AMS Sectional Meeting Full Program

Current as of Friday, December 21, 2018 16:27:56

Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting

• University of Delaware, Newark, DE
• September 29-30, 2018 (Saturday - Sunday)
• Meeting #1141

Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu

Saturday September 29, 2018

• Saturday September 29, 2018, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Lobby, Gore Hall
• Saturday September 29, 2018, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Lobby, Gore Hall
• Saturday September 29, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Applied Algebraic Topology, I
  Room 103, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Chad Giusti, University of Delaware cgiusti@udel.edu
  Gregory Henselman, Princeton University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Geometric Feature Selection.
    Pablo Camara*, University of Pennsylvania
    (1141-55-115)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Optimal Cycles in Persistent Homology and Their Applications in Imaging Data Analysis.
    Chao Chen*, Stony Brook University
    (1141-55-7)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Fr\'echet-Stable Signatures Using Persistent Homology.
    Donald R Sheehy*, University of Connecticut
    (1141-55-56)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Tropical Sufficient Statistics for Persistent Homology.
    Anthea Monod*, Columbia University
    Sara Kalisnik, Wesleyan University
    Juan A. Patino-Galindo, Columbia University
    Lorin Crawford, Brown University
    (1141-62-123)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Path Integrals, Laplacians, and geometry.
    Simon Segert*, Princeton University
    (1141-51-197)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Signal Processing in Topological Time.
    Yuliy Baryshnikov, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    Robert Ghrist*, University of Pennsylvania
    (1141-62-43)
• Saturday September 29, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Billiard Dynamics: Standard and Alternative Collision Models, I
  Room 303, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Tim Chumley, Mount Holyoke College
  Chris Cox, University of Delaware clcox@udel.edu
  Renato Feres, Washington University in St. Louis
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Periodic paths on the pentagon.
    Diana Davis*, Swarthmore College
    Samuel Lelievre, Universit\'e Paris-Sud
    (1141-37-178)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Central limit theorem for billiards with flat points.
    Kien Nguyen*, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    HongKun Zhang, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    (1141-37-157)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Markov Partition and Thermodynamic Formalism for Chaotic Billiards.
    Jianyu Chen*, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    Fang Wang, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
    Hong-Kun Zhang, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    (1141-37-20)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Entropy production in random billiards and the second law of thermodynamics.
    Timothy Chumley*, Mount Holyoke College
    Renato Feres, Washington University in St. Louis
    (1141-60-168)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Long time behavior for thermostated particles under a weak electric field.
    Federico Bonetto*, Goergia Institute of Thechnology
    Nikolai Chernov, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    Alexey Korepanov, Univerity Exeter, UK
    Joel Lebowitz, Rutgers University
    (1141-37-192)
• Saturday September 29, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra, I
  Room 308, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Ela Celikbas, West Virginia University ela.celikbas@math.wvu.edu
  Sema Gunturkun, University of Connecticut
  Oana Veliche, Northeastern University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    CI-Hom Injective Dimension.
    Sean K. Sather-Wagstaff*, Clemson University
    Jonathan P. Totushek, University of Wisconsin - Superior
    (1141-13-170)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A uniform convergence theorem for Koszul homology and the St\"{u}ckrad--Vogel conjecture.
    Patricia J Klein*, University of Kentucky
    Linquan Ma, Purdue University
    Quy Pham Hung, FPT University
    Ilya Smirnov, University of Michigan
    Yongwei Yao, Georgia State University
    (1141-13-244)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Gorenstein linkage class of complete intersection of monomial m-primary ideals.
    Dang Tan*, Purdue University
    (1141-13-165)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Properties and Singularities of Rees-like algebras.
    Paolo Mantero*, University of Arkansas
    Jason McCullough, Iowa State University
    Lance E Miller, University of Arkansas
    (1141-13-172)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Resolutions of ideals associated to subspace arrangements.
    Francesca Gandini*, University of Michigan
    Harm Derksen, University of Michigan
    (1141-13-144)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Generating functions and the twisted construction for graded rings.
    Florian Enescu*, Georgia State University
    (1141-13-221)
• Saturday September 29, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Fixed Point Theory with Application and Computation, I
  Room 217, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Clement Boateng Ampadu, Boston, MA drampadu@hotmail.com
  Penumarthy Parvateesam Murthy, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, India
  Naeem Saleem, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
  Ya\'e Ulrich Gaba, Institut de Math\'ematiques et de Sciences Physiques (IMSP), Porto-Novo, B\'enin
  Xavier Udo-utun, University of Uyo, Uyo, Nigeria
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A Characterization of the Hardy and Rogers Mapping Theorem in the sense of Berinde.
    Clement B Ampadu*, Boston, MA
    (1141-54-13)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    An overview of mean nonexpansive mappings.
    Torrey M. Gallagher*, Bucknell University
    (1141-47-209)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Positive Solutions of a Fractional Singular Boundary Value Problem.
    Naseer Ahmad Asif*, University of Management and Technology, CII Johar Town, 54770 Lahore, Pakistan
    (1141-46-17)
• Saturday September 29, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory, I
  Room 116, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Sebastian M. Cioab\u a, University of Delaware
  Brian Kronenthal, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania kronenthal@kutztown.edu
  Felix Lazebnik, University of Delaware
  Wing Hong Tony Wong, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A new parameter for seriation of nosey data.
    Mahya Ghandehari*, University of Delaware
    Jeannette Janssen, Dalhousie University
    (1141-05-109)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A fractional version of Haemers' bound.
    Christopher Cox*, Carnegie Mellon University
    Boris Bukh, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1141-05-161)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Some remarks on the nearest neighbor graph in a $Q$-polynomial (cometric) association scheme.
    William J. Martin*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    Jason S. Williford, University of Wyoming
    (1141-05-268)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Automorphism groups of classical affine association schemes of Latin type.
    Nimrod Kriger, Achva Academic College
    Andrew Woldar*, Villanova University
    (1141-05-40)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A forest building process.
    Steve Butler*, Iowa State University
    (1141-05-49)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Probability Polynomial Associated with Edge Covers of a Graph.
    Michael R Yatauro*, Penn State - Brandywine
    (1141-05-226)
• Saturday September 29, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Water Waves and Related Problems, I
  Room 218, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Philippe Guyenne, University of Delaware guyenne@udel.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A continuum model for gravity waves on an ice-covered ocean.
    Hua Chen*, University of Delaware
    Robert P. Gilbert, University of Delaware
    Philippe Guyenne, University of Delaware
    (1141-76-149)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Bounds on the effective viscoelasticity of an ice covered ocean.
    Christian Sampson*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    N. Benjamin Murphy, University of Utah
    Elena Cherkaev, University of Utah
    Kenneth Golden, University of Utah
    (1141-00-135)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Global bifurcation theory for periodic interfacial waves.
    David M. Ambrose*, Drexel University, Department of Mathematics
    (1141-35-89)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Asymptotic behavior of deep water solitary waves with localized vorticity.
    Ming Chen*, University of Pittsburgh
    Samuel Walsh, University of Missouri
    Miles Wheeler, University of Vienna
    (1141-35-199)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Solitary-wave solutions for higher-order BBM equations with nonlinear part nonhomogeneous.
    Shu-Ming Sun*, Virginia Tech
    (1141-35-231)
• Saturday September 29, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Analytic and Numeric Results on Nonlinear Evolution Equations, I
  Room 205, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Xiang Xu, Old Dominion University x2xu@odu.edu
  Wujun Zhang, Rutgers University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Non-Isothermal Electrokinetics: Energetic Variational Approach.
    Pei Liu*, Department of Mathematics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
    Simo Wu, Department of Mathematics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
    Chun Liu, Department of Applied Mathematics, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL
    (1141-35-218)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Modelling and computations of ternary fluid flow.
    Arkadz Kirshtein*, Penn State
    Chun Liu, Illinois Institute of Technology
    James Brannick, Penn State
    (1141-76-213)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Model Reduction Technique on Langevin Dynamics.
    L Ma*, Trinity College
    X Li, Penn State University
    C Liu, Illinois Institute of Technology - Chicago
    (1141-65-204)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Break
  • 10:00 a.m.
    thermodynamically consistent hydrodynamic phase field models for compressible fluid mixtures.
    Qi Wang*, University of South Carolina/CSRC
    Xueping Zhao, University of South Carolina
    (1141-65-45)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A New Phase-Field Approach to Variational Implicit Solvation of Charged Molecules with the Coulomb-Field Approximation.
    Yanxiang Zhao*, George Washington University
    (1141-65-120)
• Saturday September 29, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Representations of Infinite Dimensional Lie Algebras and Applications, I
  Room 304, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Marco Aldi, Virginia Commonwealth University
  Michael Penn, Randolph College mpenn@randolphcollege.edu
  Juan Villarreal, Virginia Commonwealth University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Bosonic Free Field Representations of Twisted Toroidal Lie Algebras.
    Chad R Mangum*, Niagara University
    (1141-17-100)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Some Maximal Dominant Weights and their Multiplicities for Affine Lie Algebra Representations.
    Suzanne Crifo*, North Carolina State University
    (1141-17-53)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED:Crystal like bases for some quantized imaginary Verma modules for $U_q(\widehat{sl}(2)$.
    Kailash C. Misra*, North Carolina State University
    (1141-17-54)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    $Q$-systems and Generalizations in Representation Theory.
    Darlayne Addabbo*, University of Notre Dame
    (1141-17-238)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Nilmanifolds and their associated non local fields.
    Juan Jose Villarreal*, Virginia Commonwealth University
    (1141-16-124)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Quantum invariants of 3-manifolds and quantum modular forms.
    Antun Milas*, SUNY-Albany
    (1141-57-141)
• Saturday September 29, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Stochastic Processes in Mathematical Biology, I
  Room 223, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Yao Li, University of Massachusetts Amherst yaoli@math.umass.edu
  Abhyudai Singh, University of Delaware
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Regularized estimators for inferring non-bifurcating evolutionary trees.
    Vu Dinh*, University of Delaware
    (1141-60-301)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Dynamic Looping of a Free-Draining Polymer.
    Felix Xiaofeng Ye*, Johns Hopkins University
    (1141-92-80)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Phase Reduction and Synchronization in Stochastic Biology.
    James N MacLaurin*, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Paul C Bressloff, University of Utah
    (1141-60-182)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Periodically kicked feedforward chains of simple excitable FitzHugh-Nagumo neurons.
    Stanislav M Mintchev*, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
    Benjamin Ambrosio, Universit\'e du Havre
    (1141-37-171)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    How well do reduced models capture the dynamics in models of interacting neurons?
    Yao Li, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    Logan Chariker*, New York University
    Lai-Sang Young, New York University
    (1141-92-137)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Multiple firing events in a spiking neural field model.
    Yao Li*, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    Hui Xu, Amherst College
    (1141-92-136)
• Saturday September 29, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on The Mathematics of Swimmers and Active Particles, I
  Room 219, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Louis Rossi, University of Delaware rossi@udel.edu
  Enkeleida Lushi, Flatiron Institute
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Effects of cell morphology and surface attachment on the hydrodynamic performance of unicellular choanoflagellates.
    Hoa Nguyen*, Trinity University in San Antonio
    Christian Oakes, Trinity University
    M. A. R. Koehl, UC Berkeley
    Lisa Fauci, Tulane University
    (1141-76-106)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Role of Adhesion in Vesicle Suspensions.
    Bryan Quaife*, Florida State University
    (1141-76-102)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Navigation in complex environments.
    Sarah D Olson*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    (1141-76-30)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Dynamics and interactions of asymmetric bimetallic microswimmers.
    Quentin Brosseau*, New York University - Courant Institute
    Florencio Balboa-Usabiaga, Flatiron Institute - Center for computational biology
    Enkeleida Lushi, Flatiron Institute - Center for computational biology
    Yang Wu, New York University - Molecular Design Institute
    Leif Ristroph, New York University - Courant Institute
    Jun Zhang, New York University - Courant Institute
    Mike Ward, New York University - Molecular Design Institute
    Mike Shelley, Flatiron Institute - Center for computational biology
    (1141-76-261)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Traveling waves in a continuum model of 1D schools.
    Anand U Oza*, Department of Mathematics, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Eva Kanso, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California
    Michael Shelley, Flatiron Institute / Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
    (1141-76-234)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Motion of micro-swimmers in confinement.
    Enkeleida Lushi*, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    (1141-92-51)
• Saturday September 29, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Advances in Numerical Approximation of Partial Differential Equations, I
  Room 204, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Constantin Bacuta, University of Delaware
  Jingmei Qiu, University of Delaware jingqiu@udel.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Achieving high order accuracy with smoothed particle hydrodynamic methods.
    Louis Rossi*, University of Delaware
    Zhenyu He, W. L. Gore and Associates
    (1141-65-148)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Energy Stable DG Methods for Maxwell's Equations in Nonlinear Media.
    Fengyan Li*, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    (1141-35-47)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Models for Tear Film Breakup (TBU).
    R J Braun*, University of Delaware
    Lan Zhong, University of Delaware
    T A Driscoll, University of Delaware
    C G Begley, Indiana University
    P E King-Smith, The Ohio State University
    (1141-76-283)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Integral equation methods for electrostatics, acoustics and electromagnetics in smoothly varying, anisotropic media.
    Lise-Marie Imbert-Gerard*, University of Maryland
    Felipe Vico, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
    Leslie Greengard, New York University
    Miguel Ferrando, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
    (1141-65-255)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Positivity preserving high order direct DG Methods for Keller-Segel chemotaxis equations.
    Jue Yan*, Iowa State University
    Xinghui Zhong, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
    (1141-65-164)
• Saturday September 29, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Convex Geometry and Functional Inequalities, I
  Room 104, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Mokshay Madiman, University of Delaware madiman@udel.edu
  Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University
  Artem Zvavitch, Kent State University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    A Santal\'{o}-type Inequality for the ${\cal J}$ Transform.
    Dan I Florentin*, Kent State University
    Alexander Segal, Afeka Academic College of Engineering
    (1141-52-289)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the maximal perimeter of sections of the cube.
    Hermann Koenig, University of Kiel
    Alexander Koldobsky*, University of Missouri-Columbia
    (1141-52-93)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Regular covering for not necessarily symmetric convex bodies.
    Beatrice-Helen Vritsiou*, University of Alberta
    (1141-52-285)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Ulam Floating Body.
    Han Huang*, University of Michigan
    Boaz A. Slomka, University of Michigan
    Elisabeth M. Werner, Case Western Reserve University
    (1141-52-207)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On New Inequalities Related to the Rogers-Shephard Inequality.
    David Alonso-Gutierrez, Universidad de Zaragoza
    Maria Hernedez-Cifre, Universidad de Murcia
    Michael Roysdon*, Kent State University
    Jesus Yepes-Nicolas, Universidad de Leon
    Artem Zvavitch, Kent State University
    (1141-52-177)
• Saturday September 29, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Modern Quasiconformal Analysis and Geometric Function Theory, I
  Room 117, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  David Herron, University of Cincinnati
  Yuk-J Leung, University of Delaware yleung@udel.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Branched Quasisymmetric Mappings and Extensions.
    Jeff Lindquist*, University of Cincinnati
    (1141-30-32)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Directional derivatives and universal differentiability sets in higher step Carnot groups.
    Gareth James Speight*, University of Cincinnati
    (1141-46-11)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Bi-Lipschitz behavior of Lipschitz mappings between metric spaces.
    Guy C. David*, Ball State University
    Kyle Kinneberg, Rice University / National Security Agency
    (1141-28-28)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Convergence Relationships.
    David Herron, University of Cincinnati
    Abigail Richard*, University of Cincinnati
    Marie Snipes, Kenyon College
    (1141-46-194)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Modulus of sets of finite perimeter and quasiconformal maps between metric spaces of globally $Q$-bounded geometry.
    Rebekah Y. Jones*, University of Cincinnati
    (1141-30-48)
• Saturday September 29, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Operator and Function Theory, I
  Room 114, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Kelly Bickel, Bucknell University
  Michael Hartz, Washington University, St. Louis
  Constanze Liaw, University of Delaware liaw@udel.edu
  Alan Sola, Stockholm University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Operator theory and applications of interpolation.
    Pamela Gorkin*, Bucknell University and the National Science Foundation
    (1141-47-35)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A thought on uniform approximation by polyanalytic functions.
    Dmitry Khavinson*, University of South Florida
    (1141-30-31)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Boundary Behavior of Optimal Polynomial Approximants.
    Catherine Beneteau*, University of South Florida
    Myrto Manolaki, University of South Florida
    Daniel Seco, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient\'{\i}ficas
    (1141-30-276)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Regularity for generators of invariant subspaces of the Dirichlet shift.
    Stefan Richter*, University of Tennessee
    Faruk Yilmaz, Kir\c{s}ehir Ahi Evran University, Turkey
    (1141-47-266)
• Saturday September 29, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Probability, Combinatorics, and Statistical Mechanics, I
  Room 306, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Nayantara Bhatnagar, University of Delaware
  Douglas Rizzolo, University of Delaware drizzolo@udel.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Concentration Inequalities for Stochastic Partial Differential Equations.
    Andrey Sarantsev*, University of Nevada, Reno
    Davar Khoshnevisan, University of Utah
    (1141-60-59)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Particles interacting through their hitting times: neuron firing, supercooling and systemic risk.
    Mykhaylo Shkolnikov*, Princeton University
    Sergey Nadtochiy, Illinois Institute of Technology
    (1141-60-284)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Stochastic quantization of gauge theories.
    Hao Shen*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
    (1141-60-302)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Toward the rare interaction limit in hard ball models.
    Peter Nandori*, University of Maryland
    (1141-82-267)
• Saturday September 29, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Contributed Paper Session on Session for Contributed Papers, I
  Room 310, Gore Hall
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Geometry of asymptotically harmonic manifolds with minimal horospheres.
    Hemangi M. Shah*, Harish-Chandra Research Institute
    (1141-53-187)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: H\"older-type estimates of the modular operator norm of an integral operator over spherical cones.
    Chang-Pao Chen*, National Tsing Hua University
    Dah-Chin Luo Luo, I-Shou University
    (1141-47-76)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Graphs and Endomorphisms of von Neumann Algebras.
    Philip M Gipson*, State University of New York - Cortland
    (1141-47-305)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Topology of basic blocks.
    Steve Huntsman*, BAE Systems FAST Labs
    Michael Robinson, American University
    (1141-55-281)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    $S_k$-Holonomy on Coloring Complexes of $M^n$ with Applications to the Poincar\'{e} Conjecture and $4$-Color Theorem.
    Daniel Kling*, FoldStar, Inc.
    (1141-57-278)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Covers of vertex transitive maps on the torus with few flag orbits.
    Mark Mixer*, Wentworth Institute of Technology
    Kostiantyn Drach, Jacobs University
    Yurii Haidamaka, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
    Maksym Skoryk, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
    (1141-52-184)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Anti-Ramsey Problem for the Sidon equation.
    Vladislav Taranchuk*, California State University, Sacramento
    Craig M Timmons, California State University, Sacramento
    (1141-05-83)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    An Extremal Problem on Rainbow Spanning Tress in Graphs.
    M. DeVilbiss, University of Illinois at Chicago
    B. Fain*, University of Delaware
    A. Holmes, University of Kentucky
    P. Horn, University of Denver
    S. Mafunda, University of Johannesburg
    K. E. Perry, University of Denver
    (1141-05-224)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Series expansion of rational numbers.
    A Abdurrhman*, Shippensburg University
    I Abdurrahman, University of Washington
    (1141-41-9)
• Saturday September 29, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Interplay between Analysis and Combinatorics, I
  Room 115, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Mahya Ghandehari, University of Delaware mahya@udel.edu
  Dominique Guillot, University of Delaware
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Group actions, similarities and finite point configurations.
    Allan Greenleaf, University of Rochester
    Alex Iosevich*, University of Rochester
    (1141-42-25)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Rigidity, graphs and Hausdorff dimension.
    Nikolaos Chatzikonstantinou*, University of Rochester
    Alex Iosevich, University of Rochester
    Sevak Mkrtchyan, University of Rochester
    Jonathan Pakianathan, University of Rochester
    (1141-42-119)
• Saturday September 29, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Quantum Correlation Sets in Quantum Information Theory, I
  Room 222, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Elie Alhajjar, US Military Academy
  Travis B. Russell, US Military Academy travis.russell@usma.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Separating matrix-valued generalizations of the bipartite Tsirelson correlation sets.
    Samuel J Harris*, University of Waterloo
    (1141-47-55)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Nonlocal games with synchronous correlations.
    Brad Lackey*, University of Maryland, College Park
    Nishant Rodrigues, University of Maryland, College Park
    (1141-81-63)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A synchronous game for binary constraint systems.
    Se-Jin Kim, University of Waterloo
    Vern I. Paulsen, University of Waterloo
    Christopher Schafhauser*, University of Waterloo
    (1141-81-270)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Perfect strategies for non-signalling games.
    M. Lupini, Mathematics Department, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
    L. Mancinska, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
    V. I. Paulsen, Institute for Quantum Computing and Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
    D. E. Roberson, Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
    G. Scarpa*, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
    S. Severini, Department of Computer Science, University College London, UK
    I. G. Todorov, Mathematical Sciences Research Centre, Queen's University Belfast, UK
    A. Winter, ICREA and Faculty of Physics, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
    (1141-81-86)
• Saturday September 29, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Nonlinear Schr\"odinger Equations, I
  Room 102, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Alexander Pankov, Morgan State University
  Junping Shi, College of William and Mary shij@math.wm.edu
  Jun Wang, Jiangsu University
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Dark Solitons: From 1D to 2D and 3D with Some Quantum Touches.
    Panos Kevrekidis*, UMass, Amherst
    (1141-35-82)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Direct methods on fractional equations.
    Wenxiong Chen*, Yeshiva University
    Congming Li, School of Mathematical Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    (1141-35-65)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Stable travelling-wave solutions of the periodic dispersion-managed NLS equation.
    Oreoluwa Adekoya, University of Oklahoma
    John P Albert*, University of Oklahoma
    (1141-35-174)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Periodic Nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on periodic metric graphs.
    Alexander Pankov*, Morgan State University
    (1141-35-6)
• Saturday September 29, 2018, 11:05 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Linear and nonlinear inverse problems in imaging.
  Room 120, Smith Hall
  Leslie F Greengard*, Courant Institute, NYU and Flatiron Institute, Simons Foundation
  (1141-65-153)
• Saturday September 29, 2018, 1:55 p.m.-2:45 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Braids, surfaces, and homological invariants.
  Room 120, Smith Hall
  J. Elisenda Grigsby*, Boston College
  (1141-57-265)
• Saturday September 29, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Advances in Numerical Approximation of Partial Differential Equations, II
  Room 204, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Constantin Bacuta, University of Delaware
  Jingmei Qiu, University of Delaware jingqiu@udel.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Convergence results for asynchronous optimized Schwarz methods for the solution of PDEs.
    Jos\'e C. Garay, Lousiana State UNiversity
    Fr\'ederic Magoul\'es, CentraleSupelec, Ch\^atenay Malabry, France
    Daniel B. Szyld*, Temple University, Philadelphia
    (1141-65-133)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A finite element method for determining electromagnetic Bloch modes.
    Peter Monk*, University of Delaware
    Shixu Meng, University of Michigan
    Christopher Lackner, Technical University of Vienna
    (1141-65-243)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Multigrid preconditioners for stochastic optimal control problems with elliptic SPDE constraints.
    Ana Maria Soane*, US Naval Academy
    (1141-35-236)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    An h-adaptive HDG solver for Dirichlet boundary value problems in curved domains using embedded polygonal grids: an application to plasma equilibrium.
    Tonatiuh Sanchez-Vizuet*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
    Manuel E Solano, Department of mathematical engineering. University of Concepcion, Chile.
    Antoine J Cerfon, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
    (1141-65-279)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Preconditioning nonlinear equations with domain decomposition.
    Tobin A. Driscoll*, University of Delaware
    Kevin Aiton, University of Delaware
    (1141-65-235)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Overcoming Order Reduction via Weak Stage Order.
    Benjamin Seibold*, Temple University
    (1141-65-237)
• Saturday September 29, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Applied Algebraic Topology, II
  Room 103, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Chad Giusti, University of Delaware cgiusti@udel.edu
  Gregory Henselman, Princeton University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A graphical calculus for inhibitory network dynamics.
    Carina Curto*, Penn State
    (1141-55-251)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Directed complexes, sequence dimension and inverting a neural network.
    Vladimir Itskov*, The Pennsylvania State University
    Aliaksandra Yarosh, The Pennsylvania State University
    (1141-55-269)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Statistical topology of brain activity networks.
    Ben Cassidy*, Columbia University
    (1141-62-215)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A Topological Approach to Inferring a Tight Bound for the Minimal Embedding Dimension of Data Sensed by Quasi-Convex Functions.
    Min-Chun Wu*, Penn State University
    (1141-55-81)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Topological structure in the study of ablation and desynchronization in neural networks.
    Mark C Agrios*, William \& Mary
    (1141-55-167)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The Polar Complex of Hyperplane Codes.
    Alex B Kunin*, Penn State University
    Vladimir Itskov, Penn State University
    Zvi Rosen, University of California Berkeley
    (1141-55-205)
• Saturday September 29, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
  Special Session on Billiard Dynamics: Standard and Alternative Collision Models, II
  Room 303, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Tim Chumley, Mount Holyoke College
  Chris Cox, University of Delaware clcox@udel.edu
  Renato Feres, Washington University in St. Louis
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    No Slip Lorentz Gas.
    Scott Cook*, Texas A - Tarleton State University
    (1141-37-256)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Can one make a laser out of cardboard?
    Tvrtko Tadic*, Microsoft Corporation
    (1141-60-42)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Chaotic behavior in generalized umbrella-shaped billiards.
    Maria F. Correia*, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    Christopher Cox, Tarleton State University
    Hong-Kun Zhang, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    (1141-37-241)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    No-slip bouncing and discrete non-holonomic systems.
    Renato Feres*, Washington University in Saint Louis
    Tim Chumley, Mount Holyoke College
    Scott Cook, Tarleton State University
    Chris Cox, Tarleton State University
    (1141-37-196)
• Saturday September 29, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra, II
  Room 308, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Ela Celikbas, West Virginia University ela.celikbas@math.wvu.edu
  Sema Gunturkun, University of Connecticut
  Oana Veliche, Northeastern University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Eakin-Sathaye type theorems for joint reductions and good filtrations of ideals.
    Jugal Verma*, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
    (1141-13-46)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Betti numbers of the Frobenius powers of the maximal ideal over a generic hypersurface.
    Claudia Miller, Syracuse University
    Hamid Rahmati*, Miami University
    Rebecca R.G., Goerge Mason University
    (1141-13-293)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Tensor-Multinomial Sums of Ideals and Applications.
    Irena Swanson, Reed College
    Robert Marshawn Walker*, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
    (1141-13-44)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Embeddings of Canonical Modules.
    Ela Celikbas, West Verginia University
    Jai Laxmi*, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
    Jerzy Weyman, University of Connecticut
    (1141-13-253)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Iterated local cohomology groups and Lyubeznik numbers for determinantal rings.
    Andr\'as C L\H{o}rincz*, Purdue University
    Claudiu Raicu, University of Notre Dame
    (1141-13-74)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Algebraic properties of toric rings of graphs.
    Selvi Kara Beyerslan, University of South Alabama
    Huy Tai Ha, Tulane University
    Augustine O'Keefe*, Connecticut College
    (1141-13-160)
• Saturday September 29, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Convex Geometry and Functional Inequalities, II
  Room 104, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Mokshay Madiman, University of Delaware madiman@udel.edu
  Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University
  Artem Zvavitch, Kent State University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Inequalities for $L^p$-norms that sharpen the triangle inequality and complement Hanner's Inequality.
    Eric A Carlen*, Rutgers University
    Rupert Frank, LMU Munich
    Elliott H Lieb, Princeton University
    (1141-46-264)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Gaussian mixtures and geometric problems.
    Piotr Amit Nayar*, University of Warsaw
    (1141-52-260)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Stability of the Poincar\'e inequality for log-concave measures.
    Thomas A Courtade*, University of California, Berkeley
    Max Fathi, CNRS \& Universit\'e Paul Sabatier, Institut de Math\'ematiques de Toulouse
    (1141-46-169)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On random rounding.
    Galyna V Livshyts*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1141-52-247)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Discrete Renyi Entropy Power Inequalities via Sperner Theory.
    Jae Oh Woo*, Moody's Analytics / The University of Texas at Austin
    Mokshay Madiman, University of Delaware
    Liyao Wang, JP Morgan Chase
    (1141-52-249)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Log-concave random graphs.
    Tomasz Tkocz*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1141-05-143)
• Saturday September 29, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Fixed Point Theory with Application and Computation, II
  Room 217, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Clement Boateng Ampadu, Boston, MA drampadu@hotmail.com
  Penumarthy Parvateesam Murthy, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, India
  Naeem Saleem, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
  Ya\'e Ulrich Gaba, Institut de Math\'ematiques et de Sciences Physiques (IMSP), Porto-Novo, B\'enin
  Xavier Udo-utun, University of Uyo, Uyo, Nigeria
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Completeness characterizations of some distance spaces via fixed point theorems with applications.
    Basit Ali*, University of Management and Technology, Lahore
    (1141-46-37)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Stability of fixed points in generalized cone metric spaces.
    Mujahid Abbas*, Department of Mathematics, Government College University, Lahore 54000, Pakistan
    (1141-46-300)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Best Proximity Point Results in Fuzzy Metric Spaces.
    Naeem Saleem*, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
    (1141-46-8)
• Saturday September 29, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory, II
  Room 116, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Sebastian M. Cioab\u a, University of Delaware
  Brian Kronenthal, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania kronenthal@kutztown.edu
  Felix Lazebnik, University of Delaware
  Wing Hong Tony Wong, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Extremal Graphs With Local Conditions.
    Debsoumya Chakraborti, Carnegie Mellon University
    Wenying Gan, Two Sigma Investments
    Po-Shen Loh*, Carnegie Mellon University
    Benny Sudakov, ETH Zurich
    (1141-05-258)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Zarankiewicz problem in $3$-partite graphs.
    Michael Tait*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1141-05-126)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Supersaturation for extremal enumeration.
    Jonathan Cutler*, Montclair State University
    JD Nir, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    A. J. Radcliffe, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1141-05-131)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On difference graphs and the local dimension of posets.
    Jinha Kim, Seoul National University
    Ryan R Martin*, Iowa State University
    Tomas Masarik, Charles University
    Warren Shull, Emory University
    Heather C. Smith, Davidson College
    Andrew Uzzell, Grinnell College
    Zhiyu Wang, University of South Carolina
    (1141-06-19)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Absorbing sets of codes from incidence graphs.
    Kathryn Haymaker*, Villanova University
    (1141-94-216)
• Saturday September 29, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Interplay between Analysis and Combinatorics, II
  Room 115, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Mahya Ghandehari, University of Delaware mahya@udel.edu
  Dominique Guillot, University of Delaware
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Spectral analysis is also considered for a family of fractal measures.
    Palle Jorgensen*, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
    Pedersen, Wright State University
    (1141-42-69)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Poincar\'e and Plancherel-Polya inequalities in harmonic analysis on weighted combinatorial graphs.
    Hartmut F\"{u}hr, Lehrstuhl A f\"ur Mathematik, RWTH Aachen, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
    Isaac Z. Pesenson*, Temple University
    (1141-58-24)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A group-theoretic viewpoint on Falconer type theorems.
    Eyvindur Ari Palsson*, Virginia Tech
    Allan Greenleaf, University of Rochester
    Alex Iosevich, University of Rochester
    Bochen Liu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    (1141-42-112)
• Saturday September 29, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Modern Quasiconformal Analysis and Geometric Function Theory, II
  Room 117, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  David Herron, University of Cincinnati
  Yuk-J Leung, University of Delaware yleung@udel.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Harmonic measure on quasicircles and symmetric quasicircles.
    Tao Cheng, East China Normal University
    Huiqiang Shi, Hunan University of Commerce
    Shanshuang Yang*, Emory University
    (1141-30-77)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Heisenberg quasiregular ellipticity.
    Katrin Fassler, University of Fribourg
    Anton Lukyanenko*, George Mason University
    Jeremy T. Tyson, University of Illinois
    (1141-30-104)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Quasisymmetric uniformization of metric spheres.
    Vyron S Vellis*, University of Connecticut
    (1141-30-117)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Sufficient conditions for $C^{1,\alpha}$ parametrization and rectifiability.
    Silvia Ghinassi*, Stony Brook University
    (1141-28-18)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The Traveling Salesman Theorem in Carnot groups.
    Vasilis Chousionis, University of Connecticut
    Sean Li, University of Connecticut
    Scott Zimmerman*, University of Connecticut
    (1141-28-132)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    (Non)Removability of the Sierpi\'nski Gasket.
    Dimitrios Ntalampekos*, Stony Brook University
    (1141-30-85)
• Saturday September 29, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Water Waves and Related Problems, II
  Room 218, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Philippe Guyenne, University of Delaware guyenne@udel.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On resonant interactions of gravity-capillary waves without energy exchange.
    Malik Chabane*, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Wooyoung Choi, New Jersey Instittute of Technology
    (1141-76-152)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Generalized solitary wave solutions of the capillary-gravity Whitham equation.
    J. Douglas Wright*, Drexel University
    Mathew Johnson, University of Kansas
    (1141-35-57)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Numerical Methods for Dispersive Shallow Water Equations.
    Linwan Feng*, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    David Shirokoff, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Wooyoung Choi, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    (1141-65-290)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Solving the Multi-Layer Shallow Water Equations in the Context of Storm Surge Prediction.
    Kyle T Mandli*, Columbia University
    (1141-65-227)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Interplay between grid resolution and pressure decimation in non-hydrostatic modeling of internal waves.
    Fengyan Shi*, Newark
    Jian Shi, College of Harbor, Coastal and Offshore Engineering, Hohai University
    James T Kirby, Center for Applied Coastal Research, University of Delaware
    (1141-76-222)
• Saturday September 29, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Operator and Function Theory, II
  Room 114, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Kelly Bickel, Bucknell University
  Michael Hartz, Washington University, St. Louis
  Constanze Liaw, University of Delaware liaw@udel.edu
  Alan Sola, Stockholm University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Banach algebras and entire functions of exponential type.
    Javad Mashreghi*, Laval University
    (1141-30-202)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Global bounds on stable polynomials and the P\'olya class.
    Greg Knese*, Washington University in St. Louis
    (1141-47-245)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A Determinantal Representation for Bivariate Polynomials whose Bezoutians admit a Canonical Factorization.
    Joshua D. Jackson*, Drexel University
    (1141-47-212)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Escaping nontangential approach.
    Ryan Tully-Doyle*, University of New Haven
    J. E. Pascoe, University of Florida
    M. Sargent, University of Arkansas
    (1141-46-189)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Escaping non-tangential approach: amortization and auguries.
    J. E. Pascoe, University of Florida
    Meredith Sargent*, University of Arkansas
    Ryan Tully-Doyle, University of New Haven
    (1141-46-129)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Geometric aspects of the Julia quotient on sets with controlled tangential approach.
    J. E. Pascoe*, University of Florida
    Meredith Sargent, University of Arkansas
    Ryan Tully-Doyle, University of New Haven
    (1141-30-185)
• Saturday September 29, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
  Special Session on Probability, Combinatorics, and Statistical Mechanics, II
  Room 306, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Nayantara Bhatnagar, University of Delaware
  Douglas Rizzolo, University of Delaware drizzolo@udel.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Nonequilibrium particle systems in inhomogeneous space.
    Leonid Petrov*, University of Virginia
    (1141-60-142)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the distribution of (s,s+1)-core partitions with distinct parts.
    J\'anos Koml\'os, Rutgers University
    Emily Sergel*, University of Pennsylvania
    G\'abor Tusn\'ady, MTA R\'enyi Alfr\'ed Matematikai Kutat\'o Int\'ezet
    (1141-05-248)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Random matrix point processes via stochastic processes.
    Diane Holcomb, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
    Gaultier Lambert, Universit\"at Z\"urich
    Elliot Paquette*, The Ohio State University
    B\'alint Vet\H{o}, Budapest University of Technology
    B\'alint Vir\'ag, University of Toronto
    (1141-60-173)
• Saturday September 29, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
  Special Session on Quantum Correlation Sets in Quantum Information Theory, II
  Room 222, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Elie Alhajjar, US Military Academy
  Travis B. Russell, US Military Academy travis.russell@usma.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Joint Quantum Probability Distribustions via Operator Systems.
    Ali S. Kavruk*, Viriginia Commonwealth University
    (1141-47-254)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Entanglement dimensions and noncommutative polynomial optimization.
    David de Laat*, MIT
    Sander Gribling, CWI
    Monique Laurent, CWI / Tilburg University
    (1141-81-84)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Quantum Teleportation and Super-dense Coding in Operator Algebras.
    Li Gao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Samuel Harris, University of Waterloo
    Marius Junge*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1141-46-274)
• Saturday September 29, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Nonlinear Schr\"odinger Equations, II
  Room 102, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Alexander Pankov, Morgan State University
  Junping Shi, College of William and Mary shij@math.wm.edu
  Jun Wang, Jiangsu University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Stationary states on bounded and unbounded graphs in the limit of large mass.
    Dmitry Pelinovsky*, Department of Mathematics, McMaster University
    (1141-35-64)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Ground States of Nonlinear Schr\"odinger Equation on Star Metric Graphs.
    Yuhua Li, Shanxi University
    Fuyi Li, Shanxi University
    Junping Shi*, College of William and Mary
    (1141-35-158)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the ground states of the generalized Ostrovsky equation.
    Iurii Posukhovskyi*, University of Kansas
    Atanas Stefanov, University of Kansas
    (1141-00-229)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Remarks on Lagrange Multiplier Approach to Kazdan-Warner Equations on a Finite Graph.
    David G Costa, University of Nevada Las Vegas
    Daniel Anthony Corral*, University of Nevada Las Vegas
    (1141-49-286)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Standing waves of coupled Schr\"odinger equations with quadratic interactions from Raman amplification in a plasma.
    Jun Wang*, Fuculty of Science, Jiangsu University, China
    (1141-35-154)
• Saturday September 29, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Analytic and Numeric Results on Nonlinear Evolution Equations, II
  Room 205, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Xiang Xu, Old Dominion University x2xu@odu.edu
  Wujun Zhang, Rutgers University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Primary and secondary structures of inhibitory geometric variational problems.
    Xiaofeng Ren*, George Washington University
    Chong Wang, George Washington University
    (1141-35-94)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Geometric complexity of optimal Voronoi tessellations in 3D.
    Xin Yang Lu*, Lakehead University
    (1141-52-73)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Non-stationary Stokes systems with singular VMO coefficients and applications.
    Hongjie Dong*, Brown University
    Tuoc Phan, University of Tennessee
    (1141-35-179)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Break
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Accelerating Stein variational gradient descent.
    Ryan W Murray*, The Pennsylvania State University
    (1141-35-156)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Spectral optimization and free boundary problems.
    Dennis Kriventsove*, Rutgers University
    (1141-35-297)
• Saturday September 29, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Representations of Infinite Dimensional Lie Algebras and Applications, II
  Room 304, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Marco Aldi, Virginia Commonwealth University
  Michael Penn, Randolph College mpenn@randolphcollege.edu
  Juan Villarreal, Virginia Commonwealth University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Principal Subspaces of Higher Level Standard $A_2^{(2)}$-Modules.
    Corina Calinescu*, CUNY, New York City College of Technology
    Michael Penn, Randolph College
    Christopher Sadowski, Ursinus College
    (1141-17-246)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Combinatorial bases of principal subspaces of modules for twisted affine Lie algebras of type $A_{2l-1}^{(2)}, D_l^{(2)}, E_6^{(2)},$ and $D_4^{(3)}$.
    Christopher Sadowski*, Ursinus College
    Marijana Butorac, University of Rijeka
    (1141-17-230)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Simple Whittaker modules over free bosonic orbifold vertex operator algebras.
    Jonas T Hartwig*, Iowa State University
    Nina Yu, Xiamen University
    (1141-17-217)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Boson-fermion correspondences, bicharacter construction and vacuum expectation values identities.
    Iana I Anguelova*, College of Charleston
    (1141-81-240)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Fractional Virasoro Algebras.
    Gabriele La Nave*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    (1141-16-201)
• Saturday September 29, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Stochastic Processes in Mathematical Biology, II
  Room 223, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Yao Li, University of Massachusetts Amherst yaoli@math.umass.edu
  Abhyudai Singh, University of Delaware
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Effects of Heavy Tailed Offspring Distributions on Viral Infection Dynamics and Evolution.
    Sivan Leviyang*, Georgetown University
    (1141-60-176)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    {SIV} infection dynamics in vaginal tissues.
    J M Conway*, Department of Mathematics and Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Pennsylvania State University
    T T Immonen, AIDS and Cancer Virus Program, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research
    C Deleage, AIDS and Cancer Virus Program, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research
    B F Keele, AIDS and Cancer Virus Program, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research
    (1141-92-116)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Effects of feedforward regulation by microRNA on mRNA copy-number distribution.
    Pavol Bokes*, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Comenius University, Bratislava 84248, Slovakia
    Michal Hojcka, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Comenius University, Bratislava 84248, Slovakia
    Abhyudai Singh, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
    (1141-92-97)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Exact lower and upper bounds on moments of biochemical systems.
    Khem Ghusinga, University of Delaware
    Abhyudai Singh*, University of Delaware
    (1141-60-78)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Mass-Action vs Stochastic Simulations of Ca2+ Dependent Vesicle Release.
    Victor Matveev*, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    (1141-92-250)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Multiscale stochastic reaction-diffusion algorithms for biochemical networks.
    Hye Won Kang*, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
    (1141-92-22)
• Saturday September 29, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on The Mathematics of Swimmers and Active Particles, II
  Room 219, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Louis Rossi, University of Delaware rossi@udel.edu
  Enkeleida Lushi, Flatiron Institute
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    An ODE model for the aerotactic response of the Caulobacter Crescentus at the motile stage.
    Virginia Eirini Kilikian*, University of Delaware
    (1141-92-96)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Numerical experiments of active matter: efficient algorithms for long-range and short-range interactions.
    Wen Yan*, Flatiron Institute
    (1141-65-52)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Modeling of Karlodinium Predation.
    Hansen Pei*, Department of Mathematical Science, University of Delaware
    Louis Rossi, Department of Mathematical Science, University of Delaware
    Pak-Wing Fok, Department of Mathematical Science, University of Delaware
    John Pae, Department of Mathematical Science, University of Delaware
    (1141-70-127)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A two-phase flow model for a poroelastic drop actuated with swimming gaits.
    YN Young*, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Y Mori, University of Minnesota
    M Miksis, Northwestern University
    (1141-92-162)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Small Organisms Causing Big Problems: Modeling Heterosigma Akashiwo.
    Nicholas J Russell*, University of Delaware
    Louis Rossi, University of Delaware
    (1141-37-113)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Mathematical models of hydrodynamically triggered zooplankton swimming: drivers and consequences.
    Marek Stastna*, Deaprtment of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo
    Justin Shaw, Deaprtment of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo
    (1141-70-29)
• Saturday September 29, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:25 p.m.
  Contributed Paper Session on Session for Contributed Papers, II
  Room 310, Gore Hall
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Mathematics of electric batteries modeling.
    Maxim Zyskin*, University of Oxford
    (1141-35-304)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Transport Phenomena in Field Effect Transistors.
    Ryan Murray Evans*, Applied and Computational Mathematics Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology
    Arvind Balijepalli, Engineering Physics Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology
    Anthony Kearsley, Applied and Computational Mathematics Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology
    (1141-35-275)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the Optimal Control of the Multiphase Free Boundary Problems for the Nonlinear Parabolic Equations.
    Ugur G Abdulla, Florida Institute of Technology
    Evan Cosgrove*, Florida Institute of Technology
    (1141-49-292)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Parameter Estimation for Tear Film Breakup Dynamics.
    Rayanne Luke*, University of Delaware
    R. J. Braun, University of Delaware
    T. A. Driscoll, University of Delaware
    D. Antwi, School of Optometry, Indiana University
    C. G. Begley, School of Optometry, Indiana University
    (1141-65-282)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Practical approximation method for firing rate models of coupled neural networks with correlated inputs.
    Cheng Ly*, Virginia Commonwealth University
    Andrea K Barreiro, Southern Methodist University
    (1141-92-257)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Parameter estimation and sensitivity analysis for a model of peritonitis focusing on the sequential immune cell response.
    Marcella Torres, Virginia Commonwealth University
    Rebecca A. Segal, Virginia Commonwealth University
    Shobha Ghosh, Virginia Commonwealth University
    Angela M. Reynolds*, Virginia Commonwealth University
    (1141-92-277)

Sunday September 30, 2018

• Sunday September 30, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Lobby, Gore Hall
• Sunday September 30, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Lobby, Gore Hall
• Sunday September 30, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Applied Algebraic Topology, III
  Room 103, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Chad Giusti, University of Delaware cgiusti@udel.edu
  Gregory Henselman, Princeton University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Recent Advances in Topological Path Planning.
    Subhrajit Bhattacharya*, Lehigh University
    (1141-55-92)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Relative Topological Complexity of a Pair.
    Robert Short*, John Carroll University
    (1141-55-16)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Homotopy types and persistence of metric gluings.
    Michal Adamaszek, MOSEK ApS
    Henry Adams, Colorado State University
    Ellen Gasparovic*, Union College
    Maria Gommel, University of Iowa
    Emilie Purvine, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    Radmila Sazdanovic, North Carolina State University
    Bei Wang, University of Utah
    Yusu Wang, The Ohio State University
    Lori Ziegelmeier, Macalester College
    (1141-05-193)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Homotopy types and persistence of metric gluings.
    Radmila Sazdanovic*, NC State
    Michal Adamazsek, MOSEK ApS
    Henry Adams, Colorado State University
    Ellen Gasparovic, Union College
    Maria Gommel, University of Iowa
    Emilie Purvine, Computing and Analytics Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    Bei Wang, University of Utah
    Yusu Wang, Ohio State University
    Lori Ziegelmeier, Macalester College
    (1141-05-242)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Homological Description of Global Nonlinear Dynamics.
    Konstantin Mischaikow*, Rutgers University
    (1141-37-271)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Computational Framework for Connection Matrices.
    Kelly Spendlove*, Rutgers University
    Shaun Harker, Rutgers University
    Konstantin Mischaikow, Rutgers University
    (1141-55-33)
• Sunday September 30, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:15 a.m.
  Special Session on Billiard Dynamics: Standard and Alternative Collision Models, III
  Room 303, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Tim Chumley, Mount Holyoke College
  Chris Cox, University of Delaware clcox@udel.edu
  Renato Feres, Washington University in St. Louis
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    From deterministic billiards to thermodynamic laws.
    Yao Li*, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    Lingchen Bu, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    (1141-37-188)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Bounded Orbits of No-Slip Billiards.
    Christopher L. Cox*, Tarleton State University
    (1141-37-150)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The geometry of wild, elusive singularities of the T-fractal surface.
    Robert G. Niemeyer*, University of the Incarnate Word
    Charles C. Johnson, Indiana University
    (1141-37-180)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Averaging in billiard-like systems.
    Alexander Grigo*, University of Oklahoma
    (1141-37-62)
• Sunday September 30, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory, III
  Room 116, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Sebastian M. Cioab\u a, University of Delaware
  Brian Kronenthal, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania kronenthal@kutztown.edu
  Felix Lazebnik, University of Delaware
  Wing Hong Tony Wong, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Packing topological minors half-integrally.
    Chun-Hung Liu*, Texas A University
    (1141-05-101)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Cycle-forced Hamiltonian Bipartite Graphs.
    Ju Zhou*, Kutztown University of PA
    (1141-05-98)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    $d$-Geodetic Graphs.
    Jason Williford*, University of Wyoming
    (1141-05-195)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Reconfiguration graphs of vertex problems.
    Janet Fierson*, La Salle University
    (1141-05-298)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Isomorphism Problem for Monomial Digraphs $D(q; m,n)$.
    Alex Kodess*, SUNY Farmingdale
    Felix Lazebnik, University of Delaware
    (1141-05-23)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The girth of two-dimensional algebraically defined graphs.
    Allison Ganger, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    Shannon Golden, Colorado State University
    Brian Kronenthal*, Kutztown University
    Felix Lazebnik, University of Delaware
    Carter Lyons, Nebraska Wesleyan University
    (1141-05-72)
• Sunday September 30, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Interplay between Analysis and Combinatorics, III
  Room 115, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Mahya Ghandehari, University of Delaware mahya@udel.edu
  Dominique Guillot, University of Delaware
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Infinite random geometric graphs.
    Jeannette Janssen*, Dalhousie University
    (1141-46-70)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Liouville-type theorems on Cayley graphs via absolute monotonicity.
    Gabor Lippner*, Northeastern University
    Dan Mangoubi, Hebrew University
    (1141-35-186)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The prescribed Ricci curvature problem on homogeneous spaces.
    Artem Pulemotov*, The University of Queensland
    (1141-51-36)
• Sunday September 30, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Analytic and Numeric Results on Nonlinear Evolution Equations, III
  Room 205, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Xiang Xu, Old Dominion University x2xu@odu.edu
  Wujun Zhang, Rutgers University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Long time behavior of stochastic bidomain equations.
    Oleksandr Misiats*, Virginia Commonwealth University
    (1141-35-50)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The synchronization problem for Kuramoto oscillators and beyond.
    Javier Morales*, University of Maryland
    (1141-35-105)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Global regularity for Burgers equation with density dependent fractional dissipation.
    Tam Do, University of Southern California
    Alexander Kiselev, Duke University
    Lenya Ryzhik, Stanford University
    Changhui Tan*, University of South Carolina
    (1141-35-181)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Break
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Existence and partial regularity of suitable weak solutions of a coupled Navier-Stokes and Q-tensor system.
    Xianpeng Hu, City University of Hong Kong
    Changyou Wang*, Purdue University
    (1141-35-203)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Regularity of weak solutions of a gradient flow of the Landau-de Gennes energy.
    Tao Huang*, Wayne State University
    Na Zhao, Fudan University
    (1141-35-125)
• Sunday September 30, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Representations of Infinite Dimensional Lie Algebras and Applications, III
  Room 304, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Marco Aldi, Virginia Commonwealth University
  Michael Penn, Randolph College mpenn@randolphcollege.edu
  Juan Villarreal, Virginia Commonwealth University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Studies on Meromorphic Open-String Vertex Algebras.
    Fei Qi*, Yale University
    (1141-17-200)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Applications of tensor categories.
    Thomas Creutzig, University of Alberta
    Shashank Kanade*, University of Denver
    Robert McRae, Vanderbilt University
    (1141-17-208)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Compact automorphism groups of vertex operator algebras and tensor categories.
    Robert H. McRae*, Vanderbilt University
    (1141-17-122)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Categorical Heisenberg structures.
    Joshua Sussan*, CUNY
    (1141-17-61)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On $\mathcal{W}_{\infty}$-algebras.
    Andrew R Linshaw*, University of Denver
    (1141-17-219)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Aspects of higher level Zhu algebras for vertex operator algebras.
    Katrina Barron*, University of Notre Dame
    (1141-17-232)
• Sunday September 30, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-9:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Stochastic Processes in Mathematical Biology, III
  Room 223, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Yao Li, University of Massachusetts Amherst yaoli@math.umass.edu
  Abhyudai Singh, University of Delaware
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Public goods game in mobile populations on stochastic multiplayer networks.
    Igor Erovenko*, UNC Greensboro
    Mark Broom, City, University of London
    (1141-91-146)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Stochastic model of within-mosquito generation of malaria parasite diversity.
    Lauren M Childs*, Virginia Tech
    Olivia Prosper, University of Kentucky
    (1141-92-111)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Replicator Dynamics for Multilevel Selection in Evolutionary Games.
    Daniel B Cooney*, Princeton University
    (1141-92-108)
• Sunday September 30, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Advances in Numerical Approximation of Partial Differential Equations, III
  Room 204, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Constantin Bacuta, University of Delaware
  Jingmei Qiu, University of Delaware jingqiu@udel.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Least squares discretization and multilevel preconditioning for mixed variational formulations.
    Jacob Jacavage*, University of Delaware
    Constantin Bacuta, University of Delaware
    (1141-65-39)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Efficient and highly accurate semi-Lagrangian discontinuous Galerkin method for convection-diffusion problems.
    Mingchang Ding*, University of Delaware, Department of Mathematical Sciences
    Xiaofeng Cai, University of Delaware, Department of Mathematical Sciences
    Jingmei Qiu, University of Delaware, Department of Mathematical Sciences
    (1141-65-75)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Group HDG methods for nonlinear PDEs.
    Gang Chen, School of Mathematics Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu,
    Bernardo Cockburn, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN,
    John Singler, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO,
    Yangwen Zhang*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO,
    (1141-65-10)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Gradient Method in Hilbert-Besov Spaces for the Optimal Control of Parabolic Free Boundary Problems.
    Ugur Abdulla, Florida Institute Of Technology
    Vladislav Bukshtynov, Florida Institute Of Technology
    Ali Hagverdiyev*, Florida Institute Of Technology
    (1141-35-34)
• Sunday September 30, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra, III
  Room 308, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Ela Celikbas, West Virginia University ela.celikbas@math.wvu.edu
  Sema Gunturkun, University of Connecticut
  Oana Veliche, Northeastern University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Regular Elements in Double Cosets.
    Julianne G. Rainbolt*, Saint Louis University
    (1141-20-91)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Terao's Conjecture and Connections to Geometry of Points.
    Bill F Trok*, University of Kentucky
    (1141-14-295)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Characteristic-free test ideals.
    Rebecca R.G.*, George Mason University
    (1141-13-191)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Strong Test Ideals associated to Cartier Algebras.
    Irina Ilioaea*, Georgia State University
    Florian Enescu, Georgia State University
    (1141-13-223)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The equations defining the graph of a certain rational map.
    Youngsu Kim, University of Arkansas
    Vivek Mukundan*, University of Virginia
    (1141-13-175)
• Sunday September 30, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Convex Geometry and Functional Inequalities, III
  Room 104, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Mokshay Madiman, University of Delaware madiman@udel.edu
  Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University
  Artem Zvavitch, Kent State University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Loewner Function of Log-concave Functions.
    Ben Li*, Case Western Reserve University
    Carsten Schuett, University of Kiel
    Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University
    (1141-46-139)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On a local version of the fifth Busemann-Petty problem.
    Maria Alfonseca-Cubero, North Dakota State University
    Fedor Nazarov, Kent State University
    Dmitry Ryabogin*, Kent State University
    Vlad Yaskin, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
    (1141-52-145)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Reciprocity and indicatrices in convexity.
    Emanuel Milman, Technion -- I.I.T
    Vitali Milman, Tel-Aviv University
    Liran Rotem*, University of Minnesota
    (1141-52-147)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Symmetric Convex Sets of Minimal Gaussian Surface Area.
    Steven M Heilman*, USC Mathematics Department
    (1141-49-303)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Gaussian double-bubble.
    Joe Neeman*, UT Austin
    Emanuel Milman, Technion
    (1141-49-66)
• Sunday September 30, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Modern Quasiconformal Analysis and Geometric Function Theory, III
  Room 117, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  David Herron, University of Cincinnati
  Yuk-J Leung, University of Delaware yleung@udel.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    The hyperbolic metric in geometric function theory.
    C. David Minda*, University of Cincinnati
    (1141-30-166)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Effect of random time changes on Loewner hulls.
    Kei Kobayashi, Fordham University
    Joan Lind*, University of Tennessee
    Andrew Starnes, University of Hartford
    (1141-30-228)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Newton Maps of Rational Functions.
    Roger W. Barnard, Texas Tech University
    Jerry Dwyer, Texas Tech University
    Erin Williams, University of Central Oklahoma
    G. Brock Williams*, Texas Tech University
    (1141-30-159)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    An interpolation formula for divided differences of algebraic polynomials and some inequalities following from it.
    Richard Fournier*, Dawson College and CRM(UofM)
    (1141-30-114)
• Sunday September 30, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Water Waves and Related Problems, III
  Room 218, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Philippe Guyenne, University of Delaware guyenne@udel.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Dimension-Breaking Bifurcations for Overturned Water Waves.
    Matthew W Seiders*, Air Force Institute of Technology
    Benjamin F Akers, Air Force Institute of Technology
    (1141-65-210)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Predicting the breaking strength of gravity water waves in intermediate and deep water.
    James T Kirby*, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Delaware
    Morteza Derakhti, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington
    Michael L Banner, University of New South Wales
    (1141-76-138)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Fully nonlinear modeling of wave breaking induced by bathymetry: review and recent results.
    Stephan T Grilli*, University of Rhode Island
    J T Kirby, University of Delaware
    M Derakhti, University of Washington
    M Banner, University of New South Wales
    J Thompson, University of Washington
    (1141-31-151)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Direct numerical simulations of breaking waves in deep and shallow water.
    Luc Deike*, Princeton University
    Wouter Mostert, Princeton University
    W.K. Melville, Scripps Insititution of Oceanography, UCSD
    Stephane Popinet, Institut d'Alembert and CNRS, Paris, France
    (1141-76-99)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Nonlinear breaking mechanism and energetics in shallow-water breaking waves.
    Wouter Mostert*, Mechanical \& Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
    Luc Deike, Mechanical \& Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University; Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University
    (1141-76-233)
• Sunday September 30, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Operator and Function Theory, III
  Room 114, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Kelly Bickel, Bucknell University
  Michael Hartz, Washington University, St. Louis
  Constanze Liaw, University of Delaware liaw@udel.edu
  Alan Sola, Stockholm University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Towards a classification theory for constrained row contractions.
    Raphael Clouatre*, University of Manitoba
    Edward Timko, University of Manitoba
    (1141-47-90)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Factoring functions in complete Pick spaces via free lifts.
    Michael T. Jury*, University of Florida
    Robert T.W. Martin, University of Cape Town
    (1141-47-273)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Extreme points of the free Schur class and operators affiliated to the free shift.
    Michael T. Jury, University of Florida
    Robert T.W. Martin*, University of Cape Town
    (1141-47-67)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Noncommutative function theory on operator domains.
    Mark E. Mancuso*, Washington University in St. Louis
    (1141-47-163)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    $C^*$-algebras and the Category of Stochastic maps.
    Benjamin Peter Russo*, Farmingdale State College SUNY
    Arthur J Parzygnat, University of Connecticut
    (1141-47-128)
• Sunday September 30, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Probability, Combinatorics, and Statistical Mechanics, III
  Room 306, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Nayantara Bhatnagar, University of Delaware
  Douglas Rizzolo, University of Delaware drizzolo@udel.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Neighborhood growth on the Hamming plane.
    Erik Slivken*, Paris
    (1141-60-252)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Lagrangian chaos for models in fluid mechanics.
    Alex Blumenthal*, University of Maryland, College Park
    (1141-37-239)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Limit shape and height fluctuations of perfect matchings on square-hexagon lattice.
    C. Boutillier, Sorbonne Universit\'e
    Zhongyang Li*, University of Connecticut
    (1141-82-121)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Parking.
    Matthew Junge*, Duke University
    (1141-60-118)
• Sunday September 30, 2018, 11:05 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Enumerative geometry and quantum groups.
  Room 120, Smith Hall
  Davesh Maulik*, MIT
  (1141-14-296)
• Sunday September 30, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Applied Algebraic Topology, IV
  Room 103, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Chad Giusti, University of Delaware cgiusti@udel.edu
  Gregory Henselman, Princeton University
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Topology of Privacy : Information Lattices and Bubbles for Inference and Obfuscation.
    Michael Erdmann*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1141-55-41)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Strong homotopy interleaving distance.
    Nicholas Scoville*, Ursinus College
    Anastasio Stefanou, Ohio State University
    (1141-55-68)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Consistency filtrations of assignments to sheaves.
    Michael Robinson*, American University
    (1141-55-27)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Cellular cosheaves for distributed computation of persistent homology.
    Hee Rhang Yoon*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Robert Ghrist, University of Pennsylvania
    (1141-55-103)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Toward a spectral theory of cellular sheaves.
    Jakob Hansen*, University of Pennsylvania
    Robert Ghrist, University of Pennsylvania
    (1141-55-130)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Augmentations of Merge Trees.
    Justin Michael Curry*, SUNY Albany
    (1141-55-79)
• Sunday September 30, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra, IV
  Room 308, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Ela Celikbas, West Virginia University ela.celikbas@math.wvu.edu
  Sema Gunturkun, University of Connecticut
  Oana Veliche, Northeastern University
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Stable range for modules.
    Robin Baidya*, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    (1141-13-280)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Hopf algebra actions on some AS-regular algebras of small GK-dimension.
    Luigi Ferraro*, Wake Forest University
    Ellen Kirkman, Wake Forest University
    Frank Moore, Wake Forest University
    Robert Won, Wake Forest University
    (1141-16-198)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Tight closure invariants in Stanley-Reisner rings.
    Thomas M Ales*, George Mason University
    (1141-13-262)
• Sunday September 30, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Convex Geometry and Functional Inequalities, IV
  Room 104, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Mokshay Madiman, University of Delaware madiman@udel.edu
  Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University
  Artem Zvavitch, Kent State University
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the R\'enyi entropy of the sum of independent Random Variables.
    Ben Jaye*, Clemson University
    Galyna Livshyts, Georgia Tech
    Grigoris Paouris, Texas A
    Peter Pivovarov, University of Missouri
    (1141-46-183)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Concavity and entropic inequalities.
    James Melbourne*, University of Minnesota
    (1141-60-287)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Entropy power inequality and central limit theorem for R\'enyi entropy.
    Arnaud Marsiglietti*, University of Florida
    (1141-52-140)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Concentration Inequalities for Reflected Diffusions.
    Andrey Sarantsev*, University of Nevada, Reno
    Soumik Pal, University of Washington, Seattle
    (1141-60-58)
• Sunday September 30, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Graph Theory, IV
  Room 116, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Sebastian M. Cioab\u a, University of Delaware
  Brian Kronenthal, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania kronenthal@kutztown.edu
  Felix Lazebnik, University of Delaware
  Wing Hong Tony Wong, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    A Two Player Graph Pebbling Game.
    Garth Isaak*, Lehigh University
    Matt Prudente, Alvernia University
    (1141-05-107)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Symmetric class 0 subgraphs of complete graphs.
    Eugene Fiorini*, Muhlenberg College
    Vin de Silva, Pomona College
    Channing Verbeck, Jr., Princeton University
    (1141-05-220)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    $\gamma^\prime$-Realizability and Other Musings on Inverse Domination.
    James M Hammer*, Cedar Crest College
    John Asplund, Dalton State University
    Joe Chaffee, Keyser Perminente
    Matt Noble, Middle Georgia State University
    (1141-05-110)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Adding color to the search for shortest paths.
    Vincent Coll, Lehigh University
    Grant Fickes, Kutztown University
    Dylan Green, Trevecca Nazarene U
    Jonelle Hook, Mount St. Mary's University
    Colton Magnant, Clayton State University
    Karen McCready*, King's College
    Kathleen Ryan, DeSales University
    Nathaniel Sauerberg, Carleton College
    Jill Stifano, Fairfield University
    (1141-00-60)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On inclusive and non-inclusive vertex irregular $d$-distance vertex labelings.
    Novi Herawati Bong*, University of Delaware
    Yuqing Lin, University of Newcastle, Australia
    Slamin Slamin, University of Jember, Indonesia
    Roman Sot\'{a}k, Pavol Jozef Safarik University, Kosice, Slovakia
    (1141-05-190)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Edge-Distinguishing Chromatic Number of Spider Graphs with Three Legs or Bounded Leg Lengths.
    Wing Hong Tony Wong*, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
    Grant Fickes, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
    (1141-05-71)
• Sunday September 30, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Interplay between Analysis and Combinatorics, IV
  Room 115, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Mahya Ghandehari, University of Delaware mahya@udel.edu
  Dominique Guillot, University of Delaware
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Recent developments in orthogonal Gabor bases and tiling problems.
    Azita Mayeli*, City University of New York, The Graduate Center and Queensborough
    (1141-42-288)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A connection between numerical analysis, and Catalan and generalized Motzkin numbers.
    Paul W Eloe, University of Dayton
    Catherine M Kublik*, University of Dayton
    (1141-05-15)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Upper bounds on the number of chains in a point set.
    Steven Michael Senger*, Missouri State University
    Eyvindur Ari Palsson, Virginia Tech
    (1141-05-155)
• Sunday September 30, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Water Waves and Related Problems, IV
  Room 218, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Philippe Guyenne, University of Delaware guyenne@udel.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Nonlinear Wave Ensemble Averaging using Neural Networks.
    Ricardo M Campos*, AOSC University of Maryland
    Vladimir Krasnopolsk, NCEP/NOAA
    Stephen G. Penny, AOSC University of Maryland
    Jose-Henrique Alves, SRG - NCEP/NOAA
    (1141-65-259)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    A kinetic approach to estimate air-sea exchanges driven by sea spray in high winds.
    Fabrice Veron*, School of Marine Science and Policy, University of Delaware
    Luc Mieussens, IMB / Universite de Bordeaux
    (1141-76-291)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Langmuir turbulence in the tropical cyclone conditions.
    Dong Wang*, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
    Tobias Kukulka, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
    Brandon G. Reichl, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton University, and NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princ
    Tetsu Hara, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, Rhode Island
    Isaac Ginis, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, Rhode Island
    Peter P. Sullivan, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
    (1141-65-214)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Lagrangian Evolution of Kinematic Properties of Ocean Surface Currents Across Scales.
    Helga S. Huntley*, School of Marine Science \& Policy, University of Delaware
    A. D. Kirwan, School of Marine Science \& Policy, University of Delaware
    Henry Chang, School of Marine Science \& Policy, University of Delaware
    Gregg Jacobs, Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis, MS
    (1141-86-88)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Acoustic remote sensing of the ocean environment in shallow water.
    Lin Wan*, College of Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA, 19716
    Mohsen Badiey, College of Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA, 19716
    (1141-00-294)
• Sunday September 30, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Operator and Function Theory, IV
  Room 114, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Kelly Bickel, Bucknell University
  Michael Hartz, Washington University, St. Louis
  Constanze Liaw, University of Delaware liaw@udel.edu
  Alan Sola, Stockholm University
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Hyponormal Toeplitz operators with non-harmonic Symbol acting on the Bergman space.
    Matthew Fleeman*, Baylor University
    Constanze Liaw, University of Delaware
    (1141-47-21)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Inner functions and zero sets for $\ell^p_A$.
    Ray Cheng*, Old Dominion University
    (1141-46-211)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Rethinking Ritt's theorem.
    William T. Ross*, University of Richmond
    (1141-30-87)
• Sunday September 30, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Probability, Combinatorics, and Statistical Mechanics, IV
  Room 306, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Nayantara Bhatnagar, University of Delaware
  Douglas Rizzolo, University of Delaware drizzolo@udel.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Polluted Bootstrap Percolation in Three Dimensions.
    Janko Gravner, UC Davis
    Alexander Holroyd, Cambridge
    David Sivakoff*, Ohio State University
    (1141-60-206)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Fixed points of random tree recursions.
    Tobias Johnson*, College of Staten Island
    Moumanti Podder, University of Washington
    Fiona Skerman, Uppsala University
    (1141-60-225)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    High-dimensional random geometric graphs.
    Miklos Z Racz*, Princeton University
    (1141-60-134)
• Sunday September 30, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Analytic and Numeric Results on Nonlinear Evolution Equations, IV
  Room 205, Gore Hall
  Organizers:
  Xiang Xu, Old Dominion University x2xu@odu.edu
  Wujun Zhang, Rutgers University
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Slow Diffusion Limit of Aggregation-Diffusion Energies and Their Gradient Flows.
    Ihsan Topaloglu*, Virginia Commonwealth University
    (1141-35-38)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Galerkin approximations of nonlinear delay differential equations.
    Micka\"el D. Chekroun, UCLA
    Michael Ghil, UCLA \& ENS, France
    Honghu Liu*, Virginia Tech
    Shouhong Wang, Indiana University Bloomington
    (1141-35-95)