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Fall Southeastern Sectional Meeting

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
November 3-4, 2018 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1142

Associate secretaries:

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

Saturday November 3, 2018

Saturday November 3, 2018, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Exhibit and Book Sale
3rd Floor Lobby, Champions Hall

Saturday November 3, 2018, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Meeting Registration
3rd Floor Lobby, Champions Hall

Saturday November 3, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra, I
Room 610, Science Engineering Hall
Organizers:
Alessandro De Stefani, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Paolo Mantero, University of Arkansas
Thomas Polstra, University of Utah polstra@math.utah.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Regularity of powers of edge ideals: from local properties to global bounds.
  Arindam Banerjee*, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute, India
  Selvi Kara Bayerslan, University of Southern Alabama
  Huy Tai Ha, Tulane University
  (1142-13-162)
- 8:30 a.m.
  The derived category of a locally complete intersection ring.
  Josh H Pollitz*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  (1142-13-91)
- 9:00 a.m.
  G-regularity of rings of embedding codepth 3.
  Lars W Christensten, Texas Tech University
  Andrew R Kustin, University of South Carolina
  Adela N Vraciu*, University of South Carolina
  (1142-13-96)
- 9:30 a.m.
  $c$-Ulrich Modules.
  Justin Lyle*, University of Kansas
  Jonathan Monta\~no, New Mexico State University
  (1142-13-133)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On the structure of large homomorphisms of local rings.
  Mohsen Gheibi*, University of Texas at Arlington
  Ryo Takahashi, Nagoya University
  (1142-13-55)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Betti numbers of Frobenius powers of ideals in characteristic $p > 0$.
  Rebecca R.G.*, George Mason University
  Claudia Miller, Syracuse University
  Hamidreza Rahmati, Miami University
  (1142-13-121)

Saturday November 3, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Groups in Low-dimensional Topology and Dynamics, I
Room 406, Science Engineering Hall
Organizers:
Matt Clay, University of Arkansas mattclay@uark.edu
Kathryn Mann, Brown University kathryn_mann@brown.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Big Torelli Groups.
  J. Aramayona, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid \& ICMAT
  T. Ghaswala, University of Manitoba
  A. E. Kent, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  A. Mcleay, University of Luxemboug
  J. Tao*, University of Oklahoma
  R. R. Winarski, University of Michigan
  (1142-57-170)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The Birman exact sequence does not virtually split.
  Lei Chen*, Caltech
  Nick Salter, Columbia University
  (1142-57-24)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Stable commutator length in generalized Baumslag--Solitar groups.
  Lvzhou Chen*, University of Chicago
  (1142-57-135)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Farrell-Jones conjecture for free-by-cyclic groups.
  Mladen Bestvina, University of Utah
  Koji Fujiwara, Kyoto University
  Derrick Wigglesworth*, The Fields Institute
  (1142-19-88)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Property $P_{naive}$ for acylindrically hyperbolic groups.
  Carolyn Abbott*, University of California, Berkeley
  Francois Dahmani, Institut Fourier, Universite Grenoble Alpes
  (1142-20-143)

Saturday November 3, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations, I
Room 205, Science Engineering Hall
Organizers:
Ariel Barton, University of Arkansas aeb019@uark.edu
Simon Bortz, University of Minnesota
- 8:00 a.m.
  Reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces on a semi-infinite domain.
  Jabar Salih Hassan*, Rolla, MO
  David E Grow, Rolla, MO
  (1142-35-169)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Estimates for Brascamp-Lieb forms in $L^p$-spaces with power weights.
  R M Brown, University of Kentucky
  C W Lee, University of Kentucky
  K A Ott*, Bates College
  (1142-28-53)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Singular Integral Operators of Layer Potential Type.
  Irina Mitrea*, Temple University
  (1142-35-221)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A weak reverse H{\"o}lder inequality for parabolic measure.
  Alyssa D. Genschaw*, University of Missouri
  Steve Hofmann, University of Missouri
  (1142-35-61)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Sparse bounds for the discrete cubic Hilbert transform.
  Amalia Culiuc*, Amherst College
  Robert Kesler, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Michael Lacey, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (1142-26-127)

Saturday November 3, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Interactions Between Contact and Symplectic Geometry and Low-dimensional Topology, I
Room 408, Science Engineering Hall
Organizers:
Jeremy Van Horn-Morris, University of Arkansas
David Shea Vela-Vick, Louisiana State University shea@math.lsu.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Heegaard Floer, homology cobordism, and knot concordance.
  Irving Dai, Princeton
  Jennifer Hom*, Georgia Tech
  Matthew Stoffregen, MIT
  Linh Truong, Columbia
  (1142-57-114)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Link homology, bridge trisections, and invariants of knotted surfaces.
  Adam Saltz*, University of Georgia
  (1142-57-247)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Relative trisections and HF contact invariants.
  Juanita Pinzon-Caicedo*, North Carolina State University
  (1142-57-238)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Satellite operators and knot concordance.
  Allison N. Miller*, Rice University
  (1142-57-100)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The Conway knot is not slice.
  Lisa Piccirillo*, University of Texas, Austin
  (1142-57-183)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Connected Heegaard Floer homology and homology cobordism.
  Kristen Hendricks*, Michigan State University
  Jennifer Hom, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Tye Lidman, North Carolina State University
  (1142-57-151)

Saturday November 3, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Non-associative Algebraic Structures and their (Co)homology Theories, I
Room 402, Science Engineering Hall
Organizers:
Michael Kinyon, University of Denver
Jozef H Przytycki, The George Washington University
Petr Vojtechovsky, University of Denver
Seung Yeop Yang, University of Denver seungyeop.yang@du.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  On one variety of binary Lie algebras.
  Liudmila Sabinina*, Centro de Investigacion en Ciencias,UAEM
  (1142-17-184)
- 8:30 a.m.
  On the rack homology of graphic quandles.
  Sujoy Mukherjee*, The George Washington University
  J\'{o}zef H. Przytycki, The George Washington University
  (1142-57-215)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Continuous Cohomology of Topological Quandles.
  Mohamed Elhamdadi, University of South Florida
  Masahico Saito, University of South Florida
  Emanuele Zappala*, University of South Florida
  (1142-17-149)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Quandle homology and relative group homology of degree 3.
  Takefumi Nosaka*, Tokyo Institute of Technology
  (1142-55-139)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Quandle Coloring Quivers.
  Sam Nelson*, Claremont McKenna College
  Karina Cho, Harvey Mudd College
  (1142-57-28)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Categorical Perspectives on Quandles and Racks.
  Peter W. Ulrickson*, The Catholic University of America
  Markus Szymik, NTNU
  (1142-18-229)

Saturday November 3, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Recent Advances in Mathematical Fluid Mechanics, I
Room 204, Science Engineering Hall
Organizers:
Zachary Bradshaw, University of Arkansas zb002@uark.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Local-in-Time Boundedness of Velocity with Oscillatory Types of Initial Data.
  Liaosha Xu*, University of Virginia
  (1142-35-175)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Fluid dynamics PDE driven by random noise.
  Kazuo Yamazaki*, University of Rochester
  (1142-35-20)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On the one-phase Muskat problem.
  Huy Nguyen*, Brown University
  Benoit Pausader, Brown University
  (1142-35-81)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Prepare to be assimilated: Data Assimilation between two similar, but distinct systems.
  Jared P Whitehead*, Brigham Young University
  (1142-76-65)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Solutions to the 2D Euler equations with velocity growing at infinity.
  Elaine Cozzi*, Oregon State University
  James P. Kelliher, University of California, Riverside
  (1142-76-136)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A Bayesian Approach to Quantifying Uncertainty Divergence Free Flows.
  Nathan Glatt-Holtz*, Tulane University
  (1142-35-23)

Saturday November 3, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Recent Developments on Fluid Turbulence, I
Room 203, Science Engineering Hall
Organizers:
Eleftherios Gkioulekas, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley eleftherios.gkioulekas@utrgv.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Effect of energy spectra on tracer cascade.
  Michael S Jolly*, Indiana University
  Djoko Wirosoetisno, Durham University
  (1142-76-158)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Topology and the Large Scale Turbulent Dynamo.
  Ethan T. Vishniac*, Johns Hopkins University \& American Astronomical Society
  (1142-76-197)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On the Global Attractor of 2D Incompressible Turbulence with Random Forcing and Friction.
  John C Bowman*, University of Alberta
  Pedram Emami, University of Alberta
  (1142-76-21)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Determining Quantities for Statistical Solutions of the Navier-Stokes Equations.
  Animikh Biswas*, University of Maryland Baltimore County
  Ciprian Foias, Texas A University
  Cecilia F Mondaini, Tulane University
  Edriss S Titi, Texas A University and The Weizmann Institute of Science
  (1142-76-116)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Multi-Scale Dynamics of Flows on the 2-Sphere: Applications to the Ocean.
  Hussein Aluie*, University of Rochester
  Mahmoud Sadek, University of Rochester
  Matthew Hecht, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  Geoffrey Vallis, University of Exeter
  (1142-76-216)
- 10:30 a.m.
  An Onsager Singularity Theorem for Turbulent Solutions of Compressible Euler Equations.
  Theodore D. Drivas*, Princeton
  Gregory L. Eyink, Johns Hopkins University
  (1142-35-10)

Saturday November 3, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on The Geometry of Curves and Applications, I
Room 403, Science Engineering Hall
Organizers:
Jason Cantarella, University of Georgia
Philipp Reiter, University of Georgia reiter@uga.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Upper Bounds for Stick Numbers of Knots Through Random Sampling of Confined Polygons.
  Thomas D. Eddy*, Colorado State University
  (1142-51-90)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Knotting Probability of Equilateral Hexagons.
  Kathleen Hake*, Carleton College
  (1142-51-57)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Hyperbolicity of Random Link Diagrams.
  Malik Obeidin*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1142-51-36)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Distance Distributions for Curves and Metric Measure Spaces.
  Tom Needham*, The Ohio State University
  Facundo M\'emoli, The Ohio State University
  (1142-51-49)
- 10:00 a.m.
  How loop numbers relate to some known knot invariants?
  Claus Ernst, Western Kentucky University
  Van Pham*, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  (1142-05-59)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A Maximum Principle for Circle-Valued Temperatures.
  Andrew Cooper*, North Carolina State University
  (1142-53-58)

Saturday November 3, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Validation and Verification Strategies in Multiphysics Problems, I
Room 202, Science Engineering Hall
Organizers:
Tulin Kaman, University of Arkansas tkaman@uark.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Numerical challenges in turbulent mixing simulations.
  Tulin Kaman*, University of Arkansas, Department of Mathematical Sciences
  (1142-76-204)
- 8:30 a.m.
  A Physics Informed Gaussian Process Regression Method with Application to Subsurface Flow.
  Xiu Yang*, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  (1142-41-203)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Bayesian Modeling Ideas for Data Assimilation and Uncertainty Quantification.
  Avishek Chakraborty*, University of Arkansas
  (1142-62-241)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The Consistent Bayesian Approach for Stochastic Inverse Problems.
  Tim M Wildey*, Sandia National Laboratories
  Troy Butler, University of Colorado - Denver
  John Jakeman, Sandia National Laboratories
  (1142-28-64)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Fast Methods for Bayesian Optimal Experimental Design.
  Brad Marvin, The University of Texas at Austin
  Tan Bui-Thanh*, The University of Texas at Austin
  (1142-60-6)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Estimating and controlling ``communication'' errors in multiphysics problems.
  Simon J Tavener*, Colorado State University
  Varis Carey, University of Colorado Denver
  Donald Estep, Colorado State University
  Victor Ginting, University of Wyoming
  David Kay, University of Oxford
  (1142-65-167)

Saturday November 3, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Interactions Between Combinatorics and Commutative Algebra, I
Room 613, Science Engineering Hall
Organizers:
Ashwini Bhat, Oklahoma State University
Chris Francisco, Oklahoma State University chris.francisco@okstate.edu
Jeffrey Mermin, Oklahoma State University
- 8:30 a.m.
  Minimum Distance Functions.
  Susan M. Cooper*, University of Manitoba
  (1142-13-118)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Koszul algebras defined by four quadrics.
  Paolo Mantero, University of Arkansas
  Matthew Mastroeni*, Oklahoma State University
  (1142-13-178)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Unexpected Hypersurfaces.
  Brian Harbourne, University of Nebraska
  Juan Migliore*, University of Notre Dame
  Uwe Nagel, University of Kentucky
  Zach Teitler, Boise State University
  (1142-14-42)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Asymptotic Resurgence and Integral Closures.
  Michael DiPasquale*, Colorado State University
  Christopher Francisco, Oklahoma State University
  Jeff Mermin, Oklahoma State University
  Jay Schweig, Oklahoma State University
  (1142-13-150)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Containments between powers of monomial ideals and optimal solutions to linear programming problems.
  Tai Ha*, Tulane University
  (1142-13-79)

Saturday November 3, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Operator Theory and Function Spaces of Analytic Functions, I
Room 322, Science Engineering Hall
Organizers:
Daniel Luecking, University of Arkansas
Maria Tjani, University of Arkansas mtjani@uark.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  $C_0$-semigroups of 2-isometries and Dirichlet spaces.
  Eva A. Gallardo-Gutierrez*, Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Instituto de Ciencias Matematicas ICMAT
  (1142-47-137)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On Spectral Properties of Composition Operators whose Symbol Has a Fixed Point in $\mathbb{D}$.
  Carl C Cowen*, Indiana U. Purdue U. Indianapolis
  (1142-47-108)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Complex Symmetric Composition Operators on Weighted Hardy Spaces.
  Sivaram K Narayan*, Central Michigan University
  (1142-47-125)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Inner functions in weighted Hardy spaces over the unit disk.
  Trieu Le*, University of Toledo
  (1142-47-72)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Reducing Subspaces of de Branges-Rovnyak Spaces.
  Cheng Chu*, Vanderbilt University
  (1142-47-45)

Saturday November 3, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Partial Differential Equations in Several Complex Variables, I
Room 206, Science Engineering Hall
Organizers:
Phillip Harrington, University of Arkansas
Andrew Raich, University of Arkansas araich@uark.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Use of projective dual coordinates and model domains in analysis of the Leray transform.
  David E Barrett*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  Luke D Edholm, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  (1142-32-102)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The rational hull of Rudin's Klein bottle.
  John T. Anderson, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester
  Purvi Gupta*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
  Edgar L. Stout, University of Washington, Seattle
  (1142-32-142)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The Wave Equation for the Kohn Laplacian on Quadrics.
  Raymond T. Walter*, University of Arkansas, Departments of Mathematical Sciences and Physics
  (1142-32-192)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Quantitative rectifiability and the Varopolous extension theorem for BMO.
  Steve Hofmann*, University of Missouri
  (1142-42-131)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Geometric measure theory, singular integral operators, and integral representation formulas in complex analysis.
  Dorina Mitrea*, University of Missouri
  (1142-35-193)

Saturday November 3, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Session for Contributed Papers, I
Room 404, Science Engineering Hall
- 8:30 a.m.
  Exploring Upper Bounds of Proper Diameter of Graphs.
  Grant Fickes, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
  Dylan Green*, Trevecca Nazarene University
  Karen McCready, King's College
  Kathleen Ryan, DeSales University
  Nathaniel Sauerberg, Carleton College
  Jill Stifano, Fairfield University
  (1142-00-13)
- 8:45 a.m.
  TALK CANCELED: The Ramsey numbers for theta graphs versus the wheel of order $5$.
  M. M. Jaradat*, Qatar University
  M S Bataineh, Yarmouk University
  T. Vetrik, University of the Free State
  (1142-05-129)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Study on the Calculus of Variations and Lagrange multipliers to Solve Isoperimetric Problems.
  Jae Mo Shin*, CRG-NJ (Choice Research Group)
  Richard Kyung, CRG-NJ (Choice Research Group)
  (1142-14-244)
- 9:15 a.m.
  Graded Representations of Current Algebras.
  Kayla Murray*, University of Arkansas Fort Smith
  (1142-17-225)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Quasi-positivity and recognition of products of conjugacy classes in free groups.
  Robert W Bell*, Michigan State University
  Rita Gitik, University of Michigan
  (1142-20-97)
- 9:45 a.m.
  Cannon--Thurston maps in non-positive curvature.
  Emily Stark*, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
  (1142-20-188)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Direct and inverse scattering problems for a first-order system with energy-dependent potentials.
  Ramazan Ercan*, The University of Texas at Arlington
  Tuncay Aktosun, The University of Texas at Arlington, Department of Mathematics
  (1142-35-209)
- 10:15 a.m.
  Mathematical Models of Dynamics Transmission and Control of Ebola.
  Darlington S. Y. David*, University of Liberia
  John Soleemulo Fayiah, University of Liberia
  Jeff Harris, University of Liberia
  Arthur Biomadum Brown, Jr., University of Liberia
  (1142-37-180)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Zeros of random orthogonal polynomials with complex Gaussian coefficients.
  Aaron Michael Yeager*, University of Oklahoma
  (1142-41-8)

Saturday November 3, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Advances in Birational Geometry, I
Room 604, Science Engineering Hall
Organizers:
Roi Docampo, University of Oklahoma
Lance Edward Miller, University of Arkansas lem016@uark.edu
Wenbo Niu, University of Arkansas
- 9:00 a.m.
  Weak-Boundedness of Fano 3-folds in characteristic p$>$5.
  Omprokash Das*, University of California, Los Angeles
  (1142-14-92)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A remark on a $3$-fold constructed by Colliot-Th\'el\`ene and Voisin.
  Fumiaki Suzuki*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1142-14-154)

Saturday November 3, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Numerical Methods for Nonlinear Systems, I
Room 201, Science Engineering Hall
Organizers:
Jonathan Hauenstein, University of Notre Dame
Tingting Tang, University of Notre Dame ttang@nd.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Polynomial Optimization via SONC Certificates.
  Timo de Wolff*, Technische Universit\"at Berlin
  Henning Seidler, Technische Universit\"at Berlin
  (1142-90-186)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Residual Expansion Algorithm: Fast and Effective Optimization for Nonconvex Least Squares Problems.
  Daiki Ikami*, The University of Tokyo
  (1142-00-211)

Saturday November 3, 2018, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Invited Address
Numerical algebraic geometry and optimization.
Room 0026, Gearhart Hall
Jonathan D. Hauenstein*, University of Notre Dame
(1142-65-68)

Saturday November 3, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
Invited Address
On falling into black holes.
Room 0026, Gearhart Hall
Mihalis Dafermos*, Princeton University
(1142-83-249)

Saturday November 3, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Commutative Algebra, II
Room 610, Science Engineering Hall
Organizers:
Alessandro De Stefani, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Paolo Mantero, University of Arkansas
Thomas Polstra, University of Utah polstra@math.utah.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  On the Cohen-Macaulay property of the Rees algebra of the module of differentials.
  Alessandra Costantini*, Purdue University
  Tan Dang, Purdue University
  (1142-13-86)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Asymptotic resurgence via integral closures (the squarefree case).
  Michael DiPasquale, Colorado State University
  Christopher A Francisco, Oklahoma State University
  Jeff Mermin*, Oklahoma State University
  Jay Schweig, Oklahoma State University
  (1142-13-155)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Generalized Borel Ideals.
  Ashwini Bhat*, Oklahoma State University
  (1142-13-83)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A Generalized Serre Condition.
  Brent J Holmes*, University of Kansas
  (1142-13-25)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Tight closure of powers of ideals and tight Hilbert polynomials.
  Kriti Goel, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
  Vivek Mukundan*, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA - 22902, USA
  Jugal K Verma, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
  (1142-13-148)
- 5:30 p.m.
  On the Cohen-Macaulayness of non-Noetherian rings.
  Youngsu Kim*, University of Arkansas
  Andrew Walker, College of Charleston
  (1142-13-153)

Saturday November 3, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Groups in Low-dimensional Topology and Dynamics, II
Room 406, Science Engineering Hall
Organizers:
Matt Clay, University of Arkansas mattclay@uark.edu
Kathryn Mann, Brown University kathryn_mann@brown.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Non-planar boundaries of right-angled Coxeter groups.
  Pallavi Dani, Louisiana State University
  Matthew Haulmark, Vanderbilt University
  Genevieve Walsh*, Tufts University
  (1142-20-78)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Hyperbolic Structures on Wreath Products.
  Sahana H. Balasubramanya*, UNC Greensboro
  (1142-20-77)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Section problems for configurations of points on the Riemann sphere.
  Nick Salter*, Columbia University
  Lei Chen, Caltech
  (1142-57-73)
- 5:00 p.m.
  An atoroidal subgroup alternative for $Out(F_N)$.
  Matt Clay, University of Arkansas
  Caglar Uyanik*, Yale University
  (1142-20-74)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Automorphisms of curve graph variants: bounded intersection.
  Tarik Aougab*, Brown University
  Shuchi Agrawal, Brown University
  Yassin Chandran, University of California, Santa Barbara
  Marissa Loving, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
  Rob Oakley, Concordia University
  Roberta Shapiro, Rutgers University
  Sunny Yang, Brown University
  (1142-57-75)

Saturday November 3, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations, II
Room 205, Science Engineering Hall
Organizers:
Ariel Barton, University of Arkansas aeb019@uark.edu
Simon Bortz, University of Minnesota
- 3:00 p.m.
  Falconer Distance Set Problem via Weighted Restriction Estimates.
  Xiumin Du, Institute for Advanced Study
  Larry Guth, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Yumeng Ou, The City University of New York, Baruch College
  Hong Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Bobby Wilson*, University of Washington
  Ruixiang Zhang, Institute for Advanced Study
  (1142-43-103)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Elliptic measures and the geometry of domains.
  Zihui Zhao*, Institute for Advanced Study
  Steve Hofmann, University of Missouri
  Jos\'e Mar\'{\i}a Martell, ICMAT
  Svitlana Mayboroda, University of Minnesota
  Tatiana Toro, University of Washington
  (1142-35-156)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Free boundary regularity for harmonic measure on multi-phase configurations.
  Matthew Badger*, University of Connecticut
  (1142-35-87)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Perturbations of elliptic operators on non-smooth domains.
  Murat Akman*, University of Connecticut
  (1142-31-22)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Norm estimates for singular integral operators on unbounded surfaces.
  Marius Mitrea*, University of Missouri
  (1142-35-201)
- 5:30 p.m.
  The Dirichlet problem for sets with higher co-dimensional boundaries.
  Joseph Feneuil*, Temple University
  (1142-35-213)

Saturday November 3, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Interactions Between Combinatorics and Commutative Algebra, II
Room 613, Science Engineering Hall
Organizers:
Ashwini Bhat, Oklahoma State University
Chris Francisco, Oklahoma State University chris.francisco@okstate.edu
Jeffrey Mermin, Oklahoma State University
- 3:00 p.m.
  Syzygies and Random Monomial Ideals.
  Daniel Erman*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Jay Yang, University of Minnesota
  (1142-13-47)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Computing projective dimension of monomial ideals via associated hypergraphs and lcm-lattices.
  Sonja Mapes*, University of Notre Dame
  Kuei-Nuan Lin, Penn State Greater Allegheny
  (1142-13-89)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Regularity of powers of edge ideals: from local properties to global bounds.
  Arindam Banerjee, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekenanda Educational and Research Institute
  Selvi Kara Beyarslan*, University of South Alabama
  Huy Tai Ha, Tulane University
  (1142-13-34)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Linear Syzygies of Toric Edge Ideals of Bipartite Graphs.
  Zachary Greif, Iowa State University
  Jason McCullough*, Iowa State University
  (1142-13-60)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Algebraic properties of toric rings of graphs.
  Huy Tai Ha, Tulane University
  Selvi Beyarslan Kara, University of South Alabama
  Augustine O'Keefe*, Connecticut College
  (1142-13-164)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Star ideals of graphs.
  Jennifer Biermann*, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
  Morgan Gauvin, Bethany Lutheran College
  Hugh Mckenny, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
  Carlos Munoz, San Jose State University
  (1142-13-179)

Saturday November 3, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Interactions Between Contact and Symplectic Geometry and Low-dimensional Topology, II
Room 408, Science Engineering Hall
Organizers:
Jeremy Van Horn-Morris, University of Arkansas
David Shea Vela-Vick, Louisiana State University shea@math.lsu.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Stability and triviality of Plamenevskaya's transverse invariant from Khovanov homology.
  Christine Ruey Shan Lee*, University of South Alabama
  (1142-57-69)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Equivalence of contact gluing maps in sutured Floer homology.
  Federico Salmoiraghi*, Louisiana State University
  Ryan Leigon, Louisiana State University
  (1142-55-196)
- 4:00 p.m.
  naturality of the contact invariant in monopole floer homology under strong symplectic cobordisms.
  Mariano Echeverria*, university of virginia
  (1142-57-41)
- 4:30 p.m.
  GRID invariants obstruct decomposable Lagrangian cobordisms.
  John A. Baldwin, Boston College
  Tye Lidman, North Carolina State University
  C.-M. Michael Wong*, Louisiana State University
  (1142-57-52)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Some results regarding the computation of singular instanton homology for links.
  Sherry Gong*, UCLA
  (1142-58-235)

Saturday November 3, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Non-associative Algebraic Structures and their (Co)homology Theories, II
Room 402, Science Engineering Hall
Organizers:
Michael Kinyon, University of Denver
Jozef H Przytycki, The George Washington University
Petr Vojtechovsky, University of Denver
Seung Yeop Yang, University of Denver seungyeop.yang@du.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Quasigroup modules and extensions of Mendelsohn triple systems.
  Alex W Nowak*, Iowa State University
  (1142-20-208)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Cohomology for Maltsev varieties.
  Jonathan Smith*, Iowa State University
  (1142-18-38)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Left braces, automated deduction, and the Yang-Baxter equation.
  Michael Kinyon*, University of Denver
  (1142-20-230)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A class of latin set-theoretical solutions of the Yang-Baxter equation.
  Petr Vojt\v{e}chovsk\'y*, University of Denver
  (1142-20-232)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Cohomology of totally associative $n$-ary algebras.
  Fatemeh Bagherzadeh, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
  Murray Bremner*, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
  (1142-17-37)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Extremely nonassociative quasigroups.
  Ales Drapal*, Department of Algebra, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
  (1142-20-237)

Saturday November 3, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Numerical Methods for Nonlinear Systems, II
Room 201, Science Engineering Hall
Organizers:
Jonathan Hauenstein, University of Notre Dame
Tingting Tang, University of Notre Dame ttang@nd.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Direct acyclic decomposition for Kuramoto networks.
  Tianran Chen*, Auburn University at Montgomery
  (1142-65-231)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Monodromy solver: sequential and parallel.
  Nathan Bliss, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Timothy Duff*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Cvetelina Hill, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Kisun Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Anton Leykin, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Anders Jensen, Aarhus University
  Jeff Sommars, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (1142-65-223)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The numerical algebraic geometry of bottlenecks.
  David Eklund*, KTH
  (1142-14-76)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Implicit decomposition of symmetric tensors corresponding to higher-order moments.
  Samantha Sherman*, University of Notre Dame
  Tamara G. Kolda, Sandia National Laboratories
  (1142-14-94)

Saturday November 3, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Operator Theory and Function Spaces of Analytic Functions, II
Room 322, Science Engineering Hall
Organizers:
Daniel Luecking, University of Arkansas
Maria Tjani, University of Arkansas mtjani@uark.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Escaping Nontangentiality: Amortization and Auguries.
  J. E. Pascoe, University of Florida
  Meredith Sargent*, University of Arkansas
  Ryan Tully-Doyle, University of New Haven
  (1142-30-44)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The last harmonic in Taylor polynomials.
  Javad Mashreghi*, Laval University
  (1142-30-212)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Limiting Behavior of Optimal Polynomial Approximants in Hardy and Bergman Spaces.
  Catherine Beneteau*, University of South Florida
  (1142-30-110)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On Interplay between Algebra and PDE.
  Dima Khavinson*, Tampa
  (1142-30-27)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Non-uniformly discrete interpolating and sampling sequences for certain weighted Bergman spaces.
  Daniel H Luecking*, University of Arkansas
  (1142-30-115)

Saturday November 3, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Partial Differential Equations in Several Complex Variables, II
Room 206, Science Engineering Hall
Organizers:
Phillip Harrington, University of Arkansas
Andrew Raich, University of Arkansas araich@uark.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Spaces of entire functions in several complex variables.
  Marco M Peloso*, Universit\`a degli Studi di Milano
  (1142-32-109)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Diagonal Estimates for the Bergman Kernel in Pseudoconvex Model Domains.
  Aaron Peterson*, Northwestern University
  (1142-32-82)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Non-solvability of elliptic operators in the flat category.
  Martino Fassina*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (1142-32-198)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Spectra of Kohn Laplacians on Spheres.
  Yunus E Zeytuncu*, University of Michigan-Dearborn
  (1142-32-46)
- 5:00 p.m.
  The restriction operator on Bergman spaces.
  Debraj Chakrabarti*, Central Michigan University
  Sonmez Sahutoglu, University of Toledo
  (1142-32-18)

Saturday November 3, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Recent Advances in Mathematical Fluid Mechanics, II
Room 204, Science Engineering Hall
Organizers:
Zachary Bradshaw, University of Arkansas zb002@uark.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Restricted Morrey-type classes and 3D Navier-Stokes equations.
  Zoran Grujic*, University of Virginia
  (1142-35-124)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Global Navier-Stokes flows for non-decaying initial data with slowly decaying oscillation.
  Hyunju Kwon*, University of British Columbia
  (1142-35-141)
- 4:00 p.m.
  $\epsilon$-regularity and self-similar singularities of the 3D Navier-Stokes system.
  Phuc Cong Nguyen*, Louisiana State University
  Cristi Guevara, Tempe, AZ
  (1142-35-33)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Mixed-norm regularity estimates for non-stationary Stokes systems with singular VMO coefficients and applications.
  Hongjie Dong, Brown University
  Tuoc Phan*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  (1142-35-19)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Invariant measures for SQG equation.
  Juraj Foldes*, University of Virginia
  Mouhamadou Sy, University of Virginia
  (1142-35-120)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Navier-Stokes equations in Gevrey classes.
  Animikh Biswas*, University of Maryland Baltimore County
  (1142-76-119)

Saturday November 3, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Recent Developments on Fluid Turbulence, II
Room 203, Science Engineering Hall
Organizers:
Eleftherios Gkioulekas, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley eleftherios.gkioulekas@utrgv.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Stochastic explosion and uniqueness of solutions to nonlinear PDE.
  Radu Dascaliuc*, Oregon State University
  (1142-35-210)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Variations on the Azouani-Olson-Titi Algorithm for Data Assimilation in PDEs.
  Adam Larios*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  (1142-76-214)
- 4:00 p.m.
  On the multiscale mechanism generating enhanced particle settling speeds in turbulence.
  Andrew D Bragg*, Duke University
  Josin Tom, Duke University
  (1142-76-80)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The role of the asymmetric Ekman dissipation term on the energetics of the two-layer quasi-geostrophic model at large length scales.
  Eleftherios Gkioulekas*, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
  (1142-76-7)

Saturday November 3, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on The Geometry of Curves and Applications, II
Room 403, Science Engineering Hall
Organizers:
Jason Cantarella, University of Georgia
Philipp Reiter, University of Georgia reiter@uga.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Homotopy types and persistence of metric gluings.
  Radmila Sazdanovic*, NC State Univeristy
  Michal Adamazsek, MOSEK ApS
  Henry Adams, Colorado State University
  Ellen Gasparovic, Union College
  Maria Gommel, University of Iowa
  Emilie Purvine, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  Bei Wang, University of Utah
  Yusu Wang, The Ohio State University
  Lori Ziegelmeier, Macalester College
  (1142-57-99)
- 3:30 p.m.
  O'Hara's knot energies and $W^{1/p,p}$-harmonic maps into spheres.
  Armin Schikorra*, University of Pittsburgh
  (1142-49-15)
- 4:00 p.m.
  The effect of topological and geometrical constraints on polymer material properties.
  Eleni Panagiotou*, UCSB
  (1142-57-122)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Decomposing Knot Space: a natural simplicial decomposition of equilateral PL-curves.
  Kyle Leland Chapman*, University of Georgia
  (1142-51-112)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Holder curves and the traveling salesman problem.
  Vyron S Vellis*, University of Connecticut
  (1142-28-14)
- 5:30 p.m.
  The mathematics of tie knots.
  Elizabeth Denne*, Washington \& Lee University
  Corinne Joireman, Washington \& Lee University
  Allison Young, Washington \& Lee University
  (1142-57-50)

Saturday November 3, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Validation and Verification Strategies in Multiphysics Problems, II
Room 202, Science Engineering Hall
Organizers:
Tulin Kaman, University of Arkansas tkaman@uark.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  K41, K62 and all that.
  James Glimm*, Stony Brook University
  (1142-76-5)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Model order reduction for parametrized nonlinear hyperbolic problems as an application to Uncertainty Quantification.
  Remi Abgrall*, Institute of mathematics, University of Zurich, Switzerland
  Roxana Crisovan, Institute of mathematics, University of Zurich, Switzerland
  Davide Torlo, Institute of mathematics, University of Zurich, Switzerland
  Svetlana Tokareva, Institute of mathematics, University of Zurich, Switzerland
  (1142-65-54)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Multi-grid and multi-level Monte Carlo method for Stokes-Darcy model with random permeability.
  Xiaoming He*, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  (1142-65-30)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Diffusive Optical Tomography in the Bayesian Framework.
  Kit C Newton*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Qin Li, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Andrew Stuart, California Institute of Technology
  (1142-65-128)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Optimal control of PDEs: Application to brain tumor modeling.
  Andreas Mang*, Department of Mathematics, University of Houston
  Klaudius Scheufele, Institute for Parallel and Distributed Systems, University of Stuttgart
  Shashank Subramanian, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
  Miriam Mehl, Institute for Parallel and Distributed Systems, University of Stuttgart
  George Biros, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
  (1142-49-39)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Machine learning on morphometry, an evaluation of classifiers' performance on closely related species delimitation.
  Binod Regmi*, University of Arkansas, Department of Biological Sciences, Fayetteville, AR, 72703
  Marlis Douglas, University of Arkansas, Department of Biological Sciences
  Michael Douglas, University of Arkansas, Department of Biological Sciences
  (1142-92-205)

Saturday November 3, 2018, 3:15 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
Session for Contributed Papers, II
Room 404, Science Engineering Hall
- 3:15 p.m.
  TALK CANCELED: A new fixed point result via property P with an application.
  Zead Mustafa*, Qatar University
  M.M.M. Jaradat, Qatar University
  Erdal Karap{\i}nar, Atilim University , Turkey
  (1142-46-130)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Geometry of Asymptotically harmonic manifolds with minimal horospheres.
  Hemangi M. Shah*, Harish-Chandra Research Institute
  (1142-53-17)
- 3:45 p.m.
  Removal of Multiplicative Poisson Noise Using Variance Based Joint Sparsity Recovery.
  Carley R Walker*, University of Southern MIssissippi
  (1142-65-105)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Matrices, Moments, Quadrature and PDEs.
  James V Lambers*, The University of Southern Mississippi
  (1142-65-189)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Study on the Resolution of Digital Image Using Computational and Mathematical Analysis.
  Junseok Kang*, CRG-NJ (Choice Research Group)
  Richard Kyung, CRG-NJ (Choice Research Group)
  (1142-68-245)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Study on Stock Market Patterns with Economic Fluctuations Using Statistical and Computational Simulations.
  Remy Wu*, CR-NJ (Choice Research Group)
  Richard Kyung, CRG-NJ (Choice Research Group)
  (1142-91-248)
- 4:45 p.m.
  Ebola: Impact of hospital's admission policy in an overwhelmed scenario.
  Md Mondal Hasan Zahid*, University of Texas at Arlington
  Christopher M Kribs, University of Texas at Arlington
  (1142-92-12)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Mathematical modeling of Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans on the Eastern Newt with environmental transmission.
  Md Rafiul Islam*, Texas Tech University
  Patrick J. Cusaac, University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture
  Matthew J. Gray, University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture
  Angela Peace, Texas Tech University
  (1142-92-177)

Saturday November 3, 2018, 4:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Special Session on Advances in Birational Geometry, II
Room 604, Science Engineering Hall
Organizers:
Roi Docampo, University of Oklahoma
Lance Edward Miller, University of Arkansas lem016@uark.edu
Wenbo Niu, University of Arkansas
- 4:00 p.m.
  Derived equivalence of varieties and fibrations over curves and surfaces.
  Luigi Lombardi*, University of Florence
  (1142-14-173)
- 5:00 p.m.
  The TestIdeals.m2 and FThresholds.m2 packages for Macaulay2.
  Daniel Hernandez, University of Kansas
  Mordechai Katzman, Sheffield University
  Karl Schwede*, University of Utah
  Pedro Teixeira, Knox College
  Emily Witt, University of Kansas
  (1142-14-181)

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