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AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day

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Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
April 14-15, 2018 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1138

Associate secretaries:

Brian D Boe, AMS brian@math.uga.edu

Saturday April 14, 2018

Saturday April 14, 2018, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Exhibit and Book Sale
Lobby, Buttrick Hall

Saturday April 14, 2018, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Meeting Registration
Lobby, Buttrick Hall

Saturday April 14, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Advances in Operator Algebras, I
Room 308, Stevenson Center, 1
Organizers:
Scott Atkinson, Vanderbilt University
Dietmar Bisch, Vanderbilt University dietmar.bisch@vanderbilt.edu
Vaughan Jones, Vanderbilt University
Jesse Peterson, Vanderbilt University
- 8:00 a.m.
  A new skein theory for One-way Yang-Baxter planar algebras.
  Yunxiang Ren*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  (1138-46-218)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Analytic deformations of group commuting squares.
  Remus Nicoara*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  (1138-46-97)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Diagrams and quantum G2 at roots of unity.
  Noah Snyder*, Indiana University
  Victor Ostrik, University of Oregon
  (1138-46-94)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Discussion.
- 10:00 a.m.
  Four Dimensional Topological Quantum Field Theories.
  Shawn X Cui*, Stanford University
  (1138-57-273)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A new program on quantum subgroups.
  Zhengwei Liu*, Harvard University
  (1138-45-257)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, Representation Theory, and Applications, I
Room 102, Buttrick Hall
Organizers:
Shrawan Kumar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
J. M. Landsberg, Texas A&M University jml@math.tamu.edu
Luke Oeding, Auburn University
- 8:00 a.m.
  Degrees of projections of rank loci.
  Paolo Aluffi*, Florida State University
  (1138-14-132)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Algorithms for orbit closure separation for invariants and semi-invariants of matrices.
  Visu Makam*, University of Michigan
  Harm Derksen, University of Michigan
  (1138-13-20)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Barriers for Rank Methods in Arithmetic Complexity.
  Rafael Oliveira*, University of Toronto
  Klim Efremenko, Ben Gurion University
  Ankit Garg, Microsoft Research New England
  Avi Wigderson, IAS
  (1138-68-300)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Recoupling coefficients and quantum entropies.
  Matthias Christandl, University of Copenhagen
  Burak Sahinoglu*, California Institute of Technology
  Michael Walter, University of Amsterdam and Stanford University
  (1138-81-158)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On the rank preserving property of special linear sections and its applications in tensors.
  Lek-Heng Lim, University of Chicago
  Yang Qi*, University of Chicago
  (1138-15-166)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Boundaries and Non-positive Curvature in Group Theory, I
Room 301, Buttrick Hall
Organizers:
Spencer Dowdall, Vanderbilt University
Matthew Hallmark, Vanderbilt University m.haulmark@vanderbilt.edu
Michael Hull, University of Florida
- 8:00 a.m.
  Subgroup distortion in hyperbolic groups.
  Pallavi Dani*, Louisiana State University
  Timothy Riley, Cornell University
  (1138-20-145)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Generalizations of quasiconvexity in a word-hyperbolic group.
  Heejoung Kim*, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  (1138-20-48)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On strongly quasiconvex subgroups.
  Hung Cong Tran*, The University of Georgia
  (1138-20-230)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Distortion of surfaces in $3$--manifolds.
  Hoang Thanh Nguyen*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  (1138-20-76)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Obstructions to Riemannian smoothings of locally CAT(0) manifolds.
  Bakul Sathaye*, The Ohio State University
  (1138-20-296)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Diffeomorphism groups of critical regularity.
  Sang-hyun Kim, Seoul National University
  Thomas Koberda*, University of Virginia
  (1138-20-34)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra, I
Room 101, Buttrick Hall
Organizers:
Florian Enescu, Georgia State University fenescu@gsu.edu
Yongwei Yao, Georgia State University
- 8:00 a.m.
  The Hilbert series of a reducible representation of $\operatorname{SL}_2(\mathbb{C})$ and its Laurent coefficients.
  Pedro de Carvalho Cayres Pinto, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
  Hans-Christian Herbig, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
  Daniel Herden, Baylor University
  Christopher Seaton*, Rhodes College
  (1138-13-7)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Splitting the conormal module.
  Mark R. Johnson*, University of Arkansas
  (1138-13-121)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Semi-dualizing modules of Ladder Determinantal rings, Part I.
  Sandra Spiroff*, University of Mississippi
  Sean Sather-Wagstaff, Clemson University
  Tony Se, University of Mississippi
  (1138-13-46)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Semidualizing modules of ladder determinantal rings, Part II.
  Sean Sather-Wagstaff, Clemson University
  Tony Se*, University of Mississippi
  Sandra Spiroff, University of Mississippi
  (1138-13-47)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The absolutely Koszul and Backelin-Roos properties for spaces of quadrics of small codimension.
  Rasoul Ahangari Maleki, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Iran
  Liana Şega*, University of Missouri Kansas City
  (1138-13-271)
- 10:30 a.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 Matemáticas. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
  (1138-18-108)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Function Spaces and Operator Theory, I
Room 307, Stevenson Center, 1
Organizers:
Cheng Chu, Vanderbilt University cheng.chu@vanderbilt.edu
Dechao Zheng, Vanderbilt University
- 8:00 a.m.
  Axler-Zheng theorem in $\mathbb {C}^n$.
  Zeljko Cuckovic*, University of Toledo, Ohio
  (1138-47-38)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Numerical ranges of restricted shifts and norms of truncated Toeplitz operators.
  Pamela Gorkin*, Bucknell University
  Jonathan R. Partington, University of Leeds
  (1138-47-58)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On Berezin type operators and Toeplitz operators.
  Gabriel T Prajitura*, SUNY Brockport
  Ruhan Zhao, SUNY Brockport
  Lifang Zhou, Huzhou University
  (1138-47-331)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Algebras of Toeplitz operators on the unit ball.
  Nikolai Vasilevski*, Department of Mathematics, CINVESTAV, Mexico City
  (1138-47-63)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Hankel operators on weighted Bergman spaces and norm ideals.
  Quanlei Fang, Bronx Community College, CUNY
  Jingbo Xia*, State University of New York at Buffalo
  (1138-47-212)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A harmonic analysis approach to the Arveson-Douglas Conjecture.
  Yi Wang*, Texas A&M University
  Ronald G. Douglas, Texas A&M University
  Kunyu Guo, Fudan University
  Jingbo Xia, State University of New York at Buffalo
  (1138-46-357)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Harmonic Analysis, Functional Analysis, and Their Applications, I
Room 320, Buttrick Hall
Organizers:
Akram Aldroubi, Vanderbilt University
Keaton Hamm, Vanderbilt University keaton.hamm@vanderbilt.edu
Michael Northington,V, Georgia Institute of Technology
Alex Powell, Vanderbilt University
- 8:00 a.m.
  Phaseless sampling and reconstruction of signals in shift-invariant spaces.
  Cheng Cheng*, Duke University and SAMSI
  Qiyu Sun, University of Central Florida
  (1138-42-260)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Exact phase-retrievable frames.
  Deguang Han*, University of Central Florida
  Ted Juste, University of Cnetral Florida
  (1138-41-24)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Time-weighted Strichartz inequalities.
  Michael Goldberg*, University of Cincinnati
  (1138-35-214)
- 9:30 a.m.
  On the probability that a stationary Gaussian process with spectral gap remains non-negative on a long interval.
  Ben Jaye*, Clemson University
  (1138-60-157)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A connection between commutators of BMO functions and weighted estimates.
  Arpad Benyi, Western Washington University
  Jose Maria Martell, Instituto de Ciencias Matematicas
  Kabe Moen*, University of Alabama
  Eric Statura, Haverford College
  Rodolfo H Torres, University of Kansas
  (1138-42-23)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Isoperimetric and Sobolev inequalities on magnetic graphs.
  J. Alejandro Chávez-Domínguez*, The University of Oklahoma
  (1138-46-141)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Hermitian Geometry, I
Room 210, Stevenson Center, 1
Organizers:
Mehdi Lejmi, Bronx Community College of CUNY
Rares Rasdeaconu, Vanderbilt University
Ioana Suvaina, Vanderbilt University ioana.suvaina@vanderbilt.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Kähler metrics from Lorentzian geometric data in dimension four.
  Amir Babak Aazami, Clark University
  Gideon Maschler*, Clark University
  (1138-53-113)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On some perturbation problems in complex geometry.
  Lars Martin Sektnan*, Université du Québec à Montréal
  (1138-53-172)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A complex analytic structure on the compactification of Hermitian-Yang-Mills moduli space.
  Benjamin C. Sibley*, Simons Center (Stony Brook)
  (1138-53-133)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Interactions between Geometry, Group Theory and Dynamics, I
Room 305, Buttrick Hall
Organizers:
Jayadev Athreya, University of Washington
Caglar Uyanik, Vanderbilt University
Grace Work, Vanderbilt University grace.work@vanderbilt.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Random mapping class group elements have generic foliations.
  Vaibhav Gadre, University of Glasgow
  Joseph Maher*, CUNY College of Staten Island
  (1138-37-33)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Exotic limit sets of Teichmuller geodesic rays.
  Sarah C Mousley*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1138-51-191)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Dense conjugacy classes in mapping class groups.
  Nicholas G Vlamis*, University of Michigan
  (1138-57-155)
- 10:00 a.m.
  An Introduction to Dilation Surfaces.
  Jane Wang*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (1138-37-223)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Bending Convex Projective Manifolds to Achieve New Geometry in Cusps.
  Martin Bobb*, University of Texas at Austin
  (1138-51-162)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Macdonald Polynomials and Related Structures, I
Room 212, Buttrick Hall
Organizers:
Jennifer Morse, University of Virginia jlm6cj@eservices.virginia.edu
Dan Orr, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Mark Shimozono, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- 8:00 a.m.
  Macdonald Delta Operators when t=0.
  Jim Haglund*, University of Pennsylvania
  Brendon Rhoades, UC San Diego
  Mark Shimozono, Virginia Tech
  (1138-05-75)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Dual immaculate quasisymmetric functions expand positively into quasisymmetric Schur functions.
  Edward Allen, Wake Forest University
  Josh Hallam, Wake Forest University
  Sarah Mason*, Wake Forest University
  (1138-05-120)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Chain decompositions for $q,t$-Catalan numbers.
  Nicholas A. Loehr*, Virginia Tech Department of Mathematics
  Kyungyong Lee, Korea Institute for Advanced Study
  Li Li, Oakland University Department of Mathematics and Statistics
  (1138-05-43)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Macdonald polynomials and chromatic quasisymmetric functions.
  Jim Haglund, University of Pennsylvania
  Andy Wilson*, University of Pennsylvania
  (1138-05-197)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Flow polytopes and the space of diagonal harmonics.
  Ricky Ini Liu*, North Carolina State University
  Karola Mészáros, Cornell University
  Alejandro H. Morales, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  (1138-05-250)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Matroids and Related Structures, I
Room 205, Buttrick Hall
Organizers:
Carolyn Chun, United States Naval Academy
Deborah Chun, West Virginia University Institute of Technology
Tyler Moss, West Virginia University Institute of Technology
Jakayla Robbins, Vanderbilt University jakayla.robbins@vanderbilt.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  On Vertex-Disjoint Cycles and a Fixed Edge in a 3-connected Graph.
  Joao Paulo Costalonga, UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO ESPÍRITO SANTO
  Talmage James Reid*, The University of Mississippi
  Haidong Wu, The University of Mississippi
  (1138-05-210)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Graphic matroids that guarantee their duals as minors.
  Jesse L Taylor*, Angelo State University
  (1138-05-70)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Unbreakable Biased Matroids.
  Tara Fife*, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
  Dillon Mayhew, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
  James Oxley, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
  Charles Semple, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
  (1138-05-148)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Induced binary submatroids.
  Marthe Bonamy, University of Bordeaux
  Frantisek Kardos, University of Bordeaux
  Tom Kelly, University of Waterloo
  Peter Nelson*, University of Waterloo
  Luke Postle, University of Waterloo
  (1138-05-289)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The f-flowing conjecture.
  Ahmad Abdi*, Department of Combinatorics & Optimization, University of Waterloo
  Bertrand Guenin, Department of Combinatorics & Optimization, University of Waterloo
  (1138-05-240)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Doubly exponentially many Ingleton matroids.
  Peter Nelson, University of Waterloo
  Jorn van der Pol*, University of Waterloo
  (1138-05-342)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Quantization for Probability Distributions and Dynamical Systems, I
Room 306, Buttrick Hall
Organizers:
Mrinal Kanti Roychowdhury, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley mrinal.roychowdhury@utrgv.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Superstable Manifolds of Invariant Circles.
  Scott R Kaschner*, Butler University
  Roland K.W. Roeder, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
  (1138-37-186)
- 8:30 a.m.
  A linear spline maximum entropy method for random maps.
  J. Ding*, Department of Mathematics, University of Southern Mississippi
  Congming Jin, Department of Mathematics, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University
  Tulsi Upadhyay, Department of Mathematics, University of Southern Mississippi
  (1138-37-10)
- 9:00 a.m.
  A surprising topological entropy example.
  Judy A Kennedy*, Lamar University
  Goran Erceg, University of Split
  (1138-37-305)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A Simple Proof of Ruelle's Perron-Frobenius Theorem and Its Applications to Equilibrium Measures and Correlations in Dynamics.
  Yunping Jiang*, The City University of New York, Queens College and Graduate Center/NSF
  (1138-37-87)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Optimal quantization.
  Mrinal K Roychowdhury*, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
  (1138-37-338)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Asymptotic quantization of exponential random graphs.
  Mei Yin*, University of Denver
  Alessandro Rinaldo, Carnegie Mellon University
  Sukhada Fadnavis, Harvard University
  (1138-60-14)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Random Discrete Structures, I
Room 204, Buttrick Hall
Organizers:
Lutz P Warnke, Georgia Institute of Technology warnke@math.gatech.edu
Xavier Pérez-Giménez, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- 8:00 a.m.
  The sharp threshold for making squares.
  Paul Balister*, University of Memphis
  Béla Bollobás, University of Cambridge, UK, and University of Memphis
  Robert Morris, IMPA, Brazil
  (1138-11-317)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The bipartite $K_{2,2}$-free process and bipartite Ramsey numbers.
  Patrick Bennett*, Western Michigan University
  Deepak Bal, Montclair State University
  (1138-05-352)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Packing nearly optimal Ramsey $R(3,t)$ graphs.
  He Guo*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Lutz Warnke, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (1138-05-222)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On the largest component of the intersection graph of a random chord diagram.
  Huseyin Acan*, Rutgers University
  Boris Pittel, The Ohio State University
  (1138-05-251)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The size of the giant component in the random d-process.
  Laura Eslava*, Georgia Tech
  Lutz Warnke, Georgia Tech
  (1138-60-256)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Recent Advances in Mathematical Biology, I
Room 302, Buttrick Hall
Organizers:
Glenn Webb, Vanderbilt University
Yixiang Wu, Vanderbilt University yixiang.wu@vanderbilt.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Plant toxins and trophic cascades alter fire regime and succession on a boreal forest landscape.
  Zhilan Feng*, Purdue University
  (1138-34-73)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Examining the effect of evolution in response to a disturbance on population dynamics.
  Azmy S Ackleh*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  Amy Veprauskas, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  (1138-92-384)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Dynamical behaviors of antimicrobial de-escalation and continuation systems.
  Xi Huo*, Department of Mathematics, University of Miami
  (1138-92-78)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Mean Field Analysis of Algorithms for Scale-Free Networks in Molecular Biology.
  Esaias J Janse van Rensburg*, Mathematics & Statistics, York University, Toronto, Ontario
  (1138-92-50)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Modeling Heterogeneous Viral Infection Modes in Virus-Microbe Systems.
  Hayriye Gulbudak*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  Joshua S. Weitz, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (1138-83-385)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Global Attractivity of a Delayed Reaction-Diffusion Equation with Variable Coefficients.
  Keng Deng*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  Yixiang Wu, Vanderbilt University
  (1138-35-101)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Recent Progress and New Directions in Homotopy Theory, I
Room 206, Stevenson Center, 1
Organizers:
Anna Marie Bohmann, Vanderbilt University
Kirsten Wickelgren, Georgia Institute of Technology kwickelgren3@math.gatech.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Fixed point theory and topological Hochschild homology.
  Kate Ponto*, University of Kentucky
  (1138-55-192)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The Cyclotomic Trace and Fixed Point Invariant.
  Jonathan A Campbell*, Vanderbilt University
  (1138-55-237)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Characteristic classes as complete obstructions.
  Martina Rovelli*, Johns Hopkins University
  (1138-55-160)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Stabilizing Spectral Functors of Exact Categories.
  Juan S. Villeta-Garcia*, Emory University
  (1138-19-213)
- 10:30 a.m.
  The slice filtration for certain RO(K$_4$)–graded suspensions of HF$_2$.
  Bertrand J Guillou*, University of Kentucky
  Carolyn Yarnall, California State University - Dominguez Hills
  (1138-55-140)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Selected Topics in Graph Theory, I
Room 202, Buttrick Hall
Organizers:
Songling Shan, Vanderbilt University
David Chris Stephens, Middle Tennessee State University
Dong Ye, Middle Tennessee State University dong.ye@mtsu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  A Lower Estimate of the Independence Number of the Hypergraph of $p$-Term Cyclic Arithmetic Progressions on the Integers Modulo $p^n$, For Odd Primes $p$.
  Zechun Yang*, Auburn University
  (1138-05-318)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Embedding Graph Decompositions.
  C A Rodger*, Auburn University
  (1138-05-142)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Hamiltonicity in randomly perturbed hypergraphs.
  Jie Han, Universidade de São Paulo
  Yi Zhao*, Georgia State University
  (1138-05-229)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Minimum co-degree condition for perfect matchings in $k$-partite $k$-graphs.
  Hongliang Lu, Xi'an Jiaotong University
  Yan Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Xingxing Yu*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (1138-05-362)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Recent Results on Gallai-Ramsey Numbers of Cycles.
  Zi-Xia Song*, University of Central Florida
  (1138-05-122)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Gallai-Ramsey Numbers - General Bounds and Sharp Cases.
  Colton Magnant*, Georgia Southern University
  (1138-05-194)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Structural Graph Theory, I
Room 201, Buttrick Hall
Organizers:
Joshua Fallon, Louisiana State University jfallo3@math.lsu.edu
Emily Marshall, Arcadia University marshalle@arcadia.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  The Edge-Independent Spanning Tree Conjecture.
  Alexander Hoyer*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Robin Thomas, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (1138-05-355)
- 8:30 a.m.
  A characterization of nearly-outerplanar graphs.
  Jinko Kanno, Louisiana Tech University
  Tanya Lueder, Louisiana Tech University
  Bogdan Oporowski*, Louisiana State University
  (1138-05-371)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Packing topological minors half-integrally.
  Chun-Hung Liu*, Princeton University
  (1138-05-225)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Rooted graphs without a heavy path.
  Guoli Ding*, LSU
  Shilin Wang, LSU
  (1138-05-217)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Recent progress in Splitter Theorems, Unavoidable Minor Theorems and Excluded Minor Theorems.
  John Maharry*, Ohio State University
  (1138-05-316)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 8:15 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Session for Contributed Papers, I
Room 313, Stevenson Center, 1
- 8:15 a.m.
  A Comparative Study of Online and In-class Assignments in Undergraduate Math Classes.
  Ramjee P Sharma, University of North Georgia, Oakwood, GA
  Kashi N Neupane*, University of North Georgia
  Dipendra N Regmi, University of North Georiga
  (1138-97-365)
- 8:30 a.m.
  On Underwater Communication with Spiral Acoustic Waves.
  Peter J Curry*, SPAWAR System Center, Atlantic
  Laura C Tolliver, SPAWAR System Center, Atlantic
  Scott C Batson, SPAWAR System Center, Atlantic
  Grant C Eastland, NUWC Division, Keyport C/221
  (1138-94-92)
- 8:45 a.m.
  CANCELED TALK: Robust Stabilization of Regime Switching Genetic Regulatory Networks.
  Sivapragasam Sathananthan*, Department of Mathematical Sciences/Tennessee State University
  (1138-93-93)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Parameter Estimation and Optimal Design Techniques to Analyze a Mathematical Model in Wound Healing.
  Nigar Karimli*, Western Kentucky University
  Ayush Prasad, John Hopkins University
  Richard Schugart, Western Kentucky University
  (1138-92-314)
- 9:15 a.m.
  Frontal plane dynamics of quadrupedal locomotion on a split-belt treadmill.
  Elizaveta Latash*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State University
  Hangue Park, School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology
  William Barnett, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State University
  Alexander N Klishko, School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Boris I Prilutsky, School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Yaroslav Molkov, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State University
  (1138-92-263)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Mathematical Modelling of Tailing Under High Pressure.
  Hashim AM Saber*, University of North Georgia
  Amer Awad, Advisian Americas
  (1138-86-351)
- 9:45 a.m.
  Toward the thermodynamics and emergy of picture and other puzzle solving.
  Dennis G. Collins*, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez retired
  (1138-82-375)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Spectra of boundary integral operators defined on the unit sphere for the modified Laplace equation.
  Vani Cheruvu*, The University of Toledo
  (1138-65-57)
- 10:15 a.m.
  High Precision Numerical Computation of Principal Points for Univariate Distributions.
  Santanu Chakraborty*, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
  Mrinal Kanti Roychowdhury, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
  Josef Sifuentes, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
  (1138-60-376)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Simultaneous recurrence of stationary random walks.
  Máté Wierdl*, The University of Memphis
  (1138-60-391)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Evolution Equations and Applications, I
Room 312, Buttrick Hall
Organizers:
Marcelo Disconzi, Vanderbilt University
Chenyun Luo, Vanderbilt University
Giusy Mazzone, Vanderbilt University
Gieri Simonett, Vanderbilt University gieri.simonett@vanderbilt.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Analysis of hydrodynamic of biaxial nematics.
  Changyou Wang*, Purdue University
  (1138-35-103)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Long-time asymptotic expansions for solutions of Navier-Stokes equations with time-dependent forces.
  Dat T Cao*, Texas Tech University
  Luan T Hoang, Texas Tech University
  (1138-35-119)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Analyticity Results for the Euler and Navier-Stokes Equations.
  Guher Camliyurt*, University of Southern California
  Igor Kukavica, University of Southern California
  Vlad Vicol, Princeton University
  (1138-35-350)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Global Regularity For One-Dimensional Viscous Compressible Fluid Models With Degenerate Viscosity.
  Peter Constantin, Princeton University
  Theodore Drivas, Princeton University
  Huy Nguyen*, Princeton University
  Federico Pasqualotto, Princeton University
  (1138-35-402)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Well-posedness problems for the magneto-hydrodynamics models.
  Mimi Dai*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1138-35-401)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Mathematical Chemistry, I
Room 206, Buttrick Hall
Organizers:
Hua Wang, Georgia Southern University hwang@georgiasouthern.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Vertex Degrees and Chemical Indices.
  Rachel Bass Lanning*, Clemson University
  (1138-00-199)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Oriented graphs with extremal skew energy.
  Xueliang Li*, Center for Combinatorics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
  (1138-92-179)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Extremal trees with fixed degree sequence.
  Eric O. D. Andriantiana*, Rhodes University
  Valisoa R. Misanantenaina, Stellenbosch University
  Stephan G. Wagner, Stellenbosch
  (1138-05-67)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Chemical Indices of Graphs with Given Degree Sequences.
  XiaoDong Zhang*, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  (1138-05-11)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Extremal Properties of Vertex Attributes in Trees.
  Heather Smith*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Laszlo Szekely, University of South Carolina
  Hua Wang, Georgia Southern University
  Shuai Yuan, University of South Carolina
  (1138-05-61)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Partial Differential Equations and New Perspective of Variational Methods, I
Room 309, Buttrick Hall
Organizers:
Abbas Moameni, Carleton University momeni@math.carleton.ca
Futoshi Takahashi, Osaka City University
Michinori Ishiwata, Osaka University
Craig Cowen, University of Manitoba
- 8:30 a.m.
  The Semi-Geostrophic system on the 2D torus: Weak-Strong uniqueness under uniform convexity.
  Mikhail Feldman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Adrian Tudorascu*, West Virginia University
  (1138-35-16)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On the motion of rigid bodies with a fluid-filled gap.
  Giusy Mazzone*, Vanderbilt University
  (1138-35-195)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Hardy's inequality in a limiting case on general bounded domains.
  Futoshi Takahashi*, Department of Mathematics, Osaka City University, Osaka
  (1138-35-272)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Resonance in Bounded Media.
  David E Amundsen*, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University
  (1138-76-27)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Canceling effects in higher-order Hardy-Sobolev inequalities.
  Norisuke Ioku*, Ehime University
  (1138-35-175)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Probabilistic Models in Mathematical Physics, I
Room 214, Stevenson Center, 1
Organizers:
Robert Buckingham, University of Cincinnati buckinrt@uc.edu
Seung-Yeop Lee, University of South Florida
Karl Liechty, DePaul University
- 8:30 a.m.
  Propagation of singular behavior for Gaussian perturbations of random matrices.
  Tom Claeys, Universite catholique de Louvain
  Arno Kuijlaars, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
  Karl Liechty*, DePaul University
  Dong Wang, National University of Singapore
  (1138-60-363)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Feynman-Kac formula for the stochastic Bessel operator.
  Patrick T Waters*, Temple University
  (1138-60-354)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Spectral curves and equilibrium problems for random matrix model with external source.
  Guilherme Silva*, University of Michigan
  (1138-31-293)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Rigorous asymptotics of the soliton gas.
  Manuela Girotti*, Colorado State University and Concordia University
  Ken McLaughlin, Colorado State University
  (1138-35-138)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Nonintersecting Brownian bridges on the unit circle with drift.
  Robert Buckingham*, University of Cincinnati
  Karl Liechty, DePaul University
  (1138-60-335)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Recent Advances on Complex Bio-systems and Their Applications, I
Room 304, Buttrick Hall
Organizers:
Pengcheng Xiao, University of Evansville px3@evansville.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  A Mathematical Model for Amyloid- $\beta$ Aggregation in the Presence of Metal Ions.
  Shantia Yarahmadian*, Mississippi State University
  (1138-92-270)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Effects of asymmetric movements on infectious disease dynamics.
  Zhisheng Shuai*, University of Central Florida
  (1138-92-35)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Deterministic and stochastic modeling of phytoplankton-zooplankton interactions.
  Mihiri De Silva, Texas Tech University
  Sophia Jang*, Texas Tech University
  (1138-92-149)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Dynamics of a diffusive plant invasion model.
  Zhaosheng Feng*, University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley
  (1138-37-295)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Multiple Invasion Speeds in a Two-Species Integro-Difference Competition Model.
  Bingtuan Li*, University of Louisville
  (1138-92-202)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 11:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
Invited Address
Combinatorics, computing, and k-Schur functions.
Room 309, Stevenson Center, 4
J Blasiak, Drexel University
Jennifer Morse*, University of Virginia
A Pun, Drexel University
D Summers, Drexel University
(1138-05-397)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
Invited Address
On the geometry of matrix multiplication.
Room 309, Stevenson Center, 4
Joseph (JM) Landsberg*, Dept. of Mathematics, Texas A&M University
(1138-68-12)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Advances in Operator Algebras, II
Room 308, Stevenson Center, 1
Organizers:
Scott Atkinson, Vanderbilt University
Dietmar Bisch, Vanderbilt University dietmar.bisch@vanderbilt.edu
Vaughan Jones, Vanderbilt University
Jesse Peterson, Vanderbilt University
- 3:00 p.m.
  Finite-dimensional representations of C*-algebras and AF mapping telescopes.
  Kristin Courtney*, University of Virginia
  Tatiana Shulman, Institute of Mathematics of Polish Academy of Sciences
  (1138-47-116)
- 3:30 p.m.
  AF-emeddings of exact C$^*$-algebras.
  Christopher Schafhauser*, University of Waterloo
  (1138-46-277)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Topological $\pi$-boundary actions.
  Mehrdad Kalantar*, University of Houston
  (1138-20-329)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Discussion.

Saturday April 14, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, Representation Theory, and Applications, II
Room 102, Buttrick Hall
Organizers:
Shrawan Kumar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
J. M. Landsberg, Texas A&M University jml@math.tamu.edu
Luke Oeding, Auburn University
- 3:00 p.m.
  Application of algebraic geometry in semi-definite positive problems.
  Jonathan Hauenstein, University of Notre Dame
  Tingting Tang*, University of Notre Dame
  (1138-14-53)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Explicit Dimension Reduction for Varieties, and the Polynomial Identity Testing Problem.
  Michael A Forbes*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1138-68-181)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Open Problems Discussion.

Saturday April 14, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Boundaries and Non-positive Curvature in Group Theory, II
Room 301, Buttrick Hall
Organizers:
Spencer Dowdall, Vanderbilt University
Matthew Hallmark, Vanderbilt University m.haulmark@vanderbilt.edu
Michael Hull, University of Florida
- 3:00 p.m.
  Random subgroups of acylindrical groups.
  Joseph Maher*, CUNY College of Staten Island
  Alessandro Sisto, ETH
  (1138-20-32)
- 3:30 p.m.
  A dynamical characterization of acylindrically hyperbolic groups.
  Bin Sun*, Vanderbilt University
  (1138-20-126)
- 4:00 p.m.
  $\mathcal{H} -$ and $\mathcal{AH} -$ accessibility.
  Carolyn Abbott, UC Berkeley
  Sahana H Balasubramanya*, Vanderbilt University
  Denis Osin, vanderbilt University
  (1138-20-136)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Property $P_{naive}$ for acylindrically hyperbolic groups.
  Carolyn R Abbott*, University of California, Berkeley
  Francois Dahmani, University of Grenoble, Alpes
  (1138-20-238)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra, II
Room 101, Buttrick Hall
Organizers:
Florian Enescu, Georgia State University fenescu@gsu.edu
Yongwei Yao, Georgia State University
- 3:00 p.m.
  Totally acyclic complexes over tensor products of algebras.
  Adela Vraciu*, University of South Carolina
  (1138-13-115)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Applications of local rings with decomposable maximal ideals.
  Saeed Nasseh*, Georgia Southern University
  Sean Sather-Wagstaff, Clemson University
  Ryo Takahashi, Nagoya University
  Keller VandeBogert, University of South Carolina
  (1138-13-49)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Forster--Swan for maps.
  Robin Baidya*, Georgia State University
  (1138-13-13)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On the Eisenbud-Green-Harris conjecture.
  Sema Gunturkun*, University of Michigan
  Mel Hochster, University of Michigan
  (1138-13-156)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Evolution Equations and Applications, II
Room 312, Buttrick Hall
Organizers:
Marcelo Disconzi, Vanderbilt University
Chenyun Luo, Vanderbilt University
Giusy Mazzone, Vanderbilt University
Gieri Simonett, Vanderbilt University gieri.simonett@vanderbilt.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Quasilinear wave equations on Schwarzschild and Kerr.
  Mihai Tohaneanu*, University of Kentucky
  (1138-35-276)
- 3:30 p.m.
  A novel vector-field approach to the dispersive estimate for 2D wave equations.
  Willie W.-Y. Wong*, Michigan State University
  (1138-35-327)
- 4:00 p.m.
  A dynamical approach to semilinear elliptic equations.
  Alim Sukhtayev*, Miami University
  Margaret Beck, Boston University
  Graham Cox, Memorial University of Newfoundland
  Chris Jones, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Yuri Latushkin, University of Missouri, Columbia
  (1138-35-208)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Uniqueness of critical points and applications to evolution problems.
  Juraj Foldes*, University of Virginia
  Denis Bonheure, Universite Libre de Bruxelles
  Hugo Tavares, Universidade de Lisboa
  Alberto Saldana, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  Ederson Moreira dos Santos, Universidade de Sao Paulo
  (1138-35-340)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Function Spaces and Operator Theory, II
Room 307, Stevenson Center, 1
Organizers:
Cheng Chu, Vanderbilt University cheng.chu@vanderbilt.edu
Dechao Zheng, Vanderbilt University
- 3:00 p.m.
  Multiplier Algebra Functional Calculus.
  Kelly Bickel, Bucknell University
  Michael Hartz, Washington University
  John McCarthy*, Washington University
  (1138-46-114)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Weak products of complete Pick spaces.
  A. Aleman, Lund University
  M. Hartz, Washington University
  John McCarthy, Washington University
  S. Richter*, University of Tennessee
  (1138-47-254)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The Numerical Range of the Product of a Composition Operator with the Adjoint of the Composition Operator.
  John H Clifford*, University of Michigan-Dearborn
  Michael Dabkowski, Lawrence Technology University
  (1138-47-247)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Continuous Semigroups of Composition Operators on Function Spaces on the Disk.
  Carl C. Cowen*, I U P U I
  (1138-47-96)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Harmonic Analysis, Functional Analysis, and Their Applications, II
Room 320, Buttrick Hall
Organizers:
Akram Aldroubi, Vanderbilt University
Keaton Hamm, Vanderbilt University keaton.hamm@vanderbilt.edu
Michael Northington,V, Georgia Institute of Technology
Alex Powell, Vanderbilt University
- 3:00 p.m.
  Fast algorithms for prolate computations.
  Mark A Davenport*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Santhosh Karnik, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Justin Romberg, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (1138-42-311)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Alternating or commutative diffusion? Fetal ECG as an example.
  Hau-tieng Wu*, Duke University
  (1138-62-330)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Inverse Problems and Unsupervised Learning with applications to Cryo-Electron Microscopy.
  Roy R. Lederman*, Princeton University
  (1138-62-386)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Kernel Methods for Distributed Regression.
  Qiang Wu*, Middle Tennessee State University
  (1138-68-129)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
Special Session on Hermitian Geometry, II
Room 210, Stevenson Center, 1
Organizers:
Mehdi Lejmi, Bronx Community College of CUNY
Rares Rasdeaconu, Vanderbilt University
Ioana Suvaina, Vanderbilt University ioana.suvaina@vanderbilt.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  On closedness of ALE SFK metrics on minimal ALE Kähler surfaces.
  Jiyuan Han*, University of Wisconsin Madison
  (1138-53-284)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Estimates of constant scalar curvature Kähler metrics with applications to existence.
  Xiuxiong Chen, Stony brook University
  Jingrui Cheng*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  (1138-53-234)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Interactions between Geometry, Group Theory and Dynamics, II
Room 305, Buttrick Hall
Organizers:
Jayadev Athreya, University of Washington
Caglar Uyanik, Vanderbilt University
Grace Work, Vanderbilt University grace.work@vanderbilt.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Some applications of ergodic ideas to geometric group theory.
  Alex Furman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1138-22-216)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Flexibility questions in dynamical systems and their connections with geometry.
  Alena Erchenko*, The Pennsylvania State University
  (1138-37-80)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Critical exponents of invariant random subgroups in negative curvature.
  Ilya Gekhtman*, Yale University
  Arie Levit, Yale University
  (1138-37-168)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Macdonald Polynomials and Related Structures, II
Room 212, Buttrick Hall
Organizers:
Jennifer Morse, University of Virginia jlm6cj@eservices.virginia.edu
Dan Orr, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Mark Shimozono, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- 3:00 p.m.
  On $C$-expansions for monomial symmetric functions.
  Emily Sergel*, University of Pennsylvania
  (1138-05-167)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Double coinvariants and affine Schubert calculus.
  Erik Carlsson*, UC Davis
  (1138-05-303)
- 4:00 p.m.
  A multiset partition algebra and diagonal action on polynomials.
  Rosa Orellana, Dartmouth College
  Mike Zabrocki*, York University
  (1138-05-364)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Delta Schubert calculus.
  Brendan Pawlowski, University of Michigan
  Brendon Rhoades*, University of California, San Diego
  (1138-05-261)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Mathematical Chemistry, II
Room 206, Buttrick Hall
Organizers:
Hua Wang, Georgia Southern University hwang@georgiasouthern.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Hexagonal Arrangements in the Plane.
  Daniel Gray*, Georgia Southern University
  Ryan Fortenberry, Georgia Southern University
  Hua Wang, Georgia Southern University
  (1138-05-228)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The Fullerene Project.
  Elizabeth J Hartung*, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
  Jack E Graver, Syracuse University
  Jennifer Edmond, Syracuse University
  Joshua Fenton, Syracuse University
  (1138-05-106)
- 4:00 p.m.
  An efficient algorithm for the determination of force constants and displacements in numerical definitions of a large, general order Taylor series expansion.
  Russell F Thackston*, Georgia Southern University
  Ryan C Fortenberry, Georgia Southern University
  (1138-68-392)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Resonance Polynomials of Cata-Condensed Hexagonal Systems.
  Xi Chen*, Middle Tennessee State University
  Dong Ye, Middle Tennessee State University
  Xiaoya Zha, Middle Tennessee State University
  (1138-05-153)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Matroids and Related Structures, II
Room 205, Buttrick Hall
Organizers:
Carolyn Chun, United States Naval Academy
Deborah Chun, West Virginia University Institute of Technology
Tyler Moss, West Virginia University Institute of Technology
Jakayla Robbins, Vanderbilt University jakayla.robbins@vanderbilt.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Bipartite minors of binary matroids.
  Carolyn Chun, Department of Mathematics, United States Naval Academy
  James Oxley*, Department of Mathematics, Louisiana State University
  (1138-05-134)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Matroids with many small circuits and cocircuits.
  James Oxley, Louisiana State University
  Simon Pfeil*, Saint Norbert College
  Charles Semple, University of Canterbury
  Geoff Whittle, Victoria University of Wellington
  (1138-05-360)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Working with templates.
  Stefan HM van Zwam*, Louisiana State University
  Kevin Grace, Louisiana State University
  (1138-05-306)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Applications of Matroid Templates.
  Kevin M. Grace*, Louisiana State University
  Stefan H. M. van Zwam, Louisiana State University
  (1138-05-188)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Partial Differential Equations and New Perspective of Variational Methods, II
Room 309, Buttrick Hall
Organizers:
Abbas Moameni, Carleton University momeni@math.carleton.ca
Futoshi Takahashi, Osaka City University
Michinori Ishiwata, Osaka University
Craig Cowen, University of Manitoba
- 3:00 p.m.
  Variational Methods for Constructing Bases of Hilbert Subspaces.
  Giles Auchmuty*, Dept of Mathematics, University of Houston
  (1138-35-64)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Principle of symmetric criticality revisited; Critical point theory on convex sets.
  Abbas Moameni*, Carleton University
  (1138-35-279)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On a maximizing problem of the Sobolev embedding related to the space of bounded variation.
  Hidemitsu Wadade*, Institute of Science and Engineering, Kanazawa University
  Michinori Ishiwata, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University
  (1138-35-246)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Global in time existence of solutions for the heat equation with a superlinear source term.
  Yohei Fujishima*, Shizuoka University
  (1138-35-226)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Probabilistic Models in Mathematical Physics, II
Room 214, Stevenson Center, 1
Organizers:
Robert Buckingham, University of Cincinnati buckinrt@uc.edu
Seung-Yeop Lee, University of South Florida
Karl Liechty, DePaul University
- 3:00 p.m.
  Multi-point distribution of periodic TASEP.
  Jinho Baik, University of Michigan
  Zhipeng Liu*, University of Kansas
  (1138-60-334)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Pfaffian Sign Theorem and Exact Solution of the Dimer Model on a Triangular Lattice.
  Pavel Bleher*, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
  (1138-82-104)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The scaling function constant problem in the two-dimensional Ising model.
  Thomas J Bothner*, University of Michigan
  (1138-82-302)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Turning point processes in plane partitions with periodic weights of arbitrary period.
  Sevak Mkrtchyan*, University of Rochester
  (1138-60-269)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Quantization for Probability Distributions and Dynamical Systems, II
Room 306, Buttrick Hall
Organizers:
Mrinal Kanti Roychowdhury, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley mrinal.roychowdhury@utrgv.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Spectral theory of transfer operators; with applications.
  Palle Jorgensen*, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
  (1138-37-291)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Minkowski type question mark functions associated with even or odd continued fractions.
  Florin P Boca*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Christopher Linden, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1138-37-253)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Quantization dimensions for general condensation systems.
  Tamara Kucherenko*, The City College of New York
  Mrinal Kanti Roychowdhury, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
  (1138-37-389)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A family of infinite local complexity tiling flows with countable Lebesgue spectrum.
  Natalie P Frank, Vassar College
  E. Arthur Robinson, Jr.*, George Washington University
  (1138-37-79)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Random Discrete Structures, II
Room 204, Buttrick Hall
Organizers:
Lutz P Warnke, Georgia Institute of Technology warnke@math.gatech.edu
Xavier Pérez-Giménez, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- 3:00 p.m.
  Algebraic questions about combinatorial random matrices.
  Andrew Newman, The Ohio State University
  Hoi Nguyen, The Ohio State University
  Elliot Paquette*, The Ohio State University
  (1138-60-343)
- 3:30 p.m.
  How many triangles are in a random graph and other local questions.
  Ross K Berkowitz*, Yale University
  (1138-05-321)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Discussion.
- 4:30 p.m.
  Higher-order structures based spectral clustering under a superimposed stochastic block model: Preliminary report.
  Subhadeep Paul*, The Ohio State University
  Olgica Milenkovic, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Yuguo Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Xiao Su, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1138-62-320)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Recent Advances in Mathematical Biology, II
Room 302, Buttrick Hall
Organizers:
Glenn Webb, Vanderbilt University
Yixiang Wu, Vanderbilt University yixiang.wu@vanderbilt.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  A Vector-Host Epidemic Model With Spatial Structure and Age of Infection.
  William E Fitzgibbon*, Department of Mathematics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 772004-3008
  Jeffrey J Morgan, Department of Mathematics, University of Houston
  Glenn F Webb, Department of Mathematics, Vanderbilt University
  Yixiang Wu, Department of Mathematics, Vanderbilt University
  (1138-92-15)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Analyzing the intrinsic bacterial dynamics in waterborne infections.
  Jin Wang*, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
  (1138-92-146)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Epidemic Mathematical SIR Models: Analysis and Comparison with Data.
  Pierre Magal*, University of Bordeaux
  (1138-35-111)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Persistence and Extinction of Population in Reaction-Diffusion-Advection Model with Strong Allee Effect Growth.
  Yan Wang*, The College of William and Mary
  Junping Shi, The College of William and Mary
  (1138-92-267)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Recent Advances on Complex Bio-systems and Their Applications, II
Room 304, Buttrick Hall
Organizers:
Pengcheng Xiao, University of Evansville px3@evansville.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  A stochastic model for the generation of Plasmodium falciparum parasite diversity.
  Lauren M Childs, Virginia Tech
  Olivia F Prosper*, University of Kentucky
  (1138-92-390)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Qualitative Analysis of a smoking model.
  Pengcheng Xiao*, University of Evansville
  Zeyu Zhang, University of Evansville
  (1138-93-370)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Optimal treatments in cancer immunotherapy.
  Xiaochuan Hu*, Texas Tech University
  Sophia Jang, Texas Tech University
  (1138-34-127)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Bifurcation Graph in a three-parameter perturbation of hyperelliptic Hamiltonian.
  Xianbo Sun*, Department of Applied Mathematics, Western University, Canada
  Pei Yu, Department of Applied Mathematics, Western University, Canada
  (1138-34-398)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Recent Progress and New Directions in Homotopy Theory, II
Room 206, Stevenson Center, 1
Organizers:
Anna Marie Bohmann, Vanderbilt University
Kirsten Wickelgren, Georgia Institute of Technology kwickelgren3@math.gatech.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  A long exact sequence for the $E_2$-term of the homotopy fixed point spectral sequence for a tower of concrete discrete $G$-spectra.
  Daniel G. Davis*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  Vojislav Petrovic, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  (1138-55-185)
- 4:00 p.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
  (1138-55-189)
- 4:30 p.m.
  How to count curves equivariantly.
  Jesse Leo Kass*, Univeristy of South Carolina
  (1138-14-40)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Selected Topics in Graph Theory, II
Room 202, Buttrick Hall
Organizers:
Songling Shan, Vanderbilt University
David Chris Stephens, Middle Tennessee State University
Dong Ye, Middle Tennessee State University dong.ye@mtsu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  upper bounds for $\Delta(\Sigma)$ where $-53 \leq \chi(\Sigma) \leq -8$.
  Y Zhao*, University of Central Florida
  (1138-05-74)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Vizing's Average Degree Conjecture on Edge Chromatic Critical Graphs.
  Yan Cao, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State University
  Guantao Chen*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State University
  (1138-05-259)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Chorded cycles in dense graphs.
  Guantao Chen, Georgia State University
  Ronald J. Gould, Emory University
  Xiaofeng Gu*, University of West Georgia
  Akira Saito, Nihon University, Japan
  (1138-05-200)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On domination and independent domination in graphs.
  Bing Wei*, Department of Mathematics, University of Mississippi
  (1138-05-232)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Structural Graph Theory, II
Room 201, Buttrick Hall
Organizers:
Joshua Fallon, Louisiana State University jfallo3@math.lsu.edu
Emily Marshall, Arcadia University marshalle@arcadia.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  On the structure of 4-regular planar well-covered graphs.
  Arthur S. Finbow, St. Mary's University
  Bert L. Hartnell, St. Mary's University
  Michael D. Plummer*, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37240
  (1138-05-107)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Class 0 and Complexity Bounds for Graph Pebbling.
  Daniel Cranston, Virginia Commonwealth University
  Luke Postle, University of Waterloo
  Chenxiao Xue, Google
  Carl Yerger*, Davidson College
  (1138-68-281)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Leveraging Approximately-Ideal Structure for Faster Algorithms.
  Erik D Demaine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Timothy D Goodrich*, North Carolina State University
  Abida Haque, North Carolina State University
  Kyle Kloster, North Carolina State University
  Brian Lavallee, North Carolina State University
  Quanquan Liu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Blair D Sullivan, North Carolina State University
  Ali Vakilian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Andrew van der Poel, North Carolina State University
  (1138-68-388)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Vulnerability Parameters and Graph Compression.
  Nathan Kahl*, Seton Hall University
  (1138-05-294)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Tensor Categories and Diagrammatic Methods, I
Room 112, Buttrick Hall
Organizers:
Marcel Bischoff, Ohio University
Henry Tucker, University of California San Diego hjtucker@ucsd.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Metaplectic Modular Categories.
  Paul Bruillard*, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  Paul Gustafson, Texas A&M Univeristy
  Julia Yael Plavnik, Texas A&M University
  Eric C. Rowell, Texas A&M University
  (1138-18-393)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Metaplectic Modular Categories, Gauging and Property F.
  Eric Carson Rowell*, Texas A&M University
  (1138-18-193)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Gauging by $Z_2$ permutation actions of Deligne products.
  Cain Edie-Michell, Australian National University
  Corey Jones, Australian National University
  Julia Plavnik*, Texas A&M University
  (1138-18-8)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On the classification of super-modular categories by rank.
  Qing Zhang*, Texas A&M University
  (1138-18-344)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
Session for Contributed Papers, II
Room 313, Stevenson Center, 1
- 3:00 p.m.
  Center of the Goldman Lie algebra.
  Arpan Kabiraj*, Ben-Gurion University, Israel.
  (1138-57-17)
- 3:15 p.m.
  The 2-dimensional stable homotopy hypothesis.
  Nick Gurski, Case Western Reserve University
  Niles Johnson*, Ohio State University Newark
  Angélica M. Osorno, Reed College
  (1138-55-9)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The geometric visualization of cyclic group actions on handlebodies of genus $g$.
  Jesse T. Prince-Lubawy*, University of North Alabama
  (1138-55-374)
- 3:45 p.m.
  TALK CANCELED: Average diameter of translation surfaces.
  Anja Randecker*, University of Toronto
  (1138-51-220)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Finite element approximation of Dirichlet control using boundary penalty method for unsteady Navier--Stokes equations.
  S. S. Ravindran*, University of Alabama in Huntsville
  (1138-49-5)
- 4:15 p.m.
  On Existence and Approximation of Common Attractive Points (CAP).
  Safeer H Khan*, Qatar University, Qatar
  (1138-47-51)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On the Number of Eigenvalues of the Biharmonic Operator on $\mathbb{R}^3$.
  Artem V. Hulko*, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  (1138-47-301)
- 4:45 p.m.
  Bundles of Generalized Fixed-Point Algebras for Proper Groupoid Dynamical Systems.
  Leonard Tristan Huang*, University of Colorado at Boulder
  Jonathan Henry Brown, University of Dayton
  (1138-46-66)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 5:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Erdős Memorial Lecture
Geometric graph-based methods for high dimensional data.
Room 309, Stevenson Center, 4
Andrea L Bertozzi*, University of California, Los Angeles
(1138-65-86)

Saturday April 14, 2018, 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
Reception in honor of Erdős Lecturer Andrea Bertozzi
Lobby, Buttrick Hall

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