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Spring Western Sectional Meeting
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
April 9-10, 2016 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1119

Associate secretaries:

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

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Special Session on Inverse Problems

• Saturday April 9, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Inverse Problems, I
  Room 205, William Stewart Building
  Organizers:
  Hanna Makaruk, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
  Robert Owczarek, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque and UNM, Los Alamos rowczare@unm.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Octonionic belt tricks.
    Louis H Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1119-57-48)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Quantum logic revisited.
    Samuel J. Lomonaco*, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)
    (1119-81-192)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Transforming structures into structures.
    Valentina Harizanov*, George Wasdhington University
    (1119-03-117)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Complexity of isomorphisms for certain classes of infinite graphs.
    Hakim J. Walker*, The George Washington University
    (1119-03-137)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Semifields antiisomorphic to themselves.
    Gregory Peter Wene*, The University of Texas at San Antonio
    (1119-17-65)
• Saturday April 9, 2016, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Inverse Problems, II
  Room 205, William Stewart Building
  Organizers:
  Hanna Makaruk, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
  Robert Owczarek, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque and UNM, Los Alamos rowczare@unm.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A few problems in knot theory or motivated by knot theory.
    Jozef H. Przytycki*, George Washington University
    (1119-57-214)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Periodic surface-knots and quandle extensions.
    Seung Yeop Yang*, The George Washington University
    J. Scott Carter, University of South Alabama
    (1119-57-148)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    From Gaussian polynomials to plucking polynomials.
    Zhiyun Cheng, Beijing Normal University, The George Washington University
    Sujoy Mukherjee*, The George Washington University
    Józef H. Przytycki, The George Washington University
    Xiao Wang, The George Washington University
    Seung Yeop Yang, The George Washington University
    (1119-54-123)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Strict unimodality of plucking polynomials of rooted trees.
    Zhiyun Cheng, Beijing Normal University and The George Washington University
    Sujoy Mukherjee, The George Washington University
    Józef H. Przytycki, The George Washington University and University of Gdańsk
    Xiao Wang*, The George Washington University
    Seung Yeop Yang, The George Washington University
    (1119-57-161)
• Sunday April 10, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Inverse Problems, III
  Room 205, William Stewart Building
  Organizers:
  Hanna Makaruk, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
  Robert Owczarek, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque and UNM, Los Alamos rowczare@unm.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    What do the Golden Ratio and a crescent moon have in common?
    Igor Szczyrba*, University of Northern Colorado
    (1119-11-40)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Particle size distributions from angular light scattering data.
    Martin M Schauer*, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Physics Division
    William T Buttler, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Physics Division
    Shabnam Monfared, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Physics Division
    Daniel Sorenson, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Physics Division
    Daniel Frayer, National Security Technologies, Los Alamos Operations
    Brandon Lalone, National Security Technologies, Special Technologiews Lab
    Gerald Stevens, National Security Technologies, Special Technologies Lab
    William Turley, National Security Technologies,Special Technologies Lab
    (1119-70-64)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Radiographic assessment from static object measurements using a sensitivity study.
    James L Carroll*, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    (1119-68-229)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Uncertainty analysis in signal detection.
    Michal Odyniec*, NST
    (1119-46-60)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Comparison of calibration targets used to infer radiographic spot size.
    Jennifer L Schei*, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Christopher D Tomkins, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    (1119-65-104)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On topology, geometry, and condensed matter.
    Robert Owczarek*, University of New Mexico
    (1119-82-135)
• Sunday April 10, 2016, 2:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Inverse Problems, IV
  Room 205, William Stewart Building
  Organizers:
  Hanna Makaruk, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
  Robert Owczarek, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque and UNM, Los Alamos rowczare@unm.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Affine space with non-reciprocal vectors and the mass centre for the finite light speed.
    Zbigniew Oziewicz*, Universidad Nacional Autonomy de Mexico, Facultad de Estudios Superiors Cuautitlan
    (1119-51-55)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Celestial sphere, spinors and relativistic composition of velocities.
    Jerzy Kocik*, Southern Illinois University
    (1119-83-156)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Control of a flexible chimney under wind loading.
    Michael Chi, University of Alberta
    François Gay-Balmaz, CNRS and Ecole Normale Supérieure
    Vakhtang Putkaradze, University of Alberta
    Nima Fathi, University of New Mexico
    Peter Vorobieff*, University of New Mexico
    (1119-49-187)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Differential equations of smooth loops with the S. Lie approach.
    Larissa V. Sbitneva*, Morelos State University, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México
    (1119-20-204)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Nuclear fusion --study of a semi-empirical equation.
    Hanna E. Makaruk*, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
    James R. Langenbrunner, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    (1119-85-25)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Discussion.

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