Menasco, University at Buffalo-SUNY
  Adam Sikora, University at Buffalo-SUNY asikora@buffalo.edu
  Stephan Wehrli, Syracuse University
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Welded $n$-links and cobordisms.
    Blake Karl Winter*, Oakland University
    (1132-14-121)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Concordance invariants of virtual knots.
    Hans U Boden*, McMaster University
    Micah Chrisman, Monmouth University
    Robin Gaudreau, McMaster University
    (1132-57-118)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Interlocking solid tori in contact 3-manifolds.
    Douglas J. LaFountain*, Western Illinois University
    (1132-57-144)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Future of braid foliation techniques.
    William W Menasco*, University at Buffalo---SUNY
    (1132-54-231)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Verification of the Jones unknot conjecture up to 22 crossings.
    Robert E Tuzun*, Department of Mathematics, University at Buffalo
    Adam S Sikora, Department of Mathematics, University at Buffalo
    (1132-54-165)
• Sunday September 17, 2017, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Evolution Equations, IV
  Room 220, Natural Sciences Complex
  Organizers:
  Marius Beceanu, SUNY Albany mbeceanu@albany.edu
  Dan-Andrei Geba, University of Rochester
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Existence and stability of blowup for wave maps into a negatively curved target.
    Roland Donninger, University of Bonn and Hausdorff Center for Mathematics
    Irfan Glogic*, The Ohio State University
    (1132-35-314)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Recent developments on the global regularity issue of the magnetohydrodynamics system.
    Kazuo Yamazaki*, Department of Mathematics, University of Rochester
    (1132-35-21)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the weak coupling limit of quantum many-body dynamics and the Quantum Boltzmann Equation.
    Xuwen Chen*, University of Rochester
    Yan Guo, Brown University
    (1132-35-43)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Large data global regularity for quasilinear generalizations of the wave map system.
    Dan Andrei Geba*, University of Rochester
    Manoussos G. Grillakis, University of Maryland, College Park
    (1132-35-227)
• Sunday September 17, 2017, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Wave Equations, Inverse Scattering and Applications, IV
  Room 216, Natural Sciences Complex
  Organizers:
  Gino Biondini, University at Buffalo-SUNY biondini@buffalo.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Reduced models for recurrence in the Korteweg-de Vries equation and related systems.
    A. David Trubatch*, Montclair State University
    (1132-35-326)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Global Wellposedness and Soliton Resolution for the Derivative Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation.
    Robert Jenkins, University of Arizona
    Jiaqi Liu*, University of Toronto
    Peter Perry, University of Kentucky
    Catherine Sulem, University of Toronto
    (1132-35-40)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A possible geometric solution mechanism for higher dimensional solitons.
    Edwin James Beggs*, College of Science, Swansea University, Wales
    (1132-35-313)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Small dispersion limits of integrable nonlinear PDEs with cosine initial condition.
    Guo Deng*, State University of New York at Buffalo
    Gino Biondini, State University of New York at Buffalo
    Stefano Trillo, University of Ferrara, Italy
    (1132-35-240)
• Sunday September 17, 2017, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Polynomials in Enumerative, Algebraic, and Geometric Combinatorics, IV
  Room 213, Norton Hall
  Organizers:
  Robert Davis, Michigan State University davisr@math.msu.edu
  Bruce Sagan, Michigan State University
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    An Introduction to the Quantum Ising Model.
    Joanna Ellis-Monaghan*, Saint Michael's College
    (1132-05-191)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    A categorification of the chromatic symmetric function.
    Radmila Sazdanovic*, NC State
    Martha Yip, University of Kentucky
    (1132-05-148)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A huge Tutte polynomial that is not transparent.
    David Forge, LRI, Université Paris-Sud
    Thomas Zaslavsky*, Binghamton University (SUNY)
    (1132-05-29)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On Graph Polynomials Related to Vertex Colorings.
    Jason I. Brown*, Dalhousie University
    (1132-05-135)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Self-reciprocal polynomials arising from reversed Dickson polynomials.
    Neranga Fernando*, Northeastern University, Boston
    (1132-05-59)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Deformations of Stiefel Diagrams.
    James McKeown*, University of Miami
    (1132-05-281)
• Sunday September 17, 2017, 2:00 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
  Special Session on p-adic Aspects of Arithmetic Geometry, IV
  Room 216, Norton Hall
  Organizers:
  Liang Xiao, University of Connecticut liang.xiao@uconn.edu
  Hui June Zhu, University at Buffalo-SUNY
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Upper bounds for constant slope $p$-adic families of modular forms.
    John Bergdall*, Michigan State University
    (1132-11-73)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Slopes of modular forms and the Ghost conjecture.
    Ruochuan Liu, Beijing International Center for Mathematical Research, Peking University
    Liang Xiao, Department of Mathematics, University of Connecticut
    Bin Zhao*, Department of Mathematics, University of Connecticut
    (1132-11-127)
• Sunday September 17, 2017, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advancements in Representation Theory, IV
  Room 109, O'Brian Hall
  Organizers:
  Yiqiang Li, University at Buffalo-SUNY yiqiang@buffalo.edu
  Gufang Zhao, University of Massachusetts
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Bar categories of modules and categorical actions of algebras.
    Rina Anno*, Kansas State University
    Timothy Logvinenko, Cardiff University
    (1132-18-327)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Fermionic representations of Twisted Toroidal Lie Algebras.
    Chad R Mangum*, Niagara University
    Kailash C Misra, North Carolina State University
    Naihuan Jing, North Carolina State University
    (1132-17-9)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Growth Diagrams from Polygons in the Affine Grassmannian.
    Tair Akhmejanov*, Cornell University
    (1132-05-24)

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