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2009 Spring Southeastern Section Meeting
Raleigh, NC, April 4-5, 2009 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1048

Associate secretaries:
Matthew Miller, AMS miller@math.sc.edu

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Sunday April 5, 2009

• Sunday April 5, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Foyer, Riddick Hall
• Sunday April 5, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Computational Methods in Lie Theory, III
  Room 339, Riddick Hall
  Organizers:
  Eric Sommers, University of Massachusetts, Amherst esommers@math.umass.edu
  Molly Fenn, North Carolina State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Computing in Symmetric Spaces.
    Aloysius G Helminck*, North Carolina State University
    (1048-22-212)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Discrete Morse theory for totally nonnegative flag varieties.
    Konstanze Rietsch, King's College London
    Lauren Williams*, Harvard
    (1048-22-63)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Cohomology of Frobenius kernels and vanishing of line bundle cohomology.
    Christopher P Bendel*, University of Wisconsin-Stout
    (1048-20-189)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Representations of Low Dimensional Lie Algebras and Applications.
    Ryad A Ghanam*, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg
    (1048-22-107)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Cohomology of Cotangent Bundles of Flag Varieties and the BK-Filtration.
    Chuck Hague*, Tufts University
    (1048-20-203)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Spin Hecke algebras.
    Ta Khongsap, University of Virginia
    Weiqiang Wang*, University of Virginia
    (1048-16-143)
• Sunday April 5, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Dynamics and Control, II
  Room 135, Withers Hall
  Organizers:
  Anthony M. Bloch, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  Dmitry Zenkov, North Carolina State University dvzenkov@ncsu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Energy Shaping for Stabilization of Mechanical Systems.
    Dong Eui Chang*, Applied Mathematics/University of Waterloo
    (1048-93-265)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Relaxed Matching for Stabilization of Lagrangian Systems.
    David A Long*, North Carolina State University
    Anthony M Bloch, University of Michigan
    Jerrold E Marsden, California Institute of Technology
    Dmitry V Zenkov, North Carolina State University
    (1048-70-287)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Feedforward/Feedback Tracking of a First Order Approximate Equilibrium Manifold.
    Nina Mahmoudian*, Virginia Tech
    Craig Woolsey, Virginia Tech
    (1048-93-331)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Pressureless Euler/Euler-Poisson systems via adhesion dynamics.
    Truyen Nguyen*, University of Akron
    Adrian Tudorascu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1048-35-188)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The parabolic compactification and applications to dynamical systems.
    Harry Gingold*, West Virginia University
    (1048-34-92)
• Sunday April 5, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Brauer Groups, Quadratic Forms, Algebraic Groups, and Lie Algebras, III
  Room 325, Riddick Hall
  Organizers:
  Eric S. Brussel, Emory University
  Skip Garibaldi, Emory University skip@mathcs.emory.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The $u$-invariant of a function field over $Q_p$.
    David B. Leep*, University of Kentucky
    (1048-11-249)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Field Invariants under Real and Nonreal Extensions.
    Claus Schubert*, SUNY Cortland
    (1048-11-80)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On graded polynomial identities of matrices.
    Michael Natapov*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    Darrell Haile, Indiana University, Bloomington
    (1048-16-244)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On the Okubo product and a theorem of Rost.
    Darrell E. Haile*, Indiana University
    Jean-Pierre Tignol, Universite catholique de Louvain
    (1048-16-178)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Essential dimension of Jordan algebras.
    Mark L MacDonald*, University of British Columbia
    (1048-17-121)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Quadrics over the field with one element.
    Max-Albert Knus, ETH Zurich
    Jean-Pierre Tignol*, Universite catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve
    (1048-11-223)
• Sunday April 5, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Rings and Monoids, III
  Room 301, Riddick Hall
  Organizers:
  Scott T. Chapman, Sam Houston State University scott.chapman@shsu.edu
  James B. Coykendall, North Dakota State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On the polynomial closure.
    Jean-Luc Chabert*, Université de Picardie
    (1048-13-157)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Generalized rings of integer-valued polynomials.
    K Alan Loper*, Ohio State University - Newark
    (1048-13-269)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A generalization of $\rm{Int}(E,D)$ when E is finite.
    Jason Greene Boynton*, North Dakota State University
    (1048-13-360)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Counting Numerical Semigroups.
    Nathan Kaplan*, Harvard University
    (1048-13-362)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Factorization in algebraic orders.
    George J Schaeffer*, University of California at Berkeley
    (1048-11-282)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Universal lying-over rings.
    David E. Dobbs, University of Tennessee
    Jay Shapiro*, George Mason University
    (1048-13-126)
• Sunday April 5, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Kac-Moody Algebras, Vertex Algebras, Quantum Groups, and Applications, III
  Room 321, Riddick Hall
  Organizers:
  Bojko N. Bakalov, North Carolina State University bojko_bakalov@ncsu.edu
  Naihuan N. Jing, North Carolina State University
  Kailash C. Misra, North Carolina State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Poisson structures on flag varieties.
    Milen T Yakimov*, Louisiana State University
    (1048-22-237)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Complexity and varieties for modules over Lie superalgebras.
    Brian D. Boe, University of Georgia
    Jonathan R. Kujawa, University of Oklahoma
    Daniel K. Nakano*, University of Georgia
    (1048-17-163)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Reduced standard and costandard modules.
    Brian Parshall*, University of Virginia
    (1048-20-289)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Regular representations of quantum groups at roots of unity.
    Minxian Zhu*, Rutgers University
    (1048-16-201)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Hyperbolic Weyl groups and related Coxeter groups.
    Alex J Feingold*, State University of New York, Binghamton, NY
    (1048-17-246)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Representations of Multiloop Algebras.
    Michael K Lau*, University of Windsor
    (1048-17-291)
• Sunday April 5, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on the Mathematics of Biochemical Reaction Networks, III
  Room 105, Withers Hall
  Organizers:
  Anne Shiu, University of California Berkeley
  Manoj Gopalkrishnan, University of Southern California
  Gheorghe Craciun, University of Wisconsin-Madison craciun@math.wisc.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Algebraic geometric approaches to biological complexity.
    Jeremy Gunawardena*, Harvard Medical School
    (1048-92-131)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    How far is complex balancing from detailed balancing?
    Alicia Dickenstein*, Dto. de Matemática, FCEN, Universidad de B. Aires, Argentina
    Mercedes Pérez Millán, Dto. de Matemática, FCEN, Universidad de B. Aires, Argentina
    (1048-92-135)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Combinatorics of binomial primary decomposition.
    Alicia Dickenstein, Universidad de Buenos Aires
    Laura Felicia Matusevich, Texas A&M University
    Ezra Miller*, Duke University
    (1048-13-172)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Injectivity of toric patches.
    Luis D Garcia-Puente*, Sam Houston State University
    Gheorghe Craciun, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Frank Sottile, Texas A&M University
    (1048-14-53)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The infancy of trilinear algebra.
    Jose Antonio Vargas*, CIIDIR-Oaxaca, IPN; Mexico
    (1048-14-74)
• Sunday April 5, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Applications of Algebraic and Geometric Combinatorics, III
  Room 140, Withers Hall
  Organizers:
  Seth M. Sullivant, North Carolina State University smsulli2@ncsu.edu
  Carla D. Savage, North Carolina State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On connectivity of fibers with positive marginals in multiple logistic regression.
    Hisayuki Hara, University of Tokyo
    Akimichi Takemura, University of Tokyo
    Ruriko Yoshida*, University of Kentucky
    (1048-05-84)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Phylogenetic Tree Spaces and Phylogenetic Reconstruction Algorithms.
    Serkan Hosten*, San Francisco State University
    (1048-52-240)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Geometry of Cophylogeny.
    Megan Owen*, Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute
    (1048-05-330)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Meanders and RNA Folding.
    Christine E Heitsch*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1048-05-309)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Basis reduction, and the complexity of branch-and-bound.
    Gabor Pataki*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    Mustafa Tural, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    (1048-05-18)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On sublattice determinants in reduced bases.
    Gábor Pataki, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, UNC Chapel Hill
    Mustafa Kemal Tural*, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, UNC Chapel Hill
    (1048-49-264)
• Sunday April 5, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Low Dimensional Topology and Geometry, III
  Room 314, Riddick Hall
  Organizers:
  Nathan M. Dunfield, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign nmd@uiuc.edu
  John B. Etnyre, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Lenhard Ng, Duke University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A categorification of the $SU(2)$ Reshetikhin-Turaev invariant of links in $S^2 \times S^1$.
    Lev Rozansky*, University of North Carolina
    Mikhail Khovanov, Columbia University
    (1048-57-307)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Quantum invariants of random Heegaard splittings.
    Nathan Dunfield, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Helen Wong*, Bowdoin College
    (1048-57-224)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Khovanov width of twisted links and closed 3-braids.
    Adam Lowrance*, Louisiana State University
    (1048-57-108)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    $L^2$-torsion, Mahler measure, and homology growth.
    Thang Le*, Georgia Insitute of Technology
    (1048-57-190)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Thin Position of knots and 3-manifolds.
    Hugh N Howards*, Wake Forest University
    Jennifer Schultens, UC Davis
    (1048-57-114)
• Sunday April 5, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Rings, Algebras, and Varieties in Combinatorics, III
  Room 150, Withers Hall
  Organizers:
  Patricia Hersh, North Carolina State University phersh@indiana.edu
  Christian Lenart, SUNY Albany
  Nathan Reading, North Carolina State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Hall Littlewood Polynomials and the Nabla Operator from Macdonald Theory.
    J. Haglund*, University of Pennsylvania
    J. Morse, Drexel University
    M. Zabrocki, York University
    (1048-05-198)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    On the g-conjecture.
    Eran Nevo*, Cornell University
    (1048-05-25)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A variety of recent results concerning f-vectors of manifolds.
    Isabella Novik*, University of Washington, Seattle
    Edward B Swartz, Cornell University
    (1048-05-55)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    f-vectors of manifolds with boundary.
    Isabella Novik, University of Washington, Seattle
    Edward Swartz*, Cornell University
    (1048-05-56)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Hopf structures on binary trees (variations on a theme).
    Stefan Forcey, Tennessee State University
    Aaron Lauve*, Texas A&M University
    Frank Sottile, Texas A&M University
    (1048-16-348)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    MacMahon master theorem in Hecke algebras.
    Matjaz Konvalinka*, Vanderbilt University
    (1048-05-218)
• Sunday April 5, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometry of Differential Equations, III
  Room 160, Withers Hall
  Organizers:
  Thomas A. Ivey, College of Charleston
  Irina A. Kogan, North Carolina State University iakogan@ncsu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A fresh look at Darboux integrability for hyperbolic second-order differential equation in the plane.
    Martin Juras*, Qatar University
    (1048-35-75)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Symmetry classification of General rank-3 Pfaffian systems in 5-dimension.
    Francesco Strazzullo*, Utah State University
    (1048-35-166)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Pseudogroups, Moving Frames, and Invariant Variational Principles.
    Juha Pohjanpelto*, Oregon State University
    (1048-58-161)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Bäcklund Transformations via Symmetry Reduction.
    Ian Anderson*, Utah State Univ.
    Mark Fels, Utah State Univ.
    (1048-53-153)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Hamilton-Jacobi theory in Minkowski space via Cartan geometry.
    Roman Smirnov*, Dalhousie University
    (1048-53-310)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Stability of Relative Equilibria of Discrete Nonholonomic Systems.
    Cameron Lynch, North Carolina State University
    Dmitry V Zenkov*, North Carolina State University
    (1048-70-288)
• Sunday April 5, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers
  Room 461, Riddick Hall
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    An introduction to (coloured) constant composition designs.
    Ryan K Therkelsen*, North Carolina State University
    (1048-05-186)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Multipliers for the Lower Central Series of Strictly Upper Triangular Matrices.
    Louis A. Levy*, North Carolina State University
    (1048-17-99)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Realizations of the Complex Nilpotent Lie Algebras with Small Second Derived Quotient.
    Laurie Zack*, High Point University
    (1048-17-132)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Multipliers of Lie Algebras of Maximal Class.
    Lindsey R. Bosko*, NC State University
    (1048-17-206)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On Class of Spaces of Holomorphic and Pluriharmonic Functions on Bounded Symmetric Domains in $C^n(n1)$.
    Maher M.H. Marzuq*, Mount Olive College
    (1048-32-08)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Positive Solutions for Boundary Value Problems of the Beam Equation.
    Bo Yang*, Kennesaw State University
    (1048-34-371)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Separation of Variables and Integrability in 4-dimensional Space - An Example.
    Zora Thomova*, SUNY Institute of Technology
    (1048-35-294)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Boundedness and Global Attractivity of Solutions for a System of Nonlinear Integral Equations.
    Bo Zhang*, Fayetteville State University
    (1048-45-159)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Optimization of Delay-Differential Inclusions in Infinite Dimensions.
    Dong Wang*, Fayetteville State University
    (1048-49-184)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Spherical dihedral f-triangulations.
    Ana Maria Breda*, University of Aveiro
    Patrica Ribeiro, Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Setúbal
    (1048-51-07)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Hessian of a Harmonic Reduction.
    Carlos J Almada*, Columbus State University
    (1048-53-104)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    More On The Exact Solutions Of The Second Order Linear Homogeneous Differential Equations.
    Saeed Otarod*, Yasouj University
    Mohamad Reeza Khodakarim Ardekani, Zanjan University
    (1048-34-13)
• Sunday April 5, 2009, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Foyer, Riddick Hall
• Sunday April 5, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Galois Module Theory and Hopf Algebras, III
  Room 315, Riddick Hall
  Organizers:
  Robert G. Underwood, Auburn University Montgomery runderwo@aum.edu
  James E. Carter, College of Charleston
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Hopf algebras of dimension $2p^2$.
    Michael J Hilgemann*, Iowa State University
    Siu-Hung Ng, Iowa State University
    (1048-16-90)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Right coideal subalgebras for quantum groups of type $B_n$.
    Vladislav Kharchenko*, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
    (1048-16-17)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Central quotients of Drinfel'd quantum doubles.
    Leonid Krop*, DePaul University, Chicago, IL
    (1048-16-76)
• Sunday April 5, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematics of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, III
  Room 450, Riddick Hall
  Organizers:
  Stanca M. Ciupe, Duke University stanca.ciupe@duke.edu
  Jonathan Forde, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Incorporating Continuous, Antigen-Dependent T-Cell Differentiation in Viral Infection Dynamics.
    Brynja Raquel Kohler*, Utah State University
    (1048-92-112)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A General Model of Inflammation.
    Meagan C Herald*, Viginia Military Institute
    (1048-92-94)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A mathematical model of the immune system's role in obesity-related chronic inflammation.
    Toby L Shearman*, Virginia Tech
    Pablo Diaz, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    Michael Gillespie, St. Augustine's College
    Justin Krueger, Miami University
    Jose Perez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus
    Alex Radebaugh, Bucknell University
    Garret Vo, Montana State University
    Christine Wheatley, Alma College
    (1048-92-64)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A model-based approach to multi-parameter flow cytometry analysis.
    Cliburn C Chan*, Duke University
    (1048-62-358)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Mathematical Models of T-cell Development.
    Stanca Ciupe*, Duke University Medical Center
    Louise M Markert, Duke University Medical Center
    Blythe Devlin, Duke University Medical Center
    Thomas Kepler, Duke University Medical Center
    (1048-34-357)
• Sunday April 5, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations and Applications, III
  Room 110, Withers Hall
  Organizers:
  Alina Chertock, North Carolina State University
  Zhilin Li, North Carolina State University zhilin@math.ncsu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Non-Oscillatory Central Schemes for Traffic Flow Models with Arrhenius Look-Ahead Dynamics.
    Alexander Kurganov*, Tulane University
    (1048-65-318)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Cahn-Hilliard model for moving contact lines.
    Pengtao Yue*, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    (1048-76-15)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Fast Explicit Operator Splitting Method for Convection-Dominated Problems.
    Alina Chertock*, North Carolina State University
    Charles Doering, Univeristy of Michigan
    Eugene Kashdan, Tel Aviv University
    Alexander Kurganov, Tulane University
    Guergana Petrova, Texas A&M University
    (1048-65-317)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A PDE Approximation Approach to the Valuation of American Put Option.
    Dejun Xie*, University of Delaware
    (1048-91-06)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Numerical simulation of laser drilling.
    Jeb Collins*, North Carolina State University
    Pierre Gremaud, North Carolina State University
    (1048-65-116)
• Sunday April 5, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Homotopical Algebra with Applications to Mathematical Physics, III
  Room 451, Riddick Hall
  Organizers:
  Thomas J. Lada, North Carolina State University lada@math.ncsu.edu
  Jim Stasheff, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Homotopy triviality of the circle action and the Hochschild complex.
    Mahmoud Zeinalian*, Long Island University/Max Planck Institut fur Mathematik
    John Terilla, Graduate Center/CUNY
    Thomas Tradler, Graduate Center/CUNY
    (1048-55-69)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Constructing Moduli Spaces of Infinity Algebras.
    Michael R Penkava*, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
    (1048-17-177)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    OCHA: examples and related structures.
    Eduardo Hoefel*, Universidade Federal do Paraná
    (1048-55-32)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    $N$-differential graded algebras: examples and applications.
    Rafael Diaz*, Universidad del Rosario
    (1048-18-59)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Explicit higher Hochschild complexes.
    Thomas Tradler*, CUNY- College of Technology
    (1048-16-19)
• Sunday April 5, 2009, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Symbolic Algebra and Analysis, III
  Room 120, Withers Hall
  Organizers:
  Michael F. Singer, North Carolina State University singer@ncsu.edu
  Agnes Szanto, North Carolina State University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Computations modulo Regular Chains.
    Marc Moreno Maza*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Xin Li, University of Western Ontario
    Wei Pan, University of Western Ontario
    (1048-14-197)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    An effective solution methods for systems of polynomial equations arising in applications.
    Mireille Boutin*, School of ECE and Dept. of Mathematics, Purdue University
    (1048-13-148)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Deciding Feasibility of Polynomial Inequalities by Numerical Filtering.
    Douglas David Marks*, NCSU
    (1048-26-133)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Finiteness of Local Cohomology over $D$ on a toric algebra.
    Jen-Chieh Hsiao*, Purdue University
    (1048-00-192)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Littlewood-Richardson Homotopies for Schubert Problems.
    Frank Sottile, Texas A&M University
    Ravi Vakil, Stanford University
    Jan Verschelde*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1048-14-115)
• Sunday April 5, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Progress and Challenges for Biological Materials, III
  Room 317, Riddick Hall
  Organizers:
  Mansoor A. Haider, North Carolina State University m_haider@ncsu.edu
  Gregory Forest, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Continuum mixture models of cell-matrix mechanics in articular cartilage.
    Mansoor A. Haider*, N.C. State University
    Eunjung Kim, N.C. State University
    Farshid Guilak, Dept. of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center
    (1048-92-255)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Stochastic Dynamics of Cell Signaling and Cell Motility.
    Garegin A Papoian*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Pavel Zhuravlev, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (1048-60-263)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    An electromechanical model of myocardial contraction in the embryonic heart tube.
    Laura A Miller*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (1048-92-258)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Hydrodynamics and Rheology of Active Particle Suspensions.
    Zhenlu Cui*, Fayetteville State University
    (1048-76-40)
• Sunday April 5, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Stochastic Dynamics, III
  Room 130, Withers Hall
  Organizers:
  Yuri Bakhtin, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Scott McKinley, Duke University
  Jonathan C. Mattingly, Duke University jonm@math.duke.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Limit Theorems for Branching Diffusive Particles with Catalyst on the Boundary.
    Ilie Grigorescu, University of Miami
    Min Kang*, North Carolina State University
    (1048-60-326)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Diffusion in Soft Matter.
    Scott McKinley*, Duke University
    M. Gregory Forest, UNC-Chapel Hill
    Lingxing Yao, University of Utah
    (1048-60-341)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Fluctuations of the empirical quantiles of independent Brownian motions.
    Jason Swanson*, University of Central Florida
    (1048-60-354)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Ergodic theory for a superprocess over a stochastic flow.
    Zenghu Li, Beijing Normal University
    Jie Xiong*, University of Tennessee
    Mei Zhang, Beijing Normal University
    (1048-60-160)
• Sunday April 5, 2009, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Enumerative Geometry and Related Topics, III
  Room 115, Withers Hall
  Organizers:
  Richard L. Rimanyi, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  Leonardo C. Mihalcea, Duke University lmihalce@math.duke.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Quantum Giambelli formulas for symplectic Grassmannians.
    Anders S Buch*, Rutgers University
    Andrew Kresch, Universitat Zurich
    Harry Tamvakis, University of Maryland
    (1048-05-365)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Growth diagrams for the Schubert multiplication.
    Cristian Lenart*, State University of New York at Albany
    (1048-05-85)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Experimentation at the Frontiers of Reality in Schubert Calculus.
    Zach Teitler*, Texas A&M University
    (1048-14-298)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A multiplicative formula for structure constants in the cohomology of flag varities.
    Edward L Richmond*, University of Oregon
    (1048-14-171)
• Sunday April 5, 2009, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Arithmetic of linear algebraic groups over 2-dimensional geometric fields.
  Room 232A, Withers Hall
  Raman Parimala*, Emory University
  (1048-11-02)
• Sunday April 5, 2009, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Algebraic models in systems biology.
  Room 232A, Withers Hall
  Reinhard C. Laubenbacher*, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
  (1048-92-03)
• Sunday April 5, 2009, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Commutative Rings and Monoids, IV
  Room 301, Riddick Hall
  Organizers:
  Scott T. Chapman, Sam Houston State University scott.chapman@shsu.edu
  James B. Coykendall, North Dakota State University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    The Gorenstein property of associated graded rings of ideal filtrations in one-dimensional analytically irreducible Noetherian local domains.
    Lance Bryant*, Purdue University
    (1048-13-283)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    How Far is an Element or Ideal from Being Prime.
    David F Anderson*, University of Tennessee
    (1048-13-227)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Unions of Sets of Lengths.
    Michael Freeze*, University of North Carolina Wilmington
    Alfred Geroldinger, Karl-Franzens-Universitat Graz
    (1048-13-303)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    When is a proper simple extension a minimal extension?
    Thomas G. Lucas*, University of North Carolina Charlotte
    Paul-Jean Cahen, Universite Paul Cezanne
    David E. Dobbs, University of Tennessee
    (1048-13-139)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Counting the Number of Star Operations on an Integral Domain.
    Evan Houston*, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
    Abdeslam Mimouni, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
    (1048-13-270)
• Sunday April 5, 2009, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Kac-Moody Algebras, Vertex Algebras, Quantum Groups, and Applications, IV
  Room 321, Riddick Hall
  Organizers:
  Bojko N. Bakalov, North Carolina State University bojko_bakalov@ncsu.edu
  Naihuan N. Jing, North Carolina State University
  Kailash C. Misra, North Carolina State University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Representations of hyper loop algebras.
    Dijana Jakelić*, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
    Adriano Moura, University of Campinas, Brazil
    (1048-17-199)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Ideals in parabolic subalgebras of simple Lie algebras.
    Tim Ridenour*, University of California, Riverside
    (1048-08-300)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Weight Modules of Affine Lie Algebras.
    Dimitar V Grantcharov*, University of Texas at Arlington
    Ivan Dimitrov, Queens University
    (1048-17-321)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On contragradient modules for a vertex operator algebra associated with an affine Lie algebra.
    William J Cook*, Appalachian State University
    (1048-17-226)
• Sunday April 5, 2009, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on the Mathematics of Biochemical Reaction Networks, IV
  Room 105, Withers Hall
  Organizers:
  Anne Shiu, University of California Berkeley
  Manoj Gopalkrishnan, University of Southern California
  Gheorghe Craciun, University of Wisconsin-Madison craciun@math.wisc.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Homotopy Methods for Counting Reaction Network Equilibria.
    G Craciun, University of Wisconsin
    J W Helton, University of California, San Diego
    R J Williams*, University of California, San Diego
    (1048-92-45)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Signed matrices and chemical reaction networks.
    J William Helton*, UC San Diego
    Igor Klep, University of Ljubljana and UCSD
    (1048-15-60)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Dynamical equivalence of chemical reaction networks.
    David Swigon*, University of Pittsburgh
    (1048-37-271)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Robust Stochastic Chemical Reaction Networks and Bounded Tau-Leaping.
    David Soloveichik*, California Institute of Technology
    (1048-68-368)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Number Theory in Chemical Reaction Networks.
    Dustin Reishus*, University of Southern California
    (1048-11-373)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On the nature of polynomial conservation laws in reversible reaction networks.
    Pablo Moisset de Espanes*, Institute for Cell Dynamics and Biotechnology, University of Chile
    (1048-34-342)
• Sunday April 5, 2009, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Applications of Algebraic and Geometric Combinatorics, IV
  Room 140, Withers Hall
  Organizers:
  Seth M. Sullivant, North Carolina State University smsulli2@ncsu.edu
  Carla D. Savage, North Carolina State University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    See the detail of the talks presented jointly under the listing for the Special Session on Rings, Algebras, and Varieties in Combinatorics, IV.
• Sunday April 5, 2009, 2:30 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Homotopical Algebra with Applications to Mathematical Physics, IV
  Room 451, Riddick Hall
  Organizers:
  Thomas J. Lada, North Carolina State University lada@math.ncsu.edu
  Jim Stasheff, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    A Finite Dimensional $A_{\infty}$ algebra Example.
    Michael P Allocca*, North Carolina State University
    (1048-55-27)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Finite Dimensional $L_\infty$ Algebras.
    Tom Lada*, North Carolina State University
    (1048-18-164)
• Sunday April 5, 2009, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Symbolic Algebra and Analysis, IV
  Room 120, Withers Hall
  Organizers:
  Michael F. Singer, North Carolina State University singer@ncsu.edu
  Agnes Szanto, North Carolina State University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Popov Forms of Matrices of Differential Polynomials.
    George Labahn*, Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo,
    (1048-13-119)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the algorithmic geometric prolongation of systems of partial differential equations.
    Wenyuan Wu*, Michigan State University
    Greg J Reid, University of Western Ontario
    (1048-35-235)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A Fraction Free Matrix Berlekamp/Massey Algorithm.
    Erich Kaltofen, North Carolina State University
    George Yuhasz*, North Carolina State University
    (1048-12-88)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Coding with skew polynomial rings.
    Felix A Ulmer*, Université de Rennes 1 (France)
    (1048-68-43)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Injective modules over a principal left and right ideal domain.
    Alina N. Duca*, North Carolina State University
    (1048-16-179)
• Sunday April 5, 2009, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Rings, Algebras, and Varieties in Combinatorics, IV
  Room 140, Withers Hall
  Organizers:
  Patricia Hersh, North Carolina State University phersh@indiana.edu
  Christian Lenart, SUNY Albany
  Nathan Reading, North Carolina State University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    These talks are presented jointly with the Special Session on Applications of Algebraic and Geometric Combinatorics.
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Cyclic sieving and permutation statistics.
    John Shareshian*, Washington University
    Michelle Wachs, University of Miami
    (1048-05-239)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Rees products of posets and lexicographical shellability.
    John Shareshian, Washington University
    Michelle L Wachs*, University of Miami
    (1048-05-370)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Longest strictly increasing subsequences and the Hecke insertion algorithm.
    Alexander Yong*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Hugh Thomas, University of New Brunswick
    Ofer Zeitouni, University of Minnesota
    (1048-05-38)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Rationality, irrationality, and Wilf oequivalence in generalized factor order.
    Sergey Kitaev, Reykjavik University
    Jeffrey Liese, University of California, San Diego
    Jeffrey Remmel, University of California, San Diego
    Bruce Sagan*, Michigan State University
    (1048-05-16)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Bitableau bases for Garsia--Haiman modules of hollow type.
    Edward E. Allen, Wake Forest University
    Miranda C. Marion, Winston-Salem, NC
    Gregory S. Warrington*, University of Vermont
    (1048-05-290)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Topological Cohen--Macaulay criteria for monomial ideals.
    Ezra Miller*, Duke University
    (1048-05-169)
• Sunday April 5, 2009, 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Enumerative Geometry and Related Topics, IV
  Room 115, Withers Hall
  Organizers:
  Richard L. Rimanyi, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  Leonardo C. Mihalcea, Duke University lmihalce@math.duke.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Enumerating singularities of smooth maps.
    Rustam Sadykov*, Dartmouth College
    (1048-58-211)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The General Quadruple Point Formula and Applications of Thom Polynomials to Problems in Enumerative Geometry.
    R Marangell*, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    R. Rimanyi, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (1048-55-200)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Computing Singular Chern Classes and Related Invariants for Schubert Varieties in a Grassmannian.
    Benjamin F Jones*, University of Georgia
    (1048-14-324)
• Sunday April 5, 2009, 2:30 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometry of Differential Equations, IV
  Room 160, Withers Hall
  Organizers:
  Thomas A. Ivey, College of Charleston
  Irina A. Kogan, North Carolina State University iakogan@ncsu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Special classes of symmetry reductions for PDEs involving arbitrary functions.
    Nicoleta Virginia Bila*, Fayetteville State University
    (1048-35-118)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On Sections and Curvature for Super Yang-Mills Theory.
    James S. Cook*, Liberty University
    Ronald O. Fulp, North Carolina State University
    (1048-51-33)

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