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Fall Central Sectional Meeting
University of St. Thomas (Minneapolis campus), Minneapolis, MN
October 28-30, 2016 (Friday - Sunday)
Meeting #1123

Associate secretaries:

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

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Sunday October 30, 2016

• Sunday October 30, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Discrete Structures: Analysis and Applications (IMA Reunion), III
  TMH 446, Terrence Murphy Hall
  Organizers:
  Leslie Hogben, Iowa State University hogben@iastate.edu
  Ryan Martin, Iowa State University
  Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Combinatorial Interpretation of Birational Rowmotion on Rectangular Posets.
    Gregg Musiker*, University of Minnesota
    Tom Roby, University of Connecticut
    (1123-05-124)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Degree versions of the Erdos-Ko-Rado Theorem and Erdos hypergraph matching conjecture.
    Hao Huang*, Emory University
    Yi Zhao, Georgia State University
    (1123-05-56)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Counting independent sets in hypergraphs.
    Prasad Tetali*, Professor, Georgia Tech
    (1123-05-237)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On Relative Turán Numbers.
    Jacques Verstraete*, University of California, San Diego
    Michael Molloy, University of Toronto
    Benjamin Sudakov, ETH Zurich
    (1123-05-171)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The number of non-isomorphic subtrees of trees.
    Eva Czabarka, University of South Carolina
    Laszlo A. Szekely*, University of South Carolina
    Stephan Wagner, Stellenbosch University
    (1123-05-84)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A hitting time formula for the discrete Green's function.
    Andrew Beveridge*, Macalester College
    (1123-05-108)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Inducibility in binary trees and tanglegram crossing numbers.
    Eva Czabarka*, University of South Carolina
    Laszlo A. Szekely, University of South Carolina
    Stephan Wagner, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
    (1123-05-106)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Problems on Rainbow 3-term Arithmetic Progressions.
    Michael Young*, Iowa State University
    (1123-05-284)
• Sunday October 30, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Knotting in Physical Systems, in celebration of Kenneth C. Millett's 75th birthday, IV
  MOH 450, Opus Hall
  Organizers:
  Jorge Alberto Calvo, Ave Maria University
  Eric Rawdon, University of St. Thomas ejrawdon@stthomas.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Sampling equilateral space polygons.
    Jason Cantarella*, University of Georgia
    Bertrand Duplantier, IPhT Saclay
    Clayton Shonkwiler, Colorado State University
    Erica Uehara, Ochanomizu University
    (1123-53-120)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Geometric Properties of Knotted Random Polygons in Confinement.
    Uta Ziegler*, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY
    Y Diao, UNC - Charlotte, NC
    C. Ernst, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY
    E. Rawdon, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN
    (1123-57-298)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Petal Links.
    Jason Parsley*, Wake Forest University
    Hao Chen, Wake Forest University
    (1123-57-334)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    What's the probability that a random triangle is obtuse? or: What the heck is a "random triangle", anyway?
    Jason Cantarella, University of Georgia
    Thomas Needham, The Ohio State University
    Clayton Shonkwiler*, Colorado State University
    Gavin Stewart, New York University
    (1123-53-286)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Local and Non-local Knotting in Lattice Models of Confined Polymers.
    Christine Soteros*, University of Saskatchewan
    (1123-82-161)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Coherent and incoherent nullification of torus knots.
    Claus Ernst*, Western Kentucky University
    (1123-57-340)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Topological measures of financial network complexity.
    Mark D Flood, Office of Financial Research, Washington D.C.
    Jonathan Simon*, Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa; and Office of Financial Research
    Mathew Timm, Department of Mathematics, Bradley University
    (1123-91-146)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Supercoiling can help type II topoisomerases to unknot and unlink DNA.
    Eric J Rawdon*, University of St. Thomas
    (1123-57-68)
• Sunday October 30, 2016, 8:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometric Flows, Integrable Systems and Moving Frames, IV
  MOH 343, Opus Hall
  Organizers:
  Joseph Benson, St. Olaf College
  Gloria Mari-Beffa, University of Wisconsin-Madison maribeff@math.wisc.edu
  Peter Olver, University of Minnesota
  Rob Thompson, Carleton College
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Jacobians with prescribed eignvectors.
    Michael R Benfield, North Carolina State University
    Helge Kristian Jenssen, Pennsylvania State University
    Irina A. Kogan*, North Carolina State University
    (1123-53-70)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Generalized Inverse Problem in the Calculus of Variations and Bi-Hamiltonian Systems.
    Mark E Fels*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Utah State University
    (1123-35-236)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Progress Toward a Moduli Theory of Involutive Differential Equations.
    Abraham David Smith*, University of Wisconsin-Stout
    (1123-53-208)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    A family of projectively natural discrete flows on the space of polygons.
    Quang-Nhat Le*, Brown University, Providence, RI
    (1123-37-276)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    $Q$-systems and Generalizations in Representation Theory.
    Darlayne Addabbo*, Champaign
    (1123-17-388)
• Sunday October 30, 2016, 8:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on The Topology of 3- and 4-Manifolds, IV
  MOH 403, Opus Hall
  Organizers:
  Maggy Tomova, University of Iowa
  Alexander Zupan, University of Nebraska-Lincoln zupan@unl.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Guts and volume for a simple family of hyperbolic $3$--orbifolds.
    Christopher K Atkinson*, University of Minnesota, Morris
    Jessica Mallepalle, Arcadia University
    Joseph Melby, University of Minnesota, Morris
    Shawn Rafalski, Fairfield University
    Jennifer Vaccaro, Olin College of Engineering
    (1123-57-301)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Commensurability classes of hyperbolic knot and link complements.
    Christian R Millichap*, Linfield College
    William Worden, Temple University
    (1123-57-133)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Linking numbers of pseudo-branch curves in irregular dihedral covers.
    Patricia Cahn*, Smith College
    Alexandra Kjuchukova, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1123-57-395)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Algorithms and dynamical systems for closed 3-manifold groups, I.
    Mark Brittenham, University of Nebraska
    Susan Hermiller*, University of Nebraska
    Tim Susse, University of Nebraska
    (1123-20-349)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Algorithms and dynamical systems for closed 3-manifold groups, II.
    Tim Susse*, University of Nebraska
    Mark Brittenham, University of Nebraska
    Susan Hermiller, University of Nebraska
    (1123-20-326)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On non-embeddability of knot groups into the group of analytic diffeomorphisms of the interval.
    Azer Akhmedov*, Associate Professor, NDSU
    Cody Martin, Graduate Student, NDSU
    (1123-57-344)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Computing Heegaard genus is NP-hard.
    David Bachman, Pitzer College
    Ryan Derby-Talbot*, Quest University Canada
    Eric Sedgwick, Depaul University
    (1123-57-45)
• Sunday October 30, 2016, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Advances in Algebraic Coding Theory, IV
  TMH 350, Terrence Murphy Hall
  Organizers:
  Sarah E. Anderson, University of St. Thomas ande1298@stthomas.edu
  Katie Haymaker, Villanova University
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Quasi-quadratic residue codes and their weight distributions.
    Jing Hao*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
    Nigel Boston, University of Wisconsin - Madison
    (1123-05-287)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Weakly Mutually Uncorrelated Codes.
    Seyed Mohammadhossein Tabatabaei Yazdi*, University of Illinois at Urbana--Champaign
    Han Mao Kiah, Nanyang Technological University
    Olgica Milenkovic, University of Illinois at Urbana--Champaign
    (1123-92-393)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Algebraic Signatures of Convex and Non-Convex Neural Codes.
    Katherine Morrison*, University of Northern Colorado
    (1123-94-380)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Explicit Johnson-Lindenstrauss projection of high dimensional data.
    Fiona Knoll*, Clemson University
    Shuhong Gao, Clemson University
    Yue Mao, Clemson University
    Lin You, Hangzhou Dianzi University
    (1123-68-362)
• Sunday October 30, 2016, 9:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Chip-Firing and Divisors on Graphs and Complexes, IV
  TMH 353, Terrence Murphy Hall
  Organizers:
  Caroline Klivans, Brown University
  Gregg Musiker, University of Minnesota
  Victor Reiner, University of Minnesota reiner@umn.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Accessibility numbers in abelian sandpile model on a directed graph.
    Luis David Garcia Puente*, Sam Houston State University
    Elizabeth Herman, North Carolina State University
    Amadeus Martin, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Bryan Oakley, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1123-05-159)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Cokernels of Random Matrices and Sandpile Groups.
    Nathan Kaplan*, University of California, Irvine
    (1123-05-265)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Mixing time and eigenvalues of the abelian sandpile Markov chain.
    Daniel C Jerison, Cornell University
    Lionel Levine*, Cornell University
    John Pike, Cornell University
    (1123-60-409)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Critical groups and symmetry.
    Andrew Berget*, Western Washington University
    (1123-05-214)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Arithmetical structures over the path.
    Hugo Corrales*, CINVESTAV
    (1123-05-333)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Arithmetical structures on graphs and Catalan combinatorics.
    Jeremy L. Martin*, University of Kansas
    (1123-05-130)
• Sunday October 30, 2016, 9:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Matrix Theory, IV
  TMH 401, Terrence Murphy Hall
  Organizers:
  Adam Berliner, St. Olaf College
  Brenda Kroschel, University of St. Thomas bkkroschel@stthomas.edu
  Nathan Warnberg, University Wisconsin-LaCrosse
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Upper triangular sign patterns that require eventual exponential nonnegativity.
    Craig Erickson*, Grand View University
    (1123-15-246)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    4 conjectures in spectral extremal graph theory.
    Michael Tait*, Carnegie Mellon University
    Josh Tobin, UC San Diego
    (1123-05-58)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    LIGHTS OUT! on Cartesian Products.
    Travis Peters*, Iowa State University
    Michael Young, Iowa State University
    John Goldwasser, West Virginia University
    (1123-15-95)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Convex polytopes and minimum ranks of nonnegative sign pattern matrices.
    Wei Fang, North University of China
    Wei Gao, Georgia State University
    Fei Gong, Georgia State University
    Yubin Gao, North University of China
    Guangming Jing, Georgia State University
    Zhongshan Li*, Georgia State University
    Yanling Shao, North University of China
    Lihua Zhang, Gorgia State University
    (1123-15-233)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Distance spectra of graphs.
    Jephian C.-H. Lin*, Iowa State University
    (1123-15-60)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    The epr-sequence over a field of characteristic 2.
    Xavier Martinez-Rivera*, Iowa State University
    (1123-15-308)
• Sunday October 30, 2016, 9:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Effective Mathematics in Discrete and Continuous Worlds, IV
  TMH 355, Terrence Murphy Hall
  Organizers:
  Wesley Calvert, Southern Illinois University wcalvert@siu.edu
  Timothy McNicholl, Iowa State University
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    The structure of computably enumerable equivalence relations.
    Uri Andrews*, University of Wisconsin -- Madison
    (1123-03-364)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Effectiveness for the Dual Ramsey theorem.
    Damir Dzhafarov, University of Connecticut
    Stephen Flood, Bridgewater State University
    Reed Solomon*, University of Connecticut
    Linda Brown Westrick, University of Connecticut
    (1123-03-250)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Bounded Quantifier Strong Minimality.
    Tamvana Makuluni*, University of Wisconsin--Madison
    (1123-03-389)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A uniform reducibility in computably presented Polish spaces.
    Timothy H. Rute, Iowa State University
    Jason M. Rute*, Pennsylvania State University
    (1123-03-230)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Formal languages, topology, and some challenging computations.
    James D Currie*, The University of Winnipeg
    (1123-05-83)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Computability-theoretic methods in descriptive set theory.
    Takayuki Kihara*, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
    (1123-03-52)
• Sunday October 30, 2016, 9:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Enumerative Combinatorics, IV
  TMH 346, Terrence Murphy Hall
  Organizers:
  Eric Egge, Carleton College
  Joel Brewster Lewis, University of Minnesota jblewis@math.umn.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Hook formulas for skew shapes.
    Alejandro Morales, UCLA
    Igor Pak, UCLA
    Greta Panova*, University of Pennsylvania
    (1123-05-227)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Hook formulas for skew shapes II.
    Alejandro H. Morales*, University of California, Los Angeles
    Igor Pak, University of California, Los Angeles
    Greta Panova, University of Pennsylvania
    (1123-05-277)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Sign functions for reduced expressions in Coxeter groups: proof of a conjecture of Bergeron, Ceballos and Labbé.
    Darij Grinberg*, Cambridge
    (1123-05-64)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Ascents and descents in binary trees, hyperplane arrangements and rook placements.
    Vasu Vineet Tewari*, University of Washington, Seattle
    (1123-05-103)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Chained permutations and alternating sign matrices - inspired by three-person chess.
    Dylan Heuer, North Dakota State University
    Chelsey Morrow, North Dakota State University
    Benjamin Noteboom, North Dakota State University
    Sara Solhjem, North Dakota State University
    Jessica Striker*, North Dakota State University
    Corey Vorland, North Dakota State University
    (1123-05-211)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Descent and peak polynomials.
    Bruce E. Sagan*, Michigan State University
    (1123-05-26)
• Sunday October 30, 2016, 9:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Extremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics, IV
  TMH 448, Terrence Murphy Hall
  Organizers:
  Andrew Beveridge, Macalester College abeverid@macalester.edu
  Jamie Radcliffe, University of Nebraska Lincoln
  Michael Young, Iowa State University
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Induced Turán numbers.
    Craig Timmons*, California State University Sacramento
    Po-Shen Loh, Carnegie Mellon
    Michael Tait, Carnegie Mellon
    (1123-05-193)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Minimum number of edges in digraphs with specified diameter.
    Zoltan Furedi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Sogol Jahanbekam*, Rochester Institute of Technology
    (1123-05-289)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Extremal graphs forbidding an odd cycle.
    David S. Gunderson*, University of Manitoba
    (1123-05-404)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Minimizing the independence polynomial over regular graphs.
    Jonathan Cutler*, Montclair State University
    A. J. Radcliffe, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1123-05-283)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Triangle-tilings in graphs without large independent sets.
    Jozsef Balogh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Andrew McDowell, University of Birmingham
    Theodore Molla*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagin
    Richard Mycroft, University of Birmingham
    (1123-05-85)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Enumeration of domino tilings of a double Aztec rectangle.
    Tri Lai*, Department of Mathematics, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    (1123-05-114)
• Sunday October 30, 2016, 9:00 a.m.-11:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Integrable Systems and Related Areas, III
  MOH 326, Opus Hall
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Asymptotic analysis of a deformed Tracy-Widom distribution.
    Robert Buckingham*, University of Cincinnati
    Thomas Bothner, University of Michigan
    (1123-41-271)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Fock-Rosly Poisson structure as defined by a quasitriangular $r$-matrix.
    Victor Mouquin*, University of Toronto
    (1123-53-347)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Classification of Toric Poisson structures.
    Arlo Caine*, California State Polytechnic University Pomona
    Berit Nilsen Givens, California State Polytechnic University Pomona
    (1123-53-127)
• Sunday October 30, 2016, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Modeling and Predicting the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Climate, III
  MOH 322, Opus Hall
  Organizers:
  Sam Stechmann, University of Wisconsin-Madison stechmann@wisc.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Assimilating nonlinear Lagrangian data into a high-dimensional ocean model.
    Elaine Spiller*, Marquette University
    (1123-00-291)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Energetics of the Ocean Surface at Low Frequencies in GFDL's CM2-O Model Hierarchy.
    Amanda K O'Rourke*, University of Michigan
    Brian Arbic, University of Michigan
    Stephen Griffies, Princeton University/NOAA GFDL
    (1123-86-125)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Gaussian-product stochastic Gent-McWilliams parameterization.
    Ian G Grooms*, University of Colorado, Boulder
    (1123-86-11)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Diffusive Boltzmann equation and its fluid dynamics.
    Rafail V Abramov*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1123-76-35)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday October 30, 2016, 9:00 a.m.-11:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Multi-scale Phenomena in Linear and Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, IV
  MOH 324, Opus Hall
  Organizers:
  Zaher Hani, Georgia Tech
  Christof Sparber, University of Illinois at Chicago sparber@uic.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Stability and Modulations for Quasiperiodic Traveling waves of Nonlinear Schrodinger type equations.
    Jared C Bronski*, UNiversity of Illinois
    (1123-35-361)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Random data theory for nonlinear wave equations with null form nonlinearity.
    Dana Mendelson*, University of Chicago
    (1123-35-399)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Weighted-$W^{1,p}$ estimates for weak solutions of degenerate and singular elliptic equations.
    Dat Cao, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
    Tadele Mengesha, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
    Tuoc Phan*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
    (1123-35-306)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Dynamics of some PDEs modelling aspects of fluids.
    Vladimir Sverak*, University of Minnesota
    (1123-35-164)
• Sunday October 30, 2016, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on New Developments in the Analysis of Nonlocal Operators, IV
  MOH 321, Opus Hall
  Organizers:
  Donatella Danielli, Purdue University
  Arshak Petrosyan, Purdue University
  Camelia Pop, University of Minnesota capop@umn.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Schauder estimates for nonlocal Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations.
    Chenchen Mou*, University of California, Los Angeles
    Andrzej Swiech, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1123-35-97)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Some recent results on asymptotics of $O(N)$-model.
    Tayyab Nawaz*, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
    Kay Kirkpatrick, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
    (1123-82-19)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Regularity Estimates for the Stochastic Impulse Control Problem.
    Rohit Jain*, McGill University
    (1123-35-305)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Chaotic Orbits for Systems of Nonlocal Equations.
    Stefania Patrizi*, UT Austin
    Serena Dipierro, University of Melbourne
    Enrico Valdinoci, University of Melbourne
    (1123-35-367)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Min-max formulas for elliptic operators.
    Nestor Guillen*, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    Russell Schwab, Michigan State University
    (1123-35-39)
• Sunday October 30, 2016, 9:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Noncommutative Algebras and Their Representations, IV
  TMH 357, Terrence Murphy Hall
  Organizers:
  Miodrag Iovanov, University of Iowa miodrag-iovanov@uiowa.edu
  Ryan Kinser, University of Iowa
  Peter Webb, University of Minnesota
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Universal deformation rings and self-injective Nakayama algebras.
    Frauke M Bleher*, University of Iowa
    (1123-16-244)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Universal deformation rings and finite subgroups of $Gl_2(\mathbb{C})$.
    David C Meyer*, University of Missouri
    (1123-16-336)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On Classification of Quantum $p$-Groups via Primitive Deformations.
    Van C. Nguyen*, Northeastern University
    (1123-16-136)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Morita equivalences between blocks preserve heights of Knörr lattices.
    Michael Aaron Geline*, Northern Illinois University
    Florian Eisele, City University London
    Radha Kessar, City University London
    Markus Linckelmann, City University London
    (1123-20-182)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Twisted current algebras and their universal central extensions.
    Jie Sun*, Michigan Technological University
    (1123-17-292)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Combinatorial Restrictions on the Tree Class of the Auslander-Reiten Quiver of a Triangulated Category.
    K. Diveris*, St. Olaf College
    M. Purin, St. Olaf College
    P. Webb, University of Minnesota
    (1123-17-241)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Higher Franz-Reidemeister torsion of $G$-bundles.
    Thomas Goodwillie, Brown University, Providence, RI
    Kiyoshi Igusa*, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
    (1123-18-268)
• Sunday October 30, 2016, 9:00 a.m.-11:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Quantum Field Theories and Geometric Representation Theory, IV
  TMH 351, Terrence Murphy Hall
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Algebras and modules from boundary quantum field theory.
    Ryan E Grady*, Montana State University
    Dylan Butson, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
    Brian Williams, Northwestern University
    Philsang Yoo, Northwestern University
    (1123-17-204)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Quantum Field Theories and Langlands Dualities.
    Philsang Yoo*, Northwestern University
    (1123-81-102)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Monopoles, Vortices, and Vermas.
    Mathew Bullimore, Oxford
    Tudor Dimofte, University of California, Davis
    Davide Gaiotto, Perimeter Institute
    Justin Hilburn*, University of Pennsylvania
    Hee-Cheol Kim, Perimeter Institute
    (1123-14-290)
• Sunday October 30, 2016, 9:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Representation Theory, Automorphic Forms and Related Topics, IV
  TMH 354, Terrence Murphy Hall
  Organizers:
  Kwangho Choiy, Southern Illinois University
  Dihua Jiang, University of Minnesota
  Shuichiro Takeda, University of Missouri takedas@missouri.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Theta representations on metaplectic groups.
    Yuanqing Cai*, Boston College
    (1123-11-247)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On the Whittaker models for genuine representations of covering groups.
    Fan Gao*, Purdue University
    (1123-11-337)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Metaplectic Iwahori-Whittaker functions and Demazure-Lusztig operators.
    Manish M Patnaik, University of Alberta
    Anna Puskas*, University of Alberta
    (1123-11-71)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Whittaker functions for affine Kac-Moody groups.
    Ian Whitehead*, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
    (1123-11-29)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Easy theorems on orthogonal groups.
    Aaron Pollack*, Stanford University
    (1123-11-100)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Local Fourier transforms and Langlands dualities.
    Martin Luu*, UC Davis
    (1123-11-307)
• Sunday October 30, 2016, 9:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Symplectic Geometry and Contact Geometry, IV
  MOH 346, Opus Hall
  Organizers:
  Tian-Jun Li, University of Minnesota
  Cheuk Yu Mak, University of Minnesota
  Ke Zhu, Minnesota State University ke.zhu@mnsu.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Representations of the Kauffman bracket skein algebra.
    Helen M Wong*, Carleton College
    Francis Bonahon, University of Southern California
    (1123-57-346)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Hyperbolic 3 manifolds not admitting fillable contact structures.
    Amey Kaloti*, University of Iowa.
    Bulent Tosun, University of Alabama.
    (1123-57-295)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Weinstein Conjecture for Iterated Planar Open Books.
    Bahar Acu*, University of Southern California, University of California Los Angeles
    (1123-53-242)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The new symplectic 4-manifolds with positive signature.
    Sumeyra Sakalli*, University of Minnesota
    (1123-57-190)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Constructions of new Lefschetz fibrations using cyclic group actions.
    Nur Saglam*, University of Minnesota
    (1123-57-264)
• Sunday October 30, 2016, 9:00 a.m.-11:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Topology and Arithmetic, III
  MOH 323, Opus Hall
  Organizers:
  Tyler Lawson, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
  Craig Westerland, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities cwesterl@umn.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Quasi-elliptic cohomology.
    Zhen Huan*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1123-55-394)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Looijenga line bundles and complex analytic elliptic cohomology.
    Charles Rezk*, University of Illinois
    (1123-55-82)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On the elliptic cohomology of compact Lie groups.
    David Gepner*, Purdue University
    (1123-55-223)
• Sunday October 30, 2016, 9:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Women in Analysis and Partial Differential Equations, III
  MOH 318, Opus Hall
  Organizers:
  Svitlana Mayboroda, University of Minnesota svitlana@umn.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    On certain commutator estimates.
    Virginia Naibo*, Kansas State University
    (1123-42-115)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On a non-local shape optimization problem related to swarming.
    Almut Burchard*, University of Toronto
    (1123-49-304)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Finite dimensional Balian-Low type theorems.
    Shahaf Nitzan*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Jan-Fredrik Olsen, Lund University
    Oscar Nilsson, Lund University
    (1123-42-257)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Long time dynamics of random data for certain nonlinear PDE.
    Andrea R Nahmod*, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    (1123-35-372)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Random data Cauchy theory for some nonlinear wave equations.
    Dana Mendelson*, University of Chicago
    (1123-35-400)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    The formulation of the Navier-Stokes Equations on the Riemannian manifolds.
    Chi Hin Chan, National Chiao Tung University
    Magdalena Czubak*, University of Colorado Boulder
    Marcelo M Disconzi, Vanderbilt University
    (1123-35-352)
• Sunday October 30, 2016, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on p-Adic Analysis in Number Theory, III
  TMH 352, Terrence Murphy Hall
  Organizers:
  C. Douglas Haessig, University of Rochester chaessig@math.rochester.edu
  Steven Sperber, University of Minnesota
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Artin Conjecture for $p$-adic Galois Representations of Function Fields.
    Ruochuan Liu*, Beijing International Center for Mathematical Research/Peking University
    Daqing Wan, University of California, Irvine
    (1123-11-282)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Wild symbols in local class field theory.
    Michiel Filip Kosters*, University of California, Irvine
    (1123-11-220)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Generalized Stickelberger's congruence for generalized Gauss sums.
    Sandi Xhumari*, Dalton State College
    (1123-11-348)
• Sunday October 30, 2016, 9:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Combinatorial Representation Theory, IV
  TMH 348, Terrence Murphy Hall
  Organizers:
  Michael Chmutov, University of Minnesota mchmutov@gmail.com
  Tom Halverson, Macalester College
  Travis Scrimshaw, University of Minnesota
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    Pieri rules and combinatorics of symmetric group characters.
    Rosa Orellana, Dartmouth College
    Michael Zabrocki*, York Univeristy
    (1123-05-357)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Partition algebra and Kronecker coefficients.
    Rosa C Orellana*, Dartmouth College
    Mike Zabrocki, York University
    (1123-05-167)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Flavors of $q$-partition algebras.
    Tom Halverson, Macalester College
    Arun Ram, University of Melbourne
    Nathaniel Thiem*, University of Colorado Boulder
    (1123-20-318)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Tensor Invariants, Dimensions, and Multiplicities - A Walking Tour.
    Georgia Benkart*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1123-05-258)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Ordered set partitions, generalized coinvariant algebras, and the Delta Conjecture.
    James Haglund, University of Pennsylvania
    Brendon Rhoades, University of California, San Diego
    Mark Shimozono*, Virginia Tech
    (1123-05-296)
• Sunday October 30, 2016, 10:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Topology and Physics, IV
  MOH 301, Opus Hall
  Organizers:
  Ralph Kaufmann, Purdue University
  Alexander Voronov, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities voronov@umn.edu
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    Quantum shuffle algebras and the homology of braid groups.
    Jordan S. Ellenberg, University of Wisconsin
    TriThang Tran, Monash University & University of Melbourne
    Craig Westerland*, University of Minnesota
    (1123-55-206)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Betti numbers for configuration spaces of surfaces.
    Gabriel C. Drummond-Cole*, IBS Center for Geometry and Physics
    Ben Knudsen, Harvard University
    (1123-55-150)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Semistable Graph Homology.
    J. Javier Zúñiga*, Universidad del Pacífico
    (1123-55-90)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Cobordism theory for Lagrangians and Homological mirror symmetry over spectra.
    Hiro Lee Tanaka*, Harvard University
    (1123-55-72)

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