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Program of the Sessions Seattle, Washington, January 6–9, 2016 Program of the Sessions Seattle, Washington, January 6–9, 2016 Presenter: Lisa Dierker,Wesleyan Monday, January 4 University AMS Short Course Registration NSF-EHR Grant Proposal Writing Workshop 7:00 AM –4:30PM Willow B, 2nd Floor, 3:00 PM –6:00PM Redwood, 2nd Floor, Sheraton Seattle Hotel Sheraton Seattle Hotel AMS Short Course on Rigorous Numerics in AMS Short Course Reception Dynamics, Part I 5:30 PM –6:30PM Willow B, 2nd Floor, 9:00 AM –5:30PM Willow A, 2nd Floor, Sheraton Seattle Hotel Sheraton Seattle Hotel Organizers: Jean-Philippe Lessard, Universit´e Laval JanBouwevandenBerg, VU University Amsterdam Tuesday, January 5 MAA Ancillary Workshop AMS Short Course on Rigorous Numerics in 9:00 AM –4:30PM Room 211, Washington Dynamics, Part II State Convention Center 8:00 AM –4:45PM Willow A, 2nd Floor, Bringing passion to your introductory Sheraton Seattle Hotel statistics classroom: a supportive, multidisciplinary project-based Organizers: Jean-Philippe Lessard, approach. Universit´e Laval JanBouwevandenBerg, Organizers: Lorey Burghard, VU University Amsterdam Pennsylvania State University Lisa Dierker,Wesleyan AMS Department Chairs Workshop University Dennis Pearl, Pennsylvania 8:00 AM –6:30PM Grand Ballroom A, 2nd State University Floor, Sheraton Seattle Hotel The time limit for each AMS contributed paper in the sessions meeting will be found in Volume 37, Issue 1 of Abstracts is ten minutes. The time limit for each MAA contributed of papers presented to the American Mathematical Society, paper varies. In the Special Sessions the time limit varies ordered according to the numbers in parentheses following from session to session and within sessions. To maintain the the listings. The middle two digits, e.g., 897-20-1136, refer to schedule, time limits will be strictly enforced. the Mathematical Reviews subject classification assigned by Forpaperswithmorethanoneauthor,an asterisk follows the individual author. Groups of papers for each subject are the name of the author who plans to present the paper at the listed chronologically in the Abstracts. The last one to four meeting. digits, e.g., 897-20-1136, refer to the receipt number of the Papers flagged with a solid triangle () have been desig- abstract; abstracts are further sorted by the receipt number nated by the author as being of possible interest to under- within each classification. MAA abstracts are listed toward graduate students. the back of the issue sorted by session name. Abstracts of papers presented in the sessions at this 57 Program of the Sessions – Tuesday, January 5 (cont’d.) MAA Minicourse #1: Part A MAA Minicourse #1: Part B 2:00 PM –3:00PM Room 2A, Washington 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Room 2A, Washington State Convention Center State Convention Center Introductory proposal writing for grant Introductory proposal writing for grant applications to the NSF EHR/Division of applications to the NSF EHR/Division of Undergraduate Education. Undergraduate Education. Presenters: John Haddock, Division of Undergraduate Education, Presenters: John Haddock, Division of NSF Undergraduate Education, Teri Jo Murphy, Division of NSF Undergraduate Education, Teri Jo Murphy, Division of NSF Undergraduate Education, Lee Zia, Division of NSF Undergraduate Education, NSF Lee Zia, Division of Undergraduate Education, Joint Meetings Registration NSF 3:00 PM –8:00PM Atrium Lobby, 4th Floor, MAA Ancillary Workshop Washington State Convention Center 9:00 AM –4:30PM Room 211, Washington Email Center State Convention Center 3:00 PM –8:00PM Atrium Lobby, 4th Floor, Washington State Convention Center National research experiences for undergraduates. Organizer: Dennis Davenport,Howard University MAA Ancillary Workshop Wednesday, January 6 MAA Minority Chairs Meeting 9:00 AM –4:30PM Room 2B, Washington State Convention Center 7:00 AM –8:45AM Issaquah A, 3rd Floor, Sheraton Seattle Hotel Teaching the statistical investigation process with randomization-based Joint Meetings Registration inference. 7:30 AM –6:00PM Atrium Lobby, 4th Floor, Organizers: Lorey Burghard, Pennsylvania State University Washington State Convention Center Dennis Pearl, Pennsylvania Email Center State University 7:30 AM – 10:00 PM Atrium Lobby, 4th Floor, Presenters: Robin Lock,St.Lawrence Washington State Convention Center University Todd Swanson,Hope AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research College in Mathematics by Undergraduates and Students in Post-Baccalaureate Programs, I Nathan Tintle,Dordt College 8:00 AM –10:50AM Tahoma 3, Tahoma Level Three, Washington State Conference Center MAA Board of Governors Organizers: Darren A. Narayan, Rochester Institute of 9:00 AM –5:00PM Metropolitan B, 3rd Technology Floor, Sheraton Seattle Hotel Jobby Jacob,Rochester Institute of Technology AMS Council Tamas Forgacs, California State University, Fresno 1:30 PM – 10:00 PM Metropolitan A, 3rd Ugur Abdulla,Florida Floor, Sheraton Seattle Hotel Institute of Technology 58 Wednesday, January 6 – Program of the Sessions 8:00AM On the Fine Classification of Periodic 8:30AM Making Problem -Asking the Students to (1) Orbits of Continuous Endomorphisms on (7) Make up Problem- and its Assessment. the Real Line and Universality in Chaos. Noriko Tanaka, Toyota-nishi High School Ugur G Abdulla, Florida Institute of (1116-97-911) Technology, Rashad U Abdulla*, University of Pennsylvania, Muhammad U 9:00AM TRAIn Method: A new lab model for Abdulla, Florida Institute of Technology, (8) training undergraduates in STEM fields. Alyssa L. Turnquist, Morningside Preliminary report. College, and Naveed Iqbal,Florida Katherine M. Kinnaird, Macalester Institute of Technology (1116-37-85) College (1116-97-2499) 8:30AM State Constrained Optimal Control of the 9:30AM Building YouTube University Brick by (2) Stefan Type Free Boundary Problems. (9) Brick. Ugur Abdulla, Curtis Earl*, Florida Steven J Miller, Williams College Institute of Technology, Chelsey Hoff, (1116-97-405) Florida Atlantic University, Jim Jones, Bruno Poggi, Florida Institute of 10:00AM Teaching strategies for a first course in Technology, and Ryan Stees,James (10) linear algebra. Madison University (1116-35-87) Amanda Ellis Francis, Brigham Young University (1116-97-2895) 9:00AM Frechet Differentiability in Optimal (3) Control of Free Boundary Problems for 10:30AM Techniques For Teaching Problem Solving the Second Order Parabolic PDE. (11) Using Mathematics Contests. Dylanger S Pittman*, Williams College, Chris Jeuell, Microsoft Corporation Jessica Pillow, Rhodes College, Ugur (1116-00-2957) Abdulla, Jim Jones and Jonathan Goldfarb, Florida Institute of Technology AMS Special Session on Analysis and (1116-35-90) Geometry in Nonsmooth Metric Measure 9:30AM Evolution of Free Boundaries for the Spaces, I (4) Nonlinear Fokker-Planck Equation. Ugur G. Abdulla, Florida Institute of Technology, Luke Thomas Andrejek, 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 401, Washington Indiana University, Christie M. State Convention Center Campbell*, Michigan State University, Jian Du, Jonathon Goldfarb and Organizers: Luca Capogna, Worcester Adam L. Prinkey, Florida Institute of Polytechnic Institute Technology (1116-35-101) Jeremy Tyson,Universityof 10:00AM Analysis of Interfaces for the Nonlinear Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (5) Double-Degenerate Reaction-Diffusion Equation. 8:00AM The quasiconformal geometry of Ugur G Abdulla, Jian Du,Florida (12) continuum trees. Institute of Technology, Chloe L Mario Bonk, UCLA (1116-30-1860) Ondracek, Minot State University, Suneil Parimoo*, University of Pennsylvania, 8:30AM Quasiconformal mappings via iterated and Adam L Prinkey, Florida Institute of (13) function systems. Preliminary report. Technology (1116-35-102) Kevin Wildrick, Montana State University 10:30AM Detecting gene-gene interactions that (1116-30-1270) (6) underlie cancer using the R package 9:00AM Universal Convexity of Balls algstat. Preliminary report. (14) for QuasiHyperbolic Type Metrics. Iliana De La Cruz, St. Mary’s University, Preliminary report. Taylor Spino, North Central College, David A Herron, University of Cincinnati Melissa Stadt*, University of (1116-53-1490) Washington-Seattle, and Catherine Sullivan, Siena College (1116-62-108) 9:30AM Logarithmic Potentials and (15) Quasiconformal Flows on the Heisenberg AMS-MAA Special Session on Innovative Group. Preliminary report. Ideas in Enhancing Success in Mathematics Alex D Austin, University of Illinois at Classes, I Chicago (1116-51-1517) AM 8:00 AM –10:50AM Chelan 2, Chelan Level 10:00 Quasiconformal non-parametrizability of (16) almost smooth spheres. Two, Washington State Conference Center Vyron S Vellis*andPekka Pankka, Organizers: Natali Hritonenko, Prairie University of Jyvaskyla (1116-30-765) View A&M University 10:30AM Theory and applications of p-modulus Ellina Grigorieva,Texas (17) of families of walks on networks. Woman’s University Preliminary report. Michael A. Radin,Rochester Pietro Poggi-Corradini, Kansas State Institute of Technology University (1116-30-1412) 59 Program of the Sessions – Wednesday, January 6 (cont’d.) AMS Special Session on Arithmetic 9:00AM Lattice supersymmetric Korteweg de Dynamics, I (26) Vries equation and super-QRT mappings. Adrian Stefan Carstea, Institute of 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 604, Washington Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Department of Theoretical Physics, State Convention Center Bucharest, Romania (1116-39-1226) Organizers: Matthew Baker,Georgia 9:30AM Hermite-Pade approximation, Institute of Technology (27) isomonodromic deformation and Joseph Silverman,Brown hypergeometric integral. University Teruhisa
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