Program of the Sessions San Diego, California, January 9–12, 2013

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AMS Short Course on Random Matrices, Part Monday, January 7 I MAA Short Course on Conceptual Climate Models, Part I 9:00 AM –3:45PM Room 4, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center 8:30 AM –5:30PM Room 5B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center Organizer: Van Vu,YaleUniversity Organizers: Esther Widiasih,University of Arizona 8:00AM Registration outside Room 5A, SDCC Mary Lou Zeeman,Bowdoin upper level. College 9:00AM Random Matrices: The Universality James Walsh, Oberlin (5) phenomenon for Wigner ensemble. College Preliminary report. 7:30AM Registration outside Room 5A, SDCC Terence Tao, University of California Los upper level. Angles

8:30AM Zero-dimensional energy balance models. 10:45AM Universality of random matrices and (1) Hans Kaper, Georgetown University (6) Dyson Brownian Motion. Preliminary 10:30AM Hands-on Session: Dynamics of energy report. (2) balance models, I. Laszlo Erdos, LMU, Munich Anna Barry*, Institute for Math and Its Applications, and Samantha 2:30PM Free probability and Random matrices. Oestreicher*, University of Minnesota (7) Preliminary report. Alice Guionnet, Massachusetts Institute 2:00PM One-dimensional energy balance models. of Technology (3) Hans Kaper, Georgetown University

4:00PM Hands-on Session: Dynamics of energy NSF-EHR Grant Proposal Writing Workshop (4) balance models, II. Anna Barry*, Institute for Math and Its Applications, and Samantha 3:00 PM –6:00PM Marina Ballroom Oestreicher*, University of Minnesota F, 3rd Floor, Marriott

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1 Program of the Sessions – Tuesday, January 8

10:30AM Non-asymptotic theory of random Tuesday, January 8 (13) matrices. Preliminary report. AMS Department Chairs Workshop Mark Rudelson, University of Michigan 2:00PM Around the circular law. Preliminary 8:00 AM –6:30PM Marina Ballroom (14) report. F, 3rd Floor, Marriott Djalil Chafai,UniversitéParis-Est Marne-la-Vallée, Paris MAA Short Course on Conceptual Climate 3:30PM Random Matrices: The Universality Models, Part II (15) phenomenon for non-hermitian random matrices. Preliminary report. 8:30 AM –5:30PM Room 5B, Upper Level, Van Vu,YaleUniversity San Diego Convention Center MAA Ancillary Workshop on Playing Games Organizers: Esther Widiasih,University with a Purpose: A New Approach to Teaching of Arizona andLearningStatistics Mary Lou Zeeman,Bowdoin College 9:00 AM –4:00PM Balboa/Mission Hills Room, 3rd Floor, Marriott James Walsh, Oberlin College Presenters: Shonda Kuiper, Grinnell 8:30AM Paleoclimate data, Milankovitch cycles, College (8) and extending energy balance models. Rod Sturdivant, U.S. Military Richard McGehee,Universityof Academy Minnesota 10:30AM Hands-on Session: Comparing energy MAA Ancillary Workshop on Functions, (9) balance models with the paleoclimate Parameters, and Fitting for Teaching record. Calculus Richard McGehee*, University of Minnesota, and Esther Widiasih*, 9:00 AM –4:00PM Cardiff/Carlsbad University of Arizona Room, 3rd Floor, Marriott 2:00PM The greenhouse effect in energy balance (10) models. Presenters: Daniel Kaplan, Macalester Jim Walsh, Oberlin College College Randall Pruim,Calvin 4:00PM Hands-on Session: Greenhouse gas effect College (11) explorations. Anna Barry*, Institute for Math and Its Applications, and Esther Widiasih*, AMS Council University of Arizona 1:30 PM – 10:00 PM Marina Ballroom MAA Ancillary Workshop on Identifying and E, 3rd Floor, Marriott Addressing Difficult Concepts for Students in the Introductory Statistics Course Joint Meetings Registration 3:00 PM –7:00PM Exhibit Hall B1, Ground 8:30 AM –4:30PM Point Loma Room, Level, San Diego Convention Center 1st Floor, Marriott Presenter: Marjorie Bond,Monmouth College MAA Board of Governors Wednesday, January 9 8:30 AM –5:00PM Marina Ballroom Joint Meetings Registration D, 3rd Floor, Marriott 7:30 AM –6:00PM Exhibit Hall B1, Ground AMS Short Course on Random Matrices, Part Level, San Diego Convention Center II AMS-ASL Special Session on Effective 9:00 AM –4:45PM Room 4, Upper Level, Algebra and Model Theory, I San Diego Convention Center 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 7B, Upper Level, Organizer: Van Vu,YaleUniversity San Diego Convention Center 9:00AM Random matrices, numerical (12) computation, and remarkable Organizers: Sam Buss,Universityof applications. Preliminary report. California, San Diego Alan Edelman, Massachusetts Institute Mia Minnes,Universityof of Technology California, San Diego

2 Wednesday, January 9 – Program of the Sessions

Jeff Remmel,Universityof 9:30AM Noetherian property of subrings of power California, San Diego (25) series rings. Byung Gyun Kang*andPhan Thanh 8:00AM Independent Sets in Computable Free Toan, POSTECH (1086-13-847) (16) Groups and Fields. Preliminary report. Charles McCoy, University of Portland, 10:00AM What does elasticity tell us about and Russell Miller*, Queens College & (26) direct-sum behavior of torsion-free CUNY Graduate Center (1086-03-623) modules? Silvia Saccon*, The University of Arizona, 8:30AM An algebraic characterization of and Nicholas R. Baeth,Universityof (17) recursively saturated real closed fields. Central Missouri (1086-13-194) Paola D’Aquino, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Salma 10:30AM Multiplicative Sets of Atoms. Preliminary Kuhlmann, University of Konstanz, and (27) report. Karen Lange*, Wellesley College Ashley Rand, University of Tennessee, (1086-03-1033) Knoxville (1086-13-193) 9:00AM Turing degrees of orders on torsion-free AMS Special Session on Celestial Mechanics, I (18) abelian groups. Asher M Kach, Google Chicago, Karen 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 31A, Upper Level, Lange, Wellesley College, and Reed San Diego Convention Center Solomon*, University of Connecticut (1086-03-1345) Organizers: Gareth Roberts, College of the Holy Cross 9:30AM Effectively Categorical Torsion Free (19) Abelian Groups. Zhifu Xie, Virginia State Rodney Downey*, School of Maths, University Stats and OR, Victoria University, and 8:00AM Stability of elliptic Lagrangian solutions Alexander Melnikov,NanyangUniversity (28) of the classical three body problem via of Technology (1086-03-447) index theory. Preliminary report. 10:00AM Complexity of orders on algebraic Yiming Long, Chern Institute of (20) structures. Mathematics, Nankai University Valentina Harizanov,George (1086-37-54) Washington University (1086-03-1669) 9:00AM Linear Stability of the periodic solution in 10:30AM The complexity of ascendant sequences (29) the spatial isosceles three-body problem. (21) in locally nilpotent groups. Tiancheng Ouyang, Brigham Young Chris J. Conidis*, Vanderbilt University, University, Zhifu Xie*, Virginia State and Richard A Shore, Cornell Univeristy University, and Duokui Yan, Beihang (1086-03-421) University (1086-37-1191) 9:30AM Global regularization in the planar AMS Special Session on Arithmetic and Ideal (30) equilateral restricted four-body problem. Theory of Integral Domains and Monoids, I Martha Alvarez*, Joaquin Delgado, UAM-Iztapalapa, and Claudio Vidal, Universidad del Bio Bio (1086-70-235) 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 15A, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center 10:00AM Global Regularization and Reduction for (31) Newtonian N body problems. Organizers: Scott T. Chapman,Sam Richard Montgomery,UCSC Houston State University (1086-70-367) Vadim Ponomarenko,San 10:30AM Complex Blow-up of Triple Collision. Diego State University (32) Richard Moeckel,Universityof Minnesota (1086-70-709) 8:00AM Some remarks on ideal factorizations in (22) Prufer¨ domains. AMS Special Session on Commutative Marco Fontana,Università degli Studi, Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, I ”Roma Tre”, Italy (1086-13-990)

8:30AM Factorization theory and decompositions 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 14A, Mezzanine (23) of modules. Level, San Diego Convention Center Nicholas R. Baeth,Universityof Central Missouri, and Roger Wiegand*, Organizers: Kuei-Nan Lin,Universityof University of Nebraska–Lincoln California, Riverside (1086-13-966) Tai Ha, Tulane University 9:00AM Huneke-Wiegand Conjecture for complete 8:00AM Uniform Symbolic Topologies and Finite (24) intersection numerical semigroup rings. (33) Extensions. Preliminary report. Pedro A. Garc´ıa-S´anchez*, Universidad Craig Huneke*, University of Virginia, de Granada, and Micah J. Leamer, Daniel Katz, University of Kansas, and Chennai Mathematical Institute, India Javid Validashti, University of Illinois (1086-20-1021) (1086-13-779)

3 Program of the Sessions – Wednesday, January 9 (cont’d.)

8:30AM Multidegree of toric ideals. Preliminary 10:30AM Bounded Geometry and Characterization (34) report. (44) of post-singularly Finite (p,q)-Exponential Uwe Nagel and Augustine B. O’Keefe*, Maps. University of Kentucky (1086-13-2450) Linda Keen*, CUNY Graduate Center and Lehman College, Tao Chen,CUNY 9:00AM Sufﬁcient conditions for F-injectivity to (35) deform. Preliminary report. Graduate Center and Bronx Community College, and ,CUNY Lance Edward Miller*, University Yunping Jiang Queens College and Graduate Center of Utah, Kazuma Shimomoto and (1086-37-1226) Jun Horiuchi, Meiji University (1086-13-1343) AMS Special Session on Difference Equations 9:30AM Hochster’s theta pairing and numerical and Applications, I (36) equivalence. Hailong Dao, University of Kansas, 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 30B, Upper Level, Lawrence (1086-13-610) San Diego Convention Center 10:00AM Constructing some classes of Gorenstein (37) rings via connected sums. Organizer: Michael Radin,Rochester Ananthnarayan Hariharan,Universityof Institute of Technology Nebraska at Lincoln, Paolo Mantero*, 8:00AM Difference equations arising in Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (45) evolutionary population dynamics. (MSRI) and UC Riverside, and Alexandra Jim M. Cushing*, Interdisciplinary Seceleanu, University of Nebraska at Program in Applied Mathematics, Lincoln (1086-13-2553) University of Arizona, and Simon Maccracken Stump, Department of 10:30AM Algebraic Properties of Square-free Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, (38) Monomial Ideals. University of Arizona (1086-39-1569) Susan E. Morey, Texas State University (1086-13-646) 8:30AM Global Stability of a class of (46) non-monotone competition models via AMS Special Session on Complex Dynamics, I singularity theory. Preliminary report. Saber N Elaydi*, Eduardo Balreira, Trinity University, and Rafael 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 14B, Mezzanine Luis, Center for Mathematical Level, San Diego Convention Center Analysis, Geometry and Dynamical Organizers: Laura DeMarco,University Systems,Tecnical University of Lisbon of Illinois, Chicago (1086-39-1834) 9:00AM A Contest-Competition model with Allee Rodrigo Perez, Indiana (47) Effect. Preliminary report. University-Purdue University Eddy A Kwessi, Trinity University Indianapolis (1086-39-1900) Roland Roeder, Indiana 9:30AM Stability and invariant manifolds of University-Purdue University (48) a discrete host-parasitoid model. Indianapolis Preliminary report. 8:00AM The Central Strip Lemma for Laminations Sinan Kapcak*, Izmir University of (39) of Degree 2. Preliminary report. Economics and Trinity University, Saber John C Mayer, University of Alabama at Elaydi, Trinity University, and Unal Birmingham (1086-37-228) Ufuktepe, Izmir University of Economics (1086-39-1009) 8:30AM Antipode Preserving Cubic Rational Maps (40) and Herman rings. Preliminary report. 10:00AM Discrete Fractional Calculus. A. Bonifant*, University of Rhode Island, (49) Allan C. Peterson,Universityof X. Buff, Universite Paul Sabatier, and J. W. Nebraska-Lincoln (1086-39-599) Milnor, Institute for Mathematical 10:30AM Solving linear difference equations in Sciences (1086-37-2354) (50) rings using reduction of order. H. Sedaghat, Virginia Commonwealth 9:00AM Baby Julia sets and combinatorial University (1086-39-931) (41) models. Preliminary report. Suzanne Boyd, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee (1086-37-1921) AMS Special Session on Graph Theory, I

9:30AM Rational functions with identical measure 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 16B, Mezzanine (42) of maximal entropy. Level, San Diego Convention Center Hexi Ye, University of Illinois at Chicago (1086-37-391) Organizers: Andre Kundgen, California State University, San Marcos 10:00AM Catalan, Fibonacci, and Siegel. (43) Preliminary report. Michael Pelsmajer, Illinois Rodrigo A Perez*, IUPUI, and Magnus Institute of Technology Aspenberg, Lund University Douglas West,Universityof (1086-37-2954) Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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8:00AM Trees and cycles in hypergraphs. AMS Special Session on Nonlinear Evolution (51) Preliminary report. Equations and Integrable Systems, I Zoltan Furedi,Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest, Hungary 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 30E, Upper Level, (1086-05-1742) San Diego Convention Center 8:30AM Hypergraph Turan numbers of loose Organizers: Jennifer Gorsky,University (52) cycles and linear cycles. Preliminary of San Diego report. Alex Himonas,Universityof Zoltán Furedi¨ , University of Illnois and Notre Dame Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Tao Jiang*, Miami University (1086-05-1288) 8:00AM Non-homogeneous Boundary-Value (62) Problems for the Schrodinger¨ Equation. 9:00AM Ordered Turan´ Problems. Jerry L. Bona*, University of Illinois at (53) Craig M. Timmons,Universityof Chicago, Shu-Ming Sun,Virginia California San Diego (1086-05-1067) Polytechnic Institute and State University, and Bing-Yu Zhang,Universityof 9:30AM Minimum K(2,3)-Saturated Graphs. Cincinnati (1086-35-1832) (54) Ya-Chen Chen,Sacramento,CA 8:30AM Initial-boundary value problem for (1086-05-1519) (63) coupled dispersive equations. 10:00AM The Manickam-Miklos-Singhi´ Conjecture Hongqiu Chen, University of Memphis (55) for Small k. Preliminary report. (1086-35-2545) Ameera N Chowdhury,UCLA 9:00AM Global well-posedness for the (1086-05-1676) (64) eBBM-model. Sanja V Pantić*andJerry L Bona, 10:30AM Recent results and problems in spectral University of Illinois at Chicago (56) graph theory. (1086-76-2623) Fan Chung, University of California, San Diego (1086-05-2421) 9:30AM Near-parallel vortex filament dynamics. (65) Walter Craig,McMasterUniversity AMS Special Session on Mathematical and (1086-35-1744) Numerical Analysis of Nonlocal Problems, I 10:00AM Continuity Properties of the Solution Map (66) for the Generalized Reduced Ostrovsky Equation. 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 31B, Upper Level, Melissa Davidson, University of Notre San Diego Convention Center Dame (1086-35-2367) 10:30AM The initial-boundary value problem for a Organizers: Qiang Du, Pennsylvania (67) class of evolution equations. State University Dionyssis Mantzavinos,Universityof Tadele Mengesha, Notre Dame (1086-35-1228) Pennsylvania State University AMS Special Session on Recent Advances and 8:00AM The Peridynamic Nonlocal Continuum New Challenges in Applied Analysis, I (57) Theory. Rich Lehoucq, Sandia National Labs 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 17A, Mezzanine (1086-74-1373) Level, San Diego Convention Center

9:00AM Multiscale Analysis of Heterogeneous Organizer: Marian Bocea, Loyola (58) Media in the Peridynamic Formulation. University, Chicago Bacim Alali, Florida State University, 8:00AM Random homogenization for solid and Robert Lipton*, Louisiana State (68) suspensions in a ﬂuid. Preliminary report. University (1086-74-2095) Florian Maris, University of Houston (1086-35-2142) 9:30AM Mathematical Modeling and Analysis (59) of Interface Problems for Nonlocal 8:30AM Dispersion relations for double negative Diffusion. (69) metamaterials. Pablo Seleson*, The University of Texas Yue Chen, University of Kentucky, at Austin, Max Gunzburger,FloridaState and Robert Lipton*, Louisiana State University, and Michael L Parks,Sandia University (1086-35-2086) National Laboratories (1086-45-2438) 9:00AM Variational Methods for Crystal Surface (70) Instability. 10:00AM Mathematical Analysis of linear Irene Fonseca,CarnegieMellon (60) peridynamics. University (1086-49-505) Tadele Mengesha*andQiang Du,Penn State University (1086-45-1692) 9:30AM Quasiconvexity, Nonlinear PDEs, and (71) Principal Curvature. 10:30AM Results on the well-posedness of E N Barron, RGoebeland RR (61) nonlinear peridynamics. Jensen*, Loyola University Chicago Dimitri Puhst, TU Berlin (1086-35-410) (1086-35-2043)

5 Program of the Sessions – Wednesday, January 9 (cont’d.)

10:00AM New variational problems for material Michael Mays,WestVirginia (72) defect evolution. University Chris Larsen, WPI (1086-49-2703) 8:00AM The Mathematics Teacher Education 10:30AM A continuum model for epitaxial growth (80) Partnership. (73) with elasticity on vicinal surfaces. Michael Mays*, West Virginia University, Giovanni Leoni, Carnegie Mellon and W. Gary Martin, Auburn University University (1086-49-1449) (1086-97-813) 9:00AM Preparing and Supporting Mentor AMS Special Session on Stochastic Analysis (81) Teachers of Field Experiences for of Stochastic Differential Equations and Secondary Mathematics. Stochastic Partial Differential Equations, I Marilyn E. Strutchens, Auburn University (1086-97-2827) 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 32B, Upper Level, 9:30AM Developing a Course to Address San Diego Convention Center (82) Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching Organizers: Edward Allen,TexasTech Functions and Modeling. Preliminary University report. Laurie O. Cavey*, U. Kaiser and Armando Arciniega,The M. Kinzel,BoiseStateUniversity University of Texas at San (1086-97-881) Antonio 10:00AM C3 Institutes for improving teachers Gangaram Ladde, University of South Florida (83) understanding of mathematics and pedagogy. Preliminary report. Sivapragasam Andrew G Bennett*andCarlos W Sathananthan, Tennessee Castillo-Garsow, Kansas State University State University (1086-97-1764) 8:00AM Network Dynamic Process under 10:30AM Facing the Reality: Reforming the (74) Stochastic Perturbations. Preliminary (84) Teacher Preparation Curriculum. report. William H. Schmidt, Michigan State Gangaram S Ladde,UniversityofSouth University (1086-97-1367) Florida at Tampa (1086-93-1364) 8:30AM A Stochastic Analysis Of Power Doubling AMS Special Session on Theory and (75) Time For A Subcritical System. Interdisciplinary Applications of Dynamical Edward J. Allen, Texas Tech University Systems, I (1086-60-1274)

9:00AM On Logistic Models and their Properties. 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 31C, Upper Level, (76) Janusz S Golec, Fordham University San Diego Convention Center (1086-60-1771) 9:30AM Derivation of stochastic differential Organizer: Sukanya Basu,Central (77) equations for macroevolutionary process. Michigan University Ummugul Bulut*andEdward J. 8:00AM Analysis of Dynamical Systems in Allen, Texas Tech University, Lubbock (85) Accelerator Physics using Veriﬁed (1086-39-1107) Computation. 10:00AM Nonlinear Stochastic Energy Spot Prices Alexander Wittig*andMartin Berz, (78) Processes with Delayed Volatility. Michigan State University (1086-37-1262) Preliminary report. 8:30AM From Billiard Dynamics to Olusegun M Otunuga*andGangaram S (86) Thermodynamics. Ladde, University of South Florida at Tim Chumley, Washington University in Tampa (1086-60-1359) St. Louis, Scott Cook*, Swarthmore 10:30AM Global analysis of a stochastic two-scale College, and Renato Feres, Washington (79) network human epidemic dynamic University in St. Louis (1086-37-2649) model with varying immunity period. 9:00AM Discrete Schrodinger¨ Operators with Preliminary report. (87) Primitive Invertible Substitution Potential. Divine Tito Wanduku*, Keiser University, May Mei, University of California, Irvine and Gangaram S Ladde,Universityof (1086-37-1427) South Florida (1086-60-1821) 9:30AM Chaos Control in Cardiac Tissue: Local AMS Special Session on The Mathematics (88) Stimulation Versus Far-Field Pacing. Teacher Education Partnership and the Preliminary report. John W Cain, University of Richmond Common Core Standards, I (1086-92-732)

8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 17B, Mezzanine 10:00AM Control and Robustness Analysis for Level, San Diego Convention Center (89) Curve Tracking with Unknown Control Gains. Organizers: W. Gary Martin, Auburn Michael Malisoff, Louisiana State University University (1086-93-157)

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10:30AM A Comparison of the Local and Global 10:00AM Tropical geometry and cluster algebras. (90) Dynamics of Monotone and Antimonotone (100) Preliminary report. Maps in the Plane. Mark Gross,UCSDMathematics Sukanya Basu, Central Michigan (1086-14-1060) University (1086-37-443) 10:30AM Automorphisms of algebraic, tropical, (101) and non-Archimedean analytic curves. AMS Special Session on Topics and Issues in Amy Ksir*andCaroline Grant Melles, Electronic Publishing, I US Naval Academy (1086-14-1833)

8:00 AM –10:20AM Room 9, Upper Level, MAA Invited Paper Session on the Beauty San Diego Convention Center and Power of Number Theory Organizers: Klaus Kaiser,Universityof Houston 8:00 AM –10:45AM Room 6F, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center Steven Krantz, Washington University in St. Louis Organizers: Shannon Lockard, Elizabeth Loew,Springer Bridgewater State University 8:00AM Making Content Reflowable for the Tim Flowers, Indiana (91) Reading Device. University of Pennsylvania Henry Krell, Springer Science + Business 8:00AM Generalizing Fermat’s Last Theorem. Media (1086-00-396) (102) Preliminary report. 8:30AM Challenges in digital preservation – local Michael A. Bennett*, University of British (92) choice / global concerns. Columbia, Imin Chen,SimonFraser Randy S. Kiefer,CLOCKSSArchive University, Sander Dahmen,Utrecht (1086-00-2129) University, and Soroosh Yazdani, 9:00AM Changes and enhancements of the University of Lethbridge (1086-AB-1156) (93) publication structure in mathematics. 8:45AM Groups of elliptic over finite fields and Preliminary report. (103) the Cohen-Lenstra Heuristics. Gert-Martin W. Greuel,Mathematical Chantal David*, Concordia University, Research Institute Oberwolfach and Ethan Smith,MichiganTech and University of Kaiserslautern (1086-AB-684) (1086-00-997) 9:30AM Primality proving and elliptic curves. 9:30AM Lessons learned from G&T and MSP. (104) Alice Silverberg, University of California, (94) Walter D Neumann, Barnard College, Irvine (1086-AB-524) Columbia University (1086-00-1036) 10:15AM Reg & Neg. 10:00AM My proposal for a zero-fee replacement (105) Richard K Guy, The University of Calgary (95) for traditional mathematical journals. (1086-AB-971) Greg Kuperberg,UCDavis (1086-00-342) AMS Session on Combinatorics, I AMS Special Session on Tropical Geometry, I 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 13, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 16A, Mezzanine

Level, San Diego Convention Center 8:00AM Convergence of the Bruhat Iteration. (106) Preliminary report. Organizers: Florian Block,Universityof Mary Clair Thompson*andTin-Yau California Berkeley Tam, Auburn University (1086-22-1448) Melody Chan,Harvard University 8:15AM The VC Dimension of Random Set (107) Systems, Word Sets, and Permutation 8:00AM The Brill-Noether rank of a tropical curve. Sets. Preliminary report. (96) Yoav Len, Yale University (1086-14-900) Yan Zhuang, Goucher College 8:30AM Tropical Convexity, Linear Systems, and (1086-05-1304) (97) General Reduced Divisors. 8:30AM Representation function of ﬁnite additive Ye Luo, School of Math, Georgia Institute (108) bases. of Technology (1086-05-2216) Anant Godbole*, East Tennessee State 9:00AM Geometric rank functions and rational University, Sam Gutekunst, Harvey Mudd (98) points on curves. College, Vince Lyzinski, The Johns Eric Edward Katz, University of Waterloo Hopkins University, and Yan Zhuang, (1086-14-2930) Goucher College (1086-05-2070) 9:30AM A tropical proof of the matrix-tree 8:45AM Symmetric Difference Free Families. (99) theorem. (109) Samantha Pinella*, University of Farbod Shokrieh, Georgia Institute of Edinburgh, and Kristen Bartosz,Oregon Technology (1086-05-2093) State University (1086-05-894)

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9:00AM Extended Skolem-type Difference Sets. 9:15AM A functional representation of (110) Tina Helms, Illinois State University, (123) commutative symmetrical algebras, Heather Jordon*, Mathematical Reviews, possessing an eigen-vector and acting on Maggie Murray and Stephanie the Pontryagin Π1 space. Preliminary Zeppetello, Illinois State University report. (1086-05-1735) Sofya S Masharipova and Shukhrat M 9:15AM An inductive approach to constructing Usmanov*, Ashford University, Clinton, (111) n Iowa (1086-46-1637) Universal Cycles on k . Yevgeniy Rudoy, Johns Hopkins 9:30AM Multidimensional extensions of University (1086-05-898) (124) Polya-Knopp-type´ inequalities over spherical cones. Preliminary report. 9:30AM Multiscale approach to the near-unit Chang-Pao Chen*, Hsuan Chuang (112) distance problem. University, Jin-Wen Lan, National Tsing Steven Michael Senger,Universityof Hua University, and Dah-Chin Luor, Delaware (1086-05-2775) I-Shou University (1086-47-565) 9:45AM EKR sets for large n and r . (113) Ben Bond, MIT (1086-05-1086) 9:45AM Scaled-Free Properties for Matrix-Normed (125) Objects. Preliminary report. 10:00AM Rado Numbers for a Linear Inequality. William Benjamin Grilliette, Tyler Junior (114) Daniel Schaal*, South Dakota State College (1086-47-2424) University, and Corey Vorland,North Dakota State University (1086-05-2598) 10:00AM Discussion AM 10:15AM Non-existence of difference sets with 10:15 A formula for the resolvent of the doubly (126) infinite CMV matrix. (115) order n = m2, where m is a natural Darren C. Ong*andPaul Munger,Rice number greater than 1. University (1086-47-1351) Solomon Adegoke Osifodunrin, Livingstone College, Salisbury, NC, 10:30AM The Geometry of P-matrices and the 28144 (1086-05-115) (127) Gale-Nikaido Theorem and Applications. Preliminary report. 10:30AM What makes finite geometry designs so (116) special? E. Cabral Balreira, Trinity University (1086-58-875) David Clark, University of Minnesota (1086-05-1730) 10:45AM On a sharpened form of Leray-Lions (128) ellipticity criterion. 10:45AM Quadratic Leaves of Partial Triple (117) Systems. Dan D. Pascali, Courant Institute, New Joseph Chaffee*andChris Rodger, York University (1086-47-1717) Auburn University (1086-05-492) MAA Session on How Assessment Results AMS Session on Functional Analysis and Changed our Program Operator Theory, I 8:00 AM –10:35AM Room 11B, Upper Level, 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 30C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center San Diego Convention Center Organizers: Miriam Harris-Botzum, 8:00AM TALK CANCELLED: A weakly dense Lehigh Carbon Community (118) sequence that is not norm dense. College Antonia E. Cardwell, Millersville Bonnie Gold,Monmouth University of Pennsylvania University (1086-47-1894) 8:00AM Reducing the Gender Gap on a Qualifying 8:15AM Numerical radius inequalities for several (129) Exam. Preliminary report. (119) operators. Jonathan Rogness*, Harvey Keynes, Omar Hirzallah, Hashemite Univesity, Jane Butterfield,Universityof and Fuad Kittaneh*, University of Jordan Minnesota, and Justin Sukiennik,Colby (1086-47-188) College (1086-G1-2516) 8:30AM Finding some Berger measures. 8:20AM From assessment to a mathematics-focus (120) Preliminary report. (130) NSF S-STEM program. Raul E. Curto,TheUniversityof Yu-Ju Kuo*andFrederick Adkins, Iowa, and George R. Exner*, Bucknell Indiana University of Pennsylvania University (1086-47-387) (1086-G1-2015) 8:45AM On extension of positive definite 8:40AM Assessment 2.0; SAUM meets (121) functions. (131) Accreditation. Preliminary report. Robert Niedzialomski,TheUniversityof Alex Heidenberg*, Jerry Kobylski and Iowa (1086-46-2666) Rod Sturdivant, United States Military 9:00AM An Alternate Proof that the Hermite Academy (1086-G1-2654) (122) Functions Form a Basis for L2(R). 9:00AM A Comprehensive Assessment Program. Preliminary report. (132) Barbara Moskal and Lyndsey William W. Johnston, Butler University Wright*, Colorado School of Mines (1086-46-2327) (1086-G1-2099)

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9:20AM Closing the Loop: How Creating and 10:40AM Preparing Students to Make (133) Administering Assessments for NCATE / (145) Mathematical Connections for Better NCTM Program Recognition Directed Us Success. Preliminary report. to Data Analysis that Improved our Feryal Alayont*, Grand Valley State Program. Preliminary report. University, and Derek Habermas,SUNY Sherry L Hix*andDianna J Spence, Potsdam (1086-H1-973) North Georgia College and State University (1086-G1-1888) MAA Session on Mathematics and the Arts: 9:40AM How We Stopped Worrying and Learned Practice, Pedagogy, and Discovery, I (134) to Love Assessment: One Department’s Story. Preliminary report. 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 6E, Upper Level, Thomas R Hagedorn, The College of New Jersey (1086-G1-2819) San Diego Convention Center 10:00AM Making Assessment Meaningful. (135) James Hamblin, Shippensburg University Organizer: Douglas Norton, Villanova (1086-G1-1908) University 10:20AM Five Years of Math Programmatic and 8:00AM When two colours sufﬁce - even for (136) Course Assessment at UC Irvine. (146) children. Preliminary report. Barbora Kamrlova, Comenius University Sarah E. Eichhorn*andTommy Bratislava, Slovakia (1086-K1-1020) Occhipinti, University of California, Irvine (1086-G1-2822) 8:20AM Intersections: Undergraduate students’ (147) engagement with projective geometry MAA Session on Innovative Ideas for Courses and the arts. in the First Two Years, I J Brooke Ernest*, San Diego State University, and Ricardo Nemirovsky,San 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 5A, Upper Level, Diego State University/Center for San Diego Convention Center Research in Mathematics and Science Education (1086-K1-2910) Organizer: Andrew Granville Bennett, Kansas State University 8:40AM Mathematics to Inspire Art to Inspire 8:00AM i-IBL Interactive Inquiry Based Learning: (148) Mathematics to ... Preliminary report. (137) Improving Student Conceptual Learning James Morrow, Mount Holyoke College in Precalculus. (1086-K1-1559) Cynthia Y. Young,UniversityofCentral Florida (1086-H1-711) 9:00AM Math/Art Course. 8:20AM An Online Pre-Calculus Course using (149) Ann C Hanson, Columbia College, (138) ALEKS. Chicago, IL (1086-K1-1070) Sarah E. Eichhorn*andRachel Lehman, University of California, Irvine 9:20AM Teaching hyperbolic geometry using the (1086-H1-2896) (150) works of Escher and Gaudi. Anneke Bart, Saint Louis University 8:40AM The Alfred University Calculus Initiative. (1086-K1-922) (139) Joseph Petrillo, Alfred University (1086-H1-1029) 9:40AM A New Unit in a MWSU Liberal Arts Math 9:00AM Signing on to Redesign. (151) Course: Math and the Fine Arts. (140) Christopher Schroeder, Morehead State Jeff Poet, Missouri Western State University (1086-H1-2931) University (1086-K1-545) 9:20AM Combining Khan Academy and Active (141) Learning in Pre-calculus. 10:00AM Context Free Art in the Classroom. Michael S Gagliardo, California Lutheran (152) Preliminary report. University (1086-H1-2686) Charles Redmond, Mercyhurst University (1086-K1-464) 9:40AM Flipping A College Algebra Classroom. (142) Preliminary report. 10:20AM A Freshman Writing Seminar on Regina D. Aragon*, Tom Brown and Matt Bell, Eastern New Mexico University (153) Mathematics. Preliminary report. (1086-H1-406) Mark Kozek, Whittier College (1086-K1-2897) 10:00AM Improving Student Learning Using (143) Interactive Lecture Notes. 10:40AM TALK CANCELLED: Joining “the Rachel Frankel, University of Cincinnati, (154) mathematician’s delirium to the poet’s Blue Ash College (1086-H1-160) logic”: Interdisciplinary Teaching and 10:20AM Rethinking Business Calculus with Constrained Writing in the Canisius (144) Spreadsheets and Laptops. Preliminary College All-College Honors Program. report. Preliminary report. Mike May, Saint Louis University Rita Capezzi*andChristine Kinsey, (1086-H1-320) Canisius College (1086-K1-2733)

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MAA Session on Writing the History of the Scott Beaver,Western MAA Oregon University 8:00AM Modeling the dynamics of competitive 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 3, Upper Level, (164) systems, with applications to religious San Diego Convention Center shift and ferromagnetism. Preliminary report. Organizers: Victor J. Katz,Universityof Haley A Yaple,NorthwesternUniversity the District of Columbia (1086-VD-2297) Amy Shell-Gallasch, Hood College 8:15AM Filter-Based Multiscale Entropy Analysis (165) of Complex Physiologic Time Series. Janet Beery,Universityof Yuesheng Xu and Liang Zhao*, Syracuse Redlands University (1086-VD-1588) 8:00AM Leading Players and Supporting Cast. 8:30AM The Twisted Tale of Protein-Bound DNA. (155) Preliminary report. (166) Preliminary report. Agnes M. Kalemaris, Farmingdale State Mary Therese Padberg*, Isabel Darcy, College (1086-S1-407) The University of Iowa, Stefan Giovan, 8:20AM The History of the Officers of the Kansas Stephen Levene,TheUniversityofTexas (156) Section. Preliminary report. at Dallas, and Rob Scharein, Hypnagogic Timothy W Flood, Pittsburg State Software (1086-VD-329) University (1086-S1-819) 8:45AM Cyber Security with Handwritten 8:40AM Writing a History of the OK-AR MAA (167) CAPTCHA. (157) Section. Amalia Rusu, Fairfield University, James R Choike, Oklahoma State Stephen B Mislich*, Greenville College, University (1086-S1-972) Lukas Missik,HarvardUniversity,and 9:00AM CUPM: The History of an Idea. Benjamin Schenker, The Cooper Union (158) J. Michael Pearson,Mathematical (1086-VD-1595) Association of America (1086-S1-1446) 9:00AM Interdisciplinary Research of Case Study 9:20AM The Early History of POMSIGMAA. (168) in Low-Income Neighborhoods to Identify (159) Bonnie Gold, Monmouth University Risk Factors Contributing to Obesity. (1086-S1-317) Preliminary report. 9:40AM The History and Impact of IHMT, the Sujin Kim*andDeden Rukmana, (160) Institute in the History of Mathematics Savannah State University and its Use in Teaching. (1086-VD-1996) V Frederick Rickey*, United States 9:15AM Counting Pitch Class Sets with Burnside’s Military Academy, and Victor J Katz, (169) Lemma. Preliminary report. University of the District of Columbia Lori Koban*, University of Maine (1086-S1-1616) Farmington, Jordan LeGrand,University 10:00AM The Kentucky Section of the MAA: of Colorado Denver, and Joshua Case, (161) 1917-2013. University of Maine (1086-VD-478) Daniel J. Curtin, Northern Kentucky 9:30AM Implementing an Institutional University (1086-S1-1318) (170) Interdisciplinary Program with 10:20AM The Last Quarter-Century in the Missouri Mathematicians at the Lead (a Follow-Up (162) Section. Preliminary report. Report). Leon M Hall, Missouri S&T David M Gohlich, Christopher E Weld (1086-S1-1935) and Gerald Kobylski*, United States 10:40AM Digging up More History in the Capital Military Academy (1086-VD-2555) (163) Section. Preliminary report. 9:45AM A Multidisciplinary Sciences Teacher Caren Diefenderfer*, Hollins University, (171) Education Program. and Elizabeth Mayfield, Hood College David Lamp, Rebecca Ortiz, Magdalena (1086-S1-2443) Pando, G. Brock Williams and M. Carol Williams*, Texas Tech University MAA General Contributed Paper Session: (1086-VD-2854) Interdisciplinary Topics 10:00AM What would a map of mathematics look (172) like? 8:00 AM –10:10AM Room 33B, Upper Level, Alexi Hoeft, Virginia Commonwealth San Diego Convention Center University (1086-VD-2821) Organizers: Stephen Davis,Davidson College MAA General Contributed Paper Session: Gizem Karaali, Pomona Mathematics and Technology, I College 8:00 AM –10:40AM Room 5B, Upper Level, Douglas Norton, Villanova San Diego Convention Center University Moderators: Sujin Kim, Savannah State Organizers: Stephen Davis,Davidson University College

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Gizem Karaali, Pomona MAA General Contributed Paper Session: College Probability and Statistics, I Douglas Norton, Villanova University 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 33A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center Moderator: David Hecker, St. Joseph’s University Organizers: Stephen Davis,Davidson College 8:00AM Flash-enhanced WeBWorK problems in (173) Differential Equations. Preliminary Gizem Karaali, Pomona report. College L. Felipe Martins*, Barbara Margolius, Douglas Norton, Villanova Cleveland State University, and Dan University Gries, Hopkins School (1086-VF-2761) Moderators: Michael A. Posner, 8:15AM Interactive Math Texts on the Web using Villanova University (174) MathJax, JSXGraph, and HTML5. Lerna Pehlivan,York Michael D Hvidsten, Gustavus Adolphus University College (1086-VF-2683) 8:00AM Rank Based Group Variables Selection in 8:30AM Customizable graphical user interface (184) Linear Models. (175) applets integrated with WeBWorK Guy-vanie M Miakonkana*andAsh calculus problems. Abebe, Auburn University (1086-VI-2959) Daniel Gries, Hopkins School 8:15AM TALK CANCELLED: Mixed-Frequency (1086-VF-1023) (185) Estimation and Regression in Linear and 8:45AM Online Remedial Mathematics to Enter Generalized Linear Models. Preliminary (176) Precalculus: An analysis of the relative report. value of a traditional classroom courses Yu Weng,UniversityofNorthTexas vs an online course. Preliminary report. (1086-VI-2879) Daniel Lee McGee, Pedro 8:30AM Testing Equality of Nonparametric Vazquez-Urbano*andJesus Cajigas, (186) Quantile Regression Functions. University of Puerto Rico - RUM Chinthaka N Kuruwita*, Hamilton (1086-VF-758) College, Colin M Gallagher,Clemson University, and K B Kulasekera, 9:00AM Teaching online mathematics courses (177) with an accent. Preliminary report. University of Louisville (1086-VI-2754) Petre Ion Ghenciu,Universityof 8:45AM Robust Functional Logistic Regression. Wisconsin-Stout (1086-VF-717) (187) Melody B. Denhere*andNedret Billor, Auburn University (1086-VI-2573) 9:15AM TALK CANCELLED: The Beneﬁts of Using (178) Email to Maintain Instructor Accessibility 9:00AM Break. in Assisting Student-Driven Learning of 9:15AM Tempered Fractional Brownian Motion. Mathematics. Preliminary report. (188) Preliminary report. Troy A. Bupp, United States Military Farzad Sabzikar*andMark M Academy (1086-VF-2075) Meerschaert, Michigan State University (1086-VI-2204) 9:30AM Teaching hybrid online classes to (179) secondary school teachers. 9:45AM Robust Covariance Matrix Estimation Mark C Ginn, Appalachian State (189) with Canonical Correlation Analysis. University (1086-VF-2548) Janfeng Zhang, Chattanooga State Community College, David J. Olive, 9:45AM Electronic grading of paper assessments. Southern Illinois University, and Ping (180) Preliminary report. Ye*, Quincy University (1086-VI-1484) Matthew Leingang, New York University (1086-VF-1369) 10:00AM Comparison of clustering methods for (190) longitudinal data. 10:00AM Lurch: a word processor that checks Brianna C Heggeseth,Universityof (181) students’ mathematical reasoning. California, Berkeley (1086-VI-1269) Nathan C Carter*, Bentley University, 10:15AM Flexible Families of Skew T Distributions and Kenneth G Monks,Universityof (191) with Applications. Preliminary report. Scranton (1086-VF-2456) Abeer Hasan, Bowling Green State 10:15AM Lore.com: Experiences Using This Free University (1086-VI-1004) (182) Online Course Management System in a 10:30AM Visualizing Distributions in a Probability Liberal Arts Math Class. Preliminary (192) & Statistics Class. report. Jason J. Molitierno, Sacred Heart Jonathan D Dunbar, Spring Hill College University (1086-VI-977) (1086-VF-2563) 10:45AM On Generating New Generalized 10:30AM Some Notes on the Calculation of the (193) Distributions Using the Logit (183) Continued Exponents. Preliminary report. Transformation. Hossein Behforooz, Utica College RMAl-Aqtash, Central Michigan (1086-VF-513) University (1086-VI-976)

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MAA General Contributed Paper Session: 10:45AM A Brief History of Pre-Hausdorff Spaces. Research in Algebra and Topology, I (205) Jay R. Stine, Misericordia University (1086-VJ-1141) 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 33C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center MAA General Contributed Paper Session: Research in Applied Mathematics, I Organizers: Stephen Davis,Davidson College 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 1B, Upper Level, Gizem Karaali, Pomona San Diego Convention Center College Douglas Norton, Villanova Organizers: Stephen Davis,Davidson University College Moderators: Jay Stine, Misericordia Gizem Karaali, Pomona University College Ellie Abernethy,University Douglas Norton, Villanova of Tennessee University 8:00AM The Gerby Gopakumar-Marino-Vafa Moderators: Gizem Karaali, Pomona (194) Formula. College Dustin J Ross, Colorado State University Ahad Dehghani, McGill (1086-VJ-2942) University 8:15AM Arc Presentations and Grid Diagrams of 8:00AM TALK CANCELLED: On the stability and (195) Multi-Crossing Knots. (206) convergence results of finite volume Benjamin H DeMeo, Williams College schemes for diffusion problems with a (1086-VJ-2858) gradient-dependent diffusion coefficient. 8:30AM Gauss Diagram Formulas for Milnor Preliminary report. (196) Invariants. Preliminary report. Du Pham, Butler University Eleanor McNair Abernethy,Universityof (1086-VL-2983) Tennessee, Knoxville (1086-VJ-2052) 8:15AM TALK CANCELLED: Fast direct solvers for 8:45AM Knot projections with a single (207) elliptic boundary value problems. (197) multi-crossing. Adrianna M Gillman, Dartmouth College Michael Landry*, UC Berkeley, and (1086-VL-2405) MurphyKate Montee,NotreDame 8:30AM Small Steady Self-Similar Inviscid Flows. University (1086-VJ-2047) (208) Joseph Roberts*andVolker Elling, 9:00AM Automorphisms of buildings constructed University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (198) via covering spaces. (1086-VL-2197) Aliska L Gibbins, Ohio State University 8:45AM Optimization of a Monte Carlo Variance (1086-VJ-2350) (209) Reduction Method Based on Sensitivity 9:15AM Equivalence of Cyclic p2 Actions on Derivatives. (199) Handlebodies of Genus g. Yaning Liu*, M. Yousuff Hussaini and Jesse Tyler Prince-Lubawy, Saint Louis Giray Okten, Florida State University University (1086-VJ-426) (1086-VL-2104) 9:30AM Topological Enrtophy of 9:00AM An Implicit Interface Boundary Integral (200) Non-Archimedean Topologies. (210) Method for Poisson’s Equation on Rahim G Karimpour, Belleville, Illinois Arbitrary Domains. (1086-VJ-88) Catherine Mareva Kublik*, Madison WI, Nicolay M Tanushev, Z-Terra Inc., 9:45AM Classifying Extensions of a Characteristic (201) p Local Field. Houston TX, and Richard Tsai,University Alfeen Hasmani*, Molloy College, of Texas at Austin (1086-VL-1480) Lindsey Hiltner,UniversityofNorth 9:15AM Nonlinear Linear Programming for Dakota, Angela Kraft, Bethany Lutheran (211) Multivalued Mappings. College, Daniel Scofield,GroveCity Qingxia Li and James Schrader*, Lincoln College, Kirsti Wash and Jim Brown, University (1086-VL-788) Clemson University (1086-VJ-2861) 9:30AM Resource Networks’ Influence on the 10:00AM The Graev Metrics Over Free Groups. (212) Social Network and the Effectiveness of (202) Xiaohui Shi,UniversityofNorthTexas Public Policy. Preliminary report. (1086-VJ-2715) Csilla Szabo, United States Military 10:15AM Smale Flows on Three Dimensional Academy (1086-VL-2895) (203) Manifolds. Preliminary report. 9:45AM Mathematical Modeling of Language. Elizabeth L. Haynes, Muhlenberg (213) Preliminary report. College (1086-VJ-2529) Jacquelyn L. Rische,Universityof 10:30AM A new generalization of the Khovanov California, Irvine (1086-VL-1610) (204) Homology. Preliminary report. 10:00AM Optical black holes and solitons. Ik Jae Lee,RowanUniversity (214) Shawn Michael Westmoreland,Kansas (1086-VJ-1266) State University (1086-VL-1507)

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10:15AM WENO Simulations of Astrophysical Jets. 9:30AM TALK CANCELLED: An Empirical Study on (215) Preliminary report. (224) the Iteration of the Total Stopping Time Andrew J. Knapp,ArizonaState of 3x+1 Iterates. University (1086-VL-2718) Amanda M. Kovacs, Molloy College (1086-VO-1361) 10:30AM A Primal-Dual Regularization (216) Interior-Point Method for Semidefinite 9:45AM On the distribution of the last digits Programming. (225) under the Syracuse iteration. Ahad Dehghani*, Jean-Louis Goffin, Henrique Oliveira, Technical Institute of McGill University, and Dominique Lisbon (1086-VO-2924) Orban, GERAD (1086-VL-2432) 10:00AM Estimating Success When Combining RSA (226) and the Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange. 10:45AM Stability estimates for semigroups on Preliminary report. (217) Banach space. Rick Klima*, Appalachian State Xinyao Yang, University of Missouri University, and Neil Sigmon,Radford (1086-VL-293) University (1086-VO-370) MAA General Contributed Paper Session: 10:15AM There is an infinite number of twin Research in Number Theory, I (227) primes: An application of set theory. Preliminary report. Bao Qi Feng, Kent State University at 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 2, Upper Level, Tuscarawas (1086-VO-1591) San Diego Convention Center 10:30AM Irreducible integers under the (228) congruence modulo relation. Organizers: Stephen Davis,Davidson n *and College James Lanterman Jeremiah Reinkoester,MercerUniversity Gizem Karaali, Pomona (1086-VO-1623) College 10:45AM The Completed Zeta Function and the Douglas Norton, Villanova (229) Riemann Hypothesis. Preliminary report. University Badih N. Ghusayni, Lebanese University (1086-VO-450) Moderator: Stephen Davis,Davidson College MAA General Contributed Paper Session: 8:00AM Mind the Gap: Distribution of Gaps in Teaching Introductory Mathematics (218) Generalized Zeckendorf Decompositions. Rachel R. Insoft*, Wellesley College, and 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 7A, Upper Level, Amanda G. Bower,Universityof San Diego Convention Center Michigan Dearborn (1086-VO-532) Organizers: Stephen Davis,Davidson 8:15AM Distribution of the Longest Gap in College (219) Positive Linear Recurrence Sequences. Gizem Karaali, Pomona Shiyu Li*, University of California, College Berkeley, Philip D. Tosteson and Steven J. Miller, Williams College Douglas Norton, Villanova (1086-VO-2728) University Moderator: Lynette Boos,Providence 8:30AM When Almost All Generalized Sumsets College (220) Are Difference Dominated. Virginia A Hogan*, Stanford University, 8:00AM The transition from school to university – and Steven J Miller, Williams College (230) a transition between two distinct worlds (1086-VO-595) of concept acquisition? Thorsten Scheiner,Universityof 8:45AM Most Sets are Balanced in many Finite Hamburg (1086-VP-878) (221) Groups. 8:15AM Using Computer Programming to Teach Kevin Vissuet*, University of California, (231) High School Mathematics. Preliminary San Diego, and Steven Miller, Williams report. College (1086-VO-2611) Spencer O. Sims*andKahmya McAlpin, 9:00AM Convergence of the Maximum Zeros of a Los Angeles Adventist Academy (222) Class of Fibonacci-Type Polynomials. (1086-VP-1185) Kristi Karber*, University of Central 8:30AM iMPaCT-Math: Fostering Foundational Oklahoma, and Rebecca Miller, (232) Concepts in Algebra 1 via Programming University of Oklahoma (1086-VO-1081) Activities on Graphing Calculators. 9:15AM New classes of permutation polynomials Kien H Lim, Art Duval*andEric (223) over finite fields defined by functional Freudenthal, University of Texas at El equations. Preliminary report. Paso (1086-VP-1016) Neranga Fernando*, Xiang-dong Hou 8:45AM Trigonometric applets using GeoGebra. and Stephen Lappano,Universityof (233) Salvatore P Giunta, Adelphi University South Florida (1086-VO-1134) (1086-VP-1339)

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9:00AM Fundamental Equation for Quadratic 9:00AM A Splitting Method for Orthogonality (234) Polynomials. Preliminary report. (243) Constrained Problems. Preliminary Waclaw Szymanski*, West Chester report. University, and Ximena Catepillan, Rongjie Lai*, University of Southern Millersville University (1086-VP-1392) California, and Stanley Osher, University of California, Los Angeles 9:15AM Constructing an apollonian section (1086-49-1581) (235) parabola, onto a right cone having slope (m) and altitude (A). 9:30AM Convex Variational Models and Efﬁcient Alexander L. Garron; Jr.,CEOSandBox (244) Optimization Algorithms for Image Geometry LLC (1086-VP-1320) Segmentation. Egil Bae, UCLA (1086-65-2974) 9:30AM College Algebra and One Instructor’s (236) Attempt to Build a Better Mousetrap. 10:00AM An MBO scheme on graphs for Preliminary report. (245) segmentation and image processing. Lindsey R. Bosko-Dunbar, Spring Hill Andrea L. Bertozzi*, Ekaterina College (1086-VP-2558) Merkurjev and Tijana Kostic,University of California Los Angeles (1086-65-2404) 9:45AM Projects in Finite Mathematics Courses. (237) Yun Lu, Kutztown University of PA 10:30AM Bounded Variation Reglarization (1086-VP-1889) (246) Revisited: Mathematical Aspects. Preliminary report. 10:15AM A Word on Word Problems: How M. Zuhair Nashed, Department of (238) Improving Reading Comprehension and Mathematics, University of Central Mathematics Vocabulary Can Improve Florida, Orlando, Florida 32143 Performance on Mathematical Word (1086-65-2980) Problems. Preliminary report. Dywayne A. Nicely,Ohio Employment Center University-Chillicothe (1086-VP-1775)

10:30AM What is Mathematics and Why Do We 8:00 AM –6:00PM Exhibit Hall A, Ground (239) Care? Level, San Diego Convention Center Kayla Bradley Dwelle, Ouachita Baptist University (1086-VP-1584) AMS Session on Categories, K-Theory, and 10:45AM Learning math like a mathematician. Knots (240) Preliminary report. Shenglan Yuan, LaGuardia Community 8:15 AM –10:55AM Room 12, Mezzanine College, CUNY (1086-VP-2578) Level, San Diego Convention Center

SIAM Minisymposium on Mathematical 8:15AM Homogeneous Representations of Type A Models and Fast Algorithms in Imaging (247) Khovanov-Lauda-Rouquier Algebras. Sciences Gabriel Feinberg*andKyu-Hwan Lee, University of Connecticut (1086-16-2519)

8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 11A, Upper Level, 8:30AM Yangians and quantizations of slices in San Diego Convention Center (248) the afﬁne Grassmannian. Oded Yacobi*, Joel Kamnitzer, Organizers: Peter Blomgren,SanDiego University of Toronto, Ben Webster, State University Northeastern University, and Alex Weekes, University of Toronto Yongang Shi,Universityof (1086-20-2381) California, Los Angeles 8:45AM Generalized q, t-Catalan Numbers and Xue-Cheng Tai,University (249) Jacobi Factors. of Bergen Mikhail Mazin, Stony Brook University Luminita Vese,Universityof (1086-05-2829) California, Los Angeles 9:00AM Higher order Jones-Wenzl Projectors and (250) Mapping Class Groups. 8:00AM Developing a ”light-weight” skin cancer (241) image screening system. Benjamin Cooper*, University of Zurich, and ,Universityof Peter Blomgren, San Diego State Matt Hogancamp University (1086-65-1964) Virginia (1086-18-2943) 9:15AM Foams and sl(n) tangle cohomology. 8:30AM Conformal Metric Optimization on (251) Preliminary report. (242) Surfaces (CMOS) for Mapping Carmen L. Caprau, California State Neuroanatomical Shapes. University, Fresno (1086-57-218) Yonggang Shi*, Arthur Toga, Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (LONI), 9:30AM The singular Temperley-Lieb category. Dept. of Neurology, UCLA School of (252) Preliminary report. Medicine, and Rongjie Lai,Universityof Joel Smith, California State University, Southern California (1086-53-1562) Fresno (1086-18-185)

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9:45AM A perfect matching model for knot 9:45AM Integral approximations in (253) homology theories. Preliminary report. (263) reconstructing functions from Moshe Cohen, Bar-Ilan University (Israel) non-uniform Fourier data. Preliminary (1086-57-344) report. Alexander Elkholy,ArizonaState 10:00AM G-Theory of a Complete Local CM Ring of University (1086-42-2755) (254) Finite CM Type. Viraj Navkal, UCLA (1086-19-1991) 10:00AM Edge Detection from Non-Uniform (264) Fourier Data via an Adapted Method of 10:15AM K1 of an Exact Category by Mirror Image Convolutional Gridding. (255) Sequences. Adam Martinez,ArizonaStateUniversity Clayton C. Sherman, Missouri State (1086-42-2742) University (1086-19-1909) 10:15AM Quantitative Analyses of Haar vs. 10:30AM Differential Circle Equivariant K-theory. (265) Periodic Haar Wavelets. Preliminary (256) Preliminary report. report. Mio I Alter, University of Texas-Austin Jessica Christine De Silva, California (1086-19-2689) State University, Stanislaus 10:45AM A new ﬁltration of the Magnus kernel of (1086-42-2416) (257) the Torelli group. 10:30AM TALK CANCELLED: Simultaneous R. Taylor McNeill, Rice University (266) Approximation of a Function and Its (1086-57-127) Derivative by Linear Splines. Ryan A. Anderson, Kennesaw State AMS Session on Undergraduate Research in University (1086-00-2869) Analysis 10:45AM Measure-Theoretic Sensitivity. (267) Emily A Wickstrom*, Williams College, 8:15 AM –10:55AM Room 18, Mezzanine Shelby Heinecke, Massachusetts Level, San Diego Convention Center Institute of Technology, and Cesar E. Silva, Williams College (1086-00-2439) 8:15AM Energy Measures of Harmonic Functions (258) on the Sierpinski Gasket. AMS Session on the History of Mathematics Renee H Bell*, University of California, Berkeley, Ching Wei Ho, Chinese 8:15 AM –10:55AM Room 10, Upper Level, University of Hong Kong, and Robert S San Diego Convention Center Strichartz, Cornell University (1086-28-1856) 8:15AM What was the smallest prime? 8:30AM Positive Type Inﬁnite Measure Ergodic (268) Chrs K. Caldwell*andYeng Xiong, (259) Transformations. University of Tennessee at Martin Evangelie Zachos*, Princeton University, (1086-01-2296) Tudor Padurariu,UCLA,andCesar 8:30AM Mahani of Mahan: A persian Silva, Williams College (1086-37-2853) (269) Mathematician of Long Ago. Preliminary report. 8:45AM On Rationally Ergodic and , Salisbury University, (260) Rationally Weakly Mixing Rank-One MM Moazzam Salisbury MD (1086-01-1122) Transformations. Irving Dai*, Harvard College, Xavier 8:45AM Final period of Mathematic in the west of Garcia, University of Minnesota, Tudor (270) Islamic world in Medieval. Padurariu, University of California, Los Mohammadreza Shahidipak,Islamic Angeles, and Cesar E. Silva, Williams Azad University Central Tehran Branch College (1086-37-2181) (1086-01-148)

9:00AM DISCUSSION 9:00AM Did Bernoulli discover Bernoulli’s (271) equation? Preliminary report. 9:15AM Nonlocal Models in Diffusion with Erik R. Tou, Carthage College (261) Applications in Peridynamics. Preliminary (1086-01-1600) report. Christine S Hoffman,Universityof 9:15AM Historical survey of solitary wave Minnesota, Morris, Amanda Brucker*, (272) phenomena. Preliminary report. Cornell College, Joshua Bracewell,New Sanja V Panti´c, University of Illinois at Jersey Institute of Technology, and Chicago (1086-01-2633) Trevor Vossberg, Illinois Institute of 9:30AM John Farrar’s French mathematics Technology (1086-35-1592) (273) textbooks translations for Harvard new curriculum (1818-1824). 9:30AM A Multiplicative Analogue of the Reynolds (262) Operator and Construction of Invariants. Thomas Preveraud,Universityof Preliminary report. Nantes, France (1086-01-1524) Tyler A Russell*, Texas Tech University, 9:45AM Who discovered vector calculus? The case Jennifer Graetz and Steven Deckelman, (274) of Domenico Chelini (1802-1878). University of Wisconsin, Stout Sandro Caparrini, University of Torino, (1086-13-2747) Italy (1086-01-1598)

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10:00AM Thomas Jefferson as Mathematician. 8:30AM Gluing Techniques in Calibrated (275) Andrew B Perry, Springfield College (284) Geometry. (MA) (1086-01-1368) Yongsheng Zhang, Stony Brook 10:15AM Issai Schur. Preliminary report. University (1086-53-1289) (276) Charlotte K Simmons*andJesse W 9:00AM A higher dimensional Donaldson theory Byrne, University of Central Oklahoma (285) for foliated manifolds. (1086-01-1533) Shuguang Wang, University of Missouri 10:30AM Mamba vs JN-25. Preliminary report. (1086-58-1960) (277) Jared E Antrobus, Northern Kentucky 9:30AM Calibrations in hyperkaehler geometry. University (1086-01-637) (286) Gueo Grantcharov*, Florida International 10:45AM Paradigm and Pan-paradigm University, and Misha Verbitsky,HSE, (278) in Mathematics and Architecture. Moscow, Russia (1086-53-1375) Preliminary report. 10:00AM Short time behaviour of a modified Young Hee Kye, Kosin University, Busan, (287) Laplacian coflow of G2-structures. S. Korea (1086-01-1706) Sergey Grigorian, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook AMS Special Session on Interplays Between (1086-53-1242) Feynman Operational Calculus, Wiener and 10:30AM Spin(7) Manifolds - Old and new. Feynman Integrals, Physics, and Analysis on (288) Mihai Bailesteanu,Universityof Wiener Space, I Rochester (1086-53-1747)

8:30 AM –10:50AM Room 32A, Upper Level, AMS Session on Game Strategies San Diego Convention Center Organizers: Tepper Gill,Howard 8:45 AM –10:55AM Room 19, Mezzanine University Level, San Diego Convention Center

Lance Nielsen,Creighton 8:45AM Sparse spaces in the game of Blash, Slash University (289) and Dash. Preliminary report. Ian Pierce, St. Olaf College Maximiliano Liprandi,Universityof 8:30AM Feynman Integral in the Context of Calgary (1086-91-2639) (279) Hyperintegration. Preliminary report. 9:00AM Periodicity in 3-element Subtraction Mark Burgin, UCLA (1086-46-34) (290) Games. Preliminary report. 9:00AM Building a Free Quantum Field Theory on Rachel Esselstein*, California State (280) a Curved Spacetime. Preliminary report. University Monterey Bay, Jason Lee, Maurice J LeBlanc, University of Georgia None, and Jordan White, California State at Athens (1086-81-823) University Monterey Bay (1086-91-1179) 9:30AM Relationships between the conditional 9:15AM On the Sprague-Grundy Values of the (281) Fourier-Feynman transform and (291) F-Wythoff Game. convolution of unbounded functions on Yang Jiao, University of Pennsylvania an analogue of wiener space. (1086-91-408) Dong Hyun Cho, Kyonggi University 9:30AM On p-adic Sums of Games. Preliminary (1086-28-952) (292) report. 10:00AM A Short Visit to Generalized Wiener Joseph M. DiMuro, Biola University, La (282) Space. Preliminary report. Mirada, CA (1086-00-1279) Ian Pierce, St. Olaf College 9:45AM Misere Play Hackenbush Flowers. (1086-28-2614) (293) Irene Yuan Lo, Princeton University 10:30AM Analytic Operator-Valued Feynman (1086-05-2153) (283) Integrals. 10:00AM Tchoukaillon: A single player Mancala David L. Skoug, University of Nebraska - (294) game. Lincoln (1086-28-453) Ben Sebuufu*, Gordon College, and Tyesha Hall, James Madison University AMS Special Session on Manifolds with (1086-15-2952) Special Holonomy and Generalized Geometries, I 10:15AM The Stargate Switch. (295) Lihua Huang*, Rutgers University, and Ron Evans, University of California, San 8:30 AM –10:50AM Room 30D, Upper Level, Diego (1086-20-286) San Diego Convention Center 10:30AM Partially ordered sets and stratiﬁcation. Organizers: Sema Salur,Universityof (296) Preliminary report. Rochester Raymond N. Greenwell*andTadeusz Albert James Todd, Krauze, Hofstra University (1086-91-169) University of California, 10:45AM Colonel Blotto Returns. Preliminary Riverside (297) report. Yat Sun Poon,Universityof Andrew Niedermaier, Jane Street Capital California, Riverside (1086-91-94)

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AMS Special Session on Mathematics and MAA Minicourse #10: Part A Social Interactions, I 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Room 30A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center 9:00 AM –10:50AM Room 8, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center The mathematics of the Common Core. Presenters: William McCallum, Organizer: Jeff Suzuki, Brooklyn University of Arizona College Cody L. Patterson, University of Arizona 9:00AM Analysis of SI Models with Multiple Ellen Whitesides,University (298) Interacting Populations Using of Arizona Subpopulations with Forcing Terms. Evelyn Kamaria Thomas*, Katharine Kristin Umland,University Gurski, Howard University, and Kathleen of New Mexico Hoffman, University of Maryland Baltimore County (1086-92-2462) MAA Minicourse #6: Part A

9:30AM Gendered Division of Labor in Parenting. 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Room 29D, Mezzanine (299) Angela G Vierling-Claassen,Lesley Level, San Diego Convention Center University (1086-91-2284) Using randomization methods to build 10:00AM TALK CANCELLED: In Search of Stable conceptual understanding of statistical (300) and Robust Metrics to Study Level-Speciﬁc inference. Self-Similarity in Hierarchical Presenters: Robin H. Lock,St.Lawrence Organizational Networks. University Jeffrey Nielsen*, U.S. Military Patti Frazer Lock,St. Academy at West Point, and Jessica Lawrence University Libertini, University of Rhode Island (1086-91-2026) Kari Lock Morgan,Duke University 10:30AM Reductionist argument: Unexpected Eric F. Lock,Universityof (301) mathematical complexities. North Carolina Department Donald G. Saari, University of California, of Statistics and Operations Irvine (1086-91-765) Research Dennis F. Lock, Iowa State AMS Special Session on Number Theory and University Department of Geometry, I Statistics

9:00 AM –10:50AM Room 15B, Mezzanine MAA Minicourse #5: Part A Level, San Diego Convention Center 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Room 29C, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center Organizers: Jordan Ellenberg,University of Wisconsin, Madison Visualizing projective geometry through photographs and perspective drawings. Akshay Venkatesh, Presenters: Annalisa Crannell, Franklin Stanford University & Marshall College

9:00AM Understanding Points on Twists. Marc Frantz,Indiana (302) Ekin Ozman, University of Texas-Austin University Bloomington (1086-11-2117) Fumiko Futamura, Southwestern University 9:30AM Iwasawa theory of the Igusa tower. (303) Bryden R Cais, University of Arizona SIGMAA on Quantitative Literacy Panel (1086-11-778) Discussion

AM 10:00 A p-adic Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer 9:00 AM –10:20AM Room 1A, Upper Level, (304) conjecture for modular abelian varieties. San Diego Convention Center Jennifer S. Balakrishnan*, Harvard University, J. Steffen Muller¨ ,Universit¨at A survey of quantitative literacy teaching Hamburg, and William A. Stein, resources. University of Washington (1086-11-1259) Organizers: Caren Diefenderfer, Hollins University 10:30AM On uniform bounds for lattice points in (305) plane regions and for rational points on Semra Kilic-Bahi, rational curves of arbitrary degree. Colby-Sawyer College Patrick X Rault, SUNY Geneseo Maura Mast,Universityof (1086-11-568) Massachusetts Boston

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Eric Gaze, Bowdoin College 10:30AM Development of an undergraduate course Panelists: Jeff Bennett,Boulder.CO (309) in mathematics and climate. Preliminary report. Kay Somers,Moravian Eric J Kostelich, Arizona State University College (1086-H5-2619) Eric Gaze MAA Department Liaisons Meeting Andrew Miller,Belmont University Bernard Madison, 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM Marina Ballroom University of Arkansas D, 3rd Floor, Marriott Judith Moran,Trinity College AMS Invited Address Maura Mast 10:05 AM –10:55AM Room 6AB, Upper MAA-NSF Panel Discussion Level, San Diego Convention Center

9:00 AM –10:20AM Room 4, Upper Level, (310) Complexity of random functions of many San Diego Convention Center variables. Gerard Ben Arous,CourantInstituteof National Science Foundation programs Mathematical Sciences, New York supporting learning, teaching, and the University (1086-60-9) future workforce in the mathematical sciences. AMS-MAA Invited Address Panelists: Jennifer Slimowitz Pearl, NSF Division of Mathematical Sciences 11:10 AM – NOON Room 6AB, Upper Level, Richard Alo, NSF Division of San Diego Convention Center Undergraduate Education Robert Buckmire,NSF (311) Using mathematics to better understand Division of Undergraduate the Earth’s climate. Education Emily F. Shuckburgh, British Antarctic Survey (1086-86-2) Lee Zia, NSF Division of Undergraduate Education Exhibits and Book Sales Student Hospitality/Information Center 12:15 PM –5:30PM Exhibit Hall B1, Ground 9:00 AM –5:00PM Exhibit Hall B2, Ground Level, San Diego Convention Center Level, San Diego Convention Center Come to the Grand Opening at 12:15 MAA Session on Integrating the Mathematics p.m.! of Planet Earth 2013 in the College Mathematics Curriculum, I AMS Colloquium Lectures: Lecture I

9:30 AM –10:45AM Room 6C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center 1:00 PM –2:00PM Room 6AB, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center Organizer: Ben Galluzzo, Shippensburg University (312) Free probability, Random matrices, and 9:30AM Environmental Mathematics: The map enumeration, I. (306) Unifying Theme in an Introduction to Alice Guionnet,EcoleNormale Scientiﬁc Computing Course. Sup´erieure de Lyon (1086-60-15) Erin McNelis, Western Carolina University (1086-H5-2789) MAA Invited Address 9:50AM Supporting and Developing a Course to (307) Save the World. Jessica M. Libertini, University of Rhode 2:15 PM –3:05PM Room 6AB, Upper Level, Island (1086-H5-2867) San Diego Convention Center

10:10AM Global Climate Destabilization: Optimal (308) Opportunity for the Mathematics of (313) Industrial strength mathematics in Planet Earth. Preliminary report. academia. Andrew E. Long, Northern Kentucky Suzanne Weekes, Worcester Polytechnic University (1086-H5-2178) Institute (1086-A0-10)

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AMS-SIAM Special Session on the AMS Special Session on Algorithmic Mathematics of Computation: Differential Problems of Group Theory and Their Equations, Linear Algebra, and Applications, Complexity, I I

2:15 PM –6:35PM Room 15A, Mezzanine 2:15 PM –6:05PM Room 31C, Upper Level, Level, San Diego Convention Center San Diego Convention Center Organizers: Delaram Kahrobaei,CUNY Organizers: Susanne C. Brenner, Graduate Center and New Louisiana State University York College of Technology, City University of New York Chi-Wang Shu,Brown University Vladimir Shpilrain,City 2:15PM New phase-field models and energy College of New York and (314) stable numerical schemes for multiphase CUNY Graduate Center, City flows with different densities. University of New York Jie Shen, Purdue University (1086-65-390) 2:15PM Logspace computations in graph (322) products. Preliminary report. 2:45PM A Finite Element Method for the Total Volker Diekert, University Stuttgart, (315) Variation Flow without Regularization. Germany (1086-68-1027) Preliminary report. Abner J Salgado, Department of 2:45PM Relating the compressed word problem Mathematics University of Maryland (323) and the word search problem. (1086-65-383) Preliminary report. Markus Lohrey, University of Leipzig 3:15PM A Quadratic C0 Interior Penalty Method (1086-20-429) (316) for an Elliptic Optimal Control Problem with State Constraints. 3:15PM Complexity of Groebner - Shirshov Susanne C. Brenner, Li-yeng Sung and (324) rewriting systems. Yi Zhang*, Louisiana State University Efim Zelmanov, University of California - (1086-65-1431) San Diego (1086-20-2457)

3:45PM Improved Alternating Direction Methods 4:15PM Approximation of Geodesics in (317) for Numerical Optimization. (325) Metabelian Groups. Thomas A Goldstein, Rice University Atefeh Mohajeri Moghaddam*, McGill (1086-65-1689) University, and Olga Kharlampovich, Hunter college, CUNY (1086-20-1527) 4:15PM Maximum-principle-satisfying second (318) order discontinuous Galerkin schemes for 4:45PM Distinguished equivalence classes of convection-diffusion equations on (326) words in F2. triangular meshes. Bobbe Cooper, University of Minnesota, Yifan Zhang*, Division of Applied and Eric Rowland*, LaCIM, Universitédu Mathematics, Brown University, Québec àMontréal (1086-20-640) Xiangxiong Zhang, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of 5:15PM Some Consequences of the Solution to the Technology, and Chi-Wang Shu, Division (327) Tarksi Problems. Preliminary report. of Applied Mathematics, Brown University Benjamin Fine*, Fairfield University, (1086-65-1635) Anthony Gaglione, United States Naval Academy, Gerhard Rosenberger, 4:45PM A coupled finite volume and (319) discontinuous Galerkin method for University of Hamburg, and Dennis convection-diffusion problems. Spellman,TempleUniversity Xin Yang, Rice University (1086-65-1357) (1086-20-1701)

5:15PM Convergence of goal-oriented adaptive 5:45PM Algorithmic theory of free solvable (320) ﬁnite element methods for semilinear (328) groups: randomized computations. problems. Alexander Ushakov, Stevens Institute of Sara N Pollock, University of California, Technology (1086-20-1599) San Diego (1086-65-1414) 6:15PM A Secret Sharing Scheme Based on Group 5:45PM A posteriori estimation of hierarchical (329) Presentations and the Word Problem. (321) type for the Schrodinger¨ operator with Delaram Kahrobaei*, City University of inverse square potential on graded New York, Graduate Center and NYCCT, meshes. Maggie Habeeb, California University in Jeffrey S Ovall*, University of Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Vladimir Shpilrain, and Hengguang Li, Wayne State City College of New York and CUNY University (1086-65-2287) Graduate Center (1086-00-2022)

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AMS Special Session on Celestial Mechanics, 2:45PM Hypergraphs and Regularity of II (340) Squarefree Monomial Ideals. Preliminary report. 2:15 PM –6:35PM Room 31A, Upper Level, Kuei-Nuan Lin, University of California, San Diego Convention Center Riveside, and Jason McCullough*, Rider University (1086-13-1596) Organizers: Gareth Roberts, College of the Holy Cross 3:15PM Lech’s Inequality. Preliminary report. (341) Ananth Hariharan,Universityof Zhifu Xie, Virginia State Nebraska, Craig Huneke,University University of Virginia, and Javid Validashti*, 2:15PM Mathematics and the mystery of “dark University of Illinois (1086-13-2187) (330) matter”. Preliminary report. Donald G. Saari, University of California, 3:45PM Partitionable Simplicial Complexes. Irvine (1086-70-766) (342) Preliminary report. Ben Richert, California Polytechnic State 2:45PM New Variational methods on n-body (331) problem of celestial mechanics. University (1086-13-2210) Tiancheng Ouyang, Brigham Young 4:15PM Stability of Syzygy Bundles. University (1086-49-1684) (343) Lawrence Ein, University of Illinois at 3:15PM Averaging theory for finding analytically Chicago, Robert Lazarsfeld,University (332) periodic orbits for the 3-body problem. of Michigan, and Yusuf Mustopa*, Elizabeth A Zollinger, St. Joseph’s Boston College (1086-14-1188) College (1086-70-2108) 4:45PM Formulas for the generalized Hilbert 3:45PM Solar System Formation and Co-orbital (344) Coefficients. (333) Dynamics. Preliminary report. Yu Xie, Georgia State University Samuel R Kaplan,UniversityofNorth (1086-13-1530) Carolina Asheville (1086-70-590) 4:15PM The Kepler Problem on the Heisenberg 5:15PM Generalizing the Borel property. (334) Group. Preliminary report. (345) Christopher A Francisco*, Jeffrey Corey Shanbrom,Universityof Mermin and Jay Schweig,Oklahoma California, Santa Cruz (1086-70-786) State University (1086-13-1504) 4:45PM The Rhomboidal Symmetric-Mass 5:45PM Colorings of simplicial complexes and (335) Four-Body Problem. (346) vertex decomposability. Lennard F. Bakker*andSkyler C. Jennifer Biermann*, Lakehead Simmons, Brigham Young University University, Christopher Francisco, (1086-70-1250) Oklahoma State University, Huy Tai Hà, 5:15PM The central configuration formed by two Tulane University, and Adam Van Tuyl, (336) twisted regular polygons. Preliminary Lakehead University (1086-13-2915) report. 6:15PM High syzygy modules over complete Xiang Yu*andShiqing Zhang, Sichuan (347) intersections. Preliminary report. University, China (1086-70-746) David Eisenbud*, UC Berkeley and MSRI, 5:45PM Continua of central configurations with a and Irena Peeva, Cornell University (337) negative mass in the n-body problem. (1086-13-910) John B Little, College of the Holy Cross (1086-70-1447) AMS Special Session on Complex Dynamics, II 6:15PM Generalized Albouy-Chenciner equations (338) for central configurations: a test case for 2:15 PM –6:35PM Room 14B, Mezzanine methods from tropical geometry and Level, San Diego Convention Center fewnomial theory. Marshall Hampton,Universityof Organizers: Roland Roeder,Indiana Minnesota Duluth (1086-70-1545) University-Purdue University Indianapolis AMS Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, II Rodrigo Perez, Indiana University-Purdue University 2:15 PM –6:35PM Room 14A, Mezzanine Indianapolis Level, San Diego Convention Center 2:15PM Periodic Points in Towers of Finite Fields. Organizers: Kuei-Nan Lin,Universityof (348) Preliminary report. California, Riverside Michelle Manes*andBianca Thompson, University of Hawaii at , Tulane University Tai Ha Manoa (1086-37-2460) 2:15PM Structure of certain conditional (339) independence ideals. Preliminary report. 2:45PM Primitive prime divisors in the critical Irena Swanson*, Reed College, and (349) orbit of zd + c. Amelia Taylor, Colorado College Holly Krieger, University of Illinois at (1086-13-1281) Chicago (1086-30-1137)

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3:15PM Non-Archimedean Dynamics and 4:15PM List-coloring on surfaces with varying (350) Degenerations of Complex Dynamical (361) list-sizes. Preliminary report. Systems. Preliminary report. Alice M. Dean,SkidmoreCollege,and Xander Faber*, University of Hawaii at Joan P. Hutchinson*, Macalester College Manoa, and Laura DeMarco,University (1086-05-1076) of Illinois at Chicago (1086-37-2195) 4:45PM Embedding a continuum in a surface. 3:45PM Dynamics of Chebyshev-type maps on Pk. (362) R. Christian, Perth, Australia, and R. (351) Joshua P Bowman, Smith College B. Richter*, University of Waterloo (1086-37-1526) (1086-05-1718) 4:15PM λ-lemma in C2 and its application to 5:15PM Temporal Scale for Dynamic Graphs. (352) dynamics. (363) Hemanshu Kaul, Illinois Institute of Tanya Firsova, Stony Brook University Technology (1086-05-2083) (1086-37-2609) 5:45PM Game matching number of graphs. 4:45PM Salem Numbers and Complex Surface (364) Daniel W. Cranston,Virginia (353) Automorphisms. Commonwealth University, William B. Paul M. Reschke, Univ. of Ill.-Chicago Kinnersley, Ryerson University, Suil O, (1086-37-617) College of William and Mary, and 5:15PM Superstable Manifolds of Invariant Circles Douglas B. West*, Zhejiang Normal (354) and Co-dimension 1 Bottcher¨ Functions. University and University of Illinois Scott R. Kaschner*andRoland K. W. (1086-05-1541) Roeder, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (1086-37-600) AMS Special Session on Interplays Between 3 Feynman Operational Calculus, Wiener and 5:45PM On automorphisms of blowups of P or (355) P 2 × P 1. Feynman Integrals, Physics, and Analysis on Tuyen Trung Truong, Department of Wiener Space, II Mathematics, Syracuse University (1086-37-845) 2:15 PM –6:05PM Room 32A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center 6:15PM Postcritically ﬁnite rational mappings of (356) M0,n arising from Thurston’s Theorem. Organizers: Tepper Gill,Howard Sarah Koch,HarvardUniversity,and University Roland Roeder*, IUPUI (1086-37-1095) Lance Nielsen,Creighton University AMS Special Session on Graph Theory, II Ian Pierce, St. Olaf College

2:15 PM –6:05PM Room 16B, Mezzanine 2:15PM A change of scale formula for a function Level, San Diego Convention Center (365) space integral on Ca,b[0,T]. Preliminary report. Organizers: Andre Kundgen, California Byoung Soo Kim*, Seoul National State University, San Marcos University of Science and Technology, Michael Pelsmajer, Illinois Bong Jin Kim, Daejin University, and Il Institute of Technology Yoo, Yonsei University (1086-28-700) Douglas West,Universityof 2:45PM Results and Open Problems on Feynman’s Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (366) Operational Calculus. Michel L Lapidus,Universityof 2:15PM Equi-Distance Partitions in Graphs. California, Riverside (1086-81-1338) (357) Preliminary report. K. Brooks Reid, California State 3:15PM Feynman path integrals as inﬁnite University San Marcos (1086-05-1267) (367) dimensional oscillatory integrals. Sonia Mazzucchi, CIRM-FBK, Trento, Italy 2:45PM A reﬁnement of the Corradi-Hajnal´ (1086-81-1028) (358) Theorem. Preliminary report. H. Kierstead, Arizona State University, A. 3:45PM Explicit Quantum Controls. Kostochka*andE. Yeager,Universityof (368) Katherine A. Kime,Universityof Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Nebraska Kearney (1086-81-520) (1086-05-1125) 4:15PM On the Feynman path integral with 3:15PM On directed versions of the (369) spin for non-relativsitic quantum (359) Corradi-Hajnal´ Corollary. Preliminary electrodynamics. report. Wataru Ichinose, Shinshu University, Andrzej Czygrinow, H. A. Kierstead* Japan (1086-81-87) and Theodore Molla,ArizonaState 4:45PM Geometry and Functional Integrals over University (1086-05-2079) (370) Path Spaces. Preliminary report. 3:45PM Codes with bounded distances, and their Ambar Niel Sengupta, Louisiana State (360) applications to distance graphs. University (1086-58-1650) Sarah Anderson, Clemson University, 5:15PM The Correct Hilbert Space for Feynman’s Jeong-Hyun Kang*, University of West (371) Formulation of Quantum Theory. Georgia, and Hiren Maharaj,Clemson Tepper L Gill, Professor, Howard University (1086-05-2087) University (1086-81-895)

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5:45PM Phase space Feynman path integrals with AMS Special Session on Manifolds with (372) smooth functional derivatives by time Special Holonomy and Generalized slicing approximation. Geometries, II Naoto Kumano-go, Kogakuin University (1086-35-62) 2:15 PM –5:35PM Room 30D, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center AMS Special Session on Lie Algebras, Algebraic Transformation Groups, and Organizers: Sema Salur,Universityof Representation Theory, I Rochester

2:15 PM –6:35PM Room 17A, Mezzanine Albert James Todd, Level, San Diego Convention Center University of California, Riverside Organizers: Andrew Douglas,City University of New York Yat Sun Poon,Universityof California, Riverside Alistair Savage,University of Ottawa 2:15PM Recent results on Gromov-Hausdorff Bart Van Steirteghem,City (382) limits of Calabi-Yau manifolds. University of New York Mark Gross*, UCSD, Valentino Tosatti, Northwestern University, and Yuguang 2:15PM Prehomogeneous vector spaces and Zhang, Capital Normal University, Beijing (373) number theory. (1086-53-1061) Gautam Chinta, CCNY (1086-11-1539) 2:45PM On reductive automorphism groups of 3:15PM Holomorphic Poisson cohomology (374) regular embeddings. (383) and generalized complex geometry. Guido Pezzini,Universit¨at Preliminary report. Erlangen-Nurnberg¨ (1086-14-1223) Daniele Grandini,UniversityofNew Mexico (1086-53-1557) 3:15PM Invariant polynomial functions on (375) tensors under the action of a product of 3:45PM Aspects of type change in generalized orthogonal groups. (384) complex geometry. Lauren Kelly Williams,Universityof Michael Bailey,CIRGET/UQAM Wisconsin Milwaukee (1086-22-1175) (1086-53-1353)

3:45PM On GLn to GLn−2 Branching Multiplicity 4:15PM Generalized almost contact structures (376) Spaces. (385) and generalized Sasakian structures. Sangjib Kim,TheUniversityof Preliminary report. Queensland, and Victor Protsak*, State Ken’ichi Sekiya, Kawasaki city, University of New York at Oswego Kanagawa, Japan (1086-53-951) (1086-20-226) 4:45PM The Join Construction and Extremal 4:15PM Limit Poisson structures and Richardson (377) varieties. (386) Sasakian Geometry. Preliminary report. Sam Evens, University of Notre Dame Charles P Boyer,UniversityofNew (1086-22-1401) Mexico (1086-53-1479) 4:45PM Springer varieties, Hessenberg varieties, 5:15PM Jacobi Structures on Contact Quotients. (378) and poset pinball. (387) Fatima Mahmood,Universityof Julianna Tymoczko, Smith College Rochester (1086-53-2023) (1086-14-2852) 5:15PM A uniform combinatorial model for AMS Special Session on Mathematical and (379) Kirillov-Reshetikhin crystals and Numerical Analysis of Nonlocal Problems, II specialized Macdonald polynomials. Preliminary report. 2:15 PM –5:05PM Room 31B, Upper Level, Cristian Lenart,SUNYAlbany,Satoshi San Diego Convention Center Naito, Technical Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Daisuke Sagaki,Tsukuba Organizers: Qiang Du, Pennsylvania University, Anne Schilling*, UC Davis, State University and Mark Shimozono,VirginiaTech (1086-20-797) Tadele Mengesha, Pennsylvania State University 5:45PM A combinatorial description of the afﬁne (380) (1) 2:15PM A Glimpse of Non-Gaussian Stochastic Gindikin-Karpelevich formula of type An . Seok-Jin Kang, Seoul National University, (388) Dynamics. Kyu-Hwan Lee,Universityof Jinqiao Duan, Institute for Pure and Connecticut, Hansol Ryu,SeoulNational Applied Mathematics (1086-60-1284) University, and Ben Salisbury*, The City 2:45PM Extensions of variational methods to College of New York (1086-17-725) (389) non-local functionals. Preliminary report. 6:15PM Demazure operators, Whittaker functions Mikil Foss and Joe Geisbauer*, (381) and unique functionals. University of Nebraska-Lincoln Daniel Bump, Stanford (1086-22-1531) (1086-49-1145)

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3:15PM A Posteriori Error Analysis of Finite 2:45PM Well-posedness and breakdown of (390) Element Methods for Linear Nonlocal (399) solutions of an asymptotic equation for Diffusion and Peridynamic Models. liquid crystals. Preliminary report. Qiang Du, Pennsylvania State University, Feride Tiglay, Visiting Assistant Lili Ju*, University of South Carolina, Li Professor/Purdue University Tian and Kun Zhou, Pennsylvania State (1086-35-1938) University (1086-65-815) 3:15PM Stability of traveling waves in two water 3:45PM Nonlocal calculus and its applications to (400) wave models. (391) nonlocal models. Milena Stanislavova,Universityof Qiang Du, Pennsylvania State University Kansas (1086-35-1340) (1086-49-1418) 3:45PM Continuation of weak solutions of 4:15PM Peridigm: A New Paradigm in (401) systems of conservation laws. (392) Computational Peridynamics. Michael Sever, The Hebrew University, Michael L Parks*, David J Littlewood, Jerusalem, Israel (1086-35-40) John A Mitchell and Stewart A Silling, Sandia National Laboratories 4:15PM On well-posedness and small data global (1086-65-1386) (402) existence for a damped free boundary ﬂuid-structure model. 4:45PM A PDE approach to fractional difussion: a Mihaela Ignatova*, Stanford University, (393) priori and a posteriori error analysis. Igor Kukavica,UniversityofSouthern Preliminary report. California, Irena Lasiecka,Universityof Abner J. Salgado, University of Maryland Virginia, and Amjad Tuffaha,The (1086-65-465) Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE (1086-35-2206) AMS Special Session on Mathematics and Social Interactions, II 4:45PM Drosophila Jet Lag. (403) Milica Miko Vesovic*, University 2:15 PM –4:05PM Room 8, Upper Level, of Illinois at Chicago, Hassan San Diego Convention Center Fathallah-Shaykh, University of Alabma at Birmingham, and Jerry Bona, Organizer: Jeff Suzuki, Brooklyn University of Illinois at Chicago College (1086-34-1781) 2:15PM The effects of sacred value networks 5:15PM Stress wave propagation in (394) within an evolutionary, adversarial (404) one-dimensional Goupillaud-type layered game. elastic media with applications to Scott G McCalla*, P J Brantingham and optimization, resonance and impact MBShort, University of California, Los problems. Angeles (1086-91-1969) Ani P. Velo*, Department of Mathematics 2:45PM Synchronization of Schools of Fish. and Computer Science, University of San (395) Baldvin Einarsson*, Center for Complex Diego, and George A. Gazonas,USArmy and Nonlinear Science, Bjorn Birnir,UC Research Laboratory (1086-39-1814) Santa Barbara, and Luis L. Bonilla, 5:45PM Discussion Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (1086-70-861) 6:15PM Existence of Nodal solutions for Neumann (405) nonlinear differential equations driven by 3:15PM A Game-Theoretic Approach to p-Laplacian equations. Preliminary (396) Manipulation. report. , Florida State University Candace A. Ohm Michael E Filippakis*, Department of (1086-91-857) Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, 3:45PM The Mathematical Foundations Of Greece,, and Nikolaos S. Papageorgiou, (397) Religion and Ethics NTUA, Greece (1086-35-2615) Salilesh Mukhopadhyay,Feasible Solution LLC (1086-03-347) AMS Special Session on Nonstandard Finite-Difference Discretizations and AMS Special Session on Nonlinear Evolution Nonlinear Oscillations (in honor of Ronald Equations and Integrable Systems, II Mickens’ 70th Birthday), I

2:15 PM –6:35PM Room 30E, Upper Level, 2:15 PM –5:35PM Room 7B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center San Diego Convention Center Organizers: Jennifer Gorsky,University of San Diego Organizers: Ron Buckmire, Occidental College Alex Himonas,Universityof Notre Dame Abba Gumel,Universityof Manitoba 2:15PM Analysis of the b-family equation. (398) Katelyn J Grayshan, University of Notre Talitha Washington, Dame (1086-35-187) Howard University

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2:15PM Dynamically-consistent NSFD Schemes 4:15PM Quadric surface bundles and quaternion (406) for Epidemic Models. (415) algebras. Abba B. Gumel, University of Manitoba Asher Auel*, Courant Insitute of (1086-39-801) Mathematical Sciences, New York University, R. Parimala and V. Suresh, 2:45PM NSFD schemes on two-dimensional Emory University (1086-14-1135) (407) Lotka-Volterra competition model and SIS and SIR epidemic models. 4:45PM Dynamical Degree and Arithmetic Preliminary report. (416) Entropy for Rational Maps. Preliminary Lih-Ing W Roeger, Texas Tech University report. (1086-39-510) Joseph H Silverman,BrownUniversity (1086-11-1436) 3:15PM Truly Nonlinear Oscillators: from their 5:15PM Geodesic lengths of arithmetic manifolds. (408) Mathematical Models, the Methods for (417) Jean-Francois Lafont,TheOhio their Quantitative Investigations to the State, and D. B. McReynolds*, Purdue Phenomena Associated with their University (1086-57-2089) Behaviour. Ivana Kovacic, Department of AMS Special Session on Stochastic Analysis Mechanics, University of Novi Sad, Serbia (1086-70-678) of Stochastic Differential Equations and Stochastic Partial Differential Equations, II 3:45PM Diffusion versus cross diffusion in (409) Biosciences: challenges in designing 2:15 PM –6:05PM Room 32B, Upper Level, nonstandard ﬁnite difference schemes. San Diego Convention Center Jean M-S Lubuma*, University of Pretoria, and Ronald E Mickens,Clark Organizers: Edward Allen,TexasTech Atlanta University (1086-65-893) University

4:15PM Dynamical-systems insights into Armando Arciniega,The (410) migration. Preliminary report. University of Texas at San Timothy C Reluga*, Penn State Antonio University, and Allison K. Shaw, Gangaram Ladde, Australian National University University of South Florida (1086-92-849) Sivapragasam 4:45PM Discussion Sathananthan, Tennessee State University AMS Special Session on Number Theory and 2:15PM A stochastic model for transmission, Geometry, II (418) extinction and outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in cattle as affected by 2:15 PM –5:35PM Room 15B, Mezzanine ambient temperature and pathogen cleaning practices. Level, San Diego Convention Center Xueying Wang*, Texas A&M University, Raju Gautam, College of Veterinary Organizers: Jordan Ellenberg,University Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas of Wisconsin, Madison A&M University, Pablo J. Pinedo, College Akshay Venkatesh, of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Stanford University Sciences, Texas A&M University, Renata Ivanek, College of Veterinary Medicine 2:15PM Witt vectors, lambda-rings, and absolute and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M (411) algebraic geometry. University, and Linda J. S. Allen,Texas James M Borger, Australian National Tech University (1086-60-81) University (1086-11-1703) 2:45PM PDE model, stochastic volatility and (419) transaction costs. 2:45PM Abelian varieties with big monodromy. (412) David Zureick-Brown*, Emory University, Indranil SenGupta*, North Dakota and David Zywina, Queen’s University State University, Maria C. Mariani, (1086-11-1790) University of Texas-El Paso, and Ionut Florescu, Stevens Institute of Technology 3:15PM Jumping ranks in families of elliptic (1086-35-319) (413) surfaces. 3:15PM Multi-dimensional Stochastic Singular Chris Hall*, University of Wyoming, (420) Control Via Dynkin Game and Dirichlet Jordan S. Ellenberg,Universityof Form. Preliminary report. Wisconsin, and Emmanuel Kowalski, Yipeng Yang,Universityof ETH Zurich (1086-11-2720) Missouri-Columbia (1086-60-381) 3:45PM Genus one curves and Brauer-Severi 3:45PM Regularization and Stabilization of (414) varieties. (421) Hybrid Diffusion System. Wei Ho*andAise Johan de Jong, Guangliang Zhao, Wayne State Columbia University (1086-11-937) University (1086-60-537)

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4:15PM Randomly Switching Stochastic Li´enard AMS Special Session on Water Waves, (422) Equations with Two-time Scales. Tsunamis, and Extreme Waves, I G. Yin, Wayne State University, Yousef A. Talafha*, Wayne State University, and F. 2:15 PM –6:35PM Room 9, Upper Level, Xi, Beijing Institute of Technology, PRC San Diego Convention Center (1086-60-722)

4:45PM Smoluchowski-Kramers Approximation Organizers: Walter Craig,McMaster (423) for Multidimensional systems. University, Canada Scott A Hottovy, University of Arizona Philippe Guyenne, (1086-60-1048) University of Delaware

5:15PM Large deviations via almost sure CLT for David Nicholls,University (424) functionals of Markov processes. of Illinois, Chicago Adina Oprisan, Barry University 2:15PM On the finite-time splash and splat (1086-60-1551) (433) singularities for the 3-D free-surface 5:45PM Stochastic Modeling of Parasites in Host Euler equations. (425) Populations. Steve Shkoller, UC Davis (1086-35-2161) Armando Arciniega*, Michael Broome 2:45PM Recovering the Water-wave Surface from and Gabby Prieto,TheUniversityof (434) Pressure Measurements. Texas at San Antonio (1086-60-1837) Katie L Oliveras*, Seattle University, Vishal Vasan, Pennsylvania State AMS Special Session on Tropical Geometry, II University, Bernard Deconinck, University of Washington, and Diane 2:15 PM –6:05PM Room 16A, Mezzanine Henderson, Pennsylvania State Level, San Diego Convention Center University (1086-76-820) 3:15PM Dynamical Criteria for Rogue Waves in Organizers: Florian Block,Universityof (435) Nonlinear Schrodinger Models. Warwick Constance M Schober*, University of Central Florida, and Annalisa Calini, ,Universityof Melody Chan College of Charleston (1086-35-2811) California, Berkeley 3:45PM Dispersion in shallow water. 2:15PM Tropical complexes. Preliminary report. (436) John D Carter*, Seattle University, (426) Dustin Cartwright,YaleUniversity Harvey Segur, University of Colorado at (1086-14-2387) Boulder, and David George,U.S. Geological Survey Cascades Volcano 2:45PM The tropical Stiefel map and hyperplane (427) arrangements. Preliminary report. Observatory (1086-76-2402) Alex Fink*, North Carolina State 4:15PM Scattering and total reflection for oblique University, and Felipe Rincon,University (437) waves in a two-layer fluid. of Warwick (1086-05-1538) Peter Zhevandrov*, Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, University of 3:15PM Limits of tropicalizations. Michoacan, and Mar´ıa Isabel Romero (428) Tyler Foster, Yale University, Philipp Rodr´ıguez, Faculty of Engineering, Gross, University of Duesseldorf, University of La Sabana (1086-76-1046) and Sam Payne*, Yale University (1086-14-1915) 4:45PM Time-Periodic and Traveling Waves in (438) Interfacial Fluid Dynamics. 3:45PM The tropical Laplacian. David M. Ambrose, Drexel University, (429) June Huh, University of Michigan at Ann Department of Mathematics Arbor (1086-14-1547) (1086-35-1869)

4:15PM Tropical Severi Varieties and 5:15PM Curvature singularities on the surface of (430) Applications. (439) water waves. Jihyeon Jessie Yang,McMaster Gregory R. Baker*, Chao Xie,TheOhio University (1086-14-1751) State University, and Jeong-Sook Im, University of Nottingham, UK 4:45PM The generalized order map, and (1086-76-1910) (431) k-convexity of the (co)amoeba complement components. 5:45PM Coupling between internal and surface Mounir Nisse*andFrank Sottile,Texas (440) waves in a two-layers ﬂuid. A&M University (1086-14-604) Catherine Sulem, University of Toronto (1086-76-1731) 5:15PM Non-Archimedean Tropical (432) Discriminants. 6:15PM Steady water waves with compactly Korben Allen Rusek,TexasA&M (441) supported vorticity. Univesity (1086-14-2944) Samuel Walsh, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York 5:45PM Discussion University (1086-35-1277)

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MAA Minicourse #4: Part A 3:15PM Learning Cycles in Hopﬁeld-type (446) Networks with Delayed Coupling. 2:15 PM –4:15PM Room 29D, Mezzanine Chuan Zhang*, Gerhard Dangelmayr Level, San Diego Convention Center and Iuliana Oprea, Department of Mathematics at Colorado State University Experiments in circle packing. (1086-39-1665) Presenters: Ken Stephenson,University 3:30PM Analysis of a Nonlinear Difference of Tennessee (447) Equation Model. NJosephy, MPredescu*andS G. Brock Williams,Texas Woolford, Bentley University Tech University (1086-39-1916) MAA Minicourse #12: Part A 3:45PM Reverse Engineering of the Unfolded (448) Protein Response Network using Polynomial Dynamical Systems. 2:15 PM –4:15PM Room 30A, Upper Level, Danilo R. Diedrichs, Wheaton College San Diego Convention Center (1086-37-2025) Teaching an applied topology course. 4:00PM Numerical Methods for Delay Differential (449) Equations with Application to Biology. Presenters: Colin Adams, Williams Preliminary report. College Ibrahim Oumar Diakite*andBenito Robert Franzosa,University Chen Charpentier, University of Texas at of Maine Arlington (1086-37-1774) 4:15PM Time-scale Lyapunov functions for MAA Minicourse #14: Part A (450) Incentive Dynamics on Riemannian Geometries. 2:15 PM –4:15PM Room 29C, Mezzanine Dashiell E. A. Fryer*, Pomona College, Level, San Diego Convention Center and Marc Harper, UCLA (1086-37-546) 4:30PM Antidiffusion lattice differential Teaching introductory statistics (for (451) equations with quadratic nonlinearity. instructors new to teaching intro stats). Maila Capuno Brucal Hallare, Presenters: Michael Posner, Villanova Thomas Nelson Community College University (1086-37-2651) Carolyn Cuff, Westminster 4:45PM Competing Interactions and Traveling College (452) Wave Solutions in Lattice Differential Equations. AMS Session on Difference Equations, Erik S. Van Vleck and Aijun Zhang*, Dynamical Systems, and Applications University of Kansas (1086-39-584) 5:00PM On 3-Periodic Orbits of Polygonal Outer 2:15 PM –6:10PM Room 19, Mezzanine (453) Billiards in The Hyperbolic Plane. Level, San Diego Convention Center Preliminary report. Filiz Dogru*, Grand Valley State 2:15PM TALK CANCELLED: Existence Results for University, Allendale MI, Daniel Hast, (442) Some Singular Difference Equations. University of Michigan, and Neil DeBoer, Preliminary report. Michigan State University (1086-37-752) Toka Diagana*andMartin 5:15PM Laminations from the Cubioid. Arienmughare,HowardUniversity (454) Preliminary report. (1086-39-803) Alexander Blokh, Lex Oversteegen, 2:30PM Recurrent Solutions to Systems of Ross Ptacek*, University of Alabama at (443) Difference Equations. Preliminary report. Birmingham, and Vladlen Timorin, Zhivko S. Athanassov, Institute of Higher School of Economics Mathematics, Bulgarian Academy of (1086-37-2777) Sciences (1086-39-395) 5:30PM Identity Return Triangles For Cubic 2:45PM Numerical Solution and Convergence (455) Laminations. Preliminary report. (444) of the Difference Scheme for David J Cosper, University of Alabama at Initial-Boundary Value Problem to One Birmingham (1086-37-2006) Nonlinear Parabolic Equation. 5:45PM Haar Measures of p-adic Julia Sets. Mikheil Tutberidze*, Ilia State (456) Preliminary report. University, George Katsia and Soso Joanna M. Furno,UniversityofNorth Pipia, Delta Systems ltd. (1086-39-1857) Carolina at Chapel Hill (1086-37-2282) 3:00PM Periodic Dynamical Systems of 6:00PM Multiple solutions to second order (445) Population Models and Enveloping (457) symmetric boundary value problems: Functions. Preliminary report. equivariant degree approach. Justin Wright, North Carolina State My Linh Nguyen, University of Texas at University (1086-39-521) Dallas (1086-34-2956)

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AMS Session on Functional Analysis and 5:15PM Commutants of composition operators on Operator Theory, II (470) the Hardy space. Preliminary report. James Carter, IUPUI (1086-47-1316) 2:15 PM –5:25PM Room 30C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center AMS Session on Geometric Measure Theory and Harmonic Analysis 2:15PM On KSGNS-type theorem for (458) representations in Hilbert O*-modules. 2:15 PM –6:10PM Room 30B, Upper Level, Alexander A. Katz, St. John’s University, San Diego Convention Center NY (1086-46-1126) 2:15PM Global Regularity Results for 2D 2:30PM TALK CANCELLED: Coisometric Extensions (459) of Completely Contractive Covariant (471) Magnetohydrodynamic Equations. Representations. Preliminary report. Preliminary report. Travis Wolf,UniversityofIowa Dipendra Regmi, Oklahoma State (1086-47-1512) University (1086-35-735) 2:30PM Comparison Theorem for Negatively 2:45PM Dirac-type operators in noncommutative (472) Curved Sub-Riemannian Manifolds. (460) geometry. Fabrice Baudoin, Purdue University, Branimir Cacic, California Institute of Michel Bonnefont, Institut de Technology (1086-58-1898) Mathématiques de Bordeaux, Nicola 3:00PM On Kadison Transitivity Theorem for real Garofalo and Isidro H Munive Lima*, (461) locally C*-algebras. Purdue University (1086-35-1736) Alexander A. Katz, St. John’s University, 2:45PM Curvature-Dimension Inequalities NY, USA, and Oleg Friedman*, Lander (473) and Ricci Lower Bounds for Contact College for Men- Touro College, Manifolds. Preliminary report. USA/UNISA, RSA (1086-46-1631) Fabrice Baudoin and Jing Wang*, 3:15PM An Isomorphism Between the Ranges of Purdue University (1086-35-514) (462) Two Representations. 3:00PM Weighted multi-parameter Hardy spaces Rod Freed, California State University at (474) associated with Zygmund dilations. Dominguez Hills (1086-47-724) Yayuan Xiao, Wayne State University 3:30PM Extreme points of some noncommutative (1086-43-439) (463) convex sets. 3:15PM Asymptotic behavior of positive harmonic Craig Kleski, University of Virginia (475) functions in certain unbounded domains. (1086-47-2645) Koushik Ramachandran,Purdue 3:45PM Unital Dilations of Completely Positive University (1086-31-1754) (464) Semigroups. 3:30PM Green’s function for second order David Gaebler,UniversityofIowa (476) parabolic systems with Neumann (1086-47-601) boundary condition. 4:00PM Variational Inequalities for Perturbations Jongkeun Choi*andSeick Kim,Yonsei (465) of Maximal Monotone Operators in University (1086-35-110) Reflexive Banach Spaces. Preliminary 3:45PM The Lp Regularity Problem for the Stokes report. (477) System on Lipschitz Domains. Teffera M. Asfaw*andAthanassios G. Joel Kilty*, Centre College, and Jun Kartsatos, University of South Florida Geng, Chinese Academy of Sciences (1086-46-593) (1086-35-100) 4:15PM The Dunford-Pettis Property of Tensor 4:00PM Identification Problem for the Damped (466) Product Spaces. (478) Nonlinear Klein-Gordon Equation. Ioana Ghenciu,Universityof Preliminary report. Wisconsin-River Falls (1086-46-454) Qinghua Luo, Marian University 4:30PM On the Extension of the (1086-35-2701) (467) Bishop-Phelps-Bollobas´ Theorem. 4:15PM Hopf-Cole Type Transformations for a Antonio J. Guirao,IUMPA,Universidad (479) Viscous Burgers Equation. Politecnica de Valencia, and Olena Danny Arrigo*, Brandon Ashley and Kozhushkina*, Kent State University Thomas Deatherage,Universityof (1086-46-2838) Central Arkansas (1086-35-2571) 4:45PM TALK CANCELLED: Restrictions of 4:30PM Nondivergence form elliptic obstacle (468) Composition Operators to Invariant (480) problem with VMO principal coefficients. Subspaces. Preliminary report. Kubrom Teka*, State University of New Derek A Thompson, Indiana University York at Oswego, and Ivan Blank,Kansas Purdue University Indianapolis State University (1086-35-1508) (1086-47-860) 4:45PM Logarithmically Super-Critical Case in 5:00PM omposition Operators between Weighted (481) Boussinesq Equations and its (469) Bergman and Sp Spaces. Generalization. Waleed K. Al-Rawashdeh,MontanaTech Lizheng Tao, Oklahoma State University (1086-46-1360) (1086-35-2891)

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5:00PM On the Dimension of a Certain Measure 4:00PM Generating algebraic terms by (482) Arising From a PDE. Preliminary report. (494) evolutionary computation. Murat Akman*, University of Kentuck, David M. Clark, State University of New and John L. Lewis,Universityof York at New Paltz (1086-08-621) Kentucky (1086-35-2398) 4:15PM Simplifying Knuth Cubical Arrays for 5:15PM Zeros of random reinhardt polynomials (495) Semifields. (483) in Cm+1. Kelly C Aman, University of Texas at Arash Karami, Johns Hopkins University Arlington (1086-17-2091) (1086-32-1331) 4:30PM Gauss Composition and Bhargava Cubes. 5:30PM Extensions of Ld-Loewner Chains to (496) Preliminary report. (484) Higher Dimensions. Vijay Madhukar Patankar and Arun Hidetaka Hamada,KyushuSangyo Kumar Kuchibhotla*, Indian Statistical University, Gabriela Kohr,Babes¸-Bolyai Institute (1086-06-2185) University, and Jerry R. Muir, Jr.*, 4:45PM Row reducing the Matrix of University of Scranton (1086-32-2699) (497) m-Generalized Combinations. Preliminary 5:45PM Functions operating on sparse positive report. (485) definite matrices encoded by graphs. Ji Young Choi*, Shippensburg University Dominique Guillot*, Apoorva Khare and of PA, and Doug Ensley, Shippensburg Bala Rajaratnam, Stanford University University (1086-05-2333) (1086-15-2207) 5:00PM Rings and Covered Groups II. 6:00PM Representation of K-Isotropic (498) G. Alan Cannon, Lucyna Kabza*, (486) Harmonizable Random Fields and Southeastern Louisiana University, C. J. Completely Bounded Multilinear Forms. Maxson, Texas A&M University, and Kent M. M. Rao, University of California at M. Neuerburg, LA (1086-08-1766) Riverside, and Bertram M. Schreiber*, 5:15PM Γ-species and the enumeration of k-trees. Wayne State University (1086-60-1671) (499) Andrew Gainer-Dewar, Carleton College (1086-05-2147) AMS Session on Logic and Finite Mathematics 5:30PM 3D floor planning and tree (500) representations. 2:15 PM –5:55PM Room 13, Mezzanine Paul Horn*andGabor Lippner, Harvard Level, San Diego Convention Center University (1086-05-2757)

2:15PM Combinatorics at ℵω+1 in Prikry-type 5:45PM On the fixed-parameter tractability of (487) extensions. Preliminary report. (501) Lattice Cut with applications to network Ryan Holben, University of California, security. Preliminary report. Irvine (1086-03-2225) Robert Erbacher, Army Research Lab, Trent Jaeger, Nirupama Talele and 2:30PM My strategy versus Kurt Godel’s¨ strategy (488) To the solution of Hilbert second Jason Teutsch*, Penn State University problem. Preliminary report. (1086-68-824) J. Kuodo Huang, The Association for International Uncertainty Computing AMS Session on Mathematics Education and (1086-68-1245) Teaching Strategies 2:45PM Computable categoricity for 2:15 PM –5:10PM Room 17B, Mezzanine (489) quasiminimal-excellent classes. Jesse W Johnson, University of Notre Level, San Diego Convention Center Dame (1086-03-884) 2:15PM Research for Beginning Mathematics 3:00PM A computational approach to complete (502) Students. Preliminary report. (490) differential varieties (by way of model Sue Geller,TexasA&MUniversity theory). Preliminary report. (1086-97-145) William D. Simmons,Universityof 2:30PM Message Authentication Codes using Illinois at Chicago (1086-03-2302) (503) Quasigroups. Preliminary report. 3:15PM Coding sets in abelian p-groups. Ellen M Ziliak, Benedictine University (491) Steven M. VanDenDriessche,University (1086-20-670) of Notre Dame (1086-03-2349) 2:45PM Proof Construction and Collaborative 3:30PM Families of ultrafilters, and (504) Revision in Undergraduate Mathematics. (492) homomorphisms on infinite direct Preliminary report. product algebras. Emily S Cilli-Turner, University of Illinois George M. Bergman,Universityof at Chicago (1086-97-2193) California, Berkeley (1086-03-2568) 3:00PM A Course of Proofs and Higher-level 3:45PM The Solution to the 3-Variable Frobenius (505) Abstract mathematics for High Achieving (493) Number Problem. Preliminary report. High School Students. Preliminary report. Mayla R Boguslav*, Columbia University Richard S Millman*, Daniel Connelly and Auburn University, and Overtoun and Cher Hendricks, Georgia Institute of Jenda, Auburn University (1086-65-2636) Technology (1086-97-340)

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3:15PM Effects of Writing before Tests in College 3:15PM Closure operators and algebraic closure (506) Algebra. Preliminary report. (518) operators. Rachel E Sefton, Middle Tennessee State Martha Lee Hollist Kilpack,SUNY University (1086-00-2575) Oneonta (1086-06-1928)

3:30PM Increasing retention of beginner 3:30PM Determining Slice Towers. Preliminary (507) secondary mathematics teachers through (519) report. professional community building. Carolyn M. Yarnall, University of Virginia Imre Tuba*, San Diego State University, (1086-55-2550) Imperial Valley, and Jeffrey Burt,San Diego State University (1086-97-2921) 3:45PM Polyhedral Coverings of Tree Space. (520) Dominic Spadacene*, University 3:45PM Improving Understanding, Grades and (508) Retention: Oral Reviews. of Michigan, Craig Corsi, Satyan Mary Ann Nelson,GeorgeMason Devadoss, Williams College, and Daoji University, Fairfax, VA (1086-97-401) Huang, Carleton College (1086-52-2286) 4:00PM Team Teaching with Math History and 4:00PM Weak Convergence on Topological (509) Ethnomathematics. Preliminary report. (521) Semihypergroups. Margo Alexander*andIman Chahine, Norbert N Youmbi, Saint Francis Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA University (1086-43-1646) (1086-97-2028) 4:15PM Countable Paracompactness, Invariance 4:15PM Excavation Deﬁnition. (522) under Clopen Mappings, and Metrization. (510) Girija S Nair-Hart,Universityof Preliminary report. Cincinnati Clermont College Gangadhar R Hiremath,Universityof (1086-97-1618) North Carolina Pembroke (1086-54-654) 4:30PM Playing with Multivariable Calculus 4:30PM An Esther Klein Type Coloring Theorem. (511) Concepts Wearing 3D Glasses. (523) Jonathan E Beagley*andWalter Morris, Preliminary report. George Mason University (1086-52-1115) Paul E Seeburger, Monroe Community College (1086-97-2109) 4:45PM New Examples of Multinets in P2 and P3. 4:45PM Mathematical Games in Multiple Levels of (524) Preliminary report. (512) Education. Preliminary report. Jeremiah D Bartz, University of Oregon Deborah E. Seacrest,TheUniversityof (1086-52-1402) Montana Western (1086-97-1613) 5:00PM The Hausdorff dimension of a 5:00PM Maple, Mathlynx and The Tablet PC: On (525) graph-directed set whose underlying (513) the emerging electronic classroom. multigraph is a Cartesian product or a Preliminary report. tensor product of multigraphs. Terrence Richard Blackman,MIT Stefaan Dirk Delcroix, California State (1086-97-1490) University, Fresno (1086-00-2694)

AMS Session on Topology, Convex Geometry, 5:15PM Construction of k-interval orders. (526) Preliminary report. and Ordered Structures David E. Brown, Utah State University, and Larry J. Langley*, University of the 2:15 PM –5:40PM Room 18, Mezzanine Pacific (1086-06-1150) Level, San Diego Convention Center 5:30PM Separation in Gap Closures. 2:15PM High Distance Heegaard Splittings via (527) REJamison, University of Illinois at (514) Dehn Twists. Urbana-Champaign, A J Gilbert*andAM Michael M. Yoshizawa,Universityof Heissan, University of Rhode Island California, Santa Barbara (1086-54-1082) (1086-06-642) 2:30PM Topology of Character Varieties of (515) Abelian Groups. Preliminary report. MAA Session on Computational Modeling in Sean Dodd Lawton*, The University of the Undergraduate Curriculum Texas-Pan American, and Carlos Florentino, Instituto Superior Tecnico 2:15 PM –5:30PM Room 7A, Upper Level, (1086-14-1090) San Diego Convention Center 2:45PM Stable representation theory and the (516) geometry of flat connections. Organizers: Kurt Matthew Bryan, Daniel A Ramras*, New Mexico Rose-Hulman Institute of State University, and Thomas Baird, Technology Memorial University of Newfoundland (1086-55-431) Joseph Eichholz, Rose-Hulman Institute of 3:00PM Rigidification of homotopy algebras over Technology (517) multi-sorted semi-theories. Preliminary report. Jeffrey Leader, Bruce R Corrigan-Salter, State University Rose-Hulman Institute of of New York at Buffalo (1086-55-1297) Technology

29 Program of the Sessions – Wednesday, January 9 (cont’d.)

2:15PM Use of 3D Modeling Software in 2:35PM An Innovative Course for Teaching (528) Undergraduate Math and Science (539) Topics from Calculus III and Linear Courses: Lessons Learned From Algebra for Computer Science-Related Implementation Research. Majors Utilizing Game-Programming Erica Slate Young*, University of Applications. Preliminary report. Alabama in Huntsville, and Jack Scott A Stevens, Champlain College Bookman, Duke University (1086-H1-76) (1086-D5-2409) 2:55PM An Online Discussion Forum for Calculus 2:35PM Design and Build of an Open Canoe: A (540) Students. (529) Natural Path to Computation. Eve Torrence, Randolph-Macon College D Scott Dillery, Lindsey Wilson College (1086-H1-2357) (1086-D5-1229) 3:15PM Emphasizing Core Calculus Concepts (541) Using Biomedical Applications to Engage, 2:55PM Analyzing the Bald Eagle Population: (530) Difﬁculties and Successes. Preliminary Mentor and Retain STEM Students. report. Marilyn A. Reba*, Tauﬁquar Khan, Gabriella Marie Muscat*andSalvatore Ellen Breazel, John DesJardin and P Giunta, Adelphi University Irina Viktorova, Clemson University (1086-D5-1128) (1086-H1-2114) 3:35PM Flipping Calculus. 3:15PM A Modeling Approach for First Semester (542) Larissa B Schroeder*, Mako Haruta, (531) Calculus. Jean McGivney-Burelle, Fei Xue and Joy L. Becker*andBrian J. Birgen, John Williams,UniversityofHartford Wartburg College (1086-D5-870) (1086-H1-1354) 3:35PM Approximating the Mass, Volume, 3:55PM Single Variable Calculus Revisited. (532) Cross-Sectional Areas, Surface Areas and (543) Maria Terrell*, Cornell University, Trajectories of Projectiles. and Peter Lax, Courant Institute of Paul R Bouthellier,Universityof Mathematical Sciences New York Pittsburgh-Titusville (1086-D5-151) University (1086-H1-1728) 3:55PM Empowering Decision Makers Through 4:15PM Changing Perspectives on Changing (533) Technology. Preliminary report. (544) Coordinates. William P. Fox, Naval Postgraduate Itai Seggev, Wolfram Research School, Monterey, Ca 93943 (1086-H1-1890) (1086-D5-578) 4:35PM Stressing Physics Content in a 4:15PM Modeling and Evaluation Strategy in (545) Multivariable Calculus Class. (534) Undergraduate Calculus Curriculum. Jeffrey W. Clark, Elon University Khairul Islam, Eastern Michigan (1086-H1-143) University (1086-D5-1561) 4:55PM Back to the Future. 4:35PM Student Projects using Microphones and (546) Poul G. Hjorth*, Steen Markvorsen and (535) the FFT. Preliminary report. Karsten Schmidt, Technical University of Phil Gustafson, Colorado Mesa Denmark (1086-H1-2217) University (1086-D5-785) MAA Session on Integrating the Mathematics 4:55PM Some Class Activities of Digital of Planet Earth 2013 in the College (536) Processing Using Mathematica and MathCAD. Preliminary report. Mathematics Curriculum, II Daniel G Kim*, Southern Oregon 2:15 PM –4:50PM Room 6C, Upper Level, University, and Sungsook Kim, Pai Chai University (1086-D5-2053) San Diego Convention Center

5:15PM Introducing the Split Step Fourier Method Organizer: Ben Galluzzo, Shippensburg (537) with MATLAB. Preliminary report. University Pablo Ulises Suarez, Delaware State 2:15PM Environmental Mathematics via the University (1086-D5-357) (547) Visual, Qualitative and Computational. Ben Fusaro, Florida State University MAA Session on Innovative Ideas for Courses (1086-H5-2650) in the First Two Years, II 2:35PM Earthquakes, Weatherquakes and (548) Logicquakes in the College Mathematics 2:15 PM –5:10PM Room 5A, Upper Level, Curriculum. San Diego Convention Center Martin E. Walter, University of Colorado, Boulder (1086-H5-1178) Organizer: Andrew Granville Bennett, 2:55PM TALK CANCELLED: Seeing the World Kansas State University (549) Differently: Mapping the Earth’s Terrain 2:15PM Visually Verifying Homework Problems in with Elavation Angles and Why it Matters. (538) Multivariable Calculus. Preliminary report. Paul E Seeburger, Monroe Community Michael A Brilleslyper,U.S.AirForce College (1086-H1-1439) Academy (1086-H5-1393)

30 Wednesday, January 9 – Program of the Sessions

3:15PM Crop Rotation Modeling to Meet A 3:55PM Iterative Arrangements of Polyhedra – (550) Sustainable Water Yield. (560) Relationships to Classical Fractals and Katie Fowler, Clarkson University Hauy¨ Constructions. (1086-H5-1117) Robert W Fathauer, Tessellations Company (1086-K1-1349) 3:35PM Some Mathematics of Nonrenewable (551) Resources: From Arithmetic to Optimal 4:15PM Tiling the Plane with the Z-Pentomino: an Control Theory. (561) Artistic Interpretation. Preliminary Michael Olinick, Middlebury College report. (1086-H5-885) Margaret E Kepner, Washington, DC (1086-K1-1827) 3:55PM Modeling TOMS (NASA) data to predict (552) the depletion of the ozone layer for 4:35PM Intriguing Tessellation Animations in various latitudes of the earth. Preliminary (562) Real Time. report. Kevin Lee, Normandale Community Dan Seth, West Texas A&M University College (1086-K1-1152) (1086-H5-458) 4:55PM Patterns on Semi-regular Triply Periodic 4:15PM TALK CANCELLED: Conceptual climate (563) Polyhedra. Preliminary report. (553) models and the undergraduate Doug Dunham, University of Minnesota curriculum. Duluth (1086-K1-1638) James A. Walsh, Oberlin College (1086-H5-104) 5:15PM Bending Circle Limits. (564) Vladimir L Bulatov, Corvallis, Oregon 4:35PM Arctic Sea Ice Extent: A Qualitative (1086-K1-1252) (554) Literacy Project and an Entry Point for Environmental Mathematics. 5:35PM Euler’s theorem and the “Plaited Mat” William C Bauldry, Appalachian State (565) Sona Designs of Africa. University (1086-H5-1927) Darrah P. Chavey, Beloit College (1086-K1-2066) MAA Session on Mathematics and the Arts: Practice, Pedagogy, and Discovery, II 5:55PM Diagrammatic calculus for research and (566) teaching. Radmila Sazdanovic,Universityof 2:15 PM –6:50PM Room 6E, Upper Level, Pennsylvania (1086-K1-2017) San Diego Convention Center 6:15PM On Homology Preserving Representations Organizer: Douglas Norton, Villanova (567) of Planar Rips Complexes. Preliminary University report. William C Kronholm, Whittier College 2:15PM Gaskets and Carpets From A(Apollonius) (1086-K1-2963) (555) to Z(The complex plane). Preliminary report. 6:35PM Optimizing balance in video games with Anne M. Burns, Long Island University, (568) asymmetrical choices. C.W. Post Campus (1086-K1-444) Jeffrey J Beyerl, Furman University (1086-K1-2306) 2:35PM Point Symmetry Patterns on 1-Uniform (556) Tessellations. David A. Reimann, Albion College MAA Session on Research on the Teaching (1086-K1-2836) andLearningofUndergraduate Mathematics, I 2:55PM Algorithms for Creating Self-Similar (557) Curves and Surfaces in R3. Preliminary report. 2:15 PM –4:50PM Room 3, Upper Level, Carissa M Brtalik, Adelphi University San Diego Convention Center (1086-K1-2321) Organizers: Kyeong Hah Roh,Arizona 3:15PM The Art and Mathematics of Tiling and State University (558) Tazhib for the Interior of Some Special Star Polygons. Preliminary report. Stacy Brown, Pitzer College Reza Sarhangi,TowsonUniversity (1086-K1-2214) Mike Oehrtman,University of Northern Colorado 3:35PM Golden Ratio: Ornamentations of (559) Chehelsotoun, a Safavid Dynasty Palace 2:15PM How prospective grades 6 - 8 teachers in Isfahan, Iran. Preliminary report. (569) use two deﬁnitions of ratio. Preliminary Shahriar Piroozram,ArtUniversityof report. Isfahan, Sheida Riahi, Mississippi State, Sybilla Beckmann*, Andrew Izsak, MS, and Shantia Yarahmadian*, Erik Jacobson, Eun Jung and Eun Mississippi State University Kyung Kang, University of Georgia (1086-K1-1443) (1086-N1-2326)

31 Program of the Sessions – Wednesday, January 9 (cont’d.)

2:35PM Assessing high school teachers’ 2:30PM Oral Reviews in Calculus. (570) Mathematical Meanings for Teaching (578) Dylan W Helliwell, Seattle University secondary mathematics. Preliminary (1086-VB-2729) report. Cameron Byerley*, Neil Hatﬁeld, 2:45PM Writing to learn in ﬁrst semester Marilyn Carlson and Patrick W (579) calculus. Thompson, Arizona State University Chad Awtrey, Elon University (1086-N1-2237) (1086-VB-2156)

2:55PM A Study of Effective Application of 3:00PM Improving Calculus learning through (571) Semiotic Registers in the Development of (580) Boot camp and Study Hall. Preliminary the Deﬁnite Integral in Multivariable report. Calculus. Lipika Deka and Gabriela Stanica*, Daniel L. McGee, University of Puerto California State University-Monterey Bay Rico - Mayaguez (1086-N1-42) (1086-VB-2914)

3:15PM Computational thinking in linear algebra. 3:15PM The Effects of GSP-Based Applets on (572) Spencer Bagley*andJeff Rabin, (581) Students’ Understanding of Graphical University of California, San Diego Calculus Concepts. (1086-N1-1378) Dov Zazkis,CenterforResearchin Mathematics and Science Education 3:35PM Over A Decade of Improving Pass Rates (573) in Gateway Mathematics Courses using (SDSU) (1086-VB-2293) Interactive Software. 3:30PM The Impact of Arithmetic Skills on Michelle R DeDeo,UniversityofNorth (582) Success in Calculus II and III. Preliminary Florida (1086-N1-1430) report. 3:55PM Implementing Inquiry-Oriented Alison Ahlgren*, University of Illinois, (574) Curriculum: From the Mathematicians’ and Marc Harper, UCLA (1086-VB-398) Perspective. 3:45PM Restructuring Calculus 2, Inside-Out and Estrella Johnson*, John Caughman, (583) Backwards. Preliminary report. Portland State University, Julie Janine M. Haugh,UniversityofNorth Fredericks, Teachers Development Carolina at Asheville (1086-VB-2779) Group, and Lee Gibson, Indiana University Southeast (1086-N1-1970) 4:00PM Resequencing Calculus: An Early 4:15PM Mathematics Anxiety and Performance: (584) Multivariate Approach. (575) Finding the Source to Lead to the Cure. David Dwyer, Mark Gruenwald, Moira Kathleen Devlin*andAgnes University of Evansville, Michael Axtell, Rash, Saint Joseph’s University University of St. Thomas, Nicholas (1086-N1-2710) Baeth, University of Central Missouri, Kenneth Luther, Valparaiso University, 4:35PM Improving undergraduate mathematics and Joe Stickles*, Millikin University (576) education using dynamic graphics (1086-VB-1011) embedded within WeBWork. Preliminary report. 4:15PM Development of an Online Multivariable Sean P. Yee, California State University, (585) Calculus Course for High School Fullerton (1086-N1-2071) Students. Preliminary report. Samantha N Andrews*, Greg Mayer, MAA General Contributed Paper Session: Nathaniel Tindall, Daniel Connelly and Calculus Rui Hu, Georgia Institute of Technology (1086-VB-2400)

2:15 PM –5:55PM Room 11B, Upper Level, 4:30PM Learning the Chain Rule Using the DOTI San Diego Convention Center (586) Method. Steve M. Anglin,CaseWesternReserve Organizers: Stephen Davis,Davidson University (1086-VB-36) College 4:45PM New Curves from Old via Tangents. Gizem Karaali, Pomona (587) Preliminary report. College Dragan Jankovic, Cameron University Douglas Norton, Villanova (1086-VB-2394) University 5:00PM The Development of the Fundamental Moderators: Stephen Kokoska, (588) Theorem of Calculus by Using the Limit Bloomsburg University Approach Only. Michael Boardman,Paciﬁc Jun Tao, Tao Calculus Book Co. University (1086-VB-627)

2:15PM What it takes for a student today to be 5:15PM A Dissection Proof of Leibniz’s Series for (577) successful in calculus? (589) π/4. Paul Sisson, Louisiana State University - Mitsuo Kobayashi, Cal Poly Pomona Shreveport (1086-VB-2962) (1086-VB-2411)

32 Wednesday, January 9 – Program of the Sessions

5:30PM Convexity Conditions of Euler-Lagrange MAA General Contributed Paper Session: (590) Equations in Optimization Problems. Probability and Statistics, II Mara Aruguete and Chelsey Stephenson*, Lincoln University 2:15 PM –5:55PM Room 33A, Upper Level, (1086-VB-687) San Diego Convention Center 5:45PM A project to evaluate the probability (591) integral using Calculus II techniques. Organizers: Stephen Davis,Davidson Daniel C. Kemp, South Dakota State College University (1086-VB-1433) Gizem Karaali, Pomona MAA General Contributed Paper Session: College Mathematics and Technology, II Douglas Norton, Villanova University 2:15 PM –4:10PM Room 5B, Upper Level, Moderators: Fei Xing,Universityof San Diego Convention Center Tennessee Organizers: Stephen Davis,Davidson Chuck Wessell, Gettysburg College College

Gizem Karaali, Pomona 2:15PM Asymptotic Behavior of Bayesian College (600) Prediction Limits for the Poisson Douglas Norton, Villanova Distribution with an illustration from University Tropical Storm Occurrences. Valbona Bejleri,UniversityofDC Moderator: Ray Collings,Georgia (1086-VI-2832) Perimeter College 2:15PM Classroom practices which integrate a 2:30PM Time to extinction in two-sex branching (592) variety of technological and (601) processes. communication tools to improve student George P Yanev*, The University of learning in a Finite Mathematics and Texas - Pan American, David M Hull, Applied Calculus. Valparaiso University, USA, and Manuel Jack Y Narayan, State University of New Mota, University of Extremadura, Spain York at Oswego (1086-VF-277) (1086-VI-2295) 2:30PM Using Graphs to Break Ciphers in 2:45PM A Bayesian Approach to Detecting (593) Cryptography Using Maplets. (602) Change Points in Climatic Records. Neil Sigmon*, Radford University, and Eric Ruggieri, Duquesne University Rick Klima, Appalachian State University (1086-VI-1298) (1086-VF-354) 3:00PM Estimating the Intrinsic Dimension of 2:45PM Geometry Playground v. 1.4. (603) High-Dimensional Data Sets. (594) Daniel J. Heath, Paciﬁc Lutheran Anna V Little*, Jacksonville University, University (1086-VF-425) Mauro Maggioni, Duke University, and 3:00PM Series Tic-Tac-Toe. Lorenzo Rosasco, Massachusetts (595) Barbara Margolius, Cleveland State Institute of Technology (1086-VI-417) University (1086-VF-812) 3:15PM Almost sure asymptotics for 3:15PM Resurrecting Hinton’s Tesseract: (604) Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes of Poisson (596) Using 3D Graphics to Emulate the potential. Four-Dimensonal Models of Charles Fei Xing, University of Tennessee, Howard Hinton. Knoxville (1086-VI-414) Samuel Charles Herwood,Adelphi 3:30PM A Cental Limit Theorem for Multivariate University (1086-VF-1382) (605) Strongly Mixing Random Fields. 3:30PM A Brief Tutorial on Building a ”Flipped” Cristina Tone, University of Louisville (597) Classroom. (1086-VI-403) Reza O Abbasian*andJohn T Sieben, Texas Lutheran University 3:45PM Approximation of the Generalized (1086-VF-2336) (606) Poisson Distribution. Salam Md. Mahbubush Khan,Alabama 3:45PM Effects of using tablets in lectures A&M University (1086-VI-371) (598) on student learning outcomes in mathematics courses. 4:00PM Methods of nonparametric selection of Wei Wei*, Metropolitan State University, (607) the least dispersed of k multivariate and Zhi Qiao, Wells Fargo (1086-VF-355) populations. Jeremy F Entner*andPinyuen Chen, 4:00PM A Mathematician’s View of Educational Syracuse University (1086-VI-499) (599) Neuroscience: A Hunt for a Mathematical Genius. 4:15PM Effect of Potomac River on Salinity in Alexander Y Vaninsky, City University of (608) Chesapeake Bay. Preliminary report. New York/Hostos Community College Vitaliy S Shvetsov, University of the (1086-VF-967) District of Columbia (1086-VI-2798)

33 Program of the Sessions – Wednesday, January 9 (cont’d.)

4:30PM On Functional CLT for reversible Markov 2:45PM Counting consecutive patterns in (609) chains with nonlinear growth of the (617) up-down permutations using the variance of partial sums. maximum packing number. Martial Longla*, Costel Peligrad and A. Scott Duane*andJeff Remmel, Magda Peligrad, University of Cincinnati University of California, San Diego (1086-VI-519) (1086-VN-2768)

4:45PM Estimating the Probability of Accurate 3:00PM Total Domination on the Triangular (610) Phylogeny Reconstruction by Quartet (618) Honeycomb Chessboard. Preliminary Aggregation. report. Jason Michael Calmes, Tulane University Taylor Kindred, Kennesaw State (1086-VI-2797) University (1086-VN-1843)

5:00PM Chebyshev and Markov’s Inequalities. 3:15PM Break. (611) Preliminary report. 3:30PM Mutually Orthogonal Latin Squares via Zengxiang Tong, Otterbein University (619) Polynomials Modulo n. (1086-VI-2383) Serge C Ballif, Nevada State College 5:15PM Testing Independence of Parallel (1086-VN-998) (612) Pseudorandom Number Streams: 3:45PM Convolutions on the Geometry of Incorporating the Data’s Multivariate (620) Hosoya’s Triangle. Preliminary report. Nature. Rigoberto Florez*, The Citadel, Eva Chester Ivan Ismay*andRandall Czabarka,UniversityofSouth Eubank, Arizona State University Carolina, and Leandro Junes,CalU (1086-VI-2128) (1086-VN-2440)

5:30PM A note on testing problem of equality of 4:00PM Rook Polynomials. Preliminary report. (613) two covariance operators. Preliminary (621) Bill Linderman, King College report. (1086-VN-2787) KKaphle*, University of Maine at Fort Kent, F H Ruymgaart and GGaines, 4:15PM Fine Ballot Numbers. Texas Tech University (1086-VI-1906) (622) Shaun Sullivan, Florida Gulf Coast University (1086-VN-1463) 5:45PM Statistical Analysis of Firm (614) Interdependence Using Duration 4:30PM Dimension-Preserving Contractions and a Data—Semiparametric Approach. (623) Finite List of 3-Irreducible Posets. Preliminary report. Noah Streib, National Institute Yuting Hsu, Penn State Univerysity - of Standards and Technology Harrisburg (1086-VI-1796) (1086-VN-1720) 4:45PM Diagonal forms for incidence matrices MAA General Contributed Paper (624) and zero-sum Ramsey theory. Session: Research in Graph Theory and Wing Hong Tony Wong*andRichard Combinatorics, I M Wilson, California Institute of Technology (1086-VN-2166) 2:15 PM –5:55PM Room 33C, Upper Level, 5:00PM Projections on Parabolic Quotients of San Diego Convention Center (625) Affine Weyl Groups. Elizabeth Beazley, Haverford College, Organizers: Stephen Davis,Davidson Margaret Nichols, Oberlin College, Min College Hae Park, Williams College, XiaoLin Shi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Gizem Karaali, Pomona and Alexander Youcis*, University of College Maryland - College Park (1086-VN-2449) Douglas Norton, Villanova 5:15PM On a Dynamic Positional Game. University (626) Preliminary report. Moderators: Josh Laison, Willamette Mary J. Riegel, University of Montana University (1086-VN-2486) Ron Taylor, Berry College 5:30PM The ABC’s of Property-D Cyclic Neofields. (627) Preliminary report. 2:15PM Vexillary Permutations. Scott Lacy, University of Texas at (615) Max A Gross*, University of Maryland, Arlington (1086-VN-2805) College Park, and Nicole Marsaglia, University of Oregon (1086-VN-531) 5:45PM Where Galerkin, Hilbert, and Wilf (628) intersect: an application of the snake oil 2:30PM Up-Down Sequences: Inversions, method for combinatorial sums to finite (616) Coinversions, and the Sum of the Major element method analysis. Preliminary Indices. report. Ralph P. Grimaldi, Rose-Hulman Institute Chad N Vidden, University of Wisconsin, of Technology (1086-VN-1078) Platteville (1086-VN-2567)

34 Wednesday, January 9 – Program of the Sessions

MAA General Contributed Paper Session: 4:45PM Lind-Lehmer constant for groups of the (639) Z2 Research in Number Theory, II form p. Dilum De Silva*andChris Pinner, 2:15 PM –4:55PM Room 2, Upper Level, Kansas State University (1086-VO-2059) San Diego Convention Center SIAM Minisymposium on Vistas in Applied, Organizers: Stephen Davis,Davidson Computational, and Discrete Mathematics College Gizem Karaali, Pomona 2:15 PM –6:00PM Room 11A, Upper Level, College San Diego Convention Center Douglas Norton, Villanova Organizers: Zuhair Nashed,University University of Central Florida Moderators: Bernadette Tutinas, Luminita Vese,Universityof Goucher College California, Los Angeles Nicholas Triantaﬁllou, 2:15PM Variational Methods in Materials Science University of Michigan (640) and Image Processing. Irene Fonseca,CarnegieMellon 2:15PM Determinantal Expansions in Random University (1086-49-616) (629) Matrix Theory and Number Theory. 3:15PM Invariant histograms and signatures for Preliminary report. (641) object recognition and symmetry Nicholas George Triantaﬁllou*, detection. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and Peter J. Olver, University of Minnesota Steven J Miller, Williams College (1086-68-547) (1086-VO-859) 4:15PM Hybrid inverse problems and redundant 2:30PM Explicit Bounds for Densities Pertaining (642) systems of partial differential equations. (630) to Lehmer-Type Questions. Guillaume Bal, Columbia University Jesse Thorner,WakeForestUniversity (1086-35-1270) (1086-VO-1503) 5:15PM Recent Developments in Quantum 2:45PM Carmichael meets Chebotarev. (643) Information. (631) Aaron M Yeager*, William Banks, Peter W Shor, Massachusetts Institute of University of Missouri, and Ahmet Technology (1086-68-2348) Gulo¨ glu˘ , Bilkent University (1086-VO-1722) YMN/Project NExT Poster Session 3:00PM Low-lying zeroes of Maass form (632) L-functions. 2:15 PM –4:15PM Exhibit Hall B2, Ground Levent Alpoge*, Harvard University, and Level, San Diego Convention Center Steven J. Miller, Williams College Organizers: Mike Axtell,UniversityofSt. (1086-VO-2362) Thomas 3:15PM Some Mordell-Weil Groups of Large Rank. Kim Roth, Juniata College (633) Thomas C. Occhipinti,Universityof California, Irvine (1086-VO-1170) MAA Committee on the Mathematical 3:30PM Torsion of Elliptic Curves over Quadratic Education of Teachers Panel Discussion (634) Fields. David B. Erf*, Pomona College, and Jody 2:15 PM –3:35PM Room 1B, Upper Level, Ryker, CSU Chico (1086-VO-2911) San Diego Convention Center 3:45PM An Elementary Proof of Ramanujan’s Mathematicians supporting the (635) Circular Summation Formula and its implementation of Common Core State Generalizations. Standards for Mathematics. Ping Xu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1086-VO-2844) Organizers: Elizabeth Burroughs, Montana State University 4:00PM Dynamics of the Riemann Zeta Function. James King,Universityof (636) Donald L. Hitzl*, Lockheed Palo Alto Washington Research Laboratory, and Frank Zele, Menlo Park , CA (1086-VO-934) Panelists: James King Brynja Kohler, Utah State 4:15PM a-Points of the Riemann zeta-function on (637) the critical line. University SJLester, University of Rochester W. Gary Martin, Auburn (1086-VO-1133) University

4:30PM Semisimple Lie Theory and Optimization. William McCallum, (638) Preliminary report. University of Arizona Qingxia Li and Matthew Doughty*, Kristin Umland,University Lincoln University (1086-VO-1031) of New Mexico

35 Program of the Sessions – Wednesday, January 9 (cont’d.)

MAA-NSF Panel Discussion Chuu-Lian Terng,University of California, Irvine 2:15 PM –3:35PM Room 4, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center AMS Session on Number Theory, I

Reporting progress: A minisymposium 2:30 PM –5:55PM Room 12, Mezzanine of projects from the NSF Course, Level, San Diego Convention Center Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement/Transforming 2:30PM Fibonacci and Lucas Identities as Undergraduate Education in STEM (644) Binomial Sums. program. Mohammad K. Azarian,Universityof Panelists: Richard Alo, NSF Division of Evansville (1086-11-362) Undergraduate Education 2:45PM On the one-third squares in the Ron Buckmire,NSFDivision (645) psudo-Lucas sequence. of Undergraduate Education Behailu Mammo*andArulappah Eswarthasan, Hofstra University Lee Zia, NSF Division of (1086-11-936) Undergraduate Education 3:00PM Divisibility properties of fourth order SIGMAA on the History of Mathematics (646) recurrent sequences. Special Presentation Diane Fenton, University of Calgary (1086-11-2644)

2:15 PM –3:45PM Room 6F, Upper Level, 3:15PM Recursive relations and combinatorial San Diego Convention Center (647) identities. Xinyun Zhu*, University of Texas at The Paul R. Halmos photograph collection Permian Basin, Aklilu Zeleke,Michigan of the Archives of American Mathematics. State University, Sivaram Narayan and George Grossman, Central Michigan MAA Committee on Undergraduate Student University (1086-11-1089) Activities and Chapters Panel Discussion 3:30PM Distribution of summands in generalized (648) Zeckendorf decompositions. 2:15 PM –3:35PM Room 1A, Upper Level, Steven J Miller*, Williams College, San Diego Convention Center Amanda Bower, University of Michigan – Dearborn, Rachel Insoft, Wellesley What every student should know about College, Shiyu Li,UCBerkeley,and the Joint Mathematics Meetings. Philip Tosteson, Williams College Organizers: Jacqueline Jensen-Vallin, (1086-11-1098) Slippery Rock University 3:45PM Mining the OEIS: Ten Experimental Lisa Marano, West Chester (649) Conjectures. University of Pennsylvania Hieu D Nguyen*andDouglas Taggart, Panelists: Robert Vallin, Slippery Rock Rowan University (1086-11-512) University 4:00PM Identities involving higher-order Bernoulli (650) and Euler polynomials. AWM Panel Discussion Dae San Kim*, Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea, and Taekyun Kim, 2:15 PM –3:40PM Room 10, Upper Level, Kwangwoon University, Seoul, Korea San Diego Convention Center (1086-11-1010) 4:15PM Some Recent Results on Odd Perfect The retention of women in mathematics. (651) Numbers. Preliminary report. Organizers: Ami Radunskya, Pomona C. Sung, TAMIU (1086-11-2925) College 4:30PM Appending digits to Sierpinski,´ Riesel and Christina Sormani,City (652) Riesel-Sierpinski´ numbers. University of New York Lane E Bloome*, Millikin University, Moderator: Cheryl Geisler,Simon Marcella Noorman, Belmont University, Fraser University and Justin Ferguson, Keuka College (1086-11-672) Panelists: Julie Bergner,Universityof California, Riverside 4:45PM A generalization of the pentagonal (653) number theorem. Andrea Bertozzi,University Hayan Nam*, SeungKyung Park and of California, Los Angeles Jaebum Sohn,YonseiUniversity Estela Gavosto,University (1086-11-171) of Kansas 5:00PM A property of the Number 2013, Douglas Haynes,University (654) preliminary Report. Preliminary report. of California, Irvine Claudia A Spiro, Southern Polytechnic Lisette de Pillis,Harvey State University (1086-11-1123) Mudd College 5:15PM Break.

36 Wednesday, January 9 – Program of the Sessions

5:30PM An exploration of the primality properties 4:30PM TheMooreMethodAsAppliedTo (655) of Primitive Pythagorean Triplets. (665) Abstract Algebra. Vipin S Menon, Ryan Paul Lawrence* Andrew B. Perry, Springﬁeld College and Robert L Doucette, McNeese State (MA) (1086-VQ-2226) University (1086-11-2562) 5:45PM Solving the Diophantine equation 4:45PM A Capstone Course - Assessed/Revised. (666) Preliminary report. (656) nx2 +23m = yn. Preliminary report. Ronald M. Brzenk, Hartwick College Eva Goedhart, Bryn Mawr College (1086-VQ-325) (1086-11-2513)

MAA General Contributed Paper Session: 5:00PM Coset extensions of real numbers. (667) Horia I Petrache, Department of Physics, Teaching Mathematics Beyond the Calculus Indiana University Purdue University Sequence Indianapolis (1086-VQ-2389)

2:30 PM –5:55PM Room 33B, Upper Level, 5:15PM Teaching Advanced Mathematics In An San Diego Convention Center (668) Online Setting. Preliminary report. Chad Wiley, Emporia State University Organizers: Stephen Davis,Davidson (1086-VQ-1165) College

Gizem Karaali, Pomona 5:30PM Approval of mathematical axioms. College (669) Preliminary report. Douglas Norton, Villanova Bonface Nyakambi Ongeri,Kenya University (1086-VQ-25)

Moderators: Mark Mills, Central College 5:45PM Finding applications is the student’s job, Horia I. Petrache, Indiana (670) or, how to be integrative without really University-Purdue University trying: a project-based approach Indianapolis to incorporating other disciplines. Preliminary report. 2:30PM Math 351: A Work In Progress. Nathaniel Eldredge, Cornell University (657) Ricardo Enrique Rojas, Northern State (1086-VQ-1657) University, Aberdeen, South Dakota. (1086-VQ-1990) MAA Invited Address 2:45PM Engaging Students as Listeners to (658) Enhance Student Oral and Written Communication. 3:20 PM –4:10PM Room 6AB, Upper Level, Erika L Ward*andPam Crawford, San Diego Convention Center Jacksonville University (1086-VQ-1749) 3:00PM Introducing proof via discrete (671) How mathematics has changed (659) mathematics (with a twist or two). Hollywood. Sarah-Marie Belcastro, Smith College / Tony DeRose, Pixar Studios Sarah Lawrence College (1086-VQ-1102) (1086-A0-11) 3:15PM Modeling Mathematical Practice in a (660) Discrete Mathematics Course. AWM Business Meeting Brian Drake*andFeryal Alayont,Grand Valley State University (1086-VQ-1715) 3:45 PM –4:15PM Room 10, Upper Level, 3:30PM Exploring Escher’s periodic drawings: A San Diego Convention Center (661) tour of mathematical ideas. Preliminary report. Alessandra Pantano,Universityof MAA-NSF Panel Discussion California, Irvine (1086-VQ-2912) 3:45PM Using Music to Display Patterns in 3:50 PM –5:10PM Room 4, Upper Level, (662) Geometry and Number Theory. San Diego Convention Center Craig M. Johnson, Marywood University (1086-VQ-2961) Bring your lab to work: A minisymposium 4:00PM Teaching Elementary Number Theory: of projects that incorporate instrumented (663) Something Old, Something New, laboratory devices into mathematics Something Borrowed. Preliminary report. courses. Timothy B Flowers, Indiana University of Pennsylvania (1086-VQ-2543) Organizers: Ron Buckmire,NSFDivision 4:15PM Teaching Complex Variables with an of Undergraduate Education (664) Inverted Classroom. Alex Capaldi, Valparaiso University Lee Zia, NSF Division of (1086-VQ-579) Undergraduate Education

37 Program of the Sessions – Wednesday, January 9 (cont’d.)

MAA Committee on Articulation and AMS Committee on the Profession Panel Placement/NCTM-MAA Committee on Mutual Discussion Concerns Panel Discussion 4:30 PM –6:00PM Room 10, Upper Level, 3:50 PM –5:10PM Room 1B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center San Diego Convention Center Getting started as a research mathematician. Placement testing and the Common Core Curriculum. Organizer: Patricia Hersh,North Carolina State University Organizer: Sheldon P. Gordon, Moderator: David Vogan, Farmingdale State College Massachusetts Institute of Moderator: Bernard Madison, Technology University of Arkansas Panelists: Doug Arnold,Universityof Panelists: Zalman Usiskin,University Minnesota of Chicago Andrea Bertozzi,University William McCallum, of California, Los Angeles University of Arizona Angela Gibney,University of Georgia Roxy Peck, California State University, San Luis Obispo Tara Holm,Cornell Unviersity Chantel Reynolds,The Sean Lawton,Universityof College Board Texas Lavonne Mohn,ACTTest Development MAA Minicourse #3: Part A

MAA Panel Discussion 4:45 PM –6:45PM Room 29C, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center 3:50 PM –5:10PM Room 1A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center How to run a successful Math Circle. Presenters: Sam Vandervelde,St. Published or perished: Life after the Lawrence University tenure decision. Japheth Wood, Bard College Organizer: Michael Posner, Villanova Amanda Katharine University Serenevy,Riverbend Panelists: Gary Towsley,SUNY Community Math Center Geneseo MAA Minicourse #7: Part A Tevian Dray, Oregon State University 4:45 PM –6:45PM Room 29D, Mezzanine Curtis Bennett, Loyola Level, San Diego Convention Center Marymount University Teaching and assessing writing and Dexter Whittinghill,Rowan presentations: Collaborative development University of pedagogy. Rebecca Goldin,George Presenters: Susan Ruff, Massachusetts Mason University Institute of Technology Mia Minnes,Universityof MSRI / Museum of Mathematics Meeting California, San Diego Joel Lewis,Universityof 4:00 PM –5:00PM Rancho Santa Fe Minnesota Room 3, Lobby Level, Marriott MAA Minicourse #11: Part A MAA Section Ofﬁcers 4:45 PM –6:45PM Room 30A, Upper Level, 4:00 PM –5:00PM Marina Ballroom San Diego Convention Center D, 3rd Floor, Marriott Teaching differential equations with Chair: Rick Gillman,Valparaiso modeling. University Presenters: Darryl Yong, Harvey Mudd College Reception for Undergraduate Students Ami Radunskaya, Pomona College 4:00 PM –5:00PM Exhibit Hall B2, Ground Tom LoFaro,Gustavus Level, San Diego Convention Center Adolphus College

38 Thursday, January 10 – Program of the Sessions

Dan Flath, Macalester AMS Special Session on Quantum Walks and College Related Topics, I Michael Huber, Muhlenberg College 7:30 AM – 11:50 AM Room 32A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center SIGMAA on the History of Mathematics Special Presentation, Business Meeting, Organizers: Yusuke Ide, Kanagawa Reception, and Guest Lecture University Chaobin Liu,BowieState 5:00 PM –7:30PM Room 6F, Upper Level, University San Diego Convention Center Nelson Petulante,Bowie 5:00PM Geometry and Baroque Architecture in State University (672) Turin, Italy. Preliminary report. Salvador E. Cynthia Woodburn, Pittsburg State Venegas-Andraca, University (1086-A0-113) Tecnologico´ de Monterrey, 5:30PM Reception and business meeting. Campus Estado de M´exico 6:30PM Leonardo Fibonacci, Liber abbaci, and 7:30AM Universal computation by multi-particle (673) the rise of the modern commercial world. (675) quantum walk. Keith Devlin, Stanford University Andrew M Childs, David Gosset*, (1086-A0-69) Institute for Quantum Computing and Dept. of Combinatorics and SIGMAA on Environmental Mathematics Optimization, University of Waterloo, and Business Meeting Zak Webb, Institute for Quantum Computing and Dept. of Physics & 5:00 PM –6:00PM Room 6C, Upper Level, Astronomy, University of Waterloo San Diego Convention Center (1086-68-757)

8:30AM Spectral analysis of state and site SIGMAA on Quantitative Literacy Business (676) recurrence for discrete unitary Meeting evolutions. Preliminary report. Jean Bourgain, Institute for Advanced 5:00 PM –6:00PM Room 5B, Upper Level, Studies, Princeton, F. Alberto San Diego Convention Center Grunbaum*, UC Berkeley, Luis Velazquez, Universidad de Zaragoza, Reception for Graduate Students and Albert Werner, Institute for Theoretical First-Time Participants Physics, Reinhad Werner, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Leibnitz University, 5:30 PM –6:30PM Marina Ballroom and Jon Wilkening,UCBerkeley FG, 3rd Floor, Marriott (1086-81-1189) 9:30AM Quantum walk-based Mathematical Mathematical Institutes Open House: MPE (677) Morphology Operators. Preliminary 2013 U.S. Launch report. S E Venegas-Andraca,Tecnologicode 5:30 PM –8:00PM San Diego Ballroom Monterrey (1086-68-1687) B, Lobby Level, Marriott 10:00AM Group Theoretic Analysis of Relativistic (678) Quantum Walks. Preliminary report. AMS Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture Marco Lanzagorta, US Naval Research Laboratory (1086-81-2445) 8:30 PM –9:30PM Room 6AB, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center 10:30AM Quantum random walks with open (679) decoherence. Preliminary report. (674) On disorder, mixing, and equilibration. Matthew Largo, Temple University, Cedric Villani, Institut Henri Poincar´e Sheng Xiong*, University of Pittsburgh, (1086-35-6) and Wei-Shih Yang,TempleUniversity (1086-81-1459)

11:00AM Limit distributions of quantum walks and (680) 2nd order linear ordinary differential equations. Takuya Machida, Meiji University Thursday, January 10 (1086-81-679) 11:30AM Asymptotic Behavior of Unitary Quantum Joint Meetings Registration (681) Walks on the Half Line. Preliminary report. 7:30 AM –4:00PM Exhibit Hall B1, Ground Chaobin Liu*andNelson Petulante, Level, San Diego Convention Center Bowie State University (1086-81-1157)

39 Program of the Sessions – Thursday, January 10 (cont’d.)

AMS-SIAM Special Session on the Jeff Remmel,Universityof Mathematics of Computation: Differential California, San Diego Equations, Linear Algebra, and Applications, 8:00AM Uses of index set calculations. II (690) Julia F. Knight, University of Notre Dame (1086-03-1037) 8:00 AM – 11:50 AM Room 31C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center 8:30AM Homogeneous Models and Weak (691) Combinatorial Principles I. Preliminary Organizers: Susanne C. Brenner, report. Louisiana State University Denis R. Hirschfeldt,Universityof Chi-Wang Shu,Brown Chicago, Karen Lange, Wellesley University College, and Richard A. Shore*, Cornell University (1086-03-1570) 8:00AM Solving Planar Elasticity Interface (682) Problems with Cartesian Meshes. 9:00AM Homogeneous Models and Weak Xu Zhang, Virginia Tech (1086-65-814) (692) Combinatorial Principles II. Preliminary report. 8:30AM 3D Maxwell equations on Exterior Denis R. Hirschfeldt*, University of (683) Problem. Chicago, Karen Lange, Wellesley Lina Ma, Purdue University College, and Richard A. Shore,Cornell (1086-65-2497) University (1086-03-2041) 9:00AM Left and right preconditioning for (684) Electrical Impedance Tomography with 9:30AM A Feiner Look at the Intermediate structural information. (693) Degrees. Daniela Calvetti, Debra McGivney*and Denis R. Hirschfeldt,Universityof Erkki Somersalo, Case Western Reserve Chicago, Asher M. Kach*, Google Inc., University (1086-65-1255) and Antonio Montalban,TheUniversity of California, Berkeley (1086-03-2576) 9:30AM MPGMRES: a generalized minimum (685) residual method with multiple 10:00AM Lowness for isomorphism. preconditioners. (694) Johanna N. Y. Franklin*andReed Chen Greif, Department of Computer Solomon, University of Connecticut Science, University of British Columbia, (1086-03-2281) Tyrone Rees, STFC Rutherford Appleton 10:30AM Recursive spectra of strongly minimal Laboratory, and Daniel B Szyld*, Temple (695) theories satisfying the Zilber trichotomy. University (1086-65-1525) Uri Andrews*, University of Wisconsin, 10:00AM Discontinuous Galerkin method for Madison, and Alice Medvedev,University (686) hyperbolic equations involving of California, Berkeley (1086-03-2132) δ-functions. *and ,BrownUniversity 11:00AM Autostability relative to decidable Y. Yang C.-W. Shu (1086-65-723) (696) representations. Sergey S. Goncharov, Novosibirsk state 10:30AM Discontinuous Galerkin method for the university, IM SB RAS (1086-03-892) (687) M1 moment closure model for radiative transfer. 11:30AM Effective Two-to-One Structures. Prince Chidyagwai*, Benjamin Seibold, (697) Preliminary report. Temple University, Martin Frank and Douglas Cenzer*, University of Florida, Philipp Monreal, Aachen University, Valentina Harizanov,George Germany (1086-65-1763) Washington University, and Jeffrey B. Remmel, University of California – San 11:00AM Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin Diego (1086-03-327) (688) Methods for a Naghdi-type arch model. Li Fan*, Fatih Celiker and Zhimin Zhang, Wayne State University AMS Special Session on Arithmetic Statistics, (1086-65-1050) I (a Mathematics Research Communities session) 11:30AM Guaranteed Automatic Algorithms for (689) Integration and Function Recovery. Fred J. Hickernell, Illinois Institute of 8:00 AM – 11:50 AM Room 31A, Upper Level, Technology (1086-65-612) San Diego Convention Center

AMS-ASL Special Session on Effective Organizers: Kevin McGown, Ursinus Algebra and Model Theory, II College Jennifer Balakrishnan, 8:00 AM – 11:50 AM Room 7B, Upper Level, Harvard University San Diego Convention Center Ethan Smith,Liberty Organizers: Sam Buss,Universityof University California, San Diego 8:00AM Low-lying zeros of GL(2) L-functions. Mia Minnes,Universityof (698) Steven J Miller, Williams College California, San Diego (1086-11-534)

40 Thursday, January 10 – Program of the Sessions

8:30AM Subconvexity and equidistribution of 10:00AM On integral and ideal well-rounded (699) Heegner points in the level aspect. (709) lattices. Sheng-Chi Liu*, Riad Masri and Lenny Fukshansky, Claremont McKenna Matt Young,TexasA&MUniversity College, Glenn Henshaw, California (1086-11-153) State University - Channel Islands, Philip Liao, Claremont McKenna 9:00AM Elliptic curves with prescribed groups College, Matthew Prince, Harvey Mudd (700) over ﬁnite ﬁelds. College, Xun Sun*, Claremont Graduate Vorropan Chandee,CRM,Montreal, University, and Samuel Whitehead, Chantal David*, Concordia University, Pomona College (1086-11-787) Dimitris Koukoulopoulos,Universityof Montreal, and Ethan Smith,Michigan 10:30AM Lattice-theoretic methods in spectral Tech (1086-11-685) (710) geometry. Benjamin Linowitz,Universityof 9:30AM Break Michigan (1086-11-111)

10:00AM Applications of Explicit Moduli Spaces 11:00AM Discriminants and the monoid of (701) and Geometry of Numbers. Preliminary (711) quadratic rings. report. John Voight, University of Vermont Wei Ho, Columbia University (1086-11-1234) (1086-11-1225) 11:30AM Metacommutation of Hurwitz primes. (712) Abhinav Kumar*, Massachusetts 10:30AM A symmetric version of Chabauty’s (702) method on families of hyperelliptic Institute of Technology, and Henry curves. Cohn, Microsoft Research New England Jennifer Park, Massachusetts Institute of (1086-11-1962) Technology (1086-11-1957) AMS Special Session on Arithmetic and Ideal 11:00AM Elliptic curves over Q(sqrt(5)). Preliminary Theory of Integral Domains and Monoids, II (703) report. William A Stein,Universityof 8:00 AM – 11:50 AM Room 15A, Mezzanine Washington (1086-11-2307) Level, San Diego Convention Center 11:30AM Arithmetic statistics of central zeroes of Organizers: Scott T. Chapman,Sam (704) L-functions of the symmetric n-th powers Houston State University of a given automorphic form. Barry C Mazur,HarvardUniversity Vadim Ponomarenko,San (1086-11-1458) Diego State University

8:00AM Local and global tameness in Krull AMS Special Session on Arithmetic Theory of (713) monoids. Quadratic Forms and Lattices, I Alfred Geroldinger, University of Graz, Austria (1086-20-1024) 8:00 AM – 11:50 AM Room 14B, Mezzanine 8:30AM Atomicity and Near Atomicity. Level, San Diego Convention Center (714) Jim Coykendall, North Dakota State University (1086-13-1628) Organizers: Wai Kiu Chan,Wesleyan University 9:00AM The Large Davenport Constant for (715) Non-Abelian Groups. Lenny Fukshansky, David J. Grynkiewicz*andAlfred Claremont McKenna College Geroldinger, Karl-Franzens-Universit¨at Graz (1086-11-641) 8:00AM Semistability of Root Lattices And Perfect (705) Lattices. 9:30AM Numerical Semigroups, t-core Partitions, Youngsoo Kim, Tuskegee University (716) and Weighted Theta Functions. (1086-11-658) Nathan Kaplan*andNoam Elkies, Harvard University (1086-11-2024) 8:30AM Group schemes and local densities of 10:00AM Bounding some constants in quantitative (706) quadratic lattices in residue (717) non-unique factorization theory via characteristic 2. coding theory, and generalizations. Sungmun Cho, Northeastern University Wolfgang A Schmid,LAGA/Universit´e (1086-11-437) Paris 8 (1086-11-800)

9:00AM Unimodular lattices. Preliminary report. 10:30AM Full Elasticity in Atomic Monoids. (707) Larry J. Gerstein,Universityof (718) Preliminary report. California, Santa Barbara (1086-11-486) Paul Baginski, Smith College (1086-13-1647) 9:30AM Well-Rounded Ideal Lattices. (708) Lenny Fukshansky, Claremont McKenna 11:00AM LMS-complete subsets of Z. College, and Kathleen Petersen*, Florida (719) George J. Schaeffer,UCLA State (1086-11-569) (1086-08-1485)

41 Program of the Sessions – Thursday, January 10 (cont’d.)

11:30AM Arithmetic of Congruence Monoids. AMS Special Session on Discrete and (720) Arielle Fujiwara, Roosevelt University, Computational Geometry, I (a Mathematics Joseph Gibson, University of Texas at Research Communities session) San Antonio, Matthew Jenssen, University of Cambridge, Daniel Montealegre, University of California at 8:00 AM – 11:50 AM Room 30C, Upper Level, Los Angeles, Vadim Ponomarenko*, San San Diego Convention Center Diego State University, and Ari Tenzer, Washington University in St. Louis (1086-20-1835) Organizers: Emilie Hogan,Paciﬁc Northwest National AMS Special Session on Creating a Laboratory Professional Community of Math Teachers K–20, I Elizabeth Munch,Duke University

8:00 AM – 11:50 AM Room 32B, Upper Level, Louis Theran,Freie San Diego Convention Center Universit¨at

Organizers: Patrick Callahan,University Russ Thompson,Texas of California Los Angeles A&M University

William McCallum, 8:00AM TALK ADDED: An introduction to Euler University of Arizona Calculus, Robert Ghrist, Departments of Mathematics and Electrical/Systems Kristin Umland,University Engineering, University of Pennsylvania. of New Mexico 8:00AM TALK CANCELLED: Topology, Geometry 8:00AM Quality Problems Through Collaboration. (729) and Statistics: Merging Methods for Data (721) Preliminary report. Analysis. Preliminary report. Ben McCarty, University of Memphis John L Harer, Duke University (1086-97-2013) (1086-57-832) 8:30AM Creating a professional community of (722) mathematics teachers. 9:00AM Probability measures on the space of Al Cuoco, Center for Mathematics (730) persistence diagrams. Education, EDC (1086-97-1213) Yuriy Mileyko*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Sayan Mukherjee, 9:00AM Working with K-12 teachers changes our Duke University, Katharine Turner, (723) practice. Preliminary report. University of Chicago, and John Harer, Ben Ford, Brigitte Lahme*and Duke University (1086-55-1789) Katherine Morris, Sonoma State University (1086-97-2062) 9:30AM A Method for Collapsing Loops in Reeb (731) Graphs of Noisy Data. Preliminary report. 9:30AM Collaboration Among Mathematicians, Eric Hanson*, Colorado State University, (724) Mathematics Educators, K-12 Teachers Elizabeth Munch,DukeUniversity,and and K-12 Mathematics Supervisors in Russ Thompson,TexasA&MUniversity Virginia. Preliminary report. (1086-54-1688) Bill Haver, Virginia Commonwealth University (1086-97-1746) 10:00AM TALK CANCELLED: Features (732) Reconstruction Gets Help From Unlikely 10:00AM The Mathematics Teaching Community. Sources: Graph Laplacian and Reeb (725) Sybilla Beckmann*andJacob Hicks, Graph. University of Georgia (1086-97-2464) Issam I. Safa, Ohio State University (1086-52-1464) 10:30AM Northwest Mathematics Interaction: Two (726) Decades of Math Learning and Sharing. 10:30AM Triangulation problems. Preliminary James R King, University of Washington (1086-97-2610) (733) report. Igor Pak, Los Angeles (1086-52-560) 11:00AM Mathematicasl Knowledge for Teaching. (727) Hyman Bass, University of Michigan 11:30AM Tetrahedron Contact Graphs. Preliminary (1086-97-1564) (734) report. Md. Jawaherul Alam*, University of 11:30AM Geometry, the Common core, and Proof. Arizona, James R. Ashe,Universityof (728) Preliminary report. Tennessee, Michael Dobbins,KAIST, John T Baldwin*, University of Illinois at Muriel Dulieu, Polytechnic Institute of Chicago, and Andreas N Mueller,Curie New York University, and Justin Iwerks, High School Chicago IL (1086-97-818) Stony Brook University (1086-52-2058)

42 Thursday, January 10 – Program of the Sessions

AMS Special Session on Environmental 10:30AM Rough parameter dependence in Mathematics: Evaluate the Past Climate (740) geophysical ﬂuid models: The role of Changes and Model the Future Climate Ruelle resonances. Preliminary report. Variations, I Mickael D. Chekroun*, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA; & Department of Mathematics, 8:00 AM – 11:50 AM Room 9, Upper Level, University of Hawaii, David Neelin, San Diego Convention Center Dmitri Kondrashov, James McWilliams, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA, and Michael Ghil, Organizers: Phillip Arkin,Universityof Department of Atmospheric and Maryland Oceanic Sciences, UCLA; & CERES-ERTI, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris Samuel Shen,SanDiego (1086-37-2696) State University

11:00AM Hadley Cell Changes in Today’s Climate Thomas Smith,University (741) and Paleoclimates. of Maryland William F. Langford*, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, and Guang Zhang, Scripps Gregory M. Lewis, University of Ontario Institute of Oceanography, Institute of Technology (1086-86-1311) University of California, San Diego 11:30AM Monsoons and the thermodynamic state (742) of proximal deserts. 8:00AM Convection Microphysics and its William R. Boos,YaleUniversity (735) Interaction with Aerosols and Climate in (1086-86-1950) a Global Climate Model. Guang Zhang*andXiaoliang Song, Scripps Institution of Oceanography AMS Special Session on Geometric (1086-86-2393) Complexity Theory, I (a Mathematics Research Communities session) 8:30AM Fundamentals of parameter sensitivity in (736) climate models. J. David Neelin*, Dept. of Atmospheric 8:00 AM – 11:45 AM Room 30E, Upper Level, and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA, Mickael San Diego Convention Center Chekroun, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Annalisa Bracco, Hao Luo, Organizers: Christian Ikenmeyer,Texas School of Earth and Atmospheric A&M University Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, James C. McWilliams, Ryan Kinser, Northeastern Dmitri Kondrashov, Michael Ghil, University Sandeep Sahany, Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA, and 8:00AM On the complexity of matrix Richard Neale,NationalCenterfor (743) multiplication. Atmospheric Research (1086-86-2693) J. M. Landsberg,TexasA&MUniversity (1086-68-404) 9:00AM The Skeleton of the Madden-Julian (737) Oscillation: A Nonlinear Oscillator Model. Andrew J Majda, Courant Institute, 9:00AM On the equations of the third secant New York University, and Samuel (744) variety of an n-fold Segre product. NStechmann*, University of Yang Qi,TexasA&MUniversity Wisconsin-Madison (1086-86-2453) (1086-14-1866)

9:30AM Stochastic Differential Equation Modeling 9:30AM Geometric Complexity Theory and Tensor (738) of Precipitation in Convection. (745) Rank. Preliminary report. Kimberly D. Leung*, San Diego State Christian Ikenmeyer,Universityof University, Aneesh Subramanian, Paderborn (1086-68-1714) Guang Zhang, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and Samuel Shen,San 10:00AM Kronecker coefﬁcients for one hook Diego State University (1086-86-2488) (746) shape. Jonah Blasiak, University of Michigan 10:00AM Capturing intermittent and (1086-05-400) (739) low-frequency variability in high-dimensional data through nonlinear 11:00AM Fourier-Malgrange transform and Laplacian spectral analysis. (747) Kronecker coefﬁcients. Preliminary Dimitrios Giannakis, Courant Institute report. of Mathematical Sciences, New York Galyna Dobrovolska,Universityof University (1086-86-2493) Chicago (1086-97-1142)

43 Program of the Sessions – Thursday, January 10 (cont’d.)

AMS Special Session on Harmonic Analysis, Philip Hackney,University Partial Differential Equations, and of California, Riverside Geometric Measure Theory, I (a Mathematics Inês Henriques,University Research Communities session) of California, Riverside 8:00AM Generalizations of the stable module 8:00 AM – 11:50 AM Room 30D, Upper Level, (756) category. Preliminary report. San Diego Convention Center Daniel Bravo,UniversityofSouthern Maine, , Ramapo College Organizers: Theresa Anderson,Brown James Gillespie University of New Jersey, and Mark Hovey*, Wesleyan University (1086-18-597) Matthew Badger,Stony Brook University 8:30AM Completeness of the Gorenstein (757) projective and injective cotorsion pairs. Nathan Pennington,Kansas James Gillespie, Ramapo College State University (1086-18-2219) Eric Stachura,Temple 9:00AM Exceptional Lie Groups, Commutators, University (758) and Commutative mod 3 Homology 8:00AM The Lifespan of Solutions to the Wave Rings. Preliminary report. (748) Equation in Exterior Domains. Nicholas D. Nguyen,Universityof John A Helms*, University of California, California, San Diego (1086-55-2120) Santa Barbara, and Jason L Metcalfe, 9:30AM The Third and the Automatic Homotopy University of North Carolina at Chapel (759) Exact Sequence of a Fibration in Module Hill (1086-35-1263) Theory. 8:30AM The Wave Stands Alone: Journey of a C. Joanna Su, Providence College (749) Solitary Wave. (1086-18-1026) Melissa Davidson, University of Notre 10:00AM The homotopy theory of coalgebras over Dame (1086-01-336) (760) a comonad. 9:00AM New decay estimates for a class of 1D Brooke Shipley*, University of Illinois at (750) dispersive PDE and applications to the 2D Chicago, and Kathryn Hess,Ecole water wave problem. Preliminary report. Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Jennifer Beichman,Universityof (1086-55-981) Michigan (1086-35-1182) 10:30AM Connecting A∞ and L∞ Algebras. 9:30AM Sparse Signal Recovery and Remote (761) Preliminary report. (751) Sensing. Melissa M Tolley, North Carolina State Michael F Minner, Drexel University University (1086-17-1248) (1086-15-1911) 11:00AM On Topological Triangulated Orbit 10:00AM Solution Method for Certain Evolution (762) Categories. (752) Equations. Preliminary report. Marcy Robertson*, University of Western Jose Manuel Vega-Guzman, Ontario, Andrew Salch, Wayne State MCMSC/Arizona State University, Tempe University, and Julie Bergner,University (1086-35-728) of California Riverside (1086-55-2616) 10:30AM Regularity criteria of active scalars in 11:30AM Configuration spaces and operad actions. (753) terms of partial derivatives. (763) Preliminary report. , Oklahoma State Kazuo Yamazaki William G Dwyer*, University of Notre University (1086-35-630) Dame, and Kathryn Hess, EPFL Lausanne 11:00AM Regularity and stochastic (1086-55-1462) (754) homogenization of fully nonlinear equations without uniform ellipticity. AMS Special Session on L-Functions and Scott Armstrong,Universite Arithmetic Geometry, I Paris-Dauphine, and Charles K Smart*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 8:00 AM – 11:50 AM Room 15B, Mezzanine (1086-35-2769) Level, San Diego Convention Center 11:30AM Neumann and regularity problems for (755) second order elliptic operators with Organizers: Alina Bucur,Universityof non-smooth coefficients. California, San Diego Jill Pipher,BrownUniversity Kiran Kedlaya,Universityof (1086-42-556) California, San Diego AMS Special Session on Homotopy Theory 8:00AM Zeros of period polynomials. (764) J. Brian Conrey, American Institute of and Commutative Algebra, I Mathematics (1086-11-1202)

8:00 AM – 11:50 AM Room 16B, Mezzanine 8:30AM L-packets and abelian varieties. Level, San Diego Convention Center (765) Preliminary report. Jeffrey D Achter*, Colorado State Organizers: Julia Bergner,Universityof University, and Clifton Cunningham, California, Riverside University of Calgary (1086-11-1664)

44 Thursday, January 10 – Program of the Sessions

9:00AM p-adic heights of Heegner points and 9:00AM Finite dimensional representations of KLR (766) Heegner L-functions. (774) algebras. Jennifer S. Balakrishnan*, Harvard Peter J McNamara, Stanford University University, Mirela Çiperiani,University (1086-16-98) of Texas at Austin, and William A. Stein, 9:30AM TALK CANCELLED: The representation University of Washington (1086-11-1174) (775) theory of Hecke algebra via infinite 9:30AM The trace of Frobenius of elliptic curves twists. (767) and the p-adic gamma function. Sabin Cautis,UniversityofSouthern Dermot McCarthy,TexasA&MUniversity California (1086-16-665) (1086-11-1355) 10:00AM Principal subspaces of standard modules 10:00AM The p-rank of Jacobians of cyclic covers (776) for twisted affine Lie algebras. (768) of the projective line. Preliminary report. Corina Calinescu*, CUNY, New York Ekin Ozman, University of Texas at City College of Technology, James Austin, Rachel Pries*, Colorado State Lepowsky, Rutgers University, and University, and Colin Weir,Universityof Antun Milas, University at Albany (SUNY) Calgary (1086-11-1667) (1086-17-1573)

10:30AM Distribution of zeta zeroes of 10:30AM The Trotter property and differentiable (769) Artin–Schreier curves. (777) vectors of continuous representations. Alina Bucur, University of California, San Karl-Hermann Neeb,Universityof Diego, Chantal David,Concordia Erlangen-Nuremberg, and Hadi University, Brooke Feigon, Citi College Salmasian*, University of Ottawa of New York, CUNY, Matilde Lalin*, (1086-22-313) University of Montreal, and Kaneenika 11:00AM TALK CANCELLED: Real semisimple Sinha, IISER Kolkata (1086-11-466) (778) subalgebras. ,HebrewUniversity 11:00AM Semiample Bertini Theorems over finite Andrey Minchenko (770) fields. of Jerusalem (1086-22-1120) Daniel Erman*, University of Michigan, 11:00AM The symplectic nature of E7. Preliminary and Melanie Matchett Wood,University (779) report. of Wisconsin (1086-14-472) Tevian Dray*, Oregon State University, John Huerta, The Australian National 11:30AM Explicit points on a family of Jacobians of University, ,Oregon (771) superelliptic curves over global function Corinne A. Manogue State University, and , fields. Preliminary report. Robert A. Wilson Queen Mary University of London Lisa Berger, SUNY, Stony Brook, Chris (1086-17-2397) Hall, University of Wyoming, René Pannekoek, University of Leiden, 11:30AM Exceptional collections of line bundles on Jennifer Park,MIT,Rachel Pries, (780) projective homogeneous varieties. Colorado State University, Shahed Alexey Ananyevskiy, St. Petersburg Sharif, California State University San State University, Russia, Asher Auel, Marcos, Alice Silverberg*, University Skip Garibaldi*, Emory University, and of California, Irvine, and Douglas Kirill Zainoulline, University of Ottawa Ulmer, Georgia Institute of Technology (1086-14-428) (1086-11-525) AMS Special Session on Several Complex AMS Special Session on Lie Algebras, Variables and Multivariable Operator Algebraic Transformation Groups, and Theory, I Representation Theory, II 8:00 AM – 11:50 AM Room 16A, Mezzanine 8:00 AM – 11:50 AM Room 17A, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center Level, San Diego Convention Center Organizers: Joseph Ball,VirginiaTech Organizers: Andrew Douglas,City University University of New York Ronald Douglas,Texas Alistair Savage,University A&M University of Ottawa 8:00AM Polynomials with no zeros on a face of Bart Van Steirteghem,City (781) the bidisk. Preliminary report. University of New York Greg Knese*, University of Alabama, Jeffrey S Geronimo and Plamen 8:00AM From skew Howe duality to knot Iliev, Georgia Institute of Technology (772) invariants. (1086-32-1948) Aaron D Lauda,UniversityofSouthern 8:30AM Regular and singular rational inner California (1086-16-585) (782) functions on the bidisc. Preliminary 8:30AM The categorified super-Poincaré group. report. (773) John Huerta, Instituto Superior Tecnico, David Scheinker, Drexel University Lisbon (1086-20-1310) (1086-32-2112)

45 Program of the Sessions – Thursday, January 10 (cont’d.)

9:00AM Inner Functions on the Bidisk and 11:00AM A Torsor of Lifts of The Frobenius (in (783) Associated Hilbert Spaces. (795) characteristic zero). Kelly Bickel, Washington University in St. Taylor Dupuy, University of New Mexico Louis (1086-46-1099) (1086-11-2172) AM 9:30 Norm-Constrained Determinantal 11:30AM Witt-Burnside rings and rings of p-adic (784) Representations of Multivariable (796) functions. Preliminary report. Polynomials. Lance Edward Miller*, University of Anatolii Grinshpan, Dmitry S Utah, and Benjamin Steinhurst,Cornell Kaliuzhnyi-Verbovetskyi and Hugo (1086-11-1347) J Woerdeman*, Drexel University (1086-47-1129) AMS Special Session on the Influence of 10:00AM Generalized models and slope functions Ramanujan on his 125th Birthday, I (785) for the Schur class of the bidisc. Nicholas Young, Newcastle and Leeds Universities (1086-47-853) 8:00 AM – 11:50 AM Room 8, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center 10:30AM Nevanlinna Representations in Several (786) Variables. Organizers: George Andrews, Jim Agler, University of California at San Pennsylvania State University Diego (1086-47-1712) 11:00AM Perturbation of operator functions. Bruce Berndt,Universityof (787) Anna Skripka, University of New Mexico Illinois Urbana-Champaign (1086-47-1308) ∗ Ae Ja Yee, Pennsylvania 11:30AM C -algebras generated by truncated State University (788) Toeplitz operators. Stephan Ramon Garcia, Pomona College 8:00AM Ramanujan and Moonshine and topology. (1086-47-1412) (797) Andreas Malmendier, Colby College, and Ken Ono*, Emory University AMS Special Session on Witt Vectors, Lifting (1086-11-1828) and Descent, I 8:30AM q-series and quantum modular forms. (798) Robert C. Rhoades, Stanford University 8:00 AM – 11:50 AM Room 14A, Mezzanine (1086-11-2401) Level, San Diego Convention Center 9:00AM The odd moments of ranks and cranks. Organizers: James Borger, Australia (799) George E Andrews, The Pennsylvania National University State University, Song Heng Chan*, Alexandru Buium, Nanyang Technological University, and University of New Mexico Byungchan Kim,SeoulNational Taylor Dupuy,Universityof University of Science and Technology New Mexico (1086-11-2177) Lance Miller,Universityof 9:30AM Asymptotic inequalities for positive rank Utah (800) and crank moments. 8:00AM Fields of Definition of G-Galois Branched Karl Mahlburg*, Louisiana State (789) Covers of the Projective Line. University, and Kathrin Bringmann, Hilaf Hasson, Pennsylvania State University of Cologne (1086-11-1951) University (1086-14-2037) 10:00AM Rank-Crank-type PDEs and generalized 8:30AM Geometrizing quasi-characters of tori. (801) Lambert series identities. (790) Clifton Cunningham,Universityof Song Heng Chan,Nanyang Calgary, and David Roe*, PIMS/University Technological University, Atul Abhay of Calgary (1086-11-2646) Dixit*, Tulane University, and Frank G. 9:00AM Differential Modular forms and Hecke Garvan, University of Florida, Gainesville (791) Operators. (1086-11-1302) Arnab Saha, Australian National 10:30AM Automatic Proof of Theta-Function University (1086-11-1516) (802) Identities. Preliminary report. 9:30AM The Oort conjecture on lifting covers of Frank Garvan and Jie L Liang*, (792) curves. University of Florida (1086-11-1518) Andrew Obus, Columbia University (1086-14-843) 11:00AM Elliptic parameterizations for partition (803) generating functions. 10:00AM Liftings of Elliptic and Hyperelliptic (793) Curves. Tim Huber*andJames Lloyd,University Luis Finotti, University of Tennessee of Texas - Pan American (1086-11-1619) (1086-11-1039) 11:30AM Rademacher’s infinite partial fractions 10:30AM Derived Invariants of Calabi-Yau (804) conjecture is (almost certainly) false. (794) Threefolds in Positive Characteristic. Andrew V. Sills*, Georgia Southern Matthew Ward, University of Washington University, and Doron Zeilberger, (1086-14-150) Rutgers University (1086-11-582)

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AMS Special Session on the Mathematics of 11:30AM Features of biologically realistic fishery Natural Resource Modeling, I (812) models frequently used in fish stock assessment. 8:00 AM – 11:50 AM Room 17B, Mezzanine Terrance J. Quinn, Juneau Center, School Level, San Diego Convention Center of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks Organizers: Shandelle Henson,Andrews (1086-92-1295) University Catherine A. Roberts, MAA-AMS-SIAM Invited Paper Session on College of the Holy Cross Energy, Population, and Sustainability, I 8:00AM A basic model for the evolutionarily 8:00 AM – 11:40 AM Room 6C, Upper Level, (805) adaptive dynamics of a population San Diego Convention Center subject to a strong Allee effect. Jim M. Cushing*, Interdisciplinary Organizers: Ben Fusaro,FloridaState Program in Applied Mathematics, University University of Arizona, and Jarred T. Hudson, University of Arizona Fred Roberts,Centerfor (1086-92-1471) Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer 8:30AM Mathematical Analysis of Ecotone Science, Rutgers University (806) Resilience. Jiang Jiang, National Institute for 8:00AM Measurement of Biodiversity. Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, (813) Fred Roberts,RutgersUniversity Daozhou Gao, Proctor Foundation, and (1086-AC-1251) Donald L. DeAngelis*, Department of 8:45AM Impact of host demographic Allee Biology, University of Miami (814) effect, fatal disease and migration on (1086-92-1444) biodiversity. Abdul-Aziz Yakubu*, Howard University, 9:00AM Host-pathogen interactions, induced (807) plant defenses, and insect outbreaks. and Avner Friedman,TheOhioState Preliminary report. University (1086-AC-1075) Bret D Elderd, Dept of Biology, Louisiana 9:30AM The Malthusian Challenge – Increasing State University, Brian Rehill,Deptof (815) Human Demands vs Decreasing Chemistry, US Naval Academy, Kyle Resources. Haynes, Blandy Experimental Farm, Ben Fusaro, Florida State University University of Virginia, and Greg Dwyer*, (1086-AC-1663) Dept of Ecology and Evolution, University 10:15AM Sustainability and the Crisis in World of Chicago (1086-92-1452) (816) Fisheries. 9:30AM Temporal Dynamics of Galapagos Roland Lamberson, Humboldt State (808) Marine Iguana (Amblyrhynchus University, CA (1086-AC-1432) cristatus)haulout. Preliminary report. 11:00AM Overpopulation: A Central Factor in the Brianna G. Payne*, Union College, (817) Prospective Collapse of Civilization. Shandelle M. Henson, James L. Paul R. Ehrlich, Center for Conservation Hayward, Libby C. Megna,Andrews Biology, Stanford University University, and Susana R. Velastegui (1086-AC-1309) Chavez, Colegio Adventista del Ecuador (1086-92-2076) MAA Invited Paper Session on Mathematics 10:00AM Optimal investment in a multi-mutualist in Industry (809) system: Trees and ectomycorrhizal fungi. Holly V Moeller*, Department of Biology, 8:00 AM – 11:50 PM Room 2, Upper Level, Stanford University, and Michael G San Diego Convention Center Neubert, Department of Biology, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Organizer: Suzanne Weekes, Worcester (1086-92-1753) Polytechnic Institute 10:30AM Applications to wildfire and fire fuels 8:00AM A Homogenization Analysis of the (810) management in forest landscape-level (818) Compressible Flow Between a Slider and planning. Preliminary report. aMovingRoughSurface. Claire A Montgomery, Oregon State B. S. Tilley*, Worcester Polytechnic University, College of Forestry, Corvallis, Institute, D. W. Schwendeman, OR USA (1086-90-1285) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, C. P. 11:00AM A spatial model for chronic wasting Please, University of Southampton, and (811) disease in mule deer. F. Hendriks, HGST, a Western Digital M. J. Garlick*, South Dakota School of Company (1086-AE-573) Mines and Technology, J. A. Powell, M. B. 8:40AM The Role of Analytics in Ford’s Blueprint Hooten, Utah State University, and L. R. (819) for Sustainability. McFarlane, Utah Division of Wildlife Erica Klampfl, Ford Motor Company Resources (1086-92-1979) (1086-AE-1952)

47 Program of the Sessions – Thursday, January 10 (cont’d.)

9:20AM Getting Math Off the Ground: Applied 9:15AM A Numerical Study and Stability Analysis (820) Mathematics at Boeing. (830) of a Model for In Vitro Inhibition of Stephen P. Keeler, The Boeing Company Cancer Cell Mutation. Preliminary report. (1086-AE-1169) Muhammad Usman*, Giacomo Flora and Christopher Yakopcic,Universityof 10:00AM Mathematics and Statistics in Drug Dayton (1086-65-2096) (821) Development. Helen Moore, Pharsight (1086-AE-2886) 9:30AM Coupled Flip-ﬂops: Noise and Analysis for (831) a Sleep-wake Cycle Model. 10:40AM Graph Algorithms in MapReduce to Justin R. Dunmyre*andVictoria Booth, (822) Characterize Billion-Node Power Law University of Michigan (1086-92-1514) Networks. Preliminary report. Todd Plantenga, Sandia National 9:45AM A Mathematical Model of the Sleep/Wake Laboratories (1086-AE-984) (832) Regulatory System. Preliminary report. Lisa Rogers, Courant Institute of 11:20AM Discussion. Mathematical Sciences (1086-92-1989)

11:20AM Weapons of math destruction. 10:00AM Is our Sensing Compressed? (823) Preliminary report. (833) Victor Barranca, Rensselaer Polytechnic Catherine Helen O’Neil,DataScientist, Institute (1086-92-869) New York City (1086-AE-2953) 10:15AM Dynamics of a Conductance-based AMS Session on Mathematical Biology (834) Neuronal Network Model of Olfaction in Drosophila. Dori Luli*andSharon M Crook,Arizona 8:00 AM – 11:55 AM Room 13, Mezzanine State University (1086-92-2031) Level, San Diego Convention Center 10:30AM Modelling musth and mate choice in an 8:00AM TALK CANCELLED: Numerical Evidence (835) African elephant. (824) for Sustaining Normal Intracellular Tugba Yildirim*andMike Calcium Oscillations by Store-Operated Mesterton-Gibbons,FloridaState Calcium Entry Alone in Pancreatic University (1086-91-1863) β-Cells. Preliminary report. Weijiu Liu,UniversityofCentral 10:45AM Use of the heat kernel to establish Arkansas (1086-92-316) (836) naturals maps between anatomical surface models. 8:00AM A Dynamical Model for the Human Jonathan R. Bates,FloridaState (825) Menstrual Cycle that Simulates the Key University (1086-92-2671) Hormonal Changes of the Menopausal Transition. 11:00AM Applying Mathematical Tools to Alison Margolskee*andJames (837) Accelerate Shigella Vaccine Development. Selgrade, North Carolina State University Courtney L Davis*, Pepperdine (1086-92-2098) University, Rezwanul Wahid, Franklin R Toapanta, Marcelo B Sztein,Centerfor 8:15AM Foam cell formation in atherosclerosis: Vaccine Development, University of (826) HDL and macrophage reverse cholesterol Maryland, and Doron Levy,Centerfor transport. Preliminary report. Scientiﬁc Computation and Mathematical L R Ritter, Southern Polytechnic State Modeling, University of Maryland University (1086-92-488) (1086-92-2530)

8:30AM A Mathematical Model of the Effects of 11:15AM A mathematical Model for the Spread of (827) Growth and Remodeling on the Artery in (838) the West Nile Virus in Colorado. a Hypertensive State. Preliminary report. Maya Elise Johnson,TexasA&M Ana Vivas-Barber*, Adams State University (1086-49-1872) University, and Sunmi Lee,CaseWestern Reserve University (1086-37-2592) 8:45AM Agent-based modeling of strain-induced (828) lung inﬂammation. 11:30AM Impact of temperature and bird species Patrick Gaskill*, Rebecca Heise, (839) diversity on the transmission of West Nile Ramana Pidaparti and Angela virus. Reynolds, Virginia Commonwealth Guihong Fan, Arizona State University University (1086-92-2612) (1086-39-2209)

9:00AM An Optimal Control Approach for 11:45AM Mathematical Models of Nutrient (829) Modeling the Response to Head-Up Tilt. (840) Recycling and Toxin Production in a Preliminary report. Gradostat. Nakeya D Williams*, Mette S Olufsen, Xiaoyang Dong*, Hristo Kojouharov, Hien Tran, North Carolina State University of Texas at Arlington, University, and Jesper Mehlsen, and James Grover, Department of Frederiksberg University Hospital, Biology, University of Texas at Arlington Denmark (1086-92-1005) (1086-92-1155)

48 Thursday, January 10 – Program of the Sessions

AMS Session on Special Functions and 10:45AM On the solvability on nonlinear impulsive Ordinary Differential Equations (852) boundary value problems at resonance. Dan M Maroncelli*andJesus 8:00 AM – 11:55 AM Room 18, Mezzanine Rodriguez, North Carolina State Level, San Diego Convention Center University (1086-34-2331)

8:00AM Reality of zeros of the coefficient 11:00AM Stability of Impulsive Functional (841) polynomials of Hermite-diagonal (853) Differential Equations. operators. Preliminary report. Dilbaj Singh*, Lovely Professional Tamas Forgacs*, California State University, Punjab, India., and Dr. Sanjay University, Fresno, and Andrzej Kumar Srivastava, Beant College of Piotrowski, University of Alaska Engineering and Technology, Gurdaspur, Southeast (1086-30-1233) Punjab, INDIA. (1086-34-626) AM 8:15 Discussion 11:15AM Asymptotic Behavior of Orbits of 8:15AM TALK CANCELLED On The Differential (854) Kolmogorov Type Planar Vector Fields (842) Operator Representation of Linear with a Fixed Newton Polygon. Operators Which Are Diagonal With Faina Berezovskaya,HowardUniversity Respect To Legendre Basis. Preliminary (1086-34-1639) report. Hagop Karakazian*andTamas 11:30AM Damping/Dissipative Forces having Forgacs, California State University, (855) Finite-Time Dynamics. Fresno (1086-30-750) Ronald E Mickens*, Clark Atlanta University, and Tre Wells, Morehouse 8:30AM On the structure of a class of Invariant College (1086-34-280) (843) Kernels. Troy Banks, Salisbury University 11:45AM An Exact Solution to the Linear Plus (1086-15-2873) (856) One-third Amplitude Damping Problem. 8:45AM Characterizing the General Sheffer Tre Wells*, Morehouse College, and (844) Orthogonal Polynomial Sequences. Ronald E Mickens, Clark Atlanta Preliminary report. University (1086-34-278) Daniel Joseph Galiffa, Penn State Erie (1086-33-2082) AMS Session on Waves, Fluid Dynamics and 9:00AM New series representations for Jacobi’s Heat Transfer (845) triple product identity and more via the q-Markov method. 8:00 AM – 11:25 AM Room 12, Mezzanine , Virginia Commonwealth Moa Apagodu Level, San Diego Convention Center University (1086-05-1441) 9:15AM A New Algorithm on Hypergeometric 8:00AM Mathematical Modeling of Hurricanes (846) Summations and Recursions on Wigner’s (857) and Atmospheric & Oceanic Whirlpools 6 j-Symbols. Preliminary report. by Means of Linear and Nonlinear Xinyu Sun, Xavier University of Louisiana Internal Kelvin Waves Confined in (1086-05-865) Cylindrical Basins. 9:30AM A differential theorem and its application Ranis N Ibragimov,UniversityofTexas (847) to evaluations of special functions at at Brownsville (1086-35-331) some singularities. Hoang Ngoc Minh*, University Lille 2, 8:15AM Orbital stability of standing-waves by and Gérard H.E. Duchamp,University (858) means of the symmetric rearrangement. Paris 13 (1086-05-393) Daniele Garrisi, Inha University (1086-35-1710) 9:45AM Power Series, Automatic Differentiation (848) and Differential Equations. 8:30AM Pitch-fork bifurcation of a steady-state R. Thelwell, James Madison University (859) Poisson-Nernst-Planck systems for ion (1086-34-1709) channels with permanent charge: 10:00AM Slow passage through resonance: the big Multiple I-V relations. (849) picture. Preliminary report. Weishi Liu, Xuemin Tu and Mingji Bruno D. Welfert*andJuan M. Lopez, Zhang*, University of Kansas Arizona State University (1086-34-2360) (1086-35-530) 10:15AM First-order nonlinear nonlocal boundary 8:45AM Regularity and uniqueness for a class of (850) value problem with p-Laplacian. (860) solutions to the hydrodynamic flow of Douglas R. Anderson,Concordia nematic liquid crystals. College Moorhead (1086-34-369) Tao Huang*andChangyou Wang, 10:30AM Asymptotic behavior of solutions of a BVP University of Kentucky (1086-35-1740) (851) arising from fluid mechanics. Susmita Sadhu*, Georgia College & State 9:00AM A mathematical perspective on ketchup. University, and Joseph E Paullet, (861) Yuriko Renardy*, Virginia Tech, and Pennsylvania State University at Erie Kara L Maki, Rochester Institute of (1086-34-2499) Technology (1086-76-837)

49 Program of the Sessions – Thursday, January 10 (cont’d.)

9:15AM Linear and First Order Solutions for a 8:00AM A Visual Tour of Lesser Known Art (862) Three Dimensional Convective Flow in a (871) and Architecture as Examples of Mushy layer. Preliminary report. Mathematical Development of World Dambaru Bhatta*andDaniel N Riahi, Civilizations. University of Texas-Pan American Elizabeth C. Rogers, Piedmont College (1086-76-1546) (1086-K1-2932)

9:30AM Alternative powers of decay in swirling 8:20AM The Plastic (or Silver) Number. (863) vortex solutions. Preliminary report. (872) Frode Rønning, Sør-Trøndelag University Pavel Belik, Augsburg College, Douglas College (1086-K1-929) P. Dokken, Mikhail M. Shvartsman*and 8:40AM The Gauss-Bonnet Theorem and the Kurt Scholz, University of St. Thomas, St. (873) Sydney Opera. Paul, MN (1086-76-2751) Alexander J Hahn, University of Notre Dame (1086-K1-901) 9:45AM Diffusion for Markov Wave Equations. (864) Clark Musselman*, Bard College at 9:00AM DaVinci Revisited. Simon’s Rock, and Jeffrey Schenker, (874) Susan McBurney, Western Springs, Michigan State University (1086-81-475) Illinois (1086-K1-522) 9:20AM Pascal’s Palette: Artworks Inspired by the 10:00AM Stabilizability of Coupling Controllers of (865) Waves due to Energy functional and (875) Numbers 70 and 84. Decomposition methods. Charlene Morrow, Mount Holyoke M. Najafi, Kent State University, and College (1086-K1-2788) Mohammad Moe Najafi*, Same 9:40AM Fibonacci Drawing - Exploring the beauty (1086-93-603) (876) of the Fibonacci Sequence through abstract drawing. 10:15AM Well-posedness of boundary layers in Susan Happersett, Independent Artist (866) viscoelastic flows. (1086-K1-899) Michael Renardy*, Virginia Tech, and Xiaojun Wang, Pennsylvania State 10:00AM What’s in an octave? Preliminary report. University (1086-76-2500) (877) Shirley Yap, California State University East Bay (1086-K1-2722) 10:30AM Singularities in Free interface problems 10:20AM Discovering Connections Between Modern (867) and Universality. (878) Mathematics, Music and Art. Stuart Kent*andShankar Monica VanDieren*andHeather Venkataramani, University of Arizona Pinson, Robert Morris University (1086-76-2918) (1086-K1-2269) 10:45AM Transport of Brownian particles in a 10:40AM Numbers in Music. Harmonies, Numbers, (868) curved channel confined by a periodic (879) Notes: the Values of Pythagorean School. potential. Irene Iaccarino, Music School, Crotone, Xinli Wang*, University of South Carolina Italy (1086-K1-830) Upstate, and German Drazer,Rutgers 11:00AM A Model for Arranging Melodies for The state University of New Jersey (880) Ukulele. (1086-76-2289) Christopher E Brown, California 11:00AM A new application of the reproducing Lutheran University (1086-K1-402) (869) kernel Hilbert space method to solve 11:20AM Teaching ”Mathematics in Square MHD Jeffery-Hamel flows Problem in (881) Dancing”. Preliminary report. non-parallel walls. David J Schmitz, North Central College Ali Akgul, Missouri University of Science (1086-K1-1307) and Technology (1086-34-1193) 11:40AM Mathematics and Ballet. 11:15AM Design Parameter Settings for a (882) Karl Schaffer,DeAnzaCollegeandthe (870) Physically-Realizable Uniform Dr. Schaffer and Mr. Stern Dance Temperature Boundary Condition Ensemble (1086-K1-2780) Specification on a Wall of a Cubicle Enclosure. MAA Session on Projects, Demonstrations, Perry Y.C. Lee*, Kutztown University of and Activities that Engage Liberal Arts Pennsylvania, and Wey Herng Leong, Mathematics Students, I Ryerson University (1086-80-887) 8:00 AM – 11:55 AM Room 5A, Upper Level, MAA Session on Mathematics and the Arts: San Diego Convention Center Practice, Pedagogy, and Discovery, III Organizer: Sarah Mabrouk, 8:00 AM – 11:55 AM Room 6E, Upper Level, Framingham State University San Diego Convention Center 8:00AM Developing Voting Systems on the First (883) Day: an IBL Approach. Organizer: Douglas Norton, Villanova Eric B. Kahn, Bloomsburg University University (1086-M5-538)

50 Thursday, January 10 – Program of the Sessions

8:20AM Voting Alliances: Using Politics to 8:00AM The Connection between Calibration (884) Motivate Combinatorial Counting. (895) Levels and Students’ Mathematical Christopher S Shaw, Columbia College Proficiency. Chicago (1086-M5-2946) Brian Arthur Christopher,Universityof Northern Colorado (1086-N1-1978) 8:40AM The Future of Voting: Engaging students (885) through designing voting systems. 8:20AM The Emergence of Algebraic Structure: Erin E. Bancroft, Grove City College (896) Students Come to Understand (1086-M5-1395) Zero-Divisors. 9:00AM Voting: The Intersection of Mathematics John Paul Cook, University of Science (886) & Citizen Leadership. and Arts of Oklahoma (1086-N1-1998) Jacqueline Anderson Hall, Longwood University (1086-M5-2714) 8:40AM The effect of preview video lectures using (897) Smart Board, Camtasia Studios, and 9:20AM A final project in a mathematics of (887) games class: create your own new game! Podcasting on mathematical achievement Andrew-David Bjork, Siena Heights and mathematics self-efficacy. University (1086-M5-1824) Preliminary report. Minsu Kim, University of North Georgia 9:40AM Liberal Arts Mathematics: Do It Yourself (1086-N1-517) (888) with SNAP – Simulation, Random Walks. Jerome L. Caldwell,Universityof 9:00AM Reasoning About Solutions in Linear Wisconsin - River Falls (1086-M5-1603) (898) Algebra: The Case of Abraham and the 10:00AM A Strange Attractor in the Kitchen. Invertible Matrix Theorem. (889) Rachel R. Roe-Dale,SkidmoreCollege Megan Wawro,VirginiaTech (1086-M5-1391) (1086-N1-1163)

10:20AM Little Fractal on the Prairie: a study of 9:20AM Role of Instructor Prompts in Reinvention (890) fractal dimension. (899) of Sequence Convergence Deﬁnition. Andrea N Young, Ripon College Preliminary report. (1086-M5-877) Jungeun Park*, University of Delware, 10:40AM Bringing Mathematics to Life through and Jason Martin, University of Central (891) Dialogue Based Activities and Arkansas (1086-N1-2794) Manipulatives. James C. Price,FortSmith 9:40AM A Characterization of the Cognitive (1086-M5-1256) (900) Demand of Calculus I Final Exams in U.S. Colleges and Universities. 11:00AM Is it logical? Exploring the validity of Michael A. Tallman*andMarilyn P. (892) arguments. Carlson, Arizona State University J. Christopher Tweddle,Universityof (1086-N1-1420) Evansville (1086-M5-2021)

11:20AM Using JobQuests as a Capstone Project 10:00AM Students’ Ways of Thinking about (893) for Statistics in a Liberal Arts (901) Solution Sets Envisioned as Unions of Mathematics Course. Subsets and Their Relation to Over Brian P. Beaudrie,NorthernArizona Counting in Combinatorics. University (1086-M5-2364) Aviva Halani, Arizona State University (1086-N1-1465) 11:40AM Projects for liberal arts majors (894) explaining the concept of limit in 10:20AM Mathematicians Reading Mathematics—A probability problems simulated on the (902) View of the Experts. TI-84 calculator. Mary D Shepherd, Northwest Missouri Patricia Baggett*, New Mexico State State University (1086-N1-1214) University, and Andrzej Ehrenfeucht, Computer Science Dept, University of 10:40AM Conventions and Mathematical Colorado (1086-M5-1896) (903) Meaning—An Exploration Through Functions and Inverses. MAA Session on Research on the Teaching Stacy M. Musgrave*, University of andLearningofUndergraduate Georgia, and Kevin C. Moore,University Mathematics, II of Georgia, Department of Mathematics and Science Education (1086-N1-2734) 8:00 AM – NOON Room 3, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center 11:00AM Students’ Differing Experiences in (904) Calculus I. Organizers: Kyeong Hah Roh,Arizona Jessica Ellis*, UCSD/ SDSU, and Chris State University Rasmussen, SDSU (1086-N1-676) Stacy Brown, Pitzer College 11:20AM TALK ADDED: A model of students’ Mike Oehrtman,University combinatorial thinking, Elise Lockwood, of Northern Colorado Portland State University.

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MAA Session on Student Success in 9:00AM Mentoring Mathematics and Science Quantitative Reasoning, I (913) Majors in Applying Mathematics. Frederick A. Adkins*andYu-Ju Kuo, 8:00 AM –9:15AM Room 11B, Upper Level, Indiana University of Pennsylvania (1086-VA-2767) San Diego Convention Center

Organizer: Ray Collings,Georgia MAA General Contributed Paper Session: Perimeter College Research in Geometry and Linear Algebra

8:00AM Project Inﬁnity, A Preliminary Report. 8:00 AM – 12:10 PM Room 7A, Upper Level, (905) Ray E. Collings, Georgia Perimeter San Diego Convention Center College (1086-P1-2960) Organizers: Stephen Davis,Davidson 8:20AM Mathematics for the Liberal Arts, an (906) Interdisciplinary Approach. College AAl-Hasan, Newberry College Gizem Karaali, Pomona (1086-P1-2061) College

8:40AM A Liberal Arts Quantitative Literacy Douglas Norton, Villanova (907) Seminar Becomes an Institutional University Research Team. Preliminary report. Moderators: Andrew Klimas,Xavier Jennifer A. Bruce, Maryville College University of Louisiana (1086-P1-2346) Judith Silver, Marshall 9:00AM Teaching Multiple linear regression to University (908) business students. 8:00AM Ritz values of normal matrices and Aldo R Maldonado,ParkUniversity (914) Ceva’s theorem. (1086-P1-2157) Russell Lee Carden*andDerek J Hansen, Rice University (1086-VM-1838) MAA General Contributed Paper Session: 8:15AM The probability of choosing a valid Assessment and Outreach (915) correlation matrix. Preliminary report. S. Eastman, Armstrong Atlantic State 8:00 AM –9:10AM Room 33A, Upper Level, University (1086-VM-1587) San Diego Convention Center 8:30AM Spectrally Arbitrary Zero-Nonzero (916) Patterns and the Nilpotent Jacobian Organizers: Stephen Davis,Davidson Method. College Timothy C Melvin, Washington State Gizem Karaali, Pomona University (1086-VM-2706) College 8:45AM Conics in Extended Taxicab Geometry. Douglas Norton, Villanova (917) Hope K Snyder*andRoman Wong, University Washington & Jefferson College (1086-VM-1899) Moderator: Angela Vierling-Claassen, 9:00AM Extremals and Faces of the Lesley University (918) Completely Positive and Positive 8:00AM Assessing the Reliability and Precision of Semidefinite-Preserving Cones. (909) the Visual Analog and Likert Response Andrew J. Klimas, Xavier University of Scales in a Measurement of Statistical Louisiana (1086-VM-657) Anxiety in Undergraduate Students. 9:15AM Fregier Families of Conics. Karen Traxler*andSoofia Malik, (919) Michael Woltermann, Washington and University of Northern Colorado Jefferson College (1086-VM-567) (1086-VA-624) 9:30AM Conics on a Sphere. 8:15AM Using fuzzy logic methods for assessing (920) Judith A. Silver*, Anna Mummert, (910) student learning outcome in a Donald W. Silver and Leah Treadaway mathematics course. Billo, Marshall University (1086-VM-487) Jalalidin Jaenbai, Rogers State University 9:45AM Surface-area-minimizing n-hedral tiles. (1086-VA-2756) (921) Preliminary report. 8:30AM An Assessment of Math Proficiency Steven Waruhiu,theUniversityof (911) Among High School Students Using the Chicago (1086-VM-379) AMC Tests. 10:00AM Angle constructability on lattices Josaphat A. Uvah*andKuiyuan Li, (922) generated by different quadrilaterals. University of West Florida, Pensacola, Julianne Teng, Rosemead, CA Florida (1086-VA-1198) (1086-VM-528) 8:45AM The Danger of Narrow Calculus 10:15AM The parbelos, a parabolic analog of the (912) Assessments and How to Broaden Them. (923) arbelos. John Gruver, San Diego State University Jonathan Sondow,NewYork,NY and UC San Deigo (1086-VA-2664) (1086-VM-1653)

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10:30AM Plane Geometry and Complex Numbers. 9:00AM Cartesian powers of graphs and (924) Marc Chamberland, Grinnell College (935) consecutive radio labelings. (1086-VM-2399) Amanda J Watkins Niedzialomski, 10:45AM Rolling down the hill from convex hull to University of Iowa (1086-VN-2632) (925) closure. Preliminary report. 9:15AM Isoperimetric Inequalities for Directed Joshua Kaminsky, Saint Mary’s College (936) Graphs. of Maryland (1086-VM-2730) Franklin Hardin Jones Kenter*andFan 11:00AM Abstract Affine Programming and Chung, University of California, San (926) Generalized Tucker Tableaux - Diego (1086-VN-2702) Preliminary Report. Preliminary report. 9:30AM On Algebraically Defined Graphs and Tien Chih, University of Montana (1086-VM-2487) (937) Generalized Quadrangles. Brian G Kronenthal,Universityof 11:15AM From the Fermat point to a Delaware (1086-VN-721) (927) generalization and some applications. Michael de Villiers,Universityof 9:45AM On the Erdos-S˝ os´ Conjecture and graphs KwaZulu-Natal (1086-VM-2220) (938) without a Pk+4. Gary F. Tiner*, Faulkner University, and 11:30AM Uniformly Distributed Sequences. (928) Preliminary report. Nancy Eaton, University of Rhode Island Thomas M McKenzie,Gonzaga (1086-VN-2203) University (1086-VM-988) 10:00AM Topos Axioms and the Categories of 11:45AM Riemannian submersion and Lagrangian (939) Graphs. (929) isometric immersion. Demitri J. Plessas,TheUniversityof Yun Myung Oh,AndrewsUniversity Montana (1086-VN-2385) (1086-VM-834) 10:15AM The 1-relaxed game chromatic number of NOON Polyhedral differential geometry. (940) complete multipartite semi-Hamiltonian (930) Preliminary report. graphs. Alan Durfee, Mount Holyoke College John Portin*, Linfield College, Alexander (1086-VM-827) Sistko, Bradley University, Luke Naftz, Colorado State University, Tyler Hays, MAA General Contributed Paper Berklee University, Nino Barrett, Session: Research in Graph Theory and Rochester College, Susan Rufai, Combinatorics, II McMinnville High School, Jennifer Firkins-Nordstrom and Chuck Dunn, 8:00 AM – 11:55 AM Room 33C, Upper Level, Linfield College (1086-VN-2184) San Diego Convention Center 10:30AM Sprague-Grundy Numbers for Nim on Organizers: Stephen Davis,Davidson (941) Graphs. College Janine E. Janoski*, King’s College, Neil J. , Clemson University, Gizem Karaali, Pomona Calkin Allison , Appalachian State University, College Nelson Sydney Ryan, Grinnell College, and Douglas Norton, Villanova Chao Xu, Stony Brook University University (1086-VN-2115) Moderators: Eric Gottlieb,Rhodes College 10:45AM A new lower bound for a variation of (942) Cops and Robber on the hypercube, with Feryal Alayont,Grand an application to Graph Searching. Valley State University David Offner*, Westminster College, and 8:00AM Equilaterally k-Isotoxal Tiles. Preliminary Kerry Ojakian, Bronx Community (931) report. College (CUNY) (1086-VN-2137) Casey Mann*andAli Chick, The University of Texas at Tyler 11:00AM Total Efficient Dominating Sets in Cayley (1086-VN-1750) (943) Graphs of Dihedral Groups. Mari F Castle*, Joe DeMaio and Keegan 8:15AM Moveable Firefighters in the Firefighter Gary, Kennesaw State University (932) Problem. (1086-VN-2171) Daniel P Biebighauser,Concordia College, Moorhead (1086-VN-816) 11:15AM Total Efficient Dominating Sets in Cayley 8:30AM Optimized Routing of Unmanned Aerial (944) Graphs of Finite Abelian Groups. (933) Systems to Address Informational Gaps Hollis Brewer*, Mari F. Castle and Joe in Counterinsurgency. DeMaio, Kennesaw State University Andrew C Lee, United States Military (1086-VN-2175) Academy (1086-VN-2564) 11:30AM Downhill Domination Numbers of Graphs. 8:45AM Distribution of distances under the (945) Jessie A. Deering*, Teresa W. Haynes, (934) Double Cut and Join model of genome East Tennessee State University, Stephen rearrangement. T. Hedetniemi, Clemson University, and Manda Riehl, University of Wisconsin-Eau William Jamieson, East Tennessee State Claire (1086-VN-1956) University (1086-VN-2900)

53 Program of the Sessions – Thursday, January 10 (cont’d.)

11:45AM Uphill Domination in Graphs. 8:45AM The Chermak-Delgado Lattice of a Finite (946) William B Jamieson*, Jessie Deering, (954) Group. Teresa Haynes, East Tennessee State Elizabeth Wilcox, Colgate University University, and Stephen Hedetniemi, (1086-20-1941) Clemson University (1086-VN-2902) 9:00AM Loops categorically isomorphic to Bruck SIAM Minisymposium on Modeling Across the (955) loops. Curriculum: Bringing Relevance to Middle, Mark B. Greer, University of Denver (1086-20-2001) High School and Early Undergraduate Math Experiences 9:15AM Computations for Coxeter arrangements (956) and Solomon’s descent algebra. 8:00 AM –10:25AM Room 11A, Upper Level, Marcus Bishop, Ruhr University Bochum, San Diego Convention Center Germany (1086-20-471)

Organizers: Ron Buckmire,National 9:30AM Algebras associated to finite Coxeter Science Foundation (957) groups. Colleen Duffy, University of Wisconsin - Peter Turner,Clarkson Eau Claire (1086-16-2572) University 9:45AM Coxeter groups, palindromic Poincaré 8:00AM SIAM NSF Workshop on Modeling across (958) polynomials and triangle group (947) the Curriculum. avoidance. Preliminary report. Peter R. Turner, Clarkson University Edward L Richmond*, University (1086-97-2249) of British Columbia, and William 8:30AM Coursework and Programs in Applied Slofstra, University of California - Davis (948) and Computational Mathematics at the (1086-05-229) University Level. Preliminary report. 10:00AM The Reduction Map for the Moduli Jeffrey Humphreys*, Brigham Young (959) Spaces of Weighted Stable Hyperplane University, and Robert M. Panoff,Shodor Arrangements. Preliminary report. (1086-65-2987) Jaeho Shin, The University of Georgia 9:00AM Coursework in Applied and (1086-14-2687) (949) Computational Mathematics at the High School Level. Preliminary report. 10:15AM Path tableaux and Hecke algebra Katherine Socha,MathforAmerica (960) characters. (1086-97-2504) Brittany Shelton*andMark Skandera, Lehigh University (1086-05-440) 9:30AM Reflections on Modeling based on the (950) MAA National Survey of Calculus. 10:30AM Divided difference operator on highest Preliminary report. (961) root Hessenberg varieties. Preliminary David Bressoud, Macalester College report. (1086-97-2305) Nicholas Teff,UniversityofIowa (1086-05-2977) 10:00AM Discussion on the SIAM-NSF Workshop (951) Report and next steps. Preliminary report. 10:45AM On the Structure of Automorphisms and Ron Buckmire, National Science (962) Symmetric Spaces of Dicyclic Groups. Foundation (1086-97-2993) Preliminary report. A. Bishop*, B. Turner, N. Schwartz, Employment Center J. Hutchens, North Carolina State University, C. Cyr, University of Florida, 8:00 AM –6:00PM Exhibit Hall A, Ground and S. Kamholtz,UniversityofOregon Level, San Diego Convention Center (1086-20-2390)

11:00AM Duoprisms: Polytope Numbers and AMS Session on Combinatorics and Finite (963) Multiplication. Preliminary report. Groups Eric Fairchild*, Robin Mabe and Emma Polaski, Grove City College 8:15 AM – 11:40 AM Room 19, Mezzanine (1086-05-2100) Level, San Diego Convention Center 11:15AM Expanded Simplices and Polytope 8:15AM A group of class 2 and prime exponent is (964) Numbers. Preliminary report. (952) capable if its commutator subgroup is Robin Mabe*, Eric Fairchild and sufﬁciently large. Emma Polaski, Grove City College Arturo Magidin, University of Louisiana (1086-05-2102) at Lafayette (1086-20-125) 11:30AM Higher Order Rectiﬁcation: Polytope 8:30AM On Two Classes of Finite Inseparable (965) Numbers and Cutting. Preliminary report. (953) p-Groups. Preliminary report. Emma Polaski*, Eric Fairchild and Joseph Kirtland, Marist College Robin Mabe, Grove City College (1086-20-118) (1086-05-2106)

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AMS Session on Numerical Methods and 11:00AM Solving an Ill Conditioned Linear System Inverse, Optimization, and Variational (977) using the Extended Iterative Refinement Problems Algorithm: The Convergence Theorem. Abdramane Serme*andJean W. 8:15 AM – 11:55 AM Room 30B, Upper Level, Richard, The City University of New York San Diego Convention Center (CUNY/BMCC) (1086-65-2748) 11:15AM Extragradient Methods for Inverse 8:15AM Inverse boundary and source problem for (978) Problems. Preliminary report. (966) fractional diffusion equations. Selin Sariaydin*andBaasansuren Lihua Zuo*, Texas A&M University, Xu, Jadamba, Rochester Institute of Michigan State University, and Rundell, Technology (1086-65-2431) Texas A&M University (1086-35-586) 11:30AM A multi-level projected steepest descent 8:30AM Sparse texture patterns and solution to (979) iteration for nonlinear inverse problems (967) PDE. in Banach spaces subject to stability Hayden Schaeffer*andStanley Osher, constraints. University of California, Los Angeles Maarten de Hoop, Lingyun Qiu*, Purdue (1086-49-2463) University, and Otmar Scherzer, Computational Science Center, University 8:45AM Nonlocal speckle denoising models of Vienna, Austria (1086-65-2637) (968) based on total variation minimization. Preliminary report. 11:45AM On extremum problem with constraints Arundhati Bagchi Misra*, Saginaw (980) for discrete inclusions. Valley State University, and Hyeona Hijran Mirzayeva, School of Science, Lim, Mississippi State University Information Technology & Engineering, (1086-65-422) University of Ballarat (1086-49-1186) 9:00AM Computing 3D Rotations for Computer AMS Session on Geometry and Differential (969) Graphics. and Hyperbolic Geometry Paul R Bouthellier,Universityof Pittsburgh-Titusville (1086-65-152) 8:30 AM – 11:40 AM Room 31B, Upper Level, 9:15AM Spectrally Matched Grids: Anisotropy and San Diego Convention Center (970) Semi-Infinite Spectral Intervals. Adnan H Sabuwala, California State 8:30AM The Coarse Geometry of the Kakimizu University, Fresno (1086-65-2566) (981) Complex. Preliminary report. Roberto C Pelayo*, University of Hawaii 9:30AM Optimal Control of Neutral Functional at Hilo, Jesse Johnson, Oklahoma State (971) Differential Inclusions. University, and Robin Wilson, California Lianwen Wang,UniversityofCentral State Polytechnic University, Pomona Missouri (1086-49-925) (1086-57-1694) 9:45AM Optimization of classifiers’ parameters 8:45AM Isotopy Convergence Theorem. (972) based on pso/sa algorithms for (982) Ji Li, University of Connecticut classification of fMRI data. (1086-57-926) Mahdi Zarei*andHijran Mirzayeva, 9:00AM Finding Formulas for the Complexity of School of Science, Information (983) Riemann Surfaces. Technology & Engineering University of Aldo-Hilario Cruz-Cota*, DePaul Ballarat (1086-49-1194) University, and Teresita Ramirez-Rosas, 10:00AM Regularization for Second Order Chicago, IL (1086-57-2182) (973) Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equation 9:15AM Desargues’ Theorem in Laguerre Planes. with Neumann Bounday Condition. (984) Robert D. Knight,Ohio Narayan Thapa, Minot State University, University-Chillicothe (1086-51-2785) Minot, ND (1086-49-411) 9:30AM Asymptotically small pseudo-Anosov 10:15AM Solution of Variational Problems by using (985) sequences. (974) a Hybrid Functions Approximation. Aaron D Valdivia, Florida Southern Mohsen Razzaghi, Mississippi State College (1086-51-1850) University (1086-49-633) 9:45AM New Asymptotica in Snell Geometries. 10:30AM Oscillation-Free Stability Analysis (986) JMealy, Austin College (1086-51-377) (975) for Linear and Semilinear Diffusion 10:00AM Legendrian θ−graphs. Equations. (987) Danielle O’Donnol*, Imperial College R. C. Harwood*, George Fox University, London, and Elena Pavelescu,Oklahoma and V. S. Manoranjan, Washington State State University (1086-57-159) University (1086-65-2478) 10:15AM The topology of a subspace of the 10:45AM Trigonometrically-fitted block hybrid (988) Legendrian curves in a closed contact (976) second derivative algorithm for 3-manifold. Preliminary report. oscillatory problems. Abbas Bahri, Ali Maalaoui*, Rutgers Fidele F Ngwane*, USC Salkehatchie, and University, and Vittorio Martino, Sissa Samuel N Jator, Austin Peay State International School for Advanced University (1086-65-680) Studies (1086-53-985)

55 Program of the Sessions – Thursday, January 10 (cont’d.)

10:30AM Chern-Simons classes and the Ricci flow 9:45AM An Integrated Fuzzy Production Model (989) on 3-manifolds. (998) with shortages Under Two Warehouses. Christopher R Godbout, Ursinus College Shiv Raj Singh, Department of (1086-53-570) Mathematics, D.N. College, Meerut, UP,India (1086-VG-114) 10:45AM Conformal diffeomorphisms of gradient (990) Ricci solitons and generalized 10:00AM Application of Intuitionistic Fuzzy Set and quasi-Einstein manifolds. (999) Fuzzy Set in Medical Diagnosis. Jeffrey Jauregui*, University of Satyajit Das and Debashree Guha*, Pennsylvania, and William Wylie, Indian Institute of Technology Syracuse University (1086-53-1966) Patna, Patna, Bihar-800013, India (1086-VG-2261) 11:00AM TALK CANCELLED: The Geometry of (991) Space-Time-Matter. 10:15AM Theoretical model for metabolic blood David E Betounes,UniversityofTexasof (1000) flow regulation in a heterogeneous the Permian Basin (1086-53-1254) microvascular network. Brendan C. Fry*andTimothy W. 11:15AM Area growth of surfaces with bounded Secomb, University of Arizona (992) mean curvature. (1086-VG-1620) Dechang Chen,Universityof Massachusetts Amherst (1086-53-1972) 10:30AM A Mathematical Model of Denitrification (1001) Metabolic Network in Pseudomonas 11:30AM Probability Theory of Random Polygons aeruginosa. (993) from the Quaternionic Viewpoint. Seda Arat*, Department of Mathematics Jason Cantarella, University of Georgia, and Virginia Bioinformatics Tetsuo Deguchi,Ochanomizu Institute/Virginia Tech, George University, and Clayton Shonkwiler*, Bullerjahn, Department of Biology and University of Georgia (1086-53-1892) Center for Photochemical Sciences, Bowling Green State University, and MAA General Contributed Paper Session: Reinhard Laubenbacher, Department of Modeling and Applications of Mathematics, I Mathematics and Virginia Bioinformatics Institute/Virginia Tech (1086-VG-1071) 8:45 AM – 11:55 AM Room 33B, Upper Level, 10:45AM TALK CANCELLED: Numerical Simulations San Diego Convention Center (1002) of a Multiphase Model for Biofilm Development. Organizers: Stephen Davis,Davidson Mark E Whidden, Florida State University College (1086-VG-2069) Gizem Karaali, Pomona 11:00AM On coarse-grained Normal Mode Analysis College (1003) and refined Gaussian Network Model for Douglas Norton, Villanova protein structure fluctuations. University Jun-Koo Park, Houghton College Moderator: John Diamantopoulos, (1086-VG-2351) Northeastern State 11:15AM Ultrasensitivity for Graded Multisite University (1004) Activation Networks. Shane Ryerson*andGerman Enciso, 8:45AM The Sequence Reconstruction Problem as University of California, Irvine (994) an Integer Programming Problem. (1086-VG-2976) Preliminary report. Angela Angeleska*, The University of 11:30AM Action Potentials in Peripheral Auditory Tampa, Sabrina Kleessen and Zoran (1005) Nervous System: A Novel PDE Nikoloski, Max-Planck Institute of Distribution Model. Preliminary report. Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam, Rebecca Gasper,TheUniversityofIowa Germany (1086-VG-1358) (1086-VG-415)

9:00AM Breakup of an extending particle-laden 11:45AM Stochastic switching and alternating (995) liquid jet. (1006) activity bouts resulting from mutual Muhammad Irfan Hameed,Universityof inhibition and applications to sleep-wake South Carolina Upstate (1086-VG-2262) cycling in mammals. Badal Joshi*, University of Minnesota, 9:15AM Stability of the homeotropic orientation and Mainak Patel, Duke University (996) in the optical Fredericks transition of a (1086-VG-864) liquid crystal layer. Eric P. Choate, Naval Postgraduate MAA Invited Address School (1086-VG-2455)

9:30AM Clustering Methods to Detect Gas Plumes 9:00 AM –9:50AM Room 6AB, Upper Level, (997) in Hyperspectral Images. Preliminary San Diego Convention Center report. Justin Y Sunu and Torin A Gerhart*, (1007) Thinking linearly about data. California State University Long Beach Timothy Chartier, Davidson College (1086-VG-2695) (1086-A0-13)

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MAA Minicourse #8: Part A 10:00AM Mathematics and the Law: Recruiting (1011) from the Social Sciences. 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Room 29D, Mezzanine Jeff Suzuki, Brooklyn College Level, San Diego Convention Center (1086-H1-1049) 10:20AM Math Trails Across Your Campus. Getting students involved in (1012) Lee J Fothergill and Mike Daven*, undergraduate research. Mount Saint Mary College Presenters: Aparna Higgins,University (1086-H1-1247) of Dayton 10:40AM Are Numbers Real? – a First Year Joseph Gallian,University (1013) Seminar. Preliminary report. of Minnesota Duluth Edwin P Herman,Universityof Wisconsin-Stevens Point (1086-H1-2379) MAA Minicourse #1: Part A 11:00AM Inspiring Mathematical Interest through (1014) Interdisciplinary Projects. 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Room 29C, Mezzanine Sheila K Miller, City University of Level, San Diego Convention Center New York: New York City College of Technology (1086-H1-2860) Heavenly mathematics: The forgotten art 11:20AM Experimental Mathematics for the First of spherical trigonometry. (1015) Year Student. Presenters: Glen Van Brummelen, David A. Brown, Ithaca College Quest University (1086-H1-549) Joel Silverberg,Roger 11:40AM Mathematical Problem-Solving and Williams University (1016) Algorithmic Thinking. Edmund A. Lamagna,Universityof MAA Minicourse #13: Part A Rhode Island (1086-H1-2027) MAA-YMN Panel Discussion 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Room 30A, Upper Level,

San Diego Convention Center 9:00 AM –10:20AM Room 1A, Upper Level, Problem-based courses for teachers, San Diego Convention Center future teachers, and math majors. Career options for undergraduate Presenters: Gail Burrill, Michigan State mathematics majors. University Organizers: Nyles Breecher,Brigham Darryl Yong, Harvey Mudd Young University College Allison Oldham, William Bowen Kerins, Education and Mary University Development Center Panelists: Michael Dorff,Brigham James King,Universityof Young University Washington MAA Committee on the Participation of MAA Session on Innovative Ideas for Courses Women Poster Session in the First Two Years, III 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Exhibit Hall B2, Ground Level, San Diego Convention Center 9:00 AM – 11:55 AM Room 5B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center Mathematical outreach programs. Organizer: Andrew Granville Bennett, MAA Subcommittee on Research by Kansas State University Undergraduates Panel Discussion 9:00AM New Educational Program in (1008) Mathematics for STEM Majors, Part I. 9:00 AM –10:20AM Room 1B, Upper Level, Preliminary report. San Diego Convention Center Andrew Bucki*andAbebaw Tadesse, Langston University (1086-H1-1738) The beneﬁts of research with undergraduates for faculty. 9:20AM Exploratory Projects in an Introduction to Organizers: Steven Schlicker,Grand (1009) Discrete Mathematics Course. Valley State University Debra Hydorn,UniversityofMary Washington (1086-H1-1980) Zsuzsanna Zsaniszlo, Valparaiso University 9:40AM Strengthening data analysis knowledge (1010) and skills through practice. Preliminary Panelists: Edward Aboufadel,Grand report. Valley State University Charles Bergeron*, Lisa Morkowchuk David Carothers,James and David Clarke, Albany College Madison University of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Dennis Davenport,Howard (1086-H1-2406) University

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Michael Dorff,Brigham 10:00AM An Empirical Likelihood Ratio Based Young University (1019) Goodness-of-Fit Test for Skew Normal Distributions. , California Cynthia Wyels Grace Ngunkeng*andWei Ning, State University, Channel Bowling Green State University Islands (1086-VI-1299) MAA Session for Chairs 10:15AM Adaptive Design for Non-Stationary (1020) Surfaces Using Changes in Slope. Marian Frazier*andWilliam I. Notz,The 9:00 AM –10:20AM Room 4, Upper Level, Ohio State University (1086-VI-1068) San Diego Convention Center 10:30AM Finite Priority Queueing System with The transition from high school to college (1021) Service Interruption. mathematics. Madhu Jain, IIT Roorkee, Haridwar, India (1086-VI-500) Organizers: Daniel Maki, Macalester College 10:45AM Reliability of a two class k-out-of-n (1022) system with repair. Catherine M. Murphy, George Dr Mytalas*, New York, NY, and Purdue University Calumet Michael Dr Zazanis, Department of Statistics Athens University of Economics Panelists: David Bressoud, Macalester and Business (1086-VI-1608) College 11:00AM The Power Law, or: Just Your Everyday Bernard Madison, (1023) 25-sigma Event... University of Arkansas Andrew Niedermaier, Jane Street Capital (1086-VI-95) Student Hospitality/Information Center AMS Special Presentation 9:00 AM –5:00PM Exhibit Hall B2, Ground Level, San Diego Convention Center 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM Room 6F, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center Summer Program for Women in Mathematics (SPWM) Reunion Who wants to be a mathematician—National contest.

9:00 AM – NOON Room 10, Upper Level, Organizers: Mike A. Breen,AMS San Diego Convention Center William T. Butterworth, DePaul University MAA General Contributed Paper Session: Probability and Statistics, III Exhibits and Book Sales

9:30 AM – 11:10 AM Room 33A, Upper Level, 9:30 AM –5:30PM Exhibit Hall B1, Ground San Diego Convention Center Level, San Diego Convention Center

Organizers: Stephen Davis,Davidson MAA Session on Learning Centers: Problems College and Creative Solutions Gizem Karaali, Pomona College 10:00 AM – 11:55 AM Room 11B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center Douglas Norton, Villanova University Organizers: James M. Sobota,University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Moderator: Kimberly Presser, Shippensburg University Karoline Auby,Universityof Wisconsin-La Crosse 9:30AM 2ϕ + 1 and Fibonacci Sequence. (1017) Arulalan M. Rajan*, Vittal Rao,Centre Maighread McHugh, for Electronics Design and Technology, University of Wisconsin-La Indian Institute of Science, HS Crosse Jamadagni, Centre for Electronics Design 10:00AM Integration of a Math Tutoring Center and Technology, Indian Institue of (1024) with the Toys’n MORE Program. Science, and Ashok Rao,Mysore, Gina Monks, Penn State Hazleton Karnataka, India (1086-VI-1520) (1086-J1-806) 9:45AM Exponentiated Weibull-Exponential 10:20AM Thoughts and Experiences of a Faculty (1018) Distribution: Some Properties and (1025) Member in the Tutoring Center. Applications. Preliminary report. Ahmad M. Alzaghal, Central Michigan Joseph P McCollum*andYu Sun,Siena University (1086-VI-1434) College (1086-J1-1415)

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10:40AM Supporting Undergraduates’ Growth as MAA Workshop (1026) Effective Peer Tutors: What We’ve Tried, and What We’ve Learned. 10:35 AM – 11:55 AM Room 1A, Upper Level, Sarah L. Marsh*, Shannon M. Griffith San Diego Convention Center and Krista B. Hands, Oklahoma Baptist University (1086-J1-1451) Proposal writing for grant applications to the NSF Division of Undergraduate 11:00AM Engaging Faculty in Your Learning Education. (1027) Center. Presenters: Michael Jacobson, Division Kathy J Willis,SouthernNHUniversity of Undergraduate Education, (1086-J1-2145) National Science Foundation Ron Buckmire, Division of 11:20AM A Learning Center: Of the Students, Undergraduate Education, (1028) By the Students, For the Students. National Science Foundation Preliminary report. Maggie L. McHugh,Universityof Lee Zia, Division of Wisconsin-La Crosse (1086-J1-1985) Undergraduate Education, National Science Foundation 11:40AM A New Tutoring Center: Challenges, (1029) Opportunities, and Surprises. MAA-YMN Panel Discussion Mary B. O’Neill, Hamilton College (1086-J1-2602) 10:35 AM – 11:55 AM Room 1B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center AWM Noether Lecture The on-campus interview survival guide. Organizers: Nick Scoville, San Francisco 10:05 AM –10:55AM Room 6AB, Upper State University Level, San Diego Convention Center Jacob White,ArizonaState University (1030) A Hasse principle for quadratic forms Panelists: Sheldon Axler,San over function fields. Francisco State University Raman Parimala,EmoryUniversity Jeremy Martin,Universityof SIGMAA Officers Meeting Kansas Kristine Roinestad, Georgetown College 10:30 AM – NOON Marina Ballroom Francis Su, Harvey Mudd D, 3rd Floor, Marriott College

Chair: Amy Shell-Gellasch, Hood SIAM Invited Address College 11:10 AM – NOON Room 6AB, Upper Level, SIGMAA on Statistics Education Panel San Diego Convention Center Discussion (1031) Inverse problems with minimal interior measurements. 10:35 AM – 11:55 AM Room 4, Upper Level, Adrian I. Nachman,Universityof San Diego Convention Center Toronto (1086-35-163)

Creating and growing an applied AMS Colloquium Lectures: Lecture II statistics minor program. 1:00 PM –2:00PM Room 6AB, Upper Level, Organizer: K. Scott Alberts,Truman San Diego Convention Center State University (1032) Free probability, Random matrices, and Moderator: Lisa Carnell,HighPoint map enumeration, II. University Alice Guionnet,EcoleNormale Sup´erieure de Lyon (1086-05-16) Panelists: Robin Lock,St.Lawrence University AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research in Mathematics by Undergraduates and Daniel Kaplan, Macalester Students in Post-Baccalaureate Programs, I College 1:00 PM –3:50PM Room 8, Upper Level, David Nelson,Mercer San Diego Convention Center University Organizers: Bernard Brooks,Rochester K. Scott Alberts Institute of Technology

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Jobby Jacob,Rochester 2:00PM Models for creating dialogue between Institute of Technology (1041) mathematics and science teachers about Jacqueline Jensen-Vallin, the Common Core Standards and the Slippery Rock University Next Generation Science Standards. David Jabon*andCarolyn Narasimhan, Carl V. Lutzer,Rochester DePaul University (1086-97-2511) Institute of Technology 2:30PM Scientific practices in the Next Generation Darren Narayan,Rochester (1042) Science Standards. Preliminary report. Institute of Technology Helen Quinn, SLAC (1086-97-2966) Tamas Wiandt,Rochester 3:00PM Standards for practice in the Institute of Technology (1043) mathematics and science standards: a 1:00PM On the Coarse Geometry of Lp: A Coarse discussion. Preliminary report. (1033) Equivalence. William McCallum*, The University Phanuel A. Mariano,Western of Arizona, David Jabon, Carolyn Connecticut State University Narasimhan, DePaul University, Al (1086-28-24) Cuoco,EDC,andHelen Quinn,Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (1086-97-2938) 1:30PM Ramsey Numbers R(C4,Kn), a Survey. (1034) Quinn Donahoe*, Pennsylvania State University, and Jeremy Fehr,Wesleyan AMS Special Session on Algorithmic University (1086-05-178) Problems of Group Theory and Their 2:00PM Lang-Kobayashi. Complexity, II (1035) Ryan Mulcahy*, Augsburg College, and Christiana Sabett, St. Mary’s College of 1:00 PM –3:50PM Room 15A, Mezzanine Maryland (1086-37-140) Level, San Diego Convention Center 2:30PM Rank numbers of graphs that are Organizers: Delaram Kahrobaei,CUNY (1036) combinations of paths and cycles. Graduate Center and New Brianna Blake*, Augsburg College, and York College of Technology, Elizabeth Field, Southern Connecticut City University of New York State University (1086-05-144) Vladimir Shpilrain,City 3:00PM Efficiency of the Atlanta subway network College of New York and (1037) and functional connectivity of the human CUNY Graduate Center, City brain. University of New York Bryan Ek*, Rochester Institute of 1:00PM Aspherical groups and manifolds with Technology, and Caitlin VerSchneider, (1044) extreme properties. Nazareth College (1086-05-142) Markj Sapir, Nashville (1086-20-1207) 3:30PM Community Detection by Maximizing 2:00PM Relative Subgroup Growth and Subgroup (1038) Partition Efficiency. (1045) Distortion. Preliminary report. Maggie Miller*, University of Texas, and Tara C Davis*, Hawaii Pacific University, Brendan Shah, Rochester Institute of and , Technology (1086-05-141) Alexander Yu. Olshanskii Vanderbilt University (1086-20-2034) AMS-MAA Special Session on Mathematics 2:30PM Conjugacy Growth in Finitely Generated and Education Reform, I (1046) Groups. Michael Hull, Vanderbilt University 1:00 PM –3:45PM Room 17B, Mezzanine (1086-20-1261) Level, San Diego Convention Center 3:00PM Synchronizing groups: a survey. (1047) Preliminary report. Organizers: William Barker,Bowdoin Benjamin Steinberg, City College of New College York (1086-20-1654) Cathy Kessel,Berkeley, 3:30PM An Extension of a Theorem by B. California (1048) Baumslag. William McCallum, Gerhard Rosenberger*, University of University of Arizona Hamburg, Laura Ciobanu,Universityof Fribourg, Switzerland, and Benjamin Bonnie Saunders,University Fine, Fairfield University (1086-20-138) of Illinois, Chicago 1:00PM Integrating the CCSS practice standards AMS Special Session on Arithmetic Statistics, (1039) into mathematics teaching. Preliminary II (a Mathematics Research Communities report. session) William McCallum,TheUniversityof Arizona (1086-97-2909) 1:00 PM –3:50PM Room 31A, Upper Level, 1:30PM High School Teaching: standards, San Diego Convention Center (1040) practices, and habits of mind. Al Cuoco, Center for Mathematics Organizers: Kevin McGown, Ursinus Education, EDC (1086-97-1208) College

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Jennifer Balakrishnan, 3:30PM The represented values of a positive Harvard University (1060) definite quaternary quadratic form. Ethan Smith,Liberty Preliminary report. University David Leep,UniversityofKentucky (1086-11-1627) 1:00PM Correlations of Fractional Parts of (1049) Dilated Harmonic Sequences. AMS Special Session on Continued Fractions, Jeffrey C. Lagarias*, University of I Michigan, Ann Arbor, and David Montague, Stanford University (1086-11-1475) 1:00 PM –3:50PM Room 31B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center 1:30PM Periods of orbits modulo primes. (1050) Amir Akbary, University of Lethbridge Organizers: James McLaughlin,West (1086-11-1622) Chester University 2:00PM An alternative view of primitivity of Nancy J. Wyshinski,Trinity (1051) Dirichlet characters. College Nathan Jones*, University of Mississippi, and Ryan Daileda, Trinity University 1:00PM Continued Fractions Converge with (1086-11-2503) (1061) Probability One. Lisa Lorentzen, Norwegian University of 2:30PM The smallest prime with a given splitting Science and Technology, Trondheim (1052) type in an abelian number field. (1086-40-1515) Paul Pollack, University of Georgia (1086-11-1634) 1:30PM Symmetry in the Sequence of (1062) Approximation Coefficients. 3:00PM The Burgess inequality and the least k-th Avraham Bourla, St. Mary’s College of (1053) power non-residue. Maryland (1086-11-455) Enrique Trevino˜ , Swarthmore College (1086-11-923) 2:00PM A Favard type theorem associated with (1063) orthogonal polynomials on the unit 3:30PM Some statistical problems concerning circle. Preliminary report. (1054) the arithmetic functions σ and ϕ. A. Sri Ranga, Universidade Estadual Preliminary report. Paulista, Sao Jose do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil Carl Pomerance, Dartmouth College (1086-33-337) (1086-11-515) 2:30PM Stern polynomials and continued AMS Special Session on Arithmetic Theory of (1064) fractions. Quadratic Forms and Lattices, II Karl Dilcher*, Dalhousie University, and Kenneth B. Stolarsky,Universityof Illinois (1086-11-1643) 1:00 PM –3:50PM Room 14B, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center 3:00PM Renyi like Continued Fractions. (1065) Preliminary report. Organizers: Wai Kiu Chan,Wesleyan Eugen Andrei Ghenciu, East Central University University (1086-37-970)

Lenny Fukshansky, 3:30PM Cubic Irrationals and Periodicity via a Claremont McKenna College (1066) Family of Multi-dimensional Continued 1:00PM Euclidean Ideals and Euclidean Forms. Fraction Algorithms. (1055) Pete L. Clark, University of Georgia Krishna Dasaratha,Harvard,Laure (1086-11-494) Flapan,UCLA,Thomas Garrity*, Williams, Chansoo Lee,Universityof 1:30PM Height bounds over quaternion algebras. Michigan, Cornelia Mihaila,Universityof (1056) Lenny Fukshansky, Claremont McKenna Texas, Nicholas Neumann-Chu, College, and Glenn Henshaw*, California Williams, Sarah Peluse,Universityof State University - Channel Islands Chicago, and Matthew Stroffregen, (1086-11-1398) UCLA (1086-11-1426) 2:00PM Quadratic forms representing all odd (1057) positive integers. AMS Special Session on Difference Equations Jeremy Rouse,WakeForestUniversity and Applications, II (1086-11-736) 2:30PM On almost universal ternary 1:00 PM –3:50PM Room 30B, Upper Level, (1058) inhomogeneous quadratic polynomials. San Diego Convention Center Anna Haensch, Wesleyan University (1086-11-662) Organizer: Michael Radin,Rochester Institute of Technology 3:00PM Strictly Regular Positive Deﬁnite (1059) Quaternary Quadratic Forms and 1:00PM Stability in Highly Nonlinear Delay Lattices. (1067) Difference Systems. Preliminary report. Andrew G. Earnest, Southern Illinois Youssef N Raffoul,UniversityofDayton University Carbondale (1086-11-1085) (1086-39-921)

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1:30PM On the Boundedness Nature of Positive 3:00PM Generic rigidity for frameworks with (1068) Solutions of the Difference Equation (1076) symmetry. An Bn Justin Malestein*, Hebrew University of xn+1 =max , with Variable Jerusalem, and Louis Theran,Freie xn−k xn−l Parameters. Preliminary report. Universitat Berlin (1086-52-2291) Candace M. Kent*, Virginia 3:30PM Undecidable tiling problems. Commonwealth University, and Michael (1077) Jed Yang, UCLA (1086-05-1404) A. Radin, Rochester Institute of Technology (1086-39-1025) AMS Special Session on Finite Element Exterior Calculus and Applications, I 2:00PM Using Difference Equations to Generalize (1069) Results for Periodic Nested Radicals. 1:00 PM –4:20PM Room 16B, Mezzanine Chris D. Lynd, University of Rhode Island (1086-39-634) Level, San Diego Convention Center Organizers: ,University 2:30PM On Global Asymptotic Behavior of Some Douglas Arnold (1070) Classes of Nonlinear Nonautonomous of Minnesota Difference Equations. Andrew Gillette,University Vlajko L. Kocic, Xavier University of of California, San Diego Louisiana (1086-39-675) Michael Holst,Universityof California, San Diego 3:00PM On Rational Difference Equations with (1071) Periodic Coefficients. 1:00PM Local bounded cochain projections. MDrymonis, University of Rhode Island, (1078) Preliminary report. Y Kostrov*, Xavier University of Richard S. Falk,RutgersUniversity,and Louisiana, and ZKudlak, Mount Saint Ragnar Winther*, University of Oslo, Mary College (1086-39-1652) Norway (1086-65-1723) 1:30PM Polynomial extension operators. 3:30PM On the Boundedness Character of a (1079) Leszek Demkowicz,TheUniversityof (1072) System of Rational Difference Equations Texas at Austin, Jay Gopalakrishnan*, in the Plane with Nonnegative Periodic Portland State University, and Joachim Coefficients. Preliminary report. Schoeberl, Vienna University of Yevgeniy Kostrov, Xavier University, Technology (1086-65-1632) New Orleans, LA, and Zachary Kudlak*, Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, NY 2:00PM Approximation properties of tensor (1086-39-1437) (1080) product finite element differential forms. Preliminary report. AMS Special Session on Discrete and Douglas N. Arnold,Universityof Minnesota, Daniele Boffi*, University Computational Geometry, II (a Mathematics of Pavia, Italy, and Francesca Research Communities session) Bonizzoni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy (1086-65-1842) 1:00 PM –3:50PM Room 30C, Upper Level, 2:30PM Finite element systems of differential San Diego Convention Center (1081) forms and applications to upwinding. Snorre H. Christiansen,Universityof Organizers: Emilie Hogan,Pacific Oslo (1086-65-1748) Northwest National 3:00PM Isogeometric Discrete Differential Forms Laboratory (1082) with Application to Viscous Fluid Flow. Elizabeth Munch,Duke John A. Evans*andThomas J. R. University Hughes,TheUniversityofTexasat Austin (1086-65-2642) Louis Theran,Freie 3:30PM Geometric, Variational Discretization of Universität (1083) Continuum Theories. Russ Thompson,Texas Mathieu Desbrun,Caltech A&M University (1086-76-1823) 4:00PM Hyperbolic Problems with Involutions and 1:00PM Shearing, twisting and geodesics on (1084) Discrete Differential Forms. (1073) polygon surfaces. Holger Heumann,LJAD,Universitéde Diana Davis,BrownUniversity Nice - Sophia Antipolis (1086-65-1809) (1086-51-424)

1:30PM Vertex Isoperimetric Inequalities for a AMS Special Session on Geometric (1074) Family of Graphs on Zk. Complexity Theory, II (a Mathematics Ellen Veomett*, Saint Mary’s College of Research Communities session) California, and A. J. Radcliffe,University of Nebraska, Lincoln (1086-52-376) 1:00 PM –3:45PM Room 30E, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center 2:00PM Transforming Curves on Surfaces Redux. (1075) Jeff Erickson, University of Illinois at Organizers: Christian Ikenmeyer,Texas Urbana-Champaign (1086-57-1949) A&M University

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Ryan Kinser, Northeastern AMS Special Session on Harmonic University Analysis, Partial Differential Equations, and Geometric Measure Theory, II (a 1:00PM Eigenvectors of tensors and algorithms Mathematics Research Communities session) (1085) for Waring decomposition. Luke Oeding*, University of California, 1:00 PM –3:50PM Room 30D, Upper Level, Berkeley, and Giorgio Ottaviani, Universita degli Studi di Firenze San Diego Convention Center (1086-14-1918) Organizers: Theresa Anderson,Brown University 2:00PM A study of the representations supported (1086) by the orbit closure of the determinant. Matthew Badger,Stony Preliminary report. Brook University Shrawan Kumar, UNC at Chapel Hill Nathan Pennington,Kansas (1086-68-412) State University

3:00PM Matrix Lie algebra isomorphism and Eric Stachura,Temple (1087) symmetry-characterization in Geometric University Complexity Theory. 1:00PM The Dirichlet problem for higher order Joshua A. Grochow,Universityof (1094) equations in composition form. Toronto (1086-68-1851) Ariel Barton*andSvitlana Mayboroda, University of Minnesota (1086-35-1769) AMS Special Session on Geometric and 1:30PM Chaotic dynamics of the heat semigroup Analytic Methods in Teichmuller¨ Theory and (1095) in Riemannian symmetric spaces. Hyperbolic Geometry, I Malabika Pramanik*, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and Rudra P. Sarkar, Indian Statistical Institute, 1:00 PM –3:50PM Room 32B, Upper Level, Kolkata, India (1086-43-1453) San Diego Convention Center 2:00PM Laminates Meet Burkholder Functions. (1096) Nicholas Boros, Olivet Nazarene Organizers: Ren Guo, Oregon State University (1086-42-93) University 2:30PM Lower bounds for L1 discrepancy. Zheng Huang,City (1097) Armen Vagharshakyan,Brown University of New York, University (1086-42-1056) Staten Island 3:00PM Wasserstein Distance and Rectiﬁability of (1098) Doubling Measures. Marcello Lucia,City Jonas Azzam, University of Washington University of New York, (1086-28-930) Staten Island 3:30PM The Geometry of Asymptotically 1:00PM On the essential spectrum of complete (1099) Optimally Doubling Measures. (1088) Riemannian manifolds. Stephen David Lewis,Universityof Zhiqin Lu, UC Irvine (1086-58-493) Washington (1086-28-1686)

1:30PM Buser’s Inequality and Cheeger Constants AMS Special Session on L-Functions and (1089) of Arithmetic Surfaces. Arithmetic Geometry, II Brian A. Benson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1086-57-945) 1:00 PM –3:50PM Room 15B, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center 2:00PM Iteration of mapping classes and limits of (1090) Weil-Petersson geodesics. Organizers: Alina Bucur,Universityof Yunhui Wu,RiceUniversity California, San Diego (1086-53-310) Kiran Kedlaya,Universityof 2:30PM Half-plane differentials on Riemann California, San Diego (1091) surfaces. 1:00PM What is p-adic BSD for abelian varieties? Subhojoy Gupta, QGM Aarhus/Caltech (1100) William A Stein*, University of (1086-30-1018) Washington, Jennifer Balakrishnan, Harvard, and Steffan Muller,Somewhere 3:00PM Short time asymptotic behavior of the in Germany (1086-11-2311) (1092) logarithm of heat kernel. 1:30PM Computing Degrees of Parametrizations Guoyi Xu, University of California, Irvine (1101) of Elliptic Curves by Shimura Curves. (1086-53-651) Alyson Deines, University of Washington (1086-11-2016) 3:30PM Quantifying Residual Finiteness in Terms (1093) of Geometric Data. 2:00PM L-functions, periods and the relative Priyam Patel,RutgersUniversity (1102) trace formula for GL(2n). (1086-57-1013) Brooke Feigon, CCNY (1086-11-1593)

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2:30PM Identities for L-functions. 1:00PM Time averaged distribution of discrete (1103) Michael Rubinstein,Universityof (1110) time quantum walks on the path. Waterloo (1086-11-2205) Yusuke Ide, Department of Information 3:00PM Quaternionic lattice neighbours and Systems Creation, Faculty of Engineering, (1104) automorphic forms. Preliminary report. Kanagawa University (1086-81-1765) Sarah A Chisholm, University of Calgary 1:30PM On the study of quantum graph : a (1086-11-1548) (1111) mapping to coined quantum walk. 3:30PM The Fourier coefﬁcients of harmonic Preliminary report. (1105) Maass forms of weight one. Etsuo Segawa, Tohoku University, Japan William Duke, UCLA (1086-11-1348) (1086-60-2081) 2:00PM Return Probability of the Fibonacci AMS Special Session on Nonstandard (1112) Quantum Walk. Finite-Difference Discretizations and Clement B. Ampadu, Boston, MA Nonlinear Oscillations (in honor of Ronald (1086-00-351) Mickens’ 70th Birthday), II 2:30PM On Inhomogeneous Quantum Walk. (1113) Yutaka Shikano, Institute for Molecular 1:00 PM –3:50PM Room 7B, Upper Level, Science (1086-81-807) San Diego Convention Center 3:00PM Stationary Measures and Time-Averaged (1114) Limit Measures of Quantum Walks. Organizers: Ron Buckmire, Occidental Norio Konno, Yokohama National College University (1086-60-1114) Abba Gumel,Universityof 4:00PM Quantum random walks under Manitoba (1115) decoherence. Talitha Washington, Shimao Fan, Zhiyong Feng,Temple Howard University University, Sheng Xiong,Universityof Pittsburgh, and Wei-Shih Yang*, Temple 1:00PM Determination of Approximate Solutions University (1086-81-1461) (1106) to Non-linear Oscillatory Differential Equations. Kale Oyedeji, Morehouse College AMS Special Session on Recent Advances and (1086-34-121) New Challenges in Applied Analysis, II PM 1:30 Analyzing Leah Cosine and Leah Sine 1:00 PM –3:50PM Room 17A, Mezzanine (1107) through Polynomial Projection. Level, San Diego Convention Center G., Edgar Parker*, Guilford College and Emeritus, James Madison University, Organizer: Marian Bocea, Loyola James S. Sochacki and Stephen K. University, Chicago Lucas, James Madison University 1:00PM Random Matrices, Spectral Measures, (1086-34-699) (1116) and Composite Media. 2:00PM Properties of the Leah-Cosine (Lcn) N. Benjamin Murphy and Kenneth (1108) Function. M. Golden*, University of Utah Sandra A Rucker, Clark Atlanta (1086-35-1278) University (1086-34-281) 1:30PM Nonlinear Neutral Inclusions: 2:30PM A Generalized Finite Difference Time (1117) Assemblages of Spheres. Preliminary (1109) Domain Scheme for Solving Nonlinear report. Schrodinger Equation. Preliminary report. Silvia Jimenez*, Bogdan Vernescu Weizhong Dai, Louisiana Tech University and William Sanguinet, Worcester (1086-65-811) Polytechnic Institute (1086-35-918) 3:00PM Discussion 2:00PM From Cheeger problem to limit analysis. (1118) Ioan R Ionescu, University Paris 13, AMS Special Session on Quantum Walks and Sorbonne Paris Cite (1086-49-896) Related topics, II 2:30PM Discrete Network Approximation for (1119) Dirichlet-to-Neumann Map for High 1:00 PM –4:20PM Room 32A, Upper Level, Contrast Problems. San Diego Convention Center Yuliya Gorb*, University of Houston, Lilliana Borcea and Yingpei Wang,Rice Organizers: Yusuke Ide, Kanagawa University (1086-35-2849) University ∞ 3:00PM Absolute Minimizers for Some L Chaobin Liu,BowieState (1120) Optimal Transport Problems. University Danut Arama, Loyola University Chicago Nelson Petulante,Bowie (1086-49-2235) State University 3:30PM The asymptotic behavior of solutions to Salvador E. (1121) the Robin eigenvalue problem for the Venegas-Andraca, p(x)-Laplacian as p(x) →∞. Tecnologico´ de Monterrey, Farhod Abdullayev, North Dakota State Campus Estado de M´exico University (1086-35-1914)

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AMS Special Session on Several Complex 2:00PM On the asymptotic behavior of Variables and Multivariable Operator (1130) convergent solutions to difference Theory, II equations. William T Jamieson*andOrlando Merino, University of Rhode Island 1:00 PM –3:50PM Room 16A, Mezzanine (1086-39-1961) Level, San Diego Convention Center 2:30PM Singular Perturbations in the Quadratic Organizers: Joseph Ball,VirginiaTech (1131) Family. University Elizabeth D Russell,WesternNew England University (1086-37-720) Ronald Douglas,Texas A&M University 3:00PM A dynamics approach of snowball events. (1132) Preliminary report. 1:00PM Shift-invariant subspaces, inner functions Esther R. Widiasih, University of Arizona (1122) and related linear systems: the weighted (1086-37-2851) Bergman space setting. 3:30PM Multi-scale Analysis in Ocean Circulation Vladimir Bolotnikov*, The College of (1133) Models. William and Mary, and Joseph A Ball, Andrew A Roberts,UniversityofNorth Virginia Tech (1086-32-1601) Carolina - Chapel Hill (1086-34-784) 1:30PM Multiplication operators on reproducing (1123) kernel Hilbert spaces on Reinhardt AMS Special Session on Topics and Issues in domains in C2. Electronic Publishing, II Raul E. Curto,UniversityofIowa (1086-47-1609) 1:00 PM –3:20PM Room 9, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center 2:00PM The Toeplitz corona problem for algebras (1124) of multipliers on a Nevanlinna-Pick space. Organizers: Klaus Kaiser,Universityof Mrinal Raghupathi*, United States Naval Houston Academy, and Ryan Hamilton,PIMS (1086-47-1554) Steven Krantz, Washington University in St. Louis 2:30PM Limits of positive ﬂat bivariate moment Elizabeth Loew,Springer (1125) matrices. Lawrence A. Fialkow,SUNYNewPaltz 1:00PM Remarks on the economics of math (1086-47-529) (1134) journal publishing. Rob Kirby, University of California, 3:00PM Cyclicity and optimal approximants. Berkeley (1086-00-1003) (1126) Constanze Liaw*, Baylor University, 1:30PM ”Author-Sponsored-Journals”, a practical Catherine Beneteau,UniversityofSouth (1135) variation of the ”Open-Access” business Florida, Alberto Condori, Florida Gulf model. Coast University, Daniel Seco,Universitat , University of Houston Autonoma de Barcelona, and Alan Sola, Klaus Kaiser Cambridge University (1086-30-855) (1086-00-389) 2:00PM The Brave New World of Open Access and 3:30PM Rank-one perturbations of Cuntz (1136) Creative Commons: A Humanistic (1127) isometries. Preliminary report. Experiment in Mathematical Publishing. Michael Jury, University of Florida Gizem Karaali, Pomona College (1086-47-2292) (1086-00-60) AMS Special Session on Theory and 2:30PM SpringerOpen: Springer’s open access (1137) platform. Interdisciplinary Applications of Dynamical Vindra Dass, Springer Science+Business Systems, II Media (1086-00-1162) 3:00PM [Draft] Math Journal Epitaph. 1:00 PM –3:50PM Room 31C, Upper Level, (1138) Johan Rudnick, Canadian Mathematical San Diego Convention Center Society (1086-00-1321)

Organizer: Sukanya Basu,Central AMS Special Session on Witt Vectors, Lifting Michigan University and Descent, II 1:00PM A Monster Tower Approach to Goursat (1128) Multi-Flags. 1:00 PM –3:50PM Room 14A, Mezzanine Wyatt Howard*, University of California Level, San Diego Convention Center Santa Cruz, and Alex Castro,Pont´ıﬁca Universidade Catolica´ Do Rio de Janeiro Organizers: James Borger, Australia (1086-53-1002) National University

1:30PM Tire tracks geometry and bicycle Alexandru Buium, (1129) kinematics. University of New Mexico Serge Tabachnikov, Pennsylvania State Taylor Dupuy,Universityof University (1086-37-737) New Mexico

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Lance Miller,Universityof MAA Minicourse #2: Part A Utah 1:00 PM –3:00PM Room 30A, Upper Level, 1:00PM Witt vectors and lambda-structures San Diego Convention Center (1139) in arithmetic algebraic geometry. Preliminary report. A game theory path to quantitative James M Borger, Australian National literacy. University (1086-11-1700) Presenter: David Housman,Goshen 1:30PM Differential lifts and differential College (1140) symmetries. Preliminary report. Alexandru Buium,UniversityofNew MAA Minicourse #9: Part A Mexico, Albuquerque (1086-11-1450)

2:00PM Base rings for global (ϕ, Γ)-modules. 1:00 PM –3:00PM Room 29C, Mezzanine (1141) Christopher Davis,Universityof Level, San Diego Convention Center California, Irvine (1086-11-781) Shortest, quickest, or best: An 2:30PM Towards global (ϕ, Γ)-modules and introduction to the calculus of variations. (1142) comparison isomorphisms. Presenter: Jeffrey Ehme,Spelman , University of California, Kiran S. Kedlaya College San Diego (1086-11-773)

3:00PM Overconvergent de Rham-Witt MAA Minicourse #15: Part A (1143) cohomology for Algebraic Stacks. David Zureick-Brown*, Emory University, 1:00 PM –3:00PM Room 29D, Mezzanine and Christopher Davis,UCIrvine Level, San Diego Convention Center (1086-11-1797) WeBWorK: An open source alternative for 3:30PM Lambda structures on stacks. generating and delivering online (1144) Lance Gurney, Australian National homework problems. University (1086-14-2232) Presenters: John Travis, Mississippi MAA-AMS-SIAM Invited Paper Session on College Energy, Population, and Sustainability, II Jason Aubrey,Universityof Missouri 1:00 PM –3:45PM Room 6C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center AMS Session on Number Theory, II

Organizers: Ben Fusaro,FloridaState 1:00 PM –4:25PM Room 12, Mezzanine University Level, San Diego Convention Center

Fred Roberts,Centerfor 1:00PM The abc Conjecture and non-Wieferich Discrete Mathematics and (1149) primes in Arithmetic Progressions. Theoretical Computer Hester K. S. Graves*, IDA, and M. Ram Science, Rutgers University Murty, Queen’s University (1086-11-270)

1:00PM Planet Earth in the Mathematics 1:15PM Behavior of -regular partitions modulo (1145) Curriculum. (1150) powers of . Mary Lou Zeeman*, Bowdoin College, John J. Webb,WakeForestUniversity and Gene Fiorini*, DIMACS, Rutgers (1086-11-1871) University (1086-AC-1502) 1:30PM Transcendence of the Artin-Mazur Zeta (1151) Function for Polynomial Maps in Positive 1:45PM Quantifying Uncertainty in Climate Model Characteristic. (1146) Experiments. Andrew D Bridy,Universityof Steve Sain, Institute for Mathematics Wisconsin-Madison (1086-11-652) Applied to Geosciences, NCAR (1086-AC-1301) 1:45PM Ramanujan’s forty identities for the (1152) Rogers-Ramanujan functions and further 2:30PM Infectious Disease & Sustainability: identities of the same type. Preliminary (1147) Lessons from Research at NIMBioS. report. Suzanne Lenhart*, U of Tennessee, Zhu Cao, Southern Polytechnic State Knoxville and NIMBIoS, and Louis Gross, University (1086-11-2758) NIMBIoS, U of Tennessee (1086-AC-1272) 2:00PM Congruence Properties of Borcherds 3:15PM The Logic of Nature Versus the Logic (1153) Product Exponents. (1148) of Industrial Humans: End Game. Keenan Monks,HarvardUniversity, Preliminary report. Sarah Peluse, University of Chicago, and Martin E. Walter, University of Colorado, Lynnelle Ye*, Stanford University Boulder (1086-AC-999) (1086-11-2188)

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2:15PM Continuous Distribution Arising from the 2:00PM Longest Common Patterns of Random (1154) Three Gap Theorem. (1167) Permutations. Geremias Polanco E.*, Illinois Wesleyan Michael J Earnest, Harvey Mudd College University, Daniel Schultz and (1086-05-1489) Alexandru Zaharescu,Universityof 2:15PM Counting permutations with exactly r Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1168) occurrences of a pattern. (1086-11-748) Brian Nakamura*andDoron Zeilberger, 2:30PM Partial sums and geometric series. Rutgers University (1086-05-2790) (1155) Eduardo Giovanni Aponte,Universidad Nacional Experimental Antonio Jos´ede 2:30PM Avoiding Colored Partitions of Two Sucre. Caracas, Venezuela (1086-11-41) (1169) Elements. Jonathan S. Sheperd,UniversityofNotre 2:45PM A New Algorithm for Computing Dame (1086-05-872) (1156) Endomorphism Rings of Supersingular Elliptic Curves. 2:45PM Pattern avoidance in permutations on Ken McMurdy, Ramapo College of New (1170) posets. Jersey (1086-11-713) Samuel Francis Hopkins*, Reed College, and Morgan Weiler,Universityof 3:00PM τn-Number Theory. Preliminary report. (1157) Reyes Matiel Ortiz-Albino,Universityof California, Berkeley (1086-05-905) Puerto Rico-Mayaguez (1086-11-2892) 3:00PM de Bruijn Sequences that Avoid Certain 3:15PM Reduced τn-factorizations of the (1171) Patterns. Preliminary report. (1158) Integers. Preliminary report. Abbas M Alhakim, American University Alina A Florescu,TheUniversityofIowa of Beirut (1086-05-2248) (1086-13-1971) 3:15PM Block transpositions, scrambling 3:30PM Diophantine Monoids Deﬁned by a Single (1172) numbers, and commutativity. Preliminary (1159) Linear Equation. Preliminary report. report. Trey Brock,UniversityofCentral Thomas Langley, Rose-Hulman Institute Missouri (1086-11-2388) √ of Technology (1086-05-2593) 3:45PM Patterns in continued fractions for n. 3:30PM The Colored Eulerian Descent Algebra. (1160) Preliminary report. (1173) Matthew Moynihan, The College of Duff G. Campbell, Hendrix College Wooster (1086-05-2803) (1086-11-1974) 3:45PM The Hopf Algebra of Sashes. 4:00PM eCF: Encoding Continued Fraction (1161) Knowledge in Computational Form. (1174) Shirley Elizabeth Law, North Carolina Preliminary report. State University (1086-05-572) Eric W Weisstein*andMichael Trott, 4:00PM New results on decomposable Specht Wolfram Alpha LLC (1086-12-2653) (1175) modules. 4:15PM On SA, CA, and GA numbers. Craig J Dodge, Allegheny College (1162) Geoffrey Caveney,Chicago,IL, (1086-20-128) Jean-Louis Nicolas, Universite de Lyon; 4:15PM Counting copies of vincular patterns CNRS, Institut Camille Jordan, and (1176) among pattern-avoiding permutations. Jonathan Sondow*, New York, NY Preliminary report. (1086-11-2318) Andrew M Baxter, Pennsylvania State University (1086-05-628) AMS Session on Permutations and Pattern Avoidance AMS Session on Polynomials, Field Theory, and Factorizations 1:00 PM –4:25PM Room 18, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center 1:00 PM –4:10PM Room 13, Mezzanine 1:00PM Pattern Popularity in 132-avoiding Level, San Diego Convention Center (1163) Permutations. Kate Rudolph, Massachusetts Institute of 1:00PM The Decomposition of Solutions to the Technology (1086-05-416) (1177) Polynomial Pell Equation. Benjamin L Weiss*, Bates College, and 1:15PM 312-Pattern Avoiding Permutations With Michael E Zieve, University of Michigan (1164) Determined Points. Preliminary report. (1086-12-2434) Neal Madras and Lerna Pehlivan*, York University (1086-05-223) 1:15PM Common Values of Polynomials Over 1:30PM Stack Sorting. Preliminary report. (1178) Finite Fields. Preliminary report. (1165) Kristen Bartosz, Oregon State University Hanna Astephan, Solly Parenti, (1086-05-890) Joe Varilone, Nick Wasylyshyn, University of Michigan, Ben Zinberg*, 1:45PM Pattern Avoidance in Permutations on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (1166) Boolean Lattice. and Michael Zieve,Universityof Morgan Weiler*, Univserity of California, Michigan (1086-11-2656) Berkeley, and Samuel Hopkins, Reed College (1086-05-1509) 1:30PM Discussion

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1:30PM TALK CANCELLED Explicit Factorizations 1:15PM Modeling and Analysis of an Inventory (1179) Of Generalized Cyclotomic Polynomials (1191) System with Ramp Type Demand Rate Over Finite Fields. and Backlogging. Cemile Tosun, Southern Ilionis Vikramjeet Singh, Lovely Professional University Carbondale (1086-12-2948) University, Punjab, India (1086-90-254)

1:45PM Irreducibility criteria for polynomials and 1:30PM semi-parametric rank regression with (1180) linear transformations. (1192) missing response. Martin Juras, Qatar University Huybrechts Bindele*, University of (1086-12-368) South Alabama, and Asheber Abebe, 2:00PM Title: Orbits under polynomials that Auburn University (1086-62-550) (1181) coincide with subgroups of the units of Z/nZ. Preliminary report. 1:45PM Approximating the Distribution of Robert M Sulman, S.U.N.Y. College at (1193) Fisher’s Combined p-Values from Multiple Oneonta (1086-11-262) Experiments with Application. Preliminary report. 2:15PM Newly Irreducible Iterates of Some Mehdi Razzaghi, Bloomsburg University, (1182) Families of Quadratic Polynomials. Bloomsburg, PA (1086-62-1752) Preliminary report. Katharine Chamberlin, Emma Colbert*, 2:00PM Forecasting Using Functional Data Sharon Frechette, Patrick Hefferman, (1194) Analysis Models in Cancer Epidemiology. College of the Holy Cross, Rafe Jones, Keshav P Pokhrel*andChris P Tsokos, Carleton College, and Sarah Orchard, University of South Florida, Tampa College of the Holy Cross (1086-11-2358) (1086-62-2631)

2:30PM Monoids Determined by a Linear 2:15PM Inferring Fitness in Finite, Variably-Sized, (1183) Homogeneous Diophantine Equation. (1195) Evolving, and Dynamically-Structured Preliminary report. Populations. Preliminary report. Madeline Handschy, Katherine Meyer*, Marc A Harper, UCLA (1086-60-385) Katherine Phillips and Jennifer Sadler, Smith College (1086-11-2130) 2:30PM Invariant perfect matchings in Cayley 2:45PM TALK CANCELLED: The divisor class (1196) graphs via short augmenting paths in (1184) numbers of certain function fields. expanders. Preliminary report. Qingquan Wu, Texas A&M International Miklos Abert, Renyi Institute, Budapest, University (1086-11-928) Endre Csoka, Eotvos University Budapest, Gabor Lippner*, Harvard 3:00PM Computing Galois-theoetic invariants for University, and Tamas Terpai,EPFL (1185) certain degree six p-adic fields. Lausanne (1086-60-2741) Chad Awtrey, Elon University (1086-11-2150) 2:45PM A novel approach to analyzing graphons. (1197) Apoorva Khare*andBala Rajaratnam, 3:15PM Minimal ramification and the Inverse Stanford University (1086-05-2606) (1186) Galois Problem over function fields. Meghan M De Witt, Brigham Young 3:00PM Regularization of positive definite University (1086-12-1895) (1198) matrices: connections between algebra, 3:30PM On the Maximal Cross Number of Unique graph theory and statistics. (1187) Factorization Multisets. Dominique Guillot, Stanford University, Daniel J. Kriz, Princeton (1086-11-1658) Alfred O Hero, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Brett Naul and Bala 3:45PM Differential Invariants in Cryptography. Rajaratnam*, Stanford University (1188) Daniel C Smith,Universityof (1086-05-2628) Louisville/National Institute of Standards and Technology (1086-12-2786) 3:15PM Model choice for gene pathway-based 4:00PM Mean values of certain multiplicative (1199) priors in Bayesian association studies. (1189) functions. Preliminary report. Abra Brisbin*, University of Sankar Sitaraman, Howard University, Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Liewei Wang,Mayo Washington DC. (1086-11-2673) Clinic, and Brooke Fridley,Universityof Kansas Medical Center (1086-92-2341) AMS Session on Statistics, Stochastic 3:30PM Computing percolation threshold bounds Processes, and Applications (1200) using the substitution method without a reference lattice. Preliminary report. 1:00 PM –3:55PM Room 19, Mezzanine John C. Wierman, Johns Hopkins Level, San Diego Convention Center University (1086-60-1057)

1:00PM Bias reduction in optimality gap 3:45PM An Analysis of Systems Readiness (1190) estimation for stochastic programs. (1201) Functions. Preliminary report. Rebecca Stockbridge*andGuzin David J. Marchette, Naval Surface Bayraksan, University of Arizona Warfare Center, Dahlgren, VA (1086-90-1511) (1086-05-1312)

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MAA Session on Bridging the Gap: Designing Elizabeth Thoren, an Introduction to Proofs Course University of California Santa Barbara

1:00 PM –4:15PM Room 5A, Upper Level, 1:00PM Communicating in a Statistical San Diego Convention Center (1212) Consulting Course. Kimberly A Roth, Juniata College Organizer: Sarah L. Mabrouk, (1086-D1-2111) Framingham State University 1:20PM Scaffolding Oral Communication in Math 1:00PM Becoming successful proof-writers (1213) Classes. (1202) through peer review, journals, and Violeta Vasilevska, Utah Valley portfolios. University (1086-D1-1290) Jennifer B. Schaefer, Dickinson College (1086-C5-1408) 1:40PM Presentations by participants in class (1214) consisting of two distinct groups of 1:20PM Transition to Mathematical Proofs: students. (1203) Assessment of an online proofs course. Preliminary report. Krystyna Kuperberg, Auburn University (1086-D1-2164) Roberto C Pelayo, University of Hawaii at Hilo (1086-C5-1846) 2:00PM Scaffolding Writing in the Mathematics (1215) Classroom. 1:40PM Lessons Learned from a Teaching (1204) Experiment Focused on Proof Validation. Julie C Beier,MercerUniversity Sarah K. Bleiler*, Middle Tennessee State (1086-D1-552) University, Denisse R. Thompson and 2:20PM A Writing Guide and Rubric for Mile Krajcevski,UniversityofSouth (1216) Mathematics. Florida (1086-C5-2134) Geoffrey W Buhl, California 2:00PM A Course for Bridging the Gap. State University Channel Islands (1205) Larry J. Gerstein,Universityof (1086-D1-2765) California, Santa Barbara (1086-C5-484) 2:40PM (Explain It) x 3. Preliminary report. 2:20PM TALK CANCELLED: Bridge Course (1217) Linda McGuire, Muhlenberg College (1206) Assessments That Motivate and Engage. (1086-D1-504) Preliminary report. 3:00PM Giving Students an Active Role in Theresa L Friedman, Colorado Mesa (1218) Creating Homework Feedback. University (1086-C5-2876) Preliminary report. 2:40PM Teaching an Introduction to Proof Course Nina Juliana White,Universityof (1207) Using Inquiry-Based Learning. Michigan (1086-D1-1611) Jim Fulmer*andTom McMillan, 3:20PM Writing Projects in Mathematics: Student University of Arkansas at Little Rock (1219) Data and Suggestions Gained from Our (1086-C5-2648) Experience. 3:00PM Understanding the Problem: Uniﬁcation, Joe Latulippe*andChristine Latulippe, (1208) Generalization or Abstraction? Norwich University (1086-D1-2708) Preliminary report. 3:40PM Student-centered versus , Humboldt State Martin E Flashman (1220) instructor-centered approaches to University (1086-C5-1096) teaching mathematics. Preliminary 3:20PM Mathematical Reasoning course at report. (1209) Winthrop. Preliminary report. Tara C Davis*andHung Lu, Hawaii Heakyung Lee*andJoseph P Rusinco, Paciﬁc University (1086-D1-1052) Winthrop University (1086-C5-1276) 4:00PM Interactions with the Writing Center. 3:40PM Building a mathematical community (1221) Preliminary report. (1210) while learning strategies for discovering Jeremy Case, Taylor University and writing proofs. (1086-D1-2549) Megan Paddack, Southern New Hampshire University (1086-C5-2692) MAA Session on Effective Strategies and 4:00PM Teaching proving techniques using MIZAR Programs for Mentoring Women and (1211) proof checker. Minorities in Mathematics, I Krystyna Kuperberg, Auburn University (1086-C5-2154) 1:00 PM –3:55PM Room 5B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center MAA Session on Communicating Mathematics, I Organizers: Jenna Price Carpenter, Louisiana Tech University 1:00 PM –4:15PM Room 33A, Upper Level, Jessica M. Deshler,West San Diego Convention Center Virginia University Organizers: Brian Katz, Augustana Elizabeth A. Burroughs, College Montana State University

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1:00PM The College of New Jersey Advancement 1:20PM Teaching Matrix Algebra with Magic (1222) Program, or What We Did With Our (1232) Squares. NSF-Advance PAID grant. Karsten K. Schmidt,Schmalkalden Karen Clark*, Diane Bates, Elizabeth University of Applied Sciences, Germany Borland, Lisa Grega, Amanda Norvell, (1086-G5-1698) Suriza van der Sandt and Chang 1:40PM G-Sets and Linear Recurrences Modulo Karen Yan, The College of New Jersey (1233) Primes. Preliminary report. (1086-E5-1488) Robert C Ray,GonzagaUniversity 1:20PM Girls Doing Research: A Case Study. (1086-G5-2308) (1223) Sheila K Miller, City University of New York: New York City College of 2:00PM The Spectral Basis of a Linear Operator. Technology (1086-E5-2750) (1234) Garret E. Sobczyk, Universidad de Las Americas, Cholula, Puebla, Mexico 1:40PM Leveling the Playing Field: Benefits for (1224) Women of Inquiry-Based Approaches in (1086-G5-126) the Undergraduate Mathematics 2:20PM The Wronskian as a method for Classroom. (1235) introducing vector spaces. Sandra Laursen*andMarja-Liisa Daniel A Ramras,NewMexicoState Hassi, University of Colorado Boulder University (1086-G5-432) (1086-E5-2738) 2:40PM A Geometry-first Introduction to 2:00PM Mentoring Women and Minorities in (1236) Determinants. (1225) General Summer Programs. Preliminary CRayRosentrater, Westmont College report. (1086-G5-1260) Sue Geller,TexasA&MUniversity (1086-E5-146) 3:00PM The incorporation of weekly laboratory (1237) explorations with MATLAB in the Linear 2:20PM Helping Students Engage in Successful (1226) Mentoring Relationships. Algebra Curriculum. Preliminary report. Levi Johnson, Kent Pearce and G. Brock Dan Seth, West Texas A&M University Williams*, Texas Tech University (1086-G5-456) (1086-E5-2454) 3:20PM TALK CANCELLED: Active Learning in the 2:40PM Mentoring Paradigms for (1238) Linear Algebra Classroom Using Sage. (1227) Underrepresented Groups in STEM Brandy A. Benedict, Merrimack College Scholarship Programs. (1086-G5-2569) Jerry Dwyer, Kent Pearce*andG. Brock 3:40PM Sage E-books on Linear Algebra and Williams, Texas Tech University (1239) Calculus. Preliminary report. (1086-E5-2426) Sang-Gu Lee*andKyung-Won 3:00PM STAGE: A pilot project in mentoring Kim, Sungkyunkwan University (1228) underrepresented undergraduate (1086-G5-1206) students. Preliminary report. Christina Eubanks-Turner*andPatricia 4:00PM How a little linear algebra can go a long Beaulieu, University of Louisiana at (1240) way in the Math Stat course. Lafayette (1086-E5-448) Randall Pruim, Calvin College (1086-G5-2928) 3:20PM M3: Mentoring, Motivation and Mancala. (1229) Preliminary report. Anthony Tongen,JamesMadison MAA Session on Mathematics and Sports, I University (1086-E5-2484) 1:00 PM –3:55PM Room 2, Upper Level, 3:40PM Promoting diversity in the mathematical (1230) sciences: the Infinite Possibilities San Diego Convention Center Conference. Preliminary report. Organizer: , College of Lily S Khadjavi*, Loyola Marymount R. Drew Pasteur Wooster University, and Tanya Moore, Building Diversity in Science (1086-E5-2525) 1:00PM A Value-Added Metric for NFL Field Goal (1241) Kickers. Preliminary report. MAA Session on Innovative and Effective R. Drew Pasteur*andKyle Ways to Teach Linear Algebra, I Cunningham-Rhoads, College of Wooster (1086-K5-2470) 1:00 PM –4:15PM Room 11B, Upper Level, 1:20PM Putting on the PGA Tour. Preliminary San Diego Convention Center (1242) report. Organizer: David M. Strong, Roland Minton, Roanoke College Pepperdine University (1086-K5-2407) 1:00PM Hidden treasures 2 × 2 linear 1:40PM Interpreting Imperfect Data to Perfect (1231) systems—applications of (1243) Performance in a NASCAR Race. non-orthonormal coordinate systems. Timothy Chartier, Davidson College, Jon Davidson, Southern State Donour Sizemore, Michael Waltrip Community College, Hillsboro, Ohio Racing, and Erica Dominic*, Kalamazoo (1086-G5-2303) College (1086-K5-1958)

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2:00PM The National Football League’s Overtime 2:00PM Students’ Idiosyncratic Usage of the (1244) Rule Revisited. (1253) Equal Sign While Verifying Trigonometric Michael A. Jones*, Mathematical Identities. Preliminary report. Reviews/American Mathematical Society, Benjamin Wescoatt, Oklahoma State and Laura VerHulst, Albion College University (1086-N1-2848) (1086-K5-1196) 2:20PM Developing Instructor Support Materials 2:20PM The NFL Overtime Rule Change: Was it (1254) for an Inquiry-Oriented Curriculum. (1245) really necessary? Elise Lockwood, University of Wisconsin Nicholas Gorgievski*, Nichols College, -Madison,Estrella Johnson and Sean and Thomas C. DeFranco,Universityof Larsen*, Portland State University Connecticut (1086-K5-2408) (1086-N1-555) 2:40PM What is pre-service understanding on the 2:40PM Using Figure Skating Activities to Develop (1255) conceptofvector? (1246) Middle School Teachers’ Rational Number Hyunkyoung Yoon,ArizonaState Sense. University (1086-N1-2862) Tetyana Berezovski, St. Joseph’s 3:00PM University Calculus Students’ Meanings University, and Diana S Cheng*, Towson University (1086-K5-267) (1256) for Fraction and Quotient. Cameron O Byerley and Neil Hatﬁeld*, 3:00PM Mathematical Analysis Raises Questions Arizona State University (1086-N1-2173) (1247) About The Wisdom of Conventional 3:20PM Analyzing Conceptual Gains Decision Making In Sports. (1257) in Introductory Calculus with Andrew B Perry, Springﬁeld College Interactively-Engaged Teaching Styles. (MA) (1086-K5-2234) Matthew Thomas*andGuadalupe 3:20PM A Mathematical Model Of A Volleyball Lozano, University of Arizona (1248) Serve, From Projectile Motion To Fluid (1086-N1-2067) Dynamics. 3:40PM TALK ADDED: Student concept images of Scott B. White*andJacci White,Saint function and linear transformation, Leo University (1086-K5-906) Michelle Zandieh*, Arizona State University, Jessica Ellis, UCSD/SDSU; and 3:40PM Should I get new wheels? The effects of Chris Rasmussen, SDSU. (1249) rotational versus non-rotational mass in bicycling. MAA Session on Student Success in J. Christopher Tweddle,Universityof Evansville (1086-K5-1995) Quantitative Reasoning, II

1:00 PM –3:55PM Room 7A, Upper Level, MAA Session on Research on the Teaching San Diego Convention Center andLearningofUndergraduate Mathematics, III Organizer: Ray Collings,Georgia Perimeter College 1:00 PM –4:15PM Room 3, Upper Level, 1:00PM Quantitative Reasoning through San Diego Convention Center (1258) Consumer Finance. Preliminary report. Andrew J Miller, Belmont University Organizers: Kyeong Hah Roh,Arizona (1086-P1-2518) State University 1:20PM Dual Credit for Quantitative Reasoning (1259) Courses: What Are the Challenges? Stacy Brown, Pitzer College Gregory D. Foley,Athens Mike Oehrtman,University (1086-P1-2951) of Northern Colorado 1:40PM Quantway and Statway: Successful (1260) Models for Teaching Quantitative 1:00PM In-Service Secondary Teachers’ (1250) Conceptualization of Complex Numbers. Reasoning. Hortensia Soto-Johnson*, Gulden Cinnamon Hillyard*andKaron Karakok and Stephenie Anderson, Klipple, Carnegie Foundation for University of Northern Colorado the Advancement of Teaching (1086-N1-996) (1086-P1-2088) 2:00PM Reverse Engineering a Quantitative 1:20PM The effects of formative assessment on (1261) Reasoning Course. (1251) students’ Zone of Proximal Development Bernard L Madison,Universityof in introductory calculus. Preliminary Arkansas (1086-P1-2314) report. 2:20PM Partner Disciplines and Implications Rebecca-Anne Dibbs*andMichael C (1262) for the Mathematics Curriculum: Oehrtman,UniversityofNorthern Moving Forward with the Curriculum Colorado (1086-N1-1549) Foundations Project. 1:40PM Two Students’ Negotiation of Susan L. Ganter*, East Carolina (1252) Constructing Surfaces in Space. University, and William E. Haver, Eric D Weber, Oregon State University Virginia Commonwealth University (1086-N1-1249) (1086-P1-2688)

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2:40PM First and Second Year Quantitative 3:20PM TALK CANCELLED: The Constructive (1263) Reasoning Courses according to Members (1274) Geometry of the Sulbas´ utras.¯ of the National Numeracy Network. Toke L Knudsen,SUNYOneonta Preliminary report. (1086-F5-1649) Caren Diefenderfer, Hollins University Roanoke, VA 24020 (1086-P1-2437) 3:40PM Albert Girard’s Iterative Method for (1275) solving Cubic Equations. Preliminary 3:00PM Guided Discovery and Concept report. (1264) Development in Applied Calculus. Stacy G. Langton,UniversityofSan Chris Oehrlein,OklahomaCity Diego (1086-F5-2403) (1086-P1-2680) 4:00PM Applications of Geometry in the 3:20PM Incorporating More Quantitative (1265) Reasoning in an Applied Calculus Course. (1276) Philosophy Classroom and Beyond. Theresa Laurent, St. Louis College of Preliminary report. Pharmacy (1086-P1-2608) Thomas Drucker,Universityof Wisconsin–Whitewater (1086-F5-620) 3:40PM Promptless instruments and Habits of (1266) Mind: Quantitative Literacy as an honors MAA General Contributed Paper Session: course. Modeling and Applications of Mathematics, II Dominic Klyve*andStuart Boersma, Central Washington University (1086-P1-2277) 1:00 PM –3:55PM Room 33B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center MAA Session on the History of Geometry, Its Applications, and Their Uses in the Organizers: Stephen Davis,Davidson College Classroom Gizem Karaali, Pomona 1:00 PM –4:15PM Room 6E, Upper Level, College San Diego Convention Center Douglas Norton, Villanova University Organizers: Amy Shell-Gellasch, Hood College Moderators: Caroline Haddad,SUNY Glen Van Brummelen, Geneseo Quest University Mariah Birgen, Wartburg 1:00PM The History of Motion in Geometry. College (1267) Preliminary report. 1:00PM Optimizing a female-killing strategy to Meighan I. Dillon, Southern Polytechnic (1277) control the dengue vector, Aedes aegypti. State University (1086-F5-871) Michael A Robert*, Alun L Lloyd, 1:20PM Pleasure, Pedagogy and Performance for Biomathematics Graduate Program, (1268) an American High School Geometry Department of Mathematics, North Teacher – The Dissected Polyhedra Carolina State University, and Fred and Polygons of A. Harry Wheeler. Gould, Department of Entomology, North Preliminary report. Carolina State University (1086-VG-2595) Peggy Aldrich Kidwell,National Museum of American History, 1:15PM The Utility of Transient Sensitivity Smithsonian Institution (1086-F5-1030) (1278) Analysis for Malaria Intervention Strategies. Preliminary report. 1:40PM Triangle Congruence in Absolute Plane Nathanial Burch*, North Carolina State (1269) Geometry. University, Levis Eneya,Universityof John Donnelly,UniversityofSouthern Malawi – Chancellor College, Sean Indiana (1086-F5-613) Kramer, Clarkson University, and 2:00PM A Wiki, Some Geometry, and the Parallel Samantha Tracht,Universityof (1270) Postulate. Tennessee (1086-VG-2239) Sarah L Mabrouk, Framingham State 1:30PM Compartmentalizing The Sunlight University (1086-F5-2213) (1279) Vitamin: Using PBPK Modeling to explore 2:20PM Steiner-Lehmus revisited - again. Levels of Vitamin D and its Metabolites. (1271) Preliminary report. Megan E Sawyer, North Carolina State James J Tattersall, Providence College University (1086-VG-1812) (1086-F5-638) 1:45PM Enhanced surveillance on food-borne 2:40PM Euler and the Figure of the Earth. (1280) disease outbreaks: dynamics of (1272) George W. Heine,Pueblo,CO cross-contamination in biocidal wash (1086-F5-1394) procedure. 3:00PM Diophantine Geometry, Eulerian Number Daniel S. Munther*andJianhong (1273) Theory, and Undergraduates. Preliminary Wu, Centre for Disease Modelling, report. Department of Mathematics Christopher Goff, University of the and Statistics, York University Paciﬁc (1086-F5-1470) (1086-VG-1806)

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2:00PM Mathematical analysis of a scrapie 1:15PM Defective (3,0,0)-colorings of planar (1281) disease transmission model. (1290) graphs with no 4- or 5-cycles. Najat Ziyadi*, Morgan State University, Diana L Smith, University of Rhode Said Boulite, University Hassan II, M. Island (1086-VN-1131) Lhassan Hbid, Cadi Ayyad University, and Suzanne Touzeau, French National 1:30PM The minimum cardinality of the range of Institute For Agricultural Research (1291) irreducible L(2,1) Colorings. (1086-VG-1491) Vesta Coufal, Rob Ray,Gonzaga University, John J. Villalpando*, 2:15PM Malaria Drug Resistance: The impact California Lutheran University, and (1282) of Human Movement and Spatial Kathi A. Yerion,GonzagaUniversity Heterogeneity. Preliminary report. (1086-VN-1410) Folashade B. Agusto, Austin Peay State University (1086-VG-912) 1:45PM Degree Vector Sequences of Edge-Colored 2:30PM Characterization of Melanoma and Moles (1292) Graphs in Speciﬁed Families. (1283) using Invariant Histograms. Kathleen M Ryan*andGarth Isaak, Jack T Stangl,UniversityofSt.Thomas Lehigh University (1086-VN-2700) (1086-VG-527) 2:00PM An extension of the (strong) rainbow 2:45PM Characterization of Melanoma and Moles (1293) connection number. Preliminary report. (1284) using Fractal Dimension. Janet L. Fierson*andKristen Heaney, Aaron Rodriguez*, Iowa State University, La Salle University (1086-VN-2864) Cheri Shakiban and Jack Stangl, University of St. Thomas (1086-VG-420) 2:15PM On the spectrum problem for cubic 3:00PM Analysis of Diabetes Data Using Wavelet (1294) graphs of order 8. (1285) Scalograms. Peter Adams, Darryn E Bryant, Edward F Aboufadel, Grand Valley State University of Queensland, Saad I University (1086-VG-59) El-Zanati*, Illinois State University, and 3:15PM Stability and bifurcation of a three Wannasiri Wannasit, Chiang Mai (1286) dimensional Ricker model. University (1086-VN-2243) Muna A Alhalawa*, Technical University 2:30PM Adding Edges to Graphs and its Effect on of Lisbon, Saber Elaydi,Trinity (1295) the Pebbling Number. Preliminary report. University, San Antonio,Texas, and Natacha C. Fontes-Merz*, Jeffrey Henrique Oliveira, Technical University T. Boerner and James Anthony, of Lisbon (1086-VG-1282) Westminster College (1086-VN-2374) 3:30PM Existence and Uniqueness of steady state (1287) solution for a general population model. 2:45PM Improved Lower Bounds of Radio Joon Hyuk Kang,AndrewsUniversity (1296) Numbers for Some Trees. Preliminary (1086-VG-858) report. 3:45PM Fractional model of phytoplankton Katherine Benson,UniversityofIowa (1288) allelopathy. (1086-VN-1073) Abbas Syed*andLakshman Mahto, 3:00PM On the spectra of simplicial rook graphs. Indian Institute of Technology Mandi (1297) Jeremy L. Martin, University of Kansas, (1086-VG-771) and Jennifer D. Wagner*, Washburn University (1086-VN-1034) MAA General Contributed Paper Session: Research in Graph Theory and 3:15PM Toughness of Some Graphs. Preliminary Combinatorics, III (1298) report. Wiseley Wong, University of Delaware 1:00 PM –4:10PM Room 33C, Upper Level, (1086-VN-744) San Diego Convention Center 3:30PM Generalizations of Book Embeddings to Organizers: Stephen Davis,Davidson (1299) Books with Modiﬁed Pages and Spines. College Preliminary report. Gizem Karaali, Pomona Shannon R Overbay,GonzagaUniversity College (1086-VN-986)

Douglas Norton, Villanova 3:45PM Side lengths of pseudoconvex fullerene University (1300) patches. Moderators: Feryal Alayont,Grand Jennifer McLoud-Mann*andChristina Valley State University Graves, The University of Texas at Tyler (1086-VN-1220) John Villalpando, California Lutrheran University 4:00PM Independent Sets in Chain Paths and 1:00PM Nonrepetitive Colorings of Grid Graphs. (1301) Cycles. (1289) Andr´eKundgen¨ and Alex Toole*, Emily A Sasala*andRoman Wong, California State University, San Marcos Washington & Jefferson College (1086-VN-863) (1086-VN-1934)

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SIAM Minisymposium on Hybrid Inverse William Y. Velez,University Problems in Medical Imaging of Arizona Annalisa Crannell, Franklin 1:00 PM –3:55PM Room 11A, Upper Level, & Marshall College San Diego Convention Center Cynthia J. Wyels, California Organizer: Adrian Nachman,University State University, Channel of Toronto Islands 1:00PM Inverse Problem of Acousto-Optic (1302) Imaging. MAA Assessment Committee-MAA Committee John C Schotland, University of Michigan on the Mathematical Education of Teachers (1086-35-1642) Panel Discussion 1:30PM Quantitative photoacoustic imaging. (1303) Hongkai Zhao, UC Irvine (1086-65-1683) 1:00 PM –2:20PM Room 4, Upper Level, 2:00PM Title: Quantitative thermo-acoustics and San Diego Convention Center (1304) related problems. Ting Zhou, MIT (1086-35-1882) PRAXIS mathematics exams for prospective teachers: Responsibilities 2:30PM Local inversions in ultrasound modulated of and reﬂections on mathematics (1305) optical tomography. departments. Shari Moskow*, Drexel University, and Guillaume Bal, Columbia University Organizers: William Martin,North (1086-35-1726) Dakota State University 3:00PM Conductivity imaging from minimal Myron Rigsby,Universityof (1306) interior data. Arkansas-Fort Smith Amir Moradifam*, Columbia University, Panelists: Barbara Weren, Educational Adrian Nachman, University of Toronto, Testing Service Alexandru Tamasan,University ,National of Central Florida, and Alexandre Karen King Council of Teachers of Timonov, University of South Carolina (1086-49-2940) Mathematics 3:30PM Estimating cortical activity from EEG by William Martin (1307) spatiotemporal regularization exploiting Angela Hodge,Universityof anatomical connectivity and signal Nebraska at Omaha propagation delay. Preliminary report. Jack L. Jackson,University David K Hammond, University of Oregon of Arkansas-Fort Smith NeuroInformatics Center (1086-92-1419)

MAA Workshop Joint Committee on Women in the Mathematical Sciences Panel Discussion 1:00 PM –2:20PM Room 1B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center 1:00 PM –2:30PM Room 10, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center An introduction to inquiry-based learning. You are promoted! Great, what is next? Presenters: Stan Yoshinobu, California Organizer: K. Renee Fister, Murray Polytechnic State State University University—San Luis Obispo Panelists: Christina Sormani,Lehman Matthew Jones, California College State Unviersity, Dominguez Catherine Roberts, College Hills of the Holy Cross Carol Schumacher,Kenyon College Suzanne Lenhart,University of Tennessee, Knoxville MAA-YMN Panel Discussion Michael Dorff,Brigham Young University 1:00 PM –2:20PM Room 1A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center MAA Invited Paper Session on Mathematics, Computer Graphics, and Film Production Graduate school: Choosing one, getting in, staying in. 1:30 PM –3:50PM Room 6F, Upper Level, Organizers: Timothy Goldberg, San Diego Convention Center Lenoir-Rhyne University Kristine Roinestad, Organizers: Tony DeRose,Pixar Georgetown College Animation Studios Panelists: Richard A. Levine,San Michael Dorff,Brigham Diego State University Young University

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1:30PM Animating Class with Computer 2:00PM Combining Empirical and Theoretical (1308) Graphics. (1319) Approaches to Better Understand the Tim Chartier, Davidson College Persistence of Waterfowl Disease in the (1086-AD-303) Upper Mississippi River. Barbara Bennie*andJames Peirce, 2:00PM Non-parametric image optimization. University of Wisconsin, La Crosse (1309) Dan B Goldman, Adobe (1086-AD-285)

2:30PM Sparse and Multiresolution 2:00PM Biocalculus: Text Development, Dialog, (1310) Representations of Visual Appearance. (1320) and Assessment. Ravi Ramamoorthi,Universityof Timothy Comar*andBrenda Alberico, California, Berkeley (1086-AD-251) Benedictine University

3:00PM Visual Effects and Fluids - The search for 2:00PM Texas Leadership Initiative: Mathematics (1311) artistic realism. (1321) Instruction Transformed. Doug Roble, Digital Domain Productions, Lesa Beverly*, Kimberly Childs, Debbie Inc. (1086-AD-2986) Pace and Betty Alford, Stephen F. Austin State University 3:30PM Plausibly unrealistic: Physical simulation (1312) in animated feature ﬁlms. 2:00PM Texas Middle and Secondary Mathematics Rasmus Tamstorf,WaltDisney (1322) Project Leadership Initiative. Animation Studios (1086-AD-2202) Kimberly Childs*, Debbie Pace and Lesa Beverly, Stephen F. Austin State MAA Poster Session of Projects Supported by University the NSF Division of Undergraduate Education 2:00PM Development of a New Calculus and (1323) Differential Equations Sequence for 2:00 PM –4:00PM Exhibit Hall B2, Ground Undergraduate Life Sciences Majors. Level, San Diego Convention Center Chichia Chiu*, Peter Bates and Jue Wang, Michigan State University Organizer: Jon Scott, Montgomery College 2:00PM Paradigms in Physics: Interactive (1324) Electromagnetism Curricular Materials. 2:00PM Resequencing Calculus Phase 2. Tevian Dray*, Corinne Manogue and (1313) Mike Axtell*, University of St. Thomas, Emily van Zee, Oregon State University Nick Baeth,UniversityofCentral Missouri, Dave Dwyer, Mark 2:00PM Native American-based Mathematics Gruenwald, University of Evansville, and (1325) Materials for Integration into Ken Luther, Valparaiso University Undergraduate Courses. Charles Funkhouser*, Scott Annin, 2:00PM Mathematical ACES: Algebraic Concepts California State University Fullerton, and (1314) for Elementary Students. Miles Pfahl, Turtle Mountain Community *, , Davida Fischman Shawn McMurran College Joseph Jesunathadas, California State University, San Bernardino, Karla Wells 2:00PM Transforming Linear Algebra Education and Carol Cronk, Ontario Montclair (1326) with GeoGebra Applets. School District James Factor, Alverno College

2:00PM Research by Undergraduates in 2:00PM Quantitative Literacy and Reasoning (1315) Mathematical Biology: Modeling Cellular (1327) Assessment (QLRA) Project. Processes in Bioremediation and Biofuels. Eric Gaze*, Bowdoin College, Linda George T Yates, Youngstown State Misener, Southern Maine Community University College, Semra Kilic-Bahi,ColbySawyer 2:00PM Integrating Knowledge: A Model for College, Aaron Montgomery,Central (1316) Secondary Teacher Preparation. Washington University, Corri Taylor, David Barker*, Matthew Winsor, Wellesley College, and Deann Leoni, Beverly Rich, John Dossey, Illinois State Edmonds Community College University, and Wendy O’Hanlon, Illinois 2:00PM Math in the City. Central College (1328) Joe Geisbauer*, Petronela Radu 2:00PM College Ready in Mathematics and and Stephen Hartke,Universityof (1317) Physics Partnership. Nebraska-Lincoln Bernard Madison*, Gay Stewart, 2:00PM POGIL Math - Guided Inquiry Materials Shannon Dingman,Universityof (1329) for Gatekeeper Courses in Mathematics. Arkansas, John Jones,Universityof Zdenkaˇ Guadarrama*, Rockhurst Arkansas at Fort Smith, and Pete Joenks, University, Catherine Beneteau, Springdale High School University of South Florida, Jill Guerra, 2:00PM WeBWorK: Improving Student Success in University of Arkansas Fort Smith, Laurie (1318) Mathematics. Lenz, Marymount University, Richard Arnold Pizer*, Mike Gage, Vicki Roth, Moog, Franklin & Marshall College, University of Rochester, Michael Pearson Jennifer Noll, Portland State University, and John Wyatt,MAA and Andrei Straumanis,POGILProject

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2:00PM Research Experiences for 2:00PM LINE: Linear Algebra in New (1330) Undergraduates (REU): Modeling and (1341) Environments–Focusing on Students’ Industrial Applied Mathematics. Learning. Aloysius Helminck*andHien Tran, Sergio Loch*, Grand View University, North Carolina State University Draga Vidakovic,GeorgiaState University, William Martin, North Dakota 2:00PM Mathematics and Social Advocacy. State University, Jeff Suzuki, Laurel (1331) Sandra Kingan*andJeff Suzuki, Cooley, Scott Dexter, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn College, City University of New CUNY, and Christopher McClure,Des York Moines Area Community College

2:00PM Biology and Mathematics in Populations 2:00PM Using Research to Shape Instruction and (1332) Studies II. (1342) Placement in Algebra and Precalculus. Maeve McCarthy*andRenee Fister, Bernard L. Madison*, University of Murray State University Arkansas, Michael Pearson, MAA, Caren Diefenderfer, Hollins University, 2:00PM Lurch, Educational Software for Writing and Marilyn Carlson,ArizonaState (1333) Proofs. University Kenneth Monks*, University of Scranton, and Nathan Carter, Bentley University 2:00PM The Predictability of Student Attributes (1343) and Instructional Milieu on Success in 2:00PM The West Texas Middle School Math Developmental Math, College Algebra, (1334) Partnership. the Collegiate Assessment of Academic Gary Harris*, Raegan Higgins,Texas Proﬁciency, and Matriculation to Degree. Tech University, and Warren Koepp, Lee Pearce*, Curtis Card, Daluss University of Texas, Permian Basin Siewert and Kristi Pearce, Black Hills State University 2:00PM The Learning Curve: Faculty (1335) Implementation of IBL Techniques 2:00PM WeBWorK Homework Problems with Following Professional Development (1344) Embedded Flash Applets. Workshops. Barbara Margolius*, L. Felipe Martins, Chuck Hayward*, Sandra Laursen, Cleveland State University, and Daniel J. University of Colorado Boulder, Doug Gries, Hopkins School Moore, Bill Jacob,Universityof 2:00PM Maplets for Calculus (M4C) – Evaluation California, Santa Barbara, Paul Sally, (1345) and Assessment. John Boller, University of Chicago, Ralf Douglas B. Meade*, Edwin M. Dickey, Spatzier, University of Michigan, and Ray Patenaude, Paula Adams,University Mike Starbird,UniversityofTexas, of South Carolina, Philip B. Yasskin, Austin Texas A&M University, and Robert Petrulis, Evaluation, Policy and Research 2:00PM Talented Teachers in Training for Texas. in Education Consulting (1336) Keith Hubbard*, Lesa Beverly, Karen Embry-Jenlink and Dennis Gravatt, 2:00PM STEM Real World Applications of Stephen F. Austin State University (1346) Mathematics. Darren A. Narayan*, Rochester Institute 2:00PM Graph Theory and Social Networks – It’s of Technology, and Joy Lind,University (1337) Hard to Hide, Even in a Crowd. of Sioux Falls Joan Lucas, The College at Brockport, State University of New York 2:00PM The Alfred University Calculus Initiative. (1347) Joseph Petrillo*, Darwyn Cook and 2:00PM UTMOST: Undergraduate Teaching of Addison Frey, Alfred University (1338) Mathematics with Open Software and 2:00PM Dynamic Visualization Tools for Textbooks. (1348) Multivariable Calculus. Thomas Judson*, Stephen F. Austin Paul Seeburger*, Monroe Community State University, Jason Grout,Drake College, and Monica VanDieren,Robert University, Robert Beezer,Universityof Morris University Puget Sound, Susan Lynds, Sandra Laursen, University of Colorado at 2:00PM Risky Business: Using Discrete Boulder, Kiran Kedlaya,Universityof (1349) Mathematics to Assess the Risks Involved California, San Diego, and William Stein, in Business and Straight Up Gambling. University of Washington, Seattle Rebecca Smith*andJoan M. Lucas,The College at Brockport, State University of 2:00PM Arizona Mathematics Partnership (AMP). New York (1339) April Strom, Scottsdale Community College 2:00PM Research Based Videos for Developing (1350) Mathematical Thinking Skills in Proof 2:00PM The Impact of the Math S-STEM Program Writing and Problem Solving. (1340) on a Mathematics Department. Kay Somers*, Moravian College, Jim Alexandra Kurepa, North Carolina A&T Sandefur, Georgetown University, and State University Connie Campbell, Millsaps College

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2:00PM Discovery Learning Projects in 2:00PM Integrative Research-focused Experiences (1351) Introductory Statistics. (1361) and Curriculum in Mathematical Biology. Dianna Spence*, Sherry Hix and Brad Jason Miller*andPam Ryan,Truman Bailey, North Georgia College & State State University University 2:00PM STEM Real World Applications of 2:00PM UBM: Team Research Training Program (1362) Mathematics. (1352) in Biology and Mathematics. Linyuan Lu*andJoshua Cooper, Edwin Tecarro*, Jeong-Mi Yoon, Akif University of South Carolina Uzman and Youn-Sha Chan,University of Houston-Downtown 2:00PM Emphasizing Core Calculus Concepts 2:00PM UBM: Integrated Undergraduate Training (1363) Using Biomedical Applications to Engage, (1353) in Mathematics and Life Sciences at Mentor and Retain STEM Students. NCSU. Marilyn Reba*, Taufiquar Khan, Irina Hien Tran*, James Gilliam, Aloysius Viktorova, Ellen Breazel and John Helminck and Alun Lloyd,North DesJardins, Clemson University Carolina State University 2:00PM Maplets for Calculus (M4C) – New AMS Invited Address (1354) Developments. Philip Yasskin*, Matthew J. Barry, 2:15 PM –3:05PM Room 6AB, Upper Level, Logan N. Collins, Texas A&M University, San Diego Convention Center and Douglas B. Meade,Universityof South Carolina (1364) Combining complex and arithmetic 2:00PM Supporting Pedagogical Innovation for a dynamics: A study of critically-finite (1355) Generation of Transformation via maps. Inquiry-Based Learning in Mathematics Laura De Marco, University of Illinois at (SPIGOT). Chicago (1086-37-5) Stan Yoshinobu*, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Carol MAA-YMN Panel Discussion Schumacher, Kenyon College, Matthew Jones, California State University, 2:40 PM –4:00PM Room 1A, Upper Level, Dominguez Hills, and Sandra L. Laursen, San Diego Convention Center University of Colorado 2:00PM DIYModeling: Do It Yourself Modeling and You published your dissertation; now (1356) Simulation for STEM Learning. what? Frank Wattenberg*, Rod Sturdivant, United States Military Academy, Jim Rolf, Organizers: Ralucca Gera, Naval United States Air Force Academy, Bill Posgraduate School Bauldry, Appalachian State University, Rachel Esselstein, Joe Yanik, Betsy Yanik,EmporiaState California State University, University, Amy H. Erickson and Keith Monterey Bay Erickson, Georgia Gwinnett College 2:00PM PREP: MAA’s Professional Development Panelists: Chris Storm,Adelphi (1357) Program. University Nancy Hastings*, Dickinson College, Nick Scoville,Ursinas Barbara Edwards, Oregon State College University, Nathaniel Dean,Texas State University San Marcos, Virginia Joyati Debnath,Winona Buchanan, Hiram College, Mike State University Brilleslyper, United States Air Force Academy, Michael Pearson, MAA, Jenna Allison Henrich, Seattle Carpenter, Louisiana Tech University, University and Jon Scott, Montgomery College Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their 2:00PM Evaluation and Assessment of Teaching (1358) and Learning about Statistics (e-ATLAS). Applications Special Presentation Andy Zieffler*, Joan Garfield and Bob delMas, University of Minnesota 3:00 PM –4:00PM Room 10, Upper Level, 2:00PM Project MathVote: Teaching Mathematics San Diego Convention Center (1359) with Classroom Voting. Holly Zullo*, Kelly Cline, Carroll The Mathematical Sciences in College, Ann Stewart, Hood College, and 2025 Study: Key findings and Christopher Storm, Adelphi University recommendations. 2:00PM A New Approach to Intermediate & Presenters: Tom Everhart, California (1360) College Algebra: It Starts with A Word Institute of Technology Problem. Sheryl Dohm, Chaminade University of Mark Green,Universityof Honolulu California Los Angeles

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AMS Invited Address Friday, January 11

3:20 PM –4:10PM Room 6AB, Upper Level, Joint Meetings Registration San Diego Convention Center 7:30 AM –4:00PM Exhibit Hall B1, Ground (1365) Diophantine applications of the theory of Level, San Diego Convention Center expansion and spectral gaps in thin groups. AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research Jean Bourgain, Institute for Advanced in Mathematics by Undergraduates and Study Students in Post-Baccalaureate Programs, II

Joint Prize Session 7:30 AM –10:50AM Room 8, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center 4:25 PM –5:25PM Room 6AB, Upper Level, Organizers: Bernard Brooks,Rochester San Diego Convention Center Institute of Technology Jobby Jacob,Rochester SIGMAA on Research in Undergraduate Institute of Technology Mathematics Education Business Meeting Jacqueline Jensen-Vallin, Slippery Rock University 5:30 PM –7:30PM Room 3, Upper Level, Carl V. Lutzer San Diego Convention Center Darren Narayan,Rochester Joint Prize Session Reception Institute of Technology Tamas Wiandt,Rochester Institute of Technology 5:30 PM –6:30PM Lobby outside Room 6AB, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center 7:30AM Polynomial sequences of binomial-type (1366) occurring in graph theory. Jon Schneider, MIT (1086-05-2998) SIGMAA on Statistics Education Reception and Business Meeting 8:00AM Gromov-Witten Theory of Blowups of (1367) Toric Threefolds. Dhruv Ranganathan,YaleUniversity 5:45 PM –7:45PM Room 7A, Upper Level, (1086-14-2997) San Diego Convention Center 8:30AM M.I.T.C.H - Medicinal Interaction ’Twixt’ (1368) Cancer and Healthy Cells. MAA Two-Year College Reception Robert R Ferdinand*, Jayson Bucy, Jeff Spears, Tomas Tillery and Nick Nottingham, East Central University, 5:45 PM –7:00PM Cardiff/Carlsbad Ada, OK (1086-34-99) Room, 3rd Floor, Marriott 9:00AM Modeling Turbulence with Delay AMS-MAA Special Film Presentation (1369) Equations. Preliminary report. Joel E. Hedman*andToby Hillman, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul MN 6:00 PM –7:30PM Room 6AB, Upper Level, (1086-76-120) San Diego Convention Center 9:30AM Betti Tables of Reducible Algebraic (1370) Curves. Taking the Long View: The Life of David J. Bruce*, University of Michigan, Shiing-shen Chern. Evan D. Nash, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Ben Perez, St Olaf College, and Young Mathematicians’ Network Open Pete Vermeire, Central Michigan Forum University (1086-14-122) 10:00AM Semiparametric Regression for 7:30 PM –8:30PM Leucadia Room, (1371) Measurement of Parts Data. 1st Floor, Marriott Kristin C. Mara*, Winona State University, Samantha Louise Meadows, Central Michigan University, and Organizers: Josh Laison, Willamette Rosemarie Roessel, Lehigh University University (1086-62-129) Elizabeth Moseman, 10:30AM Factor Posets and Dual Frames. National Institute of (1372) Preliminary report. Standards and Technology Eric M Evert*, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Kileen A Berry, Berry College, Thomas Wakeﬁeld, and Son T Nghiem, Berea College Youngstown State University (1086-15-139)

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ASL Invited Address 8:00AM Computational Discovery of Number (1379) Theory Identities for Mathematical 8:00 AM –8:50AM Room 7B, Upper Level, Physics Integrals. San Diego Convention Center David H Bailey,LawrenceBerkeley National Laboratory (1086-11-1342) (1373) Nonassociative Ramsey Theory and the 8:30AM Breaking Symmetry In the Computer Age. amenability of Thompson’s group. (1380) Anton Betten, Colorado State University Justin Moore, Cornell University (1086-05-253) (1086-03-134) 9:00AM Rigidity in CAD software: from algebra to (1381) combinatorics. Preliminary report. AMS-MAA Special Session on Mathematics Linnea LaMon, Carnegie Mellon and Education Reform, II University, Audrey Lee-St.John and Jessica Sidman*, Mount Holyoke College 8:00 AM –10:45AM Room 17B, Mezzanine (1086-05-1116) Level, San Diego Convention Center 9:30AM Constructing a ten-billion factor (1382) Carmichael number. Organizers: William Barker,Bowdoin Andrew Shallue*, Illinois Wesleyan College University, and Steven Hayman, Cathy Kessel,Berkeley, Clemson University (1086-11-943) California 10:00AM Primality Test with Singular Hyperelliptic William McCallum, (1383) Curves. University of Arizona Enver Ozdemir, Nanyang Technological University (1086-11-808) Bonnie Saunders,University of Illinois, Chicago 10:30AM Evaluating L-functions with few known (1384) coefﬁcients. 8:00AM Mathematicians and Scientists working Nathan C. Ryan*, Bucknell University, (1374) together in K-12 Education: Opportunities and David W. Farmer, American Institute within the NSF Mathematics and Science of Mathematics (1086-11-386) Partnership (MSP) Program. Ron Buckmire, National Science AMS Special Session on Algebraic Foundation (1086-97-2672) Combinatorics and Representation Theory, I 8:30AM N. J. Partnership for Excellence in Middle (1375) School Mathematics. Preliminary report. 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 15A, Mezzanine Amy Cohen,RutgersUniversity Level, San Diego Convention Center (1086-97-1222) Organizers: Julie Beier,Mercer 9:00AM NebraskaMATH: Building partnerships to University (1376) strengthen mathematics teaching and Gizem Karaali, Pomona learning in Nebraska. Preliminary report. College W. James Lewis,Universityof Nebraska-Lincoln (1086-97-1999) 8:00AM Promotion and rowmotion: Part 1/2. (1385) Preliminary report. 9:30AM Georgia’s Partnership for Reform in Jessica Striker*andNathan Williams, (1377) Science and Mathematics: Phase I large University of Minnesota (1086-05-2753) scale implementation and Phase II 8:30AM Combinatorial Markov chains on linear rigorous research. Sabrina A. Hessinger, Armstrong (1386) extensions. Atlantic State University (1086-97-2458) Arvind Ayyer, Steven Klee and Anne Schilling*, UC Davis (1086-05-804) 10:00AM Mathematicians and Scientists working 9:00AM Generalized splines and GKM theory. (1378) together in K-12 Education - a Discussion. (1387) Julianna Tymoczko, Smith College Dan Maki*, Indiana University, and Lee L. (1086-05-2856) Zia, National Science Foundation (1086-97-2935) 9:30AM The Hopf Monoid of Generalized (1388) Permutahedra. AMS-SIAM Special Session on Mathematics of Federico Ardila*, San Francisco State University, and Marcelo Aguiar,Texas Computation: Algebra and Number Theory, I A+M University (1086-05-1379) 10:00AM The quasi-partition algebra. 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 31A, Upper Level, (1389) Zajj B. Daugherty and Rosa San Diego Convention Center C. Orellana*, Dartmouth College Organizers: Michael Mossinghoff, (1086-16-1374) Davidson College 10:30AM Brane Tilings and Cluster Algebras. (1390) Preliminary report. ,University Cheryl Praeger In-Jee Jeong, Brown Univeristy, Gregg of Western Australia Musiker*, University of Minnesota, and Igor Shparlinksi, Macquarie Sicong Zhang, Columbia University University (1086-05-1826)

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AMS Special Session on Continued Fractions, 10:00AM Evaluating Boolean polynomials on II (1400) Hamming spheres. Ilya Dumer*andOlga Kapralova, 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 31B, Upper Level, University of California at Riverside San Diego Convention Center (1086-05-2155) 10:30AM Discussion Organizers: James McLaughlin,West Chester University AMS Special Session on Fractional, Hybrid, Nancy J. Wyshinski,Trinity and Stochastic Dynamic Systems with College Applications, I 8:00AM Bernstein-Szego˝ theorem on algebraic (1391) S-contours. 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 30E, Upper Level, Maxim L. Yattselev, Department of San Diego Convention Center Mathematics, University of Oregon (1086-41-177) Organizers: John Graef,Universityof Tennessee at Chattanooga 8:30AM On computing solutions to (1392) fx2 + gy2 = m. Gangaram S. Ladde, Kjell Wooding*, ISPIA, University of University of South Florida Calgary, and H C Williams,Universityof Aghalaya Vatsala, Calgary (1086-11-2809) University of Louisiana at 9:00AM A Generalization of Continued Fractions. Lafayette (1393) Maxwell Anselm,Odenton,MD,and 8:00AM Existence of a positive solution to a three Steven H Weintraub*, Lehigh University (1401) point φ-Laplacian boundary value (1086-11-22) problem via homotopic deformation. 9:30AM Moment Sequences. Preliminary report. Nadir Ali Benkaci,UniversityM’Hmed (1394) Saroj Aryal*, Farhad Jafari,Universityof Bouguerra, Abdelhamid Benmeza¨ı, Wyoming, Laramie, WY, and Mihai Dynamical Systems Laboratory, and Putinar, University of California at Santa Johnny Henderson*, Baylor University Barbara, CA (1086-28-291) (1086-34-181)

10:00AM Sparse Moment Sequences. Preliminary 8:30AM Applications of Contractive Mappings to (1395) report. (1402) Fractional Differential Equations with Saroj Aryal, Farhad Jafari*, University of Periodic Boundary Conditions. Wyoming, Laramie, WY, and Mihai JDiegoRamirez*, Lamar University, and Putinar, University of California at Santa Aghalaya S. Vatsala,Universityof Barbara (1086-28-219) Louisiana at Lafayette (1086-34-908)

10:30AM On the fractional parts of roots of 9:00AM Convergence and Stability Analysis of (1396) positive real numbers. (1403) Stochastic Large-Scale Approximation Melvyn B. Nathanson, Lehman College Scheme. Preliminary report. (CUNY) (1086-11-1905) G. S. Ladde, University of South Florida, and M. Sambandham*, Morehouse AMS Special Session on Discrete Geometry College (1086-60-1283) and Algebraic Combinatorics, I 9:30AM Uniqueness and parameter dependence (1404) of positive solutions to a higher order 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 16A, Mezzanine boundary value problem with fractional Level, San Diego Convention Center q-derivatives. John R. Graef*, Lingju Kong,University Organizers: Alexander Barg,University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Qingkai of Maryland Kong, Northern Illinois University, and Oleg Musin,Universityof Min Wang, University of Tennessee at Texas, Brownsville Chattanooga (1086-34-213)

8:00AM On the locality of codeword symbols. 10:00AM Energy Function Method and Stochastic (1397) Sergey Yekhanin, Microsoft Research (1405) Variational Comparison Theorems. (1086-05-591) Preliminary report. Tadesse G Zerihun*andGangaram S 8:30AM On list decoding of polar codes. Ladde, University of South Florida at (1398) Ido Tal and Alexander Vardy*, Tampa (1086-34-1350) University of California San Diego (1086-94-1294) 10:30AM Iterative Technique for Nonlinear (1406) Riemann-Liouville Fractional Differential 9:00AM Connector families of graphs. Equations. Preliminary report. (1399) *, ENST/CNRS, Gerard D. Cohen Zachary Denton*, North Carolina A&T and ,La Emanuela Fachini Janos Korner State University, and Aghalaya Vatsala, Sapienza (1086-05-1043) University of Louisiana at Lafayette 9:30AM Discussion (1086-34-1674)

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AMS Special Session on Frontiers in 9:00AM Using a (σ,θ)-basis for the KAK Geomathematics, I (1415) decomposition in Quantum Computation. Jennifer R. Daniel*andAlys M. 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 30D, Upper Level, Rodriguez, Lamar University San Diego Convention Center (1086-22-2538)

Organizers: Willi Freeden,Universityof 9:30AM Submanifolds and Riemannian foliations Kaiserlautern (1416) of symmetric spaces. Tommy Murphy, Universite Libre de Volker Michel,Universityof Bruxelles (1086-53-1454) Siegen 10:00AM Homogeneous Poisson Structures on M. Zuhair Nashed, (1417) Symmetric Spaces. University of Central Florida J. Arlo Caine*, California State 8:00AM Iterative Sparse Approximation of Polytechnic University, Pomona, and (1407) Extremely Scattered Data on the Sphere. Doug Pickrell, University of Arizona Roger Telschow, Geomathematics (1086-53-1486) Group, University of Siegen (1086-65-1209) 10:30AM Orbits of parabolic k-subgroups on (1418) symmetric k-varieties. 8:30AM A Family of Differential Approximations Gerard F. Helminck*, KdV Institute (1408) of the Radiative Transport Equation. University of Amsterdam, and Aloysius Weimin Han,UniversityofIowa G. Helminck,NCSURaleighNC (1086-65-831) (1086-20-1760) 9:00AM Solving geodesic problems on a sphere (1409) with spherical splines. AMS Special Session on Groups, Thanh Tran,TheUniversityofNew Representations, and Applications, I South Wales, Australia (1086-65-749)

9:30AM Generalized Sensitivity Analysis for 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 14A, Mezzanine (1410) Managing Uncertainty in Complex Earth Level, San Diego Convention Center Systems. Jef K Caers, Stanford University (1086-60-1066) Organizers: Robert Guralnick, University of Southern 10:00AM The GRACE de-striping problem. What California (1411) does GRACE really see? Wolfgang Keller, University Stuttgart Pham Huu Tiep,University (1086-31-1017) of Arizona

10:30AM The Finite Pointset Method (FPM) and an 8:00AM Stable Schur functions. (1412) Application in Soil Mechanics. Preliminary (1419) Sami Assaf*, University of Southern report. California, and David Speyer,University Joerg Kuhnert and Isabel Ostermann*, of Michigan (1086-05-2378) Fraunhofer ITWM (1086-86-1200) 8:30AM McKay Centralizer Algebras. AMS Special Session on Generalized (1420) Georgia Benkart*, University of Symmetric Spaces, I Wisconsin-Madison, and Tom Halverson, Macalester College (1086-05-1319) 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 15B, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center 9:00AM The GAP package Basic 1.0. Preliminary (1421) report. Organizers: Catherine Buell,Bates Klaus M. Lux, University of Arizona College (1086-20-1696)

Aloysius G. Helminck, 9:30AM The Heisenberg algebra and GL(n, q). North Carolina State (1422) Preliminary report. University Bhama Srinivasan, University of Illinois 8:00AM k-involutions of Exceptional Linear at Chicago (1086-20-1238) (1413) Algebraic Groups. Preliminary report. John D Hutchens, North Carolina State 10:00AM Odd structures arising from categoriﬁed University (1086-20-1400) (1423) quantum groups. Aaron D Lauda,UniversityofSouthern 8:30AM Hilbert series of determinantal varieties California (1086-16-583) (1414) and strongly orthogonal roots. Preliminary report. 10:30AM Representations of the afﬁne BMW Jordan Alexander*, Markus Hunziker, (1424) algebra. Preliminary report. Baylor University, and Jeb F. Willenbring, Monica Vazirani*, UC Davis, and University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Kevin Walker, Microsoft Station Q (1086-22-2474) (1086-05-1883)

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AMS Special Session on Homotopy Theory 9:00AM Categorified invariants and braid and Commutative Algebra, II (1433) conjugacy. Denis Auroux, University of California, 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 16B, Mezzanine Berkeley, John A. Baldwin, J. Elisenda Level, San Diego Convention Center Grigsby*, Boston College, and Stephan M. Wehrli, Syracuse University Organizers: Julia Bergner,Universityof (1086-57-1711) California, Riverside 9:30AM Heegaard Floer homology solid tori. Philip Hackney,University (1434) Preliminary report. of California, Riverside Liam Watson, UCLA (1086-57-1678) Inês Henriques,University of California, Riverside 10:00AM Bordered Floer homology and the Seifert (1435) form. Preliminary report. 8:00AM The homotopy theory of matrix Jennifer Hom*, Columbia University, (1425) factorizations. Preliminary report. Sam Lewallen, Princeton University, Tye Mark E Walker,Universityof Lidman, University of Texas, Austin, and Nebraska-Lincoln (1086-13-2275) Liam Watson, UCLA (1086-57-1567) 8:30AM Matrix factorizations over projective (1426) schemes. 10:30AM Floer homology and the fractional Dehn Jesse Burke*, UCLA, and Mark E (1436) twist coefficient. Walker, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Matthew Hedden, Michigan State (1086-13-2014) University, and Thomas E. Mark*, University of Virginia (1086-57-1656) 9:00AM DG homological algebra and solution to a (1427) question of Vasconcelos. AMS Special Session on Mathematical Saeed Nasseh*andSean Underpinnings of Multivariate Complexity Sather-Wagstaff, North Dakota State University (1086-13-1077) Theory and Algorithm Design, and Its Frontiers and the Field of 9:30AM Azumaya orders do not always exist. Incrementalization, I (1428) Thomas Benedict Williams,Universityof Southern California (1086-16-2587) 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 31C, Upper Level, 10:00AM Periodic modules over a Gorenstein local San Diego Convention Center (1429) ring. Preliminary report. Amanda Croll,Universityof Nebraska-Lincoln (1086-13-2739) Organizers: Rodney Downey,Victoria University of Wellington, − − 10:30AM An application to the vanishing of η( , ) New Zealand (1430) pairing. Preliminary report. Olgur Celikbas*, University of Michael Fellows,Charles Missouri-Columbia, Srikanth Iyengar, Darwin University, Australia University of Nebraska-Lincoln, ,Cornell Greg Piepmeyer,University Anil Nerode University of Missouri-Columbia, and Roger Wiegand, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Frances Rosamond,Charles (1086-13-1668) Darwin University, Australia AMS Special Session on Knots, Links, and 8:00AM Parameterized Complexity Overview. Three-manifolds, I (1437) Rodney G Downey, Victoria University (1086-68-518)

8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 32B, Upper Level, 8:30AM Incrementalization: From Clarity to San Diego Convention Center (1438) Efﬁciency. Yanhong Annie Liu, State University of Organizers: Christopher Herald, New York at Stony Brook (1086-68-1571) University of Nevada, Reno Stanislav Jabuka,University 9:00AM Database Queries - Logic and Complexity. of Nevada, Reno (1439) Moshe Y. Vardi, Rice University (1086-68-1136) Swatee Naik,Universityof Nevada, Reno 9:30AM On the AND- and OR-Conjectures: Limits 8:00AM Bordered Floer homology and splicing (1440) to Efﬁcient Preprocessing. (1431) knot complements. Andrew D Drucker, Institute for Matthew Hedden, Michigan State Advanced Study (1086-68-1505) University, and Adam Simon Levine*, 10:00AM Towards relating program Brandeis University (1086-57-2131) (1441) transformation, incremental 8:30AM A 4-dimensional interpretation of computation and parameterized (1432) tightness? complexity. Preliminary report. Matthew E Hedden, Michigan State Neil D. Jones, University of Copenhagen University (1086-57-2033) (1086-68-954)

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10:30AM On the Linear and Quais-Linear CPU Time 10:00AM Higher order Condorcet cycles. (1442) for Most Relational Calculus and Data (1450) Preliminary report. Mining Queries Using O(N) Space. Davide Cervone, Christopher Hardin Dan E Willard, University at Albany and William S. Zwicker*, Union College, (Computer Science Department) Schenectady NY (1086-91-938) (1086-68-1072) 10:30AM Symmetry groups to connect/extend AMS Special Session on Singularities in (1451) voting theory results. Donald G. Saari, University of California, Geometry and Algebra, I Irvine (1086-91-769)

8:00 AM –10:45AM Room 14B, Mezzanine AMS Special Session on the Progress in Free Level, San Diego Convention Center Probability and Free Analysis, I Organizers: John Brevik, California State University, Long Beach 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 30C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center Scott Nollet,Texas Christian University Organizers: Ken Dykema,TexasA&M 8:00AM Semi-Monotone Sets, Monotone Maps, and University (1443) Triangulation of Monotone Families. Preliminary report. Scott McCullough, Andrei Gabrielov*, Saugata Basu, University of Florida Purdue University, and Nicolai Vorobjov, 8:00AM Free monotone transport. University of Bath, UK (1086-51-1147) (1452) Alice Guionnet,ENSLyon/MIT, 9:00AM Characteristic numbers of singular and Dimitri Shlyakhtenko*, UCLA (1444) complex varieties. (1086-46-1954) Laurentiu G Maxim,Universityof 8:30AM Limit theorems for monotonic convolution Wisconsin-Madison (1086-14-1305) (1453) and the Chernoff product formula. 10:00AM The local structure of compactified John D Williams, Texas A&M University, (1445) Jacobians. College Station, Texas. (1086-47-1407) Sebastian Casalaina-Martin*, University of Colorado, Jesse Kass,Universityof 9:00AM Free probability and planar algebras. Michigan, and Filippo Viviani,Universita (1454) Stephen R Curran,Universityof Roma Tre (1086-14-974) California, Los Angeles (1086-46-2159) 9:30AM Second Order Freeness and Orthogonal AMS Special Session on the Mathematics of (1455) Random Matrices. Decisions, Elections, and Games, I James A Mingo*, Mihai V Popa, Queen’s University at Kingston, and C. Emily I. 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 17A, Mezzanine Redelmeier,UniversitéParis-Sud Level, San Diego Convention Center (1086-46-2274) 10:00AM On the Hopf algebra approach to the Organizers: Karl-Dieter Crisman, (1456) S-transform. Gordon College Alexandru Nica, University of Waterloo, Michael A. Jones, Ontario, Canada (1086-46-2422) Mathematical Reviews 10:30AM Analytic subordination for multiplicative Michael Orrison,Harvey (1457) free convolution of operator-valued Mudd College distributions. 8:00AM Cost-sharing of continuous knapsacks. Serban Teodor Belinschi*, Queen’s (1446) Andreas Darmann and Christian University, Kingston, Canada, Roland Klamler*, University of Graz Speicher,Universität des Saarlandes, (1086-91-1205) John Treilhard, Queen’s University, and Carlos Vargas,Universität des 8:30AM The Structure and Analysis of Games. Saarlandes (1086-47-1510) (1447) Daniel Jessie*andDonald Saari, Institute for Mathematical Behavioral AMS Session on Commutative Algebra Sciences, UC Irvine (1086-91-760)

9:00AM Exploring and Expanding the Robinson 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 13, Mezzanine (1448) Goforth System for 2 by 2 Games. Level, San Diego Convention Center Brian Hopkins, Saint Peter’s University (1086-91-1849) 8:00AM p-Embeddings. 9:30AM Inducible Games: Using Tit-for-Tat to (1458) Michelle Knox*, Midwestern State (1449) Stabilize Outcomes. Preliminary report. University, Papiya Bhattarcharjee, Steven J. Brams*, New York University, Penn State Erie, and Warren Wm. and D. Marc Kilgour, Wilfrid Laurier McGovern, Florida Atlantic University University (1086-91-939) (1086-13-1216)

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8:15AM NAK for Ext, Ascent of Module Structures 8:30AM Divisibility of the equivariant L-function (1459) and the Blindness of Extended Modules. (1472) value at zero for degree 2p extensions. Preliminary report. Preliminary report. Benjamin J Anderson,Universityof Barry R Smith, Lebanon Valley College Wisconsin-La Crosse (1086-13-1880) (1086-11-2467)

8:30AM I-Codualizing Modules. Preliminary 8:45AM Surpassing the Ratios Conjecture in the (1460) report. (1473) 1-level density of Dirichlet L-functions. Sean Sather-Wagstaff and Richard Daniel Fiorilli*, University of Michigan, Wicklein*, North Dakota State University and Steven J Miller, Williams College (1086-13-2428) (1086-11-1836) 8:45AM Connections between the ideal 9:00AM L-functions and functoriality for the (1461) completion and the m-adic completion of (1474) quasi-split classical groups over function a Noetherian Local Domain. fields. Preliminary report. Simplice Tchamna,NewMexico Luis A. Lomelí,TheUniversityof State University, Las Cruces, NM. Oklahoma (1086-11-207) (1086-13-1258) 9:15AM Rmanujan-Hardy-Littlewodd-Riesz 9:00AM Betti Numbers of Infinite Free (1462) Resolutions. Preliminary report. (1475) Phenomena for Hecke Forms. Gwyneth R Whieldon, Hood College Atul Dixit, Tulane University, Arindam (1086-13-2532) Roy*andAlexandru Zaharescu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Chapaign 9:15AM Modules over short Gorenstein rings. (1086-11-924) (1463) Preliminary report. Courtney Gibbons,Universityof 9:30AM Arithmeticity of Rankin-Selberg kernels. Nebraska-Lincoln (1086-13-1879) (1476) Dominic Lanphier, Western Kentucky University (1086-11-1762) 9:30AM A Linear Formula For the Generalized (1464) Multiplicity Sequence. 9:45AM The Hecke stability method. Thomas Dunn, North Dakota State (1477) George J. Schaeffer,UCLA University (1086-13-1759) (1086-11-1482)

9:45AM The Unimodality of Pure O-Sequences of 10:00AM Non-gaussian distribution in higher (1465) Type Two in Four Variables. (1478) moments of matrix elements. Preliminary Bernadette Boyle, Sacred Heart report. University (1086-13-1397) Peng Zhao,YaleUniversity 10:00AM Resolutions of Sparse Determinantal (1086-11-2859) (1466) Ideals. 10:15AM Fractional moments and density Adam Boocher, Berkeley (1086-13-1822) (1479) hypothesis of Hecke L-functions. 10:15AM Toric Ideals of Hypergraphs. Yoonbok Lee, University of Rochester (1467) Elizabeth Gross*, University of Illinois (1086-11-2600) at Chicago, and Sonja Petrovic, 10:30AM TALK CANCELLED: Exceptional Units in Pennsylvania State University (1086-13-117) (1480) Cubic Function Fields. Jonathan Webster*, Butler University, 10:30AM Tropical approach to the cyclic n-roots and Pieter Rozenhart,Universityof (1468) problem. Calgary (1086-11-2410) Danko Adrovic*andJan Verschelde, University of Illinois at Chicago 10:45AM Artin-Schreier Curves: From Improved (1086-14-208) (1481) Bounds For Rational Points To Relations Among Frobenius Angles. 10:45AM A method to calculate an invariant of Alexander Carl Mueller,Universityof (1469) Avella-Alaminos and Geiss using surface Michigan (1086-11-211) triangulations. Lucas A David-Roesler*, Lebanon Valley AMS Session on Inequalities, Measures, and College, and Ralf A Schifﬂer,University of Connecticut (1086-17-1314) Functions

AMS Session on Elliptic Curves, L-Functions, 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 30B, Upper Level, and Number Fields San Diego Convention Center

8:00AM On the Closure of the Space of 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 12, Mezzanine (1482) Substantially Darboux-like Honorary Level, San Diego Convention Center Baire Two Functions on Rn. Preliminary 8:00AM Notes on the Principal Primes of Real report. (1470) Quadratic Number Fields. M. J. Sanders,UniversityofSouth Jeongho Park, POSTECH (1086-11-374) Carolina Beaufort (1086-26-2760) 8:15AM A Variation on Leopoldt’s Conjecture for 8:15AM Univariate Hardy type fractional (1471) Galois Number Fields. (1483) inequalities. Preliminary report. Dawn Nelson, Bates College George A Anastassiou,Universityof (1086-11-274) Memphis (1086-26-74)

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8:30AM Reverse and Forward Fractional Integral 8:20AM Journals and Wikis in Hybrid and Online (1484) Inequalities. Preliminary report. (1495) Intro Statistics. George A Anastassiou,Universityof Chris Oehrlein,OklahomaCity Memphis, and Razvan A. Mezei*, Lander Community College (1086-B5-2665) University (1086-26-105) 8:40AM A Hybrid of Online Assessment and 8:45AM The Theory of Fractional Derivatives. (1496) Graded Homework: The Challenges and (1485) A Bathi Kasturiarachi, Kent State Impacts on Student Engagement and University at Stark (1086-33-2169) Learning. 9:00AM A Generalized Riesz transform. Michael A. Posner, Villanova University (1486) Javad Namazi,FairleighDickinson (1086-B5-1555) university (1086-26-1047) 9:00AM Simulation Illogic Repaired. 9:15AM Weakly symmetric functions and weakly (1497) Patricia B Humphrey, Georgia Southern (1487) symmetrically continuous functions. University (1086-B5-2338) Preliminary report. Kandasamy Muthuvel,Universityof 9:20AM Simulating with StatKey. Wisconsin Oshkosh (1086-26-2162) (1498) Kari Lock Morgan, Duke University 9:30AM Large convergent series and small (1086-B5-2376) (1488) divergent series. 9:40AM Teaching using the Lock-5 book. J. Marshall Ash,DePaulUniversity (1499) Preliminary report. (1086-26-1344) Iwan Praton, Franklin & Marshall College 9:45AM Moments of discrete measures with dense (1086-B5-1755) (1489) jumps induced by β-expansions. DoYong Kwon, Chonnam National 10:00AM Teaching Introductory Statistics Concepts University (1086-26-1219) (1500) using Resampling Methods in R. 10:00AM Scaling zeta functions of partially-lattice Judith Canner*andJon Detka, (1490) weighted self-similar systems. California State University, Monterey Bay Preliminary report. (1086-B5-2065) Robert Zbigniew Giza, California 10:20AM A mosaic sampler: Using R and RStudio State Polytechnic University, Pomona (1501) in the Intro Course with the mosaic (1086-28-2180) package. 10:15AM Scaling multifractal spectra of Randall Pruim*, Calvin College, Daniel (1491) self-similar measures. Kaplan, Macalester College, and Rolando de Santiago, California State Nicholas J Horton, Smith College Polytechnic University, Pomona, Michel L. (1086-B5-2927) Lapidus, Scott A. Roby,Universityof California, Riverside, and John A. Rock*, 10:40AM Using R for Data Analysis Assignments in California State Polytechnic University, (1502) an Introductory Statistics Course. Pomona (1086-28-366) Debra Hydorn,UniversityofMary Washington (1086-B5-1975) 10:30AM The Plateau Problem for the (1492) c-Isoperimetric Mass of Currents. MAA Session on Communicating Leobardo Rosales, Korea Institute for Advanced Study (1086-28-533) Mathematics, II 10:45AM Continued Radicals and Cantor Sets. (1493) Thomas Tyler Clark*, University of 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 33A, Upper Level, Central Florida, and Tom Richmond, San Diego Convention Center Western Kentucky University (1086-26-436) Organizers: Brian Katz, Augustana College MAA Session on Adding Modern Ideas to an Elizabeth Thoren, Introductory Statistics Course, I University of California Santa Barbara 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 5B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center 8:00AM Communication as a process skill in the (1503) POGIL classroom: Implementation Organizers: Brian T. Gill, Seattle Paciﬁc techniques. Preliminary report. University Catherine Beneteau,Universityof Scott Alberts, Truman State South Florida, Zdenka Guadarrama*, University Rockhurst University, Jill Guerra, Andrew Ziefﬂer,University University of Arkansas Fort Smith, and of Minnesota Laurie Lenz, Marymount University (1086-D1-1617) 8:00AM Technology in Achieving Course (1494) Objectives in an Introductory Statistics 8:20AM Enhancing Communication in Course. (1504) Mathematics. Khairul Islam, Eastern Michigan Joyati Debnath, Winona State University University (1086-B5-1583) (1086-D1-2855)

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8:40AM Inquiry-Based Learning and the Moore 9:20AM Creating a Blended Linear Algebra (1505) Method Works: Giving Students the (1516) Course. Opportunity to Effectively Communicate A Bathi Kasturiarachi, Kent State Mathematical Ideas. University at Stark (1086-G5-2168) Padraig M. McLoughlin and Perry 9:40AM Experimenting with Graded Group Work Y. C. Lee*, Kutztown University of (1517) in Online Synchronous Math Recitations. Pennsylvania (1086-D1-1059) Preliminary report. 9:00AM Using Modern Tools to Enhance Greg Mayer, Georgia Institute of (1506) Communication in Moore Method Technology (1086-G5-1323) Courses. 10:00AM Projects in Linear Algebra. Preliminary W. Ted Mahavier, Lamar University (1518) report. (1086-D1-1045) Annela R Kelly, Bridgewater State University (1086-G5-1858) 9:20AM Using a modiﬁed-Moore method to teach (1507) communication in mathematics. 10:20AM Mapping Out the Invertible Matrix Preliminary report. (1519) Theorem. Susan H. Marshall, Monmouth University Shannon R Lockard, Bridgewater State (1086-D1-2330) University (1086-G5-2872) 10:40AM LINE: Linear Algebra in New 9:40AM Using a Modiﬁed Moore Method to (1520) Environments – Focusing on Students’ (1508) Improve Communication. Preliminary Learning. report. Draga Vidakovic*, Georgia State , College of the Holy Sarah E. Wright University, Sergio Loch,GrandView Cross (1086-D1-2546) University, William Martin, North Dakota 10:00AM Reasoning and Communication through State University, Jeff Suzuki, Laurel (1509) Axiomatic Geometry. Cooley and Scott Dexter, Brooklyn David M. Clark, State University of New College, CUNY (1086-G5-911) York at New Paltz (1086-D1-1212) MAA Session on Touch It, Feel It, Learn 10:20AM Doing, Presenting, Speaking, and Writing It: Tactile Learning Activities in the (1510) Mathematics in an IBL Freshman Research Initiative (FRI) Mathematics Undergraduate Mathematics Classroom, I Class. Preliminary report. 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 7A, Upper Level, Mark L. Daniels, University of Texas at Austin (1086-D1-743) San Diego Convention Center

10:40AM Speaking and Thinking. Preliminary Organizers: Jessica M. Libertini, (1511) report. University of Rhode Island Michael Starbird,TheUnversityofTexas Julie Barnes,Western at Austin (1086-D1-2370) Carolina University 8:00AM Enticing Your Students to be Sweet on MAA Session on Innovative and Effective (1521) Equivalence Relations: A Tactile Approach Ways to Teach Linear Algebra, II to De-Mystifying an ”Abstract” Concept. Jenna Price Carpenter, Louisiana Tech 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 6E, Upper Level, University (1086-P5-149) San Diego Convention Center 8:20AM True/False Edge-Notched Cards: A (1522) Hands-on Deductive Reasoning Organizer: David M. Strong, Calculator. Pepperdine University Robert D Franzosa, University of Maine (1086-P5-2233) 8:00AM An Applied Project for Linear Algebra (1512) Students: Finite Element Methods. 8:40AM Juggling Finite Mathematics. Minah Oh, James Madison University (1523) Mary K. Flagg, University of Houston (1086-G5-2535) (1086-P5-1500) 9:00AM Activities for Creating and Classifying 8:20AM The Flip Side of Linear Algebra. (1524) Tessellations of the Plane. Preliminary (1513) Scott F Beaver, Western Oregon report. University (1086-G5-2355) Sharon Frechette, College of the Holy 8:40AM From Videos to Vectors: What if Ax=b Cross (1086-P5-2380) (1514) meant Ax=Me? Preliminary report. 9:20AM Tactile Learning Tasks to Enhance the Joshua J Thompson,NorthernMichigan (1525) Content Knowledge of Mathematics University (1086-G5-1677) Pre-service Teachers. 9:00AM A comparison between online and Sandra Richardson, Virginia State (1515) traditional delivery models for an University, and Debbie Gochenaur*, undergraduate course in elementary Shippensburg University (1086-P5-1227) linear algebra. 9:40AM Learn by Doing. Ronald L Merritt, Athens State University (1526) Ann C Hanson, Columbia College, (1086-G5-20) Chicago (1086-P5-2471)

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10:00AM Mathematics of Pop-up Books. 10:40AM Using Dialogue Based Activities and (1527) Jennifer Wilson, Eugene Lang College (1538) Manipulatives in Inquiry Based Learning. the New School for Liberal Arts James C. Price, University of Arkansas at (1086-P5-2778) Fort Smith (1086-R1-372) 10:20AM Hands-On Activities in a College (1528) Geometry Course. MAA Session on the Scholarship of Teaching Stacy L. Hoehn, Franklin College and Learning in Collegiate Mathematics, I (1086-P5-1580) 10:40AM Origami, volume, and dissections of the 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 3, Upper Level, (1529) cube. San Diego Convention Center Thomas C. Hull, Western New England University (1086-P5-1801) Organizers: Jacqueline Dewar, Loyola Marymount University MAA Session on Using Inquiry-Based Thomas Banchoff,Brown Learning in Mathematics for Liberal Arts University Courses, I Curtis Bennett, Loyola 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 2, Upper Level, Marymount University San Diego Convention Center Pam Crawford, Jacksonville University Organizers: Julian F. Fleron, Westfied State University Edwin Herman,University Volker Ecke, Westfield State of Wisconsin-Stevens Point University 8:00AM Peer Instruction via Learning Catalytics Philip K. Hotchkiss, (1539) Compared to Active Learning. Preliminary Westfield State University report. Christine von Renesse, James S Rolf*, Yale University, Bradley Westfield State University Warner and Lauren Scharff,U.S.Air Force Academy (1086-N5-2514) 8:00AM Using Game Theory in a Math for Liberal (1530) Arts course. 8:20AM Better student learning in a large Wayne Tarrant, Wingate University (1540) calculus classroom via higher (1086-R1-445) engagement: a comparison of teaching methods. 8:20AM Improved appreciation of mathematics (1531) through an IBL liberal arts mathematics Warren J Code*, Costanza Piccolo, course. Preliminary report. David Kohler and Mark MacLean, Russell D. Blyth, Saint Louis University University of British Columbia (1086-R1-1881) (1086-N5-2826) 8:40AM Moore Method in a Mathematics for 8:40AM TALK CANCELLED: Using the Equivalence (1532) Liberal Arts Course. (1541) Kernel of a Function to Strengthen the G. Edgar Parker, Guilford College and Teaching and Learning of One-to-One Emeritus, James Madison University Functions and Equivalence Classes in (1086-R1-677) Discrete Mathematics. Donna Beers, Simmons College 9:00AM Tailoring IBL techniques to liberal arts (1533) mathematics classes without losing (1086-N5-649) integrity or quality. Preliminary report. 9:00AM To What Extent Does Visualization TJHitchman*andDoug Shaw, (1542) Improve Conceptual Understanding in University of Northern Iowa Multivariable Calculus? Preliminary (1086-R1-1615) report. 9:20AM Hybrid Inquiry Based Learning in Math Paul E Seeburger, Monroe Community (1534) for Elementary Teachers Courses. College (1086-N5-2123) Ali S. Shaqlaih,UniversityofNorthTexas 9:20AM Insight on students’ thinking as they at Dallas (1086-R1-1492) (1543) solve related rates problems. Preliminary 9:40AM AMathCircleasanMLACourse. report. (1535) Yousuf George, Nazareth College Costanza Piccolo*andWarren Code, (1086-R1-2766) University of British Columbia 10:00AM Introduction to proof in an IBL setting for (1086-N5-2884) (1536) the liberal arts. Preliminary report. 9:40AM Applications and Confidence Inventories Ryan P Dunning, St. Mary’s University (1544) for Assessing Curricular Change in (1086-R1-107) Introductory Engineering Mathematics 10:20AM Making the Abstract Concrete: Teaching Instruction. (1537) Rings and Fields in a Liberal Arts Maria Shea Terrell*, Cornell University, Mathematics Course. and Lisa Schneider-Bentley, Engineering John Paul Cook, Univ. of Science and Learning Initatives College of Engineering Arts of Oklahoma (1086-R1-2038) Cornell University (1086-N5-1280)

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10:00AM Mathematics Partnering with Computer 9:30AM The Influence of Evolutionary Psychology (1545) Science to Improve Calculus Instruction (1554) on Natural Selection. Preliminary report. and Learning. Andrew G. Borden, Palo Alto College, Allen Guest*, Marilyn Reba, Calvin San Antonio, Texas (1086-VG-269) Williams, Roy Pargas and Ellen Breazel, 9:45AM Mathematical modeling for image Clemson University (1086-N5-2264) (1555) inpainting. 10:20AM Peer Led Team Learning in Calculus I: A Mohamed Allali, Chapman University (1546) five year study. (1086-VG-1543) John C Merkel*, Oglethorpe University, 10:00AM Stochastic Applications of Knots and and Farouk Brania, Morehouse College (1556) Literature. Preliminary report. (1086-N5-2845) Liliana Maritza Alvarez*, Anne Maree 10:40AM Group Norms Establishment and French and Ramanjit K Sahi,AustinPeay (1547) Enculturation into a Calculus 2 State University (1086-VG-581) Classroom using the Approximation 10:15AM A Frozen Pattern in Time. Preliminary Framework. Preliminary report. (1557) report. Melissa L Goss*andRebecca Anne Emarus Danielle Shay*andRamanjit K Dibbs, University of Northern Colorado Sahi, Austin Peay State University (1086-N5-2489) (1086-VG-1605) 10:30AM How Many Licks to the Tootsie Roll center MAA General Contributed Paper Session: (1558) to a Tootsie Pop? Preliminary report. Modeling and Applications of Mathematics, Cory C Heid, Siena Heights University III (1086-VG-2919) 10:45AM Mathematical Modeling as a Means of 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 33B, Upper Level, (1559) Intentional Development of Intuition. San Diego Convention Center Eva M. Strawbridge*, James Madison University, Yvonne Lai,Universityof Organizers: Stephen Davis,Davidson Michigan, and Sarah Williams,University College of North Carolina (1086-VG-1811) Gizem Karaali, Pomona College MAA General Contributed Paper Session: Douglas Norton, Villanova Research in Algebra and Topology, II University 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 33C, Upper Level, Moderators: Kyle Riley, South Dakota School of Mines & San Diego Convention Center Technology Organizers: Stephen Davis,Davidson Mariah Birgen, Wartburg College College Gizem Karaali, Pomona 8:00AM A ball-and-urn system for understanding College (1548) multilevel selection. Douglas Norton, Villanova Shishi Z Luo, Duke University University (1086-VG-1537) Moderators: Abdramane Serme,CUNY 8:15AM V-Optimal Experiment Designs for Justin Peachey,Davidson (1549) Non-Linear Models. Preliminary report. College Adam F Childers, Roanoke College (1086-VG-230) 8:00AM Magic Cayley-Sudoku Tables. Preliminary (1560) report. 8:30AM A Comprehensive Approach of Data Rosanna Mersereau and Michael B. (1550) Fusion based on Evidence Theory. Ward*, Western Oregon University Preliminary report. (1086-VJ-738) Yanyan He*andYousuff Hussaini, Florida State University (1086-VG-1777) 8:15AM A generalization of the concept of (1561) essentiality for rings and module. 8:45AM A numerical method for generalized Preliminary report. (1551) Fokker-Planck equations. Matthew J Lennon*andGary F Qiwei Sheng,TheUniversityofIowa Birkenmeier, University of Louisiana at (1086-VG-1576) Lafayette (1086-VJ-2613) 9:00AM TALK CANCELLED: Top Trading Cycle 8:30AM τ-Factorization in Commutative Rings (1552) with Random Student Preferences. (1562) with Zero-Divisors. Preliminary report. Delong Meng, Massachusetts Instittute Christopher Park Mooney,The of Technology (1086-VG-1589) University of Iowa (1086-VJ-1104) 9:15AM Singularity of Cubic Bézier Curves and 8:45AM Involutions of Linear Algebraic Groups (1553) Surfaces. (1563) over Fields of Characteristic 2. Edmond J. Nadler*, Ann Arbor, Preliminary report. Michigan, and Tae-wan Kim,Seoul Nathaniel J Schwartz, North Carolina National University (1086-VG-2492) State University (1086-VJ-927)

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9:00AM Computing the Fine Structure of 8:30AM Modeling the curvature of a fluid (1564) Symmetric k-Varieties. (1574) interface using the height function Kathryn A Brenneman,Raleigh method. Preliminary report. (1086-VJ-674) Holly Timme,VirginiaTech (1086-VL-2776) 9:15AM Classifying the Double Cosets Hk\Gk/Hk (1565) of SL(2,k). Preliminary report. 8:45AM Construction of approximate analytical Emma M Norbrothen, North Carolina (1575) solution to the porous medium equation. State University (1086-VJ-1119) Aleksey S. Telyakovskiy*andJeffrey S. Olsen, University of Nevada, Reno 9:30AM Classification on irreducible (1566) representations of the quantum Weyl (1086-VL-2201) algebra at roots of unity given by 9:00AM A Viscosity Solution of the Dynamic matrices. Preliminary report. (1576) Programming Equation for an Optimal Linhong Wang*andBlaise Heider, Control Problem. Preliminary report. Southeastern Louisiana University J. Pascal, The American University of (1086-VJ-2542) Afghanistan (1086-VL-1922) 9:45AM Groups with Perfect Order Subsets. 9:15AM Surface-Volume Reactions and Optical (1567) Preliminary report. (1577) Biosensors with Arrays of Reacting Michael C Fulkerson,Universityof Zones. Preliminary report. Central Oklahoma (1086-VJ-2415) Matt Zumbrum, University of Delaware (1086-VL-1786) 10:00AM A Geometric Proof of the Structure (1568) Theorem for Finite Abelian Groups. 9:30AM Comparison between two models for Joshua Evans Ducey,JamesMadison (1578) spreading on a thin liquid film. University (1086-VJ-2396) Ellen R. Swanson, Centre College (1086-VL-1246) 10:15AM On properties preserved by (1569) interassociation. Preliminary report. 9:45AM Computation of Effective Free Surfaces in Berit Nilsen Givens*, Cal Poly Pomona, (1579) Two Phase Flows. Preliminary report. and Rebecca Starr,UCDavis Ramesh Yapalparvi*, Dept of (1086-VJ-2352) Mechanical Engineering/FAMU-FSU college of Engineering, Florida State 10:30AM Algebraic Model of Morphisms between (1570) Infinity Group Stacks. Preliminary report. University, and Bartosz Protas, Ivan Dungan, Florida State University McMaster University (1086-VL-346) (1086-VJ-2259) 10:00AM Greene’s Criterion for the Breakup of (1580) Invariant Tori of Volume Preserving 10:45AM Star operations on numerical semigroup (1571) rings. Maps. Bryan Charles White,UniversityofNew Adam M Fox, University of Colorado, Mexico (1086-VJ-1406) Boulder (1086-VL-2679) 10:15AM Boole’s summation formula and features MAA General Contributed Paper Session: (1581) of jump singularities. Preliminary report. Research in Applied Mathematics, II Jean-Paul Berrut, University of Fribourg, Switzerland (1086-VL-536) 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 5A, Upper Level, 10:30AM Clustering in interfering models of binary San Diego Convention Center (1582) mixtures. Sarah Miracle, Dana Randall,Georgia Organizers: Stephen Davis,Davidson Institute of Technology, and Amanda College Pascoe Streib*, National Institute Gizem Karaali, Pomona of Standards and Technology College (1086-VL-1719) Douglas Norton, Villanova 10:45AM Numerical Simulation of Vortex Ring University (1583) Instability and Collisions. Leon Kaganovskiy*, Touro College, and Moderators: David Torain, Hampton Robert Krasny, University of Michigan University (1086-VL-1139) Douglas Norton, Villanova University SIAM Minisymposium on New Trends and 8:00AM Characteristics of Non-Symmetric Edge Directions in Inverse Problems and Signal (1572) Flames in Micro-Channels. Preliminary Processing report. Casey D. McGrath*andJoanna Bieri, 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 11A, Upper Level, University of Redlands (1086-VL-2880) San Diego Convention Center 8:15AM Edge informed Fourier reconstruction (1573) from non-uniform spectral data. Organizers: Zuhair Nashed,University Rodrigo B. Platte, Alexander J. of Central Florida Gutierrez*andAnne Gelb,ArizonaState Qiyu Sun,Universityof University (1086-VL-2539) Central Florida

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8:00AM Fusion Frames for Wireless Sensor 9:15AM APoincaré polynomial governing Lie (1584) Networks. (1594) bialgebras. Preliminary report. Peter G Casazza, University of Missouri Gabriel C. Drummond-Cole, (1086-46-955) Northwestern University (1086-17-2198) 8:30AM Recent Progress in Duration and 9:30AM Kostant map supealgebras. (1585) Bandwidth Limiting. (1595) Irfan Bagci, Atlanta Metropolitan State Joseph D. Lakey*, NMSU, Las Cruces, College, and Samuel H Chamberlin*, NM, and Jeffrey A. Hogan,Universityof Park University (1086-17-1940) Newcaste, Australia (1086-94-2970) 9:45AM TALK CANCELLED: Good Gradings of 9:00AM Gabor frame and rotated DFT matrices (1596) Incidence Rings. (1586) for transform-based image compression. Kenneth Lee Price,Universityof Preliminary report. Wisconsin Oshkosh (1086-16-762) John J. Benedetto, Norbert Wiener 10:00AM Orders containing a weak crossed Center, Mathematics Dept., U. Maryland, (1597) product order over a discrete valuation College Park (1086-42-1265) ring. Preliminary report. 9:30AM Dynamical Sampling: Exact Christopher James Wilson,Butler (1587) reconstruction From sensing Networks. University (1086-16-1904) Akram Aldroubi*, Vanderbilt, 10:15AM Algebras Associated to Ranked Posets. Jacqueline Davis,Mathematics, (1598) Susan J. Durst,RutgersUniversity Vanderbilt, and Ilya Krishtal,Nothern (1086-16-2574) Illinois University, Dekalb (1086-37-1325) 10:30AM Using graph techniques to understand 10:00AM PhaseLift: Exact Phase Retrieval via (1599) a nonsplit mixed p-adic module. (1588) Convex Optimization. Preliminary report. Thomas Strohmer,Universityof Mary K. Flagg, University of Houston California, Davis (1086-65-1101) (1086-05-2316) 10:30AM Sampling with the Prolate Spheroidal 10:45AM Presentations of S-unit groups of (1589) Wave Functions: A New Perspective. (1600) quaternions algebras ramified at infinity Ahmed I Zayed,DePaulUniversity and applications to the congruence (1086-42-1682) subgroup problem. Preliminary report. Sean Howe, University of Chicago Employment Center (1086-11-1572)

8:00 AM –6:00PM Exhibit Hall A, Ground AMS Session on Numerical Analysis and Level, San Diego Convention Center Finite Element Methods

PME Council Meeting 8:15 AM –10:55AM Room 19, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM Conference Suite 1, 3rd Floor, Marriott 8:15AM Galerkin Finite Element Method for (1601) Semilinear Hyperbolic Equations. AMS Session on Noncommutative Algebra Thinh T. Kieu, Texas Tech University. (1086-65-828) 8:15 AM –10:55AM Room 18, Mezzanine 8:30AM An Analysis of HDG Methods for the Level, San Diego Convention Center (1602) Helmholtz Equation. Jintao Cui*, University of Arkansas 8:15AM Decomposing Elements of a Right Self at Little Rock, and Wujun Zhang, (1590) Injective Ring. University of Maryland at College Park Feroz Siddique*andAshish K. (1086-65-101) Srivastava, Saint Louis University 8:45AM Discrete maximum principle for the finite (1086-16-339) (1603) element solution of time-dependent 8:30AM Regualr Graded Skew Clifford Algebras anisotropic diffusion problems. (1591) that are Twists of Regular Graded Xianping Li*, University of Central Clifford Algebras. Arkansas, and Weizhang Huang, Manizheh Nafari*, University of Toledo, University of Kansas (1086-65-1042) and Michaela Vancliff,Universityof 9:00AM On the equations of quasistatic Texas at Arlington (1086-16-1499) (1604) poroelasticity with dilatation dependent 8:45AM Point Modules over Graded Skew Clifford hydraulic conductivity: existence, (1592) Algebras. Preliminary report. uniqueness, and finite element Padmini Veerapen*andMichaela approximation. Vancliff, University of Texas at Arlington Song Chen*, Yanzhao Cao and A.J. Meir, (1086-16-666) Auburn University (1086-76-215) 9:00AM PBW deformations of Artin-Schelter 9:15AM Unisolvency in the finite element exterior (1593) regular algebras. (1605) calculus. Jason D Gaddis, University of Wisconsin Douglas N. Arnold,Universityof - Milwaukee (1086-16-856) Minnesota (1086-65-2299)

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9:30AM A simple preconditioning strategy for a 10:00AM Understanding Projection Operators in (1606) class of DG-H(div)-conforming methods (1615) Several Complex Variables through for the Stokes problem. Harmonic Analysis. Blanca Ayuso de Dios*, Centre de Jennifer Halfpap, University of Montana Recerca Matem`atica, Barcelona, Spain, (1086-32-1743) Franco Brezzi, IUSS-Pavia & 10:30AM The Szego Projection for domains with IMATI-CNR,Pavia (Italy), L. Donatella (1616) minimal smoothness. Preliminary report. Marini, Universita degli Studi di Pavia, Loredana Lanzani*, University of Pavia (Italy), Jinchao Xu and Ludmil T. Arkansas, and Elias M. Stein,Princeton Zikatanov, The Pennsylvania State University (1086-32-427) University (1086-65-2640) 9:45AM Discretization using H(curl) element for MAA Invited Paper Session on Thinking (1607) the Biot model. Linearly about Data in Research and L. Chen*, University of California at Teaching Irvine, L.P. Chen, Sun Yat-Sen University, M. Wang, Peking University, and J. 8:30 AM –10:55AM Room 6C, Upper Level, Xu, Pennsylvania State University San Diego Convention Center (1086-65-2877) Organizer: Timothy Chartier,Davidson 10:00AM TALK CANCELLED: Structure preserving College (1608) discretization of the Yang-Mills equation. 8:30AM Data Forensics on Your Social T. G. Halvorsen*, S. H. Christiansen and (1617) Fingerprint. T. M. Sorensen,UniversityofOslo Denise R. Koessler, Michael W. (1086-65-2278) Berry*, University of Tennessee, and 10:15AM Adaptive FEEC for Nonlinear Geometric Chris Groer, Link Analytics, LLC (1609) PDEs. Preliminary report. (1086-AF-1140) Ryan Szypowski*, Cal Poly Pomona, 9:00AM Ranking Individual Sports: Lessons from Mike Holst and Andrew Gillette,UCSD (1618) Tennis and Golf. (1086-35-2601) Chuck Wessell, Gettysburg College 10:30AM A Multigrid Method for One-Dimensional (1086-AF-470) (1610) Systems of Hyperbolic Conservation 9:30AM Sports Ratings by Linear Regression with Laws. Preliminary report. (1619) Lp norms. Michael D Bice, California State Kenneth Massey, Carson-Newman University, Stanislaus (1086-65-2659) College (1086-AF-1878) 10:45AM A Wavelet Multigrid Method Using 10:00AM Ranking with Optimization Techniques. (1611) Symmetric Biorthogonal Wavelets. (1620) Amy N. Langville, College of Charleston Preliminary report. (1086-AF-1542) Doreen De Leon, California State 10:30AM Spectral Methods for Finding University, Fresno (1086-65-817) (1621) Near-Bipartite Components in Large Scale-Free Graphs. AMS Special Session on Several Complex Van Emden Henson, Lawrence Livermore Variables Techniques in Operator Theory, I National Laboratory (1086-AF-1493)

8:30 AM –10:50AM Room 32A, Upper Level, AMS-MAA Graduate Student Fair San Diego Convention Center 8:30 AM –10:30AM Exhibit Hall B2, Ground Organizers: Zeljko Cuckovic,University Level, San Diego Convention Center of Toledo Undergrads! Take this opportunity to Sonmez Sahutoglu, meet representatives from mathematical University of Toledo science graduate programs. 8:30AM Hankel vector moment sequences and the (1612) asymptotics of two variable Pick MAA Session on Mathematics and Sports, II functions. Jim Agler,U.C.SanDiego,andJohn E. 8:40 AM –10:55AM Room 1A, Upper Level, McCarthy*, Washington University San Diego Convention Center (1086-32-511) Organizer: R. Drew Pasteur, College of 9:00AM Spectral properties of the ∂-Neumann Wooster (1613) operator. 8:40AM Numerically Approximating the Flight of Friedrich Haslinger,Universityof (1622) Baseballs and Footballs. Preliminary Vienna, Austria (1086-32-563) report. 9:30AM Regularity of the complex Green operator Paul R. Bouthellier,Universityof (1614) on pseudoconvex CR–submanifolds of Pittsburgh-Titusville (1086-K5-1853) hypersurface type. Preliminary report. 9:00AM Winning a Racquetball Match. Emil J. Straube*andYunus Zeytuncu, (1623) Brian Pasko*andTom Brown,Eastern Texas A&M University (1086-32-1787) New Mexico University (1086-K5-708)

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9:20AM Applications of Basic Statistics in World 9:00AM TALK CANCELLED: An unstructured (1624) Cup Soccer between 1930 and 1990. (1631) approach to ocean wave modelling. Preliminary report. Preliminary report. Eva G Sagan, Manchester College Adrean A Webb*, University of Colorado (1086-K5-21) at Boulder, Department of Applied Mathematics, and Baylor Fox-Kemper, 9:40AM A New Basketball Shooting Efficiency University of Colorado at Boulder, (1625) Metric. Cooperative Institute for Research in Jeffrey W. Heath*andSophie Han, Environmental Sciences (1086-86-2073) Centre College (1086-K5-2126) 9:30AM tsunami modeling and satellite 10:00AM Measuring and Predicting Performance in (1632) observations for early warnings. (1626) Hockey. Preliminary report. Brian A Macdonald, United States Y. Tony Song, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Military Academy, West Point, NY Caltech (1086-76-2472) (1086-K5-2711) 10:00AM TALK ADDED: Adaptive mesh refinement for tsunamis and other hazardous flows, 10:20AM Google’s PageRank Algorithm and its Randall J. LeVeque, University of (1627) Application to Major League Baseball Washington Transactions. Daniel L Summers, Adelphi University 10:30AM Vortex generation by deep water (1086-K5-1380) (1633) breaking waves. Nicholas E Pizzo*andW. Kendall 10:40AM Parsing the Relationship between Melville, University of California San (1628) Baserunning and Batting Abilities within Diego (1086-76-1143) Lineups. Ben S. Baumer*, Smith College, James MAA Minicourse #10: Part B Piette, University of Pennsylvania, and Brad Null, Stanford University 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Room 30A, Upper Level, (1086-K5-1069) San Diego Convention Center

MAA Retiring Presidential Address The mathematics of the Common Core. Presenters: William McCallum, 9:00 AM –9:50AM Room 6AB, Upper Level, University of Arizona San Diego Convention Center Cody L. Patterson, University of Arizona (1629) Communicating Mathematics. Paul Zorn, St. Olaf College (1086-A0-14) Ellen Whitesides,University of Arizona ASL Invited Address Kristin Umland,University of New Mexico

9:00 AM –9:50AM Room 7B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center MAA Minicourse #6: Part B

9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Room 29D, Mezzanine (1630) Interpreting the projective hierarchy in expansions of the real line. Level, San Diego Convention Center Philipp Hieronymi, University of Illinois Using randomization methods to build at Urbana-Champaign (1086-03-131) conceptual understanding of statistical inference. AMS Special Session on Water Waves, Tsunamis, and Extreme Waves, II Presenter: Robin H. Lock,St.Lawrence University

9:00 AM –10:50AM Room 9, Upper Level, MAA Minicourse #5: Part B San Diego Convention Center 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Room 29C, Mezzanine Organizers: Walter Craig,McMaster Level, San Diego Convention Center University, Canada Visualizing projective geometry through Philippe Guyenne, photographs and perspective drawings. University of Delaware Presenters: Annalisa Crannell, Franklin David Nicholls,University & Marshall College of Illinois, Chicago Marc Frantz,Indiana University Bloomington 9:00AM TALK ADDED: Inhomogeneity and nonlinearity in random wave ﬁelds, Tim Fumiko Futamura, Janssen,San Francisco State University Southwestern University

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MAA Panel Discussion Victor Katz,Universityof the District of Columbia 9:00 AM –10:20AM Room 1B, Upper Level, Peggy Kidwell,Smithsonian San Diego Convention Center Museum of American History The invigorating experience of Shirley Gray, National Curve mathematical positions abroad. Bank, California State Organizers: Deane Arganbright, Divine University, Los Angeles Word University, Papua New Guinea Student Hospitality/Information Center Donald York, Pennsylvania 9:00 AM –5:00PM Exhibit Hall B2, Ground College of Technology Level, San Diego Convention Center Erich Neuwirth,University of Vienna AMS Special Presentation Carol Shubin, California State University, Northridge 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM Room 10, Upper Level, Panelists: Deane Arganbright San Diego Convention Center Donald York A conversation on nonacademic Erich Neuwirth employment. Carol Shubin Moderator: C. Allen Butler,DanielH. Wagner Associates, Inc. AMS-MAA Joint Committee on Teaching Panelists: Erica Klampﬂ, Ford Motor Assistants and Part-Time Instructors Panel Company Discussion Kristin Lauter,Microsoft Research 9:00 AM –10:20AM Room 4, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center Linda Ness, Ericsson Dale Smith,Fiserv,Inc. Training and professional development of teaching assistants. Charles Toll,National Security Agency Organizers: David Carothers,James Madison University Exhibits and Book Sales Delaram Kahrobaei,CUNY Graduate Center 9:30 AM –5:30PM Exhibit Hall B1, Ground Panelists: Solomon Friedberg,Boston Level, San Diego Convention Center College Karen Rhea,Universityof ASL Invited Address Michigan Nathan Ritchey, 10:00 AM –10:50AM Room 7B, Upper Level, Youngstown State University San Diego Convention Center James Sellers, Pennsylvania (1634) Grothendieck’s cohomology founded on State University ﬁnite order arithmetic. Colin McLarty, Case Western Reserve SIGMAA on the History of Mathematics Panel University (1086-03-133) Discussion AMS Invited Address 9:00 AM –10:55AM Room 6F, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center 10:05 AM –10:55AM Room 6AB, Upper Using mathematical archives and special Level, San Diego Convention Center collections for research and teaching. (1635) How to count with topology. Organizers: Amy Shell-Gellasch, Hood Jordan S. Ellenberg,Universityof College Wisconsin-Madison (1086-11-3) Janet Beery,Universityof Texas Austin AMS-MAA Invited Address Panelists: Carol Mead,American Archives of Mathematics, 11:10 AM – NOON Room 6AB, Upper Level, University of Texas Austin San Diego Convention Center Fred Rickey, United States (1636) Zeros of polynomials and their Military Academy importance in combinatorics and Dominic Klyve,Euler probability. Archives, Central Robin Pemantle, David Rittenhouse Washington University Laboratories

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AMS Colloquium Lectures: Lecture III 2:30PM What mathematics did George (1646) Washington know before he became a 1:00 PM –2:00PM Room 6AB, Upper Level, professional surveyor and how did he use San Diego Convention Center it? Preliminary report. V. Frederick Rickey*, West Point., and (1637) Free probability, Random matrices, and Theodore J. Crackel,ThePapersof map enumeration, III. George Washington (1086-01-747) Alice Guionnet,EcoleNormale Sup´erieure de Lyon (1086-47-17) 3:00PM Mathematics is a Plural Noun: The Case (1647) of Oliver Byrne, Esq. MAA Lecture for Students Janet Heine Barnett, Colorado State University - Pueblo (1086-01-919)

1:00 PM –1:50PM Room 6C, Upper Level, 3:30PM Mathematical questions: A convergence San Diego Convention Center (1648) of practices in British mathematical journals, 1795-1901. (1638) The game of SET and geometry. Sloan E Despeaux, Western Carolina Judith Covington, Louisiana State University (1086-01-473) University Shreveport (1086-A0-57) 4:00PM Mathematical Publication in Early (1649) Nineteenth-Century Germany: Venues, AMS Current Events Bulletin Careers and Publics. Preliminary report. William Thomas Archibald,Simon 1:00 PM –4:45PM Room 6F, Upper Level, Fraser University (1086-01-886) San Diego Convention Center 4:30PM Why Natural Numbers Are Called Organizer: David Eisenbud,University (1650) Natural: The Impact of Social Context in of California, Berkeley Nineteenth-Century Mathematics. Preliminary report. 1:00PM How many rational points does a random (1639) curve have? Andrea Arredondo, Instituto de Wei Ho, Columbia University Investigaciones Filosoficas,´ UNAM, (1086-11-1224) Mexico City (1086-01-173) 2:00PM Topology of nonarchimedean analytic 5:00PM Analytic representation and the (1640) spaces. (1651) Mittag-Leffler “circle”: Contrasting Sam Payne,YaleUniversity notions of generality in the late 19th (1086-14-1852) century. Preliminary report. Laura E. Turner, University of Toronto 3:00PM Geometric group theory and 3-manifolds (1086-01-1861) (1641) hand in hand: the fulfillment of Thurston’s vision for three-manifolds. 5:30PM Mathematical Notations as Identifiers of Mladen Bestvina,UniversityofUtah (1652) Epistemic Cultures. Preliminary report. (1086-57-1231) Bruce J. Petrie, University of Toronto (1086-01-1149) 4:00PM Cluster Algebras. (1642) Lauren K. Williams,Universityof 6:00PM Using mathematical notation for California, Berkeley (1086-05-941) (1653) programming computers. Helena Durnova, Masaryk University in AMS-MAA Special Session on the History of Brno, Czech Republic (1086-01-933) Mathematics, I AMS-SIAM Special Session on Mathematics of 1:00 PM –6:20PM Room 9, Upper Level, Computation: Algebra and Number Theory, San Diego Convention Center II

Organizers: Patti Hunter,Westmont 1:00 PM –6:20PM Room 31A, Upper Level, College San Diego Convention Center Deborah Kent,Drake University Organizers: Michael Mossinghoff, Davidson College Adrian Rice, Randolph-Macon College Cheryl Praeger,University of Western Australia 1:00PM Algebra in Words vs. Algebra in Symbols. (1643) Preliminary report. Igor Shparlinksi, Macquarie Victor J Katz,SilverSpring,MD University (1086-01-461) 1:00PM Arithmetic progressions of squares in 1:30PM Riches from the Middle Ages. (1654) cubic ﬁelds. (1644) Barnabas B. Hughes, California State Andrew Bremner,ArizonaState University, Northridge (1086-01-826) University (1086-11-296) 2:00PM Great minds think alike – when they 1:30PM Sporadic Reinhardt polygons. (1645) share knowledge. Preliminary report. (1655) Kevin G Hare*, University of Waterloo, Janet L. Beery, University of Redlands and Michael J Mossinghoff,Davidson (1086-01-1697) College (1086-11-635)

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2:00PM Intersections of Multiplicative Translates 2:00PM Vertical Brauer groups and degree 4 del (1656) of 3-adic Cantor sets. (1667) Pezzo surfaces. William Abram and Jeffrey C. Lagarias*, Anthony V´arilly-Alvarado,Rice University of Michigan, Ann Arbor University, and Bianca Viray*, Brown (1086-11-468) University (1086-14-1767)

2:30PM Computing the image of Galois 2:30PM Generalized Mordell curves, generalized (1657) representations attached to elliptic (1668) Fermat curves, and the Hasse principle. curves. Dong Quan Ngoc Nguyen,Universityof Andrew V. Sutherland, Massachusetts British Columbia (1086-11-1172) Institute of Technology (1086-11-1903) 3:00PM Estimating torsion using the twisted 3:00PM On the Images of Outer Galois (1669) gamma-filtration. (1658) Representations Associated to Elliptic Caroline Junkins, University of Ottawa Curves. Preliminary report. (1086-14-1335) Rachel M. Davis,Universityof Wisconsin-Madison (1086-11-645) 3:30PM Essential Dimension and the Brauer (1670) Group. 3:30PM Computing Galois groups of ramified Anthony Ruozzi,EmoryUniversity (1659) 3-adic fields of degree 12. (1086-16-1830) Chad Awtrey, Elon University (1086-11-205) 4:00PM A Decomposition for Idempotents of the 4:00PM The Tame-Wild Principle. Preliminary (1671) Brauer Monoid. (1660) report. Holly E Attenborough, Indiana John Jones*, Arizona State University, University (1086-00-1008) and David Roberts,Universityof 4:30PM The Brauer monoid of quaternion rings. Minnesota-Morris (1086-11-79) (1672) John Voight, University of Vermont 4:30PM Lehmer’s conjecture for Hermitian (1086-16-1235) (1661) matrices over the Eisenstein and 5:00PM Noncommutative surfaces and curves of Gaussian integers. (1673) finite representation type. Preliminary Graeme Taylor*, Heilbronn Institute for report. Mathematical Research, and Gary Colin J Ingalls*, University of New Greaves, Royal Holloway (1086-11-77) Brunswick, and Daniel Chan,University 5:00PM Computing algebraic numbers of of New South Wales (1086-16-1802) (1662) bounded height. David Krumm, University of Georgia 5:30PM Generically Trivial Azumaya Algebras on (1086-11-92) (1674) a Rational Surface with a Non-rational Singularity. 5:30PM Spaces of Modular forms and Algebraic Drake M Harmon*, Timothy J Ford and (1663) Geometric codes. Djordje N Bulj, Florida Atlantic University Hiren Maharaj, Rancho Cucamonga, CA (1086-14-606) (1086-11-302) 6:00PM Patching and local-global principles for 6:00PM Counting Rational Points Modulo p On (1675) Brauer groups. (1664) Artin-Schreier Curves. David Harbater*, University of Alexander Carl Mueller,Universityof Pennsylvania, Julia Hartmann,RWTH Michigan (1086-11-214) Aachen University, and Daniel Krashen, University of Georgia (1086-16-2319) AMS-AWM Special Session on the Brauer Group in Algebra and Geometry, I AMS Special Session on Advances in General Optimization and Global Optimality 1:00 PM –6:20PM Room 15B, Mezzanine Conditions for Multiobjective Fractional Level, San Diego Convention Center Programming Based on Generalized Invexity Organizers: Asher Auel,Emory University 1:00 PM –5:50PM Room 31B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center Kelly McKinnie,University of Montana Organizers: Roland Glowinski, V. Suresh,EmoryUniversity University of Houston 1:00PM Degree three cohomology of function R. N. Mohapatra,University (1665) field of surfaces. of Central Florida Suresh Venapally, GA (1086-11-2342) Ram U. Verma, International 1:30PM Zero cycles on torsors under groups of Publications USA (1666) low rank. Jodi Black*, Bucknell University, Alexander J. Zaslavski, and R. Parimala,EmoryUniversity Technion-Israel Institute of (1086-11-1456) Technology

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1:00PM Generalized Higher-Order Univexities and 1:00PM Schubert times Schur. (1676) Applications to Strongly Parametric (1686) Sami Assaf*, University of Southern Duality Models for Discrete Minimax California, Nantel Bergeron,York Fractional Programming. University, and Frank Sottile,TexasA&M R. N. Mohapatra*, University of Central (1086-05-1292) Florida, and R. U. Verma, Kingsville, Texas (1086-49-1083) 1:30PM Pieri operators on the affine nil Coxeter (1687) algebra. 1:30PM Minimizers related to nonlinear Neumann (1677) boundary value problems. Chris Berg*, Franco Saliola and Luis Dumitru Motreanu,Universityof Serrano,UniversitéduQuébec à Perpignan (1086-49-543) Montréal, LaCIM (1086-05-1215)

2:00PM Minimum Principle for Stochastic 2:00PM Deformations of permutation (1678) Differential Equations Subject to (1688) representations of Coxeter groups. Continuous Diffusion and Lévy Process Eric Rains,Caltech,andMonica and Governed by Relaxed Controls. Vazirani*, UC Davis (1086-05-1939) N. U. Ahmed*, University of Ottawa, Canada, and Charalambos 2:30PM Global Weyl modules for equivariant map Charalambos, University of Cyprus (1689) algebras. (1086-49-32) Nathaniael J Manning*, University of 2:30PM Constraint Handling for Local and Global Ottawa, Ghislain Fourier,Universityof (1679) Derivative-Free Optimization methods. Cologne, and Alistair Savage,University Ahmad R. Almomani*andKatie of Ottawa (1086-17-1168) R. Fowler, Clarkson University (1086-49-1153) 3:00PM Representations and Combinatorics on (1690) the Weyl Side. 3:00PM Fractional Integral Inequalities involving Georgia Benkart*, University of (1680) Convexity. Preliminary report. Wisconsin-Madison, Samuel Lopes, George A Anastassiou,Universityof Universidade do Porto, and Matthew Memphis (1086-26-75) Ondrus, Weber State University 3:30PM Delayed Functional Differential Equation (1086-16-1655) (1681) Control Systems: A Spectral Optimization Approach. 3:30PM Abacus models in affine Weyl groups. Gamal N Elnagar,UniversityofSouth (1691) Christopher R. H. Hanusa, Queens Carolina Upstate (1086-49-1328) College (CUNY), and Brant C. Jones*, James Madison University 4:00PM Best Reply Analysis in Two Person Games. (1086-05-2263) (1682) Aden O Ahmed,TexasA&MUniversity- Kingsville (1086-91-992) 4:00PM Combinatorial Gelfand Models for 4:30PM The Epsilon-efficiency conditions (1692) Diagram Algebras. (1683) for multiobjective fractional subset Tom Halverson, Macalester College programming and generalized invex (1086-05-276) functions. Preliminary report. Ram U. Verma, International Publications 4:30PM Centralizer properties of the affine Hecke USA (1086-90-1041) (1693) algebra of type C. Preliminary report. Zajj B Daugherty, Dartmouth College 5:00PM Reverse Isoperimetric Inequalities in R3. (1086-16-2116) (1684) Andrew Gard, Ohio Wesleyan University (1086-49-1558) 5:00PM The representation theory of unipotent 5:30PM The extragradient method for solving (1694) groups and a family of q-analogues to (1685) variational inequalities. binomial coefficients. Preliminary report. Alexander J. Zaslavski, The Technion- Daniel Bragg and Nathaniel Thiem*, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa University of Colorado Boulder (1086-49-1138) (1086-20-2002)

AMS Special Session on Algebraic 5:30PM Level zero Littelmann paths, Combinatorics and Representation Theory, II (1695) Kirillov-Reshetikhin crystals, parabolic quantum Bruhat graph, and Macdonald 1:00 PM –5:50PM Room 15A, Mezzanine polynomials. Level, San Diego Convention Center Cristian Lenart, State University of New York, Albany, Satoshi Naito,Tokyo Organizers: Julie Beier,Mercer Institute of Technology, Daisuke Sagaki, University University of Tsukuba, Anne Schilling, University of California, Davis, and Gizem Karaali, Pomona Mark Shimozono*, Virginia Tech College (1086-05-335)

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AMS Special Session on Challenges in Data 1:00PM A Borsuk-Ulam equivalent that directly Assimilation and the Mathematics of Planet (1703) implies Sperner’s Lemma. Earth and Its Climate Kathryn L. Nyman, Willamette University, and Francis Edward Su*, Harvey Mudd College (1086-55-2833) 1:00 PM –5:50PM Room 17A, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center 1:30PM Asymptotics of discrete minimum energy (1704) problems. Organizers: Lewis Mitchell,Universityof Sergiy V. Borodachov,Towson Vermont University, Douglas P Hardin*and Edward B Saff, Vanderbilt University Thomas Bellsky,Arizona (1086-52-2347) State University 2:00PM The physics of error-correcting codes. 1:00PM Lagrangian Data Assimilation as a (1705) Henry Cohn*, Microsoft Research New (1696) Paradigm in Climate. Preliminary report. England, and Yufei Zhao, Massachusetts Christopher K.R.T. Jones,Universityof Institute of Technology (1086-05-2620) North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2:30PM Top Ehrhart coefﬁcients of integer (1086-76-2580) (1706) partition problems. Preliminary report. Jesus De Loera, University of California, 2:00PM How Do You Determine Whether The (1697) Earth Is Warming Up? Preliminary report. Davis (1086-52-755) Juan M. Restrepo*, University of 3:00PM On Rigidity of Ball-Polyhedra in Euclidean Arizona, Darin Comeau,Programof (1707) 3-Space. Applied Mathematics, University of Karoly Bezdek, University of Calgary Arizona, and Hermann Flaschka, (1086-52-2127) University of Arizona (1086-62-789) 3:30PM Probabilistic existence of combinatorial 2:30PM Data assimilation and model error for an (1708) and geometric t-designs. (1698) idealized 3D ocean eddy. Greg Kuperberg*, UC Davis, Shachar Elaine T. Spiller*, Marquette University, Lovett, UC San Diego, and Ron Peled, and D. W. Han,Universityof Tel Aviv University (1086-05-358) Massachusettes Amherst (1086-00-2647) 4:00PM Tiling with rectangles. (1709) Igor Pak, UCLA (1086-52-559) 3:00PM Linear response closure approximation (1699) for slow dynamics of a multiscale system 4:30PM Hard tiling problems with simple tiles. with linear coupling. (1710) Igor Pak and Jed Yang*, UCLA Marc Kjerland*andRafail Abramov, (1086-05-1405) University of Illinois at Chicago 5:00PM Formally dual conﬁgurations in Euclidean (1086-41-2332) (1711) space and in abelian groups. Abhinav Kumar*, Massachusetts 3:30PM Discussion Institute of Technology, Henry Cohn, 4:00PM New Ensemble Kalman Filter Microsoft Research New England, (1700) Applications. Christian Reiher, University of Hamburg, Eugenia Kalnay, University of Maryland and Achill Schuermann,Universityof (1086-37-2982) Rostock (1086-11-2167) PM 5:00PM Empirical correction of a toy climate 5:30 On simplicial dissections of simplotopes. (1701) model. (1712) Preliminary report. Nicholas A. Allgaier*, Christopher M. Alexey Glazyrin, University of Texas at Danforth, University of Vermont, VT Brownsville (1086-52-1513) Advanced Computing Core, VT Complex Systems Center, and Kameron D Harris, AMS Special Session on Finite Element University of Washington (1086-37-1931) Exterior Calculus and Applications, II

5:30PM Irrelevance based criterion for variable 1:00 PM –6:20PM Room 16B, Mezzanine (1702) selection. Level, San Diego Convention Center Tanujit Dey and Daniel Vasiliu*, College of William and Mary (1086-62-2517) Organizers: Douglas Arnold,University of Minnesota AMS Special Session on Discrete Geometry Andrew Gillette,University and Algebraic Combinatorics, II of California, San Diego Michael Holst,Universityof 1:00 PM –5:50PM Room 16A, Mezzanine California, San Diego Level, San Diego Convention Center 1:00PM Finite element differential forms on Organizers: Alexander Barg,University (1713) cubical meshes. of Maryland Gerard M. Awanou*, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, and Douglas N. Oleg Musin,Universityof Arnold, University of Minnesota, Texas, Brownsville Minneapolis (1086-65-175)

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1:30PM Geometric Decomposition of Serendipity M. Zuhair Nashed, (1714) Finite Element Spaces. University of Central Florida Andrew Gillette,UCSanDiego 1:00PM Spatiospectral concentration of vector (1086-65-2035) (1724) fields on a sphere: Applications to 2:00PM Conforming and divergence-free Stokes satellite geomagnetism. (1715) elements. Alain Plattner, Princeton University, Michael Neilan*, University of Department of Geosciences, and Pittsburgh, Richard S. Falk,Rutgers Frederik J Simons*, Princeton University, University, and Johnny Guzmán,Brown Department of Geosciences and Program University (1086-65-1727) in Applied and Computational 2:30PM A simple construction of high-order Mathematics (1086-31-1190) (1716) Whitney forms. 1:30PM Sub-aerial and sub-glacial stream flow. Francesca Rapetti, Laboratoire J.-A. (1725) A. C. Fowler, University of Limerick and Dieudonne, Universite de Nice University of Oxford (1086-86-1522) (1086-68-1691) 2:00PM Explicit current source modeling in global 3:00PM Bernstein-Gelfand-Gelfand Complexes. (1726) geomagnetic induction: forward and (1717) Michael Eastwood, Australian National inverse problems. University (1086-53-897) Jin Sun*, Gary D Egbert and Anna 3:30PM Computing analytic torsion. Kelbert, College of Earth, Ocean (1718) Nathan Dunfield, University of Illinois, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon and Anil N. Hirani*, Department of State University, Corvallis OR 97330 Computer Science, University of Illinois (1086-86-2624) (1086-65-2103) 2:30PM Combining line-by-line and 4:00PM On consistency of the discrete (1727) pre-frequency-averaged models in the (1719) codifferential operators for Whitney radiative-transfer equation. forms. Preliminary report. W. Van Snyder, Caltech Jet Propulsion Douglas Arnold,Universityof Laboratory (1086-86-1091) Minnesota, Richard Falk,Rutgers University, Johnny Guzmán,Brown 3:00PM From Fourier to Wavelets: A University, and Gantumur Tsogtgerel*, (1728) Geomathematical Course. McGill University (1086-65-792) Willi Freeden, Geomathematics Group, University of Kaiserslautern 4:30PM The abstract Hodge–Dirac operator and (1086-41-751) (1720) its stable discretization. Ari Stern*, Washington University in St. 3:30PM How Mathematics can Help to Observe Louis, and Paul C. Leopardi, Australian (1729) Climate Change — An Example. National University (1086-65-1942) Volker Michel, Geomathematics Group, University of Siegen (1086-65-1210) 5:00PM A New Approach to the Finite Element (1721) Analysis of Axisymmetric Problems. 4:00PM 3D-Wavelet Postprocessing of Seismic Minah Oh, James Madison University (1730) Data. (1086-65-1685) Christian Blick,Universityof Kaiserslautern (1086-86-1113) 5:30PM Equations for the probabilistic moments (1722) of the solution of the stochastic Hodge 4:30PM Stress field simulations in geothermal Laplacian. (1731) reservoirs. Preliminary report. F. Bonizzoni*, CSQI - MATHICSE EPFL, Matthias Augustin,Universityof Lausanne, Switzerland and MOX - Kaiserslautern (1086-74-1111) Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy, F. 5:00PM Weakly Bounded Noise and Applications Nobile, CSQI - MATHICSE EPFL, Lausanne, (1732) to Regularization of Ill-Posed Operator Switzerland, and A. Buffa,IMATI-CNR Equations and Moment Discretization. Pavia, Italy (1086-00-2541) M. Zuhair Nashed,UniversityofCentral 6:00PM A posteriori error estimates in finite Florida (1086-65-2978) (1723) element exterior calculus. Alan Demlow*, University of Kentucky, 5:30PM Discussion and Anil Hirani, University of Illinois (1086-65-564) AMS Special Session on Geometric and Analytic Methods in Teichmuller¨ Theory and AMS Special Session on Frontiers in Hyperbolic Geometry, II Geomathematics, II 1:00 PM –6:20PM Room 32B, Upper Level, 1:00 PM –5:50PM Room 30D, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center San Diego Convention Center Organizers: Ren Guo, Oregon State Organizers: Willi Freeden,Universityof University Kaiserlautern Zheng Huang,City Volker Michel,Universityof University of New York, Siegen Staten Island

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Marcello Lucia,City 1:30PM Overgroup lattices of reducible University of New York, (1744) subgroups of classical groups. Staten Island Michael Aschbacher, California Institute of Technology (1086-20-1552) 1:00PM Iterations on Techmuller Spaces and the a (1733) Characterization of Holomorphic Maps. 2:00PM Sp6(2 ) is “Good” for the McKay, Alperin Yunping Jiang, The City University of (1745) Weight, and Related Local-Global New York–Graduate Center and Queens Conjectures. College (1086-30-477) Amanda A. Schaeffer Fry,Universityof Arizona (1086-20-848) 1:30PM Horowitz-Randol phenomenon for (1734) q-differential metrics. 2:30PM On the GK dimension of a (g ,K) module. Anja Bankovic, University of Illinois at (1746) Preliminary report. Urbana-Champaign (1086-51-361) Nolan R Wallach, University of California, San Diego (1086-22-1411) 2:00PM Global Torelli Theorem For Projective 3:00PM Some cohomology of ﬁnite and algebraic (1735) Manifolds Of Calabi-Yau Type. (1747) groups. Kefeng Liu, Feng Guan and Xiaojing Leonard L. Scott,TheUniversityof Chen*, UCLA (1086-14-1232) Virginia (1086-20-844) 2:30PM Prescribing the behavior of 3:30PM Simple groups and commuting graphs. (1736) Weil-Petersson geodesics. (1748) Ronald Solomon*, The Ohio State Babak Modami,YaleUniversity University, and Andrew J. Woldar, (1086-51-467) Villanova University (1086-20-835) 3:00PM Teichmuller Space Is Totally Geodesic In 4:00PM Involutions and the Steinberg module. (1737) Goldman Space. Preliminary report. (1749) Preliminary report. Qiongling Li, Rice University Stephen D Smith, University of Illinois at (1086-51-661) Chicago (1086-20-866) 3:30PM Domains of discontinuity of 4:30PM Normality and Zeros of Characters of (1738) almost-Fuchsian groups. (1750) Finite Groups. Andrew M Sanders,Universityof Gabriel Navarro,UniversityofValencia Maryland, College Park (1086-53-710) (1086-20-850) 4:00PM Hyperbolic cone metrics on 3-manifolds 5:00PM On choosing coset representatives. (1739) with boundary. (1751) Preliminary report. Feng Luo and Tian Yang*, Rutgers Persi Diaconis, Stanford University University (1086-49-594) (1086-20-179)

4:30PM Geometry and dynamics in hyperbolic 5:30PM Expansion properties of linear groups. (1740) spaces. (1752) Alireza Salehi Golseﬁdy,Universityof Tushar Das, Oregon State University California, San Diego (1086-22-1925) (1086-37-1612) 6:00PM Discussion. 5:00PM The Margulis region and screw parabolic (1741) elements of bounded type. AMS Special Session on Set-Valued Viveka Erlandsson, City University Optimization and Variational Problems with of New York, Graduate Center Applications (1086-51-328) 1:00 PM –6:20PM Room 31C, Upper Level, 5:30PM Holomorphic versus hyperbolic twisting. San Diego Convention Center (1742) Christopher M Judge, Indiana University (1086-30-809) Organizers: Andreas H. Hamel,Yeshiva 6:00PM Conformal Ricci Flow on the Teichmuller¨ University (1743) Space of Conformal Structures on a Akhtar Khan,Rochester compact n-dimensional manifold, n ≥ 3. Institute of Technology Arthur E Fischer,Universityof Miguel Sama, Universidad California, Santa Cruz (1086-58-2704) Nacional de Educacin a Distancia AMS Special Session on Groups, Christiane Tammer,Martin Representations, and Applications, II Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg 1:00 PM –6:20PM Room 14A, Mezzanine 1:00PM Dennis-Mor´e theorem revisited. Level, San Diego Convention Center (1753) Asen L Dontchev,MathematicalReviews Organizers: Robert Guralnick, (1086-49-1528) University of Southern 1:30PM Scalarization in geometric and functional California (1754) vector optimization revisited. M. Durea, R. Strugariu,”Al. ,University Pham Huu Tiep I. Cuza” University, and Chr. of Arizona Tammer*, Martin-Luther-University of 1:00PM Discussion. Halle-Wittenberg (1086-49-2258)

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2:00PM Generalized Dini Derivatives of the AMS Special Session on Several Complex (1755) Perturbation Map in Parametric Variables Techniques in Operator Theory, II Set-Valued Optimization. Preliminary report. 1:00 PM –5:50PM Room 32A, Upper Level, Douglas E. Ward, Miami University (1086-49-2337) San Diego Convention Center

2:30PM Characterization and recognition of d.c. Organizers: Zeljko Cuckovic,University (1756) functions. of Toledo Ivan Ginchev Ivanov*, Illinois Institute of Sonmez Sahutoglu, Technology, and Denitza Gintcheva, University of Rochester (1086-49-592) University of Toledo 1:00PM Toeplitz operators and Carleson 3:00PM Variational Analysis of Directional (1764) measures in strongly pseudoconvex (1757) Minimal Time Functions and Applications. domains. Mau Nam Nguyen, Portland State Marco Abate*, UniversitàdiPisa,Jasmin University (1086-49-1306) Raissy,Université Paul Sabatier, Institut 3:30PM Variational properties of spectral de Mathématiques de Toulouse, and (1758) functions with an application to matrix Alberto Saracco,UniversitàdiParma preconditioning. Preliminary report. (1086-32-891) Julia Eaton*, University of Washington 1:30PM On Characterization of bounded Tacoma, and James Burke,Universityof (1765) composition operators. Washington (1086-49-2804) Song-Ying Li*, University of California, Irvine, and Hyungwoon Koo,Korea 4:00PM Second-order variational analysis and (1759) characterizations of tilt-stable optimal University, Korea (1086-32-2029) solutions in finite and infinite dimensions. 2:00PM Asymptotic Toeplitzness of composition Boris Mordukhovich and Nghia Tran*, (1766) operators. Preliminary report. Wayne State University (1086-49-271) Zeljko Cuckovic and Trieu Le*, University of Toledo (1086-47-1087) 4:30PM Restricted Normal Cones: Basic (1760) Properties and Applications. 2:30PM Generating tuples associated with Heinz H. Bauschke, University of British (1767) Reinhardt domains in Cn. Columbia, Kelowna, BC, Canada, Russell Raul E. Curto,UniversityofIowa Luke, Institut fur Numerische und (1086-47-1106) Angewandte Mathematik, Universitat Gottingen, Gottingen, Germany, Hung 3:00PM Compactness of the ∂-Neumann operator M. Phan*, Pacific Institute for the (1768) and of commutators of the Bergman Mathematicals Sciences, Vancouver, BC, projection with continuous functions. Canada, and Xianfu Wang,Universityof Mehmet Çelik*, University of North British Columbia, Kelowna, BC, Canada Texas at Dallas, and Sonmez¨ ¸ahuto S glu˘ , (1086-49-283) University of Toledo, OH (1086-32-462)

5:00PM Conical regularization of constrained 3:30PM Condition R and holomorphic maps of (1761) optimization problems in Banach spaces. (1769) piecewise smooth domains. Miguel Sama*, Universidad Nacional de Debraj Chakrabarti*, Tata Institute of Educacion a Distancia, Baasansuren Fundamental Research, and Kaushal Jadamba and Akhtar Khan,Rochester Verma, Indian Institute of Science Institute of Technology (1086-49-1741) (1086-32-495)

5:30PM Identification of a Variable Parameter in 4:00PM Regularity of canonical operators and the (1762) Fourth-Order Partial Differential (1770) Nebenhulle¨ of Hartogs domains. Equations by an Equation Error Yunus E Zeytuncu,TexasA&M Approach. University (1086-32-1845) Nathan Bush*, Akhtar A Khan, 4:30PM Commutative algebras generated by Rochester Institute of Technology, (1771) Toeplitz operators on the unit ball. , Facolt‘a di Ingegneria Fabio Raciti Nikolai Vasilevski,CINVESTAV,Mexico dell’Universit‘a di Catania, and City (1086-47-1032) Baasansuren Jadamba,Rochester Institute of Technology (1086-65-2441) 5:00PM Recent progress on complex symmetric (1772) operators. 6:00PM A Nonsmooth Convex Optimization Stephan Ramon Garcia, Pomona College (1763) Problem in the Inverse Problem of Tumor (1086-47-1435) Identification. B Jadamba, AAKhan*, Rochester 5:30PM Function spaces on the complex sphere Institute of Technology, M. Sama, (1773) and regularity of solutions of dispersive Universidad Nacional de Educacion´ a equations. Distancia, and B. Winkler,Rochester Marco M. Peloso,UniversitàdegliStudi Institute of Technology (1086-49-2254) di Milano (1086-32-1902)

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AMS Special Session on Singularities in 3:00PM Nonlinear Sierpinski´ and Riesel Numbers. Geometry and Algebra, II (1784) Carrie Finch, Washington and Lee University, Joshua Harrington, 1:00 PM –6:20PM Room 14B, Mezzanine University of South Carolina, and Lenny Level, San Diego Convention Center Jones*, Shippensburg University (1086-11-1799) Organizers: John Brevik, California State 3:30PM Variant of a theorem of Erdos˝ on the University, Long Beach (1785) sum-of-proper-divisors function. Scott Nollet,Texas Carl B. Pomerance and Hee-Sung Yang*, Christian University Dartmouth College (1086-11-70) 1:00PM Smooth curves specialize to extremal 4:00PM A polynomial investigation inspired by (1774) curves. Preliminary report. (1786) work of Schinzel and Sierpinski.´ Robin Hartshorne*, University of Joshua Harrington*andMichael California, Berkeley, Paolo Lella, Filaseta, University of South Carolina Università di Torino, Italy, and Enrico (1086-11-553) Schlesinger, Politecnico di Milano, Italy 4:30PM Strongly Coloring Pythagorean Triples (1086-14-574) (1787) using Covering Systems. 2:00PM Linear series on a ribbon. Joshua Cooper, Joshua Harrington and (1775) Dawei Chen, Boston College Daniel White*, University of South (1086-14-867) Carolina (1086-11-838) 3:00PM Vector bundles with sections on algebraic 5:00PM Recent undergraduate research on (1776) curves. Preliminary report. (1788) coverings. Preliminary report. Ivona Grzegorczyk, California Mark Kozek, Whittier College State University Channel Islands (1086-11-1497) (1086-14-1673) 5:30PM Sierpinski´ numbers with special (1789) properties. Preliminary report. 4:00PM Special sections of locally free sheaves. (1777) Chris Peterson, Colorado State R. Scott Groth*, Olivier Mahame, Jean University (1086-14-1758) Luc Mugabe, Braedon Suminski and Wenda Tu, Washington and Lee 5:00PM Toric Symmetry in Gromov-Witten University (1086-11-2581) (1778) Theory. 6:00PM Generating Composites by Appending Dagan Karp, Harvey Mudd College (1086-14-1800) (1790) Digits to Certain Types of Integers. Preliminary report. 6:00PM A Construction of Homogeneous Lenny Jones and Maria Elena (1779) Gorenstein Ideals. Preliminary report. Markovich*, Shippensburg University Sema Gunturkun*andUwe Nagel, (1086-11-1784) University of Kentucky (1086-14-1780) AMS Special Session on the Influence of AMS Special Session on the Coverings of the Ramanujan on his 125th Birthday, II Integers 1:00 PM –5:50PM Room 8, Upper Level, 1:00 PM –6:20PM Room 17B, Mezzanine San Diego Convention Center Level, San Diego Convention Center Organizers: George Andrews, Organizers: Carrie E. Finch, Washington Pennsylvania State University and Lee University Bruce Berndt,Universityof Lenny Jones, Shippensburg Illinois Urbana-Champaign University Ae Ja Yee, Pennsylvania 1:00PM An approach to odd covering systems. State University (1780) Pace P. Nielsen, Brigham Young 1:00PM Analysis of a generalized Lebesgue University (1086-11-341) (1791) identity in Ramanujan’s Lost Notebook. 1:30PM Erdos,˝ van der Cor- Krishnaswami Alladi,Universityof (1781) put, and the birth of covering congru- Florida (1086-11-566) ences. Preliminary report. 1:30PM Identities involving partial theta Carl Pomerance, Dartmouth College (1792) functions. (1086-11-350) Byungchan Kim,SeoulNational 2:00PM A polynomial problem of Turan´ modulo University of Science and Technology (1782) primes. (1086-11-1707) Michael Filaseta,UniversityofSouth 2:00PM The asymptotic number of partitions Carolina (1086-11-2641) (1793) without k-sequences. 2:30PM Bounds on the largest modulus of a Daniel M Kane, Stanford University (1783) covering with a fixed smallest modulus. (1086-11-1982) Preliminary report. 2:30PM On Certain Partition Inequalitities. Ognian Trifonov,UniversityofSouth (1794) Alexander Berkovich,Universityof Carolina (1086-11-1366) Florida, Gainesville (1086-11-2323)

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3:00PM Partitions with parity and part difference 4:30PM Two-parameter Non-commutative (1795) conditions, and Bressoud’s conjecture. (1808) Central Limit Theorem. Sun Kim*, Ohio State University, and Natasha Blitvi´c, Vanderbilt University Ae Ja Yee, Penn State University (1086-60-1429) (1086-05-1659) 3:30PM Congruences Modulo Squares of Primes 5:00PM The Free Unitary Segal-Bargmann-Hall (1796) for Fu’s k Dots Bracelet Partitions. (1809) Transform. James A. Sellers, Penn State University Todd Kemp*, University of California, (1086-11-322) San Diego, and Brian Hall,Universityof Notre Dame (1086-46-1469) 4:00PM Certain general Double-Sum Identities (1797) and variations of WP-Bailey Chains. 5:30PM Norm convergence of unitary random James McLaughlin, West Chester (1810) matrix models and quantum information (1086-33-540) theory. 4:30PM Quotient Diagrams of Partitions. Benoit Collins, University of Ottawa & (1798) Matt Katz, Pennsylvania State University CNRS (1086-46-1110) (1086-05-1651) 5:00PM New formulas for special values of the 6:00PM Recent Results in Topological Free (1799) Ramanujan zeta function. (1811) Entropy Dimension. Preliminary report. Mathew Rogers,UniversityofMontreal Don Hadwin*, University of New (1086-11-2283) Hampshire, Qihui Li, East China University of Science and Technology, 5:30PM Supercharacter theory and Ramanujan’s (1800) sum. Weihua Li,ColumbiaCollege,Chicago, Stephan Ramon Garcia, Pomona College and Junhao Shen,UniversityofNew (1086-11-764) Hampshire (1086-46-1421)

AMS Special Session on the Progress in Free MAA Minicourse #4: Part B Probability and Free Analysis, II 1:00 PM –3:00PM Room 29D, Mezzanine 1:00 PM –6:20PM Room 30C, Upper Level, Level, San Diego Convention Center San Diego Convention Center Organizers: Ken Dykema,TexasA&M Experiments in circle packing. University Presenters: Ken Stephenson,University Scott McCullough, of Tennessee University of Florida 1:00PM Tracial moment problems related to G. Brock Williams,Texas (1801) Connes’ embedding problem. Tech University Sabine Burgdorf, Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (1086-15-2260) MAA Minicourse #12: Part B 1:30PM Locally compact quantum groups and (1802) amenability. Ami Viselter, University of Alberta 1:00 PM –3:00PM Room 30A, Upper Level, (1086-46-2186) San Diego Convention Center 2:00PM Hardy Algebras, Berezin Transforms, and (1803) Taylor’s Taylor Series. Preliminary report. Teaching an applied topology course. Paul S. Muhly*, University of Iowa, and Baruch Solel, Technion (1086-46-979) Presenters: Colin Adams, Williams College 2:30PM Noncommutative Inequalities. Preliminary (1804) report. Robert Franzosa,University J William Helton*, UC San Diego, and of Maine Scott A McCullough,Universityof Florida (1086-46-1670) MAA Minicourse #14: Part B 3:00PM Hardy classes on non-commutative unit (1805) ball. Mihai Popa, Queen’s University 1:00 PM –3:00PM Room 29C, Mezzanine (1086-47-2032) Level, San Diego Convention Center 3:30PM On a Notion of Exactness for Reduced ∗ (1806) Free Products of C -Algebras. Teaching introductory statistics (for Paul Daniel Skoufranis,Universityof instructors new to teaching intro stats). California - Los Angeles (1086-47-611) 4:00PM Primitivity and unital full free products Presenters: Michael Posner, Villanova (1807) of residually finite dimensional University C∗-algebras. Ken Dykema, Texas A&M, and Francisco Carolyn Cuff, Westminster J Torres-Ayala*, UNAM (1086-46-1230) College

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AMS Session on Differential Equations and 3:30PM Existence, Uniqueness, Analyticity, and Numerical Methods (1823) Borel Summability of Boussinesq and Magnetic Benard Equations. 1:00 PM –5:10PM Room 18, Mezzanine Heather Rosenblatt*andSaleh Level, San Diego Convention Center Tanveer, The Ohio State University (1086-35-1959) 1:00PM TALK CANCELLED: On the stability and (1812) accuracy of a fourth-order Rosenbrock 3:45PM The EPS Method: A New Method for method for semi-linear parabolic (1824) Constructing Pseudospectral Differential differential equation. Operators. Wenyuan Liao, University of Calgary Keith J Wojciechowski*, University (1086-65-1481) of Wisconsin - Stout, and Kristian Sandberg, Computational Solutions Inc. 1:00PM On the Cauchy problem of a class of (1086-65-1783) (1813) integrable equations. Alex Himonas, University of Notre dame 4:00PM Traveling Wave Solutions of the Porous (1086-35-1976) (1825) Medium Equation. Preliminary report. 1:15PM Triangular modulation of downstream Laxmi P. Paudel*, University of North (1814) surface waves of water flows over a Texas, Denton, Tx, and Joseph Iaia, bump. University of North Texas (1086-35-1917) Jazlynn Q Ngo, San Diego State University (1086-97-2174) 4:15PM Nonlinear Fronts in the Swift-Hohenberg (1826) Equation as a Model for Phyllotaxis. 1:30PM Fifth-order complex Korteweg-de Vries Matthew Pennybacker*andAlan C (1815) type equations. Newell, University of Arizona Netra Khanal*, The University of Tampa, (1086-35-2554) Jiahong Wu, Oklahoma State University, and Juan-Ming Yuan,Providence 4:30PM Discussion University (1086-35-2329) 1:45PM Partial Differential Equations Practicum. 4:45PM Approximate Diagonalization (1816) Steve M. Anglin,CaseWesternReserve (1827) of Variable-Coefficient Differential University (1086-35-38) Operators Through Similarity Transformations. Preliminary report. 2:00PM A partition of unity radial basis function James V. Lambers,Universityof (1817) collocation method for partial differential Southern Mississippi (1086-65-1536) equations. Preliminary report. Alfa R.H. Heryudono*, University 5:00PM On the Convergence of α Schemes. of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and (1828) Preliminary report. Elisabeth Larsson, Dept of Information Nan Jiang, University of South Dakota Technology, Scientific Computing, (1086-65-399) Uppsala University (1086-65-1240) 2:15PM Symmetrization of Poisson’s Equation AMS Session on Financial Mathematics and (1818) with Neumann Boundary Conditions. Winning Strategies Jeffrey J Langford,DrakeUniversity (1086-35-2189) 1:00 PM –5:10PM Room 12, Mezzanine 2:30PM Convergence of A Particle Method and Level, San Diego Convention Center (1819) Global Weak Solutions of a Family of Evolutionary PDEs. Terrance L Pendleton*, Alina Chertock, 1:00PM Optimal Stopping for Markov Modulated North Carolina State University, and (1829) Diffusions. Preliminary report. Jian-Guo Liu, Duke University Thomas W Seaquist,UniversityofTexas (1086-35-1303) at Arlington (1086-60-1080) 2:45PM A Simple Construction of Nonstandard 1:15PM Pricing of geometric Asian options under (1820) Finite Difference Schemes Applied to SIR (1830) Heston’s stochastic volatility model. Problems. In-Suk Wee*, Korea University, and Bara Katharine F Gurski,HowardUniversity Kim, Korea University (1086-60-805) (1086-65-2413) 1:30PM TALK CANCELLED: Option Valuation 3:00PM Maximum Principle and Symmetry (1831) Using Fast Fourier Transform Method (1821) results for Viscosity Solution of Fully under the CAM Stochastic Volatility Nonlinear Equations. Model. Preliminary report. Jiuyi Zhu*andGuozhen Lu, Wayne State Wanwan Huang, Florida State University University (1086-35-423) (1086-60-1166) 3:15PM Time Asymptotics Of Non-Darcy Flows (1822) Controlled By Total Flux On The 1:45PM Option pricing under a coupled Boundary. (1832) additive-multiplicative stochastic Lidia Bloshanskaya*, Akif Ibragimov, volatility model. Preliminary report. Eugenio Aulisa and Luan Hoang,Texas Ibukun O Amusan,FloridaState Tech University (1086-35-554) University (1086-60-2882)

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2:00PM Non-parametric calibration of the local 5:00PM Economic Recession and Headache (1833) volatility surface for European options. (1845) Related Hospital Admissions. Jian Geng*, Florida State University, Ravi Chinta, Xavier University, Michael I. Navon,FloridaState Cincinnati, OH, MB Rao,Universityof University/Scientiﬁc Computing Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, Vivek Department, and Xiao Chen,Center Narendran, Children’s Hospital, for Applied Scientiﬁc Computing, Cincinnati, OH, Ganesh Malla and Hem Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Joshi*, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH (1086-49-1568) (1086-00-2384)

2:15PM Asymptotic Bayesian Analysis of The AMS Session on Graph Theory I (1834) Capital Asset Pricing Model. Salilesh Mukhopadhyay,Feasible 1:00 PM –5:55PM Room 13, Mezzanine Solution LLC (1086-62-349) Level, San Diego Convention Center 2:30PM Effects of Momentum Trading on Asset 1:00PM r -hued Coloring K -minor Free Graphs. (1835) Prices. 4 (1846) Huimin Song, Shandong University at Neeraj T Vijay, George Mason University Weihai, P.R.China, Hong-Jian Lai,West (1086-91-2807) Virginia University, Sun Lei, Shandong 2:45PM Robust Maximization of Asymptotic NormalUniversity,Jinan,P.R.China,and (1836) Growth under Covariance Uncertainty. Ye Chen*, West Virginia University Yu-Jui Huang*, University of Michigan, (1086-05-741) and Erhan Bayraktar,Universityof 1:15PM Construction of Digraphs With Arbitrarily Michigan (1086-60-756) (1847) Large Girth and Chromatic Number. Michael Severino, University of Montana 3:00PM Valuing Callable Bonds Based on Monte (1086-05-2039) (1837) Carlo Simulation Techniques with Least-Squares Approach. 1:30PM Some new additive and multiplicative Qi Fu, Faculty of Business (1848) Ramsey numbers. Administration, University of Macau Neil Hindman and Dev Phulara*, (1086-60-1112) Howard University (1086-05-576) 1:45PM Seeking lower bounds to Ramsey 3:15PM Mathematical Tools for Modeling (1849) numbers using Dirichlet Difference (1838) Negative Interest Rates. Preliminary Graphs. report. Joshua C Ferrerra, Armstrong Atlantic Mark Burgin,UCLA,andGunter State University (1086-05-1817) Meissner*, Shidler College of Business, University of Hawaii (1086-60-27) 2:00PM Ore’s Conjecture on color-critical graphs (1850) is almost true. 3:30PM The flat tax in post-communist Europe. Alexandr Kostochka and Matthew (1839) Preliminary report. Yancey*, University of Illinois at Wayne Tarrant, Wingate University Urbana-Champaign (1086-05-490) (1086-62-446) 2:15PM On the c-strong Chromatic Number of (1851) t-intersecting Hypergraphs. Preliminary 3:45PM Efficient Hedging For Guaranteed (1840) minimum death benefits. Preliminary report. report. Ping Ngai Chung, Massachusetts Yumin Wang, Southern Illinois University Institute of Technology (1086-05-452) (1086-60-1124) 2:30PM An improved upper bound on the (1852) adjacent vertex distinguishing chromatic 4:00PM Jump in financial market and estimation index of a graph. (1841) of earthquake- a similar analysis. Lianzhu Zhang, Xiamen University, Indranil SenGupta, North Dakota State Weifan Wang, Zhejiang Normal University, Fargo (1086-60-318) University, and Ko-Wei Lih*, Academia Sinica (1086-05-239) 4:15PM A Note on the Additive Seasonal (1842) Decomposition of Time Series. 2:45PM Reducts of the Generalized Random Preliminary report. (1853) Bipartite Graph. Preliminary report. Constantine Georgakis,DePaul Yun Lu, Kutztown University of PA University (1086-62-2745) (1086-03-1865) 3:00PM The Total Coloring Game. Preliminary 4:30PM Optimal strategy for casino blackjack: A (1854) report. (1843) Markov chain approach. Tyler Hays*, University of California, Kevin Coltin, Arizona State University Berkeley, and Luke Naftz,Universityof (1086-60-1346) Colorado, Denver (1086-05-615) 4:45PM Optimization in Baseball Lineups. 3:15PM An Arc-Weighted Second Neighborhood (1844) Brandi A. Bailes*andJennifer M. (1855) Conjecture. Switkes, California State Polytechnic Tyler Seacrest,TheUniversityof University, Pomona (1086-62-2712) Montana Western (1086-05-1693)

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3:30PM Enumerating Distinct Chessboard Tilings. 1:15PM On Warping Degree of Virtual Knot (1856) Daryl R DeFord, Washington State (1868) Diagram. University (1086-05-2133) Noureen Khan,UniversityofNorth 3:45PM Perfect tilings in graphs and digraphs. Texas at Dallas (1086-55-442) (1857) Theodore Molla*, H.A. Kierstead and 1:30PM A state model for the two-variable Andrzej Czygrinow,ArizonaState (1869) Kauffman polynomial. Preliminary report. University (1086-05-2801) David K. Heywood*andDionne F. 4:00PM Degree asymptotics of the numerical Ibarra, California State University, Fresno (1858) semigroup tree. (1086-57-217) Evan M. O’Dorney,HarvardUniversity 1:45PM On the HOMFLY-PT invariant of links in (1086-05-2762) (1870) S1 × S2. 4:15PM Packing Four Copies of a Tree into a Mikhail Lavrov, Carnegie Mellon (1859) Complete Graph. University, and Dan Rutherford*, Sean P Haler, University of Idaho University of Arkansas (1086-57-1885) (1086-05-2526) 2:00PM Properties of the head and tail of the 4:30PM The Number of Ways to Assemble a (1871) colored Jones polynomial. (1860) Graph. Cody W Armond*, University of Iowa, Andrew Vince*andMiklos Bona, and Oliver T Dasbach, Louisiana State University of Florida (1086-05-35) University (1086-57-2922) 4:45PM Hamiltonian sets of polygonal paths in a 2:15PM Classification of 0-solvable links and (1861) 4-valent spatial graphs. Preliminary (1872) results about 0.5-solvability. report. Taylor E Martin, Rice University Tilahun A Muche, Savannah State (1086-57-485) University (1086-92-1641) 2:30PM TALK CANCELLED: A subexponential 5:00PM Hamiltonian decompositions of line (1873) algorithm for computing the Kauffman (1862) graphs of regular graphs. Allen Schwenk, bracket of a link or tangle. Preliminary Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, report. MI 49008. Stephen F Sawin*, Fairfield Unversity, Allen J. Schwenk,WesternMIchigan Lauren Ellenberg, Arcadia College, University (1086-05-1810) Gabriella Newman, Carleton College, 5:15PM Embedding Cycles and Bipartite Graphs and Jonathan Shi,Universityof (1863) in PG(n,q). Preliminary report. Washington (1086-57-176) Ashley Klahr*, University of San Diego, 2:45PM An algebraic approach to knot Floer Elaina Aceves and David Heywood, (1874) homology. Preliminary report. California State University Fresno Allison L Gilmore,Universityof (1086-00-790) California Los Angeles (1086-57-2781) 5:30PM The 1-Fixed-Endpoint Path Partition 3:00PM The total rank conjecture in knot (1864) Problem on Interval Graphs. (1875) Heegaard Floer homology. Preliminary Breeanne Baker, Lehigh University report. (1086-05-481) Allison H Moore, University of Texas at 5:45PM Pancyclicity of 4-Connected, Claw-Free, Austin (1086-57-2077) (1865) N(i, j, k)-Free Graphs. Preliminary report. James Carraher,Universityof 3:15PM Cosmetic generalized crossing changes in Nebraska-Lincoln, Michael Ferrara, (1876) knots. Timothy Morris,Univ.ofColorado Cheryl Balm, Michigan State University Denver, and Michael Santana*, Univ. of (1086-53-1855) Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 3:30PM On cutting fiber surfaces along arcs, and (1086-05-822) (1877) ramifications for DNA. Dorothy Buck, Imperial College London, AMS Session on Knot Theory and 3-Manifolds Kai Ishihara, Yamaguchi University, Matt Rathbun*, Imperial College London, and 1:00 PM –5:10PM Room 19, Mezzanine Koya Shimokawa, Saitama University Level, San Diego Convention Center (1086-57-2325) 3:45PM Tangle Solutions for Site-Specific Hin (1866) TALK CANCELLED: On the Canonical (1878) Recombinase on DNA. Component of the Character Variety for Jennifer Lazarus*, University of North a Family of Hyperbolic 2-Bridge Link Texas at Dallas, and Noureen Khan, Complements. Preliminary report. University of North Texas Dallas Dallas Emily R Landes, Technion - Israel Istitute (1086-55-798) of Technology (1086-57-1705) 4:00PM Break 1:00PM Classification of Flat Virtual Pure Tangles (1867) and Bases for their Infinitesimal 4:15PM On knot complements that decompose Algebras. (1879) into regular ideal dodecahedra. Karene Chu, University of Toronto/ Neil R Hoffman, Max Planck Institute for Fields Institute (1086-57-2343) Mathematics (1086-57-506)

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4:30PM Bridge distance, Heegaard genus, and 2:45PM Structured Two-Stage Population Model (1880) Exceptional Surgeries. (1890) with Migration. Preliminary report. Ryan Blair, University of Pennsylvania, Selenne H. Garcia - Torres,Universityof Marion Campisi*, University of Texas, Southern California (1086-92-2782) Austin, Jesse Johnson, Oklahoma State University, Scott Taylor, Colby College, 3:00PM Optimal resource allocation strategy for and Maggy Tomova,UniversityofIowa (1891) the ﬁre ant (Solenopsis invicta) over (1086-57-1791) multiple seasons. Preliminary report. Erika Asano*, University of South Florida 4:45PM An algorithm to classify rational St.Petersburg, and Suzanne Lenhart, (1881) 3-tangles. Preliminary report. University of Tennessee, Knoxville Bo-hyun Kwon, Oklahoma State (1086-49-2638) University (1086-57-733) 3:15PM The effect of information asymmetry in 5:00PM 3-manifolds of S1-cat 3. (1892) Producer-Scrounger games. (1882) Dongxu Wang,FloridaStateUniversity Jan Rychtar,TheUniversityofNorth (1086-57-2668) Carolina at Greensboro (1086-91-1079)

AMS Session on Modeling Diseases, 3:30PM Analysis of a stochastic SIR model with Populations, and Resources (1893) parametric heterogeneity. Preliminary report. 1:00 PM –5:55PM Room 30B, Upper Level, Artem Novozhilov, North Dakota State San Diego Convention Center University (1086-92-238) 3:45PM TALK CANCELLED: Qualitative Analysis of 1:00PM Non-exponential models of dynamics of (1894) Stochastic SIR Model with Disease Deaths. (1883) biological communities and the Principle , Southern Ilionis of minimal of Tsallis information gain. Kursad Tosun University Carbondale (1086-60-2945) Preliminary report. Georgiy P Karev,NationalCenterfor 4:00PM Modeling and analysis of intermittently Biotechnology Information, National (1895) shed pathogens capable of environmental Institute of Health (1086-92-1770) persistence. Preliminary report. 1:15PM The Evolution of Ecological Communities. Majid Bani-Yaghoub,Universityof (1884) Carrie Diaz Eaton,UnityCollege,Maine Missouri-Kansas City (1086-92-2447) (1086-92-1381) 4:15PM Study and Analysis of Aquatic Pathogenic 1:30PM Optimal control of integrodifference (1896) Transmission. (1885) equations in a host-pathogen system. Urmi Ghosh-Dastidar*, NYCCT, CUNY, Preliminary report. and Suzanne Lenhart,NIMBioS, Marco V Martinez*andSuzanne University of Tennessee (1086-92-2373) Lenhart, The University of Tennessee / NIMBioS (1086-92-1604) 4:30PM Use of Lifespan-Shortening Wolbachia to (1897) Control Dengue Fever: Demographic 1:45PM Modeling the nonlocal dispersal of Factors. (1886) invasive plant species in heterogeneous Yingyun Shen*andMike landscapes. Mesterton-Gibbons,FloridaState Christopher Strickland*, Gerhard University (1086-92-1387) Dangelmayr and Patrick Shipman, Colorado State University (1086-92-1365) 4:45PM Estimating biting rates of Trypanosoma (1898) cruzi infected triatomine vector species 2:00PM Analysis of the Trojan Y-Chromosome on preferred sylvatic hosts in Texas. (1887) eradication strategy for an invasive Kamuela E Yong*, Arizona State species. University, Anuj Mubayi, Northeastern Xueying Wang*, Jay R. Walton,Texas Illinois University, and Christopher A&M University, Rana D. Parshad,King Kribs-Zaleta, University of Texas at Abdullah University of Science and Arlington (1086-92-2412) Technology, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Katie Storey, Carleton College, and 5:00PM Evolutionary pressures maintain May Boggess,TexasA&MUniversity (1899) consistently low parasitism rates in the (1086-34-83) parasitoid wasp Hyposoter horticola. 2:15PM A Markov chain model for the forest Preliminary report. (1888) stand dynamics. Kathryn J Montovan*, Laura E Jones, Nikolay Strigul*, Washington State Cornell University, Saskya van Nouhuys, University Vancouver, and Ionut University of Helsinki, and Hudson Kern Florescu, Stevens Institute of Technology Reeve, Cornell University (1086-92-2479) (1086-92-2814) 5:15PM TALK CANCELLED: Can Humanity 2:30PM Evolutionary stability of movement (1900) Survive? Mathematical Modeling of the (1889) strategies in a two-patch habitat Zombie Apocalypse. Preliminary report. selection model. Preliminary report. Jean Marie Marie Linhart*, Texas A&M Theodore E. Galanthay,Universityof University, and Frances G. Withrow, Colorado, Boulder (1086-92-2676) College Station, TX (1086-34-206)

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5:30PM Dynamic threshold of patch disease 3:15PM Static Two-Dimensional Sponge (1901) model for migratory birds. Preliminary (1912) Deformation. report. Brianna Kathleen Lynn*and Xiang-Sheng Wang, Memorial University Mauro Wilfredo Rubio,George of Newfoundland (1086-37-2669) Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia (1086-74-2160) 5:45PM A bioeconomic perspective on the (1902) Endangered Species Act. 3:30PM In search of universal scaling functions in Kehinde Rilwan Salau*, Arizona State (1913) a financial market model. University, and Eli P Fenichel,Yale Alissa M. Stafford,Universityof University (1086-49-2658) Maryland, College Park (1086-91-740) 3:45PM Model-Implied Measures of Risk-Adjusted AMS Session on Undergraduate Research in (1914) Returns in Stochastic Volatility Models. Applied Mathematics Joshua Cape*, Rhodes College, William Dearden, Lehigh University, William 1:00 PM –4:55PM Room 30E, Upper Level, Gamber, Pomona College, and Linh San Diego Convention Center Nguyen, Lafayette College (1086-91-631) 4:00PM Optimal Investment and Consumption 1:00PM A New High-Order Filter for Leapfrog (1915) Problem with Markovian Parameters. (1903) Time Integration of Wave Problems. Ruihua Liu,UniversityofDayton Eric Van Buren*, James Upton, (1086-91-2270) Scott Van Buren and Mohamed 4:15PM The Effect of Experiment Design on Moustaoui, Arizona State University (1916) Network Inference. Preliminary report. CSUMS (1086-00-1929) Jacqueline Marie Yanchuck*, Seton 1:15PM Do the Wave: Applying Group Finite Hill University, Caleb Marc Brown, (1904) Elements to the Shallow Water Equations. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Camila Preliminary report. Eugenia Reyes, California State George H Lytle, Asbury University University, Stanislaus, Eric Eager (1086-76-241) and Alan Veliz-Cuba,Universityof Nebraska-Lincoln (1086-93-1466) 1:30PM Optimizing Surface Plasmon Generation. 4:30PM Improving Cross-lingual Search Quality. (1905) Kyle Shaw*andDan Weingarten, George Mason University (1086-78-2469) (1917) Christie Quaranta*, Plymouth State University, Imanol Arrieta Ibarra, 1:45PM A Computational Algorithm for Instituto Tecnologico´ Autonomo´ de (1906) Estimating Conductivities. Preliminary México, Eric Schwartz,Columbia report. University, and Elena Sizikova, Annika L Jersild*, College of William & University of Oxford (1086-68-742) Mary, and Padmanabhan Seshaiyer, 4:45PM Support Vector Machines and the Exterior George Mason University (1086-49-295) (1918) Point Method. 2:00PM Effects of wildfire smoke and fog on Anna-Rose G Wolff,GeorgeMason (1907) highway visibility as shown by a University (1086-00-1672) mathematical model. Preliminary report. Andrew Getz*, Yi Ding and Zhixiong MAA Session on Actuarial Education Chen, New Jersey City University (1086-35-1038) 1:00 PM –4:15PM Room 5B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center 2:15PM Gravitational lensing by spiral galaxies. (1908) Preliminary report. Organizers: Robert Buck, Slippery Rock Abi Komanduru*, Brett Ernst and University Sean Fancher,PurdueUniversity (1086-30-2937) Thomas Wakefield, Youngstown State University 2:30PM Regional Coverage with Steerable 1:00PM TALK CANCELLED: Raising actuaries for (1909) Satellite Sensors. (1919) fun and profit. Louis Bohorquez*, Cal Poly Pomona, and Len Asimow*andDavid Hudak,Robert Jason Xu, University of Washington Morris University (1086-B1-917) (1086-00-1388) 1:20PM An Advanced Undergraduate Actuarial 2:45PM Assessing the Chaotic Nature of (1920) Science Program at One Four-year (1910) Interstellar Magnetic Fields. Comprehensive University. Preliminary Lindsay Grayson*andKirk Wallace, report. Northern Kentucky University Kevin E. Charlwood, Washburn (1086-85-1501) University (1086-B1-644) 3:00PM Paleoclimatology. 1:40PM Starting an Actuarial Science Major at a (1911) Eric Cawi, George Mason University, (1921) Liberal Arts College. and John Ensley*, Brown University Mark A Mills, Central College (1086-15-2933) (1086-B1-165)

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2:00PM An Actuarial Science Program at 2:20PM Adventures in Statistics: Encounters with (1922) Salisbury University. Preliminary report. (1933) Big Data. Barbara A Wainwright, Salisbury Jeff Randell Knisley, East Tennessee University (1086-B1-1159) State University (1086-B5-2482) 2:20PM Building an Actuarial Science Option for 2:40PM Seasonality and Autocorrelation: The (1923) Mathematics Majors. (1934) typical “problem” children in business Robert E. Buck*andRichard J. statistics. Preliminary report. , Slippery Rock University Marchand Joseph P McCollum*andArindam (1086-B1-1862) Mandal, Siena College (1086-B5-650) 2:40PM Starting an actuarial program without (1924) creating new courses. 3:00PM The New York Stock Exchange: A Real Paul T Taylor, Shippensburg University (1935) World Data Set. (1086-B1-968) Robert P. Webber, Longwood University (1086-B5-619) 3:00PM Structuring an Exam P Prep Course. (1925) Thomas P Wakefield, Youngstown State 3:20PM Real Data, Real Stakes: Introductory University (1086-B1-279) (1936) Statistics Students Predict the Wisconsin 3:20PM Preparing Students for Exam FM. Recall Election. (1926) Preliminary report. Stephen D. Szydlik*andJennifer E. Richard J. Marchand, Slippery Rock Szydlik, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh University (1086-B1-2507) (1086-B5-730) 3:40PM The M349P Project: Motivating students 3:40PM Fisher’s Test and the Ubiquity of Small (1927) to take responsibility and improve (1937) Samples. communication ability while studying for Jeff Suzuki, Brooklyn College C/4. (1086-B5-55) Mark Matthew Maxwell,Universityof Texas at Austin (1086-B1-1370) 4:00PM Incorporating Real Data Sets and Writing 4:00PM An Example of Student/Faculty Summer (1938) into an Introductory Statistics Course (1928) Research in Actuarial Mathematics: Focused on Sports and Games. Using Mathematica to do Demographic Joe DeMaio*andAmy Hillen, Kennesaw Modeling and the Surprising Relevance of State University (1086-B5-106) Hypergeometric Functions. Preliminary report. 4:20PM All the Statistics That’s Fit to Print. William M. Kinney*andJake Smith, (1939) Penelope H. Dunham, Muhlenberg Bethel University (1086-B1-839) College (1086-B5-852) 4:40PM Combining Strategies to Promote MAA Session on Adding Modern Ideas to an (1940) Meaningful Learning in Statistics. Introductory Statistics Course, II Dianna J. Spence*andSherry L. Hix, North Georgia College & State University 1:00 PM –5:35PM Room 6E, Upper Level, (1086-B5-1322) San Diego Convention Center 5:00PM A Fiddler on the Roof: Tradition vs Organizers: Brian T. Gill, Seattle Pacific (1941) Modern Methods in Teaching Inference. University Patti Frazer Lock*andRobin H. Lock, Scott Alberts, Truman State St. Lawrence University (1086-B5-2828) University 5:20PM The Other Intro Course: Combining Andrew Zieffler,University (1942) Foundations, Applications, and of Minnesota Computation in the Math Stat Course. 1:00PM Projects to Engage Students in Randall Pruim, Calvin College (1929) Introductory Statistics. Preliminary (1086-B5-2926) report. Derek Habermas*andCheryl Chute MAA Session on Effective Strategies and Miller, SUNY Potsdam (1086-B5-2490) Programs for Mentoring Women and 1:20PM Using The Island for Student Projects. Minorities in Mathematics, II (1930) Sue B. Schou, Idaho State University (1086-B5-433) 1:00 PM –2:55PM Room 33B, Upper Level, 1:40PM Use of data sets and projects in an San Diego Convention Center (1931) Applied Statistics course. K.L.D. Gunawardena,Universityof 1:00PM Two projects: An NSF ADVANCE Wisconsin Oshkosh (1086-B5-1829) (1943) mentoring program for female junior 2:00PM Introducing Big Data in an Introductory faculty members & curriculum changes (1932) Applied Statistics Course. to support female undergraduates in William H Rybolt*andJohn mathematics. DMcKenzie, Babson College Jessica M Deshler,WestVirginia (1086-B5-2705) University (1086-E5-767)

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1:20PM TALK CANCELLED: Supporting Women in 2:20PM False Confidence. (1944) STEM fields: The Wi2STEM Club’s Evolving (1953) Holly Zullo*, Carroll College, and Impact on Student Members at Clayton Christopher Storm, Adelphi University State University. (1086-F1-82) Sarah Minion*, Catherine A Matos, 2:40PM Ways to Think About Mathematics: A Mary Hudachek-Buswell and Scott (1954) Habits of Mind Approach for Teachers Bailey, Clayton State University and other Mathematicians. Preliminary (1086-E5-2968) report. 1:40PM Impact of the National Research Steven R Benson, Lesley University (1945) Experience for Undergraduates Programs (1086-F1-2465) (NREUP). Gulden Karakok*andBrian Arthur 3:00PM Mathematical Habits of Mind in the Christopher,UniversityofNorthern (1955) ”Making the Transition from High School Colorado (1086-E5-2627) to College” Project. Brian P. Beaudrie,NorthernArizona 2:00PM Faculty Perceptions of Mentoring (1946) Underrepresented Students. University (1086-F1-2444) Jerry Dwyer, Levi Johnson*and 3:20PM Using the Standards for Mathematical Sonya Sherrod, Texas Tech University (1956) Practice from the Common Core (1086-E5-2810) to Develop Mathematical Habits of 2:20PM Math 2 Excite: Creating Interest, Mind in Pre-service Teachers on the (1947) Confidence and Awareness about College Campus and in Secondary Field Mathematics among Young Women. Experiences. Preliminary report. Brian J Lindaman*andLeAnne Yenny, Sherry L Hix*andDianna J Spence, Montana State University (1086-E5-2604) North Georgia College & State University (1086-F1-2657) 2:40PM Girls and Mathematics Summer Program. (1948) Preliminary report. 3:40PM Research Experiences for Teachers: Maria Lorenz*andIrina Mitrea,Temple (1957) Developing Mathematical Habits of Mind University (1086-E5-2635) for Teaching. David D Barker*andSaad El-Zanati, MAA Session on Fostering Mathematical Illinois State University (1086-F1-2618) Habits of Mind, I 4:00PM Teachers’ Use of Core Mathematical (1958) Practices. Preliminary report. 1:00 PM –4:55PM Room 33A, Upper Level, Amy Cohen, Rutgers University, and San Diego Convention Center Jennifer V. Jones*, Center for Math Organizers: Kien H. Lim,Universityof Science and Computer Education, Texas at El Paso Rutgers University (1086-F1-940) Ays¸e A.¸ahin S ,DePaul 4:20PM Fostering mathematical habits of mind in University (1959) the middle school math teacher. Holly Hirst, Appalachian Gary A. Harris*andRaegan Higgins, State University Texas Tech University (1086-F1-833)

1:00PM General and Mathematical Habits of 4:40PM An Instructional Model for Learning (1949) Mind: An Overview. (1960) Division of Fractions and Fostering Kien H Lim, University of Texas at El Learner’s Mathematical Habit of Mind. Paso (1086-F1-914) Preliminary report. 1:20PM Developing Measures for Teachers’ Hsing Wen Hu*, University of (1950) Mathematical Habits of Mind. Preliminary Alaska Anchorage, and Cheng-Yao report. Lin, Southern Illinois University Jennifer M. Lewis*, Wayne State (1086-F1-2670) University, Detroit, MI, and Davida Fischman, Calﬁornia State University San MAA Session on Innovative and Effective Bernardino (1086-F1-2547) Ways to Teach Linear Algebra, III 1:40PM Investigations in mathematics teacher (1951) education: the role of personal reﬂection 1:00 PM –1:55PM Room 7A, Upper Level, as a learning instrument in mathematics San Diego Convention Center classes for teachers. Sarah E. Bell*, Josh Bargiband and Organizer: David M. Strong, Tetyana Berezovski,SaintJoseph’s Pepperdine University University (1086-F1-1621) 1:00PM A Linear Algebraic Approach to An Old 2:00PM Conceptualizing and Measuring (1961) Calculus Standby. (1952) Mathematical Sophistication. Susan Eileen D’Agostino, Southern New Jennifer Szydlik, Eric Kuennen, Jason Hampshire University (1086-G5-1376) Belnap, Amy Parrott*, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, and Carol Seaman, 1:20PM Tracking the transit of Venus. University of North Carolina Greensboro (1962) Andrew J Simoson, King College (1086-F1-1399) (1086-G5-841)

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1:40PM Algebra in Call of Duty: Black Ops? 1:20PM Can my smart phone be a substitute to (1963) Heidi Hulsizer, Hampden-Sydney (1973) my ofﬁce hours? Preliminary report. College (1086-G5-1912) Ahlam E Tannouri*, Morgan State University, and Sam Tannouri, Computer MAA Session on Philosophy, Mathematics, Science Department; Morgan State and Progress University (1086-R5-2868) 1:40PM Using Mobile Communication Devices in 1:00 PM –4:55PM Room 5A, Upper Level, (1974) Math Courses for Future Elementary San Diego Convention Center School Teachers. Preliminary report. Nora Franzova, Langara College, Organizers: Thomas Drucker,University Vancouver, Canada (1086-R5-1417) of Wisconsin-Whitewater 2:00PM Math Demos on the Go. Dan Sloughter,Furman (1975) Lila F Roberts*, Clayton State University, University and David R Hill,TempleUniversity (1086-R5-2339) 1:00PM From Intuition to Esoterica. 2:20PM Teaching College Algebra via the iPad. (1964) Deborah C. Arangno,Universityof (1976) Cynthia M. Traub, Southern Illinois Colorado Denver (1086-L5-459) University Edwardsville (1086-R5-2874) 1:30PM Mathematical Thinking - From Cacophony 2:40PM iPads as a Collaborative Tool. Preliminary (1965) to Consensus. (1977) report. Sean F Argyle, Kent State University Larissa B Schroeder*, Mako Haruta, (1086-L5-71) Jean McGivney-Burelle, Fei Xue and 2:00PM Mathematical Progress via Philosophy. John Williams,UniversityofHartford (1966) Thomas Drucker,Universityof (1086-R5-1352) Wisconsin–Whitewater (1086-L5-618) 3:00PM iCalculus for iPad. (1978) Ashok K Deb*andKevin Blane,U.S. 2:30PM Philosophical and mathematical (1967) considerations of continua. Preliminary Military Academy (1086-R5-1275) report. 3:20PM Sage Interacts in an Online Calculus Text. Daniel C. Sloughter, Furman University (1979) Lawrence C. Moore*andDavid A. (1086-L5-1597) Smith, Duke University (1086-R5-2485)

3:00PM John Playfair, the Scottish Enlightenment, MAA Session on the Scholarship of Teaching (1968) and ”Progress” in the History and Philosophy of Mathematics. Preliminary and Learning in Collegiate Mathematics, II report. Amy Ackerberg-Hastings,Smithsonian’s 1:00 PM –4:15PM Room 3, Upper Level, National Museum of American History San Diego Convention Center (1086-L5-45) Organizers: Jacqueline Dewar, Loyola 3:30PM Mathematics vs Philosophy. Marymount University (1969) Ruggero Ferro,UniversityofVerona, Thomas Banchoff,Brown Italy (1086-L5-365) University 4:00PM Progress in Mathematics: The Importance Curtis Bennett, Loyola (1970) of Not Assuming Too Much. Marymount University James R. Henderson,Universityof Pittsburgh at Titusville (1086-L5-209) Pam Crawford, Jacksonville University 4:30PM Kalmar’s´ Argument Against the Edwin Herman,University (1971) Plausibility of Church’s Thesis. of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Mate Szabo, Carnegie Mellon University (1086-L5-874) 1:00PM Excursions on the Sphere: Investigation of (1980) the Effectiveness of Spherical Geometry MAA Session on Using Mobile Communication to Deepen Understanding of Euclidean Devices for Mathematics Education Geometry. Preliminary report. Kristen Joy Schemmerhorn, Dominican University (1086-N5-2890) 1:00 PM –3:35PM Room 1B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center 1:20PM Teaching Mathematical Maturity through (1981) Axiomatic Geometry. Organizers: Lawrence Moore,Duke Brian Katz, Augustana College University (1086-N5-1932) 1:40PM I can’t believe my instructor expects me Lila Roberts,ClaytonState (1982) to do this: Methods for your classroom to University promote clarity related to hopes and 1:00PM Mobile Math Modeling Labs. expectations. (1972) Ben Galluzzo, Shippensburg University Laura J Schmidt,Universityof (1086-R5-2906) Wisconsin-Stout (1086-N5-1498)

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2:00PM Students’ Perceptions of Feedback and its 1:15PM The work of Leonhard Euler related to (1983) Actual Impact on Students’ Mathematical (1991) Fermat’s Last Theorem. Modeling. Preliminary report. Lee Stemkoski, Adelphi University Aladar K Horvath, Purdue University (1086-VC-1371) (1086-N5-2466) 1:30PM The Historical Roots of Math and Physics 2:20PM Improving Student Learning in (1992) in the British Isles : A Tour. (1984) Mathematics with Animations: WHYU vs. Mariah Birgen, Wartburg College Khan Academy. Preliminary report. (1086-VC-2301) Cynthia Y. Young*andTammy M 1:45PM L’Hopital’sˆ Geometric Exposition of the Muhs, University of Central Florida (1993) Calculus. (1086-N5-714) Robert E. Bradley, Adelphi University 2:40PM Comparing Online and Traditional (1086-VC-1768) (1985) Textbook Homework in a College Algebra 2:00PM Reforming Mathematics at Cambridge: Class: A Second Generation SoTL Study. (1994) George Peacock and the Tripos Exam. Preliminary report. Richard Stout, Gordon College John C Nardo*, JLynnGieger, Leah (1086-VC-1913) Zinner, Karen Schmeichel and Deborah Payne, Oglethorpe University SIAM Minisymposium on Applied, (1086-N5-1844) Computational, and Discrete Mathematics at 3:00PM Mathematical Word Problems: An National Laboratories and Federal Research (1986) Investigation of the Optimum Period of Agencies Teaching Word Problems in a College Algebra Course in Order to Maximize 1:00 PM –6:50PM Room 11A, Upper Level, Learning Outcomes. Jerry C Obiekwe,TheUniversityof San Diego Convention Center Akron Wayne College (1086-N5-166) Organizers: Rick Chartrand, Los Alamos 3:20PM Algebra in real life: what do students National Lab (1987) choose ? Gary Hewer, Naval Air Kirthi Premadasa*, University of Warfare Center Weapons Wisconsin- Baraboo/Sauk County, and Division, China Lake Kavita Bhatia, University of Wisconsin- Marshfield/Wood County (1086-N5-1534) Zuhair Nashed,University of Central Florida 3:40PM Engaging High School Math Students and (1988) Teachers Through a Proficiency-based Luminita Vese,Universityof Assessment and Reassessment of California, Los Angeles Learning Outcomes (PARLO) System. 1:00PM Image and Video Processing with Preliminary report. (1995) Nonconvex Splitting Algorithms. Michael A. Posner, Villanova University Preliminary report. (1086-N5-1553) Rick Chartrand, Los Alamos National 4:00PM Learning about teaching through Laboratory (1086-49-2080) (1989) experimentation and reflection. 1:30PM Applications of Graphs and Partial Mary Beisiegel, Oregon State University (1996) Orders at PNNL. Preliminary report. (1086-N5-2151) Emilie Hogan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (1086-05-1945) MAA General Contributed Paper Session: 2:00PM Image Analysis in Remote Sensing History and Philosophy of Mathematics (1997) Science. Preliminary report. Igor Yanovsky, Jet Propulsion 1:00 PM –2:10PM Room 33C, Upper Level, Laboratory, California Institute of San Diego Convention Center Technology (1086-35-1171) Organizers: Stephen Davis,Davidson 2:30PM Scalable adaptive function approximation College (1998) and error estimation for stochastic simulations. Gizem Karaali, Pomona Richard K Archibald, Oak Ridge National College Laboratory (1086-65-2972) Douglas Norton, Villanova 3:00PM Shape Reconstruction from Direct and University (1999) Indirect Measurements. Moderator: J. Alan Alewine, McKendree Gunay Dogan, Theiss Research, NIST University (1086-65-1891) 1:00PM A Natural Philosophical Connexion 3:30PM The Error Transport and Adjoint Methods (1990) Relating Mathematics, Science, and (2000) of Numerical Error Estimation. Progress. Preliminary report. Jeffrey W Banks, Jeffrey M Connors*, G. Arthur Mihram*, Princeton, NJ, and Jeffrey A Hittinger and Carol S Danielle Mihram,UniversityofSouthern Woodward, Lawrence Livermore National California (1086-VC-1875) Laboratory (1086-65-2965)

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4:00PM Automatically Structuring Unstructured 2:30PM Some representation theory of (2001) Data: A Probabilistic Approach and Open (2010) Sl∗(2, O/p 2) where ∗ is the identity and 2 Questions. Sl∗(2,M2(O/p )) where ∗ equals Arjuna Flenner*andGary Hewer, transpose. NAVAIR (1086-60-1506) Carmen M. Wright, Jackson State University (1086-11-2865) 4:30PM Optimal Derivatives of Noisy Simulations. (2002) Stefan M Wild, Argonne National Laboratory, Mathematics and Computer MAA Committee on the Participation of Science Division (1086-65-2663) Women in Mathematics-Joint Committee on the Participation of Women in the 5:00PM Computational Harmonic Analysis and Mathematical Sciences Panel Discussion (2003) Cauchy Problems. Preliminary report. George Fann, Oak Ridge National 1:00 PM –2:20PM Room 1A, Upper Level, Laboratory (1086-65-2994) San Diego Convention Center 5:30PM Optimization-based moment closures for (2004) kinetic equations. Preliminary report. Parental and family leave for graduate Cory Hauck, Oak Ridge National students and post docs: Policies and Laboratory (1086-65-2989) experiences. Organizers: Patricia Hale, California 6:00PM TALK ADDED: Computing on Sequoia: State Polytechnic University, Designing scalable algorithms, Matthew Pomona O’Brien, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Cathy Kessel,Berkeley, California 6:00PM TALK CANCELLED: Computing on (2005) Sequoia: The Search for Synergy Between Tanya Leise,Amherst Algorithms and Hardware. College Barna L Bihari, Lawrence Livermore Panelists: Cathy Kessel National Laboratory (1086-68-2981) Sonja Mitchell Gallagher, 6:30PM Fast Evaluating Matern Covariance University of California, (2006) Kernel by a Cartesian Treecode. Santa Barbara Lei Wang*andJie Chen, Argonne Kathryn Murphy,University National Lab (1086-65-502) of California, San Diego NAM Granville-Brown-Haynes Session of Mary Radcliffe,University of Californa, San Diego Presentations by Recent Doctoral Recipients in the Mathematical Sciences Ami Radunskaya, Pomona College

1:00 PM –2:50PM Room 11B, Upper Level, Ruth Haas, Smith College San Diego Convention Center SIGMAA on Math Circles for Students and 1:00PM Data Mining for Complex Biochemistry Teachers Poster and Activity Session (2007) Spectroscopy Data. T. Vance*, University of Maryland Eastern 1:00 PM –5:00PM Marina Ballroom Shore, D. Pokrajac, Delaware State FG, 3rd Floor, Marriott University Department of Computer and Information Sciences, A. Lazarevic, Presentations on the Circle activities United Technologies Research Center, N. listed below will be given at the indicated Reljin, Delaware State University times; complete programs will be Department of Mathematical Sciences, N. available in the session room. Melikechi, Delaware State University Organizers: Philip B. Yasskin,Texas College of Mathematics, Natural A&M University Sciences, and Technology, A. Marcano and Y. Markushin, Delaware State Sam Vandervelde,St. University Department of Physics and Lawrence University Pre-Engineering (1086-62-246) Tatiana Shubin,SanJose State University 1:30PM Biological Application for the Oriented (2008) Skein Relation. James Tanton,St.Mark’s Candice Renee Price, United States School Military Academy, West Point 1:00PM Exploring Lill’s Method for Finding (1086-57-491) Polynomial Roots; What Is in that Can of Soda?; Folding Polygons. 2:00PM Stochastic Gravitational Microlensing: (2009) Mathematical Theory and Applications. 1:30PM Navajo-Related Math Circle Activities; Alberto Mokak Teguia,RiceUniversity Pool Table Geometry; Hyperbolic Soccer (1086-83-1473) Ball.

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2:00PM Research Update on Math Teachers’ 2:30PM Non-real zeros of derivatives of a class of Circles; Exploring Lill’s Method for (2013) real entire functions. Preliminary report. Finding Polynomial Roots; What’s Up With Jessalyn Bolkema,Universityof Spot It?; Hyperbolic Soccer Ball. Nebraska - Lincoln (1086-AG-598)

2:30PM Keeping Safe: Lessons Learned Working 3:00PM Where the Critical Numbers of a with SFMC Elementary Students; (2014) Polynomial Aren’t. Navajo-Related Math Circle Activities; Matt Boelkins, Grand Valley State Operation Cookie Jar; Folding Polygons. University (1086-AG-1317)

3:00PM Keeping Safe: Lessons Learned Working 3:30PM The Lee-Yang Theorem in probability and with SFMC Elementary Students; What Is (2015) statistical physics. in that Can of Soda?; What’s Up With Alexander Vandenberg-Rodes,UCIrvine Spot It? (1086-AG-2923) 3:30PM Research Update on Math Teachers’ 4:00PM The Zeros of Eulerian polynomials and Circles; Operation Cookie Jar; Pool Table (2016) their Multivariate Extensions. Geometry. Jim Haglund, University of Pennsylvania 4:00PM Reception. (1086-AG-2036)

MAA-NSF-SIAM Panel Discussion Rocky Mountain Mathematics Consortium Board of Directors Meeting 1:00 PM –2:20PM Room 4, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center 2:15 PM –4:00PM Malibu Room, Reporting progress: A minisymposium on 4th Floor, Marriott mathematical modeling across the K–16 curriculum. MAA General Contributed Paper Session: Organizers: Richard Alo, NSF Division of Mathematics Education, I Undergraduate Education Ron Buckmire,NSFDivision 2:30 PM –5:40PM Room 33C, Upper Level, of Undergraduate Education San Diego Convention Center Lee Zia, NSF Division of Organizers: Stephen Davis,Davidson Undergraduate Education College Peter Turner,Clarkson Gizem Karaali, Pomona University and SIAM College Panelists: Ron Buckmire Douglas Norton, Villanova Peter Turner University Katherine Socha,Mathfor Moderators: Sandra Richardson,Virginia America State University Jeffrey Humphreys, Brigham Young University Martha Byrne,Universityof New Mexico Rachel Levy, Harvey Mudd College 2:30PM Math Transition into the Common Core (2017) Era. ASL Invited Address Kathryn Ernie*, Erick Brian Hofacker, University of Wisconsin - River Falls, and 1:30 PM –2:20PM Room 7B, Upper Level, Sherrie Serros, University of Wisconsin - San Diego Convention Center Eau Claire (1086-VE-669) 2:45PM Assessment of Pedagogical Content (2011) Three-type side conditions and forcing (2018) Knowledge Aligned with Common Core axioms. Standards for Pre-Student Teachers. Itay Neeman, University of California, Erick Brian Hofacker*, University of Los Angeles Wisconsin - River Falls, Sherrie Serros, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, and MAA Invited Paper Session on Where Have Kathryn Ernie, University of Wisconsin - All the Zeros Gone? River Falls (1086-VE-668)

2:00 PM –4:20PM Room 2, Upper Level, 3:00PM Using a Geometry Common Core San Diego Convention Center (2019) State Standard to Teach Function Transformations. Organizer: Stephanie Edwards,Hope Becky E Hall, Western Connecticut State College University (1086-VE-655) 2:00PM Extreme curvature of polynomials and 3:15PM IBL in redesign for introductory (2012) level sets. Preliminary report. (2020) trigonometry classes. Preliminary report. Stephanie Edwards, Hope College Edward D Smith and Vickey R Smith*, (1086-AG-535) Pima Community College (1086-VE-224)

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3:30PM Writing and using a set of IBL course 3:20PM Maharam algebras. (2021) notes in differential calculus. Preliminary (2032) Zikica Perovic*, Mira Costa College, and report. Boban Velickovic,UniversitéParis7 Brian M Loft, Sam Houston State 3:45PM Friedberg numbering in Fragments of University (1086-VE-975) (2033) Peano Arithmetic and α-recursion theory. 3:45PM Explorations in Counting and Divisibility: Wei Li, National University of Singapore (2022) An Example for Undergraduate 4:10PM Truth-table degrees of Turing complete Mathematics. Preliminary report. (2034) sets and random strings. Jathan W Austin, Salisbury University Rachel Epstein,HarvardUniversity (1086-VE-1217) 4:35PM Domatic partitions of computable 4:00PM A Pilot Study on the Impact of (2035) graphs. (2023) Incorporating Problems with Incorrect Matthew Jura, Tyler Markkanen*, Solutions into Exams on Students’ Manhattan College, and Oscar Levin, Understanding of Mathematical University of Northern Colorado Concepts. Manyiu Tse, Molloy College 5:00PM The computability of martingale (1086-VE-1529) (2036) convergence. Jason Rute, Carnegie Mellon University 4:15PM ThePassportProjectforanInteractive (2024) Classroom. Presentations by MAA Teaching Award Paul C Fonstad, Franklin College (1086-VE-1660) Recipients 4:30PM Investigating Undergraduate Students’ 2:30 PM –3:20PM Room 6C, Upper Level, (2025) Attitudes and Achievements through San Diego Convention Center Writing in Blackboard Discussion Board in College Algebra Course. Preliminary Organizers: Barbara Faires, Westminster report. College Soofia Malik*andKaren Traxler, Paul Zorn, St. Olaf College University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO (1086-VE-2322) 2:30PM Weakness to wholeness: the struggle and (2037) the hope. 4:45PM Logical Inference vis-a-vis Information (2026) Processing/linguistics. Preliminary report. Francis Su, Harvey Mudd College Homer W. Austin, Salisbury University (1086-A0-2999) (1086-VE-2012) 3:00PM Students into Mathematicians: (2038) Twenty-five years teaching at a liberal 5:00PM Online Mathematics Tutoring at a (2027) Community College. Preliminary report. arts college for women. C. Adam Feldhaus,Columbus Margaret Robinson, Mount Holyoke (1086-VE-1560) College (1086-A0-3000) 5:15PM Teacher educators’ adoption of AMS Committee on Science Policy Panel (2028) technology: Longitudinal findings from faculty teaching in a distance Discussion mathematics program. Preliminary 2:30 PM –4:00PM Room 10, Upper Level, report. David M Glassmeyer and Reshmi San Diego Convention Center Nair*, University of Northern Colorado Who will pay for the papers we publish? (1086-VE-232) Organizer: Kenneth M. Golden, 5:30PM Native American-based Mathematics University of Utah (2029) Materials for Integration into Undergraduate Courses. Moderator: Don McClure,AMS Charles Peter Funkhouser*, California Panelists: David Goss,TheOhioState State University Fullerton, California, University and Miles R Pfahl, Turtle Mountain Robion Kirby,Universityof Community College, Belcourt, ND California, Berkeley (1086-VE-726) Joachim Heinze,Springer ASL Contributed Paper Session, I MAA Session on Using Inquiry-Based 2:30 PM –5:20PM Room 7B, Upper Level, Learning in Mathematics for Liberal Arts San Diego Convention Center Courses, II

2:30PM Constructing automorphisms of corona 2:40 PM –4:55PM Room 1A, Upper Level, (2030) algebras. San Diego Convention Center Samuel Coskey,BoiseStateUniversity 2:55PM Inverse limit reflection and the structure Organizers: Julian F. Fleron, Westfied State University (2031) of L(Vλ+1). Scott Cramer, University of California, Volker Ecke, Westfield State Berkeley University

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Philip K. Hotchkiss, Amanda Katharine Westfield State University Serenevy,Riverbend Christine von Renesse, Community Math Center Westfield State University MAA Minicourse #7: Part B 2:40PM Oulipo: Applying Mathematical (2039) Constraints to Poetry, Prose, Art, Dance, and More in a Mathematics for Liberal 3:30 PM –5:30PM Room 29D, Mezzanine Arts classroom. Level, San Diego Convention Center Sloan E Despeaux, Western Carolina University (1086-R1-375) Teaching and assessing writing and presentations: Collaborative development 3:00PM Exploring the Math of Celtic Knots. of pedagogy. (2040) Teresa E. Moore*, Ithaca College, and L. Christine Kinsey, Canisius College Presenters: Susan Ruff, Massachusetts (1086-R1-2328) Institute of Technology 3:20PM Teaching Effective Thinking. Mia Minnes,Universityof (2041) Michael Starbird,TheUnversityofTexas California, San Diego at Austin (1086-R1-2473) Joel Lewis,Universityof 3:40PM Dance and ribbon patterns in maypole Minnesota (2042) dancing. Preliminary report. Volker Ecke*andChristine von MAA Minicourse #11: Part B Renesse, Westfield State University (1086-R1-983) 3:30 PM –5:30PM Room 30A, Upper Level, 4:00PM ”Statistics through Baseball”: The Moore San Diego Convention Center (2043) Method in Liberal-Arts Mathematics. ELeeMay, Salisbury University Teaching differential equations with (1086-R1-2934) modeling. 4:20PM Interdisciplinary Math for Non-STEM Presenters: Darryl Yong, Harvey Mudd (2044) Students: Curriculum Design to Facilitate College Faculty Teaching Across Disciplines. Preliminary report. Ami Radunskaya, Pomona Susan K Staats, University of Minnesota College (1086-R1-1495) Tom LoFaro,Gustavus 4:40PM Engaging Operations Research Students Adolphus College (2045) with a Local Reservoir Management Dan Flath, Macalester Problem. College Gregory Moore, Wells College, Aurora, NY (1086-R1-1457) Michael Huber, Muhlenberg College MAA Panel Discussion MAA Session on Mentoring Graduate 2:40 PM –4:00PM Room 4, Upper Level, Students: Pathways to Success San Diego Convention Center 3:30 PM –4:45PM Room 33B, Upper Level, Using technology to develop San Diego Convention Center mathematical understanding. Organizer: Gail Burrill, Michigan State Organizers: Jenna Price Carpenter, University Louisiana Tech University Panelists: Tom Dick, Oregon State Molly Fenn, North Carolina University State University

Wade Ellis, West Valley 3:30PM Future Mathematics Faculty Program at Community College (2046) UC Irvine. Preliminary report. Al Cuoco, Educational Sarah E. Eichhorn,Universityof Development Center California, Irvine (1086-L1-2903) Gail Burrill 3:50PM EDGE@ISU. (2047) Leslie Hogben, Iowa State University and MAA Minicourse #3: Part B American Institute of Mathematics (1086-L1-363) 3:30 PM –5:30PM Room 29C, Mezzanine 4:10PM Preparing STEM URM Postdoctoral Level, San Diego Convention Center (2048) Associates for Faculty Positions - A Replicable Model to Increase Diversity in How to run a successful Math Circle. Faculty Ranks. Presenters: Sam Vandervelde,St. Brooke Shipley*andManorama Lawrence University Khare, University of Illinois at Chicago Japheth Wood, Bard College (1086-L1-989)

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4:30PM How to Develop Your Mentoring Network: SIGMAA for Mathematicians in Business, (2049) Critical Skills for a Life-Long Career. Industry, and Government Business Meeting, Donna J. Dean*andCynthia L. Simpson, Guest Lecture, and Reception Association for Women in Science (1086-L1-356) 5:00 PM –8:00PM Room 4, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center MAA Session on Projects, Demonstrations, and Activities that Engage Liberal Arts 5:00PM Business meeting. Mathematics Students, II 6:00PM Is God a mathematician? (2056) Mario Livio, Space Telescope Science Institute (1086-A0-68) 3:30 PM –5:25PM Room 7A, Upper Level, 7:15PM Reception. San Diego Convention Center SIGMAA on Mathematics Instruction Using Organizer: Sarah Mabrouk, the Web Business Meeting, Reception, and Framingham State University Guest Lecture 3:30PM Using Popular Culture to introduce (2050) Mathematical Ideas. Preliminary report. 5:00 PM –6:30PM Room 1B, Upper Level, Steve Hilbert, Ithaca College San Diego Convention Center (1086-M5-2784) 5:30PM MathJax: The present and the future. (2057) Davide Cervone, Union College 3:50PM A humanistic reading component for an (1086-A0-73) (2051) introduction to proofs course. Gizem Karaali, Pomona College (1086-M5-61) MAA Special Presentation: Poetry Reading

4:10PM An open-ended project for a liberal arts 5:00 PM –7:00PM Room 3, Upper Level, (2052) mathematics course. San Diego Convention Center Ksenija Simic-Muller, Paciﬁc Lutheran Allmathematicalpoetsandthose University (1086-M5-716) interested in mathematical poetry are 4:30PM A spectrum of Values, Critical Thinking, invited. (2053) Writing, and Social Justice activities used to engage students and to assist adjuncts MAA Panel Discussion in mathematics. Preliminary report. Jacci White*andScott B. White,Saint 5:00 PM –7:00PM Room 5B, Upper Level, Leo University (1086-M5-903) San Diego Convention Center

4:50PM Service-Learning Projects and Activities Current issues in actuarial science (2054) that Engage Liberal Arts Mathematics education. Students: Implementation and Organizers: Robert Buck, Slippery Rock Assessments. University Morteza Shaﬁi-Mousavi*andPaul Bettye Anne Case,Florida Kochanowski, Indiana University South State University Bend (1086-M5-575) Steve Paris, Lebanon Valley 5:10PM A Plaidoyer for Boolean Algebra. College (2055) Helmut Knaust,TheUniversityofTexas Kevin Charlwood, at El Paso (1086-M5-2685) Washburn University Panelists: Robert Buck MAA Undergraduate Poster Session Kevin Charlwood Jim Daniel,Universityof 3:30 PM –5:30PM Exhibit Hall B2, Ground Texas at Austin Level, San Diego Convention Center SIGMAA on the Philosophy of Mathematics Organizer: Joyati Debnath,Winona Reception, Business Meeting, and Guest State University Lecture

AMS Congressional Fellowship Session 5:30 PM –7:30PM Room 5A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center 4:30 PM –6:00PM Room 10, Upper Level, 6:30PM A guide for the perplexed: What San Diego Convention Center (2058) mathematicians need to know to understand philosophers of mathematics. Organizer: Samuel M. Rankin III, Preliminary report. American Mathematical Mark Balaguer, California State Society University at Los Angeles (1086-A0-72)

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SIGMAA on Mathematical and Computational 6:00PM Large gaps between zeros of Dedekind Biology Reception, Business Meeting, and (2070) zeta-functions of quadratic number Guest Lecture fields. Preliminary report. Caroline L. Turnage-Butterbaugh, 6:00 PM –8:00PM Room 1A, Upper Level, University of Mississippi (1086-11-243) San Diego Convention Center 6:00PM Rigidity in Topological Dynamics. (2071) Preliminary report. 6:00PM Reception and business meeting. Kelly Brooke Yancey,Universityof 7:00PM Modeling and calculus for the life Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2059) sciences with WeBWorK computer labs. (1086-37-244) Joseph M. Mahaffy, San Diego State 6:00PM Betti diagrams of modules over short University (1086-A0-67) (2072) graded Gorenstein rings. Courtney Gibbons,Universityof AWM Poster Session Nebraska-Lincoln (1086-13-247) 6:00PM A Diagrammatic Multivariate Alexander 6:00 PM –7:15PM Foyer, Mezzanine Level, (2073) Invariant of Tangles. San Diego Convention Center Kathleen Grace Kennedy,Universityof California, Santa Barbara (1086-54-256) 6:00PM Bounds on the radius of the p-adic (2060) Mandelbrot set. 6:00PM Generalizing traces of Frobenius for Jacqueline Anderson,BrownUniversity (2074) metabelian Galois representations. (1086-11-84) Preliminary report. Rachel M. Davis,Universityof 6:00PM Constructing Graphs with No Immersion (2061) of Large Complete Graphs. Wisconsin-Madison (1086-11-259) Megan E. Heenehan*andKaren L. 6:00PM Twisted Weyl group multiple Dirichlet Collins, Wesleyan University (2075) series over the rational function field. (1086-05-90) Preliminary report. Holley A Friedlander,Universityof 6:00PM Almost universal ternary sums of (2062) squares and (2p +2)-gonal numbers. Massachusetts, Amherst (1086-11-266) Anna Haensch, Wesleyan University 6:00PM Knots in thick, self avoiding random (1086-11-124) (2076) walks in 3-space. Preliminary report. Laura Zirbel, University of California, 6:00PM Cross-Characteristic Representations of a Santa Barbara (1086-54-297) (2063) Sp6(2 ) and Their Restrictions to Proper Subgroups. 6:00PM The cluster value problem in spaces of Amanda A. Schaeffer Fry,Universityof (2077) continuous functions. Arizona (1086-20-147) Sofia Ortega Castillo,TexasA&M University (1086-32-298) 6:00PM Explicit Uniform Bounds for Preperiodic (2064) Points in Families of Twists. 6:00PM Unknotting Moves of Virtual Knots. Alon Levy,BrownUniversity,Michelle (2078) Preliminary report. Manes and Bianca Thompson*, Melanie DeVries, University of Nebraska University of Hawaii at Manoa - Lincoln (1086-54-299) (1086-11-154) 6:00PM Closure Properties of Stackable Groups. 6:00PM Effect of stretch-dependent proliferation (2079) Preliminary report. (2065) on collective cell migration. Ashley Johnson, University of Nebraska - Tracy L. Stepien*andDavid Swigon, Lincoln (1086-20-300) University of Pittsburgh (1086-92-161) 6:00PM Affine pavings of Hessenberg varieties. AMS-MAA Special Film Presentation (2066) Martha E Precup, University of Notre Dame (1086-14-164) 6:00 PM –6:50PM Room 6AB, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center 6:00PM Continuity Properties of Camassa–Holm (2067) Type Equations. Darwin’s Extra Sense. Katelyn J Grayshan, University of Notre Dame (1086-35-186) MAA Dramatic Presentation 6:00PM A Fast Algorithm to solve the Biharmonic (2068) equation with application to slow viscous 6:00 PM –7:00PM Room 6C, Upper Level, flow. San Diego Convention Center Aditi Ghosh*andPrabir Daripa, Texas A&M University, College Station Mathematically Bent Theater. (1086-35-196) Presenter: Colin Adams, 6:00PM New Combinatorial Methods for Mobiusbandaid Players (2069) Computing the Intersection Cohomology Poincaré Polynomial for Schubert AMS Mathematical Reviews Reception Varieties. Jennifer A. Koonz,Universityof 6:00 PM –7:00PM Mission Hills Room, Massachusetts, Amherst (1086-05-240) 3rd Floor, Marriott

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NAM Cox-Talbot Address 8:00AM Logistic Regression Classiﬁers with (2082) Longitudinal Data. 7:45 PM –8:35PM Marina Ballroom Xin Zhang, Jun Li, Department of E, 3rd Floor, Marriott Statistics, University of California, Riverside, CA, Vance Wong, Brian (2080) TheRestoftheStory. Noland, Alere Corporation, San Diego, GenevieveMadelineKnight, Coppin CA, and Daniel Jeske*, Department of State University/Baltimore Maryland Statistics, University of California, (1086-97-1211) Riverside, CA (1086-62-2417) 8:30AM Sharpness Results for Duality in MAA-Project NExT Reception (2083) Segal-Bargmann Spaces. Preliminary report. 8:30 PM – 10:00 PM Marina Ballroom William E Gryc*, Muhlenberg College, F, 3rd Floor, Marriott and Todd Kemp, University of California, San Diego (1086-46-1483) All Project NExT Fellows, consultants, and other friends of Project NExT are invited. 9:00AM Minkowski nonmeasurability of recursive (2084) strings. Organizers: Julia Barnes,Western *, Cal Poly Pomona, Carolina University Rolando de Santiago Michel L. Lapidus, Scott A. Roby, Judith Covington, Louisiana University of California, Riverside, State University Shreveport and John A. Rock, Cal Poly Pomona Matthew DeLong,Taylor (1086-28-234) University 9:30AM Knot Invariants and Functional Aparna W. Higgins, (2085) Integration. Preliminary report. University of Dayton Louis Hirsch Kauffman,Universityof Illinois at Chicago (1086-57-28) 10:00AM The Spectral Operator and Its (2086) Applications:Quantized Riemann Zeta Function and Inﬁnitesimal Shift of the Real Line. Hafedh Herichi and Michel L. Lapidus*, University of California, Riverside (1086-46-639) 10:30AM What to do with Random Variables that (2087) don’t have Expectations. Preliminary Saturday, January 12 report. MAA Minority Chairs Breakfast Mark Burgin*, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, and Alan C. Krinik, California State Polytechnic 7:00 AM –8:45AM La Costa Room, University, Pomona, CA, 91768 4th Floor, Marriott (1086-60-273)

Joint Meetings Registration ASL Invited Address

7:30 AM –2:00PM Exhibit Hall B1, Ground 8:00 AM –8:50AM Room 7B, Upper Level, Level, San Diego Convention Center San Diego Convention Center AMS Special Session on Stochastic and (2088) Global and local boundedness properties Functional Analysis, I in Polish groups. Christian Rosendal, University of Illinois 7:30 AM –10:50AM Room 31B, Upper Level, at Chicago (1086-03-136) San Diego Convention Center AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research Organizers: Mark Burgin,Universityof in Mathematics by Undergraduates and California Los Angles Students in Post-Baccalaureate Programs, III Alan Krinik, California State Polytechnic University, 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 8, Upper Level, Pomona San Diego Convention Center Randall Swift, California State Polytechnic University, Organizers: Bernard Brooks,Rochester Pomona Institute of Technology Jobby Jacob,Rochester 7:30AM Commutants of multiplication operators (2081) and Michael selection theorem. Institute of Technology Arkady K Kitover, Community College of Jacqueline Jensen-Vallin, Philadelphia (1086-47-306) Slippery Rock University

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Carl V. Lutzer,Rochester 8:00AM Generating the Brauer Group of the Institute of Technology (2095) function field of a p-adic curve with cyclic algebras. Preliminary report. Darren Narayan,Rochester Eric Brussel, California Polytechnic State Institute of Technology University, Kelly McKinnie*, University of Tamas Wiandt,Rochester Montana, and Eduardo Tengan, Institute of Technology Universidade de São Paulo, Inst. de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação 8:00AM Prisoner Reform Programs, and their (2089) Impact on Recidivism. (1086-16-2667) Brenda M. Jaurrieta, Bryn Mawr 8:30AM The Brauer group of the function field of College, Wilson E. Alvarez,University (2096) a curve over a complete discrete of Puerto Rico, Itelhomme Fene, valuation ring. University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Eric Brussel, California Polytechnic Kimberly Gutstein*, Humboldt State State University/Emory University University, Diego Chowell,ArizonaState (1086-16-1180) University, Anuj Mubayi, Northeastern Illinois University, and Luis Melara, 9:00AM Azumaya maximal orders do not always Shippensburg University (1086-34-1877) (2097) exist. Benjamin Antieau*, UCLA, and Ben 8:30AM Visualizing optimal transportation maps. Williams, USC (1086-14-980) (2090) Preliminary report. Otis Chodosh, Vishesh Jain, Michael 9:30AM Homogeneous Spaces over Function Lindsey*, Lyuboslav Panchev,Stanford (2098) Fields of Dimension Two. University, and Yanir A. Rubinstein, Yi Zhu,UniversityofUtah University of Maryland (1086-28-496) (1086-14-1177)

9:00AM On the discontinuity of optimal 10:00AM Splitting dimension and symbol length in (2091) transportation maps. (2099) Galois cohomology. Otis Chodosh, Vishesh Jain, Michael Daniel R Krashen, University of Georgia Lindsey, Lyuboslav Panchev*, Stanford (1086-12-2020) University, and Yanir A. Rubinstein, University of Maryland (1086-35-497) 10:30AM Finite u Invariant and Bounds on (2100) Cohomology Symbol Lengths. 9:30AM Convex Inversion for Parameter David J Saltman, CCR-Princeton (2092) Identiﬁcation in Saddle Point Problems (1086-12-761) with an Application to the Inverse Problem of Predicting Tumor Location. AMS Special Session on Computational Preliminary report. Algebraic and Analytic Geometry for B. Jadamba, A. A. Khan,Rochester Low-dimensional Varieties, I Institute of Technology, M. Sama, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, and B. Winkler*, Rochester 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 15A, Mezzanine Institute of Technology (1086-49-2315) Level, San Diego Convention Center

10:00AM Equation Error Approach for the Inverse Organizers: Mika Seppala,FloridaState (2093) Problem of Tumor Identification. University Preliminary report. Erin R Crossen*, Akhtar Khan and Emil Volcheck,National Baasansuren Jadamba,Rochester Security Agency Institute of Technology (1086-65-2435) 8:00AM Jacobians of limit Riemann surfaces and 10:30AM An Examination of Equilibria in the (2101) Kirchhoff’s rules. (2094) Multi-Site Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma. Peter Buser, École Polytechnique Preliminary report. Fédérale Lausanne, Eran Makover, G. Alex McClain*andCarl V. Lutzer, Central Connecticut State University, Rochester Institute of Technology Bjoern Muetzel, Robert Silhol, (1086-91-2361) Université de Montpellier II, and Mika Seppala*, University of Helsinki and AMS-AWM Special Session on the Brauer Florida State University (1086-14-2605) Group in Algebra and Geometry, II 8:30AM Conformal Automorphism Groups, (2102) Adapted Bases, and Generating Vectors. 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 15B, Mezzanine Jane Gilman,Rurtgers-Newark Level, San Diego Convention Center (1086-32-916)

Organizers: Asher Auel,Emory 9:00AM Automorphisms Groups of Cyclic p-gonal University (2103) Riemann Surfaces. Milagros Izquierdo*, Linkoping¨ Kelly McKinnie,University University, Antonio F Costa,UNED,and of Montana Gabriel Bartolini,Linkoping¨ University V. Suresh,EmoryUniversity (1086-14-451)

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9:30AM Representations Varieties and Igor Prokhorenkov,Texas (2104) Teichmuller¨ Spaces of non-Orientable Christian University Surfaces. 8:00AM Renormalized Integrals and a Path Yahya Almalki, Florida State University (2113) Integral Formula for the Heat Kernel on a (1086-51-1785) Manifold. 10:00AM Efﬁcient arithmetic on Jacobians of genus Christian B¨ar, Univ. of Potsdam, (2105) 2 curves. Preliminary report. Germany (1086-58-1716) Craig Costello, Microsoft Research (1086-14-1803) 9:00AM Witten’s perturbation on strata. (2114) Jesus´ A. Alvarez´ Lopez´ *andManuel 10:30AM Surface Singularities and Jacobian Calaza, University of Santiago de (2106) Problem. Preliminary report. Compostela (1086-58-498) Shreeram S. Abhyankar,Purdue University (1086-14-950) 10:00AM Transversal Witten deformations on (2115) Riemannian foliations. AMS Special Session on Creating a Igor Prokhorenkov*andKen Professional Community of Math Teachers Richardson, Texas Christian University K–20, II (1086-58-2850) 10:30AM The essential spectrum of the Laplacian 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 32B, Upper Level, (2116) on open manifolds. Preliminary report. San Diego Convention Center Nelia Charalambous*, University of Cyprus, and Zhiqin Lu,Universityof Organizers: Patrick Callahan,University California at Irvine (1086-58-1734) of California Los Angeles William McCallum, AMS Special Session on Environmental University of Arizona Mathematics: Evaluate the Past Climate Kristin Umland,University Changes and Model the Future Climate of New Mexico Variations, II 8:00AM A qualitative look at the co-instructional (2107) model of the Intel Math professional 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 9, Upper Level, development program for K-8 teachers. San Diego Convention Center Preliminary report. Diana White, University of Colorado Organizers: Philip Arkin,Universityof Denver (1086-97-2736) Maryland 8:30AM Opportunities for mathematicians to Samuel Shen,SanDiego (2108) work with K-12 teachers. State University Michael Nakamaye,UniversityofNew Thomas Smith,University Mexico (1086-97-449) of Maryland 9:00AM Communities of Problem Solvers. (2109) JBrianConrey, American Institute of Guang Zhang, Scripps Mathematics (1086-97-1690) Institute of Oceanography, University of California, San 9:30AM Developing and Sustaining Professional Diego (2110) Communities of Teachers around Mathematical Content and Student 8:00AM Precipitation Reconstructions from Intellectual Need. (2117) Historical and Modern Data. Guershon Harel, University of California, Thomas M. Smith*, San Diego (1086-97-1679) NOAA/NESDIS/STAR/SCSB & CICS, ESSIC, College Park, Samuel Shen,SanDiego 10:00AM Mathematics Classroom Coaching in State Univ., Phillip Arkin and Li Ren, (2111) Grades K-8. CICS, ESSIC, U. Maryland, College Park Elizabeth A. Burroughs,MontanaState (1086-00-1315) University (1086-97-326) 8:30AM Diagnosing Variabilities/Changes in 10:30AM The Louisiana Math and Science Teacher (2112) Community. Preliminary report. (2118) Global Precipitation Patterns during James J Madden*andFrank 1979-2010 Using Satellite-Based Neubrander, Louisiana State Univeristy Measurements. (1086-97-167) Guojun Gu*, ESSIC, University of Maryland College Park, and Robert F. AMS Special Session on Dirac and Laplace Adler, ESSIC, University of Maryland College park (1086-86-1377) Operators in Global Analysis and Geometry, I 9:00AM Advances and Opportunities for 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 32A, Upper Level, (2119) Mathematical Treatment of Paleoclimate San Diego Convention Center Reconstructions. Eugene R. Wahl, NOAA/NESDIS/National Organizers: Ken Richardson,Texas Climatic Data Center/Paleoclimate Branch Christian University (1086-92-1197)

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9:30AM Forward and inverse modeling of the 10:00AM Numerical Methods for Fractional (2120) nonlinear relationship between tree-ring (2127) Differential Equations Via Generalized width and climate. Monotone Method. Preliminary report. S. E. Tolwinski-Ward*, Institute for Aghalaya S Vatsala*, Sowmya Mathematics Applied to Geosciences, Muniswamy, University of Louisiana at National Center for Atmospheric Lafayette, and Donna Sue Stutson, Research, M. P. Tingley,Harvard Xavier University of Louisiana University, M. N. Evans,Universityof (1086-34-1007) Maryland, and D. W. Nychka, Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences, 10:30AM A Numerical Example for the One National Center for Atmospheric (2128) Dimensional Caputo Fractional Wave Research (1086-62-123) Equation using the Representative Solution and the Generalized Monotone 10:00AM Deducing anthropogenic global warming Method. (2121) trend. Donna S. Stutson, Xavier University of Ka-Kit Tung, University of Washington Louisiana (1086-35-2418) (1086-86-384) AMS Special Session on Patterns in 10:30AM Trends, hottest and coldest years, Permutations and Words, I (2122) climate regimes, decadal variations, and uncertainties of the United States 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 14B, Mezzanine temperature and precipitation since Level, San Diego Convention Center 1895. Samuel S Shen, San Diego State Organizers: Jeffrey Liese, California University (1086-86-360) State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo AMS Special Session on Fractional, Hybrid, and Stochastic Dynamic Systems with Brian K. Miceli,Trinity Applications, II University Jeffrey Remmel,University 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 30E, Upper Level, of California, San Diego San Diego Convention Center 8:00AM Themostandtheleastavoided (2129) consecutive patterns. Organizers: John Graef,Universityof Sergi Elizalde, Dartmouth College Tennessee at Chattanooga (1086-05-541)

Gangaram S. Ladde, 8:30AM Upper bounds for the Stanley-Wilf limit of University of South Florida (2130) 1324. Anders Claesson*, Department of Aghalaya Vatsala, Computer and Information Sciences, University of Louisiana at University of Strathclyde, V´ıt Jel´ınek, Lafayette Computer Science Institute, Charles University, and Einar Steingr´ımsson, 8:00AM Positive solutions of fractional Department of Computer and (2123) differential equations with bounded Information Sciences, University of linear functional boundary conditions. Strathclyde (1086-05-2049) Johnny Henderson and Xueyan (Sherry) Liu*, Department of Mathematics, Baylor 9:00AM New upper bounds for permutations University (1086-34-1055) (2131) avoiding 1324 and other extremal patterns. 8:30AM Matching Method for Nodal Solutions of Miklos Bona, University of Florida (2124) Multi-Point Boundary Value Problems. (1086-05-991) Qingkai Kong*andThomas E. St. 9:30AM The Permutation Poset, its Mobius¨ George, Northern Illinois University (2132) Function and Topology. Preliminary (1086-34-1044) report. 9:00AM Stochastic Models in Organ Einar Steingrimsson,Universityof (2125) Transplantation. Preliminary report. Strathclyde (1086-05-2040) Kumer Pial Das, Lamar University and 10:00AM Subclasses of the separable SAMSI (1086-60-2265) (2133) permutations. M. D. Atkinson, Michael H. Albert, 9:30AM Energy Methods for Dynamic Stochastic University of Otago, and Vincent Vatter*, (2126) Models of Social Networks. Preliminary University of Florida (1086-05-1930) report. Jagdish Chandra*, The George 10:30AM Recent Progress on the Shufﬂe Washington University, and G.S. (2134) Conjecture. Ladde, University of South Florida Adriano M. Garsia,Universityof (1086-34-1859) California San Diego (1086-05-1455)

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AMS Special Session on Topological 8:00AM A uniqueness result for a singular Combinatorics, I (2141) nonlinear eigenvalue problem. ACastro, Harvey Mudd, Eunkyung Ko, 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 16B, Mezzanine Mississippi State University, and R Level, San Diego Convention Center Shivaji*, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (1086-35-2561) Organizers: Alexander Engstrom¨ ,Aalto 8:30AM Resonance results on the Fucik Spectrum. University (2142) Stephen B Robinson*, Wake Forest Steven Klee,Universityof University, Pavel Drabek,Universityof California, Davis West Bohemia, and Quinn Morris, University of North Carolina at Matthew Stamps,Aalto Greensboro (1086-35-2285) University 9:00AM Singular solutions for superlinear elliptic 8:00AM The toppling ideal and its minimal free (2143) equations. (2135) resolution. Preliminary report. Jose Caicedo, Universidad Nacional de John Wilmes, University of Chicago Colombia, Alfonso Castro*, Harvey (1086-05-1579) Mudd College, and Victor Ardila, 8:30AM Colorful and Higher-Dimensional Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2136) Extensions in Simplicial Complexes. (1086-35-1772) Preliminary report. 9:30AM Semipositone Problems on Exterior Matthias Beck, Felix Breuer,SFSU,and (2144) Domains. Yvonne Suzanne Kemper*, UC Davis Lakshmi S Kalappattil, Mississippi State (1086-05-1630) University (1086-35-321) 9:00AM Enumerating cellular colorings, 10:00AM Three solutions theorem for radial (2137) orientations, tensions and ﬂows. (2145) solution of p-Laplacian problem on Preliminary report. Exterior domain. Matthias Beck, Felix Breuer,San Eun Kyoung Lee*, Pusan National Francisco State University, Logan Godkin University, Seong-Uk Kim,Universityof and Jeremy L. Martin*, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Yong-Hoon Kansas (1086-05-1886) Lee, Pusan National University 9:30AM Max ﬂow min cut in higher dimensions. (1086-35-1675) (2138) Preliminary report. 10:30AM Continua of local minimizers in a non Art M. Duval*, University of Texas at El (2146) smooth model of phase transitions. Paso, Caroline J. Klivans,Brown Pavel Drabek, NTIS, University of West University, and Jeremy L. Martin, Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic University of Kansas (1086-05-2353) (1086-35-982) 10:00AM Conjectures on some vector bundles (2139) associated to matroids. AMS Special Session on q-series in Andrew Berget,Universityof Mathematical Physics and Combinatorics, I Washington (1086-05-1565) 10:30AM Homotopy type of a noncommutative 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 14A, Mezzanine (2140) analogue for Young’s lattice. Level, San Diego Convention Center Heather Dye, McKendree University, Patricia Hersh*, North Carolina State Organizer: Mourad Ismail,University University, Karola Meszaros,Cornell of Central Florida University, and Bridget Tenner,Depaul 8:00AM Cayley’s partition identity. University (1086-05-682) (2147) Igor Pak, Los Angeles (1086-05-562) 8:30AM The smallest parts partition function. AMS Special Session on Understanding (2148) F. G. Garvan, University of Florida Planet Earth via Reaction Diffusion (1086-11-1776) Equations, I 9:00AM Euler’s partition theorem with upper (2149) bounds on multiplicities. 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 30C, Upper Level, William Y. C. Chen, Nankai University, Ae San Diego Convention Center Ja Yee*, Penn State University, and Albert J. W. Zhu,NankaiUniversity Organizers: Jerome Goddard,II, Auburn (1086-05-1445) University, Montgomery 9:30AM Towards a Complete Characterization of Eun Kyung Lee,Pusan (2150) Prime Divisibility Properties of the National University, Korea Restricted Partition Function p(n, m). Junping Shi, College of James Brandt Kronholm, Juniata College William and Mary (1086-11-1383) Ratnasingham Shivaji, 10:00AM Generators of the q-Brownian motion. University of North Carolina, (2151) Michael Anshelevich,TexasA&M Greensboro University (1086-46-607)

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10:30AM Moments of Askey-Wilson polynomials. Jonathan Bell,Universityof (2152) Jang Soo Kim, University of Minnesota Maryland, Baltimore County (1086-05-904) 8:00AM An application of Parabolic PDEs on (2159) graphs. Preliminary report. AMS Special Session on the Mathematics of Suzanne Lenhart*, U of Tennessee, Natural Resource Modeling, II Knoxville and NIMBIoS, Sergei Avdonin, U of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 17B, Mezzanine Jason Bintz, U of Tennessee, Knoxville Level, San Diego Convention Center (1086-35-961) 8:30AM Population persistence in river networks. Organizers: Shandelle Henson,Andrews (2160) Robert Carlson*, University of Colorado University at Colorado Springs, Jonathan Sarhad Catherine A. Roberts, and Kurt Anderson,Universityof College of the Holy Cross California Riverside (1086-35-673) 8:00AM Role of time scales in the response of 9:30AM Nodal count of eigenfunctions as index of (2153) ecological populations to time varying (2161) instability. resources. Gregory Berkolaiko,TexasA&M Alan Hastings, University of California, University (1086-52-1161) Davis (1086-92-1253) 10:30AM Population Persistence In River Networks 8:30AM Pollen limitation in plants: Ecological and (2162) Using Quantum Graphs. (2154) evolutionary perspectives. Jonathan J. Sarhad*, Department of Sebastian J Schreiber*, Jay Rosenheim, Biology, University of California, University of California, Davis, Lawrence Riverside, Robert C. Carlson,University Harder, University of Calgary, and Neal of Colorado, Colorado Springs, and Kurt Williams, University of California, Davis E. Anderson, Department of Biology, (1086-92-2423) University of California, Riverside 9:00AM Towards model-free ecosystem (1086-92-2483) (2155) management. Preliminary report. Stephan B Munch*, SWFSC, NOAA, Ethan MAA Invited Paper Session on Writing, Deyle, Charles Perretti and George Talking, and Sharing Mathematics Sugihara, SIO, UCSD (1086-92-1794) AM AM 9:30AM Potential impact of climate change on 8:00 –10:50 Room 2, Upper Level, (2156) dengue and its mosquito vector, Aedes San Diego Convention Center albopictus: A mechanistic modeling Organizer: Paul Zorn, St. Olaf College approach. Richard A Erickson*, Stephen B. Cox, 8:00AM Exposing and Expositing Math to the Katharine Hayhoe, Linda J.S. Allen, (2163) Public: Two Paths. Kevin R. Long and Steven M. Presley, Dana Mackenzie, Freelance Writer Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX (1086-AH-2481) (1086-92-474) 8:30AM First Things First: The Art of the Opening. (2164) Barry Cipra,Northﬁeld,Minnesota 10:00AM A diamond food web model with one (2157) predator two preys and one nutrient (1086-AH-2368) resource. Preliminary report. 9:00AM My Hufﬁngton Post Blog. Preliminary Lih-Ing W Roeger*, Texas Tech (2165) report. University, and Sze-Bi Hsu,National Frank Morgan, Williams College Tsing-Hua University (1086-92-507) (1086-AH-463) 10:30AM Disease Dynamics with Behavioral Driven 9:30AM Mathematics, Meaning, and (2158) Contact Transmission Rates. (2166) Misunderstanding. Ben R. Morin, School of Human Evolution Gerald B. Folland,Universityof and Social Change, Arizona State Washington (1086-AH-1058) University, Eli Fenichel, School of 10:00AM Can an Art Show Teach Mathematics? Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale (2167) Frank A. Farris, Santa Clara University University, and Carlos Castillo-Chavez*, (1086-AH-2363) Mathematical and Computational 10:30AM Discussion. Modeling Sciences Center, Arizona State University (1086-92-1977) AMS Session on Applied Mathematics and Modeling I AMS Special Session on the Theory and Applications of Differential Equations on 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 31C, Upper Level, Graphs, I San Diego Convention Center

8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 30D, Upper Level, 8:00AM A surface-tension-based approach to the San Diego Convention Center (2168) elimination of crack-tip singularities in fracture mechanics. Organizers: Sergei Avdonin,University Anna Zemlyanova,TexasA&M of Alaska, Fairbanks University (1086-74-314)

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8:15AM Dynamic buckling of elastic materials. AMS Session on Brownian Motion and (2169) Preliminary report. Stochastic Processes Qichuan Bai*, Andrew Belmonte and Qiang Du, Penn State University 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 31A, Upper Level, (1086-74-2074) San Diego Convention Center

8:30AM Research on estimating the overall 8:00AM Sharp estimates on the Green functions (2170) behavior of heterogeneous composites (2180) of perturbations of subordinate Brownian based on Hashin-Shtrikman variational motions in bounded κ-fat open sets. principle and its applications. Hyunchul Park*, University of Illinois Hyunsun Lee, Hawaii Pacific University Urbana-Champaign, Panki Kim,Seoul (1086-74-1084) National Universtiy - South Korea, and Renming Song, UIUC (1086-60-1127) 8:45AM A Discrete, Compact, Matrix, Space-Time (2171) Representation – An Example. Preliminary 8:15AM Smoothness Properties of the Law of report. (2181) Brownian Motion in Certain Infinite Michael G. Dombroski, Los Angeles City Dimensional Spaces. College (1086-81-1848) Daniel Dobbs, University of Virginia (1086-60-1816) 9:00AM On the limitations of Kummer’s function 8:30AM Limit Distributions of Random Walks on (2172) in heat transfer problems. (2182) Stochastic Matrices. Preliminary report. Antonio Mastroberardino,Penn Santanu Chakraborty*andArunava State Erie, The Behrend College Mukherjea, UTPA, Edinburg, Texas (1086-76-2448) (1086-60-1341) 8:45AM Using a dyadic decomposition of the time 9:15AM A Markov chain approach to (2183) until diffusion densities overlap to define (2173) renormalization group transformations. a new diffusion distance. Preliminary Mei Yin, University of Texas at Austin report. (1086-82-294) Maxim J. Goldberg, Ramapo College of NJ, and Seonja Kim*, Montvale, NJ 9:30AM TALK CANCELLED: Localization for a (2174) Non-Monotone Anderson-Type Model. (1086-60-1476) Preliminary report. 9:00AM Fractional Pearson Diffusion. Jacob W Chapman*andGunter¨ Stolz, (2184) Nikolai N. Leonenko, Cardiff University, University of Alabama at Birmingham Mark M. Meerschaert and Alla (1086-82-802) Sikorskii*, Michigan State University (1086-60-289) 9:45AM Amplitude Death Solutions for 9:15AM Fast and Exact Simulation for the CIR (2175) Stabilization of DC Microgrids with (2185) processes. Preliminary report. Instantaneous Constant-Power Loads. Liqing Yan, Shanghai Jiao Tong Stanley R Huddy*andJoseph D Skufca, University (1086-60-2105) Clarkson University (1086-93-2280) 9:30AM Path Properties of Jump Processes having 10:00AM Robust Geometric Structure from High (2186) Nondegenerate Jumping Kernals. (2176) Dimensional Data using Sparse LLE. Brian M. Whitehead, Eastern Connecticut Lori Beth Ziegelmeier*, Michael Kirby State University (1086-60-539) and Chris Peterson, Colorado State 9:45AM A Systematic Lyapunov Construction for University (1086-58-1864) (2187) Proving Noise-Induced Stabilization. Tiffany Nicole Kolba,Valparaiso 10:15AM Controllability of Second order Neutral University (1086-60-2064) (2177) Functional Differential Inclusion with Infinite Delay-A Theoritical and a 10:00AM Denoising a long locally dependent Numerical Approach. (2188) binary signal sequence: multiple-testing Dimplekumar N Chalishajar,Virginia with approximate posterior-likelihood. Military Institute, Mallory Hall, Lexington, Zhiyi Chi and Sairam Rayaprolu*, VA 24450 (1086-93-288) University of Connecticut (1086-62-2078) 10:15AM Diffusivity in multiple scattering systems. 10:30AM Trichotomous Markov Noise and Dynamic (2189) Timothy Chumley, Washington (2178) instability of microtubules in three University in St. Louis (1086-60-2697) states. Preliminary report. 10:30AM Widder’s theorem for symmetric local Shantia Yarahmadian, Mississippi State (2190) Dirichlet forms. University (1086-92-1442) Nathaniel Eldredge*andLaurent , Cornell University 10:45AM Meshless Simulations of Space Charge Saloff-Coste (2179) Effect in Field Emission from a Nanowire. (1086-60-1648) Guangming Yao, Department of 10:45AM Note on the almost periodic stochastic Mathematics, Clarkson University, 8 (2191) Beverton-Holt equation. Clarkson Ave, Potsdam, NY, 13699-5815, Paul H Bezandry,HowardUniversity USA. (1086-35-1012) (1086-60-1782)

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AMS Session on Lie Algebras and Algebraic 8:15AM On almost normal matrices. and Lie Groups (2202) Tyler J. Moran*andIlya M. Spitkovsky, The College of William and Mary 8:00 AM –10:10AM Room 13, Mezzanine (1086-15-1633) Level, San Diego Convention Center 8:30AM Characterizations of Leonard Pairs. (2203) Edward D. Hanson,Universityof (2192) TALK CANCELLED: Regularity of Abelian Wisconsin-Madison (1086-15-2304) Linear Action. Preliminary report. 8:45AM Traces of matrix products. Didier Arnal,UniversitedeBourgogne, (2204) John R Greene, University of Minnesota Béchir Dali, King Saud University, Duluth (1086-15-2366) Bradley Currey, Saint Louis University, and Vignon S Oussa*, Department of 9:00AM An Extension of Yang’s Product Mathematics Bridgewater State University (2205) Construction of Hadamard Matrices. (1086-22-311) Michael T Zowada,NorthernArizona University (1086-15-2835) 8:00AM Components of Springer Fibers for the (2193) Exceptional Groups G and F . 9:15AM Non-unique Factorizations of Square 2 4 Brandon Samples, Georgia College & (2206) Matrices. Preliminary report. State University (1086-22-2536) James E Gossell,UniversityofCentral Missouri (1086-15-1936) 8:15AM A combinatorial characterization of 9:30AM A Multiplicative Determinant for (2194) Severi varieties over arbitrary fields m (joint work with H. Van Maldeghem). (2207) 2 -Dimensional Matrices. Preliminary report. Jeroen Schillewaert,Universityof California San Diego (1086-51-2054) Paul Sundheim, University of Wisconsin (1086-15-1629) 8:30AM The talk by Tevian Dray was moved to 9:45AM Pivoting Strategies in Sparse Gaussian the AMS Special Session on Lie Algebras, (2208) Eliminations done mod p and their Algebraic Transformation Groups, and Impact upon Various Computer Algebra Representation Theory, II, at 11:00 a.m. Tasks. Preliminary report. on Thursday in slot #777. Gregory V Bard*andMiles Crocker, 8:45AM Dade’s Ordinary Conjecture (DOC) for University of Wisconsin—Stout (2195) the Finite Special Unitary Groups. (1086-15-2905) , Northeastern Katherine Anne Bird 10:00AM On Sharp Frame Diagonalization. Illinois University Chicago (1086-20-258) (2209) Fumiko Futamura*, Kendall Richards 9:00AM Moufang sets of finite Morley rank with and Rick Denman,Southwestern (2196) little projective groups of odd type. University (1086-15-1372) Joshua Wiscons,Universität Munster¨ 10:15AM Maximum Robustness and Surgery of (1086-20-1022) (2210) Frames in Finite Dimensions. 9:15AM Homomorphisms of general linear Martin S Copenhaver, Georgia Institute (2197) groups. Preliminary report. of Technology, Yeonhyang Kim,Central Marcos Zyman, The City University of Michigan University, Cortney Logan, New York-BMCC (1086-20-2324) Stonehill College, Kyanne Mayfield, University of Portland, Sivaram K. 9:30AM Derived Symplectic Resolutions. Narayan*, Central Michigan University, (2198) Jeremy Pecharich, Mount Holyoke and Jonathan Sheperd,Universityof College (1086-14-2824) Notre Dame (1086-15-1563) AM 9:45 Low dimension Lie algebra dimension 10:30AM A Multilinear Algebra Approach to Facial (2199) reduction by modding by the center. (2211) Recognition. Preliminary report. Preliminary report. Sarah K. Weissberger*, Jacob J. Rhodes Firas Y Hindeleh*, Kermit L Sharp and and Carla D. Martin,JamesMadison Nick C Benthem, Grand Valley State University (1086-15-44) University (1086-22-1154) 10:45AM Flag Mean of Generalized Grassmann 10:00AM Representation Growth Using a (2212) Manifold Points. (2200) Constructive Method. Justin Dickinson Marks,AirForce Shannon Ezzat, Sydney, Nova Scotia Institute of Technology (1086-15-2475) (1086-20-2371) AMS Session on Walks on Graphs and AMS Session on Linear Algebra and Networks Applications 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 12, Mezzanine 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 17A, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center Level, San Diego Convention Center 8:00AM The Chinese Postman Problem in regular 8:00AM A proof of Crouzeix’s conjecture for a (2213) graphs of odd degree. Preliminary report. (2201) class of matrices. Suil O*, College of William and Mary, and Daeshik Choi, University of Washington Douglas B West, University of Illinois at (1086-15-660) Urbana-Champaign (1086-05-2452)

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8:15AM Hamiltonian Walks in Graphs. Joanne Peeples,ElPaso (2214) Ping Zhang, Department of Mathematics, Community College Western Michigan University 8:00AM Using Online Homework and Data (1086-05-1390) (2225) Mining to Assess Student Learning in 8:30AM Time-Inhomogeneous Quantum Walks. Mathematics Courses. (2215) Angelica Rae Deibel*, Arizona State Michael B. Scott, Cal State Monterey Bay University, Kevin Schwenkler, (1086-C1-2625) Hampshire College, Laura Veith, 8:20AM The Impact of WebWork and Interleaving University of Washington, and Yevgeniy (2226) on Student Learning and Attitudes. Kovchegov, Oregon State University Preliminary report. (1086-81-2528) James S Rolf,YaleUniversity 8:45AM Inhomogeneous Quantum Walks. (1086-C1-2621) (2216) Preliminary report. 8:40AM A preliminary report on using WeBWorK Kevin Schwenkler*, Hampshire College, (2227) in assessment of student learning Angelica Deibel,ArizonaState outcomes. Preliminary report. University, Laura Veith,Universityof Anneke Bart, Saint Louis University Washington, and Yevgeniy Kovchegov, (1086-C1-920) Oregon State University (1086-60-1839) 9:00AM Using WebAssign for Homework and 9:00AM Advances in edge Nim on graphs. (2228) Testing in Precalculus: Assessment of (2217) Lindsay A Erickson*, Concordia College, Student Performance. and Warren E Shreve, North Dakota Lisa Townsley, University of Georgia State University (1086-05-542) (1086-C1-1590) 9:15AM On 1 - 2 Graph Achievement Games. 9:20AM Experimenting with MyMathLab. (2218) Preliminary report. (2229) Preliminary report. Curtis Clark, Morehouse College Samer S Habre, Lebanese American (1086-05-2589) University (1086-C1-2240) 9:30AM Collisions of Independent Random Walks 9:40AM Leveraging Features of Online Homework (2219) on Graphs. (2230) and Measuring Student Performance. Aaron M Montgomery,Universityof Dianna J. Spence*andSherry L. Hix, Oregon (1086-60-2144) North Georgia College & State University 9:45AM Random Lights Out Processes on Graphs. (1086-C1-1988) (2220) Jacob T Hughes, University of California, 10:00AM Using Online Homework to Track San Diego (1086-05-1130) (2231) Students’ Progress. Preliminary report. 10:00AM Deterministic Walks with Choice. Rodica Cazacu, Georgia College (2221) Katy E Beeler*andKenneth S (1086-C1-1798) Berenhaut,WakeForestUniversity 10:20AM Integrating eText in online assessment (1086-05-2090) (2232) platforms. 10:15AM Counting Backtracking Path Searches in Giorgi Shonia, Ohio University Lancaster (2222) Network Graphs. (1086-C1-1625) Andrew W. Harrell,Vicksburg,MS 10:40AM Student Learning Outcomes in General (1086-05-551) (2233) Studes Mathematics: A Comparison of 10:30AM TALK CANCELLED: Approximation of Online and Face-to-Face. (2223) Multivariate Network Reliability. Jennifer S. Hegeman, Missouri Western Elizabeth Moseman, National Institute State University (1086-C1-647) of Standards and Technology (1086-05-1897) MAA Session on Communicating 10:45AM Tenacity of cycle permutation graph. Mathematics, III (2224) Preliminary report. Dara Moazzami*, University of Tehran, 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 33A, Upper Level, College of Engineering, Faculty of San Diego Convention Center Engineering Science, and Davoud Organizers: Brian Katz, Augustana Jelodar, University of Tehran, College Department of Algorithms and Computation (1086-05-1424) Elizabeth Thoren, University of California Santa MAA Session on Assessing the Effectiveness Barbara of Online Homework 8:00AM The Great Spline Mystery. (2234) Michelle L Ghrist*, U.S. Air Force 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 5B, Upper Level, Academy, and James S Rolf,Yale San Diego Convention Center University (1086-D1-2498) 8:20AM Examples on the use of communications Organizers: Jason Aubrey,Universityof (2235) in teaching college algebra as an honors Missouri course. John Travis, Mississippi A. S. Elkhader, Northern State University College (1086-D1-969)

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8:40AM How does giving oral presentations and 9:20AM Balancing Research Interests with Project (2236) typing up all assignments help students? (2247) Goals at the National Institute of Yu-Ju Kuo, Indiana University of Standards and Technology. Pennsylviana (1086-D1-1523) Bonita V Saunders, National Institute of 9:00AM Using Large Surfaces to Enhance Standards & Technology (1086-J5-1946) (2237) Students’ Communication Skills. 9:40AM Making Mathematics ”Real” for Students. Patricia Hale, Cal Poly Pomona (2248) Joy Lind*, University of Sioux Falls, and (1086-D1-2908) Darren Narayan, Rochester Institute of 9:20AM Improving communication skills through Technology (1086-J5-373) (2238) student-produced videos. Preliminary 10:00AM The Greatest Scientiﬁc Achievements of report. (2249) The Hubble Space Telescope. Vicky L Klima, Appalachian State Mario Livio, Space Telescope Science University (1086-D1-1614) Institute (1086-J5-378) 9:40AM Videotaping as a Means to Improve 10:20AM Modeling Terrorist Activities. (2239) Students’ Oral Communication Skills. (2250) William P. Fox, Naval Postgraduate Lesley W. Wiglesworth,CentreCollege School, Monterey, CA 93943 (1086-D1-2495) (1086-J5-580) 10:00AM Using a Blog to Allow Proof Revisions. 10:40AM Math in the City: Integrating the (2240) Hannah R Robbins, Roanoke College (2251) Classroom and Applications in the Local (1086-D1-783) Community. 10:20AM Beneﬁts of Collaborative Writing for Petronela Radu,Universityof (2241) Learning. Nebraska-Lincoln, Sandeep Holay, Matthew Wright, Huntington University Southeast Community College, and (1086-D1-489) Joe Geisbauer*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (1086-J5-2594) 10:40AM Using Turing Machines to Level the (2242) Playing Field in a Math for Liberal Arts Course. Preliminary report. MAA Session on Touch It, Feel It, Learn McKenzie Russell Lamb, Ripon College It: Tactile Learning Activities in the (1086-D1-2677) Undergraduate Mathematics Classroom, II

MAA Session on Mathematics Experiences in 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 7A, Upper Level, Business, Industry, and Government San Diego Convention Center Organizers: Jessica M. Libertini, 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 5A, Upper Level, University of Rhode Island San Diego Convention Center Julie Barnes,Western Organizers: Carla D. Martin,James Carolina University Madison University 8:00AM Tactile Activities to Enhance Learning in Phil Gustafson, Mesa State (2252) Algebra and Trigonometry. College Angela Hare, Messiah College (1086-P5-795) Michael Monticino, University of North Texas 8:20AM Functions at the Club. (2253) Mike Long, Shippensburg University 8:00AM Applying Mathematical Tools in Public (1086-P5-2382) (2243) Policy: Opportunities at the Intersection of Mathematics and Policy. 8:40AM Engaging Calculus Students with Tactile Salaeha Shariff, American Association (2254) Learning Activities. for the Advancement of Science, Eric Cayla D McBee, Providence College Bone*, U.S. Department of State, and (1086-P5-880) Sonja Sandberg, Framingham State 9:00AM Keychain Ziplines: A practical way to College (1086-J5-2476) (2255) study velocity in the calculus classroom. 8:20AM The automated scoring of Audrey Malagon*, Virginia Wesleyan (2244) constructed-response mathematics test College, and Lisa Driskell, Colorado questions: Why humans sometimes Mesa University (1086-P5-2271) disagree with the computer. 9:20AM Hands-on Calculus Using 3-D Paper James H Fife, Educational Testing (2256) Models. Preliminary report. Service (1086-J5-577) Shelly Smith, Grand Valley State 8:40AM Bank Capital Models and Bivariate University (1086-P5-1994) (2245) Normal Probability Calculations. 9:40AM Developing Riemann Sums via a Paper Preliminary report. (2257) Shredder. Preliminary report. Dale T Smith, Fiserv., Risk & Compliance Carolyn Yackel,MercerUniversity (1086-J5-80) (1086-P5-571) 9:00AM Increasing efﬁciency is forward-picking 10:00AM Modeling Bodies of Revolution in (2246) in large-scale military warehouse. (2258) Calculus. Preliminary report. Ashok K Deb*andDavid Gohlich,U.S. Zachary A. Kudlak, Mount Saint Mary Military Academy (1086-J5-1792) College (1086-P5-978)

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10:20AM Using the Pottery Wheel to Explore Topics MAA General Contributed Paper Session: (2259) in Calculus. Research in Applied Mathematics, III Elin R Smith*andMarie A Snipes, Kenyon College (1086-P5-2425) 8:00 AM –10:40AM Room 33B, Upper Level, 10:40AM Visualizing Multivariable Calculus San Diego Convention Center (2260) with paper, Play-Doh,blocksand CalcPlot3D-generated models. Organizers: Stephen Davis,Davidson Monica M VanDieren, Robert Morris College University (1086-P5-1867) Gizem Karaali, Pomona College MAA Session on Trends in Undergraduate Mathematical Biology Education, I Douglas Norton, Villanova University 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 3, Upper Level, Moderators: Salam Khan,AlabamaA&M San Diego Convention Center University

Organizer: Timothy D. Comar, Eric Ruggieri, Duquesne Benedictine University University

8:00AM Improving the quantitative skills of life 8:00AM Fitting and Analysis of the Distribution (2261) science majors at California State (2270) Function of Relaxation Times for the University Los Angeles. Polarization Estimation Inverse Problem Silvia Heubach*andElizabeth Torres, for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells. California State University Los Angeles Robert Simpson Baker,ArizonaState (1086-Q5-2003) University (1086-VL-2743)

8:20AM Developing a Calculus Course for 8:15AM Applying the Role of Differential Identities (2262) the Natural and Physical Sciences. (2271) as an Efﬁcient Tool for Understanding Preliminary report. Symmetries and Conservation Laws in Lisa Rogers, Courant Institute of Dynamical Systems. Preliminary report. Mathematical Sciences (1086-Q5-1963) Eugene S. Li*, Montgomery College, and Gerald Katzin, North Carolina State 8:40AM Integrated Quantitative Science at the University (1086-VL-2356) (2263) University of Richmond. Lester Caudill, University of Richmond 8:30AM Reconstruction of Optical Coherence (1086-Q5-2523) (2272) Tomography Images using Inpainting. Preliminary report. 9:00AM Pairing A First Year Modeling Course with Sridevi Pudipeddi*, Normandale (2264) Introductory Biology. College, Bloomington, MN, Ravishankar David Karl Ruch*, Metropolitan State Chityala, Minnesota Supercomputing University of Denver, and Joanne Odden, Institute, University of Minnesota, Dept of Biology, Metropolitan State Minneapolis, MN, and Robert Jones, University of Denver (1086-Q5-526) School of Dentistry, University of 9:20AM Mathematical Modeling for Biology. Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (2265) Glenn Ledder,Universityof (1086-VL-2335) Nebraska-Lincoln (1086-Q5-2276) 8:45AM Differential Equations for the 9:40AM Capturing the Imagination of Freshmen (2273) Construction of Novel Kernels in Machine (2266) and Sophomore Math and Biology Majors Learning. Through Research Experiences. Alexandra V Pasi*andRichard Sophia Jang, Nancy McIntyre and G. Wellman, Westminster College, Salt Lake Brock Williams*, Texas Tech University City, UT (1086-VL-2196) (1086-Q5-2843) 9:00AM Rigorous Computation of Stokes Constant 10:00AM UBM Group Seminar Discussions: (2274) in problems with parameters. (2267) Grappling with Issues beyond the Heather Rosenblatt*, Xing Liu, Hyejin Curriculum. Park and Saleh Tanveer,TheOhioState D. Brian Walton,JamesMadison University (1086-VL-1923) University (1086-Q5-2512) 9:15AM Mean Exit Time as a Metric of Ecological 10:20AM More Student Research Projects with (2275) Stability in Stochastic Lotka-Volterra (2268) Biological Models Using Impulsive Models. Preliminary report. Differential Equations. Seth D. Haney*, Matthew Cattivera and Timothy D Comar, Benedictine Adam Siepielski,UniversityofSanDiego University (1086-Q5-712) (1086-VL-1733)

10:40AM The ups and downs of interdisciplinary 9:30AM Global Asymptotic Stability of (2269) collaboration: undergraduate research (2276) Density-Dependent Age-Structured experiences in math and biology. Plant-Seed Bank Models. Faun C. C. Doherty, Washington and Eric Alan Eager,Universityof Jefferson College (1086-Q5-231) Wisconsin-La Crosse (1086-VL-957)

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9:45AM Direct numerical approach for solving AWM Workshop on Number Theory, I (2277) Falkner-Scan Equations. Ramanjit K Sahi*, Samuel Jator,Austin 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 6F, Upper Level, Peay State University, and Noureen San Diego Convention Center Khan, The University of North Texas at Dallas (1086-VL-588) 8:00AM Zeta zeroes of Artin–Schreier curves. (2286) Chantal David*, Concordia University, 10:00AM A Game Theoretic Approach to Alina Bucur,UCSD,Brooke Feigon, (2278) Communication Security. Preliminary CUNY, Matilde Lalin,Universityof report. Montreal, and Kaneenika Sinha,Indian Assane Gueye, National Institute Institute of Science Education and of Standards and Technology Research, Kolkata (1086-11-681) (1086-VL-2950) 8:30AM How often is #E(Fp) squarefree? (2287) Shabnam Akhtari, University of Oregon, 10:15AM Haar Wavelet-like Analysis with MRA , Concordia University, (2279) Method Extended to Fractals. Chantal David Heekyoung Hahn, Duke University, and Myung-Sin Song, Southern Illinois *, University of Georgia University Edwardsville (1086-VL-759) Lola Thompson (1086-11-284) 10:30AM Design of polyphase sequences with 9:00AM Parametrizing D4 covers over finite (2280) sparse disjoint support discrete Fourier (2288) fields. transform. Preliminary report. Alina Bucur*, UCSD, Ling Hoeschler, Andrzej K Brodzik, The MITRE University of Illinois at Chicago, Renate Corporation (1086-VL-1467) Scheidler, University of Calgary, and Melanie Matchett Wood,Universityof SIAM Minisymposium on Integer Wisconsin-Madison (1086-11-775) Programming and Combinatorial 9:30AM Enumerating abelian varieties using Optimization (2289) matrix groups. Preliminary report. Cassie L Williams,JamesMadison 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM Room 11A, Upper Level, University (1086-11-252) San Diego Convention Center 10:00AM Mahler measure of some singular (2290) K3-surfaces. Organizer: Jesus De Loera,University Marie-Jose Bertin, Universite Pierre et of California, Davis Marie Curie, Amy Feaver,Universityof Colorado at Boulder, Jenny Fuselier, 8:00AM Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programs with High Point University, Matilde Lalin, (2281) On-Off Constraints. University of Montreal, and Michelle Hongbo Dong,Univertsityof Manes*, University of Hawaii at Manoa Wisconsin-Madison, Hyemin Jeon, (1086-11-1019) Jeff Linderoth*, University of 10:30AM Ramanujan-type Supercongruences and Wisconsin-Madison, and Andrew Miller, (2291) complex multiplications on elliptic curves. Universite Bordeaux 1 (1086-90-1550) Sarah Chisholm, University of Calgary, Canada, Alyson Deines,Universityof 8:30AM Markov Random Fields: Complexity, Washington, *, Cornell (2282) versatility and algorithms. Ling Long University/Iowa State University, Dorit S Hochbaum, Department of IEOR, , RWTH Aachen University, UC Berkeley (1086-05-1607) Gabriele Nebe Germany, and Holly Swisher,Oregon 9:00AM Optimizing convex functions over State University (1086-11-380) (2283) non-convex sets. Daniel Bienstock*andAlexander Employment Center Michalka, Columbia University (1086-90-883) 8:00 AM – NOON Exhibit Hall A, Ground Level, San Diego Convention Center 9:30AM The Gomory-Johnson infinite group (2284) problem: A 40-year update. AMS Session on Analysis Matthias Koppe¨ *, Amitabh Basu, ,Universityof Robert Hildebrand 8:15 AM –10:55AM Room 18, Mezzanine California, Davis, and Marco Level, San Diego Convention Center Molinaro, Carnegie Mellon University (1086-90-840) 8:15AM A nonreal local extremum for the Sendov (2292) conjecture. Preliminary report. 10:00AM The Triangulation Problem in Computer Michael J Miller, Le Moyne College (2285) Vision. (1086-30-1187) Chris Aholt, University of Washington, Sameer Agarwal, Google Inc, and Rekha 8:30AM An Extension of Bernstein’s Inequality to RThomas*, University of Washington (2293) Rational Functions. (1086-90-359) Mohammed A. Qazi*, Tuskegee University, and Q. I. Rahman,Universite 10:30AM Panel Discussion de Montreal (1086-30-1566)

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8:45AM Schwarzian and Fuchsian equations on a 9:00AM On the Folding of L-Shapes into (2294) Riemann surface. (2306) Polyhedra. David J Pinchbeck, St. Joseph’s College Emily Dinan*, Fordham University, Alice of Maine (1086-30-825) Nadeau, Grinnell College, and Issac 9:00AM A Family of Minimal Surfaces Odegard, University of North Dakota (2295) Constructed by Lifting Univalent Planar (1086-51-1204) Harmonic Mappings. Preliminary report. 9:15AM A Proof Related to the Projections of Stacey Muir*, University of Scranton, and (2307) Polyhedra. Michael Dorff, Brigham Young University John Jacob Zanazzi,NorthernArizona (1086-30-2698) University (1086-51-946) 9:15AM Analytic functions with real boundary 9:30AM On Unit Triangle and Square Tilings in (2296) values in Smirnov classes Ep. (2308) R2. LisaDeDeCastro*andDmitry John Chiarelli, New York University, Khavinson, University of South Florida Robert Connelly, Cornell Universtiy, (1086-30-1001) and Lisa Piccirillo*, Boston College 9:30AM Formal Power Series and The Boundary (1086-52-2857) (2297) Convergence of Power Series. 9:45AM Perimeter-minimizing Planar Tilings by Xiao-Xiong Gan, Morgan State University (2309) Pentagons. (1086-40-1363) Whan Ghang,MIT,Zane Martin*, 9:45AM Bohr’s phenomenon for analytic Williams College, and Steven Waruhiu, (2298) functions and the hyperbolic metric. University of Chicago (1086-51-2461) Rosihan M Ali*, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 10:00AM What Do Math and LEGOs Have in and Yusuf Abu Muhanna,American (2310) Common? University of Sharjah (1086-30-65) Emmanuel Daring, Williams College, , St. Mary’s College of 10:00AM Periodic Decomposition of BMO. Casey Douglas (2299) Wael Abushammala,Universityof Maryland, Isabel Guadarrama, Bryn Palestine (1086-43-1807) Mawr College, Samantha Sprague, Marist College, and Carrie Winterer*, 10:15AM Asymptotic Toeplitzness of Composition St. Mary’s College of Maryland (2300) operators and their adjoints. (1086-00-1981) Mehdi Nikpour, American University of Afghanistan (1086-47-2840) 10:15AM Hodge-deRham Theory of K-Forms on (2311) Carpet Type Fractals. Preliminary report. p 10:30AM L inequality for entire functions of Jason Bello*, University of California, Los (2301) exponential type. Angeles, Yiran Li and Robert Strichartz, Tariq M Qazi, Virginia State University Cornell University (1086-53-2813) (1086-41-2634) 10:30AM Computational Implementation of Ernst’s 10:45AM On the continuity of the Luxemburg norm (2312) Tangle Equations Model. (2302) of the gradient in variable exponent Jonathan Kirkpatrick Sullivan*and Lebesgue spaces. Noureen Khan,UniversityofNorth Marian Bocea*, Loyola University Texas at Dallas (1086-55-846) Chicago, and Mihai Mihailescu, 10:45AM Discrete Folds of Tree Spaces. University of Craiova, Romania (2313) Daoji Huang, Carleton College (1086-49-2603) (1086-52-1661)

AMS Session on Undergraduate Research in MAA General Contributed Paper Session: Geometry Mathematics Education, II

8:15 AM –10:55AM Room 19, Mezzanine 8:15 AM –10:55AM Room 33C, Upper Level, Level, San Diego Convention Center San Diego Convention Center 8:15AM Differential Harnack Estimates for Organizers: Stephen Davis,Davidson (2303) Fisher’s Equation. College Xiaodong Cao, Cornell University, Bowei Liu, Princeton University, Ian Gizem Karaali, Pomona Pendleton*, University of California, College Berkeley, and Abigail Ward,Universityof Douglas Norton, Villanova Chicago (1086-35-2870) University 8:30AM Gaussian Lines and Circles. Preliminary Moderators: Rebecca Head, Bakersﬁeld (2304) report. College Nicholas R Pasko*andCasey J Agnes Rash, St. Joseph’s Douglas, St. Mary’s College of Maryland University (1086-53-1840) 8:15AM Elementary mathematics education: 8:45AM Global Dynamics of Pulse-Coupled (2314) What has been, what is, and what might (2305) Oscillators. Preliminary report. be normal. Ryan Wayne Gryder, College of William Christopher C. Leary, SUNY Geneseo and Mary (1086-55-2085) (1086-VE-2242)

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8:30AM Train the Trainer with Technology in Kimberly Presser, (2315) Mathematics Education. Shippensburg University Margo Alexander*andIman Chahine, 8:20AM Improving Student Success in Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA (2325) Developmental Algebra through a Course (1086-VE-1176) Redesign: Lessons Learned. 8:45AM Mathematics Teacher Development of Cheryl J. McAllister*, Pradeep Singh (2316) Quantitative Reasoning Tasks for and Laurie W. Overmann,Southeast Students. Preliminary report. Missouri State University (1086-E1-1241) David M Glassmeyer*, Michael C 8:40AM The Use of Exam Wrappers to Motivate Oehrtman and Jodie D Novak,University (2326) Student Learning. Preliminary report. of Northern Colorado (1086-VE-1105) Peter Olszewski, Penn State Erie, The 9:00AM The TI-Nspire Navigator CAS system and Behrend College (1086-E1-873) (2317) pre-service teachers: Changing the 9:00AM Accelerating Development: A Pilot Bridge communication in a mathematics (2327) Program. classroom. John W Hoggard, Edinboro University of Tharanga Mahesh Kumara Wijetunge* Pennsylvania (1086-E1-1815) and Dennis St. John, Central Michigan 9:20AM Developmental Math Redesign - What’s University (1086-VE-994) (2328) Been Working. Preliminary report. 9:15AM Happiness is receiving a Noyce Grant - Joan E Brown*, Eastern New Mexico (2318) but who knew it would be this hard to University, Portales, NM, and Tom R award scholarships? Preliminary report. Brown, Eastern New Mexico University Janet Nichols, Colorado State University (1086-E1-155) - Pueblo (1086-VE-2365) 9:40AM Flexible Options to Prepare Students for 9:30AM Recruiting and Preparing Mathematics (2329) University-Level Mathematics. Preliminary (2319) Majors for Houston-Area Classrooms: report. The University of Houston-Downtown Susan E Thompson, Otterbein University Noyce Mathematics Teacher Scholarship (1086-E1-1416) Program. 10:00AM Math Skills, An Emporium Model Timothy A. Redl*, Rebecca J. Quander, (2330) Modiﬁed, What We Learned from the Pilot Nancy A. Leveille, Jacqueline Sack and Year. Preliminary report. Michael L. Connell,Universityof Mary D Shepherd*andCheryl G. Malm, Houston-Downtown (1086-VE-503) Northwest Missouri State University 9:45AM Mathematics Leadership Requires Growth (1086-E1-1221) (2320) and Responsibility. 10:20AM Learning and Study Strategies Still Suzanne Mitchell, National Council (2331) Remain Relevant Factors in Predicting of Supervisors of Mathematics Academic Success in Developmental (1086-VE-1494) Mathematics. 10:00AM Using Original Historical Sources in Jerry C Obiekwe,TheUniversityof (2321) Teaching Mathematics for Preservice Akron-Wayne College (1086-E1-479) Elementary and Middle School Teachers. 10:40AM ACCESS (Accelerating College Osama Taani, Plymouth State University (2332) Completion by Enhancing Student (1086-VE-1662) Success) Mathematics: A Combined 10:15AM The State of Mathematics Education in Developmental-College Algebra Course. (2322) Africa:Building a strong foundation for Preliminary report. global competitiveness. Alvina J. Atkinson*, Barry D. Dickson S. Ondiek Owiti, Kisii University Biddlecomb and D. Natasha Brewley, College, Kenya (1086-VE-2218) Georgia Gwinnett College (1086-E1-948) 10:30AM A New REU Program in Mathematics (2323) Education Research. MAA Session on Fostering Mathematical Fabiana Cardetti, Gabriel Feinberg*, Habits of Mind, II University of Connecticut, and Catherine Matta, Cabrini College (1086-VE-2531) 8:20 AM –10:15AM Room 6E, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center 10:45AM Using Magic Squares To Design (2324) Assignments. Organizers: Kien H. Lim,Universityof Brian P. Kelly, Fisher College Texas at El Paso (1086-VE-963) Ays¸e A.¸ahin S ,DePaul University MAA Session on Developmental Mathematics Education, I Holly Hirst, Appalachian State University 8:20 AM –10:55AM Room 6C, Upper Level, 8:20AM Finding Ways to Evaluate Students’ San Diego Convention Center (2333) Development of Mathematical Habits of Mind. Organizers: J. Winston Crawley, Erica Slate Young, University of Alabama Shippensburg University in Huntsville (1086-F1-2344)

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8:40AM Modeling the MHoM for math majors that AMS Session on Approximation Methods and (2334) want to teach. Error Analysis Greisy Winicki Landman, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (1086-F1-794) 8:30 AM –10:40AM Room 30B, Upper Level, 9:00AM The Beneﬁts of A Habit: Examining San Diego Convention Center (2335) Evidence to Understand Statements and Proofs. Preliminary report. 8:30AM Euler’s Machin-like Formula Iterated, Martin E Flashman, Humboldt State (2344) Maximal Dilation and Switch to University (1086-F1-1097) Remainder. Preliminary report. 9:20AM Developing Mathematical Habits of Iraj Kalantari and Mojtaba Moniri*, (2336) Mind in a Problem Solving Course for Western Illinois University Preservice Middle School Teachers. (1086-68-2985) Preliminary report. Tamas Szabo and Craig Snider*, 8:45AM Diophantine Approximation with Partial University of Wisconsin Whitewater (2345) sums of power series. (1086-F1-2607) Bruce C Berndt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Sun Kim, Ohio State 9:40AM The Open Math Lab: Building an (2337) IBL-Based Tutoring Center. University, M Tip E Phaovibul*and Randall E Cone, Virginia Military Alexandru Zaharescu,Universityof Institute (1086-F1-1065) Illinois at Urbana Champaign (1086-41-2630) 10:00AM Mathematical Habits of Mind (MHoM) (2338) Are Not Just for Math Class: Using 9:00AM Discussion Mathematical Ways of Thinking Outside the Mathematics Classroom to Create 9:00AM TALK CANCELLED Characterization of Artwork. (2346) Best Approximation in Generalized Haar Charlene Morrow, Mount Holyoke Space of Tensor Product Type. College (1086-F1-1594) Mohammad A AlQudah*, Northwood University, and James R Angelos,Cenral AMS Special Session on Financial Michigan University (1086-41-770) Mathematics, I 9:15AM Using Mathematica to Find the Exact or 8:30 AM –10:50AM Room 16A, Mezzanine (2347) to Approximate the Analytical Solution of Level, San Diego Convention Center Volterra Equations. Preliminary report. Javad Abdalkhani,TheOhioState Organizers: Maxim Bichuch,Princeton University-Lima (1086-45-1944) University

Tim Siu-Tang Leung, 9:30AM Using asymptotics to obtain sharp size Columbia University (2348) estimates for a class of exponential 8:30AM A No-Arbitrage Model of Liquidity in integrals. (2339) Financial Markets involving Brownian Kevin Renna, University of Montana Sheets. (1086-32-2266) David German*, Claremont McKenna College, and Henry Schellhorn, 9:45AM Walsh Fourier Analysis and Grey Codes. Claremont Graduate University (2349) Preliminary report. (1086-60-1425) Nasser Dastrange, Buena Vista 9:00AM Absence of arbitrage in a general University (1086-42-1336) (2340) framework. Hasanjan Sayit, Worcester Polytechnic 10:00AM A posteriori error estimates for explicit Institute (1086-60-622) (2350) time integration methods. James B Collins*, Colorado State 9:30AM Optimal execution of a VWAP order: a Univsersity, Don Estep and Simon (2341) stochastic control approach. Tavener, Colorado State University Christoph Frei*, University of Alberta, (1086-65-2011) and Nicholas Westray,DeutscheBank AG (1086-60-338) 10:15AM Quantiﬁcation of operator splitting 10:00AM Portfolio Optimization under Convex (2351) effects in ﬁnite volume calculations of (2342) Incentive Schemes. advection-diffusion. Maxim Bichuch*, Princeton University, Jeffrey M Connors,LawrenceLivermore and Stephan Sturm, Worcester National Laboratory (1086-65-2375) Polytechnic Institute (1086-60-799) 10:30AM Optimal Incentives for Delegated 10:30AM An a Posteriori Analysis of Iterative (2343) Portfolio Optimization. (2352) Technique for System of Odes. Maxim Bichuch, Princeton University, Jehanzeb H Chaudhry*, Don Estep, ORFE Department, and Stephan Sturm*, Simon Tavener, Colorado State Worcester Polytechnic Institute University, and Victor Ginting,University (1086-91-879) of Wyoming (1086-65-1271)

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AMS Committee on Education Panel MAA Minicourse #13: Part B Discussion 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Room 30A, Upper Level, 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM Room 10, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center San Diego Convention Center Problem-based courses for teachers, Mathematics serving students in other future teachers, and math majors. disciplines. Presenters: Gail Burrill, Michigan State University Moderator: Tara S. Holm,Cornell University Darryl Yong, Harvey Mudd College Panelists: Mark Kozek, Whittier College Bowen Kerins, Education Development Center William McCallum, ,Universityof University of Arizona James King Washington Tom Morley,GeorgiaTech Victoria Powers,Emory MAA Panel Discussion University 9:00 AM –10:20AM Room 1A, Upper Level, Tom Roby,Universityof Connecticut San Diego Convention Center Maria Terrell,Cornell Active learning in mathematics. University Organizers: David Taylor,Roanoke College AMS Invited Address Lorena Bociu,North Carolina State University 9:00 AM –9:50AM Room 6AB, Upper Level, Robert Allen,Universityof San Diego Convention Center Wisconsin-La Crosse (2353) Generators and Relations for Finite Panelists: Alina Duca, North Carolina Groups. State University Robert M. Guralnick,Universityof Susan Hermiller,University Southern California (1086-20-4) of Nebraska-Lincoln Jennifer Kosiak,University ASL Invited Address of Wisconsin-La Crosse Kal Nanes,Universityof 9:00 AM –9:50AM Room 7B, Upper Level, Maryland, Baltimore County San Diego Convention Center Charlotte Zales,Moravian (2354) John von Neumann, model theorist. College Bradd Hart,McMasterUniversity (1086-03-130) SIGMAA on Math Circles for Students and Teachers: Demonstration for MAA Minicourse #8: Part B Mathematicians

9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Room 29D, Mezzanine 9:00 AM –9:55AM Room 1B, Upper Level, Level, San Diego Convention Center San Diego Convention Center

Getting students involved in Come learn about and participate in this undergraduate research. Math Circles experience. Presenters: Aparna Higgins,University Organizers: Sam Vandervelde,St. of Dayton Lawrence University Tatiana Shubin,SanJose Joseph Gallian,University State University of Minnesota Duluth SIGMAA on Statistics Education Panel MAA Minicourse #1: Part B Discussion

AM AM 9:00 – 11:00 Room 29C, Mezzanine 9:00 AM –10:20AM Room 4, Upper Level, Level, San Diego Convention Center San Diego Convention Center Heavenly mathematics: The forgotten art Randomization and bootstrap methods in of spherical trigonometry. the introductory statistics course. Presenters: Glen Van Brummelen, Organizer: Andrew Ziefﬂer,University Quest University of Minnesota Joel Silverberg,Roger Panelists: George Cobb, Mount Williams University Holyoke College

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Jeff Hamrick,Rhodes MAA Invited Address College 10:05 AM –10:55AM Room 6AB, Upper John Holcomb, Cleveland State University Level, San Diego Convention Center Karl Lock Morgan,Duke (2356) Who chooses not to persist in calculus University and why? Chris Rasmussen, San Diego State Rachel Dunwell,Rhodes University (1086-A0-12) College Robert delMas,University MAA Business Meeting of Minnesota 11:10 AM – 11:40 AM Room 6AB, Upper Robin Lock,St.Lawrence University Level, San Diego Convention Center Soma Roy, California AMS Business Meeting Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo 11:45 AM – 12:15 PM Room 6AB, Upper Laura Ziegler,Universityof Level, San Diego Convention Center Minnesota NAM Claytor-Woodard Lecture NAM Panel Discussion 1:00 PM –1:50PM Room 11B, Upper Level, 9:00 AM –9:50AM Room 11B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center San Diego Convention Center (2357) Stability and dynamics of solitary waves in AlGaAs waveguide arrays and BEC Strategies for Winning Images, Lasting spinor lattices. Impressions, and Brilliant Brands. Rudy Lee Horne, Morehouse College (1086-37-796) Student Hospitality/Information Center AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research 9:00 AM –3:00PM Exhibit Hall B2, Ground in Mathematics by Undergraduates and Level, San Diego Convention Center Students in Post-Baccalaureate Programs, IV

Exhibits and Book Sales 1:00 PM –5:50PM Room 8, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center 9:00 AM – NOON Exhibit Hall B1, Ground Level, San Diego Convention Center Organizers: Bernard Brooks,Rochester Institute of Technology ASL Invited Address Jobby Jacob,Rochester Institute of Technology 10:00 AM –10:50AM Room 7B, Upper Level, Jacqueline Jensen-Vallin, San Diego Convention Center Slippery Rock University Carl V. Lutzer,Rochester (2355) Reason and evidence in mathematics. Institute of Technology Peter Koellner,HarvardUniversity Darren Narayan,Rochester (1086-03-132) Institute of Technology SIGMAA on Math Circles for Students and Tamas Wiandt,Rochester Teachers: Demonstration for Students Institute of Technology 1:00PM Puzzling Graphs I. Preliminary report. 10:00 AM –10:55AM Room 1B, Upper Level, (2358) Daphne Gold*, Maneka Puligandla, and ,Smith San Diego Convention Center Bayla Weick Ruobing Zhang College (1086-05-2138) Come learn about and participate in this 1:30PM Puzzling Graphs II. Preliminary report. Math Circles experience. (2359) Tia Pilaroscia*, Jize Zhang and Jasmine Osorio, Smith College (1086-05-2143) Organizers: Sam Vandervelde,St. Lawrence University 2:00PM On cyclic decompositions of Kn,n minus a (2360) 1-factor into 2-regular graphs. Tatiana Shubin,SanJose Ryan C Bunge, Saad I El-Zanati, Illinois State University State University, Daniel Gibson*, Concordia University, Jackelyn Nagel, NAM Business Meeting Dominican University, Benjamin Stanley, New Mexico State University, and 10:00 AM –10:50AM Room 11B, Upper Allison Zale, Illinois State university Level, San Diego Convention Center (1086-05-2165)

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2:30PM The Structure of Consecutive Octic 2:00PM New NSF initiative: “Expeditions in (2361) Residues. Preliminary report. (2370) Training, Research, and Education for Nicolas Allen Smoot, Armstrong Atlantic Mathematics and Statistics through State University (1086-11-168) Quantitative Explorations of Data” (EXTREEMS-QED). 3:00PM Nim on Wheels. (2362) Joseph Frank DiNatale, Armstrong Jennifer Slimowitz Pearl,National Atlantic State University (1086-05-170) Science Foundation (1086-97-1788)

3:30PM Multi-Dimensional Predator-Prey Models. 2:30PM Computational Sciences and Big Data: (2363) Clayton J Schuman*andAntonio (2371) Implications for the Mathematics Mastroberardino, Penn State Erie, The Curriculum — A Discussion. Preliminary Behrend College (1086-34-2796) report. William Barker*, Bowdoin College, 4:00PM New partition algorithms for 1-D event Andrew Bernoff, Harvey Mudd College, (2364) data. Preliminary report. Daniel Goroff, Sloan Foundation, and Sarah Bass, Katarina Gagic, Tim Hsu, Jennifer Slimowitz Pearl,National Anh Nguyen, Charles Petersen*, Jim Science Foundation (1086-97-2792) Quach, Jonathan Reyles, Cliff Sandwick and Karen Wu, San Jose State Univ. 3:00PM Mathematical sense and nonsense in the (1086-90-184) (2372) public conversation about the future of Planet Earth: How do we help our 4:30PM Fusing Images with Multiple students tell the difference? Preliminary (2365) Degradations Using Gaussian Mixture report. Models. Preliminary report. Robert E. Megginson,Universityof Glenn Sidle*, Duquesne University, Katie Michigan, Ann Arbor (1086-97-2599) Heaps, Josh Koslosky,Universityof Minnesota, and Stacey Levine, Duquesne 3:30PM Conceptual Earth’s Climate Models: University (1086-49-195) (2373) Opportunities in Mathematics Classrooms. Preliminary report. 5:00PM Variations of Cops and Robber on (2366) Graphs. Esther R. Widiasih, University of Arizona Dalton Allan*, Massachusetts Institute (1086-97-1146) of Technology, Linda M. Dunklee, 4:00PM Using freeze and thaw data for lakes to Central Michigan University, and (2374) study global warming. Sofya Vorotnikova,Universityof Glenn Ledder,Universityof Massachusetts-Amherst (1086-00-199) Nebraska-Lincoln (1086-92-2018) 5:30PM A Survival Analysis of the Duration of 4:30PM Opportunities and Challenges in (2367) Olympic Records. (2375) Teaching Mathematical Modeling. Adam J Zarn*, Wheaton College, Preliminary report. Wheaton, IL, Elliott Z Holliﬁeld, Susan D. Nickerson, San Diego State UNC-Asheville, Asheville, NC, and University (1086-97-2732) Victoria A Trevino, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT (1086-62-172) 5:00PM Using Probability and Limits to (2376) Investigate Biodiversity. AMS-MAA Special Session on Mathematics Suzanne Lenhart*, U of Tennessee, and Education Reform, III Knoxville and NIMBIoS, and Kelly Sturner, NIMBIoS, U of Tennessee 1:00 PM –5:20PM Room 17B, Mezzanine (1086-92-965) Level, San Diego Convention Center AMS-MAA Special Session on the History of Organizers: William Barker,Bowdoin Mathematics, II College Cathy Kessel,Berkeley, 1:00 PM –5:50PM Room 9, Upper Level, California San Diego Convention Center William McCallum, Organizers: Patti Hunter,Westmont University of Arizona College Bonnie Saunders,University of Illinois, Chicago Deborah Kent,Drake University 1:00PM Embracing the iPhone Generation: The (2368) Evolving Mathematics Curriculum at Adrian Rice, Liberal Arts Colleges. Randolph-Macon College Andrew J. Bernoff, Harvey Mudd College 1:00PM Deductive structure and mathematical (1086-97-1273) (2377) tables in Ptolemy’s Almagest. Preliminary 1:30PM Big Data Projects: Lessons Learned and report. (2369) To Be Learned. Preliminary report. Nathan C Sidoli, Waseda University, Daniel L Goroff, Alfred P. Sloan School of International Liberal Studies Foundation (1086-97-2556) (1086-01-1199)

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1:30PM Theory versus tables in 2:00PM Fitting helices to data. (2378) second-millennium applied mathematics (2389) Yves Nievergelt*, Eastern Washington in India. Preliminary report. University, Theodore M. Cole and Kim Plofker, Union College Caroline Rinaldi,DeptofBasicMedical (1086-01-956) Science, School of Medicine, University of 2:00PM Elliptical Orbits and the Conflict over the Missouri-Kansas City (1086-65-197) (2379) Calculus. Preliminary report. 2:30PM Puiseux Series Expansions for Algebraic Paul R Wolfson, West Chester University (2390) Sets. (1086-01-935) Danko Adrovic*andJan Verschelde, 2:30PM Your humble Servant, Is. Newton. University of Illinois at Chicago (2380) William Dunham, Muhlenberg College (1086-14-2158) (1086-01-457) 3:00PM Splitting Behavior of Primes in Sn 3:00PM A Reader’s Guide to the Classification of (2391) Extensions of Q. Preliminary report. (2381) Quadratic Forms in the Disquisitiones Benjamin L Weiss*, Bates College, and Arithmeticae. Preliminary report. Jeffrey C Lagarias,Universityof Lawrence A. D’Antonio, Ramapo College Michigan (1086-12-2430) of New Jersey (1086-01-993) 3:30PM Numerical Methods for Solving Schubert 3:30PM The Reverend Thomas Hill (1818-1891): (2392) Problems. Preliminary report. (2382) Educator, Administrator and Nickolas Hein,TexasA&MUniversity Mathematician. Preliminary report. (1086-14-1108) Eisso J. Atzema, University of Maine 4:00PM Zeta Functions of Artin Schreier Curves (1086-01-1337) (2393) via Representations of Sn. 4:00PM TALK ADDED: Promoting mathematics in Alexander Carl Mueller,Universityof the Greco-Roman world, Jacqueline Feke, Michigan (1086-11-1818) University of Chicago 4:30PM Polynomial Equations with Infinitely Many 4:00PM TALK CANCELLED: Von Mises and (2394) Solutions over an Algebraic Number (2383) the Mathematical Theory of Plastic Field. Preliminary report. Deformation. Thao Do, Stony Brook University, Rolf Nossum,UniversityofAgder, Jared Hallet, Williams Colllege, Elliot Norway (1086-01-653) Wells, University of Michigan, Susan 4:30PM Weyl’s lecture courses on group theory at Yuhou Xia*, Bryn Mawr College, and (2384) the Institute for Advanced Study Michael Zieve, University of Michigan (Princeton) before the Second World War. (1086-11-2901) Christophe Eckes, Institut de 5:00PM Constructing Global and Non-Global Mathématiques de Toulouse (2395) Cubic Function Fields. (1086-01-656) Colin J Weir, University of Calgary 5:00PM Biogeometry, 1941. (1086-11-2590) (2385) Marjorie Senechal, Smith College (1086-01-482) 5:30PM A smaller set of invariants for genus 2 (2396) curves. Preliminary report. 5:30PM Creating a Life: Emil Artin in America. Kristin Lauter*, Michael Naehrig, (2386) Della Dumbaugh*, University of Microsoft Research, and Tonghai Yang, Richmond, and Joachim Schwermer, University of Wisconsin (1086-14-2055) University of Vienna (1086-01-932) AMS Special Session on Dirac and Laplace AMS Special Session on Computational Operators in Global Analysis and Geometry, Algebraic and Analytic Geometry for II Low-dimensional Varieties, II 1:00 PM –5:50PM Room 32A, Upper Level, 1:00 PM –5:50PM Room 15A, Mezzanine San Diego Convention Center Level, San Diego Convention Center Organizers: Mika Seppala,FloridaState Organizers: Ken Richardson,Texas University Christian University Emil Volcheck,National Igor Prokhorenkov,Texas Security Agency Christian University ∗ 1:00PM Theconvexhullofapairofcircles. 1:00PM Sheaves of C -algebras and K-homology. (2387) Preliminary report. (2397) Preliminary report. Frank Sottle*andTina Mai,TexasA&M John Roe*, Penn State University, and University (1086-14-1695) Paul Siegel, Columbia University (1086-58-686) 1:30PM Sparse Polynomial Interpolation with (2388) Errors: Power and Shifted Bases. 2:00PM Higher analytic indices and symbolic Matthew T Comer*, Erich L. Kaltofen, (2398) index pairing. Preliminary report. North Carolina State University, and Alexander Gorokhovsky*, University of Clément Pernet,UniversitéJoseph Colorado, Boulder, and Henri Moscovici, Fourier (1086-12-2170) The Ohio State University (1086-58-2136)

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3:00PM Casimir’s surgery problem. Preliminary 5:00PM An Optimal Timing Approach to (2399) report. (2410) Mean-Reversion Trading. Paul Loya*, SUNY Binghamton, and Tim Leung*andXin Li,Columbia Klaus Kirsten, Baylor University University (1086-60-435) (1086-58-1236) 4:00PM Some results on spectral geometry of AMS Special Session on Generalized (2400) Riemannian orbifolds. Symmetric Spaces, II Yuri A. Kordyukov, Institute of Mathematics, Russian Academy of 1:00 PM –5:50PM Room 15B, Mezzanine Sciences, Ufa, Russia (1086-58-1109) Level, San Diego Convention Center 5:00PM Dirac-like operators on subbundles and (2401) Toeplitz structures on contact manifolds. Organizers: Catherine Buell,Bates Preliminary report. College D Sean Fitzpatrick,Universityof California, Berkeley (1086-53-1496) Aloysius G. Helminck, North Carolina State AMS Special Session on Financial University Mathematics, II 1:00PM Howe duality and Multiplicity-free (2411) actions. 1:00 PM –5:20PM Room 16A, Mezzanine Tobias R Pecher, University of Paderborn Level, San Diego Convention Center (1086-15-1699)

Organizers: Maxim Bichuch,Princeton 1:30PM Representations with Small K Types for University (2412) Simply Connected, Simply Laced, Split Real Groups. Tim Siu-Tang Leung, Seung Won Lee, University of California, Columbia University San Diego (1086-22-2044) 1:00PM Two competing companies with rank (2402) based characteristics. 2:00PM The (quantum) hidden subgroup problem Tomoyuki Ichiba,Universityof (2413) for ax+b groups. Preliminary report. California Santa Barbara (1086-60-1708) Nolan R. Wallach*andDavid Meyer, University of California, San Diego 1:30PM Brownian particle systems as models of (1086-20-1413) (2403) large equity markets. Mykhaylo Shkolnikov,Universityof 2:30PM Local Converse Theorems for California, Berkeley (1086-60-947) (2414) Distinguished Representations. Preliminary report. 2:00PM Interacting Particle Systems for Systemic (2404) Risk. Preliminary report. Jeffrey Hakim*, American University, and Michael Ludkovski, UC Santa Barbara Omer Offen, Technion (1086-22-2334) (1086-60-2200) 3:00PM Decompositions of compact symmetric 2:30PM Volatility-Stabilized Markets. Preliminary (2415) spaces. (2405) report. Derek Habermas,SUNYPotsdam Radka Pickova, Columbia University (1086-53-2502) (1086-60-483) 3:30PM Ahyperkahler¨ structure on the cotangent 3:00PM Asymptotic Expansion of (2416) bundle of a complex semisimple Lie (2406) Regime-Switching Models for Consistent group. Preliminary report. Pricing of VIX and S&P500 Derivatives. Ralph J Bremigan, Ball State University Andrew Papanicolaou,Princeton (1086-53-1478) University (1086-60-78) 4:00PM Invariants of Certain Elementary Abelian 3:30PM Optimal Investment in the Presence of (2417) p-groups. (2407) High-water Mark Fees. H.E.A. Campbell,UniversityofNew *, UC, Santa Barbara, Gerard Brunick Brunswick, R. James Shank,Universityof ,UniversityofTexas Mihai Sirbu Kent, Canterbury, and David L. Wehlau*, at Austin, and Karel Janecek,RSJ Royal Military College of Canada Algorithmic Tradings and Charles (1086-20-1644) University, Prague (1086-49-192) 4:00PM Competitive Control of Market Goodwill 4:30PM Explicit Plancherel measrue for PGL2(F) (2408) and Strategic Exit. (2418) over a p-adic field. Dharma Kwon, University of Illinois at Carlos De la Mora, Purdue University Urbana-Champaign, and Hongzhong (1086-11-557) Zhang*, Columbia University 5:00PM On the weight monoids of smooth affine (1086-91-2359) (2419) spherical varieties. 4:30PM On a dynamic extension of the method of Guido Pezzini,Universität (2409) the Distribution Builder. Erlangen-Nurnberg,¨ and Bart Van Phillip J Monin,TheUniversityofTexas Steirteghem*, Medgar Evers College at Austin (1086-60-102) (CUNY) (1086-14-1574)

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5:30PM Jordan decomposition and real-valued AMS Special Session on Mathematical (2420) characters. Underpinnings of Multivariate Complexity Bhama Srinivasan, University of Illinois Theory and Algorithm Design, at Chicago, and C. Ryan Vinroot*, and Its Frontiers and the Field of College of William and Mary Incrementalization, II (1086-20-2094)

AMS Special Session on Knots, Links, and 1:00 PM –5:50PM Room 31C, Upper Level, Three-manifolds, II San Diego Convention Center Organizers: Rodney Downey,Victoria 1:00 PM –5:50PM Room 32B, Upper Level, University of Wellington, San Diego Convention Center New Zealand Organizers: Christopher Herald, Michael Fellows,Charles University of Nevada, Reno Darwin University, Australia Stanislav Jabuka,University Anil Nerode,Cornell of Nevada, Reno University Swatee Naik,Universityof Frances Rosamond,Charles Nevada, Reno Darwin University, Australia 1:00PM Constructions of 4-manifolds. 1:00PM Synthesis of Dynamic Algorithms. (2421) Ronald Fintushel, Michigan State (2431) Preliminary report. University (1086-57-1535) Neil Immerman, Computer Science Dept., University of Massachusetts, 1:30PM Monopole Floer homology and covering (2422) spaces. Amherst (1086-68-2140) Tye Lidman, University of Texas at 1:30PM How Fast Can We Compute Combinatorial Austin, and Ciprian Manolescu*, (2432) Problems such as the Permanent and the University of California at Los Angeles Tutte Polynomial? (1086-57-596) Holger Dell,UWMadison (1086-05-1847) 2:00PM Proposed Property 2R counterexamples (2423) classified. 2:00PM Parameterized Algorithms and Circuit Martin Scharlemann,Universityof (2433) Lower Bounds. California at Santa Barbara (1086-57-382) Ryan Williams, Stanford University 2:30PM On the Topology of Symplectic (1086-68-1876) (2424) 4-Manifolds with K = 0. Preliminary 2:30PM On an odd case of an XP algorithm for report. (2434) graphs of bounded clique-width. Stefan Friedl, University of Cologne, Petr Hlinˇený*, Faculty of Informatics, Germany, and Stefano Vidussi*, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech University of California, Riverside Republic, Robert Ganian, (1086-57-1793) Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, 3:00PM The A-polynomial of the (−2, 3, 3+2n) Germany, and Jan Obdrˇzálek,Facultyof (2425) pretzel knots. Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Stavros Garoufalidis, Georgia Institute Czech Republic (1086-68-915) of Technology, and Thomas W 3:00PM Parameterized Complexity and Mattman*, California State University, (2435) Permutation Group Problems. Chico (1086-57-1868) Vikraman Arvind, Institute of 3:30PM Lagrangian caps in C2. Mathematical Sciences, Chennai 600113, (2426) Emmy Murphy, MIT (1086-51-1926) India (1086-68-1517) 4:00PM Heegaard Floer theory and finite 3:30PM Applying Parameterized Complexity to (2427) surgeries. (2436) Cognitive Science. Margaret Doig, Indiana University, Ulrike Stege, University of Victoria Bloomington (1086-57-2477) (1086-68-1681) 4:30PM Ribbon Complements. 4:00PM Incremental List Coloring of Graphs, (2428) Luke Williams, Michigan State University (2437) Parameterized by Conservation. (1086-57-2674) Sepp Hartung and Rolf Niedermeier*, TU Berlin (1086-68-1804) 5:00PM Quasi-alternating Montesinos links. (2429) Preliminary report. 4:30PM Algebraization in parameterized Abhijit Champanerkar, College of Staten (2438) algorithms and complexity. Island and Graduate Center, CUNY, and Ioannis Koutis, University of Puerto Rico, Philip Ording*, Medgar Evers College, Rio Piedras (1086-68-1680) CUNY (1086-57-1158) 5:00PM Formal Coalgebraic Specifications and 5:30PM Knots in proteins and their implications. (2439) their Refinement. (2430) Kenneth C Millett,Universityof Douglas R Smith, Kestrel Institute California, Santa Barbara (1086-57-614) (1086-68-2907)

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5:30PM Summary and Future Directions 5:00PM A q-analog of generalized Eulerian (2440) Discussion. (2449) numbers. Michael Fellows*, Charles Darwin John Shareshian, Washington University, University, Australia, Rodney Downey, and Michelle L Wachs*, University of Victoria University of Wellington, NZ, Miami (1086-05-2812) Annie Liu, State University of NY at 5:30PM Equidistribution of some Euler-Mahonian Stonybrook, and Anil Nerode,Cornell (2450) statistics. Preliminary report. University (1086-68-1291) Alexander Burstein,HowardUniversity AMS Special Session on Patterns in (1086-05-2802) Permutations and Words, II AMS Special Session on Stochastic and Functional Analysis, II 1:00 PM –5:50PM Room 14B, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center 1:00 PM –6:20PM Room 31B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center Organizers: Jeffrey Liese, California State Polytechnic University, Organizers: Mark Burgin,Universityof San Luis Obispo California Los Angles Brian K. Miceli,Trinity Alan Krinik, California State University Polytechnic University, Jeffrey Remmel,University Pomona of California, San Diego Randall Swift, California State Polytechnic University, 1:00PM Barred and vincular pattern avoidance. (2441) Bridget Tenner,DePaulUniversity Pomona (1086-05-1144) 1:00PM Stochastic modeling of the accumulation (2451) of somatic mutations in cancer. 1:30PM Crucial and bicrucial permutations with Cristian Tomasetti*, Harvard University (2442) respect to arithmetic monotone patterns. & Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Bert Sergey Avgustinovich, Sobolev Institute Vogelstein, Ludwig Center for Cancer of Mathematics, Sergey Kitaev*, Genetics and Therapeutics & Howard University of Strathclyde, and Alexandr Hughes Medical Institute, Johns Hopkins Valyuzhenich, Novosibirsk State Kimmel Cancer Center, and Giovanni University (1086-05-1203) Parmigiani, Harvard School of Public 2:00PM GRIM: An algorithm for the discovery of Health & Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (2443) generalized permutation patterns. (1086-60-964) Henning Arnor Ulfarsson*, Reykjavik 1:30PM Models for the spread of Chlamydia. University, and , Anders Claesson (2452) JGani, Australian National University, University of Strathclyde (1086-05-1831) and Randall Swift*, California State 2:30PM Pattern Avoidance in Rook Monoids. Polytechnic University, Pomona (2444) Preliminary report. (1086-60-1556) Lara K. Pudwell*, Valparaiso University, 2:00PM Stochastic ﬁxed-point equations arising and Daniel A. Daly, Southeast Missouri (2453) in the analysis of algorithms. State University (1086-05-1724) Mariana Olvera-Cravioto*, Ningyuan 3:00PM A Bijection with Derangements. Chen, Columbia University, and Nelly (2445) Preliminary report. Litvak, University of Twente Miles Eli Jones, Univ. of California, San (1086-60-1739) Diego (1086-05-1164) 2:30PM Alternative Analysis of a Renewal (2454) Problem. 3:30PM Parallelogram polyominoes, the sandpile Percy H. Brill, University of Windsor, (2446) model on Km,n and a q, t-Narayana polynomial. Ontario, Canada (1086-60-1577) Mark Dukes*, University of Strathclyde, 3:00PM In defense of the much maligned UK, and Yvan Le Borgne,CNRS, (2455) Bessel function formula for transition University Bordeaux 1 (1086-05-1409) probabilities for the single server queue. Barbara Margolius, Cleveland State 4:00PM Permuted Basement Fillings, k-ary Trees, University (1086-60-810) (2447) and Watermelons. Preliminary report. Janine LoBue, University of California, 3:30PM Quality of Monte Carlo rare event San Diego (1086-05-1624) (2456) analyzers. Gerardo Rubino, INRIA (1086-60-312) 4:30PM The Carlitz-Scoville-Vaughan theorem (2448) and its applications to permutation 4:00PM Stochastic Iteration for Probability enumeration. Preliminary report. (2457) Measures on Posets. Preliminary report. Ira M. Gessel, Brandeis University William A Massey, ORFE Department / (1086-05-625) Princeton University (1086-60-2883)

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4:30PM Winding,twisting and separation 4:30PM Interactive Mathematics in your Hand. (2458) properties of exiting Brownian motion. (2469) Lila F Roberts, Clayton State University Preliminary report. (1086-97-1063) Mike O’Neill, Claremont McKenna 5:00PM Online Mathematics Pedagogy: College (1086-60-1860) (2470) MathLynx. Preliminary report. 5:00PM Averaging the Averages of Perceived John A. Velling*, Brooklyn College, (2459) Highway Speed. and Terrence Richard Blackman, Jennifer M Switkes, California State Massachusetts Institute of Technology Polytechnic University, Pomona (1086-97-882) (1086-60-1074) 5:30PM Emerging Standards in Electronic Math 5:30PM Social Network Clustering of Sparse Data. (2471) Publishing. (2460) Blake A. Hunter, UCLA (1086-15-2386) Thomas E Leathrum, Jacksonville State Univ. (1086-00-2008) 6:00PM On Slowly Oscillating Periodic Solutions (2461) of Delay Differential Equations with Non-negativity Constraints. AMS Special Session on Topological David Lipshutz*andRuth J. Williams, Combinatorics, II University of California, San Diego (1086-34-558) 1:00 PM –5:50PM Room 16B, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center AMS Special Session on The Present and Future of Mathematics on the Web Organizers: Alexander Engstrom¨ ,Aalto University 1:00 PM –5:50PM Room 31A, Upper Level, Steven Klee,Universityof San Diego Convention Center California, Davis Matthew Stamps,Aalto Organizers: Douglas Meade,University University of South Carolina 1:00PM Interlacing of h-vectors for Schlegel Philip Yasskin,TexasA&M (2472) diagrams. Preliminary report. University Anders Bjorner¨ ,RoyalInstituteof 1:00PM MathLex: A Tool for Presenting and Doing Technology, Stockholm (1086-05-1575) (2462) Mathematics on the Web. 2:00PM The combinatorics of CAT(0) cubical Douglas B Meade*, University of (2473) complexes and robotic motion planning. South Carolina, Philip B Yasskin and Federico Ardila, San Francisco State Matthew Barry,TexasA&MUniversity University (1086-05-1385) (1086-00-2878) 2:30PM From ﬂag complexes to banner 1:30PM MathJax from an Author’s Point of View. (2474) complexes. Preliminary report. (2463) Davide P. Cervone, Union College Steven Klee, Seattle University, and (1086-97-2273) Isabella Novik*, University of 2:00PM The Sage Cell Server: embedding live Washington (1086-05-793) (2464) computations in web pages. 3:00PM Face numbers of Buchsbaum simplicial Jason Grout*, Ira Hanson, Alex Kramer, (2475) posets. Preliminary report. Steven Johnson and Byron Varberg, Jonathan Browder, Aalto University Drake University (1086-00-2238) (1086-05-1201) 2:30PM Developing strong mathematical 3:30PM Realization of polyhedral complexes. (2465) concepts with multi-touch. Preliminary (2476) Igor Pak, UCLA (1086-52-561) report. Carlos Castillo-Garsow*andAndrew G 4:00PM Subset partition graphs and an approach Bennett, Kansas State University (2477) to the Linear Hirsch conjecture. (1086-97-1761) Edward D. Kim, Pohang, South Korea (1086-05-1293) 3:00PM Mobile Math Apps: The Smartphone (2466) Paradigm. 4:30PM Hom polytopes and cones. Barbara Kaskosz*, University of (2478) Tristram Bogart*, Universidad de los Rhode Island, and Douglas E Ensley, Andes, Mark Contois, Research in Shippensburg University (1086-97-1243) Motion, and Joseph Gubeladze, San Francisco State University 3:30PM An Online Calculus Text for the iPad. (1086-05-1151) (2467) David A. Smith*andLawrence C. Moore, Duke University (1086-97-1148) 5:00PM Compactifying String Topology. (2479) Kate Poirier, University of California, 4:00PM Rethinking calculus of several variables (2468) in the era of computers. Preliminary Berkeley (1086-55-1100) report. 5:30PM Topological methods in combinatorial Mike May*, Saint Louis University, and (2480) commutative algebra. Tom Banchoff,BrownUniversity Anton Dochtermann,Universityof (1086-97-1487) Miami (1086-05-2682)

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AMS Special Session on Understanding 5:00PM Integrodifference Models for Persistence Planet Earth via Reaction Diffusion (2489) in Temporally Varying Habitats. Equations, II Preliminary report. Jon Jacobsen*, Harvey Mudd College, 1:00 PM –5:50PM Room 30C, Upper Level, Mark Lewis, University of Alberta, San Diego Convention Center and Yu Jin, University of Nebraska (1086-45-2506) Organizers: Jerome Goddard,II, Auburn 5:30PM Positive Stationary Solutions and University, Montgomery (2490) Spreading Speeds of KPP Equations in Eun Kyung Lee,Pusan Locally Spatially Inhomogeneous Media. National University, Korea Liang Kong*andWenxian Shen, Auburn Junping Shi, College of University (1086-37-1967) William and Mary AMS Special Session on q-series in Ratnasingham Shivaji, University of North Carolina, Mathematical Physics and Combinatorics, II Greensboro 1:00 PM –5:50PM Room 14A, Mezzanine 1:00PM A reaction-diffusion model of the Level, San Diego Convention Center (2481) ice-albedo feedback mechanism. Hans G. Kaper, Mathematics and Climate Organizer: Mourad Ismail,University Research Network (1086-35-1118) of Central Florida 1:30PM Reaction-Diffusion Equations from 1:00PM The Bannai-Ito Scheme. (2482) Energy Balance Climate Models. (2491) Luc Vinet, Centre de Recherches Georg Hetzer, Auburn University, Mathématiques, UniversitédeMontréal Auburn, Alabama (1086-35-1582) (1086-33-753) 2:00PM Diffusive logistic equation with negative 1:30PM Multi-indexed q-Racah and Askey-Wilson (2483) density dependent emigration on the (2492) polynomials. boundary. Ryu Sasaki, Yukawa institute for Jerome Goddard II*, Auburn University Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University Montgomery, and R. Shivaji,University (1086-33-394) of North Carolina Greensboro 2:00PM Quicksilver solutions of a q-discrete (1086-35-1732) (2493) Painlevé equation. 2:30PM Clines With Partial Panmixia: Nalini Joshi, The University of Sydney (2484) Environmental Pockets And Complete (1086-33-191) Dominance. Preliminary report. 2:30PM Jackson integral solutions of reflection Thomas Nagylaki, Department of (2494) quantum Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov Ecology and Evolution, The University equations. Preliminary report. of Chicago, Linlin Su*, Worcester Jasper V. Stokman, Korteweg-de Vries Polytechnic Institute, and Kai Zeng, Institute for Mathematics, University of Department of Animal and Plant Amsterdam (1086-33-629) Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK (1086-35-2030) 3:00PM Q-polynomial distance-regular graphs (2495) and the double affine Hecke algebra of 3:00PM Positive solutions for a class of ∨ type (C1 ,C1). (2485) p-Laplacian superlinear semipositone Jae-Ho Lee, University of Wisconsin - problems. Madison (1086-33-43) Maya Chhetri*, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Pavel Drabek, 3:30PM The (q, t)-Gaussian Process. University of West Bohemia, Czech (2496) Natasha Blitvić, Vanderbilt University Republic, and R. Shivaji,TheUniversity (1086-60-836) of North Carolina at Greensboro 4:00PM Transformations for multivariate basic (1086-35-2419) (2497) hypergeometric series by linearization. 3:30PM Traveling Waves of Diffusive Michael J Schlosser, University of Vienna (2486) Predator-Prey Systems: Disease Outbreak (1086-33-1645) Propagation. Preliminary report. 4:30PM Uniform Asymptotics of Some Xiang-Sheng Wang, Memorial University (2498) q-Orthogonal Polynomials. Preliminary of Newfoundland (1086-35-2279) report. 4:00PM Asymptotic self-similarity in semilinear Xiang-Sheng Wang, Memorial University (2487) elliptic equations. of Newfoundland (1086-33-2288) Soohyun Bae, Hanbat National University 5:00PM A Koornwinder-type addition formula for (1086-35-2251) (2499) parameter-free q-Racah polynomials. 4:30PM Advection-Reaction-Diffusion System Mizan Rahman, Carleton University, (2488) from Ecological Models. Ottawa (1086-33-587) Junping Shi*, College of William and 5:30PM On an iteration leading to a q-analogue Mary, and Jun Zhou,Southwestern (2500) of the Digamma function. University, Chongqing, China Christian Berg,Universityof (1086-35-1121) Copenhagen (1086-33-388)

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AMS Special Session on the Mathematics of AMS Special Session on the Theory and Decisions, Elections, and Games, II Applications of Differential Equations on Graphs, II 1:00 PM –5:50PM Room 17A, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center 1:00 PM –5:10PM Room 30D, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center Organizers: Karl-Dieter Crisman, Gordon College Organizers: Sergei Avdonin,University of Alaska, Fairbanks Michael A. Jones, Mathematical Reviews Jonathan Bell,Universityof Maryland, Baltimore County Michael Orrison,Harvey Mudd College 1:00PM Determining a Distributed Parameter for (2511) a Neuronal Cable Model on a Metric Tree 1:00PM Selecting Diverse Committees with Graph. (2501) Candidates from Multiple Categories. Jonathan G. Bell, University of Maryland Thomas C Ratliff, Wheaton College Baltimore County (UMBC) (1086-35-868) (1086-91-1737) 1:30PM Inverse problems for strings with 1:30PM Voting for Committees. (2512) attached masses. Preliminary report. (2502) Matt Davis, Muskingum University, Julian K. Edward, Florida International Michael Orrison and Francis University (1086-35-1729) Edward Su*, Harvey Mudd College 2:00PM Inverse problems for differential (1086-05-2310) (2513) equationsongraphswithcycles. 2:00PM Voting games with abstention: linking Sergei Avdonin, University of Tennessee (2503) completeness, weightedness and power at Chattanooga (1086-35-1924) theories. Preliminary report. 3:00PM Quantum graph models of graphyne Josep Freixas, Technical University of (2514) structures. Preliminary report. Catalonia, Spain (1086-91-1324) Ngoc T. Do and Peter Kuchment*, Texas 2:30PM The Inﬂuence Relation for Ternary Voting A&M University (1086-82-2992) (2504) Games. 3:50PM The inverse boundary problem for Cameron Parker,UniversityofSanDiego (2515) two-velocity elastic networks. (1086-91-1092) Abdon Eddy Choque Rivero, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas 3:00PM A Polytopal Interpretation of the Banzhaf de Hidalgo (1086-12-1356) (2505) Power Index. Preliminary report. Catherine Stenson, Juniata College 4:20PM p-Poisson Equations on Inﬁnite Graphs (1086-52-204) (2516) and p-Capacity. Lucio Prado, BMCC-TheCity University of 3:30PM The median rule in judgement New York (1086-31-2955) (2506) aggregation. Marcus Pivato*, Trent University, 4:50PM Dynamical Inverse Problem on a Metric and Klaus Nehring, Department of (2517) Tree. Preliminary report. Economics, University of California, Davis B P Belinskiy and J V Matthews*, (1086-91-1184) University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (1086-35-1064) 4:00PM When Does Approval Voting Make the (2507) “Right Choices”? MAA Minicourse #2: Part B D. Marc Kilgour*, Wilfrid Laurier University, and Steven J. Brams,New York University (1086-91-1472) 1:00 PM –3:00PM Room 30A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center 4:30PM SAM and Jury Decisions: Should the (2508) Supreme Court Overturn Williams v. A game theory path to quantitative Florida? literacy. Jeff Suzuki*andGuillaume Jean, Presenter: David Housman,Goshen Brooklyn College (1086-91-56) College 5:00PM How to outguess your opponents. (2509) Anthony Mendes*, California Polytechnic MAA Minicourse #9: Part B State University, San Luis Obispo, and Kent E. Morrison, American Institute of 1:00 PM –3:00PM Room 29C, Mezzanine Mathematics (1086-91-768) Level, San Diego Convention Center

5:30PM Positional Procedures and the Prevalence Shortest, quickest, or best: An (2510) of Inconsistent Outcomes. Preliminary introduction to the calculus of variations. report. Mark A. Krines,UniversityofIowa Presenter: Jeffrey Ehme,Spelman (1086-91-1181) College

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MAA Minicourse #15: Part B 3:45PM Affine Stratification Number and (2529) Compactified Moduli Space of Curves. 1:00 PM –3:00PM Room 29D, Mezzanine Chitrabhanu Chaudhuri,Northwestern Level, San Diego Convention Center University (1086-14-2294) 4:00PM A Wonderful Embedding of the Loop WeBWorK: An open source alternative for (2530) Group. generating and delivering online Pablo Solis, UC Berkeley (1086-14-418) homework problems. 4:15PM Krichever Dynamics on a Ruled Surface. Presenters: John Travis, Mississippi (2531) Preliminary report. College Joshua T. Wood, University of Georgia Jason Aubrey,Universityof (1086-14-1313) Missouri 4:30PM Gromov-Witten invariants for relatively (2532) coherent log schemes. Preliminary report. AMS Session on Algebraic Varieties, Moduli Michael P Kasa, University of California, Spaces, and Singularities San Diego (1086-14-2721) 4:45PM Rank-level duality for odd orthogonal Lie 1:00 PM –5:25PM Room 13, Mezzanine (2533) algebras. Level, San Diego Convention Center Swarnava Mukhopadhyay,Universityof North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1:00PM Some Elementary Components of the (1086-14-1757) (2518) Hilbert Scheme of Points. Preliminary report. 5:00PM Psuedo Vertex Operator Algebras and Mark E. Huibregtse,SkidmoreCollege (2534) Conformal Flows. Preliminary report. (1086-14-438) Rob Laber*andGeoffrey Mason, University of California, Santa Cruz 1:15PM Endomorphism algebras of Kuga-Satake (1086-08-2522) (2519) varieties. Evgeny Mayanskiy, Pennsylvania State 5:15PM Rates of polarization of polar codes University (1086-14-2163) (2535) constructed using algebraic geometry code kernels. 1:30PM Nondefective secant varieties of split Sarah E. Anderson*andGretchen (2520) varieties. Preliminary report. L. Matthews, Clemson University Douglas A Torrance, University of Idaho (1086-14-2709) (1086-14-995) 1:45PM The Complement of Fermat Curves in the AMS Session on Applied Mathematics and (2521) Plane. Modeling II Ariel Setniker*, Western Oregon University, and Melissa Haire,Gordon 1:00 PM –5:25PM Room 30B, Upper Level, College (1086-14-1819) San Diego Convention Center 2:00PM Algebraic Cylces, Chow Varieties, and (2522) Symmetric Polynomials. Preliminary 1:00PM Index and Linear Stability of the report. (2536) Criss-Cross Orbit. Jeremy B. Jankans,Universityof Duokui Yan*, Beihang University, California, Irvine (1086-14-2092) Tiancheng Ouyang, Brigham Young University, and Xiaojun Chang, Jilin 2:15PM The Monoid of Effective Divisor Classes University (1086-37-30) (2523) on an Algebraic Surface. Jeff A Rosoff, Gustavus Adolphus 1:15PM Rigorous Numerical Methods for College (1086-14-1460) (2537) Gravitational Orbits. Gregory T Minton, Massachusetts 2:30PM On the Secant Defectivity and the Institute of Technology (1086-65-1626) (2524) Waring’s Problems. Jia Wan, University of Idaho 1:30PM Molecular Radiative Cooling in (1086-14-2212) (2538) Astrophysical Jet Simulations. Preliminary report. 2:45PM Rationality of some homogeneous spaces. Carl Gardner and Brance Hudzietz*, (2525) Michel van Garrel,Caltech Arizona State University (1086-81-2468) (1086-14-2831) 1:45PM TALK CANCELLED: On well-posed 3:00PM Tamagawa Torsors of an Abelian Variety. (2539) problems in adjustment of atmospheric (2526) Saikat Biswas, Georgia Institute of data. Technology (1086-11-508) Ludmila Bourchtein*andAndrei 3:15PM Cohomology Theories with Supports. Bourchtein, Pelotas State University, (2527) Joseph A Ross,UniversityofSouthern Brazil (1086-86-2046) California (1086-14-2591) 2:00PM TALK CANCELLED: Scale-adaptive 3:30PM chern classes of logarithmic vector fields (2540) numerical scheme for atmospheric (2528) for locally quasi-homogeneous free modeling. divisors. Andrei Bourchtein*andLudmila Xia Liao, Florida State University Bourchtein, Pelotas State University, (1086-14-2725) Brazil (1086-86-2057)

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2:15PM Hyperspectral Band Selection Using AMS Session on Ergodic Theory, Dynamics, (2541) Sparse Support Vector Machines. and Harmonic Analysis Sofya Chepushtanova*andMichael Kirby, Colorado State University 1:00 PM –4:40PM Room 10, Upper Level, (1086-90-1870) San Diego Convention Center 2:30PM A model for submarine granular flow 1:00PM Pseudo-Anosov flows on graph manifolds (2542) with erosion. Preliminary report. (2553) with periodic pieces. Preliminary report. Long H Le*andJonathan Taylor, Russell Waller, Florida State University University of Central Arkansas (1086-37-2427) (1086-76-1953) 1:15PM Entropy of Infinite Measure-Preserving 2:45PM Multiscale Representations of (2554) Transformations. Preliminary report. (2543) High-Dimensional Data in Music Rachel Louise Bayless,University Comparison Tasks. Preliminary report. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill K. M. Kinnaird, Dartmouth College (1086-37-1984) (1086-62-2577) 1:30PM Uniformly Rigid Homeomorphisms. 3:00PM Error Estimation of Global Historical Data (2555) Preliminary report. (2544) Reconstruction. Kelly Brooke Yancey,Universityof Nancy Tafolla, San Diego State Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University (1086-62-1423) (1086-37-245) 1:45PM On Maps Commuting with the Flip Map. 3:15PM A Generalized Aw-Rascle-Zhang Model (2556) Nicholas Long, Stephen F. Austin State (2545) Fitted with Historical Traffic Data. University (1086-37-509) Shimao Fan,TempleUniversity (1086-35-1218) 2:00PM Continuous actions of the discrete (2557) Heisenberg group on surfaces. 3:45PM Heuristics in the p-post Tower of Hanoi Kiran Parkhe,NorthwesternUniversity (2546) Problem. (1086-37-2652) Andrey Rukhin, Naval Surface Warfare Center - Dahlgren Division 2:15PM Continued Exploration of Nearly (1086-68-1532) (2558) Continuous Even Kakutani Equivalence. Preliminary report. 4:00PM Modeling a building Evacuation. Bethany Diane Springer, Colorado State (2547) Olive N. Mbianda*, Southern Illinois University (1086-37-1438) University Carbondale, and Henry 2:30PM Boundary Value Problems on a Half Hexmoor, Southern Illinois University (2559) Sierpinski Gasket. Carbondale, Department of Computer Weilin Li*andRobert S Strichartz, Science (1086-68-304) Cornell University (1086-33-2042) 4:15PM Shape Classification Using Diffeomorphic 2:45PM Homogenization results for Stationary (2548) Deformation of Contours. (2560) Ergodic Free Boundary Problems in R2: Minh P. Nguyen*andYan Cao, Elliptic Case in Layered Form. University of Texas at Dallas Luis Caffarelli,University (1086-68-1884) of Texas-Austin, and Betul Orcan-Ekmekci*, Rice University 4:30PM 3D Graphs With Augmented Perception. (1086-35-1992) (2549) Sam F Tannouri*, Baltimore, and Ahlam E. Tannouri, Morgan State University 3:00PM Regularity Properties of Solutions of a (1086-68-2893) (2561) Higher Order Free Boundary Problem. Preliminary report. 4:45PM Decomposition of diffusion operators and Henok Mawi,HowardUniversity (2550) application in image analysis. Preliminary (1086-35-2320) report. Yan Wang, University of Pennsylvania 3:15PM An improvement on eigenfunction (1086-35-2888) (2562) restriction estimates for compact boundaryless Riemannian manifolds 5:00PM On Generalized Perona–Malik Diffusion with nonpositive sectional curvature. (2551) Equations in Image Processing. Preliminary report. V. B. Surya Prasath*, University of Xuehua Chen, Johns Hopkins University Missouri-Columbia, Jose Alberto (1086-35-64) Iglesias Martinez, Universite Paris 3:30PM Analysis of the Lawrence-Doniach IX Dauphine, France, and Dmitry (2563) Model in Perpendicular Applied Fields. Vorotnikov, University of Coimbra, Preliminary report. Portugal (1086-35-2916) Patricia E. Bauman and Guanying 5:15PM A generalized 1l greedy algorithm for Peng*, Purdue University (1086-35-1907) (2552) image reconstruction in computed 3:45PM Separation of a Lower Dimensional Free tomography. (2564) Boundary in a Two Phase Problem. Jiehua Zhu*andXiezhang Li,Georgia Mark A Allen, Purdue University Southern University (1086-92-2969) (1086-49-1384)

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4:00PM On a First-Order Semipositone Discrete 3:30PM Path Decompositions of the Kneser (2565) Fractional Boundary Value Problem. (2578) Graph. Christopher S. Goodrich,Creighton T. R. Whitt*andC. A. Rodger, Auburn Preparatory School (1086-39-2881) University (1086-05-2975) 4:15PM Positive radial solutions for a class of 3:45PM Identifying Codes in the Product of (2566) singular p-Laplacian system in a ball. (2579) Cliques. Jahmario Williams*andHai Wayne Goddard, Clemson University, Dang, Mississippi State University Douglas Rall, Furman University, and (1086-35-776) Kirsti Wash*, Clemson University 4:30PM Smallness and Comparison Properties in (1086-05-1132) (2567) Certain Topological Dynamical Systems. 4:00PM Quest for Negative Dependency Graphs. Preliminary report. (2580) Linyuan Lu, Austin Mohr*andLászlo´ Julian M Buck, Francis Marion University Székely, University of South Carolina (1086-46-1540) Columbia (1086-05-63) 4:15PM Asymptotic Automorphism Groups of AMS Session on Graph Theory II (2581) Circulant Graphs and Digraphs. Preliminary report. 1:00 PM –5:40PM Room 19, Mezzanine Soumya Bhoumik*, Edward Dobson, Level, San Diego Convention Center Mississippi State University, and Joy Morris, University of Lethbridge 1:00PM Oriented Gain Graphs, Line Graphs and (1086-05-763) (2568) Eigenvalues. Preliminary report. 4:30PM Diameters of groups generated by Nathan H Reff, Alfred University (1086-05-2345) (2582) transposition trees. Benjamin Jerome Kraft, Massachusetts 1:15PM Edge-disjoint spanning trees and Institute of Technology (1086-05-1015) (2569) eigenvalues in graphs. 4:45PM Pancyclicity in Finite Projective Planes. Xiaofeng Gu, West Virginia University (1086-05-1287) (2583) Oscar Vega, California State University, Fresno (1086-05-1808) 1:30PM AcoilG on n vertices is four-colorable. (2570) Preliminary report. 5:00PM Group Connectivity of Ryjac´ ˇek’s closure (2584) of claw-free graphs. Nancy Eaton, Adam Gilbert and A. M. Heissan*, University of Rhode Island Senmei Yao, Marian University in Fond (1086-05-2101) du Lac (1086-05-2841) 5:15PM Sharper Lower Bounds in the Maximum 1:45PM Threshold Digraphs. (2585) Degree and Diameter Bounded Subgraph (2571) James Michael Shook*, Brian Cloteaux, Problem in the Mesh. Elizabeth Moseman, National Institute Sachi Hashimoto, University of Chicago of Standards and Technology, and M (1086-05-1040) Drew LaMar, The College of William and Mary (1086-05-2626) 5:30PM Sunburst Graphs and Independent Sets. (2586) Leslie Horton, AWM (1086-11-275) 2:00PM TALK CANCELLED: A generalization of (2572) optimality of vertex rankings on infinite graphs. AMS Session on Groups and Semigroups Bonnie C. Jacob, National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester 1:00 PM –4:55PM Room 12, Mezzanine Institute of Technology (1086-05-2684) Level, San Diego Convention Center 2:15PM TALK CANCELLED: Rank number of some 1:00PM One Hundred Years of Infinite Group (2573) graph Cartesian products. (2587) Theory: The Legacy of Max Dehn. Jobby Jacob, Rochester Institute of David E. Peifer, UNC Asheville Technology (1086-05-2691) (1086-20-1813) 2:30PM Graph decomposition and parity. 1:15PM Cannon–Thurston Maps and Subgroup (2574) Amanda Redlich,RutgersUniversity (2588) Distortion. (1086-05-2947) Owen Thomas Baker,McMaster 2:45PM The Logic of Graph Decompositions. University (1086-20-2392) (2575) Preliminary report. 1:30PM The Automorphism Group of the Stephen Flood, Pennsylvania State (2589) Hyperelliptic Torelli Group. University (1086-03-2063) Leah Childers, Pittsburg State University 3:00PM A Twisted Topological k-Graph and New (1086-20-2007) (2576) Aperiodicity Conditions. 1:45PM The dual groups of weakened group Sarah E. Wright, College of the Holy (2590) topologies for Rn. Cross (1086-46-2552) T. Christine Stevens, Saint Louis 3:15PM The Cardinality of Minimal Not Near University (1086-22-2837) (2577) Planar Graphs. Preliminary report. 2:00PM Actions of Right Angled Coxeter Groups. Kwang Ju Choi*andBogdan (2591) Preliminary report. Oporowski, Louisiana State University Yulan Qing, Tufts University (1086-05-1874) (1086-20-2048)

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2:15PM The word problem in the automorphism 1:15PM Relaxed Coloring Games on Complete (2592) groups of right-angled Artin groups is in (2604) Multipartite Graphs. P. Preliminary report. Alexander H. Sistko*, Bradley University, Carrie A. Whittle, University of Arkansas Lawrence Barrett,Universityof (1086-20-2660) Rochester, John Portin, Linfield College, 2:30PM TALK CANCELLED: Mackey functors and and Susan Rufai, McMinville School (2593) sharpness for fusion systems. Preliminary District (1086-05-405) report. 1:30PM The Edge-balance Index Set of Halin Adam M Glesser, California State (2605) Graph of Double Stars. University Fullerton (1086-20-2199) Andrea Monterotti*andHsin-hao Su, 2:45PM Algebraically Determined Semidirect Stonehill College (1086-05-220) (2594) Products. 1:45PM The Edge-balance Index Set of Two and We’am M. Jasim*, Texas A&M (2606) Three Level Wheels. International University, and Robert R. Ryan Sullivan*andHsin-hao Su, Kallman,UniversityofNorthTexas Stonehill College (1086-05-221) (1086-22-8) 2:00PM A New Graceful Labeling for Pendant 3:00PM The free metabelian product of free (2607) Graphs. (2595) nilpotent groups. Preliminary report. Alessandra K Graf,NorthernArizona Margaret H. Dean,CUNY/BMCC University (1086-05-2480) (1086-20-2735) 2:15PM On decomposing λ-fold complete graphs 3:15PM A non-embedding result for Thompson’s (2608) into Stanton 4-cycles. (2596) Group V. Preliminary report. Saad El-Zanati, Illinois State University, Nathan A Corwin, University of Nebraska Adam Hakes*, Purdue University, Joel - Lincoln (1086-20-2583) Jeffries, University of Central Missouri, 3:30PM Length of Families of Elements in Elizabeth Mastalio,Universityof (2597) Thompson’s Groups F and T . Northern Iowa, and Jordan Torf, Illinois David C. McKlveen,Universityof State University (1086-05-2183) Wisconsin - Stout, and Sharif Younes*, 2:30PM Tree decompositions of regular graphs Bowdoin College (1086-20-2559) (2609) and multigraphs. Preliminary report. 3:45PM Partial decomposition bases and Warfield Saad I El-Zanati, Illinois State (2598) groups. Preliminary report. University, Marie Ermete*, Central Carol Jacoby, Jacoby Consulting, and Michigan Umiversity, and James Peter Loth*, Sacred Heart University Hasty, Bismarck-Henning High School (1086-20-364) (1086-05-2236) 4:00PM Homology of Group Von Neumann 2:45PM Trees of Irreducible Numerical (2599) Algebras. (2610) Semigroups. Preliminary report. Wade Mattox, Salem College Jose Martinez,NorthernArizona (1086-20-1051) University (1086-11-2913) 4:15PM Longer chains of idempotents in βG. 3:00PM The Deletion-Insertion Model Applied to (2600) Neil Hindman*, Howard University, Dona (2611) the Genome Rearrangement Problem. Strauss, University of Leeds, and Preliminary report. Yevhen Zelenyuk, University of the Noah Williams,Universityof Witwatersrand (1086-22-544) Wisconsin-Eau Claire (1086-05-2681) 4:30PM More differences between the right and 3:15PM Extensions of Finite Distributive Lattices (2601) left topological extensions of a semigroup (2612) using Min(L). Preliminary report. operation to βS. Preliminary report. Tanya Nichole Riston, Penn State Monique A. Peters,HowardUniversity University-Erie, The Behrend College (1086-22-643) (1086-06-2759) 4:45PM Chains of idempotents in the Stone-Cech 3:30PM A New Proof of the Lecture Hall Theorem. (2602) compactification of free semigroups. (2613) Alexander Mikhail Komarinski*, Preliminary report. Arizona State University, and Kourtney Fulton,HowardUniversity Meredith Harris, Clemson University (1086-22-780) (1086-05-2806) AMS Session on Undergraduate Research in 3:45PM New Results on the Coxeter Group (2614) Structure of Lecture Hall Partitions. Combinatorics and Number Theory Preliminary report. Lara Bradford*, Bard College, and 1:00 PM –5:40PM Room 18, Mezzanine Carly Matson, University of Virginia Level, San Diego Convention Center (1086-05-1468) 1:00PM The Edge Coloring Game on Extended 4:00PM Generalized Sum and Difference Sets and (2603) Stars. (2615) d-dimensional Modular Hyperbolas. Luke F Naftz*, University of Colorado Victor D Luo*, Williams College, Amanda Denver, Linfield College, and Tyler Hays, Bower, University of Michigan-Dearborn, University of California Berkeley, Linfield and Steven J Miller, Williams College College (1086-05-324) (1086-11-909)

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4:15PM Strings of Special Primes in Arithmetic 2:15PM Accurately Modeling Zooplankton (2616) Progressions. (2627) Mortality Rates. Preliminary report. Keenan Monks*, Harvard University, Catherine King*andKate Shipman, Sarah Peluse, University of Chicago, and College of William and Mary Lynnelle Ye, Stanford University (1086-92-2799) (1086-11-2749) 2:30PM Modeling Zebrafish Spinal Cord 4:30PM Galois 2-adic Fields of Degree 12. (2628) Development. Preliminary report. (2617) Christopher R Shill*andChad Awtrey, Shalla Hanson*andKelly Zaccheo, Elon University (1086-11-1778) Smith College (1086-92-2241) 4:45PM Interval-Vector Polytopes. 2:45PM Modeling the Effect of Alcohol on Glucose (2618) Jessica C De Silva, California State (2629) Regulation. Preliminary report. University, Stanislaus, Gabriel D Joseph Bulatowicz*, Eric Ledesma, Dorfsman-Hopkins*, Dartmouth Zhixiong Chen and Yi Ding, New Jersey College, and Joseph T Pruitt, California City University (1086-34-1820) State University, Long Beach 3:00PM Urban Lead and Its Health Consequences (1086-05-1606) (2630) on Children: A Mathematical Model. 5:00PM An Infinite Family of Perfect Preliminary report. (2619) Parallelepipeds. Andrew Getz, Bernard R Lipat*, Benjamin D. Sokolowsky*, Bucknell Zhixiong Chen and Yi Ding, New Jersey University, Amy G. VanHooft,The City University (1086-35-958) College at Brockport, State University of 3:15PM Modeling Glioblastoma Growth Using a New York, Rachel M. Volkert,University (2631) Poisson Process. Preliminary report. of Northern Iowa, and Clifford A. Reiter, Michael Clare Manning,ArizonaState Lafayette College (1086-11-632) University (1086-03-2791) 5:15PM Closed Formulas for Folding Some Cases 3:30PM The Mathematical Modeling of Multifocal (2620) of the Origami Miura Map Fold. (2632) Tumors. Jessica E Ginepro, Western New England Ashley L Webber,ArizonaState University (1086-05-1585) University (1086-60-1920) 5:30PM On Mod(3) Edge-magic Cubic Graphs. 3:45PM A multi-scale approach to investigate (2621) Matt Tardiff*andHsin-hao Su, Stonehill (2633) invasion characteristics of heterogeneous College (1086-05-222) glial cells and its implications on the overall growth kinetics of glioma AMS Session on Undergraduate Research in progression. Preliminary report. Mathematical Biology and Modeling Joseph Juliano*, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University, 1:00 PM –5:10PM Room 30E, Upper Level, Andrea Hawkins-Daarud, Russ Rockne, San Diego Convention Center Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Peter Canoll, Department of 1:00PM Stochastic Effects on the Outcome of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia (2622) Species in Competition. Preliminary University, and Kristin Swanson, report. Department of Pathology, University of Matthew Cattivera*, Seth Haney and Washington (1086-92-2863) Adam Siepielski,UniversityofSanDiego 4:00PM The talk by Alison Margolskee has (1086-92-2056) been moved to the AMS Session on 1:15PM Ducking Responsibility: How Laziness Mathematical Biology at 8:00 a.m. on (2623) Pays Off in Arctic Duck Populations. Thursday in slot #822. Preliminary report. 4:15PM Secondary Aneurysm Formation Due to Alexis Sparko*andYu Jin,Smith (2634) the Effects of a Primary Aneurysm. College (1086-92-2146) Bruno Gabriel Beltran*, Louisiana State 1:30PM Cost-Benefit Analysis of Kleptoparasitic University, Daniel Burkow,ArizonaState (2624) Interactions. Preliminary report. University, Courtney Bruce, Department David Gamble Sykes*andJan Rychtar, of Biological Sciences, Arizona State University of North Carolina at University, and Sarah Erickson,Western Greensboro (1086-92-2252) Washington University (1086-76-2215) 1:45PM Modeling Fitness of Onthophagus taurus: 4:30PM Salmonella Outbreaks: Assessing Causes (2625) The Effects of Density on Mating Success. (2635) and Trends. Theresa Marie Dalmut*andEmily Sarah Rachell Salter*, Kean University, Cate, James Madison University Amanda Luby, College of St.Benedict, (1086-92-2834) and Kevin Torres, University of Puerto 2:00PM Optimal Strategies for Arrival and Rico (1086-62-949) (2626) Departure of Male Onthophagus taurus. 4:45PM Survival Analysis on Patients with Preliminary report. (2636) Chronic Hepatitis B. Lauren M. Taylor*andJennifer Lin Han, Stony Brook University, and E. Roth, James Madison University James R. Stinecipher*, California State (1086-92-2596) University, Fresno (1086-62-202)

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5:00PM A Stochastic, Spatially-Structured Model 4:20PM Writing in Calculus I: Is It Derivative or (2637) for Metapopulation Dynamics with (2648) Integral? Applications to the American Pika Rebekah B. Johnson Yates,Houghton (Ochotona princeps). College (1086-D1-2510) Easton R. White*, Arizona State University/ Scottsdale Community 4:40PM Communicating Criticism: Helping College, and John D. Nagy, Scottsdale (2649) students learn to critique mathematical Community College/Arizona State writing and to improve their writing with University (1086-92-2887) criticism received. Preliminary report. Kimberly J Presser, Shippensburg MAA Session on Communicating University (1086-D1-754) Mathematics, IV MAA Session on Developmental Mathematics 1:00 PM –4:55PM Room 33A, Upper Level, Education, II San Diego Convention Center 1:00 PM –3:35PM Room 4, Upper Level, Organizers: Brian Katz, Augustana San Diego Convention Center College Elizabeth Thoren, Organizers: J. Winston Crawley, University of California Santa Shippensburg University Barbara 1:00PM Capstone Communication Strategies. Kimberly Presser, (2638) Jeffery T. McLean,UniversityofSt. Shippensburg University Thomas (1086-D1-1257) 1:00PM Course Redesign: Rethinking Instruction 1:20PM Writing Mathematics: Creating an (2650) and Assessment in Developemental (2639) MCM-Based Capstone Course. Mathematics by Taking Advantage of Randall E Cone, Virginia Military Computer Technology. Institute (1086-D1-1062) Ward E. Canﬁeld, National Louis 1:40PM R4S: Reading, ‘Riting, Rewriting, University (1086-E1-397) (2640) Rehearsing and Speaking. Thomas Q Sibley, St. John’s 1:20PM FastTrack: A Developmental Mathematics University/College of St. Benedict (2651) Summer Hybrid Program. Preliminary (1086-D1-959) report. Maggie Lee McHugh*andJennifer J. 2:00PM Calculus for Dummies: A Student Writing Kosiak, University of Wisconsin-La (2641) Project. Preliminary report. Crosse (1086-E1-460) Audrey Malagon, Virginia Wesleyan College (1086-D1-315) 1:40PM Inquiry-Based Learning in a 2:20PM Let Students Talk and Write Their (2652) Developmental Mathematics Course. (2642) Mathematics Ideas. Preliminary report. Su Liang, California State University (San Victor I. Piercey, Ferris State University Bernardino) (1086-D1-605) (1086-E1-727)

2:40PM Improving Proof Writing Through Peer 2:00PM Redesign for Non-Stop Learning. (2643) Review. Preliminary report. (2653) Mary Kay Abbey, Montgomery College, Rebecca L. Jayne, Washington College MD (1086-E1-548) (1086-D1-2496) PM 3:00PM Intensive Experiences for Undergraduate 2:20 New Strategies in Teaching (2644) Mathematics. (2654) Developmental Mathematics. Preliminary Suzanne Sumner,UniversityofMary report. Washington (1086-D1-1947) Zhixiong Chen*andYi Ding, New Jersey City University (1086-E1-987) 3:20PM From “A Letter Home” to Senior Capstone: (2645) Writing Across the Major at Hood College. 2:40PM Statway: What worked well and how Ann C. Stewart*andJill Bigley Dunham, (2655) we’re improving. Hood College (1086-D1-2451) Mary R Parker, Austin Community 3:40PM Writing and Mathematics. College (1086-E1-2442) (2646) Hayden Schaeffer,Universityof 3:00PM Understanding and Addressing California, Los Angeles (1086-D1-1901) (2656) Mathematical Shame. 4:00PM How can we help students ”do” Angela G Vierling-Claassen,Lesley (2647) mathematics? Writing activities to University (1086-E1-2309) challenge thought and elicit mathematical understanding. Preliminary 3:20PM Shortening the Path: Condensing the report. (2657) Developmental Sequence into a Single Yelena Baishanski*andReem Jaafar, Semester. City University of New York - LaGuardia Paul M Musial, Chicago State University Community College (1086-D1-2847) (1086-E1-2121)

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MAA Session on Preparing Elementary MAA Session on Touch It, Feel It, Learn School Mathematics Specialists It: Tactile Learning Activities in the Undergraduate Mathematics Classroom, III

1:00 PM –3:35PM Room 6C, Upper Level, 1:00 PM –3:35PM Room 7A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center San Diego Convention Center

Organizers: Steve Morics,Universityof Organizers: Jessica M. Libertini, Redlands University of Rhode Island Julie Barnes,Western Klay T. Kruczek,Southern Carolina University Connecticut State University 1:00PM Ball toss, crackers & cheese, and line (2666) dancing: Concrete ways to help students 1:00PM Using the Intel Math Course to Train and (2658) Support K-8 Mathematics Specialists. understand functions in precalculus. Preliminary report. Preliminary report. Cynthia Anhalt*andTaliesin Sutton, Julie Barnes, Western Carolina University University of Arizona (1086-M1-480) (1086-P5-1943) 1:20PM An Open-Ended Problem: Hexagon 1:20PM Elementary Mathematics Specialist (2667) Numbers. (2659) Program at the University of Louisiana at John C Mayer, University of Alabama at Lafayette – Part I. Preliminary report. Birmingham (1086-P5-902) Kathleen D. Lopez*, Peter A. Sheppard, 1:40PM Graph (no longer just) Theory. Patricia W. Beaulieu and Christina (2668) Jill Bigley Dunham, Hood College Eubanks-Turner, University of Louisiana (1086-P5-2740) at Lafayette (1086-M1-2808) 2:00PM A Hands-On Introduction to Knot Theory. 1:40PM Elementary Mathematics Specialist (2669) Hannah R Robbins, Roanoke College (2660) Program at the University of Louisiana at (1086-P5-782) Lafayette – Part II. Preliminary report. 2:20PM Finding Groups in a (New) Color Cube Patricia W. Beaulieu*, Peter A. (2670) Puzzle. Preliminary report. Sheppard, Christina Eubanks-Turner Justin A. Brown*andDale K. Hathaway, and Kathleen D. Lopez,Universityof Olivet Nazarene University (1086-P5-261) Louisiana at Lafayette (1086-M1-2817) 2:40PM Hand-on coding theory: Can you hear me (2671) now? 2:00PM Big Ideas in Mathematics: An David Clark, University of Minnesota (2661) Inquiry-Based Program to Prepare (1086-P5-2045) Elementary Math Specialists. Jennifer E. Szydlik,Universityof 3:00PM Building and Feeling Conﬁdence Intervals. Wisconsin Oshkosh (1086-M1-731) (2672) Therese Shelton,Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX 2:20PM North Carolina Elementary Mathematics (1086-P5-2272) (2662) Add-On License Program. Preliminary 3:20PM Painting with light: visualizing report. (2673) mathematical concepts using Carol E. Seaman*, UNC Greensboro, and long-exposure photography. Preliminary David K. Pugalee, UNC Charlotte report. (1086-M1-719) Johann A. Thiel, United States Military Academy (1086-P5-2125) 2:40PM Filling in the Gaps: Increasing Content (2663) Knowledge and Pedagogy of Elementary MAA Session on Transition from High School Teachers of Mathematics. Preliminary to College: Alternative Pathways report. *, Rebecca Ortiz Carol Williams 1:00 PM –5:50PM Room 2, Upper Level, and Magdalena Pando,TexasTech San Diego Convention Center University (1086-M1-2949) Organizer: Gail Burrill, Michigan State 3:00PM Upper division math courses designed University (2664) speciﬁcally for the undergraduate per-service middle school mathematics 1:00PM Selected Results from the MAA Calculus specialists. (2674) Study. Preliminary report. Gary A. Harris, Texas Tech University David Bressoud, Macalester College (1086-M1-589) (1086-Q1-962) 1:30PM Physics Education Research: tools for 3:20PM Understanding Changes in Teaching (2675) educational transformation at a critical (2665) Practice After Content-Based Professional time. Development. Preliminary report. Noah D Finkelstein, Department of Priya Vinata Prasad,Universityof Physics/University of Colorado Boulder Arizona (1086-M1-2009) (1086-Q1-2122)

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2:00PM The New Mathways Project: A Statewide 2:00PM Turn down the volume, turn up the noise: (2676) Initiative to redesign the pathways to and (2687) acoursemoduleindiscretestochastic through gateway college mathematics modeling and simulation. courses in Texas. Preliminary report. Kevin R. Sanft, Dept. of Mathematics, Uri Treisman, University of Texas at Statistics, and Computer Science and Austin (1086-Q1-2072) Center for Interdisciplinary Research, St. 2:30PM Quantway and Statway: Successful Olaf College (1086-Q5-2191) (2677) Pathways To and Through a College Level Math Course. 2:20PM Help, my student doesn’t want to code! Karon Klipple*andCinnamon (2688) Two biomath research projects that Hillyard, Carnegie Foundation for gently introduce programming concepts the Advancement of Teaching in a GUI-based modeling environment. (1086-Q1-2084) Robert J Rovetti, Loyola Marymount University (1086-Q5-2192) 3:00PM Abstract Algebra for High School (2678) Teachers. MAA General Contributed Paper Session: Al Cuoco*, Center for Mathematics Assorted Topics, I Education, EDC, and Joseph Rotman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1086-Q1-1054) 1:00 PM –5:25PM Room 5B, Upper Level, 3:30PM Alternative Pathways–Entry Level San Diego Convention Center (2679) Mathematics Options. Roxy Peck, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo Organizers: Stephen Davis,Davidson (1086-Q1-2586) College 4:00PM Math Jam! Building Community and (2680) Improving Math Placement at Canada˜ Gizem Karaali, Pomona College. College Michael Hoffman*andAmanda Pitts, Douglas Norton, Villanova Canada˜ College (1086-Q1-2898) University 4:30PM Calculus is Hard, Change is Harder. (2681) Daniel T Kaplan, Macalester College Moderators: Abdramane Serme,CUNY (1086-Q1-2004) 5:00PM Transition to College Mathematics and Zhanbo Yang,Universityof (2682) Statistics for Non-STEM Students. the Incarnate Word Christian Hirsch,WesternMichigan 1:00PM Publishing math texts directly to the University (1086-Q1-777) (2689) web–some fantastic open source tools. 5:30PM Advanced Quantitative Reasoning: Albert W Schueller, Whitman College (2683) Mathematics, Statistics, and Modeling (1086-VR-821) for College Readiness and Informed Citizenship. 1:15PM Communicating Mathematically Through Gregory D. Foley, Ohio University (2690) Podcasts. (1086-Q1-1173) Sherrie Serros*, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, Rebecca Ledocq,University MAA Session on Trends in Undergraduate of Wisconsin - LaCrosse, and Erick Mathematical Biology Education, II Hofacker, University of Wisconsin - River Falls (1086-VR-667) 1:00 PM –2:35PM Room 3, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center 1:30PM Does the Ability to Purchase a Week’s (2691) Worth of Groceries for less than One Organizer: Timothy D. Comar, Dollar Inﬂuence the Chance that a Benedictine University Student will make an “Innumeracy Type” 1:00PM Rosalind: Free Bioinformatics Education Statistical Error? (2684) via Online Introductory Programming. Larry Wayne Lewis, Mid-Continent Phillip E. C. Compeau*, University of University (1086-VR-2141) California-San Diego, and Nikolay Vyahhi, St. Petersburg Academic 1:45PM What do you think of .999...? Inviting University (1086-Q5-2842) (2692) discussion with open ended questions. Preliminary report. 1:20PM “Mathematical Concepts and Methods in Brie A. Finegold, University of Arizona (2685) Modern Biology: Using Modern Discrete (1086-VR-739) Models” - A Collection of Undergraduate Mathematical Biology Modules. 2:00PM Students communicating mathematics to Raina Robeva, Sweet Briar College (2693) a broader audience: using vertical (1086-Q5-2793) connections in mathematics and school 1:40PM Undergraduate Research in Gene district partnerships as a vehicle. (2686) Regulatory Networks. Minerva Cordero, James Epperson and Dan Hrozencik, Chicago State University Theresa Jorgensen*, University of Texas (1086-Q5-1986) at Arlington (1086-VR-2584)

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2:15PM Teaching a Course in Mathematical MAA General Contributed Paper Session: (2694) Communication for Prospective High Mathematics Education, III School Mathematics Teachers, Preliminary Report. Preliminary report. 1:00 PM –5:10PM Room 33C, Upper Level, Michael D Bice*andHeather A San Diego Convention Center Coughlin, California State University, Stanislaus (1086-VR-2629) Organizers: Stephen Davis,Davidson College 2:30PM Dynamical Systems in the Sixth Grade (2695) Science Classroom. Preliminary report. Gizem Karaali, Pomona Scott R Kaschner, Indiana University College Purdue University Indianapolis Douglas Norton, Villanova (1086-VR-1264) University 2:45PM Can you have a Math Club at a small Moderators: Lipika Deka, California State (2696) community college? Yes you can, but.... University, Monterrey Bay Christina L Arenas*, Jose J Covarrubias Benjamin Atchison, and Michael Hoffman,Canada˜ College, Framingham State University Redwood City, CA (1086-VR-1296) 1:00PM Relearning algebra: Transitioning to 3:00PM Students Mentoring (by faculty) (2706) learning mathematics with meaning. (2697) Programs in a Community College. Preliminary report. Abdramane Serme,TheCity Kirsty Eisenhart,WesternMichigan University of New York (CUNY/BMCC) University (1086-VE-2800) (1086-VR-2917) 1:15PM Adapt or Die: A 1.5 Year Quest for an 3:15PM Learning To Cooperate - one researcher’s (2707) Engaging Course in College Algebra. (2698) experiences building effective cooperative Benjamin Atchison, Framingham State groups with students. Preliminary report. University (1086-VE-2414) Martha H. Byrne,UniversityofNew 1:30PM Just enough algebra – a new approach to Mexico (1086-VR-1195) (2708) preparing college students. 3:30PM Using Undergraduate Learning Suzanne I Doree, Augsburg College (2699) Assistants in Mathematics and Statistics. (1086-VE-1640) Sandra G Johnson*, Melissa B 1:45PM Preparing Students for Success in Hanzsek-Brill and Sonja Goerdt,St. (2709) Algebra. Cloud State University (1086-VR-1160) Steven R. Lay, Lee University 3:45PM AMathematicalTourinSouthAmerica. (1086-VE-1035) (2700) Preliminary report. 2:00PM New Educational Program in Paul A Loomis, Bloomsburg University (2710) Mathematics for STEM Majors, Part II. (1086-VR-1403) Preliminary report. Andrew Bucki, Langston University, and 4:00PM Comparative Study of the National Math (2701) Curriculum with Curricula from Four Abebaw Tadesse*, Langston University Nations. (1086-VE-1745) Ulrich Wilms, Piedmont College 2:15PM Fostering habits of mind for students in (1086-VR-2377) (2711) developmental mathematics courses through Early Alert System. Preliminary 4:15PM Break. report. 4:30PM What can I do with a Bachelor’s degree in Lipika Deka, California State (2702) math? Five basic career ﬁelds for University-Monterey Bay (1086-VE-2920) mathematics majors. Preliminary report. 2:30PM HR-PAL: A partnership to enhance Paul Bialek, Trinity International (2712) Algebra performance. University (1086-VR-2491) Jale F. Akyurtlu*, Otsebele Nare, Shari 4:45PM Effects of the Top Ten Percent Law in Wiley, Anne Pierce and Gertrude Henry, (2703) Texas. Hampton University (1086-VE-2655) Bryan Nankervis, Texas State 2:45PM Students’ difﬁculties for studying University-San Marcos (1086-VR-718) (2713) undergraduate mathematics. Preliminary 5:00PM The Support of the International report. (2704) Mathematics Community to Hua Jacob Sloujitel, Globe Institute of Loo-keng. Technology, New York (1086-VE-2436) Jean W. Richard*andAbdramane 3:00PM Engaging Undergraduate Nursing and Serme, The City University of New York (2714) Health Science Students in Advanced (CUNY/BMCC) (1086-VR-2723) Statistics. 5:15PM Mathematics, Music and Biology: the ”We” Darlene M Olsen,NorwichUniversity (2705) of Empathy. (1086-VE-2267) Rosanna Iembo*, University of Calabria, 3:15PM Sandlot Stats:Learning Statistics with Italy, Irene Iaccarino, Music School, Italy, (2715) Baseball. and Michele Bernasconi,Universityof Stanley Rothman, Quinnipiac University Zurich, Switzerland (1086-VR-829) (1086-VE-89)

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3:30PM Course Redesign in Elementary Statistics 3:00PM Optimal measurement kernel for (2716) at Lincoln University. (2727) wide-area compressive imaging. Qingxia Li*andMara Aruguete, Lincoln Preliminary report. University (1086-VE-292) Robert R. Muise, Lockheed Martin 3:45PM The Geometric Analysis of Shark Teeth. Missiles and Fire Control (1086-65-2990) (2717) Preliminary report. 3:30PM State of the Art in Multiphysics Daniel Huber, Leslie Jones*and (2728) Simulation. Rebecca Waggett,UniversityofTampa David Kan, Comsol, Inc. (1086-65-2973) (1086-VE-33) 4:00PM Computer Vision for Robotics in the 4:00PM Math Education of Deaf and (2729) Home, Factories, and Space. (2718) Hard-of-Hearing Students - A Silent Jason Meltzer,Evolution Crisis? Preliminary report. Robotics/iRobot (1086-68-2727) Suriza Van der Sandt*, Cathy Liebars 4:30PM Towards Personalized Medicine. and Shilpa Nandwani, The College of (2730) Preliminary report. New Jersey (1086-VE-2429) Dorin Comaniciu,SiemensCorporate 4:15PM Data-mining to track student attitudes. Technology (1086-00-2995) (2719) Andrew J Cousino, Kansas State 5:00PM Role of mathematics in solving industrial University (1086-VE-2520) (2731) problems: semiconductor materials & 4:30PM Survey on College Students Experience in chemistry. Preliminary report. (2720) their ﬁrst College Mathematics Course. Sadasivan Shankar,IntelCorporation Kevin J. Haertzen,Universityof (1086-65-2996) Wisconsin-Platteville (1086-VE-2540) 5:30PM Panel Discussion 4:45PM How Can Cardiovascular Exercise Change (2721) the Brain and Improve the Learning of AWM Workshop on Number Theory, II Mathematics? Preliminary report. Alexander G. Atwood,SUNY 1:00 PM –5:55PM Room 6F, Upper Level, Suffolk County Community College San Diego Convention Center (1086-VE-2771) 1:00PM Newton polygons for a variant of the 5:00PM Technology in Math Classes. (2732) Kloosterman family. (2722) Ping Wang*andMike Gallis, Penn State Rebecca Bellovin, Stanford University, University (1086-VE-2964) Sharon Anne Garthwaite,Bucknell University, Ekin Ozman,Universityof SIAM Minisymposium on Perspectives from Texas - Austin, Rachel Pries*, Colorado Industry State University, Cassandra Williams, James Madison University, and Hui June 1:00 PM –6:00PM Room 11A, Upper Level, Zhu, SUNY - Buffalo (1086-11-913) San Diego Convention Center 1:30PM Newton and Hodge Polygons for a Organizers: Luminita Vese,Universityof (2733) Variant of the Kloosterman Family. California, Los Angeles Rebecca Bellovin, Stanford University, Sharon Anne Garthwaite,Bucknell Li-Tien Cheng,Universityof University, Ekin Ozman*, University of California, San Diego Texas-Austin, Rachel Pries, Cassandra Zuhair Nashed,University Williams, Colorado State University, and of Central Florida Hui June Zhu, State University of New 1:00PM Two-dimensional shape analysis: Case York (1086-11-907) (2723) studies from industry. 2:00PM The a-numbers of Jacobians of Suzuki Kathryn Leonard, Cal State Channel (2734) Curves. Islands (1086-52-1602) Holley Friedlander,Universityof 1:30PM Hydration Free Energy from a Variational Massachusetts, Amherst, Derek Garton, (2724) Implicit Solvent Model. Northwestern University, Beth J. Che*, Z. Guo, Genomics Institute of the Malmskog*, Colorado College, Rachel Novartis Research Foundation, B. Li, L. Pries, Colorado State University, and Cheng, Univ. of California, San Diego, Colin Weir, University of Calgary and J. Dzubiella, Humboldt University of (1086-11-309) Berlin (1086-92-1937) 2:30PM Simultaneous Prime Values of Pairs of 2:00PM Computational image analysis methods (2735) Quadratic Forms. (2725) for modern cardiac imaging data. D. R. Heath-Brown and Lillian B. Pierce*, Piotr Slomka, Artiﬁcial Intelligence In University of Oxford (1086-11-248) Medicine Program/Department of 3:00PM Arithmetic of thin groups. Imaging Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (2736) Elena Fuchs, University of California, (1086-92-2984) Berkeley (1086-11-1014) 2:30PM The Future of Math in Biology: Solving 3:30PM Weierstrass points on the Drinfeld (2726) Disease, Creating Life. Preliminary report. (2737) modular curve X0(p ). Barry Merriman, Life Technologies, Inc. Christelle Vincent, Stanford University (1086-92-2988) (1086-11-343)

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4:00PM Local global compatibility and 1:30PM More Blips and Blops: Reciprocal (2738) monodromy. (2744) Even and Reciprocal Odd Functions. Ana Caraiani, University of Chicago Preliminary report. (1086-11-889) Gerald M. Higdon,FitchburgState University (1086-VR-876) 4:30PM Comparing the arithmetic intersection (2739) formulas of Bruinier-Yang and 1:45PM Integrating Calculus with Elementary Lauter-Viray. (2745) Mathematics: Activities to Connect. Jacqueline Anderson,BrownUniversity, Karen Allen Keene, Alina Duca*and Jennifer S. Balakrishnan*, Harvard Nadia Monrose, North Carolina State University, Kristin Lauter,Microsoft University (1086-VR-2661) Research, Jennifer Park,MIT,andBianca 2:00PM Bit-player Calcudoku. Viray, Brown University (1086-11-1103) (2746) David Nacin, William Paterson University 5:00PM On the Independence of Heegner Points. (1086-VR-1666) (2740) Hatice Sahinoglu, Max Planck Institute 2:15PM Equal Labelings for pq-sided dice and the for Mathematics (1086-11-842) (2747) Inevitability of Stupid Dice. Amber Rosin, Cal Poly Pomona 5:30PM The computation of anticyclotomic Λ-adic (1086-VR-2763) (2741) regulators of elliptic curves. Mirela Ciperiani,TheUniversityofTexas 2:30PM Balanced Ternary and Quinary Numbers at Austin (1086-11-1183) (2748) Magic Tricks. Hideo Nagahashi, University of Guam MAA Panel Discussion (1086-VR-2533) 2:45PM Gilbreath Shufﬂe Variations. Preliminary 1:00 PM –2:20PM Room 1A, Upper Level, (2749) report. San Diego Convention Center Colm Mulcahy, Spelman College (1086-VR-1093) How a placement program can increase 3:00PM Undergraduate Research Opportunities success rates in preparatory courses and (2750) in Systems of Difference Equations. the calculus sequence. Chris D Lynd, University of Rhode Island Organizers: Alison Ahlgren,University (1086-VR-636) of Illinois 3:15PM Polynomial approximations of (2751) parameterized knots. Preliminary report. Marc Harper,Universityof Christopher Mandell, Queens College California Los Angeles (1086-VR-854) Panelists: Karen Rhea,Universityof 3:30PM A new context in which to apply Michigan (2752) geometry to: math, quantum physics, Pavel Sikorski,Michigan and the solar system, etc. State University Martin Concoyle, Tucson, Arizona (1086-VR-413) Andrew Tonge, Kent State University 3:45PM An Eigenvalue Search Method using the (2753) Orr-Sommerfeld Equation for Shear Flow. MAA General Contributed Paper Session: Ira Waker, David S. Torain, II*and Assorted Topics, II Morris Morgan, Hampton University (1086-VR-2135)

1:15 PM –4:25PM Room 6E, Upper Level, 4:00PM The Consistency Strength of San Diego Convention Center (2754) Reﬂ(ω3,ω,ω1). Cynthia Northrup,Universityof Organizers: Stephen Davis,Davidson California, Irvine (1086-VR-1440) College 4:15PM Matemorphosis, an alternative tool for Gizem Karaali, Pomona (2755) sharing mathematics. Preliminary report. College Alejandro R. Garciadiego, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) Douglas Norton, Villanova (1086-VR-97) University Moderators: Kumar Pial Das, Lamar MAA General Contributed Paper Session: University Research in Analysis Hideo Nagahshi,University 1:15 PM –4:10PM Room 33B, Upper Level, of Guam San Diego Convention Center 1:00PM A report on the Mathematics S-STEM (2742) project at UIW. Organizers: Stephen Davis,Davidson Zhanbo Yang, University of the Incarnate College Word (1086-VR-862) Gizem Karaali, Pomona 1:15PM The Many Faces of a Pythagorean Triple. College (2743) Donald A. Sokol,BurrRidge,IL Douglas Norton, Villanova (1086-VR-1239) University

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Moderator: Wei-Kai Lai,Universityof ASL Contributed Paper Session, II South Carolina Salkehatchie 1:30 PM –6:25PM Room 7B, Upper Level, 1:15PM Fractal Strings and Complex Dimensions San Diego Convention Center (2756) of Step Functions. Preliminary report. Kate E Ellis, California State Polytechnic 1:30PM Stable, ℵ0-categorical nonassociative University, Pomona (1086-VK-2176) (2768) rings. Paul Baginski, Smith College 1:30PM Non-uniqueness of Solutions to the (2757) Conformal Formulation of the Einstein 1:55PM Tree indiscernibles and a Ramsey class of Constraint Equations. (2769) trees. Caleb Andrew Meier*andMichael Lynn Scow, University of Illinois at Holst, University of California, San Diego Chicago (1086-VK-2816) 2:20PM Dimension theory in some dense regular (2770) groups. 1:45PM Ground State of Interacting Boson Brett Townsend, Wesleyan University (2758) Systems in Random Potentials. Michael A. Bishop, University of Arizona 2:45PM Universal subgroups of Polish groups. (1086-VK-1362) (2771) Konstantinos A Beros,Universityof Wisconsin-Madison 2:00PM Geometric Properties for the Fremlin and 3:10PM On automorphisms groups of (2759) Wittstock Tensor Products of Banach (2772) uncountable structures of countable Lattices. cofinality. Michelle Craddock, United States Ioannis Souldatos, University of Detroit Military Academy (1086-VK-1167) Mercy 2:15PM Rearragement Inequality on Positive 3:35PM Solving the Dirichlet problem (2760) Tensor Products. Preliminary report. (2773) constructively. Wei-Kai Lai, University of South Carolina Maarten McKubre-Jordens*and Salkehatchie (1086-VK-2179) Douglas Bridges,Universityof Canterbury 2:30PM Spectral Analysis of the X -Laguerre 1 ≤ (2761) Polynomials. Preliminary report. 4:00PM Maxima for the tc ordering with respect ∼c Jessica Stewart*andLance Littlejohn, (2774) to α. Baylor University (1086-VK-2815) Steven VanDenDriessche,Universityof Notre Dame 2:45PM Generalized expansions and definite 4:25PM Symbolic dynamics in the arithmetic (2762) integrals for classical orthogonal (2775) hierarchy. polynomials. Preliminary report. Sebastian Wyman*andDouglas Howard S. Cohl, Information Technology Cenzer, University of Florida Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, 4:50PM Anomalous vacillatory learning. Maryland (1086-VK-2622) (2776) Achilles A Beros,Universityof Wisconsin-Madison 3:00PM A Nonlinear Variation of Constants 5:15PM Canonical proof objects for classical (2763) Formula for Integral Equations with (2777) sequent proofs. Kurzweil-Henstock Integral. Richard McKinley,UniversityofBern Ekaterina Nathanson*andLaurent Jay, The University of Iowa (1086-VK-734) 5:40PM Reducibilities associated with Kolmogorov (2778) complexity. 3:15PM Polarizations of Real Hypersurfaces in William C Calhoun,Bloomsburg (2764) Cn. University Camilo Montoya*, Florida International 6:05PM On the significance of axiom systems University, Lukas Owens,Whitman (2779) that can recognize their own consistency. College, and Alexander Basyrov, Dan E Willard, University at Albany University of Wisconsin-Stout (1086-VK-434) SIGMAA on Math Circles for Students and 3:30PM Deddens Algebras for Weighted Shifts. Teachers Math Wrangle Demonstration (2765) Daniel Sievewright,WesternMichigan University (1086-VK-156) 1:30 PM –2:30PM Room 1B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center 3:45PM A Characterization of Submodules via (2766) Beurling-Lax-Halmos Theorem. Come see how everyone can get Yueshi Qin*andRongwei Yang,SUNY involved in this exciting combination of at Albany (1086-VK-2764) mathematical problem solving, public speaking, strategy, and rebuttal. (2767) Determinant Solutions for a (3+1)-Dimensional Generallized KP Organizers: Steve Dunbar,American Equation with Variable Coefficients. Mathematics Competitions Alrazi M Abdeljabbar, Savannah State Tatiana Shubin,SanJose University (1086-VK-1636) State University

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MAA Committee on Minority Participation and the MAA Ofﬁce of Minority Participation Panel Discussion

2:40 PM –4:00PM Room 1A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center SUMMA session for prospective REU mentors.

MAA-AMS-SIAM Gerald and Judith Porter Public Lecture

3:00 PM –4:00PM Room 6AB, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center (2780) Mathematics and the melting polar ice caps. Kenneth M. Golden,UniversityofUtah (1086-86-58)

AMS 125th Gala Reception

6:00 PM –7:00PM Marina Ballroom Foyer, 3rd Floor, Marriott

AMS 125th Gala

7:00 PM – 10:00 PM Marina Ballroom DE, 3rd Floor, Marriott

Georgia Benkart Gerard A. Venema AMS Associate Secretary MAA Associate Secretary Madison, Wisconsin Grand Rapids, Michigan

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