Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by Day

Current as of Saturday, January 16, 2016 03:30:11

Joint Mathematics Meetings
Washington State Convention Center and the Sheraton Seattle Hotel, Seattle, WA
January 6-9, 2016 (Wednesday - Saturday)
Meeting #1116

Associate secretaries:

Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu
Gerard A. Venema, MAA venema@calvin.edu

Saturday January 9, 2016

• Saturday January 9, 2016, 7:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
  Joint Meetings Registration
  Atrium Lobby, 4th Floor, Washington State Convention Center
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 7:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
  Email Center
  Atrium Lobby, 4th Floor, Washington State Convention Center
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 7:45 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  AMS Session on Undergraduate Research, I
  Chelan 4, Chelan Level Two, Washington State Conference Center
  

  • 7:45 a.m.
    Edge Detection from Spectral Phase Data.
    Alexander B Reynolds*, Arizona State University
    (1116-42-2111)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Successfully Managing Distinct Research Projects.
    James Michael Keane*, University of Central Oklahoma
    (1116-00-1554)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Phylogenetic Supertree Reconstruction Using Weighted Quartets.
    Keertana Anandraj*, Wellesley College
    Laura Brunner, University of Wisconsin Stevens Point
    (1116-00-1536)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Soft Contact Lens Hydration Modeling.
    Austin R Alderete*, George Mason University
    (1116-00-2623)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    A graph theoretic approach to the inverse voter preference voter problem.
    Selene Chew*, Rochester Institute of Technology
    (1116-05-1384)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Distinguishing Numbers of 2-Trees.
    Poppy Immel*, Rochester Institute of Technology
    (1116-05-288)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Minimal Length Maximal Green Sequences for Type $\mathbb{A}$ Quivers.
    Peter E. Dillery*, University of Virginia
    Emily E. Cormier, Bowdoin College
    John H. Whelan, Vassar College
    (1116-05-399)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Classification of Spanning Trees by Isomorphism.
    Andrew Meier*, Nebraska Wesleyan University
    Austin Mohr, Nebraska Wesleyan University
    (1116-05-2793)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Study on Oddly Bipancyclic Graphs and Other N-Pancyclic Graphs.
    Lisa Joy Mueller*, California State University, Fullerton
    Oliver Sawin, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    WonHyuk "Harry" Choi, Pomona College
    Abdollah Khodkar, University of West Georgia
    (1116-11-436)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On the Catenary Degree of Numerical Monoids Generated by a Generalized Arithmetic Sequence.
    Rachel Jade Domagalski*, Central Michigan University
    Dana Lacey, North Central College
    James E. Pangelinan III, University of Guam
    Marly Cormar, University of Florida
    (1116-11-1283)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Ranges of Divisor Functions.
    Colin Defant*, University of Florida
    (1116-11-803)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Edge-Magic Total Labelings.
    Lisa Joy Mueller*, California State University, Fullerton
    Kajal Chokshi, Loyola University Chicago
    Nick Bohall, University of Washington
    Jackie Emrich, Loyola University Maryland
    Abdollah Khodkar, University of West Georgia
    (1116-11-435)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Homomorphic Encryption: Ring Learning With Errors.
    Tamalika Mukherjee*, Rochester Institute of Technology
    (1116-12-773)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Galois Groups of Degree 15 p-adic Polynomials.
    Chad Awtrey, Elon University
    Kristen Mazur, Elon University
    Sara Rodgers*, Elon University
    Nicole Soltz, Elon University
    Jesi Weed, Elon University
    (1116-12-557)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    Degree 6 Polynomials and Their Solvability by Radicals.
    Chad Awtrey, Elon University
    Robin French, Williams High School
    Peter L Jakes*, Elon University
    Alan Russell, Elon University
    (1116-12-561)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Determining Unique Hamiltonicity Using Gröbner Bases.
    Aaron Tyler Wagner*, Viterbo University
    Kainalu Barino, Brigham Young University
    Monica Busser, Youngstown State University
    Vanessa Aguirre, University of Hawaii - Hilo
    (1116-14-1011)
  • 11:45 a.m.
    A taste of dual billiards.
    Abdullah Khan*, University of North Texas at Dallas
    (1116-53-2995)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Algebraic and Topological Methods in Combinatorics, III
  Room 204, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Andrew Berget, Western Washington University
  Steven Klee, Seattle University klees@seattleu.edu
  Isabella Novik, University of Washington, Seattle
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Weighted Tree Enumeration of Cubical Complexes.
    Ghodratollah Aalipour, Kharazmi University and University of Colorado Denver
    Art Duval*, University of Texas at El Paso
    Jeremy Martin, University of Kansas
    (1116-05-1635)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Sandpiles, spanning trees, and plane duality.
    Melody Chan, Department of Mathematics, Brown University
    Darren Glass, Department of Mathematics, Gettysburgh College
    Matthew Macauley, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Clemson University
    David Perkinson*, Department of Mathematics, Reed College
    Caryn Werner, Department of Mathematics, Allegheny College
    Qiaoyu Yang, Department of Mathematics, Reed College
    (1116-05-1773)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The expected jaggedness of order ideals.
    Melody Chan, Harvard University
    Shahrzad Haddadan, Dartmouth College
    Sam Hopkins*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Luca Moci, University Paris-Diderot Paris 7
    (1116-05-386)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Hurwitz action in real reflection groups.
    Joel Brewster Lewis*, University of Minnesota
    (1116-05-483)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Quadratic-linear duality and rational homotopy theory of chordal arrangements.
    Christin Bibby*, University of Western Ontario
    Justin Hilburn, University of Oregon
    (1116-55-1714)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Combinatorial and geometric view of the system reliability theory.
    Fatemeh Mohammadi*, Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin)
    (1116-05-1679)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    A McMullen formula for the number of lattice points of generalized permutohedra.
    Federico Castillo*, UC Davis
    Fu Liu, UC Davis
    (1116-05-1167)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Lattice point enumeration, mutations, and Fano lattice simplices.
    Benjamin Braun*, University of Kentucky
    Robert Davis, Michigan State University
    Liam Solus, IAS Austria and MIT
    (1116-05-495)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Analytic Function Spaces and Operators on Them
  Room 400, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Tim Ferguson, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa tjferguson1@ua.edu
  Hyun Kwon, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Common reducing subspaces of several weighted shifts with operator weights.
    Caixing Gu*, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
    (1116-47-1163)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Hyponormality of commuting pairs of Toeplitz operators with matrix-valued symbols.
    Raul E Curto*, The University of Iowa
    (1116-47-1576)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the Harmonic and Geometric Maximal Operators.
    Linden Anne Duffee*, University of Alabama
    (1116-43-2283)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On Hilbert modules.
    Ronald G Douglas*, Texas A&M University
    (1116-47-1175)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Refinement of Wolff's Theorem on the Multiplier Algebra of the Dirichlet Space.
    Debendra Banjade, Coastal Carolina University
    Hyun Kwon, The University of Alabama
    Todd Neal*, The University of Alabama
    (1116-30-2654)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Hankel Operators, Invariant Subspaces, and Cyclic Vectors in the Drury-Arveson Space.
    James Sunkes*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    Stefan Richter, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    (1116-32-204)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On Toeplitz operators with matrix almost periodic symbols.
    Ilya M Spitkovsky*, NYUAD and William
    (1116-47-1225)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    A Class of Integral Operators on Zygmund spaces of the unit disk.
    Snehalatha Ballamoole*, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi.
    Thomas Len Miller, Mississippi State University
    Vivien Glass Miller, Mississippi State University
    (1116-47-2781)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Applied and Computational Topology, I
  Room 201, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Pawel Dlotko, INRIA Saclay, France
  Nicholas Scoville, Ursinus College nscoville@ursinus.edu
  Matthew Wright, IMA University of Minnesota
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Homology of generalized configuration spaces.
    Radmila Sazdanovic*, North Carolina State University
    (1116-57-1528)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Vietoris--Rips complexes of circles and ellipses.
    Michał Adamaszek, University of Copenhagen
    Henry Adams*, Colorado State University
    Samadwara Reddy, Duke University
    (1116-57-832)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Reconstructing manifolds and functions from random samples.
    Vidit Nanda*, University of Pennsylvania
    (1116-55-1268)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Subsampling methods for persistent homology.
    Frederic Chazal*, INRIA Saclay
    (1116-55-555)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Sheaf-based communication network invariants.
    Michael Robinson*, American University
    (1116-55-109)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Recent results on constructible Reeb spaces and the interleaving distance.
    Justin Michael Curry*, Duke University
    (1116-55-1758)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Reeb Space Approximation with Guarantees.
    Elizabeth Munch*, University at Albany - SUNY
    Bei Wang, University of Utah
    (1116-55-305)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Rigorous validation of isolating blocks for flows and their Conley indices.
    Thomas Stephens*, George Mason University
    (1116-57-1606)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Arithmetic Dynamics, III
  Room 604, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Matthew Baker, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Joseph Silverman, Brown University jhs@math.brown.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Some applications of the Arithmetic euqidistribution theorem in Complex Dynamics.
    Hexi Ye*, University of British Columbia
    (1116-37-418)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Canonical heights and preperiodic points for a special class of polynomials.
    Patrick Ingram*, Colorado State University
    (1116-11-1935)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Postcritical sets in moduli space.
    Sarah Koch*, University of Michigan
    (1116-30-475)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The dynamical André-Oort conjecture.
    Holly Krieger*, MIT
    (1116-37-747)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Automorphism Groups and Invariant Theory on PN.
    Joao Alberto de Faria, Florida Institute of Technology
    Benjamin Hutz*, Saint Louis University
    (1116-37-1810)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Genralized dynamical systems, from monoid actions to homomorphisms.
    Chong Gyu Lee*, Soongsil University
    (1116-37-835)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    A very elementary proof of a conjecture of B. and M. Shapiro for cubic rational functions.
    Bianca A Thompson*, Smith College
    Xander Faber, Center for Computing Sciences, Institute for Defense Analyses
    (1116-11-476)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    The dynamics of Apollonian circle packings.
    Sneha Chaubey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Elena Fuchs, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Robert Hines, University of Colorado, Boulder
    Katherine E Stange*, University of Colorado, Boulder
    (1116-11-941)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS-AWM Special Session on Commutative Algebra, II
  Room 603, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Karen Smith, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  Emily Witt, University of Utah
  Irena Swanson, Reed College iswanson@reed.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Rees rings and singularities of curves.
    Claudia Polini*, University of Notre Dame
    (1116-13-834)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Stabilization of Boij-Söderberg decompositions of systems of ideals.
    Sarah Mayes-Tang*, Quest University Canada
    (1116-13-994)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Interior operations on the set of ideals of a ring.
    Janet Vassilev*, University of New Mexico
    (1116-13-1147)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Nilpotent matrices having a given Jordan type as maximum commuting nilpotent orbit.
    Anthony Iarrobino, Northeastern
    Leila Khatami*, Union College
    Bart Van Steirteghem, Medgar Evers College, City University of New York
    Rui Zhao, University of Missouri, Columbia
    (1116-15-972)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Uniform Bounds of Artin-Rees type for free resolutions.
    Ian Aberbach, Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri, Columbia
    Aline Hosry, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences II, Lebanese University, Fanar, Lebanon
    Janet Striuli*, Department of Mathematics, Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut
    (1116-13-1138)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Matrix Schubert varieties and Gaussian conditional independence models.
    Alex Fink, Queen Mary University of London
    Jenna Rajchgot*, University of Michigan
    Seth Sullivant, North Carolina State University
    (1116-13-1853)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The parametric variation of $A$-hypergeometric functions.
    Christine Berkesch Zamaere*, University of Minnesota
    Jens Forsgård, Texas A&M University
    Laura Felicia Matusevich, Texas A&M University
    (1116-13-1299)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Algebraic Methods in Computer Vision.
    Rekha Thomas*, University of Washington
    (1116-14-540)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Current Areas of Interest in the Mathematical Sciences of Medieval Islam, I
  Skagit 3, Skagit Lower Level, Washington State Conference Center
  Organizers:
  Mohammad K. Azarian, University of Evansville
  Mohammad Javaheri, Siena College
  Emelie A. Kenney, Siena College kenney@siena.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Generating the symmetries of medieval Islamic ornaments.
    B. Grunbaum*, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
    (1116-52-1213)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Intersecting Polygons/Exploring Space in Medieval Islamic Architecture.
    Carol Bier*, Center for Islamic Studies, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley CA
    (1116-01-609)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Nizām al-Dīn `Abd al-`Alī ibn Muhammad ibn Husain al-Bīrjandī, a 16th Century Polymath Genius.
    Mohammad K. Azarian*, University of Evansville
    (1116-01-779)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Intersecting Squares: Geometric Compositions of Square Kufic Calligraphy in Bibi Khanum Mosque, Samarkand.
    Mamoun Sakkal*, Principal, Sakkal Design
    (1116-51-398)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Al-Kashi's Two Methods for Finding $\sin 1^{\circ}$.
    Glen R Van Brummelen*, Quest University
    (1116-01-782)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Data-Intensive Modeling in Ecology
  Room 4C-4, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Nikolay Strigul, Washington State University, Vancouver nick.strigul@wsu.edu
  Bala Krishnamoorthy, Washington State Unviersity, Vancouver
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Image Classification of Plankton Data Using Convolutional Neural Networks.
    Chaoran Wei*, the College of William and Mary
    Nadia Aly, the College of William and Mary
    Daniel McGibney, the College of William and Mary
    Daniel Vasiliu, the College of William and Mary
    (1116-62-2842)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A data-intensive model forecasting forest response to climate-related stress.
    Jean F Liénard*, Washington State University (Vancouver), Department of Mathematics and Statistics
    (1116-92-2172)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Modelling Remote Sensing Data in Ecology.
    Leslie New*, Washington State University
    Trish Miller, West Virginia University
    Adam Duerr, West Virginia University
    Melissa Braham, West Virginia University
    Todd Katzner, U.S. Geological Survey
    (1116-62-2370)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Voxel-based assessment of sunlight distribution in forests using LiDAR data.
    Demetrios Gatziolis*, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, Oregon
    (1116-92-2143)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Optimizing biodiversity in metagenomics via compressed sensing.
    David Koslicki*, Oregon State University
    Simon Foucart, Texas A&M University
    (1116-92-2481)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Modelling spatio-temporal animal distributions using high-definition video surveys.
    C R Donovan*, CREEM, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews
    M L Mackenzie, CREEM, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews
    A Webb, HiDef Aerial Surveying
    N B Erichson, CREEM, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews
    (1116-62-2542)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Data-intensive modeling of forest dynamics using time inhomogeneous Markov chains.
    Nikolay S. Strigul*, Washington State University Vancouver
    (1116-92-2202)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    The small data era of ecology.
    Timothée Poisot*, Université de Montréal
    (1116-92-2307)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-11:40 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Global Harmonic Analysis, III
  Room 610, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Steven Zelditch, Northwestern University s-zelditch@northwestern.edu
  Hart Smith, University of Washington, Seattle
  Chris Sogge, Johns Hopkins University
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Problems related to the concentration of eigenfunctions.
    Christopher Sogge*, Johns Hopkins University
    (1116-58-2984)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Universal Scaling Asymptotics for Spectral Projector of the Laplacian and Applications to Random Waves.
    Boris Hanin*, MIT
    Yaiza Canzani, Harvard
    (1116-53-1133)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    $L^2$ restriction bounds for quantum ergodic eigenfunctions.
    John A. Toth*, McGill University
    (1116-35-687)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Nonlinear Algebra, I
  Rooms 307/308, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Bernd Sturmfels, University of California Berkeley bernd@berkeley.edu
  Rekha Thomas, University of Washington, Seattle
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Spectrahedral Cones with rank 1 extreme rays.
    Grigoriy Blekherman*, Georgia Tech
    Rainer Sinn, Georgia Tech
    Mauricio Velasco, Universidad de los Andes
    (1116-14-1019)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A Lower Bound for the Determinantal Complexity of a Hypersurface.
    Jarod Alper, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
    Tristram Bogart*, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
    Mauricio Velasco, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
    (1116-68-507)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Unitarily decomposable tensors.
    Ada Boralevi, Eindhoven University of Technology
    Jan Draisma*, Eindhoven University of Technology
    Emil Horobeţ, Eindhoven University of Technology
    Elina Robeva, University of California, Berkeley
    (1116-14-653)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Slack ideals and semidefinite representations of polytopes.
    João Gouveia*, University of Coimbra
    (1116-49-1959)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Tensor decomposition via numerical algebraic geometry.
    Jonathan D Hauenstein*, University of Notre Dame
    Alessandra Bernardi, University of Bologna
    Noah S Daleo, Worcester State University
    Bernard Mourrain, Inria Sophia Antipolis
    (1116-65-2797)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Maximum Likelihood Degree of Toric Models in Algebraic Statistics.
    Serkan Hosten*, San Francisco State University
    (1116-14-2328)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Rigid Multiview Varieties.
    Michael Joswig, TU Berlin
    Joe Kileel*, UC Berkeley
    Bernd Sturmfels, UC Berkeley
    André Wagner, TU Berlin
    (1116-14-1439)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Orthogonally invariant matrix varieties.
    Hon-Leung Lee*, University of Washington
    (1116-15-2029)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures
  Skagit 5, Skagit Lower Level, Washington State Conference Center
  Organizers:
  Natalie Sheils, University of Washington, Seattle
  Chris Swierczewski, University of Washington, Seattle cswiercz@uw.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Computing Solutions to the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili Equation.
    Christopher Swierczewski*, University of Washington
    (1116-35-2163)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Initial-to-Interface Maps.
    Natalie Elizabeth Sheils*, University of Minnesota
    (1116-35-862)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Water Waves: Reconstructing the Surface Elevation from Pressure Data.
    Katie Oliveras*, Seattle University
    Vishal Vasan, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS)
    (1116-76-1297)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Nonlinear Waves Over Currents.
    Chris Curtis*, San Diego State University
    Katie Oliveras, Seattle University
    Sam Shen, San Diego State University
    Theresa Morrison, San Diego State University
    (1116-76-2136)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Comparison of Stability of Solutions to Hamiltonian Water Wave Models.
    Olga Trichtchenko*, University College London
    Bernard Deconinck, University of Washington
    Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck, University College London
    (1116-76-2230)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Analyzing the stability spectrum for elliptic solutions to the focusing NLS equation.
    Bernard Deconinck, University of Washington
    Benjamin Louis Segal*, University of Washington
    (1116-35-2769)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Gradient descent with nonlinear constraints: a dynamical systems approach.
    Vishal Vasan*, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
    (1116-34-1374)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Applications of Riemann--Hilbert problems.
    Thomas Trogdon*, New York University
    (1116-65-1997)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-11:40 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Pseudorandomness and Its Applications, IV
  Room 606, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Timothy Gowers, University of Cambridge
  Jozsef Solymosi, University of British Columbia solymosi@math.ubc.ca
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Most trees are short and fat.
    Louigi Addario-Berry*, McGill University
    (1116-60-1700)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Inverse Expander Mixing for Hypergraphs.
    Emma Cohen, School of Mathematics, Georgia Tech
    Dhruv Mubayi, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Peter Ralli, School of Mathematics, Georgia Tech
    Prasad V Tetali*, School of Mathematics, Georgia Tech
    (1116-05-2565)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Structure and Chromatic Number of H-free Graphs.
    Bruce Reed*, McGill University
    (1116-05-45)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Random greedy hypergraph processes.
    Tom Bohman*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1116-05-2488)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A different kind of pseudo.
    Boaz Barak*, Microsoft Research and Harvard University
    (1116-68-96)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Sets of points with many collinear triples: a theorem and variations.
    Zeev Dvir*, Princeton University
    (1116-05-244)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Quantum Walks, Quantum Markov Chains, Quantum Computation and Related Topics, III
  Room 602, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Chaobin Liu, Bowie State University cliu@bowiestate.edu
  Takyua Machida, Japan Sociey for the Promotion of Science
  Salvador E. Venegas-Andraca, Technológico de Monterrey, Mexico
  Nelson Petulante, Bowie State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Continuous-time quantum walks over simply connected graphs, amplitudes and invariants.
    Phillip R. Dukes*, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
    (1116-81-983)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The discrete-time quaternionic quantum walk and the second weighted zeta function on a graph.
    Hideo Mitsuhashi*, Utsunomiya University
    Norio Konno, Yokohama National University
    Iwao Sato, Oyama National College of Technology
    (1116-81-764)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Limit distribution of a quantum walk on a two-dimensional square lattice.
    Takuya Machida*, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
    (1116-81-262)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Talking Quantum: Prattle --$>$ Chatter --$>$ Ask --$>$ Solve.
    Mark Furtney*, D-Wave Systems, Inc
    (1116-03-1039)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Finding Substructures in Highly Symmetric Graphs Using Quantum Walks and an Efficient Technique for Creating Grover-Type Algorithms.
    Seth S Cottrell*, New York, NY
    (1116-81-961)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Topological phases of a $\mathcal{PT}$ symmetric non-unitary quantum walk.
    Hideaki Obuse*, Department of Applied Physics, Hokkaido University
    (1116-81-2181)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Formula Method for Bound State Problems.
    Babatunde J. Falaye*, ESFM, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, UPALM, México D. F. 07738, México.
    (1116-81-979)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Entanglement rates for bipartite open systems.
    Anna Vershynina*, Technical University of Munich, Germany
    (1116-81-513)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Random and Complex Dynamics of Reaction-Diffusion Systems, I
  Room 401, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Michael Anton Hoegele, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
  Yuncheng You, University of South Florida, Tampa you@mail.usf.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The Enskog Process.
    Sergio Albeverio, University of Bonn
    Barbara Rüdiger, Bergische Universität Wuppertal
    Padmanabhan Sundar*, Louisiana State University
    (1116-60-927)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Optimal control of parabolic PDE systems modeling competitive populations.
    Suzanne Lenhart*, University of Tennessee, Math Dept, and NIMBioS, Knoxville TN
    Kokum DeSilva, University of Tennessee, Math Dept, Knoxville TN
    (1116-35-772)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Slow Dynamics of Localized Spot Patterns for Reaction-Diffusion Systems on the Sphere.
    Michael J Ward*, Dept. of Mathematics, UBC, Vancouver, BC
    Phillipe Trinh, Oxford Center for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Oxford University
    (1116-35-1107)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Structure of attractors for the reaction-diffusion systems in chemical and biological models.
    Junping Shi*, Department of Mathematics, College of William and Mary
    (1116-35-820)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Nonlinear lower bounds for the fractional laplacian and applications.
    Michele Coti Zelati*, University of Maryland
    (1116-35-800)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The dynamics of reaction-diffusion equations with heavy-tailed Lévy noise.
    Michael A. Högele*, Universidad de los Andes
    Arnaud Debussche, EMS Rennes, France
    Peter Imkeller, Humboldt University Berlin
    (1116-60-1696)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Two Types of Nonlocal Diffusions and the Convergence to the Random/Normal Diffusion.
    Xiaoxia Xie*, Illinois Institute of Technology
    Wenxian Shen, Auburn University
    Jinqiao Duan, Illinois Institute of Technology
    Xiaofan Li, Illinois Institute of Technology
    (1116-35-186)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Recent Advances in Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions, I
  Room 310, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Xiang-Sheng Wang, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau xswang@semo.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Ladder Operators for Rationally-Extended Potentials Connected with Exceptional Orthogonal Polynomials and Superintegrability.
    Ian Marquette*, The University of Queensland
    (1116-81-1703)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Expected number of real zeros of random orthogonal polynomials.
    Xiaoju Xie*, Oklahoma State University
    (1116-00-1080)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Some Integrals of S. Ramanujan and S. Chowla.
    Bruce C Berndt*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1116-33-646)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Understanding Meijer $G$-functions.
    Richard Beals*, Mathematics Department, Yale University
    (1116-33-454)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Asymptotic analysis of difference equations.
    Xiang-Sheng Wang*, Southeast Missouri State University
    (1116-41-2044)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Decay rates of energy functions for a system with memory.
    Ti-Jun Xiao*, School of Mathematical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P. R. China
    (1116-33-274)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research in Mathematics by Undergraduates and Students in Post-Baccalaureate Programs, III
  Tahoma 3, Tahoma Level Three, Washington State Conference Center
  Organizers:
  Darren A. Narayan, Rochester Institute of Technology dansma@rit.edu
  Jobby Jacob, Rochester Institute of Technology
  Tamas Forgacs, California State University, Fresno
  Ugur Abdulla, Florida Institute of Technology
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Simulation, visualization and control of quadcopters.
    Alexander M Baez*, Inter American University of Puerto Rico Bayamon Campus
    Carmen Caiseda, Inter American University of Puerto Rico Bayamon Campus
    Padmanabhan Seshaiyer, George Mason University
    Nitin Nellanki, George Mason University
    Byong Kwon, George Mason University
    (1116-70-2633)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Mathematical Modeling, Dynamics, and Simulation of Search and Rescue Operations through UAVs.
    Kathleen A McLane*, George Mason University
    Alexander Baez, Interamerican University of Puerto Rico
    Padmanabhan Seshaiyer, George Mason University
    Pradyuta Seshaiyer, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
    Carmen Caiseda, Interamerican University of Puerto Rico
    Byong Kwon, George Mason University
    Nithin Ellanki, George Mason University
    (1116-00-2626)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Neighborhood-restricted $[\ge 3]$-Chromatic Colorings.
    James Dustin Chandler*, East Tennessee State University
    Cecilia Ashlie Dorado, East Tennessee State University
    Teresa W Haynes, East Tennessee State University
    (1116-03-2676)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Class 0 Bounds for Graph Pebbling.
    Daniel W Cranston, Virginia Commonwealth University
    Luke Postle, University of Waterloo
    Chenxiao Xue*, Davidson College
    Carl Yerger, Davidson College
    (1116-05-1311)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Outer Automorphisms of $S_6$ Acting on Combinatorial Structures.
    Jason Saied*, Lafayette College
    Dantong Zhu, Lafayette College
    (1116-20-2824)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Rings, Completions, and Strange Formal Fibers.
    Sarah M. Fleming, Williams College
    Lena Ji, Columbia University
    S. Loepp, Williams College
    Peter M. McDonald, Williams College
    Nina Pande*, Williams College
    David Schwein, Brown University
    (1116-13-238)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Conversations: Customer Service through Twitter Platform.
    Liyu Xia*, The University of Chicago
    Mary Marie Kemp, Occidental College
    Md Afzal Hossain, New York City Collage of Technology
    Alexandra Mary Howes, University of Cambridge
    (1116-62-285)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Constructive Galois Theory with Linear Algebraic Groups.
    Eric Y Chen, University of California, Berkeley
    John T Ferrara*, Bucknell University
    Liam M Mazurowski, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1116-12-291)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Special Functions and q-Series, II
  Chelan 2, Chelan Level Two, Washington State Conference Center
  Organizers:
  Richard Askey, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  Mourad E. H. Ismail, University of Central Florida and King Saud University, Riyadh mourad.eh.ismail@gmail.com
  Erik Koelink, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Discrete Macdonald--Mehta integrals.
    S Ole Warnaar*, The University of Queensland
    (1116-33-426)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Transmutation operators acting on solutions of the system of pde's for Appell's hypergeometric $F_2$.
    Tom H Koornwinder*, Korteweg-de Vries Institute, University of Amsterdam
    (1116-33-847)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Orthogonal polynomials related to a $_2\psi_2$-summation formula.
    Wolter Groenevelt*, Technische Universiteit Delft
    (1116-33-838)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The non-symmetric Wilson polynomials are the Bannai-Ito polynomials.
    Vincent X. Genest*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Luc Vinet, Universite de Montreal
    Alexei Zhedanov, Universite de Montreal
    (1116-33-1083)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: An interesting connection between complex orthogonal polynomials and nonlinear coherent states.
    S. Twareque Ali*, Concordia University, Montreal
    (1116-12-869)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Fundamental Laser Modes in Paraxial Optics: From Computer Algebra and Simulations to Experimental Observation.
    Christoph Koutschan, Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics, Austrian Academy of Sciences
    Erwin Suazo, School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Texas of Rio Grande Valley
    Sergei K. Suslov*, School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Arizona State University
    (1116-35-1645)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    New multivariate generalizations of Ramanujan's $_1\psi_1$ summation formula.
    Michael J Schlosser*, University of Vienna
    (1116-33-1992)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    $A_n$ to $A_m$ transformation formulas using Heine's method.
    Gaurav Bhatnagar*, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi Centre
    (1116-33-1228)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-11:40 a.m.
  AMS Session on Algebraic Geometry
  Chelan 5, Chelan Level Two, Washington State Conference Center
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: On the Geometry of Difference Painlevé Equations.
    Anton Dzhamay*, University of Northern Colorado
    Tomoyuki Takenawa, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology
    (1116-14-2800)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Polydegree Properties of Polynomial Automorphisms.
    Kaitlyn A. Perry*, The University of Alabama
    (1116-14-254)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Quantum Kostka and the rank one problem for $\mathfrak{sl}_{2m}$.
    Natalie Hobson*, University of Washington
    (1116-14-425)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    On the categorification of Verma modules for $\mathfrak{sl}_2$.
    Mee Seong Im*, United States Military Academy
    Ben Cox, College of Charleston
    (1116-14-799)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Modular equations for Lubin-Tate formal groups at chromatic level 2.
    Yifei Zhu*, Northwestern University
    (1116-55-2934)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Species and non-commutative $\mathbb{P}^{1}$'s over non-algebraic bimodules.
    Daniel Chan, University of New South Wales
    Adam Nyman*, Western Washington University
    (1116-14-107)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The moduli space of stable n-pointed genus zero curves is not a Mori dream space when n is at least 13.
    Jose Luis Gonzalez*, Yale University
    Kalle Karu, University of British Columbia
    (1116-14-512)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Counting Local Systems on Supersingular Abelian Varieties.
    Brett Frankel*, University of Pennsylvania
    (1116-14-796)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Nonnegative Polynomials and Sums of Squares Supported on Circuits.
    Timo de Wolff*, Texas A&M University
    Sadik Iliman, Goethe University
    (1116-14-2712)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Nullstellensatz for tropical polynomials.
    Kalina Mincheva*, Johns Hopkins Universtiy
    (1116-14-2815)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Picard groups of the stacks $Y_0(2)$ and $Y_0(3)$.
    Andrew Niles*, College of the Holy Cross
    (1116-14-1479)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Derived geometric Satake equivalence, Springer correspondence, and small representations.
    Jacob P. Matherne*, Louisiana State University
    (1116-14-2465)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Toric degenerations of incomplete flag varieties and their Schubert varieties.
    Daniel O. Chupin*, University of Texas at Austin
    (1116-14-2958)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    Associated primes of local cohomology after adjoining indeterminates part 2: the general case.
    Hannah Robbins*, Roanoke College
    (1116-13-250)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Associating Geometry to the Hopf Algebra $\mathcal{U}_q(\mathfrak{sl}_2)$.
    Richard Gene Chandler*, University of Texas at Arlington
    Michaela Vancliff, University of Texas at Arlington
    (1116-16-1365)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  AMS Session on Combinatorics and Graph Theory, IV
  Room 605, Washington State Convention Center
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Structure and automorphisms of primitive coherent configurations.
    Xiaorui Sun, Department of Computer Science, Columbia University
    John Wilmes*, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago
    (1116-05-701)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Color blind index in graphs of very low degree.
    Charles Suer*, Centre College
    (1116-05-2003)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    3-connected ${K_{1,3}, P_9}$-free Graphs are Hamiltonian Connected.
    Qiuju Bian, Shandong University of Technology
    Ronald J. Gould, Emory University
    Paul Horn, University of Denver
    Susan Janiszewski, Emory University
    Steven La Fleur, Emory University
    Paul Wrayno*, Christopher Newport University
    (1116-05-1914)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Trilateral matroids induced by $n_3$-configurations.
    Michael W Raney*, Georgetown University
    (1116-05-1400)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Tilings by ribbon L n-ominoes, n odd.
    Viorel Nitica*, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
    (1116-05-1709)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Covering Sets for Rectangles in the Lattice.
    William P. Noland*, North Central College
    Ethan Gegner, Taylor University
    Robert Winslow, University of Kansas
    (1116-05-1895)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Matroids with many small circuits and many small cocircuits.
    James Oxley, Louisiana State University
    Simon Pfeil*, Louisiana State University
    Charles Semple, University of Canterbury
    Geoff Whittle, Victoria University of Wellington
    (1116-05-1717)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Enumeration of Ribbon and Mobius Graphs.
    Virgil U Pierce*, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
    (1116-05-1733)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    K-theory and Monodromy of Schubert Curves.
    Maria Monks Gillespie, University of California, Berkeley
    Jake Levinson*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (1116-05-1830)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Ramsey numbers of trees and unicyclic graphs versus odd cycles and fans.
    Matthew S Brennan*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1116-05-1473)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Parking Functions and the Square Paths Conjecture.
    Emily Sergel Leven*, UC San Diego
    (1116-05-1982)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Partitions simultaneously regular, distinct, and/or flat.
    William J Keith*, Michigan Technological University
    (1116-05-2146)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Self-dual embeddings of $K_{4m,4n}$ in pseudosurfaces.
    Steven Schluchter*, George Mason University
    Justin Z Schroeder, Mosaic Centre Radstock
    (1116-05-1463)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    On the number of triples of points determining a pair of dot products.
    Steven Michael Senger*, Missouri State University
    (1116-05-1548)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Dense binary $PG(t-1,2)$-free matroids have critical number $t-1$ or $t$.
    Jonathan Tidor*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1116-05-1563)
  • 11:45 a.m.
    Wilf's 'snake oil" method proves an identity in the Motzkin Triangle.
    Moa Apagodu*, Virginia Commonwealth University
    Doron Zeilberger, Rutgers University
    Tewodros Amdeberhan, Tulane University
    (1116-05-760)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
  AMS Session on Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory, I
  Skagit 1, Skagit Lower Level, Washington State Conference Center
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Topological Entropy of Left-Invariant Magnetic Flows on 2-Step Nilmanifolds.
    Jonathan Epstein*, Dartmouth College, Mathematics Department
    (1116-53-1961)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Spreading speeds and uniqueness of traveling waves for a reaction diffusion equation with spatio-temporal delays.
    Z. Q. Xu*, Department of Mathematics, Shanhai Jiao Tong University
    D. M. Xiao, Department of Mathematics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    (1116-00-1674)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Dynamical properties of $S$-gap shifts and other shift spaces.
    Eugen A Ghenciu*, University of Wisconsin Stout
    Simon Baker, University of Manchester
    (1116-37-271)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Analysis of an Arctic sea ice loss model in the limit of a discontinuous albedo.
    Kaitlin Hill*, Northwestern University
    Dorian S Abbot, University of Chicago
    Mary Silber, University of Chicago
    (1116-37-1784)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Simple Smale flows with n-band templates ( n=3,4).
    Kamal Mani Adhikari*, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
    Michael Sullivan, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
    (1116-37-1938)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    {\bf The concept of the dividing surface in collinear Hydrogen exchange reaction.}
    Ali Allahem*, Qassim University, Saudi Arabia.
    (1116-37-335)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Dynamics in template and networks of complex quadratic maps.
    Anca Radulescu*, State University of New York at New Paltz
    (1116-37-560)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Existence and stability of relative equilibria with a dominant vortex.
    Alanna Hoyer-Leitzel*, Mount Holyoke College
    Anna M. Barry, University of British Columbia
    (1116-37-1401)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: ON the Hausdorff dimension of unique Beta expansions.
    Wenxia Li*, Dept. of Math., East China Normal University
    (1116-37-1461)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Stability of Broucke's Isosceles Triangle Orbit.
    Skyler C. Simmons*, Brigham Young University
    (1116-37-2592)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Classification of the Local Dynamics of Some Real Analytic Nonhyperbolic Planar Maps.
    William T. Jamieson*, Wheaton College
    (1116-39-1698)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Fractal dimensions of subfractals induced by sofic subshifts.
    Elizabeth Sattler*, North Dakota State University
    (1116-37-1760)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    No-slip Billiards in Dimension Two.
    Chris Cox*, Washington University in St. Louis
    Renato Feres, Washington University In St. Louis
    (1116-37-1797)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    Population Models with Partial Migration.
    Anushaya Mohapatra*, Oregon State University
    Haley Ohms, Oregon State University
    Dave Lytle, Oregon State University
    Patrick De Leenheer, Oregon State University
    (1116-37-1850)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    The Specification Property for Certain Classes of Linear Operators.
    James P Kelly*, Christopher Newport University
    (1116-37-2258)
  • 11:45 a.m.
    Distributional Chaos in Dendritic and Circular Julia Sets.
    Nathan Averbeck*, Baylor University
    Brian E. Raines, Baylor University
    (1116-37-2084)
  • 12:00 p.m.
    Lifting sublattices of attractors/repellers to the lattice of (pre-)Lyapunov functions.
    Dinesh Kasti*, Florida Atlantic University
    William D Kalies, Florida Atlantic University
    (1116-37-2016)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-11:35 a.m.
  MAA Session on Incorporating the History of Mathematics into Developmental Math Courses
  Yakima 2, Yakima Level One, Washington State Conference Center
  Organizers:
  Van Herd, University of Texas at Austin
  Amy Shell-Gellasch, Montgomery College amy.shell-gellasch@montgomerycollege.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Uncommon mathematics from Tikārām Dhañanjaya's Śiśubodha Taraṅgi#x0194;ī.
    Deepak Basyal*, University of Wisconsin-Marinette
    (1116-G1-1973)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    Using Blood, Guts, and Gore to Keep their Interest.
    Meghan M De Witt*, St. Thomas Aquinas College
    (1116-G1-2375)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    A comparison of the mathematics problems solved by eighteenth century United States Presidents with the problems solved by students in developmental mathematics courses in the twenty-first century.
    Ronald L Merritt*, Athens State University
    (1116-G1-81)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Who Invented College Algebra?
    Susan L Schmoyer*, Worcester State University
    (1116-G1-1601)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Activities on using history of mathematics in a standard college algebra course.
    A. S. Elkhader*, Northern State University
    (1116-G1-167)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Experiences in Using HOM in Community College Prealgebra and Algebra Courses.
    John B. Thoo*, Yuba College, Marysville, California
    (1116-G1-431)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Physical models of the binomial expansion and completing the square.
    Amy Shell-Gellasch*, Montgomery College
    (1116-G1-77)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Why we shouldn't think we're smarter than ancient mathematicians!
    Suzanne Sumner*, University of Mary Washington
    (1116-G1-1040)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Newton's Dark Secret: Using Historiographical Controversies to Introduce the Rudiments of Partial Differential Equations (PDE) into Developmental Mathematics Courses.
    Van A Herd*, University of Texas at Austin
    (1116-G1-930)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The Great Art: Cardano's "Ars Magna" in College Algebra and Precalculus.
    Cynthia J. Huffman*, Pittsburg State University
    (1116-G1-92)
  • 11:20 a.m.
    Greek Chords and Hindu Sines: teaching trigonometry with original sources.
    Daniel E. Otero*, Xavier University (OH)
    (1116-G1-1191)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-11:10 a.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Algebra, II
  Room 212, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Jennifer E. Beineke, Western New England University jbeineke@wne.edu
  Bem Cayco, San Jose State University bem.cayco@sjsu.edu
  Timothy Comar, Benedictine University tcomar@ben.edu
  T. James Reid, University of Mississippi mmreid@olemiss.edu
  

  • 8:15 a.m.
    On Nonnil-$S$-Noetherian rings.
    Minjae Kwon*, Kyungpook National University
    Jung Wook Lim, Kyungpook National University
    (1116-VA-2239)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The category of graded modules of a generalized Weyl algebra.
    Robert J Won*, University of California, San Diego
    (1116-VA-2032)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    The Lie Algebra Associated to the Filtration of $SL_n(R)$ by Congruence Subgroups.
    Jonathan E Lopez*, Canisius College
    (1116-VA-2371)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Classifying the Fine Structures of Involutions Acting on Root Systems.
    Samuel Ivy*, United State Military Academy
    (1116-VA-2768)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Complete classification of connected prime-cube dimensional Hopf algebras.
    Van C. Nguyen*, Northeastern University
    Linhong Wang, University of Pittsburgh
    Xingting Wang, Temple University
    (1116-VA-2818)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Arithmetic Differential Subgroups of $Gl_{n}$.
    Alfonso E Heras-Llanos*, University of New Mexico
    (1116-VA-2882)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Finitely Constrained Groups Having Almost Maximal Hausdorff Dimension.
    Andrew Penland*, Western Carolina University
    (1116-VA-2909)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The lattice of ideals of a nilpotent Leibniz algebra.
    Austin H Jones*, North Carolina State University
    (1116-VA-2935)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Green Rings of Pointed, Coserial Hopf Algebras.
    Kevin Gerstle*, University of Iowa
    (1116-VA-297)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Rank 2 geometries as right regular bands.
    Francis Pastijn, Marquette University
    Justin Albert*, Carthage College
    (1116-VA-842)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    A Visualization of Quillen Stratification.
    Jared Warner*, City University New York Guttman Community College
    (1116-VA-938)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Groupoids with root systems in real vector spaces.
    Timothy D. Ferdinands*, Mercer University
    (1116-VA-949)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-11:10 a.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Applied Mathematics, IV
  Room 214, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Jennifer E. Beineke, Western New England University jbeineke@wne.edu
  Bem Cayco, San Jose State University bem.cayco@sjsu.edu
  Timothy Comar, Benedictine University tcomar@ben.edu
  T. James Reid, University of Mississippi mmreid@olemiss.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Optimal Parameters in Option Pricing Model.
    Narayan Thapa*, Cameron University
    (1116-VC-802)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Stability for Perturbations of a Steady State at the One Dimensional Case.
    Xinyao Yang*, University of Missouri
    (1116-VC-2885)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Master Stability Islands for Oscillation Death in Networks of Delay-Coupled Oscillators.
    Stanley R Huddy*, Fairleigh Dickinson University
    Jie Sun, Clarkson University
    (1116-VC-2916)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    A Mathematical Model for the Propagation of an Animal Species on a Plain.
    J. N. Ndam*, University of Jos
    S. Dung, University of Jos
    (1116-VC-347)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the Convergence of Adaptive Random Search Methods for Constrained and Multi-Objective Black-Box Optimization.
    Rommel G Regis*, Saint Joseph's University, Department of Mathematics
    (1116-VC-2879)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    A Computational Model for PTSD and Cognitive Function.
    Pengcheng Xiao*, Department of Mathematics, University of Evansville
    Jianzhong Su, Department of Mathematics, The University of Texas at Arlington
    (1116-VC-477)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Reynolds' Space Average.
    Nicholas C. Jacob*, East Central University
    (1116-VC-478)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Fractional Brownian Motion and Managing Risk in Long-Term Hedging with Short-term Futures Contracts.
    Wei Cui*, The University of Alabama
    Zhijian Wu, The University of Nevada, Las Vegas
    (1116-VC-546)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Identification of Parameters in Mathematical Biology.
    Roby R Poteau*, Florida Institute of Technology
    Ugur G. Abdulla, Florida Institute of Technology
    (1116-VC-563)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Applications of the partial Wiener-Hopf factorization in Dynamic Fracture Machanics.
    Aleksandr Smirnov*, Louisiana State University
    (1116-VC-633)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Comparison of Numerical Solutions of Black-Scholes Option Pricing Model.
    Ayush L Joshi*, Cameron University, Lawton, Oklahoma
    Gokul R Kadel, Cameron University, Lawton, Oklahoma
    Narayan Thapa, Cameron University, Lawton, Oklahoma
    (1116-VC-654)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Maximizing Guaranteed Value in a Fair Division of a Cake under Piecewise-Linear Valuations.
    Brandon S Payne*, Cameron University
    James R Dover, Cameron University
    (1116-VC-655)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Tuberculosis(TB) Disease Modeling in the US.
    Ellie Mainou*, Smith College
    Chenyue Lu, Mount Holyoke College
    Olivia Justynski, Mount Holyoke College
    (1116-VC-997)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Probability and Statistics, III
  Room 213, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Jennifer E. Beineke, Western New England University jbeineke@wne.edu
  Bem Cayco, San Jose State University bem.cayco@sjsu.edu
  Timothy Comar, Benedictine University tcomar@ben.edu
  T. James Reid, University of Mississippi mmreid@olemiss.edu
  

  • 8:15 a.m.
    Some Statistical Tools for Data in Hilbert Spaces.
    Krishna Kaphle*, University of Maine at Fort Kent
    (1116-VP-2463)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Rooted triplets in species tree inference: some new results on construction and application.
    Jeffrey B Gaither*, Mathematical Biosciences Institute
    (1116-VP-2579)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 8:45 a.m.
    A Prediction-Based Time Series Clustering of Brain Cancer Mortality Rates in The United States.
    Doo Young Kim*, University of South Florida
    Chris P. Tsokos, University of South Florida
    (1116-VP-2353)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Clarifications and Caveats on Data Cloning.
    Brian R Zaharatos*, University of Colorado Boulder
    (1116-VP-2651)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Semiparametric models for financial volatility.
    Steve S. Chung*, Department of Mathematics, California State University, Fresno
    Xu-Feng Niu, Department of Statistics, Florida State University
    (1116-VP-2693)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Building Large Financial and Economic Networks.
    Toyin O Alli*, The University of Alabama
    (1116-VP-284)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    A Method for Selecting the Relevant Dimensions for Text Classification in Singular Vector Spaces.
    Dawit G Tadesse*, University of Cincinnati
    Mark Carpenter, Auburn University
    (1116-VP-364)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Adaptive Lasso for Linear Mixed Model Selection via Profile Log-Likelihood.
    Juming Pan*, Bowling Green State University, OH, USA.
    (1116-VP-37)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Best linear invariant estimators using both double ranked set sampling and a modified double ranked set sampling procedures.
    Qasim M Al-Shboul*, Zayed University
    Elies Kouider, Ferris State University
    (1116-VP-389)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Can one make a laser out of cardboard?
    Tvrtko Tadić*, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
    (1116-VP-402)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Stability of a $\mathbb{C}^2$-valued Coupled System.
    Fan Ny Shum*, University of Connecticut
    (1116-VP-568)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    A Semi-Parametric Approach to Hypothesis Testing for Hormesis.
    Steven B Kim*, California State University Monterey Bay
    (1116-VP-879)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    Empirical non-coverage rate in interval estimation of expected response in ZIM regression.
    Khyam Paneru*, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
    (1116-VP-971)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-11:10 a.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Topology
  Room 303, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Jennifer E. Beineke, Western New England University jbeineke@wne.edu
  Bem Cayco, San Jose State University bem.cayco@sjsu.edu
  Timothy Comar, Benedictine University tcomar@ben.edu
  T. James Reid, University of Mississippi mmreid@olemiss.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Volume and Determinant Densities of Hyperbolic Rational Links.
    Mia C Smith*, Williams College SMALL REU
    (1116-VU-1638)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Classification of Dessins D'Enfants of the Completely Reducible Trigonal Curves.
    Mehmet Emin Aktas*, Florida State University
    (1116-VU-1716)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    New Knot Invariants in an Expansion of the Colored Jones Polynomial.
    A. Overbay*, Austin College
    K. Van Dinh, Austin College
    (1116-VU-1848)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Some nontrivial model categories with trivial associated stable categories.
    Deborah Vicinsky*, Wabash College
    (1116-VU-1924)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Image of the Witten Genus.
    John E Mosley*, University of Kentucky
    (1116-VU-2125)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    $P$-spaces and intermediate rings of continuous functions.
    Will Murray, California State University, Long Beach
    Joshua Sack*, California State University, Long Beach
    Saleem Watson, California State University, Long Beach
    (1116-VU-2142)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Applications of Region Almost Alternating Knots.
    Colin Murphy*, Seattle University
    McKenna Renn, University of Washington
    Ra'Jene Martin, Denison University
    Jennifer Townsend, Bellevue College
    (1116-VU-2206)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Rational knots and their canonical triangulations.
    Dean Matthew Menezes*, University of Texas at Austin
    (1116-VU-2240)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Dijkgraaf-Witten Type Invariants of Seifert Surfaces in 3-Manifolds.
    Ik Jae Lee*, Rowan University
    David N Yetter, Kansas State University
    (1116-VU-2584)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Pseudometrizability in the Class of Essentially Hausdorff Spaces.
    Gangadhar R Hiremath*, University of North Carolina Pembroke
    (1116-VU-2859)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Determining Sliceness in 5-Stranded Pretzel Knots: The Single-Pair Case.
    Kathryn Bryant*, Bryn Mawr College
    (1116-VU-302)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    A New Characterization of Clopen Sets.
    Jay Stine*, Misericordia University
    (1116-VU-536)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Selective strong screenability and a game.
    Liljana Babinkostova*, Boise State University
    Marion Scheepers, Boise State University
    (1116-VU-828)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on Mathematical Modeling in the Undergraduate Classroom, I
  Room 607, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Jason Douma, University of Souix Falls jason.douma@usiouxfalls.edu
  Rachel Levy, Harvey Mudd College
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Arms Races, Fair Voting, and the Bible: Examples from a Case Studies Oriented Modeling Course.
    Michael Olinick*, Middlebury College
    (1116-K1-327)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    Discrete sports modeling.
    Tim Chartier*, Davidson College
    (1116-K1-1239)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Explore the world through Worldbank: using open data in Liberal Arts Math to explore the world's past and project future trends.
    Anna Varvak*, Soka University of America
    (1116-K1-322)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Using challenge problems to motivate exploring models.
    Paul T Taylor*, Shippensburg University
    (1116-K1-829)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Mathematical Modeling and Applied Calculus.
    Joel Kilty*, Centre College
    Alex M McAllister, Centre College
    (1116-K1-2831)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Design and Implementation of an Undergraduate Mathematical Modeling Course with no College Prerequisites.
    Ricardo Cortez*, Tulane University
    Cynthia O Anhalt, University of Arizona
    (1116-K1-422)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Flexibility in a Mathematical Modeling class.
    Maeve Lewis McCarthy*, Murray State University
    (1116-K1-920)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    A Modeling Approach to Calculus: Using the framework of modeling in the motivation and development of calculus.
    D. Brian Walton*, James Madison University
    (1116-K1-2420)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Agent Based Modeling Across the Curriculum.
    Jennifer R. Galovich*, College of St. Benedict/St. John's University
    (1116-K1-1448)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    A Modeling Capstone Course.
    Ethan Berkove*, Lafayette College
    (1116-K1-2273)
  • 11:20 a.m.
    Offering individualized modeling experiences at a large university.
    Sarah Iams*, Harvard University
    Margo Levine, Harvard University
    (1116-K1-2538)
  • 11:40 a.m.
    A National Mathematical Modeling Contest to Seed the STEM Pipeline.
    Leon H Seitelman*, Lead Consultant, Moody's MegaMath Challenge, 2005-2015
    (1116-K1-1945)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on Mathematics and Sports, II
  Room 608, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Drew Pasteur, College of Wooster dpasteur@gmail.com
  John David, Virginia Military Institute
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Baseball as a General Education Mathematics Course.
    William P Abrams*, Longwood University
    (1116-L5-1532)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Touchdowns, 3 pointers, and Real-World Math.
    Michael A Furuto*, University of Hawai`i - West O`ahu
    (1116-L5-1934)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Win Expectation Values and Pete Carroll's Decision to Pass in Super Bowl 49.
    Andrew B Perry*, Springfield College
    (1116-L5-1880)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Measure of a Manager: Various Methods for Assessing the Ability of Baseball Managers.
    Thomas W Polaski*, Winthrop University
    Alison P Tighe, Winthrop University
    (1116-L5-1334)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Season-Long Batting Slumps In Major League Baseball.
    E Lee May*, Salisbury University
    (1116-L5-1396)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    The Bayesian Quarterback: A New Model for Rating NFL Quarterbacks.
    Rolando Cardenas*, Valle Verde Early College High School
    (1116-L5-2929)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    How Infectious Was #Deflategate?
    Eric Eager, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
    Megan Eberle, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
    James P Peirce*, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
    (1116-L5-430)
  • 11:20 a.m.
    Tennis Rankings over Time.
    Michael A Jones*, Mathematical Reviews/AMS
    Alexander Webb, Macalester College
    Jennifer Wilson, Eugene Lang College, New School University
    (1116-L5-2461)
  • 11:40 a.m.
    The Probability of Streaks in Sports, in Theory and in Practice.
    Doug Drinen*, Sewanee: The University of the South
    Will Matson, Sewanee: The University of the South
    (1116-L5-1274)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-11:40 a.m.
  AMS Session on Ordinary Differential Equations and Special Functions, II
  Room 616, Washington State Convention Center
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The Multiplicity of Solutions for a Class of Fourth Order Differential Equations.
    Olivia Bennett, University of Central Oklahoma
    Daniel Brumley, University of Central Oklahoma
    Britney Hopkins, University of Central Oklahoma
    Kristi Karber, University of Central Oklahoma
    Thomas Milligan*, University of Central Oklahoma
    (1116-34-2349)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    The Lyapunov-type inequality for third order and odd-order equations and application to the boundary value problems.
    Sougata Dhar*, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL.
    Qingkai Kong, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL.
    (1116-34-400)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Quantum graph model of a graphyne and graphyne nanotubes.
    Ngoc Do*, Texas A&M University
    Peter Kuchment, Texas A&M University
    (1116-34-587)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Discrete Garnier Sysetms.
    Christopher M Ormerod*, California Institute of Technology
    (1116-39-2689)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Existence and Comparison Results for Fourth Order Discrete Eigenvalue Problems.
    Jeffrey T Neugebauer*, Eastern Kentucky University
    (1116-39-53)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Nonsymmetric Askey-Wilson polynomials and $Q$-polynomial distance-regular graphs.
    Jae-Ho Lee*, Tohoku University
    (1116-33-114)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Integral Representations and Composition of Generalized Mittag-Leffler Function.
    Harish Nagar*, Mewar University, Gangrar, Chittorgarh (Rajasthan) India
    Alka Tank, Mewar University
    (1116-33-766)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Integral Formulas and Generating Functions of Jacobi Polynomials.
    Dominic Lanphier*, Western Kentucky University
    (1116-33-1594)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Properties of the Zeros of the Generalized Basic Hypergeometric Polynomials.
    Oksana Bihun*, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
    (1116-33-2304)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Spectral Analysis of the Exceptional Hermite Polynomials.
    Jessica Stewart Kelly*, Christopher Newport University
    (1116-33-2587)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Univalent solutions of a second order differential equation.
    Mohammad Salmassi*, Framingham State University
    Ed Merkes, University of Cincinnati
    (1116-33-1641)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    A Nonlinear Fractional Boundary Value Problem in Nabla Fractional Calculus.
    Julia St. Goar*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1116-39-2130)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Approximating Solutions of Boundary Value Problems.
    Hamid Semiyari*, university of Baltimore
    (1116-34-1364)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    Trajectory Controllability of Nonlinear systems-An analytical and a Numerical Approach.
    Dimplekumar N Chalishajar*, Virginia Military Institute (VMI), VA
    (1116-34-1085)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Some Algebraic Considerations for P.
    G. Edgar Parker*, James Madison University (Emeritus)
    (1116-34-624)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-11:40 a.m.
  AMS Session on Real and Complex Analysis, II
  Room 615, Washington State Convention Center
  

  • 8:15 a.m.
    Inequalities for entire functions of exponential type.
    Tariq M Qazi*, Virginia State University
    (1116-41-1834)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Sphericity of a Real Hypersurface via Projective Geometry.
    Ilya Kossovskiy*, University of Vienna
    (1116-32-2220)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    $L^p$ estimate for a bi-parameter trilinear pseudo-differential operator.
    Guozhen Lu, Department of Mathematics, Wayne State University
    Lu Zhang*, Department of Mathematics, Wayne State University
    (1116-42-463)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Can we generalize the limit-definition of the derivative?
    Udita N Katugampola*, Department of Mathematical sciences, University of Delaware
    (1116-26-2653)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Foliations modeling nonrational toric varieties.
    Fiammetta Battaglia, University of Florence (Italy)
    Dan J. Zaffran*, Florida Institute of Technology
    (1116-32-2279)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Bohr radius for power series and analytic functions into wedge domains.
    Rosihan M Ali*, Universiti Sains Malaysia
    Roger W Barnard, Texas Tech University
    Alexander Yu. Solynin, Texas Tech University
    (1116-30-112)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Some Properties for the Generalized Struve Functions.
    See Keong Lee*, Universiti Sains Malaysia
    Rosihan M. Ali, Universiti Sains Malaysia
    (1116-30-554)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Non-Linear Extremal Problems in Bergman Spaces.
    Pritha Chakraborty*, Texas Tech University
    Alexander Solynin, Texas Tech University
    (1116-30-989)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Circle Packing Random Triangulations.
    Olivia Isabella Orrantia-Kotowski*, Texas Tech University
    George Brock Williams, Texas Tech University
    (1116-30-1764)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Bivariate Left Fractional Polynomial Monotone Approximation.
    George A Anastassiou*, University of Memphis
    (1116-41-33)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Vector-Valued Kernels of Bergman Type.
    Jerry R. Muir, Jr.*, The University of Scranton
    (1116-32-2659)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Convex Combinations of Planar Harmonic Mappings Realized through Convolutions with Half-strip Mappings.
    Stacey Muir*, The University of Scranton
    (1116-30-2554)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    Arbitrary Compositions of Infinitely Many Analytic Complex Functions.
    Kourosh Tavakoli*, Oklahoma City University
    (1116-30-2839)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    An $L^2$ Inequality for Polynomials.
    Mohammed A. Qazi*, Tuskegee University
    (1116-30-2874)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on Revitalizing Complex Analysis
  Room 620, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Russell Howell, Westmont College howell@westmont.edu
  Paul Zorn, St. Olaf College
  Alan Noell, Oklahoma State University
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Complex Arithmetic Boot Camp.
    Yves Nievergelt*, Eastern Washington University
    (1116-R1-149)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Advanced linear algebra: a call for the early introduction of complex numbers.
    Stephan Ramon Garcia*, Pomona College
    (1116-R1-224)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    The Complex Moduli Project and Mathematica-Based Modules in Complex Analysis.
    William M. Kinney*, Bethel University, St. Paul, MN
    (1116-R1-1852)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Animating maximum and minimum principles in complex analysis.
    Paul Zorn*, Saint Olaf College
    (1116-R1-2844)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Zeros of Trinomials: Visualization and Location.
    Michael Brilleslyper*, U.S. Air Force Academy
    Beth Schaubroeck, U.S. Air Force Academy
    (1116-R1-1300)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Orthogonal Systems in the Euclidean and Lorentzian Complex Planes.
    Barbara A. Shipman*, University of Texas at Arlington
    Patrick D. Shipman, Colorado State University
    Stephen P. Shipman, Louisiana State University
    (1116-R1-885)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Visualizing Complex Variable Functions with Mapping Diagrams: Linear Fractional Transformations.
    Martin E Flashman*, Humboldt State University
    (1116-R1-498)
  • 11:20 a.m.
    Planting Seeds: Complex Analysis Topics in the Calculus Sequence.
    Robert Sachs*, George Mason University
    (1116-R1-2494)
  • 11:40 a.m.
    Rouchés Theorem: Projects and Pedagogy.
    Russell W Howell*, Westmont College
    (1116-R1-2363)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on the Teaching and Learning of Undergraduate Ordinary Differential Equations, III
  Room 617, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Christopher S. Goodrich, Creghton Preparatory School cgood@prep.creighton.edu
  Beverly H. West, Cornell University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Software Tools That Do More with Less.
    Chris Rasmussen, San Diego State University
    Karen Allen Keene*, North Carolina State University
    (1116-S1-2394)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    Similarities in a first differential equations course.
    Robert Sachs*, George Mason University
    (1116-S1-2498)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    A Technical Writing Project for Differential Equations Students.
    Ben Vanderlei*, University of the Fraser Valley
    (1116-S1-2574)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Using symbolic ODE solvers' full potential to bring out your students' full potential.
    Itai Seggev*, Wolfram Research, Inc.
    (1116-S1-2713)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    An Investigation Of The Effects of Different Pedagogical Practices in an Introductory Differential Equations Course On Teaching and Learning.
    Ron Buckmire*, Occidental College
    Treena Basu, Occidental College
    (1116-S1-2721)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Road Rage and You! Exploring ODEs and Modeling through Traffic Models.
    Zhengyi Zhou, AT&T Reseaech
    Angela Gallegos*, Loyola Marymount University
    (1116-S1-2728)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Modeling word propagation: a connection between ODE and linguistics.
    Rachel L. Bayless*, Agnes Scott College
    Rachelle C. DeCoste, Wheaton College (MA)
    (1116-S1-2766)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Student discovery of selected topics in differential equations using modeling scenarios.
    Amy H Erickson*, Georgia Gwinnett College
    Keith A Erickson, Georgia Gwinnett College
    (1116-S1-2791)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    A New Perspective on Variation of Parameters.
    Douglas B Meade*, University of South Carolina
    William E Boyce, Rennselear Polytechnic Institute
    (1116-S1-2840)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Introducing Laplace Transforms early in an applied Differential Equations course.
    Paul D. Olson*, Penn State Erie , the Behrend College
    (1116-S1-2876)
  • 11:20 a.m.
    Final Discussion
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  AWM Workshop: Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics, I
  Room 4C-3, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Gizem Karaali, Pomona College gizem.karalli@pomona.edu
  Rosa Orellana, Dartmouth College rosa.c.orellana@dartmouth.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On Demazure Crystals for the Quantum Affine Algebra $U_q\left(\hat{sl}(n)\right)$.
    Margaret L. Rahmoeller*, Roanoke College
    (1116-08-234)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Demazure Flags, Chebyshev Polynomials, Mock and Partial Theta Functions.
    Rekha Biswal, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India
    Vyjayanthi Chari, University of California, Riverside
    Lisa Schneider*, Susquehanna University
    Sankaran Viswanath, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India
    (1116-05-221)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    From the weak Bruhat order to crystal graphs as posets.
    Patricia Hersh*, North Carolina State University
    Cristian Lenart, SUNY Albany
    (1116-05-1386)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Parking Functions, Sandpiles, and Gessel's Fundamental Basis.
    Angela S Hicks*, Stanford University
    (1116-05-900)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Walking on Representation Graphs and Generalized Hyperbolic Functions.
    Georgia Benkart*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1116-05-1120)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Random Walk on $S_n$ generated by Random Involutions.
    Megan M Bernstein*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1116-05-730)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  SIAM Minisymposium on Graphical Models for High Dimensional Data
  Room 3A, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Andrea Bertozzi, University of California, Los Angeles bertozzi@math.ucla.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Geometric graph-based methods for high dimensional data.
    Andrea Bertozzi*, UCLA
    (1116-49-2632)
  • 8:55 a.m.
    Modified Cheeger and Ratio Cut Methods Using the Ginzburg-Landau Functional for Classification of High-Dimensional Data.
    Ekaterina Merkurjev*, University of California, San Diego
    (1116-49-2128)
  • 9:25 a.m.
    Exploitation of Graphical Models to Guide Deep Representations.
    Arjuna Flenner*, NAVAIR
    (1116-49-2078)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Functional connectomics from data: Constructing probabilistic graphical models for neuronal networks.
    Eli Shlizerman*, University of Washington
    (1116-37-1906)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Dirichlet energy criterion for graph partitioning and image segmentation.
    Dominique Zosso*, UCLA Department of Mathematics
    Braxton Osting, University of Utah, Department of Mathematics
    Stanley J. Osher, UCLA Department of Mathematics
    (1116-49-1560)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Convergence Analysis of the Graph Allen-Cahn Scheme.
    Xiyang Luo*, Department of Mathematics, UCLA
    Andrea L Bertozzi, Department of Mathematics, UCLA
    (1116-00-1518)
  • 11:30 p.m.
    Nonlocal Total Variation with Primal-Dual Algorithm for Unsupervised Hyperspectral Imagery Analysis.
    Wei Zhu, UCLA
    Victoria Chayes, Bard College
    Alexandre Tiard, Grenoble Institute of Technology
    Stephanie Sanchez, UCLA
    Devin Dahlberg, University of California, San Diego
    Da Kuang*, UCLA
    Andrea Bertozzi, UCLA
    Stanley Osher, UCLA
    Dominique Zosso, UCLA
    (1116-65-1417)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
  Project NExT Workshop
  Room 4C-2, Washington State Convention Center

Organizers:
Deanna Haunsperger, Carleton College
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-8:50 a.m.
  MAA Special Presentation for High School Teachers and Students: How to Think Brilliantly and Creatively in Mathematics,a Guide for K-12 Educators and Their Students.
  How to think brilliantly and creatively in mathematics, a guide for K-12 educators and their students.
  Room 612, Washington State Convention Center
  Presenters:
  James Tanton, Mathematical Association of America
  (1116-A0-2992)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 8:20 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on Inquiry-Based Teaching and Learning, IV
  Room 619, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Brian Katz, Augustana College BrianKatz@augustana.edu
  Victor Piercey, Ferris State University
  

  • 8:20 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Integrating Complex Instruction to Promote Engagement in Developmental and Liberal Arts Mathematics Courses Through Groupwork.
    Belin Manuel Tsinnajinnie*, Institute of American Indian Arts
    (1116-J5-2954)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Student mathematical connections in an inquiry-oriented introductory linear algebra class.
    Spencer Payton*, Washington State University
    (1116-J5-2387)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Learning to Ask Questions: A Matrix Project.
    Pamela Pierce*, The College of Wooster
    Jim Hartman, The College of Wooster
    (1116-J5-2497)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Introduction to Proofs in Topology and Geometry Using IBL.
    David H Crombecque*, University of Southern California
    (1116-J5-2475)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    "Build a City..." - exploring ratio and density through an urban planning board game.
    Forest Fisher, Guttman Community College
    Jared Warner*, Guttman Community College
    (1116-J5-1330)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Writing Original Problems in Calculus Classes.
    Vincent J. Matsko*, University of San Francisco
    (1116-J5-1770)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    A Mathematical Easter Egg Hunt in IBL Proofs Course.
    Audrey Malagon*, Virginia Wesleyan College
    (1116-J5-908)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Guided Inquiry in Calculus II.
    Vesta Coufal*, Gonzaga U.
    (1116-J5-1813)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 8:30 a.m.-9:45 a.m.
  Project NExT Session
  The early (post-PhD) years: An interactive survival guide.
  Room 4C-2, Washington State Convention Center
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibits and Book Sales
  Hall 4A, 4th Floor, Washington State Convention Center
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  AMS Invited Address
  Ancient solutions to parabolic partial differential equations.
  Ballroom 6BC, Washington State Convention Center
  Panagiota Daskalopoulos*, Columbia University
  (1116-35-712)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  ASL Invited Address
  Interpretations of topological spaces.
  Room 4C-1, Washington State Convention Center
  Jindrich Zapletal*, University of Florida
  (1116-03-239)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse #6: Part B
  Getting started in the scholarship of teaching and learning.
  Tahoma 5, Tahoma Level Three, Washington State Conference Center
  Presenters:
  Jackqueline M. Dewar, Loyola Marymount University
  Curtis D. Bennett, Loyola Marymount University
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse #14: Part B
  Teaching quantitative reasoning with common sense and common knowledge.
  Metropolitan B, 3rd Floor, Sheraton Seattle Hotel
  Presenters:
  Maura B. Mast, University of Massachusetts Boston
  Ethan D. Bolker, University of Massachusetts Boston
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 9:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on Mathematics and the Arts, III
  Tahoma 2, Tahoma Level Three, Washington State Conference Center
  Organizers:
  Douglas Norton, Villanova University douglas.norton@villanova.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Exploration of Quotient Spaces and Group Actions with Application to Visualizing Music.
    Srividhya Balaji*, University of Oklahoma
    (1116-K6-644)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Pythagoras to Secor: a Mathematical Approach to Musical Temperament.
    Anil Venkatesh*, Ferris State University
    (1116-K5-371)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Music Synthesis from Controlled Chaos.
    Matthew A Morena*, Young Harris College
    Kevin M Short, University of New Hampshire
    (1116-K5-2870)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Invisible Theatre: Math and Metaphor on the Digital Stage.
    Gail Tang*, University of La Verne
    (1116-K5-1573)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Half a Menger Sponge is Better than the Whole.
    Ethan Berkove*, Lafayette College
    (1116-K5-2276)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Drawing and Discrete Mathematics.
    Paul R McCreary, The Evergreen State College -Tacoma
    Peter Boome*, The Evergreen State College -Tacoma
    (1116-K5-548)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Bit-wise Artwork.
    Susan McBurney*, Western Springs, IL
    (1116-K6-1404)
  • 11:20 a.m.
    Thinking Outside the Torus: Geometric explorations in bead crochet.
    Susan Goldstine*, St. Mary's College of Maryland
    (1116-K5-2174)
  • 11:40 a.m.
    The perspective image(s) of a square.
    Annalisa Crannell*, Franklin & Marshall College
    Marc Frantz, Indiana University
    Fumiko Futamura, Southwestern University
    (1116-K5-1732)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  MAA Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics (CUPM) and MAA Committee on Professional Development Panel Discussion
  Starting a new track: actuarial science, biomathematics, environmental science, climate studies.
  Room 609, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Julie Barnes, Western Carolina University
  Martha Siegel, Towson University
  Linda McGuire, Muhlenberg College
  Panelists:
  Jim Daniel, University of Texas at Austin
  Tim Comar, Benedictine University
  Ben Galluzzo, Shippensburg University
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
  Student Hospitality/Information Center
  Skybridge, 4th Floor, Washington State Convention Center
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  NAM Panel Discussion
  Work hard, play hard: balancing career, hobbies, and family.
  Room 211, Washington State Convention Center
  Moderators:
  Duane Cooper, Morehouse College
  Panelists:
  Ron Buckmire, Occidental College
  Emille Davie Lawrence, University of San Francisco
  Robin Wilson, California State Polytechnic University
  Mariel Vazquez, University of California at Davis mariel@math.ucdavis.edu
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Employment Center
  Hall 4B, 4th Floor, Washington State Convention Center
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 9:15 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Presentation for High School Teachers and Students
  High school quadratics, how to think about and do everything about them brilliantly and creatively.
  Room 612, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Deanna Haunsperger, Carleton College
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 9:40 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on Graduate Students Teach Too: Ideas and Best Practices, I
  Room 304, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Samuel L. Tunstall, Appalachian State University tunstallsl@appstate.edu
  

  • 9:40 a.m.
    Graduate Student Teacher Training and Support at Clemson.
    Meredith Burr*, Clemson University
    (1116-F1-2637)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Curriculum development for the California Alliance for Minority Participation Summer Science Academy.
    Timmy Ma*, University of California, Irvine
    (1116-F1-1195)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Graduate Student-Driven Development and Delivery of a GTA Training and Mentoring Program.
    Carrie Diaz Eaton, Unity College
    Ashley Rand*, Bethany Lutheran College
    Eleanor Abernethy, University of Tennessee
    (1116-F1-2426)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    A framework for a graduate student teacher mentoring program.
    Emily Laura Braley*, Duke University
    (1116-F1-2390)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Preparing our future colleagues: A report on the national landscape of graduate student instructor professional development programs.
    Jess Ellis*, Colorado State University
    Natasha Speer, University of Maine
    Jack Bookman, Duke University
    (1116-F1-2352)
  • 11:20 a.m.
    Instructional Supports for Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
    Nathan Wakefield*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Allan Donsig, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1116-F1-2030)
  • 11:40 a.m.
    Utilizing a Teaching Symposium as a First Step in GTA Teacher Preparation.
    RaKissa Manzanares*, University of Colorado Denver
    Gary Olson, University of Colorado Denver
    (1116-F1-1545)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  ASL Invited Address
  Inner topological Ramsey spaces.
  Room 4C-1, Washington State Convention Center
  Natasha Dobrinen*, University of Denver
  (1116-00-68)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #15: Part B
  Teaching statistics using R and R Studio.
  Metropolitan A, 3rd Floor, Sheraton Seattle Hotel
  Presenters:
  Randall Pruim, Calvin College
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  NAM Business Meeting
  Room 211, Washington State Convention Center
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 10:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  MAA Poster Session
  Me and My Gadgets---Teaching with Technology.
  Skybridge, 4th Floor, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Tom Hagedorn, The College of New Jersey
  Karl Schmitt, Valparaiso University
  Michael Scott, California State University, Monterey Bay
  John Travis, Mississippi College
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 10:05 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  MAA Invited Address
  A mathematical tour through a collapsing world.
  Ballroom 6BC, Washington State Convention Center
  Charles R. Hadlock*, Bentley University
  (1116-A0-21)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 10:35 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  MAA Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics Panel Discussion
  What's beyond the curriculum?
  Room 609, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Martha Siegel, Towson University
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  ASL Invited Address
  Ramsey properties in topological dynamics.
  Room 4C-1, Washington State Convention Center
  Dana Bartosova*, Instituto de Matematica e Estatistica, Universidade de Sao Paulo
  (1116-03-69)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  SIGMAA on Math Circles for Students and Teachers(SIGMAA MCST) Special Presentation
  Math Circle Demonstration
  Room 612, Washington State Convention Center
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 11:10 a.m.-11:40 a.m.
  MAA Business Meeting
  Ballroom 6BC, Washington State Convention Center
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 11:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
  AMS Business Meeting
  Ballroom 6BC, Washington State Convention Center
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-1:50 p.m.
  NAM Claytor-Woodard Lecture
  Analysis on non-smooth domains.
  Room 211, Washington State Convention Center
  Tatiana Toro*, University of Washington
  (1116-35-2830)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Advances in the Theory and Application of Reaction Diffusion Models
  Skagit 5, Skagit Lower Level, Washington State Conference Center
  Organizers:
  Jerome Goddard, II, Auburn University, Montgomery jgoddard@aum.edu
  Ratnasingham Shivaji, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    On the quasiconvergence property of solutions of parabolic equations on the real line.
    Peter Polacik*, University of Minnesota
    (1116-35-1946)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Existence of positive radial solutions for superlinear, semipositone problems on the exterior of a ball.
    R. Dhanya, Universidad de Concepcion
    Quinn Morris*, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    R. Shivaji, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    (1116-35-2583)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Modeling the effects of U-shaped density dependent dispersal via reaction diffusion equations.
    Jerome Goddard II*, Auburn University Montgomery
    R. Shivaji, University of North Carolina Greensboro
    (1116-35-1766)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Existence and uniqueness of similarity solutions of a generalized heat equation arising in a model of cell migration.
    Tracy L. Stepien*, Arizona State University
    Hal L. Smith, Arizona State University
    (1116-35-635)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Two-Species Competition System with Slow Diffusion.
    Georg Hetzer*, Auburn University
    Lourdes Tello, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
    (1116-35-2014)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A priori estimates for positive solutions to second order elliptic boundary problems.
    Alfonso Castro*, Harvey Mudd College
    Rosa Pardo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
    (1116-35-1811)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Elliptic systems with exponential growth in dimension two.
    Maya Chhetri*, UNC Greensboro
    Petr Girg, University of West Bohemia
    (1116-35-1894)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Asymptotic Behavior of Solutions to Neutral and Delay Functional Differential Equations.
    M. N. Nkashama*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    (1116-39-2790)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Bifurcation and multiplicity of strong solutions for elliptic equations with nonlinear boundary conditions.
    N. Mavinga*, Swarthmore College, PA
    M. Nkashama, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    (1116-35-1974)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Eigencurves and Resonance.
    Stephen B Robinson*, Wake Forest University
    Mauricio Rivas, Wake Forest University
    (1116-35-1792)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Analytic Methods in Geometry
  Room 610, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Eric Bahuaud, Seattle University bahuaude@seattleu.edu
  Dylan Helliwell, Seattle University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Can you hear the metric on a sphere?
    Emily B. Dryden*, Bucknell University
    Diana Macedo, Instituto Superior Tecnico
    Rosa Sena-Dias, Instituto Superior Tecnico
    (1116-58-1628)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    On the spectral geometry of orbifolds.
    Elizabeth Stanhope*, Lewis & Clark College
    (1116-53-2191)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Canonical metrics on the Pentachoron.
    Andrea Young*, Ripon College
    (1116-52-1726)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Discussion.
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Lagrangian mean curvature flow, the Maslov class, and special lagrangians.
    Andrew A Cooper*, North Carolina State University
    (1116-53-1636)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Lower semicontinuity of the ADM mass.
    Jeffrey L Jauregui*, Union College
    (1116-53-1134)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Elliptic problems and weakly asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds.
    Paul T Allen*, Lewis & Clark College
    James Isenberg, University of Oregon
    John M. Lee, University of Washington
    Iva Stavrov Allen, Lewis & Clark College
    (1116-53-1006)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Discussion.
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Analytic torsion: generalized metric invariance.
    Phillip Andreae*, Duke University
    (1116-58-1882)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Totally geodesic maps into manifolds with no focal points.
    James Dibble*, Western Illinois University
    (1116-53-2047)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  AMS-ASL Special Session on Applications of Logic, Model Theory, and Theoretical Computer Science to Systems Biology
  Room 602, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  James Lynch, Clarkson University
  Leo Marcus, Santa Monica, CA leomarcus2@gmail.com
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Many-sorted first-order model theory as a conceptual framework for complex dynamical systems.
    Solomon Feferman*, Stanford University
    (1116-03-1664)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Neural Algebra and Modelling.
    Erwin - Engeler*, ETH Zurich
    (1116-03-469)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Dependence logic and biology.
    Jouko A Vaananen*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Helsinki, Finland
    (1116-03-791)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Probabilistic Boolean Networks as Models of Gene Regulatory Networks.
    Ilya Shmulevich*, Institute for Systems Biology
    (1116-92-279)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Datum Logic: A Formal Executable Semantics for Experimental Evidence.
    Carolyn L Talcott*, SRI International
    (1116-92-1302)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS-AAAS Special Session on Applied and Computational Topology, II
  Room 201, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Pawel Dlotko, INRIA Saclay, France
  Nicholas Scoville, Ursinus College nscoville@ursinus.edu
  Matthew Wright, IMA University of Minnesota
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    The shape of data.
    Jose Perea*, Michigan State University
    (1116-55-123)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Analysis of cancer genomics data using computational topology: applications to breast cancer.
    Javier Arsuaga*, University of California, Davis
    Georgina Gonzalez, University of California, Davis
    Sergio Ardanza-Trevijano, Universidad de Navarra
    (1116-92-1790)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Classification of breast cancer subtypes using signaling pathways and persistence homology.
    Mimi Tsuruga*, UC Davis
    Javier Arsuaga, UC Davis
    Michael Steiner, San Francisco State University
    Nils Baas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
    (1116-92-1868)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    A space of phylogenetic networks.
    Satyan L Devadoss*, Williams College; Harvey Mudd College
    Samantha Petti, Georgia Tech
    (1116-52-168)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Combinatorial invariants for directed graphs with applications to neuroscience.
    Martina Scolamiero*, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
    (1116-55-1344)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Formal Perspectives on Hierarchical Networks.
    Sophie Raynor*, University of Aberdeen, UK
    (1116-55-1110)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Persistence Images: An Alternative Persistent Homology Representation.
    Lori Beth Ziegelmeier*, Macalester College
    (1116-55-1165)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Interactive Visualization of 2-D Persistent Homology.
    Michael Lesnick*, Columbia University
    Matthew L. Wright, St. Olaf College
    (1116-55-950)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A Morse-theoretic algorithm to compute persistent homology, with generators.
    Gregory Henselman*, University of Pennsylvania
    (1116-55-2262)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Multiscale persistence.
    Greg Bell*, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    Austin Lawson, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    Joshua Martin, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    James Rudzinski, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    Clifford Smyth, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    (1116-55-1754)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  AMS-AWM Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Its Interactions with Algebraic Geometry, II
  Room 603, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Daniel Hernández, University of Utah
  Jack Jeffries, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  Karl Schwede, University of Utah
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Morita Equivalence Revisited.
    Paul Frank Baum*, Penn State
    (1116-16-674)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Centers of endomorphism rings of modules.
    Haydee M Lindo*, The University of Utah and Williams college
    (1116-13-2407)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Generalized Associated Primes and Depth in the Perfect Closure.
    George E Whelan*, George Mason University
    (1116-13-2486)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Finite F-type and F-abundant Modules.
    Hailong Dao, University of Kansas
    Tony Se*, University of Kansas
    (1116-13-897)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    An optimal upper bound on the regularity of powers of edge ideals.
    Ali Alilooee*, Western Illinois University
    Arindam Banerjee, Purdue University
    Selvi Beyarslan, Tulane University
    Huy Tai Ha, Tulane University
    (1116-13-1079)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A McKay correspondence for reflection groups.
    Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz, University of Toronto Scarborough
    Eleonore M Faber*, University of Michigan
    Colin Ingalls, University of New Brunswick
    (1116-14-1953)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Resolution of singularities: new invariants in positive characteristic.
    Angelica Benito*, Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas (ICMAT)
    Orlando E. Villamayor U., Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
    (1116-14-903)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Lower bound cluster algebras: presentation and properties.
    Greg Muller*, University of Michigan
    Jenna Rajchgot, University of Michigan
    Bradley Zykoski, University of Virginia
    (1116-13-2489)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Notched Arcs of Cluster Algebras from Punctured Surfaces.
    Emily Gunawan*, University of Minnesota
    (1116-08-2411)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Current Areas of Interest in the Mathematical Sciences of Medieval Islam, II
  Skagit 3, Skagit Lower Level, Washington State Conference Center
  Organizers:
  Mohammad K. Azarian, University of Evansville
  Mohammad Javaheri, Siena College
  Emelie A. Kenney, Siena College kenney@siena.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Geometric Techniques in Medieval Islamic Art and Architecture: From Strapwork Ornamentation to Quasicrystal Constructions.
    Raymond Tennant*, Paris Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi
    (1116-01-1223)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Creating Medieval Islamic Ornamentation.
    B Lynn Bodner*, Mathematics Department Monmouth University
    (1116-01-1993)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    The Legacy of Al-Kashi: Why does it matter in the 21st century?
    Nuh Aydin*, Kenyon College
    Lakhdar Hammoudi, Ohio University-Chillicothe
    (1116-01-375)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Mathematics in the Medieval Islamic West: Its Relationship to Hebrew and Latin Mathematics.
    Victor J. Katz*, University of the District of Columbia
    (1116-01-1327)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Modern math in medieval islamic architectural tilings.
    Peter J Lu*, Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02138 USA
    (1116-01-1677)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Arabic redaction of Euclid's Elements by al-\d{T}ūsī.
    Gregg De Young*, The American University in Cairo
    (1116-01-318)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #10: Part B
  Directing undergraduate research.
  Tahoma 5, Tahoma Level Three, Washington State Conference Center
  Presenters:
  Aparna Higgins, University of Dayton
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Distribution of Zeros of Entire Functions
  Room 400, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Matthew Chasse, Rochester Institute of Technology
  Tamás Forgács, California State University, Fresno
  Andrzej Piotrowski, University of Alaska Southeast, Juneau apiotrowski@uas.alaska.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Multiplier Sequences for the Legendre Polynomial Basis.
    Matthew Chasse, Rochester Institute of Technology
    Tamás Forgács, California State University, Fresno
    Andrzej Piotrowski*, University of Alaska Southeast
    (1116-30-2819)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Operator Diagonalizations of Multiplier Sequences.
    Robert D. Bates*, University of Hawaii at Manoa
    (1116-30-597)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    On stability preserving properties of coefficient-wise transformations.
    Lukasz Grabarek*, Matanuska-Susitna College
    (1116-30-2227)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Level curves of real algebraic functions and theorem of Pólya.
    Stephanie Edwards*, Hope College
    Sarah Hilsman, Hope College
    Anna Snyder, Hope College
    (1116-30-852)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Zeros of finite differences of polynomials and entire functions.
    Mikhail Tyaglov*, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    Olga Katkova, Wheelock College
    Anna Vishnyakova, V.N. Karazin Kharkov National University
    Jiacheng Xia, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    (1116-30-28)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Majorization and the Zeros of Entire Functions.
    Rajesh Pereira*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Guelph
    (1116-30-819)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Seperation of the zeros of q-Eulerian polynomials.
    Mirkó Visontai*, Google Inc.
    Petter Brändén, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Stockholm
    Matthew Chasse, Washington, DC
    (1116-05-2767)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Zero distribution of sequences of polynomials.
    Khang D Tran*, California State University, Fresno
    (1116-30-948)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Complex zero strip decreasing operators.
    David Alan Cardon*, Brigham Young University
    (1116-30-780)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Recent progress on the question of whether rapidly decreasing sequences are complex zero decreasing sequences.
    Thomas Craven*, University of Hawaii
    (1116-30-1888)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Graph Products
  Room 204, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Richard Hammack, Virginia Commonwealth University rhammack@vcu.edu
  Dewey Taylor, Virginia Commonwealth University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Symmetry Parameters for Lexicographic Graph Products.
    Debra L Boutin*, Hamilton College
    (1116-05-1230)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Tiling the hypercube.
    Jerrold R Griggs, University of South Carolina
    Kevin G Milans, West Virginia University
    David Offner*, Westminster College
    David Stoner, Harvard University
    (1116-05-1459)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Cycle bases of reduced powers of graphs.
    Richard H Hammack, Virginia Commonwealth University
    Gregory Douglas Smith*, The College of William & Mary
    (1116-60-1611)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Products of almost locally finite graphs.
    Richard Hammack, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
    Wilfried Imrich*, Montanuniversitaet Leoben, Austria
    (1116-05-1137)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Identifying codes in the Cartesian product of a graph and $K_2$.
    Douglas Rall, Furman University
    Kirsti Wash*, Trinity College
    (1116-05-894)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Partitioning the vertex set of $G$ to make $G\Box H$ an efficient open domination graph.
    Iztok Peterin, University of Maribor
    Douglas Rall*, Furman University
    Tadeja Kraner Šumenjak, University of Maribor
    Aleksandra Tepeh, University of Maribor
    (1116-05-667)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Edge-transitive products.
    Richard H. Hammack*, Virginia Commonwealth University
    Wilfried Imrich, Montanuniversität Leoben, Leoben, Austria
    Sandi Klavžar, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
    (1116-05-1625)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Graham's Pebbling Conjecture.
    Glenn Hurlbert*, Virginia Commonwealth University
    (1116-05-1567)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Odd dominating sets in the direct and strong products.
    Dewey Taylor*, Virginia Commonwealth University
    Christopher Whisenant, South University
    (1116-05-2469)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #13: Part B
  Introduction to process-oriented, guided-inquiry learning (POGIL) in mathematics courses.
  Metropolitan B, 3rd Floor, Sheraton Seattle Hotel
  Presenters:
  Zdeňka Guadarrama, Rockhurst University
  Jill E. Guerra, University of Arkansas Fort Smith
  Laurie Lenz, Mayrmount University
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #7: Part B
  Making sense of calculus with mapping diagrams.
  Metropolitan A, 3rd Floor, Sheraton Seattle Hotel
  Presenters:
  Martin Flashman, Humboldt State University
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Mathematical Programming on Integral Invexity
  Skagit 4, Skagit Lower Level, Washington State Conference Center
  Organizers:
  Ram Verma, Texas State University, San Marcos verma99@msn.com
  Alexander Zaslavski, Israel Institute of Technology
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Variational gradients in function spaces.
    M. Zuhair Nashed*, University of Central Florida
    (1116-49-2910)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Mathematical Programming Based on Sufficient Optimality Conditions and Second Order Invex Functions.
    Ram N. Moahpatra*, University of Central Florida
    Ram U. Verma, University of North Texas, Denton
    (1116-90-2946)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    A generalized relaxed positive-definite and skew-Hermitian splitting preconditioner for non-Hermitian saddle point problems.
    Hongtao Fan, Department of Mathematics, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, P. R. China
    Xinyun Zhu*, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas of the Permian Basin, Odessa, TX, 79762
    (1116-65-330)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Lp Approximation with Rates by Multivariate Generalized Discrete Singular Operators.
    George A Anastassiou, University of Memphis
    Merve Kester*, University of Memphis
    (1116-41-31)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On an alternating direction method for solving a weighted low-rank approximation problem.
    Xin Li*, University of Central Florida
    (1116-90-2967)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Optimal Strategies in a Quantum Three-Player Dilemma Game.
    Aden O Ahmed*, Texas A&M University - Kingsville
    (1116-49-967)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Aesthetic of Circulant Unistochastic Eigenpaths.
    Aaron Carl Smith*, University of Central Florida
    (1116-15-1704)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Minmax Fractional Integral Programming Problems on Univexities.
    Ram Verma*, University of North Texas
    (1116-90-569)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Spectral properties of discrete Strum-Liouville equation with quadratic Eigenparameter in boundry condition.
    Turhan Koprubasi*, University of Central Florida, Kastamonu University
    (1116-39-1855)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Approximate solutions of common fixed point problems.
    Alexander J Zaslavski*, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
    (1116-90-520)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Moduli Spaces in Algebraic Geometry, II
  Room 604, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Yaim Cooper, Harvard University yaim@math.harvard.edu
  Anand Patel, Boston College
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Extremality of Weierstrass points on genus-two curves.
    Dawei Chen, Boston College
    Nicola Tarasca*, University of Utah
    (1116-14-1519)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Lines on Elliptic Calabi-Yau Threefolds.
    Francois Greer*, Stanford University
    (1116-14-2772)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On rationalizing divisors.
    Lorenzo Prelli*, University of Washington
    (1116-14-1529)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A moduli space of points in affine space as a Chow quotient.
    Noah Giansiracusa*, University of Georgia
    Patricio Gallardo, University of Georgia
    (1116-14-1202)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Deriving the Grothendieck ring of varieties.
    Inna I Zakharevich*, University of Chicago
    (1116-14-1803)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Nonlinear Algebra, II
  Rooms 307/308, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Bernd Sturmfels, University of California Berkeley bernd@berkeley.edu
  Rekha Thomas, University of Washington, Seattle
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Structural Identifiability of Biological Models.
    Nicolette Meshkat*, Santa Clara University
    Seth Sullivant, North Carolina State University
    (1116-92-2123)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Symmetry and Turán Sums of Squares.
    Annie Raymond*, University of Washington
    Mohit Singh, Microsoft Research
    Rekha Thomas, University of Washington
    (1116-05-686)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Matrix geometric means and semidefinite optimization.
    James Saunderson*, University of Washington
    Hamza Fawzi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1116-90-1320)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Eigenconfigurations of Tensors.
    Anna L Seigal*, University of California, Berkeley
    (1116-15-602)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Real Rank with Respect to Varieties.
    Rainer Sinn*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Grigoriy Blekherman, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1116-15-643)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Algebraic signatures of convex and non-convex neural codes.
    Carina Curto, Pennsylvania State University
    Elizabeth Gross, San Jose State University
    Jack Jeffries, University of Michigan
    Katherine Morrison, University of Northern Colorado
    Mohamed Omar, Harvey Mudd College
    Zvi Rosen, Pennsylvania State University
    Anne Shiu*, Texas A&M University
    Nora Youngs, Harvey Mudd College
    (1116-92-679)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Combinatorial properties of hierarchical models.
    Daniel Irving Bernstein, North Carolina State University
    Seth Sullivant*, North Carolina State University
    (1116-05-975)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Reciprocal linear spaces and their Chow forms.
    Mario Kummer, Universitat Konstanz
    Cynthia Vinzant*, NC State
    (1116-14-1607)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Do generic polynomials generate a prime ideal?
    Josephine Yu*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1116-13-1217)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Number Theory and Cryptography, III
  Room 606, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Matilde Lalin, University of Montreal
  Michelle Manes, University of Hawaii, Honolulu mmanes@math.hawaii.edu
  Christelle Vincent, University of Vermont
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Kernels of Eisenstein ideals.
    Kenneth A. Ribet*, UC Berkeley
    (1116-11-1530)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Constructing Abelian Surfaces via Rosenhain Invariants.
    Craig Costello, Microsoft Reasearch
    Alyson Deines*, Center for Communications Research
    Kristin Lauter, Microsoft Research
    Tonghai Yang, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1116-11-682)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Key Recovery for LWE in Polynomial Time.
    Kim Laine*, Microsoft Research, Redmond
    Kristin Lauter, Microsoft Research, Redmond
    (1116-11-1407)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Attacks on search-RLWE.
    Hao Chen*, University of Washington
    Kristin Lauter, Microsoft Research
    Katherine E Stange, University of Colorado, Boulder
    (1116-11-729)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Class numbers of algebraic function fields, or Jacobians of curves over finite fields.
    Anastassia Etropolski*, Emory University
    (1116-11-1111)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The arithmetic of a non-abelian cover of an elliptic curve.
    Rachel Davis*, Purdue University
    Edray Herber Goins, Purdue University
    (1116-11-1763)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Brauer-Manin obstruction and surfaces.
    Mckenzie West*, Emory University
    (1116-11-1025)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Integral Brauer-Manin obstruction for generalized affine Châtelet surfaces.
    Jennifer Berg*, University of Texas at Austin
    (1116-11-2066)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Uniform bounds on Brauer classes of certain K3 surfaces.
    Anthony Várilly-Alvarado, Rice University
    Bianca Viray*, University of Washington
    (1116-11-2184)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    $p$-adic heights on elliptic curves over number fields.
    Jennifer S. Balakrishnan*, University of Oxford
    (1116-11-1441)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Problems and Challenges in Financial Engineering and Risk Management, II
  Chelan 2, Chelan Level Two, Washington State Conference Center
  Organizers:
  Matthew Lorig, University of Washington, Seattle
  Haijun Li, Washington State University, Pullman
  Hong-Ming Yin, Washington State University, Pullman hyin@wsu.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Measures of Systemic Risk.
    Birgit Rudloff*, Vienna University of Economics and Business
    Zachary Feinstein, Washington University in St. Louis
    Stefan Weber, Leibniz University Hannover
    (1116-91-1018)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Numerical Simulation for a Nonlinear American Option-Pricing Model.
    Wen Wang*, Bellevue College, Washington
    Hong-Ming Yin, Washington State University
    Wenhan Wang, Microsoft Corporation
    (1116-65-272)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Bond and CDS Pricing with Stochastic Recovery.
    Albert Cohen*, Michigan State University
    Nick Costanzino, RiskLab - University of Toronto & AIG Investments (NYC)
    (1116-91-1187)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Analytical Expansion to Forward-Backward Stochastic Differential Equations.
    Jerome Detemple, Boston University, Questrom School of Business
    Matthew Lorig, University of Washington at Seattle, Department of Applied Mathematics
    Marcel Rindisbacher, Boston University, Questrom School of Business
    Stephan Sturm, WPI, Department of Mathematical Sciences
    Liangliang Zhang*, Boston University, Questrom School of Business
    (1116-65-562)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Discussion.
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A Simulation Measure Approach to Monte Carlo Methods in Credit Risk.
    Alexander D Shkolnik*, UC Berkeley
    Kay Giesecke, Stanford University
    (1116-60-2698)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Rationalizing Behavioral Portfolio Choice.
    Carole Bernard, Grenoble Ecole de Management
    Stephan Sturm*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    (1116-91-184)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Small-Time Asymptotics for At-The-Money Option Prices Under Exponential Lévy Models.
    José Enrique Figueroa-López, Washington University in St. Louis
    Ruoting Gong*, Illinois Institute of Technology
    Christian Houdré, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1116-60-401)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On the Boundedness Character of the First Order System of Rational Difference Equations with Nonconstant Coefficients.
    Deja R Washington*, Xavier University of Louisiana
    (1116-39-2704)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Panel Discussion for Problems and Challenges in Financial Engineering and Risk Management.
    Hong-Ming Yin*, Washington State University
    (1116-35-706)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Random and Complex Dynamics of Reaction-Diffusion Systems, II
  Room 401, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Michael Anton Hoegele, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
  Yuncheng You, University of South Florida, Tampa you@mail.usf.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Continuous Data Assimilation with Stochastically Noisy Data.
    Hakima Bessaih*, University of Wyoming, Department of Mathematics
    (1116-60-2017)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    On a class of stochastic transport equations for L2loc vector fields.
    Ennio Fedrizzi, University of Lyon
    Wladimir Neves, University of Rio de Janeiro
    Christian Olivera*, IMECC-UNICAMP
    (1116-60-1148)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Asymptotic dynamics of some microscopic heat conduction models.
    Yao Li*, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    Lai-Sang Young, Courant Institute, New York University
    (1116-60-1440)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Random Attractors of Stochastic Reaction-Diffusion Systems.
    Yuncheng You*, University of South Florida
    (1116-35-2359)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Modeling of Pattern Formation in Vapor-to-Particle Reactions.
    Bahaudin A Hashmi*, Colorado State University
    (1116-35-2366)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Multiplicity of positive solutions for one-dimensional p-Laplacian with weight functions.
    Inbo Sim*, Department of Mathematics, University of Ulsan
    (1116-34-2569)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Recent Advances in Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions, II
  Room 310, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Xiang-Sheng Wang, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau xswang@semo.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Uniform asymptotics of orthogonal polynomials arising from coherent states.
    Dan Dai*, Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
    (1116-33-582)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Asymptotics of Racah polynomials.
    Roderick Sue Cheun Wong*, City University of Hong Kong
    Xiang-Sheng Wang, Southeast Missouri State University
    (1116-33-1108)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Classes of bivariate orthogonal polynomials.
    Mourad E. H. Ismail*, King Saud U, Saudi Arabia and U Central Florida, USA.
    Ruiming Zhang, College of Science, Northwest A&F University
    (1116-33-642)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A Refinement of the Alladi-Schur Theorem.
    George E Andrews*, Pennsylvania State University
    (1116-05-573)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Asymptotic Estimation of the Andrews Zagier $G_k(q)$ function and its connection to the Wright's Generalized Hyper geometric function.
    Daniel Timothy Parry*, University of Cologne
    (1116-05-2743)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Relations among weighted power means functions.
    Jin Liang*, Department of Mathematics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, P. R. China
    (1116-33-273)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research in Mathematics by Undergraduates and Students in Post-Baccalaureate Programs, IV
  Tahoma 3, Tahoma Level Three, Washington State Conference Center
  Organizers:
  Darren A. Narayan, Rochester Institute of Technology dansma@rit.edu
  Jobby Jacob, Rochester Institute of Technology
  Tamas Forgacs, California State University, Fresno
  Ugur Abdulla, Florida Institute of Technology
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Centrality Properties of Graphs with an Application of Functional Connectivity of the Brain.
    Roger Vargas*, Williams College
    Abigail Waldron, Presbyterian College
    Anika Sharma, University of Buffalo
    (1116-05-133)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Rankings of Cartesian Product $(K_{s}-e) \Box P_{n}$.
    Kelsey Quigley*, Nazareth College
    Sarah Renfro, Sam Houston State University
    (1116-05-134)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Zarankiewicz and Bipartite Ramsey Numbers.
    Alexander Neal Riasanovsky*, University of Pennsylvania
    John Wallace, Trinity College
    (1116-05-135)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    The Resolution Limit for Detecting Communities in Benchmark Graphs.
    Sonica Saraf*, Carnegie Mellon University
    Natalie Wellen, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    (1116-05-151)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Inducing Alternans in Cardiac Models using Delay Differential Equations.
    Justin Eastman*, Millersville University
    Julian Sass, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
    (1116-37-158)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A Generalization of Mordell to Ternary Quadratic Forms.
    Sarah Blackwell, Saint Louis University
    Gabriel Durham, University of Georgia
    Katherine Thompson, Davidson College
    Tiffany Treece*, University of Georgia
    (1116-11-143)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The density of primes dividing a certain non-linear recurrence sequence.
    Alexi Block Gorman, Wellesley College
    Tyler Genao, Florida Atlantic University
    Heesu Hwang, Princeton University
    Noam Kantor*, Emory University
    Sarah Parsons, Wake Forest University
    Jeremy Rouse, Wake Forest University
    (1116-11-144)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    An Economic-Epidemiological Model with Personal Vaccination Efficacy Memory.
    Fiona Zhang, Hamilton High School, Chandler, Arizona
    Benjamin Morin*, Arizona State University
    Eli Fenichel, Yale
    Gerardo Chowell, Atlanta, Georgia
    (1116-92-170)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Detecting Foot-Chases from Police Body-Worn Video.
    Qi Yang*, University of Southern California
    Alejandro Camacho, California State University, Fullerton
    Piyali Mukherjee, Columbia University, New York
    Rafael Aguayo, University of California, San Diego
    (1116-90-200)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Development of Clustering Algorithms for Ensemble Weather Forecasts.
    Ranil Weerackoon*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
    Michelle Hartono, San Jose State University
    (1116-62-232)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Stochastic Effects in Models for Mathematical Biology and Ecology
  Room 4C-4, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Olcay Akman, Illinois State University oakman@ilstu.edu
  Timothy D. Comar, Benedictine University
  Daniel Hrozencik, Chicago State University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Stochastic models of evidence accumulation in changing environments.
    Zachary P Kilpatrick*, University of Houston
    Kresimir Josic, University of Houston
    Alan Veliz-Cuba, University of Dayton
    (1116-60-1058)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Outbreak of waterfowl disease in the Upper Mississippi River: Analysis of a stochastic temperature-driven model.
    James P Peirce*, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
    Greg Sandland, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
    Mary O'Driscoll, Iowa State University
    (1116-92-1153)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Stochastic Gating in a Peripheral Auditory Neuron: Effects on Post Stimulus Time and Firing Efficiency of Action Potentials.
    Rebecca E Gasper*, Creighton University
    (1116-92-2668)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Stochastic Integral Projection Models: Construction, Simulation and Analysis.
    Eric Alan Eager*, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
    (1116-92-1135)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Long-term survival and chaotic dynamics in population models.
    Elena Dimitrova*, Clemson University
    Sherli Koshy, Clemson University
    (1116-34-1779)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Computing Intensive Methods in ODE Modeling.
    Olcay Akman*, Illinois State University
    (1116-92-1126)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Structural Identifiability Issues of Epidemic Models.
    Necibe Tuncer, Florida Atlantic University
    Trang Le*, University of Tulsa
    (1116-65-58)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Sensitivity Analysis and the Probability of Pest Eradication or Permanence in a Stochastic Model for Integrated Pest Management.
    Timothy D Comar*, Benedictine University
    Olcay Akman, Illinois State University
    Daniel Hrozencik, Chicago State University
    (1116-92-1246)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Computing Sensitivities in Discrete Stochastic Reaction Networks with Delay.
    Elizabeth Skubak Wolf*, Saint Mary's College
    (1116-60-1589)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    When Genes Fail: Modeling Stochasticity in Gene Regulatory Networks.
    Dan Hrozencik*, Chicago State University
    (1116-60-1073)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-4:35 p.m.
  MAA Session on Addressing the Needs of Mathematics and Computer Science Majors in Discrete Mathematics Courses
  Yakima 2, Yakima Level One, Washington State Conference Center
  Organizers:
  Ksenija Simic-Muller, Pacific Lutheran University simicmka@plu.edu
  Tom J. Edgar, Pacific Lutheran University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Discrete Mathematics for First Year Mathematics and Computer Science Majors.
    William P Abrams*, Longwood University
    (1116-A1-1889)
  • 1:20 p.m.
    Throwing away the textbook: Teaching discrete mathematics from primary historical sources.
    David J. Pengelley*, New Mexico State University
    (1116-A1-605)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Teaching with historical curricular modules: The Juxtaposition of Prüfer and Bor\r{u}vka.
    Jerry Lodder*, New Mexico State University
    (1116-A1-604)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Puzzling Through Discrete Mathematics.
    Edmund A. Lamagna*, University of Rhode Island
    (1116-A1-1184)
  • 2:20 p.m.
    Discrete Structures Projects - Addressing the Needs of Three Majors.
    Risto Atanasov*, Western Carolina University
    (1116-A1-1612)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    "Big O" Captain, My Captain.
    Tracey McGrail*, Marist College
    (1116-A1-2799)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Teaching Discrete Mathematics to novice programmers using python, unit tests, and precompiled code.
    D A Dietz*, American University
    (1116-A1-281)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Examples of Programming Labs that Apply and Motivate Discrete Math using Sage.
    Ruth Vanderpool*, University of Washington Tacoma
    (1116-A1-1306)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Using Jupyter Notebooks to Bridge the Path from Math to Code.
    Carl Toews*, University of Puget Sound
    (1116-A1-2688)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Using SAGE to illustrate the proof of Euler's polyhedron formula.
    Monika Keindl*, Northern Arizona University
    (1116-A1-2837)
  • 4:20 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: How Calculators and Computers Compute.
    Paul R. Bouthellier*, University of Pittsburgh-Titusville
    (1116-A1-48)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
  AMS Session on Combinatorics and Graph Theory, V
  Room 605, Washington State Convention Center
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    A note on the independent domination number versus domination number.
    Shaohui Wang*, University of Mississippi
    Bing Wei, University of Mississippi
    (1116-05-849)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    Overlap cycles of $\binom{[n]}{k}$.
    Thomas Grubb, Michigan State University
    Kyutae Paul Han*, Dartmouth College
    Victoria Horan, Air Force Research Laboratory
    (1116-05-1066)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Minimum vertex degree thresholds for tiling complete $3$-partite $3$-uniform hypergraphs.
    J. Han, University of Sao Paulo
    C. Zang*, Georgia State University
    Y. Zhao, Georgia State University
    (1116-05-1099)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    Toric $g$-Vectors of Convex Polytopes from Gale Diagrams.
    Carl W. Lee, University of Kentucky
    Sarah A. Nelson*, University of Kentucky
    (1116-52-206)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Temporal Graph Theory and Functional Connectivity in the Human Brain.
    Darren A Narayan*, Rochester Institute of Technology
    Roger Vargas, Williams College
    (1116-05-963)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Square-root cancellation for the signs of Latin squares (i.e., why the Alon-Tarsi conjecture is hard).
    Levent Alpoge*, Princeton University
    (1116-05-1140)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Even $(\bar{s}, \bar{t})$-core partitions and self-associate characters of $\tilde{S}_n$.
    Calvin Deng*, Harvard University
    (1116-05-1252)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    The Saxl Conjecture for Fourth Powers via the Semigroup Property.
    Sammy Y Luo*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Mark A Sellke, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1116-05-1402)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Unipancylic Matroids.
    Alana Huszar, The College of New Jersey
    Colin Starr, Willamette University
    Christina Wahl, State University of New York Potsdam
    Corrine Yap*, Sarah Lawrence College
    (1116-05-1446)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Large Hamiltonian Balanced Bipartite Graphs with Arbitrary Partitions.
    Alexander Halperin*, Salisbury University
    Colton Magnant, Georgia Southern University
    (1116-05-506)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: A Bound for the Laplacian Spectra of Simplicial Complexes.
    Rediet Abebe*, Cornell University
    (1116-05-2804)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Topological Combinatorics via Finite Fourier Analysis.
    Steven Simon*, Wellesley College
    (1116-05-529)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The well-covered dimension of generalized quadrangles.
    Oscar Vega*, California State University, Fresno
    Hillary Bese, California State University, Fresno
    (1116-05-1584)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Combinatorial Interpretations of Generalized Central Factorial and Genocchi Numbers.
    Feryal Alayont*, Grand Valley State University
    (1116-05-444)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Properties of Generalized de Bruijn Digraphs.
    Abbas Mahdi Alhakim*, American University of Beirut
    (1116-68-2635)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Computing the delta set of a numerical monoid.
    Thomas Barron, University of Kentucky
    Christopher ONeill*, Texas A&M University
    Roberto Pelayo, University of Hawaii at Hilo
    (1116-05-2502)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Bipartite Communities.
    Kelly Yancey, University of Maryland
    Matthew Yancey*, Institute for Defense Analyses / Center for Computer Science
    (1116-05-2288)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    30,000 Conjectures on Pattern-Avoidance.
    William Kuszmaul*, Stanford
    (1116-05-1662)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
  MAA Session on Conversations with the Partner Disciplines: Collaborations to Improve the Mathematics Curriculum.
  Room 2A, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Victor Piercey, Ferris State University piercev1@ferris.edu
  Suzanne I. Doree, Augsburg College
  Jason Douma, University of Souix Falls
  Susan Ganter, Virginia Tech
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Reimagining Second-Year Calculus: The Vector Calculus Bridge Project.
    Tevian Dray*, Oregon State University
    Corinne A. Manogue, Oregon State University (Physics)
    (1116-D5-1444)
  • 1:20 p.m.
    Teaching Non-Calculus-Based Physics: One Semester of Thoughts and Observations.
    Chris Oehrlein*, Oklahoma City Community College
    (1116-D5-2320)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Designing Calculus for and with Biologists.
    Carrie Diaz Eaton*, Unity College
    Hannah Callender, University of Portland
    (1116-D5-1312)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Survey of Calculus with Excel.
    Anneke Bart*, Saint Louis University
    Mike May, Saint Louis University
    (1116-D5-2507)
  • 2:20 p.m.
    Social Justice -- It's not only statistics!
    Julie C. Beier*, Earlham College
    (1116-D5-448)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    An Application-First Approach to Statistics.
    David White*, Denison University
    (1116-D5-241)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Collaboration Across Disciplines Exploring Mathematical Tasks focused on Argumentation.
    Steven LeMay*, University of Connecticut
    Megan Brown, University of Dayton
    Grace Wright, Bates College
    Fabiana Cardetti, University of Connecticut
    (1116-D5-1822)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Revising General Education Math Courses with Client Discipline Input.
    Holly Hirst*, Appalachian State University
    Mark Ginn, Appalachian State University
    Katrina Palmer, Appalachian State University
    (1116-D5-519)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Just Enough Algebra to Prepare Students for Quantitative Courses Across the Disciplines -- a New Approach to Developmental Algebra.
    Suzanne Ingrid Doree*, Augsburg College
    (1116-D5-905)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    What can mathematics-across-the-disciplines learn from writing-across-the-disciplines?
    Susan A. Ruff*, Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1116-D5-2780)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
  AMS Session on Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory, II
  Skagit 1, Skagit Lower Level, Washington State Conference Center
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Invariant measures on set-valued functions with the specification property.
    Tim Tennant*, Baylor University
    Brian Raines, Baylor University
    Johnathan Meddaugh, University of Birmingham
    (1116-37-2081)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Structure of Rigidity Sequences for Substitution Dynamical Systems.
    Kelly B. Yancey*, University of Maryland
    Jon Fickenscher, Princeton University
    (1116-37-2025)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Calculating Veech Groups of Translation Surfaces.
    Brandon Edwards*, Oregon State University
    (1116-37-2501)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    Constructing Ergodic Families of Combinatorially Obtained Minimal Cantor Sets.
    Erin Denette*, University of Rhode Island
    Araceli Bonifant, University of Rhode Island
    (1116-37-1814)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Taylor series, and hybrid functions approximations for dynamical systems.
    Mohsen Razzaghi*, Mississippi State University
    (1116-41-630)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Persistent Homology of Dynamical Systems on Networks.
    Rachel Neville*, Colorado State University
    (1116-37-2552)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Constructing embedded surfaces with Anosov geodesic flows.
    Victor Donnay, Bryn Mawr College
    Daniel Visscher*, University of Michigan
    (1116-37-2576)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Elliptic islands and ergodicity of a family of moon-shaped billiard tables.
    Maria F. Correia*, University of Evora, Portugal
    Hongkun Zhang, Umass Amhrest
    (1116-37-2705)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Existence and uniqueness of solutions to the inverse problem for linear dynamical systems with uncertain data.
    Shelby R. Stanhope*, University of Pittsburgh
    David Swigon, University of Pittsburgh
    Jonathan Rubin, University of Pittsburgh
    (1116-34-1854)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Entropy, Hausdorff Dimension and Immersed Surfaces in Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds.
    Lien-Yung Kao*, University of Notre Dame
    (1116-37-1535)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Existence and Nonexistence of Traveling Pulses in a Lateral Inhibition Neural Network.
    Yixin Guo, Drexel University
    Aijun Zhang*, University of Arkansas
    (1116-37-1497)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Negative Refraction and Tiling Billiards.
    Diana Davis*, Northwestern University
    (1116-37-2924)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the Fine Classification of Periodic Orbits of the Continuous Endomorphisms on the Real Line and Universality in Chaos.
    U. G. Abdulla, Florida Institute of Technology
    Rashad U Abdulla, University of Pennsylvania
    Muhammad U Abdulla, Melbourne, FL
    Alyssa Turnquist, Morningside College
    Naveed H Iqbal*, Florida Institute Of Technology
    (1116-39-970)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Survey of Input-independent Model Reduction Techniques for Nonlinear Dynamical Systems.
    Alan M Lattimer*, Virginia Tech
    (1116-41-2013)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Unexpected distribution phenomenon resulting from Cantor series expansions.
    Dylan Airey*, University of Texas at Austin
    Bill Mance, Institute of Mathematics Polish Academy of Sciences
    (1116-11-1209)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-2:55 p.m.
  MAA Session on Graduate Students Teach Too: Ideas and Best Practices, II
  Room 304, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Samuel L. Tunstall, Appalachian State University tunstallsl@appstate.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Aligning Mathematics GTA Training with Research Findings.
    Mary Beisiegel*, Oregon State University
    Emerald Stacey, Oregon State University
    Jesse Andrews, Oregon State University
    (1116-F1-1492)
  • 1:20 p.m.
    Inviting the Nations In: Aiding International Graduate Instructors at Clemson.
    Rachel Grotheer*, Clemson University
    (1116-F1-1000)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Teacher Training Revamped: Formalizing the Informal.
    Daniel J Katz*, Brown University
    (1116-F1-922)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    A GREAT Idea.
    Tracy Weyand*, Baylor University
    (1116-F1-392)
  • 2:20 p.m.
    Training Graduate Teaching Assistants to Use Evidence-Based Practices.
    Mary E Pilgrim*, Colorado State University
    Jessica Gehrtz, Colorado State University
    (1116-F1-172)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Training and Evaluation of Graduate Teaching Assistants: Role of a Faculty Assistant Coordinator.
    Robert Lee Nichols*, Florida Gulf Coast University
    (1116-F1-59)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  MAA Session on Helping Students See Beyond Calculus
  Room 618, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  David Strong, Pepperdine University David.Strong@pepperdine.edu
  James Tanton, MAA
  Courtney Davis, Pepperdine University
  Angela Spalsbury, Youngstown University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Squirrels, Electric Cars, and Hurricanes: DIMACS Applied Math Modules to Blow Away Your High School Students.
    James Kupetz*, Pittston Area High School, Pittston, PA 18640
    Steve Leonhardi, Winona State University, Winona, MN 55987
    (1116-F5-2135)
  • 1:20 p.m.
    Interactive Fractal Design.
    Robert Cohen*, Western State Colorado University
    (1116-F5-2145)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Math in the 21st Century: Making Sense of Dynamic Visualizations.
    Robin Angotti*, University of Washington Bothell
    (1116-F5-2301)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Symmetries of polynomial roots.
    Chad Awtrey*, Elon University
    Taylor Cesarski, Elon University
    (1116-F5-2229)
  • 2:20 p.m.
    It is not a coincidence! On patterns in some Calculus optimization problems.
    Maria Nogin*, California State University, Fresno
    (1116-F5-1964)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Hats, Hamming and Hypercubes.
    Mike Pinter*, Belmont University
    (1116-F5-2543)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Agent Based Models in the Social and Biological Sciences.
    Daniel J Teague*, NC School of Science and Mathematics
    (1116-F5-2525)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Math in action: solving crimes.
    Violeta Vasilevska*, Utah Valley University
    (1116-F5-2026)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Increasing Student Interest in Mathematics using Cryptography.
    Neil P. Sigmon*, Radford University
    Rick E. Klima, Appalachian State University
    (1116-F5-1272)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Find Trig Boring? Look Anew!
    Deane E. Arganbright*, Divine Word University (Papua New Guinea)
    (1116-F5-191)
  • 4:20 p.m.
    Model Assessment Practice: See Beyond Calculus.
    Tanweer Shapla*, Eastern Michigan University
    (1116-F5-794)
  • 4:40 p.m.
    Developing Young Mathematicians: An Undergraduate and Secondary Collaboration.
    Laura M Singletary*, Lee University
    Debra L Mimbs, Lee University
    (1116-F5-2336)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Successful Activities used in Outreach and STEM Programs.
    Lisa M Rezac*, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul MN
    (1116-F5-1179)
  • 5:20 p.m.
    On Beyond Calculus.
    Rebekah B. Johnson Yates*, Houghton College
    (1116-F5-2132)
  • 5:40 p.m.
    Secret sharing in College Algebra and Precalculus.
    Susan L Schmoyer*, Worcester State University
    (1116-F5-1603)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-3:35 p.m.
  MAA Session on Integrating Research into the Undergraduate Classroom.
  Room 619, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Shannon R. Lockard, Bridgewater State University Shannon.Lockard@bridgew.edu
  Timothy B. Flowers, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Image Processing in an Undergraduate Capstone Experience.
    Veronika Furst*, Fort Lewis College
    (1116-J1-817)
  • 1:20 p.m.
    Mimicking Mathematical Research in Discrete Mathematics.
    Feryal Alayont*, Grand Valley State University
    (1116-J1-2169)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    PIC Math: preparing students for industrial careers through an undergraduate research course.
    Michael Dorff*, Brigham Young University
    Suzanne Weekes, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    Linda Braddy, MAA
    Reza Malek-Madani, United States Naval Academy
    (1116-J1-756)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    The Peer Enhanced Experiential Research in STEM (PEERS) project at Northeastern Illinois University: Mathematics Component.
    Joseph Hibdon*, Northeastern Illinois University
    Lidia Filus, Northeastern Illinois University
    Elisabet Head, Northeastern Illinois University
    Sudha Srinivas, Northeastern Illinois University
    Kenneth Nicholson, Northeastern Illinois University
    Paulo Acioli, Northeastern Illinois University
    (1116-J1-2833)
  • 2:20 p.m.
    Mathematics in Flight.
    Marina Dedlovskaya, CUNY
    Malgorzata Aneta Marciniak*, CUNY
    Marina Nechayeva, CUNY
    Vladimir Przhebelskiy, CUNY
    (1116-J1-2662)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    ASSURE Calculus - Achieving Success through Undergraduate Research and Engagement.
    Theresa A. Jorgensen*, University of Texas at Arlington
    (1116-J1-2866)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Mathematics Research . . . Not Just for Math Majors!
    Rachelle Bouchat*, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
    (1116-J1-1976)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Integrating Research into a College Algebra Course using MyMathLab.
    Yevgeniy V. Galperin*, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania
    (1116-J1-2381)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Analysis, II
  Room 617, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Jennifer E. Beineke, Western New England University jbeineke@wne.edu
  Bem Cayco, San Jose State University bem.cayco@sjsu.edu
  Timothy Comar, Benedictine University tcomar@ben.edu
  T. James Reid, University of Mississippi mmreid@olemiss.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    On a Second-Order Rational Recurrence Relation with Quadratic Terms.
    Yevgeniy Kostrov, Xavier University of Louisiana
    Zachary Kudlak*, Monmouth University
    (1116-VB-2622)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    Geometry of hyperbolic conservation laws.
    Michael Benfield*, North Carolina State University
    (1116-VB-2661)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Low regularity local and global solutions of the generalized Magneto-Hydrodynamics equations.
    Nathan Pennington*, Creighton University
    (1116-VB-2717)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    A hull with no nontrivial Gleason parts.
    Swarup N Ghosh*, Southwestern Oklahoma State University
    Alexander J Izzo, Bowling Green State University
    (1116-VB-2760)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    The Beautiful Dynamics of $f(z)=i^z$.
    Joseph P Previte*, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
    (1116-VB-2806)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Estimates on Functional Integrals of Quantum Mechanics and Non-Relativistic Quantum Field Theory.
    Gonzalo Bley*, University of Virginia
    Lawrence Thomas, University of Virginia
    (1116-VB-2807)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Kempner series, their associated power series and logarithmic means.
    Bernd Sing*, The University of the West Indies
    (1116-VB-2821)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Some results on nonlocal nonlinear diffusion equations.
    Tucker Hartland, California State University- Chico
    Petronela Radu, University of Nebraska- Lincoln
    Ravi Shankar*, California State University- Chico
    (1116-VB-2873)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Metric Entropy of the Space of Separately Convex Functions.
    James Cockreham*, University of Idaho
    Fuchang Gao, University of Idaho
    (1116-VB-2947)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Hilbert-Schmidtness of difference of two weighted composition operators - A survey.
    Soumyadip Acharyya*, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Worldwide
    Zhijian Wu, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
    (1116-VB-541)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    $L^p$ solutions to the mixed boundary value problem in $C^2$ domains.
    Laura Dawn Croyle*, University of Kentucky
    (1116-VB-797)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    On Inequalities between Norms in Weighted Hölder and Lebesgue Spaces for Operators with Endpoint Singularities.
    Anna Tarasenko*, Hidalgo State University, Institute of Basic Sciences and Engineering, Mathematical Research Center
    Oleksandr Karelin, Hidalgo State University, Institute of Basic Sciences and Engineering
    (1116-VB-809)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Composition Operators on Generalized Weighted Nevanlinna Class.
    Waleed Al-Rawashdeh*, Montana Tech
    (1116-VB-977)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    On the Existence of Solutions to the Muskat Problem with Surface Tension.
    Spencer N. Tofts*, University of Pennsylvania
    Robert Strain, University of Pennsylvania
    (1116-VB-987)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On Hamburger-type weighted shifts.
    George R. Exner, Bucknell University
    Joo Young Jin*, Kyungpook National University
    Il Bong Jung, Kyungpook National University
    (1116-VB-1005)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-2:55 p.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Geometry, II
  Room 213, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Jennifer E. Beineke, Western New England University jbeineke@wne.edu
  Bem Cayco, San Jose State University bem.cayco@sjsu.edu
  Timothy Comar, Benedictine University tcomar@ben.edu
  T. James Reid, University of Mississippi mmreid@olemiss.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Equivalences in Absolute Plane Geometry.
    John Donnelly*, University of Southern Indiana
    (1116-VE-2523)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    Triangulations via Iterated Largest Angle Bisection.
    Yeon June Kang*, Peddie School
    (1116-VE-27)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Basmajian's identity in higher Teichmüller-Thurston theory.
    Andrew V Yarmola*, Boston College
    Nicholas G Vlamis, University of Michigan
    (1116-VE-2896)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    Theta basis and quiver representation.
    Man Wai Cheung*, University of California, San Diego
    (1116-VE-296)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Existence of Self Dual Tetrahedon.
    Derege Mussa*, University of Texas at Dallas
    (1116-VE-380)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Area Methods in Geometry Proving.
    Zengxiang Tong*, Otterbein University
    Jingzhong Zhang, Guangzhou University
    Zhaozhi Zhang, The Journal of Research in Advanced Mathematics
    (1116-VE-699)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Integrated Trig-Geometry.
    Jingzhong Zhang*, Guangzhou University
    Zhaochi Zhang, The Journal of Research in Advanced Mathematics
    Zengxiang Tong, Otterbein University
    (1116-VE-702)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    The Geometry of the Discriminant over Finite Fields.
    Elena Alicia Gonzalez Malloy*, Yale University
    (1116-VE-468)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Graph Theory, III
  Room 212, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Jennifer E. Beineke, Western New England University jbeineke@wne.edu
  Bem Cayco, San Jose State University bem.cayco@sjsu.edu
  Timothy Comar, Benedictine University tcomar@ben.edu
  T. James Reid, University of Mississippi mmreid@olemiss.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    A Group Action on Neighborhood Complexes of Cayley Graphs.
    Justin R Hughes*, Towson University
    (1116-VF-2358)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    On the Star Arboricity of the Zero-Divisor Graph $\Gamma({Z}_{p^n})$.
    Henry E Escuadro*, Juniata College
    Ian Garces, Ateneo de Manila University
    Agnes Garciano, Ateneo de Manila University
    Reginaldo Marcelo, Ateneo de Manila University
    Mari-Jo Ruiz, Ateneo de Manila University
    (1116-VF-2367)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Unavoidable Minors for $2$-connected $k$-hypergraphs.
    Dennis Hall*, SC Governor's School for Science and Mathematics
    (1116-VF-2418)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Factors in graphs, weighted graphs and directed graphs.
    Jozsef Balogh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Theodore Molla*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Maryam Sharifzadeh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1116-VF-2613)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Integer Flows in Signed Graphs with No Odd-$K_4$-minors.
    Jian Cheng*, West Virginia University
    (1116-VF-843)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: r-hued coloring of graphs having no $K_{3,3}$ minor.
    Murong Xu*, Department of Mathematics in West Virginia University
    Hong-Jian Lai, Department of Mathematics in West Virginia University
    (1116-VF-2640)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    New Results on Ramsey Multiplicity and Graph Commonality.
    Sarvasva Raghuvanshi*, Research Science Institute 2015; Mentored by James Hirst of MIT
    (1116-VF-2724)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Vertex Colorings without Rainbow Subgraphs.
    Wayne Goddard, School of Computing, Clemson University
    Honghai Xu*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Clemson University
    (1116-VF-2826)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The $t$-pebbling number of a path of graphs.
    Nándor Sieben*, Northern Arizona University
    (1116-VF-2846)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    On $k$-Ramsey Numbers of Non-bipartite Graphs.
    Daniel Johnston*, University of Montana
    (1116-VF-2894)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Variations on coloring graphs under rainbow connection.
    Janet Fierson*, La Salle University
    Jackson Swindells, La Salle University
    (1116-VF-2899)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Pancyclicity of 4-Connected Claw-free Net-free Graphs.
    Taoye Zhang*, Penn State Worthington Scranton
    (1116-VF-2960)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Diagonal forms and zero-sum (mod 2) bipartite Ramsey numbers.
    Wing Hong Tony Wong*, Kutztown University
    (1116-VF-387)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Neighbor sum distinguishing total coloring of graphs.
    Miaomiao Han*, West Virginia University
    Rong Luo, West Virginia University
    (1116-VF-1987)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On Group Connectivity of Graphs.
    Ju Zhou*, Kutztown University
    (1116-VF-613)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Refinements of results on cycles and chorded cycles.
    Theodore Molla, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Michael Santana*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Elyse Yeager, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
    (1116-VF-668)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Graph theory metrics for analyzing functional MRI data and brain connectivity.
    Darren Narayan*, Rochester Institute of Technology
    (1116-VF-7)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Adjacent vertex distinguishing total coloring of graphs with small maximum degree.
    Jiaao Li*, West Virginia University
    You Lu, West Virginia University
    Rong Luo, West Virginia University
    (1116-VF-2618)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-4:25 p.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Modeling and Applications, IV
  Room 214, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Jennifer E. Beineke, Western New England University jbeineke@wne.edu
  Bem Cayco, San Jose State University bem.cayco@sjsu.edu
  Timothy Comar, Benedictine University tcomar@ben.edu
  T. James Reid, University of Mississippi mmreid@olemiss.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    The application of Homotopy Analysis Method for the solution of time-fractional diffusion equation with a moving boundary.
    Ogugua N Onyejekwe*, Melbourne,FL
    (1116-VM-25)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    Fitting structured population dynamics models for the green treefrog (Hyla cinerea) to population estimates from field data.
    Baoling Ma*, Millersville University of Pennsylvania
    Azmy S Ackleh, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    Xinyu Li, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    (1116-VM-2518)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    A Computational Model for the Simulation of Atherosclerotic Plaques.
    Sunnie Joshi*, Temple University
    (1116-VM-937)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Bacterial Motility and Swarming.
    Cameron Harvey, Visible Music College
    Amy Buchmann*, Tulane University
    Scott Christley, University of Chicago
    Joshua Shrout, University of Notre Dame
    Aboutaleb Amiri, University of Notre Dame
    Jianxu Chen, University of Notre Dame
    Danny Chen, University of Notre Dame
    Igor Aronson, Argonne National Lab
    Mark Alber, University of Notre Dame
    (1116-VM-2522)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    The Dynamics of Multiple Myeloma Dysregulated Bone Remodeling.
    Catherine E Patterson*, University of Iowa
    Bruce Ayati, University of Iowa
    Sarah Holstein, Roswell Park Cancer Institute
    (1116-VM-255)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Uncertainty Quantification in Model of Treatment for Metastatic Prostate Cancer.
    Zachary Dean Kenyon*, Arizona State University
    (1116-VM-2563)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Urn Models for Honeybee Swarm Site-Selection.
    Torrey A Johnson*, Oregon State University
    (1116-VM-2680)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Speculative Bubbles and Crashes: Fundamentalists and Positive-Feedback Trading.
    Po-Keng Cheng*, Department of Applied Math and Statistics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, U.S.A.
    Frank J. Fabozzi, EDHEC Business School, Nice, France
    Young Shin Kim, College of Business, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, U.S.A.
    (1116-VM-275)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Post-Secondary Enrollment in the United States: Model Validation and Student Life Tables.
    Ariel Cintron-Arias*, East Tennessee State University
    (1116-VM-2802)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Tumor Control Strategies for a Mixed Immuno-Chemotherapy via Impulsive Control.
    Qing Wang*, Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, WV
    Zhijun Wang, Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, WV
    David J Klinke, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
    (1116-VM-2841)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Pedestrian Speed on Stairs: A Mathematical Model Based on Empirical Analysis for use in Computer Simulations.
    Michelle L Isenhour*, United States Military Academy
    Rainald Löhner, George Mason University
    (1116-VM-2904)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Mathematical Modeling of Insulin Therapy in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus.
    Dr. Boniface Otieno Kwach*, Kibabii University College
    Prof. Omolo N. Ongati, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology
    Prof. Michael Oduor Okoya, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology
    Dr. Amos E. O. Otedo, Kisumu East District Hospital
    (1116-VM-352)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Mathematical Modeling of Language Regularization by Adults and Children.
    Jacquelyn L Rische*, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
    Natalia L Komarova, University of California, Irvine
    (1116-VM-542)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Modeling the Effects of Multiple Myeloma on Kidney Function.
    Julia Walk*, University of Iowa
    (1116-VM-739)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
  MAA Session on Mathematical Modeling in the Undergraduate Classroom, II
  Room 607, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Jason Douma, University of Souix Falls jason.douma@usiouxfalls.edu
  Rachel Levy, Harvey Mudd College
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Math Bio or BioMath? Flipping the Mathematical Biological Classroom.
    Eric Alan Eager*, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
    James Peirce, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
    Patrick Barlow, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
    (1116-K1-363)
  • 1:20 p.m.
    Using Agent-Based Modeling to Gain Insight into the Natural World.
    Angela B. Shiflet*, Wofford College
    George W. Shiflet, Wofford College
    (1116-K1-443)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Introducing linear programming in mathematical modeling courses.
    Jakob Kotas*, University of Washington
    (1116-K1-219)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Bringing current events to life: modeling the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Engineering Calculus I.
    Emma Smith Zbarsky*, Wentworth Institute of Technology
    (1116-K1-1170)
  • 2:20 p.m.
    Tsunami Simulation for Teaching CSE and HPC.
    Michael Bader*, Technische Universität München
    (1116-K1-902)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    An ODE-based climate modeling course.
    James Walsh*, Oberlin College
    (1116-K1-294)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Mathematical Modeling: Dirac, Einstein, and Barging the Big Easy.
    Timothy J Pennings*, Davenport University
    (1116-K1-110)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Modeling, Inquiry, and Discovery in Calculus.
    Debra L Mimbs*, Lee University
    (1116-K1-2243)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    A robotics-based calculus class.
    Jason Cantarella*, University of Georgia
    Harrison Chapman, University of Georgia
    (1116-K1-628)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Bridging Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science in an undergraduate research project "Modeling the Earth -- Moon Satellite Orbit".
    Alexander Y Vaninsky, Hostos Community College, CUNY
    Daniel De La Cruz, Hostos Community College, CUNY
    Stephen Darko*, Hostos Community College, CUNY
    Jesus Garcia, Hostos Community College, CUNY
    Cory Tambourine, Hostos Community College, CUNY
    (1116-K1-1789)
  • 4:20 p.m.
    Snails in a Tide Pool & Other New Modeling Applications for Mathematics Courses.
    Audrey Malagon*, Virginia Wesleyan College
    Lisa Driskell, Colorado Mesa University
    (1116-K1-2560)
  • 4:40 p.m.
    Using a Sand Tank Groundwater Model to Investigate Groundwater Flow Models.
    Michael A Karls*, Ball State University
    (1116-K1-2883)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    What is Mathematical Modeling?
    Jean Marie Linhart*, Central Washington University
    (1116-K1-2482)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
  AMS Session on Mathematics Education
  Room 615, Washington State Convention Center
  

  • 1:30 p.m.
    How to better prepare secondary mathematics teachers for graduate mathematics courses.
    Xin Li*, University of Central Florida
    (1116-00-2932)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    The Influence of Language in the Students' Reasoning.
    Paula Rangel*, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    (1116-03-260)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Using item analysis of assessment instruments to enhance instruction, learning, and student achievement: The case of Numbers and Operations Course.
    Zephyrinus C Okonkwo*, Albany State University
    Anilkumar Devarapu, Albany State University
    (1116-97-2922)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Rewarding commitment and community-building in a college mathematics classroom.
    Polina D. Sabinin*, Bridgewater State University
    (1116-97-945)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Emotional aspects of contending with mathematical challenges: The role of positive emotions.
    Ziva Deutsch*, Head of Math Department, Michlala, Jerusalem Collge Israel
    Hava Greensfeld, Head of the research unit, Michlala jerusalem college, Israel
    (1116-97-1183)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Writing Intensive Courses.
    Weam M Al-Tameemi*, Texas A&M International University
    Michael R Kidd, Texas A&M International University
    Ana L Cruz, Texas A&M International University
    (1116-97-1472)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Online mathematics courses -- A discussion of access and success.
    Girija Sarada Nair-Hart*, University of Cincinnati Clermont College
    (1116-97-1980)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    The Masters of Natural Sciences Degree Program at Louisiana State University.
    James J Madden*, Louisiana State University
    Frank Neubrander, Louisiana State University
    Guillermo Ferreyra, Louisisna State University
    (1116-97-2891)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A Fourth Grade Student's Exploration of Linear Equation Representations in a Function Task.
    Katharine B Sawrey*, Tufts University
    Barbara M Brizuela, Tufts University
    (1116-97-2372)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Sometimes a Step Forward Requires a Step Sideways: Early Intervention in Calculus I at Missouri S&T.
    Paul N Runnion*, Missouri University of Science and Technology
    Barbara J Wilkins, Missouri University of Science and Technology
    (1116-97-104)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Facilitating collaboration in online multivariable calculus course via Google docs.
    Girija Sarada Nair-Hart*, University of Cincinnati Clermont College
    (1116-97-2096)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Increasing Student Engagement in an Introductory/Intermediate Algebra Classroom.
    Marcel Prevuznak*, Trident Technical College
    (1116-97-2562)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Can't make it to the bottom rung: Adults afraid of mathematics.
    Rachel Cywinski*, San Antonio, Texas
    (1116-97-2588)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    An Exploration of A Non-Traditional Introductory Statistics Course.
    Rachel M Bates*, Redlands Community College
    (1116-97-2853)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
  MAA Session on Mathematics and the Arts, IV
  Tahoma 2, Tahoma Level Three, Washington State Conference Center
  Organizers:
  Douglas Norton, Villanova University douglas.norton@villanova.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Exploring the Integration of Culture, Nature, Art and Mathematics from Indigenous Perspectives.
    Belin Manuel Tsinnajinnie*, Institute of American Indian Arts
    (1116-K5-2959)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Dancing with Polyhedra.
    Karl H. Schaffer*, De Anza College
    (1116-00-2987)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Forms resulting from replacing edges with flexible plates in convex equilateral polyhedra.
    David A. Reimann*, Albion College
    (1116-K5-2609)
  • 2:20 p.m.
    Some Girihs and Puzzles from the Interlocks of Similar or Complementary Figures Treatise.
    Reza Sarhangi*, Towson University, Maryland
    (1116-K6-465)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Classification of 4x4 arrangements of 16 2-color corner-matching Wang tiles.
    Debra L. Hydorn*, University of Mary Washington
    (1116-K5-1866)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Sidewalk Patterns: Symmetry at Home.
    Darrah P Chavey*, Beloit College
    (1116-K6-2941)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    The role of geometry in architecture, Case study: QAL'EH DOKHTAR, in Firuzabad, Iran.
    Mostafa Aref Haghi*, Architectelement Compony
    Samane Barjasteh Delforooz, Crchitectelement compony
    (1116-K6-618)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Kaleidoscopes, chessboards, and symmetry.
    T. M. Brown*, Armstrong State University
    (1116-K5-2261)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    An Algorithm for Creating Wallpaper Patterns from Random Fractals.
    Douglas Dunham*, University of Minnesota, Duluth
    John Shier, Apple Valley, Minnesota
    (1116-K6-2812)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
  MAA Session on Origami in the Mathematics K--12 Classroom.
  Room 303, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Roger Alperin, San Jose State University rcalperin@gmail.com
  Perla Myers, University of San Diego
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Can Origami Help Improve Student Learning of Mathematics?
    Patsy Wang-Iverson*, Gabriella & Paul Rosenbaum Foundation
    (1116-M5-969)
  • 1:20 p.m.
    Origami-inspired deductive threads in pre-geometry, and the geometric modeling of aesthetically pleasing folded structures in grades 8-12.
    Arnold Tubis*, Department of Physics (ret.), Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907
    (1116-M5-549)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Dramatic Results uses research-based, innovative strategies to engage underserved youth from Long Beach USD in Core mathematical thinking using origami to achieve measurable and reproducible results.
    Christi L. Wilkins*, Founder/Executive Director, Dramatic Results
    (1116-M5-934)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Seattle Public Schools STEM Paper Folding Program.
    Robert Orndorff*, Seattle, WA
    Debby Halperin, Seattle Public Schools
    Mary Ann Crawford, Seattle Public Schools
    (1116-M5-2863)
  • 2:20 p.m.
    Geometry Meets Algebra in Making Simple Origami Cubes and a Carrying Box for Them.
    Charlene Morrow*, Mount Holyoke College
    James Morrow, Mount Holyoke College
    (1116-M5-742)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Project Mathigami: engaging K-12 students in mathematics through Origami.
    Celina Gonzalez*, University of San Diego/HighTechHigh (HTeNC)
    Perla Myers, University of San Diego
    Jeffrey Feitelberg, HighTechHigh (HTeNC)
    (1116-M5-2990)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    My Journey from Classroom Teacher to University Professor in a Preservice Teacher Program: Using Origami as a Tool for Improving Core Math Understanding in Local and Overseas Classrooms.
    Norma J Boakes*, Stockton University
    (1116-M5-575)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Three Theorems Accessible to Middle and High School Students Used in Folding a Simple Modular Origami Book.
    Rona Gurkewitz*, Western Connecticut State University
    (1116-M5-2690)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Constructing The Conic Sections By Paper Folding.
    Philip R Mallinson*, Phillips Exeter Academy
    (1116-M5-145)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    First Lessons in Origami with suggestions for incorporating mathematics.
    Jeanine Meyer*, Purchase College/State University of New York
    (1116-M5-325)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
  AMS Session on Partial Differential Equations, II
  Room 616, Washington State Convention Center
  

  • 1:15 p.m.
    The two-and-half dimensional magnetohydrodynamic equations with horizontal dissipation and horizontal magnetic diffusion.
    Dipendra Regmi*, Farmingdale State College
    (1116-35-591)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Uniform rectifiability, harmonic and $p$-harmonic measure: The weak-$A_\infty$ property of harmonic and $p$-harmonic measures implies uniform rectifiability.
    Phi LE*, University of Missouri-Columbia
    Steve Hofmann, University of Missouri-Columbia
    Jose Maria Martell, Instituto de Ciencias Matematicas CSIC-UAM-UC3M-UCM
    Kaj Nyström, Uppsala University
    (1116-35-550)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    Positive radial solutions to classes of singular problems on the exterior domain of a ball.
    Eun Kyoung Lee, Pusan National University
    Ratnasingham Shivaji, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    Byungjae Son*, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    (1116-35-2607)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Spatial and temporal resolution analysis of collapsing high intensity pulses.
    Alexey Sukhinin*, Southern Methodist University
    (1116-35-1546)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Solutions of nonlinear Schrodinger equations.
    Alfredo Villanueva*, Savannah State University
    (1116-35-2761)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    A Fractional Decline Model for Shale Gas Reservoirs.
    Lihua Zuo*, Texas A&M University, Department of Petroleum Engineering
    Wei Yu, Texas A&M University, Department of Petroleum Engineering
    (1116-35-898)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Stochastic Partial Functional Differential Equations with Delay.
    Peter Y Pang*, National University of Singapore
    (1116-35-899)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Analysis of Interfaces of the Double Degenerate Nonlinear Reaction-Diffusion Equation.
    Adam L Prinkey*, Florida Institute of Technology
    Ugur G Abdulla, Florida Institute of Technology
    (1116-35-999)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Properties of functionals of Almgren- and Weiss-type for harmonic functions on Carnot groups.
    Nicola Garofalo, Università di Padova
    Kevin Rotz*, Purdue University
    (1116-35-2546)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Analysis of Steklov representations of solutions of Laplace's equation with singularity.
    Giles Auchmuty, University of Houston
    Manki Cho*, University of Houston
    (1116-35-2388)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Propagation of regularity of solutions to quasilinear Korteweg-de Vries type equations.
    Derek L. Smith*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1116-35-1243)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Optimal Control of the Multiphase Stefan Problem.
    Bruno Giuseppe Poggi Cevallos*, Florida Institute of Technology, University of Minnesota
    Ugur G. Abdulla, Florida Institute of Technology
    (1116-35-1631)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Axisymmetric flow of ideal fluid moving in a narrow domain: a study of the axisymmetric hydrostatic Euler equations.
    Robert M. Strain, University of Pennsylvania
    Tak Kwong Wong*, University of Pennsylvania
    (1116-35-1670)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Homogenization of Stokes systems and Uniform Regularity Estimates.
    Zhongwei Shen, University of Kentucky
    Shu Gu*, University of Kentucky
    (1116-35-1736)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Non-periodic bounded potentials of the Schrödinger operator and solutions of KdV.
    Dmitry Zakharov*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
    (1116-35-1952)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    A Space-Time Discontinuous Galerkin Spectral Element Method for the Stefan Problem.
    Chaoxu Pei*, Florida State University
    Mark Sussman, Florida State University
    M.Yousuff Hussaini, Florida State University
    (1116-76-1359)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  AMS Session on Undergraduate Research, II
  Chelan 4, Chelan Level Two, Washington State Conference Center
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Image Fusion Using SURE Guided Piecewise Linear Estimation.
    Justin Scott Goodwill*, Duquesne University
    Stacey Levine, Duquesne University
    (1116-15-2730)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    An Exploration of Iterative Matrix Transformations.
    Cody J Griffith*, Metropolitan State University of Denver
    Aaron Phillip Parker, Metropolitan State University of Denver
    (1116-15-1989)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Polynomial Functions Over $\mathbb{Z}_n$.
    Gregory Taylor*, The College of William & Mary
    Chi-Kwong Li, The College of William & Mary
    Diane Pelejo, The College of William & Mary
    (1116-15-2416)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    The Moduli Space of Complex $1\vert 3$-dimensional algebras.
    Austin D Riedl, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
    Hengzhou Liu, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
    Dylan J Magnani*, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
    Chris A Magyar, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
    (1116-16-2801)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Computation in the completion of the free group algebra.
    Tim Hsu, San Jose State University
    Hang Lu Su*, McGill University
    Olga Zamoroueva, University of California, Davis
    (1116-16-1371)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Consensus vs. fragmentation in a model of opinion dynamics.
    Ratna Khatri*, George Mason University
    Matt Holzer, George Mason University
    (1116-34-1907)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Stochastic Stabilization of Complex Multivariable Systems.
    Dylan P O'Connell*, Haverford College
    Joe Chen, University of Connecticut
    Fan Ny Shum, University of Connecticut
    Rajeshwari Majumdar, University of Connecticut
    Lance Ford, University of Central Oklahoma
    Derek Kielty, Georgia Tech
    Heather McCain, Schreiner University
    (1116-34-2284)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Math Modeling in the Time of Cholera.
    Yinlin Dai*, Southwestern University
    Emma Kathryn Groves, Southwestern University
    (1116-34-2356)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Modeling the Interaction Dynamics between Honeybees and Food Availability.
    Carlos E Cruz*, Loyola Marymount University
    Matthew Baca, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
    Armando Salinas, Arizona State University
    Carlos Agrinsoni, University of Puerto Rico, Cayey
    (1116-34-2175)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    A fractional diffusion model for electric signal propagation through cardiac muscle tissue.
    Mae L Markowski*, George Mason University
    (1116-35-2033)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Infinite Symmetry Algebras of Partial Differential Equations.
    Tucker Andrew Hartland*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics California State University, Chico
    Vladimir Rosenhaus, Department of Mathematics and Statistics California State University, Chico
    (1116-35-2231)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Computational Dynamics of a Map with Multiple Stable States.
    William Bench*, The College of William and Mary
    (1116-37-1990)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A Physical Application of the Hypergeometric Function.
    Eric J Oden*, Southwestern University
    (1116-37-2611)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Anti-Periodic Solutions to a Higher Order Difference Equation with a p-Laplacian.
    Nicholas Joseph Russell*, Marist College
    Lingju Kong, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
    Jacob Parsely, Tennessee Technological University
    Kaitlin Rizzo, Allegheny College
    (1116-39-473)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Minimizing recidivism by optimizing profit: a theoretical case study of incentivized reform in a Louisiana prison.
    Marco Hamins-Puertolas*, St. Mary's College of Maryland
    Jessie Conrad, Tulane University
    Genesis Islas, California State University
    Adrien Bossogo-Egoume, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Christopher Kribs, University of Texas at Arlington
    Benjamin Morin, Arizona State University
    (1116-39-2405)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Numerical Solutions of the Helmholtz Equation via the Modified Galerkin Method for the Shape of a Biconcave Disk.
    Jill Sabrina Scarlett Resh*, Roger Williams University
    Yajni M Warnapala, Roger Williams University
    (1116-45-673)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Multiplication Operators on Weighted Banach Spaces of an Infinite Tree.
    Robert F. Allen, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
    Isaac M. Craig*, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
    (1116-47-1131)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    A Variational Approach for High Dynamic Range Imaging (HDR).
    Kinardi Isnata*, Duquesne University
    (1116-49-2312)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    The Convex Body Isoperimetric Conjecture.
    Matthew J Dannenberg*, Harvey Mudd College
    John Berry, Williams College
    Jason Liang, The University of Chicago
    Yingyi Zeng, St. Mary's College of Maryland
    (1116-52-2249)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
  AMS Session on Undergraduate Research, III
  Chelan 5, Chelan Level Two, Washington State Conference Center
  

  • 1:15 p.m.
    Invariants under the Poincare transformation and their corresponding evolution equations.
    Andrew Osten Hoffman*, St. Olaf College
    Joe Benson, St. Olaf College
    (1116-53-1735)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    An Introduction to Klein Links and Their Relation to Torus Links.
    Steven R Beres*, Gonzaga University
    (1116-54-2007)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    An Application of Symplectic Integration on an N-body, with evaluations of Hamiltonian Mechanics interpretations.
    William Ty Frazier*, East Tennessee State University
    (1116-60-2786)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Typical Meteorological Year versus Actual Meteorological Year Weather Data: How modern data collection improves previous methods.
    Michael E Ramsey*, SUNY Geneseo
    Jacob A Goldberg, SUNY Geneseo
    (1116-62-2731)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Predicting Arrest from NYPD Stop, Question and Frisk Data.
    Sara LaPlante*, Smith College
    Jessica Mao, Smith College
    (1116-62-1943)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    New geometries for cellular automata.
    Samanvitha Basole*, San Jose State University
    Tim Hsu, San Jose State University
    Phyllis Lau, San Jose State University
    (1116-68-1368)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Mathematics in Service to the Community: Mathematical Modeling for the Helena Food Share.
    Jesica Bauer*, Carroll College
    (1116-90-2851)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The relationship between leptin and inflammation in adipose tissue determines critical points in excess nutrition in women.
    Sarah Bartlett Minucci*, Lee University
    Stephen J. Merrill, Marquette University
    (1116-92-2374)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Mathematical model for time to Neuronal Apoptosis due to accrual of DNA DSBs.
    Chindu Mohanakumar, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
    Annabel E. Offer*, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
    Jennifer Rodriguez, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
    (1116-92-2379)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Statistical models for estimating copy numbers of transposable elements using high-throughput DNA sequencing data.
    Channing Stephanie Parker*, James Madison University
    Kathryn Rose Voss, James Madison University
    (1116-92-2347)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    A distance-based method for phylogenetic tree reconstruction using algebraic geometry.
    Emily Chae Castner*, Mount Holyoke College
    Brent R Davis, Colorado State University
    Joseph P Rusinko, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
    (1116-92-2266)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Female Centered Mate Selections as an Explanatory Mechanism for Dimorphic Solutions in a Rock-Paper-Scissors Game.
    Kelly Ruth Buch*, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
    Abena Serwaa Bonsu Annor, University of Florida
    Daniel Rodriguez Pinzon, Universidad de los Andes
    (1116-92-2147)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Using statistical measurements to accurately predict septic events in premature infants.
    Evan D Dienstman*, The College of William & Mary
    (1116-92-1798)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Talk Math 2 Me: Changing One's Mathematical Identity.
    Joni J Schneider*, Texas State University
    (1116-97-2575)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Adaptations to the Curvature Based Image Denoising Framework.
    James A Matuk*, Duquesne Universuty
    (1116-49-2309)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
  SIAM Minisymposium on Applied analysis of partial differential equations
  Room 3A, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Gautam Iyer, Carnegie Mellon University gautam@math.cmu.edu
  Anna Mazzucatto, Penn State University alm24@psu.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Nonlinear Surface Plasmons.
    Ryan G Halabi, University of California at Davis
    John K Hunter*, University of California at Davis
    (1116-35-1595)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Global behavior of the free boundary of an ideal fluid surrounded by vacuum in the class of affine deformations.
    Thomas C. Sideris*, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1116-35-1995)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Global weak solutions to the inviscid 3D quasi-geostrophic equation.
    Alexis F. Vasseur*, University of Texas at Austin
    Marjolaine Puel, Universite de Nice (France)
    (1116-35-2614)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Aggregation equations and 2D incompressible fluids.
    James P Kelliher*, University of California Riverside
    (1116-76-1500)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Title: Existence and Stability of small time-periodic solutions of the Navier-Stokes-Maxwell system.
    Slim Ibrahim*, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Victoria, BC- Canada
    Pierre-Gilles Lemarie, University of Evry, France
    Nader Masmoudi, CIMS, New-York University
    (1116-35-2059)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the relation between collision dynamics of soliton sequences of coupled-NLS equations and population dynamics in Lotka-Volterra models.
    Avner Peleg*, Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
    Quan M Nguyen, Department of Mathematics, Vietnam National University at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
    Toan T Huynh, Department of Mathematics, University of Medicine and Pharmacy-HCMC, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
    (1116-35-499)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Discrete Approximations for High Contrast Heterogeneous Media Problems.
    Yuliya Gorb*, University of Houston
    (1116-35-2414)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Dynamics and Bifurcation of Multicomponent Amphiphilic Membranes.
    Keith Promislow*, Michigan State University
    Qiliang Wu, Michigan State University
    (1116-35-531)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On a nonlinear model for tumor growth: Global existence of weak solutions.
    Konstantina Trivisa*, University of Maryland
    (1116-35-2094)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  MAA Panel Discussion
  International engagement in research and education in the mathematical sciences.
  Room 609, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Overtoun Jenda, Auburn University
  Panelists:
  Neal Koblitz, University of Washington
  Overtoun Jenda, Auburn University
  Suzanne Lenhart, University of Tennessee
  Yuan Lou, Ohio State University
  Fred Roberts, Rutgers University
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
  SIGMAA on Math Circles for Students and Teachers-American Mathematics Competitions Special Presentation
  Math wrangle.
  Room 612, Washington State Convention Center
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 2:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  ASL Contributed Paper Session, II
  Room 4C-1, Washington State Convention Center
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Amalgamation Classes with $\exists$-Closures and a Conjecture of Moss'.
    Justin Brody*, Goucher College
    (1116-03-2515)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Robust reflection principles.
    Chris Lambie-Hanson*, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    (1116-03-1247)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Connections between relational semantics for $E_\to$ and $E$.
    Katalin Bimbó*, University of Alberta
    (1116-03-1667)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Does the Consistency Sentence Really State Consistency?
    Joachim Mueller-Theys*, Heidelberg, Germany
    (1116-03-1649)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Sophotaxis.
    Ronald G. Fuller, Wipro Technologies, Analytics Services
    Peter Cardon*, Center for Management Communication, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
    (1116-03-1076)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Logic is the missing link in information management.
    Ronald G. Fuller*, Wipro Technologies, Analytics Services
    (1116-03-1068)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    N-dimensional De Morgan Algebras and Further Applications.
    Atila Prates Correia*, Universidade de Sao Paulo
    (1116-03-1869)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 2:00 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
  AWM Workshop: Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics, II
  Room 4C-3, Washington State Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Gizem Karaali, Pomona College gizem.karalli@pomona.edu
  Rosa Orellana, Dartmouth College rosa.c.orellana@dartmouth.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Littlewood-Richardson rules for symmetric skew quasisymmetric Schur functions.
    Stephanie van Willigenburg*, University of British Columbia
    (1116-05-827)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    The combinatorics of quasisymmetric $(k,l)$-hook Schur functions.
    Elizabeth Niese*, Marshall University
    Sarah K Mason, Wake Forest University
    (1116-05-150)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Discrete Homotopy and Homology Groups.
    Hélène Barcelo*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
    (1116-05-2166)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Peak Sets of Classical Coxeter Groups.
    Alexander Diaz-Lopez, University of Notre Dame
    Pamela Estephania Harris*, United States Military Academy
    Erik Insko, Florida Gulf Coast University
    Darleen Perez-Lavin, Florida Gulf Coast University
    (1116-05-111)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The geometry behind permutations and their subwords.
    Julianna Tymoczko*, Smith College
    (1116-05-2775)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Toric matrix Schubert varieties.
    Laura Escobar*, U Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Karola Meszaros, Cornell University
    (1116-05-755)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
  MAA-AMS-SIAM Gerald and Judith Porter Public Lecture
  Network Science: From the Online World to Cancer Genomics.
  Ballroom 6BC, Washington State Convention Center
  Jennifer Chayes*, Microsoft Research
  (1116-00-46)
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
  AMS Dinner Reception
  Grand Ballroom PreFunction, 2nd Floor, Sheraton Seattle Hotel
• Saturday January 9, 2016, 7:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m.
  AMS Dinner Celebration
  Grand Ballroom AB, 2nd Floor, Sheraton Seattle Hotel