Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, January 13, 2007 12:54:12

Joint Mathematics Meetings
New Orleans, LA, January 5-8, 2007 (Friday - Monday)
Meeting #1023

• Saturday January 6, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research in Mathematics by Undergraduates, I
  Organizers:
  Darren A. Narayan, Rochester Institute of Technology dansma@rit.edu
  Carl V. Lutzer, Rochester Institute of Technology
  Bernard Brooks, Rochester Institute of Technology
  Tamas I. Wiandt, Rochester Institute of Technology
  Michael J. Fisher, California State University, Fresno
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Automorphisms and Lattices of the Heisenberg Group.
    Lisa M Lackney*, University of Akron
    Rebecca Black, Swarthmore College
    (1023-20-112)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Steiner problem on the cone.
    Jamie L Burwood*, Bowdoin College
    Caroline Nielson, University of Southern Utah
    (1023-51-146)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The 3-point Steiner problem on the projective plane of constant Gaussian curvature.
    Timothy Luke Muggy*, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    Daniel Murphree, Berry College, Georgia
    (1023-51-151)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Delay differential equations modeling vertically transmitted diseases.
    Jonathan Adler, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    Lynne Erickson, Ursinus College
    L. Thomas Hill, Lafayette College
    Kristen Mazur*, Lafayette College
    Thomas Tyrrell, Boston University
    (1023-34-209)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Mathematical Model for the Progression of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis and its Potential Treatments.
    Rahul Bansal*, The University of Texas at Austin
    (1023-92-280)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On Singular and Nonsingular Magic Squares.
    Elizabeth L Love*, Howard University
    Elizabeth A Wascher, Central Michigan University
    Michael Z Lee, Central Michigan University
    (1023-15-366)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On the Parameterized Complexity of Independent Set.
    Teruhisha Haruguchi, Lafayette College
    Janine LoBue*, Loyola College in Maryland
    James Pierce, Illinois Institute of Technology
    David Roberson, North Carolina State University
    (1023-00-332)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    The Honeycomb Conjecture on the Sphere.
    Conor B Quinn*, Williams College
    (1023-51-679)
• Saturday January 6, 2007, 1:00 p.m.-4:25 p.m.
  AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research in Mathematics by Undergraduates, II
  Organizers:
  Darren A. Narayan, Rochester Institute of Technology dansma@rit.edu
  Carl V. Lutzer, Rochester Institute of Technology
  Bernard Brooks, Rochester Institute of Technology
  Tamas I. Wiandt, Rochester Institute of Technology
  Michael J. Fisher, California State University, Fresno
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Modeling the Spread of Smallpox in the Mayan Population with Excel.
    Hye Yon Yi*, Rochester Institute of Technology
    (1023-00-1100)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Colorability of Knots and the Kauffman-Harary Conjecture.
    Nicholas E. Dowdall*, Sonoma State University, California
    Thomas Mattman, Chico State University
    Kevin Meek, Florida State University
    Pablo Solis, MIT
    (1023-54-805)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Turk's Head Knots and the Kauffman-Harary Conjecture.
    Pablo R Solis*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1023-54-807)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    The Kauffman-Harary Conjecture, Turk's Head Knots and Pell Primes.
    Nick Dowdall, Sonoma State University
    Kevin Meek*, Florida State University
    Pablo Solis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1023-51-1058)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Compartmental Model for an Activity-Dependent Perforated Synapse.
    Olga Yuliana Noris*, San Diego State University-Imperial Valley Campus
    Diana W. Verzi, San Diego State University-Imperial Valley Campus
    (1023-92-1119)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Normal Subgroups of a Wreath p-Group and Corresponding Doubly-Invariant Vector Subspaces: Preliminary Report.
    Sam P Ruth*, Northwestern University
    Arran Christopher Hamm, Wake Forest University
    Sarah Renee Bockting, University of Evansville
    (1023-20-64)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Pricing Convertible Bonds.
    Jinjin Qian*, Lafayette College
    Lindsay Bryant, Lafayette College
    (1023-90-1553)
• Sunday January 7, 2007, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research in Mathematics by Undergraduates, III
  Organizers:
  Darren A. Narayan, Rochester Institute of Technology dansma@rit.edu
  Carl V. Lutzer, Rochester Institute of Technology
  Bernard Brooks, Rochester Institute of Technology
  Tamas I. Wiandt, Rochester Institute of Technology
  Michael J. Fisher, California State University, Fresno
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The Nonexistence of Cyclic Difference Sets.
    Bridget D Franklin*, University of Kansas
    Steven Sam, University of California, Berkeley
    (1023-05-84)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    On the Minimum Vector Rank of a Multigraph.
    Ian A. Rogers*, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
    (1023-05-85)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Combinatorial symmetry of the 24-cell via matroids.
    Stephanie Fried*, Grinnell College
    Aydin Gerek, Lafayette College
    Gary Gordon, Lafayette College
    Andrija Perunicic, Bard College
    (1023-05-318)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Universal Cycles of Multisets.
    Tobias L Johnson*, Yale University
    Joshua Zahl, California Institute of Technology
    (1023-05-448)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Counting Lower Hessenberg Matrices.
    Katherine Victoria Field*, The College of William and Mary
    Hakan Seyalioglu, The College of William and Mary
    Charles R Johnson, The College of William and Mary
    (1023-05-815)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Combinatorial Formulas for an Involution Poset.
    Chelsey A Cooley*, North Carolina State University
    Nathan Williams, Carleton College
    (1023-05-1041)
• Sunday January 7, 2007, 1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research in Mathematics by Undergraduates, IV
  Organizers:
  Darren A. Narayan, Rochester Institute of Technology dansma@rit.edu
  Carl V. Lutzer, Rochester Institute of Technology
  Bernard Brooks, Rochester Institute of Technology
  Tamas I. Wiandt, Rochester Institute of Technology
  Michael J. Fisher, California State University, Fresno
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Computational Efficiency in Weyl Groups.
    Patricia R Cahn*, Smith College
    Juan Li, Smith College
    Jeremy Schwartz, Brandeis University
    (1023-08-1056)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    An equivalent characterization of half-factorial restricted block monoids over $\mathbb{Z}$ and torsion groups, with applications to factorization in Dedekind domains.
    R D Kravitz*, Williams College
    (1023-13-132)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Matrix Generation of the Diophantine Solutions to Sums of $3\le n \le 9$ Squares that are Square.
    Jordan O Tirrell*, Lafayette College
    Clifford A Reiter, Lafayette College
    (1023-11-626)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Looking for Patterns in Multinomial Coefficients.
    Igor Konfisakher*, Washington University in St. Louis
    Michael Wijaya, University of Rochester
    (1023-11-472)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Number Base Representations in the Gaussian Integers.
    Heather J Langdon*, St. Mary's College of Maryland
    (1023-11-854)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Orders at Infinity of Modular Forms with Heegner Divisors.
    Carl Erickson*, Stanford University
    Alison Miller, Harvard University
    Aaron Pixton, Princeton University
    (1023-11-80)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The number of ways of expressing $t$ as a binomial coefficient.
    Daniel Mertz Kane*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1023-11-1083)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Realizations of subspaces of $L_p$, $p>2$, with norm given by partitions and weights.
    Brandon P Barrette*, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
    Simei Tong, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
    (1023-46-86)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Surfaces with Density and their Isoperimetric Regions.
    Robin S Walters*, Harvard University
    (1023-53-898)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Self-similar periodic tilings of nilpotent Lie groups.
    James J. Rohal*, College of Wooster
    William P. Hudelson, University of Notre Dame
    (1023-22-808)