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Spring Central Sectional Meeting
North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND
April 16-17, 2016 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1120

Associate secretaries:

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

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Saturday April 16, 2016

• Saturday April 16, 2016, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Room 112, Minard Hall
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Room 112, Minard Hall
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Ideals and Applications, I
  Room 230, Minard Hall
  Organizers:
  Laura Matusevich, Texas A&M University laura@math.tamu.edu
  Christopher O'Neill, Texas A&M University coneill@math.tamu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Cohen-Macaulayness of initial ideals of normal toric ideals.
    Serkan Hosten*, San Francisco State University Mathematics Department
    Winfried Bruns, Institut fuer Mathematik Universitaet Osnabrueck
    (1120-13-276)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Toric matrix Schubert varieties.
    Laura Escobar*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Karola Mészáros, Cornell University
    (1120-05-58)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Prism tableau model for Schubert Polynomials.
    Anna Weigandt*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Alexander Yong, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1120-05-199)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Dominant, semidominant, and GNP ideals.
    Guillermo Alesandroni*, Wake Forest University
    (1120-13-19)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Combinatorial dynamics of monomial ideals.
    David Cook II, Eastern Illinois University
    Jessica Striker*, North Dakota State University
    (1120-13-256)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A finiteness result for local cohomology modules of Gorenstein Stanley-Reisner rings.
    Roberto Barrera*, Texas A&M University
    Jeffrey Madsen, University of Notre Dame
    Ashley K. Wheeler, University of Arkansas
    (1120-13-265)
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Probabilistic and Extremal Combinatorics, I
  Room 214, Minard Hall
  Organizers:
  Jonathan Cutler, Montclair State University
  Jamie Radcliffe, University of Nebraska-Lincoln jamie.radcliffe@unl.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Fast percolation on the hexagonal lattice.
    Charles Tomlinson*, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    Philip DeOrsey, Emory & Henry College
    (1120-05-308)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Multicolor hypergraph containers and multicolor graph limits.
    Victor Falgas-Ravry, Vanderbilt University
    Kelly O'Connell, Vanderbilt University
    Johanna Str{ö}mberg, Vanderbilt University
    Andrew Uzzell*, University of Nebraska--Lincoln
    (1120-05-295)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The 1-2-3 conjecture for uniform hypergraphs.
    Patrick Bennett*, Western Michigan University
    Andrzej Dudek, Western Michigan University
    Alan Frieze, Carnegie Mellon University
    Laars Helenius, Western Michigan University
    (1120-05-299)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Minimum codegree conditions for tiling by tight cycles.
    Neal Owen Bushaw*, Arizona State University
    Andrzej Czygrinow, Arizona State University
    Jangwon Yie, Arizona State University
    (1120-05-214)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The greedy matching algorithm in random regular hypergraphs.
    Deepak Bal*, Montclair State University
    Patrick Bennett, Western Michigan University
    (1120-05-183)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Independence of random sets in hypergraphs.
    Karen Gunderson*, University of Manitoba
    (1120-05-164)
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic and Geometric Combinatorics, I
  Room 208, Minard Hall
  Organizers:
  Kevin Dilks, North Dakota State University kevin.dilks@ndsu.edu
  Jessica Striker, North Dakota State University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Hecke algebras with independent parameters.
    Jia Huang*, University of Nebraska at Kearney
    (1120-05-8)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Shifted Hecke insertion and the K-theory of OG(n,2n+1).
    Zachary Hamaker, IMA
    Adam Keilthy, Trinity College Dublin
    Rebecca Patrias*, University of Minnesota
    Lillian Webster, Grinnell College
    Yinuo Zhang, University of Rochester
    Shuqi Zhou, Albion College
    (1120-05-156)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Puzzles and equivariant $K$-theory of Grassmannians.
    Oliver Pechenik*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Alexander Yong, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1120-05-66)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    $K$-theoretic Demazure atoms and set-valued skyline diagrams.
    Cara P Monical*, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    (1120-05-157)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Join-preserving embeddings of discrete posets.
    Trevor McGuire*, North Dakota State University
    (1120-05-207)
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Its Interactions with Combinatorics and Algebraic Geometry, I
  Room 220, Minard Hall
  Organizers:
  Susan Cooper, North Dakota State University
  Adam Van Tuyl, McMaster University vantuyl@math.mcmaster.ca
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Pure resolutions of monomial ideals.
    Chris Francisco*, Oklahoma State University
    Jeffrey Mermin, Oklahoma State University
    Jay Schweig, Oklahoma State University
    (1120-13-68)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Growth of multiplicities of graded families of ideals.
    Tai Ha*, Tulane University
    Pham An Vinh, University of Missouri
    (1120-13-125)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Generalized star configurations.
    Stefan O. Tohaneanu*, University of Idaho
    Mehdi Garrousian, Universidad de los Andes
    Ben Anzis, University of Idaho
    (1120-13-97)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    An upper bound on the regularity of toric ideals of graphs.
    Jennifer Biermann, Mount Holyoke College
    Augustine O'Keefe*, Connecticut College
    Adam Van Tuyl, McMaster University
    (1120-13-245)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A lower bound on the regularity of toric ideals of graphs.
    Jennifer Biermann*, Mount Holyoke College
    Augustine O'Keefe, Connecticut College
    Adam Van Tuyl, McMaster University
    (1120-13-244)
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Ring Theory, I
  Room 210, Minard Hall
  Organizers:
  Catalin Ciuperca, North Dakota State University catalin.ciuperca@ndsu.edu
  Sean Sather-Wagstaff, North Dakota State University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Tests for injectivity of modules over commutative rings.
    Lars Winther Christensen*, Texas Tech University
    Srikanth B Iyengar, University of Utah
    (1120-13-38)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Local cohomology of powers of ideals.
    Hailong Dao, University of Kansas
    Jonathan Montaño*, University of Kansas
    (1120-13-218)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    F-singularities under generic linkage.
    Linquan Ma, University of Utah
    Janet Page, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Rebecca R.G.*, University of Michigan
    William Taylor, University of Arkansas
    Wenliang Zhang, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1120-13-274)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Uniform bounds in F-finite rings and their applications.
    Thomas M Polstra*, University of Missouri-Columbia
    (1120-13-92)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Itoh $(e)$-valution rings of an ideal.
    Youngsu Kim*, University of California Riverside
    Louis J. Ratliff, University of California Riverside
    David Rush, University of California Riverside
    (1120-13-185)
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Convexity and Harmonic Analysis, I
  Room 103, Morrill Hall
  Organizers:
  Maria Alfonseca-Cubero, North Dakota State University maria.alfonseca@ndsu.edu
  Dmitry Ryabogin, Kent State University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    On minimizing the volume of self-polar convex bodies in spherical d-space.
    Karoly Bezdek*, University of Calgary, Canada
    (1120-52-298)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On the thin-shell conjecture for the Schatten classes.
    Beatrice-Helen Vritsiou*, University of Michigan
    (1120-46-178)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Affine invariant points for functions.
    Ben Li*, Case Western Reserve University
    Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University
    (1120-46-275)
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Dynamics, Inverse Semigroups, and Operator Algebras, I
  Room 118, South Engineering
  Organizers:
  Benton Duncan, North Dakota State University benton.duncan@ndsu.edu
  David Pitts, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Product rigidity for von Neumann algebras arising from hyperbolic groups.
    Ionut Chifan*, University of Iowa
    Rolando de Santiago, University of Iowa
    Thomas Sinclair, Purdue University
    (1120-46-39)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Etale groupoid algebras and inverse semigroups.
    Benjamin Steinberg*, City College of New York
    (1120-20-131)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Unique pseudo-expectations for C*-inclusions.
    David Pitts, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Vrej Zarikian*, United States Naval Academy
    (1120-46-202)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Crossed products of nuclear C*-algebras by free groups.
    Timothy Rainone, University of Waterloo
    Christopher Schafhauser*, University of Waterloo
    (1120-47-13)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Yang-Baxter equation and affine actions on groups.
    Dilian Yang*, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Windsor
    (1120-47-60)
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, I
  Room 105, Morrill Hall
  Organizers:
  Dogan Comez, North Dakota State University Dogan.Comez@ndsu.edu
  Mrinal Kanti Roychowdhury, University of Texas Rio Grand Valley
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    The concept of the dividing surface in collinear Hydrogen exchange reaction.
    Ali Allahem*, Mathematics Department, College of Sciences, Qassim University, Saudi Arabia
    (1120-37-23)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A counting problem in Ergodic Theory and extrapolation for one-sided weights.
    María J. Carro, Universitat de Barcelona
    María Lorente, Universidad de Málaga
    Francisco J. Martín-Reyes*, Universidad de Málaga
    (1120-37-194)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Bounded topological speedups and entropy.
    Drew D. Ash*, University of Denver
    Lori Alvin, Bradley University
    Nic Ormes, University of Denver
    (1120-37-201)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Strict doubly ergodic infinite transformations.
    Isaac Loh, Northwestern University
    Cesar E. Silva*, Williams College
    (1120-37-294)
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Extremal Graph Theory, I
  Room 212, Minard Hall
  Organizers:
  Michael Ferrara, University of Colorado Denver
  Stephen Hartke, University of Colorado Denver stephen.hartke@ucdenver.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Refining a mixed result on cycles and chorded cycles.
    Theodore Molla, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Michael Santana*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Elyse Yeager, University of British Columbia
    (1120-05-54)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A degree condition for knitted graphs.
    Guantao Chen*, Georgia State University
    Zhiquan Hu, Central China Normal University
    Feifei Song, Central China Normal University
    (1120-05-318)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Extremal properties of vertex attributes in trees.
    Heather C Smith*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    László Székely, University of South Carolina
    Hua Wang, Georgia Southern University
    Shuai Yuan, University of South Carolina
    (1120-05-314)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Polychromatic colorings of the hypercube.
    Michael Young*, Iowa State University
    (1120-05-319)
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Frames, Harmonic Analysis, and Operator Theory, I
  Room 120, South Engineering
  Organizers:
  Gabriel Picioroaga, University of South Dakota
  Eric Weber, Iowa State University esweber@iastate.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Frame scalings a condition number approach.
    Peter G Casazza*, University of Missouri
    Xuemei Chen, New Mexico State University
    (1120-46-18)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Probability theory of infinite iterated function systems.
    Palle E. T. Jorgensen*, University of Iowa
    (1120-46-59)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Beurling density in weighted Fourier spaces.
    Jean-Pierre Gabardo*, McMaster University
    (1120-42-251)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Exponential bases on rectangles in $R^d$.
    Laura De Carli*, Florida International University
    (1120-41-70)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Admissible Groups in Three Dimensions.
    Keith F Taylor*, Dalhousie University
    (1120-42-241)
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 8:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Frames, Wavelets and Gabor Systems, I
  Room 208, South Engineering
  Organizers:
  Yeonhyang Kim, Central Michigan University kim4y@cmich.edu
  Sivaram K. Narayan, Central Michigan University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Local sparsity and fusion frames.
    Roza Aceska*, Ball State University
    Jean Luc Bouchot, RWTH Aachen
    Shidong Li, San Francisco State University
    (1120-42-143)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Sampling from a continuous frame to obtain a frame.
    Dan Freeman, Saint Louis University
    Darrin Speegle*, Saint Louis University
    (1120-41-113)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Equiangular tight frames from hyperovals.
    Matthew Fickus*, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Air Force Institute of Technology
    Dustin G. Mixon, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Air Force Institute of Technology
    John Jasper, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cincinnati
    (1120-42-99)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Infinite dimensional phase retrieval.
    Jameson Cahill, New Mexico State University
    Peter G Casazza*, University of Missouri
    Ingrid Daubechies, Duke University
    (1120-46-17)
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Integrable Dynamical Systems and Special Functions, I
  Room 302, Minard Hall
  Organizers:
  Oksana Bihun, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs obihun@uccs.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Dark-bright soliton solutions with nontrivial polarization interactions for the three-component defocusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation.
    Barbara Prinari*, Department of Mathematics, University of Colorado Colorado Springs
    Gino Biondini, SUNY Buffalo
    Daniel Kraus, SUNY Buffalo
    Federica Vitale, University of Salento, Italy
    (1120-35-30)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Cauchy biorthogonal polynomials: from inverse problems for peakon equations to Cauchy multi-matrix models.
    Jacek Szmigielski*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
    (1120-37-101)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Model of rocking structures: a mathematical approach.
    Julia Anderson-Lee*, Iowa State University
    Scott Hansen, Iowa State University
    (1120-35-301)
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Low Dimensional and Symplectic Topology, I
  Room 306, Minard Hall
  Organizers:
  Anar Akhmedov, University of Minnesota
  Josef G. Dorfmeister, North Dakota State University josef.dorfmeister@ndsu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Non-orientable Lag surfaces in symplectic 4-manifolds.
    Tian-Jun Li*, University of Minnesota
    Chung-I Ho, National Tsinghua University
    (1120-57-111)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Symplectic birational cobordism and the hard Lefschetz property.
    Heidi M. Andersen*, University of Minnesota
    (1120-53-220)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On non-Stein rational balls.
    Luke Morgan Williams*, Kansas State University
    (1120-57-177)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Strongly fillable but not Stein fillable contact structures on $3$-manifolds $(-\Sigma(2, 2g+1, 2(2g+1)-1)$.
    Nur Saglam*, University of Minnesota / School of Mathematics
    (1120-57-64)
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Finance, I
  Room 224, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
  Organizers:
  Indranil SenGupta, North Dakota State University indranil.sengupta@ndsu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Option pricing and hedging with limit and market orders.
    Sebastian Jaimungal*, University of Toronto
    Luhui Gan, University of Toronto
    Álvaro Cartea, University of Oxford
    (1120-60-22)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Branching diffusions for stochastic control.
    Sylvain Corlay*, Bloomberg LP
    (1120-60-134)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Portfolios in an abstract equity market with transitory volatility.
    Tomoyuki Ichiba*, University of California Santa Barbara
    (1120-91-57)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Conditional Asian options.
    Runhuan Feng*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Hans W Volkmer, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    (1120-91-11)
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Matrix and Operator Theory, I
  Room 116, South Engineering
  Organizers:
  Shaun Fallat, University of Regina Shaun.fallat@uregina.ca
  Douglas Farenick, University of Regina
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Kemeny's Constant and an analogue of Braess' Paradox for Markov chains.
    Steve Kirkland*, University of Manitoba
    (1120-15-166)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Mean first passage times and load-balancing for Markov chains.
    Jane Breen*, University of Manitoba
    Steve Kirkland, University of Manitoba
    (1120-15-181)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Matrix theory in data science.
    In-Jae Kim*, Minnesota State University, Mankato
    (1120-15-180)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Classification of families of pr- and epr-sequences.
    Xavier Martinez-Rivera*, Iowa State University
    (1120-15-69)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Generalizations of the Strong Arnold Property and the inverse eigenvalue problem of a graph.
    Leslie Hogben*, Iowa State University and American Institute of Mathematics
    (1120-15-51)
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 8:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Probability and Complex Analysis Inspired by Schramm and Loewner, I
  Room 109, Morrill Hall
  Organizers:
  Michael Kozdron, University of Regina kozdron@stat.math.uregina.ca
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Existence and Lower bound for Multi-point Green's function of SLE curves.
    Mohammad A Rezaei*, Michigan State University
    Dapeng Zhan, Michigan State University
    (1120-60-126)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The scaling limit of the loop-erased random walk Green's function.
    Christian Benes*, Brooklyn College, CUNY
    Gregory F. Lawler, University of Chicago
    Fredrik Viklund, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Uppsala University
    (1120-60-173)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Convergence of loop-erased random walk to the Schramm-Loewner evolution in the natural parametrization.
    Gregory F Lawler*, University of Chicago
    (1120-60-33)
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Applications of Microlocal Analysis: Eigenfunctions and Dispersive PDE, I
  Room 201, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
  Organizers:
  Hans Christianson, University of North Carolina hans@math.unc.edu
  Jason Metcalfe, University of North Carolina
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Localized energy for wave equations with degenerate trapping.
    Robert Booth*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (1120-35-243)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Stabilization rates for transport-diffusion equations.
    Dylan Muckerman*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (1120-35-186)
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Interactions with Algebraic Geometry, I
  Room 310, Minard Hall
  Organizers:
  Julie Rana, University of Minnesota
  Kaisa Taipale, University of Minnesota taipale@umn.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Complex reflection groups and GKM splines.
    Elizabeth Drellich*, University of North Texas
    Anne Shepler, University of North Texas
    (1120-05-281)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Dual complexes of unirational varieties.
    Dustin Cartwright*, University of Tennessee
    (1120-14-291)
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Topological and Smooth Dynamics, I
  Room 308, Minard Hall
  Organizers:
  Azer Akhmedov, North Dakota State University azer.akhmedov@ndsu.edu
  Michael Cohen, North Dakota State University
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Tame circle actions.
    Susan Tolman, University of Illinois
    Jordan Watts*, University of Colorado Boulder
    (1120-53-208)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Nosé-Thermostatted Mechanical Systems on the n-torus in the High-Temperature Limit.
    Leo T Butler*, North Dakota State University
    (1120-37-203)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The trunk of a knot and connected sums.
    Derek Davies, University of Texas at Austin
    Alexander Zupan*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1120-57-142)
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Contemporary Issues in Mathematics Education, I
  Room 208, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
  Organizers:
  Abraham Ayebo, North Dakota State University abraham.ayebo@ndsu.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Gender equity in mathematics.
    Caleb B. Larson*, North Dakota State University
    (1120-97-240)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Assessing undergraduate student comprehension of mathematical proofs.
    William O Martin*, Fargo
    (1120-97-307)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Flipping a college algebra class.
    Maxx Kureczko, North Dakota State University
    Abraham Ayebo*, North Dakota State University
    (1120-97-303)
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Lévy processes, nonlocal operators, and spectral/heat asymptotics.
  Room 116, Minard Hall
  Rodrigo Bańuelos*, Purdue University
  (1120-60-91)
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic and Geometric Combinatorics, II
  Room 208, Minard Hall
  Organizers:
  Kevin Dilks, North Dakota State University kevin.dilks@ndsu.edu
  Jessica Striker, North Dakota State University
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Lattice path constructions for orthosymplectic determinantal formulas.
    Anna Stokke*, University of Winnipeg
    (1120-05-221)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Double Aztec rectangles.
    Tri Lai*, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications
    (1120-05-136)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Beyond Aztec Castles: toric cascades in the dP3 quiver.
    Tri Lai, Institute for Mathematics and its Application
    Gregg Musiker*, University of Minnesota
    (1120-05-146)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Notched arcs and atomic bases of cluster algebras from twice-punctured polygons and other punctured surfaces.
    Emily Gunawan*, University of Minnesota
    (1120-05-280)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Y-meshes and generalized pentagram maps.
    Max Glick*, University of Minnesota
    Pavlo Pylyavskyy, University Of Minnesota
    (1120-05-283)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Minimal free resolutions of monomial ideals.
    Nursel Erey*, NDSU
    Sara Faridi, Dalhousie University
    (1120-13-257)
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 2:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Applications of Microlocal Analysis: Eigenfunctions and Dispersive PDE, II
  Room 201, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
  Organizers:
  Hans Christianson, University of North Carolina hans@math.unc.edu
  Jason Metcalfe, University of North Carolina
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Level sets of eigenfunctions: number of components.
    Steve Zelditch*, Northwestern University
    (1120-35-88)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the structure of zero sets of random waves on a manifold.
    Yaiza C Canzani*, Harvard University
    (1120-35-239)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Restriction bounds for locally QE eigenfunctions.
    John A Toth*, McGill University
    (1120-35-169)
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Ideals and Applications, II
  Room 230, Minard Hall
  Organizers:
  Laura Matusevich, Texas A&M University laura@math.tamu.edu
  Christopher O'Neill, Texas A&M University coneill@math.tamu.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Sums of powers of binary quadratic forms.
    Bruce Reznick*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1120-14-103)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Symbolic powers of sums of ideals.
    Tai Ha*, Tulane University
    (1120-13-127)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Matrix completion, free resolutions, and sums of squares.
    Grigoriy Blekherman, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Rainer Sinn*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Mauricio Velasco, Universidad de los Andes
    (1120-14-82)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Combinatorial applications of a randomized algorithm for solving systems of polynomial equations.
    Dane Wilburne*, Illinois Institute of Technology
    (1120-13-223)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Convex incidences, neuroscience, and ideals.
    Robert Amzi Jeffs, Harvey Mudd College
    Mohamed Omar*, Harvey Mudd College
    (1120-06-73)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Toric ideals of neural codes.
    Elizabeth Gross*, San José State University
    Nida Obatake, San José State University
    Nora Youngs, Harvey Mudd College
    (1120-13-253)
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Its Interactions with Combinatorics and Algebraic Geometry, II
  Room 220, Minard Hall
  Organizers:
  Susan Cooper, North Dakota State University
  Adam Van Tuyl, McMaster University vantuyl@math.mcmaster.ca
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Line arrangements and configurations of points with an unusual geometric property.
    David Cook II, Eastern Illinois University
    Brian Harbourne*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Juan Migliore, Notre Dame
    Uwe Nagel, University of Kentucky
    (1120-14-84)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Line arrangements and configurations of points with an unusual geometric property.
    David Cook, Eastern Illinois University
    Brian Harbourne, University of Nebraska
    Juan Migliore*, University of Notre Dame
    Uwe Nagel, University of Kentucky
    (1120-14-78)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The generalized Segre bound for arbitrary fat points.
    Bill F. Trok*, University of Kentucky
    Uwe Nagel, University of Kentucky
    (1120-13-188)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Ideal containments under flat extensions.
    Solomon Akesseh*, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    (1120-13-242)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the Hilbert Functions of points in $\mathbb{P}^1\times\mathbb{P}^1\times\mathbb{P}^1$.
    Elena Guardo*, Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica - Università di Catania - Italy
    Adam Van Tuyl, Department of Mathematics and Statistics - McMaster University - Hamilton (CA)
    (1120-13-195)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Poncelet's Theorem over finite fields.
    Jaydeep Chipalkatti*, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
    (1120-14-46)
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Ring Theory, II
  Room 210, Minard Hall
  Organizers:
  Catalin Ciuperca, North Dakota State University catalin.ciuperca@ndsu.edu
  Sean Sather-Wagstaff, North Dakota State University
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    On intersection algebras of polynomial rings.
    Sandra Spiroff*, University of Mississippi
    Florian Enescu, Georgia State University
    (1120-13-141)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Intersections and sums of Gorenstein ideals.
    Oana Veliche*, Northeastern University
    Lars W. Christensen, Texas Tech University
    Jerzy Weyman, University of Connecticut
    (1120-13-152)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Linearity defects of minors of matrices of linear forms.
    Hop D Nguyen, University of Genoa
    Thanh Vu*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1120-13-121)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Local cohomology and connectivity in mixed characteristic.
    Daniel J. Hernández, University of Kansas
    Luis Núñez-Betancourt, University of Virginia
    Felipe Pérez, Georgia State University
    Emily E. Witt*, University of Kansas
    (1120-13-109)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The j-multiplicity of edge ideals.
    Javid Validashti*, Cleveland State University
    Ali Alilooee, Western Illinois University
    Ivan Soprunov, Cleveland State University
    (1120-13-192)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Complete intersection injective dimension and the Chouinard Formula.
    Sean Sather-Wagstaff, Clemson University
    Jonathan Totushek*, University of Wisconsin-Superior
    (1120-13-100)
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 2:00 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Contemporary Issues in Mathematics Education, II
  Room 208, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
  Organizers:
  Abraham Ayebo, North Dakota State University abraham.ayebo@ndsu.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Math anxiety and its relationship to gender and genetics.
    Sara L. Solhjem*, North Dakota State University
    (1120-97-210)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Undergraduate students' perceptions of mathematical proofs.
    Aziz Issaka*, North Dakota State University
    Abraham Ayebo, North Dakota State University
    (1120-97-234)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Contemporary issues in mathematics education: emerging trends, challenges and research in the teaching of mathematics.
    Carol A Okigbo, Minnesota State University Moorhead
    Abraham Ayebo*, North Dakota State University
    (1120-97-286)
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Convexity and Harmonic Analysis, II
  Room 103, Morrill Hall
  Organizers:
  Maria Alfonseca-Cubero, North Dakota State University maria.alfonseca@ndsu.edu
  Dmitry Ryabogin, Kent State University
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Dvoretzky's theorem for subspaces of $L_p$.
    Grigoris Paouris, Texas A&M University, Mathematics Department
    Petros Valettas*, University of Missouri, Mathematics Department
    (1120-46-315)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Bezout inequality for mixed volumes.
    Christos Saroglou, Kent State University
    Ivan Soprunov*, Cleveland State University
    Artem Zvavitch, Kent State University
    (1120-52-172)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the equivalence between two problems of asymmetry on convex bodies.
    Christos Saroglou*, Kent State University
    (1120-52-238)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Distribution functions of sections and projections of convex bodies.
    Jaegil Kim, University of Alberta
    Vladyslav Yaskin, University of Alberta
    Artem Zvavitch*, Kent State University
    (1120-52-277)
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Discrete Probability, I
  Room 107, Morrill Hall
  Organizers:
  Jonathon Peterson, Purdue University peterson@purdue.edu
  Arnab Sen, University of Minnesota
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Inhomogeneous exponential jump model: a KPZ particle system with new unusual phase transitions.
    Leonid Petrov*, University of Virginia
    (1120-60-42)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Large deviations for some corner growth models with inhomogeneity.
    Elnur Emrah*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Chris Janjigian, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1120-60-212)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Tracy-Widom asymptotics for a random polymer model with gamma-distributed weights.
    Janosch Ortmann*, CRM Montreal
    (1120-60-151)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Asymptotics for 2D critical first-passage percolation.
    Michael Damron*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Xuan Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Wai-Kit Lam, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (1120-60-95)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Mean-field Ising models.
    Anirban Basak*, Duke University
    (1120-60-252)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The ant in a labyrinth.
    Alexander E Fribergh*, Université de Montréal
    (1120-60-118)
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Dynamics, Inverse Semigroups, and Operator Algebras, II
  Room 118, South Engineering
  Organizers:
  Benton Duncan, North Dakota State University benton.duncan@ndsu.edu
  David Pitts, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Combinatorially-defined C*-algebras and their special subalgebras.
    Jonathan H Brown, University of Dayton
    Gabriel Nagy, Kansas State University
    Sarah A Reznikoff*, Kansas State University
    Aidan Sims, University of Wollongong
    Dana Williams, Dartmouth College
    (1120-46-300)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Standard invariants of amalgamated Bisch-Haagerup subfactors.
    Ian Charlesworth*, University of California, Los Angeles
    David Penneys, University of California, Los Angeles
    Emily Peters, Loyola University Chicago
    (1120-47-263)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    von Neumann algebras and inverse semigroups (part I).
    Allan Donsig*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Adam Fuller, California State University, Los Angeles
    David Pitts, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1120-46-233)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    von Neumann algebras and inverse semigroups (part II).
    Allan P. Donsig, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    Adam H. Fuller*, California State University, Los Angeles
    David R. Pitts, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    (1120-47-232)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Crossed products of operator algebras.
    Elias G. Katsoulis*, East Carolina University
    (1120-47-139)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Generalized fixed-point algebras and a theorem of Pedersen.
    S. Kaliszewski, Arizona State University
    Tron Omland, University of Oslo
    John Quigg*, Arizona State University
    (1120-46-72)
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, II
  Room 105, Morrill Hall
  Organizers:
  Dogan Comez, North Dakota State University Dogan.Comez@ndsu.edu
  Mrinal Kanti Roychowdhury, University of Texas Rio Grand Valley
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Self-similar measures supported on a subfractal induced by a subshift of finite type.
    Elizabeth Sattler*, North Dakota State University
    (1120-37-204)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Clustering algorithms and their applications for the quantization of uniform distributions.
    Jose de Jesus Galarza*, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
    (1120-37-261)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Individual Ergodic Theorem in Non-commutative Orlicz Spaces.
    Semyon Litvinov*, Pennsylvania State University Hazleton
    Vladimir Chilin, The National University of Uzbekistan
    (1120-37-104)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Monopoles, dipoles, and harmonic functions on Bratteli diagrams.
    Sergey Bezuglyi*, University of Iowa
    Palle E.T. Jorgensen, University of Iowa
    (1120-37-184)
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Extremal Graph Theory, II
  Room 212, Minard Hall
  Organizers:
  Michael Ferrara, University of Colorado Denver
  Stephen Hartke, University of Colorado Denver stephen.hartke@ucdenver.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Saturation multiplicity of graphs.
    Derrick Stolee, Microsoft
    Paul S Wenger*, Rochester Institute of Technology
    (1120-05-284)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Inducibility of short cycles and paths.
    Florian Pfender*, University of Colorado Denver
    Bernard Lidicky, Iowa State University
    (1120-05-231)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the Ramsey-Turán number with small $s$-independence number.
    Andrzej Dudek*, Western Michigan University
    Patrick Bennett, Western Michigan University
    (1120-05-189)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Chromatic number of squares of planar graphs.
    Jennifer Diemunsch, St. Vincent College
    Stephen Hartke, University of Colorado Denver
    Sogol Jahanbekam*, University of Colorado Denver
    Brent Thomas, University of Colorado Denver
    (1120-05-81)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the list chromatic number of the Cartesian product with a traceable graph.
    Hemanshu Kaul*, Illinois Institute of Technology
    Jeffrey Mudrock, Illinois Institute of Technology
    (1120-05-270)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Maximizing colorings of a regular graph --- results and questions.
    David Galvin*, University of Notre Dame
    (1120-05-52)
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Frames, Harmonic Analysis, and Operator Theory, II
  Room 120, South Engineering
  Organizers:
  Gabriel Picioroaga, University of South Dakota
  Eric Weber, Iowa State University esweber@iastate.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Sparsity-inducing dual frames and sparse signal recovery with coherent frames.
    Shidong Li*, San Francisco State University
    Tiebin Mi, Renmin University of China
    (1120-41-155)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Improved bounds in Weaver and Feichtinger Conjectures.
    Marcin Bownik*, University of Oregon
    Pete Casazza, University of Missouri
    Adam Marcus, Princeton University
    Darrin Speegle, Saint Louis University
    (1120-42-14)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Group frames with several generators.
    Joseph W. Iverson*, Air Force Institute of Technology
    (1120-42-20)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Fourier series for singular measures.
    John Herr*, Iowa State University
    Eric Weber, Iowa State University
    (1120-42-120)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Non-spectral fractal measures with Fourier frames.
    Chun-Kit Lai*, San Francisco State University
    Yang Wang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    (1120-42-47)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Fourier series on self-affine measures.
    Dorin Ervin Dutkay*, University of Central Florida
    Chun Kit Lai, San Francisco State University
    (1120-42-48)
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Frames, Wavelets and Gabor Systems, II
  Room 208, South Engineering
  Organizers:
  Yeonhyang Kim, Central Michigan University kim4y@cmich.edu
  Sivaram K. Narayan, Central Michigan University
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    A new proof of the three-point HRT conjecture.
    Kasso Okoudjou*, University of Maryland, College Park
    (1120-42-87)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    HRT versus the zero divisor conjecture.
    Christopher Heil*, Georgia Tech
    Darrin Speegle, Saint Louis University
    (1120-42-27)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Tremain equiangular tight frames and strongly regular graphs.
    Matthew Fickus, Air Force Institute of Technology
    Dustin G Mixon, Air Force Institute of Technology
    John Jasper*, University of Cincinnati
    Jesse Peterson, Air Force Institute of Technology
    (1120-42-290)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The gap between NSP and RIP.
    Jameson Cahill, New Mexico State University
    Xuemei Chen*, New Mexico State University
    Rongrong Wang, University of British Columbia
    (1120-42-226)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Voronoi Means Conjecture.
    Dustin G. Mixon*, Air Force Institute of Technology
    (1120-43-198)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Tight orthoplectic Grassmannian frames.
    John Isaac Haas*, University of Missouri
    (1120-42-137)
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Integrable Dynamical Systems and Special Functions, II
  Room 302, Minard Hall
  Organizers:
  Oksana Bihun, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs obihun@uccs.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    $F$-manifolds, multi-flat structures and Painlevé transcendents.
    Alessandro Arsie*, The University of Toledo, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Toledo, OHIO
    Paolo Lorenzoni, University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Mathematics and Applications
    (1120-37-174)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Lax pairs as a bridge between integrable systems and special functions.
    Diego E. Dominici*, State University of New York at New Paltz
    (1120-33-179)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Sato's tau function in Painlevé theory.
    Emma Previato*, Boston University
    (1120-14-193)
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 2:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Interactions with Algebraic Geometry, II
  Room 310, Minard Hall
  Organizers:
  Julie Rana, University of Minnesota
  Kaisa Taipale, University of Minnesota taipale@umn.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Vector bundles of conformal blocks with $\mathfrak{sp}_{2\ell}$ at level one.
    Natalie Hobson*, University of Georgia
    (1120-14-249)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Vector bundles on moduli space of stable curves with marked points.
    Anna Kazanova*, University of Georgia
    (1120-14-293)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Bridgeland stability conditions on surfaces.
    Rebecca Tramel*, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    (1120-14-219)
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 2:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Low Dimensional and Symplectic Topology, II
  Room 306, Minard Hall
  Organizers:
  Anar Akhmedov, University of Minnesota
  Josef G. Dorfmeister, North Dakota State University josef.dorfmeister@ndsu.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    The Calabi homomorphism and generating functions.
    Michael Usher*, University of Georgia
    (1120-53-154)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the geography of simply connected, nonspin, symplectic 4-manifolds with nonnegative signature.
    Sümeyra Sakallı*, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
    (1120-54-10)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The Craighero-Gattazzo surface is simply-connected.
    Julie Rana*, University of Minnesota
    Jenia Tevelev, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    Giancarlo Urzua, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
    (1120-14-285)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Stable commutator length of Dehn twists and the signatures of surface bundles.
    Naoyuki Monden*, Osaka Electro-Communication University
    (1120-57-28)
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Finance, II
  Room 224, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
  Organizers:
  Indranil SenGupta, North Dakota State University indranil.sengupta@ndsu.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    The stochastic solution to a Cauchy problem for degenerate parabolic equations.
    Xiaoshan Chen, South China Normal University
    Yu-Jui Huang, Dublin City University
    Qingshuo Song, City University of Hong Kong
    Chao Zhu*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    (1120-60-21)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Dynamic risk measures.
    Xikui Wang*, University of Manitoba, Canada
    You Liang, University of Manitoba, Canada
    (1120-91-61)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Portfolio optimization for security investment.
    Hong-Ming Yin*, Washington State University
    Wendy Skulpakdee, Washington State University
    (1120-35-85)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Optimal execution in Hong Kong given a market-on-close benchmark.
    Christoph Frei*, University of Alberta
    Nicholas Westray, Imperial College London
    (1120-90-89)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A Level-1 Limit order book with time dependent rates.
    Jonathan Chavez-Casillas*, University of Calgary
    Anatoliy Swishchuk, University of Calgary
    (1120-60-182)
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Matrix and Operator Theory, II
  Room 116, South Engineering
  Organizers:
  Shaun Fallat, University of Regina Shaun.fallat@uregina.ca
  Douglas Farenick, University of Regina
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Absolute continuity for commuting row contractions.
    Raphael Clouatre*, University of Manitoba
    Kenneth R. Davidson, University of Waterloo
    (1120-47-75)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Characterizations of ordered self-adjoint operator spaces.
    Travis B Russell*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1120-47-224)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Module actions and isometric representations of Arens product algebras.
    Ross Stokke*, University of Winnipeg
    (1120-46-278)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A new parameter choice approach for Tikhonov Regularization Method- finite dimensional linear inverse problems.
    Elaheh Gorgin*, Minot State University, Minot, ND
    (1120-90-176)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Uniform local univalence and composition operators on Bloch spaces.
    Nina Zorboska*, University of Manitoba
    (1120-46-236)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Complex symmetric composition operators on $H^2$.
    Sivaram K Narayan*, Central Michigan University
    Daniel Sievewright, Central Michigan University
    Derek Thompson, Taylor University
    (1120-47-130)
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 2:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Probabilistic and Extremal Combinatorics, II
  Room 214, Minard Hall
  Organizers:
  Jonathan Cutler, Montclair State University
  Jamie Radcliffe, University of Nebraska-Lincoln jamie.radcliffe@unl.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    The multicolour Ramsey number of a long odd cycle.
    Matthew Jenssen, London School of Economics
    Jozef Skokan*, UIUC and London School of Economics
    (1120-05-35)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    On the edit distance for powers of cycles.
    Zhanar Berikkyzy, Iowa State University
    Ryan R. Martin*, Iowa State University
    Chelsea Peck, Madison, WI
    (1120-05-34)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Rainbow copies of $C_4$ in edge-colored hypercubes.
    József Balogh, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    Michelle Delcourt, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    Bernard Lidický, Iowa State University
    Cory Palmer*, University of Montana
    (1120-05-306)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A random version of the r-fork-free theorem.
    Kirsten Hogenson*, Iowa State University
    Ryan R Martin, Iowa State University
    (1120-05-24)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Claw decompositions of random 4-regular graphs.
    Michelle Delcourt*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Luke Postle, University of Waterloo
    (1120-05-304)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Tiling directed graphs with tournaments.
    Andrzej Czygrinow, Arizona State University
    Louis DeBiasio, Miami University
    Theodore Molla*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Andrew Treglown, University of Birmingham
    (1120-05-227)
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Probability and Complex Analysis Inspired by Schramm and Loewner, II
  Room 109, Morrill Hall
  Organizers:
  Michael Kozdron, University of Regina kozdron@stat.math.uregina.ca
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Conformal aggregation with strong feedback.
    Alan A. Sola*, University of South Florida
    Amanda Turner, Lancaster University
    (1120-60-287)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Hölder domains, John domains, and conformal dimension.
    Kyle Kinneberg*, Rice University
    (1120-30-56)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The topology of continuum random trees.
    Huy V Tran*, UCLA
    Mario Bonk, UCLA
    (1120-60-159)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Loewner deformations driven by the Weierstrass function.
    Joan Lind*, University of Tennessee
    Jessica Robins, University of Tennessee
    (1120-30-312)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Decomposition of Schramm-Loewner evolution along its curve.
    Dapeng Zhan*, East Lansing
    (1120-60-115)
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 2:00 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
  Special Session on Topological and Smooth Dynamics, II
  Room 308, Minard Hall
  Organizers:
  Azer Akhmedov, North Dakota State University azer.akhmedov@ndsu.edu
  Michael Cohen, North Dakota State University
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Existence and genericity of finite topological generating sets for homeomorphism groups.
    Azer Akhmedov, North Dakota State University
    Michael P Cohen*, North Dakota State University
    (1120-22-297)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Conjugacy geodesics in Coxeter groups.
    Aaron Calderon*, University of Nebraska
    (1120-20-254)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Lie ring of analytic functions on the disk is algebraically determined.
    Christopher Caruvana*, University of North Texas
    Robert Kallman, University of North Texas
    (1120-22-255)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Orderability and Dehn fillings of knot complements.
    Adam Clay*, University of Manitoba
    (1120-55-258)
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 2:30 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
  Session on AMS Contributed Paper Session, I
  Room 215, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Edge Nim on trees and its surprising connections to commutative algebra.
    Lindsay A Erickson*, Augustana University
    Bryce Allen Christopherson, University of Wyoming
    (1120-05-65)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Complex $N$-Spin bordism and elliptic genera.
    M. Naeem Ahmad*, Spartanburg Methodist College
    (1120-55-170)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Dynamical sampling.
    Sui Tang*, Nashville
    (1120-94-292)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Fredholm properties of block Toeplitz Operators on vector valued Fock spaces $(F^{p}_{\alpha})_{N}$.
    Aamena Rasim Al-Qabani*, United Kingdom, Reading, (University of Reading/ Whiteknights, PO Box 220/ Reading , RG6 6AX/ United Kingdom).
    Titus Willem Hilberdink, United Kingdom, Reading, (University of Reading/ Whiteknights, PO Box 220/ Reading , RG6 6AX/ United Kingdom).
    Jani A. Virtanen, United Kingdom, Reading, (University of Reading/ Whiteknights, PO Box 220/ Reading , RG6 6AX/ United Kingdom).
    (1120-47-74)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Fixed point results of block operator matrix and its applications.
    Talat Nazir*, Malardalen University, Vasteras, Sweden and COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan
    (1120-47-167)
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 5:05 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Moduli spaces and gluing.
  Room 116, Minard Hall
  Jeff A Viaclovsky*, University of Wisconsin
  (1120-53-80)
• Saturday April 16, 2016, 6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
  Poster Session/Reception
  All are welcome.
  Atrium, Alumni Center

Sunday April 17, 2016

• Sunday April 17, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Room 112, Minard Hall
• Sunday April 17, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Room 112, Minard Hall
• Sunday April 17, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic and Geometric Combinatorics, III
  Room 208, Minard Hall
  Organizers:
  Kevin Dilks, North Dakota State University kevin.dilks@ndsu.edu
  Jessica Striker, North Dakota State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Resonance in orbits of plane partitions.
    Kevin Dilks*, North Dakota State University
    Oliver Pechenik, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
    Jessica Striker, North Dakota State University
    (1120-05-259)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Unimodality the hard way.
    Charles Brittenham, DePaul University
    Andrew Carroll, DePaul University
    T. Kyle Petersen*, DePaul University
    Connor Thomas, DePaul University
    (1120-05-102)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Toggle group dynamics of multidimensional posets.
    Corey Vorland*, North Dakota State University
    (1120-05-289)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Flip graphs of polygonal subdivisions and noncrossing tree partitions.
    Thomas A McConville*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Al Garver, University of Minnesota
    (1120-05-316)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Noncrossing Tree Partitions and Tiling Algebras.
    Alexander Garver*, University of Minnesota
    Thomas McConville, MIT
    (1120-16-190)
• Sunday April 17, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Applications of Microlocal Analysis: Eigenfunctions and Dispersive PDE, III
  Room 201, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
  Organizers:
  Hans Christianson, University of North Carolina hans@math.unc.edu
  Jason Metcalfe, University of North Carolina
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Semiclassical resolvent bounds in dimension two.
    Jacob Shapiro*, Purdue University
    (1120-35-158)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Global existence for quasilinear wave equations close to Schwarzschild.
    Mihai Tohaneanu*, University of Kentucky
    (1120-35-110)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    High frequency estimates for the Helmholtz equation with application to boundary integral equations.
    Dean Baskin*, Texas A&M University
    (1120-35-196)
• Sunday April 17, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Ideals and Applications, III
  Room 230, Minard Hall
  Organizers:
  Laura Matusevich, Texas A&M University laura@math.tamu.edu
  Christopher O'Neill, Texas A&M University coneill@math.tamu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Invariant ideals and the Delta conjecture.
    James Haglund, University of Pennsylvania
    Jeffrey Remmel, University of California, San Diego
    Brendon Rhoades*, University of California, San Diego
    Andrew Timothy Wilson, University of Pennsylvania
    (1120-05-116)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Symmetric group characters as symmetric functions.
    Rosa C Orellana*, Dartmouth College
    Mike Zabrocki, York University
    (1120-05-246)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A combinatorial approach to the symmetry of $q,t$-catalan numbers.
    Kyungyong Lee*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln / KIAS
    Li Li, Oakland University
    Nicholas A Loehr, Virginia Tech / US Naval Academy
    (1120-05-98)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The greedy basis equals the theta basis.
    Man Wai Cheung, University of California, San Diego
    Mark Gross, University of Cambridge
    Greg Muller, University of Michigan
    Gregg Musiker*, University of Minnesota
    Dylan Rupel, University of Notre Dame
    Salvatore Stella, Universita degli studi di Roma La Sapienza
    Harold Williams, The University of Texas at Austin
    (1120-13-145)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Cohen-Kaplansky domains.
    Stefan Bock, Clemson University
    Jim Coykendall*, Clemson University
    (1120-13-40)
• Sunday April 17, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Ring Theory, III
  Room 210, Minard Hall
  Organizers:
  Catalin Ciuperca, North Dakota State University catalin.ciuperca@ndsu.edu
  Sean Sather-Wagstaff, North Dakota State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Betti tables over short Gorenstein rings.
    Luchezar Avramov, University of Nebraska
    Courtney Gibbons, Hamilton College
    Roger Wiegand*, University of Nebraska
    (1120-13-117)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Koszul homology and rational Poincaré series.
    Amanda Croll, Concordia University
    Roger Dellaca, University of California Irvine
    Justin Hoffmeier, Northwest Missouri State University
    Vivek Mukundan, Purdue University
    Denise Rangel Tracy*, Syracuse University
    Liana Sega, University of Missouri - Kansas City
    Gabriel Sosa, Amherst College
    Peder Thompson, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    (1120-13-229)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A class of Gorenstein monomial curves.
    Hema Srinivasan*, University of Missouri
    (1120-13-128)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Cohomology of finite modules over short Gorenstein rings.
    Melissa C. Menning*, University of Missouri-Kansas City
    Liana M. Sega, University of Missouri-Kansas City
    (1120-13-119)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Separating sets for actions of tori.
    Emilie Dufresne, University of Oxford
    Jack Jeffries*, University of Michigan
    (1120-13-86)
• Sunday April 17, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Convexity and Harmonic Analysis, III
  Room 103, Morrill Hall
  Organizers:
  Maria Alfonseca-Cubero, North Dakota State University maria.alfonseca@ndsu.edu
  Dmitry Ryabogin, Kent State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The floating body in real space forms.
    Florian Besau*, Department of Mathematics, Case Western Reserve University
    Elisabeth M. Werner, Department of Mathematics, Case Western Reserve University
    (1120-52-175)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Approximation of convex bodies by polytopes.
    Elisabeth M Werner*, Case Western Reserve University
    Steven Hoehner, Case Western Reserve University
    Carsten Schuett, University of Kiel
    (1120-52-112)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Parkable convex sets and finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces.
    Alexandru Chirvasitu*, University of Washington
    (1120-52-123)
• Sunday April 17, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Discrete Probability, II
  Room 107, Morrill Hall
  Organizers:
  Jonathon Peterson, Purdue University peterson@purdue.edu
  Arnab Sen, University of Minnesota
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Bounds for bond percolation thresholds of two three-dimensional lattices.
    John C Wierman*, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
    (1120-60-43)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Non-normal asymptotics of the mean-field O(N)-models.
    Tayyab Nawaz*, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
    Kay Kirkpatrick, UIUC USA
    (1120-82-150)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Bootstrap percolation on products of complete graphs and lattices.
    David Sivakoff*, The Ohio State University
    (1120-60-248)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Chemical distance in critical percolation.
    Jack Hanson*, City College of NY (CUNY)
    (1120-60-206)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday April 17, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  AMS-AAAS Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, III
  Room 105, Morrill Hall
  Organizers:
  Dogan Comez, North Dakota State University Dogan.Comez@ndsu.edu
  Mrinal Kanti Roychowdhury, University of Texas Rio Grand Valley
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Zero temperature measures at the boundary of rotation sets.
    Tamara Kucherenko, The City College of New York
    Christian Wolf*, The City College of New York
    (1120-37-133)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Asymptotic quantization for condensation systems of infinite self-similar mappings.
    Tamara Kucherenko*, City University New York - City College
    Mrinal Kanti Roychowdhury, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
    (1120-37-273)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: A general Alpern tower independent of a given partition.
    James T Campbell*, University of Memphis
    Randall McCutcheon, University of Memphis
    Alistair Windsor, University of Memphis
    (1120-37-217)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Limit theorems for random intermittent maps.
    Chris Bose*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Victoria
    Wael Bahsoun, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Loughborough University
    (1120-37-148)
• Sunday April 17, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Extremal Graph Theory, III
  Room 212, Minard Hall
  Organizers:
  Michael Ferrara, University of Colorado Denver
  Stephen Hartke, University of Colorado Denver stephen.hartke@ucdenver.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Computational complexity of Hamiltonian $\ell$-cycles.
    Jessica C De Silva*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1120-05-247)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Space bounds for resolution in random $(2+p)$-SAT.
    Patrick Bennett*, Western Michigan University
    Mike Molloy, University of Toronto
    (1120-05-296)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the tree packing conjecture.
    József Balogh, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    Cory Palmer*, University of Montana
    (1120-05-305)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Coloring, sparseness, and girth via augmented trees.
    Noga Alon, Tel Aviv University
    Alexandr Kostochka, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Benjamin Reiniger*, Ryerson University
    Douglas West, Zhejiang Normal University
    Xuding Zhu, Zhejiang Normal University
    (1120-05-138)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Combinatorics of ray-sensor networks.
    Kirk Boyer, University of Denver
    Paul Horn*, University of Denver
    Mario Lopez, University of Denver
    (1120-05-317)
• Sunday April 17, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Frames, Harmonic Analysis, and Operator Theory, III
  Room 120, South Engineering
  Organizers:
  Gabriel Picioroaga, University of South Dakota
  Eric Weber, Iowa State University esweber@iastate.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On the boundedness of the bilinear Hilbert transform on modulation spaces.
    S. Molahajloo, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences(IASBS)
    Kasso Okoudjou*, University of Maryland
    G. Pfander, Jacobs University
    (1120-47-94)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Tiling and spectral sets in $\Bbb Z_p \times \Bbb Z_p$.
    Azita Mayeli*, City University of New York, The Graduate Center and Queensborough
    (1120-42-266)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Bridging frame erasures.
    David R Larson, Texas A&M University
    Sam L Scholze*, Texas A&M University
    (1120-42-205)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On the spectral theory of operator polynomials with coefficients in a Banach algebra.
    Ilya A Krishtal*, Northern Illinois University
    (1120-47-105)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Lipschitz properties for deep networks.
    Radu Balan, University of Maryland
    Dongmian Zou*, UMD
    (1120-41-268)
• Sunday April 17, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Frames, Wavelets and Gabor Systems, III
  Room 208, South Engineering
  Organizers:
  Yeonhyang Kim, Central Michigan University kim4y@cmich.edu
  Sivaram K. Narayan, Central Michigan University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The Iterative and Regularized Least Squares (IRLS) algorithm for phase retrieval.
    Radu Balan*, University of Maryland
    (1120-42-269)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Wavelets and frames associated to representations of higher-rank graph algebras.
    Judith A. Packer*, University of Colorado, Boulder
    (1120-46-225)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Tight framelets and refinable structure.
    Bin Han*, University of Alberta
    (1120-42-26)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On the Fuglede Conjecture.
    Alex Iosevich*, University of Rochester
    (1120-42-25)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Stability theorems for systems of rect and sinc.
    Laura De Carli*, Florida International University
    Pierluigi Vellucci, Univ. Roma 1 "La sapienza"
    (1120-41-55)
• Sunday April 17, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-10:15 a.m.
  Special Session on Low Dimensional and Symplectic Topology, III
  Room 306, Minard Hall
  Organizers:
  Anar Akhmedov, University of Minnesota
  Josef G. Dorfmeister, North Dakota State University josef.dorfmeister@ndsu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Optimal embeddings of Lagrangian tori.
    Richard Hind*, University of Notre Dame
    (1120-53-147)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A generalized Alexander duality, $-2$ spheres and symplectomorphism groups of rational 4-manifolds.
    Jun Li*, University of Minnesota
    Tian-Jun Li, University of Minnesota
    Weiwei Wu, University of Montreal
    (1120-57-191)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Symplectic log Calabi Yau surfaces.
    Tian-Jun Li, University of Minnesota
    Cheuk Yu Mak*, University of Minnesota
    (1120-53-12)
• Sunday April 17, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Finance, III
  Room 224, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
  Organizers:
  Indranil SenGupta, North Dakota State University indranil.sengupta@ndsu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Finite mixture modeling of univariate data with non-Gaussian component distributions.
    Tatjana Miljkovic*, Oxford
    Bettina Gruen, Johannes Kepler University at Linz, Austria
    (1120-62-15)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Stock price prediction using hidden Markov model.
    Nguyet Nguyen*, Youngstown State University
    (1120-60-41)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Feynman path integrals for transition probability densities of some financial markets.
    Aziz Issaka*, North Dakota State University
    Indranil SenGupta, North Dakota State University
    (1120-60-79)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A semi-Markovian modeling of limit order markets.
    Anatoliy Swishchuk*, University of Calgary
    (1120-60-5)
• Sunday April 17, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Matrix and Operator Theory, III
  Room 116, South Engineering
  Organizers:
  Shaun Fallat, University of Regina Shaun.fallat@uregina.ca
  Douglas Farenick, University of Regina
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Refined inertias for zero-nonzero patterns.
    Adam H Berliner*, St. Olaf College
    Dale Olesky, University of Victoria
    Pauline van den Driessche, University of Victoria
    (1120-15-149)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Zero forcing propagation time on oriented graphs.
    Adam Berliner, St. Olaf College
    Chassidy Bozeman, Iowa State University
    Steve Butler, Iowa State University
    Minerva Catral, Xavier University
    Leslie Hogben, Iowa State University
    Brenda K Kroschel*, University of St. Thomas
    Jephian Chin-Hung Lin, Iowa State University
    Nathan Warnberg, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
    Michael Young, Iowa State University
    (1120-05-311)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Linear Algebraic Approach to LIGHTS OUT! on $G \square P_t$.
    Travis Peters, Iowa State University
    Michael Young*, Iowa State University
    (1120-15-267)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Combinatorial structures that preclude SAP.
    Colin M Garnett*, Black Hills State University
    (1120-15-71)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Using a new zero forcing process to guarantee the Strong Arnold Property.
    Jephian C.-H. Lin*, Iowa State University
    (1120-15-129)
• Sunday April 17, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Probabilistic and Extremal Combinatorics, III
  Room 214, Minard Hall
  Organizers:
  Jonathan Cutler, Montclair State University
  Jamie Radcliffe, University of Nebraska-Lincoln jamie.radcliffe@unl.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Extremal $H$-colorings of graphs with fixed minimum degree.
    John Engbers*, Marquette University
    (1120-05-96)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Extremal regular graphs.
    Péter Csikvári*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1120-05-93)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Long-range influence in colorings of the cube.
    David Galvin*, University of Notre Dame
    (1120-05-77)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On Reed's conjecture.
    Luke J Postle*, University of Waterloo
    (1120-05-215)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Combinatorics of RNA.
    Beth Bjorkman, Iowa State University
    Garner Cochran, University of South Carolina
    Wei Gao, Georgia State University
    Lauren Keough*, Davidson College
    Rachel Kirsch, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    Mitch Phillipson, SUNY Oswego
    Danny Rorabaugh, Queen's University
    Heather Smith, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Jennifer Wise, University of Illinois
    (1120-05-228)
• Sunday April 17, 2016, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Dynamics, Inverse Semigroups, and Operator Algebras, III
  Room 118, South Engineering
  Organizers:
  Benton Duncan, North Dakota State University benton.duncan@ndsu.edu
  David Pitts, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    A survey of exotic crossed products.
    S Kaliszewski*, Arizona State University
    Magnus B Landstad, Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet
    John Quigg, Arizona State University
    (1120-46-62)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A stabilization theorem for Fell bundles over groupoids and applications.
    Marius V Ionescu*, United States Naval Academy
    Alex Kumjian, University of Nevada, Reno
    Aidan Sims, University of Wollongon
    Dana P Williams, Dartmouth College
    (1120-46-279)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Amenability and uniqueness for groupoids associated with inverse semigroups.
    Scott M LaLonde, The University of Texas at Tyler
    David Milan*, The University of Texas at Tyler
    (1120-47-37)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A class of commutative operator algebras.
    Justin R. Peters*, Iowa State University
    Preechaya Sanyatit, Iowa State University
    (1120-47-83)
• Sunday April 17, 2016, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Integrable Dynamical Systems and Special Functions, III
  Room 302, Minard Hall
  Organizers:
  Oksana Bihun, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs obihun@uccs.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Zeros of large degree Vorob'ev-Yablonski polynomials via a Hankel determinant identity.
    Thomas Joachim Bothner*, University of Michigan
    (1120-33-216)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Universal nature of the nonlinear stage of modulational instability.
    Gino Biondini*, Buffalo
    (1120-35-288)
• Sunday April 17, 2016, 8:30 a.m.-10:15 a.m.
  Special Session on Interactions with Algebraic Geometry, III
  Room 310, Minard Hall
  Organizers:
  Julie Rana, University of Minnesota
  Kaisa Taipale, University of Minnesota taipale@umn.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    A Landau Ginzburg mirror theorem inspired by Borcea-Voisin symmetry.
    Amanda Ellis Francis*, Brigham Young University
    Nathan Priddis, Liebniz University Hannover
    Andrew Schaug, University of Michigan
    (1120-14-144)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Arithmetic mirror symmetry and {K3} surfaces.
    Ursula Whitcher*, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
    (1120-14-187)
• Sunday April 17, 2016, 8:30 a.m.-10:15 a.m.
  Special Session on Topological and Smooth Dynamics, III
  Room 308, Minard Hall
  Organizers:
  Azer Akhmedov, North Dakota State University azer.akhmedov@ndsu.edu
  Michael Cohen, North Dakota State University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Arithmetic sets in groups.
    Azer Akhmedov, North Dakota State Univesity
    Damiano Fulghesu*, Minnesota State University Moorhead
    (1120-20-302)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Non-bi-orderability of $6_2$ and $7_6$.
    Azer Akhmedov, NDSU
    Cody Martin*, NDSU
    (1120-57-235)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Freeness of actions in bundles.
    Scot Robert Adams*, University of Minnesota
    (1120-37-45)
• Sunday April 17, 2016, 9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Its Interactions with Combinatorics and Algebraic Geometry, III
  Room 220, Minard Hall
  Organizers:
  Susan Cooper, North Dakota State University
  Adam Van Tuyl, McMaster University vantuyl@math.mcmaster.ca
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Symmetric complete intersections.
    Federico Galetto*, McMaster University
    Anthony V. Geramita, Queen's University
    David Wehlau, Queen's University
    (1120-13-122)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Ordinary and symbolic Rees algebras for a class of special point configurations.
    Uwe Nagel, University of Kentucky
    Alexandra Seceleanu*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1120-13-200)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Resolutions of monomial ideals via facet covers.
    Nursel Erey*, NDSU
    Sara Faridi, Dalhousie University
    (1120-13-230)
• Sunday April 17, 2016, 9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Probability and Complex Analysis Inspired by Schramm and Loewner, III
  Room 109, Morrill Hall
  Organizers:
  Michael Kozdron, University of Regina kozdron@stat.math.uregina.ca
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Ideas from KPZ in Directed Polymer Models.
    Tom Alberts*, University of Utah
    (1120-60-171)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Convergence of discrete holomorphic functions on non-uniform lattices.
    Brent Morehouse Werness*, University of Washington
    (1120-60-260)
• Sunday April 17, 2016, 10:35 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Decompositions of binomial ideals.
  Room 116, Minard Hall
  Laura Felicia Matusevich*, Texas A&M University
  (1120-05-114)
• Sunday April 17, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic and Geometric Combinatorics, IV
  Room 208, Minard Hall
  Organizers:
  Kevin Dilks, North Dakota State University kevin.dilks@ndsu.edu
  Jessica Striker, North Dakota State University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Crystals, rigged configurations, and the star involution.
    Travis Scrimshaw*, University of Minnesota
    Ben Salisbury, Central Michigan University
    (1120-05-106)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Rigged configurations and cylindric loop Schur functions.
    Pavlo Pylyavskyy*, University of Minnesota
    Thomas Lam, University of Michigan
    Reiho Sakamoto, Tokyo University of Science
    (1120-05-282)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Matrix ball construction for affine Robinson-Schensted correspondence.
    Michael S Chmutov*, University of Minnesota
    Pavlo Pylyavskyy, University of Minnesota
    Elena Yudovina, St. Paul, MN
    (1120-05-271)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Semistandard Young tableaux polytopes.
    Sara L Solhjem*, North Dakota State University
    Jessica Striker, North Dakota State University
    (1120-05-209)
• Sunday April 17, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Ideals and Applications, IV
  Room 230, Minard Hall
  Organizers:
  Laura Matusevich, Texas A&M University laura@math.tamu.edu
  Christopher O'Neill, Texas A&M University coneill@math.tamu.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Syzygies and tensor product surfaces.
    Eliana M Duarte*, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Hal Schenck, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    (1120-13-250)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Equivariant K-theory of certain wonderful compactifications and permutohedra.
    Mahir Bilen Can*, Tulane University
    Soumya D Banerjee, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
    Michael O Joyce, Tulane University
    (1120-19-153)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Conductor ideals of affine monoids and $K$-theory.
    Joseph Gubeladze*, San Francisco State University
    (1120-13-124)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    The smallest borel ideal containing the product of the variables.
    Christopher A Francisco, Oklahoma State University
    Jeff Mermin*, Oklahoma State University
    Jay Schweig, Oklahoma State University
    (1120-13-76)
• Sunday April 17, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Convexity and Harmonic Analysis, IV
  Room 103, Morrill Hall
  Organizers:
  Maria Alfonseca-Cubero, North Dakota State University maria.alfonseca@ndsu.edu
  Dmitry Ryabogin, Kent State University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    On a functional equation related to a pair of hedgehogs with congruent projections.
    Sergii Myroshnychenko*, Kent State University
    (1120-52-107)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    The slicing problem for sections of proportional dimensions.
    Alexander Koldobsky*, University of Missouri-Columbia
    (1120-52-9)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Unique determination of convex lattice sets.
    Dmitry Ryabogin, Kent State University
    Vladyslav Yaskin*, University of Alberta
    Ning Zhang, University of Alberta
    (1120-52-168)
• Sunday April 17, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Discrete Probability, III
  Room 107, Morrill Hall
  Organizers:
  Jonathon Peterson, Purdue University peterson@purdue.edu
  Arnab Sen, University of Minnesota
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Genealogies for the biased voter model.
    Wai-Tong Fan*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1120-60-264)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Factor of IID percolation on trees.
    Mustazee Rahman*, MIT
    (1120-60-132)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Parisi formula, disorder chaos and fluctuation for the ground state energy in the spherical mixed p-spin models.
    Wei-Kuo Chen*, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
    Arnab Sen, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
    (1120-60-197)
• Sunday April 17, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  AMS-AAAS Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, IV
  Room 105, Morrill Hall
  Organizers:
  Dogan Comez, North Dakota State University Dogan.Comez@ndsu.edu
  Mrinal Kanti Roychowdhury, University of Texas Rio Grand Valley
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Optimal quantization for infinite affine transformations on $\mathbb R^2$.
    Dogan Comez, North Dakota State University
    Mrinal K Roychowdhury*, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
    (1120-37-135)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Absolute stability of infinite dimensional periodic systems with unbounded evolution, input and output operators.
    Nikita Barabanov*, North Dakota State University
    (1120-37-272)
• Sunday April 17, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Frames, Harmonic Analysis, and Operator Theory, IV
  Room 120, South Engineering
  Organizers:
  Gabriel Picioroaga, University of South Dakota
  Eric Weber, Iowa State University esweber@iastate.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Weaving Schauder Frames.
    Peter G Casazza, University of Missouri
    Daniel Freeman, Saint Louis University
    Richard G Lynch*, University of Missouri
    (1120-42-44)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Self-adjoint Toeplitz operators associated with representing measures on doubly connected planar regions and their eigenvalues.
    Cyrus P Aryana*, Saginaw Valley State University
    (1120-47-29)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    A fast Fourier transform for fractal approximations.
    Calvin F. Hotchkiss*, Iowa State University
    Eric S. Weber, Iowa State University
    (1120-43-213)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Fourier frames for the Cantor-4 set.
    Gabriel Picioroaga*, University of South Dakota
    Eric Weber, Iowa State University
    (1120-42-90)
• Sunday April 17, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Frames, Wavelets and Gabor Systems, III
  Room 208, South Engineering
  Organizers:
  Yeonhyang Kim, Central Michigan University kim4y@cmich.edu
  Sivaram K. Narayan, Central Michigan University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    A classification of irreducible admissible groups in dimension three.
    Bradley Currey, Saint Louis University
    Hartmut Fuhr, RWTH Aachen
    Vignon Oussa*, Bridgewater State University
    (1120-22-16)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Sampling and interpolation on certain nilpotent lie groups.
    Azita Mayeli*, City University of New York, The Graduate Center and Queensborough
    Bradley Currey, St. Louis University
    Vignon Oussa, Bridgewater State University
    (1120-42-222)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Frames and Bessel systems generated by the iterative actions of normal operators.
    Armenak Petrosyan*, Vanderbilt University
    Akram Aldroubi, Vanderbilt University
    (1120-46-53)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Spatially distributed sampling and reconstruction.
    Cheng Cheng*, University of Central Florida
    (1120-00-32)
• Sunday April 17, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Integrable Dynamical Systems and Special Functions, IV
  Room 302, Minard Hall
  Organizers:
  Oksana Bihun, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs obihun@uccs.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Oscillatory solitons of Hirota and Sasa-Satsuma equations.
    Stephen C Anco*, Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics, Brock University
    (1120-35-310)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    The Korteweg-de Vries equation on the half-line and a new approach for the analysis of initial-boundary value problems.
    Athanassios S. Fokas, University of Cambridge, UK
    A. Alexandrou Himonas, University of Notre Dame
    Dionyssios Mantzavinos*, State University of New York at Buffalo
    (1120-35-309)
• Sunday April 17, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-2:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Interactions with Algebraic Geometry, IV
  Room 310, Minard Hall
  Organizers:
  Julie Rana, University of Minnesota
  Kaisa Taipale, University of Minnesota taipale@umn.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Spherical tropicalization.
    Tassos Vogiannou*, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    (1120-14-49)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Geometry over higher rank valued fields.
    Tyler Foster, University of Michigan
    Dhruv Ranganathan*, Yale University
    (1120-14-36)
• Sunday April 17, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Matrix and Operator Theory, IV
  Room 116, South Engineering
  Organizers:
  Shaun Fallat, University of Regina Shaun.fallat@uregina.ca
  Douglas Farenick, University of Regina
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Isometries of the Toeplitz Matrix Algebra.
    Douglas Farenick, University of Regina
    Mitja Mastnak, Saint Mary's University
    Alexey Popov*, University of Lethbridge
    (1120-47-211)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Some matrix theory questions arising from quantum coherence.
    Jianxin Chen, University of Maryland
    Nathaniel Johnston, Mount Allison University
    Chi-Kwong Li, College of William and Mary
    Sarah Plosker*, Brandon University
    (1120-15-67)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Fidelity preservation in $C^{*}$ algebras.
    Douglas Farenick, Universit of Regina, Regina, saskatchewan,Canada
    Samuel Jaques, Universit of Regina, Regina, saskatchewan,Canada
    Mizanur Rahaman*, Universit of Regina, Regina, saskatchewan,Canada
    (1120-47-63)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Amalgamated universal free products of finite dimensional $C^*$-algebras.
    Benton L Duncan*, North Dakota State University
    (1120-46-50)
• Sunday April 17, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Topological and Smooth Dynamics, IV
  Room 308, Minard Hall
  Organizers:
  Azer Akhmedov, North Dakota State University azer.akhmedov@ndsu.edu
  Michael Cohen, North Dakota State University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Geodesic language complexity and group structure.
    Maranda Franke*, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    (1120-20-108)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Recent results in bridge spectra.
    Nicholas J Owad*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1120-57-140)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Geometry of the word problem in closed 3-manifold groups.
    Tim Susse*, University of Nebraska
    Susan Hermiller, University of Nebraska
    Mark Brittenham, University of Nebraska
    (1120-20-237)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    On Eigen's quasispecies model and isometry groups acting on finite metric spaces.
    Artem Novozhilov*, North Dakota State University
    Yuri Semenov, Moscow State University of Railway Engineering
    (1120-20-31)

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