Program of the Sessions Washington, District of Columbia, January 5–8, 2009 MAA Short Course on Data Mining and New Saturday, January 3 Trends in Teaching Statistics (Part I) 8:00 AM –4:00PM Delaware Suite A, Lobby Level, Marriott Organizer: Richard D. De Veaux, Williams College AMS Short Course on Quantum Computation 8:00AM Registration and Quantum Information (Part I) 9:00AM Math is music—statistics is literature. (5) What are the challenges of teaching 8:00 AM –5:00PM Virginia Suite A, statistics, and why is it different from Lobby Level, Marriott mathematics? Richard D. De Veaux, Williams College Organizer: Samuel J. Lomonaco, 10:30AM Break. University of Maryland Baltimore County 10:45AM What does the introductory course look (6) like in 2009? How technology has 8:00AM Registration. changed what we do in introductory 9:00AM A Rosetta Stone for quantum computing. statistics for the non-math/science (1) Samuel Lomonaco,Universityof student. Maryland Baltimore County Richard D. De Veaux, Williams College 10:15AM Break. 1:00PM What does the math-based introductory (7) course look like in 2009? How do 10:45AM Quantum algorithms. we merge mathematical concepts (2) Peter Shor, Massachusetts Institute of into the introductory course for the Technology math/science student? How does 2:00PM Concentration of measure effects in statistical programming fit in? (3) quantum information. Richard D. De Veaux, Williams College Patrick Hayden, McGill University 2:30PM Break. 3:15PM Break. 2:45PM Introduction to Modeling. Regression and 3:45PM Quantum error correction and fault (8) ANOVA. Overview: How much to teach (4) tolerance. the first semester. Daniel Gottesman, Perimeter Institute Richard D. De Veaux, Williams College The time limit for each AMS contributed paper in the sessions meeting will be found in Volume 30, Issue 1 of Abstracts is ten minutes. The time limit for each MAA contributed of papers presented to the American Mathematical Society, paper varies. In the Special Sessions the time limit varies ordered according to the numbers in parentheses following from session to session and within sessions. To maintain the the listings. The middle two digits, e.g., 897-20-1136, refer to schedule, time limits will be strictly enforced. the Mathematical Reviews subject classification assigned by Forpaperswithmorethanoneauthor,an asterisk follows the individual author. Groups of papers for each subject are the name of the author who plans to present the paper at the listed chronologically in the Abstracts. The last one to four meeting. digits, e.g., 897-20-1136, refer to the receipt number of the Papers flagged with a solid triangle () have been desig- abstract; abstracts are further sorted by the receipt number nated by the author as being of possible interest to under- within each classification. MAA abstracts are listed toward graduate students. the back of the issue sorted by session name. Abstracts of papers presented in the sessions at this 41 Program of the Sessions – Sunday, January 4 1:00PM Introduction to Data Mining, Part III: The Sunday, January 4 (14) methods and algorithms of data mining. Richard D. De Veaux, Williams College AMS Department Chairs Workshop 2:30PM Break. 8:00 AM –6:30PM Maryland Suite C, 2:45PM Introduction to Data Mining, Part IV: Lobby Level, Marriott (15) Practical data mining: Case studies. Richard D. De Veaux, Williams College MAA Board of Governors AMS Council 8:00 AM –6:00PM Marshall Ballrooms 1:30 PM – 10:00 PM Marshall Ballrooms South/West, Mezz. Level, Marriott North/East, Mezz. Level, Marriott MAA Ancillary Workshop Joint Meetings Registration 8:30 AM –5:00PM Washington Room 5, 3:00 PM –7:00PM Marriot Ballroom Lower Level, Marriott Lobby, Lobby Level, Marriott Teaching introductory data analysis through modeling. Presenter: Daniel Kaplan, Macalester College Monday, January 5 Joint Meetings Registration AMS Short Course on Quantum Computation and Quantum Information (Part II) 7:30 AM –4:00PM Marriot Ballroom Lobby, Lobby Level, Marriott 9:00 AM –5:00PM Virginia Suite A, Lobby Level, Marriott AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research Organizer: Sanuel J. Lomonaco, in Mathematics by Undergraduates, I University of Maryland Baltimore County 8:00 AM –10:50AM Park Tower Suite 8226, Marriott 9:00AM Riemannian geometry of quantum (9) computation. Organizers: Darren A. Narayan, Howard Brandt,U.S.ArmyResearch Rochester Institute of Laboratory Technology 10:15AM Break. Jacqueline A. Jensen,Sam 10:45AM Topology and quantum computing. Houston State University (10) Louis H. Kauffman, University of Illinois Carl V. Lutzer,Rochester at Chicago Institute of Technology 2:00PM Quantum knots and mosaics. Vadim Ponomarenko,San (11) Samuel Lomonaco,Universityof Diego State University Maryland Baltimore County Tamas Wiandt,Rochester 3:15PM Break. Institute of Technology 3:45PM Panel Discussion: The Grand 8:00AM Frames: Surgeries, Dilation, and Mathematical Challenge for Quantum (16) Robustness. Preliminary report. Computation and Quantum Information. Jennifer L. Wolfe*, Rachael L. Tomasino, Eileen L. Radzwion and Sara MAA Short Course on Data Mining and New P. Rimer, Central Michigan University Trends in Teaching Statistics (Part II) (1046-15-90) 8:30AM The Minimum Semidefinite Rank of a 9:00 AM –4:00PM Delaware Suite A, (17) Graph. Lobby Level, Marriott Taiji Tsutsui*, Hiram College, Hiram OH, and Rachel Ellen Cranfill,HarveyMudd Organizer: Richard D. De Veaux, College (1046-15-91) Williams College 9:00AM A numerical and analytical study of 9:00AM Introduction to Data Mining, Part I: What (18) modeling techniques for microstructure (12) is data mining? How does it differ from evolution. statistics? What are the problems and MRAtkins, George Mason University techniques in data mining? (1046-35-103) Richard D. De Veaux, Williams College 9:30AM Understanding and predicting materials 10:30AM Break. (19) properties from phase-field simulations. 10:45AM Introduction to Data Mining, Part II: Five Preliminary report. (13) lessons learned from data mining. Thomas Dean Stephens,GeorgeMason Richard D. De Veaux, Williams College University (1046-35-101) 42 Monday, January 5 – Program of the Sessions 10:00AM Vector Invariants of Elementary Abelian 8:00AM Killing Forms of Lie Algebras. (20) p-Groups. Preliminary report. (28) Audrey Malagon,EmoryUniversity Aaron B Adcock, Texas Tech University, (1046-17-72) Lubbock TX (1046-13-22) 8:30AM Freudenthal Triple Systems by Root 10:30AM Mathematical modeling, analysis and (29) System Methods. (21) computation of a fluid-structure Fred W. Helenius,EmoryUniversity interaction problem with applications. (1046-17-80) Preliminary report. 9:00AM Filtrations of Weyl modules. Preliminary Sarah Minerva Venuti*, Kevin Kelbaugh (30) report. and Padmanabhan Seshayer, Brian Parshall, University of Virginia Mathemathical Sciences, George Mason (1046-20-1137) University (1046-65-66) 9:30AM Cohomology of algebraic, quantum, and (31) finite groups. Leonard L Scott, Department of AMS Special Session on Recent Trends in Mathematics, The University of Virgihnia Coding Theory, I (1046-20-1149) 10:00AM Cohomology of finite-dimensional 8:00 AM –10:50AM Balcony D, (32) quantized enveloping algebras: the Mezzanine Level, Marriott mixed case. Organizers: Gretchen L. Matthews, Christopher M Drupieski,Universityof Clemson University Virginia (1046-20-1224) Judy L. Walker,Universityof 10:30AM Combinatorics of Crystal Bases for Nebraska (33) Certain Demazure Modules. ,MercerUniversity 8:00AM Generalizing Binary Quadratic Residue Julie C Beier (22) Codes. (1046-17-445) P. Charters, University of Texas at Austin, Mathematics Department (1046-11-645) 8:25AM Locally decodable codes. (23) Sergey Yekhanin, Microsoft Research AMS Special Session on Nonlinear Partial (1046-68-951) Differential Equations and Applications, I 8:50AM Iterative Subspace Pursuit Decoding of (24) Weighted Euclidean Superimposed Codes. 8:00 AM –10:50AM Maryland Suite B, Wei Dai*andOlgica Milenkovic, Lobby Level, Marriott University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1046-68-1510) Organizers: Gui-Qiang G. Chen, Northwestern University 9:15AM On algebraic constructions of codes for (25) random linear network coding. Cleopatra C. Christoforou, Felice Manganiello*, Elisa Gorla and University of Houston Joachim Rosenthal, Zurich University 8:00AM Compensated Compactness and the (1046-94-854) (34) Multi-Dimensional Euler Equations. 9:40AM Further analysis of codes based on James Glimm, State University of New (26) permutations. York at Stony Brook (1046-35-257) Christine A Kelley,Universityof 8:30AM On the dynamics of multicomponent Nebraska-Lincoln (1046-94-1960) (35) reactive flows. 10:05AM Coding theory and Pseudorandomness. Konstantina Trivisa,Universityof (27) Venkatesan Guruswami,Universityof Maryland (1046-35-1186) Washington & Carnegie Mellon University 9:00AM Instantaneous boundary tangency and (1046-05-1085) (36) cusp formation in two-dimensional fluid flows. Misha Perepelitsa*, Vanderbilt AMS Special Session on Representation University, and David Hoff, Indiana Theory of Lie Algebras and Algebraic University (1046-35-636) Groups, I 9:30AM On Shock-Free Periodic Solutions for the (37) Euler Equations. 8:00 AM –10:50AM Wilson Room C, Robin C Young*, University of Mezzanine Level, Marriott Massachusetts, Amherst, and JBlake Temple, University of California, Davis Organizers: David G. Taylor,Roanoke (1046-35-1619) College 10:00AM Stability of Newtonian Rotating White Terrell L. Hodge,Western (38) Dwarf Stars. Michigan University Tao Luo*, Georgetown University,