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Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting

• Northeastern University, Boston, MA
• April 21-22, 2018 (Saturday - Sunday)
• Meeting #1139

Associate secretaries:

Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu

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Saturday April 21, 2018

• Saturday April 21, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algorithmic Group Theory and Applications, I
  431, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Delaram Kahrobaei, City University of New York dkahrobaei@gc.cuny.edu
  Antonio Tortora, University of Salerno
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Post-quantum Group-based Cryptography and Hidden Subgroup Problem.
    Delaram Kahrobaei*, City University of New York, Graduate Center PhD Program in Computer Science, New York University, Computer Science Dept
    (1139-00-429)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Partition Numbers of Finite Solvable Groups.
    Tuval Foguel*, Adelphi University
    (1139-20-170)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Complexity of the subgroup membership problem in SL(2,Z).
    Vladimir Shpilrain*, The City College of New York
    (1139-20-148)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Random free semigroups in solvable groups.
    Keivan Mallahi-Karai*, Jacobs University
    (1139-20-425)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    No positive cone in a free product is regular.
    Susan Hermiller*, University of Nebraska
    Zoran Sunic, Hofstra University
    (1139-20-414)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Spectra of automata.
    Andrzej Zuk*, University of Paris 7
    (1139-20-448)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Analysis and Geometry in Non-smooth Spaces, I
  296, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Nageswari Shanmugalingam, University of Cincinnati
  Gareth Speight, University of Cincinnati speighgh@ucmail.uc.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Traveling salesman and singular integrals.
    Sean Li*, University of Connecticut
    (1139-28-396)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Small unions of affine subspaces and skeletons via Baire category.
    Alan Chang, University of Chicago
    Marianna Csornyei*, University of Chicago
    Kornelia Hera, Eotvos Lorand University
    Tamas Keleti, Eotvos Lorand University
    (1139-28-680)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Singular integrals on $C^{1,\alpha}$ intrinsic graphs in the Heisenberg group.
    Vasileios Chousionis*, University of Connecticut
    (1139-42-389)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Quasisymmetric and bi-Lipschitz extensions on Euclidean spaces.
    Vyron Vellis*, University of Connecticut
    Matthew Badger, University of Connecticut
    (1139-30-226)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Geometric measure theory in the Heisenberg group.
    Jeremy T Tyson*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1139-28-227)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Smooth boundary extensions of biholomorphisms and the Liouville theorem in sub-Riemannian manifolds.
    Luca Capogna*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    (1139-58-163)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Arithmetic Dynamics, I
  159, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Jacqueline M. Anderson, Bridgewater State University
  Robert Benedetto, Amherst College
  Joseph H. Silverman, Brown University jhs@math.brown.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The cycle structure of unicritical polynomials in finite fields.
    Andrew Bridy*, Texas A&M University
    Derek Garton, Portland State University
    (1139-11-47)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Randomness in $\bmod p$ orbits.
    Adam D Towsley*, Rochester Institute of Technology
    (1139-11-573)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Counting periodic points on quotients of varieties over $\mathbb{F}_q$.
    Laura S. Walton*, Brown University
    (1139-11-520)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    $p$-adic Hubbard Trees.
    Cara Mullen*, Harper College
    (1139-11-405)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Non-Archimedean Hénon maps, attractors, and horseshoes.
    Kenneth Allen, University of Massachusetts Lowell
    David DeMark, Carleton College
    Clayton Petsche*, Oregon State University
    (1139-11-64)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A non-archimedean $\lambda$-lemma and J-stability.
    Thomas Silverman*, Brown University
    (1139-37-279)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Aspects of Nilpotent Orbits, I
  155, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Anthony Iarrobino, Northeastern University a.iarrobino@neu.edu
  Leila Khatami, Union College
  Juliana Tymoczko, Smith College
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Prism tableaux and alternating sign matrices.
    Anna E Weigandt*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1139-05-121)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Centralizers of nilpotent elements.
    George J McNinch*, Tufts University
    (1139-20-330)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Slodowy slices and Hessenberg varieties.
    Peter Crooks*, Leibniz University Hannover
    Hiraku Abe, Osaka City University Advanced Mathematical Institute
    (1139-22-54)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Tau Signatures and characters of Weyl Groups.
    Alfred G Noel*, University of Massachusetts Boston
    Steven Jackson, University of Massachusetts Boston
    Todor Milev, University of Massachusetts Boston
    Thomas Folz-Donahue, University of Massachusetts Boston
    (1139-22-44)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Slicing and Flopping: The Geometry of SO(4) Models.
    Jonathan Esole*, Northeastern University
    (1139-14-459)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A classification of spherical Schubert varieties in the Grassmannian.
    Reuven Hodges*, Northeastern University
    Venkatramani Lakshmibai, Northeastern University
    (1139-20-278)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Representation Theory, I
  154, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Laura Colmenarejo, York University laura.colmenarejo.hernando@gmail.com
  Ricky Liu, North Carolina State University
  Rosa Orellana, Dartmouth College
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Catalan polynomials and $k$-Schur functions.
    Jonah Blasiak*, Drexel University
    Jennifer Morse, University of Virginia
    Anna Pun, Drexel University
    Dan Summers, Drexel University
    (1139-05-404)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Combinatorics of Kostka-Foulkes polynomials.
    Cédric Lecouvey, University of Tours, France
    Cristian Lenart*, State University of New York at Albany
    (1139-05-443)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Symmetric group and Hecke algebra actions on ordered set partitions.
    Jia Huang, University of Nebraska at Kearney
    Brendon Rhoades*, University of California, San Diego
    Travis Scrimshaw, University of Queensland
    (1139-05-617)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Symmetric group representations and Macdonald eigenoperators.
    Andrew T Wilson*, University of Pennsylvania
    (1139-05-506)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The genesis of involutions.
    Mahir Bilen Can, Associate professor
    Ozlem Ugurlu*, Graduate Student
    (1139-05-11)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The action of the symmetric group on a generalization of the free Lie algebra: a CataLAnKe Theorem.
    Tamar Friedmann*, Smith College
    Phil Hanlon, Dartmouth College
    Richard P. Stanley, MIT
    Michelle L. Wachs, University of Miami
    (1139-05-109)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Connections Between Trisections of 4-manifolds and Low-dimensional Topology, I
  315, Behrakis Hall
  Organizers:
  Jeffrey Meier, University of Georgia
  Juanita Pinzon-Caicedó, North Carolina State University jpinzon@ncsu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Informal Problem Session
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Calculating the intersection form from a trisection diagram.
    Trenton F Schirmer*, University of Georgia
    (1139-57-568)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Kernels of splitting homomorphisms and group trisections.
    Michael R Klug*, UC Berkeley
    (1139-57-579)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Trisecting an $S^2$ bundle over $\mathbb{RP}^2$.
    Marla Williams*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1139-54-534)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Khovanov-theoretic invariant of bridge trisections.
    Adam R Saltz*, University of Georgia
    (1139-57-450)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Dynamical systems, Geometric Structures and Special Functions, I
  267, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Alessandro Arsie, University of Toledo
  Oksana Bihun, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs obihun@uccs.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Dilogarithm identities in cluster algebras from Hamiltonian/Lagrangian point of view.
    Michael Gekhtman*, University of Notre Dame
    (1139-57-357)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Toward the classification of Exceptional Orthogonal Polynomials: a progress report.
    Robert Milson*, Dalhousie University
    (1139-33-422)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Recent results on the bispectrality of integrable systems.
    Alex Kasman*, College of Charleston
    (1139-33-78)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Dynamics in Combinatorial Number Theory, I
  456, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Stanley Eigen, Northeastern University
  Daniel Glasscock, Northeastern University d.glasscock@northeastern.edu
  Vidhu Prasad, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Classifying general odometers: spectrum, geometric group theory, and orbit equivalence.
    Stefanos Orfanos, De Paul University
    Ayşe Şahin*, Wright State University
    Ilie Ugarcovici, De Paul University
    (1139-37-106)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Speedups of ${\mathbb{Z}}^d$-odometers.
    Aimee S. A. Johnson*, Swarthmore College
    David M McClendon, Ferris State University
    (1139-28-98)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On rank-one infinite measure-preserving examples and extensions of properties of the Chacon transformation.
    Cesar E. Silva*, Williams College
    (1139-37-644)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Solving the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma the Smale way.
    Ethan Akin*, Mathematics Department, The City College of New York
    (1139-37-68)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Ergodic Ramsey Theory: some classical problems and recent advancements.
    Vitaly Bergelson*, The Ohio State University
    (1139-37-81)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Extremal Graph Theory and Quantum Walks on Graphs, I
  325, Behrakis Hall
  Organizers:
  Sebastian Cioabă, University of Delaware
  Mark Kempton, Harvard University
  Gabor Lippner, Northeastern University
  Michael Tait, Carnegie Mellon University mtait@cmu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Extremal quantum walks.
    Gabriel Coutinho*, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
    (1139-05-466)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Pretty Good State Transfer on Paths.
    Christopher M van Bommel*, Univeristy of Waterloo
    (1139-81-475)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Recent Progress in Discrete Quantum Walks.
    Hanmeng Zhan*, University of Waterloo
    (1139-05-546)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Supersaturation in extremal enumeration.
    Jonathan Cutler*, Montclair State University
    A. J. Radcliffe, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1139-05-539)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The bipartite $K_{2,2}$-free process and Ramsey numbers.
    Deepak Bal*, Montclair State University
    Patrick Bennett, Western Michigan University
    (1139-05-667)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A spanning tree-reducing surgery and partial factor majorization.
    John T. Saccoman*, Seton Hall University
    (1139-05-10)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Facets of Symplectic Geometry and Topology, I
  204, Behrakis Hall
  Organizers:
  Tara Holm, Cornell University
  Jo Nelson, Columbia University
  Jonathan Weitsman, Northeastern University j.weitsman@neu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Moduli spaces of quilted disks mapping to $\mathbb{CP}^1$ and $\mathbb{CP}^2$.
    Nathaniel Bottman*, IAS/Princeton
    (1139-57-167)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On Stein manifolds diffeomorphic to Euclidean space.
    Kyler Bryce Siegel*, Columbia University / MIT
    (1139-51-207)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Product structures for Legendrian submanifolds with generating families.
    Ziva Myer*, Duke University
    (1139-57-186)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometry and Analysis of Fluid Equations, I
  285, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Robert McOwen, Northeastern University
  Peter Topalov, Northeastern University p.topalov@northeastern.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Riemann Hilbert problems of soliton equations.
    Wen-Xiu Ma*, University of South Florida
    (1139-35-379)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Proving Uniqueness of Solutions for Burgers Equation Entropic for a Single Entropy, with Eye Towards Systems Case.
    Sam G. Krupa*, The University of Texas at Austin
    Alexis F. Vasseur, The University of Texas at Austin
    (1139-35-94)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Fredholm properties of the $L^2$ exponential map in 2D and 3D hydrodynamics.
    Gerard Misiolek*, University of Notre Dame
    (1139-58-245)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometry of Moduli Spaces, I
  105, Behrakis Hall
  Organizers:
  Ana-Marie Castravet, Northeastern University
  Emanuele Macrí, Northeastern University e.macri@northeastern.edu
  Benjamin Schmidt, University of Texas
  Xiaolei Zhao, Northeastern University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Are affine invariant submanifolds affine?
    Dawei Chen*, Boston College
    (1139-14-160)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Measures of irrationality of the Fano scheme of lines of a cubic threefold.
    Frank Gounelas*, Humboldt University of Berlin
    (1139-14-290)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Interpolation problems for curves in projective space.
    Isabel Vogt*, MIT
    (1139-14-199)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Homological Commutative Algebra, I
  161, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Sean Sather-Wagstaff, Clemson University
  Oana Veliche, Northeastern University O.Veliche@northeastern.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Ordinal length and local cohomology.
    Hans Schoutens*, City University of New York (CUNY)
    (1139-13-85)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Local Cohomology of Thickenings.
    Jenny Kenkel*, University of Utah
    (1139-13-147)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Conditions on Koszul cohomology guaranteeing finite length local cohomology.
    Patricia J Klein*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (1139-13-619)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Local cohomology of F-pure rings.
    Alessandro De Stefani*, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    Eloísa Grifo, University of Virginia
    Luis Núñez-Betancourt, CIMAT (Mexico)
    (1139-13-74)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Frobenius Complexity for Pairs.
    Janet Page*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1139-13-588)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Betti numbers of Frobenius powers of ideals in characteristic $p > 0$.
    Rebecca R.G.*, Syracuse University
    Claudia Miller, Syracuse University
    Hamid Rahmati, Miami University of Ohio
    (1139-13-530)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Perspectives in Quantum Information Theory, I
  420, Shillman Hall
  Organizers:
  Aram Harrow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Christopher King, Northeastern University c.king@northeastern.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A nonlocal game that cannot be played optimally using a finite amount of entanglement.
    Zhengfeng Ji, University of Technology Sydney
    Debbie Leung*, University of Waterloo
    Thomas Vidick, Caltech
    (1139-81-218)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Classical Homomorphic Encryption for Quantum Circuits.
    Urmila Mahadev*, UC Berkeley
    (1139-68-105)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Low-degree testing for quantum states.
    Anand Natarajan*, MIT
    Thomas Vidick, California Institute of Technology
    (1139-68-301)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Classical Lower Bounds from Quantum Upper Bounds.
    Shalev Ben-David*, University of Maryland
    Adam Bouland, University of California, Berkeley
    Ankit Garg, Microsoft Research
    Robin Kothari, Microsoft Research
    (1139-81-592)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Symmetric Informationally Complete Measurements Identify the Essential Difference between Classical and Quantum.
    John B. DeBrota*, University of Massachusetts Boston
    Christopher A. Fuchs, University of Massachusetts Boston
    Blake C. Stacey, University of Massachusetts Boston
    (1139-81-628)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the existence of symmetric quantum measurements.
    Jon Yard*, University of Waterloo and Perimeter Institute
    (1139-81-701)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Problems of Relativistic Physics: Classical and Quantum, I
  435, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Michael Kiessling, Rutgers University
  A. Shadi Tahvildar-Zadeh, Rutgers University shadit@math.rutgers.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Singularity Formation in General Relativity.
    Jared Speck*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1139-35-184)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The asymptotically self-similar regime for the Einstein vacuum equations.
    Yakov Shlapentokh-Rothman*, Princeton University
    (1139-35-149)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the polarisation of light in non-linear vacuum electrodynamics.
    Volker Perlick*, ZARM, University of Bremen, Germany
    Claus Laemmerzahl, ZARM, University of Bremen, Germany
    Alfredo Macias, UAM-I, Mexico City, Mexico
    (1139-78-347)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Nonlinear stability for the Maxwell--Born--Infeld system on a Schwarzschild background.
    Federico Pasqualotto*, Princeton University
    (1139-83-128)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    General-relativistic hydrogenic atoms.
    Moulik Kallupalam Balasubramanian*, Rutgers University Mathematics Dept., New Brunswick NJ
    (1139-83-658)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the static spacetime of a point charge, assuming the Bopp-Lande-Thomas-Podolsky law of the electromagnetic vacuum.
    Erik Amorim*, Rutgers University
    (1139-83-262)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Noncommutative Algebra and Representation Theory, I
  247, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Van C. Nguyen, Hood College nguyen@hood.edu
  Alex Martsinkovsky, Northeastern University
  Gordana Todorov, Northeastern University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The boundary of irreducible components: T. Maeda's example.
    Markus Schmidmeier*, Florida Atlantic University
    (1139-47-291)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Involutions of $\text{G}_2$ over fields.
    John Hutchens*, Winston-Salem State University
    N Schwartz, Washington College
    (1139-20-30)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Discriminants of quantum groups at root of unity.
    Bach Nguyen*, Louisiana State University
    Kurt Trampel, Louisiana State Univeristy
    Milen Yakimov, Louisiana State University
    (1139-16-282)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Representations of 4-dimensional Sklyanin algebras through Poisson geometry.
    Chelesa Walton, Temple University
    Xingting Wang*, Temple University
    Milen Yakimov, Louisiana State University
    (1139-16-392)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Maximal Subalgebras of Finite-Dimensional Algebras with Applications.
    Alexander H Sistko*, University of Iowa
    Miodrag C Iovanov, University of Iowa
    (1139-16-190)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Module theoretic aspects of Iwasawa theory.
    Frauke M. Bleher*, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Iowa
    (1139-16-216)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Reaction-Diffusion Equations and Their Applications, I
  283, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Nsoki Mavinga, Swarthmore College
  Quinn Morris, Swarthmore College qmorris1@swarthmore.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Uniqueness of positive radial solutions for infinite semipositone $p$-Laplacian problems in exterior domains.
    K.D. Chu, Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam
    D.D. Hai, Mississippi State University
    Ratnasingham Shivaji*, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    (1139-34-158)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    An existence result for superlinear semipositone $p$-Laplacian systems on the exterior of a ball.
    Maya Chhetri, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    Lakshmi Sankar, Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad
    Ratnasingham Shivaji, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    Byungjae Son*, Wayne State University
    (1139-34-53)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Positive solutions for a class of singular problems on exterior domains.
    Maya Chhetri*, UNC Greensboro
    Pavel Drabek, University of West Bohemia
    R. Shivaji, UNC Greensboro
    (1139-35-338)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Characterizing Steklov-Robin Eigencurves.
    Stephen B Robinson*, Wake Forest University
    Mauricio Rivas, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    (1139-35-402)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Bifurcation from infinity and multiplicity of solutions for nonlinear diffusion equations with nonlinear boundary conditions.
    M. N. Nkashama*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    N. Mavinga, Swarthmore College
    (1139-35-456)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Bifurcation of positive solutions to scalar reaction--diffusion equations with nonlinear boundary condition.
    Ping Liu, Harbin Normal University
    Junping Shi*, College of William and Mary
    (1139-35-195)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Optimization Under Uncertainty, I
  315, Shillman Hall
  Organizers:
  Yingdong Lu, IBM Research yingdong@us.ibm.com
  Mark S. Squillante, IBM Research
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A Dynamic Programming Approach to Optimal Regulation Service Deployment of Electric Vehicles.
    Fatma Selin Yanikara*, Boston University
    Michael Caramanis, Boston University
    (1139-90-634)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Learning for control: the role of model approximation.
    Munther Dahleh*, MIT
    (1139-37-481)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Online Resource Allocation with Applications to Revenue Management.
    David Simchi-Levi*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Will Ma, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1139-90-247)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Reinforcement Learning: Connections between MDPs and MAB Problems.
    Michael N Katehakis*, Rutgers University
    Wesley Cowan, Rutgers University
    Daniel Pirutinsky, Rutgers University
    (1139-68-318)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Slow and Stale Gradients Can Win the Race: Error-Runtime Trade-offs in Distributed SGD.
    Sanghamitra Dutta, Carnegie Mellon University
    Gauri Joshi, Carnegie Mellon University
    Soumyadip Ghosh*, IBM Research AI
    Parijat Dube, IBM Research
    Priya Nagpurkar, IBM Research
    (1139-90-362)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Compressive Learning for Sequential Decision Process.
    Mengdi Wang*, Princeton
    (1139-68-664)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Regularity of PDEs on Rough Domains, I
  157, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Murat Akman, University of Connecticut murat.akman@uconn.edu
  Max Engelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Two-phase free boundary problem for harmonic measure with Hölder data.
    Matthew Badger*, University of Connecticut
    (1139-35-22)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Logarithmic Epiperimetric inequality and the regularity of the free-boundary.
    Luca Spolaor*, Princeton University
    (1139-35-46)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Quantitative Rectifiability and absolute continuity of harmonic measure.
    Steve Hofmann*, University of Missouri - Columbia
    (1139-42-197)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The mixed boundary value problem in Lipschitz domains.
    Katharine Ott*, Bates College
    (1139-35-260)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Exponential decay estimates for fundamental solutions of Schrödinger-type operators.
    Bruno Poggi*, University of Minnesota
    Svitlana Mayboroda, University of Minnesota
    (1139-35-335)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Extrapolation of well posedness for higher order elliptic systems with rough coefficients.
    Ariel Barton*, University of Arkansas
    (1139-35-52)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Relations Between the History and Pedagogy of Mathematics, I
  215, Shillman Hall
  Organizers:
  Amy Ackerberg-Hastings,
  David L. Roberts, Prince George's Community College robertsdl@aol.com
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Christopher Wren, John Wallis and the Cycloid.
    Maria R Zack*, Point Loma Nazarene University
    (1139-01-72)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The History of Calculus as a Guide to Teaching Calculus.
    Eugene Boman*, The Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg campus
    (1139-01-212)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Calculus 1875-1920: The Lay of the Land.
    Tom Bannon, Adelphi U.
    Walter J. Meyer*, Adelphi U.
    (1139-01-143)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Teaching Calculus with Infinitesimals.
    Rebecca Kathryn Vinsonhaler*, University of Texas - Austin
    (1139-97-263)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The importance of historical remarks in upper level undergraduate math classes: Calculus 3, Linear Algebra and Differential Equations.
    Malgorzata Aneta Marciniak*, City University of New York, LaGuardia Community College
    (1139-01-689)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Enhancing a complex analysis course with historical context.
    Maritza M. Branker*, Niagara University
    (1139-97-35)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Singularities of Spaces and Maps, I
  220, Behrakis Hall
  Organizers:
  Terence Gaffney, Northeastern University
  David Massey, Northeastern University d.massey@northeastern.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On Chern-Schwartz-MacPherson and motivic Chern classes of singularities.
    Richard Rimanyi*, UNC Chapel Hill
    (1139-14-360)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Deformation Formulas for Parametrizable Hypersurfaces.
    Brian Anderson Hepler*, Northeastern University
    (1139-14-348)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Segre zeta functions.
    Paolo Aluffi*, Florida State University
    (1139-14-177)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Topics in Qualitative Properties of Partial Differential Equations, I
  291, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Changfeng Gui, University of Texas at San Antonio
  Changyou Wang, Purdue University
  Jiuyi Zhu, Louisiana State University jzhu18@lsu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A perturbation approach for Paneitz energy on standard three sphere.
    Fengbo Hang*, New York University
    Paul C Yang, Princeton University
    (1139-49-189)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A Hopf lemma and regularity for the fractional p-Laplacians.
    Wenxiong Chen*, Yeshiva University
    Congming Li, University of Colorado at Boulder
    Shijie Qi, Lanzhou University and Yeshiva University
    (1139-35-96)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Muckenhoupt--Wheeden type bounds in quasilinear measure datum problems and their applications.
    Quoc-Hung Nguyen, Scuola Normale Superiore, Centro Ennio de Giorgi, Pisa, Italy.
    Phuc Cong Nguyen*, Louisiana State University
    (1139-35-382)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Sphere Covering Inequality and Its Applications.
    Changfeng Gui, University of Texas at San Antonio
    Amir Moradifam*, University of California, Riverside
    (1139-35-594)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Topology of Biopolymers, I
  220, Shillman Hall
  Organizers:
  Erica Flapan, Pomona College eflapan@pomona.edu
  Helen Wong, Carleton College
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On the duplexing of DNA's genetic and geometric codes.
    Alex Kasman*, College of Charleston
    (1139-92-77)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Knot and link statistics for lattice models of biopolymers in tubes and nanochannels.
    Chris Soteros*, University of Saskatchewan
    (1139-92-535)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Persistent homology heatmaps of knots.
    Catalina Betancourt, University of Iowa
    Isabel K Darcy*, University of Iowa
    Robert G Scharein, Hypnagogic Software
    (1139-57-513)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Analysis of Protein Structure via Persistent Homology.
    Marcio Gameiro*, University of Sao Paulo and Rutgers University
    Konstantin Mischaikow, Rutgers University
    (1139-92-587)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Chromosome conformation capture data suggests that the Rabl conformation reduces the topological complexity of the yeast genome.
    Javier Arsuaga*, Depts. Molecular and Cellular Biology and Mathematics, UC Davis
    (1139-92-529)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Knotting probability of self-avoiding polygons under a topological constraint: A sum rule derived from the factorization property.
    Tetsuo Deguchi*, Ochanomizu University
    Erica Uehara, Ochanomizu University
    (1139-92-465)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Contributed Paper Session on AMS Contributed Paper Session, I
  245, Ryder Hall
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Bright and Dark Soliton Solutions for the KP Equation.
    Mutlu Akar*, Yildiz Technical University
    Adem Cengiz Cevikel, Yildiz Technical University
    (1139-35-156)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Periodic and solitary wave solutions for the nonlinear evolution equations.
    Adem Cengiz Cevikel*, Yildiz Technical University
    Mutlu Akar, Yildiz Technical University
    (1139-35-157)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Symmetry and Solutions to the Helmholtz equation inside an equilateral triangle.
    Nathaniel Stambaugh*, Wentworth Institute of Technology
    Mark Semon, Bates College
    (1139-35-12)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Periodic problems for higher order linear hyperbolic equations.
    Tariel Kiguradze, Florida Institute of Technology
    Noha Aljaber*, Florida Institute of Technology
    (1139-35-50)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Normalized solutions for some fractional Schrödinger equations.
    Santosh Bhattarai*, Trocaire College
    (1139-35-103)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Inverse source problem for the wave equation with reduced data: an explicit solution.
    Ngoc Do*, University of Arizona
    Leonid Kunyansky, University of Arizona
    (1139-35-123)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A fixed point method for a time-dependent inverse diffusion coefficient problem for a parabolic partial differential equation.
    Sedar Ngoma*, SUNY Geneseo
    (1139-35-541)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    New additive functional inequalities and partial multipliers in Banach algebras.
    Choonkil Park*, Hanyang University
    (1139-39-593)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Symplectic induction for the linking theory of shape dynamics.
    P. P. Yu*, Westminster College
    (1139-83-101)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Number Theory, I
  128, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Michael Bush, Washington and Lee University bushm@wlu.edu
  Farshid Hajir, University of Massachusetts
  Christian Maire, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    The 2-Selmer group of a number field and heuristics for narrow class groups and signature ranks of units.
    David S Dummit, University of Vermont
    John Voight*, Dartmouth College
    Richard Foote, University of Vermont
    (1139-11-108)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Heuristics for narrow class groups in number fields of even degree.
    Benjamin K Breen*, Dartmouth College
    (1139-11-374)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Malle's conjecture for compositum of number fields.
    Jiuya Wang*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    (1139-11-441)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Module structure of Artin-Scheier theory for rank 2 elementary p-abelian extensions.
    Lauren Heller, University of California, Berkeley
    Ján Mináč, Western University
    Andrew Schultz*, Wellesley College
    (1139-11-270)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Romantic Courtship of Massey Products, Koszul Algebras and Galois $p$-extensions.
    Jan Minac*, Western University
    (1139-12-250)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Effective Behavior in Random Environments, I
  243, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Jessica Lin, McGill University jessica.lin@mcgill.ca
  Charles Smart, University of Chicago
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Numerical methods in stochastic homogenization.
    Tuomo Kuusi*, University of Oulu
    (1139-35-498)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Liouville theorem for stationary and ergodic ensembles of parabolic systems.
    Benjamin Fehrman*, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
    (1139-35-401)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Quenched central limit theorem rates of convergence for one-dimensional random walks in random environments.
    Sungwon Ahn*, Roosevelt University
    Jonathon Peterson, Purdue University
    (1139-60-322)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Homogenization of pathwise Hamilton-Jacobi equations.
    Benjamin Seeger*, University of Chicago
    (1139-35-558)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Continuity properties for boundary data homogenization problems.
    William Feldman*, University of Chicago
    (1139-35-528)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometries Defined by Differential Forms, I
  320, Behrakis Hall
  Organizers:
  Mahir Bilen Can, Tulane University mcan@tulane.edu
  Sergey Grigorian, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
  Sema Salur, University of Rochester
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Killing Vector Fields on $G_2$ Manifolds.
    Emily Autumn Windes*, University of Rochester
    (1139-53-564)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Geometric Structures on Manifolds with Special Holonomy and Applications.
    Sema Salur*, University of Rochester
    (1139-53-562)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On G$_2$ manifolds with conic singularities.
    Gao Chen*, Institute for Advanced Study
    (1139-53-555)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Complex $G_2$ Manifolds.
    Selman Akbulut*, Michigan State University
    (1139-57-589)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations, I
  433, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Donatella Danielli, Purdue University
  Irina Mitrea, Temple University imitrea@temple.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Harmonic analysis techniques in several complex variables.
    Loredana Lanzani*, Syracuse University
    Elias M. Stein, Princeton University
    (1139-32-319)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The geometry of the free boundary near the fixed boundary generated by a fully nonlinear uniformly elliptic operator.
    Emanuel Indrei*, Purdue University
    (1139-35-581)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Obstacle problems for nonlocal operators.
    Donatella Danielli, Purdue University
    Arshak Petrosyan, Purdue University
    Camelia Pop*, University of Minnesota
    (1139-35-306)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Space-time strong unique continuation for nonlocal parabolic equations.
    Agnid Banerjee, TIFR, CAM Bangalore, India
    Nicola Garofalo*, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Padova
    (1139-35-325)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Poisson integral representation formulas for elliptic systems in domains with Ahlfors regular boundaries.
    Dorina Mitrea*, University of Missouri
    (1139-42-550)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Hopf Algebras, Tensor Categories, and Homological Algebra, I
  156, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Cris Negron, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Julia Plavnik, Texas A&M juliaplav@tamu.edu
  Sarah Witherspoon, Texas A&M University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Purely braided module categories.
    Alexei Davydov*, Ohio University
    Dmitri Nikshych, University of New Hampshire
    (1139-18-303)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Homogeneous spaces for compact quantum groups.
    Alexandru Chirvasitu*, SUNY at Buffalo
    (1139-16-239)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Pointed finite tensor categories over abelian groups.
    Ivan Angiono, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba
    Cesar Galindo*, Universidad de los Andes
    (1139-18-608)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Reconstructing Kac quasi-Hopf algebras for group-theoretical fusion categories via cleft extensions.
    Henry Tucker*, UC San Diego
    (1139-18-694)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On semisimplification of tensor categories.
    Pavel Etingof*, Department of Mathematics, MIT
    Victor Ostrik, Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon
    (1139-18-289)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Polytopes and Discrete Geometry, I
  265, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Gabriel Cunningham, University of Massachusetts, Boston
  Mark Mixer, Wentworth Institute of Technology mixerm@wit.edu
  Egon Schulte, Northeastern University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Minimizing the mean projections of finite $\rho$-separable packings.
    Karoly Bezdek*, University of Calgary, Canada
    Zsolt Langi, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
    (1139-52-461)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Measuring weighted cut-and-project sets.
    Alexey Garber*, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
    (1139-52-224)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Bodies of constant width and Meissner $n$-polytopes.
    Deborah Oliveros*, Instituto de Matemáticas UNAM
    Tibor Bisztriczky, University of Calgary
    (1139-52-277)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Polarity and separation of convex cones.
    Valeriu Soltan*, George Mason University
    (1139-52-137)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Extending robust versions of Tverberg's theorem.
    Pablo Soberón*, Northeastern University
    (1139-52-514)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Topics in Toric Geometry, I
  124, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Ivan Martino, Northeastern University i.martino@northeastern.edu
  Emanuele Ventura, Texas A&M University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Visualizing toric vector bundles.
    Kelly A Jabbusch*, University of Michigan - Dearborn
    (1139-14-198)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Conormal Variety of a Schubert variety.
    Rahul Singh*, Northeastern University
    (1139-14-406)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Toric vector bundles and buildings.
    Kiumars Kaveh*, University of Pittsburgh
    Christopher Manon, University of Kentucky
    (1139-14-440)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Statistics, I
  203, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Kaie Kubjas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Elina Robeva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology erobeva@mit.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    An invitation to algebraic statistics: a brief overview.
    Sonja Petrovic*, Chicago
    (1139-62-570)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The principal minor assignment problem and its application to learning determinantal point processes.
    Victor-Emmanuel Brunel*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1139-62-458)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Semialgebraic statistics of mixture models and restricted Boltzmann machines.
    Anna Seigal*, UC Berkeley
    Guido Montúfar, UCLA
    (1139-62-63)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic, Geometric, and Topological Methods in Combinatorics, I
  158, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Florian Frick, Cornell University
  Pablo Soberón, Northeastern University p.soberonbravo@northeastern.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Money problems and Affine Semigroups.
    Jesus A. De Loera*, University of California, Davis
    (1139-52-88)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Variations of the nerve theorem.
    Luis Montejano*, National University of Mexico at Queretaro
    Frédéric Meunier, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, CERMICS.
    (1139-55-49)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Lattices from Graph Associahedra.
    Emily Barnard*, Northeastern University
    Thomas McConville, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1139-05-365)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Arrangements of Hypersurfaces, I
  153, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Graham Denham, University of Western Ontario
  Alexander I. Suciu, Northeastern University a.suciu@neu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Generators of logarithmic derivation modules of hyperplane arrangements.
    Takuro Abe*, Institute of Mathematics for Industry, Kyushu University
    (1139-32-69)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A blowup algebra of hyperplane arrangements.
    Mehdi Garrousian, Toronto, Ontario
    Aron Simis, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
    Stefan Tohaneanu*, University of Idaho
    (1139-13-219)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Semi-inverted linear spaces.
    Georgy Scholten, North Carolina State University
    Cynthia Vinzant*, North Carolina State University
    (1139-14-643)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Topology of very affine manifolds.
    Laurentiu G Maxim*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1139-55-178)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear and Stochastic Partial Differential Equations and Applications, I
  126, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Nathan Glatt-Holtz, Tulane University
  Vincent Martinez, Tulane University
  Cecilia Mondaini, Texas A&M University cmondaini@math.tamu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Anomalous diffusion and the Generalized Langevin Equation.
    Hung Nguyen*, Tulane University
    (1139-60-367)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Wave Propagation in Models of mRNA transport.
    Veronica Ciocanel*, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, The Ohio State University
    Bjorn Sandstede, Brown University
    (1139-35-283)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on The Analysis of Dispersive Equations, I
  207, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Marius Beceanu, University at Albany mbeceanu@albany.edu
  Andrew Lawrie, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the global regularity of certain quasilinear evolution models.
    Alexandru D. Ionescu*, Princeton University
    Benoit Pausader, Brown University
    (1139-35-703)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Degenerate dispersive equations.
    Pierre Germain, New York University
    Benjamin Harrop-Griffiths*, New York University
    Jeremy L. Marzuola, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    (1139-35-129)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Sharp condition on stability for rotational NLSE in 3D.
    Shijun Zheng*, Georgia Southern University
    Christopher Leonard, Georgia Southern University
    (1139-35-118)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    the effective equations for polaron, derivation and dynamics.
    Rupert Frank, California Institute of Technology/University of Munich
    Gang Zhou*, Binghamton University
    (1139-35-320)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on The Gaussian Free Field and Random Geometry, I
  210, Shillman Hall
  Organizers:
  Jian Ding, University of Pennsylvania dingjian@wharton.upenn.edu
  Vadim Gorin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Random walks in random environments: a new approach.
    Scott Sheffield*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1139-60-651)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On the Exceptional Sets of Gaussian Free Fields in Any Dimension.
    Linan Chen*, McGill University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
    (1139-60-623)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Numerical Methods and Applications, I
  220, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Vera Babenko, Ithaca College vbabenko@ithaca.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Finite element simulation of wound healing.
    Viktor Grigoryan*, Simmons College
    (1139-65-695)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Dynamics of Cooperation in Temporally Varying Environments.
    Rebecca S. Terry*, University of Utah
    Frederick R. Adler, University of Utah
    (1139-92-668)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Evolutionary game theory with applications to public health problems.
    Feng Fu*, Dartmouth College
    Xingru Chen, Dartmouth College
    (1139-91-204)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 11:05 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Metric limits of Calabi-Yau manifolds.
  Ballroom, Curry Student Center
  Valentino Tosatti*, Northwestern University
  (1139-53-240)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 1:55 p.m.-2:45 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Random walk, random media and random geometry.
  Ballroom, Curry Student Center
  Jian Ding*, University of Pennsylvania
  (1139-60-176)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Extremal Graph Theory and Quantum Walks on Graphs, II
  325, Behrakis Hall
  Organizers:
  Sebastian Cioabă, University of Delaware
  Mark Kempton, Harvard University
  Gabor Lippner, Northeastern University
  Michael Tait, Carnegie Mellon University mtait@cmu.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Jumps in speeds of hereditary properties in finite relational languages.
    Caroline Terry*, University of Maryland, College Park
    (1139-05-473)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    On the error of a priori sampling: zero forcing sets and propagation time.
    Franklin H. J. Kenter*, United States Naval Academy
    Jephian C.-H. Lin, University of Victoria
    (1139-05-496)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    For every quantum walk there is a (classical) lifted Markov chain with the same mixing time.
    Danial Dervovic*, University College London
    (1139-05-25)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Quantum cloning derived from Quantum walks.
    Alastair Kay*, Royal Holloway University of London
    (1139-81-257)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Number Theory, II
  128, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Michael Bush, Washington and Lee University bushm@wlu.edu
  Farshid Hajir, University of Massachusetts
  Christian Maire, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Hasse Principles for Multinorm Equations.
    Eva Bayer-Fluckiger*, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
    Tingyu Lee, Dortmund University
    Raman Parimala, Emory University
    (1139-11-130)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Heuristics for p-class towers.
    Nigel Boston*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
    Michael R. Bush, Washington and Lee University
    Farshid Hajir, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
    (1139-11-463)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A Non-abelian Version of the Cohen-Lenstra Probability Measure.
    Yuan Liu*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1139-11-585)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Root Discriminant bounds in infinite towers number fields.
    Ravi Ramakrishna*, Cornell University
    (1139-11-595)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Statistics, II
  203, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Kaie Kubjas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Elina Robeva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology erobeva@mit.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Factoring graphs, matrices, and polynomials as tensor products.
    Lek-Heng Lim, University of Chicago
    Jose Israel Rodriguez*, University of Chicago
    (1139-15-527)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Typical and generic ranks in low-rank matrix completion.
    Daniel Irving Bernstein*, North Carolina State University
    Greg Blekherman, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Rainer Sinn, FU Berlin
    (1139-14-131)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The geometry of discrete copulas.
    Elisa Perrone*, LIDS / EECS Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA (USA)
    (1139-62-275)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A distributed, asynchronous Buchberger's algorithm.
    Sara Jamshidi*, Penn State University
    Jason Morton, Penn State University
    (1139-14-326)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic, Geometric, and Topological Methods in Combinatorics, II
  158, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Florian Frick, Cornell University
  Pablo Soberón, Northeastern University p.soberonbravo@northeastern.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Simplicial resolutions and no k-equal spaces.
    Caroline Klivans*, Brown University
    (1139-05-605)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Symmetric Sums of Squares over k-Subset Hypercubes.
    Annie Raymond*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    James Saunderson, Monash University
    Mohit Singh, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Rekha Thomas, University of Washington
    (1139-05-323)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Abelian duality spaces.
    Graham C. Denham, Department of Mathematics, University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 5B7, Canada
    Alexander I. Suciu*, Department of Mathematics, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    (1139-55-411)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Connections between Čech complexes and the Carathéodory orbitope.
    Michal Adamaszek, MOSEK
    Henry Adams*, Colorado State University
    Florian Frick, Cornell University
    (1139-52-62)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Algorithmic Group Theory and Applications, II
  431, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Delaram Kahrobaei, City University of New York dkahrobaei@gc.cuny.edu
  Antonio Tortora, University of Salerno
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Group and graph theoretic problems through right-angled Artin groups.
    Ramón Flores, University of Seville, Spain
    Delaram Kahrobaei, CUNY Graduate Center
    Thomas Koberda*, University of Virginia
    (1139-20-403)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Solving the Conjugacy Decision Problem via Machine Learning.
    Jonathan Gryak*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    Robert M. Haralick, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
    Delaram Kahrobaei, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
    (1139-20-125)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Fast Quantum Algorithm for Solving Multivariate Quadratic Equations.
    Kelsey Horan*, Ph.D. Program in Computer Science/The Graduate Center, CUNY
    Jean-Charles Faugere, UPMC University Paris 06 and INRIA, Paris Center
    Delaram Kahrobaei, PhD Program in Computer Science/The Graduate Center, CUNY
    Marc Kaplan, School of Informatics/University of Edinburgh and UPMC University Paris 06
    Elham Kashefi, School of Informatics/University of Edinburgh and UPMC University Paris 06
    Ludovic Perret, UPMC University Paris 06 and INRIA, Paris Center
    (1139-68-182)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Combinatorial Algebra and Fully Homomorphic Encryption for Implementation of Private Classification Algorithms.
    Alexander N Wood*, The Graduate Center, CUNY
    Vladimir Shpilrain, The City College of New York, CUNY
    Ali Mostashari, LifeNome Inc.
    Kayvan Najarian, The University of Michigan
    Delaram Kahrobaei, The Graduate Center, CUNY
    (1139-68-519)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Analysis and Geometry in Non-smooth Spaces, II
  296, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Nageswari Shanmugalingam, University of Cincinnati
  Gareth Speight, University of Cincinnati speighgh@ucmail.uc.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Topologically nontrivial counterexamples to Sard's theorem.
    Paweł Goldstein, University of Warsaw
    Piotr Hajłasz*, University of Pittsburgh
    Pekka Pankka, University of Helsinki
    (1139-57-351)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Null Lagrangian Measures in planes, compensated compactness and conservation laws.
    Andrew Lorent*, University of Cincinnati
    Guanying Peng, University of Arizona
    (1139-35-603)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Harmonic measure distribution functions for a class of multiply-connected symmetrical slit domains.
    Marie A. Snipes*, Kenyon College
    (1139-30-432)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Neumann heat flow and gradient flow for the entropy on non-convex domains.
    Janna Lierl*, University of Connecticut
    Karl-Theodor Sturm, University of Bonn
    (1139-58-420)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Arithmetic Dynamics, II
  159, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Jacqueline M. Anderson, Bridgewater State University
  Robert Benedetto, Amherst College
  Joseph H. Silverman, Brown University jhs@math.brown.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Local arboreal representations.
    Jacqueline Anderson*, Bridgewater State University
    Spencer Hamblen, McDaniel College
    Bjorn Poonen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Laura Walton, Brown University
    (1139-11-55)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    When can two arboreal representations be isomorphic?
    Thomas J Tucker*, University of Rochester
    Wayne Peng, University of Rochester
    (1139-11-515)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Smallest representatives of $SL(2,\mathbb{Z})$-orbits of binary forms and endomorphisms of $\mathbb{P}^1$.
    Benjamin Hutz*, Saint Louis University
    Michael Stoll, Universitat Bayreuth
    (1139-37-265)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A New `Height' in Arithmetic Dynamics.
    Kenneth Jacobs*, Northwestern
    (1139-37-394)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Arrangements of Hypersurfaces, II
  153, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Graham Denham, University of Western Ontario
  Alexander I. Suciu, Northeastern University a.suciu@neu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Supersolvable posets.
    Christin Bibby*, University of Michigan
    (1139-05-533)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials of matroids.
    Nicholas James Proudfoot*, University of Oregon
    Max Wakefield, U.S. Naval Academy
    Ben Young, University of Oregon
    (1139-05-231)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Equivariant cohomology and intersection cohomology of a completion of a hyperplane arrangement.
    Tom Braden*, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    June Huh, IAS and Princeton University
    Jacob Matherne, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    Nicholas Proudfoot, University of Oregon
    Botong Wang, University of Wisconsin
    (1139-14-233)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Higher resonance in the braid arrangement.
    Michael J Falk*, Northern Arizona University
    (1139-05-540)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Aspects of Nilpotent Orbits, II
  155, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Anthony Iarrobino, Northeastern University a.iarrobino@neu.edu
  Leila Khatami, Union College
  Juliana Tymoczko, Smith College
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Reverse plane partitions via representations of quivers I.
    Alexander Garver, Universite du Quebec a Montreal
    Rebecca Patrias*, Universite du Quebec a Montreal
    Hugh Thomas, Universite du Quebec a Montreal
    (1139-05-261)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Reverse plane partitions via representations of quivers II.
    Alexander Garver*, Universite du Quebec a Montreal
    Rebecca Patrias, Universite du Quebec a Montreal
    Hugh Thomas, Universite du Quebec a Montreal
    (1139-05-246)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Reverse plane partitions via representations of quivers III.
    Alexander Garver, Université du Québec à Montréal
    Rebecca Patrias, Université du Québec à Montréal
    Hugh Thomas*, Université du Québec à Montréal
    (1139-05-311)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Admissible modules and normality of classical nilpotent orbits.
    Kayue Daniel Wong*, Cornell University
    Dan Barbasch, Cornell University
    (1139-22-409)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Representation Theory, II
  154, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Laura Colmenarejo, York University laura.colmenarejo.hernando@gmail.com
  Ricky Liu, North Carolina State University
  Rosa Orellana, Dartmouth College
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Asymptotics and bounds of skew SYTs, Kronecker and Littlewood-Richardson coefficients.
    Greta Panova*, University of Pennsylvania and Institute for Advanced Study
    (1139-05-249)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Spectral properties of shuffling operators in symmetric group algebras.
    Nadia Lafrenière, Université du Québec à Montréal
    Franco V Saliola*, Université du Québec à Montréal
    Stéphanie Schanck, Université du Québec à Montréal
    (1139-05-556)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Chromatic symmetric functions and $e$-positivity.
    Samantha Dahlberg*, The University of British Columbia
    (1139-05-214)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Computing with the Quasisymmetric Power Sums.
    Angela Hicks*, Lehigh University
    Cristina Ballantine, College of the Holy Cross
    Zajj Daugherty, City College of New York
    Sarah Mason, Wake Forest University
    Elizabeth Niese, Marshall University
    (1139-05-648)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Connections Between Trisections of 4-manifolds and Low-dimensional Topology, II
  315, Behrakis Hall
  Organizers:
  Jeffrey Meier, University of Georgia
  Juanita Pinzon-Caicedó, North Carolina State University jpinzon@ncsu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Diagrammatics of knotted surfaces.
    Alexander Zupan*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1139-57-659)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Bridge trisections in $\mathbb{CP}^2$.
    Peter Lambert-Cole*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1139-57-682)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Quandle Invariants via Bridge Trisections.
    Jason Joseph*, University of Georgia
    (1139-57-582)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Simplified broken Lefschetz fibrations and trisections.
    R. Inanc Baykur*, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    Osamu Saeki, Kyushu University
    (1139-57-553)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Dynamical systems, Geometric Structures and Special Functions, II
  267, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Alessandro Arsie, University of Toledo
  Oksana Bihun, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs obihun@uccs.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Generalized hypergeometric functions and integrable hydrodynamic type equations.
    Yuji Kodama*, The Ohio State University
    (1139-35-136)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Kleinian sigma function: Algebraic and transcendental aspects.
    Emma Previato*, Boston University
    (1139-33-577)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Effective Behavior in Random Environments, II
  243, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Jessica Lin, McGill University jessica.lin@mcgill.ca
  Charles Smart, University of Chicago
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Edwards-Wilkinson limit for stochastic heat equation in high dimensions.
    Yu Gu*, CMU
    Lenya Ryzhik, Stanford University
    Ofer Zeitouni, Weizmann Institute and Courant Institute
    (1139-60-57)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Homogenization of a class of one-dimensional non-convex viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equations with random potential.
    Elena Kosygina*, Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center
    Atilla Yilmaz, Koç University and NYU
    Ofer Zeitouni, Weizmann Institute and NYU
    (1139-60-67)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The weighted p-Laplacian and semi-supervised learning.
    Jeff Calder*, University of Minnesota
    (1139-35-340)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Stationary coalescing walks on the lattice.
    Jon Chaika, University of Utah
    Arjun Krishnan*, University of Rochester
    (1139-60-154)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Dynamics in Combinatorial Number Theory, II
  456, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Stanley Eigen, Northeastern University
  Daniel Glasscock, Northeastern University d.glasscock@northeastern.edu
  Vidhu Prasad, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    IP sets and weakly mixing groups.
    V Bergelson, Ohio State University
    D Robertson*, University of Utah
    (1139-37-104)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Nilsequences and multiple correlations along subsequences.
    Anh Ngoc Le*, Northwestern University
    (1139-37-86)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Problem Session
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Facets of Symplectic Geometry and Topology, II
  204, Behrakis Hall
  Organizers:
  Tara Holm, Cornell University
  Jo Nelson, Columbia University
  Jonathan Weitsman, Northeastern University j.weitsman@neu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Symplectic embeddings in dimension greater than 4.
    Dan Cristofaro-Gardiner*, University of California, Santa Cruz
    Richard Hind, Notre Dame University
    Dusa McDuff, Barnard College
    (1139-53-201)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Symplectic cohomological rigidity and toric degenerations.
    Susan Tolman*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1139-53-174)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometries Defined by Differential Forms, II
  320, Behrakis Hall
  Organizers:
  Mahir Bilen Can, Tulane University mcan@tulane.edu
  Sergey Grigorian, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
  Sema Salur, University of Rochester
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A heat flow of isometric $G_2$-structures.
    Sergey Grigorian*, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
    (1139-53-482)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Lagrangian-type submanifolds of G$_2$ and Spin$(7)$ manifolds.
    Rebecca Glover*, University of St. Thomas
    Sema Salur, University of Rochester
    (1139-53-666)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    $G_2$-structures and Ricci solitons.
    Anna Fino*, Università di Torino
    (1139-53-188)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometry and Analysis of Fluid Equations, II
  285, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Robert McOwen, Northeastern University
  Peter Topalov, Northeastern University p.topalov@northeastern.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Beyond Arnold's geodesic framework of an ideal hydrodynamics I.
    Boris Khesin*, University of Toronto
    (1139-58-113)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Beyond Arnold's geodesic framework of an ideal hydrodynamics II.
    Anton Izosimov*, Toronto
    (1139-58-114)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometry of Moduli Spaces, II
  105, Behrakis Hall
  Organizers:
  Ana-Marie Castravet, Northeastern University
  Emanuele Macrí, Northeastern University e.macri@northeastern.edu
  Benjamin Schmidt, University of Texas
  Xiaolei Zhao, Northeastern University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On finite generation of the section ring of the determinant line bundle.
    Angela Gibney*, Rutgers University
    Prakash Belkale, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (1139-14-471)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Cohomology stabilization of Hom spaces and Manin's conjecture.
    David H Yang*, Harvard University
    (1139-14-206)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations, II
  433, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Donatella Danielli, Purdue University
  Irina Mitrea, Temple University imitrea@temple.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Localization of eigenfunctions via an effective potential.
    David Jerison*, MIT
    (1139-35-269)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Boundary value problems for elliptic complex coefficient divergence form operators.
    Jill Pipher*, Brown University
    Martin Dindos, Univeristy of Edinburgh
    (1139-35-552)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Multidimensional Toeplitz operators with discontinuous symbols.
    Michael E. Taylor*, Mathematics Dept., University of North Carolina
    (1139-35-66)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Fatou-Type Results for Elliptic Systems in Uniformly Rectifiable Domains.
    Marius Mitrea*, University of Missouri
    (1139-42-551)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Homological Commutative Algebra, II
  161, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Sean Sather-Wagstaff, Clemson University
  Oana Veliche, Northeastern University O.Veliche@northeastern.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Completions of Noncatenary Local Domains.
    Chloe I. Avery, UCSB College of Creative Studies
    Caitlyn Booms, University of Notre Dame
    Timothy M. Kostolansky, Williams College
    Susan Loepp*, Williams College
    Alex Semendinger, Williams College
    (1139-13-353)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Applying homological algebra to a problem on symbolic powers.
    Eloísa Grifo*, University of Virginia
    (1139-13-341)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Hearing the Limiting Shape of a Hypersurface Configuration.
    Robert M Walker*, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, MI
    (1139-13-223)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Reduction numbers and multiplicity of the Sally module.
    Laura Ghezzi*, New York City College of Technology, CUNY
    (1139-13-235)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Hopf Algebras, Tensor Categories, and Homological Algebra, II
  156, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Cris Negron, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Julia Plavnik, Texas A&M juliaplav@tamu.edu
  Sarah Witherspoon, Texas A&M University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Semisimple Hopf actions on path algebras of quivers.
    Chelsea Walton*, Temple University
    (1139-16-387)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Extensions of Yetter-Drinfel'd Hopf Algebras I.
    Yorck Sommerhäuser*, Memorial University of Newfoundland
    (1139-16-500)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Extensions of Yetter-Drinfel'd Hopf Algebras II.
    Yevgenia Kashina*, DePaul University
    (1139-16-544)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Examples of Reflection Hopf Algebras.
    Ellen Kirkman*, Wake Forest University
    Luigi Ferraro, Wake Forest University
    W. Frank Moore, Wake Forest University
    Robert Won, Wake Forest University
    (1139-16-395)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Perspectives in Quantum Information Theory, II
  420, Shillman Hall
  Organizers:
  Aram Harrow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Christopher King, Northeastern University c.king@northeastern.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Quantum states cannot be transmitted efficiently classically.
    Ashley Montanaro*, University of Bristol
    (1139-68-345)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Exploiting wave function symmetries in quantum simulation.
    James D Whitfield*, Dartmouth College
    Sahil Gulania, University of Southern California
    (1139-81-426)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Quantum Algorithms for Connectivity: Applications and Analysis.
    Shelby Kimmel*, Middlebury College
    Michael Jarret, Perimeter Institute
    Stacey Jeffery, Qusoft, CWI
    Alvaro Piedrafita, Qusoft, CWI
    (1139-81-153)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Approximate unitary $t$-designs by short random quantum circuits using nearest-neighbor and long-range gates.
    Aram W. Harrow, MIT
    Saeed Mehraban*, MIT
    (1139-81-536)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Problems of Relativistic Physics: Classical and Quantum, II
  435, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Michael Kiessling, Rutgers University
  A. Shadi Tahvildar-Zadeh, Rutgers University shadit@math.rutgers.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Nonlinear stability of self-gravitating massive fields.
    Philippe G. LeFloch*, Sorbonne University
    (1139-83-398)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Viscous dynamics in cosmological fluids.
    Shabnam Beheshti*, Queen Mary University of London
    (1139-83-309)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Static perfect fluids in general relativity.
    Annegret Y. Burtscher*, Rutgers University
    (1139-83-124)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Tidal energy in Newtonian two-body motion.
    Shuang Miao, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Sohrab M. Shahshahani*, UMass, Amherst
    (1139-35-75)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Noncommutative Algebra and Representation Theory, II
  247, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Van C. Nguyen, Hood College nguyen@hood.edu
  Alex Martsinkovsky, Northeastern University
  Gordana Todorov, Northeastern University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The tame-wild dichotomy for infinite dimensional algebras and the Brauer-Thrall 3 conjectures.
    Miodrag C Iovanov*, The University of Iowa
    (1139-16-670)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    An introduction to derivators.
    John M Zhang*, UCLA
    (1139-18-253)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Determinants of Graded Cartan matrices of Nakayama algebras.
    Emre Sen*, Northeastern University
    (1139-16-418)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Twisted tensor products.
    Anne V. Shepler*, Univ. of North Texas
    Sarah Witherspoon, Texas A&M Univ.
    (1139-16-604)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Reaction-Diffusion Equations and Their Applications, II
  283, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Nsoki Mavinga, Swarthmore College
  Quinn Morris, Swarthmore College qmorris1@swarthmore.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Dynamics of populations with individual variation in dispersal on bounded domains.
    Robert Stephen Cantrell, Department of Mathematics, University of Miami and Institute for Applied Mathematics, Renmin University of China
    Chris Cosner*, Department of Mathematics, University of Miami
    Xiao Yu, Department of Mathematics, University of Miami
    (1139-35-58)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Effects of patch matrix and individual movement response on population persistence at the patch-level.
    Jim Cronin, Louisiana State University
    Jerome Goddard II*, Auburn University Montgomery
    R. Shivaji, University of North Carolina Greensboro
    (1139-92-627)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Behavior of solutions to an Elliptic Free Boundary Problem near a Neumann Fixed Boundary.
    John Gemmer, Wake Forest University
    Gary Moon, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    Sarah Raynor*, Wake Forest University
    (1139-35-51)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Spectral characterization of surfaces in shape recognition problems.
    Mauricio Alexander Rivas*, University of North Carolina Greensboro
    (1139-35-524)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear and Stochastic Partial Differential Equations and Applications, II
  126, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Nathan Glatt-Holtz, Tulane University
  Vincent Martinez, Tulane University
  Cecilia Mondaini, Texas A&M University cmondaini@math.tamu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Global Regularity for 1D Viscous Compressible Fluid Models with Degenerate Viscosity.
    Peter Constantin, Princeton University
    Theodore D Drivas*, Princeton University
    Huy Q Nguyen, Princeton University
    Federico Pasqualotto, Princeton University
    (1139-35-453)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Conic programming of a variational inequality for self-assembly.
    David Shirokoff*, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Mahdi Bandegi, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    (1139-35-580)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Stability shift for the Muskat problem.
    Diego Cordoba, ICMAT, Madrid
    Javier Gomez-Serrano*, Princeton University
    Andrej Zlatos, UCSD
    (1139-35-688)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Topological models of collective behavior: local interactions imply alignment.
    Roman Shvydkoy*, UIC
    Eitan Tadmor, University of Maryland
    (1139-35-181)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Numerical Methods and Applications, II
  220, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Vera Babenko, Ithaca College vbabenko@ithaca.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Piecewise polynomial copulas.
    Tatyana Sorokina*, Towson University
    Min Ji, Towson University
    Liang Dong, Towson University
    (1139-41-358)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Quadrature formulas for set-valued functions. Errors estimates. Optimization.
    Vladyslav Babenko*, Oles Honchar Dnipro National University
    Vira Babenko, Ithaca College
    Mariia Polischuk, Oles Honchar Dnipro National University
    (1139-41-192)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Optimal recovery of three times differentiable functions on a convex polytope inscribed in a sphere.
    Sergiy Borodachov*, Towson University
    (1139-65-42)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Approximation of some classes of set-valued periodic functions by generalized trigonometric polynomials.
    Vira Babenko*, Ithaca College
    Vladyslav Babenko, Oles Honchar Dnipro National University
    Mariia Polischuk, Oles Honchar Dnipro National University
    (1139-41-193)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Optimization Under Uncertainty, II
  315, Shillman Hall
  Organizers:
  Yingdong Lu, IBM Research yingdong@us.ibm.com
  Mark S. Squillante, IBM Research
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Data-Driven Robust Optimization in Routing Problems.
    Mehdi Behroozi*, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University
    (1139-49-707)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Dynamic Scheduling and Maintenance of a Deteriorating Server.
    Jefferson Huang*, Cornell University
    (1139-90-266)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Multi-resource fair sharing for multiclass workflows.
    Li Zhang*, IBM Research
    (1139-68-653)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Adaptive and Resilient Revenue Maximizing Dynamic Resource Allocation and Pricing for Cloud-Enabled IoT Systems.
    Muhammad Junaid Farooq*, New York University
    Quanyan Zhu, New York University
    (1139-49-361)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Polytopes and Discrete Geometry, II
  265, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Gabriel Cunningham, University of Massachusetts, Boston
  Mark Mixer, Wentworth Institute of Technology mixerm@wit.edu
  Egon Schulte, Northeastern University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Parity representations of posets.
    Jim Lawrence*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, George Mason University
    (1139-06-430)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Neighbour-transitive codes in odd graphs.
    Eugenia O'Reilly-Regueiro*, IMUNAM
    (1139-05-647)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Counting Admissible Complexes for the X-Ray Transform over the two-element Field.
    Eric L Grinberg*, UMass Boson
    Mehmet Orhon, University of New Hampshire
    (1139-44-606)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Geometric properties of involutions in classical groups.
    Peter A Brooksbank*, Bucknell University
    (1139-20-287)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Regularity of PDEs on Rough Domains, II
  157, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Murat Akman, University of Connecticut murat.akman@uconn.edu
  Max Engelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Regularity Results for a Penalized Boundary Obstacle Problem.
    Thomas Backing, Purdue University
    Donatella Danielli*, Purdue University
    Rohit Jain, McGill University
    (1139-35-95)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    How to obtain parabolic theorems from their elliptic counterparts.
    Blair Davey*, City College of New York, CUNY
    (1139-35-34)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Higher regularity of the free boundary in the parabolic Signorini problem.
    Agnid Banerjee, TIFR CAM
    Mariana Smit Vega Garcia*, University of Washington
    Andrew K. Zeller, Purdue University
    (1139-35-220)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Solvability of Elliptic Equations with Lower Order Terms.
    Jose Luis Luna Garcia*, University of Missouri- Columbia
    Steve Hofmann, University of Missouri- Columbia
    Svitlana Mayboroda, University of Minnesota
    Simon Bortz, University of Minnesota
    Bruno Poggi, University of Minnesota
    (1139-35-455)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Relations Between the History and Pedagogy of Mathematics, II
  215, Shillman Hall
  Organizers:
  Amy Ackerberg-Hastings,
  David L. Roberts, Prince George's Community College robertsdl@aol.com
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Finding the center of a circular starting line in an ancient Greek stadium.
    Chris Rorres*, Drexel University
    (1139-01-61)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Lewis Carroll should have taught sixth grade math.
    Stuart Moskowitz*, Humboldt State University
    (1139-01-683)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Military calculating machines 1920-1945.
    Theodora J Dryer*, Consortium for History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
    (1139-01-686)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Emergency Training: Mathematics for the Engineer during the Second World War.
    Brit Shields*, University of Pennsylvania
    (1139-01-671)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Singularities of Spaces and Maps, II
  220, Behrakis Hall
  Organizers:
  Terence Gaffney, Northeastern University
  David Massey, Northeastern University d.massey@northeastern.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A new approach to rational singularities.
    Sándor J Kovács*, University of Washington
    (1139-14-33)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Deficient conormal singularities and local volumes.
    Antoni K Rangachev*, University of Chicago
    (1139-14-548)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on The Analysis of Dispersive Equations, II
  207, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Marius Beceanu, University at Albany mbeceanu@albany.edu
  Andrew Lawrie, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Scattering below the ground state threshold for nonlinear Schrödinger equations.
    Benjamin Dodson, Johns Hopkins University
    Jason Murphy*, Missouri University of Science and Technology
    (1139-35-241)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Well-posedness for the cubic NLS on tori.
    Haitian Yue*, UMass Amherst
    (1139-35-537)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Signature for Decay Rates and Trapped Surface Formation.
    Xinliang An*, University of Toronto
    (1139-35-92)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Low Regularity Global Existence for the Periodic Zakharov System.
    E. L. Compaan*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1139-35-490)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on The Gaussian Free Field and Random Geometry, II
  210, Shillman Hall
  Organizers:
  Jian Ding, University of Pennsylvania dingjian@wharton.upenn.edu
  Vadim Gorin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Upper Tail Large Deviations in First Passage Percolation.
    Allan Sly*, Princeton University
    Riddhipratim Basu, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
    Shirshendu Ganguly, University of California, Berkeley
    (1139-60-230)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Nonintersecting Random Walks and Gaussian Free Field.
    Jiaoyang Huang*, Harvard
    (1139-60-255)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Topics in Qualitative Properties of Partial Differential Equations, II
  291, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Changfeng Gui, University of Texas at San Antonio
  Changyou Wang, Purdue University
  Jiuyi Zhu, Louisiana State University jzhu18@lsu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Lojasiewicz-Simon gradient inequalities and convergence of weak gradient flows to weak limits.
    Paul M. N. Feehan*, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    (1139-35-13)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The oblique derivative problem in Lipschitz domains.
    Hongjie Dong*, Brown University
    Zongyuan Li, Brown University
    (1139-35-141)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Layer solutions for a one-dimenional nonlocal model of Ginzburg-Landau type.
    Ko-shin Chen, University of Connecticut
    Cyrill Muratov, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Xiaodong Yan*, University of Connecticut
    (1139-35-76)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Topics in Toric Geometry, II
  124, Ryder Hall
  Organizers:
  Ivan Martino, Northeastern University i.martino@northeastern.edu
  Emanuele Ventura, Texas A&M University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Fujita's Freeness Conjecture for Complexity-One T-Varieties.
    Klaus Altmann, Freie Universität Berlin
    Nathan Ilten*, Simon Fraser University
    (1139-14-127)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Irrational Toric Varieties.
    Ata Firat Pir*, Texas A&M University
    (1139-14-470)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Maximum Likelihood Degree of Toric Varieties.
    Carlos Amendola, TU Munich
    Nathan Bliss, UIC
    Isaac Burke, National University of Ireland, Galway
    Courtney R. Gibbons, Hamilton College
    Martin Helmer, UC Berkeley
    Serkan Hosten, San Francisco State University
    Evan D. Nash, Ohio State
    Jose Israel Rodriguez*, University of Chicago
    Daniel Smolkin, University of Utah Department of Mathematics
    (1139-14-532)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Topology of Biopolymers, II
  220, Shillman Hall
  Organizers:
  Erica Flapan, Pomona College eflapan@pomona.edu
  Helen Wong, Carleton College
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Natural Map from Random Walks to Equilateral Polygons in Any Dimension.
    Jason Cantarella, University of Georgia
    Philipp Reiter, University of Georgia
    Clayton Shonkwiler*, Colorado State University
    (1139-53-572)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Sampling and theory for random embedded spatial graphs, with applications to topologically complex polymers.
    Jason Cantarella*, University of Georgia
    Clayton Shonkwiler, Colorado State University
    (1139-53-565)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Average crossing number and writhe of knotted random polygons in confinement.
    Eric J Rawdon*, University of St. Thomas
    (1139-57-229)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Random linear embeddings of spatial graphs and configurations of Mobius ladders.
    Erica Flapan, Pomona College
    Kenji Kozai*, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
    Ryo Nikkuni, Tokyo Woman's Christian University
    (1139-92-600)
• Saturday April 21, 2018, 5:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
  Einstein Public Lecture in Mathematics
  Imagination and knowledge.
  Blackman Auditorium, Ell Hall
  Edward Frenkel*, University of California, Berkeley
  (1139-00-281)

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