AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day

Current as of Friday, December 21, 2018 16:21:50

Fall Western Sectional Meeting

• San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
• October 27-28, 2018 (Saturday - Sunday)
• Meeting #1144

Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

Saturday October 27, 2018

• Saturday October 27, 2018, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Room 404, Thornton Hall
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Room 404, Thornton Hall
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Advances in Operator Theory, Operator Algebras, and Operator Semigroups, I
  Room 110, Business Building
  Organizers:
  Asuman G. Aksoy, Claremont McKenna College
  Michael Hartglass, Santa Clara University
  Zair Ibragimov, California State University, Fullerton
  Marat Markin, California State University, Fresno mmarkin@csufresno.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Bernstein's Lethargy Theorem and Reflexivity.
    Asuman Guven Aksoy*, Claremont McKenna College
    (1144-46-125)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Spectral gaps for the Two-Species Product Vacua and Boundary States models on the d-dimensional lattice.
    Michael A Bishop*, California State University, Fresno
    (1144-81-69)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Bi-free Segal-Bargmann Transform.
    Ian Charlesworth*, University of California, Berkeley
    Ching-Wei Ho, Indiana University Bloomington
    Todd Kemp, University of California, San Diego
    (1144-46-332)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Free Araki-Woods factors associated to weighted graphs and a connection to infinite-index subfactors.
    Michael Hartglass*, Santa Clara University
    Brent Nelson, Vanderbilt University
    (1144-46-112)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Averaging one-point hyperbolic-type metrics.
    Zair Ibragimov*, California State University, Fullerton
    (1144-30-159)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the Non-hypercyclicity of Scalar Type Spectral Operators and Collections of Their Exponentials.
    Marat V. Markin*, Department of Mathematics, California State University, Fresno
    (1144-47-179)
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, I
  Room 329, Thornton Hall
  Organizers:
  Emily Clader, San Francisco State University eclader@sfsu.edu
  Dustin Ross, San Francisco State University
  Mark Shoemaker, Colorado State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Points of unusually low degree on modular curves.
    Bourdon Abbey, Wake Forest University
    Ejder Ozlem*, Colorado State University
    Yuan Liu, University of Wisconsin Madison
    Frances Odumodu, Institut de Mathematiques de Bordeaux, Universite de Bordeaux
    Bianca Viray, University of Washington
    (1144-14-327)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Donaldson--Thomas invariants and Bridgeland stability conditions on abelian threefolds.
    Georg Oberdieck, Mathematical Institute, University of Bonn
    Dulip Piyaratne*, Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona
    Yukinobu Toda, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, University of Tokyo
    (1144-14-305)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Modular Curves of low composite level and genus zero subgroups.
    Catalina Camacho-Navarro*, Colorado State University
    Wanlin Li, University of Wisconsin--Madison
    Jackson S Morrow, Emory University
    Jack Petok, Rice University
    David Zureick-Brown, Emory University
    (1144-11-189)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Motivic Semiorthogonal Decompositions for Abelian Varieties.
    Bronson Lim*, University of Utah
    (1144-14-265)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Q-rational points and derived equivalence.
    Katrina Honigs*, University of Utah
    (1144-14-233)
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Analysis and Geometry of Fractals, I
  Room 125, Business Building
  Organizers:
  Kyle Hambrook, University of Rochester
  Chun-Kit Lai, San Francisco State University cklai@sfsu.edu
  Sze-Man Ngai, Georgia Southern University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Similar configurations in thin sets.
    Allan Greenleaf, University of Rochester
    Alex Iosevich*, University of Rochester
    Sevak Mkrtchyan, University of Rochester
    (1144-42-130)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Geometric Configurations.
    Neil Lyall*, University of Georgia
    Akos Magyar, University of Georgia
    (1144-42-231)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Falconer type point configuration problems.
    Steven M Senger*, Missouri State University
    Eyvindur Ari Palsson, Virginia Tech
    (1144-28-139)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    An Overview of Fractal Complex Dimensions.
    Michel L. Lapidus*, University of California, Riverside
    (1144-28-124)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Fractional rectifiability.
    Vyron S Vellis*, University of Connecticut
    (1144-28-37)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Spectral dimension of Laplacians defined by self-similar measures with overlaps and application to heat kernel estimates.
    Sze-Man Ngai*, Georgia Southern University and Hunan Normal University
    (1144-28-275)
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Applied Harmonic Analysis: Frame Theory and Applications, I
  Room 130, Business Building
  Organizers:
  Chun-Kit Lai, San Francisco State University cklai@sfsu.edu
  Shidong Li, San Francisco State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Frames induced by the action of continuous powers of an operator.
    Longxiu Huang*, Vanderbilt University
    Akram Aldroubi, Vanderbilt University
    Armenak Petrosyan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    (1144-46-83)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Gabor Frames with arbitrary redundancy and Wilson tight frames in $L^2(\mathbb R)$.
    Divyang G Bhimani, University of Maryland
    Kasso A Okoudjou*, MIT
    (1144-42-225)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Exponential frames and syndetic Riesz sequences.
    Marcin Bownik*, University of Oregon
    Itay Londner, Tel Aviv University
    (1144-42-97)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Frames of exponentials with spectrum contained in a finite union of lattices.
    Jean-Pierre Gabardo*, McMaster University
    Chun-Kit Lai, San Francisco State University
    (1144-42-136)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Frames of translates.
    Hartmut F\"uhr, RWTH Aachen University
    Vignon Oussa*, Bridgewater State University (MA)
    (1144-43-82)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Generalized phase retrieval.
    Yang Wang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    Zhiqiang Xu*, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    (1144-41-40)
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial and Categorical Aspects of Representation Theory, I
  Room 108, Business Building
  Organizers:
  Nicholas Davidson, University of Oklahoma
  Jonathan Kujawa, University of Oklahoma kujawa@ou.edu
  Robert Muth, Tarleton State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Affine Frobenius Hecke Algebras.
    Daniele Rosso*, Indiana University Northwest
    Alistair Savage, University of Ottawa
    (1144-20-157)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Quantum Heisenberg categorification.
    Alistair Savage*, University of Ottawa
    (1144-18-75)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Categorical Bernstein Operators.
    Nicolle Gonzalez*, University of Southern California
    (1144-18-161)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    p-DG structures in higher representation theory.
    Joshua Sussan*, CUNY Medgar Evers
    (1144-16-31)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Traces of tensor product categories.
    Michael Reeks*, University of Ottawa
    Christopher Leonard, University of Virginia
    (1144-17-121)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Unfurling the Heisenberg category.
    Jonathan Brundan*, University of Oregon
    (1144-16-235)
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Analysis, I
  Room 325, Thornton Hall
  Organizers:
  Ovidiu Munteanu, University of Connecticut ovidiu.munteanu@uconn.edu
  David Bao, San Francisco State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On the maximal rate of convergence of the Ricci flow.
    Brett Kotschwar*, Arizona State University
    (1144-53-241)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Anomaly flow.
    Duong H. Phong, Columbia University
    Sebastien Picard, Columbia University
    Xiangwen Zhang*, University of California, Irvine
    (1144-53-12)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Classification of diffeomorphism groups of 3-manifolds through singular Ricci flow.
    Richard H. Bamler*, UC Berkeley
    (1144-53-87)
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric and Analytic Inequalities and their Applications, I
  Room 327, Thornton Hall
  Organizers:
  Nicholas Brubaker, California State University, Fullerton
  Isabel M. Serrano, University of California, Berkeley
  Bogdan D. Suceav\u a, California State University, Fullerton bsuceava@fullerton.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Strictly Convex Hypersurfaces Satisfying Weingarten-Type Inequalities.
    Leonard M. Giugiuc, Colegiul National ``Traian'' Drobeta-Turnu Severin
    Bogdan D. Suceav\u{a}*, California State University, Fullerton
    (1144-53-90)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Bubbling with $L^2$ almost constant mean curvature and an Alexandrov type theorem for crystals.
    Matias Delgadino, Imperial College London
    Francesco Maggi, University of Texas at Austin
    Cornelia Mihaila*, University of Chicago
    Robin Neumayer, Northwestern University
    (1144-49-113)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Ladder of Curvatures in the Geometry of Surfaces and a Curvature Invariant Inspired by Euler's Inequality.
    Jasmine Camero*, California State University, Fullerton
    (1144-53-48)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Geodesics in the Heisenberg group revisited.
    Cezar Lupu*, Texas Tech University
    (1144-53-343)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Volume estimates for tubes around submanifolds using integral curvature bounds.
    Yousef K. Chahine*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1144-53-298)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Inequalities in Bicomplex Analysis and Geometry.
    Mihaela B Vajiac*, Chapman University
    Irene M Sabadini, Politecnico di Milano
    Adrian I Vajiac, Chapman University
    (1144-32-315)
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Homological Aspects in Commutative Algebra and Representation Theory, I
  Room 106, Business Building
  Organizers:
  Srikanth B. Iyengar, University of Utah iyengar@math.utah.edu
  Julia Pevtsova, University of Washington
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Quasi-polynomial growth of Betti numbers over local rings.
    Luchezar L. Avramov*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Nicholas Packauskas, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Mark E. Walker, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1144-13-223)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The nine real Artin-Tate motives at the prime two.
    Paul Balmer*, UCLA
    (1144-18-55)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Refinements of Alperin's weight conjecture and Wedderburn components over $\mathbf{Q}_p$.
    Robert Boltje*, University of California, Santa Cruz
    Burkhard K\"ulshammer, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet Jena
    (1144-20-321)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Stratification for cochain algebras on Borel constructions of G-spaces.
    James C Cameron*, University of California Los Angeles
    (1144-20-128)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Virtual projectivity and the stable module category.
    David J Benson, University of Aberdeen
    Jon F Carlson*, University of Georgia
    (1144-20-71)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Liaison and the classification of local rings of low codepth.
    Lars Winther Christensen*, Texas Tech University
    Oana Veliche, Northeastern University
    Jerzy Weyman, University of Connecticut
    (1144-13-301)
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Homological Aspects of Noncommutative Algebra and Geometry, I
  Room 104, Business Building
  Organizers:
  Dan Rogalski, University of California San Diego
  Sarah Witherspoon, Texas A University
  James Zhang, University of Washington, Seattle zhang@math.washington.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Periodic subvarieties and primitive ideals.
    Jason P Bell*, University of Waterloo
    Dragos Ghioca, University of British Colombia
    (1144-16-59)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Color Lie rings and PBW deformations of skew group algebras.
    S. Fryer*, University of California Santa Barbara
    T. Kanstrup, University of Bonn
    E. Kirkman, Wake Forest University
    A. Shepler, University of North Texas
    S. Witherspoon, Texas A University
    (1144-16-281)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On Nichols algebras of finite GK-dimension.
    Nicolas Andruskiewitsch*, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba
    Ivan Angiono, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba
    Istvan Heckenberger, Philipps-Universitaet Marburg
    (1144-16-43)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On Nichols algebras of finite GK-dimension, part II.
    Nicolas Andruskiewitsch, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba
    Ivan Angiono*, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba
    Istvan Heckenberger, Phillip-Universitaet Marburg
    (1144-16-50)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Twisted Calabi-Yau algebras of dimension $d \leq 3$.
    Manuel L. Reyes*, Bowdoin College
    Daniel Rogalski, University of California, San Diego
    (1144-16-170)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Frobenius-Perron Theory of Modified ADE Bound Quiver Algebras.
    Elizabeth Wicks*, University of Washington
    (1144-16-52)
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Biology with a focus on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation, I
  Room 215, Business Building
  Organizers:
  Jim Cushing, The University of Arizona
  Saber Elaydi, Trinity University
  Suzanne Sindi, University of California, Merced
  Abdul-Aziz Yakubu, Howard University ayakubu@howard.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Time, travel and HIV elimination: the case of Malawi.
    Sally Blower*, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
    Laurence Palk, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
    (1144-92-270)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Effects of Vitellogenin in Age Polyethism and Population Dynamics of Honeybees.
    Marisabel R Rodriguez, Dartmouth Math Department
    Robert E Page, Arizona State University
    Yun Kang*, Sciences and Mathematics, Arizona State University
    (1144-34-264)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Methods for the study of the Three Dimensional Structure of Biopolymers, I
  Room 217, Business Building
  Organizers:
  Javier Arsuaga, University of California Davis, Davis jarsuaga@ucdavis.edu
  Mariel Vazquez, University of California Davis, Davis
  Robin Wilson, Cal Poly Pomona
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Interplay between supercoiling-induced localized denaturation and DNA dynamics.
    Jonathan M. Fogg, Baylor College of Medicine
    Erik Stricker, Baylor College of Medicine
    E. Lynn Zechiedrich*, Baylor College of Medicine
    (1144-92-347)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Kinetic Pathways of Topology Simplification by Type-II Topoisomerases in Knotted Supercoiled DNA.
    Stephen D Levene*, University of Texas at Dallas
    Riccardo Ziraldo, University of Texas at Dallas
    Andreas Hanke, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
    (1144-82-266)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Topologically Driven DNA Structural Transitions.
    Craig J Benham*, Mathematics Department, University of California - Davis
    (1144-92-187)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Knots where the braid index equals the bridge index.
    Claus Ernst*, Western Kentucky University
    (1144-57-274)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A new topological theory of protein knot folding.
    Erica Flapan*, Pomona College
    Adam He, Cornell University
    Helen Wong, Claremont McKenna College
    (1144-92-36)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A topological model for protein folding kinetics.
    Eleni Panagiotou*, Department of Mathematics, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
    Kevin Plaxco, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Center of Bioengineering, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1144-92-269)
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Research in Mathematics by Early Career Graduate Students, I
  Room 113, Hensill Hall
  Organizers:
  Michael Bishop, California State University, Fresno mibishop@csufresno.edu
  Marat Markin, California State University, Fresno
  Jenna Tague, California State University, Fresno
  Khang Tran, California State University, Fresno
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Zero Distribution of Hyperbolic Polynomials with Four-Term Recurrence.
    Richard Adams*, California State University, Fresno
    (1144-30-143)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    An Approximation of the Prime Counting Function with an Error Term.
    Kenny Smith*, California State University, Fresno
    (1144-11-246)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Characteristic numbers of crepant resolutions of Weierstrass models.
    Jonathan Mboyo Esole, Northeastern University
    Monica Jinwoo Kang*, Harvard University
    (1144-14-354)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Distortion of Lattice Stick Knots.
    Nicholas Cazet*, San Jose State University
    (1144-54-100)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Billiards Inside, Circles Outside: Charged Particles in a Piecewise Constant Magnetic Field.
    Sean Gasiorek*, UC Santa Cruz
    (1144-37-196)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Customized Forecasting Models for Exchange Traded Funds.
    Vishruti Ganesh*, Dougherty Valley High School
    Michael Kotarinos, University of South Florida
    Chris P Tsokos, University of South Florida
    (1144-91-44)
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Statistical and Geometrical Properties of Dynamical Systems, I
  Room 219, Business Building
  Organizers:
  Joanna Furno, University of Houston jfurno@math.uh.edu
  Matthew Nicol, University of Houston
  Mariusz Urbanski, University of North Texas
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Volume and partial length spectrum data.
    Noelle Sawyer*, Wesleyan University
    (1144-53-137)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A structure theorem and natural extensions for $p$-adic scaling maps.
    Joanna Furno*, University of Houston
    (1144-37-290)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Spectral Triples and Fractal Sets.
    Andrea Arauza Rivera*, California State University, East Bay
    (1144-46-232)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Continuity of the numerical value of packing measures for conformal iterated function systems.
    James E Reid*, Centenary College of Louisiana
    (1144-37-267)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Shrinking targets in moduli space.
    Grace Work*, Vanderbilt University
    Spencer Dowdall, Vanderbilt University
    (1144-37-308)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Geometric law for numbers of multiple returns until a hazard.
    Yuri Kifer*, Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    (1144-37-163)
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Contributed Paper Session on AMS Contributed Paper Session, I
  Room 222, Business Building
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Generalizations of the Enestr\"{o}m-Kakeya theorem.
    Aaron Melman*, Santa Clara University
    (1144-12-350)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    The Poisson Conjecture and its connection to the classical invariant theory.
    Ya. S. Krylyuk*, De Anza College, Cupertino, Ca 95014
    (1144-13-103)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: From Discrete to Analytic Inequality.
    Fred Halpern*, Royal Path to Math.org
    (1144-26-200)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    General projections of curves on smooth surfaces into $\mathbb{P}^3$.
    Mengyuan Zhang*, UC Berkeley
    (1144-14-104)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Sectional monodromy groups of projective curves.
    Borys Kadets*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1144-14-236)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    $\mathbb G_m$-weights of differential 1-forms on conical resolutions of singularities.
    Dmitrii Kubrak*, MIT
    (1144-14-237)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Generalization of classical extremal problems for Hardy classes to the case of functions with higher dimensional domain.
    Irina Peterburgsky*, Suffolk University, Boston MA,USA
    (1144-30-42)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Two Conformal-Like Metrics.
    Kourosh Tavakoli*, Oklahoma City University
    (1144-30-294)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The direct method for time-scale solitons.
    Oliver Ruff*, Kent State University at Stark
    Gro Hovhannisyan, Kent State University at Stark
    (1144-35-194)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Study on Alternative Algorithms to Enhance the Quality of Digital Images Using Numerical and Computational Analysis.
    Nahyun Kim*, CRG-NJ (Choice Research Group)
    Richard Kyung, CRG-NJ (Choice Research Group)
    (1144-42-348)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Hyperbolic ternary forms of unitary bordering matrices.
    Mao-Ting Chien*, Soochow University, Taiwan
    (1144-15-27)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Geometry of Asymptotically harmonic manifolds with minimal horospheres.
    Hemangi Madhusudan Shah*, Harish-Chandra Research Institute
    (1144-51-16)
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Big Data and Statistical Analytics, I
  Room 429, Thornton Hall
  Organizers:
  Tao He, San Francisco State University hetao@sfsu.edu
  Mohammad Kafai, San Francisco State University
  Alexandra Piryatinska, San Francisco State University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Human disease network (HDN) analysis of disease prevalence.
    Shuangge Ma*, Yale University
    (1144-62-66)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Omics data integration with kernel fusion.
    Yuehua Cui*, Michigan State University
    (1144-62-252)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Edge sampling using network local information.
    Can M. Le*, University of California, Davis
    (1144-62-316)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Locally-Sensitive Epidemiological Modeling of Disease Outbreaks Using Social Media.
    Rahul Singh*, San Francisco State University
    (1144-68-351)
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Methods in Hypercomplex Analysis, I
  Room 326, Thornton Hall
  Organizers:
  Paula Cerejeiras, Universidade de Aveiro
  Matvei Libine, Indiana University, Bloomington
  Mihaela B. Vajiac, Chapman University mbvajiac@chapman.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Bicomplex algebra and the fields $\mathbb{Q}(i), \mathbb{Q}(i, \sqrt{2})$.
    Ahmed Sebbar*, Chapman University, Bordeaux University
    Daniele Struppa, Chapman University
    Mihaela Vajiac, Chapman University
    Adrian Vajiac, Chapman University
    (1144-16-8)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Hypercomplex Analysis: general theory and applications.
    Adrian I Vajiac*, Chapman University
    (1144-32-318)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Algebra of Quaternionic Functions.
    Matvei Libine*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (1144-30-105)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Distribution spaces and a new construction of stochastic processes associated with the Grassmann algebra.
    Daniel A. Alpay*, Chapman University, Orange, CA.
    Ismael L. Paiva, Chapman University, Orange, CA.
    Daniele C. Struppa, Chapman University, Orange, CA.
    (1144-60-259)
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Markov Processes, Gaussian Processes and Applications, I
  Room 335, Thornton Hall
  Organizers:
  Alan Krinik, California State Polytechnic University ackrinik@cpp.edu
  Randall J. Swift, California State Polytechnic University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Using Bayes Model Averaging to Leverage Both Gene Main Effects and GxE Interactions to Identify Genomic Regions in Genome-Wide Association Studies.
    Lilit C Moss*, University of Southern California
    William J Gauderman, University of Southern California
    Juan Pablo Lewinger, University of Southern California
    David V Conti, University of Southern California
    (1144-62-314)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Switching Diffusions and Applications.
    George Yin*, Wayne State University
    (1144-60-72)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    An Eigenvalue Approach for Determining Certain Birth-Death n-step Transition Probabilities.
    Chon In Luk*, Cal Poly Pomona
    John Kath, Claremont Graduate University
    Yoseph Dawit, Cal State Long Beach
    Mark Dela, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Christine Hoogendyk, Cal Poly Pomona
    David Perez, Cal Poly Pomona
    (1144-60-307)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Stochastic Assignment Problem with Unknown Eligibility Probabilities.
    Sheldon M Ross*, University of Southern California
    Gideon M Weiss, University of Haifa
    Zhengyu Zhang, University of Southern California
    (1144-90-108)
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Noncommutative Geometry and Fundamental Applications, I
  Room 122, Business Building
  Organizers:
  Konrad Aguilar, Arizona State University
  Frederic Latremoliere, University of Denver frederic@math.du.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Skew Products: Coactions We Can See.
    Erik B\'edos, University of Oslo
    S Kaliszewski*, Arizona State University
    John Quigg, Arizona State University
    (1144-46-336)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Tensor-Product Coaction Functors.
    S. Kaliszewski, Arizona State University
    Magnus B Landstad, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
    John Quigg*, Arizona State University
    (1144-46-98)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Semigroup $C^*$-algebras from permutations.
    Jack Spielberg*, School of Mathematical \& Statistical Sciences, Arizona State University
    Xin Li, School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London
    Tron Omland, Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo
    David Pask, Department of Mathematics, University of Wollongong
    Adam Sorensen, Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo
    (1144-46-216)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Investigating when the C*-algebra of a category of paths is AF.
    Ian E. Mitscher*, Arizona State University
    Jack Spielberg, Arizona State University
    (1144-46-326)
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Probabilistic and Statistical Problems in Stochastic Dynamics, I
  Room 218, Business Building
  Organizers:
  Tao He, San Francisco State University
  Mohammad Kafai, San Francisco State University
  Alexandra Piryatinska, San Francisco State University alpiryat@sfsu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Barndorff-Nielsen and Shephard Model for Hedging Energy with Quantity Risk.
    Indranil SenGupta*, North Dakota State University
    William Wilson, North Dakota State University
    William Nganje, North Dakota State University
    (1144-60-20)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Multi-Armed Bandit Approach for Online Monitoring High-Dimensional Data in Resource Constrained Environments.
    Wanrong Zhang, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Yajun Mei*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1144-62-204)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Segmenting Dynamic Network Data.
    Rex Cheung*, San Francisco State University
    Alexander Aue, University of California, Davis
    Thomas Lee, University of California, Davis
    (1144-62-95)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Detection of structural breaks for panel data via the $\epsilon$-complexity of continuous maps.
    Alexandra Piryatinska*, San Francisco State University
    Boris Darkhovsky, Institute for Systems Analysis FRC CSC RAS
    (1144-62-300)
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Coupling in Probability and Related Fields, I
  Room 409, Thornton Hall
  Organizers:
  Sayan Banerjee, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  Terry Soo, University of Kansas tsoo@ku.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    On stirring coffee and Knudsen reflections.
    Krzysztof Burdzy*, University of Washington
    Mauricio Duarte, Universidad Andr\'es Bello, Santiago, Chile
    Carl-Erik Gauthier, University of Washington
    Jaime San Martin, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
    (1144-60-15)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Coalescing random walk on unimodular graphs.
    Eric Thomas Foxall*, University of Alberta
    (1144-60-19)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Gradient bounds for hypoelliptic diffussions.
    Maria Gordina*, University of Connecticut
    (1144-60-102)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Joint distribution of Busemann functions for the corner growth model.
    Wai Tong Fan*, Indiana University
    Timo Sepp\"al\"ainen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1144-60-114)
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlocal PDEs via Harmonic Analysis, I
  Room 213, Business Building
  Organizers:
  Tadele Mengesha, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  Armin Schikorra, University of Pittsburgh armin@pitt.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Improvement of regularity for weak solutions to linear parabolic systems.
    P. Auscher, Paris - Sud
    S. Bortz*, U Washington
    M. Egert, Paris - Sud
    O. Saari, Bonn
    (1144-35-174)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Consistent traction boundary conditions for nonlocal models.
    Xiaochuan Tian*, Univeristy of Texas at Austin
    (1144-47-341)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Regularity of solutions to nonlocal nonlinear systems of second and fourth order.
    Petronela Radu*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1144-35-249)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Potential space estimate for solutions of system of coupled nonlocal equations.
    James Scott, University of Tennessee Knoxville
    Tadele Mengesha*, University of Tennessee Knoxville
    (1144-35-175)
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Social Change In and Through Mathematics and Education, I
  Room 206, Hensill Hall
  Organizers:
  Federico Ardila, San Francisco State University
  Matthias Beck, San Francisco State University
  Jamylle Carter, Diablo Valley College
  Kimberly Seashore, San Francisco State University kimseash@sfsu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Risk Taking in Mathematics (Education): Toward a Future that Rehumanizes.
    Rochelle Gutierrez*, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
    (1144-97-342)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Guiding public service agencies with machine learning: Opportunities and risks.
    Maria De-Arteaga*, Heinz College \& Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1144-68-334)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Co-constructing mathematical knowledge in the classroom.
    Vanson Nguyen*, College of Alameda
    (1144-97-217)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Mathematical Modeling as a Tool for Critical Engagement Pedagogies.
    Nathan N Alexander*, Morehouse College
    (1144-91-60)
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Population cycles in discrete-time infectious disease models.
  Room 201, Science Building
  Abdul-Aziz Yakubu*, Howard University
  (1144-92-168)
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Derivatives, derivations, and Hochschild Cohomology.
  Room 201, Science Building
  Cris Negron, MIT
  Yury Volkov, Saint Petersburg State University
  Sarah Witherspoon*, Texas A University
  (1144-16-17)
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric and Analytic Inequalities and their Applications, II
  Room 327, Thornton Hall
  Organizers:
  Nicholas Brubaker, California State University, Fullerton
  Isabel M. Serrano, University of California, Berkeley
  Bogdan D. Suceav\u a, California State University, Fullerton bsuceava@fullerton.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    On a function similar to the Polylogarithm function.
    Ahmed Sebbar*, Chapman University, Bordeaux University
    (1144-30-7)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Four-dimensional Gradient Shrinking Ricci Solitons.
    Xiaolong Li*, UC Irvine
    (1144-51-288)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Some new thoughts on an old problem of Erdos and Newman.
    Cosmin Pohoata*, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
    (1144-05-109)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    An inequality for cyclotomic exponential polynomials.
    Tam\'as Forg\'acs*, California State University, Fresno
    Khang Tran, California State University, Fresno
    (1144-30-92)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The first eigenvalue of the $p$-Laplacian on K\"ahler manifolds.
    Shoo Seto*, University of California, Irvine
    Casey Blacker, UC Santa Barbara
    (1144-53-47)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Compactness and generic finiteness for free boundary minimal hypersurfaces.
    Qiang Guang*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1144-53-74)
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Methods for the study of the Three Dimensional Structure of Biopolymers, II
  Room 217, Business Building
  Organizers:
  Javier Arsuaga, University of California Davis, Davis jarsuaga@ucdavis.edu
  Mariel Vazquez, University of California Davis, Davis
  Robin Wilson, Cal Poly Pomona
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Sequence-Dependent RNA Branching and Compactness.
    William M. Gelbart*, Department of Chemistry \& Biochemistry, UCLA, Los Angeles 90095
    (1144-82-180)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    The average geometric entanglement of confined random polygons.
    Uta Ziegler*, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY
    Y. Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
    C. Ernst, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY
    E Rawdon, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN
    (1144-57-272)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Knots in extreme confinement.
    Eric J Rawdon*, University of St. Thomas
    (1144-57-176)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Local Entanglement in Macromolecules.
    Kenneth C Millett*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1144-57-38)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Knotting statistics for polygons in lattice tubes.
    Chris Soteros*, University of Saskatchewan
    (1144-82-317)
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Advances in Operator Theory, Operator Algebras, and Operator Semigroups, II
  Room 110, Business Building
  Organizers:
  Asuman G. Aksoy, Claremont McKenna College
  Michael Hartglass, Santa Clara University
  Zair Ibragimov, California State University, Fullerton
  Marat Markin, California State University, Fresno mmarkin@csufresno.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Unitary equivalence is hard.
    Aristotelis Panagiotopoulos*, California Institute of Technology
    Martino Lupini, Victoria University of Wellington
    (1144-03-138)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A Composition Operator Norm Upper Bound on Multivariable Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces.
    Linda J. Patton*, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
    Caixing Gu, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
    (1144-47-215)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    K\v r\'{i}\v z Theorem via dynamics of linear operators.
    Yunied Puig de Dios*, University of California Riverside
    (1144-47-145)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    An observation on the limit multiplicity property and representations of lattice group II$_1$ factors.
    Lauren C. Ruth*, Vanderbilt University
    (1144-46-273)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Rigidity of quasiconformal maps of non-rigid Carnot groups.
    Xiangdong Xie*, Bowling Green State University
    Bruce Kleiner, New York University
    Stefan Muller, University of Bonn
    (1144-30-115)
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, II
  Room 329, Thornton Hall
  Organizers:
  Emily Clader, San Francisco State University eclader@sfsu.edu
  Dustin Ross, San Francisco State University
  Mark Shoemaker, Colorado State University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Severi-type problems.
    Adrian I. Zahariuc*, UC Davis
    (1144-14-331)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Complete Quadrics.
    Caitlin King Stanton*, Stanford University
    (1144-14-325)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Monads on $\mathbb{P}^1 \times \mathbb{P}^1$ and Natural Cohomology.
    Pablo Solis*, Stanford
    (1144-14-21)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Break
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Divisors on matroids and their volumes.
    Christopher Eur*, UC Berkeley
    (1144-14-57)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The degree of irrationality of hypersurfaces in Fano varieties.
    David Stapleton*, UC San Diego
    (1144-14-277)
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Analysis and Geometry of Fractals, II
  Room 125, Business Building
  Organizers:
  Kyle Hambrook, University of Rochester
  Chun-Kit Lai, San Francisco State University cklai@sfsu.edu
  Sze-Man Ngai, Georgia Southern University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Fractal uncertainty principle.
    Semyon Dyatlov*, UC Berkeley
    (1144-42-33)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Determining Structure in Lipschitz Images of Fractal Sets and an Application to Pinned Distance Sets.
    Krystal Taylor*, The Ohio State
    (1144-28-324)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    An improved threshold for the Falconer angle problem.
    Eyvindur Ari Palsson*, Virginia Tech
    Alex Iosevich, University of Rochester
    (1144-42-35)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    When does an Iterated Function System have an Attractor?
    Andrew Vince*, University of Florida
    (1144-28-34)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Open set condition and Pseudo Hausdorff measure of self-affine IFSs.
    Xiaoye Fu*, Central China Normal University, P.R.China
    Jean-Pierre Gabardo, McMaster University, Canada
    Hua Qiu, Nanjing University, P.R.China
    (1144-51-152)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Size of rearragements of linear Cantor sets.
    Franklin Mendivil*, Acadia University
    (1144-51-182)
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Applied Harmonic Analysis: Frame Theory and Applications, II
  Room 130, Business Building
  Organizers:
  Chun-Kit Lai, San Francisco State University cklai@sfsu.edu
  Shidong Li, San Francisco State University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Stable phaseless sampling and reconstruction of real-valued signals with finite rate of innovations.
    Cheng Cheng*, Duke University and SAMSI
    Qiyu Sun, University of Central Florida
    (1144-00-201)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Phase Retrieval from Local (Ptychographic) Measurements.
    Mark Iwen, Michigan State University
    Brian Preskitt, University of California San Diego
    Rayan Saab, University of California San Diego
    Aditya Viswanathan*, University of Michigan - Dearborn
    (1144-65-135)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Phase-retrievable representation frames and related topics.
    Deguang Han*, University of Central Florida
    (1144-46-88)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Frames and orthonormal bases generated by Cuntz systems.
    Gabriel Picioroaga*, University of South Dakota
    (1144-46-171)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Finite Balian-Low Theorems and Applications of the Quantitative BLT.
    Michael C Northington V*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Josiah Park, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1144-42-205)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Trigonometric polynomials and Gaussian Stationary processes.
    Naomi Feldheim, Bar Ilan University
    Ohad Feldheim, Hebrew University in Jerusalem
    Benjamin Jaye, Clemson University
    Fedor Nazarov, Kent State University
    Shahaf Nitzan*, Georgia Tech
    (1144-42-335)
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Big Data and Statistical Analytics, II
  Room 429, Thornton Hall
  Organizers:
  Tao He, San Francisco State University hetao@sfsu.edu
  Mohammad Kafai, San Francisco State University
  Alexandra Piryatinska, San Francisco State University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Case-control studies of gene-environment interactions: when a case might not be the case or a control might be a silent disease.
    Li Zhang*, University of California San Francisco, Department of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
    Iryna Lobach, University of California San Francisco, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
    Joshua Sampson, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
    Alexander Alekseyenko, Department of Public Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina
    Siarhei Lobach, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science Department, Belarusian State University
    (1144-62-234)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Incremental Learning on Large-scale Spatio-temporal Prediction via Tensor Decomposition.
    Jianpeng Xu*, eBay. Inc, San Jose, CA
    Pang-Ning Tan, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University
    (1144-68-144)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Recent advances in landmark-based large scale spectral clustering.
    Guangliang Chen*, San Jose State University
    Khiem Pham, San Jose State University
    (1144-62-11)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Nonconvex Matrix Completion: Assumption-free Local Minimum Analysis and Applications in Memory-efficient Kernel PCA.
    Xiaodong Li*, UC Davis
    Ji Chen, UC Davis
    (1144-49-101)
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial and Categorical Aspects of Representation Theory, II
  Room 108, Business Building
  Organizers:
  Nicholas Davidson, University of Oklahoma
  Jonathan Kujawa, University of Oklahoma kujawa@ou.edu
  Robert Muth, Tarleton State University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A categorification of the chromatic symmetric function.
    Radmila Sazdanovic*, NC State
    Martha Yip, University of Kentucky
    (1144-05-310)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Quasisymmetric power sums and plethysm.
    Sarah Mason*, Wake Forest University
    Cristina Ballantine, College of the Holy Cross
    Zajj Daugherty, City University of New York
    Angela Hicks, Lehigh University
    Elizabeth Niese, Marshall University
    (1144-05-213)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Tableaux posets and the fake degrees of coinvariant algebras.
    Joshua P. Swanson*, University of California, San Diego
    Sara C. Billey, University of Washington
    Matja\v{z} Konvalinka, University of Ljubljana
    (1144-05-197)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Specht modules decompose as alternating sums of restrictions of Schur modules.
    Sami H. Assaf*, University of Southern California
    David E. Speyer, University of Michigan
    (1144-20-116)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A combinatorial description of some representations of degenerate double affine Hecke algebras of type $BC_n$.
    Yue Zhao*, University of California, Davis
    (1144-00-220)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    An elliptic Schur-Weyl construction of the rectangular representation of the DAHA.
    David Jordan, University of Edinburgh
    Monica Vazirani*, UC Davis
    (1144-05-181)
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Coupling in Probability and Related Fields, II
  Room 409, Thornton Hall
  Organizers:
  Sayan Banerjee, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  Terry Soo, University of Kansas tsoo@ku.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the Dimension of Unimodular Discrete Spaces.
    Francois Baccelli*, UT Austin, Department of Mathematics
    Mir-Omid Haji-Mirsadeghi, Sharif University
    Ali Khezeli, Tarbiat Modares University
    (1144-60-117)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The frog model on trees with drift.
    Erin Beckman, Duke University
    Natalie Frank, New York University
    Yufeng Jiang, Duke University
    Matthew Junge, Duke University
    Si Tang*, Duke University
    (1144-60-126)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Independent sets in random triangulations.
    Omer Angel*, UBC
    Andrew Rechnitzer, UBC
    (1144-60-230)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Random geometric graphs in normed spaces.
    Karen Gunderson*, University of Manitoba
    (1144-05-250)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Majority dynamics on the infinite 3-regular tree.
    Arnab Sen*, University of Minnesota
    Michael Damron, Georgia Tech
    (1144-60-313)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Analysis, II
  Room 325, Thornton Hall
  Organizers:
  Ovidiu Munteanu, University of Connecticut ovidiu.munteanu@uconn.edu
  David Bao, San Francisco State University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The topology of self-shrinkers and sharp entropy bounds.
    Or Hershkovits*, Stanford University
    Brian White, Stanford Universtiy
    (1144-51-240)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Min-max theory for hypersurfaces with prescribed mean curvature.
    Xin Zhou*, UC Santa Barbara
    Jonathan Zhu, Princeton University
    (1144-53-51)
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Methods in Hypercomplex Analysis, II
  Room 326, Thornton Hall
  Organizers:
  Paula Cerejeiras, Universidade de Aveiro
  Matvei Libine, Indiana University, Bloomington
  Mihaela B. Vajiac, Chapman University mbvajiac@chapman.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Integration in superspace via distributions and some applications.
    Al\'{\i} Guzm\'an Ad\'an*, Ghent University
    Frank Sommen, Ghent University
    (1144-32-39)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On quaternionic Gabor frames.
    Paula Cerejeiras*, CIDMA, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
    (1144-42-162)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Cohomology of Bicomplex-type Structures on Manifolds.
    James A. Francese*, Chapman University
    (1144-51-312)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Interpolation of monogenic functions based on reproducing kernels.
    Uwe Kaehler*, Universidade de Aveiro
    (1144-41-149)
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Homological Aspects in Commutative Algebra and Representation Theory, II
  Room 106, Business Building
  Organizers:
  Srikanth B. Iyengar, University of Utah iyengar@math.utah.edu
  Julia Pevtsova, University of Washington
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Cohen-Macaulay representation theory modulo numerical equivalence.
    Hailong Dao*, University of Kansas
    (1144-13-218)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Support schemes for infinitesimal unipotent supergroups.
    Christopher M. Drupieski*, DePaul University
    Jonathan R. Kujawa, University of Oklahoma
    (1144-20-18)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Cohomology of Unipoent Group schemes.
    Eric M Friedlander*, University of Southern California
    (1144-20-120)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Unimodular rows over monoid rings.
    Joseph Gubeladze*, San Francisco
    (1144-19-80)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Iterated tilting of truncated path algebras.
    Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann*, University of California at Santa Barbara
    (1144-16-64)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Splitting properties of big Cohen-Macaulay modules.
    Mel Hochster, University of Michigan
    Graham Leuschke*, Syracuse University
    Rebecca R.G., George Mason University
    (1144-13-227)
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Homological Aspects of Noncommutative Algebra and Geometry, II
  Room 104, Business Building
  Organizers:
  Dan Rogalski, University of California San Diego
  Sarah Witherspoon, Texas A University
  James Zhang, University of Washington, Seattle zhang@math.washington.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the quadratic dual of the Fomin-Kirillov algebras.
    Chelsea Walton*, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1144-16-111)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Cohen-Montgomery Duality and the Grothendieck Correspondence.
    Liang Ze Wong*, University of Washington, Seattle
    (1144-18-167)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Integral Forms for Quantum Cluster Algebras.
    K. R. Goodearl*, University of California at Santa Barbara
    (1144-16-65)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Base changes of categorical resolutions of singularities.
    Zhaoting Wei*, Kent State University at Geauga
    (1144-18-14)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Gerstenhaber structure on the Hochschild cohomology of a class of special biserial algebras.
    Joanna Meinel, University of Bonn
    Van C. Nguyen*, Hood College
    Bregje Pauwels, The Australian National University
    Maria Julia Redondo, Universidad Nacional del Sur and INMABB
    Andrea Solotar, Universidad de Buenos Aires and IMAS
    (1144-18-154)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Finite generation of cohomology rings of some pointed Hopf algebras in positive characteristic.
    Van Cat Nguyen, Hood College
    Xingting Wang*, Howard University
    Sarah Witherspoon, Texas A University
    (1144-16-222)
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Markov Processes, Gaussian Processes and Applications, II
  Room 335, Thornton Hall
  Organizers:
  Alan Krinik, California State Polytechnic University ackrinik@cpp.edu
  Randall J. Swift, California State Polytechnic University
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The argmin process of random walks, Brownian motion and L\'evy processes.
    Jim Pitman, University of California Berkeley, Department of Statistics
    Wenpin Tang*, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Mathematics
    (1144-60-9)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Random walks generated by Ewens distribution on the symmetric group.
    Alperen Ozdemir*, University of Southern California
    (1144-60-297)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Gaussian Process Models for Mortality Rates and Improvement Factors: An Interactive R Markdown Approach.
    Jimmy Kenneth Risk*, Cal Poly Pomona
    (1144-60-76)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Diffusion Limits for Shortest Remaining Processing Time Queues Under Nonstandard Spatial Scaling.
    Amber Puha*, California State University San Marcos
    (1144-60-122)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Bayesian Modeling of Discrete Time Discrete State Space Processes.
    Adam J King*, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
    (1144-62-319)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    A stochastic model for protein localization in Caulobacter Crescentus bacterium: mechanisms for asymmetric division.
    An Do*, Claremont Graduate University
    Blerta Shtylla, Pomona College
    (1144-92-349)
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Biology with a focus on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation, II
  Room 215, Business Building
  Organizers:
  Jim Cushing, The University of Arizona
  Saber Elaydi, Trinity University
  Suzanne Sindi, University of California, Merced
  Abdul-Aziz Yakubu, Howard University ayakubu@howard.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Difference Equations as Darwinian Models.
    Jim Michael Cushing*, Tucson
    (1144-92-94)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The effect of toxicant resistance evolution in the prey population on the dynamics of a predator-prey system.
    Azmy S. Ackleh*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    MD Istiaq Hossain, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    Amy Veprauskas, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    (1144-92-160)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Asymptotic Behavior of an SIR Reaction-Diffusion Model.
    Keng Deng*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    (1144-35-172)
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Noncommutative Geometry and Fundamental Applications, II
  Room 122, Business Building
  Organizers:
  Konrad Aguilar, Arizona State University
  Frederic Latremoliere, University of Denver frederic@math.du.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Dirac operators for ``Matrix algebras converge to the sphere''.
    Marc A. Rieffel*, University of California, Berkeley
    (1144-46-91)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Weighted graphs as quantum compact metric spaces.
    Michael Hartglass*, Santa Clara University
    Dave Penneys, Ohio State University
    (1144-46-245)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Kernel Stabilization of Derivations on $C^*$-algebras.
    Lara M. Ismert*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1144-47-107)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A New Index Theorem for Monomial Ideals by Resolutions.
    Ronald Douglas, Texas A University
    Mohammad Jabbari*, Washington University in St. Louis
    Xiang Tang, Washington University in St. Louis
    Guoliang Yu, Texas A University
    (1144-47-186)
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlocal PDEs via Harmonic Analysis, II
  Room 213, Business Building
  Organizers:
  Tadele Mengesha, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  Armin Schikorra, University of Pittsburgh armin@pitt.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Positive solutions to nonlocal sublinear elliptic equations.
    Igor Verbitsky*, University of Missouri
    (1144-35-177)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The obstacle problem for a fractional Monge--Amp\`ere equation.
    Pablo Ra\'ul Stinga*, Iowa State University
    (1144-35-221)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Fronts for the SQG Equation.
    John K. Hunter, University of California at Davis
    Jingyang Shu*, University of California at Davis
    Qingtian Zhang, University of California at Davis
    (1144-35-62)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Extremals of eigenvalues in conformal classes.
    Yannick Sire*, Johns Hopkins University
    (1144-35-68)
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Probabilistic and Statistical Problems in Stochastic Dynamics, II
  Room 218, Business Building
  Organizers:
  Tao He, San Francisco State University
  Mohammad Kafai, San Francisco State University
  Alexandra Piryatinska, San Francisco State University alpiryat@sfsu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Probabilistic analysis of alpha-Ricatti equations.
    Edward C Waymire*, Mathematics/Oregon State University
    Radu Dascaliuc, Mathematics/Oregon State University
    Nicholas Michalowski, Boston, MA
    Enrique A Thomann, Mathematics/Oregon State University
    (1144-35-22)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Limiting spectral distributions for a class of high-dimensional time series.
    Alexander Aue*, UC Davis
    Haoyang Liu, Federal Reserve Bank New York
    Debashis Paul, UC Davis
    (1144-62-45)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Statistical Inference over Time Varying High-Dimensional Models.
    Lifeng Lai*, University of California, Davis
    (1144-62-79)
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Research in Mathematics by Early Career Graduate Students, II
  Room 113, Hensill Hall
  Organizers:
  Michael Bishop, California State University, Fresno mibishop@csufresno.edu
  Marat Markin, California State University, Fresno
  Jenna Tague, California State University, Fresno
  Khang Tran, California State University, Fresno
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    One-parametric family of scale-invariant Cassinian metrics.
    Chulhee Y Lee*, California State University, Fullerton
    (1144-30-263)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    One-parametric family of distance-ratio metrics.
    Miguel A Jimenez Bravo*, California State University, Fullerton
    (1144-30-261)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the Nature of Expansions on Compact and Totally Bounded Metric Spaces and More.
    Edward S. Sichel*, Department of Mathematics, California State University, Fresno
    (1144-46-198)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    $p$-adic Dynamical Systems of $(3,1)$-Rational Functions with unique fixed point.
    Alexandro R Luna*, California State University, Fullerton
    Sattarov, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
    Rozikov, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
    (1144-37-258)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On Structural Stability of $3D$ Filippov Systems.
    Ot\'avio M. L. Gomide*, IMECC - University of Campinas
    (1144-37-134)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Social Change In and Through Mathematics and Education, II
  Room 206, Hensill Hall
  Organizers:
  Federico Ardila, San Francisco State University
  Matthias Beck, San Francisco State University
  Jamylle Carter, Diablo Valley College
  Kimberly Seashore, San Francisco State University kimseash@sfsu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    How we get students PUMPed into PhDs.
    M. Helena Noronha*, California State University Northridge
    (1144-00-255)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The role of Intergenerational Equity in Making Changes in the Learning and Application of Mathematics.
    Kamaldeen O Okuneye*, Arizona state university
    (1144-97-219)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Constructing and Analyzing Everyday Examples about Basis: An Anti-deficit Approach in Teaching.
    Aditya P Adiredja*, The University of Arizona
    (1144-97-190)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Panel on Equity and Social Justice in Mathematics.
    Dagan Karp*, Harvey Mudd College
    (1144-97-262)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Communicating with mathematicians about social and educational change.
    Benjamin Braun*, University of Kentucky
    (1144-97-206)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Mathematics and Gerrymandering.
    Stephanie J. Somersille*, San Francisco, CA
    (1144-00-339)
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Statistical and Geometrical Properties of Dynamical Systems, II
  Room 219, Business Building
  Organizers:
  Joanna Furno, University of Houston jfurno@math.uh.edu
  Matthew Nicol, University of Houston
  Mariusz Urbanski, University of North Texas
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Modeling Extremes in Dynamics under Stationary and Nonstationary Assumptions.
    Meagan Carney*, University of Houston
    Matthew Nicol, University of Houston
    (1144-37-247)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the stationary density of random maps.
    J Ding*, University of Southern Mississippy
    T Upadhyay, Natchez Junior College
    (1144-37-283)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Statistical properties of dynamic networks.
    Ami Radunskaya*, Pomona College, Claremont
    (1144-37-286)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: A discrete model for lightning.
    James T Campbell*, University of Memphis, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Memphis, TN 38152
    (1144-60-185)
• Saturday October 27, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  Contributed Paper Session on AMS Contributed Paper Session, II
  Room 222, Business Building
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Study on the Calculus of Variations and Mean Boundary Proof for Isoperimetric Problems.
    Richard Kyung*, CRG-NJ (Choice Research Group)
    Jae Mo Shin, CRG-NJ (Choice Research Group)
    (1144-51-344)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Analysis of the Truncation Error and Barrier-Function Technique for a Bakhvalov-type Mesh.
    Thai Anh Nhan*, Holy Names University, Oakland, California
    Relja Vulanovic, Kent State University
    (1144-65-61)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Resonant vs non-resonant collapse events of optical beams.
    Alexey Sukhinin*, North Dakota State University
    (1144-78-293)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    An $E_{\infty}$-subalgebra of Hochschild Cochains.
    Jerry Lodder*, New Mexico State University
    (1144-16-271)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Spatio-temporal patterns in the wake of pulse solutions to the Morris-Lecar neuron model.
    Anthea Cheung*, Boston University
    (1144-35-118)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Regularity of Non-compact Inverse Mean Curvature Flow.
    Beomjun Choi*, Columbia University
    Panagiota Daskalopoulos, Columbia University
    (1144-53-141)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Convergence of Curve Shortening Flow to Translating Soliton.
    Beomjun Choi*, Columbia University
    Kyeongsu Choi, MIT
    Panagiota Daskalopoulos, Columbia University
    (1144-53-142)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Hydrodynamic limit of the inhomogeneous $\ell$-TASEP as a model for translation dynamics.
    Dan Daniel Erdmann-Pham*, UC Berkeley, Department of Mathematics
    Khanh Dao Duc, UC Berkeley, Department of Computer Science
    Yun S Song, UC Berkeley, Department of Statistics and Department of Computer Science
    (1144-60-96)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Density Estimation with Small Berkson Errors.
    Ramchandra Rimal*, University of Central Florida
    Marianna Pensky, University of Central Florida
    (1144-62-183)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Effectiveness of Representation Learning for the Analysis of Human Behavior.
    Kourosh Modarresi*, Adobe Inc
    (1144-68-338)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    $\mathcal{P}$-Play in Candy Nim.
    N Mani*, Stanford University
    R Nelakanti, Euler Circle
    S Rubinstein-Salzedo, Euler Circle
    A Tholen, Euler Circle
    (1144-91-78)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Study on Stock Market Patterns with Economic Fluctuations Using Statistical and Computational Simulations.
    Remy Wu*, CRG-NJ (Choice Research Group)
    Richard Kyung, CRGNJ
    (1144-91-346)