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2012 Spring Central Section Meeting
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
March 30 - April 1, 2012 (Friday - Sunday)
Meeting #1081

Associate secretaries:

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

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Friday March 30, 2012

• Friday March 30, 2012, 2:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  Book Sale and Exhibit
  Room 4021, Wescoe Hall
• Friday March 30, 2012, 2:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Outside Room 4011, Wescoe Hall
• Friday March 30, 2012, 2:45 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Welcome.
  Room 3931, Wescoe Hall
  Complexity of surface homeomorphisms.
  Room 3931, Wescoe Hall
  Christopher J. Leininger*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Benson Farb, University of Chicago
  Dan Margalit, Georgia Instittute of Technology
  (1081-57-02)
• Friday March 30, 2012, 4:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and its Applications, I
  Room 4023, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Yasuyuki Kachi, University of Kansas
  B. P. Purnaprajna, University of Kansas purna@math.ku.edu
  Sarang Sane, University of Kansas
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Integral Bases for the Universal Enveloping Algebras of Map Algebras.
    Samuel H Chamberlin*, Park University
    (1081-17-160)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Numerical dimension of nef line bundles.
    Dincer Guler*, Park University
    (1081-14-394)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Use of Locales in Algebraic Geometry.
    John Iskra*, Emory and Henry College
    (1081-14-405)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Connections between real algebraic geometry, topology and combinatorics.
    Chris Peterson*, Colorado State University
    (1081-14-343)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Filtered local systems and parabolic Higgs bundles.
    Botong Wang*, Purdue University
    (1081-14-155)
• Friday March 30, 2012, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Complex Analysis, Geometry and Probability, I
  Room 4007, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Pietro Poggi-Corradini, Kansas State University pietro@math.ksu.edu
  Hrant Hakobyan, Kansas State University
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Quasisymmetric graphs and Zygmund functions.
    Leonid V Kovalev*, Syracuse University
    Jani Onninen, Syracuse University
    (1081-30-91)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Uniformization of rectifiable surfaces.
    Kai Rajala*, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
    (1081-30-90)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Geometric properties of Schur class mappings of the unit ball in $\mathbb C^n$.
    Michael Jury*, University of Florida
    (1081-32-317)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Parabolic dynamics in the disk and in the ball.
    Olena Ostapyuk*, University of Northern Iowa
    (1081-30-335)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Non-uniqueness of convex bodies with prescribed volumes of sections and projections.
    Dmitry Ryabogin*, Kent State University
    (1081-52-15)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    Energy minimal diffeomorphisms: existence and nonexistence.
    Tadeusz Iwaniec, Syracuse University
    Ngin-Tee Koh, Ohio University
    Leonid V. Kovalev, Syracuse University
    Jani Onninen*, Syracuse University
    (1081-30-383)
• Friday March 30, 2012, 4:00 p.m.-6:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Dynamics and Stability of Nonlinear Waves, I
  Room 4041, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Mat Johnson, University of Kansas matjohn@math.ku.edu
  Myunghyun Oh, University of Kansas
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Refined Stability of Combustion Waves.
    Gregory D Lyng*, University of Wyoming
    (1081-35-362)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Fronts in a model for gasless combustion with heat loss.
    Anna R Ghazaryan*, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
    Stephen Schecter, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
    Peter Simon, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
    (1081-35-37)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Various families of traveling wave solutions of Gray-Scott model.
    Vahagn Manukian*, Miami University Hamilton
    (1081-35-241)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Traveling waves in reaction-diffusion equations coupled to a conservation law.
    Alin Pogan*, Indiana University
    (1081-35-354)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Nonlinear stability of defects.
    Bjorn Sandstede*, Brown University
    (1081-35-20)
• Friday March 30, 2012, 4:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Representation Theory, I
  Room 4033, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Zongzhu Lin, Kansas State University zlin@math.ksu.edu
  Zhiwei Yun, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Presenting Schur Superalgebras.
    Houssein El Turkey, University of Oklahoma
    Jonathan Kujawa*, University of Oklahoma
    (1081-16-22)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A generalized Koszul theory and its application.
    Liping Li*, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
    (1081-16-10)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Geometric Langlands and the inverse Galois problem.
    Zhiwei Yun*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1081-11-398)
• Friday March 30, 2012, 4:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Topology and Group Theory, I
  Room 4035, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Richard P. Kent IV, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Christopher J. Leininger, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign clein@math.uiuc.edu
  Kasra Rafi, University of Oklahoma
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Combinatorics of hyperbolic structures on 3-manifolds.
    Hossein Namazi*, The University of Texas at Austin
    (1081-57-366)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Cusp geometry of fibered 3-manifolds.
    David Futer*, Temple University
    Saul Schleimer, University of Warwick
    (1081-57-225)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The Sunada construction and the simple length spectrum.
    Rasimate Maungchang*, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
    (1081-57-181)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Shrinking targets in moduli space.
    Spencer Dowdall*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Jayadev Athreya, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1081-37-332)
• Friday March 30, 2012, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Applications, I
  Room 4002, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Arpad Benyi, Western Washington University
  David Cruz-Uribe, Trinity College
  Rodolfo Torres, University of Kansas torres@math.ku.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the Rate of a.e. Convergence of Certain Classic Integral Means.
    Alex Stokolos*, Georgia Southern University
    (1081-42-205)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the distances from Lipschitz functions to Morrey spaces.
    Zhijian Wu*, The University of Alabama
    (1081-46-295)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Uniform estimates for the X-ray transform restricted to polynomial curves.
    Spyridon Dendrinos, University of Jyväskylä
    Betsy Stovall*, UCLA
    (1081-42-196)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Fourier analysis and uniform distribution.
    Dmitriy Bilyk*, University of South Carolina
    (1081-42-282)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Almost-orthogonality in weighted spaces.
    James Michael Wilson*, University of Vermont
    (1081-42-217)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    3-point configurations in dense subsets of $P^2$.
    A Magyar*, University of British Columbia
    T Titichetrakun, University of British Columbia
    (1081-42-403)
• Friday March 30, 2012, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Interplay between Geometry and Partial Differential Equations in Several Complex Variables, I
  Room 4001, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Jennifer Halfpap, University of Montana
  Phil Harrington, University of Arkansas psharrin@uark.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Duality of holomorphic function spaces and smoothing properties of the Bergman projection.
    Anne-Katrin Herbig, Universität Wien
    Jeffery D. McNeal, Ohio State University
    Emil J. Straube*, Texas A&M University
    (1081-32-170)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Real hypersurfaces with constant Möbius-invariant curvature.
    Michael D Bolt*, Calvin College
    (1081-32-340)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The Bergman projection in $L^p$ for domains with minimal smoothness.
    Loredana Lanzani*, University of Arkansas
    Elias M. Stein, Princeton University
    (1081-32-126)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Boundaries of Holomorphic Chains in Holomorphic Vector Bundles.
    Ronald A Walker*, Penn State Harrisburg
    (1081-32-390)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    The Szegö Kernel for Certain Non-pseudoconvex Domains in $\mathbb C^2$.
    Michael A Gilliam*, The College of New Rochelle
    Jennifer Halfpap, University of Montana
    (1081-47-244)
• Friday March 30, 2012, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Invariants of Knots, I
  Room 4071, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Heather A. Dye, McKendree University hadye@mckendree.edu
  Aaron Kaestner, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Louis H. Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Projective Representations of Mapping Classes of Surfaces coming from the Kauffman bracket.
    Charles Frohman*, The University of Iowa
    Michael Fitzpatrick, The University of Iowa
    Joanna Kania-Brtoszynska, The National Science Foundation
    (1081-57-06)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Computing 4-move invariants.
    Robert Todd*, University of Nebraska at Omaha
    (1081-57-64)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    An invariant for handlebody-tangles.
    Carmen Caprau*, California State University, Fresno
    (1081-57-92)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    On torsion in the Khovanov homology of knots.
    Alexander N. Shumakovitch*, The George Washington University
    (1081-57-401)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    Khovanov homology for knotted webs.
    David A Clark*, Randolph-Macon College
    Scott Morrison, UC Berkeley
    Kevin Walker, Microsoft Station Q
    (1081-57-360)
• Friday March 30, 2012, 4:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Statistics, I
  Room 4012, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Zsolt Talata, University of Kansas talata@math.ku.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Distribution-Free Test in Tobit Mean Regression Model.
    Weixing Song*, Kansas State University
    (1081-62-208)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Generalized Likelihood Inference in the Multivariate Normal for Heterogeneous Data.
    Ibrahim A. Ahmad, Oklahoma State University
    Lichi Lin*, Oklahoma State University
    (1081-62-248)
• Friday March 30, 2012, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Mirror Symmetry, I
  Room 4076, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Ricardo Castano-Bernard, Kansas State University rcastano@math.ksu.edu
  Paul Horja, Oklahoma State University
  Zheng Hua, Kansas State University
  Yan Soibelman, Kansas State University
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Toric degeneration and non-displaceable Lagrangian tori in $S^2 \times S^2$.
    Kenji Fukaya, Kyoto Unversity
    Yong-Geun Oh*, University of Wisconsin-Madison & Institute for Advanced Study
    Hiroshi Ohta, Nagoya University
    Kaoru Ono, Hokkaido Unveristy
    (1081-58-99)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Secondary Stacks and Toric Hypersurface Degenerations.
    Colin Diemer*, University of Miami
    (1081-14-378)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Degenerations of LG models and relations in symplectomorphism groups.
    Gabriel D Kerr*, University of Miami
    (1081-53-201)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    Dehn twists and free subgroups of the symplectic mapping class group.
    Ailsa M Keating*, M.I.T.
    (1081-51-291)
• Friday March 30, 2012, 4:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and Applications, I
  Room 4043, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Weishi Liu, University of Kansas
  Erik Van Vleck, University of Kansas evanvleck@math.ku.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Degeneracy, Complexity, and Robustness of Bio-systems.
    Yingfei Yi*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1081-37-127)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Global Dynamics of a Plant-Herbivore Model with Toxin-Determined Functional Response.
    Wenzhang Huang*, University of Alabama in Huntsville
    Zhilan Feng, Purdue University
    (1081-34-204)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Concerning the uniform of a structural acoustic PDE model.
    George Avalos*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1081-35-220)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    On the relationship of continuous and discrete models in systems biology.
    Alan Veliz-Cuba*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    J. Arthur, North Carolina State University
    L. Hochstetler, Asbury University
    V. Klomps, Northwestern College
    E. Korpi, University of Wisconsin-River Falls
    (1081-34-11)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    A Circuit Model of Neuron.
    Bo Deng*, Department of Mathematics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1081-92-165)
• Friday March 30, 2012, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing, I
  Room 4051, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Weizhang Huang, University of Kansas huang@math.ku.edu
  Xuemin Tu, University of Kansas
  Erik Van Vleck, University of Kansas
  Honggou Xu, University of Kansas
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Error estimates for Gaussian beam superpositions.
    Hailiang Liu*, Iowa State University, Department of Mathematics, Ames, IA 50010-2064, USA.
    Olog Runborg, KTH, 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
    Nicolay M. Tanushev, The University of Texas at Austin
    (1081-65-348)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A local discontinuous Galerkin method for the second-order wave equation.
    Mahboub Baccouch*, University of Nebraska at Omaha
    (1081-65-326)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A Local Discontinuous Galerkin method for Hamilton-Jacobi Equations.
    Jue Yan*, Iowa State University
    (1081-65-14)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Alternating evolution schemes for Hamilton-Jacobi equations.
    Michael James Pollack*, Iowa State University
    (1081-65-325)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Simulations of Discontinuous Shallow Water flows by Weighted Essential Non-oscillatory Schemes.
    C. Lu*, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology
    (1081-76-125)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    An $h$-adaptive RKDG method with different troubled-cell indicators for hyperbolic conservation laws.
    Hongqiang Zhu, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications
    Jianxian Qiu*, Xiamen University
    (1081-65-104)
• Friday March 30, 2012, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Partial Differential Equations, I
  Room 4040, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Milena Stanislavova, University of Kansas
  Atanas Stefanov, University of Kansas stefanov@math.ku.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the Cauchy problem of the CH and DP equations.
    Alex A. Himonas*, University of Notre Dame
    Curtis Holliman, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    (1081-35-61)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    An Improved Local Well-posedness Result for the Periodic "Good" Boussinesq Equation.
    Seungly Oh*, University of Kansas
    Atanas Stefanov, University of Kansas
    (1081-35-47)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On the nonlocal symmetries of the $\mu$-Camassa-Holm equation.
    Ognyan Borisov Christov*, Sofia University, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgaria
    (1081-35-215)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Stability and the Synchronization Phase transition in the Kuramoto model.
    Jared C Bronski*, University of Illinois
    Lee DeVille, University of Illinois
    Moon Jip Park, University of Illinois
    (1081-35-264)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    The cauchy problem for strongly dispersive two-dimensional surface waves.
    Felipe Linares, Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA)
    Didier Pilod*, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
    Jean-Claude Saut, Université Paris-Sud
    (1081-35-44)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    Equivariant Schroedinger Maps in 2D with large data.
    Ioan Bejenaru*, Univ of Chicago
    A Ionescu, Princeton
    C Kenig, Univ of Chicago
    D Tataru, UC Berkeley
    (1081-35-258)
• Friday March 30, 2012, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Singularities in Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, I
  Room 4020, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Hailong Dao, University of Kansas
  Lance E. Miller, University of Utah lmiller@math.utah.edu
  Karl Schwede, Pennsylvania State University
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    The dimension and radius of a subcategory of modules.
    Hailong Dao, University of Kansas
    Ryo Takahashi*, Nagoya University/University of Nebraska
    (1081-13-113)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Local volumes.
    Mihai Fulger*, University of Michigan
    (1081-14-110)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A Transversality theorem for some Classical Varieties.
    Chih-Chi Chou*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1081-14-227)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    $P$-bounded closure operations and semiprime operations on the nodal curve.
    Janet Cowden Vassilev*, University of New Mexico
    (1081-13-53)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Test Ideals in F-Regular Rings.
    Kevin Tucker*, Princeton University
    (1081-13-323)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    Multi-variable topological zeta functions.
    Nero Budur*, University of Notre Dame
    (1081-14-118)
• Friday March 30, 2012, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Stochastic Analysis, I
  Room 4008, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Jin Feng, University of Kansas
  Yaozhong Hu, University of Kansas
  David Hualart, University of Kansas nualart@math.ku.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    A Stochastic Differential Game for the Infinity Laplacian.
    Rami Atar, Department of EE, Technion
    Amarjit Budhiraja*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (1081-60-131)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Generalized Maliavin Calculus and Stochastic PDEs.
    Boris Rozovsky*, Brown University
    (1081-60-123)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    New Results for the Stochastic PDEs of Fluid Dynamics.
    Nathan Edward Glatt-Holtz*, Indiana University
    (1081-60-385)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    An approximation scheme for reflected stochastic differential equations.
    Lawrence Christopher Evans*, University of Missouri, Columbia
    (1081-60-60)
• Friday March 30, 2012, 4:30 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Topics in Commutative Algebra, I
  Room 4019, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Hailong Dao, University of Kansas hdao@math.ku.edu
  Craig Huneke, University of Kansas
  Daniel Katz, University of Kansas
  

  • 4:30 p.m.
    An approach to study the liaison classes of non-licci ideals.
    Paolo Mantero*, Purdue University
    (1081-13-17)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Local cohomology and FH-finite rings.
    Florian Enescu*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State University
    (1081-13-319)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The Grade Conjecture and Asymptotic Intersection Multiplicity.
    Jesse Beder*, University of Illinois
    (1081-13-228)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Generalized Lyubeznik Numbers.
    Luis Núñez-Betancourt, University of Michigan
    Emily E. Witt*, University of Minnesota
    (1081-13-284)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    Symbolic powers of ideals of lines in projective space and a conjecture of Nagata type.
    Brian Harbourne*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1081-14-236)

Saturday March 31, 2012

• Saturday March 31, 2012, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Book Sale and Exhibit
  Room 4021, Wescoe Hall
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Outside Room 4011, Wescoe Hall
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and its Applications, II
  Room 4023, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Yasuyuki Kachi, University of Kansas
  B. P. Purnaprajna, University of Kansas purna@math.ku.edu
  Sarang Sane, University of Kansas
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    K3 Surfaces of High Picard Rank.
    Adrian Clingher*, University of Missouri - St. Louis
    (1081-14-93)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Moduli of products.
    Bhargav Bhatt*, University of Michigan
    (1081-14-199)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Cohomological Crepant Resolution Conjecture for the Hilbert-Chow morphisms.
    Zhenbo Qin*, University of Missouri---Columbia
    (1081-14-86)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On uniformly effective birationality and the Shafarevich Conjecture over curves.
    Gordon Heier*, University of Houston
    Shigeharu Takayama, University of Tokyo
    (1081-14-216)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Syzygies of Segre-Veronese varieties and the homology of clique complexes.
    Claudiu Raicu*, Princeton University
    (1081-14-261)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Splitting of the pullback of the cotangent bundle on rational curves.
    Brian Harbourne*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1081-14-239)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Commutative Algebra, I
  Room 4025, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Christopher Francisco, Oklahoma State University chris@math.okstate.edu
  Jeffrey Mermin, Oklahoma State University
  Jay Schweig, University of Kansas
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Powers of edge ideals with linear resolutions.
    Andrew H Hoefel*, Queen's University
    (1081-13-251)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Minimal free resolutions of rigid monomial ideals.
    Timothy B.P. Clark, Loyola University Maryland
    Sonja Mapes*, University of Notre Dame
    (1081-13-143)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Combinatorial Interpretations of some Boij-Söderberg Decompositions.
    Uwe Nagel*, University of Kentucky
    Stephen Sturgeon, University of Kentucky
    (1081-13-305)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Maximizing the global Betti numbers of lex-plus-powers ideals.
    Melissa Lindsey*, Indiana Wesleyan University
    (1081-13-347)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Stabilization of multigraded Betti numbers.
    Tai Ha*, Tulane University
    (1081-13-76)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Numerical Macaulification.
    Juan C. Migliore*, University of Notre Dame
    Uwe Nagel, University of Kentucky
    (1081-13-136)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Complex Analysis, Geometry and Probability, II
  Room 4007, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Pietro Poggi-Corradini, Kansas State University pietro@math.ksu.edu
  Hrant Hakobyan, Kansas State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On the logarithm of the minimizing integrand for certain variational problems in two dimensions.
    Murat Akman*, Department of Mathematics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506
    John L Lewis, Department of Mathematics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506
    Andrew Vogel, Department of Mathematics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244
    (1081-35-66)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Ghosts of the Mapping Class Group.
    Oleg Ivrii*, Harvard University
    (1081-37-57)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Quasiconfomal geometry of slit carpets.
    Hrant Hakobyan*, Kansas State University
    (1081-30-83)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Pursuit-evasion and time-dependent gradient flow in singular spaces.
    Chanyoung Jun*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    (1081-53-26)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Geometric properties of the Schramm--Loewner Evolution.
    Brent M. Werness*, University of Chicago
    (1081-60-380)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    p Harmonic Measure Revisited.
    John L Lewis*, University of Kentucky
    (1081-30-49)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Enumerative and Geometric Combinatorics, I
  Room 4034, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Margaret Bayer, University of Kansas
  Joseph P. Kung, University of North Texas
  Svetlana Poznanovik, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Catherine Yan, Texas A&M University cyan@math.tamu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Noncontractibility of the coset lattice of a finite group.
    John Shareshian, Washington University in St. Louis
    Russ Woodroofe*, Washington University in St. Louis
    (1081-05-350)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Complexes of Signed Graphs and Decision Trees.
    Jacob A White*, Arizona State University
    (1081-05-253)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Coloring Complex of a Hypergraph.
    Sarah Crown Rundell*, Denison University
    (1081-05-08)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Cuts and flows in cell complexes, I: Topology and vector space bases.
    Art Duval*, University of Texas at El Paso
    Caroline Klivans, Brown University
    Jeremy Martin, University of Kansas
    (1081-05-297)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Cuts and flows in cell complexes, II: Lattices and critical groups.
    Art M Duval, University of Texas, El Paso
    Caroline J Klivans, Brown University
    Jeremy L Martin*, University of Kansas
    (1081-05-296)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Peaks and the cd-index.
    Samuel K. Hsiao*, Bard College
    (1081-05-78)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Representation Theory, II
  Room 4033, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Zongzhu Lin, Kansas State University zlin@math.ksu.edu
  Zhiwei Yun, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Geometric representation theory of Nakajima quiver varieties.
    Sachin Gautam*, Columbia University
    Valerio Toledano Laredo, Northeastern University
    (1081-17-213)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Rank 2 symmetric hyperbolic Kac-Moody algebras and Hilbert modular forms.
    Henry H. Kim, University of Toronto
    Kyu-Hwan Lee*, University of Connecticut
    (1081-17-185)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Lubin-Tate tower and the local Langlands correspondence.
    Mitya Boyarchenko*, University of Michigan
    Jared Weinstein, Boston University
    (1081-20-85)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Character sheaves of $GL_n(k[t]/(t^2))$.
    Zhaobing Fan*, Kansas State University
    (1081-20-188)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On quantum GL(n).
    Yiqiang Li*, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
    (1081-16-81)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Categorical Weil Representation and the Sign Problem.
    Shamgar Gurevich*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
    Ronny Hadani, University of Texas - Austin
    (1081-22-233)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Applications, II
  Room 4002, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Arpad Benyi, Western Washington University
  David Cruz-Uribe, Trinity College
  Rodolfo Torres, University of Kansas torres@math.ku.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Transference of Weak Type Bounds of Multiparameter Ergodic and Geometric Maximal Operators.
    Paul Hagelstein*, Baylor University
    (1081-42-77)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Equivalent definitions of Muckenhoupt and Reverse Holder classes of weights via summation conditions.
    Oleksandra V Beznosova*, Baylor University
    (1081-43-234)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Two Weight Inequality for the Hilbert Transform: A Real Variable Characterization.
    Michael T. Lacey, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Eric T. Sawyer, McMaster University
    Chun-Yen Shen, McMaster University
    Ignacio Uriarte-Tuero*, Michigan State University
    (1081-42-313)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Sharp weighted estimates with weights for maximal singular Calderón-Zygmund Singular Operators with no condition on the weight.
    Carlos Perez*, University of Seville
    (1081-42-278)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Off diagonal estimates and Riesz transforms for weighted elliptic operators.
    David Cruz-Uribe SFO, Trinity College
    José María Martell, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
    Cristian Rios*, University of Calgary
    (1081-35-290)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Regularity of solutions to degenerate $p$-Laplacian equations.
    David Cruz-Uribe, Trinity College
    Kabe Moen*, University of Alabama
    Virginia Naibo, Kansas State University
    (1081-35-260)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Interplay between Geometry and Partial Differential Equations in Several Complex Variables, II
  Room 4001, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Jennifer Halfpap, University of Montana
  Phil Harrington, University of Arkansas psharrin@uark.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The range of the Cauchy-Riemann operator in complex manifolds and duality between harmonic and Bergman spaces.
    Mei-Chi Shaw*, Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame
    (1081-32-111)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    L2-d-bar cohomology groups of some singular complex spaces.
    Nils Ovrelid, Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo
    Sophia Vassiliadou*, Department of Mathematics, Georgetown University
    (1081-32-268)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Covering mappings and the Bergman kernel.
    Siqi Fu*, Rutgers University-Camden
    (1081-32-230)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The $\overline{\partial}$-equation on the Hartogs Triangle.
    Debraj Chakrabarti*, TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics, Bangalore
    (1081-32-68)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Compactness of the $\overline{\partial}$-Neumann Operator and Commutator Operator on forms.
    Mehmet Çel\.ik*, University of North Texas at Dallas
    Sönmez Şahutoğlu, University of Toledo
    (1081-32-197)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Invariants of Knots, II
  Room 4071, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Heather A. Dye, McKendree University hadye@mckendree.edu
  Aaron Kaestner, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Louis H. Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Proof of a stronger version of the AJ conjecture for torus knots.
    Anh T Tran*, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1081-57-40)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Satellites of Legendrian knots and representations of the Chekanov-Eliashberg algebra.
    Lenhard Ng, Duke University
    Dan Rutherford*, University of Arkansas
    (1081-57-112)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A categorification of the Tutte polynomial.
    Moshe Cohen, Bar-Ilan University
    Adam Lowrance*, University of Iowa
    (1081-57-75)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Vassiliev Invariants of Virtual Legendrian Knots.
    Patricia Cahn*, Dartmouth College
    Asa Levi, Dartmouth College
    (1081-57-191)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Virtual 2-knots and 2-links.
    Jonathan Schneider*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1081-57-189)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Finite-Type Invariants of Classical and Virtual Knots.
    Lena Folwaczny*, University of Illinois, Chicago
    (1081-54-256)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematics of Ion Channels: Life's Transistors, I
  Room 4045, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Bob Eisenberg, Rush Medical Center at Chicago
  Chun Liu, Penn State University
  Weishi Liu, University of Kansas wliu@math.ku.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Mathematics of Ion Channels: Life's Transistors.
    Bob Eisenberg*, Molecular Biophysics, Rush University, Chicago IL USA
    (1081-92-27)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A conservative finite difference method for PNP equations.
    Xiaofan Li*, Dept of Applied Math, Illinois Inst of Tech
    Allen Flavell, Dept of Applied Math, Illinois Inst of Tech
    Bob Eisenberg, Dept of Mol Biophys and Physiology, Rush Medical Center
    Chun Liu, Dept of Math, Penn State University
    (1081-65-145)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Multiple solutions of Poisson-Nernst-Planck systems for ion channels.
    Mingji Zhang*, Department of Mathematics, the University of Kansas
    Weishi Liu, Department of Mathematics University of Kansas
    (1081-37-168)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mirror Symmetry, II
  Room 4076, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Ricardo Castano-Bernard, Kansas State University rcastano@math.ksu.edu
  Paul Horja, Oklahoma State University
  Zheng Hua, Kansas State University
  Yan Soibelman, Kansas State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Polytopes and Skeleta.
    Eric Zaslow*, IL
    (1081-57-207)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Real Lagrangians in the quintic and matrix factorizations.
    Garrett Alston*, Kansas State University
    (1081-51-148)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A Kunneth theorem in Lagrangian Floer theory.
    Lino Amorim*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1081-53-171)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On Lagrangian semi-toric singularities.
    Weiwei Wu*, University of Minnesota
    (1081-51-103)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Tropical Prym Varieties and Conic Bundles.
    Ilia Zharkov*, Kansas State University
    (1081-14-124)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and Applications, II
  Room 4043, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Weishi Liu, University of Kansas
  Erik Van Vleck, University of Kansas evanvleck@math.ku.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Concatenated Traveling Waves.
    Xiao-Biao Lin, North Carolina State University
    Stephen Schecter*, North Carolina State University
    (1081-35-355)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Entire Solutions of a Lattice Differential Equation over an Inhomogeneous Medium.
    Maila Brucal Hallare*, University of Kansas
    (1081-37-377)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Negative Diffusion in High Dimensional Lattice Systems - Travelling Waves.
    Hermen Jan Hupkes*, University of Missouri - Columbia
    Erik Van Vleck, University of Kansas
    (1081-37-269)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Systems of Neutral Equation of Mixed Type.
    Charles Lamb*, University of Kansas
    Erik Van Vleck, University of Kansas
    (1081-37-368)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Traveling Wave Solutions of Spatially Periodic Nonlocal Monostable Equations.
    Wenxian Shen, Auburn University
    Aijun Zhang*, Department of Mathematics, University of Kansas
    (1081-37-41)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Stability of Periodic Wave Trains in a Kuramoto-Sivashinsky Equation.
    Mat Johnson*, University of Kansas
    (1081-35-222)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing, II
  Room 4051, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Weizhang Huang, University of Kansas huang@math.ku.edu
  Xuemin Tu, University of Kansas
  Erik Van Vleck, University of Kansas
  Honggou Xu, University of Kansas
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Low order methods for constrained systems in mechanics.
    Laurent O Jay*, Department of Mathematics, The University of Iowa.
    (1081-65-107)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A Perturbation Theory for Lyapunov Exponents for Sequences of Operators on a Hilbert Space and Techniques for Approximation of Global Lyapunov Exponents.
    Mohamed Badawy*, University of Kansas
    Erik S. Van Vleck, University of Kansas
    (1081-65-364)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Entropy/energy stable schemes for evolutionary dispersal equations.
    Hailiang Liu, Iowa State University
    Hui Yu*, Iowa State University
    (1081-65-399)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Convergence Analysis of a Finite Difference Scheme for the Gradient Flow associated with the ROF Model.
    Ming-Jun Lai, the University of Georgia
    Jingyue Wang*, the University of Kansas
    Qianying Hong, the University of Georgia
    (1081-65-210)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Recent numerical results on the surface quasi-geostrophic equation.
    Jiahong Wu*, Oklahoma State University
    (1081-65-200)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A unified FETI-DP approach for incompressible Stokes equations.
    Xuemin Tu*, University of Kansas
    Jing Li, Kent State University
    (1081-65-69)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Partial Differential Equations, II
  Room 4040, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Milena Stanislavova, University of Kansas
  Atanas Stefanov, University of Kansas stefanov@math.ku.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The surface quasi-geostrophic equation and its generalizations.
    Jiahong Wu*, Oklahoma State University
    (1081-35-198)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Large data solutions of 3D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations.
    Walter M Rusin*, University of Southern California
    (1081-35-349)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Energy decay of weak solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations and related fluid equations in the whole space.
    Ning Ju*, Oklahoma State University
    (1081-35-322)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Global Bifurcations and Stability of Bound States in Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations.
    Eduard-Wilhelm Kirr*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Vivek Natarajan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1081-35-172)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On formation of a locally self-similar collapse in the incompressible Euler equations.
    Roman Shvydkoy*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Dongho Chae, Chung-Ang University, Korea
    (1081-35-267)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Estimates for the Wave Equation with a Rough Potential.
    Marius Beceanu, Rutgers University
    Michael Goldberg*, University of Cincinnati
    (1081-35-73)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Singularities in Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, II
  Room 4020, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Hailong Dao, University of Kansas
  Lance E. Miller, University of Utah lmiller@math.utah.edu
  Karl Schwede, Pennsylvania State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Classifying singularities up to analytic extensions.
    Hans Schoutens*, City University of New York (CUNY)
    (1081-13-50)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Splice quotients of the form $z^n=f(x,y)$.
    Elizabeth A. Sell*, Millersville University of Pennsylvania
    (1081-14-218)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Finitistic extension degree.
    Kosmas Diveris*, Syracuse University
    (1081-16-351)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A local ring has only finitely many semidualizing modules up to isomorphism.
    Sean Sather-Wagstaff*, North Dakota State University
    Saeed Nasseh, North Dakota State University
    (1081-13-221)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Computing Khovanov-Rozansky homology.
    Daniel Murfet*, UCLA
    (1081-14-275)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Duality for Koszul Homology over Gorenstein Rings.
    Claudia Miller*, Syracuse University
    Hamid Rahmati, Syracuse University
    Janet Striuli, Fairfield University
    (1081-13-381)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Stochastic Analysis, II
  Room 4008, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Jin Feng, University of Kansas
  Yaozhong Hu, University of Kansas
  David Hualart, University of Kansas nualart@math.ku.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The calculus of differentials for the weak Stratonovich integral.
    Jason Swanson*, University of Central Florida
    (1081-60-237)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Taylor expansion for the solution of a stochastic differential equation driven by fractional Brownian motions.
    Fabrice Baudoin*, Purdue University
    Xuejing Zhang, Purdue University
    (1081-60-62)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Approximation schemes of the solution of a stochastic differential equation driven by fractional Brownian motion.
    Xiaoming Song*, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (1081-60-346)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Central limit theorem for an additive functional of the fractional Brownian motion.
    Yaozhong Hu, Department of Mathematics University of Kansas
    David Nualart, Department of Mathematics University of Kansas
    Fangjun Xu*, Department of Mathematics University of Kansas
    (1081-60-95)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Topics in Commutative Algebra, II
  Room 4019, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Hailong Dao, University of Kansas hdao@math.ku.edu
  Craig Huneke, University of Kansas
  Daniel Katz, University of Kansas
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    The evaluation map in local algebra.
    Luchezar L Avramov, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    Srikanth B Iyengar*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    (1081-13-235)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Surprising shapes of free resolutions.
    Christine Berkesch*, Duke University
    Daniel Erman, University of Michigan
    Manoj Kummini, Chennai Mathematical Institute
    Steven V Sam, MIT
    (1081-13-249)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    $F$-purity of binomial hypersurfaces.
    Daniel J Hernández*, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
    (1081-13-384)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Bounding the Hilbert-Kunz multiplicity of nonregular local rings away from one.
    Ian M Aberbach*, University of Missouri
    (1081-13-272)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Are Complete Intersections Complete Intersections?
    Raymond C. Heitmann*, University of Texas at Austin
    David A. Jorgensen, University of Texas at Arlington
    (1081-13-187)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Dynamics and Stability of Nonlinear Waves, II
  Room 4041, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Mat Johnson, University of Kansas matjohn@math.ku.edu
  Myunghyun Oh, University of Kansas
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Asymptotic stability of solitary waves in a water wave model with indefinite variational structure.
    Robert L Pego*, Carnegie Mellon University
    Tetsu Mizumachi, Kyushu University
    José Raúl Quintero, Universidad del Valle
    (1081-35-150)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Instability of Periodic Water Waves.
    Zhiwu Lin*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1081-35-331)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Modulational stability and variational structure.
    Vera Mikyoung Hur*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Jared Bronski, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1081-35-252)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Topology and Group Theory, II
  Room 4035, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Richard P. Kent IV, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Christopher J. Leininger, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign clein@math.uiuc.edu
  Kasra Rafi, University of Oklahoma
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Collisions at infinity.
    David Ben McReynolds*, Purdue University
    Alan Reid, University of Texas in Austin
    Matthew Stover, University of Michigan
    (1081-57-339)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Congruence subgroups of braid groups.
    Tara E. Brendle, University of Glasgow
    Dan Margalit*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1081-20-358)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The metric completion of Outer Space.
    Yael Algom-Kfir*, Yale University
    (1081-20-180)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Birman Hilden theorem for irregular branched covers.
    Rebecca Winarski*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1081-20-67)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometry of Moduli Spaces of Sheaves, I
  Room 4044, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Alina Marian, Northeastern University a.marian@neu.edu
  Dragos Oprea, University of California San Diego
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Projectivity and birational geometry of Bridgeland moduli spaces.
    Arend Bayer*, University of Connecticut
    Emanuele Macrì, Ohio State University
    (1081-14-141)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    ACM bundles on cubics.
    Emanuele Macri*, The Ohio State University
    (1081-14-163)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Statistics, II
  Room 4012, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Zsolt Talata, University of Kansas talata@math.ku.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Bayes Estimation via Filtering Equation for Partially-observed Heston Stochastic Volatility Model with Marked Point Process Observations.
    Brent Bundick, Boston College
    Yong Zeng*, University of Missouri at Kansas City
    (1081-62-202)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Bayes Factors for One-Way ANOVA.
    Paul L. Speckman*, University of Missouri
    Dongchu Sun, University of Missouri
    (1081-62-302)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Nonparametric Regression Model with Tree-structured Response.
    Yuan Wang, Colorado State University
    J.S. Marron, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    Burcu Aydin, HP Labs
    Alim Ladha, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    Elizabeth Bullitt, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    Haonan Wang*, Colorado State University
    (1081-62-255)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Optimal Spatial Sampling Design and Wireless Sensor Networks.
    Zhengyuan Zhu*, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
    (1081-62-144)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Compactly supported covariance matrix models with application to spatial covariance tapering.
    Juan Du*, Department of Statistics, Kansas State University
    Chunsheng Ma, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, & Physics, Wichita State University
    Samuel Seth Demel, Department of Statistics, Kansas State University
    (1081-62-299)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Undergraduate Research, I
  Room 4062, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Marianne Korten, Kansas State University marianne@math.ksu.edu
  David Yetter, Kansas State University
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Discussion.
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Epidemic distance versus effective resistance.
    Joshua Ericson*, Kansas State University
    Pietro Poggi-Corradini, Kansas State University
    Hainan Zhang, Kansas State University
    (1081-00-156)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Using Normalization Techniques and Matched Analysis to Determine Differential Gene Expression of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma.
    Lauren Beesley*, Department of Mathematics, University of Kansas
    Xue-Wen Chen, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Kansas
    Jun Huan, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Kansas
    (1081-92-63)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Pattern Avoidance in Partial Words.
    Shane Scott*, Kansas State University
    Francine Blanchet-Sadri, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    Andrew Lohr, University of Maryland, College Park
    (1081-05-166)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on University Mathematics Education in an Online World, I
  Room 4067, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Andrew G. Bennett, Kansas State University bennett@math.ksu.edu
  Carlos Castillo-Garsow, Kansas State University
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Technology and the Teaching of Calculus.
    Patrick W Thompson, Arizona State University
    Neil Hatfield*, Arizona State University
    Cameron Byerley, Arizona State University
    (1081-97-55)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Dynamic Web Tools for Early Undergraduate Mathematics.
    Michael E Martin*, Johnson County Community College
    (1081-97-407)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Data Mining for Differentiated Instruction.
    Andrew G Bennett*, Kansas State University
    Rachel Manspeaker, Coker College
    (1081-97-353)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    MathDL: The MAA's Resource for Interactive Articles, Teaching Resources, and News.
    Lawrence Moore*, Duke University
    (1081-97-406)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers, I
  Room 4037, Wescoe Hall
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Two Inequalities relating the classical and areal Mahler measures.
    Charles L Samuels*, Oklahoma City University
    (1081-11-71)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Classification of the Tor Algebra for Trivariate Monomial Ideals.
    Jared L Painter*, The University of Texas at Arlington
    (1081-13-25)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    An algebraic geometry approach to the reverse-engineering problem.
    Alan Veliz-Cuba*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1081-14-05)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    The 2D Anisotropic Magnetohydrodynamic Equations.
    Dipendra Regmi*, Oklahoma State University
    Chongsheng Cao, Florida International University
    Jiahong Wu, Oklahoma State University
    (1081-35-293)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Error estimate for the Bloch band-based Gaussian beam superposition for the Schrödinger equation.
    Maksym V Pryporov*, Iowa State University
    (1081-35-376)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Fourier multipliers in Hardy spaces in tubes over open cones and their applications.
    Oleksandr (Alexander) V. Tovstolis*, Oklahoma State University
    (1081-42-34)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Local Fractional Maximal Operators.
    Jonathan W. Poelhuis*, Indiana University
    (1081-43-310)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 11:05 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Enumerative combinatorics with fillings of polyominoes.
  Room 3931, Wescoe Hall
  Catherine Yan*, Texas A&M University
  (1081-05-04)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 1:25 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Strange duality for K3 and Abelian surfaces.
  Room 3931, Wescoe Hall
  Alina Marian*, Northeastern University
  (1081-14-03)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and its Applications, III
  Room 4023, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Yasuyuki Kachi, University of Kansas
  B. P. Purnaprajna, University of Kansas purna@math.ku.edu
  Sarang Sane, University of Kansas
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    ACM rank two bundles on quintic threefolds.
    A.P. Rao*, University of Missouri-St. Louis
    (1081-14-231)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Complete Intersection Monomial Curves.
    A. V. Jayanthan, Indian Institute of Techonology, Madras, India
    Hema Srinivasan*, University of Missouri
    (1081-13-135)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Extension theorems for cycles and bundles.
    Ravindra Girivaru*, U Missouri -- St. Louis
    (1081-14-167)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Stellar Vault.
    Steven Dale Cutkosky*, University of Missouri
    (1081-14-194)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Commutative Algebra, II
  Room 4025, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Christopher Francisco, Oklahoma State University chris@math.okstate.edu
  Jeffrey Mermin, Oklahoma State University
  Jay Schweig, University of Kansas
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Partitionable Simplicial Complexes.
    Ben Richert*, California Polytechnic State University
    (1081-13-374)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Hilbert functions of face rings of pseudomanifolds.
    Isabella Novik, University of Washington, Seattle
    Ed Swartz*, Cornell University
    (1081-13-190)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Balanced vertex decomposable simplicial complexes and their $h$-vectors.
    Jennifer Biermann*, Lakehead University
    Adam Van Tuyl, Lakehead University
    (1081-13-357)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On Stanley's matroid h-vector conjecture.
    Tai Hà, Tulane University
    Erik Stokes, NSA
    Fabrizio Zanello*, Michigan Tech
    (1081-05-74)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Complex Analysis, Geometry and Probability, III
  Room 4007, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Pietro Poggi-Corradini, Kansas State University pietro@math.ksu.edu
  Hrant Hakobyan, Kansas State University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Sierpiński carpets as Julia sets.
    Mario Bonk*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (1081-30-108)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Conformal Welding.
    Donald E Marshall*, University of Washington
    (1081-30-311)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Random conformal weldings at criticality.
    Nicolae Tecu*, Yale University
    (1081-30-254)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Conformal welding and Schramm Löwner Evolution,.
    Ilia Binder*, Univesity of Toronto
    Stanislav Smirnov, University of Geneva
    (1081-82-273)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Dynamics and Stability of Nonlinear Waves, III
  Room 4041, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Mat Johnson, University of Kansas matjohn@math.ku.edu
  Myunghyun Oh, University of Kansas
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Conservation Laws and Perturbations of KP Web-Solutions.
    Christopher W. Curtis*, University of Colorada
    Mark J Ablowitz, University of Colorado
    (1081-35-214)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Spectral stability of shock layers in compressible fluid flow.
    Blake Barker, Indiana University
    Jeffrey Humpherys*, Brigham Young University
    Gregory Lyng, University of Wyoming
    Kevin Zumbrun, Indiana University
    (1081-35-404)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A Numerical Study of Stability of Periodic Kuramoto-Sivashinsky Waves.
    Blake Barker*, Indiana University
    Mathew Johnson, The University of Kansas
    Miguel Rodrigues, University of Lyon
    Pascal Noble, University of Lyon
    Kevin Zumbrun, Indiana University
    (1081-35-32)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Motion of bi-layers governed by the functionalized Cahn-Hilliard equation.
    Shibin Dai*, Michigan State University
    Keith Promislow, Michigan State University
    (1081-35-38)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Enumerative and Geometric Combinatorics, II
  Room 4034, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Margaret Bayer, University of Kansas
  Joseph P. Kung, University of North Texas
  Svetlana Poznanovik, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Catherine Yan, Texas A&M University cyan@math.tamu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Parking Functions in the Representation Theory of Diagonal Harmonics.
    J. Haglund*, University of Pennsylvania
    (1081-05-45)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Meanders and RNA Folding.
    Christine E Heitsch*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1081-05-300)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A new $q$-analog of the partition lattice.
    Julian Moorehead, University of Miami
    Michelle L Wachs*, University of Miami
    (1081-05-316)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The short toric polynomial and the toric $h$-vector of a simple polytope.
    Gábor Hetyei*, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
    (1081-05-142)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Representation Theory, III
  Room 4033, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Zongzhu Lin, Kansas State University zlin@math.ksu.edu
  Zhiwei Yun, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Geometrical Satake for ramified groups.
    Xinwen Zhu*, Department of mathematics, Harvard University
    (1081-22-321)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Geometric Satake, Springer correspondence, and small representations.
    Pramod N. Achar*, Louisiana State University
    Anthony Henderson, University of Sydney
    Daniel Juteau, Université de Caen Basse-Normandie
    Simon Riche, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand
    (1081-20-177)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Koszul duality for affine Lie algebras and rational Cherednik algebras.
    P. Shan*, MIT
    M. Varagnolo, Université de Cergy-Pontoise
    E. Vasserot, Université Paris 7
    (1081-16-120)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Koszul Duality and Mixed Hodge Modules.
    S. N. Kitchen*, University of Freiburg
    (1081-18-336)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Topology and Group Theory, III
  Room 4035, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Richard P. Kent IV, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Christopher J. Leininger, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign clein@math.uiuc.edu
  Kasra Rafi, University of Oklahoma
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Beyond the Twisted Rabbit.
    Russell Lodge*, Indiana University Bloomington
    (1081-37-259)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Canonical metrics in a conformal class.
    Dmitri Scheglov*, University of Oklahoma
    (1081-53-178)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Asymptoticity of grafting and Teichmüller rays.
    Subhojoy Gupta*, Yale University
    (1081-53-175)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Presentation problem for the profinite completion of the Grigorchuk group.
    Mustafa Gokhan Benli*, Texas A&M University, Department of Mathematics
    (1081-20-169)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 2:30 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometry of Moduli Spaces of Sheaves, II
  Room 4044, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Alina Marian, Northeastern University a.marian@neu.edu
  Dragos Oprea, University of California San Diego
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Stable complexes and Fourier-Mukai transforms.
    Jason Lo*, University of Missouri, Columbia
    (1081-14-301)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    K-theory of moduli spaces of sheaves and large grassmannians.
    Erik Lee Carlsson*, Simons center for geometry and physics
    (1081-14-395)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Applications, III
  Room 4002, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Arpad Benyi, Western Washington University
  David Cruz-Uribe, Trinity College
  Rodolfo Torres, University of Kansas torres@math.ku.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Bilinear pseudo-Poincare inequalities.
    Frederic Bernicot, Laboratoire de Mathematiques Jean Leray, Nantes, France.
    Diego Maldonado*, Kansas State University
    Kabe Moen, University of Alabama
    Virginia Naibo, Kansas State University
    (1081-31-161)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the Hörmander classes of bilinear pseudodifferential operators.
    Árpad Bényi, Western Washington University
    Frédéric Bernicot, Laboratoire de Mathematiques Jean Leray, Nantes, France
    Diego Maldonado, Kansas State University
    Virginia Naibo*, Kansas State University
    Rodolfo Torres, University of Kansas
    (1081-42-128)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Two problems in Harmonic Analysis.
    Ciprian Demeter*, Indiana University
    (1081-42-320)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A twisted T(1) theorem.
    Vjekoslav Kovac, University of Zagreb
    Christoph Thiele*, UCLA
    (1081-42-312)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Interplay between Geometry and Partial Differential Equations in Several Complex Variables, III
  Room 4001, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Jennifer Halfpap, University of Montana
  Phil Harrington, University of Arkansas psharrin@uark.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    The X-variety for proper mappings between balls.
    John P. D'Angelo*, University of Illinois, Urbana IL 61801
    (1081-32-59)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Group-invariant CR mappings.
    Dusty E Grundmeier*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (1081-32-245)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Bounding the rank of Hermitian forms and rigidity for CR mappings of hyperquadrics.
    Dusty Grundmeier, University of Michigan
    Jiri Lebl*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Liz Vivas, Purdue University
    (1081-32-138)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Analytic Continuation of Holomorphic Mappings From Non-Minimal Hypersurfaces.
    Ilya Kossovskiy*, University of Western Ontario
    (1081-32-174)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Invariants of Knots, III
  Room 4071, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Heather A. Dye, McKendree University hadye@mckendree.edu
  Aaron Kaestner, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Louis H. Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Minimal Diagrams of Free Knots.
    Allison Henrich*, Seattle University
    Tom Boothby, Simon Fraser University
    Alexander Leaf, Princeton University
    (1081-57-54)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the Combinatorics of Smoothing.
    Micah W. Chrisman*, Monmouth University
    (1081-55-07)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Generalized Parity.
    Heather A Dye*, O'Fallon
    Louis Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Allison Henrich, Seattle University
    (1081-57-56)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Preordered quandles.
    Maciej Niebrzydowski*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    (1081-06-192)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Statistics, III
  Room 4012, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Zsolt Talata, University of Kansas talata@math.ku.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Algebraic aspects of graphical models.
    Seth Sullivant*, North Carolina State University
    (1081-62-151)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Optimal rate for a queueing system in heavy traffic with superimposed On-Off arrivals.
    Arka P. Ghosh*, Iowa State University
    (1081-60-152)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Sequential maximum likelihood estimation for reflected Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes.
    Chihoon Lee*, Colorado State University
    Jaya Bishwal, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
    Myung Hee Lee, Colorado State University
    (1081-62-132)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Variable selection under dependence.
    Bhaskar Bhattacharya*, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
    (1081-62-89)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 2:30 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematics of Ion Channels: Life's Transistors, II
  Room 4045, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Bob Eisenberg, Rush Medical Center at Chicago
  Chun Liu, Penn State University
  Weishi Liu, University of Kansas wliu@math.ku.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Dynamics of a vesicle in viscous fluids.
    Shuwang Li*, Applied Math Department, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL
    Kai Liu, Applied Math Department, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL
    (1081-65-173)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Mechano-sensing Primary Cilia.
    Yuan-Nan Young*, Department of Mathematical Sciences/New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Christopher Jacobs, Department of Biomedical Engineering/Columbia University
    Matt Downs, Department of Biomedical Engineering/Columbia University
    (1081-92-263)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Mirror Symmetry, III
  Room 4076, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Ricardo Castano-Bernard, Kansas State University rcastano@math.ksu.edu
  Paul Horja, Oklahoma State University
  Zheng Hua, Kansas State University
  Yan Soibelman, Kansas State University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Homological mirror symmetry is Fourier-Mukai transform.
    Junwu Tu*, Math Department University of Oregon
    (1081-81-29)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Mirror Symmetry and Ribbon Graphs.
    Nicolo` Sibilla*, Northwestern University
    (1081-14-109)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the Hochschild (co)homology of the Fukaya Category.
    Sheel C. Ganatra*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1081-53-203)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and Applications, III
  Room 4043, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Weishi Liu, University of Kansas
  Erik Van Vleck, University of Kansas evanvleck@math.ku.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    On single mode forcing of the 2D Navier-Stokes equations.
    Ciprian Foias, Texas A&M University
    Michael Jolly*, Indiana University
    Ming Yang, Texas A&M University
    (1081-76-266)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Orbital stability of localized structures via Backlund transform.
    Aaron Hoffman*, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
    C. E. Wayne, Boston University
    (1081-37-315)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Steady states for shear flow in a liquid crystal model.
    Timothy Dorn*, University of Kansas
    Weishi Liu, University of Kansas
    (1081-37-224)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Instability of transonic waves of a viscous isentropic gas flow through a nozzle with natural viscosity.
    Weishi Liu, University of Kansas
    Myunghyun Oh*, University of Kansas
    (1081-35-344)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing, III
  Room 4051, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Weizhang Huang, University of Kansas huang@math.ku.edu
  Xuemin Tu, University of Kansas
  Erik Van Vleck, University of Kansas
  Honggou Xu, University of Kansas
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Numerical computation of the Schwarz-Christoffel transformation for multiply connected domains - an overview.
    Thomas K DeLillo*, Wichita State University
    (1081-65-288)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Analysis of Backward Error and Condition for Polynomial Eigenproblems.
    Qifang Su*, Taizhou University
    (1081-65-137)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the equality of algebraic and geometric multiplicities of matrix eigenvalues.
    Jiu Ding, The University of Southern Mississippi
    Noah H Rhee*, The University of Missouri - Kansas City
    (1081-15-43)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Convergence of QR algorithm with Rayleigh-quotient shift for normal matrices.
    Hongguo Xu*, Department of Mathematics, University of Kansas
    (1081-65-292)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Partial Differential Equations, III
  Room 4040, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Milena Stanislavova, University of Kansas
  Atanas Stefanov, University of Kansas stefanov@math.ku.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Stability of coupled solitary waves for an NLS-KdV system.
    John Paul Albert*, University of Oklahoma
    Santosh Bhattarai, University of Oklahoma
    (1081-35-387)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Index Theorems for Quadratic Pencils with Applications.
    Todd Kapitula*, Calvin College
    (1081-35-96)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the linear instability of nonlinear Dirac equation.
    Andrew Comech*, Texas A&M University
    Nabile Boussaid, Université de Franche-Comté
    (1081-35-39)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The infinite dimensional Evans function.
    Yuri Latushkin*, University of Missouri-Columbia
    Alin Pogan, Indiana University
    (1081-35-88)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Singularities in Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, III
  Room 4020, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Hailong Dao, University of Kansas
  Lance E. Miller, University of Utah lmiller@math.utah.edu
  Karl Schwede, Pennsylvania State University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Rings that do not admit non-free totally reflexive modules.
    Andrew R Kustin, University of South Carolina
    Janet Striuli, Fairfield University
    Adela Vraciu*, University of South Carolina
    (1081-13-265)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The F-Signature of an Affine Toric Variety.
    Michael Von Korff*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (1081-13-396)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    An application of relational equivalence to Hilbert-Kunz Functions.
    C-Y. Jean Chan*, Central Michigan University
    Kazuhiko Kurano, Meiji University, Japan
    (1081-13-328)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Varieties in flag manifolds and their patch ideals.
    Alexander Yong*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1081-14-162)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Stochastic Analysis, III
  Room 4008, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Jin Feng, University of Kansas
  Yaozhong Hu, University of Kansas
  David Hualart, University of Kansas nualart@math.ku.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    The Multifactor Term Structure of Interest Rates under Regime Shifts and Levy Jumps.
    Xiangdong Liu, Jinan University
    Chris Evans, The University of Missouri
    Shu Wu, University of Kansas
    Yong Zeng*, University of Missouri at Kansas City
    (1081-60-182)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Maximum Principle for General Controlled Systems Driven by Fractional Brownian Motions.
    Jian Song*, Math Dept, Rutgers University
    (1081-60-341)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Convergence of Probability Densities of Some Nonlinear Functionals of Gaussian Processes.
    Yaozhong Hu, University of Kansas
    Fei Lu*, University of Kansas
    David Nualart, University of Kansas
    (1081-60-324)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Topics in Commutative Algebra, III
  Room 4019, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Hailong Dao, University of Kansas hdao@math.ku.edu
  Craig Huneke, University of Kansas
  Daniel Katz, University of Kansas
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    On Efficient Generation of Pull-back of $T_{{\mathbb{P}}^n}(-1)$.
    Sankar P Dutta*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1081-13-19)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Categorified Duality in Boij--Söderberg Theory.
    David Eisenbud, University of California, Berkeley
    Daniel Erman*, University of Michigan
    (1081-13-240)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Variation of Hilbert Coefficients.
    Laura Ghezzi, New York City College of Technology-CUNY
    Shiro Goto, Meiji University, Japan.
    Jooyoun Hong*, Southern Connecticut State University
    Wolmer V. Vasconcelos, Rutgers University
    (1081-13-158)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Rings of Frobenius operators.
    Anurag K Singh*, University of Utah
    (1081-13-164)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Undergraduate Research, II
  Room 4062, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Marianne Korten, Kansas State University marianne@math.ksu.edu
  David Yetter, Kansas State University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Constrained two-body problem.
    Na Long*, Kansas State University
    (1081-34-372)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Exploring the Efficient Frontier: An Inquiry into the Investment Policy of the City of Lincoln.
    Christopher Seidholz*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Cale Hadan, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Corrine Hodges, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Alex Houston, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1081-00-388)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A Clifford Algebraic Approach to Moebius Transformations and Liouville's Theorem.
    Raymond T Walter*, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
    (1081-58-393)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Embroidering in Banach Space.
    Alexander Adam Azzam*, The University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    (1081-37-101)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on University Mathematics Education in an Online World, II
  Room 4067, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Andrew G. Bennett, Kansas State University bennett@math.ksu.edu
  Carlos Castillo-Garsow, Kansas State University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Facilitating Student Mathematical Input on Mobile Devices.
    Philip B Yasskin*, Texas A&M University
    Douglas B Meade, University of South Carolina
    Matthew J Barry, Texas A&M University
    (1081-97-333)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Textbook of the Future.
    Carlos W Castillo-Garsow*, Kansas State University
    Andrew Bennett, Kansas State University
    (1081-97-363)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the Role of Assessment in the Design of Online Resources for Learning Mathematics.
    Douglas B Meade*, Department of Mathematics, University of South Carolina
    Philip B Yasskin, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University
    (1081-97-382)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Discussion.
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 3:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers, II
  Room 4037, Wescoe Hall
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A note on automatic continuity of Jordan *-homomorphisms for locally JB*-algebras.
    Alexander A. Katz*, St. John's University, NY, USA
    (1081-46-09)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    On the Gelfand-Mazur type theorem for C*-algebras over C$_{\infty }$(Q,C), where Q is a Stonean compact.
    Alexander A. Katz, St. John's University, NY, USA
    Roman Kushnir*, University of South Africa, Pretoria, RSA/St.John's University, NY, USA
    (1081-46-21)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Positivity-Preserving Space-Time DG-FEM for Kinetic Vlasov Models of Plasma.
    David Seal*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
    James Rossmanith, University of Wisconsin - Madison
    (1081-65-23)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Projections of extreme rainfall events using statistical downscaling in Malaysia.
    Syafrina Abdul Halim*, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, International Campus Kuala Lumpur
    (1081-92-80)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Similarity solutions for shock waves in non-ideal magnetogasdynamics.
    Ramu Addepalli*, BITS - Pilani, Hyderabad campus, Shameerpet, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh - 500078, India
    Narasimhulu Dunna, BITS - Pilani, Hyderabad campus, Shameerpet, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh - 500078, India
    (1081-76-16)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 4:40 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Studying algebraic varieties through their cohomology---Recent progress in the Langlands program.
  Room 3931, Wescoe Hall
  Frank Calegari*, Northwestern University
  (1081-11-01)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 5:45 p.m.-6:45 p.m.
  University of Kansas Mathematics Department Poster Session
  Summerfield Room, Kansas University Alumni Center
  

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• Saturday March 31, 2012, 5:45 p.m.-6:45 p.m.
  University of Kansas Mathematics Department Reception
  Second Floor, Kansas University Alumni Center

Sunday April 1, 2012

• Sunday April 1, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Enumerative and Geometric Combinatorics, III
  Room 4034, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Margaret Bayer, University of Kansas
  Joseph P. Kung, University of North Texas
  Svetlana Poznanovik, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Catherine Yan, Texas A&M University cyan@math.tamu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Ballot Paths Avoiding both Patterns $urru$ and $rur$.
    Heinrich Niederhausen*, Florida Atlantic University
    (1081-05-119)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Surprising symmetries in objects counted by Catalan numbers.
    Miklos Bona*, University of Florida
    (1081-05-149)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Permutation Patterns and Statistics.
    Bruce E Sagan*, Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University
    (1081-05-35)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Dumont permutations with one occurrence of certain 3- and 4-letter patterns.
    Alexander Burstein*, Howard University
    (1081-05-371)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Cycles and sorting index for permutations and matchings.
    Svetlana Poznanovikj*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1081-05-369)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the joint distribution of descents and inverse descents.
    Mirkó Visontai*, University of Pennsylvania
    (1081-05-24)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Lattice Path Matroid Polytopes.
    Hoda Bidkhori*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1081-05-402)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Discussion.
• Sunday April 1, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Representation Theory, IV
  Room 4033, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Zongzhu Lin, Kansas State University zlin@math.ksu.edu
  Zhiwei Yun, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Springer Fibers, Joseph Polynomials and the Temperley--Lieb Algebra.
    Matthew Housley*, Brigham Young University
    (1081-22-140)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A combinatorial and geometric representation of the symmetric group.
    Julianna S Tymoczko*, Smith College
    (1081-14-391)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A derived Springer correspondence for mixed perverse sheaves.
    Laura Rider*, Louisiana State University
    (1081-18-65)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Representations of semisimple Lie algebras in positive characteristic.
    Ivan Mirkovic*, U. of Massachusetts, Amherst
    (1081-14-373)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Derived equivalences for quantum symplectic resolutions.
    Thomas Nevins*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1081-14-94)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Geometric Theory of Harish Chandra Characters.
    David Ben-Zvi*, University of Texas
    David Nadler, Northwestern University
    (1081-22-36)
• Sunday April 1, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Applications, IV
  Room 4002, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Arpad Benyi, Western Washington University
  David Cruz-Uribe, Trinity College
  Rodolfo Torres, University of Kansas torres@math.ku.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Discussion.
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Transference method of the $L^p$ continuity of the Littlewood-Paley-Jacobi g function to the to the Littlewood-Paley-Hermite and Littlewood-Paley-Laguerre g functions.
    Wilfredo O Urbina*, Roosevelt University
    Eduard Navas, Universidad Experimental Francisco de Miranda
    (1081-42-153)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On Fourier transforms of radial functions and distributions.
    Loukas Grafakos*, University of Missouri
    Gerald Teschl, University of Vienna
    (1081-42-115)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Global Estimates for Kernels of Neumann Series and Green's Functions for Schrödinger operators of Fractional Order.
    Michael W Frazier*, University of Tennessee
    Fedor Nazarov, Kent State University
    Igor E Verbitsky, University of Missouri
    (1081-35-186)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A remark on the two dimensional water wave problem with surface tension.
    Markus Keel, Department of Mathematics
    Shuanglin Shao*, Department of Mathematics
    (1081-35-102)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Global behavior of solutions to the focusing nonlinear Schrödinger Equation.
    Svetlana Roudenko*, The George Washington University
    (1081-35-276)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Interpolation of Gibbs measures with white Noise for Hamiltonian PDEs.
    Tadahiro (Choonghong) Oh*, Princeton University
    Jeremy Quastel, University of Toronto
    Benedek Valko, University of Wisconsin Madison
    (1081-60-48)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Initial Value Problem for the quasilinear dispersive PDE.
    Timur Akhunov*, University of Calgary
    (1081-35-286)
• Sunday April 1, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Interplay between Geometry and Partial Differential Equations in Several Complex Variables, IV
  Room 4001, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Jennifer Halfpap, University of Montana
  Phil Harrington, University of Arkansas psharrin@uark.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Critical points of isoperimetric functionals.
    David E Barrett*, University of Michigan
    (1081-32-314)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Closed range for $\bar\partial$ on $(0,q)$-forms and a weak $Z(q)$-condition.
    Phillip Harrington, University of Arkansas
    Andrew Raich*, University of Arkansas
    (1081-32-121)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Regularity of the Bergman Projection and Stein Neighborhood Bases.
    Yunus E Zeytuncu*, Texas A&M University
    (1081-32-184)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Geometric Sufficient Conditions for Compactness of the $\overline{\partial}$-Neumann Operator for a Class of Domains.
    Samangi Munasinghe*, Western Kentucky University
    (1081-32-211)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Localization of compactness of Hankel operators on pseudoconvex domains in $C^n$.
    Sonmez Sahutoglu*, University of Toledo
    (1081-32-31)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Vanishing Theorems on Compact Kahler manifolds.
    Dincer Guler*, Park University
    (1081-32-392)
• Sunday April 1, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Invariants of Knots, IV
  Room 4071, Wescoe Hall
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On a family of extension quandles associated with pointed abelian groups.
    Masahico Saito*, University of South Florida
    W. Edwin Clark, USF
    Mohamed Elhamdadi, USF
    Xiang-dong Hou, USF
    Timothy Yeatman, USF
    (1081-57-176)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Quantum Enhancements of Involutory Rack Counting Invariants.
    Sam Nelson*, Claremont McKenna College
    (1081-57-79)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Parity Biquandles.
    Aaron Kaestner*, North Park University
    Louis H Kauffman, University of Illinois - Chicago
    (1081-54-70)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Every group is a distributive set in a monoid of binary operations.
    Gregory T Mezera*, George Washington University
    (1081-55-361)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Symmetric group actions on webs.
    Heather M. Russell*, University of Southern California
    Matthew Housley, BYU
    Julianna S. Tymoczko, Smith College
    (1081-57-51)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Torsion in one term distributive homology.
    Alissa Crans, LMU
    Jozef H. Przytycki*, George Washington University and UG
    Krzysztof Putyra, Columbia University
    (1081-57-209)
• Sunday April 1, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-9:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematics of Ion Channels: Life's Transistors, III
  Room 4045, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Bob Eisenberg, Rush Medical Center at Chicago
  Chun Liu, Penn State University
  Weishi Liu, University of Kansas wliu@math.ku.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Multiscale and multiphyiscs modeling and simulation of proton transport through membrane proteins.
    Duan Chen*, Mathematical Biosciences Institute
    Guowei Wei, Michigan State University
    (1081-92-133)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Poisson-Nernst-Planck Systems for Ion Flow with Density Functional Theory for Hard-Sphere Potential: I-V relations and Critical Potentials.
    Shuguan Ji*, College of Mathematics, Jilin University, P.R. China
    Weishi Liu, Department of Mathematics, University of Kansas
    (1081-34-100)
• Sunday April 1, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Mirror Symmetry, IV
  Room 4076, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Ricardo Castano-Bernard, Kansas State University rcastano@math.ksu.edu
  Paul Horja, Oklahoma State University
  Zheng Hua, Kansas State University
  Yan Soibelman, Kansas State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Shadows and Gerbes over Toric Stacks.
    R Paul Horja*, Oklahoma State University
    (1081-14-370)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Discussion.
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Irregular Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov-Bernard systems and the Casimir connection.
    Roman M Fedorov*, Kansas State University
    (1081-51-226)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Wall-crossing formulas, Mirror Symmetry and integrable systems.
    Yan Soibelman*, Kansas State University
    (1081-14-122)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Discussion.
• Sunday April 1, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and Applications, IV
  Room 4043, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Weishi Liu, University of Kansas
  Erik Van Vleck, University of Kansas evanvleck@math.ku.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The phase locked loop, infinite-time averaging and invariant manifolds.
    Carmen Chicone*, University of Missouri
    Michael Thomas Heitzman, Central Michigan University
    (1081-34-130)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Local invariant manifolds in normally elliptic type singular perturbations.
    Nan Lu, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
    Chongchun Zeng*, Georgia Institutte of Technology
    (1081-37-146)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Well-posedness Issues in Degenerate Dispersive Equations.
    J. Douglas Wright*, Drexel University Department of Mathematics
    (1081-35-337)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Approximations of Random Dispersal Operators/Equations by Nonlocal Dispersal Operators/Equations.
    Wenxian Shen*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Auburn University
    Xiaoxia Xie, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Auburn University
    (1081-35-98)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Ideal free distribution and evolution of dispersal.
    Yuan Lou*, Ohio State University
    (1081-35-30)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    PDE vs ODE Dynamics.
    King-Yeung Lam*, Ohio State University
    Yuan Lou, Ohio State University and Mathematical Biosciences Institute
    Wei-Ming Ni, University of Minnesota, and East China Normal University, China
    (1081-35-157)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Tracking Controllers and Robustness Analysis for UAVs.
    Aleksandra Gruszka, Louisiana State University Department of Mathematics
    Michael Malisoff*, Louisiana State University Department of Mathematics
    Frederic Mazenc, Laboratoire des Signaux et Systemes
    (1081-93-28)
• Sunday April 1, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing, IV
  Room 4051, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Weizhang Huang, University of Kansas huang@math.ku.edu
  Xuemin Tu, University of Kansas
  Erik Van Vleck, University of Kansas
  Honggou Xu, University of Kansas
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Weak Galerkin finite element methods for partial differential equations.
    Lin Mu, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
    Junping Wang, NSF
    Yanqiu Wang, oklahoma state university
    Xiu Ye*, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
    (1081-65-12)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Anisotropic meshes and conditioning of finite element equations.
    Lennard Kamenski*, University of Kansas / TU Darmstadt
    Weizhang Huang, University of Kansas
    Hongguo Xu, University of Kansas
    (1081-65-274)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Goal-oriented local a posteriori error estimators for H(div) least-squares finite element methods.
    JaEun Ku*, Oklahoma State University
    (1081-65-147)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Modeling of Multiphase Magnetohydrodynamics in Tokamaks.
    Tianshi Lu*, Wichita State University
    Patrick Rinker, Wichita State University
    (1081-76-367)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Discrete Maximum Principle and Mesh Adaptation for Anisotropic Diffusion Problems.
    Xianping Li*, University of Central Arkansas
    Weizhang Huang, University of Kansas
    (1081-65-257)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Radially Projected Finite Elements for Pattern Formation on Spheroidal Surfaces.
    Necibe Tuncer*, University of Tulsa
    (1081-35-304)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Weak Galerkin method for biharmonic equations.
    Yanqiu Wang*, Oklahoma State University
    (1081-65-219)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Linearly Implicit Time Integrators for Optimal Control Problems.
    Jens P. Lang*, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
    (1081-65-46)
• Sunday April 1, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Partial Differential Equations, IV
  Room 4040, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Milena Stanislavova, University of Kansas
  Atanas Stefanov, University of Kansas stefanov@math.ku.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Linear Stability Analysis for Periodic Traveling Waves of the Boussinesq Equation and the KGZ System.
    Milena Stanislavova*, University of Kansas
    Atanas Stefanov, University of Kansas
    S. Hakkaev, Yeditepe University
    (1081-35-400)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Stabilization of wave equations with Wentzell boundary conditions.
    Marcelo Cavalcanti, University of Maringa, Brazil
    Irena Lasiecka, University of Virginia
    Daniel Toundykov*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1081-35-270)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On Square Root Domains for Non-Self-Adjoint Operators Under Additive Perturbations.
    Roger Nichols*, University of Missouri
    Fritz Gesztesy, University of Missouri
    Steve Hofmann, University of Missouri
    (1081-34-375)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Breather Stability in Klein-Gordon Equations.
    Zoi Rapti*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1081-34-287)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Short-time stability of the solar system.
    Angel Ivanov Zhivkov*, Sofia University, Bulgaria
    (1081-70-159)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Monotone Operator Theory and Applications to PDE's.
    Mohammad A. Rammaha*, University of Nebraska- Lincoln
    (1081-35-105)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Blow up of solutions to systems of nonlinear wave equations with supercritical sources and damping.
    Yanqiu Guo*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Mohammad A. Rammaha, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1081-35-183)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    A shadowing theorem with localization, with applications to heteroclinic cycles and to properties of scaling exponents.
    Rafael de la Llave, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Nikola P. Petrov*, University of Oklahoma
    Arturo Olvera, UNAM
    (1081-37-318)
• Sunday April 1, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Singularities in Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, IV
  Room 4020, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Hailong Dao, University of Kansas
  Lance E. Miller, University of Utah lmiller@math.utah.edu
  Karl Schwede, Pennsylvania State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Jacobian discrepancies and rational singularities.
    Tommaso de Fernex, University of Utah
    Roi Docampo*, Univerisy of Utah
    (1081-14-308)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    An algebraic extension of the Lê-Saito Theorem.
    Mathias Schulze*, Oklahoma State University
    (1081-14-114)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Bertini theorems for $F$-singularities.
    Karl Schwede, Pennsylvania State University
    Wenliang Zhang*, University of Michigan
    (1081-13-342)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Characteristic classes of Hilbert schemes of points via symmetric products.
    Laurentiu Maxim*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1081-14-129)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Variation of geometric invariant theory quotients and semi-orthogonal decompositions of derived categories.
    Matthew R Ballard*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
    David Favero, University of Vienna
    Ludmil Katzarkov, University of Vienna and University of Miami
    (1081-14-329)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Square-free monomial ideals of linear type.
    Louiza Fouli*, New Mexico State University
    Kuei-Nuan Lin, University of California, Riverside
    (1081-13-386)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Divisorial models of non-Q-Gorenstein varieties.
    Stefano Urbinati*, University of Utah
    (1081-14-242)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Non-commutative desingularization of determinantal varieties.
    Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz, University of Toronto Scarborough
    Graham J Leuschke*, Syracuse University
    Michel Van den Bergh, FWO
    (1081-14-247)
• Sunday April 1, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Stochastic Analysis, IV
  Room 4008, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Jin Feng, University of Kansas
  Yaozhong Hu, University of Kansas
  David Hualart, University of Kansas nualart@math.ku.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Least squares estimator for discretely observed stochastic processes driven by additive small Levy noises.
    Hongwei Long*, Florida Atlantic University
    Yasutaka Shimizu, Osaka University
    Wei Sun, Concordia University
    (1081-60-306)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Well-posedness of the martingale problem for superprocess with interaction.
    Jie Xiong*, University of Tennessee
    (1081-60-82)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Joint Parameter Estimation of Ornstein-Uhlenbeck SDEs driven by Fractional Brownian Motion.
    Luis A. Barboza*, Department of Statistics, Purdue University
    (1081-62-327)
• Sunday April 1, 2012, 8:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic Geometry and its Applications, IV
  Room 4023, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Yasuyuki Kachi, University of Kansas
  B. P. Purnaprajna, University of Kansas purna@math.ku.edu
  Sarang Sane, University of Kansas
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Stable complexes, reflexive sheaves and monads.
    Jason Lo*, University of Missouri, Columbia
    Ziyu Zhang, Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics
    (1081-14-303)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Valuation Semi-Groups and Generating Sequences on 2-dimensional Local Rings.
    Vinh An Pham*, University of Missouri-Columbia
    Steven Dale Cutkosky, University of Missouri-Columbia
    (1081-13-262)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On a question of Demailly-Peternell-Schneider.
    Qi Zhang*, University of Missouri-Columbia
    M. Chen, Fudan University
    (1081-14-84)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Regularity of general rational curves on hypersurfaces.
    Sara Gharahbeigi*, Washington University in St Louis
    (1081-14-345)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Determinantal Equations for Secant Varieties.
    Adam J Ginensky*, WH Trading
    (1081-14-298)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The variety of codewords of minimum weight.
    Stefan O Tohaneanu*, The University of Western Ontario
    (1081-14-206)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Discussion.
• Sunday April 1, 2012, 8:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Commutative Algebra, III
  Room 4025, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Christopher Francisco, Oklahoma State University chris@math.okstate.edu
  Jeffrey Mermin, Oklahoma State University
  Jay Schweig, University of Kansas
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Results on ideals of star configurations in projective space.
    Brian Harbourne*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1081-14-238)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Bounding the Alpha Invariant for Fat Points.
    Susan Marie Cooper*, Central Michigan University
    Stephen G. Hartke, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1081-13-179)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The minimum distance of linear codes and fat points.
    Adam Van Tuyl*, Lakehead University
    Stefan Tohaneanu, University of Western
    (1081-13-52)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Koszul property of projections of the Veronese cubic surface.
    Giulio Caviglia*, Purdue University
    Aldo Conca, University of Genoa
    (1081-13-281)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Polynomial and non polynomial behavior of homological functions of powers of ideals.
    Steven Dale Cutkosky*, University of Missouri
    (1081-13-193)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    A Duality Theorem for ideals of a Gorenstein ring.
    Claudia Miller, Syracuse University
    Janet Striuli*, Fairfield University
    Hamidreza Rahmati, Syracuse University
    (1081-13-356)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Bounds for Gorenstein Hilbert Coefficients.
    Sabine El Khoury, American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
    Hema Srinivasan*, University of Missouri- Columbia
    (1081-13-134)
• Sunday April 1, 2012, 8:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Complex Analysis, Geometry and Probability, IV
  Room 4007, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Pietro Poggi-Corradini, Kansas State University pietro@math.ksu.edu
  Hrant Hakobyan, Kansas State University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Comparisons and contrasts between non-archimedean dynamics and complex dynamics.
    Adrian Jenkins*, Iowa State University
    (1081-37-72)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the continuity of SLE$_\kappa$ curves in $\kappa$.
    Fredrik Johansson Viklund*, Columbia University
    Steffen Rohde, University of Washington, Seattle
    Carto Wong, University of Washington, Seattle
    (1081-30-338)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Scaling limits in anisotropic conformal aggregation models.
    Fredrik Johansson Viklund, Columbia University
    Alan A. Sola*, University of Cambridge
    Amanda Turner, Lancaster University
    (1081-60-212)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Slowly-growing frequently hypercyclic entire functions.
    David Drasin*, Purdue University, West Lafayette IN 47907
    Eero Saksman, University of helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
    (1081-30-139)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Schur algorithm for a large class of functions.
    Daniel Alpay, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
    Aad Dijksma, University of Groningen
    Heinz Langer, Vienna University of Technology
    Dan Volok*, Kansas State University
    (1081-30-330)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Quasiregular maps and the conductivity equation in the Heisenberg group.
    Anton Isopoussu, University of Cambridge
    Kirsi Peltonen, Aalto University
    Jeremy T Tyson*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1081-30-294)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Stability of the doubling property and Poincare inequality in a Riemannian approximation of Carnot-Caratheodory metrics.
    Luca Capogna*, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications/University of Arkansas
    (1081-35-58)
• Sunday April 1, 2012, 9:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Dynamics and Stability of Nonlinear Waves, IV
  Room 4041, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Mat Johnson, University of Kansas matjohn@math.ku.edu
  Myunghyun Oh, University of Kansas
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Stability of solutions for nonintegrable peakon equations.
    Stephane Lafortune*, College of Charleston
    Andrew N.W. Hone, University of Kent
    (1081-35-359)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Horseshoes and hand grenades: on Schrodinger, standing waves and stability.
    Russell K. Jackson*, U.S. Naval Academy
    (1081-35-18)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Dynamics near Turing patterns in Reaction-Diffusion Systems.
    Arnd Scheel, University of Minnesota
    Qiliang Wu*, University of Minnesota
    (1081-37-232)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Short-time existence theory toward stability for nonlinear parabolic systems.
    Peter Howard*, Texas A&M University
    (1081-35-33)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Error estimate for the Bloch band-based Gaussian beam superposition for the Schr\``odinger equation.
    Maksym Pryporov*, Iowa State University
    (1081-35-389)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Thresholds in three-dimensional restricted Euler-Poisson equations.
    Yongki Lee*, Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University
    Hailiang Liu, Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University
    (1081-35-279)
• Sunday April 1, 2012, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Topology and Group Theory, IV
  Room 4035, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Richard P. Kent IV, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Christopher J. Leininger, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign clein@math.uiuc.edu
  Kasra Rafi, University of Oklahoma
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Convex real projective structures, polynomials, and polygons.
    David Dumas*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Michael Wolf, Rice University
    (1081-53-365)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Non-Rigidity of Cyclic Automorphic Orbits in Free Groups.
    Brian Ray*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1081-20-106)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Extremality of the rotation quasimorphism on the modular group.
    Joel Louwsma*, The University of Oklahoma
    (1081-20-223)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Geometry of the Lipschitz metric on Teichmuller space.
    Jing Tao*, University of Utah
    (1081-51-309)
• Sunday April 1, 2012, 9:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometry of Moduli Spaces of Sheaves, III
  Room 4044, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Alina Marian, Northeastern University a.marian@neu.edu
  Dragos Oprea, University of California San Diego
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Virtual invariants on Quot schemes over toric surfaces.
    Daniel Schultheis*, University of California, San Diego
    (1081-14-283)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Plane curve singularities, Hilbert schemes, HOMFLY homology, and Cherednik algebras.
    Vivek Shende*, MIT
    (1081-14-250)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Cohomology rings of Hilbert schemes of points on surfaces.
    Zhenbo Qin*, University of Missouri---Columbia
    (1081-14-87)
• Sunday April 1, 2012, 9:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Topics in Commutative Algebra, IV
  Room 4019, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Hailong Dao, University of Kansas hdao@math.ku.edu
  Craig Huneke, University of Kansas
  Daniel Katz, University of Kansas
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Test exponents for modules with finite phantom projective dimension.
    Melvin Hochster, University of Michigan
    Yongwei Yao*, Georgia State University
    (1081-13-307)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Decomposing Gorenstein Rings as a Connected Sum.
    Ananthnarayan Hariharan*, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
    Ela Celikbas, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
    Zheng Yang, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
    (1081-13-334)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Asymptotic depth of non-standard multigraded modules.
    Gemma Colomé-Nin*, Purdue University
    Juan Elias, Universitat de Barcelona
    (1081-13-285)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A hands-on approach to tensor product surfaces.
    Hal Schenck, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Alexandra Seceleanu*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Javid Validashti, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1081-13-195)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Local rings of trivial $\mathcal{G}$-type and compactly generated categories.
    Lars Winther Christensen*, Texas Tech University
    (1081-13-397)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Characterizations of quasi-complete intersection ideals.
    Liana M Sega*, University of Missouri, Kansas City
    (1081-13-352)
• Sunday April 1, 2012, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Statistics, IV
  Room 4012, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Zsolt Talata, University of Kansas talata@math.ku.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    On the de la Garza phenomenon: a new approach of studying optimal design for nonlinear models.
    Min Yang*, Department of Statistics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
    (1081-62-243)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A more powerful test procedure for multiple hypothesis testing.
    Shunpu Zhang*, University of Nebraska Lincoln
    Huann-Sheng Chen, National Cancer Institute
    (1081-62-97)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Distribution-Free Test to Detect General Dependence and High Dimensional Variable Selection.
    Girly Ramirez, Kansas State University
    Haiyan Wang*, Kansas State University
    (1081-62-117)

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