Program of the Sessions Boston, Massachusetts, January 4–7, 2012

AMS Short Course on Random Fields and Monday, January 2 Random Geometry, Part I

8:00 AM –5:00PM Back Bay Ballroom A, 2nd Floor, Sheraton Organizers: Robert Adler, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology AMS Short Course on Computing with Elliptic Jonathan Taylor,Stanford Curves Using Sage, Part I University 8:00AM Registration, Back Bay Ballroom D, 8:00 AM –5:00PM Back Bay Ballroom Sheraton. B, 2nd Floor, Sheraton 9:00AM Gaussian fields and Kac-Rice formulae. (3) Robert Adler, Technion Organizer: William Stein,Universityof 10:15AM Break. Washington 10:45AM The Gaussian kinematic fomula. 8:00AM Registration, Back Bay Ballroom D, (4) Jonathan Taylor, Stanford University Sheraton. 2:00PM Gaussian models in fMRI image analysis. 9:00AM Introduction to Python and Sage. (5) Jonathan Taylor, Stanford University (1) Kiran Kedlaya, University of California 3:15PM Break. San Diego 3:45PM Tutorial session. 10:30AM Break. 11:00AM Question and Answer Session: How do I MAA Short Course on Discrete and do XXX in Sage? Computational Geometry, Part I 2:00PM Computing with elliptic curves over finite (2) fields using Sage. 8:00 AM –5:00PM Back Bay Ballroom Ken Ribet, University of California, C, 2nd Floor, Sheraton Berkeley Organizers: Satyan L. Devadoss, 3:30PM Break. Williams College 4:00PM Problem Session: Try to solve a problem Joseph O’Rourke,Smith yourself using Sage. College

The time limit for each AMS contributed paper in the sessions meeting will be found in Volume 33, Issue 1 of Abstracts is ten minutes. The time limit for each MAA Invited Paper of papers presented to the American Mathematical Society, or contributed paper varies. In the AMS Special Sessions the ordered according to the numbers in parentheses following time limit varies from session to session and within sessions. the listings. The middle two digits, e.g., 897-20-1136, refer To maintain the schedule, time limits will be strictly enforced. to the Mathematical Reviews subject classiﬁcation assigned Forpaperswithmorethanoneauthor,an asterisk follows by the individual author. Groups of papers for each subject the name of the author who plans to present the paper at the are listed in receipt order in the Abstracts. The last one to meeting. four digits, e.g., 897-20-1136, refer to the receipt number of Papers ﬂagged with a solid triangle () have been desig- the abstract. MAA abstracts are listed toward the back of the nated by the author as being of possible interest to under- issue sorted by session name, and by receipt order within the graduate students. session name. Abstracts of papers presented in the sessions at this

45 Program of the Sessions – Boston, MA, Monday, January 2 (cont’d.)

8:00AM Registration, Back Bay Ballroom D, AMS Short Course on Computing with Elliptic Sheraton. Curves Using Sage, Part II 9:00AM Polygons: Building blocks of discrete and (6) computational geometry. 9:00 AM –5:00PM Back Bay Ballroom Satyan Devadoss*, Williams College, and B, 2nd Floor, Sheraton Joseph O’Rourke*, Smith College Organizer: William Stein,Universityof 10:15AM Break. Washington 10:45AM Triangulations: Flip graphs and Delaunay 9:00AM Computing with elliptic curves over the (7) triangulations. (10) rational numbers using Sage. Satyan Devadoss, Williams College Jared Weinstein,BostonUniversity 2:00PM Convex hulls: Computing in 2D and 3D. 10:30AM Break. (8) Joseph O’Rourke, Smith College 11:00AM Computing with the Birch and 2:15PM Break. (11) Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture using Sage. 3:45PM Voronoi diagrams: Geometry, duality, William Stein, University of Washington (9) and hulls revisited. 2:00PM Computing with elliptic surfaces. Joseph O’Rourke, Smith College (12) Noam Elkies,HarvardUniversity 3:30PM Break. 4:00PM Question and Answer Session: How do I do XXX in Sage?

AMS Short Course on Random Fields and Tuesday, January 3 Random Geometry, Part II

9:00 AM –5:00PM Back Bay Ballroom AMS Department Chairs Workshop A, 2nd Floor, Sheraton Organizers: Robert Adler, Technion - 8:00 AM –6:30PM Commonwealth, Israel Institute of 3rd Floor, Sheraton Technology Presenters: Timothy Hodges,University Jonathan Taylor,Stanford of Cincinnati University John Meakin,Universityof 9:00AM Random fields in Physics. Nebraska-Lincoln (13) Mark Dennis, University of Bristol Helen Roberts, Montclair 10:15AM Break. State University 10:45AM Random matrices and Gaussian analytic Alex Smith,Universityof (14) functions. Wisconsin-Eau Claire Balint Virag, University of Toronto 2:00PM Random metrics. (15) Dmitry Jakobson, McGill University 3:15PM Break. MAA Ancillary Workshop on Statistics: Identifying and Addressing Difficult 3:45PM Discussion groups. Concepts for Students in the Introductory MAA Short Course on Discrete and Statistics Course Computational Geometry, Part II 8:30 AM –4:30PM Gardner, 3rd Floor, Sheraton 9:00 AM –5:00PM Back Bay Ballroom Presenter: Marjorie Bond,Monmouth C, 2nd Floor, Sheraton University Organizers: Satyan L. Devadoss, Williams College Joseph O’Rourke,Smith MAA Ancillary Workshop on Statistics: College Facilitating Student Projects in Elementary 9:00AM Polyhedra from Euler to Gauss to Statistics (16) Cauchy, I: Rigidity. Satyan Devadoss, Williams College 8:30 AM –4:30PM Berkeley, 3rd Floor, Sheraton 10:15AM Break. Presenters: Brad Bailey, North Georgia 10:45AM Polyhedra from Euler to Gauss to College & State University (17) Cauchy, II: Unfolding. Sherry L. Hix, North Georgia Joseph O’Rourke, Smith College College & State University 2:00PM Configuration spaces: Locked polygonal Dianna Spence,North (18) chains and particle collisions. Georgia College & State Satyan Devadoss, Williams College University 2:15PM Break.

46 Boston, MA, Wednesday, January 4 – Program of the Sessions

3:45PM Pedagogy and research. 8:00AM Mathematical Schemes in Babylonian (19) Satyan Devadoss*, Williams College, and (20) Astral Medicine. Joseph O’Rourke*, Smith College John Steele,BrownUniversity (1077-01-455) MAA Ancillary Workshop on Statistics: 8:30AM Proportion Theory in Medieval Teaching Modeling-Based Calculus (21) Astronomical Works. Henry T. Zepeda, Dept. of the History of 9:00 AM –4:30PM Hampton, 3rd Floor, Sheraton Science, University of Oklahoma (1077-01-2662) Presenters: Daniel Kaplan, Macalester 9:00AM On Finding Times of True Syzygy in College (22) the Fifteenth Century: Melchion de Daniel Flath, Macalester Friquento’s Eclipse Tables of 1437. College Preliminary report. Randall Pruim,Calvin Richard L. Kremer, Dartmouth College College (1077-01-556) Eric Marland, Appalachian 9:30AM The Evolution of Geometry in ancient University (23) China, from the newly discovered Shu and Suan shu shu bamboo texts to the WeBWork Consulting Training Session Nine Chapters. Preliminary report. Joseph W. Dauben,HerbertH.Lehman 9:00 AM –5:00PM Simmons, 3rd Floor, Marriott College, The CIty University of New York (1077-01-501) Organizer: Michael Gage,Universityof 10:00AM Who reads mathematics? A case study Rochester (24) from Mesopotamia. Duncan J. Melville,St.Lawrence MAA Board of Governors University (1077-01-1669) 10:30AM Euclid’s Elements in Spanish, during the 9:00 AM –5:00PM Salon E, 4th Floor, Marriott (25) XVII century. Preliminary report. Alejandro R. Garciadiego, Universidad AMS Council Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (1077-01-82) 1:30 PM – 10:00 PM Salon F, 4th Floor, Marriott

Joint Meetings Registration AMS-ASL Special Session on the Life and Legacy of Alan Turing, I 3:00 PM –8:00PM 2nd Floor Corridor, opposite Hall C, Hynes 8:00 AM –10:40AM Room 207, Hynes New registrations will be accepted until Organizers: Damir Dzhafarov, 7:00 p.m. Those who registered in University of Chicago and advance may pick up materials until 8:00 University of Notre Dame p.m. Jeff Hirst, Appalachian State University Carl Mummert, Marshall University Wednesday, January 4 8:00AM Algorithmic Randomness and (26) Pathological Computable Measures. Joint Meetings Registration Preliminary report. Christopher P Porter,Universityof 7:30 AM –6:00PM 2nd Floor Corridor, Notre Dame (1077-03-2392) opposite Hall C, Hynes 8:30AM Computing the strength of some (27) combinatorial theorems. Preliminary AMS-MAA Special Session on the History of report. Mathematics, I Stephen Flood, University of Notre Dame (1077-03-1998)

8:00 AM –10:50AM Back Bay Ballroom 9:00AM Lown Boolean Subalgebras. Preliminary A, 2nd Floor, Sheraton (28) report. Rebecca M. Steiner,Graduate Organizers: Sloan Despeaux,Western Center, City University of New York Carolina University (1077-03-476) Craig Fraser,Universityof 9:30AM Vegetative Turing Pattern Formation: A Toronto (29) Historical Perspective. Deborah Kent, Hillsdale Bonni J Kealy*andDavid J Wollkind, College Washington State University (1077-92-84)

47 Program of the Sessions – Boston, MA, Wednesday, January 4 (cont’d.)

10:00AM Answering Descartes: Beyond Turing. 8:00AM Infinite rank of elliptic curves over the (30) Stuart A Kauffman,Universityof (37) maximal abelian extension of Q. Vermont (1077-68-384) Bo-Hae Im*, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea, and Michael Larsen, Indiana University (1077-11-1759) AMS Special Session on Advances in Coding 8:30AM Arithmetic Progressions in the Theory, I (38) x-coordinates on Mordell Curves. Alejandra Alvarado*andEdray Herbert 8:00 AM –10:50AM Dartmouth, Goins, Purdue University (1077-11-1757) 3rd Floor, Marriott 9:00AM Rational linear spaces on hypersurfaces Organizers: Sarah Spence Adams, Olin (39) over quasi-algebraically closed fields. College of Engineering Todd Cochrane, Craig V. Spencer, Kansas State University, and Hee-Sung Gretchen L. Matthews, Yang*, Dartmouth College (1077-11-376) Clemson University 9:30AM Mordell-Weil groups via Artin-Schreier Judy L. Walker,Universityof Nebraska-Lincoln (40) extensions. Rachel Pries*, Colorado State University, 8:00AM Symmetric Group Testing. and Douglas Ulmer, Georgia Institute for (31) Amin Emad*, Jun Shen and Olgica Technology (1077-11-1829) Milenkovic, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1077-94-1403) 10:00AM A variety with many points over a finite (41) field. 8:30AM On Sums of Locally Testable Affine Jared S Weinstein,BostonUniversity (32) Invariant Properties. (1077-11-1854) Eli Ben-Sasson,Technion,Haifa,Israel, Elena Grigorescu*, Georgia Institute of 10:30AM De Rham cohomology of Artin-Schreier Technology, Ghid Maatouk,EPFL, (42) curves in characteristic two. Lausanne, Switzerland, Amir Shpilka, Arsen Elkin*, University of Warwick, and Technion, Haifa, Israel, and Madhu Rachel Pries, Colorado State University Sudan, Microsoft Research New England, (1077-14-435) Cambridge, MA (1077-68-1230) 9:00AM Flexible coding schemes with applications (33) to emerging memory technologies. Lara Dolecek, EE Department, UCLA AMS Special Session on Classical Fourier (1077-94-1779) Analysis and Partial Differential Equations, I 9:30AM High-rate Codes with Sublinear-time (34) Decoding. 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 104, Hynes Swastik Kopparty,Rutgers,Shubhangi Saraf, Institute for Advanced Study, and Organizers: William O. Bray,University Sergey Yekhanin*, Microsoft Research of Maine (1077-68-1057) Mark A. Pinsky, 10:00AM Codes from separable linearized Northwestern University (35) polynomials and associated 8:00AM The Lp−Operator Norm of a Perturbation Riemann-Roch spaces. (43) of the Martingale Transform. Justin D. Peachey, Clemson University Nicholas Boros, Michigan State (1077-14-1896) University (1077-42-1083) 10:30AM Asymmetric Quantum Codes from 8:30AM Variation and oscillation inequalities for (36) Two-Point Divisors on Algebraic Curves. (44) convolution products. Preliminary report. Anna Savvopoulou*, Indiana University Martianus Frederic Ezerman, South Bend, and Karin Reinhold, Laboratoire d’Information Quantique, University at Albany (1077-28-79) Université Libre de Bruxelles, and 2 Radoslav M Kirov*, San Francisco, CA 9:00AM An L metric limit theorem for Wiener (1077-94-1810) (45) measure on manifolds with non-positive sectional curvature. Thomas Albert Laetsch,UCSanDiego AMS Special Session on Arithmetic (1077-60-2511) Geometry, I 9:30AM Decay of spherical means of Fourier (46) transforms and distance sets of 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 204, Hynes measures. Bassam H. Shayya, American University Organizers: Bo-Hae Im, Chung-Ang of Beirut (1077-42-115) University, South Korea 10:00AM Funk, Cosine, and Sine Transforms on Jennifer Johnson-Leung, (47) Stiefel and Grassmann Manifolds. The University of Idaho Fourier Transform Approach. Jennifer Paulhus, Grinnell Boris Rubin, Louisiana State University College (1077-42-726)

48 Boston, MA, Wednesday, January 4 – Program of the Sessions

10:30AM Intrinsic square function and 9:00AM Periods of rational maps modulo primes. (48) almost-orthogonality on homogeneous (57) Benjamin Hutz*, CUNY Graduate Center, spaces. Robert L Benedetto, Amherst College, Caroline Sweezy,NewMexicoState Dragos Ghioca, University of British University, and James Michael Wilson*, Columbia, Par Kurlberg,KTH,Thomas University of Vermont (1077-42-399) Scanlon, Univer of California Berkeley, and Thomas J Tucker,Universityof Rochester (1077-11-1703) 9:30AM A dynamical system for elliptic divisibility AMS Special Session on Difference Equations (58) sequences. and Applications, I Joseph H. Silverman,BrownUniversity, and Katherine E. Stange*, Stanford 8:00 AM –10:50AM Wellesley, 3rd Floor, Marriott University (1077-11-1267) Organizer: Michael Radin,Rochester 10:00AM Projective varieties covered by trivial Institute of Technology (59) families. Anupam Bhatnagar, New York University 8:00AM Open Problems and Conjectures in (49) Difference Equations. Preliminary report. (1077-14-2726) Gerasimos E. Ladas, University of Rhode 10:30AM Algebra, Geometry, and Dynamics of Island (1077-39-490) (60) Pseudo-Real Maps. Preliminary report. Joseph H. Silverman*, Brown University, 8:30AM Further Consequences of the m-M (50) Theorem. Preliminary report. and Michael Zieve,Universityof Gabriel Lugo*andFrank Palladino, MIchigan (1077-37-172) University of Rhode Island (1077-39-1642) 9:00AM General Allee effect and semistability in AMS Special Session on Generalized (51) planar difference equations. Cohomology Theories in Engineering Saber N Elaydi*, Trinity University, and Practice, I George Livadiotis, Soutwest Research Institute (1077-39-1259) 8:00 AM –10:40AM Provincetown, 9:30AM Convergence of periodically forced 4th Floor, Marriott (52) rank-type equations. Tyrus Berry*andTim Sauer,George Organizer: P. Robert Kotiuga,Boston Mason University (1077-39-669) University 8:00AM Cohomology in electromagnetic 10:00AM On Periodic Trichotomies. (53) Frank J. Palladino, University of Rhode (61) modelling. Preliminary report. Island (1077-39-470) Pawel Dlotko*, Institute of Computer Science, Jagiellonian University in 10:30AM On Rational Difference Equations with Krakow, and Ruben Specogna, (54) Nonnegative Periodic Coefficients. Unit of Electrical Engineering, Preliminary report. Department DIEGM, University of Udine Yevgeniy Kostrov, Xavier University, and (1077-55-2353) Zachary Kudlak*, Mount Saint Mary College (1077-39-1260) 8:30AM Cohomology Ring: Algorithmic approach. (62) Tomasz Kaczynski*, Universitéde Sherbrooke, and Marian Mrozek, Jagiellonian University Krakow AMS Special Session on Dynamical Systems (1077-55-1404) in Algebraic and Arithmetic Geometry, I 9:00AM Hodge Theory and the Netflix Problem. (63) Lek-Heng Lim, University of Chicago 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 200, Hynes (1077-91-2946) 10:00AM Cohomology reveals when helicity is a Organizers: Patrick Ingram,University (64) diffeomorphism invariant. of Waterloo, Canada Jason Cantarella, University of Georgia, Michelle Manes,University and Jason Parsley*, Wake Forest of Hawaii, Honolulu University (1077-53-2888) Clayton Petsche, Hunter College (CUNY) 8:00AM Fixed-point-free elements of iterated AMS Special Session on Groups, Algorithms, (55) monodromy groups. Preliminary report. Complexity, and Theory of Security, I Rafe Jones, College of the Holy Cross (1077-37-2716) 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 101, Hynes 8:30AM On the prime divisors in zero orbits of (56) families of commuting polynomials. Organizers: Maggie Habeeb,City Preliminary report. University of New York Jason Bell and Kevin Doerksen*, Simon Delaram Kahrobaei,City Fraser University (1077-11-2109) University of New York

49 Program of the Sessions – Boston, MA, Wednesday, January 4 (cont’d.)

8:00AM Automorphisms and isomorphism of 10:30AM Rank and genus of 3-manifolds. (65) finite p-groups. Preliminary report. (76) Tao Li, Boston College (1077-57-589) James B Wilson, Colorado State University (1077-20-919) 8:30AM Polynomial-time isomorphism test for AMS Special Session on Local Field (66) groups with abelian Sylow towers. Properties, Microstructure, and Multiscale Preliminary report. Modeling of Heterogeneous Media, I Lászlo´ Babai, the University of Chicago, and Youming Qiao*, Institute for 8:00 AM –10:50AM Suffolk, 3rd Floor, Marriott Theoretical Computer Science, Tsinghua Organizers: Silvia Jiménez, Worcester University (1077-68-1157) Polytechnic Institute 9:00AM On restricting free factors in relatively Bogdan Vernescu, (67) free groups. Worcester Polytechnic Lucas Sabalka*andDmytro Savchuk, Institute Binghamton University (1077-20-1122) 8:00AM Multiscale Modeling and Simulation of 9:30AM Algorithms in GAP for permutability and (77) Fluid Flows in Deformable Porous Media. (68) Sylow permutability in finite groups. Yuliya Gorb, University of Houston Preliminary report. (1077-35-1840) Adolfo Ballester-Bolinches, Universitat de València, and Ramon 8:30AM Multiscale methods for high-contrast Esteban-Romero*, Universitat Politècnica (78) problems using local spectral basis de València (1077-20-1079) functions. Juan Galvis*, IAMCS/ISC Texas A&M 10:00AM Statistics about curves on surfaces. University, and Efendiev,TexasA&M (69) Moira Chas*, Stony Brook University, University (1077-65-2268) Steven Lalley, University of Chicago, Keren Li and Bangrui Chen, Stony Brook 9:00AM A Numerical Boundary Eigenvalue University (1077-57-357) (79) Problem For Elastic Cracks in Free and Half Space. 10:30AM Infinite primitive permutation groups Darko Volkov, WPI (1077-45-1023) (70) whose set of subdegrees has a finite upper bound. 9:30AM Stochastic homogenization for permeable Simon M. Smith, Syracuse University (80) membranes. (1077-20-716) Florian Maris, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (1077-49-2552) 10:00AM Acoustic Propagation in a Random (81) Saturated Medium: The Biphasic Case. AMS Special Session on Hyperbolicity in Robert P. Gilbert*, Univ. of Delaware, Manifolds and Groups, I Alexander Panchenko, Washington State University, and Ana Vasilic,UnitedArab 8:00 AM –10:50AM Berkeley, 3rd Floor, Marriott Emirates University (1077-35-579) Organizers: David Futer,Temple 10:30AM Random fluctuations of solutions to University (82) partial differential equations. Genevieve Walsh,Tufts Guillaume Bal, Columbia University University (1077-35-534) 8:00AM Exponential decay in the mapping class (71) group. AMS Special Session on Mathematics in Joseph Maher, College of Staten Island, Industry, I CUNY (1077-57-311) 8:30AM On genericity of pseudo-Anosovs in the 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 109, Hynes (72) Torelli group. Justin Malestein*, Temple University, Organizers: Kirk E. Jordan,IBMT.J. and Juan Souto, University of British Watson Research Columbia (1077-51-1212) Donald Schwendeman, 9:00AM Mapping class groups and covers of Renssalaer Polytechnic (73) surfaces. Institute Thomas Koberda,HarvardUniversity Burt S. Tilley, Worcester (1077-20-1323) Polytechnic Institute 9:30AM Triangulations of hyperbolic 3-manifolds Suzanne L. Weekes, (74) admitting strict angle structures. Worcester Polytechnic Craig D. Hodgson, J. Hyam Rubinstein Institute and Henry Segerman*, University of 8:00AM The Importance of the Math Formulation Melbourne (1077-57-588) (83) for Modeling and Simulation of Industrial 10:00AM Handlebody filling and the Heegaard Strength Problems on Peta and Exascale (75) tree. Preliminary report. Systems. Jesse Johnson, Oklahoma State Kirk E Jordan,IBMResearch University (1077-57-571) (1077-65-1153)

50 Boston, MA, Wednesday, January 4 – Program of the Sessions

8:30AM Constructions and Existence Results for 10:30AM Species Diversity, Fishing Induced (84) Complementary Code Sets. Preliminary (93) Change In Carrying Capacity And report. Sustainable Fisheries Management. Gregory E Coxson, Technology Service Worku T. Bitew*andWisdom Corporation, Washington Office Akpalu, Farmingdale State College (1077-94-1183) (1077-92-1320) 9:00AM Designing Scalable Algorithms for (85) Complex Networks. AMS Special Session on Set-Valued Tuhin Sahai, United Technologies Optimization and Variational Problems, I Research Center (1077-37-1005) 9:30AM Real World Tracking. 8:00 AM –10:50AM Fairfield, 3rd Floor, Marriott (86) Rebecca D. Wasyk,Metron,Inc (1077-00-843) Organizers: Andreas H. Hamel,Yeshiva University 10:00AM Drying of spreading droplets of colloidal (87) suspensions. Akhtar A. Khan,Rochester Kara L Maki*, Rochester Institute Institute of Technology of Technology, and Satish Kumar, Miguel Sama, E.T.S.I. University of Minnesota (1077-76-546) Industriales 10:30AM Some Applied Math Problems of Interest 8:00AM Global Metric Regularity. (88) at Schlumberger. (94) A. L. Dontchev, Mathematical Reviews Lalitha Venkataramanan,Schlumberger (1077-49-1302) (1077-00-524) 8:30AM A new derivative concept for set-valued (95) functions. Andreas H. Hamel, Yeshiva University New York (1077-49-1878) AMS Special Session on Mathematics in 9:00AM The Smallest Intersecting Ball Problem Natural Resource Modeling, I (96) and the Smallest Enclosing Ball Problem: Theoretical Analysis. 8:00 AM –10:50AM Simmons, 3rd Floor, Marriott Mau Nam Nguyen*andCristina Villalobos, University of Texas-Pan Organizer: Catherine Roberts, College American (1077-90-1715) of the Holy Cross 9:30AM Coderivative Analysis of 8:00AM Non-Spatial and Spatial Models in (97) Quasi-Variational Inequalities in Asplund (89) Bioeconomics. Spaces. Jon M. Conrad*, Cornell University, and Nhi Nguyen*, Carleton University, and Martin D. Smith, Duke University Boris Mordukhovich, Wayne State (1077-49-319) University (1077-49-2776) 9:00AM Modeling the Economics of Water: 10:00AM KKT conditions for a nonconvex vector (90) Progress and Challenges. (98) optimization problem. James F. Booker*, Economics Miguel Sama*, Bienvenido Jimenez and Department and Environmental Studies Vicente Novo, Universidad Nacional Department, Siena College, Richard E. de Educacion´ a Distancia (UNED) Howitt, Department of Agricultural and (1077-90-1507) Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, Ari M. Michelsen, 10:30AM Some remarks on stochastic variational Department of Agricultural Economics, (99) inequalities with applications to Texas AgriLife Research and Extension equilibrium problems. Center, and Robert A. Young, Baasansuren Jadamba*, Akhtar A. Department of Agricultural and Resource Khan, Rochester Institute of Technology, Economics, Colorado State University and Fabio Raciti, University of Catania, (1077-91-2238) Italy (1077-49-2168) 9:30AM Accounting for Habitat Damage (91) Increases the Economic Optimality of AMS Special Session on Several Complex Marine Reserves. Preliminary report. Variables and Multivariable Operator Holly V. Moeller*, Department of Theory, I Biology, Stanford University, and Michael G. Neubert, Department of Biology, 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 108, Hynes Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (1077-92-2201) Organizers: Ronald Douglas,Texas A&M University 10:00AM Features of biologically realistic fishery (92) models frequently used in fish stock John McCarthy, Washington assessment. University Terrance J. Quinn II, Juneau Center, 8:00AM Regularity of Weighted Bergman School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, (100) Projections. University of Alaska Fairbanks Yunus E Zeytuncu,TexasA&M (1077-92-2194) University (1077-32-656)

51 Program of the Sessions – Boston, MA, Wednesday, January 4 (cont’d.)

8:30AM H1 and dyadic H1 in multiparameter Thomas W. Tucker,Colgate (101) settings. University Sergei Treil,BrownUniversity 8:00AM Applications of Discrete Morse Theory to (1077-42-2052) (111) Certain Complexes of Bounded Degree 9:00AM Compactness of Hankel operators on Graphs. Preliminary report. (102) convex domains. Preliminary report. Luke P. Diaz,NewMexicoState Zeljko Cuckovic*andSonmez University (1077-55-1143) Sahutoglu, University of Toledo, Ohio 8:30AM Topological Symmetry Groups of (1077-47-467) (112) Complete Graphs. 9:30AM The spectrum and essential spectrum of Erica Flapan, Pomona College, Blake (103) Toeplitz operators. Mellor*, Loyola Marymount University, Carl Sundberg, University of Tennessee, and Ramin Naimi, Occidental College and Dechao Zheng*, Vanderbilt (1077-57-93) University (1077-47-642) 9:00AM Rotation systems for 2-complexes in 10:00AM Fundamental Agler Decompositions. (113) orientable 3-manifolds. Preliminary (104) Kelly Bickel, Washington University in St. report. Louis (1077-46-677) Thomas Tucker*, Colgate University, 10:30AM Carleson Measures for Besov-Sobolev Ergun Akleman, Jianer Chen,Texas (105) Spaces and Non-Homogeneous Harmonic A&M University, and Jonathan Gross, Analysis. Columbia University (1077-05-1062) Brett D. Wick, Georgia Insitute of 9:30AM Chmutov’s generalized duality and the Technology (1077-32-798) (114) gem representation of embedded graphs. Preliminary report. AMS Special Session on Stochastic Analysis Mark Ellingham, Vanderbilt University (in honor of Hui-Hsiung Kuo), I (1077-05-1582) 10:00AM A recent progress in map enumeration. 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 107, Hynes (115) Roman Nedela, Matej Bel University, Organizers: Julius Esunge,Universityof Banska Bystrica, Slovak rep. Mary Washington (1077-05-848) Aurel Stan, Ohio State 10:30AM Abelian coverings of the platonic maps. University (116) Preliminary report. Gareth A. Jones,Universityof 8:00AM Yang-Mills heat equation with H1/2 initial (106) data in three dimensions. Preliminary Southampton (1077-20-685) report. Leonard Gross, Cornell University (1077-35-2216) 9:00AM Some aspects of modelling dependence in (107) copula based Markov Chains. AMS Special Session on Trends in Martial Longla*andMagda Peligrad, Representation Theory, I University of Cincinnati (1077-60-443) 9:30AM New Itoˆ formula with application to linear 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 103, Hynes (108) SDEs with anticipating initial conditions. Hui-Hsiung Kuo, Louisiana State Organizers: Donald King, Northeastern University, Anuwat Sae-Tang,King University Mongkut’s University of Technology Alfred Noel,Universityof Thonburi, and Benedykt Szozda*, Massachusetts, Boston Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge 8:00AM Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials for (1077-60-1336) (117) disconnected groups. Preliminary report. 10:00AM The Gambler’s Ruin Problem for a Class David A. Vogan, MIT (1077-22-87) (109) of Non-stationary Markov Chains. 8:30AM Generalized Harish-Chandra Modules for Mark Burgin,UCLA,Alan Krinik*and (118) Mixed Subgroups. David Luu, California State Polytechnic Annegret Paul,WesternMichigan University, Pomona (1077-60-1307) University, Siddhartha Sahi,Rutgers 10:30AM Modeling Healthcare Data Using Markov University, and Wai Ling Yee*, University (110) Decision Process. Preliminary report. of Windsor (1077-22-1916) Kumer Pial Das, Lamar University (1077-60-1561) 9:00AM Unipotent representations for Sp(p,q) and (119) O*(n). Preliminary report. Dan M Barbasch*, Cornell University, AMS Special Session on Topological Graph and Peter A Trapa,UniversityofUtah Theory: Structure and Symmetry, I (1077-22-1044) AM 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 102, Hynes 9:30 Unitary Representations of Double Covers (120) of Linear Groups. Preliminary report. Organizers: Jonathan L. Gross, Annegret Paul,WesternMichigan Columbia University University (1077-22-1572)

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10:00AM On the classification of some unitary 8:30AM Hypothesis testing on tensors. (121) representations. (130) Preliminary report. S. A. Salamanca-riba*, New Mexico State Dustin Cartwright,YaleUniversity University, A. Pantano,Universityof (1077-AA-2393) California, Irvine, and A. Paul,Western 9:00AM Graphical models and monoidal Michigan University (1077-22-2107) (131) categories. Preliminary report. 10:30AM Lefschetz Functors for the Metaplectic Jason Morton, Penn State (122) Group. (1077-AA-2366) Benjamin Trahan,UniversityofUtah 9:30AM Binary Cumulant Varieties. (1077-22-1415) (132) Bernd Sturmfels*, UC Berkeley, and Poitr Zwiernik, IPAM UCLA (1077-AA-34) 10:00AM Betti numbers of ideals from graphs. AMS Special Session on the Mathematics of (133) Alexander Engstrom¨ , Aalto University Decisions, Elections, and Games, I (1077-AA-2461) 10:30AM Species trees from gene trees. 8:00 AM –10:50AM Exeter, 3rd Floor, Marriott (134) Elizabeth S. Allman*, University of Alaska Fairbanks, James H. Degnan, Organizers: Karl-Dieter Crisman, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, Gordon College and John A. Rhodes, University of Alaska Michael Jones, Fairbanks (1077-AA-291) Mathematical Reviews Michael Orrison,Harvey Mudd College AMS Session on Combinatorics and Graph 8:00AM The Separability Problem in Referendum Theory, I (123) Elections: Some Recent Developments. Jonathan K. Hodge, Grand Valley State 8:00 AM –10:10AM Room 111, Hynes University (1077-91-651) R2 8:30AM A Failure of Representative Democracy. 8:00AM On Steinhaus Set of Four Points in . (124) Katherine A Baldiga,HarvardUniversity (135) Preliminary report. (1077-91-75) Mingzhi Xuan,UniversityofNorthTexas (1077-05-790) 9:00AM Variable-population voting rules. (125) Marcus J. Pivato,TrentUniversity 8:15AM An alternate proof that any graph that is (1077-91-133) (136) mn-colorable is decomposable into two graphs that are m-colorable and 9:30AM Coalitions and Cliques in the School n-colorable, respectively. Preliminary (126) Choice Problem. report. Sinan Aksoy, University of Chicago, Liam Rafferty, University of Montana Adam Azzam, University of Nebraska (1077-05-2903) Lincoln, Chaya Coppersmith, Bryn Mawr College, Julie Glass, California State 8:30AM Jack Symmetric Functions and the University East Bay, Gizem Karaali*, (137) Non-Orientability of Rooted Maps. Pomona College, Xueying Zhao and Michael Andrew La Croix, Boston, MA Xinjing Zhu, Mount Holyoke College (1077-05-2890) (1077-91-126) 8:45AM New Cameron-Liebler line classes relating 10:00AM Symmetry in Voting Theory: The (138) to point sets of type (m, n) in odd order (127) Borda-Kemeny Spectrum and Beyond. affine planes. Preliminary report. Preliminary report. Morgan J Rodgers,Universityof Karl-Dieter Crisman, Gordon College Colorado Denver (1077-05-2862) (1077-91-1410) 9:00AM Using Ehrhart theory for solving 10:30AM The geometry of influence: weighted (139) combinatorial problems. Preliminary (128) voting and hyper-ellipsoids. report. Nicolas Houy, Ecole Polytechnique, Felix Breuer, San Francisco State France, and William S. Zwicker*, Union University (1077-05-2874) College (1077-91-580) 9:15AM A new clustering algorithm. (140) Yezhou Wu*andCun-Qun Zhang,West Virginia University (1077-05-2784) MAA Invited Paper Session on Algebraic 9:30AM Quasi-residual and quasi-derived Statistics (141) Hadamard designs. Preliminary report. Tariq A Alraqad*, Northern 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 302, Hynes State University, and Mohan Shrikhande, Central Michigan University Organizer: Seth Sullivant,North (1077-05-1235) Carolina State University 9:45AM Packing trees into complete bipartite 8:00AM What is an algebraic statistical model? (142) graphs. (129) Luis David Garcia-Puente,SamHouston Susan L Hollingsworth, Edgewood State University (1077-AA-1821) College (1077-05-2842)

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10:00AM An additive version of Ramsey’s theorem. 8:30AM Khodjandi: A Tenth-Century Persian (143) Andy Parrish, University of California, (154) Mathematician. San Diego (1077-05-2802) Mohammad Moazzam, Salisbury University (1077-01-1938) 8:45AM Contributions of Rudjer Boscovich to civil AMS Session on Functional Analysis and (155) engineering and architecture. Preliminary Operator Theory, I report. Radoslav Dimitric, CUNY (1077-01-90) 8:00 AM –9:55AM Room 208, Hynes 9:00AM To Be Woman or Not To Be: The Struggles 8:00AM Picard group of dual operator algebras. (156) of Women Mathematicians and How They (144) Preliminary report. Have Impacted Mathematics. Preliminary Upasana Kashyap, The Citadel report. (1077-46-1917) Rebecca Miller,UniversityofCentral Oklahoma (1077-01-1390) 8:15AM Shrinking and Boundedly complete (145) frames for Banach spaces. 9:15AM Mathematics at the Science Museum, Kevin Beanland, Virginia Commonwealth (157) London, England. Preliminary report. University, Daniel Freeman*, University Agnes M. Kalemaris, Farmingdale State of Texas, Austin, and Rui Liu,Nankai College (1077-01-2253) University (1077-46-2645) 8:30AM Boundaries for operator systems. (146) Craig Kleski, University of Virginia (1077-46-2539) 8:45AM On locally JB*-algebras. (147) Alexander A. Katz, St. John’s University, NY, USA (1077-46-2212) AMS Session on Mathematical Biology and 9:00AM Research Experiences in Quantum Related Fields, I (148) Information Systems. Preliminary report. Manmohan Kaur, Benedictine University 8:00 AM –10:10AM Room 105, Hynes (1077-97-2251) 8:00AM On non-exponential models of 9:15AM Prime E0-semigroups. (158) prebiological evolution. (149) Christopher Jankowski*, University of Georgiy P Karev,NationalCenterfor Pennsylvania, Daniel Markiewicz, Biotechnological Information, NIH Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, (1077-92-2494) and Robert Powers,Universityof Pennsylvania (1077-46-2193) 8:15AM A Data-Driven Approach to Modeling the (159) Effect of Disease on the Immune System. 9:30AM A Browder topological degree theory Preliminary report. (150) for multi-valued pseudomonotone Anne Elizabeth Yust*, perturbation of maximal monotone Birmingham-Southern College, and operators. Preliminary report. Shlomo Ta’asan, Carnegie Mellon Teffera M. Asfaw*andAthanassios G. University (1077-92-268) Kartsatos, University of South Florida (1077-46-494) 8:30AM Health safety nets can break cycles of (160) poverty and disease: a stochastic 9:45AM On a version of dual space ecological model. (151) characterization of real Locally ,National C*-algebras. Calistus Ngeh Ngonghala Institute for Mathematical and Biological Alexander A. Katz, St. John’s University, Synthesis (NIMBioS) (1077-92-2714) NY, and Oleg Friedman*, Touro College/Lander College for Men, NY & 8:45AM Measuring Information Storage and UNISA, Pretoria, RSA (1077-46-1717) (161) Transfer in Swarms. X Rosalind Wang,CSIROInformation and Communications Technology Centre, AMS Session on History and Philosophy of Jennifer M Miller*, University of Mathematics Delaware, Joseph T Lizier, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Mikhail Prokopenko,CSIROInformation 8:00 AM –9:25AM Room 308, Hynes and Communications Technology Centre, 8:00AM Translating the Elements into Sanskrit: and Louis F Rossi,Universityof (152) Jagannatha’s Rekhaganita. Delaware (1077-92-2588) Clemency Montelle,Universityof 9:00AM Discrete and Continuous Approaches to Canterbury (1077-01-2865) (162) Modeling of Cell Movement in the 8:15AM Cryptanalysis vs Calvary. Preliminary Presence of a Foreign Stimulus. (153) report. Alicia Prieto-Langarica*, Hristo Maryam Vulis, Norwalk Community Kojouharov and Benito College, Fordham University Chen-Charpentier, University of Texas at (1077-01-2474) Arlington (1077-92-2522)

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9:15AM A numerical approximation and 9:45AM Analytic solution of the effect of slip (163) parameter estimation for modeling bee (174) condition on magnetohydrodynamic pollination: an application of the Stokes flow due to an oscillating wall. Shigesada-Kawasaki-Teramoto model. Sherif M Azeez, Dawn A Lott*and Preliminary report. Pablo Suarez, Delaware State University Kamuela E Yong*, The University of (1077-76-1370) Iowa, Yi Li, Wright State University, and 10:00AM Mixedconvectioninviscoelasticflowdue Stephen D Hendrix,TheUniversityof (175) to a stretching sheet. Preliminary report. Iowa (1077-92-2521) Antonio Mastroberardino,Penn 9:30AM Invariant Based Quartet Puzzling for State Erie, The Behrend College (164) Phylogentic Reconstruciton. Preliminary (1077-76-2077) report. Joseph Rusinko, Winthrop University (1077-92-1009) AMS Session on Ordinary Differential 9:45AM A continuum model for the simultaneous Equations and Special Functions (165) growth and deformation of biofilms. Jared A. Hicks*andDavid L. Chopp, 8:00 AM –10:10AM Arlington, 3rd Floor, Marriott Northwestern University (1077-92-2794) 8:00AM Bifurcation of Solutions to a Second 10:00AM MicroRNA Target Modeling via Clustering (176) Order Nonlinear Singular Differential (166) of mRNA Microarray Data. Preliminary Equation from Boundary Layer Theory. report. Chunqing Lu, Southern Illinois University Frederick A Adkins, Indiana University Edwardsville (1077-34-783) of Pennsylvania (1077-92-2778) 8:15AM Competition between two phytoplankton (177) species under predation and allelopathic effects. Jean-Jacques Kengwoung-Keumo,New Mexico State University, Las Cruces (1077-34-2754) AMS Session on Mechanics and Mathematical 8:30AM On the Solvability of Nonlinear Physics, I (178) Sturm-Liouville Problems. Zachary J. Abernathy*, Winthrop 8:00 AM –10:10AM Room 303, Hynes University, and Jesus Rodriguez,North Carolina State University (1077-34-1940) 8:00AM Continuum equations from a model of (167) step-flow. 8:45AM Existence of Positive Solutions of a Nicholas O. Kirby,Universityof (179) Second Order Right Focal Boundary Kentucky (1077-74-2807) Value Problem. Douglas R. Anderson,Concordia 8:15AM The effect of a surface tension on the College, Richard I. Avery,Dakota (168) stress field near a curvilinear crack. State University, Johnny Henderson Anna Zemlyanova,TexasA&M and Xueyan Liu*, Baylor University University (1077-74-516) (1077-34-1857) 8:30AM Exact Results for Effective Tensors of 9:00AM Stability of solutions for fractional (169) Fiber-Reinforced Elastic Composites. (180) differential equations. Meredith Hegg,TempleUniversity Namjip Koo*andSung Kyu Choi, (1077-74-250) Chungnam National University, Daejeon, 8:45AM Identifying jet noise source based on South Korea (1077-34-1794) (170) high-fidelity numerical simulations of 9:15AM Role of CD4+ T-cell proliferation in HIV round and chevron jet flows. (181) infection under antiretroviral therapy. Hyunsun Lee*, Ali Uzun and M. Yousuff Preliminary report. Hussaini, Florida State University Hongying Shu*andLin Wang,University (1077-76-2481) of New Brunswick (1077-34-1278) 9:00AM Characteristics of Non-symmetric Edge 9:30AM Topological Aspects of Stability of (171) Flames in Narrow Channels. (182) Trajectories. Preliminary report. Joanna A Bieri, University of Redlands Zhivko S. Athanassov,Bulgarian (1077-76-2164) Academy of Sciences (1077-34-160) 9:15AM Hydrodynamic effects of spines: A 9:45AM On the Approximation of the Lower (172) different spin. (183) Generalized Incomplete Gamma Hoa V Nguyen,Centerfor Function,Arising in Heat Conduction Computational Science, Tulane University Problems. (1077-76-1470) Mohamed T Boudjelkha, Rensselaer 9:30AM Singularities in the complex plane for Polytechnic Institute (1077-33-81) (173) deep water waves. 10:00AM On the asymptotic behavior of the Gregory R Baker*, The Ohio State (184) solutions to the replicator equation. University, and Chao Xie, Austin, Texas Faina Berezovskaya,HowardUniversity (1077-76-1898) (1077-34-2231)

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AMS Session on Probability Theory, AMS Session on Undergraduate Research, I Stochastic Processes, and Statistics, I 8:00 AM –10:10AM Room 110, Hynes

8:00 AM –10:25AM Room 209, Hynes 8:00AM Algebraic Tchoukaillon Representations. (195) Preliminary report. 8:00AM Probability measures on the space of Fanya Wyrick-Flax*, Bard College, and (185) persistence diagrams. Benjamin Warren, Ramapo College of Yuriy Mileyko*, Sayan Mukherjee New Jersey (1077-00-1424) and John Harer, Duke University 8:15AM Adinkra Phase Graphs. (1077-60-2532) (196) Jasper O Weinrich-Burd, Bard College (1077-00-2221) 8:15AM Numerical methods for stochastic (186) differential equations. 8:30AM Mathematics of Sowing Games. Robert D Wooster,WestPoint (197) Preliminary report. (1077-60-2480) Spencer O Sims*, Oakwood University, Amanda Fernandez, Qian Zhang, 8:30AM On the Volatility of Binomial Option Tyesha Hall and Mikias Kidane,James (187) Pricing Model. Preliminary report. Madison University (1077-00-2282) Constantine Georgakis,DePaul 8:45AM Periodicity and asymptotics of University (1077-60-2327) (198) Tchoukaillon sequences. David Creech*, Central Michigan 8:45AM How fed policy makes ﬁnancial markets University, and Jeff Anway, Longwood (188) chaotic or not. University (1077-00-2894) James M. Haley,PointParkUniversity (1077-60-2953) 9:00AM The Magic Behind Franklin Magic Circles. (199) Maxsimino Aviles Montes*, Katie 9:00AM The rate of decay of the Wiener sausage Watkins and Tatiana Kovyrshina,Sam (189) in a local Dirichlet space. Preliminary Houston State University (1077-01-2224) report. 9:15AM AN EPQ Model for Deterioration Items Lee R Gibson, Indiana University - (200) and Exponential Demand Rate Taking Southeast, and Melanie A Pivarski*, into Account the Time Value of Money. Roosevelt University (1077-60-2751) Preliminary report. Vikram Jeet Singh,Dehradun 9:15AM Encoding and Counting Strings. (1077-03-2928) (190) Jennifer D Herdan*andMelinda 9:30AM Families of Half-Transitive Graphs. Lanius, East Tennessee State University (1077-60-2749) (201) Nate R Harman,Universityof Massachusetts Amherst (1077-05-1966) 9:30AM Bistable systems with Stochastic 9:45AM Lower bounds on cliques of (191) Noise: Virtues and Limits of effective (202) (2,m)-agreeable graphs. Preliminary Langevin equations for the Thermohaline report. Circulation strength. Benjamin J. Maguire*andThierry Zell, Valerio Lucarini, Klimcampus, University Lenoir-Rhyne University (1077-05-855) of Hamburg (1077-60-2523) 10:00AM ATuran-type´ Problem for Circular Arc (203) Graphs. 9:45AM Numerical solutions of quantile hedging (192) for guaranteed minimum death beneﬁts Rosalie J. Carlson*, Harvey Mudd under a regime-switching jump-diffusion College, Stephen Flood,Universityof formulation. Notre Dame, Kevin W. O’Neill and Yumin Wang*, University of Misouri, St Francis Edward Su, Harvey Mudd Louis, Zuo Jin and George Yin,Wayne College (1077-05-136) State University (1077-60-2533)

10:00AM On the directions for which directional (193) critical exponents are equal in MAA Session on Arts and Mathematics, inhomogeneous percolation models. Preliminary report. Together Again, I Matthew R. A. Sedlock*andJohn C 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 311, Hynes Wierman, Johns Hopkins University (1077-60-2613) Organizer: Douglas E. Norton, Villanova University 10:15AM Random Additive Bases and Mixed Sidon (194) Sets. 8:00AM Limits of Picture Sequences. Vince Lyzinski*, Johns Hopkins (204) Craig M. Johnson, Marywood University University, Anant Godbole,East (1077-B1-1047) Tennessee State University, Chang Mou 8:20AM Using Escher’s Work to Demonstrate Lim, University of Chicago, and Nicholas (205) Symmetries of the Plane. George Triantaﬁllou,Universityof Jeffrey W Clark, Elon University Michigan-Ann Arbor (1077-60-2208) (1077-B1-92)

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8:40AM A family of butterﬂy patterns. 9:40AM An iPad-based activity for learning to (206) Preliminary report. (218) sketch the graph of the derivative of a Douglas Dunham,Universityof given graph. Minnesota Duluth (1077-B1-2738) Hillary Einziger, Pennsyvania State 9:00AM Art First: How Artists Discovered the University (1077-D5-700) (207) Projective Plane Before Mathematicians 10:00AM Rolling Wheels: Explore Curve Sketching Knew It Was There. Preliminary report. (219) via GeoGebra and Mathematica. Meg Dillon, Southern Polytechnic State David A. Brown, Ithaca College University (1077-B1-1238) (1077-D5-468) 9:20AM Polyhedral Modularity in a Special Class 10:20AM Motions and Rates: Using GeoGebra to (208) of Decagram Based Interlocking Star (220) Analyze Video Recordings. Polygons. Preliminary report. Tibor Marcinek, Central Michigan Reza Sarhangi, Towson University, University (1077-D5-2854) Maryland (1077-B1-451) 10:40AM WeBWorK labs? A case study in 9:40AM Recreating a 14th Century 14-Pointed (221) differential equations. Preliminary report. (209) Star Polygon Design Found on the Dan Gries, Hopkins School, Mimbar of the Mausoleum of Barquq in Barbara Margolius and Felipe Egypt. Martins*, Cleveland State University BLynnBodner, Monmouth University (1077-D5-2542) (1077-B1-430) 10:00AM Stigmmetry Prints. Preliminary report. (210) Gary R Greenﬁeld,Universityof Richmond (1077-B1-868) 10:20AM Between pattern and chance. MAA Session on Mathematics and Sports, I (211) Andrzej K Brodzik, The MITRE Corporation (1077-B1-290) 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 203, Hynes 10:40AM Variation of Parameters. Preliminary Organizer: R. Drew Pasteur, College of (212) report. Wooster Anne M. Burns, Long Island University, 8:00AM Streaking: Finding the probability for C.W. Post Campus (1077-B1-355) (222) various batting streaks. Stanley Rothman, Quinnipiac University Hamden Connecticut (1077-G1-60) 8:20AM What is the True Probability of Getting a (223) Hit? MAA Session on Effective Use of Dynamic Jeffrey W. Heath*andIan M. Powell, Mathematical Software in the Classroom, I Centre College (1077-G1-1114) 8:40AM The Baseball Simulator: Accurately 8:00 AM –10:55AM Back Bay Ballroom (224) Simulating Major League Baseball Games C, 2nd Floor, Sheraton with a Minimum Number of Statistics. Organizers: M. E. Waggoner,Simpson Preliminary report. College Robert Franzosa, University of Maine (1077-G1-618) Therese Shelton, Southwestern University 9:00AM Individual player productivity in baseball (225) and basketball can be measured in a 8:00AM Exploring regressions through Mathematically coherent fashion using (213) Geometer’s Sketchpad and Microsoft play-by-play data. Preliminary report. Excel. Preliminary report. Charles T Zahn, San Diego, California Brandon Milonovich, Syracuse University (1077-G1-1197) (1077-D5-1201) 9:20AM Beyond Regression: Using Learning 8:20AM Using Geometer’s Sketch Pad to examine (226) Machines to Predict NBA Performance. (214) whether the SSA condition in Euclidean Andrew Larsen*andKali Wickens, geometry is always ambiguous. Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT Jennifer Bergner, Salisbury University (1077-G1-1417) (1077-D5-1700) 9:40AM Pursuing an optimal statistically-based 8:40AM From Dilation to Similarity - an (227) modelforNFLprediction. (215) Exploration Using Geometer’s Sketchpad. Andrew D. Blaikie*, Gabriel J. Abud, Margaret L. Morrow, SUNY Plattsburgh College of Wooster, John A. David, (1077-D5-2828) Virginia Military Institute, and R. 9:00AM Epsilons and Deltas with GeoGebra. Drew Pasteur, College of Wooster (216) Jason McCullough,Universityof (1077-G1-1467) California, Riverside (1077-D5-1499) 10:00AM Boxing in Basketball: A Round-By-Round 9:20AM TheEulerLineinGeoGebra. (228) Analysis of the College Game. (217) Philip P. Mummert, Taylor University Paul P. Britton*andCarl R. Yerger, (1077-D5-1769) Davidson College (1077-G1-738)

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10:20AM Seed Distributions for the NCAA Mens 10:40AM Using Error-Eliciting Problems via (229) Basketball Tournament: Why it May Not (239) a Classroom Voting System in a Matter Who Plays Whom. Capstone Course to Foster Conceptual Sheldon H. Jacobson*, University of Understanding and Mathematical Habits Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Alexander of Mind. G. Nikolaev, University of Buffalo, Kien H Lim, University of Texas at El Douglas M. King, University of Illinois at Paso (1077-C1-27) Urbana-Champaign, and Adrian J. Lee, CITERI (1077-G1-607) 10:40AM Using sports to inspire and teach math to MAA Session on the Scholarship of Teaching (230) the non-major. and Learning in Collegiate Mathematics, I Chris M. Jones, Saint Mary’s College of California (1077-G1-1194) 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 202, Hynes Organizers: Jacqueline Dewar, Loyola Marymount University Thomas Banchoff,Brown University Pam Crawford, Jacksonville MAA Session on the Capstone Course: University Innovations and Implementations, I Edwin Herman,University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 310, Hynes Nathan Wodarz,University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Organizers: Kathryn Weld, Manhattan 8:00AM From Fred Flintstone to Ferraris, College (240) Driving Mathematical Content through Agnes Rash, St. Joseph’s Questioning. College Debbie Gochenaur, Shippensburg 8:00AM Capstone Course: Why it didn’t work for University (1077-N1-2866) (231) us. 8:20AM They Can Do It: Applications of a Hybrid Sandra Fillebrown,SaintJoseph’s (241) Classroom Model in a Traditional University (1077-C1-437) Classroom. *, , 8:20AM Problem Seminar: A Capstone Course. Lee Evans Heather Jackson (232) Preliminary report. Christopher Weld and Gerald Kobylski, Kathryn Weld, Manhattan College United States Military Academy (USMA) (1077-C1-1764) (1077-N1-2490) 8:40AM Smartpen Technology as an Instructional 8:40AM The Right Model Makes All The (242) Medium. Preliminary report. (233) Difference! Preliminary report. Jennifer A Czocher*andJenna Tague, Rachel Esselstein, California State The Ohio State University (1077-N1-1899) University, Monterey Bay (1077-C1-668) 9:00AM Using and Analyzing Student Conﬁdence 9:00AM A Course in Experimental Mathematics. (243) in Classroom Voting. Preliminary report. (234) Marc Chamberland, Grinnell College Ann C. Stewart, Hood College (1077-C1-2531) (1077-N1-2058) 9:20AM Assessing Mathematics and 9:20AM Helping Algebra Students Succeed at (235) Mathematics-Secondary Education Majors (244) Word Problems. Preliminary report. through a Senior Seminar Capstone Ibrahim A. Saleh*andAndrew G. Experience. Preliminary report. Bennett, Kansas State University Marcella Louise Wallowicz CSFN,Holy (1077-N1-2040) Family University (1077-C1-1383) 9:40AM Outside of Class Learning: Perspectives 9:40AM Our capstone course - principles and (245) on Mathematics Tutoring Programs at a (236) tasks. Preliminary report. Community College. Preliminary report. Greisy Winicki Landman,CalPoly C. Adam Feldhaus*andDavid L. Reedy, Pomona (1077-C1-213) Columbus State Community College 10:00AM A Capstone Course for Secondary (1077-N1-1364) (237) Education Students. 10:00AM Role of Prerequisite Knowledge in Student Rosemary C Farley, Manhattan College (246) Learning in Lower Level Mathematics (1077-C1-1673) Courses. 10:20AM Showcasing students’ mathematical Anne Albert, The University of Findlay (238) understanding through portfolios: A (1077-N1-2660) capstone course for mathematics majors 10:20AM Assessing and Improving Quantitative on a secondary teaching track. (247) Reasoning Skills with CLA Performance Pete Johnson*andHari P. Koirala, Tasks. Preliminary report. Eastern Connecticut State University Gerald W. Kruse*andDavid Drews, (1077-C1-181) Juniata College (1077-N1-1020)

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10:40AM Using Data to Develop an Adaptive 10:00AM A course in spherical geometry and (248) Syllabus for PreCalculus Course at the (257) its applications for math majors. College of Staten Island, City University Preliminary report. of New York. Marshall A Whittlesey, California State Jane P Coffee*, College of Staten Island, University San Marcos (1077-VH-1708) City University of New York, and Jesenko 10:15AM Creating an Institutional Interdisciplinary Vukadinovic, College of Staten Island (258) Culture with Mathematicians at the Lead. (1077-N1-612) Gerald Kobylski*andHilary DeRemigio Fletcher, United States Military Academy (1077-VH-2319) MAA General Contributed Paper Session: 10:30AM Boston University Students’ Interdisciplinary Topics in Mathematics (259) Interdisciplinary Activities. Emma Previato,BostonUniversity 8:00 AM –10:40AM Room 312, Hynes (1077-VH-2415) Organizers: Jennifer Beineke,Western New England College SIAM Minisymposium on Probabilistic Lynette Boos,Providence Combinatorics College Aliza Steurer, Dominican 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 206, Hynes University Organizers: Jacob Fox, Massachusetts 8:00AM On the intersection spectrum conjecture. Institute of Technology (249) C. A. Marx, University of California, Irvine Po-Shen Loh,Carnegie (UCI) (1077-VH-1396) Mellon University 8:15AM A Study of Hudson Food Web and its 8:00AM From random graphs to graph limits and (250) Competition Graph. Preliminary report. (260) graphlets. Preliminary report. Urmi Ghosh-Dastidar*, NYCCT, Fan Chung, University of California, San CUNY, Margaret Cozzens,DIMACS, Diego (1077-05-2756) Rutgers University, Steven Lora and Alma Cabral-Reynoso, NYCCT, CUNY 8:30AM A natural barrier for random greedy (1077-VH-2851) (261) hypergraph matching. Patrick Bennett and Tom Bohman*, 8:30AM Asymptotically normal distribution Carnegie Mellon University (251) of some tree families relevant for (1077-05-2399) phylogenetics. Eva Czabarka,UniversityofSouth 9:00AM Approximaing Minimum Linear Ordering Carolina, Columbia, Peter Erdos,Alfred (262) Problems. Preliminary report. Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Hungary, Prasad Tetali, Georgia Institute of Virginia Johnson*, University of South Technology (1077-68-2203) Carolina, Columbia, Anne Kupczok, 9:30AM Chromatic number, clique subdivisions, Center for Integrative Bioinformatics, (263) and the conjectures of Hajos´ and Vienna, and Laszlo Szekely,University Erdos-Fajtlowicz.˝ of South Carolina, Columbia Jacob Fox, Massachusetts Institute of (1077-VH-1962) Technology (1077-05-2881) 8:45AM The mechanisms behind the evolution of 10:00AM Bisections of graphs. (252) cooperation. (264) Choongbum Lee,UCLA,Po-Shen Candace Ohm, Florida State University Loh*, Carnegie Mellon University, (1077-VH-1711) and Benjamin Sudakov,UCLA 9:00AM Mathematics in Computed Tomography. (1077-05-2334) (253) Preliminary report. 10:30AM Analysis of a simple 2-matching Mohamed Allali, Chapman University (265) algorithm on a random graph. (1077-VH-2024) Preliminary report. 9:15AM Model for self-polarization and motility of Alan Frieze, Carnegie Mellon University (254) keratocyte fragments. (1077-05-1318) Falko Ziebert, Physikaisches Institut, Sumanth Swaminathan*, Northwestern Employment Center University, and Igor Aronson, Argonne National Laboratory (1077-VH-2882) 8:00 AM –6:00PM Exhibit Hall C, Hynes 9:30AM Computing Stable Models of Logic (255) Programs Using Metropolis Type MAA General Contributed Paper Session: Algorithms. Jeffrey Remmel and Alex Brik*, UC San Mathematics and Technology, I Diego (1077-VH-1789) 8:15 AM –10:55AM Back Bay Ballroom 9:45AM A course on pre-Hispanic Latin American D, 2nd Floor, Sheraton (256) mathematical ideas. Preliminary report. Colleen Duffy, University of Wisconsin - Organizers: Jennifer Beineke,Western Eau Claire (1077-VH-657) New England College

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Lynette Boos,Providence MAA General Contributed Paper Session: College Research in Geometry and Linear Algebra Aliza Steurer, Dominican University 8:15 AM –10:55AM Back Bay Ballroom B, 2nd Floor, Sheraton 8:15AM An assessment of the use of an (266) Interactive Electronic Text on student Organizers: Jennifer Beineke,Western engagement and learning in Pre-Calculus New England College and Calculus at Medgar Evers College, CUNY. Preliminary report. Lynette Boos,Providence Terrence R Blackman,MedgarEvers College College, CUNY (1077-VI-2779) Aliza Steurer, Dominican 8:30AM An Innovative Approach to Derivative University (267) Instruction Using Technology to Explore Local Straightness. 8:15AM New Results in Calibrated Geometry. Jason Samuels, City University of New (277) Yongsheng Zhang, Stony Brook Univ. York-BMCC (1077-VI-2406) (1077-VJ-2632) 8:30AM Geometry of cubics. Preliminary report. 8:45AM Using Dynamic Sketches to Help Calculus (268) Students Develop and Integrate Coherent (278) Sam Northshield, SUNY-Plattsburgh Mental Models of the Formal Deﬁnition of (1077-VJ-2717) the Limit of a Sequence. 8:45AM Minimum-size convex decompositions in d Beth Cory*andKen W. Smith,Sam (279) dimensions. Houston State University (1077-VI-2847) Carlos M. Nicolas, UNC-Greensboro (1077-VJ-1737) 9:00AM Clickers in the Calculus II Classroom. (269) Preliminary report. 9:00AM A Characterization of Homeomorphisms Ellen M Ziliak, Benedictine University (280) on Cantor Sets by Orbit Structures. (1077-VI-199) Casey L Sherman, Baylor University (1077-VJ-2191) 9:15AM Building Intuition and Computational (270) Skills with Maplets for Calculus. 9:15AM The Log-Convex Density Conjecture and Philip B. Yasskin*, Texas A&M (281) vertical surface area in warped products. University, and Douglas B. Meade, Sean P Howe,LeidenUniversity University of South Carolina (1077-VJ-992) (1077-VI-1127) 9:30AM Break. 9:30AM Calculus Video Clips. (271) Shay Fuchs, University of Toronto 9:45AM Unitary Similarity To a Complex Mississauga (1077-VI-1337) (282) Symmetric Matrix And Its Extension to Orthogonal Symmetric Lie Algebra. 9:45AM Motion Sensor Activities for Middle School Brice Merlin Nguelifack*, Huhua Liu (272) Algebra. and Tin-Yau Tam, Auburn University Kimberly Arp*andEllen Panofsky, (1077-VJ-739) Cabrini College (1077-VI-2932) 10:00AM Moment Formulas for Ensembles of 10:00AM Making proofs click: Classroom response (283) Classical Compact Groups. (273) systems in transition-to-proof courses. Steven J. Miller*, Williams College, and Robert Talbert, Grand Valley State Geoffrey S Iyer, University of Michigan University (1077-VI-2059) (1077-VJ-1903)

10:15AM Exploratory Activities for College 10:15AM Distribution of Eigenvalues of Weighted, (274) Geometry. Preliminary report. (284) Structured Matrix Ensembles. Barbara E. Reynolds, Cardinal Stritch Karen Shen*, Stanford University, Olivia University, and William E. Fenton*, Beckwith, Harvey Mudd College, and Bellarmine University (1077-VI-1043) Steven J Miller, Williams College (1077-VJ-601) 10:30AM Exploring Graph Theory Utilizing The (275) OEIS, Wolfram Alpha, and Mathworld. 10:30AM A functional equation for a Preliminary report. (285) prehomogeneous vector space and Jay Lawrence Schiffman,Rowan unitary representations of GL(2n, R). University (1077-VI-43) Juhyung Lee, Oklahoma State University (1077-VJ-2856) 10:45AM Using Octave (a freeware version of (276) Matlab) to generate close calls for 10:45AM An inverse approach to the Fermat’s last theorem. Preliminary (286) Littlewood-Richardson Rule for the report. K-theoretic coproducts. Arthur J. Rosenthal, Salem State Huilan Li*andJennifer Morse,Drexel University (1077-VI-2817) University (1077-VJ-1961)

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MAA Session on Touch It, Feel It, Learn MAA General Contributed Paper Session: It: Tactile learning Activities in the Teaching Introductory Mathematics Undergraduate Mathematics Classroom, I 8:30 AM –10:55AM Room 201, Hynes 8:20 AM –10:15AM Room 313, Hynes Organizers: Jessica Mikhaylov,U.S. Organizers: Jennifer Beineke,Western Military Academy New England College ,Western Julie Barnes Lynette Boos,Providence Carolina University College 8:20AM Partition Numbers and Fractals: Insights (287) Using Bulgarian Solitaire. Aliza Steurer, Dominican Richard D Summers, Reinhardt University University (1077-O1-565) 8:30AM Money, That’s What I Want! Preliminary 8:40AM A Photographic Assignment for Abstract (297) report. (288) Algebra. Peter T. Olszewski, Penn State Erie, The Gregory S. Warrington,Universityof Behrend College (1077-VB-1381) Vermont (1077-O1-1543) 9:00AM The Parity Theorem Shufﬂe. 8:45AM Pass with CARE (Clicking Algebra-Related (289) Michael D Smith, Lycoming College (298) Education). Preliminary report. (1077-O1-366) Jerry J. Chen*andMyung-Chul Kim, 9:20AM Active Learning in Discrete Mathematics. Suffolk County Community College (290) Ann N Trenk, Wellesley College (1077-VB-1495) (1077-O1-1479) 9:00AM Teaching using the iPad and Air Sketch. 9:40AM Loaded Dreidels. Preliminary report. (299) Jason A Price, Nichols College (291) Allan Struthers, Michigan Technological (1077-VB-976) University (1077-O1-1518) 10:00AM Rolling the Dice in Statistics. 9:15AM Minimum Academic Preparation and (292) Heidi N Hulsizer, Hampden-Sydney (300) Performance in First Year Mathematics College (1077-O1-1702) Courses. Preliminary report. Carrie Muir, University of Colorado, Boulder (1077-VB-1681)

9:30AM The origin of error: A study of the (301) reasons behind common mistakes in introductory Mathematics. Preliminary AMS Special Session on Stability Analysis for report. Infinite Dimensional Hamiltonian Systems, I Stefanos Orfanos,KFUPM (1077-VB-1541) 8:30 AM –10:20AM Room 300, Hynes 9:45AM Why Should Any Students Take Organizers: Wilhelm Schlag,University (302) Developmental Math? of Chicago Sheldon P Gordon, Farmingdale State Gene Wayne,Boston College (1077-VB-1910) University 10:00AM Improving Student Success in 8:30AM Estimates and wellposedness for (293) magnetic Schrodinger¨ equations and (303) Developmental Algebra and Its Impact on related systems. Preliminary report. Subsequent Mathematics Courses. Magdalena Czubak,Binghamton William O Bond*andJohn C Mayer, University (SUNY) (1077-35-2478) University of Alabama at Birmingham (1077-VB-2025) 9:00AM On Schrodinger¨ maps from T 1 to S2. (294) R. L. Jerrard*, University of Toronto, and 10:15AM Refocusing Intermediate Algebra. D. Smets,Université Pierre et Marie Curie (304) Don Small, U.S. Military Academy (1077-35-2332) (1077-VB-1391) 9:30AM Asymptotic stability of solitary waves in a (295) water wave model with indefinite 10:30AM Daily Quizzing as a Means of Motivating variational structure. Preliminary report. (305) Review and Preview. Robert L. Pego*, Carnegie Mellon Joshua Ducey, James Madison University University, Tetsu Mizumachi,Kyushu (1077-VB-2876) University, and JoséRaul´ Quintero, 10:45AM Growing a Learning Center: From a Universidad del Valle (1077-35-1991) (306) small, underfunded closet to a popular 10:00AM Birkhoff normal forms and scattering for learning space. (296) the NLS on Rd. Preliminary report. Jim Sobota*, Karoline Auby and Walter Craig,McMasterUniversity Maighread McHugh,Universityof (1077-35-1223) Wisconsin - La Crosse (1077-VB-2048)

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MAA Minicourse #6: Part A MAA/NCTM Mutual Concerns Committee Panel Discussion 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Salon CD, 4th Floor, Marriott 9:00 AM –10:20AM Room 309, Hynes Getting students involved in undergraduate research. Why is transition from high school to Presenters: Aparna Higgins,University college important? Issues and next steps. of Dayton Organizer: Gail Burrill, Michigan State Joseph A. Gallian, University University of Panelists: Arthur Benjamin,Harvey Minnesota-Duluth Mudd College David Bressoud, Macalester MAA Minicourse #8: Part A College William McCallum, 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Salon AB, 4th Floor, Marriott University of Arizona Preparing to serve as an outside Daniel Teague,North consultant in the mathematical sciences. Carolina School for Science and Mathematics Presenters: Kyle Riley, South Dakota School of Mines and Paul Zorn, St. Olaf College Technology Gail Burrill Nancy Baxter Hastings, Dickinson College Student Hospitality/Information Center

MAA Minicourse #14: Part A 9:00 AM –5:00PM 2nd Floor Corridor by Veterans Auditorium, Hynes 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Salon HI, 4th Floor, Marriott Teaching introductory statistics. Presenters: Michael Posner, Villanova MAA Department Liaisons Meeting University 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM Salon E, 4th Floor, Marriott Carolyn Cuff, Westminster College AMS Invited Address MAA Panel Discussion 10:05 AM –10:55AM Ballrooms A/B, 9:00 AM –10:20AM Room 304, Hynes 3rd ﬂoor, Hynes National Science Foundation programs (307) The polynomial method in combinatorial supporting learning and teaching in the geometry. mathematical sciences. Larry Guth, University of Toronto Organizers: Richard Alo,National (1077-05-8) Science Foundation Ron Buckmire,National Science Foundation AMS-MAA Invited Address

Dean Evasius,National 11:10 AM – NOON Ballrooms A/B, 3rd ﬂoor, Hynes Science Foundation Lee Zia, National Science (308) A stratiﬁcation of the space of all n Foundation k-planes in C . Allen Knutson, Cornell University (1077-14-28) MAA Panel Discussion

9:00 AM –10:20AM Room 306, Hynes Exhibits and Book Sales Quantitative support center: Common 12:15 PM –5:30PM Exhibit Hall D, Hynes themes. Organizer: Michael E. Schuckers,St. Lawrence University AMS Colloquium Lectures: Lecture I Panelists: Grace Coulombe,Bates College 1:00 PM –1:50PM Ballrooms A/B, 3rd ﬂoor, Hynes Cat McCune, Smith College (309) Langlands program, trace formulas, and Tom Roby,Universityof their geometrization, I. Connecticut Edward Frenkel, University of California Michael E. Schuckers Berkeley (1077-14-10)

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MAA Invited Address AMS-SIAM Special Session on the Mathematics of Computation: Differential 2:15 PM –3:05PM Ballrooms A/B, 3rd ﬂoor, Hynes Equations, Linear Algebra, and Applications, I (310) Mathematics to DIE for: The battle between counting and matching. 2:15 PM –6:05PM Room 109, Hynes Jennifer Quinn,Universityof Washington, Tacoma (1077-A0-4) Organizers: Susanne C. Brenner, Louisiana State University Chi-Wang Shu,Brown University 2:15PM Anderson Acceleration for Fixed-Point (319) Iterations. Homer F. Walker, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (1077-65-1285) AMS-MAA Special Session on the History of 2:45PM A simple WENO limiter for Runge-Kutta Mathematics, II (320) Discontinuous Galerkin method. Xinghui Zhong*andChi-Wang Shu, 2:15 PM –6:05PM Back Bay Ballroom Brown University (1077-65-460) A, 2nd Floor, Sheraton 3:15PM WENO Scheme with Subcell Resolution for (321) Computing Nonconservative Euler Organizers: Sloan Despeaux,Western Equations. Carolina University Tao Xiong*, University of Science and Craig Fraser,Universityof Technology of China, Chi-Wang Shu, Toronto Brown University, and Mengping Zhang, University of Science and Technology of Deborah Kent, Hillsdale China (1077-65-1218) College 3:45PM Block Krylov Subspace Recycling: Theory 2:15PM Toward Algebra as a General (322) and Application in a Newton Iteration. (311) Problem-Solving Technique: Rafael Michael Parks, Sandia National Bombelli to Francois Vi`ete. Laboratories, and Kirk M. Soodhalter*, Karen V. H. Parshall,Universityof Temple University (1077-65-1358) Virginia (1077-01-1593) 4:15PM Local convergence analysis of several 2:45PM Newton and the Neo-Pythagorean (323) inexact Newton-type algorithms for (312) Tradition. general nonlinear eigenvalue problems. Niccolo’ Guicciardini,Universityof Preliminary report. Bergamo, Italy (1077-01-422) Daniel B. Szyld and Fei Xue*, Temple University (1077-65-1347) 3:15PM Evolutes in the works of Huygens and (313) Johann(I) Bernoulli. 4:45PM The Reliability of Error Estimates for Robert E Bradley, Adelphi University (324) Multivariate Numerical Integration. (1077-01-1416) Fred J. Hickernell, Illinois Institute of Technology (1077-65-21) 3:45PM We The Jury: The Mathematics of Group (314) Decisions From Condorcet to Cournot. 5:15PM Inverse Lax-Wendroff procedure for Jeff A Suzuki, Brooklyn College (325) numerical boundary conditions of (1077-01-73) hyperbolic equations. Sirui Tan*andChi-Wang Shu,Brown 4:15PM Boscovich and the Line of Best Fit. University (1077-65-1344) (315) Preliminary report. 5:45PM Approximation of Stochastic Partial Lawrence A. D’Antonio, Ramapo College (326) Differential Equations by a Kernel-based of New Jersey (1077-01-743) Collocation Method. 4:45PM C.H. Kummell and the Method of Least Qi Ye*, Gregory Fasshauer and Igor (316) Squares. Cialenco, Illinois Institute of Technology J. J. Tattersall*andAsta Shomberg, (1077-35-327) Providence College (1077-01-425) 5:15PM Toward a history of the square-peg (317) problem. Preliminary report. AMS-ASL Special Session on the Life and John McCleary, Vassar College Legacy of Alan Turing, II (1077-51-2102)

5:45PM Human collectives in mathematical 2:15 PM –5:55PM Room 207, Hynes (318) practices: the example of the writing of a theorem, the kernel theorem of Laurent Organizers: Damir Dzhafarov, Schwartz (1915-2002). University of Chicago and Anne-Sandrine Paumier, Institut de University of Notre Dame Math´ematiques de Jussieu, Paris Jeff Hirst, Appalachian State (1077-01-1510) University

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Carl Mummert, Marshall 2:15PM A Family of Codes with Two University (336) Homogeneous Weights. 2:15PM A Survey of Alan Turing’s Contributions Eimear Byrne, University College Dublin, (327) to Logic, to the Invention of General Michael Kiermaier,Universityof Purpose Computers, and to Theoretical Bayreuth, and Alison Sneyd*, University Computer Science. College Dublin (1077-05-2412) Martin D. Davis,NYU/CourantandUC 2:45PM Optimum Distance Proﬁles and Optimal Berkeley (1077-01-389) (337) Subcodes of Binary Self-Dual Type II 3:15PM Alan Turing: The creative power of Codes. (328) mathematics. Preliminary report. Finley Freibert*andJon-Lark Kim, Andrew P Hodges,UniversityofOxford, University of Louisville (1077-94-1621) UK (1077-01-423) 3:15PM A coding theory perspective on 4:15PM The inﬂuence of Alan Turing. (338) combinatorial neural codes. (329) Marvin Minsky, MIT (1077-01-2934) Carina Curto, Vladimir Itskov, Katherine Morrison*, Zach Roth and 5:15PM Alan Turing’s Philosophy of Mind. Judy Walker, University of Nebraska (330) Preliminary report. (1077-94-1546) James H. Moor, Dartmouth College (1077-01-1987) 3:45PM Pseudocodewords and pseudoweights. (339) Nigel Boston, University of Wisconsin - Madison (1077-94-1270) AMS-AAAS Special Session on Science 4:45PM Using Pseudocodewords to Convey for Policy and Policy for Science: Career (340) Information. Preliminary report. Opportunities at the Intersection of Science Nathan Axvig, Virginia Military Institute and Policy (1077-94-1763) 5:15PM Trellis Behavior Under Dualization. 2:15 PM –4:35PM Arlington, 3rd Floor, Marriott (341) Preliminary report. Elizabeth Weaver*andHeide Organizers: Cynthia Robinson, AAAS Gluesing-Luerssen,Universityof Science & Technology Kentucky (1077-93-1129) Fellowships 5:45PM Hybrid Noncoherent Network Coding. Shar Steed, AAAS Science & (342) Vitaly Skachek*, Olgica Milenkovic and Technology Fellowships Angelia Nedic, University of Illinois at 2:15PM Opportunities at the intersection of Urbana-Champaign (1077-94-1628) (331) science and policy. Cynthia Robinson, American Association for the Advancement of Science AMS Special Session on Classical Fourier (1077-00-1074) Analysis and Partial Differential Equations, II 2:45PM Applying mathematical tools in public (332) policy. 2:15 PM –5:35PM Room 104, Hynes Sonja Sandberg, Framingham State University (1077-00-1614) Organizers: William O. Bray,University of Maine 3:15PM Is there mathematical work to be done on (333) Capitol Hill? Mark A. Pinsky, Daniel H Ullman, George Washington Northwestern University University (1077-00-1844) 2:15PM Global harmonic analysis of 3:45PM Careers in Math Policy. (343) eigenfunctions in the real and complex (334) Katherine Socha,MathforAmerica domain. Preliminary report. (1077-00-1617) Steve Zelditch,NorthwesternUniversity (1077-35-710) 4:15PM Radical Mathematicians: A (mostly) (335) non-partisan call to arms. 3:15PM Gibbs phenomena and Pinsky phenomena David Weinreich, Washington, DC (344) for solutions to nonlinear Schrodinger (1077-00-1883) equations. Michael E. Taylor,UniversityofNorth Carolina (1077-35-489) AMS Special Session on Advances in Coding 4:15PM On the Pinsky phenomenon and the Theory, II (345) Kahane theorem for nonspherical partial Fourier integrals. 2:15 PM –6:05PM Dartmouth, 3rd Floor, Marriott Ravshan R Ashurov*andAlmaz A Butaev, University Putra Malaysia Organizers: Gretchen L. Matthews, (1077-42-333) Clemson University 4:45PM A relation between multiple Fourier Sarah Spence Adams, Olin (346) series and lattice point problems. College of Engineering Shigehiko Kuratsubo,Mathematical Judy L. Walker,Universityof Society of Japan, Hirosaki University Nebraska-Lincoln (1077-42-477)

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5:15PM Estimates of Fourier Transforms. Clayton Petsche, Hunter (347) Preliminary report. College (CUNY) William O. Bray, University of Maine 2:15PM Where geodesics go to die. (1077-42-1239) (356) James M Henle*, Smith College, and Frederick V Henle, athenahealth, Inc. (1077-53-61) AMS Special Session on Difference Equations and Applications, II 2:45PM Towards a Dynamical Analogue of (357) Szpiro’s Conjecture. 2:15 PM –6:05PM Wellesley, 3rd Floor, Marriott Phillip O Williams, The Kings College (1077-37-1474) Organizer: Michael Radin,Rochester 3:15PM Ritt’s Theorem and reﬁnements. Institute of Technology (358) Alice Medvedev*andThomas W 2:15PM On the Nature of Solutions of the Scanlon, UCBerkeley (1077-12-2891) − (348) Difference Equation xn+1 = xnxn−3 1. 3:45PM Multiplier Spectra and the Moduli Space Candace M. Kent*, Virginia (359) of Degree 3 Morphisms on P1. Commonwealth University, and Witold Benjamin Hutz, Graduate Center of Kosmala, Appalachian State University CUNY, and Michael Tepper*, Division of (1077-39-1500) Science and Engineering, Penn State 2:45PM Periodicity In General Delay Nonlinear Abington (1077-11-1228) (349) Difference Equations Using Fixed Point 4:15PM Twisted matings of polynomials. Theory. (360) Preliminary report. Youssef N. Raffoul,UniversityofDayton Xavier Buff,Universit´e Paul Sabatier, (1077-39-1340) Adam Epstein,UniversityofWarwick, 3:15PM Global Asymptotic Behavior of Some and Sarah Koch*, Harvard University (350) Periodically Forced Discrete Nonlinear (1077-37-1199) Population Models. Preliminary report. 4:45PM Extending the Polya-Carlson Theorem: Vlajko L Kocic, Xavier University of (361) When Uniform Limits of Rational Louisiana (1077-39-475) Functions are Rational. 3:45PM Global Dynamics of Certain Competitive Nathan L Walters, University of Georgia (351) System in the Plane. (1077-11-2165) Mustafa R. S. Kulenovic*, Orlando 5:15PM Towards a dynamical relative Merino, The University of Rhode Island, (362) Manin-Mumford conjecture. and Mehmed Nurkanovic,Universityof Dragos Ghioca, University of British Tuzla (1077-39-301) Columbia, Liang-Chung Hsia,National 4:15PM Patterns of Boundedness of Rational Taiwan Normal University, and Thomas J (352) Systems in the Plane. Preliminary report. Tucker*, University of Rochester Emmanouil Drymonis,Universityof (1077-11-1289) Rhode Island (1077-39-1041) 5:45PM On a uniform bound for the number of 4:45PM The Global Character of Solutions of (363) exceptional linear subvarieties in the (353) Rational Systems in the Plane. dynamical Mordell–Lang conjecture. Chris D Lynd, The University of Rhode Joseph H Silverman and Bianca Viray*, Island (1077-39-750) Brown University (1077-37-717) 5:15PM The Global Characteristics of a Family of (354) Systems of Piecewise Linear Difference AMS Special Session on Fractal Geometry in Equations. Pure and Applied Mathematics (in memory EGrove, G Ladas, University of Rhode of Benoit Mandelbrot), I Island, E Lapierre*, Johnson & Wales University, and WTikjha,Mahidol 2:15 PM –5:05PM Room 204, Hynes University (1077-39-794) 5:45PM Positive solutions for a system of second Organizers: Michael L. Lapidus, (355) order multipoint discrete boundary value University of California, problems. Riverside Johnny Henderson*, Baylor University, Erin Pearse,Universityof and Rodica Luca, Gh. Asachi Technical Oklahoma University (1077-39-30) Machiel van Frankenhuijsen, Utah Valley University AMS Special Session on Dynamical Systems in Algebraic and Arithmetic Geometry, II 2:15PM Fractal structures in functions related to (364) number theory. 2:15 PM –6:05PM Room 200, Hynes Jeffrey C . Lagarias,Universityof Michigan (1077-11-1469) Organizers: Patrick Ingram,University 2:45PM Complex Dimensions of Cantor Strings of Waterloo, Canada (365) and the Riemann Zeros. Michelle Manes,University Machiel van Frankenhuijsen,Utah of Hawaii, Honolulu Valley University (1077-11-2341)

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3:15PM Explicit tube formulas for p-adic fractal 2:15PM Polynomial-time Theory of Matrix Groups. (366) strings. (374) Lászlo´ Babai*, University of Chicago, Hung Lu*, Hawaii Pacific University, Robert Beals, Renaissance Technologies, Michel L. Lapidus,Universityof and Akos´ Seress, Ohio State University California, Riverside, and Machiel van (1077-20-1481) Frankenhuijsen, Utah Valley University 2:45PM Stackable groups. Preliminary report. (1077-51-1503) (375) Mark Brittenham and Susan Hermiller*, 3:45PM Multifractal spectra of certain University of Nebraska (1077-20-834) (367) self-similar measures as abscissa of 3:15PM Security assumptions in convergence functions. (376) non-commutative cryptography. Kate E. Ellis, California State University, Preliminary report. Stanislaus, Michel L. Lapidus,University Vladimir Shpilrain, The City College of of California, Riverside, Michael C. New York (1077-94-1322) Mackenzie, University of Connecticut, and John A. Rock*, California State 3:45PM Subgroups of semigroups freely Polytechnic University, Pomona (377) generated by idempotent matrices. (1077-28-1181) Preliminary report. John C. Meakin,Universityof 4:15PM Fractal Strings and the Invertibility of the Nebraska-Lincoln (1077-20-856) (368) Spectral Operator. Hafedh Herichi*andMichel.L.Lapidus, 4:15PM The submonoid membership problem for University of California, Riverside (378) groups. (1077-46-1805) Markus Lohrey, Institut fur¨ Informatik, Universität Leipzig, and Benjamin 4:45PM Fractal Strings, the Riemann Hypothesis, Steinberg*, City College of New York (369) Universality and Phase Transitions. (1077-20-1462) Hafedh Herichi and Michel L. Lapidus*, University of California, Riverside 4:45PM Generic properties of finitely presented (1077-11-1609) (379) groups. Preliminary report. Robert H Gilman, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ (1077-20-1395) AMS Special Session on Generalized 5:15PM Extreme compression and efficient Cohomology Theories in Engineering (380) computation, with application to the word problem. Preliminary report. Practice, II Will Dison, Bank of England, and Tim Riley*, Cornell (1077-20-1682) 2:15 PM –5:55PM Provincetown, 4th Floor, Marriott 5:45PM On the Dimension of Matrix (381) Representations of Nilpotent Groups. Organizer: P. Robert Kotiuga,Boston Maggie Habeeb*andDelaram University Kahrobaei, CUNY Graduate Center 2:15PM Computing integrals using equivariant (1077-68-1207) (370) cohomology. Loring W. Tu, Tufts University (1077-55-2256) AMS Special Session on Hyperbolicity in 3:15PM Expanders and K-Theory for Discrete Manifolds and Groups, II (371) Groups. Paul Frank Baum, Penn State University 2:15 PM –6:05PM Berkeley, 3rd Floor, Marriott (1077-19-400) Organizers: David Futer,Temple 4:15PM Fractional topological states in electronic University (372) flattened bands with non-zero Chern Genevieve Walsh,Tufts number. University Claudio Chamon,BostonUniversity (1077-82-2306) 2:15PM Short geodesics in moduli space. (382) Christopher J. Leininger*, University of 5:15PM Generalized Cohomology Theories in Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and Dan (373) Engineering Practice. Preliminary report. Margalit, Georgia Tech (1077-57-1798) P. Robert Kotiuga,BostonUniversity (1077-18-2400) 2:45PM Recurrence and unique ergodicity for (383) Weil-Petersson geodesics and their ending laminations. Jeffrey F. Brock,BrownUniversity AMS Special Session on Groups, Algorithms, (1077-37-2833) Complexity, and Theory of Security, II 3:15PM Recognizing 3-manifold groups. 2:15 PM –6:05PM Room 101, Hynes (384) Daniel Groves, University of Illinois at Chicago, Jason Fox Manning*, University Organizers: Maggie Habeeb,City at Buffalo, and Henry Wilton,University University of New York College London (1077-20-934) Delaram Kahrobaei,City 3:45PM L-spaces vs. left-orderability. University of New York (385) Liam Watson, UCLA (1077-57-591)

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4:15PM Small knot complements, cyclic 5:15PM On the Characterization of the Effective (386) commensurability and hidden (396) Yield Set in Polycrystal Plasticity. symmetries. Marian Bocea, Loyola University Chicago Neil R Hoffman, Boston College (1077-49-1868) (1077-57-1555) 5:45PM Multiscale analysis of the peridynamic 4:45PM Divergence, thick groups, and morse (397) equation of motion. (387) geodesics. Bacim Alali, University of Utah, Robert Jason Behrstock*, CUNY Lehman, and Lipton, Louisiana State University, Cornelia Drutu, Exeter College, Oxford and Tadele Mengesha*, Penn State (1077-20-1272) University (1077-46-2071) 5:15PM Essential tori and Dehn twists in Outer (388) space. Preliminary report. Kasra Rafi*, University of Oklahoma, AMS Special Session on Mathematics in and Matt Clay, Allegheny College Natural Resource Modeling, II (1077-51-1346) 5:45PM Groups acting on CAT(0) spaces and their 2:15 PM –6:05PM Simmons, 3rd Floor, Marriott (389) Boundaries. Preliminary report. Kim Ruane, Tufts Univeristy Organizer: Catherine Roberts, College (1077-20-2320) of the Holy Cross 2:15PM A Biomass Flow Approach to Population (398) Models and Food Webs. Wayne M. Getz, Berkeley, California AMS Special Session on Local Field (1077-92-2945) Properties, Microstructure, and Multiscale 3:15PM Mathematical Modeling of Viral Zoonoses Modeling of Heterogeneous Media, II (399) in Wildlife. L. J. S. Allen*, Texas Tech University, V. 2:15 PM –6:05PM Suffolk, 3rd Floor, Marriott L. Brown, University of Michigan, C. B. Organizers: Silvia Jiménez, Worcester Jonsson, University of Louisville, S. L. Polytechnic Institute Klein, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, S. M. Laverty,Universityof Bogdan Vernescu, Utah, K. Magwedere, Directorate of Worcester Polytechnic Veterinary Services, J. C. Owen,Michigan Institute State University, and P. van den 2:15PM G-convergence approach to Driessche, University of Victoria (390) homogenization of nonlinear difference (1077-92-402) operators. 3:45PM Models for the Spatial Management of Alexander Pankov, Morgan State (400) Transboundary and Straddling Stocks University (1077-35-1203) and their Bioeconomic Implications for 2:45PM Homogenization in periodically Marine Protected Areas. Preliminary (391) perforated domains. report. Rachad Zaki, Khalifa University of Michael G. Neubert*, Woods Hole Science, Technology and Research, Abu Oceanographic Institution, Holly V. Dhabi, UAE (1077-35-1498) Moeller, Stanford University, and 3:15PM On a novel idea for the local Guillermo E. Herrera, Bowdoin College (392) characterization for solutions of (1077-91-459) multiscale elliptic problems. 4:15PM The influence of high trophic-level Daniel T. Onofrei*, Giles Auchmuty and (401) predators, data scarcity, parameter Yuliya Gorb, University of Houston confounding, and model mis-specification (1077-35-1990) on a multispecies age-structured 3:45PM Bounds and optimal structures of assessment model for the Gulf of Alaska. (393) three-material composites: Beyond the Kray Van Kirk*, Terrance J. Quinn II, translation bound. Preliminary report. Juneau Center, School of Fisheries Andrej Cherkaev,UniversityofUtah and Ocean Sciences, University of (1077-35-2135) Alaska Fairbanks, and Jeremy 4:15PM Flux norm approach to finite-dimensional S. Collie, Graduate School of (394) homogenization approximation with Oceanography, University of Rhode non-separated scales and high contrast. Island (1077-92-1699) Leonid Berlyand*, Penn State University, 4:45PM A Discrete-Time Age-Structured Model Of and Houman Owhadi,Caltech (402) Exploited Fishery Systems. (1077-35-1547) Nianpeng Li and Abdul-Aziz Yakubu*, 4:45PM Mesoscopic continuum mechanics of Howard University (1077-92-1451) (395) particle systems. Preliminary report. 5:15PM Selecting Sites for a Fully Connected Alexander Panchenko*, Washington (403) Reserve Network. State University, and Lyudmyla Nahid Jafari*andJohn Hearne,RMIT Barannyk, University of Idaho University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. (1077-70-2090) (1077-90-735)

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5:45PM Dysfunction by Design: Consequences of AMS Special Session on Set-Valued (404) Limitations on Transferability of Catch Optimization and Variational Problems, II Shares in the Alaska Pollock Fishery. Keith R Criddle*andJames Strong, 2:15 PM –6:05PM Fairﬁeld, 3rd Floor, Marriott University of Alaska Fairbanks (1077-91-326) Organizers: Andreas H. Hamel,Yeshiva University Akhtar A. Khan,Rochester Institute of Technology AMS Special Session on Optimal Control in Miguel Sama, E.T.S.I. Industriales Applied Mathematical Modeling, I 2:15PM An Epigraph-Based Approach to 2:15 PM –6:05PM Clarendon, 3rd Floor, Marriott (413) Second-Order Sensitivity Analysis in Set-Valued Optimization. Preliminary Organizers: Natali Hritonenko, Prairie report. View A&M University Douglas E Ward, Miami University Yuri Yatsenko, Houston (1077-49-485) Baptist University 2:45PM Applications of Banach Space Geometry 2:15PM Optimal control of HIV treatment. (414) for Optimization Problems and (405) Ellina Grigorieva*, Texas Woman’s Variational Inequalities. University, Evgenii Khailov, Lomonosov Yakov Alber, Boston, MA (1077-49-2466) Moscow State University, and Andrei 3:15PM First and Second Order Tangent Cones Korobeinikov, Limerick University, (415) and Their Applications in Set Constrained Ireland (1077-49-1354) Optimization. 2:45PM Similarity solutions for some model Elena Constantin,Universityof (406) equations appearing in the gas dynamics. Pittsburgh-Johnstown (1077-90-179) Anahit Galstyan, University of Texas-Pan 3:45PM Conical Regularization for Abstract American (1077-35-1983) (416) Constrained Optimization Problems in Hilbert Spaces. 3:15PM Stationary distributions of semistochastic (407) processes with disturbances at random Akhtar A. Khan*, Rochester Institute times and with random severity. of Technology, and Miguel Sama, Maria C.A. Leite*, University of Toledo, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Nikola P. Petrov,Universityof Distancia, Madrid Spain (1077-49-2196) Oklahoma, and Ensheng Weng Weng, 4:15PM Selection of an optimal source to make Department of Botany and Microbiology, (417) the optical tomography problem less University of Oklahoma (1077-60-606) ill-posed. Bonnie C. Jacob, National Technical 3:45PM Parameter Optimization of Glassy-winged (408) Sharpshooter Population Model. Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Preliminary report. Institute of Technology (1077-46-2104) Jeong-Mi Yoon*, Volodymyr 4:45PM A set-valued approach to superhedging Hrynkiv, Lisa Morano, Sara Wilder, (418) in markets with transaction costs. Anh Tuan Nguyen,Universityof Birgit Rudloff*, Princeton Houston-Downtown, and Forrest University, and Andreas Loehne, Michell, Department of Entomology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg Texas A&M University (1077-92-948) (1077-90-2070) 4:15PM Large Deviations for Two-Time-Scale 5:15PM On the characterization of solution sets (409) Systems Driven by Nonhomogeneous (419) of smooth and nonsmooth stochastic Markov Chains and Associated Optimal Nash games. Control Problems. Uma V Ravat*andUday V Qi He*, George Yin, Wayne State Shanbhag, University of Illinois at University, and Qing Zhang,University Urbana-Champaign (1077-91-1338) of Georgia (1077-60-272) 5:45PM On the subdifferential regularity of 4:45PM Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of (420) functions of roots of polynomials. (410) Atmospheric Vortices. Julia Eaton*, University of Washington Lynn R. Greenleaf,Universityof Tacoma, and James V Burke,University Oklahoma, Norman, OK (1077-49-2047) of Washington (1077-49-1976) 5:15PM Near Optimal Selling Rule for a (411) Mean-Reverting Asset. AMS Special Session on Several Complex Eunju Sohn*andQing Zhang,University of Georgia (1077-49-1345) Variables and Multivariable Operator Theory, II 5:45PM Optimal control in age-dependent models (412) in epidemiology and demography. 2:15 PM –6:05PM Room 108, Hynes Amie Rollie*, Ryan Baxter and Natali Hritonenko, Prairie View A&M University Organizers: Ronald Douglas,Texas (1077-92-1993) A&M University

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John McCarthy, Washington 3:45PM Global existence for water wave University (432) equations. 2:15PM Stable symmetric polynomials, the Pierre M Germain, Courant Institute, (421) Grace-Walsh-Szego theorem, and the New York University (1077-35-506) Schur-Agler class. 4:15PM Unstable manifolds and L2 nonlinear Greg Knese, University of Alabama (433) instability of Euler equations. (1077-47-548) Zhiwu Lin and Chongchun Zeng*, 2:45PM To get (or not to get) uniform Georgia Institute of Technology (422) approximation by interpolating Blaschke (1077-35-941) products. 4:45PM Enstrophy growth in the viscous Burgers Pamela B. Gorkin, Bucknell University (434) equation. (1077-47-972) Dmitry Pelinovsky,McMasterUniversity 3:15PM Realization and interpolation theory for (1077-35-279) (423) the Herglotz-Agler class over the 5:15PM Water waves over a rough bottom in the poly-right-halfplane. Preliminary report. (435) shallow water regime. Joseph A. Ball,VirginiaTech Catherine Sulem, University of Toronto (1077-47-198) (1077-35-990) 3:45PM Schatten norms of operator derivatives. (424) Anna Skripka,UniversityofCentral Florida (1077-47-679) AMS Special Session on Stochastic Analysis (in honor of Hui-Hsiung Kuo), II 4:15PM Gaps for proper holomorphic maps (425) between balls. 2:15 PM –6:05PM Room 107, Hynes Xiaojun Huang*, Rutgers University at New Brunswick, Shanyu Ji,Universityof Organizers: Julius Esunge,Universityof Houston, and Wanke Yin, Wuhan Mary Washington University (1077-32-1113) Aurel Stan, Ohio State 4:45PM “Noncommutative” Aleksandrov-Clark University (426) measures and function theory in the unit 2:15PM Renormalization, Lie algebras and ball. Preliminary report. (436) infinite divisibility. Preliminary report. Michael T Jury, University of Florida Luigi Accardi, Centro V. Volterra, (1077-47-558) UniversitA˜ di Roma Torvergata 5:15PM The truncated matrix valued (1077-00-2304) (427) multivariable K-moment problem. 3:15PM MRM triples associated with Brenke type David P Kimsey, Weizmann Institute, (437) generating functions. Preliminary report. and Hugo J Woerdeman*, Drexel Nobuhiro Asai, Aichi University of University (1077-47-758) Education (1077-33-714) 5:45PM A non-semialgebraic interpolation body. 3:45PM Recovering a Function from the Gauss (428) Preliminary report. (438) Radon Transform in White Noise Brian J. Cole,BrownUniversity Analysis. (1077-30-1066) Jeremy J Becnel, Stephen F. Austin State University (1077-46-1090) 4:15PM Smooth Measures and Stochastic AMS Special Session on Stability Analysis for (439) Analysis in Abstract Wiener Space. Infinite Dimensional Hamiltonian Systems, II Fariborz Asadian, Fort Valley State University (1077-60-695) 2:15 PM –5:35PM Room 300, Hynes 4:45PM The Clark Formula of Generalized Lévy Organizers: Wilhelm Schlag,University (440) Functionals. Preliminary report. of Chicago Yuh-Jia Lee, National University of Gene Wayne,Boston Kaphsiung (1077-60-808) University 5:15PM Unitarizing measure for the (441) representation of a Lie group. 2:15PM Radiative decay of bubble oscillations in (429) a compressible fluid. Habib Ouerdiane, University of Tunis El Michael I. Weinstein,Columbia Manar, Tunisia (1077-60-2407) University (1077-76-2796) 5:45PM Free noise stochastics and geometry. (442) Ambar Niel Sengupta, Louisiana State 2:45PM Constructive methods for the global (430) analysis of solutions of differential University (1077-60-1332) equations. Ovidiu Costin*, Rodica D Costin,The Ohio State University, Min Huang and AMS Special Session on Topological Graph Wilhelm Schlag,TheUniversityof Theory: Structure and Symmetry, II Chicago (1077-34-2322) 2:15 PM –5:05PM Room 102, Hynes 3:15PM Solitons on manifolds. (431) Jeremy L Marzuola,UniversityofNorth Organizers: Jonathan L. Gross, Carolina, Chapel Hill (1077-35-337) Columbia University

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Thomas W. Tucker,Colgate 5:15PM A non commutative cluster structure on University (454) some hyperbolic algebras. Preliminary 2:15PM Orthogonal Heffter systems, current report. (443) graphs, and bi-embedding graphs on Ibrahim Abdou Saleh, Kansas State surfaces. Preliminary report. University (1077-05-271) Dan Archdeacon,TheUniversityof 5:45PM Polynomial functors and Vermont (1077-05-1827) (455) categorifications. 2:45PM Locally maximal embeddings of graph. Oded Yacobi, University of Toronto (444) Martin Skoviera*, Comenius University, (1077-20-2014) Bratislava, Slovakia, and Michal Kotrbcik, Comenius University, Bratislava (1077-05-2335) 3:15PM On the total embeddings for some types (445) of graphs. AMS Special Session on the Mathematics of Yichao Chen, College of Mathematics Decisions, Elections, and Games, II and Econometrics, Hunan University (1077-05-1696) 2:15 PM –6:05PM Exeter, 3rd Floor, Marriott 3:45PM Genus Distributions of 4-Regular Organizers: Karl-Dieter Crisman, (446) Outerplanar Graphs. Gordon College Mehvish I. Poshni*, Imran F. Khan and Jonathan L. Gross, Department of Michael Jones, Computer Science, Columbia University, Mathematical Reviews New York (1077-05-2688) Michael Orrison,Harvey Mudd College 4:15PM Genus Distribution of P3 × Pn. (447) Imran F. Khan*, Mehvish I. Poshni and 2:15PM Changing Notions of Agreeability in Jonathan L. Gross, Department of (456) Voting. Computer Science, Columbia University Francis Edward Su, Harvey Mudd (1077-05-2687) College (1077-05-1487) 4:45PM Embeddings for Bounded Treewidth and 2:45PM Double-Interval Societies. Preliminary (448) Bounded Degree. (457) report. Jonathan L. Gross, Columbia University Maria Klawe, Harvey Mudd College, (1077-05-1655) Kathryn L. Nyman*, Willamette University, Jacob N. Scott,UCBerkeley, AMS Special Session on Trends in and Francis Edward Su, Harvey Mudd Representation Theory, II College (1077-05-1485) 3:15PM N-Person Cake-Cutting: There May Be No 2:15 PM –6:05PM Room 103, Hynes (458) Perfect Division. Preliminary report. Steven J. Brams*, New York University, Organizers: Donald King, Northeastern Michael A. Jones, Mathematical Reviews, University and Christian Klamler,Universityof Alfred Noel,Universityof Graz (Austria) (1077-91-1261) Massachusetts, Boston 3:45PM A Simple Bargaining Mechanism That 2:15PM Rational smoothness of K-orbits in the (459) Elicits Truthful Reservation Prices. (449) flag variety for GL(2n). Steven J. Brams, New York University, William M. McGovern,Universityof Todd R. Kaplan,UniversityofHaifa,and Washington (1077-22-32) D. Marc Kilgour*, Wilfrid Laurier 2:45PM The singularities of slices in the nilpotent University (1077-91-1182) (450) cone. Preliminary report. 4:15PM Dynamics of Consistent Bankruptcy Eric Sommers,Universityof (460) Rules. Preliminary report. Massachusetts at Amherst (1077-22-186) Michael A. Jones*, Mathematical 3:15PM Generalized Cartan subspaces. Reviews,andJennifer M. Wilson,Eugene (451) Preliminary report. Lang College of the New School for Aloysius G Helminck, NC State Liberal Arts (1077-91-1480) University (1077-22-1342) 4:45PM Two-Step Coaliton Values for Multichoice 3:45PM Discussion (461) Games. 4:15PM The invariant Hilbert scheme of a Michael A. Jones, Mathematical Reviews, (452) spherical module. Preliminary report. and Jennifer Wilson*, Eugene Lang Stavros Argyrios Papadakis, Instituto College the New School for Liberal Arts Superior Tecnico, and Bart Van (1077-91-1398) Steirteghem*, Medgar Evers College (City 5:15PM On the possibility of manipulation in University of New York) (1077-20-1137) (462) voting rules with several levels of 4:45PM Changing highest weight theories for approval. Preliminary report. (453) finite W -algebras. Josep Freixas*, Technical University of Jonathan Scott Brown,Universityof Catalonia, Spain, and Cameron Parker, Birmingham, UK (1077-20-117) University of San Diego (1077-91-1350)

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5:45PM Redistricting: from theory to practice. 3:00PM Signed-graphic representations of (463) Preliminary report. (467) matroids. Karen Saxe, Macalester College Vaidy Sivaraman,TheOhioState (1077-91-1830) University (1077-05-2653) 3:15PM Covering length-n permutations with MAA Minicourse #3: Part A (468) n+1. Kathryn M Hawley*, Harvey Mudd 2:15 PM –4:15PM Salon AB, 4th Floor, Marriott College, and Taylor Allison,North Carolina State University (1077-05-2608) Problem-based courses for teachers, 3:30PM On Disjunctive Rado Numbers. future teachers, and math majors. (469) Dusty Sabo*, Southern Oregon Presenters: Gail Burrill, Michigan State University, Daniel Schaal, Donald University Vestal, South Dakota State University, Darryl Yong, Harvey Mudd and Jacent Tokaz, Georgia Institute of College Technology (1077-05-2699) Bowen Kerins, Education 3:45PM Break. Development Center 4:00PM Relation between the energy of a digraph James King,Universityof (470) and the energy of its underlying graph. Washington Preliminary report. Naﬁseh Jahanbakht*, New York, NY, and Kourosh Tavakoli, City University of MAA Minicourse #7: Part A New York (1077-05-2629) − 2:15 PM –4:15PM Salon CD, 4th Floor, Marriott 4:15PM On 2 1 Graph Achievement Games. (471) Curtis Clark, Morehouse College Study the masters: Using primary (1077-05-2587) historical sources in mathematics 4:30PM The spectra of several random graph teaching. (472) families. Presenters: Daniel Otero,Xavier Fan Chung, Mary Radcliffe*and University Stephen Young, University of California, David Pengelley,New San Diego (1077-05-2509) Mexico State University 4:45PM Consecutive Matches in Permutations and (473) cycle structures of permutations. MAA Minicourse #11: Part A Miles Eli Jones*andJeffrey Remmel, University of California, San Diego (1077-05-2450) 2:15 PM –4:15PM Salon HI, 4th Floor, Marriott 5:00PM Hitting Set Size for Random Set Systems. Teaching differential equations with (474) Lucia C Petito*, University of Rochester, modeling. Jessie Deering, Anant Godbole and Presenters: Michael Huber, Muhlenberg William Jamieson, East Tennessee State College University (1077-05-2436) Dan Flath, Macalester 5:15PM Descent pattern avoidance. College (475) Richard Ehrenborg and JiYoon Jung*, Tom LoFaro,Gustavus University of Kentucky (1077-05-2487) Adolphus College

AMS Session on Combinatorics and Graph Theory, II

2:15 PM –5:25PM Room 111, Hynes AMS Session on Finite Differences and Functional Equations: Sequences, Series, and 2:15PM K -decompositions of λ K ∨ λ K . 3 1 m λ2 1 n Expansion (464) Joseph R Chaffee*andChris Rodger, Auburn University (1077-05-2708) 2:15 PM –5:25PM Room 308, Hynes 2:30PM The (1, 2)-step competition number of a (465) noninterval tree. 2:15PM Existence of Solutions to Boundary Value K. A. Factor, Marquette University, S. K. (476) Problems at Full Resonance. Merz*andS. Yun, University of the Kristen K Abernathy*, Winthrop Pacific (1077-05-2593) University, and Jesus Rodriguez,North 2:45PM Refined Inversion Statistics on Carolina State University (1077-39-1389) (466) Permutations. 2:30PM Studying the Solutions and Stability of Joshua Sack*, California State University (477) Difference Equations with Time-Varying Long Beach, and Henning Arnor Coefficients. Ulfarsson, Reykjavik University, School Paul R Bouthellier,Universityof of Computer Science (1077-05-2672) Pittsburgh-Titusville (1077-39-385)

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2:45PM Difference equations for long-term 2:45PM Numerability in sets, spaces and covers. (478) simulation of mechanical systems. (490) Preliminary report. Preliminary report. Nigar Tuncer Ozarslan,Istanbul Kenneth R. Ball*andDmitry V. (1077-54-2315) Zenkov, North Carolina State University 3:00PM A P- and C*(D)-filters process of (1077-39-113) (491) compactifications and any Hausdorff 3:00PM Neutral Equation of Mixed. compactification. (479) Charles L Lamb*andErik S Van Vleck, Hueytzen J. Wu*, Texas A & M University University of Kansas (1077-39-2885) - Kingsville, and Wan-Hong Wu, 3:15PM Asymptotic summation of right almost University of Texas at San Antonio (480) diagonal difference systems. (1077-54-440) Fei Xue*, University of Hartford, and 3:15PM Knots in the canonical book Harry Gingold, West Virginia University (492) representation of complete graphs. (1077-39-539) Dana P. Rowland*andAndrea Politano, Merrimack College (1077-54-1393) 3:30PM The devil’s series, did it fool Euler? (481) Preliminary report. 3:30PM Homeomorphisms of Compact Sets in Thomas J. Osler,RowanUniversity (493) Certain Hausdorff Spaces. (1077-40-1124) Arthur D. Grainger, Morgan State University (1077-54-165) 3:45PM Break 3:45PM Oriented skein relation and a biological 4:00PM Optimality of spherical codes subject to (494) application. Preliminary report. (482) symmetries. Preliminary report. Candice R Price,UniversityofIowa Gregory Minton*, Massachusetts (1077-54-2270) Institute of Technology, and Henry Cohn, Microsoft Research 4:00PM The Disambiguated Temperley-Lieb (1077-52-2363) (495) Algebra. Preliminary report. Ellie A Grano, University of California, 4:15PM Coset sum: an alternative to the tensor Santa Barbara (1077-54-2761) (483) product in wavelet construction. Youngmi Hur and Fang Zheng*, Johns Hopkins University (1077-41-1107) AMS Session on Mathematical Biology and Related Fields, II 4:30PM Asymptotic analysis in migration ecology (484) and simple SIR epidemiology. 2:15 PM –5:40PM Room 105, Hynes Xiangsheng Wang*andJianhong Wu, York University (1077-41-1277) 2:15PM Results on a discrete, age-class 4:45PM Geometry of Numbers and Sumsets. (496) population model. Preliminary report. (485) Jaewoo Lee, The City University of New David Chan*andHye Jin Ban, York (Borough of Manhattan Community Virginia Commonwealth University College) (1077-52-1690) (1077-92-2316) 1 2:30PM Construction of prior models for EEG 5:00PM Piecewise C Biorthogonal Multiwavelets (486) on [−1, 1]. (497) source estimation with weighted graph Phan Nguyen,NewMexicoState descriptions of anatomical brain University (1077-41-807) connectivity. Preliminary report. David K Hammond*, NeuroInformatics 5:15PM Approximate Rational Solutions to Center / University of Oregon, and Benoit (487) Rational ODEs Defined on Discrete Scherrer, Computational Radiology Differentiable Curves. Laboratory / Children’s Hospital / Hongbo Li*, Ruiyong Sun, Shoubin Yao Harvard University (1077-92-2142) and Ge Li, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of 2:45PM Toward a Vaccine: Modeling the Immune Sciences (1077-41-810) (498) Response Against Shigella. Courtney L Davis,Universityof Maryland, College Park (1077-92-1848) 3:00PM Phenotype Sequencing. AMS Session on General Topology (499) Marc Allen Harper,UCLA (1077-92-1807)

2:15 PM –4:10PM Room 305, Hynes 3:15PM A second-order ﬁnite difference (500) approximation for a mathematical model 2:15PM Correspondences between ideals and of erythropoiesis. Preliminary report. (488) z-ﬁlters for rings of continuous functions Azmy S. Ackleh, University of Louisiana ∗ between C and C. at Lafayette, and Jeremy J. Thibodeaux*, Joshua Sack and Saleem Watson*, Loyola University New Orleans California State University Long Beach (1077-92-1680) (1077-54-2745) 3:30PM Studying the recovery algorithm for the 2:30PM Amalgamating Factor Spaces of (501) time-dependent transmission rate in (489) Generalized Inverse Limits. epidemic models. Preliminary report. Scott M. Varagona, Auburn University Anna Mummert, Marshall University (1077-54-2702) (1077-92-2697)

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3:45PM Optimal Control for a VRE Model. 2:30PM Relative Equilibria in the Four-Vortex (502) Preliminary report. (510) Problem with Two Pairs of Equal Mohammed Yahdi*andMichael Vorticities. Preliminary report. Dunlea, Ursinus College (1077-92-2818) Gareth E Roberts*, College of the Holy Cross, ,Universityof 4:00PM Break. Marshall Hampton Minnesota, Duluth, and Manuele 4:15PM Biodiversity dynamics under intransitive Santoprete, Wilfrid Laurier University (503) competition and habitat destruction. (1077-70-2598) Preliminary report. Matthew J Labrum, Washington State 2:45PM A regularization technique for oscillating University (1077-92-1606) (511) slender bodies in low Reynolds number flow. 4:30PM Predicting the ecological outcomes Bree Cummins, Tulane University (504) of species invasions and parasite (1077-76-1394) transmission in the upper Mississippi River. 3:00PM Second Harmonic Generation at James P Peirce*andGregory J (512) Metal/Dielectric Interfaces via Density Sandland, University of Wisconsin - La Functional Theory. Preliminary report. Crosse (1077-92-1505) Justin Droba, Michigan State University 4:45PM Cancer Classification of Microarray Data (1077-78-343) (505) by Denoising Methods on Graphs. 3:15PM Mathematical Problems in Residential Preliminary report. (513) Geothermal Heating Systems. Yue Fan, Mark A. Kon, Department of B S Tilley, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Mathematics and Statistics and Program (1077-80-2766) in Bioinformatics, Boston University, Shinuk Kim, Charles DeLisi,Programin 3:30PM Unsteady blood flow in an artery with an Bioinformatics, Boston University, and (514) overlapping stenosis. Louise A. Raphael*, Howard University Ranadhir Roy*andDaniel N Riahi, (1077-92-338) University of Texas-Pan American (1077-76-95) 5:00PM Forecasting Cancer: Finding the Initial (506) Conditions for Spatiotemporal Dynamical 3:45PM Break. Models. Preliminary report. Eric J. Kostelich, Arizona State University 4:00PM Exact solution to the 1d one component (1077-92-2640) (515) Coulomb gas at fixed energy. Timothy D Andersen, Daniel H. Wagner 5:15PM The Dynamics Underlying Pseudo-Plateau Associates, Inc. (1077-82-837) (507) Bursting in a Pituitary Cell Model. Preliminary report. 4:15PM The Reality Game: A Process Theory Wondimu W. Teka*, Joel Tabak,Florida (516) Approach to Quantum Foundations. State University, Theodore Vo, Martin William H Sulis,McMasterUniversity Wechselberger, University of Sydney, and The University of Waterloo and Richard Bertram,FloridaState (1077-81-2281) University (1077-92-1489) 4:30PM Periodic Ising model and Ising 5:30PM Homogenization of Large-Scale (517) Correlations. (508) Movement Models in Ecology. Grethe Hystad,TheUniversityof Martha J. Garlick*, James A. Powell, Arizona (1077-82-1752) Utah State University, Mevin B. Hooten, USGS Colorado Cooperative Fish and 4:45PM Scalar Field Dark Matter and Spiral Wildlife Research Unit; Colorado State (518) Structures of Galaxies: Higher Order University, and Leslie R. McFarlane, Effects and Gravitational Lensing. Utah Division of Wildlife Resources Preliminary report. (1077-92-1051) Nicholas P Robbins, Gettysburg College (1077-85-2083)

5:00PM On conformal mappings of spherical (519) domains. Lioudmila Bourchtein*andAndrei Bourchtein, Pelotas State University, Brazil (1077-86-254)

AMS Session on Mechanics and Mathematical 5:15PM High dimension control for quantum Physics, II (520) system. Quan-Fang Wamg,TheChinese 2:15 PM –5:40PM Room 303, Hynes University of Hong Kong (1077-81-19)

2:15PM Computation of the linear and ﬁrst-order 5:30PM 3-D Vortex Rings Instabilities and (509) solid fractions for a magneto-convective (521) Collision: Numerical Approach. ﬂow in an active mushy layer. Leon Kaganovskiy*, Touro College, NY, Dambaru Bhatta,TheUniversityof and Robert Krasny,Universityof Texas-Pan American (1077-76-647) Michigan, Ann Arbor (1077-76-809)

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AMS Session on Probability Theory, AMS Session on Undergraduate Research, II Stochastic Processes, and Statistics, II 2:15 PM –4:40PM Room 110, Hynes 2:15 PM –4:40PM Room 209, Hynes 2:15PM On d-modular labelings of the union of 2:15PM On the Stochastic Beverton-Holt (532) two cycles. (522) Difference Equation with Survival Rates. Joseph Buchanan*, Ryan C. Bunge, Paul H Bezandry*, Toka Diagana, Illinois State University, Erik Pelttari, Howard University, and Saber Elaydi, Northern Illinois University, Greg Trinity University (1077-60-1957) Rasmuson,Roanoke-BensonHigh School, IL, Alexander Su, Illinois State 2:30PM Primitive Recursive Representations of University High School, and Sevasti (523) “Skorokhod Sequences” for the Standard Tagaris, Illinois Wesleyan University Normal. (1077-05-2647) Marina Skyers, Lehigh University (1077-60-1748) 2:30PM Extremal Graphs Without 4-Cycles. (533) Frank A. Firke*, Carleton College, Evan 2:45PM On Spectral Properties of Certain Large D. Nash, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, (524) Matrices That Arise in the Study of and Peter M. Kosek, The College at Processor Shared Queues. Brockport, SUNY (1077-05-2136) Qiang Zhen*, University of North Florida, and Charles Knessl, University of Illinois 2:45PM The Abelian Sandpile Model. at Chicago (1077-60-1484) (534) J K Herring*, EMezaand C MNieuwoudt, Sam Houston State 3:00PM Effects of cell division on stochastic University (1077-05-2920) (525) intracelluar chemical reaction systems. John K McSweeney*andLea Popovic, 3:00PM A Family of Algorithms Yielding a Concordia University (1077-60-1191) (535) Solution to the Hermite Problem. Preliminary report. 3:15PM Occupation Times for Stable-like Sarah Peluse*, Lake Forest College and (526) Processes. The University of Chicago, Krishna Brian M. Whitehead, Eastern Connecticut Dasaratha,HarvardUniversity,Laure State University (1077-60-746) Flapan, Yale University, Tom Garrity, Chansoo Lee, Williams College, Cornelia 3:30PM Target Shooting and Normal Distribution. (527) Preliminary report. Mihaila, Wellesley College, Nicholas Zhaochi Zhang*, Northwestern Neumann-Chun, Williams College, and Polytechnical University, and Matt Stoffregen,TheUniversityof Zengxiang Tong, Otterbein University Pittsburgh (1077-11-2325) (1077-60-1475) 3:15PM A Generalized Family of Multidimensional 3:45PM Forecasting Foreign Exchange rates (536) Continued Fractions? Preliminary report. (528) with Simultaneous Nearest Neighbor Krishna Dasaratha,HarvardUniversity, Algorithm using Mahalanobis Distance as Laure Flapan, Yale University, Thomas the Distance Measure. Preliminary report. Garrity, Chansoo Lee, Williams College, Vindya Kumari Pathirana*and Cornelia Mihaila*, Wellesley College, Kandethody M Ramachandran, Nicholas Neumann-Chun, Williams University of South Florida College, Sarah Peluse,LakeForest (1077-60-2072) College, University of Chicago, and Matt Stoffregen, University of Pittsburgh 4:00PM Rate of Convergence of Weak Euler (1077-11-2614) (529) Approximation for Nondegenerate Itoˆ Diffusion and Jump Processes. 3:30PM Finite-Dimensional Frame Theory over C. Y. Zhang, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool (537) Arbitrary Fields. Preliminary report. University (1077-60-595) Suren Jayasuriya*, University of Pittsburgh, and Pedro Perez,Columbus 4:15PM Percolation threshold bounds derived by State University (1077-15-294) (530) the substitution method without a reference lattice. Preliminary report. 3:45PM Multidimensional Continued Fraction Pell John C Wierman, Johns Hopkins (538) Equations. Preliminary report. University (1077-60-1243) Michael Baiocchi, Stanford University, Krishna Dasaratha,HarvardUniversity, 4:30PM Characterizations of Logistic Distribution Laure Flapan*, Yale University, Thomas (531) via Distributional Properties of Order Garrity, Chansoo Lee, Williams College, Statistics. Preliminary report. Cornelia Mihaila, Wellesley College, George P Yanev*, The University Nicholas Neumann-Chun, Williams of Texas - Pan American, and M College, Sarah Peluse,Universityof Ahsanullah, Rider University Chicago, and Matthew Stoffregen, (1077-62-2496) University of Pittsburgh (1077-11-2129)

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4:00PM Unique Sequences for Multidimensional 4:35PM Mystery Plots: Motivating Algebraic (539) Continued Fractions. Preliminary report. (549) Function Models using Dynamic Krishna Dasaratha*, Harvard University, Mathematics Software. Thomas Garrity, Williams College, Laure Michael Todd Edwards*, Miami Flapan, Yale University, Chansoo University, Robert M. Klein,Ohio Lee, Williams College, Cornelia University, and Steve Phelps,Madeira Mihaila, Wellesley College, Nicholas High School and University of Cincinnati - Neumann-Chun, Williams College, Sarah Clermont College (1077-D5-1357) Peluse,ChicagoUniversity,andMatthew 4:55PM The Power of Symbolic Spreadsheets. Stoffregen, University of Pittsburgh (550) Rejoice Mudzimiri,MontanaState (1077-11-2499) University (1077-D5-2589) 4:15PM The n-House Problem. 5:15PM Visualizing Lagrange Multiplier (540) Amanda Kovacs, Molloy College (551) Optimization using CalcPlot3D. (1077-11-2743) Preliminary report. 4:30PM Fraction of Nonnegative Polynomials that Paul E Seeburger, Monroe Community (541) are Sums of Squares. College (1077-D5-1952) Caitlin A Lownes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1077-14-312)

MAA Session on Innovative and Effective Ways to Teach Linear Algebra, I MAA Session on Effective Use of Dynamic Mathematical Software in the Classroom, II 2:15 PM –5:50PM Room 311, Hynes Organizers: David Strong, Pepperdine 2:15 PM –5:30PM Back Bay Ballroom University C, 2nd Floor, Sheraton Gil Strang, Massachusetts Organizers: M. E. Waggoner,Simpson Institute of Technology College David Lay,Universityof Therese Shelton, Maryland Southwestern University 2:15PM Discovery learning in linear algebra 2:15PM Becoming One with Bifurcations in 3D! (552) using dynamical geometry software. (542) Itai Seggev, Wolfram Research, Inc. Martha Ellen Waggoner,Simpson (1077-D5-787) College (1077-F1-1720) 2:35PM Taylor Polynomials in R. Preliminary 2:35PM Using Dynamic Geometry Software to (543) report. (553) Foster Students’ Understanding of Andrew J Rich*, Daniel T. Kaplan, Vectors. Macalester College, Randall J Pruim, Tanya Berezovski, St. Joseph’s Calvin College, Nicholas J Horton, University, Philadelphia, and Tyler Smith College, and JJ Allaire,RStudio Gaspich*, St. Josephs’ University, (1077-D5-778) Philadelphia (1077-F1-872) 2:55PM Student Voice Waves: Investigations 2:55PM Teaching geometry using linear algebra. (544) using Calculus and Freeware. Preliminary (554) Preliminary report. report. Dragu Atanasiu*, University of Boras, Phil Gustafson, Colorado Mesa Sweden, and Piotr Mikusinski,University University (1077-D5-2604) of Central Florida (1077-F1-828) 3:15PM Communicating calculus concepts using 3:15PM Using N-dimensional Geometry as a (545) graphically presented functions in Adobe (555) Thread to Increase Geometric and Flash applets embedded in WeBWorK. Abstract Reasoning in Linear Algebra. Daniel J Gries, Hopkins School Preliminary report. (1077-D5-2616) Stephen Hilbert, Ithaca College, Ithaca 3:35PM Team Activities for the First Day of Class NY (1077-F1-2689) (546) Using a Computer Algebra System. 3:35PM Group Theory in the Linear Algebra Preliminary report. (556) Classroom. Preliminary report. J Alfredo Jimenez, Penn State Hazleton Paul E. Becker*andMark Medwid, (1077-D5-2453) Penn State Erie, The Behrend College 3:55PM Taking Instruction with Numerical (1077-F1-1698) (547) Computations to the Next Octave. 3:55PM A Physical Laboratory for Linear Algebra. Talitha M Washington,Howard (557) Jeffrey M Hokanson*, Steven J Cox University (1077-D5-1554) and Mark Embree, Rice University 4:15PM Teaching Transformations of Functions (1077-F1-2686) (548) Using Sage. Preliminary report. 4:15PM Discrete Dynamical Fibonacci. Susan L Schmoyer, Worcester State (558) Edward Early, St. Edward’s University University (1077-D5-2556) (1077-F1-711)

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4:35PM Combinatorial Scheduling: a way to 5:35PM A Connection Between Cross Country (559) motivate matrix multiplication and other (573) Scoring and Election Tallying. Preliminary important concepts. report. Donna A. Dietz,Universityof Jacob Erb, Taylor University Pennsylvania (1077-F1-274) (1077-G1-2837) 4:55PM Linear Algebra Projects for Computer 5:55PM An introduction to quantitative analysis (560) Science Majors in Costa Rica. Preliminary (574) in hockey. report. Brian A. Macdonald, United States Michael Josephy,UniversidaddeCosta Military Academy (1077-G1-2930) Rica (1077-F1-879) 5:15PM A Hypothetical Learning Trajectory for (561) Conceptualizing Matrices as Linear Transformations. Megan Wawro*, Virginia Tech, and Christine Larson, Vanderbilt University (1077-F1-2328) MAA Session on Touch It, Feel It, Learn 5:35PM Linear: Maxima Edition. It: Tactile learning Activities in the (562) Don Spickler, Salisbury University Undergraduate Mathematics Classroom, II (1077-F1-1071) 2:15 PM –5:30PM Room 313, Hynes

MAA Session on Mathematics and Sports, II Organizers: Jessica Mikhaylov,U.S. Military Academy 2:15 PM –6:10PM Room 203, Hynes Julie Barnes,Western Organizer: R. Drew Pasteur, College of Carolina University Wooster 2:15PM The Cheese Stands Alone. Preliminary 2:15PM Rule of Tangent for Win-By-Two Games. (575) report. (563) Reza D Noubary, Bloomsburg University Sarah E. Wright, College of the Holy (1077-G1-2571) Cross (1077-O1-2710) 2:35PM Hot Hands on the PGA Tour. Preliminary 2:35PM The Touchy-Feely Integral and Basic (564) report. (576) Properties of Integration. Roland Minton, Roanoke College Benjamin J Thirey*andRobert D (1077-G1-2364) Wooster, West Point (1077-O1-2810) 2:55PM A Logistic Regression Analysis of the NFL 2:55PM Using Models to Help Students (565) Overtime. (577) Understand Calculus Topics. Nicholas Gorgievski*, Nichols College, Sharon L Crumpton, Belmont University; and Thomas C. DeFranco,Universityof Nashville, TN (1077-O1-373) Connecticut (1077-G1-2844) 3:15PM Raising Calculus to the Surface. 3:15PM The Quarterback Passer Rating: (578) Aaron D Wangberg, Winona State (566) Analyzing and Tweaking the QBPR. University (1077-O1-2696) Paul von Dohlen, William Paterson University (1077-G1-2098) 3:35PM Using 3-D Manipulatives to Teach (579) Calculus. 3:35PM An Adjustment to the Colley Matrix Dennis C. Ebersole, Northampton (567) Method. Community College (1077-O1-2709) Mike Weimerskirch, Augsburg College (1077-G1-1091) 3:55PM The Chain Rule Dance. (580) Mariah Birgen, Wartburg College 3:55PM Paradoxes in Colley Matrix Sports (1077-O1-1033) (568) Rankings. T. S. Michael, U. S. Naval Academy 4:15PM Getting the ”feel” for centers of mass. (1077-G1-2049) (581) James A Sellers, Penn State University 4:15PM Using Sports Ranking in a Numerical (1077-O1-709) (569) Linear Algebra Course. 4:35PM Curve Sketching with Puzzle Pieces. Chuck Wessell, Gettysburg College (582) Teena Carroll, St. Norbert College (1077-G1-2685) (1077-O1-847) 4:35PM Modeling a Baseball Defense as a 4:55PM Grocery Bags and Lasers. (570) Network. (583) Randall E Cone, Virginia Military Tina Hartley, United States Military Institute (1077-O1-1578) Academy (1077-G1-2508) 5:15PM Project CAGE: Integrating mathematical 4:55PM A Century of Baseball Statistics. (584) and moral imagination through a (571) Preliminary report. hands-on learning project. Preliminary Alan Levine, Franklin and Marshall report. College (1077-G1-1361) Rebecca Bamford, Aminul Huq and Wei 5:15PM Pythagorean Prognostication. Wei*, Center for Learning Innovation, (572) Yousuf George, Nazareth College University of Minnesota Rochester (1077-G1-2858) (1077-O1-2016)

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MAA Session on the Capstone Course: MAA Session on the Mathematics of Sudoku Innovations and Implementations, II and Other Pencil Puzzles, I

2:15 PM –4:50PM Room 312, Hynes 2:15 PM –5:30PM Room 310, Hynes Organizers: Laura Taalman,James Organizers: Kathryn Weld, Manhattan Madison University College Jason Rosenhouse,James Agnes Rash, St. Joseph’s Madison University College 2:15PM A Sampler of Sudoku Studies. (595) Jason Rosenhouse*andLaura 2:15PM Communication, Problem Solving and Taalman, James Madison University (585) Independence in a Capstone Course. (1077-H1-2053) Kristin A Camenga, Houghton College 2:35PM Al-Maghribi meets Sudoku. (1077-C1-2198) (596) Andrew J Simoson*, King College, and 2:35PM Optimizing Capstone With Multiple Ilhan M Izmirli, George Mason University (586) Constraints. (1077-H1-1036) Risto Atanasov*, Tuval Foguel and 2:55PM Clue-Symmetric Sudoku. Jeffrey Lawson, Western Carolina (597) Darrah P. Chavey, Beloit College University (1077-C1-410) (1077-H1-2330) 3:15PM Minimal connected Shidoku symmetry 2:55PM A Vertically Integrated Model for a (598) groups. (587) Mathematics “Capstone”. Rebecca E Field*, Beth Arnold, Steve Aaron Luttman*, Joseph Skufca, Lucas and Laura Taalman,James Clarkson University, Brian Leventhal, Madison University (1077-H1-2861) University of Pittsburgh, and Clarice Dziak, Clarkson University 3:35PM MultiSudoku: A Game of Divisors and (1077-C1-280) (599) Multiples. Agnes M. Rash, Saint Joseph’s University 3:15PM Surveying U.S. Mathematics Teacher (1077-H1-2003) (588) Preparation Programs: What is the status 3:55PM Counting on KenKen Puzzles. Preliminary of the capstone course? Preliminary (600) report. report. Robert W. Vallin, Slippery Rock Dana C. Cox, Miami University, and University (1077-H1-367) Mary Beisiegel*, Harvard University 4:15PM Minimal 6 × 6 Ken Ken puzzles. (1077-C1-770) (601) Philip Cobb, Queensborough 3:35PM A Capstone Course in January. Community College (1077-H1-2639) (589) Preliminary report. 4:35PM Critical sets in Futoshiki squares. Jeremy Case, Taylor University (602) Preliminary report. (1077-C1-2823) Daniel J Katz, Guilford College (1077-H1-1423) 3:55PM Fostering Communication Skills and (590) Independence in a Capstone Project. Preliminary report. MAA Session on the Scholarship of Teaching Karrolyne Fogel*andChris Brown, and Learning in Collegiate Mathematics, II California Lutheran University (1077-C1-2690) 2:15 PM –5:50PM Room 202, Hynes

4:15PM A formative three-semester capstone Organizers: Jacqueline Dewar, Loyola (591) experience. Marymount University Daniel E. Otero and Joseph F. Wagner*, Thomas Banchoff,Brown Xavier University (1077-C1-1121) University Pam Crawford, Jacksonville 4:35PM Senior Seminar, Across a Department University (592) and Across the Years. Preliminary report. Meredith L Greer*andChip Ross,Bates Edwin Herman,University College (1077-C1-151) of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Nathan Wodarz,University 4:55PM Online Discussion Boards in Seminar: of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (593) Discovering Exciting Tidbits Missed Inside 2:15PM How does mathematics contribute to a the Classroom Walls on the Outside. (603) liberal education? Daniel R. Shifﬂet, Clarion University of Curtis D. Bennett*andJacqueline M. Pennsylvania (1077-C1-2592) Dewar, Loyola Marymount University 5:15PM Starting a capstone experience: A user’s (1077-N1-2791) (594) guide. Preliminary report. 2:35PM Using Wikis in a Geometry Class for Kurt Herzinger*, Beth Schaubroeck and (604) Future Teachers. Dale Peterson, United States Air Force Gregory A Kelsey, Immaculata University Academy (1077-C1-2449) (1077-N1-1560)

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2:55PM Implementing Mathematics Research Aliza Steurer, Dominican (605) Experiences into Teacher Preparation University Programs. 2:15PM Math Days for Women. David D Barker*, Saad El-Zanati, Illinois (614) Violeta Vasilevska*, Utah Valley State University, and Wendy O’Hanlon, University, and Clare Wagner,University Illinois Central College (1077-N1-2377) of South Dakota (1077-VA-2892) 3:15PM A First Attempt at Categorizing and (606) Assessing Different Levels of Student 2:30PM Investigating Gender Differences in Understanding. Preliminary report. (615) UMTYMP Entrance Exam. Paula Shorter*andMairead Greene, Justin Edward Sukiennik,Universityof Rockhurst University (1077-N1-2747) Minnesota (1077-VA-2538) 3:35PM Using Inquiry Based Learning to Enhance 2:45PM Strategies to Help Underrepresented and (607) Student Attitudes in Complex Analysis. (616) First Generation Students in the STEM Preliminary report. Fields. Edwin P Herman,Universityof Joseph E Hibdon, Jr*, Melissa Yates, Wisconsin-Stevens Point (1077-N1-2740) Marilyn Saavedra-Leyva and Stephanie 3:55PM Does ”Thinking about Thinking” Impact Levi, Northeastern Illinois University (608) Completion Rates of Pre-class (1077-VA-1913) Assignments? Preliminary report. 3:00PM Report on the First Kenyan Maths Camp. James S Rolf*, Lauren Scharff and (617) Tom Denton*, York University, Emily Thomas Hodge, United States Air Force Hobbs, Queens College, London, Academy (1077-N1-1972) David Stern, Zach Mbasu, Michael 4:15PM Collaborative peer review between two Obiero, Maseno University, Kenya, and (609) IBL number theory courses. Jeff Goodman,London,England Dana C. Ernst*, Plymouth State (1077-VA-645) University, Angela Hodge,University 3:15PM ABACUS International Math Challenge. of Nebraska of Omaha, and (618) Tivadar Diveki, Grace Church School, Andrew Schultz, Wellesley College and Zsuzsanna Szaniszlo*, Valparaiso (1077-N1-1154) University (1077-VA-2540) 4:35PM A Semi-IBL Finite Mathematics Course: Is (610) it possible and can it be successful? 3:30PM Closing the loop! Preliminary report. (619) Noureen Khan, Unversity of North Texas Mindy Capaldi, Valparaiso University at Dallas (1077-VA-314) (1077-N1-1032) 3:45PM Increasing Math Proﬁciency in High 4:55PM An analysis of the effectiveness of using (620) School Teaching. (611) exclusively workshop-style instruction Bradley Forrest, Pamela Kosick*and in the College Algebra classroom. Chia-Lin Wu, Richard Stockton College of Preliminary report. New Jersey (1077-VA-452) Jennifer Vandenbussche*, Christina 4:00PM Another approach to Pre-service Scherrer, Alexandra Brigham (621) Teachers’ preparation programs. and Anasstasia Semenova, Ali S Shaqlaih,UniversityofNorthTexas Southern Polytechnic State University at Dallas (1077-VA-2551) (1077-N1-793) 5:15PM A cross-disciplinary analysis of math 4:15PM Teacher Created Multiple-Choice (612) students’ writing. Preliminary report. (622) Assessments and the Use of Assessment Patrick Bahls*, University of Data for Planning Instruction. North Carolina, Asheville, Amy Sue Brown, University of Houston-Clear Mecklenburg-Faenger, Marguerite Lake (1077-VA-462) Scott-Copses and Chris Warnick, 4:30PM Mathematics Parterning with Computer College of Charleston (1077-N1-47) (623) Science to Improve Calculus Instruction 5:35PM Pedagogy in large lectures and the age of and Investigate Student Learning (613) digital media: Keep up or be left out! Difﬁculties. Fabiana Cardetti*andAmit Savkar, Marilyn Reba, Calvin Williams, Roy University of Connecticut (1077-N1-2051) Pargas, Allen Guest and Ellen Breazel*, Clemson University (1077-VA-2134) MAA General Contributed Paper Session: 4:45PM What Calculus do students learn after (624) Calculus? Preliminary report. Assessment and Outreach Todd Moore, Kansas State University (1077-VA-1977) 2:15 PM –6:10PM Back Bay Ballroom B, 2nd Floor, Sheraton 5:00PM An effort to coordinate conceptual (625) development in math and physics Organizers: Jennifer Beineke,Western education for engineering undergraduate New England College students. Preliminary report. Lynette Boos,Providence Gregory R Baker,TheOhioState College University (1077-VA-1881)

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5:15PM Development and validation of an 3:45PM Enhancing Student Learning: The Use of (626) instrument to assess college student’s (636) CalcPlot3D Graphing Technology in statistical inference-an argument based Developing Core Competencies in approach to validity. Preliminary report. Multivariable Calculus. Preliminary Jiyoon Park*andRobert delMas, report. University of Minnesota (1077-VA-1373) Karen L. Hulsebosch*, Olympic 5:30PM How to start a discussion on your College, and Paul E. Seeburger,Monroe (627) campus about assessing general Community College (1077-VC-2636) education mathematics. 4:00PM Analysis of Student Achievement and Leah Childers, Karla Childs*andBobby (637) Retention Regarding Online Calculus Winters, Pittsburg State University Homework. (1077-VA-993) DanielLKern, Florida Gulf Coast 5:45PM CONNECT Math: A Partnership in Higher University (1077-VC-2601) (628) Education. 4:15PM Multiple Choice Versus Open Response Rebecca C. Metcalf, Bridgewater State (638) Assessment in Calculus. University (1077-VA-691) Shannon R Lockard*andIrina 6:00PM An Alternative Approach to Assessing Seceleanu, Bridgewater State University (629) Instructional Effectiveness: Implications (1077-VC-929) to Teaching and Learning Undergraduate 4:30PM The Big ’BUT’ about Blogs in Online Mathematics. (639) Calculus. Preliminary report. Jerry C Obiekwe,TheUniversityof Denise LeGrand, University of Arkansas Akron-Wayne College (1077-VA-931) at Little Rock (1077-VC-529) 4:45PM The POGIL project: Student-Centered (640) Learning in Calculus. Preliminary report. MAA General Contributed Paper Session: Laurie Lenz*, Marymount University, Jill Calculus Guerra, University of Arkansas Fort Smith, Catherine Beneteau,Universityof 2:15 PM –5:40PM Room 201, Hynes South Florida, and Zdenka Guadarrama, Rockhurst University (1077-VC-1448) Organizers: Jennifer Beineke,Western 5:00PM Moving Toward a More Effective Learning New England College (641) Environment in First Semester Calculus. Lynette Boos,Providence Preliminary report. College Javier Garza, Tarleton State University Aliza Steurer, Dominican (1077-VC-2654) University 5:15PM Reducing anxiety and increasing interest 2:15PM Student understanding and (642) in business calculus. (630) misconceptions of inﬁnite repeating Janet L Fierson, La Salle University decimals in a Sequences and Series (1077-VC-2909) Bridge course. Preliminary report. 5:30PM Using students’ tests to improve teaching Rebecca J. Schmitz*, Michigan (643) and learning. Preliminary report. Technological University, and Harvey Radoslav Dimitric, CUNY (1077-VC-97) Keynes, University of Minnesota (1077-VC-1859) 2:30PM Convergences of Catalan Series. (631) Thomas Koshy and Zhenguang MAA General Contributed Paper Session: Gao*, Framingham State University Mathematics and Technology, II (1077-VC-2178) 2:45PM Search for the Stokes-vergence Theorem. 2:15 PM –5:25PM Back Bay Ballroom (632) Preliminary report. D, 2nd Floor, Sheraton Todd G Will*, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse, and David Finn,Rose-Hulman Organizers: Jennifer Beineke,Western Institute of Technology (1077-VC-2368) New England College 3:00PM Reverse Mathematics and the Lost Proofs Lynette Boos,Providence (633) of Calc One. College Stephen M Walk, St. Cloud State Aliza Steurer, Dominican University, St. Cloud, Minnesota University (1077-VC-2618) 2:15PM Time management and student success 3:15PM Generalized trigonometric substitution. (644) using the computer-based instructional (634) Robert D. Poodiack,NorwichUniversity system Aleks. Preliminary report. (1077-VC-2798) Steven D. Wallace, Macon State College 3:30PM Resequencing Calculus: An Early (1077-VI-999) (635) Multivariate Approach. Preliminary 2:30PM A Decade of Improving Pass Rates in report. (645) Mathematics using Interactive Software. Mark E Gruenwald and David J Dwyer*, Michelle DeDeo,UniversityofNorth University of Evansville (1077-VC-1130) Florida (1077-VI-2620)

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2:45PM Mobile Mathlets with Google Web Toolkit. Bonnie Gold,Monmouth (646) Preliminary report. University Thomas E Leathrum, Jacksonville State Daniel Sloughter,Furman University (1077-VI-2670) University 3:00PM Lurch, a free math word processor that 2:15PM Is Mathematics the Language of Physics? (647) can check your work. (657) Arthur M Jaffe,HarvardUniversity Nathan C Carter*, Bentley University, (1077-AJ-71) and Kenneth G Monks,Universityof 3:00PM Structuralism and its discontents. Scranton (1077-VI-2534) (658) Charles Parsons,HarvardUniversity 3:15PM Learning with the iPad: Does this (1077-AJ-1755) (648) technology help or hinder student 3:45PM Explanation and Existence. Preliminary understanding? (659) report. Eric Thornburg*, Benjamin Hung and Stephen Yablo, Massachusetts Institute John Jackson, United States Military of Technology (1077-AJ-59) Academy (1077-VI-1955) 4:30PM A Trivialist Account of Mathematics. 3:30PM Wiki Technology Supporting Learning (I). (660) Agustin Rayo, MIT (1077-AJ-83) (649) Preliminary report. Elizabeth Thoren*, University of 5:15PM The relationship of derivations in California, Santa Barbara, and Brian (661) artiﬁcial languages to ordinary rigorous Katz, Augustana College (1077-VI-1622) mathematical proof. Preliminary report. Jody Azzouni, Tufts University 3:45PM Wiki Technology Supporting Learning (II). (1077-AJ-1994) (650) Preliminary report. *, Augustana College, 6:00PM Turing and Wittgenstein. Preliminary Brian Katz and Elizabeth Thoren,Universityof (662) report. California, Santa Barbara (1077-VI-1620) Juliet Floyd,BostonUniversity (1077-AJ-1045) 4:00PM Increasing Student Engagement in (651) Undergraduate Mathematics with Tablet PCs. SIAM Minisymposium on Vistas in Applied, Carla A Romney*, Juan Pedro Paniagua Computational, and Discrete Mathematics and Fabian Torrres-Ardila,Boston University (1077-VI-164) 2:15 PM –6:00PM Room 206, Hynes 4:15PM Teaching mathematics online, is it even Organizers: Zuhair Nashed,University (652) possible? of Central Florida Aldo R. Maldonado,ParkUniversity (1077-VI-2725) Luminita Vese,Universityof Californina Los Angeles 4:30PM Perspectives on the Use of Dynamic (653) Mathematical Software in Classrooms. 2:15PM Finding Needles in Exponential Preliminary report. (663) Haystacks. Preliminary report. Heba Bakr Khoshaim, Ohio university/ Joel Spencer, Courant Institute Ministry of Higher Education, Kingdom of (1077-05-832) Saudi Arabia (1077-VI-2641) 3:15PM Frames and applied harmonic analysis. 4:45PM Virtual Pin Board Pinterest.com (664) John J Benedetto, Norbert Wiener (654) Motivating Gen Ed Group Project and Center, University of Maryland, College Connecting Math Majors. Preliminary Park (1077-43-877) report. 4:15PM MINOTAUR: A New Toolkit for Daniel Kiteck, Indiana Wesleyan (665) Mixed-Integer and Nonlinear University (1077-VI-1652) Optimization. 5:00PM Neuro Mathematics Education and Sven Leyffer*andAshutosh Mahajan, (655) Technology. Argonne National Laboratory Alexander Y Vaninsky, City University of (1077-90-2357) New York, Hostos Community College 5:15PM Recent Results in Computational (1077-VI-756) (666) Geometry. 5:15PM A Nomograph For The Trigonometric Erik D. Demaine, Massachusetts Institute (656) Functions. of Technology (1077-68-2755) Timothy Hall, PQI Consulting (1077-VI-273) AMS-MAA Joint Panel Discussion

2:15 PM –3:35PM Room 306, Hynes MAA-AMS Invited Paper Session on the Administrative strategies for dealing Philosophy of Mathematics with budget cuts. Organizers: Al Boggess,TexasA&M 2:15 PM –6:40PM Room 302, Hynes University Organizers: Thomas Drucker,University Don Allen,TexasA&M of Wisconsin-Whitewater University

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Jill Zarestky,TexasA&M AWM Panel Discussion University 2:15 PM –3:40PM Room 208, Hynes YMN/Project NExT Poster Session Maintaining an active research career through collaboration. 2:15 PM –4:15PM Veteran’s Auditorium, Organizers: Christina Sormani,CUNY 2nd floor, Hynes and Lehman College Organizers: Mike Axtell,UniversityofSt. Ami Radunskaya, Pomona Thomas College Kim Roth, Juniata College Ruth Haas, Smith College Moderator: Ami Radunskaya MAA Panel Discussion Panelists: Ruth Haas Trachette L. Jackson, 2:15 PM –3:35PM Room 304, Hynes University of Michigan Jill Pipher,BrownUniversity Reporting progress: A minisymposium of projects from the NSF Mathematics and Urlica Wilson, Morehouse Science Partnership program. College Organizers: Richard Alo,National MAA Invited Address Science Foundation Ron Buckmire,National 3:20 PM –4:10PM Ballrooms A/B, 3rd floor, Hynes Science Foundation (667) Phylogenetic algebraic geometry. Daniel Maki, Indiana Seth M. Sullivant, North Carolina State University University (1077-A0-5) Lee Zia, National Science Foundation AWM Business Meeting Panelists: Amy Cohen,Rutgers University 3:45 PM –4:15PM Room 208, Hynes Sabrina Hessinger, Armstrong Atlantic State MAA Panel Discussion University Jim Lewis,Universityof 3:50 PM –5:10PM Room 304, Hynes Nebraska Reporting progress: A minisymposium Glenn Stevens,Boston of projects from the NSF Course, University Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement/Transforming SIGMAA on Statistics Education/ASA-MAA Undergraduate Education in STEM program. Joint Committee on Statistics Education Panel Discussion Organizers: Richard Alo,National Science Foundation 2:15 PM –3:35PM Room 309, Hynes Ron Buckmire,National Science Foundation Statistics and probability in the Common Lee Zia, National Science Core State Standards. Foundation Organizers: Nancy Boynton,SUNY Panelists: Patrick Van Fleet,University Fredonia of St. Thomas Gail Burrill, Michigan State Jerry Lodder,NewMexico University State University Ann Watkins, California Lang Moore,Duke State University, Northridge University Panelists: Christine Franklin, Deborah Nolan,University University of Georgia of California, Berkeley Joan Garfield,Universityof Minnesota MAA Section Officers Roxy Peck, California Polytechnic State University, 4:00 PM –5:00PM Salon E, 4th Floor, Marriott San Luis Obispo Chair: Rick Gillman,Valparaiso J. Michael Shaughnessy, University National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Reception for Undergraduate Students Andrew Zieffler,University of Minnesota 4:00 PM –5:00PM Ballroom C, 3rd floor, Hynes

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AMS Committee on the Profession Panel AMS Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture Discussion 8:30 PM –9:30PM Ballrooms A/B, 3rd ﬂoor, Hynes 4:30 PM –6:00PM Room 208, Hynes (669) A 250-year argument: Belief, behavior, Supply, demand, and the math Ph.D. and the bootstrap. program. Bradley Efron, Stanford University Organizer: Julius Zelmanowitz, (1077-62-13) University of California, Santa Barbara Moderator: Julius Zelmanowitz Panelists: Nancy Heinschel,National Science Foundation Thursday, January 5 Ellen Kirkman,WakeForest University Joint Meetings Registration Richard McGehee, University of Minnesota 7:30 AM –4:00PM 2nd Floor Corridor, Carol Wood,Wesleyan opposite Hall C, Hynes University

AMS-MAA Special Session on the History of MAA Minicourse #5: Part A Mathematics, III 4:45 PM –6:45PM Salon AB, 4th Floor, Marriott 8:00 AM – 11:50 AM Back Bay Ballroom Dance and mathematics. A, 2nd Floor, Sheraton Presenters: Leon Harkleroad,Bowdoin Organizers: Sloan Despeaux,Western College Carolina University Karl Schaffer,DeAnza Craig Fraser,Universityof College Toronto Deborah Kent, Hillsdale MAA Minicourse #12: Part A College 8:00AM The Genius in Mathematics. 4:45 PM –6:45PM Salon HI, 4th Floor, Marriott (670) Anjing Qu, Northwest University, Xian, China (1077-01-1459) Using randomization methods to build conceptual understanding of statistical 8:30AM Analogies between algebra and number inference. (671) theory: Some uses of congruences in France between 1801 and 1850. Presenters: Robin Lock,St.Lawrence , Institut de University Jenny Boucard Mathématiques de Jussieu (Paris) Patti Frazer Lock,St. (1077-01-1816) Lawrence University 9:00AM The teaching of Algebra in France Kari F. Lock,Harvard (672) (1809-1914). University/Duke University Caroline Ehrhardt, ENS-Lyon/Institut Eric F. Lock,Universityof français de l’éducation, Service d’histoire North Carolina de l’éducation (1077-01-2033) Dennis F. Lock, Iowa State 9:30AM Linear groups in Galois fields between University (673) France and the U.S.A. at the turn of the 20th century. Frédéric Brechenmacher,University SIGMAA on the History of Mathematics of Lille-North of France (U. Artois). Reception, Business Meeting, and Guest Laboratoire de mathématiques de Lens. Lecture (1077-01-1248) 10:00AM Hans Frederik Blichfeldt. 5:30 PM –7:30PM Room 304, Hynes (674) Sebastien Gauthier, Institut Camille 5:30PM Reception and business meeting. Jordan, UniversitéLyon1-Claude Bernard (1077-01-1514) 6:30PM Heron, Newton, Euler, and Barney. (668) William Dunham, Muhlenberg College 10:30AM Cambridge mathematics in the north: (1077-A0-2560) (675) Peter Guthrie Tait, Philip Kelland and the local nature of mathematics in Edinburgh, 1858-1865. Reception for Graduate Students and Josipa Petrunic, Institute for the First-Time Participants History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto 5:30 PM –6:30PM Salon FG, 4th Floor, Marriott (1077-01-1532)

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11:00AM Mathematics for Public Consumption: 11:00AM A non-conforming Generalized Finite (676) Augustus De Morgan’s Anonymous (684) Element Method for Transmission Reviews for the Athenaeum. Preliminary Problems. report. Anna L. Mazzucato, Victor Nistor and Sloan Evans Despeaux,Western Qingqin Qu*, Penn State University Carolina University (1077-01-1530) (1077-65-2220) 11:30AM Rhetorics of international communication 11:30AM A Two-grid Method for Semilinear (677) and cooperation: Mittag-Lefﬂer and (685) Interface Problems. Preliminary report. Swedish mathematics, 1880-1920. Holst Michael, Ryan Szypowski and Preliminary report. Yunrong Zhu*, University of California at Laura E. Turner, University of Artois San Diego (1077-65-1482) (1077-01-2385)

AMS-ASL Special Session on the Life and AMS-SIAM Special Session on the Legacy of Alan Turing, III Mathematics of Computation: Differential Equations, Linear Algebra, and Applications, 8:00 AM – 11:40 AM Room 207, Hynes II Organizers: Damir Dzhafarov, University of Chicago and 8:00 AM – 11:50 AM Room 109, Hynes University of Notre Dame Organizers: Chi-Wang Shu,Brown Jeff Hirst, Appalachian State University University Susanne C. Brenner, Carl Mummert, Marshall Louisiana State University University 8:00AM A balanced finite element method for 8:00AM E-Recursion Theory. (678) singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion (686) Gerald E. Sacks,HarvardUniversity,MIT problems. (1077-03-1686) Runchang Lin*, Texas A&M International 9:00AM The universal Turing machine, and University, and Martin Stynes,National (687) Turing operators. University of Ireland (1077-65-635) Julia F. Knight, University of Notre Dame 8:30AM Finite Element Methods for the (1077-03-449) (679) Displacement Obstacle Problem of 9:30AM Turing’s Influence on Computational Clamped Plates. (688) Complexity. Susanne C. Brenner, Li-yeng Lance Fortnow,NorthwesternUniversity Sung, Hongchao Zhang and Yi (1077-68-398) Zhang*, Louisiana State University 10:00AM A small step beyond the Turing degrees. (1077-65-1754) (689) Joseph S. Miller, University of Wisconsin 9:00AM Finite dimensional approximations of - Madison (1077-03-2897) (680) nonlocal diffusion and peridynamic 10:30AM Ordinal logics and proof theory. models. (690) Grigori Mints, Stanford University Qiang Du, Penn State University (1077-03-388) (1077-65-2140) 11:00AM The Mathematics of Relative Definability. 9:30AM Domain decomposition preconditioners (691) Theodore A Slaman,Universityof (681) for the discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin California, Berkeley (1077-03-2706) method. Preliminary report. Andrew T. Barker*, Susanne C. Brenner and Li-Yeng Sung, Louisiana State University (1077-65-1579) 10:00AM HDG Methods for the AMS Special Session on Classical Fourier (682) Vorticity-Velocity-Pressure Formulation Analysis and Partial Differential Equations, of the Stokes Problem. III Bernardo Cockburn and Jintao Cui*, University of Minnesota (1077-65-528) 8:00 AM – 11:50 AM Room 104, Hynes 10:30AM Analysis of HDG methods for the Organizers: William O. Bray,University (683) Navier-Stokes equations. Preliminary of Maine report. Aycil Cesmelioglu*, University of Mark A. Pinsky, Minnesota, Bernardo Cockburn, Northwestern University University of Minnesota, Ngoc Cuong 8:00AM Stationary Navier-Stokes equations with Nguyen and Jaime Peraire, Department (692) singular external forces. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Cong Phuc Nguyen, Louisiana State Massachusetts Institute of Technology University, and Tuoc Van Phan*, (1077-65-1583) University of Tennessee (1077-35-510)

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8:30AM The critical density property and 9:30AM Parameter estimation for energy balance (693) Harnack’s inequality in spaces of (701) models with memory. Preliminary report. homogeneous type. Preliminary report. Mickael D. Chekroun*, Department of Sharad Deep Silwal*, Diego Maldonado, Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences Kansas State University, and Sapto and IGPP, UCLA, Lionel Roques, Indratno, Bandung Institute of UR 546 Biostatistique et Processus Technology (1077-35-74) Spatiaux, INRA, Michel Cristofol, 9:00AM Exponential Operator Splitting for the Université Aix-Marseille, LATP, Samuel (694) generalized Kawahara equation. Soubeyrand, UR 546 Biostatistique et Pablo U Suarez, Delaware State Processus Spatiaux, INRA, and Michael University (1077-35-183) Ghil, Geosciences Department and Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique 9:30AM Dispersive estimates for Schrodinger¨ (CNRS and IPSL) (1077-35-2575) (695) operators in dimension two with 10:00AM Uncertainty quantification in the obstructions at zero energy. MBurakErdogan˘ , University of Illinois at (702) simulation of quasi-one-dimensional Urbana-Champaign, and William R nozzle flow. Preliminary report. Green*, Eastern Illinois University Yanyan He*, Yousuff Hussaini and (1077-35-64) Jonghoon Bin, Florida State University (1077-60-2126) 10:00AM The regularity problem for the Lamé 10:30AM Correcting flow estimates in Chesapeake (696) system on curvilinear polygons in two (703) Bay using data assimilation. dimensions. Matthew J Hoffman, Rochester Institute Katharine Ott*, University of Kentucky, of Technology (1077-86-2741) and Irina Mitrea,TempleUniversity (1077-35-1836) 11:00AM A stochastic model for tropical rainfall (704) and extreme events. 10:30AM A proof of a Theorem of Boutet de Samuel N Stechmann*, Department of (697) Monvel. Preliminary report. Mathematics, and Department of Matthew B. Stenzel, Ohio State Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University at Newark (1077-58-1928) University of Wisconsin-Madison, 11:00AM Unimodular Fourier Multipliers On and J David Neelin, Department of (698) Modulation Spaces. Preliminary report. Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, and Jiecheng Chen, Zhejiang University, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary P.R.China, Dashan Fan and Lijing Sun*, Physics, UCLA (1077-60-2405) University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (1077-35-526) AMS Special Session on Combinatorial 11:30AM The Muckenhoupt-type estimations for Geometry of Polytopes, I (699) the best constants in multidimensional modular inequalities over spherical 8:00 AM – 11:50 AM Room 102, Hynes cones. Chang-pao Chen*, Hsuan Chuang Organizers: Egon Schulte, Northeastern University, Jin-Wen Lan, National Tsing University Hua University, and Dah-Chin Luor, Asia Ivic Weiss,York I-Shou University (1077-42-1056) University 8:00AM Semiregular Polytopes and Amalgamated (705) C-Groups. Preliminary report. Egon Schulte, Northeastern University (1077-05-801) AMS Special Session on Climate Modeling 8:30AM Resent developments about Colorful and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, I (706) Polytopes. Preliminary report. Deborah Oliveros*, UNAM, Gabriela 8:00 AM – 11:20 AM Suffolk, 3rd Floor, Marriott Araujo, Hubard Isabel, UNAM., and Egon Schulte, Northeastern University Organizers: Qingshan Chen,Florida (1077-51-1483) State University 9:00AM Theory and examples of ghost symmetry. Nathan Glatt-Holtz, Indiana (707) David Richter,WesternMichigan University University (1077-51-544) Mickael Chekroun, 9:30AM Strengthening Fary’s Theorem: Convex University of California, Los (708) and Star-Shaped Realizations of Angeles Polyhedral Complexes. 9:00AM Impact of Non-Gaussian Random Stedman M. Wilson*andIgor Pak, (700) Boundary Conditions on a University of California, Los Angeles Burgers-Boussinesq System. (1077-52-878) Jinqiao Duan, Institute for Pure and 10:00AM Constructing self-Petrie and self-dual Applied Math, Los Angeles & Dept of (709) covers of regular polyhedra. Applied Math, Illinois Institute of Gabe Cunningham, Northeastern Technology, Chicago (1077-60-2529) University (1077-52-814)

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10:30AM The width of 4-prismatoids. AMS Special Session on Differential (710) Francisco Santos,Universidadde Algebraic Geometry and Galois Theory (in Cantabria, Tamon Stephen*, Simon memory of Jerald Kovacic), I Fraser University, and Hugh Thomas, University of New Brunswick 8:00 AM – 11:50 AM Room 103, Hynes (1077-52-1301) Organizers: Phyllis Joan Cassidy,Smith 11:00AM Two-Orbit Polytopes with Two Facet (711) Types. Preliminary report. College and the City Ilanit Helfand, Northeastern University University of New York (1077-05-811) Richard Churchill, Hunter College and Graduate Center 11:30AM Discussion at CUNY Claude Mitschi,Université de Strasbourg, France AMS Special Session on Computational and Michael Singer,North Applied Topology (Mathematics Research Carolina State University Communities session), I 8:00AM Automorphisms of Hurwitz series. (720) William F. Keigher*, Rutgers University, 8:00 AM – 11:50 AM Exeter, 3rd Floor, Marriott Newark Campus, and V. Ravi Srinivasan, Organizers: Radmila Sazdanovic, Catholic University of America University of Pennsylvania (1077-13-1231) 8:30AM Cohomology of Differential Schemes. Daniel Muellner,Stanford (721) Preliminary report. University Raymond T Hoobler, City College of Mikael New York and Graduate Center, CUNY Vejdemo-Johansson, (1077-14-511) University of St. Andrews 9:00AM Classification of Algebraic Subgroups of 8:00AM Oscillatory solutions of fourth order (722) Lower Order Unipotent Algebraic Groups. (712) conservative systems via the Conley Preliminary report. index. V. Ravi Srinivasan, Catholic University of Miroslav Kramar*, Rutgers, JVanden America (1077-12-530) Berg and R. Van der Vorst,Free 9:30AM Higher variationnal equations between University Amsterdam (1077-55-1002) (723) Kolchin solvability and virtual Abelianity. 8:30AM Quantifying Patterns in a Coupled-Patch Guillaume Duval,INSAdeRouen (713) Population Model. (France) (1077-20-394) Sarah Day*, The College of William and 10:00AM Descent for differential Galois theory of Mary, and Benjamin Holman,University (724) difference equations. Confluence and of Arizona (1077-37-1362) q-dependency. Preliminary report. 9:00AM Homology and Robustness of Level and Lucia Di Vizio*, Laboratoire (714) Interlevel Sets. de Mathématiques de Versailles, Paul Bendich, Duke University, Herbert and Charlotte Hardouin, Institut de Edelsbrunner,ISTAustria,Dmitriy mathématiques de Toulouse Morozov*, Lawrence Berkeley National (1077-39-968) Lab, and Amit Patel,RutgersUniversity 10:30AM Solvability of difference Riccati equations. (1077-55-2265) (725) Seiji Nishioka, Aoyama Gakuin 9:30AM Computing Well Diagrams for Vector University (1077-12-299) (715) Fields in Rn. 11:00AM Galois theory of strongly normal Primoz Skraba, Jozef Stefan Institute (726) differential and difference extensions. (1077-68-2114) Michael Wibmer,RWTHAachen 10:00AM Obstruction-Theoretic Sensing. (1077-12-600) (716) Preliminary report. 11:30AM The ring of global sections of a Justin Michael Curry,Universityof (727) differential scheme. Pennsylvania (1077-55-1709) Dmitry Trushin, Hebrew University of 10:30AM Evasion Paths in Mobile Sensor Networks. Jerusalem (1077-12-596) (717) Preliminary report. Henry Adams, Stanford University (1077-55-1678) AMS Special Session on Fractal Geometry in 11:00AM Persistent homology and statistical (718) inference. Preliminary report. Pure and Applied Mathematics (in memory Peter Bubenik, Cleveland State of Benoit Mandelbrot), II University (1077-55-2042) 8:00 AM – 11:50 AM Room 200, Hynes 11:30AM Finite Coverage Processes and Homology (719) of Random Sets. Preliminary report. Organizers: Michael L. Lapidus, Rafal Komendarczyk and Jeffrey University of California, Pullen*, Tulane University (1077-57-985) Riverside

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Erin Pearse,Universityof 9:00AM Some Observations Involving the Oklahoma (738) Baumslag groups G(m, n). Machiel van Anthony E Clement, Brooklyn Frankenhuijsen, Utah Valley College, City University of New York University (1077-20-1297) 8:00AM The algebraic geometry of Harper 9:30AM From indexed languages to generating (728) operators. (739) functions. Dan Li, Florida State University Jared Adams, Eric M Freden*, Southern (1077-70-1960) Utah University, and Marni Mishna, Simon Fraser University (1077-05-864) 8:30AM Extreme risk and fractal regularity in (729) finance. 10:00AM Abelian extensions of orthogonal Lie Laurent E Calvet, Department of (740) algebras in E6 and E8. Finance, HEC Paris (1077-91-2303) Andrew Douglas*, Delaram Kahrobaei, City University of New York, and 9:00AM The Weierstrass function and Fractional Joe Repka, University of Toronto (730) Brownian motion. (1077-17-1454) Murad S. Taqqu,BostonUniversity (1077-60-898) 10:30AM Twin Towers of Hanoi: diameters of (741) coupled graphs. Preliminary report. 9:30AM Magic fractal distribution trees in living Zoran Sunic,TexasA&MUniversity (731) systems: 1-Implication for evolution (1077-20-2767) theory 2-Role of randomness. Preliminary report. 11:00AM Permutational isomorphism of Bernard Sapoval,PhysiquedelaMatière (742) permutation groups. Condensée,Ecole Polytechnique-CNRS Lászlo´ Babai, The University of Chicago, (1077-92-1494) Paolo Codenotti*, IMA, University of Minnesota, and Youming Qiao, Tsinghua 10:00AM The landscape of Anderson localization in (732) a disordered medium. University (1077-68-1334) Marcel Filoche*, Ecole Polytechnique, 11:30AM Quantum Algorithms for Fixed Points and CNRS, and Svitlana Mayboroda, (743) Invariant Subgroups. University of Minnesota (1077-35-2011) Stephen Majewicz,Kingsborough Community College (1077-20-902) 10:30AM Fractal Antennas, Resonators, and (733) Invisibility Cloaks: Nuggets from the Tortuous Path. Nathan Cohen, Fractal Antenna Systems,Inc. (1077-94-2760) AMS Special Session on Hyperbolicity in 11:00AM Fractal geometry: a pathway to Manifolds and Groups, III (734) understanding biodiversity. Mark E Ritchie, Syracuse University 8:00 AM – 11:50 AM Berkeley, 3rd Floor, Marriott (1077-92-2516) 11:30AM Physical Analogues of Peano Curves: Organizers: David Futer,Temple (735) from genome folding to new symmetries. University Adrian Sanborn, Jian Li,Harvard Genevieve Walsh,Tufts University, and Erez Lieberman University Aiden*, Harvard Society of Fellows 8:00AM How do you build examples? (1077-92-2339) (744) David Ben McReynolds,Purdue University (1077-20-1826) 8:30AM Hyperbolicity and measure in AMS Special Session on Groups, Algorithms, (745) Teichmuller¨ space. Complexity, and Theory of Security, III Spencer Dowdall,UIUC,Moon Duchin*, Tufts University, and Howard Masur, University of Chicago (1077-51-1685) 8:00 AM – 11:50 AM Room 101, Hynes 9:00AM Dynamics of non-classical interval Organizers: Maggie Habeeb,City (746) exchanges. University of New York Vaibhav Gadre,HarvardUniversity Delaram Kahrobaei,City (1077-51-933) University of New York 9:30AM On convex and non-convex Fuchsian 8:00AM A More Efficient Approach to Bayesian (747) polyhedral realizations of hyperbolic (736) Variable Selection. surfaces with a single conical singularity. Eric R Ruggieri, Duquesne University Jaejeong Lee, Seoul, South Korea, and (1077-62-1198) Kei Nakamura*, Temple University 8:30AM Schreier graphs and Schreier dynamical (1077-57-2910) (737) system of the action of Thompson’s 10:00AM Hyperbolic directions in Teichmuller group F on the Cantor set. (748) space equipped with the Lipschitz metric. Dmytro M Savchuk,Binghamton Jing Tao,UniversityofUtah University (1077-20-1887) (1077-51-1007)

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10:30AM Embeddability between Right-Angled AMS Special Session on Mathematics in (749) Artin Groups. Natural Resource Modeling, III Sang-hyun Kim*, KAIST, and Thomas Koberda,HarvardUniversity 8:00 AM – 11:50 AM Simmons, 3rd Floor, Marriott (1077-20-1209) Organizer: Catherine Roberts, College 11:00AM The geometry of right-angled Artin of the Holy Cross (750) subgroups of mapping class groups. Matt T. Clay, Allegheny College, 8:00AM The environmental impact on sustainable Christopher J. Leininger,Universityof (760) forest management. Preliminary report. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Natali Hritonenko*, Prairie View A&M Johanna Mangahas*, Brown University University, Yuri Yatsenko,HBU,and (1077-57-1331) Renan Goetz, University of Girona (1077-92-608) 11:30AM Invariant random subgroups of Lie (751) groups. 8:30AM Optimally Fragmenting Graphs Against Ian P Biringer,NewHaven (761) Stochastically-located Threats: Balancing (1077-51-2347) Preventative and Real-time Actions in Wildfire Containment. Gwen Spencer*andDavid Shmoys, Cornell University (1077-90-1978) AMS Special Session on Knot Theory, I 9:00AM Effect of Gravity in Diffusive Thermal (762) Instabilities of Diffusion Flames. 8:00 AM – 11:50 AM Provincetown, Joseph E Hibdon, Jr*, Northeastern 4th Floor, Marriott Illinois University, and Moshe Matalon, University of Illinois at Organizers: Tim Cochran,Rice Urbana-Champaign (1077-76-1864) University 9:30AM Multiscale methods for seismic imaging. Shelly Harvey,Rice (763) Susan E. Minkoff, University of Maryland University Baltimore County (1077-86-2488) 8:00AM Virtual Knot Theory - State Sum 10:00AM A Bayesian Model Identifying Locations At (752) Invariants. Preliminary report. (764) Risk From Human-Transported Exotic Louis H Kauffman, University of Illinois Pathogens. at Chicago (1077-57-699) Steven C McKelvey*, St. Olaf College, Frank H Koch, William D Smith,USDA 8:30AM Virtual knots and Khovanov Homology. Forest Service, and Kelly R Hawley,Best (753) Heather A Dye*, McKendree University, Buy, Inc. (1077-60-648) Louis Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago, and Aaron Kaestner,North 10:30AM Temporally variable dispersal and Park University (1077-57-508) (765) demography can accelerate the spread of invading species. 9:00AM A new generalization of the Khovanov Stephen P. Ellner, Cornell University, and (754) Homology. Preliminary report. Sebastian J. Schreiber*, University of Ik Jae Lee, Kansas State University California, Davis (1077-92-1571) (1077-18-114) 11:00AM Mathematical modeling for the 9:30AM Strong L-Spaces and Left Orderability. (766) improvement of sustainable pest (755) Adam Simon Levine*, Brandeis management: a trap cropping example. University, and Sam Lewallen,Princeton Matthew H. Holden*, Cornell University, University (1077-57-1801) Stephen P Ellner,Ecologyand 10:00AM A relationship between categorified braid Evolutionary Biology/Cornell University, (756) invariants from representation theory Doo-Hyung Lee, Jan P Nyrop and John P and Floer theory. Preliminary report. Sanderson, Entomology/Cornell Denis Auroux, University of California, University (1077-92-690) Berkeley, *, Boston J. Elisenda Grigsby 11:30AM To eradicate or not to eradicate: College, and Stephan M. Wehrli, (767) Economic optima for spatial immunizing Syracuse University (1077-57-1882) infections. 10:30AM A new filtration of the Magnus kernel of Petra Klepac, Princeton University (757) the Torelli group. (1077-92-1871) R. Taylor McNeill, Rice University (1077-57-1343) AMS Special Session on New Perspectives in 11:00AM Embeddings of contact solid tori and Multiplicative Number Theory (Mathematics (758) Legendrian cable knots. Research Communities session), I Douglas J LaFountain*, Aarhus University, John B Etnyre and Bulent¨ 8:00 AM – 11:40 AM Fairfield, 3rd Floor, Marriott Tosun, Georgia Institute of Technology (1077-57-749) Organizers: Leo Goldmakher,University 11:30AM Unstable Vassiliev theory. of Toronto (759) Chad D Giusti, Willamette University Jonathan Kish,Universityof (1077-55-98) Colorado at Boulder

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Micah Milinovich,University 9:00AM Optimization under Uncertainty and of Mississippi (777) Algorithmic Correlation of Random Paul Pollack,Universityof Variables - Practice. British Columbia/Simon Thomas R Fielden*, Portland, Oregon, Fraser University and Steven A Bleiler, Portland State University (1077-60-1659) 8:00AM A Weighted Selberg Sieve. Preliminary (768) report. 9:30AM Optimization under Uncertainty and CSFranze, Central Michigan University (778) Algorithmic Correlation of Random (1077-11-2445) Variables: Theory. Preliminary report. Steven A Bleiler*, Portland State 8:30AM On the maximum number of consecutive University, and Thomas R Fielden, (769) integers on which a character is Portland, Oregon (1077-60-1105) constant. 10:00AM Optimal Control of Variational Enrique Trevino,Swarthmore (779) Inequalities. (1077-11-1736) Janos Turi*andAlain Bensoussan, 9:00AM The distribution of character sums. University of Texas at Dallas (770) Jonathan W Bober*, University of (1077-49-936) Washington, and Leo Goldmakher, 10:30AM Time-and-age distributed controls in University of Toronto (1077-11-2214) (780) economic and management applications. 9:30AM On the divisors of xn − 1. Natali Hritonenko*, Prairie View A&M (771) Lola Thompson, Dartmouth College University, and Yuri Yatsenko, Houston (1077-11-2093) Baptist University (1077-90-721) 10:00AM Large odd order character sums. 11:00AM Optimal R & D Spending and Competition (772) Youness Lamzouri*, University of (781) Between Firms. Preliminary report. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Leo Jannett Highﬁll and Michael McAsey*, Goldmakher, University of Toronto Bradley University (1077-49-365) (1077-11-1742) 11:30AM Stochastic Multi-scale Modeling Suggests 10:30AM When is a multiplicative function small (782) the Molecular Basis of Calcium-Entrained (773) on average? Cardiac Arrhythmia. Dimitris Koukoulopoulos,CRM, M. Saleet Jafri*, Minh Tuan Universite de Montreal (1077-11-2166) Hoang-Trong, George Mason University, George S. B. Williams and W. Jonathan 11:00AM The latest pretensions. Preliminary (774) report. Lederer, University of Maryland Andrew Granville,UniversityofMontreal Baltimore (1077-92-2345) (1077-11-1619) AMS Special Session on Progress in Free Analysis, I

8:00 AM – 11:40 AM Room 108, Hynes AMS Special Session on Optimal Control in Organizers: J. William Helton,University Applied Mathematical Modeling, II of California, San Diego Paul S. Muhly,Universityof 8:00 AM – 11:50 AM Clarendon, Iowa 3rd Floor, Marriott 8:00AM Convex Positivstellensatz, linear matrix (783) inequalities and complete positivity. Organizers: Natali Hritonenko, Prairie Preliminary report. View A&M University Igor Klep*, Univerza v Ljubljani, J. Yuri Yatsenko, Houston William Helton, University of California Baptist University at San Diego, Scott McCullough, 8:00AM Two-dimensional interaction of weakly University of Florida, Gainesville, and (775) nonlinear solitary waves in shallow Markus Schweighofer,Universityof water: Mach reﬂection for the Konstanz (1077-46-1227) Benney-Luke equation and the KP 9:00AM Free Biholomorphic Functions and equation. (784) Operator Model Theory. Kenichi Maruno*, The University of Gelu F Popescu, University of Texas at Texas - Pan American, Yuji Kodama, San Antonio (1077-47-509) Ohio State University, Hidekazu Tsuji, 10:00AM Some Applications of Non-Commutative Kyushu University, and Bao-Feng Feng, (785) Functions in Free Analysis. The University of Texas - Pan American Mihai Popa, Queen’s Unversity (1077-76-1190) (1077-46-1791) 8:30AM Nonlinear parametric Neumann 11:00AM What are the eigenvalues of the sum of (776) problems with bifurcation and control (786) two Hermitian matrices? A quantum properties. information inspired answer. Dumitru Motreanu,Universityof Alan Edelman, Massachusetts Institute Perpignan, France (1077-35-515) of Technology (1077-60-2170)

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AMS Special Session on Rational Points on Armando Arciniega, Varieties, I University of Texas at San Antonio 8:00 AM – 11:50 AM Arlington, 3rd Floor, Marriott Gangaram S. Ladde, University of South Florida Organizers: Jennifer Balakrishnan, Massachusetts Institute of Sivapragasam Technology Sathananthan, Tennessee State University Bjorn Poonen, Massachusetts Institute of 8:00AM Energy/Lyapunov Function Method for Technology (795) Solving Stochastic Differential Equations. Gangaram S. Ladde,UniversityofSouth Bianca Viray,Brown Florida at Tampa (1077-34-1092) University 8:30AM Qualitative Analysis of Stochastic Theta Kirsten Wickelgren, (796) Methods for SDEs. Harvard University Henri Schurz, Southern Illinois University 8:00AM The rational points on a recalcitrant (1077-60-1065) (787) genus 12 curve. 9:00AM Stochastic Differential Equations of the Ralph Greenberg,Universityof (797) Wick Type. Preliminary report. Washington, Karl Rubin,UCI,Michael Fariborz Asadian, Fort Valley State Stoll, Universitat Bayreuth, and Alice University (1077-60-915) Silverberg*, University of California, Irvine (1077-11-777) 9:30AM Stability properties of stochastic logistic (798) models. Preliminary report. 8:30AM Twists of Shimura Curves. Janusz S Golec, Fordham University (788) James Henry Stankewicz,Universityof (1077-60-1003) Georgia (1077-11-1155) 10:00AM Hybrid Impulsive Control of Stochastic 9:00AM A descent map for curves with totally (789) degenerate semi-stable reduction. (799) Systems with Multiplicative Noise under Markovian Switching. Shahed Sharif, CSU San Marcos (1077-11-1592) S. Sathananthan, N. Jordan Jameson* and M. J. Knap, Tennessee State 9:30AM Siegel’s Theorem and the Shafarevich University (1077-93-325) (790) Conjecture. Preliminary report. 10:30AM Pathwise Convergence Rate for Aaron Levin, Michigan State University (1077-11-1753) (800) Numerical Solutions of Stochastic Differential Equations. 10:00AM Hilbert’s Tenth Problem for function Son Luu Nguyen*, Carleton University, (791) ﬁelds of positive characteristic. and George Yin, Wayne State University Kirsten Eisentraeger, The Pennsylvania (1077-60-1797) State University (1077-11-1200) 11:00AM Asymptotic Properties of Consensus-Type 10:30AM Integral points on elliptic curves (801) Algorithms for Networked Systems with (792) and explicit valuations of division Regime-Switching Topologies. polynomials. G. Yin, Yu Sun*andLe Yi Wang,Wayne Katherine E Stange, Stanford University State University (1077-60-330) (1077-11-1233) 11:30AM Existence Results for Some Higher-Order 11:00AM The Distribution of 2-Selmer Ranks of (802) Nonautonomous Differential Equations in (793) Quadratic Twists of Elliptic Curves. Hilbert Space. Preliminary report. Zev Klagsbrun, University of Wisconsin - Toka Diagana,HowardUniversity- Madison (1077-11-1268) Washington DC (1077-34-681) 11:30AM Elliptic division and unramiﬁed (794) correspondence. Fedor A. Bogomolov, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York AMS Special Session on the Geometry of Real University (1077-11-1884) Projective Structures (Mathematics Research Communities session), I

AMS Special Session on Theory and 8:00 AM – 11:50 AM Dartmouth, Applications of Stochastic Differential and 3rd Floor, Marriott Partial Differential Equations, I Organizers: Jeffrey Danciger,Stanford University 8:00 AM – 11:50 AM Room 107, Hynes Kelly Delp, Buffalo State Organizers: Edward Allen,TexasTech College University Sean Lawton,Universityof Mahmoud Anabtawi, Texas, Pan American American University of Kathryn Mann,Universityof Sharjah Chicago

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8:00AM Open problems in real projective 9:30AM Identification of Nerves in Ultrasound (803) structures on low-dimensional orbifolds. (815) Scans Using a Modified Mumford-Shah Suhyoung Choi, KAIST (1077-57-970) Functional and Prior Information. 9:00AM On Embedded Spheres of Closed Affine Jung-Ha An*, California State University, (804) Manifolds. Preliminary report. Stanislaus, Paul Bigeleisen, Department Weiqiang Wu, University of Maryland - of Anesthesiology/University of College Park (1077-51-408) Maryland, and Steven Damelin,Georgia Southern University (1077-49-1645) 9:30AM Bi-Lipschitz Extension from Boundaries of (805) Certain Gromov Hypebolic Spaces. Anton Lukyanenko, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (1077-51-371) AMS Session on Combinatorics and Graph Theory, III 10:00AM Two-holed cross surfaces and their affine (806) deformations. 8:00 AM – 11:25 AM Room 111, Hynes Todd A. Drumm*, Howard University, Virginie Charette,Universityof 8:00AM On the Permanent Rank of Matrices. Sherbrooke, and William M. Goldman, (816) Keivan Hassani Monfared,Graduate University of Maryland, College Park Student / University of Wyoming (1077-51-1456) (1077-05-2438) 2 11:00AM The Simple S -branched Cover Area of a 8:15AM Zero Forcing Numbers and Graph Powers. (807) Surface. Preliminary report. (817) Carolyn Kim,HarvardUniversity Aldo-Hilario Cruz-Cota*andTeresita (1077-05-2793) Ramirez-Rosas, Grand Valley State 8:30AM Weak Discrepancy of Grids. Preliminary University (1077-57-309) (818) report. 11:30AM Volumes of Complex Hyperbolic Katherine V. Johnson*andA. J. (808) Orbifolds. Radcliffe, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Ilesanmi Adeboye, Wesleyan University (1077-05-2425) (1077-57-621) 8:45AM Spectral properties of complex unit gain (819) graphs. Nathan H Reff, Binghamton University (1077-05-2387) 9:00AM Fair Duels, Bad Shots, and Thue-Morse. AMS Session on Calculus of Variations, (820) Joshua N Cooper and Aaron M Dutle*, Optimal Control, and Optimization University of South Carolina (1077-05-2473)

8:00 AM –9:40AM Room 303, Hynes 9:15AM Counting Large Distances in Convex (821) Polygons: A Computational Approach. 8:00AM Optimal Control of Projectile Motion with Filip Mori´c and David Pritchard*, EPFL (809) Sensitivity-Based Optimization. (1077-05-2386) David C. Szurley, Francis Marion 9:30AM Break. University (1077-49-2448) 9:45AM Some Results on Permutation Patterns. 8:15AM A Comparison of Derivative-Free (822) Preliminary report. (810) Optimization Methods with Constraint Taylor F Allison, North Carolina State Methods. University (1077-05-2372) Ahmad R Almomani*andKatie 10:00AM Maximizing the number of edges in R. Fowler, Clarkson University (823) optimal k-rankings. (1077-49-1734) Rigoberto Florez,UniversityofSouth 8:30AM Existence of isoperimetric regions in Rn Carolina Sumter, and Darren A (811) with density. Narayan*, Rochester Institute of Frank Morgan*, Williams College, and Technology (1077-05-2358) Aldo Pratelli, Universita di Pavia 10:15AM Degree Matrices of k-edge Colored (1077-49-224) (824) Graphs. 8:45AM Solution of optimal control problems via Kathleen M. Ryan*andGarth Isaak, (812) combined block-pulse functions and Lehigh University (1077-05-2351) polynomial series. 10:30AM Generating Differential Equations for Mohsen Razzaghi, Mississippi State (825) Multi-restricted Stirling numbers. University (1077-49-634) Preliminary report. 9:00AM Geometric Applications of the Maximum Ji Young Choi, Shippensburg University (813) Principle. of PA (1077-05-2348) Mostafa Ghandehari,Universityof 10:45AM The negative q-Binomial. Texas at Arlington (1077-49-180) (826) Shishuo Fu*, KAIST, Republic of 9:15AM A variational characterization of the Korea, Victor Reiner, Dennis Stanton, (814) effective yield set for ionic polycrystals. University of Minnesota, and Nathaniel Farhod Abdullayev, North Dakota State Thiem, University of Colorado at Boulder University (1077-49-1034) (1077-05-2310)

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11:00AM Modular-Distance Labelings of Graphs. 8:30AM The asymptotic expansion of the (827) Preliminary report. (838) Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants. Joshua Hanes*, Mississippi University Benjamin Himpel*andJørgen Ellegaard for Women, and Tristan Denley,Austin Andersen,AarhusUniversity,Denmark Peay State University (1077-05-2548) (1077-57-2374) 11:15AM Strong Circuit Double Cover Conjecture 8:45AM Knots in handlebodies with handlebody (828) in Special Cubic Graphs. Preliminary (839) surgeries. report. R. Sean Bowman,UniversityofTexas, Wenliang Tang*, West Virginia Austin (1077-57-2123) University, Erling Wei,RenminUniversity 9:00AM Squarepegs and Inscribed Polygons. of China, and Cunquan Zhang,West (840) Preliminary report. Virginia University (1077-05-2284) Jason Cantarella, University of Georgia, Athens, Elizabeth Denne*, Smith AMS Session on Geometry and Differential College, and John McCleary, Vassar Geometry, I College (1077-57-1536) 9:15AM Mapping Cylinder Neighborhoods in 8:00 AM –9:40AM Room 105, Hynes (841) Manifold Stratiﬁed Pairs. Preliminary report. 8:00AM Large autotopism groups on translation *and , (829) planes. Preliminary report. Stacy L. Hoehn C. Bruce Hughes Vanderbilt University (1077-57-2116) Oscar Vega*, California State University, Fresno, N. L. Johnson,UniversityofIowa, 9:30AM Genus 2 mutation of knots. Preliminary and Vikram Jha, Glasgow United (842) report. Kingdom. (1077-51-1591) Allison H Moore,TheUniversityofTexas at Austin (1077-57-2235) 8:15AM A note on a topological geometrical (830) interpretation of Bell’s inequality and 9:45AM Algebras Counting Minimal Intersection Hardy’s quantum entanglement. (843) and Self-Intersection Numbers of Loops S. I. Nada*, University of Qatar, and on a Surface. El-naschie, Alexandrie university,Egypt Patricia Cahn, Dartmouth College (1077-51-1211) (1077-57-2121) 8:30AM Tetrahedron Discovers Itself : Frequency 10:00AM The adjoint action on (831) & Scale Change. Preliminary report. (844) homotopy-associative H-spaces. John Arden Hiigli,LeJardinal’Ouest Nicholas D. Nguyen,Universityof (1077-51-1162) California San Diego (1077-57-1401) 8:45AM The Chen-type of some isoparametric 10:15AM Circle Valued Generating Families and (832) hypersurfaces in the unit sphere. (845) Legendrian Link Invariants. Preliminary report. Christopher A Micklewright, Bryn Mawr Ivko M Dimitric, Pennsylvania State College (1077-57-860) University Fayette, The Eberly Campus 10:30AM On the rotation class of knotted (1077-53-2899) (846) Legendrian tori in R5. Preliminary report. 9:00AM Complete geometry on a Riemannian Ben McCarty*andScott Baldridge, (833) A-module. Sylvester’s theorem. Louisiana State University (1077-57-760) Adaeze Christiana Anyaegbunam, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria (1077-51-65) 9:15AM Tiling a triangle with congruent AMS Session on Probability Theory, (834) triangles. Stochastic Processes, and Statistics, III Michael Beeson, San Jose State University (1077-51-488) 8:00 AM –10:40AM Room 209, Hynes 9:30AM Differential forms on contact quotients. (835) Preliminary report. 8:00AM Beta-cauchy distribution and its Fatima Mahmood, Cornell University (847) applications. Preliminary report. (1077-53-2485) Etaf Alshawarbeh*, Felix Famoye and Carl Lee, Central Michigan University (1077-62-1436) AMS Session on Manifolds, Cell Complexes, and Global Analysis, I 8:15AM Invariant Theory for Hypothesis Testing (848) on Graphs. Andrey Rukhin, Naval Surface Warfare 8:00 AM –10:40AM Room 305, Hynes Center Dahlgren Division (1077-62-428) 8:00AM Paths in the pants complex and bridge 8:30AM Investigation of a Random Graph Model (836) splittings of knots. (849) for Neuronal Connectivity. Alexander M Zupan,UniversityofIowa David J. Marchette*, Naval Surface (1077-57-2952) Warfare Center, Dahlgren, VA, Carey E. 8:15AM The sl(3) skein module. Priebe, Johns Hopkins University, (837) Jeffrey Boerner, Westminster College Rebecca F. Goldin and Giorgio A. Ascoli, (1077-57-2806) George Mason University (1077-62-424)

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8:45AM Solving Tolerance Optimization Problems 8:15AM Pondering and Posing Problems and (850) for Complex Manufacturing Systems. (859) Proofs Pertaining to Perfect Order Subset Paul L. Goethals*, United States Military Groups. Preliminary report. Academy, Gregory L. Boylan and Ashley R. Taylor*, Univeristy of Central Byung Rae Cho, Clemson University Oklahoma, and Devin C Smith,University (1077-62-269) of Central Oklahoma (1077-20-2020) 9:00AM Identifying Gene Set Differences Between 8:30AM Ecological Systems, Nonlinear Boundary (851) B-cell and T-cell Acute Lymphocytic (860) Conditions, and Σ-Shaped Bifurcation Leukemia. Preliminary report. Curves. Preliminary report. Jacob A Gagnon, Worcester Polytechnic Kathryn Lois Ashley*, Clemson Institute (1077-62-112) University, Jerome Goddard II, Auburn 9:15AM A Bayesian Semiparametric Approach for University Montgomery, and Victoria (852) Incorporating Longitudinal Information Sincavage, Clemson University on Exposure History for Inference in (1077-34-1293) Case-Control Studies. Dhiman Bhadra*, Worcester Polytechnic 8:45AM An Analytical Approach to Solving Green Institute, Michael Joseph Daniels, (861) Oxidation Processes. University of Florida, Gainesville, Sung Diego Torrejon,GeorgeMason Duk Kim, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics University (1077-34-1156) Branch, Division of Epidemiology, 9:00AM Tear-ﬁlm dehydration of a soft contact Statistics, and Prevention Research, NIH, (862) lens. Preliminary report. Malay Ghosh, University of Florida, Mihail Sharov, George Mason University Gainesville, and Bhramar Mukherjee, (1077-35-1888) Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1077-62-2202) 9:15AM Modeling the Effects of the Fukushima 9:30AM On a hybrid method for variable (863) Daiichi Nuclear Meltdown on the Marine (853) selection. Environment. Preliminary report. Daniel Vasiliu, Christopher Newport Bernard R Lipat*andRusty University (1077-62-2870) Laracuenti, New Jersey City University (1077-35-2065) 9:45AM A Study on Tests of Symmetry with (854) Ordered Alternatives in Higher 9:30AM On Li-Yorke Measurable Sensitivity. Dimensional Contingency Tables. (864) Preliminary report. Ping Ye*, Quincy University, and Lucas Manuelli, Princeton University, Bhaskar Bhattacharya, Southern Illinois Jared Hallett*andCesar E. Silva, University, Carbondale (1077-62-138) Williams College (1077-37-2394) 10:00AM Law of the iterated logarithm for the L2 (855) error of the wavelet density estimator. 9:45AM Break. Preliminary report. 10:00AM Global Dynamics of Pulse-Coupled Lu Lu, University of Connecticut (865) Oscillators. Preliminary report. (1077-62-119) Allison L. Corish*, Sarah Day and M. 10:15AM Multivariate Nonparametric Ranking and Drew LaMar, College of William & Mary (856) Selection. Preliminary report. (1077-37-2591) Jeremy Entner, Syracuse University (1077-62-144) 10:15AM Nabla Discrete Fractional Calculus. (866) Kevin Ahrendt,Universityof 10:30AM Combinatorics and statistical issues Nebraska-Lincoln, Lucas Castle*, Lamar (857) related to the Kruskal-Wallis statistic. University, Holm Michael,University Raymond N. Greenwell*, Hofstra of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Kathryn University, and Anna E. Bargagliotti, Yochman, Rose Hulman Institute of Loyola Marymount University Technology (1077-39-1406) (1077-62-53) 10:30AM Tilings with nonconvex pentagons. (867) Preliminary report. Ping Ngai Chung*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Niralee K. Shah, Williams College, Luis A. Sordo Vieira, AMS Session on Undergraduate Research, III Wayne State University, and Miguel A. Fernandez, Truman State University 8:00 AM – 11:25 AM Room 110, Hynes (1077-51-1486)

8:00AM Diagram vectors of frames and the tight 10:45AM Minimal Pentagonal Tilings. (858) frame scaling problem. (868) Niralee Shah*, Williams College, Luis Martin S. Copenhaver*, Georgia Institute Sordo Vieira, Wayne State University, of Technology, Cortney Logan, Stonehill Ping Ngai Chung, Massachusetts College, Kyanne Mayﬁeld,Universityof Institute of Technology, and Miguel Portland, and Jonathan Sheperd, Fernandez, Truman State University University of Notre Dame (1077-15-118) (1077-51-2565)

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11:00AM Some Applications of Differential 11:40AM Artists Respond to the Enigma of Alan (869) Geometry in Studying Grain Growth and (882) Turing. Non-local Calculus. Michael Olinick and Robert P. Martin*, Thinh D Le, Penn State University Middlebury College (1077-B1-219) (1077-51-2771) 11:15AM The Wecken Property for Random Maps (870) on Surfaces with Boundary. Matthew Donovan Griisser*, Georgia MAA Session on Mathematics Experiences in Institute of Technology, Allison Miller, Business, Industry, and Government Pomona College, and Jacqueline Brimley, Fairfield University 8:00 AM – 11:15 AM Room 203, Hynes (1077-55-1936) Organizers: Carla D. Martin,James Madison University Phil Gustafson, Mesa State MAA Session on Arts and Mathematics, College Together Again, II Michael Monticino, University of North Texas 8:00 AM – 11:55 AM Room 311, Hynes 8:00AM Reduction of the operation cost via (883) optimal control of an industrial Organizer: Douglas E. Norton, wastewater biotreatment process. Villanova University Ellina V. Grigorieva*, Texas Woman’s 8:00AM Fourier Transform helps relaxation. University, Evgenii N. Khailov, (871) Ricardo V Teixeira,Universityof Lomonosov Moscow State Univeristy, Houston - Victoria (1077-B1-207) Russia, and Andrei Korobeinikov, 8:20AM Semigroups, L-Systems, and Algorithmic University of Limerick, Ireland (872) Composition. Preliminary report. (1077-G5-1378) Marcus Pendergrass, Hampden-Sydney 8:20AM Tires, Insurance and Clutches: College (1077-B1-2954) (884) Applications of Undergraduate 8:40AM On the geometry of music. Preliminary Consulting. Preliminary report. (873) report. John R Ramsay, The College of Wooster Benjamin Himpel, Aarhus University, (1077-G5-2780) Denmark (1077-B1-2365) 8:40AM Visualizing semantic data through the 9:00AM Exploring the Mathematics of Tuning a (885) use of partially ordered sets. Preliminary (874) Musical Instrument using Straws. report. Christine von Renesse, Westfield State Emilie Hogan*andCliff Joslyn, University, MA (1077-B1-698) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory 9:20AM Composing with Mathematics: Final (1077-G5-2674) (875) Projects in a Math and Music Course. 9:00AM Cubic Splines, Local Extrema, and the Gareth E Roberts, College of the Holy (886) Harmonic Mean: An Application to Graph Cross (1077-B1-2572) Editors. 9:40AM Three stories from the math-art frontier. James H. Fife, Educational Testing (876) Preliminary report. Service (1077-G5-324) Luke Wolcott, University of Washington 9:20AM Optimization in Fourier imaging for laser (1077-B1-894) (887) remote sensing. 10:00AM Math/Art: Collaborative Practices. Thomas Hoft¨ , Tufts University (877) William Kronholm*, Whittier College, (1077-G5-1922) and Aaron Bocanegra,SCI-Arc 9:40AM Modeling GPS Interference. (1077-B1-559) (888) Joseph J. Rushanan, The MITRE 10:20AM Creative Variations. Corporation (1077-G5-2112) (878) Jennifer Wilson, Eugene Lang College 10:00AM Using Regression to Determine Cost the New School for Liberal Arts (889) Estimating Relationships for Costing of (1077-B1-2825) FAA Software. 10:40AM Fostering Artistic Explorations with William S. Barfield, Quantech Services, (879) Geometer’s Sketchpad. Inc. (1077-G5-2293) Debra L. Hydorn,UniversityofMary 10:20AM New Metrics to Detect Suicide Bombers. Washington (1077-B1-2486) (890) William P. Fox, Naval Postgraduate 11:00AM Improv Techniques for the Mathematics School, Monterey, CA (1077-G5-520) (880) Classroom. Preliminary report. 10:40AM Math in the City. Andrea N Young, Ripon College (891) Ananthnarayan Hariharan and Lauren (1077-B1-229) Keough*, University of Nebraska - 11:20AM Mathematics in Literature and Cinema. Lincoln (1077-G5-775) (881) Preliminary report. 11:00AM ”Careers in Mathematics” speakers series. Mark Kozek, Whittier College (892) Michael Dorff, Brigham Young University (1077-B1-2296) (1077-G5-2397)

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MAA Session on My Most Successful Math Karen Marrongelle, Club Activity Portland State University 8:00AM Students’ Understanding of Two-Variable 8:00 AM – 11:55 AM Back Bay Ballroom (905) Functions and Rates of Change. B, 2nd Floor, Sheraton Eric David Weber,ArizonaState University (1077-M1-33) Organizers: Jacqueline Jensen, Slippery Rock University 8:20AM A circle of radius one: Pre-service (906) teachers’ notions of the unit circle. Deanna Haunsberger, Kevin C. Moore*, Kevin R. LaForest and Carleton College Hee Jung Kim, University of Georgia 8:00AM Math Club Bingo. (1077-M1-142) (893) Jacqueline A. Jensen-Vallin, Slippery Rock University (1077-J5-658) 8:40AM Introducing the Concept of Derivative via (907) the Calculus Triangle. 8:20AM The Calculus Bowl: A Fundraising Activity Michael A. Tallman*andEric Weber, (894) for the Mathematics Club. Arizona State University (1077-M1-292) H. Smith Risser, Casey Clark*, Jay , , 9:00AM The Proof is in the Practice? Graduate Rosencrantz JoAnne McAllister Jeff Winter and Stuart Fortier,MontanaTech (908) Teaching Assistants and Future (1077-J5-2111) Teachers. Kimberly Cervello Rogers,Michigan 8:40AM The Amazing Mathematical Race. State University (1077-M1-796) (895) Brooke E Buckley*andBethany A Noblitt, Northern Kentucky University 9:20AM To Prove or Disprove: How Do (1077-J5-755) (909) Undergraduate Students Decide? Preliminary report. 9:00AM Bringing Down The House? Kelly M. Bubp, Ohio University (896) Kathryn Behrend Andrist, Utah Valley (1077-M1-805) University (1077-J5-1099) 9:40AM Authority dynamics in mathematics 9:20AM Solidly Platonic: Hood College’s Math Tea (910) discussions. Preliminary report. (897) Love Affair with Vi Hart. Rebecca A. Dibbs, David M. Jill Bigley Dunham*andAnn Stewart, Glassmeyer*andMichael C. Oehrtman, Hood College (1077-J5-2030) University of Northern Colorado 9:40AM Origami for Math Clubs. (1077-M1-922) (898) Dale K Hathaway, Olivet Nazarene 10:00AM Building Symbolic Meaning Through University (1077-J5-1386) (911) Dynamically-Connected Representations 10:00AM Celebrating Pi-Day with a Piathlon! in Abstract Algebra. (899) Daniel M. Look, St. Lawrence University Douglas A. Lapp, Central Michigan (1077-J5-732) University (1077-M1-1004) AM 10:20 University of Rochester’s Annual Pi-Day 10:20AM Experts’ Reiﬁcation of Complex Variables (900) Festival. (912) Concepts: The Role of Metaphor. Alicia M Cornelia,Universityof Hortensia Soto-Johnson*, Michael Rochester (1077-J5-1723) Oehrtman, Kristin Noblet, Lee 10:40AM Interdisciplinary Lecture Series. Roberson and Sarah Rozner,University (901) Jennifer McLoud-Mann*andChristina of Northern Colorado (1077-M1-1586) Graves, The University of Texas at Tyler 10:40AM Reaching for the Familiar: Example (1077-J5-1397) (913) Generation in the Proving Process. 11:00AM Art Museum Field Trip. James T Sandefur*, Georgetown (902) Kathi Crow, Salem State University University, John Mason, Gabriel J. (1077-J5-2043) Stylianides and Anne Watson,Oxford 11:20AM Beautiful Minds: Getting hooked on Math University (1077-M1-1714) (903) through Literature. 11:00AM A Model of Students’ Combinatorial Maria Falidas, American Community (914) Thinking. Schools of Athens (1077-J5-2267) Elise N Lockwood,Universityof 11:40AM Math Awareness Week: Students Wisconsin - Madison (1077-M1-1241) (904) Engaging Students. Preliminary report. Monika Kiss and Jacci White*, Saint Leo University (1077-J5-871) MAA Session on Touch It, Feel It, Learn MAA Session on Research on the Teaching It: Tactile learning Activities in the andLearningofUndergraduate Undergraduate Mathematics Classroom, III Mathematics, I 8:00 AM – 11:15 AM Room 313, Hynes 8:00 AM – 11:15 AM Room 202, Hynes Organizers: Jessica Mikhaylov,U.S. Organizers: Sean Larsen, Portland State Military Academy University Julie Barnes,Western Stacy Brown, Pitzer College Carolina University

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8:00AM Riding the Ferris Wheel: A Sinusoidal 8:30AM Looking for a few good means. (915) Model. (927) Bruce R. Ebanks, Mississippi State Kathleen Cage Mittag*, The University University (1077-VJ-1335) of Texas at San Antonio, and Sharon 8:45AM a CLT for independent non-identical Taylor, Georgia Southern University (928) processes. (1077-O1-1351) Yuping Yang,TexasA&MUniversity 8:20AM Building Art Galleries for Geometric (1077-VJ-2869) (916) Proofs. 9:00AM Benford’s Law and Dependent Random B. Carrigan, Auburn University (1077-O1-1420) (929) Variables. Thealexa G Becker*, Smith College, Alec 8:40AM Learning Through Re-Arrangement of Greaves-Tunnell, Williams College, Ryan (917) Patterns. Ronan, Cooper Union, and Steven J John C Mayer*andWilliam O Bond, Miller, Williams College (1077-VJ-2495) University of Alabama at Birmingham (1077-O1-2442) 9:15AM The Necessary Condition For ∂¯-equation (930) C3 9:00AM Geometric Models in Many Classrooms. in Holder¨ space in . (918) Preliminary report. Young Hwan You, Indiana University Teresa E. Moore*, Ithaca College, and L. East (1077-VJ-2578) Christine Kinsey, Canisius College 9:30AM Dynamical deltoids. Preliminary report. (1077-O1-2553) (931) Joshua P. Bowman, Stony Brook 9:20AM Building Mathematics Understanding University (1077-VJ-1360) (919) with Toys. 9:45AM Existence of Solutions for Nonconvex nth Mike Long, Shippensburg University (932) Order Differential Inclusions. (1077-O1-2554) Michael Fulkerson and Kristi Karber*, 9:40AM Investigating Polytopes of the Fourth University of Central Oklahoma (920) Dimension by Building Models. (1077-VJ-1077) John F Putz, Alma College (1077-O1-1426) 10:00AM Bifurcations of Inverse Functions: A Story (933) of Undergraduate Research. 10:00AM Tearing Plastic: A laboratory exercise on Jody M Sorensen, Augsburg College (921) fractals and hyperbolic geometry. (1077-VJ-2559) Ron Taylor*andTodd Timberlake, Berry College (1077-O1-2597) 10:15AM Proof of the density hypothesis. (934) Yuanyou F. Cheng, Waltham, MA 10:20AM Trafﬁc Jam: Teaching Critical Thinking (922) through Games. Preliminary report. (1077-VJ-949) Melissa A Stoner, Salisbury University 10:30AM On quasi-diagonality of continuous ﬁelds. (1077-O1-1689) (935) Preliminary report. 10:40AM Hands-on Activity for Mutually Jose L. Lugo,PurdueUniversity (923) Orthogonal Latin Squares. (1077-VJ-1706) Julie F Rogers, Auburn University 10:45AM How Fast does a Sequence of Positive (1077-O1-2343) (936) Integers Grow? An Elementary R 11:00AM Hands-On SET . Perspective based on Multiplication. (924) Ellizabeth McMahon*, Lafayette College, Preliminary report. and Rebecca Gordon, Queen Margaret Michael A Brilleslyper*andBradley A College, Wellington NZ (1077-O1-2843) Warner,U.S.AirForceAcademy, Colorado Springs, CO (1077-VJ-845)

11:00AM Atailoftwoseries.Preliminary report. MAA General Contributed Paper Session: (937) Johann A Thiel, United States Military Academy (1077-VJ-2564) Research in Analysis 11:15AM Low-lying zeros of cuspidal Maass forms. 8:00 AM – 11:55 AM Room 201, Hynes (938) Liyang Zhang*, Steven J Miller, Williams College, Oleg Lazarev,Princeton Organizers: Jennifer Beineke,Western University, Geoffrey Iyer,Universityof New England College Michigan, and Nadine Amersi,University Lynette Boos,Providence College London (1077-VJ-740) College 11:30AM Quantitative Approximation by Fractional Aliza Steurer, Dominican (939) Smooth General Singular Operators. University George A Anastassiou,Universityof 8:00AM Minimizing the Jacobian Integral. Memphis, and Razvan A. Mezei*, Lander (925) Colin Carroll, Rice University University (1077-VJ-450) (1077-VJ-2942) 11:45AM On the Linear Generating Function for 8:15AM The Poisson Geometry of SU(1,1). (940) the Charlier Polynomials. Preliminary (926) McKenzie R Lamb*, Ripon College, and report. Philip Foth, University of Arizona Daniel Joseph Galiffa, Penn State Erie, (1077-VJ-2736) The Behrend College (1077-VJ-2638)

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MAA General Contributed Paper Session: 10:30AM Using Mixed Distributions to Model Count Statistics (951) Data with Application. Mehdi Razzaghi, Bloomsburg University 8:00 AM – 11:40 AM Back Bay Ballroom (1077-VE-2947) D, 2nd Floor, Sheraton 10:45AM Life Expectancy Estimate with Bivariate (952) Weibull Distribution using Archimedean Organizers: Jennifer Beineke,Western Copula. New England College Seung-Hwan Lee*, Illinois Wesleyan Lynette Boos,Providence University, and Eun-Joo Lee, Millikin College University (1077-VE-951) Aliza Steurer, Dominican 11:00AM Census at School: An Outreach Program University (953) to Teach Statistical Problem Solving in 8:00AM Estimation of eigenvalues and their Grades 4-12 Using Real Student Data. (941) multiplicities of a covariance operator. Rebecca Nichols, American Statistical Krishna Kaphle*, Illinois Wesleyan Association (1077-VE-2627) University, Frits H. Ruymgaart and 11:15AM Teaching Statistics through the years: George Gaines, Texas Tech University (954) What works? What doesn’t? What’s next? (1077-VE-2346) Barbara A. Wainwright, Salisbury 8:15AM Linear Tests of Uniformity for Data University (1077-VE-1422) (942) Defined on Distance Transitive Graphs. 11:30AM Introducing The Idea of Fitting a Preliminary report. (955) Distribution to Data in a Probability Connor Ahlbach, John Choi, Michael Course. Preliminary report. Orrison, Harvey Mudd College, Laura Christopher J Lacke,RowanUniversity Passarelli, Scripps College, and Shujing (1077-VE-2948) Xu*, Claremont Graduate University (1077-VE-2286) SIAM Minisymposium on Computational 8:30AM Approximation to the Generalized (943) Gamma Distribution. Geometry Salam Md. Mahbubush Khan,Alabama 8:00 AM – 11:25 AM Room 206, Hynes A&M University (1077-VE-2009) 8:45AM Detection of slightly expressed changes Organizer: Suresh (944) in random environment. Venkatasubramanian, Veera Holdai, Salisbury University University of Utah (1077-VE-1317) 8:00AM Computing interesting topological 9:00AM Prediction on Random Fields with (956) features on surface embedded graphs. (945) Maximum Entropy Models. Erin Chambers, Saint Louis University Priya Kohli*andMohsen Pourahmadi, (1077-68-2460) Texas A&M University (1077-VE-1117) 8:30AM Optimal stochastic planarization. 9:15AM Bounded influence nonlinear signed-rank (957) Anastasios Sidiropoulos, Toyota (946) regression. Technological Institute at Chicago Huybrechts Bindele*andAsheber (1077-68-1790) Abebe, Auburn University (1077-VE-954) 9:00AM An Introduction to Davenport-Schinzel 9:30AM Rank-based estimation for generalized (958) Sequences, Forbidden 0-1 Matrices, and (947) linear models. Their Geometric Applications. Guy-vanie M Miakonkana*andAshere Seth Pettie, University of Michigan Abebe, Auburn University (1077-VE-478) (1077-05-2046) 9:45AM A Robust Dispersion Estimator and its 9:30AM Toward understanding complex data: (948) Applications. (959) graph Laplacians on singular manifolds. Jianfeng Zhang*, Chattanooga TN, Mikhail Belkin, Qichao Que, Yusu David Olive, Southern Illinois Univeristy Wang*, The Ohio State University, and Carbondale, and Ping Ye, Quincy Xuanyuan Zhou, University of Chicago University (1077-VE-293) (1077-68-1943) 10:00AM Exact Confidence Intervals for the Ratio 10:00AM Horoball Hulls and Extents in Positive (949) of Two Proportions. (960) Definite Space. Paul R. Coe, Dominican University P. Thomas Fletcher, John Moeller, (1077-VE-2753) Jeff M Phillips and Suresh Venkatasubramanian*, University of 10:15AM Using Linear Mixed-Effects Models to Utah (1077-51-2840) (950) Examine Correlates of stress, anxiety, depression to find the factors affecting 10:30AM Computational Geometry on Uncertain psychosocial attributes. (961) Data. Sumona Mondal*, Clarkson University, Jeff M Phillips,UniversityofUtah Tina Norton, Lycoming College, Sarah (1077-51-2277) Andres, Hosana Mamata,Clarkson 11:00AM Geometric Aspects of Compressive University, and Steven Foti,Universityof (962) Sensing. Florida at Gainesville (1077-VE-2350) Eric Price, MIT (1077-51-2732)

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Employment Center 9:00AM Comparisons between Uni-directional and (971) Bi-directional Models for Surface Water 8:00 AM –6:00PM Exhibit Hall C, Hynes Waves. Jerry L Bona, University of Illinois at Chicago (1077-35-2119) AMS Special Session on Enumerative and 9:30AM Asymptotic Behavior of Solutions to the (972) R3 Algebraic Combinatorics, I Liquid Crystals Systems in . Mimi Dai*, Jie Qing and Maria Schonbek, University of California, Santa 8:30 AM – 11:50 AM Room 204, Hynes Cruz (1077-35-1932) Organizers: Ira Gessel,Brandeis 10:00AM Recent Developments in Conformal Ricci University (973) Flow. Alexander Postnikov, Arthur E Fischer,Universityof Massachusetts Institute of California, Santa Cruz (1077-53-2015) Technology 10:30AM Solutions to the Sine-Gordon Equation of Richard Stanley, (974) Low Differentiability. Preliminary report. Massachusetts Institute of Josef F Dorfmeister, Technische Technology Universitat Munchen, and Ivan C 8:30AM On the bunkbed conjecture and related Sterling*, St. Mary’s College of Maryland (963) problems. (1077-53-2863) Svante Linusson,KTH,Stockholm, 11:00AM Periodic Rippling in Hyperbolic Sweden. (1077-05-2062) (975) Non-Euclidean Plates. 9:00AM Monotone Hurwitz numbers and the HCIZ John Gemmer*andShankar (964) integral. Venkataramani, University of Arizona Jonathan Novak, Massachusetts Institute (1077-35-1729) of Technology (1077-05-1569) 11:30AM Global Well Posedness for a system of 9:30AM The Potts model on random lattices. (976) KdV-type Equations with Coupled (965) Olivier Bernardi, MIT (1077-05-1438) Quadratic nonlinearities. Jerry L. Bona, University of Illinois, 10:00AM Enumerations deciding the weak Chicago, Jonathan Cohen*andGang (966) Lefschetz property. Wang, DePaul University (1077-35-2013) David W. Cook II*andUwe Nagel, University of Kentucky (1077-05-545) 10:30AM Lifted generalized permutohedra and (967) composition polynomials. Preliminary AMS Special Session on Stability Analysis for report. Infinite Dimensional Hamiltonian Systems, III Federico Ardila*, San Francisco State University, and Jeffrey Doker,University 8:30 AM – 11:20 AM Room 300, Hynes of California, Berkeley (1077-05-2311) 11:00AM Flow polytopes and the Kostant partition Organizers: Wilhelm Schlag,University (968) function for signed graphs. of Chicago Alejandro H. Morales*, MIT, and Karola Gene Wayne,Boston Mészáros, University of Michigan University (1077-05-1965) 8:30AM Global Stability Results for Relativistic 11:30AM Algebra based on real hyperplane (977) Fluids in Expanding Spacetimes. (969) arrangements. Jared Speck, Massachusetts Institute of Marcelo Aguiar*, Texas A&M University, Technology (1077-35-736) and Swapneel Mahajan, IIT Mumbai 9:00AM On the modulational instability for the (1077-05-1574) (978) Benjamin-Ono equation. Vera Mikyoung Hur, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1077-35-2370) AMS Special Session on Some Nonlinear 9:30AM Phase-driven interaction of widely Partial Differential Equations: Theory and (979) separated nonlinear Schrodinger¨ Application, I solitons. Justin Holmer*andQuanhui Lin,Brown 8:30 AM – 11:50 AM Wellesley, 3rd Floor, Marriott University (1077-35-1701) 10:00AM On the continuum limit for discrete NLS Organizers: Jerry L. Bona,Universityof (980) with long-range lattice interactions. Illinois, Chicago Gigliola Staffilani*, MIT, Kay Laihan Luo,NewYork Kirkpatrick,UIUC,andEnno Lenzmann, Institute of Technology University of Basel (1077-35-1632) 8:30AM Concentration compactness and KdV-NLS 10:30AM Stability analysis via Backlund transform (970) solitary waves. (981) in completely integrable PDE. John P Albert*andSantosh Bhattarai, Aaron Hoffman, Franklin W. Olin College University of Oklahoma (1077-35-2704) of Engineering (1077-35-1784)

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11:00AM Stability of Solitary Waves on Water of MAA Invited Address (982) Finite Depth. Shu-Ming Sun,VirginiaTech 9:00 AM –9:50AM Ballrooms A/B, (1077-76-705) 3rd ﬂoor, Hynes (993) The sound of geometry. MAA Session on Innovative and Effective Carolyn Gordon, Dartmouth College (1077-A0-3) Ways to Teach Linear Algebra, II

8:40 AM – 11:55 AM Room 312, Hynes Organizers: David Strong, Pepperdine MAA Invited Paper Session on the Beauty University and Power of Number Theory Gil Strang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 9:00 AM – 11:45 AM Room 302, Hynes David Lay,Universityof Organizers: Thomas Koshy, Maryland Framingham State University 8:40AM Web 2.0 for Linear Algebra Classes. Shannon Lockard, (983) Tom Edgar, Paciﬁc Lutheran University Bridgewater State University (1077-F1-2712) 9:00AM Patterns in partitions. 9:00AM On Generating Large Dimensional, (994) Amanda Folsom,YaleUniversity (984) Hand-Calculable Exercises and (1077-AC-1670) Applications. 9:45AM The beauty and power of some recent Jeff R. Knisley, East Tennessee State (995) REU papers in number theory. University (1077-F1-1585) Ken Ono, Emory University (1077-AC-52) 9:20AM Mobile Math Applications for the Second 10:30AM Number Theory and Dynamical Systems. (985) Course of Linear Algebra. (996) Preliminary report. Sang-Gu Lee, Sungkyunkwan University Joseph H. Silverman,BrownUniversity (1077-F1-1813) (1077-AC-176) 9:40AM Full Sage Contents of Introductory Linear 11:15AM 1+2+3+4+···. (986) Algebra. (997) Frank H Thorne,UniversityofSouth Sang-Gu Lee and Kyung-Won Kim*, Carolina (1077-AC-857) Sungkyunkwan University (1077-F1-1812) 10:00AM Reinforcing Basic Linear Algebra Skills (987) Using Computer Animation. Nathan M Wodarz,Universityof MAA Minicourse #4: Part A Wisconsin - Stevens Point (1077-F1-920) 10:20AM Muggle Magic with Matrix Arithmetic. 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Salon AB, 4th Floor, Marriott (988) Tim Chartier, Davidson College (1077-F1-1437) Elementary mathematics in architecture. 10:40AM The Wronskian as a method for Presenter: Alexander J. Hahn, (989) introducing vector spaces. University of Notre Dame Daniel A. Ramras,NewMexicoState University (1077-F1-1022) 11:00AM LINE (Linear Algebra in New MAA Minicourse #13: Part A (990) Environments): Using Learning Theories to Design Linear Algebra Modules. 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Salon HI, 4th Floor, Marriott Preliminary report. William O. Martin*, North Dakota State Interactive applets for calculus and University, Jeff Suzuki, Brooklyn College, differential equations. Draga Vidakovic,GeorgiaState Presenter: Haynes Miller, University, Sergio Loch,GrandView Massachusetts Institute of University, Laurel A Cooley, Brooklyn Technology College, City University of New York, Catalin Ciuperca, North Dakota State University, and Scott Dexter, Brooklyn College, City University of New York MAA Minicourse #1: Part A (1077-F1-1193) 11:20AM A Comparison of Different Pedagogical 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Salon CD, 4th Floor, Marriott (991) Approaches to Linear Algebra. Sukanya Basu, Grand Valley State Mathematics and backgammon. University (1077-F1-1242) Presenters: Arthur Benjamin,Harvey 11:40AM Connecting Linear Algebra Concepts. Mudd College (992) C. Ray Rosentrater, Westmont College Robert Koca, Community (1077-F1-421) College of Baltimore County

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MAA Session on Preparing College Students Theresa Anderson,Brown for Calculus University

9:00 AM – 11:15 AM Back Bay Ballroom C, 2nd Floor, Sheraton MAA Committee on Graduate Students/Young Mathematicians Network Organizer: Andrew Bennett,Kansas Panel Discussion State University 9:00AM Making connections with Precalculus. 9:00 AM –10:20AM Room 306, Hynes (998) Ramanjit K Sahi, Austin Peay State University (1077-K5-903) Graduate school: Choosing one, getting in, staying in. 9:20AM Tangent lines: a multifaceted concept. (999) Peter J. Byers,BostonUniversity Organizers: Aaron Luttman,Clarkson (1077-K5-2801) University 9:40AM Preparing students for proofs and deeper Kristi Meyer, Wisconsin (1000) conceptual thinking by implementing Lutheran College collaborative learning projects in Panelists: Richard McGehee, Intermediate Algebra and Trigonometry. University of Minnesota Alla Morgulis*andClaire Wyn Wladis, Kim Ruane, Tufts University BMCC/CUNY (1077-K5-2684) Bogdan Vernescu, 10:00AM Mathematical Reasoning in Calculus: Worcester Polytechnic (1001) Moving Between Representations. Institute Mairead Greene*andPaula Shorter, Rockhurst University (1077-K5-2721) 10:20AM Identifying Crucial Concepts and Skills, MAA Session for Chairs (1002) and Preparing College Students for Success in Calculus. Preliminary report. 9:00 AM –10:20AM Room 304, Hynes Alison Ahlgren*, University of Illinois, and Marc Harper, UCLA (1077-K5-1271) Timely and timeless aspects of chairing a 10:40AM Long-Term National Impact of the mathematical sciences department. (1003) Calculus Reform Initiative. Preliminary Organizers: Daniel Maki,Indiana report. University Susan L Ganter*, East Carolina Catherine M. Murphy, University, and Jack Bookman,Duke Purdue University Calumet University (1077-K5-2880) Panelists: Richard Cleary, Bentley 11:00AM Preparing your calculus students: An University (1004) inquiry-based algebra review. Dennis Luciano,Western Angie Hodge, University of Nebraska at New England College Omaha (1077-K5-1565) Catherine Roberts, College of the Holy Cross MAA Poster Session on Mathematical Sheryl Stump, Ball State Outreach Programs for Underrepresented University Populations

9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Veteran’s Auditorium, Student Hospitality/Information Center 2nd ﬂoor, Hynes Organizer: Elizabeth Yanik,Emporia 9:00 AM –5:00PM 2nd Floor Corridor by State University Veterans Auditorium, Hynes

MAA Panel Discussion MAA Session on Trends in Undergraduate 9:00 AM –10:20AM Room 309, Hynes Mathematical Biology Education

Are we selling mathematics as a major? 9:20 AM – 11:55 AM Room 310, Hynes Organizers: , Steve Deckelman Organizer: Timothy D. Comar, University of Wisconsin Stout Benedictine University Mary Kay Abbey, 9:20AM Deviation from the Norms – Algebra, Montgomery College (1005) Trigonometry, & Calculus for the Panelists: Michael Dorff,Brigham Aspiring Life Scientist. Young University Mike Martin, Johnson County Sandy Ganzell, St. Mary’s Community College (1077-P1-352) College 9:40AM So, why do you require Calculus? Daniel Kaplan, Macalester (1006) Carrie Diaz Eaton, Unity College College (1077-P1-728)

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10:00AM Undergraduate Research Projects in MAA Panel Discussion (1007) Mathematical Biology: Modeling and Simulation in MATLAB. 10:35 AM – 11:55 AM Room 306, Hynes Timothy D Comar, Benedictine University (1077-P1-561) Improving college mathematics teaching through faculty development. 10:20AM Mathematical epidemiology without (1008) differential equations. Preliminary report. Organizers: Jerry Kobylski, U. S. Military Matthew Glomski, Marist College Academy (1077-P1-1288) Alex Heidenberg,U.S. 10:40AM Mathematical Concepts and Methods in Military Academy (1009) Modern Biology: Using Modern Discrete Hilary Fletcher,U.S. Models - A Book in Progress. Military Academy Terrell L. Hodge*, Western Michigan Howard McInvale,U.S. University, and Raina Robeva, Sweet Military Academy Briar College (1077-P1-2849) Panelists: Molli Jones, Immaculata 11:00AM Undergraduate Research in Modeling the College (1010) Response of Chaparral Plants to Wildﬁres. Laurice Garrett,Edison State College Timothy A Lucas, Pepperdine University (1077-P1-2145) Cindy Soderstrom,Salt Lake Community College 11:20AM Cross Disciplinary Research by (1011) Undergraduates in Mathematics and Philip Darcy,Dutchess Biology to Examine Cellular Processes. Community College Sepideh Khavari, Tara Sansom, Bradley Slabe, Jonathan Caguiat and George T Yates*, Youngstown State University (1077-P1-1860) MAA Workshop 11:40AM When the Bloom is Off the Rose, or, How (1012) to Avoid Depression After the Stimulus 10:35 AM – 11:55 AM Room 304, Hynes Package Runs Out. Proposal writing for grant applications to Christopher C. Leary, SUNY Geneseo the NSF Division of Undergraduate (1077-P1-2482) Education. Organizers: Richard Alo,National Science Foundation Exhibits and Book Sales Ron Buckmire,National 9:30 AM –5:30PM Exhibit Hall D, Hynes Science Foundation Lee Zia, National Science Foundation AWM Emmy Noether Lecture

10:05 AM –10:55AM Ballrooms A/B, 3rd ﬂoor, Hynes SIAM Invited Address

(1013) Conservation Laws - Not Exactly a la 11:10 AM – NOON Ballrooms A/B, 3rd ﬂoor, Hynes Noether. Barbara Lee Keyﬁtz,TheOhioState (1014) Navier-Stokes, Euler, and other relevant University (1077-35-1665) equations. Edriss S. Titi, University of California at Irvine, and the Weizmann Institute of Science (1077-35-2719) AMS Special Presentation

10:30 AM – NOON Room 208, Hynes A conversation on nonacademic AMS Special Presentation employment. Moderator: C. Allen Butler,DanielH. 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM Room 209, Hynes Wagner Associates, Inc. Report on the ﬁndings of the 2010 CBMS survey of undergraduate mathematical and statistical sciences in the U.S. SIGMAA Ofﬁcers Meeting Organizer: James W. Maxwell, American Mathematical 10:30 AM – NOON Room 308, Hynes Society Chair: Amy Shell-Gelasch,Beloit Presenter: Ellen Kirkman,WakeForest College University

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AMS Colloquium Lectures: Lecture II 1:00PM Alan Turing and Voice Encryption. (1022) Preliminary report. 1:00 PM –1:50PM Ballrooms A/B, 3rd floor, Hynes Craig Bauer, NSA Scholar-in-Residence (1077-01-433) (1015) Langlands program, trace formulas, and their geometrization, II. 2:00PM Turing’s work and Hilbert’s Tenth Edward Frenkel, University of California (1023) Problem. Berkeley (1077-14-11) Kirsten Eisentraeger, The Pennsylvania State University (1077-11-1202) 2:30PM Quantum Money from Knots. (1024) Peter W. Shor, Massachusetts Institute of AMS-MAA Special Session on the History of Technology (1077-68-2759) Mathematics, IV 3:00PM Godel’s¨ theorems, Turing’s machines, (1025) and mathematical minds. 1:00 PM –3:50PM Back Bay Ballroom Wilfried Sieg, Carnegie Mellon University A, 2nd Floor, Sheraton (1077-03-983) Organizers: Sloan Despeaux,Western Carolina University Craig Fraser,Universityof AMS-AWM Special Session on Nonlinear Toronto Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations, I Deborah Kent, Hillsdale College 1:00 PM –3:50PM Room 300, Hynes 1:00PM Mathematics in the Republic of China: A Organizers: Barbara Lee Keyfitz,Ohio (1016) Centennial Overview. Preliminary report. State University Yibao Xu*, Borough of Manhattan Charis Tsikkou, Ohio State Community College, CUNY, and University Wann-Sheng Horng, National Taiwan 1:00PM On the size of the Navier - Stokes Normal University (1077-01-418) (1026) singular set. 1:30PM How to Assess Influence: Wu Wen-Tsun’s Walter Craig,McMasterUniversity (1017) Work in Measure, Number and Weight. (1077-35-1222) Jiri Hudecek, Needham Research 1:30PM Global well-posedness and decay for the Institute, Cambridge (1077-01-1508) (1027) viscous surface wave problem without 2:00PM Elevating the ranking of American surface tension. (1018) mathematics departments 1900-1940. Ian T Tice, Universite Paris-Est Creteil, David E Zitarelli,TempleUniversity LAMA (1077-35-1589) (1077-01-1276) 2:00PM Nonrelativistic Euler-Maxwell systems. 2:30PM “It Is No Good Baking Cakes If Pies Are (1028) Michael Sever, The Hebrew University, (1019) Wanted”: The American Mathematics Jerusalem, Israel (1077-35-141) Community in the 1970s Job Market 2:30PM Broad Band Solitons in a Periodic and Crisis. Preliminary report. (1029) Nonlinear Maxwell System. Alma Steingart, MIT (1077-01-1562) Dmitry Pelinovsky,McMasterUniversity 3:00PM On Pre Robinsonian Non-Standard (1077-35-277) (1020) Theories of the Twentieth-Century. 3:00PM Blow Up of Solutions to the Generalized Preliminary report. (1030) Proudman Johnson Equation. Preliminary Emil Sargsyan, Indiana University report. (1077-01-2898) Alejandro Sarria and Ralph 3:30PM The Design of Intuition: Computing and Saxton*, University of New Orleans (1021) Mathematical Proof. (1077-35-2274) Stephanie Dick,HarvardUniversity, 3:30PM Two Phase Flow in Porous Media: the Department of History of Science (1031) Saffman-Taylor Instability Revisited. (1077-01-2031) Michael Shearer*, Kim Spayd and Zhengzheng Hu, NC State University (1077-35-1037) AMS-ASL Special Session on the Life and Legacy of Alan Turing, IV AMS Special Session on Classical Fourier 1:00 PM –3:40PM Room 207, Hynes Analysis and Partial Differential Equations, Organizers: Damir Dzhafarov, IV University of Chicago and University of Notre Dame 1:00 PM –3:50PM Room 104, Hynes Jeff Hirst, Appalachian State Organizers: William O. Bray,University University of Maine Carl Mummert, Marshall Mark A. Pinsky, University Northwestern University

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1:00PM Problems related to the concentration of 1:00PM Euler flag enumeration of Whitney (1032) eigenfunctions. (1041) stratified spaces. Christopher D Sogge, Johns Hopkins Richard Ehrenborg,Universityof University (1077-42-670) Kentucky, Mark Goresky, Institute for 2:00PM Regularity properties of Green functions Advanced Study, and Margaret Readdy*, (1033) in non-smooth domains. University of Kentucky (1077-05-896) Irina Mitrea,TempleUniversity 1:30PM Combinatorial constructions of (1077-35-2458) (1042) polytopes. Preliminary report. 3:00PM Approximate reconstruction from T. Bisztriczky, University of Calgary (1034) circular mean data via classical (1077-52-917) summability. Preliminary report. 2:00PM Matrices associated with polar dual pairs W. R. Madych, Univ. of Connecticut, (1043) of polytopes. Preliminary report. Storrs, CT 06269 (1077-42-2041) Jim Lawrence, George Mason University 3:30PM Applications of linear and multi-linear (1077-52-1841) (1035) generalized Radon transforms. 2:30PM Deformations of surfaces and convex Alex Iosevich, University of Rochester (1044) polytopes. (1077-42-2959) Satyan L Devadoss, Williams College (1077-52-284) AMS Special Session on Climate Modeling 3:00PM Minkowski length of 2D and 3D lattice and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, II (1045) polytopes. Preliminary report. Olivia Beckwith, Harvey Mudd College, 1:00 PM –3:20PM Suffolk, 3rd Floor, Marriott Matthew Grimm,UCSD,Jenya Soprunova*, Kent State University, and Organizers: Qingshan Chen,Florida Bradley Weaver, Grove City College State University (1077-52-945) Nathan Glatt-Holtz, Indiana 3:30PM Graphs of Polytopes. Preliminary report. University (1046) Margaret M Bayer*andWilliam Mickael Chekroun, Espenschied,UniversityofKansas University of California, Los (1077-05-2099) Angeles 1:00PM Dynamic Transition Theory for AMS Special Session on Computational and (1036) Thermohaline Circulation. Shouhong Wang, IN (1077-86-2929) Applied Topology (Mathematics Research Communities session), II 1:30PM Dynamic Transitions and Hexagonal (1037) Patterns in Surface Tension Driven 1:00 PM –3:50PM Exeter, 3rd Floor, Marriott Convection. M Taylan Sengul*, Shouhong Wang, Organizers: Radmila Sazdanovic, Indiana University, and Henk Dijkstra, University of Pennsylvania Utrecht University (1077-76-1969) Daniel Muellner,Stanford 2:00PM Suppression of chaos at slow variables by University (1038) rapidly mixing fast dynamics. Mikael Rafail V. Abramov, University of Illinois Vejdemo-Johansson, at Chicago (1077-37-2019) University of St. Andrews 2:30PM Stochastic perturbations to dynamical 1:00PM Φ-somap: Estimating Intrinsic Distance (1039) systems: a response theory approach. (1047) Using Persistent Homology. Preliminary Valerio Lucarini, Klimacampus, report. University of Hamburg (1077-82-2454) Paul Louis Bendich*, Duke University, 3:00PM A Discrete Dynamical Systems Model to and Jacob Harer, North Carolina State (1040) Study the Interaction Between Arctic University (1077-55-986) Sea-Surface Temperature and Sea-Ice 1:30PM Stratification Learning through Local Cover. (1048) Homology Transfer. Sukanya Basu*, Grand Valley State Paul Bendich, Duke University, Bei University, Auroop R. Ganguly and Wang*, SCI Institute, University of Utah, Evan Kodra, Department of Civil and and Sayan Mukherjee, Duke University Environmental Engineering, Northeastern (1077-55-2288) University (1077-39-2240) 2:00PM Topological dimensionality reduction. (1049) Vin de Silva, Pomona College AMS Special Session on Combinatorial (1077-68-461) Geometry of Polytopes, II 2:30PM Sheaf invariants for temporal logic. 1:00 PM –3:50PM Room 101, Hynes (1050) Michael Robinson,Universityof Pennsylvania (1077-94-225) Organizers: Egon Schulte, Northeastern 3:00PM Directed sheaf homology and University (1051) information. Preliminary report. Asia Ivic Weiss,York Sanjeevi Krishnan,Universityof University Pennsylvania (1077-55-2262)

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3:30PM Topology of Spaces of Micro-Images and 1:30PM Prime Divisors of Certain Polynomial (1052) Applications. (1060) Orbits. Jose Perea*, Duke University, and Kalyani K. Madhu, State University of Gunnar Carlsson, Stanford University New York at Brockport (1077-11-2313) (1077-00-1013) 2:00PM Bounding the Height of a Postcritically (1061) Finite Map. AMS Special Session on Control Theory and Alon Levy,BrownUniversity Inverse Problems for Partial Differential (1077-11-2307) Equations, I 2:30PM Computing small canonical heights in (1062) arithmetic dynamics. 1:00 PM –3:50PM Clarendon, 3rd Floor, Marriott Robert L. Benedetto, Amherst College (1077-11-597) Organizers: Shitao Liu,Universityof 3:00PM Equidistribution of Preimages in Helsinki (1063) Berkovich Projective Space. Ting Zhou, Massachusetts William Gignac, University of Michigan Institute of Technology (1077-37-2229) 1:00PM Optimal control of PDE population 3:30PM Ergodic theory of p-adic rational maps. (1053) models involving resources. (1064) Juan Rivera-Letelier,Pontificia Suzanne Lenhart,Universityof Universidad Catolica de Chile Tennessee (1077-35-926) (1077-37-1540) 1:30PM Rational decay rates for fluid-structure (1054) interactive dynamics. George Avalos,Universityof Nebraska-Lincoln (1077-35-2187) 2:00PM On the linearization of a fluid-nonlinear (1055) elasticity interaction. AMS Special Session on Enumerative and Lorena Bociu, North Carolina State Algebraic Combinatorics, II University (1077-35-2355) 1:00 PM –3:50PM Room 204, Hynes 2:30PM Uniform decays of energy and blow up of (1056) steady states in unstable systems arising Organizers: Ira Gessel,Brandeis in fluid structure interactions. University Irena Lasiecka and Yongjin Lu*, University of Virginia (1077-35-666) Alexander Postnikov, Massachusetts Institute of 3:00PM Structural decomposition, spectral Technology (1057) analysis, and exponential stability for a third order PDE arising in high-intensity Richard Stanley, ultrasound. Massachusetts Institute of Richard J. Marchand*, U.S. Air Force Technology Academy/Slippery Rock University, 1:00PM Stable multivariate Eulerian polynomials Timothy J. McDevitt, Elizabethtown (1065) and generalized Stirling permutations. College, and Roberto Triggiani, J. Haglund*andM. Visontai,University University of Virginia (1077-35-1725) of Pennsylvania (1077-05-1950) 3:30PM Attractor for a non-dissipative von 1:30PM The negative q-binomial. (1058) Karman plate with damping in free (1066) Dennis Stanton, University of Minnesota boundary conditions. (1077-05-1880) Lorena Bociu, North Carolina State 2:00PM Matrices with restricted entries and University, and Daniel Toundykov*, (1067) q-analogues of permutations. University of Nebraska-Lincoln Joel Brewster Lewis*, MIT, Ricky Ini Liu, (1077-35-1630) University of Michigan, Alejandro H. Morales,MIT,Greta Panova,UCLA, AMS Special Session on Dynamical Systems Steven V Sam and Yan X Zhang,MIT in Algebraic and Arithmetic Geometry, III (1077-05-1935) 2:30PM Major Index for 01-Fillings of Moon 1:00 PM –3:50PM Room 200, Hynes (1068) Polyominoes. Catherine Yan*, Texas A&M University, Organizers: Patrick Ingram,University William Chen, Nankai University, China, of Waterloo, Canada Svetlana Poznanovik, Goergia Institute Michelle Manes,University of Technology, and Arthur Yang,Nankai of Hawaii, Honolulu University, China (1077-05-1328) Clayton Petsche, Hunter 3:00PM Bijections between k-triangulations, College (CUNY) (1069) k-fans of Dyck paths, and certain pipe 1:00PM Recent results in arithmetic dynamics. dreams. (1059) Preliminary report. Luis G Serrano*andChristian Stump, Michael E. Zieve, University of Michigan Universite du Quebec a Montreal (1077-11-2550) (1077-05-1636)

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3:30PM The Mobius¨ function of generalized 2:30PM Why you should infect your knots with (1070) subword order. (1078) links. Preliminary report. PeterR.W.McNamara*, Bucknell John R. Burke, Rhode Island College University, and Bruce E. Sagan,Michigan (1077-57-2018) State University (1077-06-1135) 3:00PM Classification of 0-solvable links. (1079) Taylor E Martin, Rice University (1077-57-2148) AMS Special Session on Frontiers in 3:30PM Cosmetic crossing changes on knots. Geomathematics, I (1080) Effie Kalfagianni, Michigan State University (1077-57-1253) 1:00 PM –3:50PM Commonwealth, 3rd Floor, Sheraton AMS Special Session on Linear Algebraic Organizers: Willi Freeden,Universityof Groups: Their Arithmetic, Geometry, and Kaiserslautern Representations, I Volker Michel,Universityof Siegen 1:00 PM –3:50PM Berkeley, 3rd Floor, Marriott M. Zuhair Nashed, Organizers: R. Skip Garibaldi,Emory University of Central Florida University Thomas Sonar, Technical George McNinch,Tufts University of Braunschweig University 1:00PM Approximation based on integral 1:00PM A Unified Solution to Some Linear (1071) formulas for star-shaped surfaces. (1081) Preserver Problems. Willi Freeden, Geomathematics Hernando Bermudez*, Skip Garibaldi Group, University of Kaiserslautern and Victor Larsen,EmoryUniversity (1077-41-1163) (1077-20-751) 2:00PM Integration and approximation on the 1:30PM The gamma filtration on projective (1072) sphere. (1082) homogeneous varieties. Ian H Sloan, University of New South Kirill Zainoulline, University of Ottawa Wales (1077-65-1730) (1077-14-1368) 3:00PM Spherical Multiscale Methods and 2:00PM Parity Sheaves and Tilting Modules. (1073) Applications in Geomagnetic Modeling. (1083) Daniel Juteau, Uni. de Caen/CNRS, Carl Christian Gerhards,TUKaiserslautern Mautner*, Harvard Univ./NSF, and (1077-41-2300) Geordie Williamson,MPIMBonn 3:30PM Modern Meteorology: An Overview over (1077-22-2027) (1074) the Methods used in Numerical Weather 2:30PM Unipotent Classes in Disconnected Prediction and its Application to (1084) Algebraic Groups. Hurricane Irene. Robert M Guralnick*andJason Fulman, Martin J. Fengler, St. Gallen, Switzerland University of Southern California (1077-86-1986) (1077-20-123) 3:00PM Weakly commensurable S-arithmetic (1085) subgroups in simple algebraic groups of AMS Special Session on Knot Theory, II types Bn and Cn. Andrei Rapinchuk, University of Virginia 1:00 PM –3:50PM Provincetown, (1077-11-217) 4th Floor, Marriott 3:30PM Cohomology for Finite Groups of Lie Type. Organizers: Tim Cochran,Rice (1086) Daniel K. Nakano, University of Georgia University (1077-20-774) Shelly Harvey,Rice University AMS Special Session on Mathematics in 1:00PM Knot Floer homology and Murasugi sum. Industry, II (1075) Preliminary report. Matthew Hedden*, Michigan State 1:00 PM –3:40PM Room 109, Hynes University, and Sucharit Sarkar, Columbia University (1077-57-1793) Organizers: Kirk E. Jordan,IBMT.J. Watson Research 1:30PM A categorification of the Tutte (1076) polynomial. Preliminary report. Donald Schwendeman, Moshe Cohen, Bar-Ilan University, and Renssalaer Polytechnic Adam M Lowrance*, University of Iowa Institute (1077-57-1333) Burt S. Tilley, Worcester 2:00PM Graph Floer homology. Polytechnic Institute (1077) Shelly Harvey, Rice University, and Suzanne L. Weekes, Danielle O’Donnol*, Smith College Worcester Polytechnic (1077-57-1413) Institute

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1:00PM Impact of Modeling and Simulation on 3:30PM The NW Power Conservation Council’s (1087) Decision-Making: Infectious Diseases. (1096) Regional Portfolio Model and the R-tic Sara Y Del Valle, Los Alamos National PHOX computation environment: Laboratory (1077-92-873) Overview. Preliminary report. Steven A Bleiler*, Portland State 1:30PM Mathematical Problems in Metal (1088) Processing. University, and Thomas R Fielden, Bogdan Vernescu, WPI (1077-35-2814) Portland, Oregon (1077-60-1103) 2:00PM Design of radar and communication (1089) signals with perfect correlation AMS Special Session on Rational Points on properties. Varieties, II Andrzej K Brodzik, The MITRE Corporation (1077-05-584) 1:00 PM –3:50PM Arlington, 3rd Floor, Marriott 2:30PM Optimization Algorithms on a Quantum (1090) Computer. Preliminary report. Organizers: Jennifer Balakrishnan, Richard H. Warren, Lockheed Martin Massachusetts Institute of Corporation, King of Prussia, PA Technology (1077-81-646) Bjorn Poonen, Massachusetts Institute of 3:00PM Panel discussion on doing mathematics outside of academia moderated by Technology Suzanne L. Weekes. Bianca Viray,Brown University Kirsten Wickelgren, Harvard University 1:00PM Failure of the Hasse principle on general (1097) K3 surfaces. Brendan Hassett and Anthony AMS Special Session on Mathematics in Varilly-Alvarado*, Rice University (1077-11-797) Natural Resource Modeling, IV 1:30PM Density of rational points on Del Pezzo (1098) surfaces of degree one. 1:00 PM –3:50PM Simmons, 3rd Floor, Marriott Ronald van Luijk*, Universiteit Leiden, Organizer: Catherine Roberts, College and Cecilia Salgado, Max Planck of the Holy Cross Institute, Bonn (1077-14-2153) 1:00PM On the Complexity of Competition. 2:00PM Manin’s Conjecture and Balanced line (1091) Roland H Lamberson, Humboldt State (1099) bundles. University (1077-92-411) Sho Tanimoto, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York 1:30PM Co-viability modelling for the sustainable University (1077-14-1139) (1092) management of biodiversity. Luc Doyen,CNRS,Paris,France 2:30PM Some Explicit Moduli Spaces of Elliptic (1077-93-643) (1100) Curves and Generalizations. Preliminary report. 2:00PM The math and algorithms of mapping Wei Ho, Columbia University (1093) and valuing ecosystem services. (1077-11-1295) Preliminary report. 3:00PM Rational elliptic surfaces with Erik J Nelson, Department of Economics, (1101) Mordell-Weil lattice E and multiplicative Bowdoin College (1077-92-1152) 8 reduction. 2:30PM A Mathematical Model of Harbor Seal Abhinav Kumar*, Massachusetts (1094) Haul-out. Institute of Technology, and Jonathan D Cowles, Department of Tetsuji Shioda, Rikkyo University Biology, Andrews University, Shandelle (1077-11-2430) M. Henson*, Andrews University, 3:30PM Abelian varieties with homotheties. and James L Hayward, Department (1102) Preliminary report. of Biology, Andrews University Yuri Zarhin, Pennsylvania State (1077-92-2562) University (1077-14-386) 3:00PM Model of Marine Iguana Haulout on (1095) Fernandina, Galapagos. Preliminary report. AMS Special Session on Reaction Diffusion Brianna G Payne*, James L Hayward, Equations and Applications, I Department of Biology, Andrews University, Shandelle M. Henson, 1:00 PM –3:50PM Wellesley, 3rd Floor, Marriott Andrews University, Libby C Megna, Department of Biology, Andrews Organizers: Jerome Goddard II, Auburn University, and Susana del Rocio University Montgomery Velastegui Chavez, Colegio Adventista Junping Shi, College of del Ecuador (1077-92-1349) William and Mary

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Ratnasingham Shivaji, 3:30PM Polynomial Hulls of Certain Compact University of North Carolina (1114) Manifolds. Greensboro John Wermer,Providence,RI 1:00PM Steady-states for a chemotaxis system. (1077-30-1015) (1103) Marcello Lucia*, City University of New York, CSI, and Dirk Horstmann, University of Cologne (1077-35-1283) AMS Special Session on Stochastic Analysis 1:30PM Alternate Stable States in Ecosystems. (in honor of Hui-Hsiung Kuo), III (1104) Sarath Sasi, Mississippi State University (1077-35-1101) 1:00 PM –3:50PM Room 107, Hynes 2:00PM Asymptotic properties of perturbed Organizers: Julius Esunge,Universityof (1105) parabolic equations. Mary Washington Juraj Foldes, Vanderbilt University , Ohio State (1077-35-655) Aurel Stan University 2:30PM A Nonlinear Stability Analysis of 1:00PM Stationary Solutions of Parabolic (1106) Vegetative Turing Pattern Formation for (1115) Equations in Gauss-Sobolev Space. an Interaction-Diffusion Plant-Surface Pao-Liu Chow, Wayne State University Water Model System in an Arid Flat (1077-60-414) Environment. Bonni J Kealy*andDavid J Wollkind, 1:30PM On the 2D Navier-Stokes and Euler Washington State University (1077-35-55) (1116) equations: A statistical study. Fernanda Cipriano,FCT-UNLand 3:00PM Analysis of classes of elliptic equations GFM-UL (1077-60-2101) (1107) with nonlinear boundary conditions arising in combustion theory. 2:00PM Ergodic control fortwo-dimensional Eunkyung Ko, Mississippi State (1117) stochastic Navier-Stokes equations. University (1077-35-305) Preliminary report. P. Sundar, Louisiana State University 3:30PM Existence of Multiple Positive Solutions to (1077-60-1431) (1108) Some Semipositone Systems. Maya Chhetri,UniversityofNorth 2:30PM Solvability of Forward-Backward Carolina–Greensboro, Sarah Raynor*and (1118) Stochastic Partial Differential Equations. Stephen Robinson,WakeForest Hong Yin, State University of New York, University (1077-35-2737) Brockport (1077-60-1425) 3:00PM A Stochastic Delay Model for Pricing (1119) Corporates Liabilities. Elisabeth Kemajou, Southern Illinois AMS Special Session on Several Complex University Carbondale (1077-60-1446) Variables and Multivariable Operator 3:30PM Portfolio Optimization under Convex Theory, III (1120) Incentive Schemes. Maxim Bichuch and Stephan Sturm*, 1:00 PM –3:50PM Room 108, Hynes Princeton University, ORFE Department (1077-91-1728) Organizers: Ronald Douglas,Texas A&M University John McCarthy, Washington University AMS Special Session on Topological Graph Theory: Structure and Symmetry, III 1:00PM A Metric from a Reproducing Kernel (1109) Hilbert Space. Preliminary report. 1:00 PM –3:50PM Room 102, Hynes Richard Rochberg, Washington University, St. Louis (1077-47-876) Organizers: Jonathan L. Gross, 1:30PM Function algebras invariant under group Columbia University (1110) actions. Preliminary report. Thomas W. Tucker,Colgate Alexander J. Izzo, Bowling Green State University University (1077-32-415) 1:00PM The distinguishing chromatic numbers of 2:00PM Schroeder’s Equation in Several (1121) graphs on surfaces. (1111) Variables. Seiya Negami, Yokohama National Robert A Bridges, Purdue University University (1077-05-748) (1077-32-439) 1:30PM Distinguishability of Inﬁnite Groups, 2:30PM On a pair of commuting isometries. (1122) Graphs, and Graph Products. (1112) Rongwei Yang,SUNYatAlbany Simon Mark Smith, Syracuse University, (1077-47-572) Thomas W. Tucker, Colgate University, 3:00PM Rational inner functions and the and Mark E. Watkins*, Syracuse (1113) Nevanlinna-Pick problem on Dn. University (1077-05-1229) Preliminary report. 2:00PM Vertex Transitive Inﬁnite Median Graphs. David Scheinker, Drexel University (1123) Wilfried Imrich, Montanuniversity (1077-32-959) Leoben, Austria (1077-05-1894)

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2:30PM Embeddability of infinite graphs. Kelly Delp, Buffalo State (1124) Robin Christian, R. Bruce Richter, College Department of Combinatorics and Sean Lawton,Universityof Optimization, University of Waterloo, and Texas, Pan American Gelasio Salazar*, Instituto de Fisica. Kathryn Mann,Universityof Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi Chicago (Mexico) (1077-05-1834) 1:00PM Immersed surfaces in the modular 3:00PM Topological Models of 3-configurations. (1133) orbifold. (1125) Preliminary report. Danny Calegari, California Institute of Arthur T. White,WesternMichigan Technology, and Joel Louwsma*, The University (1077-05-80) University of Oklahoma (1077-57-310) 3:30PM An orthogonal latin square construction 1:30PM Dynamics of the outer automorphism (1126) for orientable hamiltonian embeddings of (1134) group on the PSL(2, C) character variety Kn,n,n. Preliminary report. of a 3-manifold. and M. N. Ellingham Justin Z. Aaron D Magid*, University of Maryland, *, Vanderbilt University Schroeder and Richard D Canary,Universityof (1077-05-1679) Michigan (1077-57-397) 2:00PM Polynomial Pick forms for affine spheres AMS Special Session on Trends in (1135) and real projective polygons. Preliminary Representation Theory, III report. Michael Wolf*, Rice University, and 1:00 PM –3:50PM Room 103, Hynes David Dumas, University of Illinois at Chicago (1077-58-1138) Organizers: Donald King, Northeastern 3:00PM Cubic Differentials and Limits of RP2 University (1136) Structures. Preliminary report. Alfred Noel,Universityof John C Loftin*, Rutgers Newark, Massachusetts, Boston and Michael Wolf, Rice University 1:00PM On the adjoint representation of sl n and (1077-53-1785) (1127) the Fibonacci numbers. Pamela E Harris, University of Wisconsin MAA Invited Paper Session on Clever Milwaukee (1077-00-910) Counting or Beautiful Bijection? 1:30PM Weights and Combinatorics Appearing in (1128) Certain Demazure Crystals. 1:00 PM –4:20PM Room 302, Hynes Julie Beier,MercerUniversity (1077-17-1674) Organizer: Jennifer Quinn,University of Washington, Tacoma 2:00PM Krein spaces and local deformation in (1129) representation theory of super Lie 1:00PM Counting on Students: Combinatorial groups. (1137) Proofs with Undergraduates. Roland Knevel, Bar-Ilan-University Ramat Arthur T. Benjamin, Harvey Mudd Gan, Israel (1077-43-1232) College (1077-AD-286) 2:30PM Restriction to a maximal compact 1:30PM Beautiful Bijections for Permutation (1130) subgroup in the p-adic case. Preliminary (1138) Patterns. report. Lara K. Pudwell, Valparaiso University Monica Nevins, University of Ottawa (1077-AD-1760) (1077-22-830) 2:00PM A Beautiful Bijection that 3:00PM Formal degrees of discrete series for (1139) Counts and Does More: The (1131) classical affine Hecke algebras and Robinson-Schensted-Knuth p-adic groups. Correspondence. Dan Ciubotaru*, University of Utah, Tom Roby, UConn/MIT (1077-AD-2904) and Syu Kato, Kyoto University 2:30PM Beautiful Bijections and Clever Counting (1077-22-1380) (1140) in Representations. 3:30PM Geometric Structure in the Georgia Benkart,Universityof (1132) Representation Theory of Reductive Wisconsin-Madison (1077-AD-2139) p-adic Groups. 3:00PM The Benefits of Bijections. Preliminary Paul Frank Baum, Penn State University (1141) report. (1077-22-86) David M. Bressoud, Macalester College (1077-AD-238) AMS Special Session on the Geometry of Real 3:30PM Descriptive derangements for a sum of (1142) spheres. Projective Structures (Mathematics Research Bridget Eileen Tenner,DePaulUniversity Communities session), II (1077-AD-1478)

1:00 PM –3:40PM Dartmouth, 3rd Floor, Marriott 4:00PM A not-quite-bijective enumeration of (1143) domino tilings of Aztec diamonds. Organizers: Jeffrey Danciger,Stanford James G. Propp,UMassLowellandUC University Berkeley (1077-AD-345)

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MAA Invited Paper Session on Decoding Dominic Klyve,Central Geometry Washington University Presenters: Kim Plofker, Union College 1:00 PM –3:50PM Room 203, Hynes Stacy Langton,Universityof Organizers: Carolyn S. Gordon, San Diego Dartmouth College David Webb, Dartmouth AMS Session on Algebraic Geometry, I College 1:00PM The music of triangles. 1:00 PM –2:55PM Room 209, Hynes (1144) Christopher M. Judge*, 47405, and 1:00PM Variety of Finitely Generated k-algebra Luc Hillairet,UniversitedeNantes (1150) Homomorphisms. (1077-AI-862) Jon Yaggie, University of Illinois Chicago 1:30PM On the distribution of simple geodesics. (1077-14-2727) (1145) Peter Buser*, Ecole Polytechnique 1:15PM Cyclic Breuil modules and Hopf orders in Federale, Lausanne, and Hugo Parlier, (1151) characteristic p. Preliminary report. University of Fribourg, Switzerland Alan Koch, Agnes Scott College (1077-AI-2471) (1077-14-2378) 2:00PM Building Polygons from Spectral Data. 1:30PM On the Secant Defectivity of Classically (1146) Emily B Dryden*, Bucknell University, (1152) Studied Varieties. Victor Guillemin,MIT,andRosa Jia Wan, University of Idaho Sena-Dias, Instituto Superior Tecnico (1077-14-2724) (1077-AI-2161) 1:45PM Realizing Cubic Hypersurfaces in P3. 2:30PM Isospectral noncompact surfaces. (1153) Robert Edward Campbell,Universityof (1147) Preliminary report. California, Irvine (1077-14-2524) Pierre Albin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1077-AI-1911) 2:00PM The Arithmetic-Geometric Mean of genus (1154) 1 with Applications to genus 2 and 3. 3:00PM A nodal domain count mystery. Preliminary report. (1148) Gregory Berkolaiko, Peter Kuchment*, Eleanor S Farrington, Massachusetts Texas A&M University, and Uzy Maritime Academy (1077-14-2479) Smilansky, Weizmann Institute of Science and Cardiff University 2:15PM Stable birational equivalence and (1077-AI-988) (1155) geometric Chevalley-Warning. Xia Liao, Florida State University 3:30PM Distances between Riemannian (1077-14-2263) (1149) Manifolds. Sajjad Lakzian,CUNYGC,andChristina 2:30PM Maximal rank conjecture for rational Sormani*, CUNY GC and Lehman College (1156) curves on hypersurfaces. (1077-AI-1435) Sara Gharahbeigi, Washington University in St Louis (1077-14-671) MAA Minicourse #2: Part A 2:45PM Dolbeault dgas and L∞-algebroids (1157) associated to subvarieties. 1:00 PM –3:00PM Salon AB, 4th Floor, Marriott Shilin Yu, Pennsylvania State University (1077-14-2004) A dynamical systems approach to the differential equations course. AMS Session on Combinatorics and Graph Presenters: Paul Blanchard,Boston University Theory, IV

Robert Devaney,Boston 1:00 PM –3:55PM Room 111, Hynes University 1:00PM A new method for comparing chains of MAA Minicourse #10: Part A (1158) order statistics. Preliminary report. Corey M Manack, Amherst College 1:00 PM –3:00PM Salon HI, 4th Floor, Marriott (1077-05-2264) 1:15PM Cyclic Closures of Finitely Simple Pattern Geometry and art: A liberal arts mathematics course. (1159) Classes. John D Berman, Massachusetts Institute Presenter: Anneke Bart, Saint Louis of Technology (1077-05-2257) University 1:30PM The Smith Normal Form of the Incidence MAA Minicourse #9: Part A (1160) Matrix of Skew Lines in PG(3,q). Josh Ducey*, James Madison University, 1:00 PM –3:00PM Salon CD, 4th Floor, Marriott Andries Brouwer,T.U.Eindhoven, and Peter Sin, University of Florida Reading original sources in Latin for the (1077-05-2248) historian and mathematician. 1:45PM Random Set Systems. Organizers: Amy Shell-Gellasch,Beloit (1161) William B Jamieson, East Tennessee College State University (1077-05-2210)

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2:00PM Graphic Degree Sequences and Graphs 2:00PM Group Actions on Arrangement (1162) with a k-factor. (1173) Complements. Xiaofeng Gu, West Virginia University Daniel R Moseley, University of Oregon (1077-05-2200) (1077-13-2424) 2:15PM On real number labellings and graph 2:15PM A Generalization of Integer-valued (1163) invertibility. (1174) Polynomials Rings. Jeong-Ok Choi, John P. Georges, David K. Alan Loper, Ohio State University W. Mauro*, Trinity College, and Yan Newark, and Nicholas J. Werner*, Wang, Millsaps College (1077-05-2215) University of Evansville (1077-13-964) 2:30PM Break. 2:30PM On the Algebra Structure of Tor for 2:45PM Universal Cycles Under Equivalence (1175) Trivariate Monomial Ideals. Preliminary (1164) Relations. report. Melinda D. Lanius*, Wellesley College, Jared L Painter,TheUniversityofTexas and Andre Kuney, Oberlin College at Arlington (1077-13-1918) (1077-05-2176) 2:45PM Generalized Factorization in the Integers. 3:00PM On the Classiﬁcation of Stanley (1176) Preliminary report. (1165) Sequences. Alina A Florescu,UniversityofIowa David S Rolnick, Massachusetts Institute (1077-13-861) of Technology (1077-05-2172) 3:00PM Normsets of almost Dedekind domains 3:15PM Combinatorial Interpretations of the (1177) and atomicity. (1166) General Eulerian Numbers. Preliminary Richard Erwin Hasenauer, North Dakota report. State University (1077-13-536) Tingyao Xiong*, Radford University, Hung-ping Tsao, Novato, CA, and AMS Session on Manifolds, Cell Complexes, Jonathan I. Hall, Michigan State University (1077-05-2137) and Global Analysis, II

3:30PM Cops and robbers location game. 1:00 PM –3:10PM Room 305, Hynes (1167) James Carraher*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Ilkyoo Choi, Michelle 1:00PM The Unknotting Number of 3-Stranded Delcourt and Lawrence Erickson, (1178) Pretzel Knots. University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign Eric Staron,TheUniversityofTexasat (1077-05-2075) Austin (1077-57-757) 3:45PM Complexity of Tenacity Parameter in 1:15PM The finite group actions on prism (1168) Networks. (1179) manifolds. Preliminary report. Dara Moazzami*, Morteza Dadvand and Ryo Ohashi, King’s College Ali Moeini, University of Tehran, School (1077-57-471) of Engineering (1077-05-364) 1:30PM Analogy between knots and primes: (1180) number fields ramified over two primes. Preliminary report. AMS Session on Commutative Rings and Moshe Cohen*, Bar-Ilan University Algebras, I (Israel), and Michael Friedman,Bar-Ilan University (1077-57-391) 1:00 PM –3:10PM Room 105, Hynes 1:45PM Small volume link orbifolds. Preliminary 1:00PM The Core of a Strongly Stable Ideal. (1181) report. (1169) Bonnie Smith,UniversityofKentucky Christopher K Atkinson*andDavid (1077-13-2789) Futer, Temple University (1077-57-2615) 1:15PM Classifying annihilator-ideal graphs of 2:00PM Analytical Properties of the Conformal (1170) finite commutative rings- Part I. (1182) Dirac Operator on the Unit Sphere. Preliminary report. Preliminary report. Amanda R. Curtis*, University of Brett J. Pansano*andJohn A. Ryan, California, Santa Barbara, Alexander J. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Diesl, Wellesley College, and Jane C. (1077-58-2141) Rieck, University of Wisconsin- Madison 2:15PM A combinatorial differential graded (1077-13-2622) (1183) algebra for Legendrian knots from 1:30PM Classifying Annihilator-Ideal Graphs for generating families. (1171) Finite Commutative Rings: Part Two. Michael Bradley Henry*, Siena College, Amanda R Curtis,Universityof and Daniel R Rutherford,Universityof California, Santa Barbara, Alexander J Arkansas (1077-57-370) Diesl, Wellesley College, and Jane C 2:30PM A Lie-Algebraic Approach to the Local Rieck*, University of Wisconsin, Madison (1184) Index Theorem on a Flag Variety. (1077-13-2728) Seunghun Hong, Pennsylvania State 1:45PM Prime avoidance avoidance. Preliminary University (1077-58-2005) (1172) report. 2:45PM MU(BG2), CH(BG2),anddescent. Brian Johnson, University of Nebraska - (1185) Rebecca E Field,JamesMadison Lincoln (1077-13-2650) University (1077-58-2850)

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3:00PM Cosymplectic Metrics on Flag Manifolds 4:00PM Multiplier sequences for simple sets of (1186) and Partial Differential Equations. (1198) polynomials. Preliminary report. Marlio Paredes, Universidad del Turabo Tamas Forgacs, California State (1077-58-2931) University, Fresno (1077-30-58)

AMS Session on Recreational Mathematics: Miscellaneous Topics AMS Session on Real and Complex Analysis 1:00 PM –2:25PM Room 303, Hynes 1:00 PM –4:10PM Room 308, Hynes 1:00PM On Scaling Infinite Products and their 1:00PM A Pointwise Convergence and Bessel (1199) Application in Operator Decomposition. (1187) Capacity. Wei Zhang*andJianzhong Wang,Sam Javad Namazi, FDU (1077-26-649) Houston State University (1077-00-1953) 1:15PM Some Subclasses of the Real-Valued 1:15PM Finding Asymmetric Drumming Rhythms. (1188) Honorary Baire Two Functions on Rn. (1200) Andrew P Maturo*andNick Robbins, Preliminary report. Gettysburg College (1077-00-1539) Michael J. Evans, Washington and Lee 1:30PM A fast finite difference method for University, and Manuel J. Sanders III*, (1201) fractional diffusion equations. University of South Carolina Beaufort Preliminary report. (1077-26-2795) Treena Basu*andDr.Hong Wang, 1:30PM Generalized Fractional Integrals, University of South Carolina (1189) Derivatives and their Mellin’s transforms. (1077-00-513) Udita Nalin Katugampola, Delaware 1:45PM Multisite phosphorylation with substrate State University (1077-26-957) (1202) sequestration can robustly generate 1:45PM Polynomial Coefficients of Differential bistability. Preliminary report. (1190) Operators which are Diagonal with Kanadpriya Basu*andDr. Xinfeng respect to the Hermite Basis. Preliminary Liu, University of South Carolina report. (1077-00-512) Tamas Forgacs, California State 2:00PM Integral Closures of number fields. University Fresno, and Andrzej (1203) Fidele F Ngwane,UniversityofSouth Piotrowski*, University of Alaska Carolina, Salkehatchie, (1077-00-503) Southeast (1077-30-2698) 2:15PM Assessment of Enhanced College Algebra 2:00PM Limit Behavior of Iterated Holomorphic (1204) at Virginia State University in its Second (1191) Function Systems. Year. Preliminary report. Kourosh Tavakoli, City University of Robert E. Wieman, Virginia State New York (1077-30-2312) University (1077-97-2797) 2:15PM Fourier multipliers and Dirac operators. (1192) GWang*andCraig Nolder,FloridaState University (1077-30-1564) AMS Session on Undergraduate Research, IV 2:30PM Break. 1:00 PM –3:55PM Room 110, Hynes 2:45PM Bohr’s phenomenon for analytic (1193) functions into the exterior of a compact 1:00PM On 2-fold graceful labelings of graphs. convex body. (1205) Megan Cornett*, Indiana State RMAli*, Universiti Sains Malaysia, and Y University, and Ellen Sparks, illinois Abu-Muhanna, American University of State University (1077-05-2671) Sharjah (1077-30-147) 1:15PM Covering Graphs, Voltage Assignments, 3:00PM Convolutions of Complex-Valued (1206) and Hamiltonicity. (1194) Harmonic Mappings. Preliminary report. Sarah Alexander*, Barnard College, Stacey Muir,UniversityofScranton Matthew Hughes,BardCollege,and (1077-30-2765) Miriam Kuzbary,TheUniversityofTexas 3:15PM On a polynomial approximation problem. at Dallas (1077-05-2463) (1195) Arthur A. Danielyan,UniversityofSouth 1:30PM On Calculations of p-Typical Formal Florida (1077-30-2718) (1207) Group Laws. 3:30PM Coefficient Estimates for Bi-univalent Eddie Santiago Beck,Universityof (1196) Ma-Minda Starlike and Convex Functions. Georgia (1077-55-2774) See Keong Lee, Universiti Sains Malaysia 1:45PM Minimal Degree Parameterization for the (1077-30-276) (1208) Trefoil and Figure Eight Knots. 3:45PM Necessary Conditions for the Existence of Samantha Pezzimenti, Ramapo College (1197) Higher Order Extensions of Univalent of New Jersey (1077-57-865) Mappings from the Disk to the Ball. 2:00PM Mean-reverting pricing models. Preliminary report. (1209) Preliminary report. Jerry R. Muir,UniversityofScranton Jody Trapier Shipp,GeorgeMason (1077-32-2683) University (1077-60-1206)

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2:15PM Stochastic Reduction of an SIR Model. 2:40PM The Projective Ornament of Claude (1210) Iulia Hociota*andBruno D Welfert, (1221) Bragon. Arizona State University (1077-60-2105) Susan McBurney, Western Springs,IL 2:30PM Break. (1077-B1-702) 2:45PM Black-Scholes Model with Markov 3:00PM Linear Iterative Systems and String Art. (1211) Parameters. (1222) Samer S Habre, Lebanese American Mark Goldfarb*andBruno Welfert, University (1077-B1-412) Arizona State University (1077-60-2152) 3:20PM Diagrammatics: Art, Language, and 3:00PM The resulting weighted ranking. (1223) Mathematics. (1212) Preliminary report. Radmila Sazdanovic,Universityof Dmitry Andreevich Sumkin,Moscow Pennsylvania (1077-B1-1792) Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russia (1077-62-2957) 3:15PM Modified Chambolle Method for Speckle (1213) Image Denoising. Ethan Wyatt Lockhart*, North Carolina State University, Arundhati Bagchi Misra and Hyeona Lim, Mississippi State MAA Session on Projects, Demonstrations, University (1077-65-2184) and Activities that Engage Liberal Arts Mathematics Students, I 3:30PM Relative Efficiencies of the Maximum (1214) Partial Likelihood Estimators Under 1:00 PM –3:55PM Back Bay Ballroom Sampling Schemes. Nils S Nelson*, Utah State University, C, 2nd Floor, Sheraton and Haimeng Zhang, Mississippi State Organizer: Sarah Mabrouk, University (1077-62-1802) Framingham State University 3:45PM A Proemial Disquisition of Cardinality. 1:00PM The Real Cost of Home Ownership. (1215) John Paul Jablonski,Kutztown (1224) Stan Perrine, Charleston Southern University of Pennsylvania (1077-03-336) University (1077-L1-214) 1:20PM Beyond Formulas: A Collaboration (1225) Between Liberal Arts Underclassmen and Senior Math Majors. MAA Session on Arts and Mathematics, Alissa S. Crans*andRobert J. Rovetti, Together Again, III Loyola Marymount University (1077-L1-2272) 1:00 PM –3:35PM Room 311, Hynes 1:40PM Try Trisecting by Bisecting. (1226) Theresa Jorgensen*andBarbara Organizer: Douglas E. Norton, Shipman, University of Texas at Villanova University Arlington (1077-L1-1106) 1:00PM Modular construction of knot and link 2:00PM Geometric Constructions in (1216) patterns from simple tangles on (1227) Contemporary Problem Solving. -uniform tessellations. k Jeffrey L. Poet, Missouri Western State , Albion College David A Reimann University (1077-L1-974) (1077-B1-1280) 2:20PM Candy Bar Election. 1:20PM Braids, Cables, and Cells: An Interesting (1228) Ben Galluzzo, Shippensburg University (1217) Intersection of Mathematics, Computer (1077-L1-2651) Science, and Art. Preliminary report. Joshua Brandon Holden,Rose-Hulman 2:40PM Balancing structure and creativity in Institute of Technology (1077-B1-2731) (1229) projects for liberal arts mathematics. Preliminary report. 1:40PM Building a Better Beaded Bracelet: , Salem State University (1218) Transformations, Tessellations, and Tori. Reva Kasman (1077-L1-560) Susan Goldstine*, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, and Ellie Baker,Lexington,MA 3:00PM Hexiclouds: Graph Theory Meets LEGO (1077-B1-1776) (1230) Bricks. Edward W. Welsh, Westfield State 2:00PM Using tiling theory to generate weaving (1219) patterns with beads. University (1077-L1-2902) Gwen Laura Fisher*, beAd Infinitum, 3:20PM Observing the Motion of the Sun and the California, and Blake Mellor, Loyola (1231) Moon. Marymount University, Los Angeles, Helmer Aslaksen, Dept. of Math./Dept. California (1077-B1-633) of Teacher Education, Univ. of Oslo, 2:20PM A visual representation of the Norway (1077-L1-1687) (1220) decomposition of the integers into prime 3:40PM Survey It! Using Surveys to Answer factors. (1232) Student’s Questions. Margaret E. Kepner, Washington, DC Erin Smith, Zayed University Abu Dhabi, (1077-B1-2937) United Arab Emirates (1077-L1-1526)

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MAA Session on Research on the Teaching 3:40PM Student Conceptions and Misconceptions andLearningofUndergraduate (1241) with Order of Operations in Calculus. Mathematics, II Preliminary report. Ian G. Caldwell*, Eric Stade,University of Colorado, Boulder, and Hortensia 1:00 PM –3:55PM Room 202, Hynes Soto-Johnson,UniversityofNorthern Colorado (1077-M1-2739) Organizers: Sean Larsen, Portland State University MAA Session on Touch It, Feel It, Learn Stacy Brown, Pitzer College It: Tactile learning Activities in the Undergraduate Mathematics Classroom, IV Karen Marrongelle, Portland State University 1:00 PM –3:55PM Room 313, Hynes

1:00PM Assessing Suitability of Grades and Organizers: Jessica Mikhaylov,U.S. (1233) Course-Taking Patterns as Measures of Military Academy Long-term Student Outcomes following Julie Barnes,Western Inquiry-Based Learning Experiences. Carolina University Marina Kogan*andSandra Laursen, 1:00PM Euler Games for Differential Equations. University of Colorado, Boulder (1242) Rodney X. Sturdivant, United States (1077-M1-2034) Military Academy (1077-O1-599)

1:20PM Definitions and Uses of Function 1:20PM Does the Wave Equation Really Work? (1234) Composition in Secondary and Early (1243) Donald C. Armstead and Michael Collegiate Textbooks. A. Karls*, Ball State University Aladar K Horvath, Michigan State (1077-O1-1862) University (1077-M1-2171) 1:40PM Demonstrations That Work in the (1244) Mathematics Classroom. 1:40PM From intuition to rigor: Calculus Elton Graves, Rose-Hulman Institute of (1235) students’ reinvention of the definition of Technology (1077-O1-554) sequence convergence. 2:00PM Food for (Mathematical) Thought. Michael Oehrtman,Universityof (1245) Penelope H Dunham, Muhlenberg Northern Colorado, Craig Swinyard*, College (1077-O1-897) University of Portland, Jason Martin, 2:20PM How Many Mints Do I Have? University of Central Kansas, Catherine Hart-Weber and Kyeong Hah Roh, (1246) Nathan Axvig, Virginia Military Institute Arizona State University (1077-O1-1767) 2:40PM The Candy-Coated Mathematics 2:00PM Students’ Ways of Thinking about (1247) Classroom. (1236) Enumerative Combinatorics Problems: Erin Elizabeth Bancroft,GroveCity Deletion and Equivalence Classes. College (1077-O1-2603) Aviva Halani, Arizona State University 3:00PM Origami as Hands-on Math. (1077-M1-2805) (1248) Thomas C. Hull, Western New England University (1077-O1-2197) 2:20PM Quantitative Reasoning During Definition (1237) Formation: The Case of Absolute Value. 3:20PM Cookies, Sidewalk-chalk, and Office Jason Martin*, University of Central (1249) Chairs: Hands-on Activities from Calculus Arkansas, Michael Oehrtman,University to Comets. of Northern Colorado, Craig Swinyard, Jessica M Mikhaylov, U.S. Military University of Portland, and Beth Academy, West Point (1077-O1-2669) Cory, Sam Houston State University 3:40PM Using feather boas to teach students (1077-M1-2546) (1250) about functions in pre-calculus, calculus, and real analysis. Preliminary report. 2:40PM A Controlled Study of Collaborative Julie Barnes, Western Carolina University (1238) Learning in Intermediate Algebra. (1077-O1-1726) Claire Wyn Wladis*andAlla Morgulis, BMCC/CUNY (1077-M1-2580) MAA Session on the Mathematics of Sudoku 3:00PM Identifying Student Difficulties in and Other Pencil Puzzles, II (1239) Combinatorial Proof Production. Nicole Engelke*andTodd 1:00 PM –3:35PM Room 312, Hynes CadwalladerOlsker, California State Organizers: Laura Taalman,James University, Fullerton (1077-M1-2679) Madison University

3:20PM A Guided Reinvention of the Deﬁnitions of Jason Rosenhouse,James (1240) Ring, Integral Domain, and Field. Madison University Preliminary report. 1:00PM Arrowgrams. John Paul Cook,UniversityofOklahoma (1251) Kenneth L Price, University of Wisconsin (1077-M1-2693) Oshkosh (1077-H1-426)

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1:20PM Solitaire mancala games as pencil 2:15PM A Nonparametric Expectation (1252) puzzles. Preliminary report. (1264) Maximization Algorithm for Multiscale Brant Jones*, Laura Taalman and Hawkes Processes. Anthony Tongen,JamesMadison Erik Lewis*, UCLA, and George Mohler, University (1077-H1-2665) Santa Clara University (1077-VG-2156) 1:40PM Quantitative Analysis of Crossword 2:30PM Laser propagation in biaxial liquid (1253) Puzzle Difficulty. (1265) crystal polymers. John K McSweeney,Concordia Eric P Choate, Naval Postgraduate School University (1077-H1-1408) (1077-VG-2510) 2:00PM Finding closed knight’s tours on annular 2:45PM Connections between bounded error (1254) chessboards. Preliminary report. (1266) parameter identification and confidence Gregory P. B. Dresden, Washington & ellipsoids. Preliminary report. Lee University (1077-H1-148) Adam F Childers,Roanoke,VA 2:20PM Radon-Kaczmarz Puzzles: CAT Scans (1077-VG-527) (1255) Meet Sudoku. 3:00PM Singularity of Cubic Bézier Curves and Julian F Fleron*, Volker Ecke, (1267) Surfaces. Christine von Renesse and Philip K Edmond Nadler*, Eastern Michigan Hotchkiss, Westfield State University University, and Tae-wan Kim,Seoul (1077-H1-1603) National University (1077-VG-2617) 2:40PM Mutually Orthogonal Sudoku Latin 3:15PM A Posteriori Error Analysis of Finite (1256) Squares. Preliminary report. (1268) Element Method for Linear Nonlocal Nate L. Coursey, Kennesaw State Diffusion and Peridynamic Models. University (1077-H1-844) Qiang Du, Pennsylvania State University, 3:00PM Orthogonal Graph Colorings. Lili Ju, University of South Carolina, Li (1257) Serge C. Ballif, Penn State University Tian*andKun Zhou, Pennsylvania State (1077-H1-850) University (1077-VG-1691) 3:20PM Magic Squares and Sudoku. 3:30PM Computational Sensors As Mathematical (1258) John Lorch, Ball State University (1269) Models. (1077-H1-505) Emek Kose, Saint Mary’s College Of Maryland (1077-VG-2918)

MAA General Contributed Paper Session: Modeling and Applications of Mathematics, I SIAM Minisymposium on Sparsity in Inverse Problems and Signal Processing 1:00 PM –3:40PM Room 201, Hynes Organizers: Jennifer Beineke,Western 1:00 PM –3:55PM Room 206, Hynes New England College Organizer: Otmar Scherzer,University Lynette Boos,Providence of Vienna College 1:00PM Statistical Multiscale Analysis: From Aliza Steurer, Dominican (1270) Signal Detection to Nanoscale Photonic University Imaging. 1:00PM Lagrangian Transport Patterns for Axel Munk, U Goettingen and Max (1259) Radioactive Particles after Fukushima. Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry Preliminary report. (1077-62-2927) Tim Lai, Arizona State University 1:30PM A symbol-based approach to bar code (1077-VG-2157) (1271) decoding. 1:15PM Skeletons of Lagrangian Transport in Mark Iwen,DukeUniversity,Fadil (1260) Hurricane Katrina. Preliminary report. Santosa*, University of Minnesota, and Chris G. Wake, Arizona State University Rachel A Ward,UniversityofTexas (1077-VG-2158) (1077-94-2962) 1:30PM Linear instability in a combustion 2:00PM A nonlinear sampling problem about (1261) problem. (1272) signals with ﬁnite rate of innovation. Laura K. Gross*, Bridgewater State Preliminary report. University, Yi Yang,EmoryUniversity, Qiyu Sun, University of Central Florida and Jun Yu, University of Vermont (1077-94-1865) (1077-VG-304) 2:30PM Recent Results and Open Problems in 1:45PM Study on freezing in cylindrical domain (1273) Sparse Regularisation. (1262) with convective cooling and energy Markus Grasmair, Computational generation. Preliminary report. Science Center, University of Vienna Sushil Kumar, S. V. National Institute of (1077-49-1818) Technology Surat, India (1077-VG-650) 3:00PM Expressions of smoothness in 2:00PM A Boundary Value Problem for a Doublet. (1274) regularization. (1263) Kenneth H Luther, Valparaiso University Bernd Hofmann, Chemnitz University of (1077-VG-1098) Technology, Germany (1077-65-1315)

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3:30PM Hoelder Stability and Iterative The College Board/MAA Committee on (1275) Rconstruction in Inverse Problems. Mutual Concerns Panel Discussion Otmar Scherzer*, University of Vienna, Maarten de Hoop and Lingyun Qiu, 1:00 PM –2:20PM Room 306, Hynes Purdue University (1077-46-1843) What can colleges and universities do to increase student success in calculus? Organizers: James R. Choike,Oklahoma AMS Panel Discussion State University Carl C. Cowen, Indiana 1:00 PM –2:30PM Room 208, Hynes University Purdue University Indianapolis Summer math camps: The AMS (and Panelists: Alison Ahlgren, mathematician’s) role. University of Illinois, Organizers: Irwin Kra,SUNYatStony Urbana-Champaign Brook David M. Bressoud, Glenn Stevens,Boston Macalester College University Marilyn Carlson,Arizona Panelists: Moon Duchin,Tufts State University University Bernard Madison, Glenn Stevens,Boston University of Arkansas University Max Warshauer,Texas State University Summer Program for Women in Mathematics (SPWM) Reunion

MAA-Young Mathematicians Network Panel 1:00 PM –4:00PM Back Bay Ballroom Discussion D, 2nd Floor, Sheraton

1:00 PM –2:20PM Room 309, Hynes Organizer: Murli M. Gupta,George Washington University Career options for undergraduate mathematics majors. Organizers: Nyles Breecher, Hamline University Raluccca Gera, Naval AMS Special Session on New Perspectives in Postgraduate School Multiplicative Number Theory (Mathematics Panelists: Erin Corman,National Research Communities session), II Security Agency 1:30 PM –3:50PM Fairﬁeld, 3rd Floor, Marriott Michael Dorff,Brigham Young University Organizers: Leo Goldmakher,University Emily Kessler, Society of of Toronto Actuaries Jonathan Kish,Universityof Colorado at Boulder Micah Milinovich,University of Mississippi MAA Committee on Minority Paul Pollack,Universityof Participation/MAA Ofﬁce of Minority British Columbia/Simon Participation Panel Discussion Fraser University 1:30PM On the Correlation of completely 1:00 PM –2:20PM Room 304, Hynes (1276) multiplicative functions. Himadri Ganguli,SimonFraser Summer research programs. University (1077-11-640) Organizers: William Hawkins, Jr,MAA 2:00PM Discussion moderated by Kannan and University of the District Soundararajan of Columbia 3:00PM Resonance method for large character Robert Megginson, (1277) sums. University of Michigan Bob Hough, Stanford University Panelists: Min-Lin Lo, California State (1077-11-858) University, San Bernardino 3:30PM Elliptic Carmichael numbers. Asamoah Nkwanta,Morgan (1278) Carl Pomerance, Dartmouth College State University (1077-11-674)

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MAA Poster Session on Projects Supported by 2:00PM College Ready in Mathematics and the NSF Division of Undergraduate Education (1287) Physics Partnership. Bernard L. Madison*, Gay Stewart, 2:00 PM –4:00PM Veteran’s Auditorium, Shannon Dingman,Universityof 2nd floor, Hynes Arkansas, John Jones,Universityof Arkansas at Fort Smith, and Pete Joenks, Organizer: Jon Scott, Montgomery Springdale High School College 2:00PM Texas A&M UBM: Student Research 2:00PM UTMOST: Undergraduate Teaching of (1288) Experience is the Key. (1279) Mathematics with Open Software and May Boggess*, Jay Walton, Masami Textbooks. Fujiwara, Texas A&M University, Kaibin Robert Beezer, University of Puget Fu and Harriette Block, Prairie View A&M Sound, Jason Grout,DrakeUniversity, University Marja-Liisa Hassi, University of Colorado at Boulder, Thomas Judson*, Stephen F. 2:00PM REU Site: Modeling and Industrial Applied Austin State University, Kiran Kedlaya, (1289) Mathematics. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Aloysius Helminck*andHien Tran, Sandra Laursen, University of Colorado North Carolina State University at Boulder, and William Stein,University 2:00PM The Statistics Taught Using Resampling of Washington, Seattle (1290) and Randomization (STURR) Project. 2:00PM Change Agents for Teaching and Bob delMas, University of Minnesota (1280) Learning Statistics (CATALST). 2:00PM Evaluation and Assessment of Teaching Joan Garfield*, Bob delMas, Andy (1291) and Learning About Statistics (e-ATLAS). Zieffler, University of Minnesota, Allan Joan Garfield*, Bob delMas and Andy Rossman, Beth Chance, California Zieffler, University of Minnesota Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, George Cobb, Mount Holyoke 2:00PM Assessing Faculty Practice and Faculty College, and John Holcomb, Cleveland (1292) Development on Inquiry-Based Learning State University and Teaching in Undergraduate 2:00PM Math in the City. Mathematics. (1281) Petronela Radu, Stephen Hartke Sandra Laursen*andMarina Kogan, and Lauren Keough*, University of University of Colorado Boulder Nebraska-Lincoln 2:00PM The Poincare Institute: A Partnership for 2:00PM Discovery Learning Projects in (1293) Mathematics Education. (1282) Introductory Statistics. Montserrat Teixidor*, Analucia Brad Bailey, Dianna Spence*andSherry Schliemann, David Carraher, Roger LHix, North Georgia College & State Tobin and Caroline J. Hagen,Tufts University University

2:00PM Research-Based Video for Teaching 2:00PM Greater Birmingham Mathematics (1283) Undergraduate Proof. (1294) Partnership. Jim Sandefur*, Georgetown University, John Mayer*, University of Alabama at Connie Campbell, Millsaps College, and Birmingham, Bernadette Mullins, Kay Somers, Moravian College Birmingham-Southern College, Ruth Parker, Mathematics Education 2:00PM Quantitative Reasoning in the (1284) Contemporary World. Collaborative, Ann Dominick and Stuart Boersma*, Central Washington Tommy Smith, University of Alabama at University, Bernard L. Madison, Birmingham University of Arkansas, Caren 2:00PM Native American-based Mathematics Diefenderfer, Hollins University, and (1295) Materials for Integration into Shannon Dingman,Universityof Undergraduate Courses. Arkansas Charles P. Funkhouser*, Scott A. Annin, 2:00PM Using Research to Shape Instruction and California State University Fullerton, and (1285) Placement in Algebra and Precalculus. Miles Pfahl, Turtle Mountain Community Bernard L. Madison*, University of College Arkansas, Michael Pearson, 2:00PM Pathways to Calculus: Disseminating and Mathematical Association of America, (1296) Scaling a Professional Development Caren Diefenderfer, Hollins University, Model for Algebra Through Precalculus and Marilyn Carlson,ArizonaState Teaching and Learning. University Marilyn P. Carlson*, Wayne Raskind, 2:00PM Integrated Undergraduate Training in Fabio Milner, Arizona State University, (1286) Mathematics and Life Sciences at NCSU. Michael Oehrtman, Northern Colorado Hien Tran*, Aloysius Helminck, James University, Kevin Moore,Universityof Gilliam and Alun Lloyd, North Carolina Georgia, and Dawn Teuscher,Brigham State University Young University

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2:00PM Empowering Student Learning in 2:00PM Texas Leadership Initiative: Mathematics (1297) Mathematical Analysis. (1309) Instruction Transformed (Texas LIMIT). Barbara Shipman,TheUniversityof Kimberly Childs*, Deborah Pace, Lesa Texas at Arlington Beverly and Betty Alford, Stephen F. Austin State University 2:00PM MathDL Books Online. (1298) David Smith*andLang Moore,Duke 2:00PM Talented Teachers in Training for Texas University (1310) (T4). Lesa Beverly*, Keith Hubbard, Karen 2:00PM New Directions for MathDL. Embry-Jenlink and Dennis Gravatt, (1299) Lang Moore*andDavid Smith,Duke Stephen F. Austin State University University 2:00PM Paradigms in Physics: Interactive 2:00PM STEM Real World Applications of (1311) Electromagnetism Curricular Materials. (1300) Mathematics. Tevian Dray*, Corinne A. Manogue and Darren Narayan*andWilliam Basener, Emily H. van Zee, Oregon State Rochester Institute of Technology University

2:00PM PREP: MAA’s Professional Development 2:00PM Mathematical ACES: Algebraic Concepts (1301) Program. (1312) for Elementary Students. J. Michael Pearson,Mathematical Davida Fischman*, Shawn McMurran, Association of America, Nancy Baxter Joseph Jesunathadas, California State Hastings, Dickinson College, Barbara University-San Bernardino, Karla Edwards, Oregon State University, Wells, Ontario Montclair Elementary Nathaniel Dean, Texas State University School District, and Carol Cronk,San San Marcos, Virginia Buchanan,Hiram Bernardino Superintendent of Schools College, Mike Brilleslyper, United States 2:00PM Learning Discrete Mathematics and Air Force Academy, and Jon Scott*, (1313) Computer Science via Primary Historical Montgomery College Sources. Jerry Lodder*andDavid Pengelley,New 2:00PM Dynamic Visualization Tools for (1302) Multivariable Calculus. Mexico State University Paul Seeburger, Monroe Community 2:00PM Linear Algebra in New Environments College (1314) (LINE). Draga Vidakovic*, Georgia State 2:00PM Lurch, Educational Software for Writing University, Sergio Loch,GrandView (1303) Proofs. University, William Martin, North Dakota Kenneth G. Monks*, University of State University, and Jeff Suzuki, Scranton, and Nathan Carter, Bentley Brooklyn College University 2:00PM Careers in Mathematics. 2:00PM Flash Applets for WeBWorK Online (1315) Michael Dorff, Brigham Young University (1304) Homework System. 2:00PM Math Images. Barbara Margolius*, Felipe Martins, (1316) Eugene Klotz*, Math Forum, and Camilia Cleveland State University, Dan Gries, Smith Barnes, Sweet Briar College Hopkins School, and Yuping Wu, Cleveland State University 2:00PM Illustrating Graph Theory Concepts in (1317) Real World Settings. 2:00PM Maplets for Calculus. Joan M. Lucas*andRebecca Smith,The (1305) Douglas B. Meade*, University of South College at Brockport, State University of Carolina, and Philip B. Yasskin,TexasA New York &MUniversity 2:00PM Undergraduate Research in Mathematical 2:00PM Playing Games with a Purpose: A New (1318) Biology: Modeling cellular processes from (1306) Approach to Teaching and Learning bacteria to neurons. Statistics. George Yates*, Jonathan Caguiat, Jozsi Shonda R. Kuiper, Grinnell College, Jalics, Gary Walker and Mark Womble, Rodney Sturdivant*, Billy Kaczynski, Youngstown State University John Jackson and Kevin Cummiskey, 2:00PM University Scholars in STEM. United States Military Academy (1319) Leah Gold, Cleveland State University 2:00PM UBM-Group: Collaborations on Riverine 2:00PM Improving the Learning Environment (1307) Ecology (CORE): Investigations into (1320) for Underrepresented Students in species invasion and disease Mathematics through the S-STEM transmission at the interface betwwen Program. mathematics and biology. Alexandra Kurepa, North Carolina A&T James Peirce*andGregory Sandland, State University University of Wisconsin - La Crosse 2:00PM Research, Dissemination, and Faculty 2:00PM Texas Middle and Secondary Mathematics (1321) Development of Inquiry-Based Learning (1308) Project. (IBL) Methods in the Teaching and Kimberly Childs, Stephen F. Austin State Learning of Mathematics. University Ralf Spatzier, University of Michigan

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2:00PM Distributome–An Interactive Web-based 2:00PM Biology and Mathematics in Population (1322) Resource for Probability Distributions. (1333) Studies (BioMaPS) II. Kyle Siegrist*, University of Alabama in Donald Adongo*, K. Renee Fister, Terry Huntsville, Dennis Pearl,TheOhioState Derting, Chris Mecklin, Claire Fuller, University, and Ivo Dinov,Universityof Kate He, Emily Croteau, Maeve California Los Angeles McCarthy and Howard Whiteman, Murray State University 2:00PM Resources for Instructors Teaching (1323) “Elementary Mathematics for Teachers”. 2:00PM DIYModeling (Do It Yourself Modeling). Thomas H. Parker*andScott Baldridge, (1334) Frank Wattenberg*, Rod Sturdivant, Louisiana State University Chris Weld, United States Military Academy, Jim Rolf, United States 2:00PM Undergraduates Learning to Write Air Force Academy, Bill Bauldry, (1324) Mathematics: The Math Images Project. Appalachian State University, Joe K. A. Renninger*, A. M. Phillips, A. Yanik and Betsy Yanik,EmporiaState Lipman and Gene Klotz,Swarthmore University College 2:00PM WeBWorK: Improving Student Success in 2:00PM Productive Disposition: Of What Does (1335) Mathematics. (1325) It Consist? The Case of Preservice Arnold Pizer*, Mike Gage, Vicki Roth, Mathematics Teachers and Virtual University of Rochester, Michael Fieldwork: The Math Forum’s Virtual Pearson and John Wyatt,Mathematical Fieldwork Sequence. Association of America K. A. Renninger*, M. Chin, D. Fan, 2:00PM The Impact of the PREP 2011 Workshops Swarthmore College, and Wesley (1336) on Bioinformatics Research and Teaching Shumar, Drexel University Activities at Jacksonville State University. Monica Trifas*, Aaron Garrett, Jimmy 2:00PM Discovering the Art of Mathematics. Triplett and Chris Murdock, Jacksonville (1326) Julian F. Fleron*, Volker Ecke, Philip K. State University Hotchkiss and Christine von Renesse, Westﬁeld State University 2:00PM An Integrative Analysis of Human (1337) Cancer: Exploiting the Synergy of 2:00PM Introducing Statistical Techniques Mathematical and Molecular Biological (1327) Through Guided Interdisciplinary Approaches in Studying a Complex Research Projects. Problem. Shonda Kuiper, Grinnell College Jeffrey Forrester*andMichael P. Roberts, Dickinson College 2:00PM Math for America Boston: Teaching (1328) Scholars Program. Eileen Lee*, Math for America Boston, Steve Rosenberg, Suzanne Chapin and AMS Invited Address Glenn Stevens,BostonUniversity

2:00PM Focus on Mathematics: Creating Learning 2:15 PM –3:05PM Ballrooms A/B, 3rd floor, Hynes (1329) Cultures for High Student Achievement, A (1338) Invariant manifolds and dispersive targeted Math and Science Partnership. Hamiltonian evolution equations. Una MacDowell*, Education Wilhelm Schlag, University of Chicago Development Center, Inc, Steve (1077-35-2) Rosenberg, Glenn Stevens,Boston University, Al Cuoco, Education Development Center, Inc, and Wayne Harvey, Education Development Center, MAA/Young Mathematicians Network Panel Inc. Discussion 2:00PM Resequencing Calculus. (1330) Mark Gruenwald*andDavid Dwyer, 2:40 PM –4:00PM Room 309, Hynes University of Evansville Hit the ground running! Interview like a 2:00PM Quantitative Skills in Biology through pro and land the job. (1331) Scientific Inquiry at James Madison Organizers: Kristine Roinestad, University. Georgetown College Brian Walton*, Anthony Tongen, Nick Scoville, Ursinus Nusrat Jahan and Reid Harris,James College Madison University Panelists: David Cox, Amherst College 2:00PM Project MOSAIC: Integrating Modeling, Paul Dupuis,Brown (1332) Statistics, Computation and Calculus in University the Undergraduate Curriculum. Daniel Kaplan*, Macalester College, Eric Grinberg,Universityof Randall Pruim, Calvin College, Eric Massachusetts, Boston Marland, Appalachian State University, Betty Mayfield, Hood and Nicholas Horton, Smith College College

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MAA Panel Discussion Joint Prize Session Reception

2:40 PM –4:00PM Room 306, Hynes 5:30 PM –6:30PM Ballroom C, 3rd ﬂoor, Hynes Publishing with the MAA. Organizer: Zaven A. Karian,Denison SIGMAA on Environmental Mathematics University Business Meeting Panelists: Donald J. Albers,MAA Gerald J. Bryce, 5:30 PM –7:00PM Room 311, Hynes Hampden-Sydney College SIGMAA on the Philosophy of Mathematics MAA Subcommittee on Research by Business Meeting, Reception, and Guest Undergraduates Panel Discussion Lecture

2:40 PM –4:00PM Room 304, Hynes 5:45 PM –7:00PM Room 302, Hynes

Successful and diverse models for 5:45PM Business meeting and reception. mentoring research by undergraduates. 6:15PM Why is it plausible? Organizers: Sarah Spence Adams, (1340) Barry Mazur,HarvardUniversity Franklin W. Olin College of (1077-A0-44) Engineering Angel R. Pineda, California State University, Fullerton SIGMAA on Statistics Education Business Panelists: James Davis,Universityof Meeting and Reception Richmond 5:45 PM –7:15PM Room 201, Hynes Gary P. Gordon, Lafayette College Kathryn Leonard, California MAA Two-Year College Reception State University, Channel Islands 5:45 PM –7:00PM Arlington, 3rd Floor, Marriott Herbert A. Medina, Loyola Marymount University Alison A. Motsinger-Reif, SIGMAA on Mathematicians in Business, North Carolina State Industry, and Government Guest Lecture, University Reception, and Business Meeting Suzanne L. Weekes, Worcester Polytechnic 6:00 PM –8:45PM Room 203, Hynes Institute 6:00PM Rational rationing in healthcare: (1341) Observations for organ allocation. SIGMAA on Math Circles Demonstration for Sommer Gentry, U. S. Naval Academy JMM Participants (1077-A0-26) 7:15PM Reception. 3:00 PM –4:00PM Back Bay Ballroom 8:00PM Business meeting. B, 2nd Floor, Sheraton Come see and participate in this Math SIGMAA on Research in Undergraduate Circles experience. Mathematics Education Business Meeting Organizers: James Tanton,St.Mark’s Institute of Mathematics 6:00 PM –7:00PM Room 202, Hynes Tatiana Shubin,SanJose State University Young Mathematicians’ Network Open Forum AMS Retiring Presidential Address 7:30 PM –8:30PM Berkeley, 3rd Floor, Marriott 3:20 PM –4:10PM Ballrooms A/B, 3rd floor, Hynes All meeting participants, including (1339) Our challenges. undergraduates and graduate students, George E. Andrews, Penn State are welcome to discuss topics and issues University (1077-00-14) affecting young mathematicians. Organizers: Josh Laison, Williamette Joint Prize Session University Thomas Wakefield, 4:25 PM –5:25PM Ballrooms A/B, 3rd floor, Hynes Youngstown State University

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AMS-MAA-MER Special Session on Friday, January 6 Mathematics and Education Reform, I

8:00 AM –10:50AM Constitution Ballroom A, 2nd Floor, Sheraton Joint Meetings Registration Organizers: William Barker,Bowdoin 7:30 AM –4:00PM 2nd Floor Corridor, College opposite Hall C, Hynes William McCallum, University of Arizona Bonnie Saunders,University of Illinois at Chicago 8:00AM A statewide partnership to support AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research (1348) professional development for in Mathematics by Undergraduates and mathematics teachers. Preliminary Students in Post-Baccalaureate Programs, I report. W James Lewis,Universityof 8:00 AM –10:50AM Back Bay Ballroom Nebraska-Lincoln (1077-97-2151) A, 2nd Floor, Sheraton 8:30AM Incorporating the Common Core State Organizers: Bernard Brooks,Rochester (1349) Standards Integrated Secondary Institute of Technology Curriculum in a Teacher Training Course. Amanda Cangelosi and Hugo Rossi*, Jobby Jacob,Rochester University of Utah (1077-97-184) Institute of Technology 9:00AM The Mathematical Education of Teachers Jacqueline Jensen,Sam (1350) II and Progressions for the Common Core Houston State University State Standards for Mathematics. Darren A. Narayan, Preliminary report. Rochester Institute of Sybilla Beckmann, University of Georgia Technology (1077-97-1542) 8:00AM The Rainbow Domination Number of a 9:30AM A Guided Tour of the Illustrative (1342) Graph. Preliminary report. (1351) Mathematics Project. Preliminary report. Micaela Harris, Ruth Haas, Kristina Kristin L. Umland,UniversityofNew Martin*, Shira Polster and Julie Woods, Mexico (1077-97-644) Smith College (1077-05-1886) 10:00AM Assessing Mathematical Habits of Mind 8:30AM Discrete Models with Proportional (1352) for Teaching. (1343) Harvesting. Ryota Matsuura*, St. Olaf College, Sarah James C Cameron*, University of Texas Sword, Mary Beth Piecham, Education at Austin, Luis Diego Granera,Yale Development Center, Inc., Glenn University, Peter Jaworski,Central Stevens, Boston University, and Al Michigan University, and Loren Santana, Cuoco, Education Development Center, Skidmore College (1077-39-107) Inc. (1077-97-2827) 9:00AM On 2-fold G-designs where G has order 10:30AM Transforming geometry through (1344) at most 4 and edge-multiplicity 2. (1353) transformations. Sabrina Allen*, University of Illinois, Patrick Callahan, University of California Champaign-Urbana, Jelsi Bolt, Kankakee Los Angeles (1077-97-1879) High School, IL, Ryan C. Bunge, Illinois State University, Scott Burton,Virginia Tech, and Saad I. El-Zanati, Illinois State University (1077-05-2666) AMS-SIAM Special Session on the 9:30AM On Rosa-type labelings of directed Mathematics of Computation: Algebra and (1345) graphs. Number Theory, I Catherine Kruger*, Eastern Illinois University, Saad El-Zanati, Illinois State 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 109, Hynes University, and Jessica Klister,University of Wisconsin La Crosse (1077-05-2812) Organizers: Jean-Marc Couveignes, Universit´edeToulouse 10:00AM Higher Rectiﬁcation and Polytope (1346) Numbers: The Simplex Case. Preliminary Michael J. Mossinghoff, report. Davidson College Chelsea R. Snyder*andChristina C. Igor E. Shparlinski, Scurlock, Grove City College Macquarie University, (1077-05-40) Australia 10:30AM Restricted Symmetric Signed 8:00AM Faster deterministic integer (1347) Permutations. (1354) factorization. Andy Hardt and Justin M. Troyka*, David Harvey, University of New South Carleton College (1077-05-91) Wales (1077-11-881)

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8:30AM Algorithms for Approximately Counting Rebecca Segal,Virginia (1355) Semismooth Integers. Preliminary report. Commonwealth University Jonathan P Sorenson, Butler University 8:00AM Stability and bifurcations in an epidemic (1077-11-405) (1366) model with nonlinear incidence rate and 9:00AM Elliptic Pseudoprimes and Elliptic varying immunity period. Preliminary (1356) Carmichael Numbers. Preliminary report. report. Joseph H. Silverman*, Brown University, Eric José Avila, Universidad Autonoma and Chantal David, Concordia University de Yucatan (1077-34-295) (1077-11-173) 8:30AM Reaction-Diffusion-Delay Model for 9:30AM Wieferich primes, heuristics, and (1367) Chondrocyte/Cytokine Interactions (1357) computations. Preliminary report. During Typical Injury Response in Pace P Nielsen, Brigham Young Articular Cartilage. Preliminary report. University (1077-11-48) Jason M Graham,UniversityofIowa 10:00AM Dense product-free sets. (1077-92-719) (1358) Carl Pomerance, Dartmouth College 9:00AM Dynamical behavior of a model for (1077-11-406) (1368) hormonal regulation of the menstrual 10:30AM Congruence properties of the cycle. (1359) multiplicative partition function. James F Selgrade*andAlison Paul Pollack, University of British Margolskee, North Carolina State Columbia (1077-11-285) University (1077-92-2359) 9:30AM Fatal Disease and Demographic Allee (1369) Effect: Population Persistence and AMS-AWM Special Session on Nonlinear Extinction. Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations, II Avner Friedman,Mathematical Bioscience Institute/ The Ohio State 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 300, Hynes University, and Abdul-Aziz Yakubu*, Howard University (1077-34-2150) Organizers: Barbara Lee Keyfitz,Ohio State University 10:00AM Attenuant and Resonant 2-Cycles in (1370) Discrete-Time 2-Species Population Charis Tsikkou, Ohio State Models. Preliminary report. University John E. Franke*, North Carolina 8:00AM Transonic flow in gas dynamics. State University, and Matthew A. (1360) Dehua Wang, University of Pittsburgh Morena, University of New Hampshire (1077-35-296) (1077-92-1624) 8:30AM A system of conservation laws with no 10:30AM On a nonlinear system of difference (1361) classical Riemann solution. Existence of (1371) equations. Dafermos profiles for singular shocks. MPredescu, Bentley University Barbara Lee Keyfitz and Charis (1077-39-921) Tsikkou*, The Ohio State University (1077-35-2501) 9:00AM Applications of Generalized (1362) Characteristics. AMS Special Session on Algebraic and Constantine M. Dafermos,Brown Geometric Aspects of Integrable Systems University (1077-35-1049) and Random Matrices, I 9:30AM Singularity Formation in Nonstrictly (1363) Hyperbolic Equations. 8:00 AM –10:40AM Room 107, Hynes Katarzyna Saxton, Loyola University, New Orleans (1077-35-2206) Organizers: Anton Dzhamay,University 10:00AM On the transonic shocks of Euler-Poisson of Northern Colorado (1364) equations. Kenichi Maruno,University Tao Luo, Georgetown University of Texas, Pan American (1077-35-582) Virgil Pierce,Universityof 10:30AM Enhanced Lifespan of Smooth Solutions of Texas, Pan American (1365) a Burgers-Hilbert Equation. 8:00AM Random matrix methods for the John K Hunter*andMihaela Ifrim, (1372) enumeration of 3-valent maps. University of California at Davis Nicholas M. Ercolani,Universityof (1077-35-2769) Arizona, and Virgil U. Pierce*, University of Texas – Pan American (1077-60-786) AMS Special Session on Advances in 8:30AM The Riemann–Hilbert approach to the Mathematical Biology, I (1373) gap probabilities in multi-time random point processes of Airy and Pearcey type. 8:00 AM –10:50AM Simmons, 3rd Floor, Marriott Marco Bertola*, Concordia University, Montreal, and Mattia Cafasso, Organizers: David Chan,Virginia Universite’ d’Angers, France Commonwealth University (1077-60-1169)

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9:00AM β ensemble on a Jordan curve. Ismar Volic, Wellesley (1374) Preliminary report. College Seung Yeop Lee*, Caltech, and Nikolai 8:00AM Embedding Calculus and Topological Makarov, Caltech.edu (1077-60-1213) (1383) Categories. 9:30AM A matrix model for simple Hurwitz Daniel Pryor, University of Virginia (1375) numbers and topological recursion. (1077-55-2258) Gaetan Borot, Bertrand Eynard, 8:30AM Geometric representative of a Service de Physique Theorique de (1384) (3d − 8)−dimensional cycle in knot Saclay, Motohico Mulase,Universityof spaces. California, Davis, and Brad Safnuk*, Kristine Pelatt, University of Oregon Central Michigan University (1077-14-42) (1077-55-1185) 10:00AM Dyson’s Brownian Motions and Critical 9:00AM New Developments in Approximation (1376) Diffusions. (1385) Towers of Functors. Preliminary report. Mark A Adler, Brandeis University Rosona M Eldred, University of Illinois (1077-60-2222) Urbana-Champaign (1077-55-2600) 9:30AM The mod 2 homology of infinite AMS Special Session on Arithmetic (1386) loopspaces. Geometry, II Jason B. McCarty, University of Virginia (1077-55-258) 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 204, Hynes 10:00AM A homotopy-theoretic view of (1387) Bott–Taubes integrals and knot spaces. Organizers: Bo-Hae Im, Chung-Ang RobinM.J.Koytcheff,BrownUniversity University, South Korea (1077-55-2329) Jennifer Johnson-Leung, 10:30AM A classification of Taylor towers. University of Idaho (1388) Preliminary report. Jennifer Paulhus, Grinnell Michael Ching, Amherst College College (1077-55-1625) 8:00AM Abelian surfaces with extra (1377) endomorphims. AMS Special Session on Combinatorial Reinier Broker*, Brown University, Geometry of Polytopes, III Kristin Lauter, Microsoft Research, and Marco Streng,UniversityofWarwick 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 101, Hynes (1077-14-960) 8:30AM Automorphism groups of a family of Organizers: Egon Schulte, Northeastern (1378) maximal curves. University Robert M. Guralnick,Universityof Asia Ivic Weiss,York Southern California, Beth Malmskog*, University Wesleyan University, and Rachel Pries, 8:00AM Symmetries of Equivelar Toroids. Colorado State University (1077-11-2028) (1389) Asia Ivic Weiss*, York University, Isabel 9:00AM Genus 2 curves with (4, 4)-split Jacobians. Hubard, UNAM Mexioc City, Mexico, (1379) Nils Bruin and Kevin Doerksen*, Simon Alen Orbanic, University of Ljubljana, Fraser University (1077-11-2125) Slovenia, and Daniel Pellicer,UNAM 9:30AM Decomposing Jacobian Varieties of Morelia, Mexico (1077-52-614) (1380) Curves. 8:30AM Equivelar 4-twistoids. Jennifer Paulhus, Grinnell College (1390) Mark Mixer*, York University, Isabel (1077-11-2349) Hubard, Daniel Pellicer,UNAM,and 10:00AM On the arithmetic of the Legendre curve Asia Ivic Weiss,YorkUniversity (1381) in a tower of function fields. Preliminary (1077-52-2512) report. 9:00AM Projective Polytopes. Preliminary report. Douglas Ulmer, Georgia Institute of (1391) Javier Bracho, UNAM (1077-52-2607) Technology (1077-11-2192) 9:30AM Non-Triangulatable Polyhedra. 10:30AM An arithmetic intersection formula for (1392) B. Carrigan, Auburn University (1382) denominators of Igusa class polynomials. (1077-52-1643) Preliminary report. 10:00AM The Law of Aboav–Weaire and its Kristin Lauter, Microsoft Research, (1393) analogue in three dimensions. and Bianca Viray*, Brown University Richard Ehrenborg*, University of (1077-11-718) Kentucky, Menachem Lazar, Institute for Advanced Study, and Jeremy Mason, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory AMS Special Session on Calculus of Functors (1077-52-866) and Its Applications, I 10:30AM Vertex-transitive polyhedral maps and 8:00 AM –10:50AM Exeter, 3rd Floor, Marriott (1394) actions of discrete groups on surfaces. Roman Nedela, Matej Bel University, Organizers: Brian Munson, Wellesley Banska Bystrica, Slovak rep. College (1077-05-852)

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AMS Special Session on Control Theory and 8:30AM Topological Methods in Klein’s Resolvent Inverse Problems for Partial Differential (1402) Problem. Equations, II Yuri Burda, University of Toronto (1077-12-932) 8:00 AM –10:50AM Clarendon, 9:00AM The Lie groupoid of the integers. 3rd Floor, Marriott (1403) Alexandru Buium,UniversityofNew Mexico (1077-13-419) Organizers: Shitao Liu,Universityof Helsinki 9:30AM Real Picard-Vessiot theory. (1404) Zbigniew Hajto*, Jagiellonian University, Ting Zhou, Massachusetts Teresa Crespo, Universitat de Barcelona, Institute of Technology and Elzbieta Sowa, Jagiellonian 8:00AM Carleman estimates for systems of University (1077-12-1171) (1395) partial differential equations. 10:00AM Computing the Galois Group of Linear Matthias Eller, Georgetown University (1077-35-2369) (1405) Difference-Differential Equations. Ruyong Feng, KLMM, Chinese Academy 8:30AM The Calderon Problem with Partial Data. of Sciences (1077-34-541) (1396) Gunther Uhlmann,UCIrvineand University of Washington (1077-35-2584) 10:30AM Solve Linear Differential Equations in (1406) terms of Hypergeometric Functions. 9:00AM Schrodinger¨ hats: cloaked amplifiers via Tingting Fang*andMark van Hoeij, (1397) transformation optics. Florida State University (1077-34-1224) Allan Greenleaf*, University of Rochester, Yaroslav Kurylev, University College London, Matti Lassas, University of Helsinki, Ulf Leonhardt, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St. Andrews, and Gunther Uhlmann, University of California-Irvine AMS Special Session on Fractal Geometry in (1077-35-613) Pure and Applied Mathematics (in memory 9:30AM Recovery of a source or a sound speed of Benoit Mandelbrot), III (1398) with one measurement and applications. Plamen Stefanov*, Purdue University, 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 200, Hynes and Gunther Uhlmann,Universityof Washington and UC Irvine (1077-35-615) Organizers: Michael L. Lapidus, 10:00AM Hybrid inverse problems and internal University of California, (1399) functionals. Riverside Guillaume Bal, Columbia University Erin Pearse,Universityof (1077-35-532) Oklahoma 10:30AM Local Analysis of Inverse Problems: Machiel van (1400) Holder¨ Stability and Iterative Frankenhuijsen, Utah Valley Reconstruction. University Maarten de Hoop*, Lingyun Qiu,Purdue 8:00AM Packing dimension of images of additive University, and Otmar Scherzer, (1407) Lévy processes. University of Vienna (1077-35-1651) Liang Zhang,UniversityofUtah (1077-60-1001) AMS Special Session on Differential 8:30AM Correlation-length bounds, and estimates (1408) for intermittent islands in parabolic Algebraic Geometry and Galois Theory (in SPDEs. memory of Jerald Kovacic), II Davar Khoshnevisan,UniversityofUtah (1077-60-1461) 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 103, Hynes 9:00AM Multifractal analysis of Lévy fields. Organizers: Phyllis Joan Cassidy,Smith (1409) Arnaud Durand*, Univ. Paris-Sud, and College and the City Stephane Jaffard,Univ.Paris-Est University of New York (1077-60-1304) Richard Churchill, Hunter 9:30AM Fractal properties of the College and Graduate Center (1410) Schramm-Loewner evolution. at CUNY Gregory F Lawler, University of Chicago Claude Mitschi,Université (1077-60-609) de Strasbourg, France 10:00AM On-diagonal oscillation of the heat Michael Singer,North (1411) kernels on p.c.f. self-similar fractals. Carolina State University Naotaka Kajino, University of Bielefeld 8:00AM Reductive connections and Ruled (1077-60-952) (1401) surfaces. 10:30AM The Geometry of the Mandelbrot Set. Camilo Sanabria,CUNYBronx (1412) Robert L. Devaney,BostonUniversity Community College (1077-34-727) (1077-37-1601)

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AMS Special Session on Frontiers in 9:30AM G-spectra and equivariant Geomathematics, II (1420) commutativity. Preliminary report. Bertrand J Guillou*, University of Illinois 8:00 AM –10:50AM Suffolk, 3rd Floor, Marriott - Urbana-Champaign, J Peter May, University of Chicago, and Nathaniel Organizers: Willi Freeden,Universityof Stapleton, MIT (1077-55-2623) Kaiserslautern 10:00AM A homotopical version of p-local finite Volker Michel,Universityof (1421) groups. Preliminary report. Siegen Matthew J. K. Gelvin*, University of M. Zuhair Nashed, Copenhagen, and Kári Ragnarsson, University of Central Florida Chicago, IL (1077-55-2305) Thomas Sonar, Technical 10:30AM The Segal conjecture in homotopical University of Braunschweig (1422) group theory. Preliminary report. 8:00AM Mathematical Texture Anaylsis. William G. Dwyer,NotreDame,and (1413) Helmut Schaeben,Geophysics Kári Ragnarsson*, Google/AIM and Geoscience Informatics, TU (1077-55-2246) Bergakademie Freiberg (1077-41-1819) 9:00AM Regularization of Tomographic Inverse (1414) Problems in Geophysics. AMS Special Session on Linear Algebraic Volker Michel, Geomathematics Groups: Their Arithmetic, Geometry, and Group, University of Siegen, Germany Representations, II (1077-65-1069) 8:00 AM –10:50AM Berkeley, 3rd Floor, Marriott 10:00AM Sparse Approximation on the Sphere - A (1415) Matching Pursuit with a Kernel Based Organizers: R. Skip Garibaldi,Emory Dictionary. University , Geomathematics Roger Telschow George McNinch,Tufts Group, University of Siegen University (1077-41-1312) 8:00AM Graham’s Variety and Perverse Sheaves 10:30AM The Regularized Functional Matching (1423) on the Nilpotent Cone. (1416) Pursuit and its Application to Inverse Amber Russell, Louisiana State Ill-posed Problems in Geomathematics. University (1077-22-692) Doreen Fischer, Geomathematics Group, University of Siegen (1077-41-1310) 8:30AM Nilpotent Orbit Closures in the Symplectic (1424) and Orthogonal Groups. Preliminary report. AMS Special Session on Homotopy Theory, I Ellen J Goldstein,Northwestern University (1077-14-1788) 8:00 AM –10:50AM Provincetown, 9:00AM Algebraic Frobenius splitting of bundles 4th Floor, Marriott (1425) on flag varieties. Preliminary report. Organizers: Mark Behrens, Chuck Hague, University of Delaware Massachusetts Institute of (1077-20-1597) Technology 9:30AM Equivariant Birational Properties of Mark W. Johnson, (1426) Algebraic Tori. Preliminary report. Pennsylvania State Nicole Lemire, University of Western University, Altoona Ontario (1077-20-2180) Haynes R. Miller, 10:00AM Reduced Null Cones. Massachusetts Institute of (1427) Gerald W. Schwarz*, Brandeis University, Technology and Hanspeter Kraft,UniversityofBasel James Turner,Calvin (1077-20-688) College 10:30AM On a duality for nilpotent orbits. Donald Yau, Ohio State (1428) Preliminary report. University Eric Sommers,Universityof Massachusetts at Amherst 8:00AM On the equivariant cohomology of Stiefel (1077-17-1214) (1417) manifolds. Preliminary report. William C Kronholm, Whittier College (1077-55-56) AMS Special Session on Noncommutative 8:30AM Cohomology of equivariant Birational Geometry and Cluster Algebras, I (1418) Grassmannians and motivic characteristic classes for quadratic 8:00 AM –10:50AM Dartmouth, bundles. 3rd Floor, Marriott Daniel Dugger, University of Oregon (1077-55-1920) Organizers: Arkady Berenstein, 9:00AM Global equivariant homotopy theory. University of Oregon (1419) Anna Marie Bohmann,Northwestern Vladimir Retakh,Rutgers University (1077-55-1866) University

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8:00AM Yangians, quantum loop algebras and 8:00AM A Generalization of the Mader-Helgason (1429) trigonometric connections. (1440) Inversion Formulas for Radon Valerio Toledano Laredo, Northeastern Transforms. University, Boston, MA (1077-17-1443) Yuri A. Antipov and Boris Rubin*, 9:00AM Yangians and quantum loop algebras. Louisiana State University (1077-44-724) (1430) Sachin Gautam, Columbia University 8:30AM Local injectivity of weighted Radon (1077-17-2633) (1441) transforms. 9:30AM A Minimal Non-Koszul A(Γ). Jan Boman, Stockholm University (1431) David Nacin, Lincoln Park (1077-44-715) (1077-16-2292) 9:00AM Characters of group representations and 10:00AM Noncommutative Quadratic Forms. (1442) semi-classical analysis. Preliminary (1432) Preliminary report. report. Padmini P Veerapen*andMichaela Victor Guillemin, Massachusetts Vancliff, University of Texas, Arlington Institute of Technology (1077-22-466) (1077-16-2846) 10:00AM Orbital Integrals, applications and 10:30AM Functorial approach to differentiation (1443) problems. (1433) algorithms for representations of Sigurdur Helgason,MITCambridgeMA partially ordered sets. 02139 (1077-43-916) Mark Kleiner*, Syracuse University, and Markus Reitenbach, Colorado Mesa University (1077-16-1476)

AMS Special Session on Progress in Free Analysis, II

8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 108, Hynes Organizers: J. William Helton,University AMS Special Session on Recent Advances of California, San Diego in Mathematical Biology, Ecology, and Paul S. Muhly,Universityof Epidemiology, I Iowa 8:00AM Free Inequalities. Preliminary report. 8:00 AM –10:50AM Arlington, 3rd Floor, Marriott (1434) Scott McCullough, University of Florida (1077-47-1176) Organizers: Sophia R. Jang,TexasTech University 8:30AM Noncommutative Inequalities. (1435) J. William Helton, UCSD La Jolla, Andrew L. Nevai,University California (1077-46-1641) of Central Florida 9:00AM Noncommutative Real Ideals and an Lih-Ing W. Roeger,Texas (1436) Algorithm for Computing Them. Tech University Christopher S Nelson,Universityof California, San Diego (1077-47-2006) 8:00AM Intracellular Viral Life-cycle Induced Rich (1444) Dynamics in Tumor Virotherapy. 9:30AM Noncommutative analytic functions. Preliminary report. (1437) Dmitry Kaliuzhnyi-Verbovetskyi,Drexel Jianjun Paul Tian*, College of William University (1077-46-909) and Mary, Yang Kuang,ArizonaState 10:00AM Noncommutative functions: examples University, and Hanchun Yang, Yunnan (1438) and key features. University (1077-34-1249) Victor Vinnikov, Ben Gurion University 8:30AM Extinction or Persistence of Disease in (1077-47-2691) (1445) Stochastic Multi-Patch Epidemic Models. 10:30AM Dilation theory, commutant lifting and Glenn Lahodny Jr.*andLinda J. S. Allen, (1439) semicrossed products. Texas Tech University (1077-92-1876) Kenneth R. Davidson,Universityof Waterloo (1077-47-616) 9:00AM Global Dynamics of a Cholera Model (1446) that Includes Direct and Indirect Transmission. AMS Special Session on Radon Transforms Pauline van den Driessche,Universityof and Geometric Analysis (in honor of Victoria, B.C., Canada (1077-92-911) Sigurdur Helgason’s 85th birthday), I 9:30AM Modeling the spread of waterborne 8:00 AM –10:40AM Room 104, Hynes (1447) disease: Incorporating heterogeneity in multiple transmission pathways. Organizers: Jens Christensen, Suzanne L. Robertson,Mathematical University of Maryland Biosciences Institute (1077-92-1638) Fulton Gonzalez,Tufts 10:00AM Seasonality in Avian Inﬂuenza H5N1. University (1448) Necibe Tuncer, University of Tulsa, and Todd Quinto,Tufts Maia Martcheva*, University of Florida University (1077-92-233)

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10:30AM Spatiotemporal Mutualistic Model of 8:00AM A KAM phenomenon for (1449) Mistletoes and Birds. (1456) volume-preserving flows. Rongsong Liu, Department of Jianyu Chen*, Penn State University, Mathematics and Department of Zoology Huyi Hu, Michigan State University, and and Physiology, University of Wyoming, Yakov Pesin, Penn State University Junping Shi*, College of William (1077-37-1460) and Mary, Carlos Martinez del Rio, 8:30AM Holder shadowing on finite intervals. Department of Zoology and Physiology, (1457) Sergey Tikhomirov, Freie Universität University of Wyoming, and Chuncheng Berlin (1077-37-678) Wang, Department of Mathematics and 9:00AM Classifying Teichmueller Disks with Department of Zoology and Physiology, (1458) Completely Degenerate Kontsevich-Zorich University of Wyoming (1077-92-1067) Spectrum. David Aulicino, University of Maryland - AMS Special Session on Recent Trends in College Park (1077-37-803) Graph Theory, I 9:30AM Entropy of Schur-Weyl measures. (1459) Sevak Mkrtchyan, Rice University 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 102, Hynes (1077-37-427) 10:00AM Uniqueness of Equilibrium States: Organizer: Ralucca Gera, Naval (1460) Constructive Techniques in a Postgraduate School Non-Uniform, Non-Markov Setting. 8:00AM Closed 3-stop distance in graphs. Vaughn Climenhaga,Universityof (1450) Ralucca Gera*, Naval Postgraduate Toronto, and Daniel J Thompson*, School, Linda Eroh and Steven Winters, The Pennsylvania State University University of Wisconsin Oshkosh (1077-37-1329) (1077-05-1637) 10:30AM Unique equilibrium states using regular 8:30AM The Independence Number for the (1461) collections of times. (1451) Generalized Petersen Graphs. Vaughn Climenhaga*, University of Joseph Fox*, Salem State University, Toronto, and Daniel J Thompson, Ralucca Gera and Pantelimon Stanica, Pennsylvania State University Naval Postgraduate School (1077-05-722) (1077-37-1618) 9:00AM Towards Vizing’s Independence Number (1452) Conjecture. MAA Invited Paper Session on Contemporary Craig Eric Larson*, Virginia Unsolved Problems Commonwealth University, Taylor Short, University of South Carolina, and 8:00 AM –10:45AM Room 302, Hynes Bethany Turner, N.C. State University (1077-05-2308) Organizers: Ellen Kirkman,WakeForest University 9:30AM A fractional analogue of Brook’s Jeremy Rouse,WakeForest (1453) theorem. University Xing Peng*andLinyuan Lu,University of South Carolina (1077-05-611) 8:00AM Partial Differential Equations: The Navier (1462) Stokes Equation. 10:00AM From sum optimal to max optimal graph C Eugene Wayne,BostonUniversity (1454) rankings. (1077-AF-1011) Bonnie C. Jacob, National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester 8:45AM The Smooth Four Dimensional Poincare Institute of Technology, and Jobby (1463) Conjecture. Jacob*, Rochester Institute of Joel Hass, UC Davis (1077-AF-1795) Technology (1077-05-2127) 9:30AM Beyond Computation: The P versus NP 10:30AM Modified Linear Programming Weighting (1464) question. (1455) for Graph Pebbling. Preliminary report. Michael Sipser, MIT (1077-AF-1281) Luke Postle, Georgia Institute of 10:15AM The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Technology, Dan Cranston, (1465) Conjecture. Virginia Commonwealth University, William Arthur Stein,Universityof and Carl Yerger*, Davidson College Washington (1077-AF-2094) (1077-05-1006) MAA Invited Paper Session on Knot Theory Untangled AMS Special Session on Uniformly and Partially Hyperbolic Dynamical Systems, I 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 311, Hynes

8:00 AM –10:50AM Fairﬁeld, 3rd Floor, Marriott Organizer: Rolland Trapp, California State University, San Organizers: Todd Fisher,Brigham Bernardino Young University 8:00AM Knot theory: past, present, future. Boris Hasselblatt,Tufts (1466) Francis Bonahon,UniversityofSouthern University California (1077-AG-1741)

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8:30AM Intrinsic properties of graphs embedded 8:15AM Stable Endomorphism Rings. (1467) in R3. (1480) Shannon Talbott,TheUniversityofIowa Erica Flapan, Pomona College (1077-16-1984) (1077-AG-963) 8:30AM Deformations of an Algebra. Preliminary 9:00AM Twisted Alexander Polynomials. (1481) report. (1468) Preliminary report. Jeanette Shakalli,TexasA&MUniversity Jim Hoste, Pitzer College (1077-16-1796) (1077-AG-1971) 8:45AM Twisted Nilmanifolds and Dilogarithmic 9:30AM The Geometry of Knots. (1482) OPEs. (1469) Jason Cantarella, University of Georgia Marco A Aldi*, Brandeis University, (1077-AG-1900) and Reimundo Heluani,IMPA 10:00AM 4-dimensional aspects of knot theory. (1077-17-2259) (1470) Tim D Cochran,RiceUniversity 9:00AM Delayed Koszul Duality. Preliminary (1077-AG-2085) (1483) report. 10:30AM Hyperbolic knots. Christopher L Phan, Bucknell University (1471) Colin C Adams, Williams College (1077-16-2186) (1077-AG-776) 9:15AM Graded Skew Clifford Algebras that are (1484) Twists of Graded Clifford Algebras. AMS Session on Algebraic Geometry, II Manizheh Nafari*andMichaela Vancliff, University of Texas at Arlington 8:00 AM –9:40AM Room 209, Hynes (1077-16-1382) 9:30AM Some New Results on Albert-Like 8:00AM Patch Ideals and Peterson Varieties. (1485) Semifield Planes. Preliminary report. (1472) Erik A Insko*, University of Iowa, and Angela M. Brown, University of Texas at Alexander Yong, University of Illinois at Arlington (1077-17-2711) Urbana-Champaign (1077-14-1989) 8:15AM An obstruction in extending Abhyankar’s (1473) results for the Jacobian conjecture. James C Price, University of Arkansas at Fort Smith (1077-14-1631) AMS Session on Combinatorics and Graph 8:30AM Affine fibrations and Vénéreau-type Theory, V (1474) polynomials. Drew Lewis, Washington University in St. 8:00 AM –10:10AM Room 111, Hynes Louis (1077-14-1612) 8:00AM Transitive BLT-sets. Preliminary report. 8:45AM Resolving Collinearity Among Four Points (1486) Eric M Nelson, Colorado State University (1475) in the Complex Projective Plane. (1077-05-1981) Preliminary report. ± Victor I Piercey, University of Arizona 8:15AM Graphs with (k )-edge-disjoint (1077-14-1430) (1487) spanning trees. Ping Li, West Virginia University 9:00AM Polyhedral Methods for Space Curves and (1077-05-1949) (1476) Two Dimensional Surfaces Exploiting Symmetry. 8:30AM Limits, Regularity and Removal for Danko Adrovic*andJan Verschelde, (1488) Relational Structures : A measure University of Illinois at Chicago theoretic approach. (1077-14-1944) Ashwini Aroskar*andJames Cummings, Carnegie Mellon University 9:15AM Connectedness of moduli spaces of line (1077-05-1941) (1477) arrangements. Fei Ye, Bar-Ilan University (1077-14-885) 8:45AM Group Connectivity in Line Graphs. (1489) Senmei Yao, West Virginia University 9:30AM Asymptotic Purity for Very General (1077-05-1924) (1478) Hypersurfaces of Products of Projective Spaces. 9:00AM Edge disjoint isomorphic subgraphs in Michael A. Burr, Fordham University (1490) uniform hypergraphs. (1077-14-1663) Paul Horn*, Harvard University, Václav Koubek, Charles University, and Vojtˇech Rodl¨ , Emory University (1077-05-1874) AMS Session on Associative and Nonassociative Algebras and Rings: 9:15AM Extremal Sizes of Subspace Partitions. (1491) Olof Heden,KTH,Sweden,Julianne Homological Algebras and Category Theory, Lehmann,Hamburg,Germany, I Esmeralda Nastase*, Xavier University, and Papa Sissokho, Illinois State 8:00 AM –9:40AM Room 308, Hynes University (1077-05-1839) 8:00AM Representations of rank two affine Hecke 9:30AM On 3-nets realizing a finite group in a (1479) algebras at roots of unity. (1492) projective plane. Matt S Davis, Harvey Mudd College Nicola Pace, Florida Atlantic University (1077-16-2659) (1077-05-2026)

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9:45AM On the Number of Edges in Bipartite 8:30AM A characterization theorem for exact, (1493) 2-factor Isomorphic Graphs. (1504) unifilar hidden Markov models, and a Paul Wrayno, Western Kentucky polynomial time test for exactness. University (1077-05-1869) Nicholas F Travers*andJames P 10:00AM On Continuous Rado Numbers. Crutchfield, University of California, (1494) Daniel Schaal*andMelanie Zinter, Davis (1077-68-1496) South Dakota State University 8:45AM Markov chains for sampling weighted (1077-05-2036) (1505) permutations. Amanda Pascoe Streib, Georgia Institute of Technology (1077-68-973) AMS Session on Commutative Rings and 9:00AM Subword Languages of Infinite Partial Algebras, II (1506) Words. Bob Chen*, UC San Diego, Francine 8:00 AM –9:40AM Room 105, Hynes Blanchet-Sadri, UNC Greebsboro, Sinziana Munteanu, Jarret Schwartz 8:00AM A note on generalized Gorenstein and Slater Stich, Princeton University (1495) complexes. (1077-68-2149) Eero Hyry and Maryam Akhavin*, University of Tampere (1077-13-804) 9:15AM Application of Modified Shannon Entropy. (1507) Brian P Kelly, Bryant University 8:15AM Finding generators for the vanishing (1077-93-2836) (1496) ideal of a finite set of points. Eddy Campbell and Jianjun Chuai*, 9:30AM Stability Analysis for Delayed Systems University of New Brunswick (1508) with an Application. (1077-13-583) Shanaz Tiwari, Florida Atlantic University (1077-93-1768) 8:30AM Cut Structures in Zero-divisor Graphs. (1497) MAxtell,UniversityofSt.Thomas,N 9:45AM On a Geometric Packing Problem. Baeth*, University of Central Missouri, (1509) Preliminary report. and JStickles, Millikin University Bradley J. Paynter*andDouglas (1077-13-535) R. Shier, Clemson University (1077-90-2502) 8:45AM Factoring formal power series over (1498) principal ideal domains. 10:00AM Exact Controllability of Nonlinear Neutral Jesse Elliott, California State University, (1510) Functional Impulsive System with Infinite Channel Islands (1077-13-339) Delay in Banach Spaces. Dimplekumar N Chalishajar,Virginia 9:00AM Hilbert-Kunz multiplicities of products of (1499) ideals. Preliminary report. Military Institute (1077-93-1061) Neil Epstein*, University of Osnabrueck, 10:15AM Theoretical and Computational Issues in and Javid Validashti,Universityof (1511) Control of a Thermal Fluid. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Weiwei Hu, Interdisplinary Center for (1077-13-2017) Applied Mathematics, Virginia Tech 9:15AM Integration and Primary Decomposition. (1077-93-2360) (1500) Brian L Miller, Texas Tech University (1077-13-125) 9:30AM Algorithms for strongly stable ideals. (1501) Preliminary report. Dennis Moore*andUwe Nagel, AMS Session on Functional Analysis and University of Kentucky (1077-13-637) Operator Theory, II

8:00 AM –9:55AM Room 208, Hynes AMS Session on Computer Science, 8:00AM Topological k-graphs constructed from a Information, Control Theory, and Economics, (1512) topological dynamical systems and the I associated C*-algebras. Cynthia Farthing, Creighton University, 8:00 AM –10:25AM Room 303, Hynes Nura Patani*, Arizona State University, and ,Universityof 8:00AM Price Discrepancy and Optimal Paulette N. Willis (1502) Liquidation of Credit Derivatives. Houston (1077-46-1629) Peng Liu*, Johns Hopkins University, and 8:15AM Some hereditary properties of Tim Leung, IEOR Department, Columbia (1513) vector-valued functions. Preliminary University (1077-93-782) report. 8:15AM Egalitarian Graph Orientations. Terje Hoim*, Florida Atlantic University, (1503) Glencora Borradaile, Oregon State and David Robbins, Trinity College University, Jennifer Iglesias,Harvey (1077-46-1604) ∗ Mudd College, Theresa Migler,Oregon 8:30AM Decomposing the C -algebras of State University, Antonio Ochoa*, Cal (1514) groupoid extensions. Poly Pomona, Gordon Wilfong and Lisa Jonathan Henry Brown,Universityof Zhang, Bell Labs (1077-68-2919) Otago (1077-46-628)

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8:45AM Completely Continuous operators. 9:30AM Counting the number of solutions to the (1515) Preliminary report. (1526) Erdos-Straus-Schinzel˝ equation and Ioana Ghenciu*, University of related problems. Wisconsin-River Falls, and Paul W Lewis, Jing-Jing Huang, The Pennsylvania University of North Texas (1077-46-469) State University, University Park 9:00AM Regularization for ill-posed parabolic (1077-11-1290) (1516) evolution equations. 9:45AM Diophantine triples and quadruples. Matthew A. Fury, Penn State Abington (1527) George W Grossman*andYifan (1077-46-108) Zhang, Central Michigan University 9:15AM The Aluthge Sequence of a Shift (1077-11-781) (1517) Operator. 10:00AM The n-level density of zeroes of quadratic Kevin Rion, Bridgewater State University (1528) Dirichlet L-functions. (1077-46-2207) Jake Levinson*, University of Michigan - 9:30AM Aperiodicity Conditions in Topological Ann Arbor, and Steven J Miller, Williams (1518) k-Graphs. College (1077-11-2204) Sarah E. Wright, College of the Holy Cross (1077-46-226) 9:45AM MF-traces and a lower bound for the (1519) topological free entropy dimension in AMS Session on Undergraduate Research, V unital C*-algebras. Weihua Li*, Columbia College Chicago, 8:00 AM –10:25AM Room 110, Hynes Don Hadwin,UnivdersityofNew Hampshire, Qihui Li, East China 8:00AM Permutations, Pattern Avoidance, and University of Science and Technology, (1529) the Catalan Triangle. Preliminary report. and Junhao Shen,UniversityofNew Wesley K. Hough*, Hanover College, Hampshire (1077-46-401) Derek F. DeSantis, California State University Channel Islands, Jacob W. Ziefle, The College of New Jersey, and Rebecca M. Meissen, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (1077-05-2295) AMS Session on Number Theory, Field 8:15AM Numerical Methods for Optimizing Theory, and Polynomials, I (1530) Chemistry Kinetic Parameters. Victoria Marsh*, Jen-Mei Chang and Stephen Mezyk, California State 8:00 AM –10:10AM Room 305, Hynes University, Long Beach (1077-65-2777) 8:00AM Integer Embeddings of Heronian 8:30AM Image Fusion Using Gaussian Mixture (1520) Tetrahedra. (1531) Models. Preliminary report. Susan Hammond Marshall*, Monmouth Josh Koslosky, University of Minnesota, University, and Alexander R. Perlis, Stacey Levine and Glenn Sidle*, Zander Mathematics Institute Duquesne University (1077-68-1967) (1077-11-2610) 8:45AM Stability Analysis of Plate Deformation 8:15AM The Cohen-Lenstra heuristics, roots of (1532) Equations Derived using the Hamiltonian (1521) unity, and random matrices. Preliminary Principle. report. CharlesYvesDaly,CSUMS/George Derek Garton, University of Wisconsin, Mason University (1077-74-2143) Madison (1077-11-2462) 9:00AM Optimizing Plasmonic Effects for a More 8:30AM A congruence modulo Z for values at (1533) Efficient Nanoscale Biophotovoltaic (1522) zero of partial zeta functions for totally Device. real cubic fields. Preliminary report. J. E. Pina, George Mason University Barry R Smith, Lebanon Valley College, (1077-78-2252) Annville, PA (1077-11-2354) 9:15AM Spatial dispersion of interstellar 8:45AM An Elliptic Curve Test for the L-Functions (1534) civilizations: a site percolation model in (1523) Ratios Conjecture. three dimensions. Ralph Morrison*, UC Berkeley, and Andrew D Hedman*andThomas W Steven J. Miller, Williams College Hair, Florida Gulf Coast University (1077-11-2242) (1077-90-2299) 9:00AM The Z-densities of the Fibonacci 9:30AM Searching for the Implied Market Utility (1524) sequence. (1535) Function. Paul Cubre*andJeremy Rouse,Wake Aniket Anil Panjwani,GeorgeMason Forest University (1077-11-2205) University (1077-91-1832) 9:15AM On the factorization of f (n) for f (x) in 9:45AM Sequences for Solving Puzzles and (1525) Z[x]. (1536) Touring Graphs. Samuel S. Gross*andAndrew F. Tselil Schramm*, Harvey Mudd College, Vincent, University of South Carolina and Emily Carlson, Bard College (1077-11-2117) (1077-91-2023)

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10:00AM Effects of Non-Independent Behavior on a MAA Session on Projects, Demonstrations, (1537) Macroeconomic Model. and Activities that Engage Liberal Arts Nicholas S Chaung,GeorgeMason Mathematics Students, II University (1077-91-2426) 10:15AM Modern Portfolio Theory Enhanced by 8:00 AM –10:35AM Back Bay Ballroom (1538) Manifold Learning. Preliminary report. C, 2nd Floor, Sheraton Esther F. Jackson,GeorgeMason University: CSUMS Program Organizer: Sarah Mabrouk, (1077-91-1563) Framingham State University 8:00AM Do it together to understand it: group (1548) activities that help liberal arts students understand mathematical concepts. MAA Session on Modeling Across the Russell D Blyth, Saint Louis University Mathematics Curriculum, I (1077-L1-1256) 8:20AM ”I CAN PROVE IT”– Using Proofs of the 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 313, Hynes (1549) Pythagorean Theorem to Bolster Confidence for the math-anxious Liberal Organizers: Benjamin Galluzzo, Arts Mathematics Students. Shippensburg University Jackie A Hall, Longwood University Mariah Birgen, Wartburg (1077-L1-1247) College 8:40AM Final Project in an Elementary Cryptology Joyati Debnath,Winona (1550) Course. State University Robert Edward Lewand,Goucher 8:00AM The Volume and Surface Area of a Toy College (1077-L1-442) (1539) Train. 9:00AM Open Questions in Number Theory for Paul C Fonstad, Dalton State College (1551) Liberal Arts Students: The Good, the Bad, (1077-I1-1440) and the Underwhelming. 8:20AM A modeling project on sensor networks. Emelie A Kenney, Siena College (1540) Preliminary report. (1077-L1-517) Marian F Anton, Ripon College 9:20AM Reading, Writing and Discussing (1077-I1-2658) (1552) Mathematics in a Service-level 8:40AM The Optimal Placement of Range Lights. Undergraduate Course. (1541) Michael A. Jones*, Mathematical Daniel P. Wisniewski, DeSales University Reviews, Rabab Abi-Hanna, Montclair (1077-L1-282) State University, and Kenneth Krott, 9:40AM Teaching College Mathematics Using Text Altoona Area School District (1553) Messaging. (1077-I1-2273) Ricardo Sanchez,ArtInstitute 9:00AM Modeling the Gummy Bear Launcher as a International Minneapolis and Globe (1542) Simple Computer Experiment. University (1077-L1-2951) Dexter C. Whittinghill,RowanUniversity 10:00AM Visualizing Hyperbolic Geometry in the (1077-I1-1445) (1554) Liberal Arts. 9:20AM Using Infectious Disease Models in Charlotte J. Chell, Carthage College (1543) Calculus and Differential Equations (1077-L1-2835) Courses. 10:20AM Using a Jeopardy Game to Engage Alex Capaldi, Valparaiso University (1555) Students’ Learning. (1077-I1-867) Yun Lu, Kutztown University of PA 9:40AM Using Mathematical Cancer Models in an (1077-L1-1384) (1544) Introductory Differential Equations Course. Preliminary report. Jana Gevertz*, The College of New MAA Session on Topics and Techniques for Jersey, Julie Beier and Keith Howard, Teaching Real Analysis, I Mercer University (1077-I1-981) 10:00AM Teaching 3D Mathematical Modeling. 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 310, Hynes (1545) Paul R Bouthellier,Universityof Organizers: Paul Musial,ChicagoState Pittsburgh-Titusville (1077-I1-300) University 10:20AM Pack size vs. Prey Density in the Mexican James Peterson, (1546) wolf. Preliminary report. Benedictine College William Dean Stone, New Mexico Tech (1077-I1-2667) Erik Talvila,Universityof the Fraser Valley 10:40AM Developing a Modeling Concept (1547) Inventory. Robert Vallin, Slippery Rock Rebekah Isaak*, University of Minnesota, University of Pennsylvania Daniel T Kaplan, Macalester College, 8:00AM Cantor’s set throughout real analysis. Joan Garfield and Andrew Zieffler, (1556) Cesar E. Silva, Williams College University of Minnesota (1077-I1-780) (1077-N5-2680)

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8:20AM Motivating Real Analysis Students with 9:20AM The Ohio Section also celebrates its (1557) Puzzles. (1569) centennial. Lynette J. Boos, Providence College David Kullman, Miami University, (1077-N5-1707) Thomas Hern, Bowling Green State 8:40AM Communication and Learning. University, and Daniel E. Otero*, Xavier (1558) Steven George Krantz, Washington University (1077-Q1-2371) University in St. Louis (1077-N5-255) 9:40AM The Kansas Section: Were We First? 9:00AM Constructing Definitions in (1570) Robert W. Neufeld, McPherson College, (1559) Undergraduate Real Analysis. McPherson, KS, Elaine L. Tatham,ETC Barbara A. Shipman,UniversityofTexas Institute, Olathe, KS, and Timothy W. at Arlington (1077-N5-1088) Flood*, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS (1077-Q1-1402) 9:20AM When absolute convergence fails to imply (1560) convergence. Preliminary report. 10:00AM The History of SIGMAAs (Special Interest Robert Kantrowitz*, Hamilton College, (1571) Groups of the MAA). Preliminary report. and Michael Schramm, LeMoyne College Steve Carlson*, Rose-Hulman Institute of (1077-N5-1078) Technology, and Amy Shell-Gellasch, Beloit College (1077-Q1-378) 9:40AM Some of my Suggested Topics and (1561) Techniques for the Real Analysis Course. 10:20AM Writing a History of the Iowa Section of Robert L Brabenec, Wheaton College (IL) (1572) the MAA. Preliminary report. (1077-N5-288) Joel K. Haack*, University of Northern Iowa, and Linda L. Haack, Cedar Falls, IA 10:00AM Understanding the infinite. Preliminary (1077-Q1-723) (1562) report. Judit Kardos, The College of New Jersey 10:40AM The Intermountain Section: an (1077-N5-2237) (1573) exceptionally brief history. Preliminary report. 10:20AM Analysis based on the concept of level. Carolyn Connell, Westminster College, (1563) Karel Hrbacek, he City College of New Salt Lake City, Utah (1077-Q1-2590) York (1077-N5-2367) 10:40AM A Proemial Proposition on Teaching Real (1564) Analysis: Instruct Via a ”Strong” Modified Moore Method. Padraig M. McLoughlin,Kutztown MAA General Contributed Paper Session: University of Pennsylvania Research in Applied Mathematics, I (1077-N5-1205) 8:00 AM –10:40AM Back Bay Ballroom D, 2nd Floor, Sheraton Organizers: Jennifer Beineke,Western MAA Session on Writing the History of the New England College MAA, I Lynette Boos,Providence College 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 203, Hynes Aliza Steurer, Dominican Organizers: Victor J. Katz,Universityof University the District of Columbia 8:00AM Inverse Modeling by Janet Beery,Universityof (1574) Cumulative-Power-Penalized Least Redlands Squares. Keaton P. Quinn, Michigan State Amy Shell-Gellasch,Beloit University (1077-VK-2408) College 8:15AM Revisiting the Basel problem. 8:00AM History of National Meetings. Preliminary (1575) Marianne Dubinsky,UniversityofMary (1565) report. Washington (1077-VK-2395) Kenneth A Ross, University of Oregon (1077-Q1-1710) 8:30AM Comparative analysis of a few fast (1576) numerical schemes for finding positive 8:20AM A History of the Northeastern Section: A and some sign-changing solutions to (1566) Work in Progress. time-independent Gross-Pitaevskii type J. J. Tattersall, Providence College equations with general potentials. (1077-Q1-481) Yuriy Shlapak, University of Wisconsin - 8:40AM Highlights in the History of the Missouri Marshfield/Wood County and University (1567) Section. of Wisconsin Colleges Online Leon M. Hall, Missouri S&T (1077-VK-1803) (1077-Q1-334) 8:45AM Searching for the Best Quadratic 9:00AM Recovering and recapitulating the history (1577) Approximation of a Function. (1568) of Project NExT. Preliminary report. Yajun Yang*andSheldon P. Gordon, T. Christine Stevens, Saint Louis Farmingdale State College of SUNY University (1077-Q1-2032) (1077-VK-2209)

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9:00AM TPA: A New Method for Approximate 8:15AM Encrypting into Polynomials. Preliminary (1578) Counting. (1586) report. Mark Huber, Claremont McKenna Lavinia Ciungu*andMark Wissler, College, and Sarah Schott*, Duke University of Central Oklahoma University (1077-VK-802) (1077-VJ-2131)

9:15AM Molecular mechanism for cardiac 8:30AM Explicit Plancherel Measure for PGL2 (1579) electrical instability in human heart (1587) over a p-adic ﬁeld. disease: a predictive and multiscale Carlos De la Mora,UniversityofIowa computational model of “ankyrin-B (1077-VJ-2839) syndrome.”. 8:45AM p-adic L-functions of GL2 automorphic Roseanne M Wolf*, Colleen C Mitchell, (1588) representations. Preliminary report. University of Iowa, Peter Mohler and Bei Zhang*, Northwestern University, Thomas Hund, The Ohio State University and Matthew Emerton,Universityof (1077-VK-2383) Chicago (1077-VJ-660) 9:30AM A Markov Model for Actin Polymer 9:00AM The Distribution of Generalized (1580) Dynamics and Cell Membrane Protrusion. (1589) Ramanujan Primes. Csilla Szabo, United States Military Nadine Amersi, University College Academy (1077-VK-2811) London, Olivia Beckwith, Harvey Mudd 9:45AM The logistic gender-structured model College, Steven J Miller, Williams (1581) with ephemeral pair bonds and isolation College, Ryan Ronan*, The Cooper from reproduction (report on an REU Union, and Jonathan Sondow,NewYork project at Valparaiso University). City, NY (1077-VJ-1449) Daniel Maxin*, Valparaiso University, 9:15AM Primes of the Form x2 + ny2 and the Ludek Berec, Department of (1590) Geometry of Convenient Numbers. Biosystematics and Ecology, Institute of Thomas R. Hagedorn, The College of Entomology, Biology Centre ASCR, Czech New Jersey (1077-VJ-2605) Republic, Michael Covello, Loyola 9:30AM Gaps between summands in generalized University Chicago, Jill Jessee,Simpson (1591) Zeckendorf decompositions. College, and Matthew Zimmer,Saint Olivia Beckwith*, Harvey Mudd College, John’s University (1077-VK-1216) and Steven J Miller, Williams College 10:00AM Extreme multi-stability in a chemical (1077-VJ-1164) (1582) model system. 9:45AM Constructing Generalized Sum-Dominant Calistus Ngeh Ngonghala,National (1592) Sets. Institute for Mathematical and Biological Geoffrey S Iyer*, University of Michigan, Synthesis (NIMBioS) (1077-VK-2700) Oleg Lazarev, Princeton University, and 10:15AM Method to extract names of geographical Liyang Zhang, Williams College (1583) features from images of maps - A (1077-VJ-946) theoretical case study. Preliminary report. 10:00AM Evaluation of inﬁnite products involving *, South Central Sridevi Pudipeddi (1593) Fibonacci and Lucas numbers. College, North Mankato, MN, and Ravi Jonathan Sondow,NewYork,NY , Minnesota Supercomputing Chityala (1077-VJ-2416) Institute (1077-VK-799) 10:15AM Sequences preserving GCD, Cyclotomic 10:30AM Recovery of Fourier Transforms Using (1594) Polynomials, and Iterated Polynomials. (1584) Edge Information. Stephen Lovett, Wheaton College (IL) ,ArizonaState Alexander J Gutierrez (1077-VJ-369) University (1077-VK-2752) 10:30AM Distribution of Missing Sums in Sumsets. (1595) Oleg Lazarev, Princeton University (1077-VJ-1409) MAA General Contributed Paper Session: 10:45AM Examining the Dynamical Systems of Research in Number Theory (1596) Various Polynomials over Finite Fields Using Mathematica. 8:00 AM –10:55AM Back Bay Ballroom Jonathan Weisbrod,RowanUniversity B, 2nd Floor, Sheraton (1077-VJ-479) Organizers: Jennifer Beineke,Western New England College MAA General Contributed Paper Session: Lynette Boos,Providence College Teaching Mathematics Beyond the Calculus Sequence Aliza Steurer, Dominican University 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 201, Hynes 8:00AM A Variation of the ElGamal Encryption (1585) Method. Preliminary report. Organizers: Jennifer Beineke,Western Mark Wissler*andLavinia Ciungu, New England College University of Central Oklahoma Lynette Boos,Providence (1077-VJ-2130) College

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Aliza Steurer, Dominican SIAM Minisymposium on Applied University Mathematics Outreach: Bringing Relevance to Middle and High School Math Experience 8:00AM Numerical Method/Analysis Students (1597) Function Concept Knowledge. 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 206, Hynes Emre Tokgoz,UniversityofOklahoma (1077-VD-474) Organizer: Peter Turner,Clarkson University 8:15AM Integrating factors and repeated roots of 8:00AM Applied Mathematics Outreach to Middle (1598) the characteristic equation. Howard I Dwyer, Monmouth College, (1609) and High Schools: Opportunities and and William R Green*, Eastern Illinois Resources. University (1077-VD-547) Peter R Turner, Clarkson University (1077-97-303) 8:30AM Bridging mathematics concepts to 8:30AM Scrapheap Showdown and Pi Night: Two (1599) engineering contexts: Just-in-time review (1610) Ways to Reach out the the Local modules. Preliminary report. Community. Alina N. Duca*, North Carolina State Erica Dakin Voolich, Somerville University, Dianne Raubenheimer and Mathematics Fund (1077-97-1959) Hatice Ozturk, NC State University, 9:00AM Applied Mathematical Modeling and College of Engineering (1077-VD-2652) (1611) Research Opportunities for Middle School, High School, and Pre-Freshmen Students. 8:45AM Scaffolding for Inquiry Instruction in (1600) Mathematics. Kathleen R Fowler, Clarkson University Mark L. Daniels, UTeach Program (1077-97-395) Natural Scinces/ University of Texas at 9:30AM Applied Mathematics at Girls’ Angle: A Austin (1077-VD-342) (1612) Math Club for Girls. C. Kenneth Fan, Girls’ Angle 9:00AM An inquiry-based, writing intensive (1077-97-1094) (1601) introduction to proofs course. Preliminary 10:00AM Trees and Soil Microbes: Activities for report. (1613) Bringing Life (Science) to Mathematics. Carl Mummert, Marshall University Preliminary report. (1077-VD-1567) Kelly K. Sturner*, National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, 9:15AM Keep them guessing: teaching (1602) conjecturing in a discrete transition and Suzanne Lenhart,Universityof course. Preliminary report. Tennessee (1077-97-978) Suzanne I Doree, Augsburg College, 10:30AM Bringing Biological Applications to the Minneapolis (1077-VD-2841) (1614) High School Mathematics Curriculum. Mike Martin, Johnson County 9:30AM Using a capstone course to learn how to Community College (1077-92-353) (1603) teach mathematical proofs. Elana Reiser, St. Joseph’s College (1077-VD-77) PME Council Meeting 9:45AM Getting the Act Together. Preliminary (1604) report. 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM Clarendon, 3rd Melvin G. Royer, Indiana Wesleyan Floor, Sheraton University (1077-VD-2519)

10:00AM Some Strategies for Teaching a Course Employment Center (1605) Based on Douglas Hofstadter’s Godel,¨ Escher, Bach. Preliminary report. 8:00 AM –6:00PM Exhibit Hall C, Hynes Stephen Andrilli, La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA (1077-VD-444)

10:15AM Developing the capstone experience at AMS Special Session on Some Nonlinear (1606) Winthrop University. Preliminary report. Partial Differential Equations: Theory and Trent Kull*andHeakyung Lee, Application, II Winthrop University (1077-VD-836) 8:30 AM –10:50AM Wellesley, 3rd Floor, Marriott 10:30AM Moving from Theory to Practice: A (1607) Lesson Plan Activity for a History of Organizers: Jerry L. Bona,Universityof Mathematics Course. Illinois, Chicago Kate G McGivney, Shippensburg Laihan Luo,NewYork University (1077-VD-2624) Institute of Technology 10:45AM Reading and writing assignments in a 8:30AM From Euler equation to Boussinesq (1608) Real Analysis course. (1615) system to KP equation. Bogdan Doytchinov, Elizabethtown Min Chen, Purdue University College (1077-VD-2790) (1077-35-2223)

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9:00AM Nonlocal dissipation and the Euler Nancy Baxter Hastings, (1616) Equations. Dickinson College Peter Constantin*, Princeton University, and Vlad Vicol, University of Chicago (1077-35-2321) 9:30AM Initial value problem for coupled MAA Minicourse #14: Part B (1617) nonlinear dispersive equations. Jerry L. Bona, University of Illinois at 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Salon HI, 4th Floor, Marriott Chicago, and Hongqiu Chen*, University of Memphis (1077-35-2628) Teaching introductory statistics. 10:00AM Carrier Shocks and Coherent Structures Presenters: Michael Posner, Villanova (1618) in the Nonlinear Maxwell Equation. University Michael I. Weinstein,Columbia Carolyn Cuff, Westminster University (1077-35-2813) College 10:30AM The surface quasi-geostrophic and (1619) related equations. Jiahong Wu, Oklahoma State University (1077-35-1765) MAA Session on Quantitative Literacy and Decision Making AMS-MAA Grad School Fair 9:00 AM –10:15AM Room 202, Hynes 8:30 AM –10:30AM Veteran’s Auditorium, 2nd floor, Hynes Organizers: Eric Gaze, Bowdoin College Undergrads! Take this opportunity to Cinnamon Hillyard, meet representatives from mathematical University of Washington, science graduate programs. Bothell Semra Kilic-Bahi,Colby MAA Invited Address Sawyer College 9:00AM Using MS Excel to Improve Understanding 9:00 AM –9:50AM Ballrooms A/B, (1622) of Financial Mathematics. 3rd floor, Hynes Paul Taylor, Shippensburg University (1077-L5-930) (1620) Sum of squares polynomials in optimization. 9:20AM Complex Systems and K-16 Curricula. Rekha R. Thomas,Universityof (1623) RWDeGray, Saint Joseph College, Washington (1077-A0-6) Connecticut (1077-L5-1058) 9:40AM The Financing Choices of American ASL Invited Address (1624) Consumers: The Influence of Quantitative Literacy, Cognitive Disposition and 9:00 AM –9:50AM Room 207, Hynes Material Values. Cinnamon Hillyard*andPete Nye, (1621) The end of the inner model program: University of Washington Bothell ultimate L or not ultimate L. (1077-L5-1244) W. Hugh Woodin, University of California (1077-03-2963) 10:00AM The Financial Literacy Project at (1625) Dartmouth College: Online Classroom MAA Minicourse #6: Part B Resources and Modules. Eric C Gaze, Bowdoin College 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Salon CD, 4th Floor, Marriott (1077-L5-2563) Getting students involved in undergraduate research. Presenters: Aparna Higgins,University MAA Professional Development Committee of Dayton Panel Discussion Joseph A. Gallian, University of 9:00 AM –10:20AM Room 304, Hynes Minnesota-Duluth Getting your textbook published. MAA Minicourse #8: Part B Organizer: James Hamblin, Shippensburg University 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Salon AB, 4th Floor, Marriott Panelists: Doug Ensley, Shippensburg Preparing to serve as an outside University consultant in the mathematical sciences. Sheldon Gordon, Presenters: Kyle Riley, South Dakota Farmingdale State College School of Mines and Thomas W. Judson, Stephen Technology F. Austin State University

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MAA Panel Discussion ASL Invited Address

9:00 AM –10:20AM Room 309, Hynes 10:00 AM –10:50AM Room 207, Hynes Incorporation of the mathematics of (1626) Prikry type forcings and singular climate change and sustainability into combinatorics. our undergraduate courses. Dima Sinapova, University of California Organizer: Robert E. Megginson, at Irvine (1077-03-159) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor AMS Invited Address Panelists: Christopher Jones, University of North Carolina, 10:05 AM –10:55AM Ballrooms A/B, Chapel Hill 3rd ﬂoor, Hynes Thomas J. Pfaff,Ithaca (1627) The Ribe program. College Assaf Naor, Courant Institute of Martin E. Walter,University Mathematical Sciences (1077-51-1) of Colorado, Boulder Mary Lou Zeeman,Bowdoin AMS-MAA Invited Address College 11:10 AM – NOON Ballrooms A/B, 3rd ﬂoor, Hynes (1628) Apollonian packings, fractal geometry, MAA Committee on Assessment Panel and dynamics on hyperbolic manifolds. Discussion Hee Oh,BrownUniversity

9:00 AM –10:20AM Room 306, Hynes AMS Colloquium Lectures: Lecture III Using data from the registrar’s ofﬁce to better understand, plan, and change 1:00 PM –1:50PM Ballrooms A/B, 3rd ﬂoor, Hynes your undergraduate mathematics (1629) Langlands program, trace formulas, and program. their geometrization, III. Organizer: Jack Bookman,Duke Edward Frenkel, University of California University Berkeley (1077-14-12) Panelists: Mary Callahan, Massachusetts Institute of MAA Lecture for Students Technology Amy Cohen,Rutgers 1:00 PM –1:50PM Room 312, Hynes University (1630) Turning theorems into plays. Bill Martin, North Dakota Steve Abbott, Middlebury College State University (1077-A0-38) Jack Bookman AMS Current Events Bulletin

Student Hospitality/Information Center 1:00 PM –4:45PM Room 200, Hynes Organizer: David Eisenbud,University 9:00 AM –5:00PM 2nd Floor Corridor by of California Berkeley Veterans Auditorium, Hynes 1:00PM Assembling surfaces from random pants: (1631) mixing, matching and correcting in the proofs of the surface-subgroup and Ehrenpreis conjectures. AMS Special Presentation Jeffrey F. Brock,BrownUniversity (1077-51-2422) 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM Room 312, Hynes 2:00PM The cobordism hypothesis: quantum ﬁeld Who wants to be a (1632) theory + homotopy invariance = higher mathematician—National contest. algebra. Organizers: Michael A. Breen,AMS Daniel S. Freed, University of Texas at Austin (1077-57-1075) William T. Butterworth, DePaul University 3:00PM Dispersive equations and their role (1633) beyond PDE. Gigliola Stafﬁlani, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1077-35-769) Exhibits and Book Sales 4:00PM How does quantum mechanics scale? (1634) Umesh Vazirani, University of California, 9:30 AM –5:30PM Exhibit Hall D, Hynes Berkeley (1077-81-1817)

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AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research 4:30PM Representations of Graphs modulo N. in Mathematics by Undergraduates and (1642) Ryan Held*, Rochester Institute of Students in Post-Baccalaureate Programs, II Technology, and Lauren Stemler,St. Lawrence University (1077-05-193) 1:00 PM –5:50PM Back Bay Ballroom 5:00PM On Some Multicolor Ramsey Numbers A, 2nd Floor, Sheraton (1643) Involving K3 + e and K4 − e. Daniel S. Shetler, Whitworth University, Organizers: Bernard Brooks,Rochester and Michael Wurtz*, Northwestern Institute of Technology University (1077-05-191) Jobby Jacob,Rochester 5:30PM Rank numbers of rook’s graphs. Institute of Technology (1644) Korinne Dobosh*, Montclair State University, and Samuel Kennedy, Jacqueline Jensen,Sam Rochester Institute of Technology Houston State University (1077-05-190) Darren A Narayan, Rochester Institute of Technology 1:00PM Global coordinate systems on manifolds AMS-MAA-MER Special Session on (1635) lacking continuously moving bases. Mathematics and Education Reform, II Preliminary report. Eileen R Martin*, University of Texas at 1:00 PM –5:40PM Constitution Ballroom Austin, Ryan Hotovy,TexasA&M A, 2nd Floor, Sheraton University, and Daniel Freeman, University of Texas at Austin Organizers: William Barker,Bowdoin (1077-58-89) College 1:30PM Optimization of P. falciparum William McCallum, (1636) gametocyte sex ratios via competitive University of Arizona and non-competitive strategies: the Bonnie Saunders,University evolutionary implications. of Illinois at Chicago Ha T Nguyen*, Ryan A Warrier, Miranda 1:00PM Addressing the transition to college I. Teboh-Ewungkem and Thomas (1645) mathematics. Yuster, Lafayette College, Easton, PA (1077-91-574) David M. Bressoud, Macalester College (1077-97-1008) 2:00PM Isoperimetry in the Plane with Density er . 1:30PM Preparing twelfth-graders for college (1637) Luis A. Sordo Vieira*, Wayne State (1646) mathematics. University, Niralee K. Shah, Williams Cathy L Seeley, Charles A. Dana Center, College, Miguel Fernandez,Truman The University of Texas at Austin State University, and Ping Ngai Chung, (1077-97-1488) MIT (1077-53-1109) 2:00PM Listening to Students About the 2:30PM Oregon Blackberry Invasion Analyzed by (1647) Transition from High School to College. (1638) Spatial Stochastic Modeling. Preliminary report. Heather Johnston*, Western Oregon William G McCallum*, University of University, May Boggess and Jay Walton, Arizona, and Guadalupe Lozano-Teran, Texas A&M University (1077-92-585) The University of Arizona (1077-97-2939) 3:00PM Bounds for the Minimum Semi-Deﬁnite 2:30PM Factors Inﬂuencing Success in College (1639) Rank of Circulant Graphs. Preliminary (1648) Calculus. Preliminary report. report. Philip M. Sadler, Harvard-Smithsonian Chennah Heroor*, Massachusetts Center for Astrophysics (1077-97-2944) Institute of Technology, Troy Klingler, 3:00PM Placement in College Mathematics. Anthony Pochini, Central Michigan (1649) Bernard L Madison,Universityof University, and Gretchen Schillemat, Arkansas (1077-97-652) Brigham Young University (1077-15-109) 3:30PM Being CRAFTY in the Transition to College 3:30PM A complete characterization of optimal (1650) Mathematics. (1640) vertex rankings of paths, cycles, and Daniel T Kaplan, Macalester College joins of graphs. (1077-97-2056) Maxwell Bileschi*, University of Buffalo, 4:00PM The Mathematical and Theoretical and Meridangela Gutierrez Jhong, (1651) Biology Institute Community Learning Rochester Institute of Technology Model. (1077-05-192) Carlos W. Castillo-Garsow, Kansas State 4:00PM Generating Dynamic Adjustable Weighted University, Carlos Castillo-Chavez*, (1641) Social Networks. Arizona State University, and Sherry Nakisa Nassersharif*, Syracuse Woodley, Math, Comp and Mod Sciences University, and Megan Sinton,Bucknell Center, Arizona State University University (1077-91-194) (1077-97-2875)

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4:30PM Pictures of Personal Change and View of AMS-AWM Special Session on Nonlinear (1652) Change Needed to Enhance Transition to Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations, III College Mathematics. Preliminary report. Brian J. Winkel, United States Military 1:00 PM –5:50PM Room 300, Hynes Academy, West Point (1077-97-753) 5:00PM Discussion: Panel on the Issues of the Organizers: Barbara Lee Keyﬁtz,Ohio Transition to College Mathematics State University moderated by David Bressoud. Charis Tsikkou, Ohio State University

1:00PM Self-similar solutions for the diffraction (1662) of weak shocks. Allen M. Tesdall*, College of Staten Island, City University of New York, and AMS-SIAM Special Session on the John K. Hunter, University of California, Mathematics of Computation: Algebra and Davis (1077-35-1177) Number Theory, II 1:30PM On 2D viscous Boussinesq system on a (1663) bounded domain. 1:00 PM –5:50PM Room 109, Hynes Ronghua Pan, Georgia Institute of Technology (1077-35-2375) Organizers: Jean-Marc Couveignes, UniversitédeToulouse 2:00PM A semi-hyperbolic region for the pressure (1664) gradient system. Michael J. Mossinghoff, Kyungwoo Song*, Yeshiva University and Davidson College Kyung Hee University, and Yuxi Zheng, Igor E. Shparlinski, Yeshiva University (1077-35-2678) Macquarie University, 2:30PM Conservation laws with prescribed Australia (1665) eigencurves. 1:00PM Counting decompositions of additive Helge Kristian Jenssen, Penn State (1653) polynomials. University, and Irina A Kogan*, North Mark Giesbrecht*, University of Carolina State University (1077-35-204) Waterloo, and Joachim von zur Gathen, 3:00PM Some exact solutions to nonlinear B-IT, Universität Bonn (1077-11-939) (1666) hyperbolic PDE. 1:30PM Finding a polynomial multiple that is Robin Young,Universityof (1654) sparse. Massachusetts, Amherst (1077-35-632) Daniel S Roche, United States Naval Academy (1077-68-906) 3:30PM Shock Wave Stability for Conservation (1667) Laws with Physical Viscosities. 2:00PM An algorithm for recovering zeroes of Tai-Ping Liu, Academia Sinica and (1655) multivariate polynomials over a prime Stanford University, and Yanni Zeng*, finite field. University of Alabama at Birmingham Jaime Gutierrez, University of Cantabria, (1077-35-1040) Santander, Spain (1077-11-542) 4:00PM Global dynamics of a diffuse interface 2:30PM Non-abelian Cohen-Lenstra Heuristics. (1668) model for solid tumor growth. (1656) Nigel Boston, University of Wisconsin - John Lowengrub,Universityof Madison (1077-11-188) California-Irvine, Edriss S. Titi,University 3:00PM Families of marked elliptic curves, with of California-Irvine and the Weizmann (1657) some applications. Institute of Science, and Kun Zhao*, Noam D. Elkies,HarvardUniv. University of Iowa (1077-35-228) (1077-11-2569) 4:30PM Vegetative Pattern Formation Model 3:30PM An irrationality measure for Mahler (1669) Systems: Comparison of Turing Diffusive (1658) numbers. and Differential Flow Instabilities. Michael Coons, University of Waterloo Bonni J Kealy*andDavid J and Fields Institute (1077-11-598) Wollkind, Washington State University 4:00PM Identifying supersingular elliptic curves. (1077-35-244) (1659) Andrew V. Sutherland, Massachusetts 5:00PM A new result in blow-up for long-wave Institute of Technology (1077-11-377) (1670) unstable thin film equations. 4:30PM Evaluating Igusa functions. Marina Chugunova, Mary C. Pugh*, (1660) Reinier Broker*, Brown University, and University of Toronto, and Roman Kristin Lauter, Microsoft Research Taranets, University of Nottingham (1077-11-961) (1077-35-2217) 5:30PM Positive-definite quadratic forms 5:30PM Structure of solutions near sonic line for (1661) representing all odd, positive integers. (1671) pressure gradient equation. Preliminary report. T. Zhang*, Penn State University, Jeremy Rouse,WakeForestUniversity and Y. Zheng, Yeshiva University (1077-11-116) (1077-35-2520)

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AMS Special Session on Advances in 5:30PM Development of a Quantitative Model Mathematical Biology, II (1680) Incorporating Key Events in a Hepatotoxic Mode of Action to Predict Tumor Incidence. 1:00 PM –5:50PM Simmons, 3rd Floor, Marriott Nicholas S. Luke*, North Carolina A&T State University, Reeder Sams II, National Center for Environmental Organizers: David Chan,Virginia Assessment, U.S. Environmental Commonwealth University Protection Agency, Michael J Devito, National Toxicology Program, National Institute for Environmental Health Rebecca Segal,Virginia Sciences, Rory B Conolly and Hisham A. Commonwealth University El-Masri, Integrated Systems Toxicology Division, U.S. Environmental Protection 1:00PM Biological dispersal strategies of Internet Agency (1077-92-905) (1672) worms. David E Hiebeler, University of Maine (1077-92-1450)

1:30PM Modeling and Estimation in Gene AMS Special Session on Algebraic and (1673) Regulatory Networks. Geometric Aspects of Integrable Systems Kam Dahlquist and Ben G Fitzpatrick*, and Random Matrices, II Loyola Marymount University (1077-92-1751) 1:00 PM –5:50PM Room 107, Hynes Organizers: Anton Dzhamay,University 2:00PM Mathematical Model for Two Germline of Northern Colorado (1674) Stem Cells Competing for Niche Kenichi Maruno,University Occupancy. Preliminary report. of Texas, Pan American Jianjun Paul Tian, College of William and Mary (1077-34-1251) Virgil Pierce,Universityof Texas, Pan American PM 2:30PM A Low-Dimensional Model of the Innate 1:00 Integrability of random growth models. (1675) Immune Response to Bacterial Infection. (1681) Alexei Borodin,MIT,Caltech Lester Caudill, University of Richmond (1077-60-1100) (1077-92-851) 2:00PM Elliptic distributions on 3D Young (1682) diagrams, elliptic special functions and elliptic Painleve. Preliminary report. 3:00PM Using a Mathematical Model to Analyze Dan Dumitru Betea, Caltech, Pasadena (1676) the Treatment of a Wound Infection with CA (1077-60-1255) Oxygen Therapy. Preliminary report. Richard Schugart*andTennesse 2:30PM Discrete Hamiltonian structure of Tucker Joyce, Western Kentucky (1683) Schlesinger transformations. University (1077-92-2701) Anton Dzhamay,UniversityofNorthern Colorado, Hidetaka Sakai,Universityof Tokyo, and Tomoyuki Takenawa*, 3:30PM Discussion Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology (1077-39-1948) 4:00PM Nanoparticle Deposition in the Human 3:00PM Degeneration scheme of 4-dimensional (1677) Nasal Passages. (1684) Painlevé type equations. Rebecca Segal, Virginia Commonwealth Hiroshi Kawakami, Akane Nakamura University (1077-92-1985) and Hidetaka Sakai*, University of Tokyo (1077-33-1306) 4:30PM Mechanisms for multiple activity modes 4:00PM Combinatorics of matrix refactorizations (1678) of midbrain DA neurons. (1685) and discrete integrable systems. Andrew M. Oster*, Washington and Lee Anton Dzhamay,UniversityofNorthern University, Philippe Faure,Université Colorado (1077-35-2867) Pierre et Marie Curie, Centre National de 4:30PM Quantum pentagon equation, Hirota’s la Recherche Scientifique, and Boris S. (1686) discrete KP equation, and projective Gutkin, Group for Neural Theory, École geometry over division rings. Normale Supérieure, Centre National de Adam Doliwa, University of Warmia and la Recherche Scientifique (1077-92-918) Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland (1077-37-464) 5:00PM Discrete integrable systems of skew 5:00PM Sensory Irritation Response in Rats: (1687) orthogonal polynomials. (1679) Recovery and Dose-Dependence. Hiroshi Miki*andSatoshi Tsujimoto, Karen A Yokley, Elon University Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto (1077-92-1535) University (1077-33-969)

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5:30PM Discrete integrable systems arising from 1:30PM Do high frequencies contain information (1688) motions of discrete curves in the (1695) about low frequencies? Euclidean and Minkowski planes. Laurent Demanet, Massachusetts Kenichi Maruno*, The University of Institute of Technology (1077-86-2657) Texas - Pan American, Kenji Kajiwara, 2:00PM Transient wave imaging with limited-view Institute of Mathematics for Industry, (1696) data. Kyushu University, Jun-ichi Inoguchi, Vincent Jugnon*, Massachusetts Yamagata University, Yasuhiro Ohta, Institute of Technology, Habib Ammari, Department of Mathematics, Kobe Ecole Normale Superieure, Hyeonbae University, and Bao-Feng Feng,The Kang, Inha University, Mark Asch, University of Texas - Pan American University of Picardy Jules Verne, and Lili (1077-53-1491) Guadarrama Bustos, Ecole Superieure de Physique et Chimie Paris (1077-35-744) 2:30PM Uniqueness for a hyperbolic inverse AMS Special Session on Calculus of Functors (1697) problem with angular control of the and Its Applications, II coefficients. Rakesh Rakesh, University of Delaware 1:00 PM –5:50PM Exeter, 3rd Floor, Marriott (1077-35-2410) 3:00PM Enhanced Near-cloak by FSH Lining. Organizers: Brian Munson, Wellesley (1698) Hongyu Liu, University of North Carolina College (1077-35-2582) Ismar Volic, Wellesley 3:30PM Discussion College 4:00PM Boundary Control Approach to Inverse 1:00PM Discussion (1699) Problems on Graphs. 1:30PM Operads and modules in embedding Sergei Avdonin, University of Alaska (1689) calculus. Fairbanks (1077-35-1501) Gregory Arone*, University of Virginia, 4:30PM Microlocal analysis of an ultrasound and Victor Turchin, Kansas State (1700) operator with circular source and University (1077-55-1662) receiver trajectories. 2:30PM Splitting in the rational homology and Venky P Krishnan, Tata Institute of (1690) homotopy of the spaces of higher Fundamental Research Centre for dimensional long embeddings. Applicable Mathematics (1077-35-1939) *, Kansas State University, Victor Turchin 5:00PM Lipschitz stability of an inverse problem and Gregory Arone,Universityof (1701) for a Schrodinger¨ type equation. Virginia (1077-55-886) Lingyun Qiu*, Purdue University, 3:00PM Rational homotopy theory and spaces of Elena Beretta, Sapienza di Roma, and (1691) smooth embeddings. Preliminary report. Maarten de Hoop, Purdue University Pascal Lambrechts,Université (1077-35-925) catholique de Louvain (1077-55-1654) 5:30PM Boundary control of a beam equation 4:00PM Models for Taylor towers of functors. (1702) with non-monotone boundary conditions. (1692) Brenda Johnson*, Union College, Irena Lasiecka, University of Virginia, Kristine Bauer,Universityof Rich Marchand,U.S.AirForce Calgary, Rosona Eldred and Randy Academy/Slippery Rock University, and McCarthy, University of Illinois at Tim McDevitt*, Elizabethtown College Urbana-Champaign (1077-55-2097) (1077-93-2106) 4:30PM Discussion 5:30PM Morava E-theory of the Goodwillie tower. (1693) Mark J Behrens, MIT (1077-55-1647) AMS Special Session on Differential Algebraic Geometry and Galois Theory (in AMS Special Session on Control Theory and memory of Jerald Kovacic), III Inverse Problems for Partial Differential Equations, III 1:00 PM –5:50PM Room 103, Hynes Organizers: Phyllis Joan Cassidy,Smith 1:00 PM –5:50PM Clarendon, 3rd Floor, Marriott College and the City Organizers: Shitao Liu,Universityof University of New York Helsinki Richard Churchill, Hunter Ting Zhou, Massachusetts College and Graduate Center Institute of Technology at CUNY 1:00PM Recent developments in inverse Claude Mitschi,Université (1694) scattering. Preliminary report. de Strasbourg, France Gang Bao, Michigan State University and Michael Singer,North Zhejiang University (1077-35-2373) Carolina State University

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1:00PM Constructive approaches to Kovacic’s 1:30PM Rational Catalan Combinatorics. (1703) reduced forms of linear differential (1714) Preliminary report. systems. Drew Armstrong, University of Miami Ainhoa Aparicio-Monforte,RISC,Linz (1077-05-1897) (Austria), Elie Compoint,Universitéde 2:00PM Chromatic quasisymmetric functions and Lille (France), and Jacques-Arthur Weil*, (1715) Hessenberg varieties. XLIM, CNRS and UniversitédeLimoges John Shareshian, Washington University, (France) (1077-34-831) and Michelle L Wachs*, University of 1:30PM Generic Differential Galois Extensions. Miami (1077-05-2254) (1704) Lourdes Juan, Texas Tech University 2:30PM Recent progress on the Shuffle (1077-13-2280) (1716) Conjecture: Macdonald Polynomials and 2:00PM Model theory and differential algebraic Parking Functions. (1705) geometry. Adriano M. Garsia,Universityof David Marker, University of Illinois at California San Diego (1077-05-1178) Chicago (1077-03-507) 3:00PM Vanishing Integrals for Hall-Littlewood 2:30PM Some new techniques in differential (1717) Polynomials. (1706) algebraic geometry from model theory. Vidya Venkateswaran, California Rahim N Moosa, University of Waterloo Institute of Technology (1077-05-372) (1077-03-2035) 3:30PM W -cells from scratch. Preliminary report. 3:00PM Prolongations and differentially closed (1718) John R Stembridge,Universityof (1707) fields. Michigan (1077-05-838) Omar Leon Sanchez,University of Waterloo. Ontario, Canada. 4:00PM The shape of a random affine Weyl group (1077-14-792) (1719) element, and random core partitions. Thomas Lam, University of Michigan 3:30PM Tannakian formalism over fields with (1077-05-706) (1708) operators. Preliminary report. Moshe Kamensky,Universityof 4:30PM Torus actions, multi-partitions, and Notre-Dame (1077-20-1339) (1720) crystals. Steven V Sam*andPeter Tingley,MIT 4:00PM Linear Equations in Valued D-Fields. (1077-05-320) (1709) Meghan Anderson,HarvardUniversity (1077-03-1464) 5:00PM A curious relation between two Markov (1721) chains. 4:30PM Differential algebraic groups as , Chiba University, (1710) superstable groups. Tomohiro Sasamoto and Lauren K Williams*, University of James Freitag, University of Illinois at California, Berkeley (1077-05-1599) Chicago (1077-13-730) 5:30PM The 1/k - Eulerian Polynomials. 5:00PM Representations of reductive differential (1711) algebraic groups. (1722) Carla D. Savage*andGopal Andrey Minchenko*, University of Viswanathan, North Carolina State Western Ontario, and Alexey University (1077-05-1956) Ovchinnikov, CUNY Queens College (1077-20-1473) 5:30PM Differential Modules over a Differential (1712) Ring. Preliminary report. Andy R Magid,UniversityofOklahoma (1077-13-537) AMS Special Session on Fractional, Hybrid, and Stochastic Dynamical Systems with Applications AMS Special Session on Enumerative and Algebraic Combinatorics, III 1:00 PM –5:50PM Dartmouth, 3rd Floor, Marriott Organizers: John Graef,Universityof 1:00 PM –5:50PM Room 204, Hynes Tennessee at Chattanooga Organizers: Ira Gessel,Brandeis Gangaram S. Ladde, University University of South Florida, Alexander Postnikov, Tampa Massachusetts Institute of Aghala S. Vatsala, Technology University of Louisiana at Richard Stanley, Lafayette Massachusetts Institute of 1:00PM Existence of solutions for fractional Technology (1723) differential equations with anti-periodic 1:00PM Dismal Arithmetic. boundary conditions. (1713) David Applegate, AT&T Shannon Labs, Mouffak Benchohra, Naima Hamidi, Marc LeBrun, Fixpoint Inc., and Neil J. Universite de Sidi Bel-Abbes, and A. Sloane*, AT&T Shannon Labs Johnny Henderson*, Baylor University (1077-11-104) (1077-34-54)

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1:30PM Positive solutions for a class of higher 1:00PM Projective Representations of the (1724) order boundary value problems with (1733) Mapping Class Group coming from the fractional q-derivatives. Extended TQFT underlying the Kauffman John R. Graef*andLingju Kong, Bracket. University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Charles Frohman*, Michael Fitzpatrick, (1077-34-239) The University of Iowa, and Joanna 2:00PM Fractional Inequalities Revisited. Kania-Bartoszynska,TheNational (1725) Preliminary report. Science Foundation (1077-57-185) George A Anastassiou,Universityof 1:30PM Knot concordance and homology Memphis (1077-26-359) (1734) cobordism. Tim D Cochran, Bridget D Franklin,Rice 2:30PM Fractional Differential Equations (1726) with Periodic Boundary Conditions. University, Matthew Hedden,Michigan Generalized Monotone Method and State University, and Peter D Horn*, Conditions for Uniqueness. Columbia University (1077-57-994) JDiegoRamirez*andAghalaya S 2:00PM On the equivalence of Legendrian and Vatsala, University of Louisiana at (1735) transverse knot invariants in Heegaard Lafayette (1077-34-578) Floer homology. John A. Baldwin, Princeton University, 3:00PM Diffusions switched by Markov chains. David Shea Vela-Vick*, Columbia (1727) Preliminary report. University, and Vera Vertesi, Andrzej Korzeniowski,TheUniversityof Massachusetts Institute of Technology Texas at Arlington (1077-60-1064) (1077-57-622) 3:30PM Generalized Quasilinearization Method 2:30PM Obstructing concordance of related (1728) for Nonlinear Riemann-Liouville (1736) satellite operations. Fractional Differential Equations. Bridget D Franklin, Rice University Preliminary report. (1077-57-1245) Zachary Denton*andAghalaya Vatsala, University of Louisiana at Lafayette 3:00PM Grid diagrams and the spectral sequence (1077-34-1132) (1737) from Khovanov to Heegaard Floer homology. 4:00PM Stability of stochastic two-scale network John A Baldwin, Princeton University (1729) delayed SIR epidemic dynamic model with (1077-57-2413) temporary immunity period. Divine T Wanduku*andGangaram S 3:30PM Non-triviality of knots arising from Ladde, University of South Florida (1738) iterated infection without the use of the (1077-60-1376) Tristram-Levine signature. Christoper William Davis,Rice 4:30PM On Higher Order Stochastic differential University (1077-57-1089) (1730) equations. 4:00PM Topologically slice knots with small Jean-Claude Pedjeu*andG. S. (1739) fundamental group. Preliminary report. Ladde, University of South Florida Prudence Heck*andTim Cochran,Rice (1077-60-1872) University (1077-57-2089) 5:00PM Existence of multiple solutions for a class 4:30PM Classifying primitive/Seifert knots. (1731) of fractional boundary value problems. (1740) Preliminary report. Lingju Kong, University of Tennessee at John Berge,Madison,WI,Brandy Chattanooga (1077-34-1873) Guntel*, UT Austin, and Sungmo Kang, 5:30PM Generalized Monotone Method and Gauss McGill University (1077-57-1421) (1732) Seidel Method for Caputo and Riemann 5:00PM Categoriﬁcation of the Jones-Wenzl Liouville Fractional Differential Systems. (1741) projectors and applications. Preliminary report. Benjamin Cooper and Slava Krushkal*, Aghalaya S Vatsala*, University of University of Virginia (1077-57-1627) Louisiana at Lafayette, and Donna 5:30PM Properties of the head and tail of the Stutson, Xavior University of New Orleans (1077-34-1038) (1742) colored Jones polynomial. Oliver Dasbach*andCody Armond, Louisiana State University (1077-57-2110)

AMS Special Session on Linear Algebraic AMS Special Session on Knot Theory, III Groups: Their Arithmetic, Geometry, and Representations, III 1:00 PM –5:50PM Provincetown, 4th Floor, Marriott 1:00 PM –5:50PM Berkeley, 3rd Floor, Marriott Organizers: Tim Cochran,Rice Organizers: R. Skip Garibaldi,Emory University University Shelly Harvey,Rice George McNinch,Tufts University University

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1:00PM Extended Quotients and Kazhdan-Lusztig 2:00PM A survey of topological free entropy (1743) Parameters. (1755) dimension. Preliminary report. Paul Frank Baum, Penn State University Don Hadwin*, University of New (1077-22-653) Hampshire, Qihui Li, East China 1:30PM Unexpected twists in positive depth University of Science and Technology (1744) L-packets. Preliminary report. (Shanghai), Weihua Li, Columbia College Stephen DeBacker*, University of (Chicago), and Junhao Shen,University Michigan, and Loren Spice,Texas of New Hampshire (1077-46-701) Christian University (1077-22-2884) 2:30PM Representation formulas for Hardy space 2:00PM The Belkale-Kumar cup product. (1756) functions through the Cuntz relations (1745) Sam Evens, University of Notre Dame and new interpolation problems. (1077-17-1471) Daniel Aron Alpay*, Ben-Gurion University, Palle Jorgensen,Universityof 2:30PM Representation Theory of semisimple Lie Iowa, Izchak Lewkowicz, Department of (1746) algebras in positive characteristic. electrical engineering. Ben-Gurion Preliminary report. University, and Itzik Marziano, Ivan Mirkovic, U. of Massachusetts, Ben-Gurion University (1077-47-1575) Amherst (1077-22-1738) 3:00PM Characteristic functions of row 3:00PM Regular nilpotent Hessenberg varieties. (1757) contractions: unitary equivalence and (1747) Julianna S Tymoczko, Smith College coincidence. (1077-14-2792) Vladimir Bolotnikov*, The College of 3:30PM Special nilpotent orbits and modular Lie William and Mary, and Joseph A Ball, (1748) algebra representations. Preliminary Virginia Tech (1077-47-1968) report. 3:30PM Essential normality of ,U.Massachusetts, James E. Humphreys (1758) polynomial-generated submodules. Amherst (1077-17-453) Quanlei Fang*, Bronx Community 4:00PM G-Galois algebras and a Hasse principle. College, CUNY, and Jingbo Xia, (1749) Parimala Raman*, Emory University, SUNY-Buffalo (1077-47-486) Atlanta, GA 30322, and Eva 4:00PM Extensions of Hilbert Modules over , EPFL, Lausanne, Bayer-Fluckiger (1759) Operator Tensor Algebras. Switzerland (1077-20-2439) Andrew K Greene,UniversityofIowa 4:30PM On the conjecture of Borel and Tits for (1077-46-2437) (1750) abstract homomorphisms of algebraic 4:30PM Second Order Even and R-diagonal groups. (1760) Operators. Preliminary report. Igor A. Rapinchuk,YaleUniversity James A Mingo*, Queen’s University at (1077-20-218) Kingston, and Octavio Arizmendi, 5:00PM Degree formula for the Euler Universit¨at des Saarlandes (1751) characteristic. (1077-46-1856) Olivier Haution,Universityof 5:00PM Realization and interpolation theory for Nottingham (1077-14-747) (1761) generalized Schur classes. Preliminary 5:30PM The J-invariant and Tits indices for report. (1752) groups of type E6. Joseph A. Ball,VirginiaTech Caroline Junkins, University of Ottawa (1077-47-200) (1077-14-1010) 5:30PM Analytic Functions from Tensors. (1762) Paul S. Muhly*, University of Iowa, and Baruch Solel, Technion (1077-46-1704)

AMS Special Session on Progress in Free Analysis, III

1:00 PM –5:50PM Room 108, Hynes AMS Special Session on Radon Transforms and Geometric Analysis (in honor of Organizers: J. William Helton,University Sigurdur Helgason’s 85th birthday), II of California, San Diego Paul S. Muhly,Universityof 1:00 PM –5:50PM Room 104, Hynes Iowa Organizers: Jens Christensen, 1:00PM Non commutative Hardy operator University of Maryland (1753) algebras. Paul S Muhly, University of Iowa, and Fulton Gonzalez,Tufts Baruch Solel*, Technion, Israel Institute University of Technology (1077-47-883) Todd Quinto,Tufts 1:30PM Cuntz-Pimsner algebras for subproduct University (1754) systems. 1:00PM Abel-Radon transform and CR functions. Ami Viselter, University of Alberta (1763) Mark Agranovsky, Bar-Ilan University (1077-46-499) (1077-32-672)

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1:30PM Mean value theorems on symmetric 2:30PM A p-adic criterion for good reduction of (1764) spaces. (1774) curves over a p-adic ﬁeld. Francois Rouviere, Universite de Nice, Adrian Iovita, Concordia University, France (1077-22-1590) Montreal and Padova University, Italy 2:00PM The cosλ-transform and intertwining (1077-14-1616) (1765) operators for SL(n, F). 3:00PM The birational p-adic section conjecture Gestur Olafsson*, Louisiana State (1775) -revisited. University, and Angela Pasquale, Florian Pop, University of Pennsylvania University of Metz (1077-43-1085) (1077-08-2022) 3:00PM Twisted Poisson integrals on bounded 3:30PM Cohen-Lenstra heuristics and Random (1766) symmetric domains. (1776) Dieudonn´eModules. Adam Koranyi,H.H.LehmanCollege, David Michael Zureick-Brown*, Emory CUNY (1077-22-874) University, Jordan Ellenberg,University 3:30PM Radon transformation on reductive of Wisconsin-Madison, and Bryden Cais, (1767) symmetric spaces: support theorems. The University of Arizona (1077-11-2088) Job J. Kuit, University of Copenhagen 4:00PM Euclidean quadratic forms and ADC (1077-44-456) (1777) forms. 4:00PM Range of the Double Fibration Transform Pete L. Clark, University of Georgia (1768) (joint work with Michael Eastwood). (1077-11-2451) Joseph A. Wolf, University of California 4:30PM Imaginary quadratic class numbers and at Berkeley (1077-22-331) (1778) Sha for congruent number curves. 5:00PM The bounded hypergeometric functions Preliminary report. (1769) associated with root systems. Nils Bruin, Simon Fraser University E. K. Narayanan, Indian Institute of (1077-11-2012) Science, Bangalore, India, Angela 5:00PM Diophantine Equations With Two Pasquale*, Universite Paul Verlaine - (1779) Separated Variables. Metz, France, and Sanjoy Pusti, Benjamin L Weiss, Technion University of Luxembourg (1077-33-684) (1077-12-128) 5:30PM Paley-Wiener Theorems on Rn with 5:30PM Extensions of a Kim and Roush Result to (1770) respect to the spectral parameter. (1780) Algebraic Fields. Preliminary report. Susanna Dann*, University of Missouri, Alexandra Shlapentokh, East Carolina and Gestur Olafsson, Louisiana State University (1077-11-1325) University (1077-43-2720)

AMS Special Session on Recent Trends in Graph Theory, II AMS Special Session on Rational Points on Varieties, III 1:00 PM –5:50PM Room 102, Hynes

1:00 PM –5:50PM Arlington, 3rd Floor, Marriott Organizer: Ralucca Gera, Naval Postgraduate School Organizers: Jennifer Balakrishnan, 1:00PM Uniquely Kr -saturated graphs. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1781) Preliminary report. Stephen G Hartke and Derrick Stolee*, Bjorn Poonen, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Massachusetts Institute of (1077-05-1584) Technology 1:30PM On Locating Sets in Graphs. Bianca Viray,Brown (1782) Bryan A Phinezy,WesternMichigan University University (1077-05-767) Kirsten Wickelgren, 2:00PM Counting Kempe-equivalence classes for Harvard University (1783) 3-edge-colored cubic graphs. 1:00PM Homotopy Obstructions to Rational Sarah-Marie Belcastro*, University of (1771) Points - I. Massachusetts-Amherst and Smith Tomer M. Schlank*andYonatan College, and Ruth Haas, Smith College Harpaz, The Hebrew University of (1077-05-587) Jerusalem (1077-14-1374) 2:30PM On cubic non-toroidal graphs. 1:30PM Homotopy Obstructions to Rational (1784) Preliminary report. (1772) Points - II. Stan Dziobiak*, University of Mississippi, Yonatan Harpaz*andTomer M. and Guoli Ding, Louisiana State Schlank, The Hebrew University of University (1077-05-2541) Jerusalem (1077-14-1375) 3:00PM Prime Distance Graphs. 2:00PM Rational points and A1-homotopy theory. (1785) Joshua D Laison*, Colin Starr, (1773) Aravind Asok,UniversityofSouthern Willamette University, and Andrea California, and Christian Haesemeyer*, Walker, Sandia National Laboratory UCLA (1077-14-1226) (1077-05-124)

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3:30PM Clawfreeness of powers of graphs. 4:00PM Inverse energy cascade and (1786) Preliminary report. (1796) self-organization in 2-D turbulent Patrick Bahls*, University of North channel flow. Carolina, Asheville, and Nicole A. Gin, Wanping Li*andShuangxi Guo, School Spring Arbor University (1077-05-45) of Civil Engineering and Mechanics, 4:00PM Parity Balanced Bipartite Graphs. Huazhong University of Science and (1787) Guven Yuceturk*, University of West Technology, Wuhan, PR China Georgia, and Dean G. Hoffman, Auburn (1077-76-683) University (1077-05-2648) 4:30PM Evolution of elastic thin films with (1797) curvature regularization via minimizing 4:30PM Cancellation for the direct product of movements. (1788) digraphs. Paolo Piovano,CarnegieMellon Richard H Hammack,Virginia University (1077-35-1747) Commonwealth University (1077-05-122) 5:00PM Well Known Equations and Not Well 5:00PM Rainbow Matchings and the (1798) Known Behavior of Solutions. Preliminary (1789) Erdos-Ko-Rado Theorem. report. *and , David M Howard Ron Aharoni Laihan Luo,NewYorkInstituteof Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Technology (1077-35-463) (1077-05-2297) 5:30PM Total Detection Numbers of Graphs. (1790) Henry Escuadro*, Juniata College, and AMS Special Session on Uniformly and Futaba Fujie-Okamoto,Universityof Partially Hyperbolic Dynamical Systems, II Wisconsin - La Crosse (1077-05-2084) 1:00 PM –5:40PM Fairfield, 3rd Floor, Marriott Organizers: Todd Fisher,Brigham Young University Boris Hasselblatt,Tufts University AMS Special Session on Some Nonlinear 1:00PM Partial Hyperbolicity in the Hamiltonian Partial Differential Equations: Theory and (1799) and geometrical context. Application, III Enrique Pujals, IMPA (1077-37-764) 2:00PM Ergodicity of the Weil Petersson geodesic 1:00 PM –5:20PM Wellesley, 3rd Floor, Marriott (1800) flow. Keith Burns*, Northwestern University, Organizers: Jerry L. Bona,Universityof Howard Masur, University of Chicago, Illinois, Chicago and Amie Wilkinson,Northwestern Laihan Luo,NewYork University (1077-37-2115) Institute of Technology 2:30PM Isotopy class for orbits of skewed (1801) R-covered Anosov flows. 1:00PM Dispersive Quantization — the Talbot , IRMA, universitéde (1791) Effect. Thomas Barthelmé Strasbourg (1077-37-1352) Peter J. Olver, University of Minnesota (1077-35-605) 3:00PM Partially hyperbolic actions on (1802) nilmanifolds. 1:30PM On the existence of stationary Danijela Damjanovic, Rice University (1792) solutions for some non-Fredholm (1077-37-937) integro-differential equations. Vitali G Vougalter,UniversityofCape 3:30PM Mixing rates for flows. Town (1077-35-2063) (1803) Michael Field, University of Houston (1077-37-1444) 2:00PM Water Waves with Discontinuous (1793) Vorticity. 4:00PM Billiards under small twists. (1804) ,Universityof Walter A. Strauss,BrownUniversity Hong-Kun Zhang (1077-76-1172) Massachusetts Amherst (1077-37-438) 4:30PM A note on dynamical Borel-Cantelli 2:30PM On a PDE system that governs the (1805) lemmas for non-uniformly hyperbolic (1794) boundary layers system for complex dynamical systems. fluids. Nicolai Haydn,UniversityofSouthern Xiaojun Wang*andMichael Renardy, California, Matthew Nicol*, University of Virginia Tech (1077-76-1557) Houston, Tomas Persson, Lunds 3:00PM Discussion moderated by Diane Tekniska Hogskola, Sweden, and Henderson Sandro Vaienti,CPT,Luminy,France 3:30PM Some Integro-differential Equations (1077-37-1419) (1795) Describing Nonlinear Evolution of 5:00PM Essential coexistence of completely Instability Waves on Shear Flows. (1806) hyperbolic and completely non-hyperbolic Xuesong Wu, Tianjin University, behavior. China & Imperial College London, UK Yakov B. Pesin, Penn State University (1077-76-2301) (1077-37-540)

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MAA Invited Paper Session on Semideﬁnite AMS Session on Combinatorics and Graph Optimization and Nonnegative Polynomials Theory, VI

1:00 PM –3:45PM Room 302, Hynes 1:00 PM –5:25PM Room 111, Hynes

Organizers: Rekha Thomas,University 1:00PM On the Distribution of Arithmetic of Washington (1811) Sequences in the 3x +1 Graph. Greg Blekherman,Georgia Preliminary report. Tech Keenan Monks,Harvard,Ken G. 1:00PM Nonnegative Polynomials and Sums of Monks*, University of Scranton, Ken M. (1807) Squares. Monks, Colorado State University, Grigoriy Blekherman,GeorgiaTech and Maria Monks,UCBerkeley (1077-AH-2956) (1077-05-1804) 1:45PM Sum of Squares Optimization applied to 1:15PM Counting Binary Normal Networks. (1808) Walking Robots and Robotic Birds. (1812) Devin R Bickner, Iowa State University Russ Tedrake, Massachusetts Institute (1077-05-1719) of Technology: Computer Science and 1:30PM Improving the Computational Efficiency Artificial Intelligence Lab (1077-AH-2831) (1813) of the Blitzstein–Diaconis algorithm for 2:30PM Computational and Algebraic Aspects of Generating Graphs of Prescribed Degree. (1809) Convexity. Elizabeth Moseman,NIST Amir Ali Ahmadi, MIT (1077-AH-2925) (1077-05-1694) 3:15PM Graphs, Distances, and Semidefinite 1:45PM Combinatorial Interpretations of (1810) Programming. (1814) Quantum Elementary Characters. Steven J. Gortler,SEAS,Harvard Preliminary report. University (1077-AH-900) Brittany C Shelton*andMark Skandera, Lehigh University (1077-05-1664) MAA Minicourse #3: Part B 2:00PM Some planar Hall completable graphs. (1815) Preliminary report. 1:00 PM –3:00PM Salon AB, 4th Floor, Marriott Sibel Ozkan,Istanbul,Turkey,andErik E Westlund*, Kennesaw State University Problem-based courses for teachers, (1077-05-1594) future teachers, and math majors. 2:15PM The k-Fixed-Endpoint Path Partition Presenters: Gail Burrill, Michigan State (1816) Problem. University Breeanne Baker*andGarth Isaak, Darryl Yong, Harvey Mudd Lehigh University (1077-05-1568) College 2:30PM Mod (2p +1)-orientations in graphs. Bowen Kerins, Education (1817) Yanting Liang, St. Mary’s College of Development Center Maryland (1077-05-1761) James King,Universityof 2:45PM On quasi-symmetric designs with Washington (1818) intersection difference three. V. C. Mavron, T. P. McDonough, MAA Minicourse #7: Part B Institute of Mathematics and Physics, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, UK, and M. S. 1:00 PM –3:00PM Salon CD, 4th Floor, Marriott Shrikhande*, Central Michigan University (1077-05-1852) Study the masters: Using primary historical sources in mathematics 3:00PM Break. teaching. 3:15PM Split digraphs. Presenters: Daniel Otero,Xavier (1819) M Drew LaMar, College of William and University Mary (1077-05-1853) David Pengelley,New 3:30PM Maximum packings of complete graphs Mexico State University (1820) with stars. Dan Roberts, Auburn University MAA Minicourse #11: Part B (1077-05-1457) 3:45PM Generalizations of Baranyai’s Theorem 1:00 PM –3:00PM Salon HI, 4th Floor, Marriott (1821) and Embedding Factorizations. Amin Bahmanian, Auburn University Teaching differential equations with (1077-05-1369) modeling. 4:00PM Conjectures and Results on Equitable Presenters: Michael Huber, Muhlenberg (1822) Δ-Coloring of Graphs. College Bor-Liang Chen, National Taichung Dan Flath, Macalester Institute of Technology, Taiwan, Ko-Wei College Lih, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, and Tom LoFaro,Gustavus Chih-Hung Yen*, National Chiayi Adolphus College University, Taiwan (1077-05-1316)

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4:15PM Partial Permutations Avoiding Pairs of 2:30PM An Innovative Approach to Limiting (1823) Patterns. (1834) Availibility Using Extended Semi-Markov Noah Arbesfeld, Massachusetts Institute Processes. of Technology (1077-05-1300) Liang Hong*, Bradley University, 4:30PM Quotients of subgroup lattices of finite Jyotirmoy Sarkar, Indiana University (1824) abelian p-groups. Preliminary report. Purdue University Indianapolis, and Marina Dombrovskaya, Washington Bruno Bieth, Modeling and Simulation, University in St. Louis (1077-05-1252) Novartis Pharma AG (1077-90-16) PM 4:45PM A Geometric Extremal Result for Cubic 2:45 Break. (1825) Arrays. 3:00PM Strategic market games with random James E Gossell*, University of Central (1835) endowments. Missouri, and Peter Johnson, Auburn Barbara A Bennie,Universityof University (1077-05-1639) Wisconsin - La Crosse (1077-91-2382) 5:00PM A hypergraph version of a graph packing 3:15PM (Me) vs (Them) with the Help of Mr. (1826) theorem by Bollobas´ and Eldridge. (1836) Lincoln. Peter Hamburger,Western Allan M. Cordish, Bethel, Ohio Kentucky University, Alexandr V. (1077-91-358) Kostochka, University of Illinois at 3:30PM Growth of one-dimensional cellular Urbana-Champaign, and Christopher (1837) automata. Stocker*, Western Kentucky University Eric Rowland*, LaCIM, Universite du (1077-05-1945) Quebec a Montreal, and Charles 5:15PM A bijective factorization of modified Brummitt, University of California Davis (1827) Macdonald polynomials. (1077-68-130) Nicholas A Loehr, Virginia Tech, and 3:45PM Turing Machines and Quantum Elizabeth M Niese*, Marshall University (1838) Computation: Building a Quantum Brain. (1077-05-1513) Julia T Upton, Husson University (1077-68-127) 4:00PM Strategies to Deploy Temporary (1839) Ambulatory Medical Services in Response of a Catastrophic Event. Preliminary AMS Session on Computer Science, report. Information, Control Theory, and Economics, Ahlam E.H. Tannouri*, Morgan State II University, Sam F. Tannouri, Computer Science Department/ Morgan State 1:00 PM –4:55PM Room 303, Hynes University, and Belinda Kauffman, University of Maryland School of 1:00PM Numerical Experiments on New Medecine (1077-90-2907) (1828) Relaxation-Type Algorithms for LPs. 4:15PM Communication-efficient 2-round group Jesus A. De Loera, Amitabh Basu and (1840) key establishment from pairings. Mark Junod*, University of California, KNNeupane*andRSteinwandt,Florida Davis (1077-90-1809) Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida 1:15PM Modeling Special Ordered Set Restrictions (1077-94-1635) (1829) and Other Disjunctions using Base-2 4:30PM Controllability of nonlocal semilinear Expansions. Preliminary report. (1841) boundary delay control systems. Warren P Adams and Frank Preliminary report. M Muldoon*, Clemson University Nutan Kumar Tomar*andSuman (1077-90-1418) Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology 1:30PM Computational Manifold Equilibrium in Patna, Bihar,India (1077-93-2344) (1830) Dynamical Economic Models. 4:45PM Codes from incidence matrices and line Zhengyuan Gao,Universityof (1842) graphs of generalized Paley graphs. Amsterdam (1077-91-297) Preliminary report. 1:45PM A Minimax Distribution Free Approach: Pani Seneviratne,AmericanUniversityof (1831) Joint Vendor and Buyer Model. Sharjah (1077-94-543) Ajanta Roy, University of South Carolina, Salk, SC 29488 (1077-91-2528) 2:00PM Game theory in vaccination and its (1832) application. Preliminary report. AMS Session on Group Theory and Yingyun Shen*andMike Generalizations Mesterton-Gibbons,FloridaState University (1077-91-2483) 1:00 PM –5:40PM Room 308, Hynes 2:15PM Identification of Systems with Structural 1:00PM On subgroups of the Dixmier group and (1833) Uncertainties using Binary Sensors. (1843) Calogero-Moser spaces. Preliminary Preliminary report. report. Shaobai Kan, John Jay College of Alimjon K Eshmatov,Universityof Criminal Justice, CUNY (1077-93-1291) Arizona, Tucson (1077-20-2938)

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1:15PM Symmetry of Endomorphism Algebras - 4:45PM Using the p-Group Generation Algorithm (1844) preliminary report. Preliminary report. (1857) to Generate Extensions of D4 by × × Adam Anthony Allan,St.Louis C2 C2 C2n−5 . Preliminary report. University (1077-20-2820) Aliza A. Steurer, Dominican University 1:30PM The probability that two elements (1077-20-1605) (1845) commute in groups with small centers. 5:00PM On Conditions Relating to Nonsolvability. Preliminary report. (1858) MichaelJ.J.Barry, Allegheny College Thomas Langley, Rose-Hulman Institute (1077-20-1613) of Technology (1077-20-2585) 5:15PM Finite Groups with all Subgroups not 1:45PM Towers of IA-automorphisms. (1859) Contained in the Frattini Subgroup (1846) Preliminary report. Permutable. Margaret H Dean, The City University of Joseph Kirtland, Marist College New York-BMCC, Stephen Majewicz,The (1077-20-266) City University of New York-KCC, and 5:30PM A new distinguished form for 3-braids Marcos Zyman*, The City University of (1860) and its applications to the σ -order on B3. New York-BMCC (1077-20-2573) Preliminary report. 2:00PM Relating the structure of a group to the Emille Davie Lawrence,Universityof (1847) module-theoretic properties of the group San Francisco (1077-20-259) von Neumann algebra over the complex group ring. Wade Mattox,VirginiaTech (1077-20-2491) 2:15PM Recent results on Cayley-Dickson loops. AMS Session on Mathematical Biology and (1848) Jenya Kirshtein, University of Denver Related Fields, III (1077-20-2154)

2:30PM Monoids Deﬁned by Second Order 1:00 PM –5:10PM Room 105, Hynes (1849) Recurrence Relations. Preliminary report. Trey Brock*andNicholas R Baeth, 1:00PM Reaction-diffusion replicator equation: University of Central Missouri (1861) Stability and asymptotic behavior. (1077-20-2054) Artem S. Novozhilov*, Vladimir P. Posvyanskii and Alexander S. Bratus, 2:45PM Schur σ -groups of small prime power (1850) order. Moscow State University (1077-92-829) Michael R Bush, Smith College 1:15PM Mathematical Modeling of Competitive (1077-20-1783) (1862) Binding on a Microarray. Frank H Lynch*andThomas Jemielita, 3:00PM Hyperbolic hydra. (1851) Noel Brady, University of Oklahoma, Will Occidental College (1077-92-629) Dison, Bank of England, and Tim Riley*, 1:30PM A Novel Baysian Change-Point (BCP) Cornell (1077-20-1684) (1863) Model for Better ChIP-seq Data Analyses. Preliminary report. 3:15PM Break. Yifan Mo*, Stony Brook University, Will 3:30PM Abelian groups with partial Liao, Haipeng Xing, Applied Math and (1852) decomposition bases. Preliminary report. Statistics Department, Stony Brook Carol Jacoby, Jacoby Consulting, Katrin University, and Michael Zhang,Cold Leistner, University of Duisburg-Esen, Spring Harbor Laboratory (1077-92-581) Germany, Peter Loth*, Sacred Heart University, and Lutz Struengmann, 1:45PM The Number of Multistate Nested University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany (1864) Canalyzing Functions. (1077-20-1108) David Murrugarra,VirginiaTech (1077-92-361) 3:45PM Bounds and Asymptotics for Various 2:00PM A discrete model of iron metabolism (1853) Properties of Numerical Semigroups. Lynnelle L Ye, Stanford University (1865) in lung epithelial cells with fungal (1077-20-1054) challenge. Preliminary report. John Nardini*, North Carolina State 4:00PM Zero-divisor graphs with seven vertices. University, Kahmya McAlpin, Oakwood (1854) Preliminary report. University, Leslie Myint, Johns Hopkins Xinyun Zhu,UniversityofTexasofthe University, and Shernita Lee,Virginia Permian Basin (1077-20-638) Bioinformatics Institute (1077-92-322) 4:15PM Dirichlet-Ford Domains and Arithmetic 2:15PM Estimating population growth rates for (1855) Reﬂection Groups. Preliminary report. (1866) mammalian species. Grant S Lakeland, University of Texas at Yanthe E Pearson*, William Fagan, Elise Austin (1077-20-446) Larsen, University of Maryland College 4:30PM The nonabelian tensor square of Park, Emma Goldberg,University (1856) nilpotent product of cyclic groups. Illinois Chicago, Heather Lynch, Suny Preliminary report. Stoneybrook, Hillary Staver,University Arturo Magidin, University of Louisiana of Maryland College Park, and Jessica at Lafayette (1077-20-344) Turner, Select (1077-92-251)

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2:30PM Modeling the Differences in the AMS Session on Number Theory, Field (1867) Development of a New Antibiotic Class Theory, and Polynomials, II versus the Development of a Next Generation Antibiotic to Combat 1:00 PM –5:25PM Room 305, Hynes Antimicrobial Resistance in a Hospital Setting. 1:00PM Rational Density. Preliminary report. Michele L. Joyner, East Tennessee State (1877) Adam C. McDougall*andNathan University (1077-92-895) Bishop, St. Olaf College (1077-11-1778) 2:45PM Modeling thermal propagation along vein 1:15PM Solutions to xyz =1and x + y + z = k in (1868) walls in endovenous laser treatment. (1878) Integers in Cubic Number Fields. William R Fuller,OhioNorthern Preliminary report. University (1077-92-2799) Helen G. Grundman*, Bryn Mawr 3:00PM Tumorgrowthincomplex,evolving College, and Laura L. Hall-Seelig, (1869) geometries: A diffuse domain approach. Merrimack College (1077-11-1587) Ying Chen*, University of California, 1:30PM Integer Solutions to xyz =1and Irvine, and John S. Lowengrub, (1879) x + y + z = k in Number Fields of Degree University of California, Irvine at Most Four. Preliminary report. (1077-92-2464) Helen G. Grundman, Bryn Mawr College, 3:15PM Break. and Laura L. Hall-Seelig*, Merrimack College (1077-11-1588) 3:30PM Modeling Cell Movement using the Level (1870) Set Method. Preliminary report. 1:45PM Robin’s theorem, primes, and a new Matthew K Fox*, Benjamin Dellaria and (1880) elementary reformulation of the Riemann Magdalena Stolarska, University of Saint Hypothesis. Thomas (1077-92-2431) Geoffrey Caveney,Chicago,IL, Jean-Louis Nicolas,UniversitédeLyon; 3:45PM Association testing in sequencing studies: CNRS, Institut Camille Jordan, and (1871) Accommodating risk and protective Jonathan Sondow*, New York, NY variants. (1077-11-1573) Abra Brisbin*andBrooke L. Fridley, Mayo Clinic (1077-92-245) 2:00PM On the Dimension of Algebro-Geometric (1881) Trace Codes. 4:00PM Multi-scale Model of CRISPR-induced Phong Le, Niagara University (1872) Coevolutionary Dynamics: Diversification (1077-11-1104) at the Interface of Lamarck and Darwin. Preliminary report. 2:15PM On positive integers n dividing the nth Lauren M Childs*, Georgia Institute of (1882) term of an elliptic divisibility sequence. Technology, Nicole Held,Univeristyof Avram M. Gottschlich, Dartmouth Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Mark J College (1077-11-1705) Young, Montana State University, Rachel 2:30PM Computing Intersections of Abelian JWhitaker, Univeristy of Illinois at (1883) Varieties Associated to Modular Forms. Urbana-Champaign, and Joshua S Randy J Heaton, Florida State University Weitz, Georgia Institute of Technology (1077-11-1414) (1077-92-241) 2:45PM The Inverse Galois Problem and Minimal 4:15PM A Cellular Automata Model for Biofilm (1884) Ramification over Function Fields. (1873) Growth with Surface Flow. Meghan M De Witt,UniversityofCentral Baldvin Einarsson*, Center for Complex Oklahoma (1077-11-1192) and Nonlinear Science, University of 3:00PM Break. California, Santa Barbara, David Rodriguez and Ana Carpio,Universidad 3:15PM Exponential Hensel Lifting. Complutense de Madrid (1077-92-2514) (1885) A Johnston, Johns Hopkins University (EP) (1077-11-1082) 4:30PM Using Optimal Control to minimize Rift (1874) Valley Fever Cases. Preliminary report. 3:30PM -adic Properties of Partition Functions. Donald Adongo*, Renee Fister, Murray (1886) Eva Kinoshita Belmont,Harvard State University, and Holly Gaff,Old University, Sarah Trebat-Leder*, Dominion University (1077-92-2218) Princeton University, Alexandra Musat, California Institute of Technology, and 4:45PM Modeling the Spread of a Ug99-Type (1875) Wheat Pathogen in the United States of Holden Lee, Massachusetts Institute of America. Technology (1077-11-1068) Patrick Thomas Davis*, Central 3:45PM Divisibility of Eigenforms, and computing Michigan University, and Andrew M. (1887) a function of the j-invariant. Ross, Eastern Michigan University Jeffrey Beyerl*, Kevin James and Hui (1077-92-189) Xue, Clemson University (1077-11-899) 5:00PM Simple Undergraduate Mathematics to 4:00PM Connections between discriminants and (1876) Understand Complex HIV-1 Latent (1888) the root distribution of polynomials with Infection Dynamics. rational generating functions. Naveen K. Vaidya,TheUniversityof Khang D. Tran, University of Illinois at Western Ontario (1077-92-1553) Urbana-Champaign (1077-11-687)

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4:15PM Symmetric parameterizations for quintic 2:45PM A Non-linear Least Squares Estimator of (1889) Eisenstein series. (1901) Buhlmann¨ Credibility. Preliminary report. Tim Huber*, Richard Charles and Jinfeng Wei, Maryvile University of St. Andoni Mendoza,UniversityofTexas- Louis (1077-65-2692) Pan American (1077-11-1772) 3:00PM Break. 4:30PM Polynomial Cunningham Chains. 3:15PM Perturbation theory for the (1890) Lenny Jones, Shippensburg University (1902) approximation of stability spectra by QR (1077-11-1833) methods for products of linear operators 4:45PM New Ramanujan Congruence Properties on a Hilbert space. (1891) of the Restricted Partition Function M. Badawy*andErik S. Van Vleck, p(n, m) Modulo Prime Powers. University of Kansas (1077-65-2444) Brandt Kronholm, Whittier College 3:30PM Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (1077-11-659) (1903) Nonlinear Closure Models of Engineering 5:00PM The quadratic Waring-Goldbach problem Flows. (1892) and related topics. Preliminary report. Zhu Wang*andTraian Iliescu,Virginia Taiyu Li, Shandong University Tech (1077-65-1732) (1077-11-2966) 3:45PM Immerse Finite Element Methods for 5:15PM Congruence and Noncongruence (1904) Solving Parabolic Type Moving Interface (1893) Subgroups of Γ(2) via Graphs on Problems. Surfaces. Xu Zhang*andTao Lin,VirginiaTech erica j. Whitaker,TheOhioState (1077-65-1492) University (1077-11-626) 4:00PM The Statistical Estimation of Uncertain (1905) Parameters in Elliptic PDEs. Hans-Werner van Wyk,Virginia Polytechnic and State University AMS Session on Numerical Analysis, I (1077-65-1465) 4:15PM High Order Compact Reconstruction 1:00 PM –4:55PM Room 209, Hynes (1906) Scheme with Weighted Essentially Non-Oscillatory Limiting. 1:00PM Iteratively Re-weighted Least Squares Debojyoti Ghosh*, University of (1894) Methods for Inverse Problems with Maryland, and James D. Baeder, Sparsity Constraints. Department of Aerospace Engineering, Ingrid Daubechies, Duke University, and University of Maryland (1077-65-1385) Sergey Voronin*, Princeton University 4:30PM Implementing the localized method of (1077-65-1626) (1907) approximate particular solutions using a 1:15PM A fast numerical solver for the unsteady Schultz-Jones-Mayer algorithm. (1895) Oseen problems in rotation form. Guangming Yao*, Rowan University, and Jia Liu, University of West Florida Joseph Kolibal,UniversityofSouthern (1077-65-2949) Mississippi (1077-65-2230) 1:30PM An Adaptive Compact Scheme for the 4:45PM Galerkin Finite Element Approximations (1896) Quenching Solution of Reaction-Diffusion (1908) of an Optimal Control Problem for Elliptic Equations. PDEs with Random Input Data. Matthew A. Beauregard*andQin Jangwoon Lee*, University of Mary Sheng, Baylor University (1077-65-2497) Washington, and Hyung-Chun Lee,Ajou 1:45PM Spectral Variational Integrators. University (1077-65-1372) (1897) Preliminary report. James Brian Hall,Universityof California, San Diego (1077-65-665) AMS Session on Partial Differential Equations, I 2:00PM On the construction of optimal piece-wise (1898) constant coarse spaces in algebraic 1:00 PM –4:25PM Room 110, Hynes multigrid method. James J Brannick, Yao Chen*and 1:00PM On theory and numerical method for Ludmil T Zikatanov, Penn State (1909) computing eigen-solutions of nonlinear University (1077-65-2705) elliptic equation with Neumann boundary 2:15PM Explicit Extended Stability Time Stepping condition. Preliminary report. (1899) Methods. Changchun Wang,TexasA&MUniversity Katharine F Gurski,HowardUniversity (1077-35-2433) (1077-65-2804) 1:15PM Optimization Problem for Klein-Gordon 2:30PM Variational Multiscale and SUPG (1910) Equation. (1900) Stabilization of Proper Orthogonal Qinghua Luo,UniversityofOklahoma Decomposition Approximation for a (1077-35-2039) Generalized Oseen Problem. 1:30PM New Results for the Leah Cosine Function. John P Roop*, North Carolina A & T State (1911) Joshua Mann*, Morehouse College, and University, Traian Iliescu and Zhu Wang, Ronald E. Mickens, Clark Atlanta Virginia Tech (1077-65-2713) University (1077-35-2144)

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1:45PM Fundamental differential form and 1:00PM Modularized Math Remediation: (1912) boundary value problems for PDEs. (1922) Implementation and data. Maxim Zyskin, UTB (1077-35-2694) Aaron Wong, Nevada State College 2:00PM A Multi-Moment CIP Method for (1077-C5-641) (1913) Hyperbolic Equations. 1:20PM Designing Developmental Mathematics Sarah King, North Carolina State (1923) for Student Success. University (NCSU) (1077-35-2535) Alvina J. Atkinson*, Barry D. 2:15PM Nonlinear Neutral Inclusions: Biddlecomb and D. Natasha Brewley, (1914) Assemblages of Disks and Ellipsoids. Georgia Gwinnett College (1077-C5-202) Preliminary report. Silvia Jim´enez*andBogdan Vernescu, 1:40PM Streamlining Basic Algebra Instruction. Worcester Polytechnic Institute (1924) James R. Henderson,Universityof (1077-35-2723) Pittsburgh at Titusville (1077-C5-163) 2:30PM Break. 2:00PM Factors Related to Using Algebraic 2:45PM Analysis of a 2n-th Order Differential (1925) Variables to Represent Quantitative (1915) Equation with Lidstone Boundary Relationships. Conditions - The Existence of Positive Susan S Gray, University of New England, Solutions. Barbara J Loud, Regis College, and Tuwaner Hudson Lamar, Morehouse Carole P Sokolowski*, Merrimack College (1077-35-2291) College (1077-C5-121)

3:00PM On the Laplacian, and fractional 2:20PM Meeting the Needs of Under-Prepared (1916) Laplacian, in an Exterior Domain. (1926) Students. Preliminary report. Leonardo Kosloff*andTomas Sarah Hutcheson Jahn*andRobert J. Schonbek, Florida Atlantic University Krueger, Concordia University, St. Paul (1077-35-1893) (1077-C5-1367) 3:15PM Blow-up of Solutions to Systems of (1917) Nonlinear Wave Equations with Interior 2:40PM What Csn We Do For Amanda? and Boundary Sources and Damping. (1927) Preliminary report. Yanqiu Guo*andMohammad Jesse W Byrne*andCharlotte K A. Rammaha,Universityof Simmons,UniversityofCentral Nebraska-Lincoln (1077-35-2275) Oklahoma (1077-C5-1411) 3:30PM Analysis of a Ginzburg-Landau Type 3:00PM Developmental Mathematics: Try, Try, (1918) Energy Model for Smectic C* Liquid (1928) and Try Again. Preliminary report. Crystals with Defects. Preliminary report. Sarah V. Cook, Washburn University Sean A. Colbert-Kelly*andDaniel (1077-C5-2583) Phillips, Purdue University (1077-35-2379) 3:20PM Energize: Strategies to Keep Students (1929) Going and Going. 3:45PM On a Variational Approach for Water Carla Rudder, Zayed University Abu (1919) Waves. Dhabi United Arab Emirates Danut Arama, Loyola University Chicago (1077-C5-1527) (1077-35-1646) 4:00PM Global Well Posedness for a System of 3:40PM An Integrated Media Approach to (1920) KDV-TYPE Equations with Quadratic (1930) Developmental Mathematics Instruction. Nonlinearities. Preliminary report. Jan O. Case*andJessica Bentley, Gang Wang*, DePaul University, Jerry L Jacksonville State University Bona, University of Illinois at Chicago, (1077-C5-1909) and Jonathan Cohen,DePaulUniversity 4:00PM An evaluation of the success of students (1077-35-1279) (1931) who transition from a developmental 4:15PM A sixth-order compact ﬁnite difference Math Workshop into College Algebra, (1921) method for Navier-Stokes in cylindrical Trigonometry and Calculus I. Preliminary coordinates. Preliminary report. report. Shelly M McGee, University of Findlay Jessica Deshler*, Edgar Fuller, Betsy (1077-35-2655) Kuhn, Doug Squire and Vicki Sealey, West Virginia University (1077-C5-2673)

4:20PM Digital Learning Materials: Analysis of MAA Session on Developmental Mathematics (1932) student early preparation in College Education: Helping Under-Prepared Students Algebra. Transition to College-Level Mathematics Karoline Auby*, James Sobota and Maighread McHugh,Universityof 1:00 PM –6:15PM Room 310, Hynes Wisconsin-La Crosse (1077-C5-1958)

Organizers: Kimberly Presser, 4:40PM Creating Pathways to Math Success at a Shippensburg University (1933) Liberal Arts College. Preliminary report. J. Winston Crawley, Maria Belk*andLauren Rose,Bard Shippensburg University College (1077-C5-2834)

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5:00PM Trying to Bridge the Gap: Outcomes and 2:40PM Using an Online Homework System in an (1934) Implications of a Remedial Mathematics (1943) Introductory Statistics Course: Instructor Intervention Program. Preliminary report. and Student Perspectives. Preliminary Karen G Santoro, Central Connecticut report. State University (1077-C5-2068) Lisa Carnell, High Point University 5:20PM The use of Pop Culture and Competition (1077-E5-1849) (1935) to Enhance Learning Mathematics 3:00PM Descent into ‘The Abyss’ of Least-Squares (Survivor Math). (1944) Linear Regression. Preliminary report. Robert E. Burks, Department of Charles Bergeron*andDavid Clarke, Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate Albany College of Pharmacy and Health School (1077-C5-50) Sciences (1077-E5-2782) 5:40PM Can Peer Coaches Improve Student 3:20PM Playing Games with a Purpose. (1936) Success in Developmental Mathematics (1945) Shonda Kuiper, Grinnell College Courses? (1077-E5-1653) Leonid Khazanov*andFred Peskoff, 3:40PM Playing Games with a Purpose: Initial Borough of Manhattan Community (1946) Lessons from the Classroom. Preliminary College/CUNY (1077-C5-630) report. 6:00PM Experiences in Designing and Teaching Kevin F. Cummiskey*andWilliam H. (1937) Statway. Preliminary report. Kaczynski, United States Military Mary R Parker, Austin Community Academy (1077-E5-1824) College (1077-C5-2570) 4:00PM Using R in an Undergraduate Statistics (1947) Course. Judith E Canner*andJon Detka, California State University, Monterey Bay (1077-E5-741) 4:20PM Probability Density Functions from MAA Session on Innovations in Teaching (1948) Real-World Applications. Statistics in the New Decade, I Annela R Kelly, Bridgewater State University (1077-E5-2770) 1:00 PM –5:15PM Back Bay Ballroom 4:40PM Cutting Through the Theory: B, 2nd Floor, Sheraton (1949) Emphasizing Statistical Thinking in Mathematical Statistics. Organizers: Andrew Zieffler,University Jennifer L. Green*andErin of Minnesota E. Blankenship,Universityof Brian Gill, Seattle Pacific Nebraska-Lincoln (1077-E5-2100) University 5:00PM Value and Relevance of an Engineering Nancy Boynton,SUNY (1950) Statistics Course. Fredonia Kumer Das, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX (1077-E5-2547) 1:00PM Introductory Statistics with a Central (1938) Theme: “Statistical Reasoning” Courses That Interest Students. David G Taylor*andAdam F Childers, MAA Session on Modeling Across the Roanoke College (1077-E5-907) Mathematics Curriculum, II 1:20PM How the Analysis of Current Economic (1939) Growth, Income and Employment Can Be 1:00 PM –3:15PM Room 306, Hynes Used in Teaching an Introductory Statistics Course that Speaks to Students. Organizers: Benjamin Galluzzo, Preliminary report. Shippensburg University Alexander G. Atwood,SUNY Mariah Birgen, Wartburg Suffolk County Community College College (1077-E5-2901) Joyati Debnath,Winona 1:40PM Mathematics and the Law: How Big State University (1940) Should a Jury Be, and How Should It 1:00PM Why Mathematics? Render Its Decision? (1951) Nagaraj S Rao*andSanju Vaidya,Mercy Jeff A Suzuki, Brooklyn College College (1077-I1-1650) (1077-E5-72) 1:20PM Integrating modeling into an 2:00PM Read and Reflect: Making Statistics Real. (1952) introductory programming course. (1941) Heather Hulett*andBarbara Bennie, Sheldon Lee, Viterbo University Univ. of Wisconsin-La Crosse (1077-I1-2612) (1077-E5-2631) 1:40PM Learning Mathematics in the Context of 2:20PM Statistics Scrapbooks in Elementary (1953) Environmental Issues. (1942) Statistics. Therese L Bennett, Ray Mugno*and Julie Beier,MercerUniversity James Tait, Southern CT State University (1077-E5-1660) (1077-I1-2500)

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2:00PM Social justice modeling contexts for MAA Session on Topics and Techniques for (1954) teaching calculus and higher level math Teaching Real Analysis, II courses. Anand L Pardhanani, Earlham College 1:00 PM –3:55PM Room 309, Hynes (1077-I1-2195) Organizers: Paul Musial,ChicagoState 2:20PM The Center for Applied Mathematics University (1955) and Science at Salisbury University. Preliminary report. James Peterson, Veera Holdai, Brian Hill, Steven Hetzler Benedictine College and Kathleen Shannon*, Salisbury Erik Talvila,Universityof University (1077-I1-1537) the Fraser Valley 2:40PM Research Experiences for All Learners. Robert Vallin, Slippery Rock (1956) Carla D Martin*andAnthony Tongen, University of Pennsylvania James Madison University (1077-I1-1649) 1:00PM Calculus: A Missed Opportunity. 3:00PM Mathematical Thinking as a gateway to (1964) Peter A. Loeb, University of Illinois (1957) Undergraduate Research. Champaign-Urbana (1077-N5-407) Joyati Debnath, Winona State University 1:20PM The Lebesgue Integral : Motivations, (1077-I1-2853) (1965) advantages and Limitations. Preliminary report. Eddy A Kwessi, Trinity University (1077-N5-498) MAA Session on Research on the Teaching 1:40PM Teaching the Lebesgue Integral with a andLearningofUndergraduate (1966) Calculus II Prerequisite. Mathematics, III William Johnston, Butler University (1077-N5-991) 1:00 PM –2:55PM Room 202, Hynes 2:00PM A simple derivation of the trapezoidal (1967) rule for numerical integration. Organizers: Sean Larsen, Portland State Erik Talvila*, University of the Fraser University Valley, and Matthew Wiersma,University Stacy Brown, Pitzer College of Waterloo (1077-N5-662) Karen Marrongelle, 2:20PM Undergraduate research in a Real Portland State University (1968) Analysis course. Preliminary report. 1:00PM Learning mathematics from peers with Manmohan Kaur, Benedictine University (1958) different reasoning styles. Preliminary (1077-N5-2211) report. 2:40PM Use of a “Connections Journal” in an Kyeong Hah Roh,ArizonaState (1969) undergraduate Real Analysis course. University, Owen Davis*, Arizona State Antonia E. Cardwell, Millersville Unniversity, and Aviva Halani,Arizona University of Pennsylvania (1077-N5-827) State University (1077-M1-2800) 3:00PM Using the Banach-Mazur Game in an 1:20PM The Role of Collective Work in (1970) Undergraduate Real Analysis Class to (1959) Undergraduate Teaching of Mathematical Investigate Different Types of Infinite Knowledge for Teaching to Future Sets. Elementary Teachers. Preliminary report. Don L Hancock, Pepperdine University Wendy Aaron*, Yvonne Lai and (1077-N5-187) Hyman Bass, University of Michigan 3:20PM Flows on metric spaces: ODEs, PDEs, (1077-M1-2829) (1971) SDEs and DDEs. 1:40PM Examination and Analysis of Craig J. Calcaterra, Metropolitan State (1960) Undergraduate Students’ Level of University (1077-N5-1468) Statistics Anxiety with Respect to Gender 3:40PM Using Illustrations to Motivate Definitions and College-year. Preliminary report. (1972) and Proofs in Real Analysis. Soofia Malik*andKaren Traxler, Paul M. Musial, Chicago State University University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, (1077-N5-2456) CO (1077-M1-1692) 2:00PM Developing a research-based calculus for MAA Session on Wavelets in Undergraduate (1961) elementary teachers. Education Karen Keene Allen, North Carolina State University 1:00 PM –4:15PM Back Bay Ballroom 2:20PM Faculty Perspectives on the Transition to C, 2nd Floor, Sheraton (1962) Graduate School in Mathematics. Sarah L. Marsh, Oklahoma Baptist Organizers: Caroline Haddad,SUNY University (1077-M1-1407) Geneseo 2:40PM Mathematics for Nonmath Majors and Catherine Beneteau, (1963) Mathematics Anxiety. Preliminary report. University of South Florida Moira K Devlin*andAgnes Rash,Saint David Ruch, Metropolitan Joseph’s University (1077-M1-2507) State College of Denver

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Patrick Van Fleet,University 1:20PM Embodied Energy, Energy Return on of St. Thomas (1984) Investment, and Sustainability. 1:00PM Undergraduate Research Projects on Ben Fusaro, Florida State University (1973) Wavelet-Based Time Series Forecasting. (1077-H5-2896) Bruce Atwood, Beloit College, Helmut 1:40PM Nineteen Years Teaching Environmental Knaust,TheUniversityofTexasatEl (1985) Numeracy and Logic: Mathematics for Paso, Caroline Haddad*, SUNY Geneseo, the Environment. Preliminary report. and John Merkel, Oglethorpe University Martin E. Walter, University of Colorado, (1077-P5-2886) Boulder (1077-H5-696) 1:20PM Applications of Discrete Wavelets to Stock 2:00PM Sustainability Project for Calculus I. (1974) Price Prediction. (1986) Peter T Otto, Willamette University John C. Merkel, Oglethorpe University (1077-H5-2138) (1077-P5-2868) 2:20PM Preventing the tragedy of the commons 1:40PM Applications of Wavelets: a (1987) through punishment of over-consumers (1975) sophomore-level seminar course. and encouragement of under-consumers. Rachel J Weir, Allegheny College Irina Kareva, Benjamin Morin,Arizona (1077-P5-329) State University, and Georgy Karev*, 2:00PM Discrete signal processing with fractal NCBI, NIH (1077-H5-2000) (1976) wavelets. Preliminary report. 2:40PM What’s for Dinner: Linear Analysis of J. D’Andrea*andT. Sibbett, Westminster (1988) Nutritional Data and an Application to College of Salt Lake City (1077-P5-2808) Community Health. 2:20PM What Are You Hiding? Steganography Michael Ian Friedrich and Halcyon (1977) Using Wavelets. Annette Garrett*, University of North Jeff Zeitler, SUNY Geneseo Carolina Asheville (1077-H5-2455) (1077-P5-1875) 2:40PM Smartphone Sensors and Wavelets. (1978) Edward F Aboufadel*, Nathan Marculis, Grand Valley State University, and SaraJane Parsons, Indiana University of Pennsylvania (1077-P5-901) MAA Session on the Philosophy of 3:00PM Facial Detection and Recognition Using Mathematics and Mathematical Practice (1979) the Haar Transform in Static Images. Joseph Michael Gonzalez,Universityof 1:00 PM –4:55PM Room 311, Hynes South Florida (1077-P5-772) 3:20PM Some Ideas for Undergraduate Projects Organizers: Dan Sloughter,Furman (1980) Involving Periodic Wavelets. University Kenneth R. Hoover*, California State Bonnie Gold,Monmouth University, Stanislaus, and Brody University Dylan Johnson, Saint Louis University 1:00PM The Consequences of Drawing Necessary (1077-P5-2611) (1989) Conclusions. Preliminary report. 3:40PM Investigation of Second Generation Daniel C. Sloughter, Furman University (1981) Wavelets. (1077-K1-1196) Karleigh Cameron, Michael 1:30PM Thought in Mathematical Practice. Gustin*, John Holden and Stacy (1990) Thomas Drucker,Universityof , Central Michigan University Siereveld Wisconsin–Whitewater (1077-K1-383) (1077-P5-101) 2:00PM Beyond Practicality: George Berkeley and 4:00PM Smoke Detection in Stationary Video (1991) the Need for Philosophical Integration in (1982) Using Wavelets. Preliminary report. Mathematics. Helmut Knaust,TheUniversityofTexas ,TexasA&M at El Paso (1077-P5-2893) Joshua B. Wilkerson University (1077-K1-85) 2:30PM Philosophy (but not philosophers) MAA Session on the Mathematics of (1992) of mathematics does inﬂuence Sustainability mathematical practice. Preliminary report. 1:00 PM –2:55PM Room 203, Hynes Bonnie Gold, Monmouth University Organizers: Elton Graves,Rose-Hulman (1077-K1-2002) Institute of Technology 3:00PM Epistemological Culture and Peter Otto, Willamette (1993) Mathematics. Preliminary report. University Sarah-Marie Belcastro,Universityof Massachusetts-Amherst / Smith College 1:00PM A Mathematics Course for Majors in (1077-K1-1287) (1983) Sustainable Living at the Level of Intermediate Algebra. 3:30PM How Do I (We) Know Mathematics. M. Anne Dow, Maharishi University of (1994) Ruggero Ferro,UniversitAdiVerona,˜ Management (1077-H5-2830) Italia (1077-K1-904)

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4:00PM Formal mathematical proof and 2:45PM Methods for Reducing and Transforming (1995) mathematical practice: a new skeptical (2004) Agent-Based Models into Polynomial problem. Preliminary report. Dynamical Systems. Jeff Buechner,Rutgers Franziska Hinkelmann, Matt Oremland, University-Newark and Saul Kripke Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Hussein Center, CUNY Graduate Center Al-Asadi, University of Michigan, Atsya (1077-K1-800) Kumano, Colorado College, Laurel 4:30PM CDEG: Computerized Diagrammatic Ohm*, St. Olaf College, Alice Toms, (1996) Euclidean Geometry. North Carolina State University, and Nathaniel G. Miller,Universityof Reinhard Laubenbacher,Virginia Northern Colorado (1077-K1-1744) Bioinformatics Institute (1077-VG-473) 3:00PM A three-dimensional mathematical and (2005) computational model of necrotizing enterocolitis. Preliminary report. Jared Barber*, Mark Tronzo,University of Pittsburgh, Gilles Clermont,Center MAA General Contributed Paper Session: for Inflam. and Reg. Modeling, McGowan Modeling and Applications of Mathematics, II Institute and Dept for Crit. Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, 1:00 PM –5:40PM Room 201, Hynes Yoram Vodovotz, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh and Organizers: Jennifer Beineke,Western Center for Inflam. and Reg. Modeling, New England College McGowan Institute, and Ivan Yotov, Lynette Boos,Providence University of Pittsburgh (1077-VG-1722) College 3:15PM Stochastic Modeling of Ribosomal Aliza Steurer, Dominican (2006) Frameshifting. University Brenae L. Bailey, University of Arizona (1077-VG-1039) 1:00PM Modeling Wrist Oscillations Using (1997) Perturbation Methods. Preliminary report. 3:30PM A mathematical model of drug resistance Joe Latulippe*, Norwich University, (2007) with infection by health care workers. and Randy Sierra, Cal Poly Pomona Avner Friedman,Mathematical (1077-VG-1951) Biosciences Institute/ The Ohio State University, Najat Ziyadi*, Morgan State 1:15PM Development of an Ozone Inhalation (1998) Model. Preliminary report. University, and Khalid Boushaba, Johns Andrew Kirby*, University of Hopkins University (1077-VG-1455) Wisconsin-Madison, Analise Rodenberg, 3:45PM An improved mathematical model for Lewis & Clark College, Andrew (2008) dose-response of anticancer drug Bernstein, University of Maryland College combinations at fixed schedule. Park, and Adrian McLean, Fayetteville Ardith El-Kareh, University of Arizona, State University (1077-VG-1195) Leslie Jones*, University of Tampa, and Timothy Secomb, University of Arizona 1:30PM Modeling Articular Cartilage (1999) Regeneration: A Phenomenological (1077-VG-2082) Approach. Preliminary report. 4:00PM Cannibals and Mosquitos: Using a Janine M. Haugh,UniversityofNorth (2009) predator-prey epidemic model to search Carolina at Asheville (1077-VG-2815) for a Dengue fever reservoir. Preliminary report. 1:45PM Estimating the stiffness of healthy (2000) arteries via multi-dimensional secant Lee R Gibson*, Indiana University method. -Southeast,andMary E Bradley, Kun Gou,TexasA&MUniversity University of Louisville (1077-VG-2661) (1077-VG-1208) 4:15PM Inferring gang affiliation for violent (2010) events with incomplete data. 2:00PM The Mechanical Stability of Growing (2001) Arteries. Rachel Anne Hegemann*, Erik Lewis Rebecca M Vandiver, St. Olaf College and Andrea L. Bertozzi,Universityof (1077-VG-2241) California, Los Angeles (1077-VG-2162) PM 2:15PM Non-Newtonian Effects on the Blood 4:30 A Mathematical Investigation of the (2002) Pressure Drop in Atherosclerotic Right (2011) Financial Performance of Movie Sequels. Coronary Arteries. Ron Buckmire*, Jacob Ortega-Gingrich, Biyue Liu, Monmouth University Occidental College, and David Edwards, (1077-VG-689) University of Delaware (1077-VG-1799) PM 2:30PM The effect of thrombin activatable 4:45 Exploration of Stable Distributions. (2003) fibrinolysis inhibitor (TAFI) in a multiscale (2012) Catherine Rose O’Doherty,Universityof mathematical model of fibrinolysis. Mary Washington (1077-VG-1988) Brittany E. Bannish*, James P. Keener 5:00PM Learning in three multi-player auctions. and Aaron L. Fogelson,Universityof (2013) Delong Meng, Massachusetts Institutute Utah (1077-VG-1131) of Technology (1077-VG-806)

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5:15PM Markov and Ito¯ Representations of Option SIAM Minisymposium on Applied, (2014) Price Models. Preliminary report. Computational, and Discrete Mathematics at Kevin Coltin, Arizona State University National Laboratories and Federal Research (1077-VG-947) Agencies 5:30PM Point process models for order arrival (2015) rates in order book dynamics. 1:00 PM –6:25PM Room 206, Hynes Preliminary report. He Huang, Florida State University Organizers: Zuhair Nasheed (1077-VG-1558) Luminita Vese,Universityof California Los Angeles

1:00PM Non Standard Parabolic Equations and (2023) Image Reconstruction. Preliminary report. Alfred S. Carasso, NIST (1077-35-1644)

MAA General Contributed Paper Session: 1:30PM Splitting algorithms for nonconvex, Research in Applied Mathematics, II (2024) matrix optimization. Rick Chartrand, Los Alamos National 1:00 PM –2:40PM Back Bay Ballroom Laboratory (1077-49-2113) D, 2nd Floor, Sheraton 2:00PM Scalable Stochastic Programming for (2025) Optimization Under Uncertainty of Organizers: Jennifer Beineke,Western Energy Systems. New England College Mihai Anitescu*, Cosmin Petra, Lynette Boos,Providence Argonne National Laboratory, Miles College Lubin, University of Chicago, and Victor Aliza Steurer, Dominican Zavala, Argonne National Laboratory University (1077-90-1204) 1:00PM Intermittency and chaos near Hopf 2:30PM Simulation-Based Optimization and (2016) bifurcation with broken O(2) × O(2) (2026) Uncertainty Quantiﬁcation Methods and symmetry. Software at Sandia National Labs. Yang Zou*, Gerhard Dangelmayr and Patricia D. Hough, Sandia National Iuliana Oprea, Colorado State University Laboratories (1077-68-1657) (1077-VK-1683) 3:00PM Nonlinear Solvers in Large-Scale 1:15PM Modeling wave velocity and frequency (2027) Computational Science: Challenges and (2017) spectra in low-temperature, compressed Opportunities. LJ lattices: HPC simulations, Lois Curfman McInnes, Argonne mathematical theory and applications to National Laboratory (1077-35-2309) acoustic metrics. Preliminary report. Stephen H. Harnish, Bluffton University 3:30PM Discrete Event Execution and (1077-VK-2924) (2028) Reversibility: Challenges in the Path to Asynchrony for Massively Parallel 1:30PM Effective Acceleration of Gravity due to Computing. Preliminary report. (2018) the Expanding Universe. Kalyan S Perumalla, Oak Ridge National Christopher Robert Frye*andCostas Laboratory (1077-94-2457) Efthimiou, University of Central Florida (1077-VK-2637) 4:00PM Constructing Interactive 3D (2029) Visualizations for the NIST Digital 1:45PM Memory Effects for the Heat Conductivity Library of Mathematical Functions. (2019) of Random Suspensions of Spheres. Bonita V. Saunders, National Institute Abhinandan Chowdhury, Delaware State of Standards and Technology University (1077-VK-2095) (1077-33-1721) 2:00PM The (1 + N)-vortex problem: a study of (2020) inviscid and weakly viscous vortex 4:30PM Optimization-based Approaches to relative equilibria. (2030) Singular Value and Eigenvalue Problems. Anna M. Barry*, Glen R. Hall and C. Christopher G. Baker,OakRidge Eugene Wayne,BostonUniversity National Laboratory (1077-65-2066) (1077-VK-1366) 5:00PM Scalable Methods for Characterizing and 2:15PM The Dynamic Programming Equation for (2031) Generating Large Graphs. (2021) a Deterministic Optimal Control Problem. Ali Pinar*, Seshadhri Comandur Jesus A. Pascal*andBetsi J. Tirado, and Tammy Kolda, Sandia National American University of Afghanistan Laboratories (1077-68-1611) (1077-VK-2290) 5:30PM Allele speciﬁc compatibility of 2:30PM Trajectory Controllability of Nonlinear (2032) interactions underlying yeast DNA repair (2022) Integro-differential System. phenotypes. Preliminary report. Dimplekumar N. Chalishajar*and Yang Huang*andTeresa M Przytycka, Heena D. Chalishajar, Virginia Military National Center for Biotechnology Institute (1077-VK-1060) Information, NLM/NIH (1077-92-2515)

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6:00PM Spreadsheets, Big Tables, and the Jane Muhich,Carnegie (2033) Algebra of Associative Arrays. Foundation Jeremy Kepner, MIT Lincoln Laboratory (1077-05-1447) AMS Special Session on Climate Modeling and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, III NAM Granville-Brown-Haynes Session of Presentations by Recent Doctoral Recipients 1:30 PM –4:20PM Suffolk, 3rd Floor, Marriott in the Mathematical Sciences Organizers: Qingshan Chen,Florida 1:00 PM –4:20PM Room 101, Hynes State University Nathan Glatt-Holtz, Indiana 1:00PM On the Arithmetic and Geometry of University (2034) Quaternion Algebras: a new spectral Mickael Chekroun, correspondence for Maass waveforms. University of California, Los Terrence R Blackman,MedgarEvers Angeles College, CUNY (1077-11-880) 1:30PM Energy Balance Climate Models with 1:30PM Character sums and hyperelliptic curves (2041) Bio-Feedback. (2035) associated with subsets of finite fields Georg Hetzer, Auburn University with square order. (1077-35-734) Lois Simon,HowardUniversity (1077-11-1516) 2:00PM Well-posedness results for a nonlinear (2042) Stokes problem arising in Glaciology. 2:00PM Elements of Tensor Products of Qingshan Chen, Max Gunzburger and (2036) Ultrafilters on N. Preliminary report. Mauro Perego*, Florida State University Vitaly Bergelson, Ohio State University, (1077-35-2855) Neil Hindman, Howard University, and Kendall Williams*, United States Military 2:30PM On the Global Well-posedness of a Academy (1077-22-1974) (2043) Simplified Reduced Rayleigh-Bénard Convection Model. 2:30PM Deriving Optimal Composite Scores: Chongsheng Cao, Florida international (2037) Relating Observational/Longitudinal University, Aseel Farhat*, University of Data with a Primary Endpoint. California, Irvine, and Edriss S. Titi, Rhonda D Ellis*, Norfolk State University of California, Irvine & The University, and Chris Gennings, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Virginia Commonewealth Universty (1077-76-1250) (1077-62-2037) 3:00PM Lie group analysis - a microscope of 3:00PM Bicircular Matroids with Circuits of at (2044) physical and engineering sciences. (2038) Most Two Sizes. Ranis N Ibragimov,UniversityofTexas Torina Deachune Lewis*, at Brownsville (1077-35-712) Bethune-Cookman University, Talmage James Reid and Laura Sheppardson, 3:30PM A Generalization of Contour Advection The University of Mississippi, Oxford (2045) with Surgery for Three Dimensional (1077-05-2060) Flows. Preliminary report. Zachary M Harrison*andPeter Derek 3:30PM Computationally Tractable Stochastic Bradshaw, Arizona State University (2039) Integer Programming Models for Air (1077-VG-2061) Traffic Flow Management. Charles N Glover*andMichael O Ball, 4:00PM A new staggering approach towards University of Maryland (1077-90-2182) (2046) shallow water simulations. Preliminary report. 4:00PM Mathematics You Won’t Sleep on. Qingshan Chen*, Los Alamos National (2040) Dennis A. Dean II,Boston Laboratory, Max Gunzburger,Florida (1077-92-2576) State University, and Todd Ringler, Los Alamos National Laboratory MAA Committee on Two-Year Colleges Panel (1077-65-2219) Discussion ASL Invited Address 1:00 PM –2:20PM Room 304, Hynes A new look at math for the non-STEM 2:15 PM –3:05PM Room 207, Hynes students. (2047) Structures associated with real closed Organizer: Joanne Peeples,ElPaso fields and real closed exponential fields. Community College Julia F. Knight, University of Notre Dame Moderator: Bruce Yoshiwara,Los (1077-03-155) Angeles Pierce College Panelists: Kris Bishop,Universityof Rocky Mountain Mathematics Consortium Texas, Austin Board of Directors Meeting Karon Klipple,Carnegie Foundation 2:15 PM –4:00PM Exeter, 3rd Floor, Sheraton

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MAA Presentations by Teaching Award MAA Session on the History of Mathematics Winners and Its Uses in the Classroom, I

2:30 PM –3:50PM Room 312, Hynes 3:20 PM –5:35PM Room 202, Hynes Organizers: Barbara Faires, Westminster Organizer: Amy Shell-Gellasch,Beloit College College Paul Zorn, Saint Olaf 3:20PM Newton Estimates the Natural Logarithm College (2052) of 2: A History Lesson for Calculus II. Preliminary report. 2:30PM Unexpected Adventures and (2048) Undergraduate Research. Martin E. Flashman, Humboldt State Cindy Wyels, CSU Channel Islands University (1077-E1-707) (1077-A0-2744) 3:40PM Torricelli and Robinson play Gabriel’s (2053) Trumpet. Preliminary report. 3:00PM Teaching, Mentoring, and Advising *, , (2049) Undergraduate Research: Lessons Maureen T. Carroll Steven Dougherty University of Scranton, and David Learned On the Streets. Perkins, Luzerne County Community Susan Loepp, Williams College College (1077-E1-2390) (1077-A0-1847) 4:00PM Bringing Sixteenth Century Mathematics 3:30PM Learning to teach and teaching to learn. (2054) into the Twenty-First Century Calculus (2050) Preliminary report. Classroom. Preliminary report. Matthew E DeLong, Taylor University Duane K Farnsworth, Clarion University (1077-A0-2872) of Pennsylvania (1077-E1-2668) 4:20PM Google Books and the Long Tail of (2055) Mathematics. AMS Committee on Science Policy Panel Scott B. Guthery,DocentPress Discussion (1077-E1-1174) 4:40PM Astronomical Instruments Between 2:30 PM –4:00PM Room 208, Hynes (2056) Theory and Practice. Toke L Knudsen,SUNYOneonta The changing landscape of research (1077-E1-592) funding. 5:00PM Euler’s “Letters to a German Princess”: Speakers: Subra Suresh,National (2057) Translation and Betrayal. Science Foundation Dominic W Klyve, Central Washington University (1077-E1-2271) 5:20PM James Hamblin Smith’s Euclid. (2058) Charles F. Rocca, Western Connecticut MAA/Park City Mathematics Institute Panel State University (1077-E1-2935) Discussion MAA Minicourse #5: Part B 2:40 PM –4:00PM Room 304, Hynes 3:30 PM –5:30PM Salon AB, 4th Floor, Marriott Engaging secondary teachers in doing mathematics. Dance and mathematics. Organizer: Gail Burrill, Michigan State Presenters: Leon Harkleroad,Bowdoin University College Panelists: Brian Hopkins, St. Peters Karl Schaffer,DeAnza College College James King,Universityof Washington MAA Minicourse #12: Part B Brynja Kohler, Utah State 3:30 PM –5:30PM Salon HI, 4th Floor, Marriott University Roger Knobel,Universityof Using randomization methods to build Texas Pan American conceptual understanding of statistical inference. Glenn Stevens,Boston University Presenters: Robin Lock,St.Lawrence University Patti Frazer Lock,St. Lawrence University ASL Invited Address Kari F. Lock,Harvard University/Duke University 3:15 PM –4:05PM Room 207, Hynes Eric F. Lock,Universityof (2051) Randomness and ergodic theory. North Carolina Johanna N.Y. Franklin,Universityof Dennis F. Lock, Iowa State Connecticut (1077-03-153) University

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MAA Undergraduate Poster Session MAA Actuarial Science Panel Discussion

3:30 PM –5:30PM Veteran’s Auditorium, 5:00 PM –7:00PM Room 306, Hynes 2nd floor, Hynes Actuarial Science: Career milestones and Organizer: Joyati Debnath,Winona choices. State University Organizers: Patrick Brewer,Lebanon Valley College ASL Contributed Paper Session, I Robert Buck, Slippery Rock University 4:15 PM –6:15PM Room 207, Hynes Bettye Anne Case,Florida 4:15PM Martin’s Maximum and Tower Forcing. State University (2059) Sean Cox,Universität Munster¨ Kevin Charlwood, 4:40PM Approximable functions and strong Washburn University (2060) reducibilities. Steve Paris,FloridaState Jennifer Chubb Reimann*, University of University San Francisco/Pennsylvania State Moderators: Bettye Anne Case University, and Russell Miller, Queens College and the Graduate Center, City Robert Buck University of New York 5:05PM Reverse mathematics and dichotomy. MAA Special Presentation: Poetry Reading (2061) Jeffry Hirst*, François Dorais and Paul Shafer, Appalachian State University 5:00 PM –7:00PM Room 302, Hynes 5:30PM Complexity in the degrees of unsolvability (2062) of mass problems. Allmathematicalpoetsandthose Paul Shafer, Appalachian State University interested in mathematical poetry are invited. 5:55PM The distance function on a computable (2063) graph. Organizers: JoAnne Growney, Silver Wesley Calvert*, Southern Illinois Spring, Maryland University, Jennifer Chubb, Penn State Mark Huber,Claremont University, and Russell Miller, Queens McKenna College College and the Graduate Center, City Gizem Karaali, Pomona University of New York College

AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Event ReceptioninHonorofRetiringMAA 4:30 PM –6:00PM Room 208, Hynes Executive Director Tina Straley

Forum for community input on the 5:00 PM –6:30PM Room 313, Hynes proposed NSF Division of Mathematical Sciences name change. SIGMAA on Mathematical and Computational AMS Congressional Fellowship Session Biology Business Meeting and Guest Lecture

4:30 PM –6:30PM Republic Ballroom 6:00 PM –7:45PM Room 202, Hynes

A, 2nd Floor, Sheraton 6:00PM Reception and business meeting. Organizer: Samuel M. Rankin III, 7:00PM Epidemiology of inﬂuenza strains: American Mathematical (2065) Competition, prediction, and associated Society mortality. Edward Goldstein, Harvard School of SIGMAA on Mathematics Instruction Using Public Health (1077-A0-46) the Web Business Meeting, Reception, and Guest Lecture MAA Dramatic Presentation

5:00 PM –6:15PM Room 304, Hynes 6:00 PM –7:00PM Room 312, Hynes 5:30PM Examples of how mobile/Web Mathematically Bent Theater. (2064) technologies can impact how, when, Presenter: Colin Adams, where, what, and why students learn. Mobiusbandaid Theater Frank Wattenberg, U. S. Military Company Academy (1077-A0-49)

SIGMAA on Quantitative Literacy Business AMS Mathematical Reviews Reception Meeting 6:00 PM –7:00PM Liberty Ballroom 5:00 PM –6:00PM Room 309, Hynes BC, 2nd Floor, Sheraton

157 Program of the Sessions – Boston, MA, Friday, January 6 (cont’d.)

NAM Cox-Talbot Address 8:30AM A Survey of the Feasibility of Similarity (2068) Measures for use in Rigid Registration. 7:30 PM –8:15PM Constitution Ballroom John A.W.B. Costanzo*andNathan D. B, 2nd Floor, Sheraton Cahill, Rochester Institute of Technology (1077-65-2775) (2066) Creating Mathematical Scientists Among the Underrepresented. 9:00AM Identiﬁcation of Certain Parameters in Sylvia T Bozeman, Spelman College (2069) Fourth Order Boundary Value Problems. (1077-00-434) Andrew N Zemke*andAkhtar Khan, Rochester Institute of Technology (1077-65-1405) MAA-Project NExT Reception 9:30AM Differences of multiple Fibonacci (2070) numbers. 8:30 PM – 10:00 PM Back Bay Ballroom Hannah Alpert, MIT (1077-11-1733) D, 2nd Floor, Sheraton 10:00AM A Tropical Proof of the Brill-Noether All Project NExT Fellows, consultants, and (2071) Theorem. other friends of Project NExT are invited. Filip Cools, Katholieke Universiteit Organizers: Judith Covington, Louisiana Leuven, Jan Draisma, Technische State University, Shreveport Universiteit Eindhoven, Sam Payne,Yale University, and Elina Robeva*, Harvard Joseph A. Gallian, University (1077-05-2803) University of Minnesota-Duluth 10:30AM Gromov’s knot distortion. (2072) John V Pardon, Stanford University , Aparna W. Higgins (1077-53-2900) University of Dayton P. Gavin LaRose,University of Michigan

AMS-MAA-MER Special Session on Saturday, January 7 Mathematics and Education Reform, III

8:00 AM –10:50AM Constitution Ballroom MAA Minority Chairs Breakfast A, 2nd Floor, Sheraton

7:00 AM – 10:00 AM Regis, 3rd Floor, Marriott Organizers: William Barker,Bowdoin College Joint Meetings Registration William McCallum, University of Arizona 7:30 AM –2:00PM 2nd Floor Corridor, Bonnie Saunders,University opposite Hall C, Hynes of Illinois at Chicago 8:00AM Math Anxiety: From Teacher to Student. AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research (2073) Sian L. Beilock,Chicago,IL (1077-97-762) in Mathematics by Undergraduates and Students in Post-Baccalaureate Programs, III 8:30AM Gender Differences in Mathematics: Facts (2074) from Recent Data. 8:00 AM –10:50AM Back Bay Ballroom Janet E. Mertz*, University of Wisconsin – A, 2nd Floor, Sheraton Madison, and Jonathan M. Kane, Univesity of Wisconsin – Whitewater Organizers: Bernard Brooks,Rochester (1077-97-1282) Institute of Technology 9:00AM Girls’ Angle: A Math Club for Girls. Jobby Jacob,Rochester (2075) C. Kenneth Fan, Girls’ Angle Institute of Technology (1077-97-1095) Jacqueline Jensen,Sam 9:30AM Progress and Persistent Barriers for Houston State University (2076) Women in Advanced Mathematics. Darren A Narayan, Patricia Hale, Cal Poly Pomona Rochester Institute of (1077-97-1688) Technology 10:00AM Is STEM Still Just a Man’s World? Awards 8:00AM Geometry of Surfaces with Density. (2077) and Prizes for Research in Disciplinary (2067) Miguel A. Fernandez*, Truman State Societies Go Mainly to Men, Despite University, Ping Ngai Chung,MIT, Growth in Women’s Participation. Niralee K. Shah, Wiliams College, and Alice B. Popejoy*andPhoebe S. Leboy, Luis A. Sordo Vieira, Wayne State Association for Women in Science (AWIS) University (1077-51-1580) (1077-00-1439)

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10:30AM Discussion: Participation of Girls and 8:30AM Bilinearization of the Degasperis-Procesi (2078) WomeninMathematics.Preliminary (2086) equation. report. Baofeng Feng*, Kenichi Maruno,The Cathy Kessel*, Berkeley, CA, Bonnie University of Texas-Pan American, and Saunders, University of Illinois at Yasuhiro Ohta,KobeUniversity Chicago, Maura Mast,Universityof (1077-35-2568) Massachusetts Boston, and Tanya Leise, 9:00AM Coupled Maxwell-Bloch equations with Amherst College (1077-97-2493) (2087) inhomogeneous broadening for a 3-level system. Preliminary report. Mark J. Ablowitz,CUBoulder,Sarbarish AMS-SIAM Special Session on the Chakravarty, Univ of Colorado at Mathematics of Computation: Algebra and Colorado Springs, and Barbara Prinari*, Number Theory, III Univ of Colorado at Colorado Springs and Dept of Physics - Univ of Salento (Italy) (1077-35-1110) 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 109, Hynes 9:30AM On the Q4-elliptic Painleve equation and Organizers: Jean-Marc Couveignes, (2088) rational elliptic surfaces. UniversitédeToulouse Adrian Stefan Carstea, Institute of Michael J. Mossinghoff, Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Davidson College P.O.Box, MG-6, Magurele, Bucharest, Igor E. Shparlinski, Romania (1077-39-1070) Macquarie University, 10:00AM Calogero-Moser curves and the geometry Australia (2089) of the moduli space of curves. 8:00AM Interesting families of algebraic curves. Samuel Grushevsky, Stony Brook (2079) T. Shaska*, Oakland University, L. Beshaj University (1077-14-654) and V. Hoxha, Research Institute of Science and Technology (1077-14-175) 8:30AM An Application of Quasi-Inverse Rings. (2080) Harlan Kadish,TexasA&MUniversity (1077-13-409) 9:00AM Lattice Cryptography and AMS Special Session on Arithmetic (2081) Pseudorandomness. Geometry, III Daniele Micciancio,UCSD (1077-68-2091) 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 204, Hynes 9:30AM The Entropic Discriminant. Organizers: Bo-Hae Im, Chung-Ang (2082) Raman Sanyal, Freie Universitat Berlin, University, South Korea Bernd Sturmfels*, UC Berkeley, and Cynthia Vinzant, University of Michigan Jennifer Johnson-Leung, (1077-14-35) University of Idaho 10:00AM On the computation of Galois Belyi maps. Jennifer Paulhus, Grinnell (2083) John Voight, University of Vermont College (1077-11-177) 8:00AM Simple Cubic Function Fields. 10:30AM Number Fields Unramified Away From 2. (2090) Pieter Rozenhart, University of Calgary, (2084) John W Jones, Arizona State University and Jonathan Webster*, Bates College (1077-11-182) (1077-11-1566) 8:30AM Conjugacy classes in GSp4 and an (2091) application to the enumeration of abelian surfaces. Preliminary report. AMS Special Session on Algebraic and Cassie L Williams, Colorado State Geometric Aspects of Integrable Systems University (1077-11-216) and Random Matrices, III 9:00AM Cyclic p-Extensions of Zp-Fields. (2092) Jordan Schettler, University of Arizona 8:00 AM –10:40AM Constitution Ballroom (1077-11-1059) B, 2nd Floor, Sheraton 9:30AM Arithmetic Torelli maps for cubic Organizers: Anton Dzhamay,University (2093) surfaces and threefolds. Preliminary of Northern Colorado report. Kenichi Maruno,University Jeffrey D Achter, Colorado State of Texas, Pan American University (1077-14-1246) Virgil Pierce,Universityof 10:00AM Rigid cohomology for algebraic stacks. Texas, Pan American (2094) David Zureick-Brown,EmoryUniversity 8:00AM Integrable n-field model on a triangular (1077-11-1861) (2085) domain. 10:30AM Far beyond Newton polygons. Maxim Zyskin,UniversityofTexas, (2095) Joseph Rabinoff,HarvardUniversity Brownsville (1077-35-2599) (1077-14-1858)

159 Program of the Sessions – Boston, MA, Saturday, January 7 (cont’d.)

AMS Special Session on Control of Biological 8:00AM Intersection property of fractals via and Physical Systems, I (2102) Schmidt games. Ryan Broderick, Lior Fishman, Dmitry 8:00 AM –10:50AM Simmons, 3rd Floor, Marriott Kleinbock*, Asaf Reich,Brandeis University, and Barak Weiss,BenGurion Organizers: Wandi Ding, Middle University (1077-11-1050) Tennessee State University 8:30AM Hitting Probabilities and Packing Volodymyr Hrynkiv, (2103) Dimensions of the Random Covering Sets. University of Preliminary report. Houston-Downtown Bing Li, South China University of Suzanne Lenhart,University Technology, Narn-Rueih Shieh,National of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Taiwan University, and Yimin Xiao*, NIMBioS Michigan State University (1077-60-1556) 8:00AM Reducing HIV Epidemic by Education and 9:00AM Lipschitz Equivalence of Cantor Sets. (2096) Treating it Using Optimal Control. (2104) Yang Wang, Michigan State University Preliminary report. (1077-26-2606) Hem Raj Joshi, Xavier University, 9:30AM Exponential spectra in L2(μ). Preliminary Cincinnati, OH (1077-49-2824) (2105) report. 8:30AM Bang-bang Optimal Control of Xing-Gang He,CentralChinaNormal (2097) Continuous Time Species Augmentation. University, Chun-Kit Lai and Ka-Sing Erin N Bodine*, Rhodes College, Lau*, The Chinese University of Hong and Suzanne Lenhart,Universityof Kong (1077-46-1750) Tennessee, Knoxville (1077-92-1716) 10:00AM Fractals and hyperbolicity. Preliminary 9:00AM Long time behavior of Flow-Structure (2106) report. (2098) interactions arising in modeling of Vadim Kaimanovich,Universityof subsonic and supersonic flows of gas. Ottawa (1077-37-2630) Preliminary report. 10:30AM Self-similar fractals as boundaries of Irena M. Lasiecka*andJustin Webster, (2107) networks. University of Virginia (1077-35-664) Erin P.J. Pearse,UniversityofOklahoma 9:30AM Linear and non-linear boundary (1077-60-2960) −1 (2099) stabilization in L2 × H of the system of dynamic elasticity with Dirichlet Boundary dissipation: a direct approach. Preliminary report. AMS Special Session on Frontiers in Jing Zhang*andRoberto Triggiani, Geomathematics, III University of Virginia (1077-35-697) 8:00 AM –10:50AM Suffolk, 3rd Floor, Marriott 10:00AM A Local Approach for an Inverse Problem (2100) on a Semi-Axis. Organizers: Willi Freeden,Universityof John V Matthews*andBoris Belinskiy, Kaiserslautern University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Volker Michel,Universityof (1077-35-826) Siegen 10:30AM Determining Physical Parameters for a M. Zuhair Nashed, (2101) Neuronal Cable Model Defined on a Tree University of Central Florida Graph. , Technical Sergei Avdonin*, University of Alaska Thomas Sonar University of Braunschweig Fairbanks, and Jonathan Bell,UMBC (1077-35-1808) 8:00AM Multiscale simulations for Richards’ (2108) equation in high-contrast media and applications. Yalchin Efendiev, Juan Galvis, Seul ki Kang*andRaytcho Lazarov,TexasA&M AMS Special Session on Fractal Geometry in University (1077-65-1770) Pure and Applied Mathematics (in memory 8:30AM Stress field simulations in geothermal of Benoit Mandelbrot), IV (2109) reservoirs. Preliminary report. Matthias Augustin,Universityof 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 200, Hynes Kaiserslautern (1077-74-1305) 9:00AM Recent trends in Multi-parameter Organizers: Michael L. Lapidus, (2110) Regularization. University of California, Sergei Pereverzev, Johann Radon Riverside Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences Erin Pearse,Universityof (1077-65-1506) Oklahoma 10:00AM Methods for the treatment of indirect Machiel van (2111) noisy data. Frankenhuijsen, Utah Valley Bernd Hofmann, Chemnitz University of University Technology, Germany (1077-65-1314)

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10:30AM Maximum likelihood regularization of 8:00AM Quantum Circuits at Nash Equilibrium. (2112) some inverse problems. Preliminary (2119) Faisal Shah Khan*andSimon J. report. D. Phoenix, Khalifa University Paul P. B. Eggermont, Food and (1077-81-745) Resource Economics, University of 8:30AM Engineering Pointer States in Open Delaware (1077-86-2173) (2120) Quantum Systems. Lorenza Viola, Dartmouth College AMS Special Session on Homotopy Theory, II (1077-93-1544) 9:00AM Encoded weak quantum Zeno effect for 8:00 AM –10:50AM Provincetown, (2121) quantum computation and control. 4th Floor, Marriott Gerardo A. Paz-Silva,Universityof Southern California, Ali T. Rezakhani, Organizers: Mark Behrens, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Massachusetts Institute of Jason M. Dominy*andDaniel A. Lidar, Technology University of Southern California Mark W. Johnson, (1077-93-2078) Pennsylvania State 9:30AM Stabilization of stochastic quantum University, Altoona (2122) dynamics via open and closed loop Haynes R. Miller, control. Massachusetts Institute of Francesco Ticozzi,UniversityofPadova Technology and Dartmouth College (1077-93-619) James Turner,Calvin 10:00AM Real-time feedback control of a College (2123) mesoscopic superposition. Donald Yau, Ohio State Kurt Jacobs*, Justin Finn and Sai University Vinjanampathy,Universityof Massachusetts at Boston (1077-00-270) 8:00AM Model structures for higher categories. (2113) Ricardo Andrade, Stanford University 10:30AM Convergence of quantum random walks (1077-55-1745) (2124) with decoherence. Sheng Xiong*, Edward Waters College, 8:30AM Dendroidal sets and symmetric monoidal Shimao Fan, Temple University, Zhiyong (2114) inﬁnity categories. Preliminary report. Feng, Philadelphia, PA, and Wei-Shih Samuel Baruch Isaacson,TheUniversity Yang, Temple University (1077-81-1273) of Texas at Austin (1077-55-2269) 9:00AM Categories of Modules and their (2115) Deformations. AMS Special Session on Matrices and Graphs, Romie Banerjee, Tata Institute of I Fundamental Research (1077-18-1908) 9:30AM Weak n-categories are sheaves on 8:00 AM –10:50AM Berkeley, 3rd Floor, Marriott (2116) d ≤ n-manifolds. Preliminary report. Organizers: Leslie Hogben, Iowa State David Hector Ayala,HarvardUniversity University and American (1077-55-1274) Institute of Mathematics 10:00AM Manifolds, Higher Categories and Bryan L. Shader,University (2117) Topological Field Theories. of Wyoming Nick Rozenblyum,Northwestern University (1077-55-1490) 8:00AM Zero Forcing Number and Maximum (2125) Nullity of Subdivided Graphs. 10:30AM On the uniqueness of the homotopy Michael Young*, Leslie Hogben,Iowa (2118) theory of higher categories. State University, My Huynh,Arizona Christopher J. Schommer-Pries, State University, Kirill Lazebnik, State Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of New York at Geneseo, Anna (1077-55-1982) Cepek, Bethany Lutheran College, Travis Peters, Iowa State University, and AMS Special Session on Mathematical Theory Minerva Catral, Xavier University of Control of Quantum Systems, I (1077-05-1837) 8:30AM The Inverse Inertia Problem for Graphs. 8:00 AM –10:50AM Clarendon, (2126) Wayne Barrett, Provo (1077-15-2757) 3rd Floor, Marriott 9:00AM Computing inertia sets of graphs using (2127) variations of zero forcing. Preliminary Organizers: Francesca Albertini, report. University of Padua Jason Grout*, Drake University, Steve Domenico D’Alessandro, Butler, Iowa State University, and Tracy Iowa State University Hall, Provo, UT (1077-05-2621) Raffaele Romano, 9:30AM Reﬁned Inertia of Sign Pattern Matrices. University of Trieste (2128) Preliminary report. Francesco Ticozzi, Pauline van den Driessche,Universityof University of Padua Victoria, B.C., Canada (1077-15-908)

161 Program of the Sessions – Boston, MA, Saturday, January 7 (cont’d.)

10:00AM The minimum semideﬁnite rank of the 10:00AM Quantum Caldero-Chapoton Type Cluster (2129) Heawood graph is 10. (2139) Characters. Louis Deaett, Quinnipiac University Dylan Charles Rupel,Universityof (1077-15-2809) Oregon (1077-81-2525) 10:30AM Unordered multiplicity lists of a class of 10:30AM Proof of a positivity conjecture by M. (2130) binary trees. (2140) Kontsevich. In-Jae Kim*, Minnesota State University, Kyungyong Lee*, Wayne State Mankato, and Bryan L Shader,University University, and Ralf Schifﬂer,University of Wyoming (1077-15-496) of Connecticut (1077-05-1477)

AMS Special Session on My Favorite Graph AMS Special Session on Operator Theory on Theory Conjectures, I Analytic Function Spaces, I

8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 102, Hynes 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 108, Hynes Organizers: Ralucca Gera, Naval Organizers: Robert F. Allen,University Postgraduate School of Wisconsin, La Crosse Craig Larson,Virginia Katherine C. Heller,North Commonwealth University Central College 8:00AM On the nature of mathematical Matthew A. Pons,North (2131) conjecture. Central College Neil Robertson, Ohio State University, 8:00AM Compact differences of composition Columbus, and King Abdulahziz (2141) operators in several variables. University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Katherine Heller, North Central College, (1077-05-2361) Barbara D. MacCluer*, University of 8:30AM Powers of Strong Digraphs. Virginia, and Rachel J. Weir, Allegheny (2132) Ping Zhang, Western Michigan University College (1077-47-1359) (1077-05-1217) 8:30AM Commutators of composition operators 9:00AM My Favorite Graph Coloring and (2142) with adjoints of composition operators on (2133) Domination Conjectures. weighted Bergman spaces. Stephen T. Hedetniemi,Clemson Sivaram K. Narayan, Central Michigan University (1077-05-1740) University (1077-47-380) 2 9:30AM The Δ Conjecture for Graph Labellings 9:00AM Closed-Range Composition Operators on (2134) with Separation Conditions. (2143) Dirichlet type spaces. Preliminary report. Jerrold R. Griggs,UniversityofSouth Maria Tjani, University of Arkansas Carolina (1077-05-1128) (1077-47-2314) 10:00AM Two Conjectures Involving Diameter and 9:30AM Boundedness and compactness (2135) Total Domination in Graphs. (2144) of composition operators on Teresa W. Haynes, East Tennessee State Segal-Bargmann spaces. Preliminary University (1077-05-2226) report. 10:30AM Some History on the Reconstruction Trieu L. Le,UniversityofToledo (2136) Conjecture. Preliminary report. (1077-47-2190) Allen J. Schwenk,WesternMichigan 10:00AM Weighted reproducing kernels and the University (1077-05-2021) (2145) Bergman space. Brent J Carswell and Rachel J Weir*, AMS Special Session on Noncommutative Allegheny College (1077-30-328) Birational Geometry and Cluster Algebras, II 10:30AM Norm of the multiplication operators (2146) from H∞ to the Bloch Space of a bounded 8:00 AM –10:50AM Dartmouth, symmetric domain. 3rd Floor, Marriott Flavia Colonna*, George Mason University, Glenn R. Easley,System Organizers: Arkady Berenstein, Planning Corporation, Arlington, Virginia, University of Oregon and David Singman,GeorgeMason Vladimir Retakh,Rutgers University (1077-47-1313) University 8:00AM Triangular bases in acyclic quantum AMS Special Session on Radon Transforms (2137) cluster algebras. Preliminary report. and Geometric Analysis (in honor of Andrei Zelevinsky, Northeastern Sigurdur Helgason’s 85th birthday), III University (1077-13-1577) 9:00AM Cluster structures on quantum 8:00 AM –10:40AM Room 104, Hynes (2138) coordinate ring. Preliminary report. Christof Geiss*, Universidad Nacional Organizers: Jens Christensen, Autonoma de Mexico, Bernard Leclerc, University of Maryland Universite de Caen, and Jan Schroeer, Fulton Gonzalez,Tufts University of Bonn (1077-16-2239) University

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Todd Quinto,Tufts 10:30AM Population models with diffusion, strong University (2156) Allee effect, and nonlinear boundary 8:00AM Splines for Radon transform on compact conditions. (2147) Lie groups with application to SO(3). Jerome Goddard II*, Auburn University Swanhild Bernstein, Svend Ebert,TU Montgomery, E. Lee, Pusan National Bergakademie Freiberg, Institute University, and R. Shivaji,University of Applied Analysis, and Isaac Z. of North Carolina Greensboro Pesenson*, Temple University (1077-35-420) (1077-58-1102) 8:30AM Schroedinger equation on certain (2148) compact symmetric spaces. Tomoyuki Kakehi,OkayamaUniversity (1077-58-1528) 9:00AM Counting lattice points on homogeneous (2149) spaces. AMS Special Session on Recent Advances Henrik Schlichtkrull,Universityof in Mathematical Biology, Ecology, and Copenhagen (1077-22-1929) Epidemiology, II 10:00AM Special geometries arising from some (2150) special symmetric spaces. Preliminary 8:00 AM –10:50AM Arlington, 3rd Floor, Marriott report. Organizers: Sophia R. Jang,TexasTech Robert J. Stanton*, Ohio State Univ., and University Marcus J. Slupinski, Univ. Strasbourg (1077-22-2459) Andrew L. Nevai,University of Central Florida Lih-Ing W. Roeger,Texas AMS Special Session on Reaction Diffusion Tech University Equations and Applications, II 8:00AM A Refuge-mediated Apparent Competition (2157) Model. 8:00 AM –10:50AM Wellesley, 3rd Floor, Marriott Lih-Ing Wu Roeger*, Texas Tech University, and Sze-Bi Hsu,National Organizers: Jerome Goddard II, Auburn Tsing Hua University, Taiwan University Montgomery (1077-92-1257) Junping Shi, College of 8:30AM Qualitative Assessment of the Roles of an William and Mary (2158) Imperfect Vaccine and Pap Cytology Ratnasingham Shivaji, Screening on the Transmission Dynamics University of North Carolina of Human Papillomavirus. Greensboro M. T. Malik*, Departments of 8:00AM Existence of Positive Solutions For a Class Mathematics and Community Health (2151) of Semipositone Systems with Exponential Sciences, University of Manitoba, Growth in R2. J. Reimer, Mathematical Institute, Maya Chhetri*, UNC Greensboro, and University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, A. B. Petr Girg, University of West Bohemia, Gumel, University of Manitoba, EH Czech Republic (1077-35-2243) Elbasha, Merck Research Laboratories, 8:30AM Pattern Formation For Reaction Diffusion North Wales, PA, USA, and S. M. Mahmud, (2152) Systems On Arbitrary Surfaces. Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, Necibe Tuncer, University of Tulsa Winnipeg, Manitoba (1077-92-332) (1077-35-1927) 9:00AM Dispersal in heterogeneous landscape. 9:00AM Two-Species Competition Model with (2159) Yuan Lou, Ohio State University (2153) Nonlocal Dispersal. (1077-92-497) Georg Hetzer*, Auburn University, Tung 9:30AM Species abundance distributions in a Nguyen, University of Illinois Springfield, (2160) stochastic niche model. and Wenxian Shen, Auburn University Rosalyn C Rael*, Pacific Ecoinformatics (1077-35-733) and Computational Ecology Lab, Annette 9:30AM Eigenvalue-curves and nonlinear Ostling, University of Michigan, Trevor (2154) boundary conditions for nonlinear elliptic Bedford, University of Edinburgh, and equations. Rafael D’Andrea, University of Michigan N. Mavinga,SwarthmoreCollege,andM. (1077-92-2845) N. Nkashama*, University of Alabama at 10:00AM Climate-driven dynamics of seasonal Birmingham (1077-35-2255) (2161) influenza in the tropical regions. 10:00AM On the Variational Characterization of Preliminary report. (2155) the Fucik Spectrum. Preliminary report. Maria C.A. Leite*, University of Toledo, Stephen Robinson*, Wake Forest Xiamgming Xiao, Deartment of Botany University, and Pavel Drabek,University and Microbiology, University of of West Bohemia, Plzen, Czech. Rep. Oklahoma, and Meijun Zhu,Universityof (1077-35-940) Oklahoma (1077-34-603)

163 Program of the Sessions – Boston, MA, Saturday, January 7 (cont’d.)

10:30AM Persistence and Competitive Exclusion for 8:00AM Static and Dynamic Features of Liquid (2162) a Nonautonomous Multi-Strain SIR (2169) Crystal Films. Epidemic Model with Nonlinear Host Lei Z. Cheng, Purdue University Mortality. Preliminary report. (1077-35-938) Azmy S. Ackleh*andPaul Salceanu, 8:30AM Derivation of system of SDEs for simple University of Louisiana at Lafayette (2170) phylogenetic tree. (1077-92-1269) Ummugul Bulut*andEdward Allen, Texas Tech University (1077-92-2189) 9:00AM Existence of solutions for financial AMS Special Session on Tensor Categories (2171) models with transaction costs and and Representation Theory, I stochastic volatility. Indranil SenGupta,UniversityofTexas- 8:00 AM –10:50AM Room 103, Hynes El Paso (1077-35-170) Organizers: Deepak Naidu,Northern 9:30AM Shooting Methods for Numerical Solution Illinois University (2172) of Linear and Nonlinear Stochastic Boundary Value Problems. Dmitri Nikshych,University Armando Arciniega*, The Universtity of of New Hampshire Texas at San Antonio, and Edward Allen, 8:00AM On the algebra of a class of Texas Tech University (1077-60-1842) (2163) finite-dimensional objects which accounts for some invariants of 1-1 tangles, knots, and links. Preliminary report. David E. Radford, University of Illinois at AMS Special Session on Uniformly and Chicago (1077-16-1188) Partially Hyperbolic Dynamical Systems, III 8:30AM 3-Dimensional Topology and Finite 8:00 AM –10:40AM Fairfield, 3rd Floor, Marriott (2164) Tensor Categories. Noah Snyder*, Columbia University, Organizers: Todd Fisher,Brigham Christopher Douglas, Oxford University, Young University and Christopher Schommer-Pries,MIT Boris Hasselblatt,Tufts (1077-17-390) University 9:00AM On an equivalence of categories of 8:00AM Invariant Sets of Hyperbolic Toral (2165) relative Yetter-Drinfeld modules. (2173) Automorphisms. Istvan Heckenberger, Philipps University Skyler C Simmons, Brigham Young Marburg (1077-81-984) University (1077-37-1330) 9:30AM Ideals in Deligne’s Rep(GL ). δ 8:30AM Anosov diffeomorphisms constructed (2166) Jonny Comes, Lewis and Clark College (2174) from π (Diff(Sn)). (1077-18-1607) k Tom Farrell and Andrey Gogolev*, 10:00AM Forms of tensor categories over arbitrary SUNY Binghamton (1077-37-944) (2167) fields. 9:00AM Local rigidity for Anosov automorphisms. Pavel Etingof*, MIT, and Shlomo Gelaki, (2175) Andrey Gogolev, Binghamton University, Technion (1077-18-447) Boris Kalinin*andVictoria Sadovskaya, 10:30AM On Symmetric Tensor Categories. University of South Alabama (2168) Shlomo Gelaki, Technion - I.I.T, Haifa, (1077-37-1189) Israel (1077-16-1326) 9:30AM Cohomology of GL(2, R)-valued cocycles (2176) over hyperbolic systems. Victoria Sadovskaya,UniversityofSouth AMS Special Session on Theory and Alabama (1077-37-1258) Applications of Stochastic Differential and 10:00AM Actions of higher rank abelian groups: Partial Differential Equations, II (2177) from measure rigidity to arithmeticity to topology. 8:00 AM –9:50AM Room 107, Hynes Anatole Katok, Pennsylvania State University (1077-37-2555) Organizers: Edward Allen,TexasTech University Mahmoud Anabtawi, American University of AMS Session on Associative and Sharjah Nonassociative Algebras and Rings: Armando Arciniega, Homological Algebras and Category Theory, University of Texas at San II Antonio 8:00 AM –10:10AM Room 308, Hynes Gangaram S. Ladde, University of South Florida 8:00AM Cartan Type Lie Superalgebra S(n) over Sivapragasam (2178) a Field of Positive Characteristic. Sathananthan, Tennessee Qiang Mu, Harbin Normal University, State University China (1077-17-1576)

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8:15AM Equivalent Condition of Primitivity for 9:00AM Parallel Double Rule Application in (2179) Semifields. (2191) Signed Graphs. linlin Chen*andMinerva Cordero, Margaret Meyerhofer,CarnegieMellon University of Texas at Arlington University (1077-05-967) (1077-17-1432) 9:15AM Combination of ordered trees associated 8:30AM Equivalence Classes of Subquotients of (2192) with nonnegative integer sequences. (2180) Pseudodifferential Operator Modules on Hana Kim*, Gi-Sang Cheon, the Line. Preliminary report. Sungkyunkwan University, and L. Jeannette Mun Larsen,Universityof W. Shapiro,HowardUniversity North Texas (1077-17-1762) (1077-05-1811) 8:45AM Maximal weights and multiplicities of 9:30AM h-vectors of small matroid complexes. (2181) certain sl(n)-modules. (2193) Jesus A DeLoera, Yvonne Kemper and Rebecca L. Jayne*, Washington College, Steven Klee*, UC Davis (1077-05-997) and Kailash C. Misra, North Carolina 9:45AM Subtraction-Division Games, Patterns, State University (1077-17-63) (2194) and Self-similarity. 9:00AM Ring maps, derived categories, and the Elizabeth J. Kupin,RutgersUniversity (2182) Bousfield Lattice. (1077-05-913) Luke Wolcott, University of Washington 10:00AM Part Products of Random S-Restricted (1077-18-893) (2195) Compositions. 9:15AM Coherence of canonically-defined natural Caroline Shapcott, Drexel University (2183) transformations in the derived category (1077-05-754) of -adic sheaves. 10:15AM Restricted rooted non-separable planar Ryan Cohen Reich,UCLA (2196) maps. Preliminary report. (1077-18-2289) Sergey Kitaev, University of Strathclyde, Department of Computer and 9:30AM The stable derived category of a (2184) polynomial ring in two variables modulo Information Sciences, Pavel Salimov, the quadratic forms. Preliminary report. Sobolev Institute of Mathematics SB RAS, Daniel A. Bravo Vivallo,Universityof Christopher Clark Severs,Arizona Southern Maine (1077-18-1623) State University, and Henning Arnor Ulfarsson*, Reykjavik University, School 9:45AM The projective stable derived category of of Computer Science (1077-05-1823) (2185) aring.Preliminary report. James Gillespie, Ramapo College (1077-18-1656) 10:00AM Finite generation of the cohomology of AMS Session on Geometry and Differential (2186) quotients of a PBW algebra. Geometry, II Piyush Ravindra Shroff,TexasA&M University (1077-18-1052) 8:00 AM –9:40AM Room 105, Hynes

8:00AM Ford Circles and Spheres. Preliminary (2197) report. Sam Northshield, SUNY-Plattsburgh AMS Session on Combinatorics and Graph (1077-51-2722) Theory, VII 8:15AM The Kahler-Ricci¨ ﬂow, the Mabuchi (2198) metric, and the existence of 8:00 AM –10:25AM Room 111, Hynes Kahler-Einstein¨ metrics. 8:00AM Log-concavity of the Partition Function. Donovan C. McFeron, Ramapo College (2187) Preliminary report. of New Jersey (1077-53-149) Janine E. Janoski*, Neil J. Calkin, Brian 8:30AM Curve Matching via Discrete Invariants. Bowers, Clemson University, Kerry (2199) Preliminary report. Gannon, Nazareth College, Katie Jones, Susan B Crook, North Carolina State University of Kentucky, and Anna University (1077-53-2155) Kirkpatrick, University of South Carolina 8:45AM Metric Fibrations from Simply Connected (1077-05-914) (2200) Rank - One Projective Spaces. Preliminary 8:15AM Minimum Clique Number, Chromatic report. (2188) Number, and Ramsey Numbers. Richard H. Escobales,Jr., Canisius Gaku Liu, Princeton University College (1077-53-1365) (1077-05-1042) 9:00AM Rectifying Viviani curves. Preliminary 8:30AM 3-shufﬂes of permutations. Preliminary (2201) report. (2189) report. Scott J Simmons, Drury University Camillia Smith Barnes, Sweet Briar (1077-53-1756) College (1077-05-1126) 9:15AM A Model Category Structure on Smooth 8:45AM Codes of compositions. (2202) Spaces. (2190) John T. Hird*, Naihuan Jing and Dan Christensen and Enxin Wu*, Ernest Stitzinger, North Carolina State the University of Western Ontario University (1077-05-989) (1077-53-2470)

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9:30AM An example of a wild geometric 9:00AM A Set of Quadratic Equations For (2203) structure. Preliminary report. (2215) Factoring or Primality Determination of Stanislav Dubrovskiy*, MSRI, and odd6*n+or-1TypeOddIntegers. Mikhail Shubin, Northeastern University L J Balasundaram,Cambridge, (1077-53-2596) Massachusetts (1077-11-96) 9:15AM Asymptotics for polynomials from integer (2216) partitions. AMS Session on Mathematical Logic, and Robert P Boyer, Drexel University Ordered and General Algebraic Structures (1077-11-1970) 9:30AM Making imprimitive characters behave 8:00 AM –9:40AM Room 209, Hynes (2217) primitively. Ryan C Daileda*, Trinity University, and 8:00AM A logical analysis of the Monty Hall Nathan C Jones, University of Mississippi (2204) problem. (1077-11-2476) Allen L. Mann, Colgate University (1077-03-1980) 8:15AM Beatty Sequences and Exponential (2205) Complexity Issues. Preliminary report. Iraj Kalantari and Mojtaba Moniri*, Western Illinois University (1077-03-2911) AMS Session on Partial Differential 8:30AM Nilpotence in Groups with Bounded Equations, II (2206) Chains of Centralizers. Paul Baginski*, Smith College, and 8:00 AM –9:55AM Room 110, Hynes Tuna Altinel,UniversiteLyon1 (1077-03-2750) 8:00AM Slow Drift and Fast Asynchronous (2218) Oscillatory Instabilities of Spike Patterns 8:45AM Finding Factors of Factor Rings over the in a One-Dimensional Singularly (2207) Eisenstein Integers. Preliminary report. Perturbed Brusselator Model. Valmir Bucaj, Texas Lutheran University Justin C Tzou*, Northwestern University, (1077-08-382) Yana Nec and Michael J Ward,University 9:00AM The Order Dimension and Coloring of of British Columbia (1077-35-1151) (2208) Planar Point Sets. 8:15AM Mixed Boundary Value Problem for Jonathan E Beagley,GeorgeMason (2219) Quasilinear Elliptic Equations. Preliminary University (1077-06-1035) report. 9:15AM A new description of the Bruhat-Chevalley Chunquan Tang*andGary M. (2209) order on Gauss-Jordan elements in the Lieberman, Iowa State University Renner monoid. Preliminary report. (1077-35-1081) Ryan K Therkelsen, Bellarmine University (1077-06-1800) 8:30AM Schur Complements and Block (2220) Preconditioners for Coupled Diffusion 9:30AM The Algebraic Lattice of Algebraic Systems. Preliminary report. (2210) Closure Operators. Geoffrey Robert Wienefeld Dillon, Martha Lee Hollist Kilpack,Binghamton Texas Tech University (1077-35-2421) University (1077-06-1934) 8:45AM The 2D Boussinesq equations with partial (2221) viscous dissipation. Dhanapati Adhikari*, Marywood AMS Session on Number Theory, Field Univeersity, and Jiahong Wu,Oklahoma Theory, and Polynomials, III State University (1077-35-2232) 9:00AM The Nonlinear Klein-Gordon Equation and 8:00 AM –9:40AM Room 305, Hynes (2222) Average Variational Principle. 8:00AM Dihedral p-adic ﬁelds. Lokenath Debnath,TheUniversityof (2211) Chad Awtrey, Elon University Texas - Pan American (1077-35-927) (1077-11-1766) 9:15AM Extended ﬁfth-order KdV type equations. 8:15AM Selectivity in Quaternion Algebras. (2223) Netra P Khanal,TheUniversityofTampa (2212) Benjamin Linowitz, Dartmouth College (1077-35-882) (1077-11-533) 9:30AM Nonlinear multi-integrable couplings with 8:30AM Symbolic evaluation of log-sine integrals (2224) Hamiltonian structures. (2213) in polylogarithmic terms. Wen-Xiu Ma, University of South Florida Jonathan M. Borwein,Universityof (1077-35-604) Newcastle, NSW Australia, and Armin 9:45AM Holder¨ continuity of a bounded weak Straub*, Tulane University (1077-11-487) (2225) solution of generalized parabolic 8:45AM Almost Universal Inhomogeneous p−Laplacian type equations. Preliminary (2214) Quadratic Forms. report. Anna R Haensch, Wesleyan University Sukjung Hwang*andGary Lieberman, (1077-11-132) Iowa State University (1077-35-106)

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MAA Session on Trends in Teaching 8:20AM A President, A. Partridge, and Practical Mathematics Online, I (2236) Mathematics. Preliminary report. Dick Jardine, Keene State College 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 311, Hynes (1077-E1-2008) Organizer: Michael B. Scott, California 8:40AM Exploring Prime Numbers in Classes with State University, Monterey (2237) Preservice and Inservice Teachers. Bay Jim Fulmer*andTom McMillan, University of Arkansas at Little Rock 8:00AM Implications for learning transition level (1077-E1-1053) (2226) mathematics using a distance delivery model. Preliminary report. 9:00AM Mayan Geometry in the Classroom. Ronald L Merritt, Athens State University (2238) Preliminary report. (1077-O5-94) Cynthia J. Woodburn, Pittsburg State 8:20AM An Analysis of 4 College Algebra Classes University (1077-E1-441) (2227) With or Without Computer Software 9:20AM When a Number System Loses Support. (2239) Uniqueness: The Case of the Maya. Bonnie L. Oppenheimer, Mississippi Preliminary report. University for Women (1077-O5-195) Amy Shell-Gellasch*, Beloit College, 8:40AM On Synchronous Distance Teaching in a Beloit WI, and Pedro Freitas,FCUL (2228) Mathematics MS Program. Preliminary Universidade de Lisboa (1077-E1-562) report. 9:40AM Could they have known it generalized? Kuiyuan Li*, Raid Amin and Josphat (2240) could they? Giving credit where credit Uvah, University of West Florida probably due. Preliminary report. (1077-O5-231) Steven R Benson, Lesley University 9:00AM Students’ Attitude Toward Assessment of (1077-E1-2233) (2229) on-Line Learning of College Algebra and Intermediate Algebra. 10:00AM Putting Mathematics Education (2241) Controversies in Historical Context. A. S. Elkhader, Northern State University (1077-O5-350) H. Smith Risser,MontanaTech (1077-E1-2108) 9:20AM Exploring the Effect of Using Technology (2230) on the online Learning of Algebra. 10:20AM Number theory alaSophieGermain:a` Bashar Zogheib, American University of (2242) course of guided discovery from her Kuwait (1077-O5-1167) research manuscripts on Fermat’s Last Theorem. 9:40AM Expanding Redesign Success. Preliminary David J. Pengelley,NewMexicoState (2231) report. University (1077-E1-627) Elizabeth A Eagle,UniversityofNorth Carolina at Charlotte, NC (UNCC) 10:40AM A Partial Examination of the Evolution of (1077-O5-2122) (2243) Structural Design. 10:00AM Teaching a General Education Math Patricia Williams*andElizabeth (2232) Course Online with Discussion boards C. Rogers, Piedmont College and a Screencast system. (1077-E1-2857) James Baglama, University of Rhode Island (1077-O5-2044) 10:20AM On WeBWork: how to Design a Model (2233) Course that is Concise and Complete? Preliminary report. Shumei C Richman,Columbia,SC (1077-O5-1914) 10:40AM Online PREP Workshops: The experience (2234) of teaching online professional development courses in mathematics. MAA Session on the Mathematical Mike May, Saint Louis University Preparation of Teachers: The Impact of the (1077-O5-1221) Common Core State Standards Initiative, I

MAA Session on the History of Mathematics 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 310, Hynes and Its Uses in the Classroom, II Organizers: Kenneth C. Millett, University of California, 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 312, Hynes Santa Barbara Organizer: Amy Shell-Gellasch,Beloit Elizabeth Burroughs, College Montana State University 8:00AM The History of Irrational and (2235) Transcendental Numbers; Classroom Holly Peters Hirst, Beneﬁts. Appalachian State University Charlie L Smith,ParkUniversity William McCallum,The (1077-E1-2677) University of Arizona

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8:00AM Aligning the Self-Efficacy to Teach Lynette Boos,Providence (2244) Statistics (SETS) Instrument to the College Common Core State Standards for Mathematics. Aliza Steurer, Dominican Leigh M. Harrell Williams*, Virginia University Tech, Teri J. Murphy, Norhtern Kentucky 8:00AM Investigations of the Riemann Hypothesis University, M. Alejandra Sorto,Texas (2253) - Three Independent Confirmations. State University - San Marcos, Rebecca L. Donald Leigh Hitzl*, Lockheed-Martin Pierce, Ball State University, and Advanced Technology Center, and Frank Lawrence M. Lesser,TheUniversityof Zele, Lockheed-Martin Solar and Texas at El Paso (1077-F5-979) Astrophysics Laboratory (1077-VL-22) 8:20AM Uncovering and Discovering: CCSS (2245) Mathematical Process Standards in a 8:15AM Exposed and strongly exposed points in Mathematics Course for Middle School (2254) symmetric spaces of measurable Teachers. operators. Teresa D Magnus*, Rivier College, Malgorzata M Czerwinska,Universityof Nashua NH, and Ann Gaffney,River Mississippi (1077-VL-2545) College and Londonderry Middle School (1077-F5-222) 8:30AM Apriori bounds and maximum principles (2255) for some higher order nonlinear pdes. 8:40AM Using Video Excerpts from Authentic (2246) Mathematics Classrooms to Demonstrate Anita Mareno, Penn State Harrisburg the Mathematical Practices at Various (1077-VL-392) Grade Levels. Preliminary report. 8:45AM ”Resistance” is Futile: Understanding the Taliesin Sutton*andNicole Kersting, (2256) Effect of Resistance in Physical Systems. University of Arizona (1077-F5-2914) Perry Y.C. Lee, Kutztown University of 9:00AM Using Experience from the Past to Move Pennsylvania (1077-VL-1892) (2247) Forward to the Common Core State Standards. 9:00AM What Does the Normality Test Indicate Elizabeth C. Rogers, Piedmont College (2257) About the Coverage Probability of the (1077-F5-2908) One Sample t-based Confidence Interval? Preliminary report. 9:20AM Advanced Teacher Capacity in (2248) Mathematics and the Common Core. Daniel J. Ghezzi, King’s College, Gregory D Foley, Ohio University Wilkes-Barre, Pa. (1077-VL-1997) (1077-F5-2643) 9:15AM Modeling Examination scores with the 9:40AM Enhancing the content knowledge of (2258) Wakeby Distribution. (2249) pre-service secondary mathematics Bernard Beecher, Bmcc/CUNY-The City teachers: Understanding connections. University of New York (1077-VL-1947) Yating Liu, The Ohio State University (1077-F5-2087) 9:30AM Jensen’s Inequality Versus Algebra in 10:00AM Inquiry-Based Courses at UAB for (2259) Finding the Exact Maximum. (2250) Prospective Elementary and Middle Mohammad K Azarian,Universityof School Teachers Modeling the Standards Evansville (1077-VL-610) for Mathematical Practice. 9:45AM Asymptotic Behavior of some Strodt Tommy Smith*, John C Mayer and (2260) Polynomials. Donna Ware, University of Alabama at Timothy B. Flowers, Indiana University Birmingham (1077-F5-2050) of Pennsylvania (1077-VL-2411) 10:20AM Developing Teachers’ Flexibility in (2251) Geometry: Addressing the CCSS 10:00AM Wilf’s conjecture. Mathematics Objectives. (2261) Tewodros Amdeberhan,Tulane Tanya Berezovski, St. Joseph’s University, Valerio De Angelis*, Xavier University, Philadelphia, PA University of Louisiana, and Victor Moll, (1077-F5-859) Tulane University (1077-VL-2526) 10:40AM Updating the CBMS report on the 10:15AM The Algebraic Thinking Project and the (2252) mathematical education of teachers and (2262) Encyclopedia of Algebraic Thinking. the Common Core. Preliminary report. William McCallum,TheUniversityof Steve Rhine and Colin Starr*, Willamette Arizona (1077-F5-2955) University (1077-VL-2001)

10:30AM Using Screen Capture Video to Aid MAA General Contributed Paper Session: (2263) Instruction. Assorted Topics, I Pat Kiihne, Illinois College (1077-VL-942)

8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 201, Hynes 10:45AM Communication: The Success to Online (2264) Courses. Preliminary report. Organizers: Jennifer Beineke,Western Edward D. Smith, Pima Community New England College College (1077-VL-2921)

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MAA General Contributed Paper Session: 10:00AM Recruitment and Retention of First Assorted Topics, II (2273) Generation Mathematics Majors. Elizabeth K. Mauch, Bloomsburg 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 202, Hynes University of Pennsylvania (1077-VL-500) 10:15AM ”Leading Disadvantaged Students to Organizers: Jennifer Beineke,Western (2274) Success in Mathematics” —- A midterm New England College report of our S-STEM funded project. Lynette Boos,Providence Preliminary report. College Zhanbo Yang*, F G Wukovits, A. Daniel and J. Beltrami, University of the Aliza Steurer, Dominican Incarnate Word (1077-VL-639) University 10:30AM Mentoring and Networking Mathematics 8:00AM Into the deep end of the mathematical (2275) and Science Majors in Applying (2265) pool: some preliminary experiences Mathematics. Preliminary report. teaching with IBL. Frederick A. Adkins*andYu-Ju Kuo, Kayla Bradley Dwelle*, Ouachita Baptist Indiana University of Pennsylvania University, and Ruth A. Enoch,Arkansas (1077-VL-2895) Tech University (1077-VL-1930) 10:45AM Mentoring Junior Faculty: A Formula for 8:15AM Contradictions in the Common Core State (2276) Success. (2266) Standards: Problems and a possible Jenna P. Carpenter, Louisiana Tech solution. University (1077-VL-982) Patricia Baggett*, New Mexico State University, and Andrzej Ehrenfeucht, University of Colorado at Boulder (1077-VL-347) MAA General Contributed Paper Session: 8:30AM Mathematics Teacher Preparation in Research in Algebra and Topology (2267) Shanghai for Grades 1-9. Hong Yuan*, The City University of New 8:00 AM –10:55AM Back Bay Ballroom York, and Xinsheng Lu, Shanghai Normal D, 2nd Floor, Sheraton University (1077-VL-2389) Organizers: Jennifer Beineke,Western 8:45AM Hua Loo-keng’s Movement of (2268) Popularizing Mathematics and New England College Quantitative Literacy (1958 to 1985). Lynette Boos,Providence Jean W. Richard*andHong Yuan,BMCC College CUNY The City University of New York Aliza Steurer, Dominican (1077-VL-2557) University 9:00AM Status, Interaction, and Undergraduate 8:00AM Finite Type Knot Invariants. Preliminary (2269) Mathematics in Nigeria: A VLP (2277) report. Experience. Lena Folwaczny, Univesity of Illinois, Martha Byrne, University of New Mexico Chicago (1077-VJ-2832) (1077-VL-346) 8:15AM The Coefficient Space of Polynomial 9:15AM Perceptions of Turkish High School (2278) Knots. (2270) Mathematics Teachers Regarding the Lee Stemkoski, Adelphi University 2005 Curricular Changes and Their (1077-VJ-2199) Effects on Mathematical Proficiency and 8:30AM Adding Complexity to Playing University Entrance Exam Preparation. (2279) Tic-Tac-Toe. Preliminary report. Preliminary report. Mary J Riegel, University of Montana SNihanEr, Ohio University (1077-VJ-2664) (1077-VL-2859) 8:45AM On global invariants of fibrations of 9:30AM Native American-based Mathematics (2280) smooth complete intersections. (2271) Materials for Undergraduate Courses. James A Fullwood,FloridaState Preliminary report. University (1077-VJ-2579) Charles Peter Funkhouser*, Scott A. 9:00AM Regular Graded Skew Clifford Algebras Annin, California State University (2281) of Low Global Dimension. Fullerton, and Miles Pfahl,Turtle Manizheh Nafari, University of Texas at Mountain Community College, Belcourt, Arlington (1077-VJ-2505) ND (1077-VL-2826) 9:15AM Global Weyl modules for twisted loop 9:45AM Project SOAR: Providing Low-Income, (2282) algebras. (2272) First-Generation, Underrepresented STEM Nathaniael J Manning*, University of Students Comprehensive Support for California, Riverside, Ghislain Fourier, Success. Mathematisches Institut, Universität zu Heather A Bullen, Kristi L Haik and Gail Koln,¨ Germany, and Prasad Senesi, Mackin*, Northern Kentucky University The Catholic University of America (1077-VL-492) (1077-VJ-2133)

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9:30AM BGG reciprocity for the current algebra 9:00AM Virus Dynamics in Star Graphs. (2283) of sl 2. (2293) Alexander Greaves-Tunnell*, Williams Matthew L. Bennett*, Nathaniael J. College, Thealexa Becker,Smith Manning and Vyjayanthi Chari, College, Aryeh Kontorovich,BenGurion University of California, Riverside University, Steven Miller, Williams (1077-VJ-2118) College, Pradeep Ravikumar,University 9:45AM On Fourier-Mukai type functors. of Texas, Austin, and Karen Shen, (2284) Preliminary report. Stanford University (1077-VJ-2175) Alice Rizzardo, Columbia University 9:15AM The Firefighter Problem for Directed (1077-VJ-2247) (2294) Grids. Daniel P. Biebighauser,Concordia 10:00AM Improving the Consistency Strength of College, Moorhead, MN (1077-VJ-1695) (2285) Reflection at ℵω+1. Zachary Paul Faubion,Universityof 9:30AM Total Efficient Domination in Cayley California, Irvine (1077-VJ-2838) (2295) Graphs. Preliminary report. Keegan C. Gary*, Mari Castle and Joe 10:15AM Compactness properties of the second DeMaio, Kennesaw State University (2286) uncountable cardinal. (1077-VJ-924) Sean D. Cox,UniversityofMunster¨ (1077-VJ-2762) 9:45AM The Characteristic Polynomial for (2296) Bi-Rooted Trees. 10:30AM Creating Separation in Topological Steven J. Tedford, Misericordia (2287) Spaces. University, Dallas PA. (1077-VJ-553) Jay R. Stine, Misericordia University (1077-VJ-552) 10:00AM Combinatorial Interpretations of (2297) Congruences for the spt-function. 10:45AM Lusternik–Schnirelmann Category and George E Andrews, Pennsylvania State (2288) the connectivity of X. University, Frank G Garvan,Universityof Nicholas A Scoville, Ursinus College Florida, and Jie L. Liang*, University of (1077-VJ-2933) Central Florida (1077-VJ-2404) 10:15AM Counting the Number of Invalid (2298) Reductions of Fractions - How “Weird” are “Weird” Fractions? Ryan Stuffelbeam, Transylvania University (1077-VJ-2384) MAA General Contributed Paper 10:30AM How Many Unique 4 by 4 Natural Magic Session: Research in Graph Theory and (2299) Squares are There? Preliminary report. Combinatorics Peter Staab*andJared Weed,Fitchburg State University (1077-VJ-2337)

8:00 AM –10:55AM Back Bay Ballroom 10:45AM Thompson’s Group and the Four Color C, 2nd Floor, Sheraton (2300) Theorem. Garry S. Bowlin,SUNYOneonta Organizers: Jennifer Beineke,Western (1077-VJ-2096) New England College Lynette Boos,Providence College SIAM Minisymposium on Recent Advances in Aliza Steurer, Dominican Fluid Dynamics and Turbulence Models University 8:00 AM –10:55AM Room 206, Hynes 8:00AM On the Limiting Distribution of (2289) Eigenvalues of Large Random d-Regular Organizer: Edriss Titi,Universityof Graphs with Weighted Edges. California Irvine Michael Cap Khoury*, University of 8:00AM On the wellposedness of the Michigan – Ann Arbor, and Steven J (2301) Navier-Stokes-Maxwell system. Miller, Williams College (1077-VJ-636) Slim Ibrahim*, University of Victoria, 8:15AM Necessary Spectral Conditions for BC, Canada, and Nader Masmoudi, (2290) 2-coloring Regular 3-uniform Courant Institute, New York University Hypergraphs. (1077-35-1835) Franklin H.J. Kenter,Universityof 8:30AM Global solutions for the Euler-Maxwell California, San Diego (1077-VJ-2586) (2302) equation. 8:30AM Cops and Robber on the hypercube. Pierre M Germain, Courant Institute, (2291) Preliminary report. New York University. (1077-35-1529) David Offner, Westminster College 9:00AM Nonlinear Maximum Principle for (1077-VJ-2398) (2303) Dissipative Nonlocal Operators and 8:45AM Randomly Altering Graphs via Vertex Applications: SQG. (2292) Switching. Peter Constantin*, Princeton University, Jacob Hughes, University of California - and Vlad Vicol,TheUniversityof San Diego (1077-VJ-2236) Chicago (1077-35-2324)

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9:30AM Global wellposedness of 2D anisotropic 10:30AM Tiling Deﬁcient Chessboards with (2304) Boussinesq equations. (2316) n-Polyominoes. Chongsheng Cao*, Florida International Kristina J Woodside, Washington and University, and Jiahong Wu,Oklahoma Jefferson College (1077-VL-2396) State University (1077-35-1904) 10:45AM Counting Liars and Truth-tellers: 10:00AM Ensemble Dynamics and Bred Vectors. (2317) Binomial Identities through Logic Puzzles. (2305) Anna L Mazzucato, Pennsylvania State Oscar Levin,UniversityofNorthern University (1077-37-1552) Colorado (1077-VL-2402) 10:30AM Pressure Beneath a Stokes Wave. (2306) Walter A Strauss,BrownUniversity (1077-76-1170) AWM Workshop

MAA General Contributed Paper Session: 8:25 AM –4:30PM Room 306, Hynes Assorted Topics, III This session has several parts that will be listed separately by time in this program. 8:15 AM –10:55AM Room 304, Hynes All presentations are open to all JMM Organizers: Jennifer Beineke,Western participants. New England College Lynette Boos,Providence College AMS Special Session on Geometric Invariants Aliza Steurer, Dominican of Groups and Related Topics, I University 8:15AM A Student Inspired Capstone Experience. 8:30 AM –10:50AM Exeter, 3rd Floor, Marriott (2307) Preliminary report. Organizers: Nic Koban,Universityof Elyn Rykken, Muhlenberg College Maine, Farmington (1077-VL-2695) Peter N. Wong,Bates 8:30AM Creating a Meaningful Mock Classroom College (2308) Experience for Pre-Service Secondary Z Teachers. Preliminary report. 8:30AM G-modules over CAT(0) spaces. Becky E Hall, Western Connecticut State (2318) Preliminary report. University (1077-VL-2278) Ross Geoghegan, Binghamton University (SUNY) (1077-20-1173) 8:45AM How I Taught A Course About The History 1 (2309) Of Mathematics For The First Time. 9:00AM Σ for Semi-Direct Products Acting on Ricardo Enrique Rojas, Northern State (2319) Locally Finite Trees. University, Aberdeen, South Dakota. Keith M Jones, Trinity College, Hartford (1077-VL-1668) CT (1077-20-995) 9:00AM An Overview of Numeral Systems. 9:30AM Novikov homology of right-angled Artin (2310) Preliminary report. (2320) groups. Walter S. Sizer, Minnesota State Dirk Schuetz, Durham University University Moorhead (1077-VL-340) (1077-20-1907) 9:15AM Red, White, and Blue: Pythagorean 10:00AM Boundary of a CAT(0) 2-Complex. (2311) Triples in Undergraduate Mathematics (2321) Preliminary report. Teaching. Preliminary report. Yulan Qing, Tufts University Homer W. Austin*, Salisbury University, (1077-54-617) and Jathan W. Austin,Universityof 10:30AM Geometric and homological ﬁniteness in Delaware (1077-VL-1377) (2322) free abelian covers. 9:30AM Deciphering a Message Using the Alexander I. Suciu, Northeastern (2312) Vigene`re Square. Preliminary report. University (1077-20-1180) Bill Linderman, King College (1077-VL-1724) 9:45AM Benjamin Franklin’s Magic. Preliminary AMS Special Session on Nonlinear Analysis (2313) report. of Partial Differential Equation Models in Rebecca Garcia, Sam Houston State Biology and Chemical Physics, I University (1077-VL-2879) 10:00AM Combinatorial Proofs of Fibonacci 8:30 AM –10:50AM Room 300, Hynes (2314) Identities by Means of the Path Graph. Preliminary report. Organizers: Zhonghai Ding,University John T. Jacobson, Kennesaw State of Nevada, Las Vegas University (1077-VL-842) Zhaosheng Feng,University 10:15AM Domination and Independence on the of Texas-Pan American (2315) Triangular Honeycomb Chessboard. 8:30AM A Simple Model for Arterial Blood Flow. Preliminary report. (2323) Preliminary report. Hong Lien T. Tran, Kennesaw State Jerry L. Bona, University of Illinois at University (1077-VL-846) Chicago (1077-92-2128)

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9:00AM Initial-boundary value problem for 8:30AM Raising Awareness of the History of (2324) coupled nonlinear dispersive equations. (2333) Mathematics in High School Curriculum. Preliminary report. Leslie Bolinger-Horton*, Quinsigamond Jerry L. Bona, University of Illinois at Community College, and Regina M. Chicago, and Hongqiu Chen*, University Panasuk, University of Massachusetts of Memphis (1077-35-2619) Lowell (1077-VF-375) 9:30AM Modeling spatial spread of infectious 8:45AM History of Computation as a Professional (2325) diseases with a fixed latent period in a (2334) Development Course for Middle School spatially continuous domain. Teachers. Preliminary report. Jing Li*, Pennsylvania State University, Todd H. Moore, Andrew G. Bennett* and Xingfu Zou, University of Western and Carlos W. Castillo-Garsow,Kansas Ontario (1077-35-2848) State University (1077-VF-2076) 10:00AM Financial models used in biology. 9:00AM Using the History of Women in (2326) Indranil SenGupta*andMaria C. (2335) Mathematics to Address Gender Equity Mariani, University of Texas- El Paso and Prepare Future Teachers. (1077-35-171) Jacqueline M. Dewar*, Lily S. Khadjavi 10:30AM Existence and stability of steady states of and Alissa S. Crans, Loyola Marymount (2327) the microtubule formation in three University (1077-VF-2181) states. Preliminary report. 9:15AM Mathematical Thinking: Can we ever Shantia Yarahmadian, Mississippi State (2336) agree on a definition? A conceptual University (1077-35-2120) meta-analysis. Preliminary report. Sean F Argyle, Kent State University (1077-VF-1263) MAA Invited Paper Session on Applications 9:30AM Geometric constructions using a finite of Dynamical Systems (2337) compass and a finite straightedge. David S Richeson, Dickinson College 8:30 AM –10:50AM Room 302, Hynes (1077-VF-2530) 9:45AM Best Web sites for the history of Organizer: Gene Wayne,Boston University (2338) mathematics. Preliminary report. Paul R. Bialek, Trinity International 8:30AM Chaos, Complex Dynamics, and University (1077-VF-2626) (2328) Undergraduate Research Projects. Robert L. Devaney,BostonUniversity (1077-AB-103) 9:00AM Patterns of Oscillation in Network (2329) Systems. AWM Workshop: Research Presentations by Martin Golubitsky,Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State Recent Ph.D.s (1077-AB-557) 8:30 AM –10:20AM Room 306, Hynes 9:30AM A Dynamical Systems Approach to (2330) Paleoclimate Models. Preliminary report. Organizers: Alissa Crans, Loyola Richard McGehee,Universityof Marymount University Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota Rachelle DeCoste,Wheaton (1077-AB-1019) College 10:00AM Lagrangian Dynamics and the Kirsten Eisentraeger, (2331) incorporation of data into ocean models. Pennsylvania State University Christopher K R T Jones,Universityof North Carolina at Chapel Hill Susan Williams,University (1077-AB-2388) of South Alabama 10:30AM Snakes and ladders. 8:30AM On Legendrian Graphs. (2332) Bjorn Sandstede,BrownUniversity (2339) Danielle O’Donnol, Smith College, and (1077-AB-1739) Elena Pavelescu*, Occidental College (1077-57-263) 9:00AM Springer’s representation via sl(3) webs. MAA General Contributed Paper Session: (2340) Heather M. Russell*, University of History and Philosophy of Mathematics Southern California, Julianna S. Tymoczko, University of Iowa, and Matthew Housley, BYU (1077-57-240) 8:30 AM –9:55AM Room 309, Hynes 9:30AM Categorification of the polynomial ring. Organizers: Jennifer Beineke,Western (2341) Radmila Sazdanovic*, University of New England College Pennsylvania, and Mikhail Khovanov, Lynette Boos,Providence Columbia University (1077-18-212) College 10:00AM Promotion and rowmotion. Aliza Steurer, Dominican (2342) Jessica Striker*andNathan Williams, University University of Minnesota (1077-05-256)

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AMS Committee on Education Panel 10:40AM How Does Acceptance of Lesbian and Gay Discussion (2349) MenSpreadinaSocialNetwork? Angela Vierling-Claassen*, Lesley 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM Room 208, Hynes University, and Dorea Vierling-Claassen, Brown University (1077-J1-784) Models for engaging undergraduate students in research. Organizers: David Damiano, College of AMS Invited Address the Holy Cross 9:00 AM –9:50AM Ballrooms A/B, Steven J. Miller, Williams 3rd ﬂoor, Hynes College Moderator: David Damiano (2350) Beyond q: Special functions on elliptic curves. Panelists: Dean M. Evasius,National Eric Rains, California Institute of Science Foundation Technology (1077-33-9) Joe Gallian,Universityof Minnesota Duluth ASL Invited Address Steven Miller

Ivelisse Rubio,Universityof 9:00 AM –9:50AM Room 207, Hynes Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras (2351) Set Theory and Infinitary Model Theory. John Baldwin, University of Illinois at Chicago (1077-03-152) MAA Session on Motivating Statistical and Quantitative Learning through Social MAA Minicourse #4: Part B Engagement 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Salon AB, 4th Floor, Marriott 8:40 AM –10:55AM Room 203, Hynes Elementary mathematics in architecture. Organizers: Brian Gill, Seattle Pacific Presenter: Alexander J. Hahn, University University of Notre Dame Eric Gaze, Bowdoin College Andrew Zieffler,University MAA Minicourse #13: Part B of Minnesota Stuart Boersma,Central 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Salon HI, 4th Floor, Marriott Washington University Interactive applets for calculus and 8:40AM Mathematics for a Just World: Teaching differential equations. (2343) Quantitative Literacy Through Social Justice Issues and Service Learning. Presenter: Haynes Miller, Bonnie J Shulman, Bates College, Massachusetts Institute of Lewiston, ME (1077-J1-143) Technology 9:00AM Quantitative Literacy in a First-Year (2344) Seminar Course. Preliminary report. MAA Minicourse #1: Part B Maria G Fung, Worcester State University (1077-J1-1973) 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Salon CD, 4th Floor, Marriott 9:20AM Service Learning Project in a First-Year Mathematics and backgammon. (2345) Seminar. Preliminary report. Zeynep Teymuroglu, Rollins College Presenters: Arthur Benjamin,Harvey (1077-J1-768) Mudd College Robert Koca, Community 9:40AM Service-Learning Projects and Activities College of Baltimore County (2346) that Engage Liberal Arts Mathematics Students: Implementation and Assessments. SIGMAA on Math Circles Demonstration for Morteza Shafii-Mousavi*andPaul JMM Participants, Teachers, and other Kochanowski, Indiana University South Mathematical Enthusiasts Bend (1077-J1-169) 10:00AM Quantitative Reasoning and Informed 9:00 AM –9:50AM Back Bay Ballroom (2347) Citizenship: Building Students’ B, 2nd Floor, Sheraton Awareness of Social Issues. Alicia Sevilla*andKay Somers, Come learn about and participate in this Moravian College (1077-J1-2467) Math Circles experience. 10:20AM Math Trails in Undergraduate Organizers: James Tanton,St.Mark’s (2348) Mathematics. Institute of Mathematics Mike Daven and Lee Fothergill*, Mount Tatiana Shubin,SanJose Saint Mary College (1077-J1-161) State University

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NAM Panel Discussion NAM Business Meeting

9:00 AM –9:50AM Room 101, Hynes 10:00 AM –10:50AM Room 101, Hynes Title to be announced. MAA Invited Address

Student Hospitality/Information Center 10:05 AM –10:55AM Ballrooms A/B, 3rd ﬂoor, Hynes 9:00 AM –2:00PM 2nd Floor Corridor by Veterans Auditorium, Hynes (2357) Mathematical challenges in climate and sustainability. Mary Lou Zeeman, Bowdoin College Exhibits and Book Sales (1077-A0-7)

9:00 AM – NOON Exhibit Hall D, Hynes AWM Workshop: Poster Session with Presentations from Women Graduate Employment Center Students 9:00 AM – NOON Exhibit Hall C, Hynes 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Room 306, Hynes

MAA General Contributed Paper Session: 10:30AM An alternative approach to hyperbolic Assorted Topics, IV (2358) structures on link complements. Morwen Thistlethwaite and Anastasiia 10:00 AM –10:40AM Room 309, Hynes Tsvietkova*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (1077-57-134) Organizers: Jennifer Beineke,Western 10:30AM Hilbert Functions and Graded Betti New England College (2359) Numbers of Arithmetically Gorenstein Lynette Boos,Providence Points on General Surfaces in P3. College Preliminary report. Aliza Steurer, Dominican Megan Patnott, University of Notre University Dame (1077-14-197) 10:00AM Matrices with Equal Power Property. 10:30AM On the Unimodality of Pure O-Sequences. (2352) Preliminary report. (2360) Preliminary report. Wasin So, San Jose State University Bernadette M Boyle, University of Notre (1077-VL-531) Dame (1077-13-205) 10:15AM What can a right triangle look like? 10:30AM Reﬂection groups: Comparing length and (2353) Steven Schlicker, Grand Valley State (2361) codimension. University (1077-VL-1348) Briana Foster-Greenwood,Universityof North Texas (1077-05-211) 10:30AM The Braikenridge-Maclaurin (2354) Construction. Preliminary report. 10:30AM The von Karm´ an´ theory for Salvatore Giunta, Adelphi University (2362) incompressible elastic shells. (1077-VL-2185) Hui Li, University of Minnesota (1077-74-230) ASL Contributed Paper Session, II 10:30AM Sum-list-coloring and sc-greedy graphs. (2363) Preliminary report. 10:00 AM –10:45AM Room 207, Hynes Michelle A. Lastrina, Iowa State University (1077-05-232) 10:00AM Forking in VC-minimal theories. 10:30AM Splittings of Non-Finitely Generated (2355) Sarah Cotter*andSergei Starchenko, (2364) Groups. University of Notre Dame Robin M. Lassonde,Universityof 10:25AM Indiscernible sequences and simplicity. Michigan (1077-20-249) (2356) Donald Brower, University of Notre 10:30AM Equivalence and Duality for Rank-Metric Dame (2365) and Matrix Codes. Katherine Morrison,Universityof SIGMAA on Math Circles Demonstration for Nebraska – Lincoln (1077-94-257) Undergraduate Students 10:30AM Extending the analysis of the Blum (2366) medial axis to multiple regions. 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Back Bay Ballroom Ellen K Gasparovic,UniversityofNorth B, 2nd Floor, Sheraton Carolina at Chapel Hill (1077-54-261) 10:30AM Tracking Control and Robustness Come learn about and participate in this (2367) Analysis for PVTOL Aircraft under Math Circles experience. Bounded Feedbacks. Organizers: James Tanton,St.Mark’s Aleksandra Gruszka*, Michael Institute of Mathematics Malisoff, Louisiana State University, and Tatiana Shubin,SanJose Frederic Mazenc,TeamINRIADISCO, State University CNRS-Supelec (1077-93-306)

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10:30AM Uniqueness and multiplicity results for 2:30PM The Life and Death of a Geodesic. (2368) classes of infinite positone problems. (2374) Preliminary report. Eunkyung Ko, Mississippi State Arielle McCoy*, Cal Hotchkiss, Alison University (1077-35-307) Pryor, Kirin Khan and James Henle, 10:30AM The topology of restricted partition Smith College (1077-51-1891) (2369) posets. 3:00PM Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of a Richard Ehrenborg and JiYoon Jung*, (2375) Nonlinear Large Deformation Plate Model University of Kentucky (1077-05-308) with Applications to Micro Air Vehicles. Preliminary report. MAA Business Meeting James Cameron*, Charles Daly and Padmanabhan Seshaiyer,GeorgeMason 11:10 AM – 11:40 AM Ballrooms A/B, University (1077-35-1902) 3rd floor, Hynes 3:30PM Statistical functional equations in the (2376) plane. Chair: Paul Zorn, Saint Olaf Mary Michael Forrester, Sewanee: The College University of the South (1077-39-1087) 4:00PM Constructing the Moduli Space of AMS Business Meeting (2377) 2|2-Dimensional Complex Associative Algebras. 11:45 AM – 12:15 PM Ballrooms A/B, Josh Frinak, University of Wisconsin-Eau 3rd floor, Hynes Claire (1077-00-2734) 4:30PM Optimal Harvesting Models for Fishery NAM Claytor-Woodard Lecture (2378) Populations. Preliminary report. Corinne Alexandra Wentworth*, St. 1:00 PM –1:50PM Room 101, Hynes Mary’s College of Maryland, Jay Walton (2370) Profinite (Continuous) Equivariant Higher and Masami Fujiwara,TexasA&M Algebraic K-theory for the Action of University (1077-92-348) Algebraic Groups. 5:00PM A Family of Multidimensional Continued Aderemi Oluyomi Kuku, Grambling (2379) Fraction Stern Sequences. Preliminary State University (1077-19-884) report. Krishna Dasaratha,HarvardUniversity, AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research Laure Flapan, Yale University, Chansoo in Mathematics by Undergraduates and Lee, Williams College, Cornelia Students in Post-Baccalaureate Programs, IV Mihaila, Wellesley College, Nicholas Neumann-Chun, Williams College, Sarah Peluse, University of Chicago, Lake 1:00 PM –5:50PM Back Bay Ballroom Forest College, Matthew Stoffregen*, A, 2nd Floor, Sheraton University of Pittsburgh, and Thomas Organizers: Bernard Brooks,Rochester Garrity, Williams College (1077-05-2543) Institute of Technology 5:30PM A Generalized Family of Multidimensional Jobby Jacob,Rochester (2380) Continued Fractions and its Institute of Technology Correspondence to Existing Algorithms. Jacqueline Jensen,Sam Preliminary report. Houston State University Krishna Dasaratha,HarvardUniversity, Laure Flapan, Yale University, Chansoo Darren A Narayan, Lee*, Williams College, Cornelia Rochester Institute of Mihailia, Wesley College, Nicholas G Technology Neumann-Chun, Williams College, Sarah 1:00PM The Role of Dynamic Representations in Peluse, Lake Forest College, Matt (2371) Development of Algebraic Concepts. Stoffregen, University of Pittsburgh, and Preliminary report. Thomas A Garrity, Williams College Marie Nicole Ermete*, Natasha (1077-11-2469) Dawn Brackett and Karli Nicole Powell, Central Michigan University (1077-97-102) 1:30PM Trigonometric Interpolation for (2372) Numerical Solution of Differential AMS Special Session on Advanced Equations. Investigations on Applied Optimization and Oksana Bihun, Austin Bren*, Michael Multiple Fractional Programming Dyrud and Kristin Heysse,Concordia College, MN (1077-65-105) 1:00 PM –5:50PM Room 109, Hynes 2:00PM Folded ribbon knots in the plane. (2373) Preliminary report. Organizers: Ram U. Verma,TexasA&M Eleanor Conley*, Emily Meehan, University Elizabeth Denne and Rebecca Terry, Alexander J. Zaslavski, Smith College (1077-51-1889) Technion, Israel

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1:00PM The −Optimality conditions for AMS Special Session on Algebraic and (2381) Multiobjective Fractional Programming Geometric Aspects of Integrable Systems Problems. and Random Matrices, IV R. N. Mohapatra*, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, and Ram U 1:00 PM –5:40PM Room 107, Hynes Verma, Teaxs A & M University, Kingsville, Texas (1077-49-223) Organizers: Anton Dzhamay,University of Northern Colorado 1:30PM Stochastic differential equations on Kenichi Maruno,University (2382) Banach spaces and optimization of of Texas, Pan American supports of measures induced. Nasir U. Ahmed, University of Ottawa Virgil Pierce,Universityof (1077-93-62) Texas, Pan American 1:00PM Asymptotics of rational Painleve II 2:00PM Finding moment-matching cubature (2391) solutions. (2383) formulas using optimization techniques, Robert J. Buckingham*, University of with applications in stochastic Cincinnati, and Peter D. Miller,University optimization. of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1077-34-1262) Sanjay Mehrotra and David Papp*, 1:30PM On the Modified Nonlinear Schrodinger¨ Northwestern University, Department of (2392) Equation in the Semiclassical Limit. Industrial Engineering and Management Peter D. Miller, University of Michigan Sciences (1077-65-1472) (1077-35-1187) 2:30PM Subdifferentials of Supremum 2:30PM Prym-Tyurin classes and tau-functions. (2384) Lipschitzian Functions and Its (2393) Dmitry Korotkin, Concordia University Applications to Nonsmooth Semi-infinite (1077-51-315) and Infinite Programs. 3:30PM Higher genus Weierstrass Boris Mordukhovich and Nghia Tran*, (2394) sigma-function. Wayne State University (1077-49-221) Dmitry Korotkin, Concordia University, and Vasilisa Shramchenko*, University 3:00PM Quantum Games & Quaternionic of Sherbrooke (1077-33-1046) (2385) Strategies. Aden Omar Ahmed,TexasA&M 4:00PM Real Grassmannian and KP solitons. University - Kingsville (1077-49-323) (2395) Yuji Kodama, Ohio State University (1077-35-1458) 3:30PM Higher-Order Necessary Conditions 5:00PM Sigma function and random matrices. (2386) in Nonsmooth Set Constrained (2396) Emma Previato,BostonUniversity Optimization. (1077-33-1428) Elena Constantin,Universityof Pittsburgh-Johnstown (1077-49-178)

4:00PM The Smallest Intersecting Ball Problem (2387) and the Smallest Enclosing Ball Problem: Numerical Implementation. AMS Special Session on Control of Biological Mau Nam Nguyen*andCristina Villalobos, University of Texas-Pan and Physical Systems, II American (1077-90-1718) 1:00 PM –5:50PM Simmons, 3rd Floor, Marriott 4:30PM Metric subregularity for Organizers: Wandi Ding, Middle (2388) composite-convex generalized equations Tennessee State University in Banach spaces. Preliminary report. Xiyin Zheng, Yunnan University, P.R. Volodymyr Hrynkiv, China, and Wei Ouyang*, Wayne State University of University (1077-49-448) Houston-Downtown Suzanne Lenhart,University 5:00PM Convergence of a proximal point method of Tennessee, Knoxville, and (2389) and of a projected subgradient method in NIMBioS the presence of computational errors in Hilbert spaces. 1:00PM Tracking and Robustness Analysis for (2397) UAVs with Bounded Feedbacks. Alexander J. Zaslavski, The Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Aleksandra Gruszka*, Michael (1077-49-278) Malisoff, Louisiana State University, and Frederic Mazenc,TeamINRIADISCO 5:30PM The Weak Optimality Conditions (1077-93-1855) (2390) for Multiple Objective Fractional 1:30PM Optimal Control of Advection Direction Programming Based on Generalized (2398) on Reaction-Diffusion Population Models. Invexity of Higher Order. Heather Finotti, Suzanne Lenhart Ram U Verma,TexasA&MUniversity and Tuoc Van Phan*, University of (1077-90-623) Tennessee (1077-35-987)

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2:00PM Optimal control of a biharmonic obstacle Machiel van (2399) problem. Frankenhuijsen, Utah Valley David R. Adams,Universityof University Kentucky, Volodymyr Hrynkiv*, 1:00PM Derivatives on Fractals. Preliminary University of Houston-Downtown, (2407) report. and Suzanne Lenhart,Universityof Alexander Teplyaev,Universityof Tennessee-Knoxville (1077-49-2081) Connecticut (1077-58-2822) 2:30PM Mosquito Management in the face of 1:30PM Vector equations on fractals. (2400) Natural Selection. Preliminary report. (2408) Michael Hinz*, University of Connecticut Folashade B. Agusto*, Austin Peay State and FSU Jena, and Alexander Teplyaev, Univeristy, Sharon Bewick,National University of Connecticut (1077-35-1885) Institute for Mathematical and Biological 2:00PM Factorization of the spectral zeta Synthesis, and Rana D Parshad,Center (2409) function of differential operators on for Turbulence Research, Stanford fractals. University, (1077-92-2287) Nishu Lal*andMichel Lapidus, 3:00PM Influence of Model Structure on Control of University of California, Riverside (2401) a Cholera Epidemic. Preliminary report. (1077-28-2420) Elsa N Schaefer, Marymount University 2:30PM Casimir effect on higher dimensional (1077-93-2069) (2410) Laakso spaces. Preliminary report. 3:30PM Optimal Control Applied to Robert Kesler and Benjamin (2402) Native-Invasive Species Competition via a Steinhurst*, Cornell University PDE Model. (1077-81-1963) Wandi Ding*, Middle Tennessee State 3:00PM Constructing invariant Laplacians on University, Volodymyr Hrynkiv, (2411) Julia sets. Preliminary report. University of Houston - Downtown, and Robert S. Strichartz, Cornell University Xiaoyu Mu, University of Tennessee - (1077-28-1531) Knoxville (1077-49-341) 3:30PM Buried Points in Rational Julia Sets Have 4:00PM Modelling effective transmission (2412) Full Geometric and Dynamical Measure. (2403) strategies and control of the world’s Clinton P Curry, Huntingdon College, most successful parasite. John C Mayer*, University of Matthew D Turner,Universityof Alabama at Birmingham, and E. D. Tennessee Knoxville (1077-92-1919) Tymchatyn, University of Saskatchewan 4:30PM Optimal Control of a Harvesting Problem (1077-37-2675) (2404) Modeled by Integrodifference Equations. 4:00PM Statistical mechanics and quantum field Peng Zhong*, Department of Ecology, (2413) theory on fractal structures. Evolution, and Natural Resources, Eric Akkermans, Physics Department, Rutgers University, and Suzanne Technion Israel Institute of Technology Lenhart, University of Tennessee, (1077-81-785) Knoxville (1077-92-1781) 4:30PM Number Theoretic Solutions to a 5:00PM A Vegetative Pattern Formation Aridity (2414) Certain Nonlinear Cauchy Problem with (2405) Classification Scheme Along a Rainfall Optimized Constraints. Gradient: An Example of Desertification Michael Anthony Maroun,Universityof Control. California, Riverside (1077-33-2768) Bonni J Kealy*andDavid J 5:00PM Spectral zeta function and quantum Wollkind, Washington State University (2415) statistical mechanics on Sierpinski (1077-92-146) carpets. 5:30PM Hopf and backward bifurcations in a new Joe P Chen, Cornell University (2406) model for the dynamics of malaria (1077-82-708) transmission. 5:30PM Properties of compatible sequences of Calistus Ngeh Ngonghala,National (2416) periodic orbits of prefractal Institute for Mathematical and Biological approximations of the Koch snowflake Synthesis (NIMBioS) (1077-92-2663) fractal billiard. Robert G. Niemeyer*andMichel L. Lapidus, University of California, AMS Special Session on Fractal Geometry in Riverside (1077-37-1115) Pure and Applied Mathematics (in memory of Benoit Mandelbrot), V AMS Special Session on Frontiers in Geomathematics, IV 1:00 PM –5:50PM Room 200, Hynes 1:00 PM –5:50PM Suffolk, 3rd Floor, Marriott Organizers: Michael L. Lapidus, University of California, Organizers: Willi Freeden,Universityof Riverside Kaiserslautern Erin Pearse,Universityof Volker Michel,Universityof Oklahoma Siegen

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M. Zuhair Nashed, 2:00PM Systems of rational difference equations University of Central Florida (2426) from population dynamics and global Thomas Sonar, Technical dynamics on the boundary of the positive University of Braunschweig cone. Preliminary report. Jim M. Cushing, University of Arizona 1:00PM Multiscale data sampling and function (1077-39-1925) (2417) extension for data analysis and processing of large high dimensional 2:30PM Constant Proportion Harvest Policy, data. (2427) Predator Saturation and Mating Amit Bernanis, Tel Aviv University, Amir Limitation Induced Allee Effects In Paciﬁc Averbuch*, School of Computer Science, Halibut and Atlantic Cod Fisheries. Tel Aviv University, and Ronald Raphel Abdul-Aziz Yakubu*andNianpeng Li, Coifman, Yale University (1077-42-1602) Howard University (1077-92-2159) PM 1:30PM Mathematical challenges arising from 3:00 Chaos in expansive rank-type equations. (2418) earth-space observation: mixed integer (2428) Preliminary report. linear model, measurement-based Timothy Sauer, George Mason University perturbation theory and data (1077-39-1999) assimilation for ill-posed problems. 3:30PM Attractivity and Global Stability for Peiliang Xu, Kyoto University (2429) Linearizable Difference Equations. (1077-86-1504) M. R. S. Kulenovic*andEd Janowski, University of Rhode Island 2:30PM Fast Multipole Accelerated Solution of the (2419) Oblique Boundary Value Problem. (1077-39-1161) Martin Gutting,Universityof 4:00PM When does local stability imply global Kaiserslautern, Germany (1077-31-1921) (2430) stability in planar competition models? Saber N Elaydi*, Trinity University, and 3:00PM Real Earth Based Geopotential (2420) Determination. Preliminary report. Rafael Luis, Tecnical University of Lisbon Elena Kotevska, University St. Kliment (1077-39-1237) Ohridski-Bitola (1077-31-2427) 4:30PM On the Dynamics of some Competitive (2431) Rational Systems in the Plane. 3:30PM Differentiation Tools in Geoscience (2421) Computation. Gabriel Lugo and Frank J. Palladino*, University of Rhode Island (1077-39-975) AAAbokhodair, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (1077-86-2435) 5:00PM Spectral parameter power series for (2432) Sturm-Liouville problems on time scales. 4:00PM Data Assimilation for Dynamical Preliminary report. (2422) Systems. Lynn Erbe, Raziye Mert and Humberto C. Godinez, Los Alamos Allan Peterson*, University of National Laboratory (1077-93-2730) Nebraska-Lincoln (1077-39-788) 4:30PM Inverse and Moment Problems in 5:30PM Representations and Ostrowski type (2423) Geosciences - Revisited. (2433) inequalities on Time scales. Preliminary M. Zuhair Nashed,UniversityofCentral report. Florida (1077-86-2871) George A Anastassiou,Universityof 5:30PM Discussion Memphis (1077-39-360)

AMS Special Session on Homotopy Theory, III AMS Special Session on Global Dynamics of Rational Difference Equations with 1:00 PM –5:50PM Provincetown, Applications 4th Floor, Marriott Organizers: Mark Behrens, 1:00 PM –5:50PM Fairfield, 3rd Floor, Marriott Massachusetts Institute of Organizers: Mustafa R. S. Kulenovic, Technology University of Rhode Island Mark W. Johnson, Gerasimos Ladas, Pennsylvania State University of Rhode Island University, Altoona Orlando Merino,University Haynes R. Miller, of Rhode Island Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1:00PM Number Theoretic Properties of (2424) Difference Equations Associated to Hénon James Turner,Calvin Maps. Preliminary report. College Joseph H. Silverman,BrownUniversity Donald Yau, Ohio State (1077-37-174) University 1:30PM Patterns of boundedness for systems of 1:00PM A general bar-cobar duality. Preliminary (2425) rational difference equations. (2434) report. Gerry Ladas, University of Rhode Island AndréJoyal*andMatthieu Anel,UQAM, (1077-39-1633) Montréal (1077-18-2785)

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1:30PM Localization and completion with respect 2:30PM Constructing Integrable Systems From (2435) to topological Quillen homology. (2446) Graded Classical r -Matrices. Preliminary John E Harper, University of Western report. Ontario (1077-55-1672) Peter Fedak, Harvey Mudd College, 2:00PM Cell complexes and inductive definitions. Gizem Karaali*, Keith McHugh, (2436) Michael A Shulman,Universityof Pomona College, Aaron Pribadi, California, San Diego (1077-55-875) Harvey Mudd College, and Sundeep Sampath, Claremont Graduate University 2:30PM Non-realizable 2-stage Π-algebras. (1077-17-120) (2437) Martin Frankland, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1077-55-1731) 3:00PM Painleve integrability of coupled variable (2447) coefficient higher-order nonlinear 3:00PM Stable homotopy 1-types and symmetric Schrodinger equations with free (2438) Picard groups. Preliminary report. parameters. Preliminary report. Angelica M. Osorno*, University of Zhenyun Qin*, Fudan University, Wenxiu Chicago, and Niles Johnson,University Ma, University of South Florida, and of Georgia (1077-55-2644) Hong Cai Ma, Donghua University 3:30PM Obstruction theory for E∞ maps. (1077-03-1219) (2439) Preliminary report. 3:30PM Hirota Bilinear Equations and their Niles Johnson*, University of Georgia, (2448) Connection with Linear Superposition and Justin Noel, Max Planck Institute Principle. Preliminary report. and University of Bonn (1077-55-2103) Magaji Y Adamu*, Dauda G Yakubu and 4:00PM Truncated Brown-Peterson spectra. Enoch Suleiman, Abubakar Tafawa (2440) Tyler Lawson*, University of Minnesota, Balewa University, Bauchi, Nigeria and Niko Naumann,Universität (1077-35-504) Regensburg (1077-55-1363) 4:00PM Integrability of geometric evolution 4:30PM Higher Geometry and Algebraic K-theory. (2449) equations using Hasimoto variables. (2441) John A. Lind, The Johns Hopkins Preliminary report. University (1077-55-1371) Stephen C. Anco,BrockUniversity 5:00PM K-homology and index theory : Beyond (1077-35-2787) (2442) ellipticity. 4:30PM On the long-time stability of a Paul Frank Baum, Penn State University (2450) semi-impicit Euler scheme for the 2d (1077-19-403) thermohydraulics equations. 5:30PM Discussion Florentina Tone*, University of West Florida, and Xiaoming Wang,Florida State University (1077-35-791) 5:00PM Standing wave solutions of nonlinear (2451) Schrodinger¨ equation with saturable AMS Special Session on Mathematical nonlinearity. Preliminary report. Principles and Theories of Integrable Guoping Zhang, Morgan State University Systems (1077-35-912) 5:30PM The Grammian and Pfaffian solutions to 1:00 PM –5:50PM Constitution Ballroom (2452) the (3+1)-dimensional non-linear partial A, 2nd Floor, Sheraton differntial equations. Magdy G. Asaad, Tampa (1077-35-1442) Organizers: Wen-Xiu Ma,Universityof South Florida Syed Tauseef Mohyud-Din, HITEC University AMS Special Session on Mathematical Theory Zhijun Qiao,Universityof of Control of Quantum Systems, II Texas-Pan American 1:00PM On the Maxwell-Bloch equations with 1:00 PM –5:50PM Clarendon, 3rd Floor, Marriott (2443) non-zero boundary conditions. Organizers: Francesca Albertini, Gino Biondini*, State University of University of Padua New York at Buffalo, and Gregor Kovacic, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Domenico D’Alessandro, (1077-35-1093) Iowa State University 1:30PM Multipeakons in the Degasperis-Procesi Raffaele Romano, (2444) Equation I. Preliminary report. University of Trieste Jacek Szmigielski,Universityof Francesco Ticozzi, Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada University of Padua (1077-35-1160) 1:00PM Are traps lurking on quantum control 2:00PM Wronskian and Paffian solutions to (2453) landscapes to impede reaching the (2445) nonlinear partial differential equations. objective? Alrazi M Abdeljabbar,Universityof Herschel Rabitz, Princeton University South Florida (1077-35-1055) (1077-81-1511)

179 Program of the Sessions – Boston, MA, Saturday, January 7 (cont’d.)

1:30PM Gradient flow in quantum control 1:30PM Combining simplified Markov random (2454) problems and the role of singular (2463) fields with simulated evolution improves controls. remote homology detection for Ruixing Long, Department of Chemistry, beta-structural proteins into the twilight Princeton University (1077-49-680) zone. Preliminary report. Noah M. Daniels, Lenore J. Cowen*, 2:00PM Indirect controllability of quantum (2455) systems; General Lie algebraic conditions Tufts University, Raghavendra Hosur and some special cases. and Bonnie Berger, Massachusetts Domenico D’Alessandro*, Iowa State Institute of Technology (1077-92-835) University, and Raffaele Romano, 2:00PM RNAG: A New Gibbs Sampler for Department of Physics, Universita’ di (2464) Predicting RNA Secondary Structural Trieste, Italy (1077-93-624) Ensembles of Unaligned Sequences. Charles (Chip) E. Lawrence*, Brown 2:30PM Symmetry Principles in Quantum University, Donglai Wei, Department of (2456) Systems Theory with Applications in Computer Science, MIT, and Lauren Simulation and Control. Alpert, Brown Univeristy (1077-92-673) Thomas Schulte-Herbrueggen, TU-Munich (TUM) (1077-49-349) 2:30PM Inferring transcriptional and (2465) microRNA-mediated regulatory programs 3:00PM Controllability with Periodic Pulsing. in glioblastoma. (2457) Philip Owrutsky*andNavin Khaneja, Christina S Leslie,Memorial Harvard University (1077-93-1992) Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center 3:30PM Adiabatic control of the Schroedinger (1077-92-2283) (2458) equation via conical intersections of the 3:00PM Branching Process Models of Ovarian eigenvalues. (2466) Cancer Progression. Preliminary report. Ugo Boscain*, CMAP, Ecole Richard Durrett*, Math Dept. Duke Polytechnique, CNRS, and INRIA team U, Kaveh Danesh,DukeU.,Laura GECO, Mario Sigalotti,INRIAteam Havrilesky and Evan Myers,Ob/Gyn GECO, CMAP, Ecole Polytechnique, Duke Medical Center (1077-60-555) Paolo Mason, LSS-Supelec, CNRS, and 3:30PM Machine Learning Approaches for Francesca Chittaro, DIGITEO, CMAP, (2467) Genomic Medicine. Ecole Polytechnique (1077-81-1512) Jill P. Mesirov, Broad Institute of MIT and 4:00PM Weakly coupled bilinear quantum Harvard (1077-92-1697) (2459) systems. 4:00PM Noise Attenuation in Biological Systems. Thomas Chambrion, IECN, INRIA, Nancy (2468) Qing Nie, University of California, Irvine University (1077-93-37) (1077-92-335) 4:30PM Control by quantum dynamics on graphs. 4:30PM Darwin, Development and Dysplasia: (2460) Chris Godsil, University of Waterloo, and (2469) Signalling Games that Cells Play. Simone Severini*, University College Preliminary report. London (1077-05-1906) Bud Mishra, Courant Institute 5:00PM On efficiency of Hamiltonian–based (1077-92-1975) (2461) quantum computation for low–rank 5:00PM Theory and experiments in molecular matrices. (2470) systems biology. Zhenwei Cao*andAlexander Elgart, Eduardo Sontag,RutgersUniversity Virginia Tech (1077-81-2783) (1077-92-484) 5:30PM Discussion 5:30PM Siphons in Chemical Reaction Networks. (2471) Anne Shiu, University of Chicago, and Bernd Sturmfels*, UC Berkeley (1077-92-36)

AMS Special Session on Matrices and Graphs, II AMS Special Session on Mathematics and Statistics in Computational Biology 1:00 PM –5:50PM Berkeley, 3rd Floor, Marriott

1:00 PM –5:50PM Room 204, Hynes Organizers: Leslie Hogben, Iowa State University and American Organizer: Mark A. Kon,Boston Institute of Mathematics University Bryan L. Shader,University 1:00PM RNA folding prediction: the continued of Wyoming (2462) need for interaction between biologists 1:00PM Applications and limitations of the and mathematicians. (2472) normalized Laplacian matrix for graphs. Christine E Heitsch, School of Preliminary report. Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Steve Butler, Iowa State University Technology (1077-92-1452) (1077-05-2452)

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1:30PM Bipartiteness and the Signless Laplacian 1:30PM The Many Forms of the Matthews - (2473) Matrix of a Graph. (2483) Sumner Conjecture. Shaun M Fallat, University of Regina Ronald J. Gould,EmoryUniversity (1077-15-950) (1077-05-854) 2:00PM On the Extremal Energy of Integral 2:00PM Favorite Graph Conjectures. (2474) Weighted Graphs. (2484) Daniel J. Kleitman, M.I. T. (1077-05-953) Richard A Brualdi*, University of 2:30PM Chromatic symmetric functions of Wisconsin, Madison, Jia-yu Shao,Tongji (2485) certain graphs. University, Shanghai, Shi-Cai Gong, Richard P. Stanley, M.I.T. (1077-05-457) Chang-Qing Xu and Guang-Hui Xu, Zhejiang A & F University, Lin’An, 3:00PM ”Nature is tricky, but she is not nasty.” - Hangzhou (1077-15-493) (2486) Uncle Paul. Peter John Slater, University of Alabama 2:30PM Eventually r -cyclic matrices. in Huntsville (1077-05-514) (2475) Ulrica Wilson*, Morehouse College, and Leslie Hogben, Iowa State University 3:30PM Ringel and Kotzig after ﬁfty years. (1077-15-2574) (2487) Alexander Rosa, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (1077-05-923) 3:00PM Drazin and Group Inverses of Matrices (2476) with Bipartite Digraphs. 4:00PM The Binding Number of a Graph. Minerva Catral*, Xavier University, (2488) Wayne D. Goddard, Clemson University Cincinnati OH, Dale Olesky, Department (1077-05-869) of Computer Science, University of 4:30PM Graph Theory Problems Arising from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and (2489) Partially Ordered Sets. Pauline van den Driessche,Universityof William T. Trotter, Georgia Institute of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Technology (1077-05-1166) (1077-15-1048) 5:00PM Conjectures reaching from groups and 3:30PM Nilpotent and spectrally arbitrary matrix (2490) graphs to graphs and groups. (2477) patterns over C. Wilfried Imrich,MontanUniversityof Natalie Campbell, Kevin N. Vander Leoben, Austria (1077-05-1931) Meulen*, Redeemer University College, 5:30PM Some of My Unsolved Problems in Graph and Adam van Tuyl, Lakehead University (2491) Theory. Preliminary report. (1077-15-137) Nathaniel Dean, Texas State 4:00PM Partition Regular Matrices from a Linear University-San Marcos (1077-05-1937) (2478) Algebraic Perspective. Leslie Hogben, Iowa State University, and Jillian McLeod*, U.S. Coast Guard Academy (1077-15-2213) AMS Special Session on Noncommutative 4:30PM 2-Matching covered loopy graphs. (2479) Preliminary report. Birational Geometry and Cluster Algebras, III Adam H. Berliner*, St. Olaf College, and Richard A. Brualdi,Universityof 1:00 PM –5:40PM Dartmouth, 3rd Floor, Marriott Wisconsin - Madison (1077-05-1429) Organizers: Arkady Berenstein, 5:00PM Average mixing on graphs. Preliminary University of Oregon (2480) report. Vladimir Retakh,Rutgers Chris Godsil, University of Waterloo University (1077-05-737) 1:00PM Stasheff polytopes and the coordinate 5:30PM An open problem concerned with the (2492) ring of the cluster X-variety of type A . (2481) combinatorial structure of unitary n Linhui Shen,YaleUniversity matrices. (1077-14-1735) Simone Severini, University College London (1077-05-2642) 1:30PM Non-abelian quadratic Poisson brackets: (2493) From noncommutative ODE to noncommutative Algebraic Geometry and AMS Special Session on My Favorite Graph back. Preliminary report. Theory Conjectures, II Alexander V. Odesskii,BrockUniversity, Vladimir N. Rubtsov*, University of 1:00 PM –5:50PM Room 102, Hynes Angers, France, and Sokolov V. Vladimir, Landau Istitut of Theoretical Physics, Organizers: Ralucca Gera, Naval Russian Academy of Sciences,Moscow Postgraduate School (1077-16-1502) Craig Larson,Virginia 2:00PM Semi-invariants and the representation Commonwealth University (2494) type of Artin algebras. Preliminary report. 1:00PM Chvatal’s´ t0-tough conjecture. Calin Chindris, University of Missouri, (2482) Preliminary report. Piotr Dowbor,N.CopernicusUniversity, Linda M. Lesniak,Drew Torun, Poland, Ryan Kinser and Jerzy University/Western Michigan University Weyman*, Northeastern University (1077-05-417) (1077-16-2742)

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3:00PM Topological Hall algebras and Katherine C. Heller,North (2495) exponentials in categories. Preliminary Central College report. Matthew A. Pons,North Arkady Berenstein,Universityof Central College Oregon, Eugene, and Jacob Greenstein*, 1:00PM Invariant Subspaces for Composition University of California Riverside (2504) Operators. (1077-16-2733) Carl C. Cowen, I U P U I (1077-47-264) 4:00PM Noncommutative reflections. 2:00PM Restrictions to Invariant Subspaces of (2496) Yuri Bazlov*, University of Manchester, (2505) Composition Operators. Preliminary United Kingdom, and Arkady report. Berenstein, University of Oregon Derek Allen Thompson, Indiana (1077-20-2261) University-Purdue University Indianapolis 5:00PM Littlewood-Richardson coefficients for (1077-47-1097) (2497) reflection groups. 2:30PM Invertible weighted composition Edward Richmond*, University of British (2506) operators. Columbia, and Arkady Berenstein, University of Oregon (1077-16-2764) Paul S. Bourdon, Washington and Lee University (1077-47-779) 3:00PM On the Point Spectrum of the Adjoints of AMS Special Session on Nonlinear Analysis (2507) Some Composition Operators and of Partial Differential Equation Models in Weighted Composition Operators. Biology and Chemical Physics, II Maria Neophytou, Belmont University (1077-47-1746) 1:00 PM –3:50PM Room 300, Hynes 3:30PM Numerical Ranges of Some Cubic Organizers: Zhon1hai Ding,University (2508) Operators. Preliminary report. of Nevada, Las Vegas Linda J. Patton,CalPolySanLuisObispo (1077-47-1979) Zhaosheng Feng,University of Texas-Pan American 4:00PM Complex Symmetric Composition (2509) Operators. Preliminary report. 1:00PM Boundary Control of the Korteweg-de Christopher Hammond, Connecticut (2498) Vries Equation. College (1077-47-2318) Bingyu Zhang*andIvonne Rivas, University of Cincinnati (1077-93-631) 4:30PM Commutants of Composition Operators (2510) on the Hardy Hilbert Space. Preliminary 1:30PM On one dimensional nonlinear equations report. (2499) with negative exponents. James M Carter, IUPUI (1077-47-2228) Jingbo Dou, University of Oklahoma, and Xi’an University of Finance and 5:00PM Generalization of Schur’s test and its Economy, and Meijun Zhu*, University of (2511) application. Oklahoma (1077-35-1327) Ruhan Zhao, SUNY Brockport (1077-47-1497) 2:00PM Remarks on Computing the Williamson (2500) Normal Form. 5:30PM Algebraic and Operator-theoretic Viswanath Ramakrishna,Universityof (2512) properties of Hardy-Hilbert space PTOs. Texas at Dallas (1077-81-870) Mehdi Nikpour, The University of Toledo (1077-47-1159) 2:30PM Stripes Versus Spots in Reaction-Diffusion (2501) Systems: Comparison of Vegetative and Chemical Turing Pattern Formation. Bonni J Kealy*andDavid J AMS Special Session on Radon Transforms Wollkind, Washington State University and Geometric Analysis (in honor of (1077-92-431) Sigurdur Helgason’s 85th birthday), IV 3:00PM Approximation techniques for traveling (2502) waves of a single species delay diffusive 1:00 PM –5:50PM Room 104, Hynes model with age-structure and nonlocality. Preliminary report. Organizers: Jens Christensen, Majid Bani-Yaghoub,TexasA&M University of Maryland University (1077-41-1427) Fulton Gonzalez,Tufts University 3:30PM Lie symmetries to the parabolic system. (2503) Zhaosheng Feng,Universityof Todd Quinto,Tufts Texas-Pan American (1077-35-1713) University 1:00PM Decomposition of spaces of distributions (2513) using Garding˚ vectors. AMS Special Session on Operator Theory on Jens Gerlach Christensen,Tufts Analytic Function Spaces, II University (1077-43-1820)

1:00 PM –5:50PM Room 108, Hynes 1:30PM Penrose transforms between symmetric (2514) spaces. Preliminary report. Organizers: Robert F. Allen,University Hideko Sekiguchi,TheUniversityof of Wisconsin, La Crosse Tokyo (1077-22-2432)

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2:00PM Cusp forms for semisimple symmetric 4:00PM A remark on the entire solutions for a (2515) spaces. Preliminary report. (2526) class of elliptic system with linear Erik P. van den Ban, Utrecht University gradient terms. Preliminary report. (1077-22-1515) Jaffar Ali*andPeng Feng, Florida Gulf 3:00PM On multilinear generalized Radon Coast University (1077-35-2446) (2516) transforms. 4:30PM Advance of Advantageous Genes in a Allan Greenleaf, Alex Iosevich and (2527) Three-Allele Population Genetics Model. Eyvindur Ari Palsson*, University of Preliminary report. Rochester (1077-42-1441) Linlin Su*andRoger Lui, Worcester 3:30PM On the associated cycle of (g ,K)-modules Polytechnic Institute (1077-35-1996) ∗ (2517) for g R = sp (p, q) or so (2n). 5:00PM Abstract analytical bifurcation theory Leticia I Barchini, Oklahoma State (2528) and its applications. University (1077-22-1640) Ping Liu*, Harbin Normal University, 4:00PM Segal-Bargmann transforms: Old and Junping Shi, College of William and (2518) new. Preliminary report. Mary, and Yuwen Wang, Harbin Normal Bent Orsted, Aarhus University, University (1077-35-1084) Denmark (1077-22-1388) 5:30PM Three solutions theorem for p-Laplacian 5:00PM Cusp Forms on hyperbolic spaces. (2529) boundary value problems. (2519) Nils Byrial Andersen, Aarhus University, Chan-Gyun Kim, College of William and Denmark. (1077-44-1319) Mary (1077-34-1096) 5:30PM Discussion

AMS Special Session on Reaction Diffusion AMS Special Session on Recent Advances Equations and Applications, III in Mathematical Biology, Ecology, and Epidemiology, III 1:00 PM –5:50PM Wellesley, 3rd Floor, Marriott 1:00 PM –5:50PM Arlington, 3rd Floor, Marriott Organizers: Jerome Goddard II, Auburn University Montgomery Organizers: Sophia R. Jang,TexasTech Junping Shi, College of University William and Mary Andrew L. Nevai,University Ratnasingham Shivaji, of Central Florida University of North Carolina Lih-Ing W. Roeger,Texas Greensboro Tech University 1:00PM Multiple Solitary Wave Solutions of 1:00PM Efﬁcacy of infection control interventions (2520) Nonlinear Schrodinger¨ Systems. (2530) in reducing the spread of Rushun Tian*andZhi-Qiang Wang, multidrug-resistant organisms in the Utah State University (1077-35-1771) hospital. 1:30PM Effective Boundary Conditions Resulting Joanna R Wares*, University of (2521) from Anisotropic and Optimally Aligned RIchmond, Erika M. C. D’Agata,Harvard Coatings: the Two Dimensional Case. Medical School, Mary Ann Horn,NSF, Xinfu Chen, University of Pittsburgh, Shigui Ruan, University of Miami, and Cody Pond and Xuefeng Wang*, Tulane Glenn F Webb, Vanderbilt University University (1077-35-538) (1077-92-2079) 1:30PM Analysis of a Predator-Prey Model. 2:00PM R0 analysis of a spatiotemporal model for (2522) a stream population. Preliminary report. (2531) Ronald E. Mickens, Clark Atlanta Jon Jacobsen*, Harvey Mudd College, Yu University (1077-92-1551) Jin, Mark Lewis and Hannah McKenzie, 2:00PM Applications of Reaction Diffusion University of Alberta (1077-35-321) (2532) Systems Deﬁned on Evolving Surfaces. 2:30PM Steklov-Fucik Spectrum and Nonlinear Necibe Tuncer, University of Tulsa (2523) Elliptic Equations with Nonlinear (1077-92-773) Boundary Conditions. Preliminary report. 2:30PM Basic Stochastic Models for Viral Infection N. Mavinga*, Swarthmore College, M. N. (2533) Within a Host. Preliminary report. Nkashama, University of Alabama at Linda J.S. Allen and Sukhitha W Birmingham, and S. Robinson,Wake Vidurupola*, Texas Tech University, Forest University (1077-35-2245) Lubbock, Texas (1077-60-168) 3:00PM Upper and lower estimates for positive 3:00PM High dimensional semelparous Leslie (2524) solutions of the higher order Lidstone (2534) models. boundary value problem. Jim M. Cushing*, University of Arizona, Bo Yang, Kennesaw State University and Shandelle M. Henson,Andrews (1077-34-2227) University (1077-92-1912) 3:30PM On Radial Solutions of certain Nonlinear 3:30PM Analyzing Cholera Dynamics and (2525) Elliptic PDE’s. (2535) Controls. Preliminary report. Florin Catrina, St. John’s University Jin Wang, Old Dominion University (1077-35-502) (1077-92-88)

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4:00PM The community level effects of 3:30PM On some fusion subcategories of the (2536) phenotypic variation within a predator (2545) modular category of representations of a population. semisimple Drinfeld double. Sebastian Schreiber*, University of Sebastian Marius Burciu, Institute of California, Davis, Reinhard Burger¨ , Mathematics ”Simion Stoilow” of University of Vienna, and Dan Romanian Academy (1077-81-1550) Bolnick, University of Texas, Austin 4:00PM Congruence property and Galois (1077-92-2147) (2546) symmetry of modular categories. 4:30PM Stability and Stabilization for Chemostat Siu-Hung Ng, Iowa State University (2537) Models: A Survey. (1077-16-1787) Michael Malisoff, Louisiana State 4:30PM Conductors and Exponents. University (1077-92-145) (2547) Yorck Sommerhäuser,Universityof 5:00PM Initial exponential growth rates in South Alabama (1077-16-2707) (2538) compartmental models. 5:00PM A fibration controlling G-graded Fred Brauer, University of British (2548) extensions of fusion categories. Columbia (1077-92-1463) Preliminary report. 5:30PM The influence of a resource subsidy on Pinhas Grossman, Instituto Nacional de (2539) predator-prey interactions. Matematica Pura e Aplicada, David A Andrew Nevai*, Univesity of Central Jordan*, The University of Texas at Florida, and Robert Van Gorder, Austin, and Noah Snyder,Columbia University of Central Florida University (1077-18-1570) (1077-92-1466) 5:30PM Tensor categories and the classification (2549) of subfactors. Emily Peters, MIT (1077-18-2423)

AMS Special Session on Tensor Categories and Representation Theory, II MAA Invited Paper Session on Climate Change and Sustainability 1:00 PM –5:50PM Room 103, Hynes 1:00 PM –4:50PM Room 302, Hynes Organizers: Deepak Naidu,Northern Illinois University Organizers: Mary Lou Zeeman,Bowdoin College Dmitri Nikshych,University of New Hampshire Chris Danforth,University of Vermont 1:00PM Brauer characters and Frobenius-Schur (2540) indicators for bismash products. 1:00PM A Toy Climate Laboratory for Chaos and Preliminary report. (2550) Differential Equations. Andrea Jedwab and M. Susan Chris Danforth, Complex Systems Montgomery*, University of Southern Center, University of Vermont California (1077-16-576) (1077-AE-1780) 1:30PM Frobenius Schur indicators of Symmetric 1:30PM Teaching with ‘Weather in a Tank’. (2541) Tensor Categories and Doubles of (2551) John Marshall, Massachusetts Institute Groups. Preliminary report. of Technology (1077-AE-1777) Miodrag Cristian Iovanov*, University of 2:00PM A Model Hierarchy for Undergraduate Southern California and University of (2552) Education in Radiative and Convective Bucharest, Geoffrey Mason,Universityof Heat Transfer. California, Santa Cruz, and Susan Kerry A Emanuel, Massachusetts Montgomery,UniversityofSouthern Institute of Technology (1077-AE-1828) California (1077-20-1493) 2:30PM Exploring Sustainability in a 2:00PM Twisted Frobenius–Schur Indicators for (2553) Developmental-Level Mathematics (2542) Hopf Algebras. Course. Maria D. Vega*andDaniel S. Sage, Rikki B. Wagstrom, Metropolitan State Louisiana State University (1077-20-966) University (1077-AE-1867) 2:30PM Localization of Braid Group 3:00PM Sustainability in pre-calculus: leveraging (2543) Representations. (2554) biofuels data to write novel conceptual Eric C Rowell*, Texas A&M University, problems on function behavior and other Cesar Galindo, Universidad de los concepts. Andes, and Seung-Moon Hong, Guadalupe I. Lozano,TheUniversityof University of Toledo (1077-20-704) Arizona (1077-AE-2788) 3:00PM Classiﬁcation of braided near-group 3:30PM Environmental Mathematics in a First (2544) categories. (2555) Year Program. Preliminary report. Josiah E. Thornton, University of Oregon John B Little, College of the Holy Cross (1077-81-1634) (1077-AE-1825)

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4:00PM Mathematical Modeling and Public Policy 1:45PM Reﬂection diagrams and mixed-sign (2556) Decisions Aimed at Mitigating Climate (2561) Coxeter Systems. Preliminary report. Change. Johnathon Kyle Armstrong,Florida Frank Wattenberg, United States Military State University (1077-55-2958) Academy (1077-AE-1822) 2:00PM Homological stability properties of spaces 4:30PM Short Term (Non-Asymptotic) Linear (2562) C 2 (2557) Stability of Ecosystems: The Role of of rational J-holomorphic curves in P . Non-Self-Adjointness in Homogeneous Jeremy Kenneth Miller,Stanford and Heterogeneous Agricultural Systems. University (1077-55-1775) Gidon Eshel*, Bard College, Andrew Ma, 2:15PM Embedding, sectioning and compression Univ. of Wisconsin, and Olivia Romeo, (2563) of thickenings. Bates College (1077-AE-703) Mokhtar Aouina, Jackson State University (1077-55-2294)

MAA Minicourse #2: Part B 2:30PM The Anodyne Theorem in Model Category (2564) Theory. 1:00 PM –3:00PM Salon AB, 4th Floor, Marriott David T Oury, Saint Louis University A dynamical systems approach to the (1077-55-2376) differential equations course. 2:45PM Applications of computational homology Presenters: Paul Blanchard,Boston (2565) and cohomology theory. Preliminary University report. Robert Devaney,Boston Pawel Dlotko, Institute of Computer University Science, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland (1077-55-2362)

MAA Minicourse #10: Part B 3:00PM Break.

1:00 PM –3:00PM Salon HI, 4th Floor, Marriott 3:15PM Structured Orientations of Thom Spectra. (2566) Greg Chadwick, Indiana University Geometry and art: A liberal arts (1077-55-416) mathematics course. Presenter: Anneke Bart, Saint Louis 3:30PM An Algebraic Proof of the Equivalence of University (2567) Two Quantum 3-Manifold Invariants: The Hennings Invariant and the Kuperberg Invariant. MAA Minicourse #9: Part B Matt Sequin, The Ohio State University (1077-55-2594) 1:00 PM –3:00PM Salon CD, 4th Floor, Marriott 3:45PM Generalizing Penner’s Asymptotics For Reading original sources in Latin for the (2568) Minimal Dilatation Pseudo-Anosov historian and mathematician. Mapping Classes. Organizers: Amy Shell-Gellasch,Beloit Aaron David Valdivia,FloridaState College University (1077-55-1412)

Dominic Klyve,Central 4:00PM The Milnor ﬁber associated to Washington University (2569) parallel connections of hyperplane Presenters: Kim Plofker, Union College arrangements. Preliminary report. Stacy Langton,Universityof Kristopher Williams, Doane College San Diego (1077-55-1321)

4:15PM Proof of Edwards-Walsh resolution AMS Session on Algebraic Topology (2570) theorem without Edwards-Walsh complexes. 1:00 PM –5:10PM Room 303, Hynes Vera Tonic, Nipissing University, North Bay, ON, Canada (1077-55-675) 1:00PM Some relations in the cohomology of (2558) classifying spaces of manifold bundles. 4:30PM On Kawauchi’s 4-moves Question. Ilya Grigoriev, Stanford University (2571) Noureen Khan, Unversity of North Texas (1077-55-2916) at Dallas (1077-55-313) 1:15PM Homotopy Kac-Moody groups and inﬁnite 4:45PM The homotopy limit problem in stable (2559) pseudoreﬂection groups. Preliminary (2572) representation theory. report. Daniel A. Ramras,NewMexicoState John D. Foley,Universityof University (1077-55-215) Califorina-San Diego (1077-55-2649) 1:30PM What is the algebraic structure of 5:00PM A new algorithm for the Multivariable (2560) topological manifolds? Preliminary report. (2573) Alexander Polynomial of a Link. Nathaniel Rounds, Indiana University K. Grace Kennedy,Universityof (1077-55-2465) California, Santa Barbara (1077-54-1433)

185 Program of the Sessions – Boston, MA, Saturday, January 7 (cont’d.)

AMS Session on Classical and Abstract 4:30PM Global SL(2,R) representations of Harmonic Analysis: Topological and Lie (2587) the Schrodinger equation with Groups time-dependent potentials. Preliminary report. 1:00 PM –4:40PM Room 105, Hynes Jose A Franco, Baylor University (1077-22-1220) 1:00PM Some characterizations of local bmo and (2574) h1 on metric measure spaces. Galia Dafni, Concordia University, Canada, and Hong Yue*, Trine University, USA (1077-42-2086) AMS Session on Combinatorics and Graph 1:15PM Finite Biorthogonal Transforms and Theory, VIII (2575) Multiresolution Analyses on Intervals. Preliminary report. 1:00 PM –5:40PM Room 111, Hynes David Ferrone, University of Connecticut (1077-42-1727) 1:00PM Total embedding distributions for some (2588) types of graphs. Preliminary report. 1:30PM On the WAT conjecture on the Torus. (2576) Faruk F. Abi-Khuzam,American Chen Yichao, Hunan University University of Beirut (1077-42-1308) (1077-05-594) PM 1:45PM Some Weak Convergence Theorems on 1:15 Generating All de Bruijn Sequences Using (2577) Topological Semihypergroups. (2589) Preference Functions of Different Spans. Norbert N Youmbi, Saint Francis Preliminary report. University (1077-43-2331) Abbas Mahdi Alhakim,American University of Beirut (1077-05-1851) 2:00PM Multitemporal Wave Equations on (2578) Symmetric Spaces: Mean Value Solutions. 1:30PM Minor monotone floor and ceiling of Preliminary report. (2590) certain graph parameters. Preliminary Fulton Gonzalez, Tufts University report. (1077-43-2549) Thomas Milligan*, University of Central Oklahoma, and Xander Rudelis, 2:15PM Existence of p-Flows in Zn and T . d University of Central Oklahoma / (2579) Lucio M-G Prado, BMCC-The City California Institute of Technology University of New York (1077-31-2160) (1077-05-1926) 2:30PM Structure of shift-invariant subspaces for 1:45PM Performance of covert networks. (2580) the Heisenberg group. Preliminary report. (2591) (Preliminary report). Preliminary report. Azita Mayeli, Queensborough College, , University of Louisville City University of New York (CUNY) Chris Caragianis (1077-05-752) (1077-43-1236) 2:00PM The Metamorphosis of Maximum 2:45PM Break. (2592) Packings of 2Kn with Triples into 3:00PM Explicit Construction of Normalized Tight Maximum Packings of 2Kn with 4-cycles. (2581) Frames and Wavelets for a Class of 2-step P. J. Couch, Auburn University Nilpotent Lie Groups. Preliminary report. (1077-05-725) Vignon S Oussa, Saint Louis University (1077-43-693) 2:15PM Hamiltonian Cycles and Symmetric Chain (2593) Partitions of Boolean Lattices. 3:15PM On the Fourier inversion formula for . SL3 Noah Streib, Georgia Institute of (2582) Preliminary report. Technology (1077-05-694) Keith Ouellette,UCLAExtension (1077-22-2489) 2:30PM Symmetric subgroup orbit closures on (2594) the flag variety, Richardson varieties, 3:30PM Convergence of Aluthge Iteration in and Schubert structure constants for (2583) Semisimple Lie Groups. Preliminary (p,q)-pairs. report. Benjamin J. Wyser, University of Georgia Mary Clair Thompson*andT.Y. Tam, (1077-05-686) Auburn University (1077-22-840) 2:45PM On tree rotations and common parse 3:45PM On representations and L-functions (2584) for the classical groups in positive (2595) words. characteristic. Preliminary report. Rik Sengupta, Princeton University (1077-05-682) Luis Alberto Lomelí, Purdue University (1077-22-135) 3:00PM Central sets and C-sets – similarities and (2596) differences. Preliminary report. 4:00PM Self-dual representations with vectors (2585) fixed under an Iwahori subgroup. Neil Hindman,HowardUniversity Preliminary report. (1077-05-663) Kumar Balasubramanian,Universityof 3:15PM Break. Oklahoma (1077-22-1600) 3:30PM Acyclic List Edge Coloring of Planar 4:15PM Gradient Flows for the Minimum Distance (2597) Graphs. (2586) to the Sum of Adjoint Orbits. Hsin-Hao Lai*, National Kaohsiung Xuhua Liu*andTin-Yau Tam, Auburn Normal University, and Ko-Wei Lih, University (1077-22-568) Academia Sinica (1077-05-519)

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3:45PM Quantum codes from ﬁnite geometry 1:15PM Ambiguous shifts: symbolic dynamics (2598) designs. (2607) from open covers. David C Clark*andVladimir D David Richeson, Dickinson College, and Tonchev, Michigan Technological Jim Wiseman*, Agnes Scott College University (1077-05-482) (1077-37-2518)

4:00PM Nim on wheel graphs. Preliminary report. 1:30PM Kleinian Limit Sets in Hilbert Space. (2599) Risto Atanasov, Mark Budden,Western (2608) Tushar Das,UniversityofNorthTexas Carolina University, Joseph DiNatale, (UNT) (1077-37-2302) Armstrong Atlantic State University, Lindsay Erickson, North Dakota State 1:45PM Gibbs states for non-irreducible University, Robert Fenney, William (2609) countable Markov shifts. Preliminary Nathan Hack, Maxwell Hostetter*, report. Joshua Lambert, Armstrong Atlantic Eugen Andrei Ghenciu*, East Central State University, and Warren Shreve, University, and Mario Roy,York North Dakota State University University (1077-37-2029) (1077-05-445) 2:00PM Uncovering the Lagrangian from 4:15PM Automorphisms of Random Trees. (2610) observations of trajectories. Preliminary (2600) Preliminary report. report. Eric Schmutz and Le Yu*, Drexel Yakov I Berchenko-Kogan, University (1077-05-483) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1077-37-2183) 4:30PM Distinguishing Chromatic Numbers of (2601) Planar Maps. 2:15PM Speedups of ergodic Zd actions. Jeffrey Manning, California Institute of (2611) Aimee S.A. Johnson and David M. Technology (1077-05-387) McClendon*, Swarthmore College 4:45PM An oriented hypergraphic approach to (1077-37-2936) (2602) algebraic graph theory. 2:30PM Perturbations in the Quadratic Family Lucas J Rusnak*, Texas State University, (2612) with Multiple Poles. and Nathan Reff, Binghamton University Elizabeth D Russell, US Military (1077-05-491) Academy (West Point) (1077-37-1964) 5:00PM On the strong chromatic index of cubic 2:45PM Break. (2603) Halin graphs. Ko-Wei Lih*, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 3:00PM A Mathematical Model of the Unfolded and Daphne Der-Fen Liu, California State (2613) Protein Response to Stress in the University, Los Angeles (1077-05-209) Endoplasmic Reticulum of Mammalian 5:15PM On Minimun Excluded Type Algorithm, Cells. (2604) Golden Ratio, Beatty and Sturmian Danilo Diedrichs,UniversityofIowa Sequences. (1077-37-2010) Geremias Polanco Encarnacion, 3:15PM Predicting Catastrophes In Dynamical University of Illinois at (2614) Systems Using Machine Learning. Urbana-Champaign (1077-05-208) Jesse Berwald*, College of William and 5:30PM Geometric triangulation of interior Mary, Tomas Gedeon and John (2605) polytope number sequences. Preliminary Sheppard, Montana State University report. (1077-37-1905) Michael A Jackson, Grove City College 3:30PM Dynamics of random selfmaps of (1077-05-70) (2615) surfaces with boundary and graphs. P. Christopher Staecker,Fairﬁeld University (1077-37-1598)

3:45PM Global Asymptotic Stability in a Model of AMS Session on Dynamic Systems and (2616) Biological Networks. Ergodic Theory Hassan M Fathallah-Shaykh*and Abraham Freiji,TheUniversityof 1:00 PM –4:40PM Republic Ballroom Alabama at Birmingham (1077-37-1549) A, 2nd Floor, Sheraton 4:00PM Reinventing the Wheel: The Chaotic (2617) Sandwheel. Preliminary report. 1:00PM A dynamical systems analysis of afferent Anthony Tongen*, Roger J. Thelwell, (2606) control in a neuromechanical model of James Madison University, and David locomotion. Becerra-Alonso,ETEA-Universityof Lucy E. Spardy*, University of Pittsburgh, Cordoba (1077-37-2527) Sergey N. Markin, Natalia A. Shevtsova, Drexel University College of Medicine, 4:15PM Limit Cycles, Bistability, and Global Boris I. Prilutsky, Georgia Institute of (2618) Stability by Two-Element Negative Loops Technology, Ilya A. Rybak,Drexel in Biological Networks,. University College of Medicine, and Abraham Freiji*andHassan M Jonathan E. Rubin,Universityof Fathallah-Shaykh,TheUniversityof Pittsburgh (1077-37-2905) Alabama at Birmingham (1077-37-1545)

187 Program of the Sessions – Boston, MA, Saturday, January 7 (cont’d.)

4:30PM On μ-Compatible Metrics and Measurable 3:45PM p-operator spaces and approximation (2619) Sensitivity. (2630) properties. Ilya Grigoriev, Catalin C˘at˘alin Lubin, Guimei An, Nankai University, Jung-Jin Stanford University, Amos Lubin, Lee*, Mount Holyoke College, and University of California, Berkeley, Zhong-Jin Ruan, University of Illinois at Nathaniel Ince, Boston, MA, and Cesar E. Urbana-Champaign (1077-46-1743) Silva*, Williams College (1077-37-2417) 4:00PM E-theory for Continuous Fields of C* (2631) algebras. Preliminary report. Prahlad Vaidyanathan,Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (1077-46-2092)

AMS Session on Functional Analysis and AMS Session on Number Theory, Field Operator Theory, III Theory, and Polynomials, IV

1:00 PM –4:10PM Room 208, Hynes 1:00 PM –4:55PM Room 305, Hynes

1:00PM Cyclicity of vectors inducing an orbit with 1:00PM Generalizations of V.I. Arnold’s version of (2620) a non-zero limit point. (2632) Euler’s Theorem for matrices. Irina Seceleanu, Bridgewater State Bogdan Petrenko*, SUNY Brockport, and University (1077-47-393) Marcin Mazur, Binghamton University 1:15PM Similarity of Operators in the Bergman (1077-11-1453) (2621) Space Setting. 1:15PM On the behaviour of the Liouville function Hyun Kwon*, Seoul National University, (2633) on polynomials with integer coefﬁcients. Ronald Douglas, Texas A & M University, Himadri Ganguli,SimonFraser and Sergei Treil,BrownUniversity University (1077-11-131) (1077-47-2356) 1:30PM A New Approach to Multiplicative 1:30PM Algebraic Elements and Invariant (2634) Arithmetic Function NumberTheory (2622) Subspaces. Through Isobaric Polynomials. Yun-Su Kim, Toledo, OH (1077-47-2234) Huilan Li, Drexel University, and Trueman MacHenry*, York University 1:45PM On Random Fields and Their Wavelet (1077-11-458) (2623) Transforms. George K. Yang, Tennessee State 1:45PM A Note on the Three-pile problem. University (1077-44-1933) (2635) Preliminary report. Roy O. Quintero, Universidad de Los 2:00PM Compact Weighted Composition Andes (1077-11-454) (2624) Operators on Bergman Spaces. Waleed K. Al-Rawashdeh,Montana 2:00PM Bounds for dimensions of degree 2 Tech of The university of Montana (2636) newforms. Preliminary report. (1077-47-1648) Jeffery Breeding, Saint Louis University (1077-11-2635) 2:15PM The many faces of linear chaos. 2:15PM Recovering the sequence of (2625) Preliminary report. (2637) approximation coefﬁcients from a pair of Gabriel T Prajitura, SUNY Brockport successive pairs. (1077-47-1434) Avraham Bourla, Trinity College 2:30PM Convergence of the spherical averages (1077-11-1915) (2626) for Markov semigroups on operator 2:30PM On the number of positive integers not algebras. (2638) representable by a linear form in three Genady Ya. Grabarnik*, St Johns variables. University, and Alexander A. Katz,St. Amitabha Tripathi, Indian Institute of John’s University (1077-46-2260) Technology Delhi (1077-11-140) 2:45PM Break. 2:45PM Some identities involving Bernoulli and 3:00PM Feynman’s Operational Calculi: Using (2639) Euler numbers. (2627) Cauchy’s Integral Formula. Dae San Kim,SogangUniversity Lance Nielsen, Creighton University (1077-11-2298) (1077-44-1773) 3:00PM Break. 3:15PM Rank one unitary perturbations via the 3:15PM A note on Artin’s primitive root (2628) theory of dilations. (2640) conjecture. Constanze Liaw*andRonald G. Maosheng Xiong, Hong Kong University Douglas,TexasA&MUniversity of Science and Technology (1077-11-472) (1077-47-495) 3:30PM Generalizing Kovacic’s algorithm to 3:30PM Equations involving pseudomonotone (2641) second order homogeneous linear (2629) mappings with respect to two Banach differential equations with parameters. spaces. Preliminary report. Dan D. Pascali, Courant Institute, New Carlos E Arreche,CUNY-Graduate York University (1077-47-436) Center (1077-12-2676)

188 Boston,MA,Saturday,January7– Program of the Sessions

3:45PM A Class of Multidimensional 2:30PM Varying Iteration Accuracy Using Inexact (2642) Repeated-root Cyclic Codes. (2653) Conjugate Gradients in Control Problems Edgar Martìnez-Moro,Universidadde governed by PDE’s. Valladolid, Soria, Spain, Hakan Ozadam¨ , Xiuhong Du*, Alfred University, and Ohio University, Ferruh Ozbudak¨ , Daniel B Szyld,TempleUniversity Universiteler Mah. Dumlupinar, Ankara, (1077-65-2038) Turkey, and Steve Szabo*, Eastern 2:45PM On the Numerical Solution of One Kentucky University (1077-12-1073) (2654) Nonlinear Parabolic Equation. 4:00PM Linear Algebraic Groups as Paramterized Mikheil Tutberidze, Ilia State University (2643) Picard-Vessiot Galois Groups. (1077-65-480) Michael F. Singer, North Carolina State 3:00PM Break. University (1077-12-833) 3:15PM Time-splitting scheme for nonhydrostatic 4:15PM Relations between class numbers of (2655) atmospheric model. (2644) binary cubic forms with different Andrei Bourchtein*andLudmila splitting types over a place in an Bourchtein, Pelotas State University, imaginary quadratic field. Brazil (1077-65-1814) Jorge Dioses, Oklahoma State University 3:30PM Matrix Multiplication Approximation (1077-11-2923) (2656) Using Orthogonalized Outer Products. 4:30PM Number of solutions in nonnegative Preliminary report. (2645) integers x and y to the generalized Pillai Daniel Peach*, Bates College, Ilse Ipsen, x y equation ±ra ± sb = c. Preliminary Thomas Wentworth, North Carolina report. State University, and Colin Gray, Robert A Styer, Villanova University University of Evansville (1077-65-2124) (1077-11-1786) 3:45PM Robust rational interpolation and 4:45PM Measuring Security. (2657) least-squares. (2646) Daniel C Smith, National Institute of Lloyd N. Trefethen,OxfordUniversity Standards and Technology (1077-12-289) Mathematical Institute (1077-65-2441) 4:00PM Spectral Methods For The Nonlinear (2658) Hamiltonian Systems. Nairat Kanyamee, Silpakorn University (1077-65-2595) AMS Session on Numerical Analysis, II 4:15PM A mixed finite element method for (2659) Helmholtz transmission eigenvalues. 1:00 PM –4:55PM Room 209, Hynes Tiara D. Turner*, Jiguang Sun, Delaware State University, and Xia Ji, Chinese 1:00PM A nonoverlapping domain decomposition (2647) preconditioner for a symmetric interior Academy of Science (1077-65-1112) penalty Galerkin method. 4:30PM Immersed Finite Element Spaces with an Susanne C. Brenner, Eun-Hee Park*and (2660) Interior Penalty Method For Elliptic Li-yeng Sung, Louisiana State University Interface Problems. (1077-65-1029) Mohamed Ben Romdhane*, Slimane Adjerid and Tao Lin, Virginia Polytechnic 1:15PM Solution of Time-Dependent PDE Through Institute and State University (2648) Component-Wise Approximation of (1077-65-1210) Matrix Functions. Preliminary report. James V Lambers,Universityof 4:45PM An analytic function without radial Southern Mississippi (1077-65-956) (2661) boundary values. J. Marshall Ash,DePaulUniversity 1:30PM A Projective Method for Numerical (1077-30-1942) (2649) Solution of Differential Equations. Oksana Bihun, Concordia College (1077-65-996) 1:45PM Bi-direction Projected PDHG based (2650) Multi-phase Soft Segmentation. AMS Session on Undergraduate Research, VI Fuhua Chen*, Yunmei Chen,University of Florida, and Xiaojing ye,Universityof 1:00 PM –3:55PM Room 308, Hynes Geogia Technology (1077-65-432) 1:00PM Metapopulation Modeling and Analysis 2:00PM A Field Expansions Method for Acoustic (2662) with Demographic Stochasticity. (2651) Scattering by a Doubly Crossed Preliminary report. Multilayered Media. Eric Eager, University of Nebraska, David P. Nicholls and Jun Niu*, Lincoln, Mary Hebert,Northwestern University of Illinois at Chicago State University, Elise Hellwig*, Colorado (1077-65-17) College, Francisco Hernandez-Cruz, 2:15PM A Preconditioned LSQR Algorithm. Occidental College, Richard Rebarber, (2652) James Baglama and Daniel Brigitte Tenhumberg,Universityof Richmond*, University of Rhode Island Nebraska, Lincoln, and Bryan Wigianto, (1077-65-1355) Rice University (1077-92-1995)

189 Program of the Sessions – Boston, MA, Saturday, January 7 (cont’d.)

1:15PM Finger Motion Modeling for Bionic MAA Session on Innovations in Teaching (2663) Fingers. Preliminary report. Statistics in the New Decade, II Myrielle N Allen-Prince*, Bennett College, and Jay Walton,TexasA&M 1:00 PM –4:55PM Back Bay Ballroom University (1077-92-1324) C, 2nd Floor, Sheraton

1:30PM A Reservoir Model of Chagas Disease. Organizers: Andrew Ziefﬂer,University (2664) Sara Anne Krueger*, Bethany Lutheran of Minnesota College, May Boggess and Jay Walton, Brian Gill, Seattle Paciﬁc Texas A&M University (1077-92-362) University Nancy Boynton,SUNY 1:45PM Eradicating Invasive Species through Sex Fredonia (2665) Reversal. Preliminary report. 1:00PM Introducing Statistical Inference using Katie Storey*, Carleton College, May (2673) Randomization Methods. Preliminary Boggess and Jay Walton,TexasA&M report. University (1077-92-356) Todd Swanson*andJill VanderStoep, Hope College (1077-E5-2338) 2:00PM An Analysis of the Coexistence of Three (2666) Competing Species with a Shared 1:20PM From Tactile to Computer Simulation: An Pathogen. (2674) Intermediate Activity to Increase Vrushali A. Bokil and Margaret-Rose W. Understanding of Sampling Distributions. Leung*, Oregon State University Preliminary report. (1077-92-1758) Sean D Simpson*, Westchester Community College, Stacey Hancock, Clark University, Jennifer Noll,Portland 2:15PM Periodic Rigidity of Protein Crystal State University, and Aaron Weinberg, (2667) Structures. Preliminary report. Ithaca College (1077-E5-2468) Samantha Monastra*, Pamela Clark, Jessica Grant and Ileana Streinu,Smith 1:40PM Using Alternative Forced Choice Models College (1077-92-1946) (2675) to Introduce the Concepts of Statistical Inference. 2:30PM Break. Christopher John Malone*, Tisha Hooks and April Kerby, Winona State University (1077-E5-2007) 2:45PM 3D Numerical Simulation of Microscopic (2668) Flagellar Movement With Prescribed 2:00PM Engaging Students in Reasoning About Motion at Low Reynolds Number. (2676) the Logic of Hypothesis Testing. Olga Stulov*, State University of New Christina Erbacher*andHollylynne York at New Paltz, and Xingzhou Stohl Lee, North Carolina State University Yang, Mississippi State University (1077-E5-1353) (1077-92-1890) 2:20PM Engaging Adult Learners in the (2677) Application of Statistical Processes to 3:00PM How does the effort a mother bird Solve Real World Problems. (2669) expends on her offspring depend on the Michael D. Miner, American Public attractiveness of her mate? Preliminary University (1077-E5-2567) report. 2:40PM Teaching by the Test. Tucker Gilman, Tony Jhwueng,National (2678) John D. McKenzie, Babson College Institute of Mathematical and Biological (1077-E5-2763) Synthesis (NIMBioS), Dana Botesteanu*, 3:00PM Statistics and the (Post-) Millennial Mount Holyoke College, Frances Goglio, (2679) Student. University of Wisconsin at Madison, and Patricia B Humphrey, Georgia Southern Yicong Yong, University of Florida University (1077-E5-2317) (1077-92-196) 3:20PM New Trends in Teaching an Introductory 3:15PM Topological Obstructions to Consensus (2680) Biostatistics Course. (2670) on SO(3). Magdalena Luca, Massachusetts College Eric B Auld, Arizona State University of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (1077-93-2922) (1077-E5-2074) 3:40PM Teaching an effective multi-section 3:30PM An Extension of the Fundamental (2681) elementary statistics course. Preliminary (2671) Theorem of Calculus. Preliminary report. report. Zengxiang Tong*andZhen Huang, Katarzyna Kowal, Ramapo College of Otterbein University (1077-97-1080) New Jersey (1077-E5-1234) 4:00PM Introducing Sampling Distributions and 3:45PM Teacher Change in the Context of (2682) Hypothesis Testing using Hands-On (2672) a Proof-Centered Professional Simulations and Student Response Development. Technology. Osvaldo Daniel Soto,Universityof Chris Oehrlein,OklahomaCity California at San Diego (1077-97-2781) Community College (1077-E5-2429)

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4:20PM Teaching Statistical Literacy Entirely 4:20PM A new kind of online homework: Flash (2683) Online: 2011. Preliminary report. (2695) enabled WeBWorK homework problems. Milo Schield, Statistical Literacy Project Barbara Margolius*, Cleveland State (1077-E5-2503) University, Daniel Gries,Hopkins 4:40PM A Statistical Odyssey: Modernizing the School, L Felipe Martins and Yuping (2684) Discussion Board to Enhance Student Wu, Cleveland State University Engagement. Preliminary report. (1077-O5-2498) Kimberly J Presser, Shippensburg 4:40PM Distributome–An Interactive Web-based University (1077-E5-1341) (2696) Resource for Probability Distributions. Preliminary report. Kyle Siegrist*, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Ivo Dinov,Universityof MAA Session on Trends in Teaching California, Los Angeles, and Dennis Mathematics Online, II Pearl, The Ohio State University (1077-O5-2544) 1:00 PM –5:55PM Room 311, Hynes 5:00PM The Instructor’s Perspective: How to Make (2697) Learning Mathematics an Interactive Organizer: Michael B. Scott, California Experience in an Online Environment. State University, Monterey Aimee J Ellington,Virginia Bay Commonwealth University 1:00PM WIRIS collection, a repository (1077-O5-2472) (2685) of ready-made online exercises for 5:20PM Teaching Python In One Browser Window. self-assessment. (2698) Graeme Kemkes, Ryerson University, Carles Aguilo*andRamon Eixarch, and David Pritchard*, University of WIRIS team at Maths for More Waterloo (1077-O5-2391) (1077-O5-201) 5:40PM Teaching an Online Sophomore-Level 1:20PM Using SmartPens to Facilitate Math (2699) Differential Equations Course. (2686) Communication Online. Preliminary report. Katrina M Palmer, Appalachian State William M. Kinney, Bethel University University (1077-O5-210) (1077-O5-2333) 1:40PM Increasing interaction in online courses. (2687) Revathi Narasimhan,KeanUniversity (1077-O5-404) 2:00PM Providing Intelligent Step-by-Step Help in (2688) Solving Practice Problems Online. Preliminary report. MAA Session on the Mathematical John C. Miller, The City College of Preparation of Teachers: The Impact of the C.U.N.Y. (1077-O5-396) Common Core State Standards Initiative, II 2:20PM Connecting Students with Mathematics: (2689) The Power of Combining ALEKS and 1:00 PM –2:35PM Room 310, Hynes Wimba. Cheryll E Crowe, Eastern Kentucky Organizers: Kenneth C. Millett, University (1077-O5-577) University of California, Santa Barbara 2:40PM Gluing together Blackboard, Facebook, (2690) and Twitter. Elizabeth Burroughs, Matthew Leingang, New York University Montana State University (1077-O5-841) Holly Peters Hirst, 3:00PM Improving Pedagogy Through Adaptive Appalachian State University (2691) Problem Selection in Online Tutors. William McCallum,The Douglas B. Meade*, University of South University of Arizona Carolina, and Philip B. Yasskin,Texas 1:00PM Designing Professional Development A&M University (1077-O5-1158) (2700) around the CCSS Standards 3:20PM “Elluminate-ing” Online Course Meetings. for Mathematical Practice: A (2692) Sarah L Mabrouk, Framingham State Mathematician-Teacher Collaboration. University (1077-O5-2912) Juliana V. Belding,HarvardUniversity 3:40PM Designing, Developing and Assessing an (1077-F5-2746) (2693) Online Mathematics Course. Preliminary 1:20PM The Standards for Mathematical report. (2701) Practice: Principles Guiding Pre-service Ahlam E.H Tannouri, Morgan State Preparation and In-service Professional University (1077-O5-2887) Development. Preliminary report. 4:00PM HighTouchtoHighTech:Distance Bernadette Mullins*, (2694) Learning in a Small Liberal Arts College. Birmingham-Southern College, Faye Ellen Cunningham,Saint Clark, Ann Dominick and Sherry Mary-of-the-Woods College Parrish, University of Alabama at (1077-O5-2536) Birmingham (1077-F5-2581)

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1:40PM Integrating content, pedagogy, and 4:30PM Coherent Interferometry Algorithms for (2702) cognitive coaching: a professional (2712) Photoacoustic Imaging. development model. Preliminary report. Vincent Jugnon*, Massachusetts Insitute Barbara Henriques and Ekaterina of Technology, Habib Ammari, Josselin Lioutikova*, Saint Joseph College (CT) Garnier, Ecole Normale Superieure Paris, (1077-F5-1533) and Elie Bretin, Ecole Polytechnique 2:00PM Professional Development for Grades K-8 (1077-35-1850) (2703) Mathematics Coaches. 5:00PM A Computational Method for Measure Elizabeth A. Burroughs,MontanaState (2713) Matching Using Metamorphosis. University (1077-F5-1012) Casey L Richardson*, Center for 2:20PM Early Implementation of CCSS via Imaging Science, Johns Hopkins (2704) Standards for Mathematical Practice. University, and Laurent Younes, Johns Davida D Fischman, CSU San Bernardino Hopkins University (1077-49-2477) (1077-F5-795) 5:30PM Conductivity imaging from one interior (2714) measurement in the presence of perfectly conducting and insulating inclusions. Amir Moradifam*, Adrian Nachman, SIAM Minisymposium on Variational and PDE University of Toronto, and Alexandru Methods in Imaging Science Tamasan, University of Central Florida (1077-35-1895) 1:00 PM –5:55PM Room 206, Hynes Organizers: Otmar Scherzer,University of Vienna Alexandru Tamasan, University of Central Florida Luminita Vese,Universityof SIGMAA on Math Circles for Students and Californina Los Angeles Teachers Poster and Activity Sessions 1:00PM Consistency Conditions for Cone-Beam CT (2705) Data Acquired with a Linear Source 1:00 PM –4:00PM Salon E, 4th Floor, Marriott Trajectory. Margo S Levine*, Harvard University, Presentations on the Circle activities School of Engineering and Applied listed below will be given at the indicated Sciences, Emil Y Sidky and Xiaochuan times; complete programs will be Pan, Department of Radiology, The available in the session room. University of Chicago (1077-35-2558) Organizers: Philip B. Yasskin,Texas 1:30PM Thermoacoustic and Photoacoustic A&M University (2706) Tomography with a variable continuous James Tanton,St.Mark’s or discontinuous sound speed. School Plamen Stefanov, Purdue University (1077-35-1240) Tatiana Shubin,SanJose State University 2:00PM Characterization of Sobolev and BV (2707) spaces. Sam Vandervelde,St. Giovanni Leoni, Carnegie Mellon Lawrence University University, and Daniel Spector*, 1:00PM Rolling Dice; Slide Rules Rule; Tiling Zhejiang University (1077-46-1815) Torment; Six Choose Three. 2:30PM Reconstruction Formulas for 1:30PM Math Education Perspective on Math (2708) Photoacoustic Sectional Imaging. Circles; Drawing Pictures: How Projective Peter Elbau, Johann Radon Institute for Geometry Was Discovered; Symmetries of Computational and Applied Mathematics the Trihexaﬂexagon; Making Change for (RICAM) (1077-35-2146) a Dollar. 3:00PM Regularization of Optical Methods for 2:00PM Math Education Perspective on Math (2709) Computing Flow Dynamics. Preliminary Circles; Excel vs. Fibonacci; Slide Rules report. Rule; 3x3 Magic Squares. Aaron Luttman*, Erik Bollt, Ranil Basnayake and Sean Kramer,Clarkson 2:30PM Rolling Dice; Peering Through Tubes; University (1077-49-2055) Symmetries of the Trihexaﬂexagon; The Handshake Problem. 3:30PM Acousto-Optic Tomography and Related (2710) Inverse Problems. 3:00PM Excel vs. Fibonacci; Tiling Torment; The John C. Schotland,Universityof Handshake Problem; Making Change for Michigan (1077-78-1311) a Dollar. 4:00PM Multiobjective Optimization Methods for 3:30PM Peering Through Tubes; Drawing (2711) Shape-Based Joint Inversion. Pictures: How Projective Geometry Was Alireza Aghasi*andEric Miller,Tufts Discovered; 3x3 Magic Squares; Six University (1077-35-2380) Choose Three.

192 Boston,MA,Saturday,January7– Program of the Sessions

AWM Workshop Panel Discussion 3:45PM On the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of (2724) the adjacency matrices of the complete 1:00 PM –2:15PM Room 306, Hynes graphs and complete bipartite graphs. Preliminary report. Career options: Industry, government, Nasser Dastrange, Buena Vista and academia University (1077-15-1076) Moderator: Alissa Crans, Loyola 4:00PM Lower Bounds for Minimum Semi-definite Marymount University (2725) Rank from Orthogonal Removal and Panelists: Jennifer Chayes,Microsoft Chordal Supergraphs. Research Sivaram K. Narayan, Central Michigan Melissa Choi, University (1077-15-100) Massachusetts Institute 4:15PM Lehmer’s conjecture for Hermitian of Technology Lincoln (2726) matrices over the Eisenstein and Laboratory Gaussian integers. Preliminary report. Navah Langmeyer,National Gary Greaves, Royal Holloway, University Security Agency of London., and Graeme Taylor*, University of Bristol (1077-15-66) Peter March,TheOhioState University 4:30PM Dense 2-generator subsemigroups of (2727) 2 × 2 matrices. Mohammad Javaheri, Siena College (1077-15-368) AMS Session on Linear and Multilinear 4:45PM On the structure of certain class of (2728) Toeplitz-like Kernels. Algebra: Matrix Theory Troy V Banks, Salisbury University (1077-15-2873) 1:15 PM –4:55PM Independence East, 2nd Floor, Sheraton AMS Session on Partial Differential 1:15PM A fast iterative Toeplitz solver. Equations, III (2715) Preliminary report. Joseph Kolibal*andEowyn Cenek,The 1:15 PM –4:10PM Room 110, Hynes University of Southern Mississippi 1:15PM Global Attractors for Damped Semilinear (1077-15-2225) (2729) Wave Equations with a Robin–Acoustic 1:30PM Clustering edges and vertices using fuzzy Boundary Perturbation. Preliminary (2716) logic, case study: news documents. report. Walid Sharabati, Purdue University Joseph L. Shomberg*, Providence (1077-15-2926) College, and Sergio Frigeri,Universityof 1:45PM Variations of orbit reflexivity for Pavia (1077-35-853) (2717) matrices. 1:30PM Explicit Flow Equations and Recursion Ileana Ionascu, Philadelphia University (2730) Operator of the ncKP hierarchy. (1077-15-2917) Jingsong He, Ningbo University, Junyi 2:00PM Enumerating Invariant Subspaces of Rn. Tu*, U of South Florida, Xiaodong Li, (2718) Joshua Ide*andLenny Jones, China, and Lihong Wang,Ningbo Shippensburg University (1077-15-2250) University (1077-35-586) 2:15PM Identifying a Basis in a Frame. 1:45PM Dynamics of single species influenced by (2719) Dominic Kramer, Iowa State University (2731) age-dependent dispersal and maturation (1077-15-2067) time delay. Preliminary report. Majid Bani-Yaghoub,TexasA&M 2:30PM Lower Rank Approximation: A University (1077-35-465) (2720) Generalization of Schmidt-Mirsky Theorem and Algorithms. 2:00PM An inverse electromagnetic scattering Yang Liu, College of William & Mary (2732) problem for cavity. (1077-15-1806) Fang Zeng*, Jiguang Sun, Delaware State University, and Fioralba Cakoni, 2:45PM A characterization of Leonard pairs University of Delaware (1077-35-1111) (2721) using the parameters {a }d . i i=0 2:15PM Sign-changing solutions of the semilinear Edward D. Hanson,Universityof (2733) hyperbolic equations. Wisconsin-Madison (1077-15-2602) Karen Yagdjian, University of Texas-Pan 3:00PM Break. American (1077-35-2443) 3:15PM The algebraic connectivity of graphs as a 2:30PM Break. (2722) function of genus. 2:45PM Implementation of a Direct D-bar Jason J Molitierno, Sacred Heart (2734) Reconstruction Algorithm for Recovering University (1077-15-1548) a Complex Admittivity Distribution from 3:30PM Positive Semidefinite Zero Forcing. Electrical Impedance Tomography Data. (2723) Preliminary report. Preliminary report. Travis A. Peters, Iowa State University Sarah Jane Hamilton, Colorado State (1077-15-1387) University (1077-35-220)

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3:00PM Multipeakons in the Degasperis-Procesi 3:00PM An Enhanced Implementation of the (2735) Equation II. (2745) WeBWorK Online Homework System as a Lingjun Zhou,TongjiUniversity Formative Assessment Instrument. (1077-35-1303) Preliminary report. Gulden Karakok*, University of Northern 3:15PM Frechet Sensitivity Analysis for the (2736) Convection-Diffusion Equation. Colorado, Aaron Wangberg,Winona Vitor Leite Nunes, Virginia Polytechnic State University, and Nicole Engelke, Institute & State University (1077-35-287) California State University Fullerton (1077-D1-2634) 3:30PM Well-Posedness of Liquid Crystal Flow in 3:20PM MathLynx: the Online and CAS-based (2737) 3 . Preliminary report. Luloc (2746) Mathematics Pedagogy Environment - Jay Lawrence Hineman,Universityof Tools for Learning and Practice. Kentucky (1077-35-2819) John A. Velling, Brooklyn College 3:45PM The Nonlinear Schrodinger¨ equation via (1077-D1-2484) (2738) ﬁxed point principles. Mihaela Manole*, Timpson ISD, Texas, and Radu Precup, Babes Bolyai University (1077-35-41) 4:00PM Standing-waves solutions to a system of (2739) non-linear Klein-Gordon equations with a sub-critical growth non-linearity. Preliminary report. AMS Special Session on Geometric Invariants Daniele Garrisi, POSTECH (1077-35-713) of Groups and Related Topics, II

1:30 PM –4:50PM Exeter, 3rd Floor, Marriott

Organizers: Nic Koban,Universityof Maine, Farmington Peter N. Wong,Bates MAA Session on Early Assessment: Find Out College What Your Students Understand (and Don’t 1:30PM Sigma invariants of some self-similar Understand) before They Take the Test (2747) groups. Susan Hermiller, University of Nebraska, 1:20 PM –3:35PM Room 313, Hynes and Zoran Sunic*, Texas A&M University (1077-20-2773) Organizers: Miriam Harris-Botzum, 2:00PM Sigma invariants for Thompson and Lehigh Carbon Community (2748) generalised Thompson groups. College Preliminary report. Bonnie Gold,Monmouth Dessislava Hristova Kochloukova*, University State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, SP, Brazil, Robert Bieri 1:20PM Making sure the students understand a (2740) concept by watching them working with and Ross Geoghegan,Universityof it. Binghamton, SUNY (1077-20-429) Rodica Cazacu, Georgia College 2:30PM The BNS-invariant of pure braid groups. (1077-D1-1615) (2749) Preliminary report. John Meier, Lafayette College 1:40PM Using Online Pretests and Try It Quizzes (2741) for Early Assessment and Remediation. (1077-20-1838) Preliminary report. 3:00PM The Ω-invariant of a semi-direct product Brenda Burns-Williams*andMegan (2750) of groups. Preliminary report. Sawyer, North Carolina State University, Nic Koban*, University of Maine Raleigh (1077-D1-2735) Farmington, and Peter Wong,Bates College (1077-20-1666) 2:00PM Voting your way to good discussions. (2742) Preliminary report. 3:30PM Sigma theory and twisted conjugacy Christopher K Storm, Adelphi University (2751) classes. (1077-D1-2177) Daciberg Lima Goncalves*, IME-Unversity of S˜ao Paulo, and 2:20PM Formative Assessments in Upper Division (2743) Mathematics. Dessislava H. Kouchloukova,University Brian P Kelly, Bryant University of Campinas (1077-20-729) (1077-D1-2915) 4:00PM Ωn invariants and twisted conjugacy (2752) classes. 2:40PM Formative assessment and learning (2744) trajectories in ﬁrst semester calculus. Nic Koban, University of Maine, Preliminary report. Farmington, and Peter Wong*, Bates Rebecca Anne Dibbs,Universityof College (1077-20-2323) Northern Colorado (1077-D1-1184) 4:30PM Discussion

194 Boston,MA,Saturday,January7– Program of the Sessions

Math Wrangle 4:30PM Understanding Representations and (2762) Manipulatives through the Eyes of 2:00 PM –3:00PM Back Bay Ballroom Preservice Teachers. Preliminary report. B, 2nd Floor, Sheraton James R. Valles, Jr.*, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, Rebecca Come watch this demonstration wrangle Ortiz and Xiaobo She,TexasTech as local math club teams compete to University (1077-97-2913) solve great math problems. 4:45PM Assessing the impact of a (2763) computer-based college algebra course. Ningjun Ye,UniversityofSouthern ASL Invited Address Mississippi (1077-97-676) 5:00PM The Mathematics of Proofs in Number 2:15 PM –3:05PM Room 207, Hynes (2764) Theory and Algebra for High Achieving (2753) Twenty Questions. High School Students. Preliminary report. Roman Kossak,CUNYGraduateCenter Richard Millman*, Daniel Connelly and (1077-03-156) Cher Hendricks, Georgia Institute of Technology (1077-97-521)

AMS Session on Mathematics Education

2:15 PM –5:10PM Room 101, Hynes AWM Workshop: Research Presentations by

2:15PM Using Dynamic Web Tools Across the Recent Ph.D.s (2754) Early Undergraduate Mathematics Curriculum. 2:30 PM –4:20PM Room 306, Hynes Michael E Martin, Johnson County Organizers: Alissa Crans, Loyola Community College (1077-97-317) Marymount University 2:30PM Self paced mathematics in college and Rachelle DeCoste,Wheaton (2755) high school. College Jay P Belanger, Truman State University (1077-97-2943) Kirsten Eisentraeger, Pennsylvania State University 2:45PM Exhibit Designs for the Museum of (2756) Mathematics. Susan Williams,University George W. Hart, Museum of Mathematics of South Alabama (1077-97-2889) 2:30PM Algebraic theory for discrete models in 3:00PM On Doing Mathematics: Why We Should (2765) systems biology. (2757) Not Encourage Feeling, Believing or Franziska Hinkelmann*, Mathematical Interpreting Mathematics.. Biosciences Institute, Ohio State Padraig M. McLoughlin,Kutztown University, and Reinhard Laubenbacher, University of Pennsylvania Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia (1077-97-1254) Tech (1077-92-203) 3:15PM Developing a Protocol for Analyzing the 3:00PM Theories without the independence (2758) Quality of Classroom Interactions in an (2766) property. Undergraduate Calculus Course. Lynn C. Scow, University of Illinois at Preliminary report. Chicago (1077-03-246) Matthew Thomas*, Guadalupe Lozano, 3:30PM A Functional Central Limit Theorem for Cody Patterson and Jennifer Eli, (2767) Empirical Processes. University of Arizona (1077-97-2342) Cristina Tone, University of Louisville 3:30PM Break (1077-60-247) 3:45PM Learning Math by Making Math. 4:00PM A ﬂuid-structure interaction problem for (2759) Bruce Carpenter*andDebra Woods, (2768) a supercavitating elastic curvilinear foil. University of Illinois (1077-97-2506) Anna Zemlyanova,TexasA&M University (1077-76-253) 4:00PM Playing with Multivariable Calculus (2760) Concepts Wearing 3D Glasses. Preliminary report. Paul E Seeburger, Monroe Community College (1077-97-2080) AMS-MAA-SIAM Gerald and Judith Porter 4:15PM Two for One: Combining Developmental Public Lecture (2761) and Intermediate Algebra into a Four-Credit Course Using Youtube and 3:00 PM –4:00PM Ballrooms A/B, 3rd ﬂoor, Hynes ALEKS. Preliminary report. Shubhangi Sadanand Stalder*, (2769) Geometric puzzles: Algorithms and University of Wisconsin Waukesha, and complexity. Paul Arthur Martin,Universityof Erik D. Demaine, Massachusetts Institute Wisconsin Marathon (1077-97-2656) of Technology (1077-51-15)

195 Program of the Sessions – Boston, MA, Saturday, January 7 (cont’d.)

MAA Session on Writing the History of the 5:30PM The decision problem of T→. MAA, II (2780) Katalin Bimbo´*, University of Alberta, and J.Michael Dunn, Indiana University 3:00 PM –4:55PM Room 203, Hynes 5:55PM An Umbrella Formalism for Examining (2781) Self-Justifying Systems. Organizers: Victor J. Katz,Universityof Dan E. Willard, University at Albany the District of Columbia Janet Beery,Universityof AMS Banquet Reception Redlands Amy Shell-Gellasch,Beloit 6:30 PM –7:30PM Salon F, 4th Floor, Marriott College 3:00PM Digging up the History of a Capital AMS Banquet (2770) Section. Preliminary report. Betty Mayﬁeld*, Hood College, and 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM Salon F, 4th Floor, Marriott Jon Scott, Montgomery College (1077-Q1-771) Michel L. Lapidus Gerard A. Venema 3:20PM The Kentucky Section. Preliminary report. AMS Associate Secretary MAA Associate Secretary (2771) Daniel J. Curtin, Northern Kentucky Riverside, California Grand Rapids, Michigan University (1077-Q1-661) 3:40PM Dean Meder and the Origins of the MAA - (2772) New Jersey Section. Preliminary report. Lawrence A. D’Antonio, Ramapo College of New Jersey (1077-Q1-742) 4:00PM Women Welcome in the Metro New York (2773) Section! Preliminary report. Agnes M. Kalemaris, Farmingdale State College (1077-Q1-2249) 4:20PM Writing a History of an MAA Section. (2774) Preliminary report. James R Choike, Oklahoma State University (1077-Q1-1275) 4:40PM Know Your Wisconsin Mathematician: The (2775) Oral History of an MAA Section. Benjamin V.C. Collins*, University of Wisconsin-Platteville, and Jeganathan Sriskandarajah, Madison College (1077-Q1-374)

ASL Invited Address

3:15 PM –4:05PM Room 207, Hynes (2776) Continuous ﬁrst order logic and Gurarii’s universal homogeneous separable Banach Space. C. Ward Henson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1077-03-154)

ASL Contributed Paper Session, III

4:15 PM –6:15PM Room 207, Hynes

4:15PM Superstable generic graphs with rich (2777) geometries. Justin Brody, Franklin and Marshall College 4:40PM Classical consequences of continuous (2778) choice principles from intuitionistic analysis. Franc¸ois G. Dorais, Appalachian State University 5:05PM Computing boundary extensions of (2779) conformal maps. Timothy H. McNicholl, Lamar University

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