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Fall Southeastern Section Meeting
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
September 24-25, 2011 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1073

Associate secretaries:

Matthew Miller, AMS miller@math.sc.edu

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Saturday September 24, 2011

• Saturday September 24, 2011, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Atrium, Kirby Hall
• Saturday September 24, 2011, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Lobby, Kirby Hall
• Saturday September 24, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Extremal Combinatorics, I
  Room 024, Manchester Hall
  Organizers:
  Tao Jiang, Miami University jiangt@muohio.edu
  Linyuan Lu, University of South Carolina lu@math.sc.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Graphs with Diameter n-e Minimizing the Spectral Radius.
    Jingfen Lan*, Tsinghua University, Beijing
    Linyuan Lu, University of South Carolina
    Lingsheng Shi, Tsinghua University, Beijing
    (1073-05-51)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    On a problem of Erdős and Rothschild on edges in triangles.
    Jacob Fox, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Po-Shen Loh*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1073-05-34)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Extremal Aspects of Hajnal's Triangle Free Game.
    Csaba Biro*, University of Louisville
    Paul Horn, Emory University
    D. Jacob Wildstrom, University of Louisville
    (1073-05-118)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    High-ordered Random Walks and Generalized Laplacians on Hypergraphs.
    Linyuan Lu*, University of South Carolina
    Xing Peng, University of South Carolina
    (1073-05-83)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Induced saturation number.
    Ryan R. Martin*, Iowa State University
    Jason J. Smith, Iowa State University
    (1073-05-50)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Forbidden subposets with nice answers.
    Jerrold R. Griggs*, University of South Carolina
    Wei-Tian Li, University of South Carolina
    Linyuan Lu, University of South Carolina
    (1073-05-120)
• Saturday September 24, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Knot Theory and its Applications, I
  Room 104, Kirby Hall
  Organizers:
  Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  Jason Parsley, Wake Forest University parslerj@wfu.edu
  Eric Rawdon, University of St. Thomas
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Convex Brunnian links in higher dimensions.
    Bob Davis, WFU Alumnus
    Hugh N Howards*, Wake Forest University
    Jonathan Newman, WFU Alumnus
    Jason Parsley, Wake Forest University
    (1073-57-211)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Relative Tutte Polynomials for Colored Graphs and Virtual Knot Theory.
    Yuanan Diao*, UNC Charlotte
    Gabor Hetyei, UNC Charlotte
    (1073-57-137)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Generating Random Polygons in Spherical Confinement I.
    Y. Diao, UNCC
    C. Ernst*, WKU
    A. Montemayor, WKU
    U. Ziegler, WKU
    (1073-57-158)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Generating Random Polygons in Spherical Confinement II.
    Y. Diao, University of North Carolina - Charlotte
    C. Ernst, Western Kentucky University
    A. Montemayor, Western Kentucky University
    U. Ziegler*, Western Kentucky University
    (1073-57-166)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Generating Random Polygons in Spherical Confinement III.
    Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
    Claus Ernst, Western Kentucky University
    Anthony G Montemayor*, Western Kentucky University
    Uta Ziegler, Western Kentucky University
    (1073-60-159)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Knotted strings and leptonic flavor structure.
    Thomas W Kephart*, Vanderbilt University
    Philipp Leser, Technische Universität Dortmund
    Heinrich Päs, Technische Universität Dortmund
    (1073-54-54)
• Saturday September 24, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology and Geometry, I
  Room 103, Kirby Hall
  Organizers:
  Shelly Harvey, Rice University shelly@rice.edu
  John Etnyre, Georgia Institute of Technology
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Transverse knots and naturality in knot Floer homology.
    Lenhard Ng*, Duke University
    (1073-57-75)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Dividing sets, contact structures, and TQFTs.
    Rumen Zarev*, University of California, Berkeley
    (1073-57-226)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Classification of 0-solvable links.
    Taylor E Martin*, Rice University
    (1073-57-200)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Obstructions to Lagrangian Cobordisms between Legendrian Submanifolds.
    Joshua Sabloff*, Haverford College
    Lisa Traynor, Bryn Mawr College
    (1073-57-185)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A new type of combinatorics in knot theory.
    Tamás Kálmán*, Tokyo Institute of Technology
    (1073-57-79)
• Saturday September 24, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on New Developments in Graph Theory, I
  Room 016, Manchester Hall
  Organizers:
  Joshua Cooper, University of South Carolina
  Kevin Milans, University of South Carolina milans@math.sc.edu
  Carlos Nicolas, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  Clifford Smyth, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Spectra of Hypergraphs.
    Joshua N Cooper*, University of South Carolina
    Aaron Dutle, University of South Carolina
    (1073-05-201)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Local edge-connectivity and forest decomposition.
    Hehui Wu*, McGill University
    (1073-05-252)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    More about cycles in generalized claw-free graphs.
    Ralph J. Faudree, University of Memphis
    Ronald J. Gould*, Emory University
    Michael S. Jacobson, University of Colorado Denver
    (1073-05-30)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On Strong Circuit Double Cover Conjecture with Special Property.
    Wenliang Tang*, West Virginia University
    Erling Wei, Renmin University of China, Beijing
    Cunquan Zhang, West Virginia University
    (1073-05-248)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Strong embedding of semi-Petersen-minor free graph.
    Cun-Quan Zhang*, West Virginia University
    (1073-05-205)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    An Ore-type packing problem.
    Bela Csaba*, University of Birmingham, UK
    (1073-05-139)
• Saturday September 24, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Noncommutative Algebra, I
  Room M-121, Kirby Hall
  Organizers:
  Ellen E. Kirkman, Wake Forest University kirkman@wfu.edu
  James J. Kuzmanovich, Wake Forest University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    $\mathcal K_2$ factors of Koszul algebras and the $\mathcal K_2$ property for face rings.
    Andrew Conner*, Wake Forest University
    Brad Shelton, University of Oregon
    (1073-16-103)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Leavitt path algebras over arbitrary unital rings.
    Hans Erik Nordstrom*, University of Portland
    (1073-16-156)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Cohomology of the "Group Of Loops", Preliminary Report.
    Pete Goetz*, Humboldt State University
    (1073-16-42)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Delayed Koszul duality.
    Christopher Lee Phan*, Bucknell University
    (1073-16-224)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Graded algebras with relations in degrees 2 and d.
    Tom Cassidy*, Bucknell University
    Chris Phan, Bucknell University
    (1073-16-25)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Regular Algebras Related to Regular Graded Skew Clifford Algebras of Low Global Dimension.
    Manizheh Nafari*, University of Texas at Arlington
    (1073-16-157)
• Saturday September 24, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Dispersive Equations, I
  Room 320, Greene Hall
  Organizers:
  Sarah Raynor, Wake Forest University raynorsgwfu@gmail.com
  Jeremy Marzuola, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Gideon Simpson, University of Toronto
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Strichartz estimates in polygonal domains.
    Matthew D Blair*, University of New Mexico
    (1073-35-63)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Lifespan of Quasilinear Wave Equations in Exterior Domains.
    John A Helms*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Jason L Metcalfe, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (1073-35-80)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Pointwise decay on nonstationary spacetimes.
    Mihai H Tohaneanu*, Johns Hopkins University
    (1073-35-100)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Structure of wave operators in $R^d$.
    Marius Beceanu*, Rutgers
    (1073-35-129)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Wave Propagation on Square Lattices.
    Vita Borovyk, University of Cincinnati
    Michael Goldberg*, University of Cincinnati
    (1073-42-87)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Magnetic interaction Morawetz estimates and applications.
    Magdalena Czubak*, University of Toronto
    (1073-35-267)
• Saturday September 24, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Infectious Disease Modeling, I
  Room 321, Greene Hall
  Organizers:
  Fred Chen, Wake Forest University
  Miaohua Jiang, Wake Forest University jiangm@wfu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Disinhibition and Immiserization in a Model of Susceptible-Infected-Susceptible (SIS) Diseases.
    Mark Gersovitz*, Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University
    (1073-91-141)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Optimizing influenza vaccine allocation.
    Jan Medlock*, Clemson University
    Martial L. Ndeffo Mbah, Yale University School of Public Health
    Alison P. Galvani, Yale University School of Public Health
    (1073-92-192)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Parameter Estimation and Model Selection for Dengue Transmission.
    Abhishek Pandey*, Clemson University
    (1073-37-213)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A deterministic contact network model of epidemics.
    Miaohua Jiang*, Wake Forest University
    (1073-37-33)
• Saturday September 24, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Set Theoretic Topology, I
  Room 101, Kirby Hall
  Organizers:
  Peter Nyikos, University of South Carolina nyikos@math.sc.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Ordinal remainders of $\psi$-spaces on $\omega$.
    Alan Dow, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
    Jerry E. Vaughan*, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    (1073-54-31)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Some Questions on Rotoids.
    Harold Bennett, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
    Dennis Burke, Miami University
    David Lutzer*, College of William and Mary
    (1073-54-41)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Choban operators in GO spaces.
    Harold Bennett, Texas Tech University
    Dennis Burke*, Miami University
    David Lutzer, College of William and Mary
    (1073-54-62)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Star-covering properties: generalized $\Psi$-spaces, countability conditions, reflection.
    L P Aiken*, George Mason University
    (1073-54-128)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Monotonically star-$P$ spaces.
    Strashimir G Popvassilev, The City College of New York, CUNY
    John E Porter*, Murray State University
    (1073-54-256)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Matroid theory, topology, logic: What do they have in common?
    Richard E. Hodel*, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708
    (1073-54-150)
• Saturday September 24, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Symmetric Functions, Symmetric Group Characters, and Their Generalizations, I
  Room M-120, Kirby Hall
  Organizers:
  Sarah Mason, Wake Forest University masonsk@wfu.edu
  Aaron Lauve, Loyola University-Chicago
  Ed Allen, Wake Forest University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    From Macdonald polynomials to a charge statistic in classical Lie types.
    Cristian Lenart*, State University of New York at Albany
    Anne Schilling, University of California at Davis
    (1073-05-49)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    On multiplication formulas for Hall-Littlewood polynomials.
    Martha Yip*, University of Pennsylvania
    (1073-05-247)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Littlewood-Richardson coefficients for Macdonald polynomials.
    Siddhartha Sahi*, Rutgers University
    (1073-33-172)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Demazure crystals, Kirillov-Reshetikhin crystals, and the energy function.
    Peter Tingley*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Anne Schilling, University of California, Davis
    (1073-17-196)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Unitary representations of rational Cherednik algebras of classical type.
    Stephen Griffeth*, Universidad de Talca
    (1073-05-85)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    $q$-Hermite polynomials, nil-DAHA, and $q$-Whittaker functions.
    Daniel Orr*, UNC-Chapel Hill
    (1073-33-10)
• Saturday September 24, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic and Geometric Aspects of Matroids, I
  Room 018, Manchester Hall
  Organizers:
  Hoda Bidkhori, North Carolina State University
  Alex Fink, North Carolina State University arfink@ncsu.edu
  Seth Sullivant, North Carolina State University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Tutte's polynomial for hypergraphs and polymatroids.
    Tamás Kálmán*, Tokyo Institute of Technology
    (1073-52-77)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On weak maps and Whitney numbers of matroids.
    Matthew T. Stamps*, University of California, Davis
    (1073-05-207)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Characteristic polynomials and the Bergman fan of matroids.
    June Huh*, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
    (1073-05-107)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Zonotopal Algebra, Power Ideals, and Log-Concavity.
    Matthias Lenz*, Technische Universität Berlin
    (1073-05-39)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    External zonotopal algebra.
    Nan Li*, MIT
    Amos Ron, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1073-13-67)
• Saturday September 24, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Applications of Difference and Differential Equations to Biology, I
  Room 313, Greene Hall
  Organizers:
  Anna Mummert, Marshall University mummerta@marshall.edu
  Richard C. Schugart, Western Kentucky University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Mathematical Restrictions on Purely Dissipative Forces.
    Kale Oyedeji*, Morehouse College
    Ronald E. Mickens, Clark Atlanta University
    (1073-34-123)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Mixture models for cartilage tissue engineering using cell-seeded scaffolds.
    Mansoor A Haider*, North Carolina State University
    (1073-92-197)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Applications of differential equations for fluid-structure interaction problems in biological systems.
    Padmanabhan Seshaiyer*, George Mason University
    (1073-65-229)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Describing transport processes in biological systems:An example from blood coagulation kinetics.
    Maria P McGee*, Wake Forest University Medical School
    (1073-92-84)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Model and Simulation of Red Blood Cell Dynamics in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease.
    Karen M. Bliss*, United States Military Academy
    H. T. Banks, North Carolina State University
    H. T. Tran, North Carolina State University
    Peter Kotanko, Renal Research Institute
    (1073-92-250)
• Saturday September 24, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Modular Forms, Elliptic Curves, and Related Topics, I
  Room 125, Manchester Hall
  Organizers:
  Matthew Boylan, University of South Carolina
  Jeremy Rouse, Wake Forest University rouseja@wfu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Hypergeometric functions, elliptic curves and modular forms.
    Ben Brubaker*, MIT
    (1073-11-240)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    An update on the traces of Hecke operators in level 1 and Gaussian hypergeometric functions.
    Jenny G. Fuselier*, High Point University
    (1073-11-191)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The zoom rate of F-K-O partition congruences.
    John J Webb*, Wake Forest University
    (1073-11-168)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The image and kernel of Atkin's $U_p$ operator modulo $p$.
    Michael Dewar*, Queen's University
    (1073-11-138)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Mock modular grids and Hecke relations for mock modular forms.
    Scott Ahlgren*, University of Illinois
    (1073-11-61)
• Saturday September 24, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Boundary Value Problems, I
  Room 308, Greene Hall
  Organizers:
  Maya Chhetri, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  Stephen B. Robinson, Wake Forest University sbr@wfu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Positive solutions for a class of Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg type equations in $\mathbb{R}^N$.
    Jan Chabrowski, Brisbane, Australia
    David G. Costa*, University of Nevada Las Vegas
    (1073-35-163)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Hardy inequalities and the spectra of Laplace and p-Laplace operators.
    Evans M Harrell*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1073-35-126)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Existence and Uniqueness of Positive Solution for Sublinear Elliptic Systems.
    Junping Shi*, College of William and Mary
    (1073-35-78)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Statistical approximations of p-harmonic functions.
    Matthew B. Rudd*, Sewanee: The University of the South
    (1073-35-74)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Nonlocal boundary value problems for discrete systems.
    Kristen K. Abernathy*, Winthrop University
    Jesus Rodriguez, North Carolina State University
    (1073-39-149)
• Saturday September 24, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry, I
  Room 020, Manchester Hall
  Organizers:
  W. Frank Moore, Wake Forest University and Cornell University frankmoore@math.cornell.edu
  Allen Knutson, Cornell University
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Subword complexes and fibers of totally nonnegative parametrizations.
    Ezra Miller*, Duke University
    (1073-05-227)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Patch ideals and Peterson varieties.
    Erik Insko, University of Iowa
    Alexander Yong*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1073-14-130)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Unions of Matrix Schubert Varieties.
    Anna S Bertiger*, Cornell University
    (1073-05-265)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Cambrian models for cluster algebras.
    Nathan Reading*, North Carolina State University
    David E Speyer, University of Michigan
    (1073-05-110)
• Saturday September 24, 2011, 9:15 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers, I
  Room 102, Kirby Hall
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Pascal's Triangle in Higher Dimensions.
    Amanda Lee Coe*, Elon University
    (1073-05-109)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Magic Polygrams.
    Amanda J Bienz*, Elon University
    (1073-40-169)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Break.
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Circumference and cycle double cover.
    Dong Ye*, West Virginia University
    Cun-Quan Zhang, West Virginia University
    (1073-05-221)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Bollobás-Riordan-Whitney-Tutte Polynomials and the Iterated Two Sum Operation.
    T. Scott Spencer*, University of North Carolina at Asheville
    Neal Stoltzfus, Louisiana State University
    (1073-05-89)
• Saturday September 24, 2011, 11:05 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  Invited Address
  4-dimensional equivalence relations on knots.
  Pugh Auditorium, Benson Center
  Tim Cochran, Rice University
  Shelly Harvey*, Rice University
  Peter Horn, Columbia University
  (1073-57-01)
• Saturday September 24, 2011, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Square ice, symmetric functions, and their connections to automorphic forms.
  Pugh Auditorium, Benson Center
  Benjamin B. Brubaker*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (1073-82-03)
• Saturday September 24, 2011, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic and Geometric Aspects of Matroids, II
  Room 018, Manchester Hall
  Organizers:
  Hoda Bidkhori, North Carolina State University
  Alex Fink, North Carolina State University arfink@ncsu.edu
  Seth Sullivant, North Carolina State University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    The excluded minors for lattice path matroids.
    Joseph E. Bonin*, The George Washington University
    (1073-05-15)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Algebraic Properties of Lattice Path Matroids and Polymatroids.
    Jay Schweig*, University of Kansas
    (1073-05-225)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Lattice path matroid polytopes.
    Hoda Bidkhori*, North Carolina State University
    (1073-05-187)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Volumes and Tangent Cones of Matroid Polytopes.
    David C Haws*, University of Kentucky
    (1073-05-99)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Isotropical Linear Spaces and Valuated Delta-Matroids.
    Felipe Rincon*, UC Berkeley
    (1073-05-40)
• Saturday September 24, 2011, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Applications of Difference and Differential Equations to Biology, II
  Room 313, Greene Hall
  Organizers:
  Anna Mummert, Marshall University mummerta@marshall.edu
  Richard C. Schugart, Western Kentucky University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    The influence of a resource subsidy on predator-prey interactions.
    Andrew Nevai*, University of Central Florida
    Robert Van Gorder, Cornell University
    (1073-92-97)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Influence of Birth/Death Rate Functional Forms on Predator-Prey Dynamics.
    Ronald E. Mickens*, Clark Atlanta University
    (1073-35-124)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Deconstructing dengue dynamics: modeling a multi-strain disease.
    Helen J. Wearing*, The University of New Mexico
    (1073-92-260)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Quantitative Analysis for a Model for the Transmission Dynamics of Low and Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza.
    Folashade B. Agusto*, Austin Peay State Univeristy
    Abba B. Gumel, University of Manitoba
    (1073-92-65)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    An inverse problem for SIR transmission models and an application to the second wave of the 2009 influenza pandemic.
    Howard Weiss*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Anna Mummert, Marshall University
    Henry Wan, Mississippi State University
    (1073-92-261)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Get the News Out Loudly and Quickly: Modeling The Influence of the Media on Limiting Infectious Disease Outbreaks.
    Anna Mummert*, Marshall University
    Howard Weiss, Georgia Tech
    (1073-92-184)
• Saturday September 24, 2011, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry, II
  Room 020, Manchester Hall
  Organizers:
  W. Frank Moore, Wake Forest University and Cornell University frankmoore@math.cornell.edu
  Allen Knutson, Cornell University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Tensor Complexes.
    Christine Berkesch, Duke University
    Daniel Erman*, University of Michigan
    Manoj Kummini, Chennai Mathematical Institute
    Steven Sam, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1073-13-217)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Computing Tropical Resultants.
    Anders Nedergaard Jensen, University of Saarlandes
    Josephine Yu*, Georgia Tech
    (1073-14-263)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Correspondences between $\mathbb{P}^n$ and log-concave sequences in combinatorics.
    June Huh*, University of Michigan an Ann Arbor
    (1073-14-108)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Generating functions for quiver polynomials.
    Richard Rimanyi*, UNC Chapel Hill
    (1073-14-243)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Classical and equivariant hypergeometric D-modules.
    Christine Berkesch*, Duke University
    Laura Felicia Matusevich, Texas A&M University
    (1073-14-164)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Generic Hilbert-Burch matrices of ideals generated by triples of homogeneous forms in $k[x,y]$.
    J. Brett Barwick*, University of South Carolina
    (1073-13-237)
• Saturday September 24, 2011, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Extremal Combinatorics, II
  Room 024, Manchester Hall
  Organizers:
  Tao Jiang, Miami University jiangt@muohio.edu
  Linyuan Lu, University of South Carolina lu@math.sc.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Hypergraph Turan numbers of uniform linear paths.
    Zoltan Furedi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Tao Jiang*, Miami University
    Robert Seiver, Miami University
    (1073-05-171)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A natural barrier for random greedy hypergraph matching.
    Patrick Bennett, Carnegie Mellon University
    Tom Bohman*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1073-05-246)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Perfect matchings in uniform hypergraphs.
    Andrew Treglown, University of Birmingham, UK
    Yi Zhao*, Georgia State University
    (1073-05-214)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Edge disjoint isomorphic subgraphs in uniform hypergraphs.
    Paul Horn*, Harvard University
    Václav Koubek, Charles University
    Vojtěch Rödl, Emory University
    (1073-05-73)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Tiling 3-uniform hypergraphs.
    Louis DeBiasio*, Miami University
    Andrzej Czygrinow, Arizona State University
    Brendan Nagle, University of South Florida
    (1073-05-209)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Counting gene trees.
    Eva Czabarka, University of South Carolina, Columbia
    Peter L Erdos, Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Hungary
    Virginia Johnson*, University of South Carolina, Columbia
    Vincent Moulton, University of East Anglia, UK
    (1073-05-98)
• Saturday September 24, 2011, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Knot Theory and its Applications, II
  Room 104, Kirby Hall
  Organizers:
  Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  Jason Parsley, Wake Forest University parslerj@wfu.edu
  Eric Rawdon, University of St. Thomas
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Squarepegs and Inscribed Polygons.
    Jason Cantarella, University of Georgia, Athens
    Elizabeth Denne*, Smith College
    John McCleary, Vassar College
    (1073-57-114)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A discussion on the knot Floer homology of $(2,p)$-torus links and clasp knots.
    Candice R Price*, University of Iowa
    (1073-55-161)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Sites of Rational Tangle Replacements.
    Kenneth L Baker*, University of Miami
    Dorothy Buck, Imperial College London
    (1073-57-173)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Template guided DNA recombination model via spatial graphs.
    Angela Angeleska, University of Tampa
    Natasa Jonoska, University of South Florida
    Masahico Saito*, University of South Florida
    (1073-57-122)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    DNA knot distances.
    Isabel K. Darcy*, University of Iowa
    (1073-92-91)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Exploring the Conformation of DNA: Adding Geometry to Known Topology.
    Mary Therese Padberg*, The University of Iowa
    Isabel Darcy, The University of Iowa
    Stephen Levene, The University of Texas at Dallas
    Rob Scharein, San Francisco State University
    (1073-92-155)
• Saturday September 24, 2011, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology and Geometry, II
  Room 103, Kirby Hall
  Organizers:
  Shelly Harvey, Rice University shelly@rice.edu
  John Etnyre, Georgia Institute of Technology
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    On the equivalence of transverse knot invariants in knot Floer homology.
    John A Baldwin*, Princeton University
    David Shea Vela-Vick, Columbia University
    Vera Vertesi, MIT
    (1073-57-64)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Rational Classical Invariants in Seifert Fibered Spaces.
    Joan E. Licata*, Institute for Advanced Study/Australian National University
    Joshua Sabloff, Haverford College
    (1073-57-88)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A new filtration of the Magnus kernel of the Torelli group.
    R. Taylor McNeill*, Rice University
    (1073-57-143)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Lefschetz fibrations, convexity, and symplectic surgeries.
    David Gay, University of Georgia
    Thomas E Mark*, University of Virginia
    (1073-57-116)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Constructions of Stein Fillings.
    Sean V. Droms*, University of Virginia
    (1073-51-72)
• Saturday September 24, 2011, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Modular Forms, Elliptic Curves, and Related Topics, II
  Room 125, Manchester Hall
  Organizers:
  Matthew Boylan, University of South Carolina
  Jeremy Rouse, Wake Forest University rouseja@wfu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Eisenstein series on GU(3,3) and non-trivial torsion in Shafarevich-Tate groups.
    Jim Brown*, Clemson University
    (1073-11-232)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The derivative of certain Eisenstein series.
    Hui Xue*, Clemson University
    (1073-11-86)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Weierstrass points on the Drinfeld modular curve $X_0(\mathfrak{p})$.
    Christelle Vincent*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
    (1073-11-17)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The asymptotic distribution of traces of cycle integrals of the $j$-function.
    Riad Masri*, Texas A&M University
    (1073-11-95)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    $L$-series and $L$-values for weakly holomorphic modular forms.
    Kathrin Bringmann, Mathematisches Institut der Universitaet zu Koeln
    Zachary A Kent*, Emory University
    (1073-11-254)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Bounds for coefficients of cusp forms and extremal lattices.
    Paul Jenkins*, Brigham Young University
    Jeremy Rouse, Wake Forest University
    (1073-11-202)
• Saturday September 24, 2011, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on New Developments in Graph Theory, II
  Room 016, Manchester Hall
  Organizers:
  Joshua Cooper, University of South Carolina
  Kevin Milans, University of South Carolina milans@math.sc.edu
  Carlos Nicolas, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  Clifford Smyth, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Linear Choosability of Sparse Graphs.
    Daniel W. Cranston*, Virginia Commonwealth University
    Gexin Yu, College of William & Mary
    (1073-05-56)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Fractional Analogue of Brooks' Theorem.
    Xing Peng*, University of South Carolina
    Linyuan Lu, University of South Carolina
    (1073-05-55)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    $t$-Tone Coloring of Graphs.
    Daniel W Cranston, Virginia Commonwealth University
    Jaehoon Kim, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    William B Kinnersley*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1073-05-198)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    $r$-dynamic coloring of graphs.
    Sogol Jahanbekan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Jaehoon Kim, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Suil O*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Wipawee Tangjai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Doulgas B West, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1073-05-68)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the Chromatic Thresholds of Hypergraphs.
    J Balogh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    J Butterfield*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    P Hu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    J Lenz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    D Mubayi, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1073-05-174)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Equitable orientations of hypergraphs.
    Yair Caro, University of Haifa at Oranim
    Douglas B. West*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Raphael Yuster, University of Haifa
    (1073-05-96)
• Saturday September 24, 2011, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Noncommutative Algebra, II
  Room M-121, Kirby Hall
  Organizers:
  Ellen E. Kirkman, Wake Forest University kirkman@wfu.edu
  James J. Kuzmanovich, Wake Forest University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    A proof of the strong no loop conjecture.
    Kiyoshi Igusa*, Brandeis University
    Shiping Liu, Université de Sherbrooke
    Charles Paquette, Université de Sherbrooke
    (1073-16-21)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Properties of Continuous Cluster Categories.
    Kiyoshi Igusa, Brandeis University
    Gordana G. Todorov*, Northeastern University
    (1073-16-212)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Exceptional sequences in module categories.
    Calin I Chindris*, University of Missouri-Columbia
    (1073-16-60)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Tree modules and counting polynomials for free algebras.
    Ryan Kinser*, Northeastern University
    (1073-16-132)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Richard Brauer's work and universal deformation rings.
    Frauke M. Bleher*, University of Iowa
    (1073-16-177)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    How Homomorphisms Factor Through Auslander-Reiten Components.
    Markus Schmidmeier*, Florida Atlantic University
    (1073-16-238)
• Saturday September 24, 2011, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Boundary Value Problems, II
  Room 308, Greene Hall
  Organizers:
  Maya Chhetri, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  Stephen B. Robinson, Wake Forest University sbr@wfu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    On Homoclinic Solutions for a Class of Singular Hamiltonian Systems.
    Hossein Tehrani*, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
    David Costa, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
    (1073-35-133)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Generalized Eigenproblem and Nonlinear Elliptic Equations at Resonance.
    N. Mavinga*, Swarthmore College
    M. N. Nkashama, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    (1073-35-170)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Alternate stable states in ecosystems.
    Sarath Sasi*, Mississippi State University
    Eunkyoung Lee, Pusan National University
    R Shivaji, Mississippi State University
    (1073-35-06)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    An existence result for an infinite semipositone problem with asymptotically linear growth at $\infty$.
    R. Shivaji*, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    D. D. Hai, Mississippi State University
    Lakshmi Sankar, Mississippi State University
    (1073-35-47)
• Saturday September 24, 2011, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Dispersive Equations, II
  Room 320, Greene Hall
  Organizers:
  Sarah Raynor, Wake Forest University raynorsgwfu@gmail.com
  Jeremy Marzuola, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Gideon Simpson, University of Toronto
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Smoothing for the KdV equation with periodic boundary conditions.
    M Burak Erdogan*, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
    Nikos Tzirakis, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
    (1073-35-188)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Phase-driven interaction of widely separated nonlinear Schrödinger solitons.
    Justin Holmer*, Brown University
    Quanhui Lin, Brown University
    (1073-35-206)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Transverse instabilities of dark solitons and dispersive shocks.
    Boaz Ilan*, School of Natural Sciences, University of California, Merced
    Mark A. Hoefer, North Carolina State University
    (1073-41-102)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Existence Theory for Some Equations with Degenerate Dispersion.
    David M. Ambrose*, Drexel University
    J. Douglas Wright, Drexel University
    (1073-35-268)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Polynomial-in-time upper bounds for the orbital instability of the subcritical generalized Korteweg-deVries equations.
    Brian Pigott*, Wake Forest University
    (1073-35-194)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Well-posedness issues for degenerate dispersive equations.
    J. Douglas Wright*, Drexel University
    David Ambrose, Drexel University
    Gideon Simpson, University of Minnesota
    Dennis Guang Yang, Drexel University
    (1073-35-195)
• Saturday September 24, 2011, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Infectious Disease Modeling, II
  Room 321, Greene Hall
  Organizers:
  Fred Chen, Wake Forest University
  Miaohua Jiang, Wake Forest University jiangm@wfu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Economics of Epidemic Planning and Response.
    Chris Barrett, Dept. of Computer Science and Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech
    Jiangzhou Chen, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech
    Stephen Eubank, Dept. of Physics and Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech
    Achla Marathe, Dept. of Agricultural Economics and Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech
    Madhav Marathe, Dept. of Computer Science and Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech
    Anil Kumar Vullikanti*, Dept. of Computer Science and Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech
    (1073-68-234)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Decentralized resource allocation to control an epidemic.
    Peng Sun*, Duke University, the Fuqua School of Business
    Francis de Vericourt, INSEAD
    Shouqiang Wang, Clemenson
    Liu Yang, Tsinghua University
    (1073-91-121)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Intervene or Not? The Theory of Health Commons Management for Infectious Diseases.
    Jing Li*, Department of Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University
    Darla V. Lindberg, Department of Architecture, Pennsylvania State University
    Rachel A. Smith, Department of Communication Arts & Sciences, Pennsylvania State University
    Timothy C. Reluga, Departments of Mathematics and Biology, Pennsylvania State University
    (1073-92-255)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Equilibrium, Efficiency, and Epidemics in a Game-Theoretic Model of Public Avoidance.
    Frederick Chen*, Department of Economics, Wake Forest University
    (1073-91-183)
• Saturday September 24, 2011, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Set Theoretic Topology, II
  Room 101, Kirby Hall
  Organizers:
  Peter Nyikos, University of South Carolina nyikos@math.sc.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    A Property of Isometry Groups of a Hilbert Space.
    Alexandru G Atim*, Benedict College
    Robert R Kallman, University of North Texas
    (1073-22-223)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Function Spaces and Structure Mechanism.
    Ziqin Feng*, Miami University
    (1073-54-245)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A note on the bagpipe lemma.
    Alexander Shibakov*, Tennessee Tech University
    (1073-54-66)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A Characterization of The Witnesses to The Non-Normality of $\mathbb{N}^{\omega_{1}}$.
    Keith M Fox*, George Mason University
    (1073-54-131)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Some non-normality points.
    Andrzej A. Szymanski*, Slippery Rock University
    (1073-54-218)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Fixed and Periodic Points of Single/Multi-valued Functions on Euclidean Spaces.
    Raushan Z Buzyakova*, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    Alex Chigogidze, College of Staten Island, CUNY
    (1073-54-153)
• Saturday September 24, 2011, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Symmetric Functions, Symmetric Group Characters, and Their Generalizations, II
  Room M-120, Kirby Hall
  Organizers:
  Sarah Mason, Wake Forest University masonsk@wfu.edu
  Aaron Lauve, Loyola University-Chicago
  Ed Allen, Wake Forest University
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    A new "dinv" statistic in the Theory of Parking Functions and Diagonal Harmonics.
    Adriano M. Garsia*, University of California San Diego
    (1073-05-28)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A New Parking Function Statistic.
    Angela S. Hicks*, University of California-San Diego
    Yeonkyung Kim, University of California-San Diego
    (1073-05-32)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Prismatic transition matrices.
    Nicholas Loehr, Virginia Tech
    Luis Serrano, Université du Québec, Montréal
    Gregory S. Warrington*, University of Vermont
    (1073-05-104)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Realizations of combinatorial Hopf algebras.
    Jean-Christophe Novelli*, Universite Marne-la-Vallee, France
    (1073-05-92)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A problem in combinatorial representation theory.
    Susanna D Fishel*, Arizona State University
    (1073-05-249)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Codes of partitions.
    John T. Hird*, North Carolina State University
    (1073-05-16)
• Saturday September 24, 2011, 2:30 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
  Session on Session for Contributed Papers, II
  Room 102, Kirby Hall
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Computational Galois theory for $p$-adic fields.
    Chad Awtrey*, Elon University
    (1073-11-134)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Indecomposable endoregular modules.
    Gangyong Lee, The Ohio State University
    S. Tariq Rizvi, The Ohio State University, Lima
    Cosmin Roman*, The Ohio State University, Lima
    (1073-16-19)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Simply connected symplectic Calabi-Yau 6 manifolds.
    Anar Akhmedov*, University of Minnesota
    (1073-57-52)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Break.
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Localized Method of Approximate Particular Solutions for Solving Reaction-Diffusion Equations.
    Guangming Yao*, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
    (1073-35-45)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    GENDEFGET - a MAPLE subroutine based on a new method for finding equivalence transformations.
    Nicoleta Virginia Bila*, Fayetteville State University
    (1073-35-230)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    An alternative approach to hyperbolic structures on link complements.
    Morwen Thistlethwaite, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    Anastasiia Tsvietkova*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    (1073-57-11)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Solution of Time-Dependent PDE Through Component-wise Approximation of Matrix Functions.
    James V Lambers*, University of Southern Mississippi
    (1073-65-29)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    A real analogue of Toda's theorem.
    Saugata Basu, Purdue University
    Thierry Zell*, Lenoir-Rhyne University
    (1073-68-23)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Substrate sequestration in a multisite phosphorylation system produces bi-stability.
    Kanadpriya Basu*, University of South Carolina
    Xingfeng Liu, University of South Carolina
    (1073-92-05)
• Saturday September 24, 2011, 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
  Wake Forest University Department of Mathematics Reception
  The Greenroom, Reynolda Center
• Saturday September 24, 2011, 6:40 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Modern developments in Schubert calculus.
  Pugh Auditorium, Benson Center
  Allen Knutson*, Cornell University
  (1073-14-02)

Sunday September 25, 2011

• Sunday September 25, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Atrium, Kirby Hall
• Sunday September 25, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Lobby, Kirby Hall
• Sunday September 25, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Extremal Combinatorics, III
  Room 024, Manchester Hall
  Organizers:
  Tao Jiang, Miami University jiangt@muohio.edu
  Linyuan Lu, University of South Carolina lu@math.sc.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On homometric sets in graphs.
    Maria Axenovich*, Iowa State University, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
    Lale Ozkahya, Iowa State University
    (1073-05-258)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Graphs Containing Homeomorphically Irreducible Spanning Trees.
    Guantao Chen*, Georgia State University
    Han Ren, East China Normal University, Shanghai
    Songling Shan, Georgia State University
    (1073-05-236)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Bounding the circumference of 3-connected cubic graphs.
    Qinghai Liu, Xinjiang University
    Xingxing Yu*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Zhao Zhang, Xingjiang University
    (1073-05-154)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Adjacency Lemmas on edge chromatic critical graphs.
    Nick Zhao*, University fo Central Florida
    (1073-05-235)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Routing numbers of paths and cycles.
    Gexin Yu*, College of William and Mary
    (1073-05-180)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Vertex Ramsey problems in the hypercube.
    John Goldwasser*, West Virginia University
    John Talbot, University College London
    (1073-05-69)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Avoiding patterns with coloring.
    Steve Butler*, Iowa State University
    Ron Graham, UC San Diego
    (1073-05-178)
• Sunday September 25, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Modular Forms, Elliptic Curves, and Related Topics, III
  Room 125, Manchester Hall
  Organizers:
  Matthew Boylan, University of South Carolina
  Jeremy Rouse, Wake Forest University rouseja@wfu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Divisibility of an Eigenform by another Eigenform.
    Jeff Beyerl*, Clemson University
    Kevin James, Clemson University
    Hui Xue, Clemson University
    (1073-11-112)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Lang-Trotter conjecture for Frobenius fields.
    Nathan C. Jones*, University of Mississippi
    (1073-11-244)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Prime Distribution and Elliptic Curves.
    Kevin L James*, Clemson University
    (1073-11-43)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Sizes of $3$-Selmer Groups.
    Catherine M Trentacoste*, Clemson University
    Kevin James, Clemson University
    Hui Xue, Clemson University
    Kelly Crone-Dye, University of North Carolina Charlotte
    Tony Feng, Harvard University
    Carolyn Kim, Harvard University
    Eric Ramos, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1073-11-113)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Explicit modular approaches to generalized Fermat equations.
    David M Brown*, Emory University
    (1073-11-20)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Secondary terms in counting functions for cubic fields.
    Frank Thorne*, University of South Carolina
    (1073-11-257)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Cubic fields with prime discriminant.
    Seyfi Turkelli*, University of Georgia
    (1073-11-262)
• Sunday September 25, 2011, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Noncommutative Algebra, III
  Room M-121, Kirby Hall
  Organizers:
  Ellen E. Kirkman, Wake Forest University kirkman@wfu.edu
  James J. Kuzmanovich, Wake Forest University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Meander graphs and Frobenius Seaweed Lie algebras.
    Anthony Giaquinto*, Loyola University Chicago
    (1073-17-264)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Serial (co)algebras, infinite abelian groups, and a class of quantum groups.
    Miodrag Cristian Iovanov*, University of Southern California and University of Bucharest
    (1073-16-18)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Notion of Rank for Noncommutative Quadratic Forms.
    Padmini Veerapen*, University of Texas Arlington
    Michaela Vancliff, University of Texas Arlington
    (1073-16-152)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Obstructing extensions of the functor Spec to noncommutative rings.
    Manuel L. Reyes*, Bowdoin College
    (1073-16-38)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Group gradings and actions on Brauer graph algebras.
    Edward L Green*, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
    Sybille Schroll, University of Leicester
    Nicole Snashall, University of Leicester
    (1073-16-71)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Representation theory of three-dimensional Sklyanin algebras.
    Chelsea Walton*, University of Washington
    (1073-16-37)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    A quantum analogue of the dihedral action on Grassmannians.
    Justin Allman*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (1073-16-70)
• Sunday September 25, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Applications of Difference and Differential Equations to Biology, III
  Room 313, Greene Hall
  Organizers:
  Anna Mummert, Marshall University mummerta@marshall.edu
  Richard C. Schugart, Western Kentucky University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    A mathematical Model for HIV Treatment with Time-varying Antiretroviral Therapy.
    Nicoleta Tarfulea*, Purdue University Calumet
    (1073-92-27)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A multiscale model of reaction and diffusion in angiogenesis and a conservative multiresolution finite volume method.
    Xiaoming Zheng*, Central Michigan University
    Yeonhyang Kim, Central Michigan University
    Leela Rakesh, Central Michigan University
    En-Bing Lin, Central Michigan University
    (1073-92-259)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Stability analysis of a reaction-diffusion system modeling atherogenesis.
    L. R. Ritter*, Southern Polytechnic State University
    A Ibragimov, Texas Tech University
    J. Walton, Texas A&M University
    (1073-92-46)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Using mathematical modeling to assess the efficacy of oxygen for problem wounds: use of hyperbaric or topical oxygen therapies.
    Richard Schugart*, Western Kentucky University
    Jennifer Flegg, Queensland University of Technology
    D.L. Sean McElwain, Queensland University of Technology
    (1073-92-241)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Modeling the Effects of Systemic Mediators on Wound Healing.
    Rebecca A. Segal*, Virginia Commonwealth University
    (1073-92-251)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Employing a Mechanistic Model for the MAPK Pathway to Examine the Impact of Cellular All or None Behavior on Overall Tissue Response.
    Nicholas S. Luke*, North Carolina A&T State University
    Michael J. Devito, National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences
    Christopher J. Portier, Centers for Disease Control
    Hisham A. El-Masri, United States Environmental Protection Agency
    (1073-92-181)
• Sunday September 25, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Knot Theory and its Applications, III
  Room 104, Kirby Hall
  Organizers:
  Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  Jason Parsley, Wake Forest University parslerj@wfu.edu
  Eric Rawdon, University of St. Thomas
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Understanding the formation of kinetoplast minicircle networks in trypanosomes.
    Javier Arsuaga*, San Francisco State University
    Mariel Vazquez, San Francisco State University
    Ken Hinson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
    Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
    (1073-92-140)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The effect of angle restriction on the formation of minicircle networks.
    Javier Arsuaga, San Francisco State University
    Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
    Kenneth Hinson*, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
    (1073-92-208)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Knotted Arcs.
    Eric J Rawdon*, University of St. Thomas
    (1073-57-76)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Grassmannians, polygons and curves in $\mathbb{R}^2$ and $\mathbb{R}^3$.
    Jason Cantarella*, University of Georgia
    (1073-53-222)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Geometric and Topological Properties of Open and Close Polygons.
    Kenneth C Millett*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1073-57-182)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Symmetries of Composite Knots and Links.
    Matt Mastin*, University of Georgia
    (1073-57-216)
• Sunday September 25, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Low-Dimensional Topology and Geometry, III
  Room 103, Kirby Hall
  Organizers:
  Shelly Harvey, Rice University shelly@rice.edu
  John Etnyre, Georgia Institute of Technology
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Knot Floer homology and tight contact structures.
    Olga Plamenevskaya*, Stony Brook University
    (1073-57-146)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Legendrian and transverse knots in cabled knot types.
    Bulent Tosun*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1073-53-175)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Rulings and augmentations for bordered Legendrian knots.
    Joshua M. Sabloff, Haverford College
    Clayton Shonkwiler*, University of Georgia
    David Shea Vela-Vick, Columbia University
    (1073-57-219)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Representations of the Kauffman Skein Algebra.
    Helen M Wong*, Carleton College
    Francis Bonahon, University of Southern California
    (1073-57-190)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Right-veering automorphisms of surfaces and overtwisted contact structures.
    William H. Kazez*, University of Georgia
    Rachel Roberts, Washington University in St. Louis
    (1073-57-94)
• Sunday September 25, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on New Developments in Graph Theory, III
  Room 016, Manchester Hall
  Organizers:
  Joshua Cooper, University of South Carolina
  Kevin Milans, University of South Carolina milans@math.sc.edu
  Carlos Nicolas, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  Clifford Smyth, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Cycle Spectra of Hamiltonian Graphs.
    Florian Pfender, Universität Rostock
    Kevin G Milans*, University of South Carolina
    Dieter Rautenbach, Universität Ulm
    Friedrich Regen, Ilmenau University of Technology
    Douglas B West, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1073-05-228)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The factorial of a graph.
    Richard Hammack*, Virginia Commonwealth University
    (1073-05-136)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Enumerating Triangles in a Rational Residue Graph.
    Mark Budden, Western Carolina University
    Nicole Calkins, Armstrong Atlantic State University
    William Nathan Hack, Armstrong Atlantic State University
    Joshua K. Lambert*, Armstrong Atlantic State University
    Kimberly Thompson, Armstrong Atlantic State University
    (1073-05-14)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Using the Lovász Local Lemma in graphical enumeration.
    Lincoln Lu, University of South Carolina
    Laszlo A. Szekely*, University of South Carolina
    (1073-05-26)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Graph Stirling numbers.
    David Galvin*, University of Notre Dame
    Do Trong Thanh, University of Notre Dame
    (1073-05-101)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Some quotients of the Boolean lattice are symmetric chain orders.
    Dwight Duffus*, Emory University
    Jeremy McKibben-Sanders, San Francisco CA
    Kyle Thayer, Colorado Springs CO
    (1073-05-144)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Planarity for Comparability Graphs and Cover Graphs.
    Stefan Felsner, Technische Universität Berlin
    William T Trotter*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Veit Wiechert, Technische Universität Berlin
    (1073-05-147)
• Sunday September 25, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-11:10 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Advances in Infectious Disease Modeling, III
  Room 321, Greene Hall
  Organizers:
  Fred Chen, Wake Forest University
  Miaohua Jiang, Wake Forest University jiangm@wfu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Dynamics of infection spreading in an adaptive network with two coupled communities.
    Ilker Tunc*, College of William and Mary
    Leah B. Shaw, College of William and Mary
    (1073-92-125)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Modeling the cholera epidemic in Haiti.
    Joseph H. Tien*, Ohio State University
    (1073-92-210)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Exploring cholera dynamics and transmission pathways using identifiability and parameter estimation.
    Marisa C Eisenberg*, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, The Ohio State University
    (1073-92-148)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Analysis of Rabies in China: Transmission Dynamics and Control.
    Shigui Ruan*, University of Miami, Coral Gables
    (1073-92-117)
• Sunday September 25, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Symmetric Functions, Symmetric Group Characters, and Their Generalizations, III
  Room M-120, Kirby Hall
  Organizers:
  Sarah Mason, Wake Forest University masonsk@wfu.edu
  Aaron Lauve, Loyola University-Chicago
  Ed Allen, Wake Forest University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    h-Positivity and Diagonal Coinvariant Spaces.
    Francois Bergeron*, UQAM
    (1073-05-22)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Tableaux family for Macdonald polynomials, Gromov-Witten invariants, and affine K-theory.
    Jennifer Morse*, Drexel University
    (1073-05-239)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Expansion of k-Schur functions for maximal k-rectangles within the affine nilCoxeter algebra.
    Chris Berg, Université du Québec, Montréal
    Nantel Bergeron, York University
    Hugh Thomas, University of New Brunswick, Fredrickton
    Mike Zabrocki*, York University
    (1073-05-231)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A combinatorial rule for the product of a Schubert polynomial by a Schur function.
    Sami Assaf*, Berkeley Quantitative
    Nantel Bergeron, York University
    Frank Sottile, Texas A&M University
    (1073-05-44)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Truncated symmetric functions with an application to generalized Springer theory.
    Aba Mbirika*, Bowdoin College
    Julianna Tymoczko, Smith College
    (1073-05-145)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Supercharacter theory and symmetric functions.
    Carolina Benedetti*, York University
    (1073-05-36)
• Sunday September 25, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Algebraic and Geometric Aspects of Matroids, III
  Room 018, Manchester Hall
  Organizers:
  Hoda Bidkhori, North Carolina State University
  Alex Fink, North Carolina State University arfink@ncsu.edu
  Seth Sullivant, North Carolina State University
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Complex Matroids.
    Laura Anderson, Binghamton University, SUNY
    Emanuele Delucchi*, Binghamton University, SUNY
    (1073-05-59)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Realizations of Complex Matroids.
    Amanda Ruiz*, Binghamton University
    (1073-05-186)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On projective equivalence classes of matrices.
    Andrew Berget*, University of California, Davis
    Alex Fink, North Carolina State University
    (1073-05-135)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Positroids, shifting, and a combinatorial Vakil's "geometric Littlewood-Richardson rule".
    Allen Knutson*, Cornell University
    (1073-05-204)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Stanley's matroid $h$-vector conjecture in low rank.
    Tai Há, Tulane University
    Erik Stokes, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
    Fabrizio Zanello*, MIT and Michigan Tech
    (1073-05-35)
• Sunday September 25, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Algebraic Geometry, III
  Room 020, Manchester Hall
  Organizers:
  W. Frank Moore, Wake Forest University and Cornell University frankmoore@math.cornell.edu
  Allen Knutson, Cornell University
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Enumerations deciding the weak Lefschetz property.
    David Cook II, University of Kentucky
    Uwe Nagel*, University of Kentucky
    (1073-13-203)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Unimodality (or not) of pure $O$-sequences.
    Juan C. Migliore*, University of Notre Dame
    (1073-13-90)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Gromov-Witten invariants for lines in flag manifolds.
    Leonardo C Mihalcea*, Virginia Tech University
    Changzheng Li, Korea Institute for Advanced Study
    (1073-14-151)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials and their $\mu$-coefficients.
    Gregory S. Warrington*, University of Vermont
    (1073-05-105)
• Sunday September 25, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Boundary Value Problems, III
  Room 308, Greene Hall
  Organizers:
  Maya Chhetri, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  Stephen B. Robinson, Wake Forest University sbr@wfu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Numerical Solutions of Semilinear Elliptic PDE on Manifolds.
    John M Neuberger*, Northern Arizona University
    Jeffrey Springer, Northern Arizona University
    (1073-35-58)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Dichotomy and behavior at infinity of solutions to difference equations.
    Evans Harrell, Georgia Tech
    Manwah Lilian Wong*, Georgia Tech
    (1073-41-165)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Role of Concavity in Applications of Functional Fixed Point Theorems to Higher Order Differential Equations.
    Abdulmalik Al Twaty, University of Dayton
    Paul Eloe*, University of Dayton
    (1073-34-53)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Uniqueness and multiplicity results for classes of infinite positone problems.
    Eunkyung Ko*, Mississippi State University
    (1073-35-48)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Discussion.
• Sunday September 25, 2011, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Set Theoretic Topology, III
  Room 101, Kirby Hall
  Organizers:
  Peter Nyikos, University of South Carolina nyikos@math.sc.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Utterly normal spaces.
    Peter J Nyikos*, University of South Carolina
    Heikki Junnila, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
    (1073-54-242)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Preserving the convergence of a sequence to a set under Cohen extensions.
    Akira Iwasa*, University of South Carolina Beaufort
    (1073-54-189)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Other Applications of Forcing Theory.
    Wanjun Hu*, Albany State University, GA
    (1073-54-233)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Rim-finite Separable Metric Spaces.
    John S. Kulesza*, George Mason University
    Keith Fox, George Mason University
    (1073-54-199)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Questions on strong $\omega$-boundedness.
    Ronnie Levy*, George Mason University
    (1073-54-142)
• Sunday September 25, 2011, 11:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Algebraic statistics.
  Pugh Auditorium, Benson Center
  Seth M. Sullivant*, North Carolina State University
  (1073-62-04)
• Sunday September 25, 2011, 1:30 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Applications of Difference and Differential Equations to Biology, IV
  Room 313, Greene Hall
  Organizers:
  Anna Mummert, Marshall University mummerta@marshall.edu
  Richard C. Schugart, Western Kentucky University
  

  • 1:30 p.m.
    Can we personalize therapy for lupus nephritis using mathematics?
    Paula Budu-Grajdeanu*, Shenandoah University
    (1073-92-127)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Modeling the Host Response to Respiratory Pathogens: Mycobacterium Tuberculosis and Bacillus Anthracis.
    Judy Day*, University of Tennessee
    Avner Friedman, The Ohio State University
    Larry S Schlesinger, The Ohio State University Medical Center
    (1073-34-160)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Mechanisms for multiple activity modes of midbrain DA neurons.
    Andrew M. Oster*, Washington and Lee University
    Philippe Faure, UPMC, CNRS
    Boris S. Gutkin, Group for Neural Theory, Ecole Normale Supérieure
    (1073-92-111)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Sensitivity Investigations on a Mathematical Model for the Simulation of Epileptic Seizures.
    Karen A Yokley*, Elon University
    (1073-92-179)
• Sunday September 25, 2011, 1:30 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Knot Theory and its Applications, IV
  Room 104, Kirby Hall
  Organizers:
  Yuanan Diao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  Jason Parsley, Wake Forest University parslerj@wfu.edu
  Eric Rawdon, University of St. Thomas
  

  • 1:30 p.m.
    Knots and Links as Conformal Bands.
    Rob Kusner*, G.A.N.G. & Mathematics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    (1073-30-82)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Homotopy periods of link maps and Milnor's invariants.
    Frederick R. Cohen, University of Rochester
    Rafal Komendarczyk, Tulane University
    Clayton Shonkwiler*, University of Georgia
    (1073-57-220)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Higher order helicities via link maps.
    Rafal Komendarczyk*, Tulane University
    (1073-51-09)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The geometry of the Taylor problem in plasma physics.
    Jason Parsley*, Wake Forest University
    (1073-53-253)
• Sunday September 25, 2011, 1:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on New Developments in Graph Theory, IV
  Room 016, Manchester Hall
  Organizers:
  Joshua Cooper, University of South Carolina
  Kevin Milans, University of South Carolina milans@math.sc.edu
  Carlos Nicolas, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  Clifford Smyth, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  

  • 1:30 p.m.
    Revolutionaries and Spies.
    David Howard, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
    Clifford Smyth*, University of North Carolina - Greensboro
    (1073-05-57)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Analysis Of Winning Strategies For Playing On Wheel Graphs.
    Risto Atanasov, Western Carolina University
    Mark Budden, Western Carolina University
    Joseph DiNatale, Armstrong Atlantic State University
    Lindsay Erickson, North Dakota State University
    Robert Fenney*, Armstrong Atlantic State University
    Maxwell Hostetter, Armstrong Atlantic State University
    Joshua Lambert, Armstrong Atlantic State University
    Warren Shreve, North Dakota State University
    (1073-05-13)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Modified Linear Programming Weighting for Graph Pebbling.
    Carl R Yerger*, Davidson College
    Dan Cranston, Virginia Commonwealth University
    Luke Postle, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1073-05-115)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Graph orientation and lower bounds on crossing number.
    Drago Bokal, University of Maribor, Slovenia
    Mojca Bracic, University of Maribor, Slovenia
    Eva Czabarka*, University of South Carolina, Columbia
    Laszlo A. Szekely, University of South Carolina, Columbia
    (1073-05-24)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Searching for uniquely saturated and strongly regular graphs with coupled augmentations.
    Stephen G Hartke, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Derrick P Stolee*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1073-05-167)
• Sunday September 25, 2011, 1:30 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Boundary Value Problems, IV
  Room 308, Greene Hall
  Organizers:
  Maya Chhetri, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  Stephen B. Robinson, Wake Forest University sbr@wfu.edu
  

  • 1:30 p.m.
    Nonresonance on the boundary and strong solutions of elliptic equations with nonlinear boundary conditions.
    M. N. Nkashama*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    N. Mavinga, Swarthmore College
    (1073-35-162)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Positive solutions for infinite semipositone problems on exterior domains.
    Lakshmi Sankar Kalappattil*, Mississippi State University
    Eun Kyong Lee, Pusan National University
    R. Shivaji, Mississippi State University
    (1073-35-07)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    On the Solvability of Sturm-Liouville Problems with Non-Local Boundary Conditions.
    Zachary J. Abernathy*, Winthrop University
    Jesus Rodriguez, North Carolina State University
    (1073-34-215)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A semilinear wave equation with non-monotone nonlinearity.
    Alfonso Castro*, Harvey Mudd College
    (1073-35-266)

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