AMS Sectional Meeting Full Program

Current as of Friday, March 9, 2018 09:17:33

Spring Central Sectional Meeting

• Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
• March 16-18, 2018 (Friday - Sunday)
• Meeting #1136

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

Please note room assignments are subject to change right up until the meeting occurs. The program published here is continually updated and may be more current than the printed program.

Friday March 16, 2018

• Friday March 16, 2018, 1:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Workshop on Categorical, Homological and Combinatorial Methods in Algebra
  Room 240, Cockins Hall
  Organizers:
  Pedro A. Guil Asensio, University of Murcia
  Ivo Herzog, Ohio State University
  Andre Leroy, University of Artois
  Ashish K. Srivastava, Saint Louis University asrivas3@slu.edu
  

  • 1:30 p.m.
    Poor modules with no proper poor direct summands.
    Rafail Alizade, Yaşar University
    Engİn Büyükaşık, Izmir Institute of Technology
    Sergio R López-Permouth*, Ohio University
    Liu Yang, Jilin University
    (1136-16-255)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    On Extending and (Quasi-)Baer Module Hulls.
    Jae Keol Park, Department of Mathematics, Busan National University, Busan 46241, South Korea
    Syed Tariq Rizvi*, Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University, Lima, OH 45804
    (1136-16-53)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Pure-minimal chain complexes.
    Lars Winther Christensen*, Texas Tech University
    Peder Thompson, Texas Tech University
    (1136-16-445)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Endoproperties of direct products of strict Mittag-Leffler modules.
    Philipp S. Rothmaler*, CUNY
    (1136-16-458)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Balanced pairs and cotorsion triplets.
    Sergio Estrada*, Universidad de Murcia
    Marco A. Pérez, Universidad de la República
    Haiyan Zhu, Zhejiang University of Technology
    (1136-18-231)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    $FP_n$-injective and $FP_n$-flat covers and preenvelopes; Gorenstein AC-flat covers.
    Daniel Bravo, Universidad Austral de Chile
    Sergio Estrada, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
    Alina Iacob*, Georgia Southern University
    Marco Perez, Instituto de Matematicas. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
    (1136-18-190)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Faith's problem on $R$-projectivity is undecidable.
    Jan Trlifaj*, Univerzita Karlova, Praha
    (1136-16-44)

Saturday March 17, 2018

• Saturday March 17, 2018, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Lobby, Hitchcock Hall
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Lobby, Hitchcock Hall
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Coding Theory and Applications, I
  Room 412, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Heide Gluesing-Luerssen, University of Kentucky
  Christine A. Kelley, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  Steve Szabo, Eastern Kentucky University steve.szabo@eku.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Batch Codes from Hamming and Reed-M{ü}ller Codes.
    Travis Alan Baumbaugh*, Clemson University
    Yariana Diaz, Amherst College
    Sophia Friesenhahn, Willamette University
    Felice Manganiello, Clemson University
    Alexander Vetter, Villanova University
    (1136-08-212)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Asymptotic properties of Reed-Muller codes.
    Iwan Duursma*, Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1136-94-599)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Bounds and Constructions for Binary Locally Recoverable Codes with Availability.
    Swanand Kadhe*, University of California, Berkeley
    Robert Calderbank, Duke University
    (1136-94-273)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Partial Erasure Relay Channels.
    Carolyn Mayer*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Christine A. Kelley, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1136-94-451)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the Equivalence of Secure Network Coding and Secure Index Coding.
    Lawrence Ong, The University of Newcastle
    Joerg Kliewer*, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Badri N Vellambi, Australian National University
    (1136-94-406)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Error-Correcting Codes Applied to Parallel Computation.
    Fiona Knoll*, University of Cincinnati
    Alyson Fox, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
    Gauri Joshi, Carnegie Mellon University
    Fatemah Kazemi, Texas A&M University
    Emina Soljanin, Rutgers University
    (1136-68-369)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics: Association Schemes, Finite Geometry, and Related Topics, I
  Room 422, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Sung Y. Song, Iowa State University
  Bangteng Xu, Eastern Kentucky University Bangteng.Xu@eku.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Top-down Sylow theory for quasigroups and Latin squares.
    Jonathan D.H. Smith*, Iowa State University
    (1136-20-55)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On dimension 6.
    Harvey I. Blau*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Northern Illinois University
    (1136-20-124)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Metathin Association Schemes.
    Paul-Hermann Zieschang*, School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX 78539
    (1136-20-317)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Schur rings over Symmetric and other groups.
    Stephen P. Humphries*, Brigham Young University
    (1136-20-223)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Interpolation Polynomials, Operator Methods, and Theory of Enumeration.
    Catherine H. Yan*, Texas A&M University
    (1136-05-48)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic and Combinatorial Aspects of Tropical Geometry, I
  Room 314, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Maria Angelica Cueto, Ohio State University cueto.5@osu.edu
  Yoav Len, University of Waterloo
  Martin Ulirsch, University of Michigan
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Tropical geometry of stable maps and elliptic singularities.
    Dhruv Ranganathan*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1136-14-548)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Faithful tropicalization of hypertoric varieties.
    Max B. Kutler*, Yale University
    (1136-14-345)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Kodaira dimension of $M_{22}$ and $M_{23}$.
    David Jensen*, University of Kentucky
    (1136-14-99)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Dynamics on the moduli space of pointed rational curves.
    Rohini Ramadas*, Harvard University
    (1136-14-528)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Most planar graphs aren't tropical.
    Desmond Coles, The Ohio State University
    Neelav Dutta, University of Kentucky
    Sifan Jiang, Smith College
    Ralph Morrison*, Williams College
    Andrew Scharf, Williams College
    (1136-05-112)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    A non-Archimedean Poincaré formula for theta divisors.
    Andreas Gross, Imperial College London
    Farbod Shokrieh*, Cornell University
    (1136-14-460)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic, Combinatorial, and Quantum Invariants of Knots and Manifolds, I
  Room 226, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Cody Armond, Ohio State University, Mansfield
  Micah Chrisman, Monmouth University mchrisma@monmouth.edu
  Heather Dye, McKendree University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    0.5-solvability, Seifert forms, and Blanchfield forms of links.
    Sarah Seger*, Rice University
    (1136-54-553)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Cable-like satellites are not homomorphisms.
    Juanita Pinzon-Caicedo*, North Carolina State University
    (1136-57-305)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Concordance invariants of virtual knots I.
    Robin Gaudreau*, University of Toronto
    Hans U. Boden, McMaster University
    Micah Chrisman, Monmouth University
    (1136-54-326)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Concordance invariants of virtual knots II.
    Hans U. Boden*, McMaster University
    Micah Chrisman, Monmouth University
    Robin Gaudreau, University of Toronto
    (1136-57-253)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Signature functions of knots and the unknotting number.
    Charles Livingston*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (1136-57-142)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Nonorientable surfaces bounded by knots.
    Samantha Allen*, Indiana University
    (1136-57-234)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Analytical and Computational Advances in Mathematical Biology Across Scales, I
  Room 306, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Veronica Ciocanel, Mathematical Biosciences Institute ciocanel.1@mbi.osu.edu
  Alexandria Volkening, Mathematical Biosciences Institute
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Modeling Microtubule-based Transport in the Frog Egg Cell.
    Veronica Ciocanel*, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, The Ohio State University
    Bjorn Sandstede, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University
    (1136-37-67)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Using asymptotics to explore long and short range signaling in cell patterning during development.
    Adriana T Dawes*, The Ohio State University
    Helen Chamberlin, The Ohio State University
    Carly Williamson, The Ohio State University
    (1136-92-452)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Modeling the Dynamics of Cdc42 Oscillation in Fission Yeast.
    Bin Xu, University of Notre Dame
    Alexandra Jilkine*, University of Notre Dame
    (1136-92-194)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Identifiability and parameter reduction in mathematical biology.
    Marisa C Eisenberg*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (1136-92-497)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Multi-scale modeling of granuloma formation and surrogate-assisted optimization aid in optimizing antibiotic therapy of tuberculosis.
    Joseph M. Cicchese*, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan
    Denise E. Kirschner, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School
    Jennifer J. Linderman, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan
    (1136-92-517)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    A Discontinuous Map for a Human Sleep-Wake Network Model Predicts Recovery from Sleep Deprivation.
    Sofia H Piltz*, University of Michigan
    (1136-92-165)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Categorical, Homological and Combinatorial Methods in Algebra (Celebrating the 80th birthday of S. K. Jain), I
  Room 436, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Pedro A. Guil Asensio, University of Murcia
  Ivo Herzog, Ohio State University
  Andre Leroy, University of Artois
  Ashish K. Srivastava, Saint Louis University asrivas3@slu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Factorizations of ideals in noncommutative rings similar to factorizations of ideals in commutative Dedekind domains.
    Alberto Facchini*, Università di Padova, Italy
    (1136-16-108)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Cotorsionness of modules by extension of homomorphisms.
    Kulumani M Rangaswamy*, University of Colorado Colorado Springs
    (1136-16-37)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Morita contexts for cowreaths.
    Daniel Bulacu, Faculty of Mathematics and Infomatics, University of Bucharest
    Blas Torrecillas*, Departmento of Mathematics, University of Almería
    (1136-16-79)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Localizable and weakly left localizable rings.
    V. V. Bavula*, University of Sheffield, UK
    (1136-16-46)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On matrix wreath products of algebras.
    Adel Alahmadi, King Abdulaziz University, S.Arabia
    Hamed Alsulami, King Abdulaziz University, S.Arabia
    Surender Jain, Ohio University
    Efim Zelmanov*, University of California - San Diego
    (1136-16-205)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Coherent Structures in Interfacial Flows, I
  Room 330, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Benjamin Akers, Air Force Institute of Technology benjamin.akers@afit.edu
  Jonah Reeger, Air Force Institute of Technology
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Well-Posedness and Analyticity of Solutions to a Water Wave Problem with Viscosity.
    David P. Nicholls*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1136-35-86)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the stability of planar fronts with marginally unstable essential spectra.
    Anna Ghazaryan*, Miami University
    Yuri Latushkin, University of Missouri-Columbia
    Xinyao Yang, Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Suzhou, 215123 P. R. China
    (1136-35-27)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Exact Direct Scattering for the Benjamin-Ono Equation and Applications to Small Dispersion Theory.
    Peter D Miller*, University of Michigan
    (1136-35-478)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Coherent structures in semiclassical soliton ensembles.
    Robert Buckingham*, University of Cincinnati
    (1136-35-482)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Martingale solutions to the 3D stochastic compressible Navier-Stokes equations.
    Dehua Wang*, University of Pittsburgh
    (1136-35-489)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Nonexistence of small doubly periodic waves for dispersive PDE.
    David M. Ambrose*, Drexel University, Department of Mathematics
    (1136-35-487)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Commutative and Combinatorial Algebra, I
  Room 318, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Jennifer Biermann, Hobart and William Smith Colleges BIERMANN@hws.edu
  Kuei-Nuan Lin, Penn State University, Greater Allegheny
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Some results on $f$-ideals.
    Adam Van Tuyl*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University
    (1136-13-172)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Rees Algebra for a family of Gorenstien Ideals.
    Whitney Liske*, University of Notre Dame
    (1136-13-507)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Uniform Symbolic Topologies in Normal Toric Rings.
    Robert M. Walker*, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
    (1136-13-132)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Rees algebra of a Two-Borel ideal is Kozsul.
    Gabriel Sosa*, Amherst College
    Michael DiPasquale, Oklahoma State University
    Chris Francisco, Oklahoma State University
    Jeff Mermin, Oklahoma State University
    Jay Schweig, Oklahoma State University
    (1136-13-557)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Koszul almost complete intersections.
    Matthew Mastroeni*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1136-13-177)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Algebraic properties of toric rings of graphs.
    Huy Tai Ha, Tulane University
    Selvi Kara, University of South Alabama
    Augustine O'Keefe*, Connecticut College
    (1136-13-521)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Function Spaces, Operator Theory, and Non-Linear Differential Operators, I
  Room 254, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  David Cruz-Uribe, University of Alabama
  Osvaldo Mendez, University of Texas osmendez@utep.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Structures in inequalities with convex functions.
    Pablo Jimenez-Rodriguez*, Kent State University
    (1136-26-370)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Infinitely degenerate elliptic equations, Orlicz-Sobolev inequalities, and regularity.
    Korobenko Lyudmila, Reed College
    Cristian Rios*, University of Calgary
    Eric Sawyer, McMaster University
    Ruipeng Shen, Tianjin University
    (1136-35-426)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Hypoellipticity without loss of derivatives for Fediĭ's type operators.
    Timur Akhunov, Binghamton University
    Lyudmila Korobenko*, Reed College
    Cristian Rios, University of Calgary
    (1136-35-271)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A priori bounds for solutions to fully anisotropic elliptic equations.
    Angela Alberico*, National Research Council (CNR) - Institute for Applications of Calculus (IAC) - Napoli- ITALY
    Giuseppina di Blasio, Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Università della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Caserta, Italy
    Filomena Feo, Dipartimento di Ingegneria, Università degli Studi di Napoli, "Pathenope", Napoli, Italy
    (1136-35-261)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Sobolev embedding theorem for Sobolev spaces of Musielak-Orlicz type and Applications.
    O Mendez*, University of Texas
    (1136-46-575)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Some Common Fixed Point Results on $D^*$-Metric Spaces Using (E.A) Property.
    Zead Mustafa*, Qatar University
    (1136-46-15)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Methods in Shape Analysis, I
  Room 209, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Sebastian Kurtek, Ohio State University
  Tom Needham, Ohio State University needham.71@osu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    A New Method for Comparing Shapes of Surfaces Immersed in $R^3$.
    Zhe Su, Florida State University Department of Mathematics
    Martin Bauer, Florida State University Department of Mathematics
    Eric Klassen*, Florida State University Department of Mathematics
    (1136-53-593)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Varifold-based Curve Matching with Elastic Sobolev Metrics.
    Jakob Moeller-Andersen*, Florida State University
    (1136-58-578)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Comparing Elastic Metrics on Plane Curves.
    Tom Needham*, Ohio State University
    Sebastian Kurtek, Ohio State University
    (1136-53-208)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Robust inference of big manifold-valued data with applications to shapes.
    Lizhen Lin*, The University of Notre Dame
    Drew Lazar, Ball State University
    Bayan Saparbayeva, The University of Notre Dame
    (1136-62-110)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Leveraging Riemannian Geometry and Deep-Learning for Invariant Representations in Computer Vision.
    Pavan Turaga*, Arizona State University
    Suhas Lohit, Arizona State University
    (1136-53-96)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory, I
  Room 124, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  John Maharry, Ohio State University maharry.1@osu.edu
  Yue Zhao, University of Central Florida
  Xiangqian Zhou, Wright State University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Minors of graphs of large path-width.
    Thanh N. Dang*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Robin Thomas, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1136-05-456)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The flow index and strongly connected orientations.
    Liaao Li, West Virginia University
    Carsten Thomassen, Technical University of Denmark
    Yezhou Wu, Zhejiang University
    Cun-Quan Zhang*, West Virginia University
    (1136-05-202)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Flexibility of graph embeddings, matroid isomorphism, and $V_8$-free graphs.
    John Maharry, The Ohio State University, Marion
    Neil Robertson, The Ohio State University
    Vaidy Sivaraman, The University of Central Florida
    Daniel Slilaty*, Wright State University
    (1136-05-351)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Sparse subgraph and spanning rigid subgraph decomposition.
    Xiaofeng Gu*, University of West Georgia
    (1136-05-192)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Computable bounds for Rota's Conjecture.
    Jim Geelen*, University of Waterloo
    Bert Gerards, CWI
    Geoff Whittle, Victoria University of Wellington
    (1136-05-103)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
  Special Session on Homological Algebra, I
  Room 439, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Ela Celikbas, West Virginia University
  Olgur Celikbas, West Virginia University olgur.celikbas@math.wvu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Local cohomology of multi-Rees algebras, joint reduction vectors and product of complete ideals.
    Parangama Sarkar*, University of Missouri
    Jugal Verma, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
    (1136-13-135)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On Ratliff-Rush closure of modules.
    Naoki Taniguchi*, Waseda University
    (1136-13-21)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Integral closure of strongly Golod ideals.
    Catalin Ciuperca*, North Dakota State University
    (1136-13-311)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Homotopy Theory, I
  Room 230, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Ernest Fontes, Ohio State University
  John E. Harper, Ohio State University harper.903@osu.edu
  Crichton Ogle, Ohio State University
  Gabriel Valenzuela, Ohio State University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Chromatic complexity of topological periodic cyclic homology of y(n).
    Gabe Angelini-Knoll*, Michigan State University
    J.D. Quigley, University of Notre Dame
    (1136-55-385)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The generalized homology of $BU\langle 2k\rangle$.
    Phillip Jedlovec*, University of Notre Dame
    (1136-55-574)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    THH and semi-stable reduction.
    Calvin D Woo*, Indiana University-Bloomington
    (1136-55-601)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Derived Azumaya algebras and twisted $K$-theory.
    Tasos Moulinos*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1136-55-555)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Comparing K-theory functors multiplicatively.
    Anna Marie Bohmann*, Vanderbilt University
    Angélica M. Osorno, Reed College
    (1136-55-353)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Coassembly for representation spaces.
    Daniel A. Ramras*, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
    (1136-55-384)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Lefschetz Properties, I
  Room 317, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Juan Migliore, University of Notre Dame migliore.1@nd.edu
  Uwe Nagel, University of Kentucky
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Comparing ranks of maps on graded artinian Gorenstein algebras.
    Claudia Miller, Syracuse University
    Hamid Rahmati, Miami University
    Alexandra Seceleanu*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1136-13-514)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Jordan types and the associated graded algebra of an Artinian algebra.
    Anthony Iarrobino*, Mathematics Department, Northeastern University
    Pedro Marques, Universidade de Evora
    Christopher McDaniel, Endicott College
    (1136-13-242)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Generic Jordan Types of Twisted Tensor Products.
    Chris McDaniel*, Endicott College
    S. Chen, Northeastern University
    A. Iarrobino, Northeastern University
    P. Marques, Universidade de E' vora (Portugal)
    (1136-13-413)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Lefschetz Properties for Certain Graded Modules.
    Zachary J. Flores*, Colorado State University
    Christopher Peterson, Colorado State University
    Gioia Failla, Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria
    (1136-13-133)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Betti Weak Lefschetz Property.
    Giuseppe Favacchio*, Università di Catania
    (1136-13-136)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Lefschetz properties of Gotzmann square-free monomial ideals.
    Sara Faridi*, Dalhousie University
    (1136-13-416)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Modeling of Neuronal Networks, I
  Room 312, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Janet Best, Ohio State University
  Alicia Prieto Langarica, Youngstown State University
  Pamela B. Pyzza, Ohio Wesleyan University pbpyzza@owu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Role of Neuronal Network Structure in Encoding Natural and Non-Natural Scenes.
    Victor James Barranca*, Swarthmore College
    (1136-92-34)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Neuronal Network Modeling of Mate-Finding in a Copepod.
    William H Langhoff*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    Peter Hinow, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    J. Rudi Strickler, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    Jeannette Yen, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1136-92-25)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Modeling and analysis of agent-based dynamics in biological applications.
    Alexandria Volkening*, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University
    Bjorn Sandstede, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University
    (1136-92-319)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Role of the locus coeruleus in the emergence of power law wake bouts in a model of the brainstem sleep-wake system through early infancy.
    Mainak J Patel*, College of William and Mary, Department of Mathematics
    Aaditya Rangan, New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
    (1136-92-116)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Mathematical modeling of astrocyte-potentiated chemosensation.
    Yangyang Wang*, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, the Ohio State University
    Jonathan Rubin, University of Pittsburgh
    Catherine Czeisler, Ohio State University
    Jose Otero, Ohio State University
    (1136-34-472)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Idealized Models of Insect Olfaction.
    Pamela B Pyzza*, Ohio Wesleyan University
    Gregor Kovacic, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    David Cai, Courant Institute
    (1136-92-338)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Multiplicative Ideal Theory and Factorization (in honor of Tom Lucas retirement), I
  Room 311, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Evan Houston, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
  Alan Loper, Ohio State University loper.4@osu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Extending Kronecker Function Rings Using Power Series.
    Daniel McGregor*, The Ohio State University
    (1136-13-286)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Rings of (very) strong finite type.
    Jim Coykendall*, Clemson University
    (1136-13-290)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    De-noetherizing Cohen-Macaulay rings.
    László Fuchs, Tulane University
    Bruce Olberding*, New Mexico State University
    (1136-13-236)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The ring of germs of continuous functions.
    W Wm. McGovern*, H.L. Wilkes Honors College, Florida Atlantic University
    (1136-13-386)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Gaussian elements of semicontent algebras and locally principal content ideals.
    Neil Epstein*, George Mason University
    Jay Shapiro, George Mason University
    (1136-13-297)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Small Cohen-Kaplansky Domains.
    Dan Anderson*, The University of Iowa
    Kevin Bombardier, The University of Iowa
    (1136-13-81)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Evolution Equations, I
  Room 326, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  John Holmes, Ohio State University holmes.782@osu.edu
  Feride Tiglay, Ohio State University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Geometric approach on the global conservative solutions of the Camassa-Holm equation.
    Jae Min Lee*, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
    (1136-35-577)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Singularities of the $L^2$ exponential map on diffeomorphism groups.
    Leandro Lichtenfelz*, University of Notre Dame
    (1136-35-207)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Axisymmetric ideal fluids on Riemannian 3-manifolds.
    Leandro A. Lichtenfelz, University of Notre Dame
    Gerard K. Misiolek, University of Notre Dame
    Stephen C. Preston*, Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center
    (1136-35-474)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The inverse problem for the modified Camassa-Holm peakon equation.
    Jacek Szmigielski*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon , Canada
    (1136-35-228)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Continuity properties of the solution map of the incompressible Euler equations.
    Gerard Misiolek*, University of Notre Dame
    (1136-35-128)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Long-time asymptotics for the focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation and the nonlinear stage of modulational instability.
    Gino Biondini, State University of New York at Buffalo
    Dionyssios Mantzavinos*, University of Kansas
    (1136-35-539)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Waves and Patterns, I
  Room 346, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Anna Ghazaryan, Miami University
  Stephane Lafortune, College of Charleston Lafortunes@cofc.edu
  Vahagn Manukian, Miami University
  Alin Pogan, Miami University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Stability of solutions to the VFE and its hierarchy.
    Stephane Lafortune*, College of Charleston
    Thomas Ivey, College of Charleston
    (1136-35-302)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A dynamical approach to semilinear elliptic equations.
    Alim Sukhtayev*, Miami University
    Margaret Beck, Boston University
    Graham Cox, Memorial University of Newfoundland
    Chris Jones, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Yuri Latushkin, The University of Missouri, Columbia
    (1136-35-560)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Nonlinear Waves in Granular Crystals.
    Panayotis Kevrekidis*, UMass, Amherst
    (1136-35-78)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Stability of one-dimensional and multi-dimensional fronts in exponentially weighted norms for a class of reaction diffusion equations.
    Anna Ghazaryan, Miami University
    Yuri Latushkin*, University of Missouri
    Roland Schnaubelt, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
    Xinyao Yang, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China
    (1136-35-41)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Schwarzian equation on a time scale.
    Gro Hovhannisyan*, Kent State University
    (1136-39-10)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Formation of rogue waves in continuum and discrete models: Theory and Computation.
    Efstathios Georgios Charalampidis*, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    (1136-35-363)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
  Special Session on Parameter Analysis and Estimation in Applied Dynamical Systems, I
  Room 314, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Adriana Dawes, The Ohio State University
  Reginald L. McGee, Mathematical Biosciences Institute mcgee.278@mbi.osu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Tracking and Parameter Identification for Model Reference Adaptive Control.
    Michael Malisoff*, Louisiana State University Department of Mathematics
    (1136-93-33)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Parameter uncertainty quantification using surrogate models applied to a spatial model of yeast mating polarization.
    Marissa Renardy*, The Ohio State University
    Tau-Mu Yi, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Dongbin Xiu, The Ohio State University
    Ching-Shan Chou, The Ohio State University
    (1136-92-118)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Kinetic rates estimation for reaction networks.
    Daniel F Linder*, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University
    (1136-62-401)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Estimating Vascular Compliance in the Bayesian Framework.
    Jamie Prezioso*, Case Western Reserve University
    Daniela Calvetti, Case Western Reserve University
    Erkki Somersalo, Case Western Reserve University
    (1136-92-434)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Probabilistic and Extremal Graph Theory, I
  Room 128, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Louis DeBiasio, Miami University debiasld@miamioh.edu
  Tao Jiang, Miami University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    On the giant component of the intersection graph of a random chord diagram.
    Huseyin Acan*, Rutgers University
    Boris Pittel, The Ohio State University
    (1136-05-373)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Large monochromatic components and long monochromatic cycles in random hypergraphs.
    P. Bennett*, Western Michigan University
    L. DeBiasio, Miami University
    A. Dudek, Western Michigan University
    S. English, Western Michigan University
    (1136-05-381)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The bipartite $K_{2,2}$-free process and Ramsey numbers.
    Deepak Bal*, Montclair State University
    Patrick Bennett, Western Michigan University
    (1136-05-519)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Balanced Allocation Through Random Walk.
    Alan M Frieze*, Carnegie Mellon University
    Samantha Petti, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1136-05-303)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Sets of integers with restrictions on their products.
    Michael Tait*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1136-05-448)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Jumps in speeds of hereditary properties of uniform hypergraphs.
    Caroline Terry*, University of Maryland, College Park
    (1136-05-323)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Probability in Convexity and Convexity in Probability, I
  Room 245, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Elizabeth Meckes, Case Western Reserve University
  Mark Meckes, Case Western Reserve University mark.meckes@case.edu
  Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    A remark on long-range repulsion in spectrum of random matrices.
    Hoi H Nguyen*, The Ohio State University
    (1136-60-173)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the geometry of projective tensor products.
    Ohad Giladi, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia
    Joscha Prochno, University of Hull, United Kingdom
    Carsten Schuett*, University of Kiel and Case Western Reserve University
    Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann, University of Alberta
    Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University
    (1136-52-282)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    An upper bound on the smallest singular value of a square random matrix.
    Kateryna Tatarko*, University of Alberta
    (1136-60-254)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Floating bodies and random approximation.
    Florian Besau*, Goethe Universtät Frankfurt
    (1136-52-424)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Floating functions.
    Ben Li*, Case Western Reserve University
    Carsten Schuett, University of Kiel
    Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University
    (1136-52-475)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Affine isoperimetric inequalities on flag manifolds.
    Susanna Dann, TU Wien
    Grigorios Paouris*, Texas A&M University
    Peter Pivovarov, University of Missouri
    (1136-52-506)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Quantum Symmetries, I
  Room 222, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  David Penneys, The Ohio State University penneys.2@osu.edu
  Julia Plavnik, Texas A & M University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Higher Gauss sum and higher central charges of premodular fusion categories.
    Andrew Schopieray, The University of New South Wales Sydney
    Yilong Wang*, The Ohio State University
    (1136-81-515)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Simple virtual skein theories.
    Joshua R. Edge*, Indiana University - Bloomington
    (1136-18-161)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A Notion of Quantum Symmetry.
    Marcel Bischoff*, Ohio University
    (1136-18-410)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Quantum groups, quantum channels, and the quantum 6j-symbols.
    Michael Brannan*, Texas A&M University
    Benoit Collins, Kyoto University
    Hun-Hee Lee, Seoul National University
    Sang-Gyun Youn, Seoul National University
    (1136-46-538)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On Two Invariants of Three Manifolds from Hopf Algebras.
    Liang Chang, Nankai University
    Shawn X Cui*, Stanford University
    (1136-57-420)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    A computational approach to link invariants of modular tensor categories.
    Colleen Delaney*, UC Santa Barbara
    Parsa Bonderson, Microsoft Station Q
    César Galindo, Universidad de los Andes
    Eric C. Rowell, Texas A & M
    Alan Tran, UC Santa Barbara
    Zhenghan Wang, Microsoft Station Q, UC Santa Barbara
    (1136-81-430)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Approximation Theory and Operator Theory, I
  Room 258, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Jan Lang, The Ohio State University lang@math.osu.edu
  Paul Nevai, The Ohio State University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    An optimal criterion for $L^2\times L^2 \to L^1$ boundedness.
    Lenka Slavíková*, University of Missouri, Columbia
    (1136-42-279)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On Compactness of Sobolev Trace Embeddings.
    Zdeněk Mihula*, Department of Mathematical Analysis, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University
    (1136-46-149)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Strict $s$-numbers of non-compact Sobolev embeddings into continuous functions.
    Vit Musil*, Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
    Jan Lang, Ohio State University
    (1136-47-301)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Sobolev embeddings, rearrangement-invariant spaces and Frostman measures.
    Lubos Pick*, Charles University, Prague
    (1136-46-76)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Smooth approximation of Orlicz-Sobolev maps between manifolds.
    Menita Carozza, Dipartimento di Ingegneria, Università del Sannio, Benevento, Italy
    Andrea Cianchi*, Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica "U. Dini", Università di Firenze, Firenze, Italy
    (1136-46-72)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Complex Jacobi matrices and zeroes of hypergeometric functions.
    Maxim Derevyagin*, University of Mississippi
    (1136-47-66)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Finite Element Methods for Partial Differential Equations, I
  Room 354, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Ching-shan Chou, The Ohio State University
  Yukun Li, The Ohio State University li.7907@osu.edu
  Yulong Xing, The Ohio State University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    High Order Immersed Methods for Interface Problems.
    Slimane Adjerid*, Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech
    Tao Lin, Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech
    Ruchi Guo, Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech
    Kihyo Moon, SAMSUNG, S. Korea
    (1136-65-187)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Superconvergent HDG methods for a distributed optimal control problem governed by convection-diffusion equations.
    Fatih Celiker*, Wayne State University
    Huiqing Zhu, University of Southern Mississippi
    Zhimin Zhang, Wayne State University
    (1136-65-396)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Energy Stable Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Maxwell's Equations in Nonlinear Optical Media.
    Vrushali Bokil, Oregon State University
    Yingda Cheng*, Michigan State University
    Yan Jiang, Michigan State University
    Fengyan Li, RPI
    (1136-65-168)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    New Finite Element Methods for 3D Anisotropic Singular Solutions.
    Hengguang Li*, Wayne State University
    (1136-65-176)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Inf-sup stable finite elements on barycentric refinements producing divergence-free approximations in arbitrary dimensions.
    Michael J Neilan*, University of Pittsburgh
    Johnny Guzman, Brown University
    (1136-65-20)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Implicit positivity-preserving high-order discontinuous Galerkin methods for solving conservation laws.
    Tong Qin*, Department of Mathematics, Ohio State University
    Chi-Wang Shu, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University
    (1136-65-195)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Packing, I
  Room 316, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Joseph W. Iverson, University of Maryland
  John Jasper, South Dakota State University
  Dustin G. Mixon, The Ohio State University mixon.23@osu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Why are packing problems much easier in some cases than others?
    Henry Cohn*, Microsoft Research New England
    (1136-52-382)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Densest sphere packing in four dimensions.
    Oleg R. Musin*, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
    (1136-52-159)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    New results in minimizing the $p$-frame potentials.
    X Chen, University of San Fransisco
    E Goodman, University of Pensylvania
    V Gonzales, University of Maryland
    K Okoudjou*, University of Maryland
    (1136-42-442)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    New bounds for equiangular lines and spherical two-distance sets.
    Wei-Hsuan Yu*, ICERM, Brown University
    Alexey Glazyrin, UTRGV
    (1136-05-209)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Constructing Tight Gabor Frames Using CAZAC Sequences.
    Mark Magsino*, University of Maryland
    (1136-42-216)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Development of Nonlinear Geometric PDEs, I
  Room 243, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Bo Guan, Ohio State University
  Qun Li, Wright State University
  Xiangwen Zhang, University of California, Irvine xiangwen@math.uci.edu
  Fangyang Zheng, Ohio State University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    The space of asymptotically conical self-expanders of mean curvature flow.
    Jacob Bernstein, Johns Hopkins University
    Lu Wang*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1136-53-571)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Anomaly flow and the Hull-Strominger system.
    Duong Phong, Columbia University
    Sebastien Picard*, Columbia University
    Xiangwen Zhang, UC Irvine
    (1136-35-359)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Recent developments for symplectic curvature flow.
    Casey Lynn Kelleher*, Princeton University
    Jeffrey Streets, University of California, Irvine
    (1136-58-583)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A scalar curvature bound along the conical Kähler-Ricci flow.
    Gregory J Edwards*, Northwestern University
    (1136-53-550)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Shrinking Ricci Solitons with Positive Isotropic Curvature.
    Xiaolong Li*, UC Irvine
    Lei Ni, UC San Diego
    Kui Wang, Soochow Univerisity
    (1136-35-360)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Energy convexity of intrinsic bi-harmonic map and its heat flow.
    Longzhi Lin*, University of California, Santa Cruz
    Paul Laurain, Institut de mathematiques de Jussieu
    (1136-53-405)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Several Complex Variables, I
  Room 358, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Liwei Chen, Ohio State University
  Kenneth Koenig, Ohio State University koenig@math.ohio-state.edu
  Liz Vivas, Ohio State University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    D-bar in dimension 3.
    Berit Stensones*, NTNU, Norway
    (1136-32-441)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A remark on two notions of order of contact.
    Martino Fassina*, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1136-32-340)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Smooth equivalence of deformations of domains in complex euclidean spaces.
    Herve Gaussier, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IF
    Xianghong Gong*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
    (1136-32-348)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Hermitian invariant groups for holomorphic and CR maps.
    John P. D'Angelo*, Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana IL 61801
    (1136-32-310)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Projective dual coordinates and the Leray transform.
    David E. Barrett*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    Luke D. Edholm, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (1136-32-390)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The Leray transform on two-dimensional model domains.
    Luke D Edholm*, Universtiy of Michigan
    (1136-32-464)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Stochastic Analysis in Infinite Dimensions, I
  Room 246, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Parisa Fatheddin, Air Force Institute of Technology Parisa.Fatheddin@afit.edu
  Arnab Ganguly, Louisiana State University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Infinite atlas model.
    Andrey Sarantsev*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1136-60-535)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Ergodicity of Stochastic Partial Differential Equations arising as Diffusion Approximations of Stochastic Networks.
    Kavita Ramanan*, Brown University
    Pooja Agarwal, Brown University
    (1136-60-623)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Some Stochastic Control Problems for Evolution Equations with State Dependent Gauss-Volterra Processes.
    Tyrone E. Duncan*, University of Kansas
    (1136-60-377)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Probabilistic Analysis for the Enskog Equation.
    Padmanabhan Sundar*, Louisiana State University
    (1136-60-313)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Moment bounds on the solutions to some stochastic equations.
    Mohammud Foondun*, University of Strathclyde
    (1136-60-542)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    A Holder-Young inequality for norms of Gamma Wick products.
    Florin Catrina, Saint John University
    Aurel I Stan*, The Ohio State University at Marion
    (1136-60-379)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Structure and Representation Theory of Finite Groups, I
  Room 428, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Justin Lynd, University of Louisiana at Lafayette lynd@louisiana.edu
  Hung Ngoc Nguyen, University of Akron
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Analyzing tensor products of $p$-permutation bimodules.
    Robert Boltje*, University of California, Santa Cruz
    (1136-20-530)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Categorifying induction formulae via divergent series.
    Cihan Bahran*, University of Minnesota
    (1136-20-347)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Units of the Trivial Source Ring.
    Rob Carman*, UC Santa Cruz
    (1136-20-454)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On the unit group of the Burnside ring as, a biset functor, for some solvable groups.
    Jamison Blair Barsotti*, University or California, Santa Cruz
    (1136-20-533)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On Picard groups of block algebras of finite groups.
    Markus Linckelmann*, City, University of London
    (1136-20-559)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The Burnside ring of a finite category.
    Peter J. Webb*, University of Minnesota
    (1136-18-439)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Symmetry in Differential Geometry, I
  Room 240, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Samuel Lin, Dartmouth College
  Barry Minemyer, Bloomsburg University bminemyer@bloomu.edu
  Ben Schmidt, Michigan State University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    The barycenter method in nonpositively curved manifolds.
    Chris Connell, Indiana University
    Shi Wang*, Indiana University
    (1136-53-131)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A semi flow on the space of polygonal curves of a space of curvature $<\infty$.
    Pedro Ontaneda*, Binghamton University
    (1136-51-388)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Ricci flow on cohomogeneity one manifolds.
    Anusha M. Krishnan*, University of Pennsylvania
    (1136-51-249)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Virtual immersions, and symmetric space.
    Ricardo A. E. Mendes, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
    Marco Radeschi*, Notre Dame University, Notre Dame IN, USA
    (1136-53-122)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Manifolds with strongly positive curvature and many symmetries.
    Renato G Bettiol*, University of Pennsylvania
    Ricardo Mendes, Universitaet zu Koeln
    (1136-53-432)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on The Mathematics of Phylogenetics, I
  Room 318, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Colby Long, Mathematical Biosciences Institute long.1579@mbi.osu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    An Invariants-based Method for Efficient Identification of Hybrid Species From Genomic Data.
    Laura Kubatko*, The Ohio State University
    Julia Chifman, American University
    Paul Blischak, The Ohio State University
    Andrea Wolfe, The Ohio State University
    (1136-62-606)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Statistical Inference of Reticulate Evolutionary Histories Using Data from Unlinked Loci.
    Luay Nakhleh*, Rice University
    (1136-92-461)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Roadblocked monotonic paths and the enumeration of coalescent histories for non-matching caterpillar gene trees and species trees.
    Zoe M Himwich*, Stanford University
    Noah A Rosenberg, Stanford University
    (1136-92-283)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Identifying species network features from gene tree quartets under the coalescent model.
    Hector Banos*, University of Alaska Fairbanks
    (1136-92-145)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Gene Trees from Species Trees: Testing Multispecies Coalescent Model Fit.
    Elizabeth S. Allman, University of Alaska Fairbanks
    Jonathan D. Mitchell, University of Alaska Fairbanks
    John A. Rhodes*, University of Alaska Fairbanks
    (1136-92-357)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Trait evolution on two or more trees.
    James H. Degnan*, Univeristy of New Mexico
    Huan Jiang, DIC Dialysis Inc.
    (1136-62-436)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Advances in Integral and Differential Equations, I
  Room 322, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Jeffrey T. Neugebauer, Eastern Kentucky University Jeffrey.neugebauer@eku.edu
  Min Wang, Rowan University
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Credit value adjustment (CVA) for Cliquet options under Heston models.
    Yaqin Feng, Ohio University
    Min Wang*, Rowan University
    (1136-91-237)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Discrete Fractional Models of Tumor Growth in Mice.
    Ferhan M. Atici*, Western Kentucky University
    Mustafa Atici, Western Kentucky University
    Dana Marshall, Meharry Medical College
    Ngoc Nguyen, Western Kentucky University
    (1136-39-211)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    NEW TIME: A fractional differential equation of Riemann-Liouville type.
    Muhammad N Islam*, Dayton
    (1136-34-262)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Coercivity Conditions and their Application to Nonlocal Boundary Value Problems.
    Christopher S. Goodrich*, Creighton Preparatory School
    (1136-45-409)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Boundedness and Stability of Solutions in Nonlinear Volterra Integro-Differential Equation.
    Youssef Naim Raffoul*, DAYTON
    (1136-34-266)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Convex Bodies in Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory, I
  Room 313, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Dave Anderson, Ohio State University anderson.2804@math.osu.edu
  Kiumars Kaveh, University of Pittsburgh
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Syzygies of abelian varieties via Newton-Okounkov bodies.
    Alex Küronya*, Goethe Universität Frankfurt
    Victor Lozovanu, Leibniz Universität Hannover
    (1136-14-300)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Local volumes as limits.
    Mihai Fulger*, University of Connecticut
    (1136-14-380)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Break
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Newton Polytopes in Algebraic Combinatorics.
    Cara Monical*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Neriman Tokcan, University of Michigan
    Alexander Yong, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1136-05-276)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Combinatorics of Toric Vector Bundles.
    Gregory G Smith*, Queen's University
    (1136-14-453)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Noncommutative Algebra and Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry, I
  Room 434, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Jason Gaddis, Miami University gaddisj@miamioh.edu
  Robert Won, Wake Forest University
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Noncommutative symmetric powers.
    Alexandru Chirvasitu*, SUNY at Buffalo
    Ryo Kanda, Osaka University
    S. Paul Smith, University of Washington
    (1136-14-235)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Twisted Cox rings.
    Dennis Keeler*, Miami University
    Daniel Rogalski, UC San Diego
    (1136-16-546)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Irreducible representations of the 4-dimensional Slyanin algebra at points of finite order.
    Chelsea Walton, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Xingting Wang*, Temple University
    Milen Yakimov, Louisiana State University
    (1136-16-58)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Splitting the Generic Binary Cubic Clifford Algebra.
    Rajesh S. Kulkarni, Michigan State University
    Charlotte Ure*, Michigan State University
    (1136-14-552)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Topology and Geometry in Data Analysis, I
  Room 211, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Sanjeevi Krishnan, Ohio State University sanjeevi@math.osu.edu
  Facundo Memoli, Ohio State University
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the structure of modules indexed by partially ordered sets.
    Crichton Ogle*, The Ohio State Univeristy
    Tom Needham, The Ohio State Univeristy
    (1136-55-534)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Persistence of Sheaf Cohomology: Studying Data Evolving Over Time.
    Iris Yoon*, University of Pennsylvania
    (1136-55-510)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Comparison Framework for Interleaved Persistence Modules.
    Shaun Harker, Rutgers University
    Miroslav Kramar, INRIA Saclay
    Rachel Levanger*, University of Pennsylvania
    Konstantin Mischaikow, Rutgers University
    (1136-55-617)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Cohen--Lenstra heuristics for torsion in homology of random complexes.
    Matthew Kahle, The Ohio State University
    Frank H. Lutz, Technische Universität Berlin
    Andrew Newman*, The Ohio State University
    Kyle Parsons, The Ohio State University
    (1136-55-547)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
  Contributed Paper Session on AMS Contributed Paper Session, I
  Room 206, Enarson Classroom Building
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Sparse Grid Discontinuous Galerkin Method for The Vlasov-Maxwell Equations.
    Zhanjing Tao*, Michigan State University
    Wei Guo, Texas Tech University
    Yingda Cheng, Michigan State University
    (1136-65-206)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    An ultra-weak discontinuous Galerkin method for Schrödinger equation in one dimension.
    Anqi Chen*, Michigan State University
    Fengyan Li, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    Yingda Cheng, Michigan State University
    (1136-65-293)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Spectra of boundary integral operators defined on the unit sphere for the modified Laplace equation.
    Vani Cheruvu*, The University of Toledo
    (1136-65-536)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    De Giorgi Method: Applications to Highly Non-linear Equations.
    Logan F. Stokols*, UT Austin
    Alexis Vasseur, UT Austin
    (1136-35-462)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Homeostasis in Neuronal Networks.
    J Best*, The Ohio State University
    W Duncan, Duke University
    M Golubitsky, The Ohio State University
    H F Nijhout, Duke University
    M Reed, Duke University
    I Stewart, University of Warwick
    (1136-92-615)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Phylogenetic Derivative: A Tool for Assessing Local Tree Reconstruction.
    Jacqueline Kane*, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
    Joseph Rusinko, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
    Katherine Thompson, University of Kentucky
    (1136-92-490)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    An Analysis of Statistical Binning.
    Qingyi Lu*, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
    Joseph Rusinko, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
    Jennifer Vandenbussche, Kennesaw State University
    (1136-92-417)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Fluctuation analysis in queues with several operational modes and priority customers with N-policy.
    Ahmed Idrees Merie*, Florida Institute of Technology- Melbourne, FL
    (1136-60-63)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Minimax adaptive wavelet estimator for the simultaneous blind deconvolution with fractional Gaussian noise.
    Rida Benhaddou*, Ohio University
    (1136-62-43)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    A Numerical Method for an Optimal Trading Rule with a Mean-Reverting Asset.
    Phong Luu*, University of North Georgia
    Jingzhi Tie, University of Georgia
    Qing Zhang, University of Georgia
    (1136-49-19)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Curves and Their Applications, I
  Room 432, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Artur Elezi, American University
  Monika Polak, Maria Curie-Sklodowska Univ. (Poland) and Univ. of Information Science and Technology (Macedonia)
  Tony Shaska, Oakland University shaska@oakland.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Isogenies among Abelian varieties.
    Tony Shaska*, Oakland University
    (1136-11-74)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Isogenous elliptic subcovers of genus two curves.
    Lubjana Beshaj*, West Point Military Academy
    (1136-14-106)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Weighted moduli space of binary sextics.
    Scott Guest*, Rochester Adams High School
    Lubjana Beshaj, West Point Military Academy
    (1136-11-246)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 9:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Differential Equations and Applications, I
  Room 340, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  King-Yeung Lam, Ohio State University lam.184@math.ohio-state.edu
  Yuan Lou, Ohio State University
  Qiliang Wu, Michigan State University
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Mathematical modeling of exosomal microRNAs as biomarkers for lung cancer.
    Xiulan Lai*, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Renmin University of China
    Avner Friedman, Ohio State University
    (1136-35-339)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    New population model from probability and its traveling wave solution.
    Lianzhang Bao*, Jilin University, P. R. China
    (1136-35-147)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Quasineutral limit of drift-diffusion-Poisson models for semiconductors.
    Shu Wang*, College of Applied Sciences, Beijing University of Technology
    (1136-35-295)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Oscillations in epidemic models with spread of awareness.
    Winfried Just, Ohio University
    Joan Saldaña, Universitat de Girona
    Ying Xin*, Ohio University
    (1136-92-269)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 11:40 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Recent progress in the Zimmer program.
  Room 131, Hitchcock Hall
  Aaron W Brown*, University of Chicago
  (1136-37-619)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Advances in Integral and Differential Equations, II
  Room 322, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Jeffrey T. Neugebauer, Eastern Kentucky University Jeffrey.neugebauer@eku.edu
  Min Wang, Rowan University
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    NEW TIME: Fractional Lyapunov-type Inequalities with order $\alpha\in (2,3]$ and fractional integral boundary conditions.
    Sougata Dhar*, University of Maine
    Qingkai Kong, Northern Illinois University
    (1136-34-251)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Caputo-Fabrizio fractional derivatives without singular kernel and proportional derivatives: connections.
    Douglas R Anderson*, Concordia College Moorhead
    (1136-26-163)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Caputo Fractional Impulsive Differential Equations with Mixed Monotone Functions and Mixed Monotone impulses.
    Aghalaya S Vatsala*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    Yunxiang Bai, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    (1136-34-333)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Stability and robustness analysis for human pointing motions with acceleration under feedback delays.
    Paul Varnell, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Michael Malisoff*, Louisiana State University
    Fumin Zhang, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1136-93-70)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Multi soliton solutions to Sin-Gordon equation on a time scale.
    Gro Hovhannisyan*, Kent State University
    (1136-35-40)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Coding Theory and Applications, II
  Room 412, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Heide Gluesing-Luerssen, University of Kentucky
  Christine A. Kelley, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  Steve Szabo, Eastern Kentucky University steve.szabo@eku.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Capacity via Symmetry.
    Henry D Pfister*, Duke University
    (1136-68-296)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Permutations and the design of SC-LDPC codes.
    Allison Beemer*, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    Salman Habib, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Christine A Kelley, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    Joerg Kliewer, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    (1136-94-383)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On constructions of codes uniquely reconstructable from substring multisets.
    Ryan Gabrys, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    Olgica Milenkovic*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    (1136-05-423)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On belief propagation decoding of polar codes.
    Jessalyn Bolkema*, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    (1136-94-588)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Algebraic structures on the set of all magmas over a fixed set.
    Sergio R López-Permouth*, Ohio University
    Isaac Owusu Mensah, Ohio University
    Asiyeh Rafieipour, University of Kashan
    (1136-08-270)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics: Association Schemes, Finite Geometry, and Related Topics, II
  Room 422, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Sung Y. Song, Iowa State University
  Bangteng Xu, Eastern Kentucky University Bangteng.Xu@eku.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Totally bipartite tridiagonal pairs.
    Paul M Terwilliger*, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin
    Kazumasa Nomura, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
    (1136-16-280)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Three bases associated with a thin tridiagonal pair of $q$-Racah type.
    Sarah Bockting-Conrad*, DePaul University
    (1136-15-498)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    How to find Hopf algebra comultiplications on Bose-Mesner algebras of association schemes.
    Allen Herman*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Regina
    (1136-16-95)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Octonions as a twisted group algebra.
    Tathagata Basak*, Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University
    (1136-17-85)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Linked Simplices.
    Brian G Kodalen*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    (1136-14-516)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Curves and Their Applications, II
  Room 432, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Artur Elezi, American University
  Monika Polak, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University (Poland) and University of Information Science and Technology (Mac
  Tony Shaska, Oakland University shaska@oakland.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Painlevé equations and integrable hierarchies: Two spectral curves.
    Emma Previato*, Boston University
    (1136-14-61)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Reduction of binary forms via the hyperbolic centroid.
    Artur Elezi*, American University
    Tony Shaska, Oakland University
    (1136-06-628)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Connectedness of the moduli space of Artin-Schreier curves.
    Huy Dang*, University of Virginia
    (1136-11-29)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic and Combinatorial Aspects of Tropical Geometry, II
  Room 314, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Maria Angelica Cueto, Ohio State University cueto.5@osu.edu
  Yoav Len, University of Waterloo
  Martin Ulirsch, University of Michigan
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Iterated tropical and p-adic integration.
    Eric Katz*, The Ohio State University
    (1136-14-332)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Conductors and minimal discriminants of hyperelliptic curves.
    Padmavathi Srinivasan*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1136-14-600)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A module-theoretic approach to matroids.
    Colin Crowley, Swarthmore College
    Noah Giansiracusa, Swarthmore College
    Joshua Mundinger*, Swarthmore College
    (1136-14-247)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Initial degenerations of Grassmannians.
    Daniel Corey*, Yale University
    (1136-14-259)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    CANCELLED: Linear and rational factorization of tropical polynomials.
    Bo Lin, UT Austin
    Ngoc Mai Tran*, UT Austin
    (1136-52-50)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic, Combinatorial, and Quantum Invariants of Knots and Manifolds, II
  Room 226, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Cody Armond, Ohio State University, Mansfield
  Micah Chrisman, Monmouth University mchrisma@monmouth.edu
  Heather Dye, McKendree University
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Ribbon obstructions and dihedral branched covers of four-manifolds.
    Patricia Cahn*, Smith College
    Alexandra Kjuchukova, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1136-57-566)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    A 2-categorical description of embedded surfaces in 3-space.
    J. Scott Carter*, University of South Alabama
    (1136-57-265)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Knot contact homology.
    Y. Berest, Cornell University
    A Eshmatov*, University of Toledo
    W Yeung, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (1136-51-431)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Geometric realization of transition Khovanov homology.
    Jozef H. Przytycki*, George Washington University
    (1136-57-419)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On algebraic structure of the unified Khovanov homology.
    Krzysztof K. Putyra, University of Zurich, Switzerland
    Alexander N. Shumakovitch*, The George Washington University
    (1136-55-598)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Analytical and Computational Advances in Mathematical Biology Across Scales, II
  Room 306, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Veronica Ciocanel, Mathematical Biosciences Institute ciocanel.1@mbi.osu.edu
  Alexandria Volkening, Mathematical Biosciences Institute
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Exploring the impact of context on disease spread in social networks.
    Joshua Rubin Abrams, Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona
    Anne Schwartz, Amazon
    Veronica Ciocanel, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University
    Alexandria Volkening*, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University
    Bjorn Sandstede, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University
    (1136-92-334)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Simulating Within-Vector Generation of the Malaria Parasite Diversity.
    Lauren M Childs, Virginia Tech
    Olivia F Prosper*, University of Kentucky
    (1136-92-349)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Mechanisms of polymorphic transformation in flagellated bacterial swimming.
    Sookkyung Lim*, University of Cincinnati
    (1136-92-590)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Number and Stability of Relaxation Oscillations for Predator-Prey Systems with Small Death Rates.
    Ting-Hao Hsu*, McMaster University
    (1136-34-250)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Quasi-steady state approximations for stochastic enzyme kinetics.
    Grzegorz A Rempala*, The Ohio State University
    (1136-60-457)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Categorical, Homological and Combinatorial Methods in Algebra (Celebrating the 80th birthday of S. K. Jain), II
  Room 436, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Pedro A. Guil Asensio, University of Murcia
  Ivo Herzog, Ohio State University
  Andre Leroy, University of Artois
  Ashish K. Srivastava, Saint Louis University asrivas3@slu.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Maximal ideals in module categories.
    Manuel Cortés-Izurdiaga*, Department of Mathematics. University of Almeria.
    (1136-18-62)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Products in a Category with One Object.
    Keith A Pardue*, United States Government
    Aaron P Gray, United States Government
    (1136-18-102)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    An introduction to cluster superalgebras.
    James Mixco*, Saint Louis University, St. Louis MO
    Ashish Srivastava, Saint Louis University, St. Louis MO
    Li Li, Oakland University, Rochester MI
    Biswajit Ransingh, Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India
    (1136-16-8)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Supersymmetric Analogue of Leavitt Path Algebras.
    Katherine Radler*, St. Louis University
    Ashish Srivastava, St. Louis University
    K.M. Rangaswamy, University of Colorado Colorado Springs
    (1136-17-39)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the weakly-injective profile of a ring (preliminary report).
    Pinar Aydogdu*, Hacettepe University
    Sergio Roberto Lopez-Permouth, Ohio University
    Martha Lizbeth Shaid Sandoval-Miranda, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
    (1136-16-35)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Coherent Structures in Interfacial Flows, II
  Room 330, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Benjamin Akers, Air Force Institute of Technology benjamin.akers@afit.edu
  Jonah Reeger, Air Force Institute of Technology
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Multi-hump surface waves on water with small surface tension.
    Shu-Ming Sun*, Virginia Tech
    (1136-76-169)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Stokes waves with constant vorticity: numerical computation.
    Vera Mikyoung Hur*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Sergey A Dyachenko, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1136-76-354)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Modulational Instabilities of Periodic Traveling Waves.
    Benjamin F Akers*, Air Force Institute of Technology
    (1136-76-594)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Stability of Quasiperiodic solutions to equations of nonlinear Schrodinger type.
    Jared C. Bronski*, University of Illinois
    (1136-35-596)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Spectral Stability of Inviscid Roll Waves.
    Mathew Johnson*, University of Kansas
    (1136-35-531)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Commutative and Combinatorial Algebra, II
  Room 318, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Jennifer Biermann, Hobart and William Smith Colleges BIERMANN@hws.edu
  Kuei-Nuan Lin, Penn State University, Greater Allegheny
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Depth Bounds for Monomial Ideals.
    Susan Morey*, Texas State University
    Loiuza Fouli, New Mexico State University
    Huy Tài Hà, Tulane University
    (1136-13-342)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Generalized Newton Complementary Duals of Monomial Ideals.
    Katie Ansaldi*, Wabash College
    Kuei-Nuan Lin, Penn State Greater Allegheny
    Yi-Huang Shen, University of Science and Technology of China
    (1136-13-567)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The symbolic defect of an ideal.
    Federico Galetto*, McMaster University
    Anthony V. Geramita, Queen's University
    Yong-Su Shin, Sungshin Women's University
    Adam Van Tuyl, McMaster University
    (1136-13-467)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Bounding Regularity of Powers Edge Ideals via Local Conditions.
    Selvi Kara Beyarslan*, University of South Alabama
    Arindam Banerjee, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekenanda University
    Tai Huy Ha, Tulane University
    (1136-13-268)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Chordality and ideals with linear resolution.
    Sara Faridi*, Dalhousie University
    Mina Bigdeli, IPM, Tehran, Iran
    (1136-13-185)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Convex Bodies in Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory, II
  Room 313, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Dave Anderson, Ohio State University anderson.2804@math.osu.edu
  Kiumars Kaveh, University of Pittsburgh
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Cones and Polytopes arising from potential functions on cluster varieties.
    Bea Schumann*, University of Cologne
    (1136-14-425)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Bott canonical basis.
    Jihyeon Jessie Yang*, Marian University - Indianapolis
    (1136-14-440)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Break
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Virtual Gelfand-Zetlin Polytopes.
    Elise Villella*, University of Pittsburgh
    (1136-14-264)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A geometric proof of the generalized Mukai conjecture for horospherical varieties.
    Giuliano Gagliardi, Tel Aviv University
    Johannes Hofscheier*, McMaster University
    (1136-14-428)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Differential Equations and Applications, II
  Room 340, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  King-Yeung Lam, Ohio State University lam.184@math.ohio-state.edu
  Yuan Lou, Ohio State University
  Qiliang Wu, Michigan State University
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    On a two-fluid flow in a Hele-Shaw cell with a time-dependent gap.
    Tatiana Savina*, Ohio University
    Lanre Akinyemi, Ohio University
    Avital Savin, Ohio University
    (1136-35-93)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Regularity gradient estimates for weak solutions of quasi-linear parabolic equations with singular divergence-free drifts.
    Tuoc Phan*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
    (1136-35-372)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On a Vector-host Epidemic Model with Spatial Structure.
    Pierre Magal, University of Bourdeaux
    Glenn F Webb, Vanderbilt University
    Yixiang Wu*, Vanderbilt University
    (1136-35-272)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The effect of impurities on stripes.
    Qiliang Wu*, Ohio University
    Arnd Scheel, University of Minnesota
    (1136-35-331)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Traveling Waves for a Class of Diffusive Disease-Transmission Models with Network Structures.
    King-Yeung Lam*, The Ohio State University
    Xueying Wang, Washington State University
    Tianran Zhang, Southwest University, China
    (1136-35-107)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Function Spaces, Operator Theory, and Non-Linear Differential Operators, II
  Room 254, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  David Cruz-Uribe, University of Alabama
  Osvaldo Mendez, University of Texas osmendez@utep.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    A PDE characterization of anisotropic Hardy spaces.
    Li-An Daniel Wang*, Sam Houston State University
    Marcin Bownik, University of Oregon
    (1136-42-447)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Poincare inequalities and Neumann problems for the $p$-Laplacian.
    David V. Cruz-Uribe*, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
    Scott Rodney, Cape Breton University
    Emily Rosta, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
    (1136-35-631)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A characterization of functions with zero trace.
    Ales Nekvinda*, Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Civil Engeneering
    (1136-46-502)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Morrey spaces on domains.
    Dorothee D. Haroske*, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
    (1136-46-28)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A non-linear biharmonic operator, higher order Sobolev embeddings and generalized trigonometric functions.
    Jan Lang*, The Ohio State University
    Lyonell Boulton, Heriot-Watt University
    (1136-47-602)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Methods in Shape Analysis, II
  Room 209, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Sebastian Kurtek, Ohio State University
  Tom Needham, Ohio State University needham.71@osu.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Information Geometry on diffeomorphism groups.
    Gerard Misiolek*, University of Notre Dame
    (1136-58-129)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The furling of flags.
    Martin Bauer, Florida State University
    Jakob Moeller-Andersen, Florida State University
    Stephen C. Preston*, Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center
    (1136-74-433)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The symplectic structure on the space of polygons and curves in $\mathbb{R}^3$ and some applications to random polygons and shape analysis.
    Jason Cantarella*, Mathematics Department, University of Georgia
    Clayton Shonkwiler, Mathematics Department, Colorado State University
    (1136-53-561)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Equilateral Polygons, Shapes of Ring Polymers, and an Application to Frame Theory.
    Jason Cantarella, University of Georgia
    Clayton Shonkwiler*, Colorado State University
    (1136-58-529)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory, II
  Room 124, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  John Maharry, Ohio State University maharry.1@osu.edu
  Yue Zhao, University of Central Florida
  Xiangqian Zhou, Wright State University
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Totally odd immersions of graphs.
    Bojan Mohar*, Simon Fraser University
    Ross Churchley, Simon Fraser University
    (1136-05-98)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Excluding a large Theta graph.
    Guoli Ding*, Louisiana State University
    Emily Marshall, Computer Science & Mathematics, Arcadia University
    (1136-05-141)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Coloring Graphs with Forbidden Minors.
    Martin Rolek, College of William and Mary
    Zi-Xia Song*, University of Central Florida
    (1136-05-24)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Distance restricted matching extension missing vertices and edges in 5-connected triangulations of the plane.
    Robert E.L. Aldred, Otago University
    Michael D. Plummer*, Vanderbilt University
    Watacharintorn Ruksasakchai, Kasetsart University
    (1136-05-54)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Homological Algebra, II
  Room 439, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Ela Celikbas, West Virginia University
  Olgur Celikbas, West Virginia University olgur.celikbas@math.wvu.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    On the category of maximal Cohen-Macaulay modules over a branched cover of a hypersurface.
    Alex Dugas*, University of the Pacific
    Graham Leuschke, Syracuse University
    (1136-13-499)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Cotorsion pairs in categories of quiver representations.
    Henrik Holm*, University of Copenhagen
    (1136-16-157)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Capturing non-relativistic invariants using Leibniz (co)Homology.
    Guy R Biyogmam*, Georgia College & State University
    (1136-13-214)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Homotopy Theory, II
  Room 230, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Ernest Fontes, Ohio State University
  John E. Harper, Ohio State University harper.903@osu.edu
  Crichton Ogle, Ohio State University
  Gabriel Valenzuela, Ohio State University
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    The Mahowald invariant in motivic, equivariant, and classical stable homotopy theory.
    J. D. Quigley*, University of Notre Dame
    (1136-55-238)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Motivic Module Categories and their Classification.
    Elden Elmanto*, Northwestern University
    Håkon Kolderup, University of Oslo
    (1136-19-213)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Functor Calculus and Cartesian Differential Categories.
    Brenda Johnson*, Union College
    (1136-55-481)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Operads and Day convolution in Goodwillie calculus.
    Michael Ching*, Amherst College
    (1136-55-138)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Genuine Equivariant Operads.
    Luis Pereira*, University of Notre Dame
    (1136-55-492)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Lefschetz Properties, II
  Room 317, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Juan Migliore, University of Notre Dame migliore.1@nd.edu
  Uwe Nagel, University of Kentucky
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Toric Ideals of Hierarchical Models.
    Aida Maraj*, University of Kentucky
    Uwe Nagel, University of Kentucky
    (1136-14-355)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Lower bound theorems for balanced manifolds.
    Martina Juhnke-Kubitzke, University of Osnabrück
    Satoshi Murai, Osaka University
    Isabella Novik, University of Washington
    Connor Sawaske*, University of Washington
    (1136-05-346)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Gorenstein Interval Conjecture in low socle degree.
    Fabrizio Zanello*, Michigan Tech
    (1136-13-188)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Numerical Macaulification.
    Erin Bela*, University of Notre Dame
    (1136-13-579)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On h-vector of standard graded algebras.
    Hailong Dao*, University of Kansas
    (1136-13-421)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Modeling of Neuronal Networks, II
  Room 312, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Janet Best, Ohio State University
  Alicia Prieto Langarica, Youngstown State University
  Pamela B. Pyzza, Ohio Wesleyan University pbpyzza@owu.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Synchronization of Brain Oscillations by Uncorrelated Noise.
    Hermann Riecke*, Northwestern University
    John Hongyu Meng, Northwestern University
    (1136-92-114)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    State-dependent rhythmogenesis and frequency control in a half-center locomotor central pattern generator.
    Jessica Ausborn, Drexel University College of Medicine
    Abigail Snyder, University of Maryland
    Natalia Shevtsova, Drexel University College of Medicine
    Ilya Rybak, Drexel University College of Medicine
    Jonathan E Rubin*, Univesity of Pittsburgh
    (1136-92-625)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Constraining neural networks with spiking statistics.
    Andrea K Barreiro*, Southern Methodist University
    Shree Hari Gautam, University of Arkansas
    Woodrow L Shew, University of Arkansas
    Cheng Ly, Virginia Commonwealth University
    (1136-92-558)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Modeling Mechanisms of Neurofilament Transport in Axons.
    Veronica Ciocanel*, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, The Ohio State University
    Anthony Brown, Department of Neuroscience, The Ohio State University
    Peter Jung, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University
    (1136-92-68)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Identifying "influential seizers" in a network model of epilepsy.
    Christian G. Fink*, Ohio Wesleyan University
    Joseph Emerson, Ohio Wesleyan University
    Momi Afelin, Wesleyan University
    Viesulas Sliupas, Ohio Wesleyan University
    (1136-92-387)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Multiplicative Ideal Theory and Factorization (in honor of Tom Lucas retirement), II
  Room 311, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Evan Houston, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
  Alan Loper, Ohio State University loper.4@osu.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Generic formal fiber rings of mixed power series-polynomial rings.
    William J Heinzer, Purdue University
    Christel Rotthaus, Michigan State University
    Sylvia M Wiegand*, University of Nebraska Lincoln
    (1136-13-427)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Intersections of regular local rings of dimension two.
    William J Heinzer*, Purdue University
    K. Alan Loper, Ohio State University
    Bruce Olberding, New Mexico State University
    (1136-13-162)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Closures and Semistar Operations in $\text{Int}(\mathbb{Z}^2)$.
    Michael C Steward*, United State Military Academy - West Point
    K Alan Loper, The Ohio State University - Newark
    (1136-13-224)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A construction of Prüfer rings involving quotients of Rees algebras.
    Carmelo Antonio Finocchiaro*, Dipartimento di Matematica, Università degli Studi di Padova
    (1136-13-178)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Prüfer domains of integer-valued polynomials over subsets.
    Giulio Peruginelli*, Department of Mathematics, University of Padova, Italy
    (1136-13-170)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Noncommutative Algebra and Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry, II
  Room 434, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Jason Gaddis, Miami University gaddisj@miamioh.edu
  Robert Won, Wake Forest University
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Twists as deformations and their applications to quantum groups and noncommutative algebra.
    Anthony Giaquinto*, Loyola University
    (1136-16-554)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Subprime solutions of the classical Yang-Baxter equation.
    Garrett Johnson*, North Carolina Central University
    (1136-17-23)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Comparing Global Dimension of Connected Hopf Algebras and their Enveloping Algebra.
    Daniel Yee*, Bradley University
    (1136-16-183)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On a family of semisimple Hopf algebras.
    Yevgenia Kashina*, DePaul University
    (1136-16-488)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On a construction of the affine VW supercategory.
    Mee Seong Im*, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY
    (1136-16-87)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Evolution Equations, II
  Room 326, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  John Holmes, Ohio State University holmes.782@osu.edu
  Feride Tiglay, Ohio State University
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    A Hamiltonian, higher-order unidirectional model for surface water waves.
    Jerry L. Bona*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1136-35-318)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Asymptotic behavior of deep water solitary waves with localized vorticity.
    Robin Ming Chen*, University of Pittsburgh
    Samuel Walsh, University of Missouri
    Miles Wheeler, University of Vienna
    (1136-35-126)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Nonlinear Bound States in a Schrödinger-Poisson System with External Potential.
    Jeremy Marzuola, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    Sarah Raynor*, Wake Forest University
    Gideon Simpson, Drexel University
    (1136-35-486)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Determining map for discrete data assimilation with observational error and applications.
    Animikh Biswas*, University of Maryland Baltimore County
    C Foias, Texas A & M University
    C F Mondaini, Texas A & M University
    E S Titi, Texas A & M University and Weizmann Institute
    (1136-76-240)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Stability of solitary wave solutions to a coupled system.
    Hongqiu Chen*, University of Memphis
    Xiaojune Wang, Cincinnati, Ohio
    (1136-35-544)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Waves and Patterns, II
  Room 346, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Anna Ghazaryan, Miami University
  Stephane Lafortune, College of Charleston Lafortunes@cofc.edu
  Vahagn Manukian, Miami University
  Alin Pogan, Miami University
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Metastable Traveling Fronts Arising in Nanoscale Pattern Formation.
    Mathew Johnson, University of Kansas
    Gregory Lyng, University of Wyoming
    Connor Smith*, University of Kansas
    (1136-35-104)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    $\phi^4$ Solitary Waves With a Parabolic Potential: Existence, Stability, and Collisional Dynamics.
    Aslihan Demirkaya*, University of Hartford
    (1136-35-120)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Gelfand type problems for reactive jets: autoignition of turbulent jets.
    Peter V Gordon*, Kent State University
    (1136-35-77)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Front solutions of modified Rosenzweig-MacArthur model.
    Hong Cai, Brown University
    Anna Ghazaryan, Miami University
    Vahagn Manukian*, Miami University
    (1136-35-52)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Linear Instability of the Peregrine Breather: Numerical and Analytical Investigations.
    Annalisa M. Calini*, Department of Mathematics, College of Charleston
    Constance M. Schober, Department of Mathematics, University of Central Florida
    (1136-35-573)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
  Special Session on Parameter Analysis and Estimation in Applied Dynamical Systems, II
  Room 314, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Adriana Dawes, The Ohio State University
  Reginald L. McGee, Mathematical Biosciences Institute mcgee.278@mbi.osu.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Parameter informatics for high-dimensional nonlinear models.
    Reginald McGee*, Mathematical Biosciences Institute
    Jon del'Etoile, Department of Molecular Genetics
    Adriana Dawes, Department of Mathematics/Department of Molecular Genetics
    (1136-92-613)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    An Epizootiological Model of Avian Malaria.
    Kyle Dahlin*, Purdue University
    Zhilan Feng, Purdue University
    (1136-92-523)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Analysis of Staged HIV Transmission and Treatment in a Dynamic Model with Concurrency.
    Katharine Gurski*, Howard University
    Kathleen Hoffman, University of Maryland Baltimore County
    (1136-92-527)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Probabilistic and Extremal Graph Theory, II
  Room 128, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Louis DeBiasio, Miami University debiasld@miamioh.edu
  Tao Jiang, Miami University
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    The linear Turán number of the sail and the $k$-fan.
    Zoltan Furedi*, Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest, Hungary
    Andras Gyarfas, Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest, Hungary
    (1136-05-563)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Turán numbers for short Berge cycles in uniform hypergraphs.
    Alexandr Kostochka*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Ruth Luo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1136-05-328)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Counting trees in graphs.
    Jacques Verstraete*, University of California, San Diego
    Dhruv Mubayi, University of Illinois, Chicago
    (1136-05-160)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Supersaturation in extremal enumeration.
    Jonathan Cutler*, Montclair State University
    A. J. Radcliffe, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1136-05-513)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Minimizing the number of 5-cycles in graphs with given edge-density.
    Andrzej Dudek*, Western Michigan University
    Patrick Bennett, Western Michigan University
    Bernard Lidicky, Iowa State University
    (1136-05-130)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Probability in Convexity and Convexity in Probability, II
  Room 245, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Elizabeth Meckes, Case Western Reserve University
  Mark Meckes, Case Western Reserve University mark.meckes@case.edu
  Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Polytopes of Maximal Volume Product.
    Matthew Alexander, Kent State University
    Matthieu Fradelizi, Universite Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallee
    Artem Zvavitch*, Kent State University
    (1136-52-291)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    The Aleksandrov problem and its recent development.
    Yiming Zhao*, St. John's University
    (1136-52-227)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the dimensional Brunn-Minkowski inequality.
    Galyna Livshyts*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1136-52-320)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Some Fourier transform formulas related to the simplex mean width conjecture.
    Susanna Dann, Vienna University of Technology
    Alexander Koldobsky, University of Missouri
    Dmitry Ryabogin*, Kent State University
    (1136-52-329)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Concentration, anti-concentration, and Gaussian convexity.
    Petros Valettas*, University of Missouri
    (1136-60-525)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Quantum Symmetries, II
  Room 222, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  David Penneys, The Ohio State University penneys.2@osu.edu
  Julia Plavnik, Texas A & M University
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Fracton (3+1)-TQFTs.
    Zhenghan Wang*, UC Santa Barbara
    (1136-57-180)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Protected edge states in symmetry enriched topological orders: criteria and realizations.
    Yuan-Ming Lu*, Department of Physics, The Ohio State University
    (1136-18-181)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Two new settings for examples of von Neumann dimension.
    Lauren C. Ruth*, University of California, Riverside
    (1136-46-289)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Quantum isometries.
    Alexandru Chirvasitu*, SUNY at Buffalo
    (1136-46-182)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Approximation Theory and Operator Theory, II
  Room 258, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Jan Lang, The Ohio State University lang@math.osu.edu
  Paul Nevai, The Ohio State University
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Simultaneous Gauss quadrature and multiple Hermite polynomials.
    Walter Van Assche*, KU Leuven, Belgium
    (1136-41-80)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Restrictions of surjective mappings.
    Richard M Aron*, Kent State University
    (1136-46-327)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Asymptotic Approximations in the Theory of Stochastic Volatility Models.
    Archil Gulisashvili*, Ohio University
    (1136-41-105)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Acyclic resolutions of multivariate splines.
    Amos Ron*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
    Shengnan Wang, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    (1136-41-504)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Krall commutative algebras of partial differential operators.
    Plamen Iliev*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1136-47-263)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Finite Element Methods for Partial Differential Equations, II
  Room 354, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Ching-shan Chou, The Ohio State University
  Yukun Li, The Ohio State University li.7907@osu.edu
  Yulong Xing, The Ohio State University
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    A Mixed Finite Element Approximation for Non-Darcy Flows of Slightly Compressible Fluids in Porous Media.
    Thinh Kieu*, University of North Georgia
    (1136-35-14)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Asymptotically Compatible Schemes for Robust Discretization of Nonlocal Models.
    Xiaochuan Tian*, University of Texas at Austin
    Qiang Du, Columbia University
    (1136-65-589)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Multiscale Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Stationary Schrodinger Equations.
    Wei Wang*, Florida International University
    (1136-65-518)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Simplex-averaged Finite Element Methods for General Convection-diffusion Problems.
    Shuonan Wu*, Pennsylvania State University
    (1136-65-397)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A discontinuous Galerkin method for nonlinear partial differential equations with a gradient flow structure.
    Zheng Sun*, Brown University
    (1136-65-45)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Packing, II
  Room 316, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Joseph W. Iverson, University of Maryland
  John Jasper, South Dakota State University
  Dustin G. Mixon, The Ohio State University mixon.23@osu.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Zauner's Conjecture and Algebraic Number Theory.
    Marcus Appleby, University of Sydney
    Steven Flammia*, University of Sydney
    Gary McConnell, Imperial College London
    Jon Yard, University of Waterloo
    (1136-11-532)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A number-theoretic technique for constructing exact sets of complex equiangular lines.
    Marcus Appleby*, University of Sydney
    Tuan Chien, University of Auckland
    Steven Flammia, University of Sydney
    Shayne Waldron, University of Auckland
    (1136-11-537)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Symmetric Informationally Complete quantum measurements: Where sphere packing meets quantum information.
    Blake C Stacey*, Physics Department/University of Massachusetts Boston
    (1136-51-204)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The solution to the frame Quantum Detection Problem.
    Desai Cheng*, University of Missouri
    Peter Casazza, University of Missouri
    Sara Botelho-Andrade, University of Missouri
    Tin T Tran, University of Missouri
    (1136-42-127)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Development of Nonlinear Geometric PDEs, II
  Room 243, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Bo Guan, Ohio State University
  Qun Li, Wright State University
  Xiangwen Zhang, University of California, Irvine xiangwen@math.uci.edu
  Fangyang Zheng, Ohio State University
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Invariant metrics on negatively pinched complete Kähler manifolds.
    Damin Wu*, University of Connecticut
    (1136-32-412)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Geometric estimates for complex Monge-Ampere equations.
    Xin Fu, Rutgers University
    Bin Guo*, Columbia University
    Jian Song, Rutgers University
    (1136-53-414)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Positivity in the inverse $\sigma_k$ equations.
    Jian Xiao*, Northwestern University
    (1136-32-455)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Estimates on the Principle Eigenvalue of a Hermitian Manifold.
    Gabriel Khan*, The Ohio State University
    (1136-58-299)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Exterior problem for Monge-Ampere equation.
    Siyuan Lu*, Rutgers University
    Yanyan Li, Rutgers University
    (1136-35-65)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Several Complex Variables, II
  Room 358, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Liwei Chen, Ohio State University
  Kenneth Koenig, Ohio State University koenig@math.ohio-state.edu
  Liz Vivas, Ohio State University
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    On the vexing question of a priori estimates for the Bergman projection.
    Emil J. Straube*, Texas A&M University
    (1136-32-322)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    $L^p$ mapping properties for the Cauchy-Riemann equations on Lipschitz domains admitting subelliptic estimates.
    Philip S. Harrington, University of Arkansas
    Yunus E. Zeytuncu*, University of Michigan - Dearborn
    (1136-32-239)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Boundary invariants and the closed range property for $\bar\partial$.
    Phillip S. Harrington, University of Arkansas
    Andrew S. Raich*, University of Arkansas
    (1136-32-123)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The restriction operator on Bergman spaces.
    Debraj Chakrabarti*, Central Michigan University
    Sonmez Sahutoglu, University of Toledo
    (1136-32-117)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A reproducing kernel thesis on the Bergman spaces of some Reinhardt domains.
    Zhenghui Huo*, Washingtion University in St. Louis
    (1136-32-371)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Structure and Representation Theory of Finite Groups, II
  Room 428, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Justin Lynd, University of Louisiana at Lafayette lynd@louisiana.edu
  Hung Ngoc Nguyen, University of Akron
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Calculating the Brauer invariant of an irreducible character of a finite group.
    Alexandre Turull*, University of Florida
    (1136-20-394)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Rationality of blocks of finite simple groups.
    Radha Kessar*, City, University of London
    (1136-20-551)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the complexities of Frobenius kernels and finite Chevalley groups.
    Nham V. Ngo*, University of North Georgia - Gainesville campus
    Paul Levy, Lancaster University
    Klemen Sivic, University of Ljubljana
    (1136-20-90)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    $2$-parts of real class sizes.
    Hung P Tong-Viet*, Binghamton University
    (1136-20-92)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Totally orthogonal finite simple groups.
    C. Ryan Vinroot*, College of William and mary
    (1136-20-101)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Symmetry in Differential Geometry, II
  Room 240, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Samuel Lin, Dartmouth College
  Barry Minemyer, Bloomsburg University bminemyer@bloomu.edu
  Ben Schmidt, Michigan State University
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Cohomology of arithmetic groups and characteristic classes of manifold bundles.
    Bena Tshishiku*, Harvard University
    (1136-55-146)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Vanishing cycles via the mapping class group.
    Nick Salter*, Harvard University
    (1136-57-49)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    How diffeomorphisms affect the total Chern class of complex Bott manifolds. (Joint work with Jean Lafont and Fangyang Zheng).
    Jean-François Lafont, The Ohio State University
    Gangotryi Sorcar*, The Ohio State University
    Fangyang Zheng, The Ohio State University
    (1136-53-473)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Deformation and Extension of Fibrations of Spheres by Great Circles.
    Patricia Cahn*, Smith College
    Herman Gluck, University of Pennsylvania
    Haggai Nuchi, University of Toronto
    (1136-53-570)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Sets of degrees of maps between SU(2)-bundles over the 5-sphere.
    J.-F. Lafont*, Ohio State University (U.S.A.)
    C. Neofytidis, Université de Genève (Switzerland)
    (1136-57-422)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on The Mathematics of Phylogenetics, II
  Room 318, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Colby Long, Mathematical Biosciences Institute long.1579@mbi.osu.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Modeling the Evolutionary History of a Tumor Given Single-Cell Sequencing Data.
    Julia Chifman*, American University
    Laura Kubatko, The Ohio State University
    (1136-92-626)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Computing the Frechet Mean in Billera-Holmes-Vogtmann Treespace.
    Megan Owen*, Lehman College, City University of New York
    (1136-52-316)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Taxon Selection using Quartets.
    Joseph Rusinko*, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
    Yu Cai, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
    Allison Doherty, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
    (1136-92-540)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The Cavender-Farris-Neyman Model with a Molecular Clock.
    Jane Ivy Coons*, North Carolina State University
    Seth Sullivant, North Carolina State University
    (1136-51-167)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Distinguishing phylogenetic networks.
    Elizabeth Gross*, San Jose State University
    Colby Long, Mathematical Biosciences Institute
    (1136-92-485)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Topology and Geometry in Data Analysis, II
  Room 211, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Sanjeevi Krishnan, Ohio State University sanjeevi@math.osu.edu
  Facundo Memoli, Ohio State University
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Reeb Posets and Tree Approximations.
    Facundo Memoli, The Ohio State University
    Osman Berat Okutan*, The Ohio State University
    (1136-51-591)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Type theory and concurrency.
    Paige North*, Ohio State University
    (1136-03-604)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Stable signatures for dynamic metric spaces via persistent homology.
    Woojin Kim*, The Ohio State University
    Facundo Memoli, The Ohio State University
    (1136-55-520)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Injectivity Properties of Local Distance Distributions.
    Tom Needham*, The Ohio State University
    Facundo Mémoli, The Ohio State University
    (1136-52-437)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Quantitative and computational immersion theory.
    Fedor Manin*, Ohio State University
    (1136-57-627)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
  Contributed Paper Session on AMS Contributed Paper Session, II
  Room 206, Enarson Classroom Building
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Extremal number of theta graphs of order $7$.
    M M Jaradat*, Qatar University
    (1136-05-16)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    The Zarankiewicz problem in 3-partite graphs.
    Craig Timmons*, California State University Sacramento
    Michael Tait, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1136-05-402)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Multithreshold Graphs.
    Robert E. Jamison, Clemson University
    Alan P. Sprague*, U. Alabama at Birmingham
    (1136-05-603)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    On Edge Graceful Labelings of Zero-Divisor Graphs.
    Christopher Park Mooney*, Westminster College
    (1136-05-620)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Biplanar Crossing Number and the Probabilistic Method.
    John Asplund, Dalton State College
    Thao Do, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Arran Hamm*, Winthrop University
    László Székely, University of South Carolina
    Libby Taylor, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Zhiyu Wang, University of South Carolina
    (1136-05-512)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    A Path Through the StArrs: Using Walks on Graphs to Compute Generating Functions for Strip Arrangements on Chessboards.
    Arthur L Gershon*, Case Western Reserve University
    (1136-05-616)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Profinite completions of MV-algebras.
    Jean B Nganou*, University of Houston-Downtown
    (1136-06-632)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Stochastic Analysis in Infinite Dimensions, II
  Room 246, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Parisa Fatheddin, Air Force Institute of Technology Parisa.Fatheddin@afit.edu
  Arnab Ganguly, Louisiana State University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Genealogies for a biased voter model.
    Wai-Tong Fan*, Madison
    (1136-60-343)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Multiscale stochastic reaction-diffusion algorithms for biochemical networks.
    Hye-Won Kang*, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
    (1136-92-184)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Comparison principle for stochastic heat equation on $\mathbb{R}^d$.
    Le Chen*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
    Jingyu Huang, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah
    (1136-60-465)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 4:40 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
  Invited Address
  The correlation constant of a field.
  Room 131, Hitchcock Hall
  June Huh*, Institute for Advanced Study
  (1136-12-281)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 5:45 p.m.-7:15 p.m.
  Reception
  Archie M. Griffin East Ballroom, OSU Union

Sunday March 18, 2018

• Sunday March 18, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Lobby, Hitchcock Hall
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Lobby, Hitchcock Hall
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Advances in Integral and Differential Equations, III
  Room 322, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Jeffrey T. Neugebauer, Eastern Kentucky University Jeffrey.neugebauer@eku.edu
  Min Wang, Rowan University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Uniqueness and existence of solutions of boundary value problems at resonance for ordinary differential equations.
    Jabr Aljedani*, University of Dayton
    Paul Eloe, University of Dayton
    (1136-34-298)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Uniqueness implies existence of solutions for a two-point boundary value problem for a Caputo fractional differential equation.
    Paul Eloe*, University of Dayton
    Tyler Masthay, University of Texas at Austin
    (1136-34-174)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Functional equations with rescaling and applications to mathematical model of plankton.
    Yaqin Feng*, Ohio University
    (1136-35-26)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A Nonexistence Result for a BVP from Fluid Mechanics.
    Joseph E. Paullet*, Penn State Behrend
    Joseph P. Previte, Penn State Behrend
    (1136-34-57)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Concavity in Fractional Calculus.
    Paul W. Eloe, University of Dayton
    Jeffrey T. Neugebauer*, Eastern Kentucky University
    (1136-26-252)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Coding Theory and Applications, III
  Room 412, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Heide Gluesing-Luerssen, University of Kentucky
  Christine A. Kelley, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  Steve Szabo, Eastern Kentucky University steve.szabo@eku.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Constructing self-dual $\mathbb{Z}_4$-codes from the ring $\mathbb{Z}_4[x]/(x^2-2x)$.
    Bahattin Yildiz*, Northern Arizona University
    Abidin Kaya, Sampoerna Academy, L'avenue campus
    (1136-94-471)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    new construction of linear codes including a wide family of MDS codes.
    Asiyeh Rafieipour*, University of Kashan
    Majid Mazrooei, University of Kashan
    (1136-00-210)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Generalization of Quasi-twisted Codes: Multi-twisted codes.
    N. Aydin*, Kenyon College
    A. Halilovic, Lumina, The University of South East Europe
    (1136-94-200)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Error Correcting Codes in a Frobenius Ring Ambient.
    José Gómez-Torrecillas, University of Granada
    Erik Hieta-aho*, Ohio University
    Javier Lobillo, University of Granada
    Sergio López-Permouth, Ohio University
    Gabriel Navarro, University of Granada
    (1136-13-321)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Mathematical Mysteries and Fascinating Facts of Binary Self Dual Codes.
    Nathan J. Russell*, Eastern Kentucky University
    (1136-90-494)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics: Association Schemes, Finite Geometry, and Related Topics, III
  Room 422, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Sung Y. Song, Iowa State University
  Bangteng Xu, Eastern Kentucky University Bangteng.Xu@eku.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Polynomial ideals for combinatorial $t$-designs.
    William J. Martin*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    Douglas R. Stinson, University of Waterloo
    (1136-05-595)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Balanced set type conditions.
    Jason S Williford*, University of Wyoming
    (1136-05-568)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Character tables of group-case commutative association schemes.
    Sung Y Song*, Iowa State University
    (1136-05-111)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Automorphism groups of classical affine association schemes of Latin type.
    Andrew Woldar*, Villanova University
    Nimrod Kriger, Achva Academic College
    (1136-05-154)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Quasi-thin and double quasi-thin table algebras and association schemes.
    Mikhail Muzychuk, Ben-Gurion University
    Bangteng Xu*, Eastern Kentucky University
    (1136-05-59)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic and Combinatorial Aspects of Tropical Geometry, III
  Room 314, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Maria Angelica Cueto, Ohio State University cueto.5@osu.edu
  Yoav Len, University of Waterloo
  Martin Ulirsch, University of Michigan
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Tropicalizing logarithmic schemes, particularly curves.
    Jonathan Wise*, University of Colorado, Boulder
    Renzo Cavalieri, Colorado State University
    Melody Chan, Brown University
    Martin Ulirsch, University of Michigan
    (1136-14-143)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Logarithmic compactification of the Abel--Jacobi section.
    Steffen Marcus*, The College of New Jersey
    Jonathan Wise, University of Colorado, Boulder
    (1136-14-171)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Towards an Intersection Chow Cohomology Theory for GIT Quotients.
    Matthew Satriano*, University of Waterloo
    Dan Edidin, University of Missouri
    (1136-14-610)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Results on Khovanskii bases of graded algebras.
    Christopher A Manon*, University of Kentucky
    (1136-14-444)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Combinatorial and tropical geometry of Hilbert schemes of points.
    Dori Bejleri*, Brown University
    (1136-14-479)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic, Combinatorial, and Quantum Invariants of Knots and Manifolds, III
  Room 226, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Cody Armond, Ohio State University, Mansfield
  Micah Chrisman, Monmouth University mchrisma@monmouth.edu
  Heather Dye, McKendree University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Index polynomials of virtual tangles.
    Nicolas Petit*, Oxford College of Emory University
    (1136-57-199)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Computing Quantum Group Valued Invariants of Knots and Links.
    Thomas Kerler*, The Ohio State University
    (1136-57-243)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Symmetric chromatic polynomial and the Vassiliev invariants.
    Sergei Chmutov*, Ohio State University at Mansfield
    (1136-05-158)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Finite Group TQFT for $S_{3}$.
    Nathan Alvarez Olson, University of Texas Austin
    Zoe Margaret Himwich*, Stanford University
    Indraneel Tambe, University of California Berkeley
    (1136-55-562)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Singular Knots and Quandles.
    Mustafa Hajij*, TAMPA
    Mohammed Elhamdadi, University of South Florida
    Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna College
    (1136-57-115)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Categorical, Homological and Combinatorial Methods in Algebra (Celebrating the 80th birthday of S. K. Jain), III
  Room 436, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Pedro A. Guil Asensio, University of Murcia
  Ivo Herzog, Ohio State University
  Andre Leroy, University of Artois
  Ashish K. Srivastava, Saint Louis University asrivas3@slu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Representability of relatively free affine algebras over an arbitrary field.
    Louis H Rowen*, Bar-Ilan University
    (1136-16-42)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On equivalence of subcategories of complexes.
    Sinem Odabasi*, Instituto de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas-Universidad Austral de Chile
    (1136-00-51)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Tilting cotorsion pairs and pure semisimple rings.
    Nguyen Viet Dung*, Ohio University
    José Luis Garc\'{\i }a, University of Murcia
    (1136-16-186)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Maximal Subalgebras of Finite-DImensional Algebras and Applications.
    Alexander H Sistko*, University of Iowa
    Miodrag C Iovanov, University of Iowa
    (1136-16-64)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Coherent Structures in Interfacial Flows, III
  Room 330, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Benjamin Akers, Air Force Institute of Technology benjamin.akers@afit.edu
  Jonah Reeger, Air Force Institute of Technology
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Radial Basis Functions Generated Finite-Difference Method for the Korteweg-de Vries Equation.
    Julienne Kabre*, Air Force Institute of Technology
    Jonah A. Reeger, Air Force Institute of Technology
    (1136-65-241)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Analysis and numerics for induced-charge electrokinetic flow with interfaces.
    Michael Siegel*, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    (1136-76-466)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Weakly singular shock profiles for a regularized shallow water system.
    Robert L Pego*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1136-35-582)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Periodic traveling interfacial hydroelastic waves with or without mass.
    Benjamin F. Akers, Air Force Institute of Technology
    David M. Ambrose, Drexel University
    David W. Sulon*, Drexel University
    (1136-35-393)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Global bifurcation of rotating vortex patches.
    Zineb Hassainia, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
    Nader Masmoudi, Department of Mathematics, New York University in Abu Dhabi
    Miles H. Wheeler*, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna
    (1136-76-526)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Commutative and Combinatorial Algebra, III
  Room 318, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Jennifer Biermann, Hobart and William Smith Colleges BIERMANN@hws.edu
  Kuei-Nuan Lin, Penn State University, Greater Allegheny
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Using Partial Intersections To Understand Fat Points.
    Susan Marie Cooper*, University of Manitoba
    (1136-13-337)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Zariski-Nagata Theorem in mixed characteristic.
    Alessandro De Stefani, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    Eloísa Grifo*, University of Virginia
    Jack Jeffries, University of Michigan
    (1136-13-274)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Chordal graphs, linear quotients, and spanning complexes for data clustering.
    Anton Dochtermann*, Texas State University
    (1136-05-580)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Cohen-Macaulay property of Rees algebras of modules.
    Alessandra Costantini*, Purdue University
    (1136-13-148)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Chains of Symmetric Ideals.
    Uwe Nagel*, University of Kentucky
    (1136-13-356)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Methods in Shape Analysis, III
  Room 209, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Sebastian Kurtek, Ohio State University
  Tom Needham, Ohio State University needham.71@osu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Riemannian Metrics Associated with Metamorphoses on Spaces of Curves.
    Laurent Younes*, Johns Hopkins University
    (1136-58-164)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Radiologic Image-based Statistical Shape Analysis of Brain Tumors.
    Sebastian Andrew Kurtek*, The Ohio State University
    Karthik Bharath, University of Nottingham
    Arvind Rao, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
    Veerabhadran Baladandayuthapani, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
    (1136-62-344)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Automatic Detection and Uncertainty Quantification of Landmarks on Elastic Curves.
    Justin Strait*, The Ohio State University
    Oksana Chkrebtii, The Ohio State University
    Sebastian Kurtek, The Ohio State University
    (1136-62-139)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Nonparametric $k$-Sample Test on Shape Space of Planar Contours with Application on Mitochondria.
    Ruiyi Zhang*, Department of Statistics, Florida State University
    Robert T Ogden, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
    Martin Picard, Department of Neurology, Columbia University
    Anuj Srivastava, Department of Statistics, Florida State University
    (1136-57-215)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:15 a.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory, III
  Room 124, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  John Maharry, Ohio State University maharry.1@osu.edu
  Yue Zhao, University of Central Florida
  Xiangqian Zhou, Wright State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The s-hamiltonian problem in line graphs.
    Hong-Jian Lai*, West Virginia University
    (1136-05-221)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Unavoidable Immersions of Large $3$- and $4$-Edge-Connected Graphs.
    Matthew Barnes, Louisiana State University
    Bogdan Oporowski*, Louisiana State University
    (1136-05-585)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Approximation algorithms for graph planarization and related problems.
    Anastasios Sidiropoulos*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1136-68-469)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Progress on a conjecture of Hajós on graph coloring.
    Xingxing Yu*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1136-05-522)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-9:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Homological Algebra, III
  Room 439, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Ela Celikbas, West Virginia University
  Olgur Celikbas, West Virginia University olgur.celikbas@math.wvu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On non-vanishing theorem for Betti numbers of edge ideals.
    Kyouko Kimura*, Shizuoka University
    (1136-13-294)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A case for Eisenbud-Green-Harris conjecture.
    Sema Gunturkun*, University of Michigan
    Mel Hochster, University of Michigan
    (1136-13-629)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Homotopy Theory, III
  Room 230, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Ernest Fontes, Ohio State University
  John E. Harper, Ohio State University harper.903@osu.edu
  Crichton Ogle, Ohio State University
  Gabriel Valenzuela, Ohio State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Local Higher Category Theory.
    Nicholas J. Meadows*, Western University
    (1136-55-287)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Localizing the $E_2$ page of the Adams spectral sequence.
    Eva Belmont*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1136-55-375)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Fixed Point Theory and the Cyclotomic Trace.
    Jonathan A Campbell*, Vanderbilt University
    (1136-55-511)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A formula for p-completion by way of the Segal conjecture.
    Sune Precht Reeh, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
    Tomer M Schlank, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Nathaniel Stapleton*, University of Kentucky
    (1136-55-398)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A constructive approach to higher homotopy operations.
    Mark W. Johnson*, Penn State Altoona
    David Blanc, University of Haifa
    James M. Turner, Calvin College
    (1136-55-222)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Multiplicative Ideal Theory and Factorization (in honor of Tom Lucas retirement), III
  Room 311, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Evan Houston, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
  Alan Loper, Ohio State University loper.4@osu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Multiplicative ideal theory of rings with zerodivisors.
    Jesse Elliott*, California State University, Channel Islands
    (1136-13-137)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Unique Decomposition of Direct Sums of Ideals.
    Lee Klingler*, Florida Atlantic University
    Akeel Omairi, Florida Atlantic University
    (1136-13-189)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Poincaré series and Betti tables over short Gorenstein algebras.
    Luchezar Avramov, University of Nebraska
    Courtney Gibbons, Hamilton College
    Roger Wiegand*, University of Nebraska
    (1136-13-83)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Closures, interiors and related structures.
    Janet Vassilev*, University of New Mexico
    (1136-13-335)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Singular valuations, ideal chains and arrangements.
    Hans Schoutens*, City University of New York (CUNY)
    (1136-13-267)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Evolution Equations, III
  Room 326, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  John Holmes, Ohio State University holmes.782@osu.edu
  Feride Tiglay, Ohio State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The Cauchy Problem for Camassa-Holm equations.
    Alex A. Himonas*, Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame
    (1136-35-89)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Well-posedness and Continuity Properties of The Fornberg-Whitham Equation in Besov Spaces.
    Ryan Cole Thompson*, University of North Georgia
    John Holmes, The Ohio State University
    (1136-35-100)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Negative order flows from integrable hierarchy.
    Zhijun (George) Qiao*, Univ of Texas - Rio Grande Valley
    (1136-35-179)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Stability of cylinders in surface diffusion flow under general perturbations.
    Jeremy S LeCrone*, University of Richmond
    Gieri Simonett, Vanderbilt University
    (1136-35-358)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Exotic weighted Strichartz estimates.
    Michael Goldberg*, University of Cincinnati
    (1136-35-365)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Waves and Patterns, III
  Room 346, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Anna Ghazaryan, Miami University
  Stephane Lafortune, College of Charleston Lafortunes@cofc.edu
  Vahagn Manukian, Miami University
  Alin Pogan, Miami University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Calculating the Maslov index for traveling waves in singularly perturbed systems.
    Paul G Cornwell*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Christopher K.R.T. Jones, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (1136-37-36)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Quenched flow in symmetric multi-component FCH.
    Qiliang Wu*, Ohio University
    Keith Promislow, Michigan State University
    (1136-35-11)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Ground states for the Kawahara and a fourth order NLS.
    Atanas Stefanov*, Lawrence
    Iurii Posukhovskyi, University of Kansas
    (1136-35-17)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Center Manifolds for a Class of Degenerate Evolution Equations and Existence of Small Amplitude Kinetic Shocks.
    Alin Pogan*, Miami University
    Kevin Zumbrun, Indiana University
    (1136-35-285)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Energy decay rate for the one-dimensional fractional Klein-Gordon equation.
    Milena Stanislavova*, University of Kansas
    Satbir Malhi, University of Kansas
    (1136-34-449)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Probabilistic and Extremal Graph Theory, III
  Room 128, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Louis DeBiasio, Miami University debiasld@miamioh.edu
  Tao Jiang, Miami University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Distance-uniform graphs with large diameter.
    Mikhail Lavrov*, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Po-Shen Loh, Carnegie Mellon University
    Arnau Messegué, Polytechnic University of Catalonia
    (1136-05-341)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A generalization of Tuza's conjecture.
    Shira Zerbib*, University of Michigan
    Ron Aharoni, Technion
    (1136-05-312)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On 1-factorizations of graphs.
    Asaf Ferber*, MIT
    Kyle Luh, Harvard
    (1136-05-47)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Long cycles in Hamiltonian graphs.
    Bhargav Narayanan*, Rutgers University
    (1136-05-304)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Chordal graphs, Stirling numbers and total non-negativity.
    David Galvin*, University of Notre Dame
    (1136-05-229)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Probability in Convexity and Convexity in Probability, III
  Room 245, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Elizabeth Meckes, Case Western Reserve University
  Mark Meckes, Case Western Reserve University mark.meckes@case.edu
  Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The condition number of random square matrices.
    Konstantin Tikhomirov*, Princeton University
    (1136-60-592)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Selberg-type integrals and the variance conjecture for the operator norm.
    Beatrice-Helen Vritsiou*, University of Alberta
    (1136-52-524)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Gaussian Cooling and Volume Computation.
    Ben Cousins*, Columbia University
    Santosh Vempala, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1136-68-611)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Concentration of measure for reflected diffusions.
    Andrey Sarantsev*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Soumik Pal, University of Washington, Seattle
    (1136-60-125)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Sampling Tilings and Convexity.
    Vladislav Kargin*, Binghamton University
    (1136-60-367)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Quantum Symmetries, III
  Room 222, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  David Penneys, The Ohio State University penneys.2@osu.edu
  Julia Plavnik, Texas A & M University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Fine Structure of Third Cohomology of Metabelian Groups.
    Alexei Davydov, Ohio University
    Chris Renner*, Ohio University
    (1136-18-392)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Fine structure of third cohomology.
    Alexei Davydov*, Ohio University
    (1136-18-134)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A de Finetti theorem on parafermion algebras.
    Kaifeng Bu, Harvard University and Zhejiang University
    Arthur Jaffe, Harvard University
    Zhengwei Liu*, Harvard University
    Jinsong Wu, Harvard University and Harbin Institute of Technology
    (1136-46-284)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Energy bounds for intertwining operators of unitary vertex operator algebras.
    Bin Gui*, Vanderbilt University
    (1136-81-233)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Conformal field theories for modular tensor categories with small rank.
    James Tener*, UC Santa Barbara
    Zhenghan Wang, Microsoft Station Q and UC Santa Barbara
    (1136-81-292)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Finite Element Methods for Partial Differential Equations, III
  Room 354, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Ching-shan Chou, The Ohio State University
  Yukun Li, The Ohio State University li.7907@osu.edu
  Yulong Xing, The Ohio State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Finite Element Methods for a System of Dispersive Equations.
    Ohannes Karakashian*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    Jerry L Bona, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Hongqiu Chen, University of Memphis
    Michael Wise, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    (1136-65-166)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A discontinuous Ritz framework for calculus of variations problems.
    Xiaobing Feng*, The University of Tennessee
    (1136-65-175)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Numerical Approximation Nematic Fluids.
    Noel J. Walkington*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1136-65-446)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    An A Posteriori Analysis of $C^0$ Interior Penalty Methods for A Fourth Order Variational Inequality.
    Susanne Brenner, Louisiana State University
    Joscha Gedicke, University of Vienna
    Li-yeng Sung, Louisiana State University
    Yi Zhang*, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    (1136-65-350)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Optimal error estimates of finite element methods for stochastic semilinear elliptic equations.
    Zhongqiang Zhang*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    (1136-65-278)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Packing, III
  Room 316, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Joseph W. Iverson, University of Maryland
  John Jasper, South Dakota State University
  Dustin G. Mixon, The Ohio State University mixon.23@osu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Equiangular tight frames and combinatorial designs.
    Matthew Fickus*, Air Force Institute of Technology
    (1136-42-226)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Graph covers and equiangular frames.
    Hanmeng Zhan*, University of Waterloo
    (1136-05-435)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Complex Two-Graphs.
    James P. Solazzo*, Coastal Carolina University
    Thomas R. Hoffman, Coastal Carolina University
    (1136-00-307)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Optimally packed fusion frames via symmetric and quasi-symmetric block designs.
    John I Haas*, Columbia
    Peter G Casazza, University of Missouri
    Tin Tran, University of Missouri
    Joshua Stueck, University of Missouri
    (1136-15-378)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Development of Nonlinear Geometric PDEs, III
  Room 243, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Bo Guan, Ohio State University
  Qun Li, Wright State University
  Xiangwen Zhang, University of California, Irvine xiangwen@math.uci.edu
  Fangyang Zheng, Ohio State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Non-uniqueness of conformal metrics with constant Q-curvature.
    Renato G Bettiol*, University of Pennsylvania
    Paolo Piccione, Universidade de Sao Paulo
    Yannick Sire, Johns Hopkins University
    (1136-53-429)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Deformations of Q-curvature.
    Yueh-Ju Lin*, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University
    Wei Yuan, Department of Mathematics, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
    (1136-53-470)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Optimal Regularity of Degenerate PDE.
    Ling Xiao*, University of Connecticut
    (1136-35-352)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Blow-up of positive solutions to a singular Gierer-Meinhardt system.
    Shaohua George Chen*, Cape Breton University
    (1136-35-73)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Several Complex Variables, III
  Room 358, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Liwei Chen, Ohio State University
  Kenneth Koenig, Ohio State University koenig@math.ohio-state.edu
  Liz Vivas, Ohio State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Quadrature Domains for the Bergman Space in Several Complex Variables.
    Alan R Legg*, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
    (1136-32-82)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Embeddings of even-dimensional manifolds with constrained hulls.
    Purvi Gupta*, Rutgers University
    (1136-32-493)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Dirichlet problem for flat hermitian metrics.
    Kuang-Ru Wu*, Purdue university
    (1136-32-366)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    CR immersions between spheres with degenerate CR Gauss maps.
    Wanke Yin, Wuhan University
    Yuan Yuan, Syracuse University
    Yuan Zhang*, Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne
    (1136-32-374)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Extension of jets and of singular Hermitian metrics with non-negative curvature current.
    Dror Varolin*, SUNY Stony Brook
    (1136-32-368)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Structure and Representation Theory of Finite Groups, III
  Room 428, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Justin Lynd, University of Louisiana at Lafayette lynd@louisiana.edu
  Hung Ngoc Nguyen, University of Akron
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    $2$-Fusion Systems with a Standard Component of type $L_2(q)$.
    Matthew Welz*, Fort Lewis College
    (1136-20-565)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Galois Action on Characters and Navarro's Sylow 2-Normalizer Conjectures.
    Mandi A. Schaeffer Fry*, MSRI/Metro State University of Denver
    (1136-20-391)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A case of Alperin's weight conjecture.
    Michael Geline*, Northern Illinois University
    (1136-20-361)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Finite Groups with Cyclotomic Fields of Values.
    Stephen Trefethen*, College of William and Mary
    (1136-20-576)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Loop constructions from finite groups.
    Mark B Greer*, University of North Alabama
    (1136-20-569)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Symmetry in Differential Geometry, III
  Room 240, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Samuel Lin, Dartmouth College
  Barry Minemyer, Bloomsburg University bminemyer@bloomu.edu
  Ben Schmidt, Michigan State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Real hyperbolic hyperplane complements in the complex hyperbolic plane.
    Barry Minemyer*, Bloomsburg University
    (1136-53-248)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Hyperbolic rank rigidity for quarter-pinched manifolds.
    Christopher Connell, Indiana University
    Thang Nguyen*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Science
    Ralf Spatzier, Michigan University
    (1136-53-198)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Obstructions to Riemannian smoothings of locally CAT(0) manifolds.
    Bakul Sathaye*, The Ohio State University
    (1136-57-584)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Group Actions on CAT(0) Cube Complexes.
    Talia Fernos*, University of NC, Greensboro
    (1136-20-509)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Action dimension of lattices in Euclidean buildings.
    Kevin Schreve*, University of Michigan
    (1136-53-155)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Curves and Their Applications, III
  Room 432, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Artur Elezi, American University
  Monika Polak, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University (Poland) and University of Information Science and Technology (Mac
  Tony Shaska, Oakland University shaska@oakland.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Resolution of weak wild quotient singularities.
    Andrew Obus*, University of Virginia
    Stefan Wewers, University of Ulm
    (1136-14-56)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Numerical semigroups with evenly distributed gaps.
    Caleb McKinley Shor*, Western New England University
    (1136-11-597)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A database for genus 3 hyperelliptic curves.
    Monika Polak*, Rochester Institute of Technology
    (1136-14-572)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Convex Bodies in Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory, III
  Room 313, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Dave Anderson, Ohio State University anderson.2804@math.osu.edu
  Kiumars Kaveh, University of Pittsburgh
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    The cohomology of abelian Hessenberg varieties and the Stanley-Stembridge conjecture.
    Megumi Harada*, McMaster University
    Martha Precup, Northwestern University
    (1136-05-140)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Towards Newton-Okounkov bodies of Hessenberg varieties.
    Hiraku Abe, Osaka City University Advanced Mathematical Institute
    Lauren DeDieu, University of Minnesota
    Federico Galetto*, McMaster University
    Megumi Harada, McMaster University
    (1136-14-463)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Discrete Invariants of Generically Inconsistent Systems of Linear Series.
    Leonid Monin*, University of Toronto
    (1136-14-491)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Good compactification theorem for $(\mathbf{C}^*)^n$.
    Askold Khovanskii*, University of Toronto
    (1136-14-477)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Lefschetz Properties, III
  Room 317, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Juan Migliore, University of Notre Dame migliore.1@nd.edu
  Uwe Nagel, University of Kentucky
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Line arrangement problems: a unifying perspective on Lefschetz, postulation and containment problems in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry.
    Brian Harbourne*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1136-14-362)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Lefschetz Failure and Hyperplane Arrangements.
    Bill Trok*, University of Kentucky
    (1136-14-564)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Taking a Step from the Waring Rank Toward the Chow Rank.
    Hirotachi Abo*, University of Idaho
    Nick Vannieuwenhoven, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
    (1136-14-245)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Curve Arrangements on Surfaces and the Hodge Index Theorem.
    Eric Katz*, The Ohio State University
    (1136-14-330)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Noncommutative Algebra and Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry, III
  Room 434, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Jason Gaddis, Miami University gaddisj@miamioh.edu
  Robert Won, Wake Forest University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Dimer models on cylinders over Dynkin diagrams and cluster algebras.
    Maitreyee C Kulkarni*, Louisiana State University
    (1136-14-614)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Gelfand-Zeitlin modules over Galois orders.
    Jonas T Hartwig*, Iowa State University
    (1136-16-496)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Minimal model program for orders on projective varieties.
    Rajesh S Kulkarni*, Michigan State University
    (1136-16-586)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Algebraic Structure of Belvin-Drinfeld non-standard Quantum Groups.
    Timothy Hodges*, University of Cincinnati/National Science Foundation
    (1136-16-630)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Approximation Theory and Operator Theory, III
  Room 258, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Jan Lang, The Ohio State University lang@math.osu.edu
  Paul Nevai, The Ohio State University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Asymptotic estimates of s--numbers of Hardy-type operators.
    Petr Gurka*, Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
    (1136-41-308)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Alternation points and bivariate Lagrange interpolation.
    Lawrence A Harris*, Mathematics Department, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
    (1136-65-5)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Landscape functions on quantum graphs.
    Anna Maltsev*, Queen Mary University of London
    (1136-34-260)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Truncated solutions of Painlevé equations.
    Rodica D Costin*, The Ohio State University
    (1136-34-404)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Stochastic Analysis in Infinite Dimensions, III
  Room 246, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Parisa Fatheddin, Air Force Institute of Technology Parisa.Fatheddin@afit.edu
  Arnab Ganguly, Louisiana State University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Large deviations and averaging for systems of slow--fast stochastic reaction--diffusion equations.
    Konstantinos Spiliopoulos*, Boston University, Mathematics and Statistics
    (1136-60-153)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Large Deviations for a Class of Stochastic Semilinear Partial Differential Equations.
    Leila Setayeshgar*, Providence College
    Mohammud Foondun, University of Strathclyde
    (1136-60-91)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Large deviations for the optimal filter of nonlinear dynamical systems driven by Lévy noise.
    Vasileios Maroulas, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    Xiaoyang Pan*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    Jie Xiong, University of Macau
    (1136-60-218)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Law of the Iterated Logarithm for a Class of SPDEs.
    Parisa Fatheddin*, Air Force Institute of Technology
    P. Sundar, Louisiana State University
    Jie Xiong, University of Macau, Macau, Peoples Rep of China.
    (1136-60-230)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Differential Equations and Applications, III
  Room 340, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  King-Yeung Lam, Ohio State University lam.184@math.ohio-state.edu
  Yuan Lou, Ohio State University
  Qiliang Wu, Michigan State University
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    An SIR Model for infectious diseases with aged heterogeneity.
    Yanyu Xiao*, University of Cincinnati
    (1136-92-484)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Complex Dynamics of Epidemic Models on Adaptive Networks.
    Zhen Jin, Shanxi University
    Chunhua Shan*, University of Toledo
    Xiaoguang Zhang, Shanxi University
    Huaiping Zhu, York University
    (1136-34-403)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Dynamical Studies on an Recurrent Disease Model via Model Reduction.
    Wenjing Zhang*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Texas Tech University
    (1136-34-480)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 9:15 a.m.-10:25 a.m.
  Contributed Paper Session on AMS Contributed Paper Session, III
  Room 206, Enarson Classroom Building
  

  • 9:15 a.m.
    The Chow-Waring problem.
    Douglas A Torrance*, Piedmont College
    (1136-14-71)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Units and Linear Independence.
    Sergio López-Permouth, Ohio University
    Jeremy Moore*, Otterbein University
    Nicholas Pilewski, Ohio University
    Steve Szabo, Eastern Kentucky University
    (1136-16-225)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Lower Bounds on Projective Levels of Complexes.
    Hannah Altmann*, Bemidji State University
    Eloisa Grifo, University of Virginia
    Jonathan Montano, University of Kansas
    William Sanders, Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
    Thanh Vu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1136-13-97)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On a candidate for a relative log THH.
    Calvin Woo*, Department of Mathematics, Indiana University
    (1136-55-612)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    CANCELLED: Compactness of Closed Pseudo-Einstein Manifolds.
    Shu-Cheng Chang, National Taiwan University
    Yuxin Dong, Fudan University
    Yibin Ren*, Zhejiang Normal University
    (1136-58-4)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 10:40 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
  Invited Address
  BiLipschitz vs Quasi-isometric equivalence.
  Room 131, Hitchcock Hall
  Tullia Dymarz*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
  (1136-20-605)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Coding Theory and Applications, IV
  Room 412, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Heide Gluesing-Luerssen, University of Kentucky
  Christine A. Kelley, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  Steve Szabo, Eastern Kentucky University steve.szabo@eku.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Quantum error-correcting codes from curves.
    Gretchen L. Matthews*, Clemson University
    (1136-14-501)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    On Quantum Stabilizer Codes derived from Local Frobenius Rings.
    Heide Gluesing-Luerssen, University of Kentucky
    Tefjol Pllaha*, University of Kentucky
    (1136-08-256)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Rank-Metric Codes in the Shapes of Ferrers Diagrams.
    Jared E Antrobus*, University of Kentucky
    (1136-94-315)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Locally Recoverable Codes with Many Recovery Sets from Fiber Products.
    Kathryn Haymaker, Villanova University
    Beth Malmskog*, Colorado College
    Gretchen Matthews, Clemson University
    (1136-11-621)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics: Association Schemes, Finite Geometry, and Related Topics, IV
  Room 422, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Sung Y. Song, Iowa State University
  Bangteng Xu, Eastern Kentucky University Bangteng.Xu@eku.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Bent functions from hyperovals and partial difference sets from semifields.
    Yuqing Chen*, Wright State Unversity
    (1136-05-608)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Partial Difference Sets in Abelian Groups of order $8p^3$.
    Stefaan De Winter, Michigan Technological University
    Zeying Wang*, Michigan Technological University
    (1136-05-418)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Relative and Almost Linking Systems.
    James A Davis*, University of Richmond
    John B. Polhill, Bloomsburg University
    Ken W. Smith, Sam Houston State University
    (1136-05-503)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Dual polar graphs and non-symmetric dual q-Krawtchouk polynomials.
    Jae-Ho Lee*, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of North Florida
    Hajime Tanaka, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Japan
    (1136-05-75)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic and Combinatorial Aspects of Tropical Geometry, IV
  Room 314, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Maria Angelica Cueto, Ohio State University cueto.5@osu.edu
  Yoav Len, University of Waterloo
  Martin Ulirsch, University of Michigan
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Topology of Hybrid Analytifications.
    Matt Stevenson*, University of Michigan
    (1136-14-324)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    The double ramification cycle, relations in the tautological ring, and tropical geometry.
    Emily Clader, San Francisco State University
    Samuel Grushevsky, Stony Brook University
    Felix Janda, University of Michigan
    Martin Ulirsch, University of Michigan
    Dmitry Zakharov*, Central Michigan University
    (1136-14-476)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Cusp Singularities.
    Philip Engel*, Harvard University
    (1136-14-549)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Picard groups for tropical toric varieties.
    Jaiung Jun*, Binghamton University
    Kalina Mincheva, Yale University
    Jeffrey Tolliver, Cambridge, MA
    (1136-14-121)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic, Combinatorial, and Quantum Invariants of Knots and Manifolds, IV
  Room 226, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Cody Armond, Ohio State University, Mansfield
  Micah Chrisman, Monmouth University mchrisma@monmouth.edu
  Heather Dye, McKendree University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Set-theoretic Yang-Baxter (co)homology theory for bijective rumples and rumple cocycle invariants.
    Marco Bonatto, Charles University
    Michael K. Kinyon, University of Denver
    David Stanovsky, Charles University
    Petr Vojtechovsky, University of Denver
    Seung Yeop Yang*, University of Denver
    (1136-57-258)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Graphic quandles.
    Sujoy Mukherjee*, The George Washington University
    Jozef H. Przytycki, The George Washington University
    (1136-57-275)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    The Tiered Bracket Polynomial.
    Heather A Dye*, McKendree University
    (1136-57-505)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    On factorization, Khovanov link, and chromatic graph homology.
    Radmila Sazdanovic*, NC State University
    Vladimir Baranovsky, UC Irvine
    (1136-57-364)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Categorical, Homological and Combinatorial Methods in Algebra (Celebrating the 80th birthday of S. K. Jain), IV
  Room 436, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Pedro A. Guil Asensio, University of Murcia
  Ivo Herzog, Ohio State University
  Andre Leroy, University of Artois
  Ashish K. Srivastava, Saint Louis University asrivas3@slu.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    A Generalization of Exchange Rings.
    Dan Bossaler, Ohio University
    Feroz Siddique*, University of Wisconsin Colleges
    (1136-16-196)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Small Cancellative Categories of Homological Dimension One.
    C.C. Cheng, Oakland University
    Karimah Sweet*, Oakland University
    (1136-18-60)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    On quasiquantales and topological spaces associated to a module.
    Mauricio Gabriel Medina Barcenas, Department of Mathrmatics Chungnam National University, Republic of Korea
    Lorena Morales Callejas, UNAM, Mexico
    Martha Lizbeth Shaid Sandoval Miranda*, Ohio University Center of Rings and Its Applications, Athens, Ohio, USA
    Luis Angel Zaldivar Corichi, Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico
    (1136-16-38)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Algebras With Bases Consisting Solely of Strongly Regular Elements.
    Daniel P. Bossaller*, Ohio University Department of Mathematics
    Sergio R. Lopez-Permouth, Ohio University Department of Mathematics
    (1136-16-9)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-1:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Coherent Structures in Interfacial Flows, IV
  Room 330, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Benjamin Akers, Air Force Institute of Technology benjamin.akers@afit.edu
  Jonah Reeger, Air Force Institute of Technology
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    On soliton resolution for the KP equation.
    Yuji Kodama*, The Ohio State University
    (1136-35-408)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Coupled Systems for Internal Wave Propagation.
    Jerry L. Bona*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Angel Duran, University of Valladolid
    Dimitrios Mitsotakis, Victoria University of Wellington
    (1136-76-314)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Convex Bodies in Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory, IV
  Room 313, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Dave Anderson, Ohio State University anderson.2804@math.osu.edu
  Kiumars Kaveh, University of Pittsburgh
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Convexity and Zariski decompositions.
    Brian Lehmann*, Boston College
    (1136-14-545)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Newton-Okounkov bodies of rational complexity 1 varieties.
    Christopher A Manon*, University of Kentucky
    (1136-14-443)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Wall-crossing phenomena for Newton-Okounkov bodies.
    Laura Escobar*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Megumi Harada, McMaster University
    Kristin Shaw, MPI Leipzig
    (1136-14-508)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Irrational Toric Varieties.
    Frank Sottile*, Texas A&M University
    Ata Firat Pir, Texas A&M University
    (1136-14-306)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Differential Equations and Applications, IV
  Room 340, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  King-Yeung Lam, Ohio State University lam.184@math.ohio-state.edu
  Yuan Lou, Ohio State University
  Qiliang Wu, Michigan State University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Coupled ODE/PDE Models for Active Biosystems.
    Shawn D Ryan*, Cleveland State University
    (1136-34-6)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Stability and Control Design for Time-Varying Systems with Time-Varying Delays using a Trajectory-Based Approach.
    Michael Malisoff*, Louisiana State University
    (1136-93-32)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Complex contagion leads to complex dynamics in models coupling behavior and disease.
    Matthew T Osborne*, The Ohio State University, Math Department
    Joseph H Tien, The Ohio State University, Math Department and Mathematical Biosciences Institute
    Xueying Wang, Washington State University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
    (1136-92-325)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    The One-Phase Bifurcation For The p-Laplacian.
    Alaa Haj Ali*, Wayne State University
    Peiyong Wang, Wayne State University
    (1136-35-31)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Methods in Shape Analysis, IV
  Room 209, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Sebastian Kurtek, Ohio State University
  Tom Needham, Ohio State University needham.71@osu.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Elastic Regression Analysis of Ozone Hole Contours.
    Mengmeng Guo, Texas Tech University
    Jingyong Su*, Texas Tech University
    (1136-58-220)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Applications of Geometry to Network Inference.
    Dena Marie Asta*, The Ohio State University
    (1136-62-495)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Neighborhood Hypothesis Tests for Fréchet Mean Shapes.
    Leif Ellingson*, Texas Tech University
    Dhanamalee Bandara, Texas Tech University
    (1136-62-389)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Accelerated Optimization on Manifolds and Application to Motion Estimation and Segmentation.
    Ganesh Sundaramoorthi*, KAUST
    Anthony Yezzi, Georgia Tech
    (1136-49-556)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory, IV
  Room 124, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  John Maharry, Ohio State University maharry.1@osu.edu
  Yue Zhao, University of Central Florida
  Xiangqian Zhou, Wright State University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    On the cycle space of a random graph.
    Jacob D. Baron, NSA
    Jeff Kahn*, Rutgers University
    (1136-05-119)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Odd holes in bull-free graphs.
    Vaidy Sivaraman*, University of Central Florida
    Maria Chudnovsky, Princeton University
    (1136-05-217)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Graph embeddings and DNA reporter strands.
    Mark Ellingham*, Vanderbilt University
    Joanna Ellis-Monaghan, Saint Michael's College
    (1136-05-193)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Nowhere-zero Flow Problems.
    Jiaao Li*, West Virginia University
    (1136-05-459)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-2:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Homological Algebra, IV
  Room 439, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Ela Celikbas, West Virginia University
  Olgur Celikbas, West Virginia University olgur.celikbas@math.wvu.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Associated Graded Rings and Connected Sums.
    H Ananthnarayan, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
    E Celikbas, West Virginia University
    Jai Laxmi*, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
    Z Yang, Miami University
    (1136-13-288)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Derived Functors of Differential Operators.
    Jack Jeffries*, University of Michigan
    (1136-13-438)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Homotopy Theory, IV
  Room 230, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Ernest Fontes, Ohio State University
  John E. Harper, Ohio State University harper.903@osu.edu
  Crichton Ogle, Ohio State University
  Gabriel Valenzuela, Ohio State University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    A Theory of Elementary Higher Toposes.
    Nima Rasekh*, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
    (1136-18-483)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Toward the equivariant parametrized stable h-cobordism theorem.
    Cary Malkiewich, SUNY Binghamton
    Mona Merling*, Johns Hopkins
    (1136-55-376)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Higher stabilization and completion with respect to stable homotopy.
    Jacobson R. Blomquist*, The Ohio State University
    (1136-55-450)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Localizations of E-theory.
    Paul VanKoughnett*, Northwestern University
    (1136-55-500)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Multiplicative Ideal Theory and Factorization (in honor of Tom Lucas retirement), IV
  Room 311, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Evan Houston, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
  Alan Loper, Ohio State University loper.4@osu.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Factorization properties of Prüfer domains.
    Richard Erwin Hasenauer*, Northeastern State University
    Jim Coykendall, Clemson University
    (1136-13-152)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Zero Pattern Matrix Rings.
    Nicholas J Werner*, SUNY College at Old Westbury
    Eric Swartz, College of William and Mary
    (1136-16-109)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Irreducible divisor sequences in Krull semigroups.
    Nicholas R Baeth*, University of Central Missouri
    Courtney Gibbons, Hamilton College
    Janet Striuli, Fairfield University
    (1136-13-197)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Locally Prüfer rings.
    Jason G Boynton*, North Dakota State University
    (1136-13-587)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Evolution Equations, IV
  Room 326, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  John Holmes, Ohio State University holmes.782@osu.edu
  Feride Tiglay, Ohio State University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    $L^2$ stability for conservation laws.
    Barbara Lee Keyfitz*, The Ohio State University
    (1136-35-624)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    The incompressible limit of the compressible free boundary Euler equations with surface tension.
    Marcelo Mendes Disconzi*, Vanderbilt University
    Chenyun Luo, Vanderbilt University
    (1136-35-219)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    $L^\infty$ Blowup of Solutions to the $N\times N$ Keyfitz and Kranzer System.
    Ralph Saxton*, University of New Orleans
    Katarzyna Saxton, Loyola University
    (1136-35-257)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    On the stability of soliton solution of the KP equation.
    Yuji Kodama*, The Ohio State University
    (1136-35-407)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Probability in Convexity and Convexity in Probability, IV
  Room 245, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Elizabeth Meckes, Case Western Reserve University
  Mark Meckes, Case Western Reserve University mark.meckes@case.edu
  Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Entropy power inequalities and the Stam region.
    Mokshay Madiman*, University of Delaware
    (1136-60-277)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Approximating convex bodies by random polytopes and the connection to sphere covering.
    Steven D Hoehner*, Farmingdale State College (SUNY)
    Gil Kur, Weizmann Institute of Science
    (1136-52-84)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Large Deviations of Random Projections of High-dimensional Probability Measures.
    Kavita Ramanan*, Brown University
    Steven Soojin Kim, Two Sigma Investments LP
    Nina Gantert, Technische Universität München
    (1136-60-622)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Quantum Symmetries, IV
  Room 222, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  David Penneys, The Ohio State University penneys.2@osu.edu
  Julia Plavnik, Texas A & M University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Categories generated by a trivalent vertex.
    Scott Morrison, Australian National University
    Emily Peters*, Loyola University Chicago
    Noah Snyder, Indiana University
    (1136-18-607)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Classifying even metaplectic modular categories via gauging.
    Paul Gustafson*, Texas A&M University
    Eric Rowell, Texas A&M University
    Yuze Ruan, Texas A&M University
    (1136-18-468)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Braided Hopf algebra structures on the duals of coends of metaplectic categories.
    Yu Tsumura*, The Ohio State University
    Thomas Kerler, The Ohio State University
    Yilong Wang, The Ohio State University
    (1136-18-581)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Approximation Theory and Operator Theory, IV
  Room 258, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Jan Lang, The Ohio State University lang@math.osu.edu
  Paul Nevai, The Ohio State University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    New techniques of global approximation of special functions.
    Ovidiu Costin*, The Ohio State University
    Rodica D Costin, The Ohio State University
    Gerald Dunne, University of Connecticut
    (1136-41-400)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    "Arcsine" law for anharmonic operators.
    Boris S Mityagin*, The Ohio State University
    (1136-47-336)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Embeddings of weighted spaces of Morrey type.
    Dorothee D. Haroske*, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
    (1136-46-150)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Approximation Numbers of Embeddings of Anisotropic Sobolev Spaces of Dominating Mixed Smoothness -- Preasymptotics and Asymptotics.
    Winfried Sickel*, Institute of Mathematics, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany
    (1136-41-30)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Several Complex Variables, IV
  Room 358, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Liwei Chen, Ohio State University
  Kenneth Koenig, Ohio State University koenig@math.ohio-state.edu
  Liz Vivas, Ohio State University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Noncommutative potential theory.
    Laszlo Lempert*, Purdue University
    (1136-32-156)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Compactness of Toeplitz and Hankel operators on domains in $\mathbb{C}^n$.
    Zeljko Cuckovic*, University of Toledo
    Sonmez Sahutoglu, University of Toledo
    Yunus Zeytuncu, University of Michigan-Dearborn
    (1136-32-191)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Schatten class Hankel and $\overline{\partial}$-Neumann operators.
    Nihat Gokhan Gogus, Sabanci University
    Sonmez Sahutoglu*, University of Toledo
    (1136-47-113)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    The Szego projection for the worm domain.
    Loredana Lanzani*, Syracuse University
    Elias M. Stein, Princeton University
    (1136-32-244)
• Sunday March 18, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Structure and Representation Theory of Finite Groups, IV
  Room 428, Bolz Hall
  Organizers:
  Justin Lynd, University of Louisiana at Lafayette lynd@louisiana.edu
  Hung Ngoc Nguyen, University of Akron
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Update on the GLS Project.
    Ronald Solomon*, The Ohio State University
    Richard Lyons, Rutgers University
    (1136-20-94)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    $2$--generator $p$--groups of class $2$ of central type.
    Adriana Nenciu*, Otterbein University
    (1136-20-399)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Blocks of small defect in simple groups and Brauer character degrees in finite groups.
    J.P. Cossey*, University of Akron
    (1136-20-88)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Orbits and stabilizers for base normal subgroups in some wreath product $2$-groups.
    Jeffrey M Riedl*, University of Akron
    (1136-20-543)