Joint Mathematics Meetings Program by Day

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Joint Mathematics Meetings
Baltimore Convention Center, Hilton Baltimore, and Baltimore Marriott Inner Harbor Hotel, Baltimore, MD
January 15-18, 2014 (Wednesday - Saturday)
Meeting #1096

Associate secretaries:

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu
Gerard A. Venema, MAA venema@calvin.edu

Thursday January 16, 2014

• Thursday January 16, 2014, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Joint Meetings Registration
  Pratt Street Lobby, 300 Level, BCC
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 7:40 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on Bridging the Gap: Designing an Introduction to Proofs Course
  Room 339, BCC
  Organizers:
  Sarah Mabrouk, Framingham State University smabrouk@framingham.edu
  

  • 7:40 a.m.
    Teach What You Do.
    Clark Wells*, Grand Valley State University
    (1096-D1-2104)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    The Evolution of an Introduction to Proofs Course.
    Susanna S. Epp*, DePaul University
    (1096-D1-1982)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    Using Video Case-Studies to Develop Proof Writing Skills.
    Connie Campbell*, Millsaps College
    James Sandefur, Georgetown University
    Kay Somers, Moravian College
    (1096-D1-365)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Using Portfolios in an Introduction to Proofs Course.
    Frederick M Butler*, York College of Pennsylvania
    (1096-D1-701)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Writing Assignments in an Introduction to Proofs Course.
    Kate Overmoyer*, Clarion University of Pennsylvania
    (1096-D1-1126)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Developing community norms for proof: forum discussions of the nature and import of proof.
    Kristin A. Camenga*, Houghton College
    (1096-D1-2266)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Evaluating Peers' Arguments as the Catalyst for Learning in an Introduction to Proofs Course.
    Sarah K. Bleiler*, Middle Tennessee State University
    (1096-D1-1150)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Integrating the Elements of an Introductory Proof Course.
    Ockle E Johnson*, Keene State College
    (1096-D1-2132)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Introduction to Proofs as A Survey Course in Mathematics.
    William W. Johnston*, Butler University
    (1096-D1-1752)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Successes and Failures of Inquiry Based Learning in an Introduction to Proofs Course.
    Rachel Esselstein*, California State University Monterey Bay
    (1096-D1-1375)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    How important is the final answer? : Using inquiry-based learning in an introductory proofs course.
    Susan Crook*, Loras College
    (1096-D1-2418)
  • 11:20 a.m.
    Using an Inquiry-Based Learning Approach in Introduction to Proofs and Advanced Calculus Courses.
    Jim Fulmer*, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
    Tom McMillan, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
    (1096-D1-2440)
  • 11:40 a.m.
    Using Formal and Informal Proof Writing in an Introduction to Proofs Course.
    Katherine J. Mawhinney*, Appalachian State University
    (1096-D1-1639)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 7:45 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  AMS Session on Combinatorics, II
  Room 312, BCC
  

  • 7:45 a.m.
    Fixed-point rotation families of cellular automorphisms.
    Lowell Abrams*, George Washington University
    (1096-05-446)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    On matroid minors that guarantee their duals as minors.
    Jesse Taylor*, Louisiana State University
    (1096-05-1076)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    A Characterization of Tangle Matroids.
    Dennis W. Hall*, Louisiana State University
    (1096-05-1585)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Matroids that are extremal with respect to Bixby's Lemma.
    Tyler Moss*, Louisiana State University
    (1096-05-1681)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Polynomial-Generated Orthogonal Latin Squares and Hypercubes.
    Daniel R Droz*, Penn State University
    (1096-05-2236)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Multiset Generalization of $t$-Designs.
    Ryan K Therkelsen*, Bellarmine University
    (1096-05-1966)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Intractable Sums Tamed: New Upper Bounds for Covering Arrays.
    Ruyue (Julia) Yuan*, Valparaiso University
    Zoe Koch, University of Utah
    (1096-05-385)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Conjectures and questions on coin graphs in the Euclidean plane.
    Geir Agnarsson, George Mason University
    Jill Bigley Dunham*, Hood College
    (1096-05-2625)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Increasing Representations in Additive Bases.
    Zoe Koch*, University of Utah
    (1096-05-653)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Zero-Sum Rado Numbers for some Linear Equations.
    Chad B Birger*, University of Sioux Falls
    Daniel Schaal, South Dakota State University
    (1096-05-2322)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    G-Ham Sandwich Theorems: Harmonic Analysis on Finite Measures.
    Steven Simon*, Wellesley College
    (1096-05-1990)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Probabilistic methods for minimum skew rank of graphs.
    Sudipta Mallik*, University of Wyoming
    (1096-05-1278)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Modeling functional connectivity of the human brain and gauging the effects of sub-concussive hits on athletes.
    Anthony Harkin, Rochester Institute of Technology
    Darren A Narayan*, Rochester Institute of Technology
    (1096-05-1555)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Two-Player Variation on Graph Pebbling.
    Matthew J Prudente*, Lehigh University
    (1096-05-1640)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    Sprague-Grundy Values of the $\mathcal{R}$-Wythoff Game.
    Albert Gu*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1096-05-2646)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    The Origami Miura Map Fold and Graph Colorings.
    Jessica E Ginepro*, Western New England University
    Thomas C Hull, Western New England University
    (1096-05-854)
  • 11:45 a.m.
    Extending Patches to Fullerenes.
    Christina Graves, The University of Texas at Tyler
    Jennifer McLoud-Mann*, University of Washington Bothell
    Kristen Stagg, The University of Texas at Tyler
    (1096-05-2495)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 7:45 a.m.-11:40 a.m.
  AMS Session on Natural Resource Modeling and Mathematical Biology
  Room 305, BCC
  

  • 7:45 a.m.
    Mathematical Model of Infection Risk to Travelers Entering Malaria Endemic Regions.
    Nairat Kanyamee*, Silpakorn University
    (1096-92-1581)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    Modeling the Effects of Age-Specific Harvesting on Connected Subpopulations of Marine Fish Using a Discrete Age Continuous Time Approach.
    Elizabeth L Councill*, University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
    (1096-92-1617)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Effect of predators in dynamics of niche construction.
    Faina Berezovskaya*, Howard University
    (1096-92-1277)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Effects of Stochastic Variation in Resource Availability in Ecological Community Structure.
    Seth D. Haney*, University of San Diego
    Adam Siepielski, University of San Diego
    (1096-92-2549)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Symbolic Solutions For Radial-Symmetric and Axial-Symmetric Groundwater Flow in Term of Special Functions.
    A. Bass Bagayogo*, Saint-Boniface University
    (1096-35-2483)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Structured Avian Influenza Model with Imperfect Vaccination.
    Hayriye Gulbudak*, University of Florida
    (1096-92-2480)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    A stoichiometric producer-grazer model incorporating the effects of excess food-nutrient content on consumer dynamics.
    Angela L Peace*, Arizona State University
    Yang Kuang, Arizona State University
    (1096-92-1816)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Mathematically Decomposing an Ecological Network into Self-Sustaining Building Blocks.
    Linh Ngoc Khanh Huynh*, Rice University
    (1096-92-188)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    The Inherent Randomness of Evolving Populations.
    Marc A Harper*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (1096-92-1240)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Two-Sample Tests and Recursive Partitioning with Latent Responses: Application to HIV Genetics.
    Shannon Stock*, College of the Holy Cross
    Victor DeGruttola, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health
    (1096-92-1801)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Mathematical Modeling of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Cuba.
    Antonio Mastroberardino*, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
    Yuanji Cheng, Malmo University
    Ahmed Abdelrazec, York University
    Hao Liu, Arizona State University
    (1096-92-1654)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: A Hybrid Model of Hospital Infection Spread.
    Lester F. Caudill*, University of Richmond
    Barry Lawson, University of Richmond
    (1096-92-2375)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Mathematical Model of Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae with Prevalence Settings.
    Mohammed Yahdi*, Ursinus College
    Hongli Chen, Ursinus College
    (1096-92-2566)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Predicting the time and mechanism for resistance in prostate cancer patients undergoing androgen suppression therapy.
    Rebecca A. Everett*, Arizona State University
    Yang Kuang, Arizona State University
    (1096-92-1827)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Modeling Stochasticity and Variability in Gene Regulatory Networks with Applications for Optimal Control.
    David Murrugarra*, Georgia Tech
    (1096-92-406)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Precise Mass Measurements of Ions.
    Jeremy N. Ariche*, Morehouse College
    (1096-92-2133)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Advances in Analysis and PDEs, II
  Room 332, BCC
  Organizers:
  Tepper L. Gill, Howard University tgill@howard.edu
  Daniel A. Williams, Howard University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Towards a Comprehensive Stability Theory for Feynman's Operational Calculus: The Time Independent Setting.
    Lance Nielsen*, Creighton University
    (1096-47-1079)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Existence And Stability In Ageostrophic Flows With Viscoelastic-type Reynolds Stress.
    Maleafisha Stephen Tladi*, University of Limpopo, South Africa
    (1096-35-412)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    "On the quasi-potential for 2-D Navier-Stokes equations perturbed by space time white noise".
    Sandra Cerrai*, University of Maryland, College Park
    (1096-60-561)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    "Graph Paper" Trace Characterizations of Functions of Finite Energy.
    Robert S. Strichartz*, Cornell University
    (1096-46-277)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Nonlinear flows and rigidity results on compact manifolds.
    Jean Dolbeault, CEREMADE Universite Paris Dauphine
    Maria J. Esteban, CEREMADE Universite Paris Dauphine
    Michael Loss*, Georgia Tech
    (1096-35-207)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Algebraic Geometry, III
  Room 303, BCC
  Organizers:
  Christopher Hacon, University of Utah
  Zsolt Patakfalvi, Princeton University pzs1980@gmail.com
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Pseudo-effective numerical classes with vanishing pushforward.
    Mihai Fulger*, Princeton University
    Brian Lehmann, Rice University
    Xiaolei Zhao, University of Michigan
    Zhixian Zhu, University of Michigan
    (1096-14-75)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On Betti numbers of tautological rings of Jacobians and Pryms.
    Maxim V Arap*, Johns Hopkins University
    (1096-14-644)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Chow ring of the moduli space of genus 6 curves.
    Nikola Penev, Stanford
    Ravi Vakil*, Stanford University
    (1096-14-2369)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Discussion
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Algebraic Structures Motivated by Knot Theory, III
  Room 328, BCC
  Organizers:
  Mieczyslaw K. Dabkowski, University of Texas at Dallas
  Jozef Przytycki, George Washington University przytyck@gwu.edu
  Radmila Sazdanovic, University of Pennsylvania
  Alexander N. Shumakovitch, George Washington University
  Hao Wu, George Washington University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Elements of Khovanov Homology.
    Louis H. Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1096-57-1424)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The many versions of odd Khovanov homology.
    Krzysztof Karol Putyra*, Columbia University
    (1096-17-2649)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    An infinite rank summand of topologically slice knots.
    Jennifer Hom*, Columbia University
    (1096-57-846)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A bordered monopole Floer theory.
    Jonathan M Bloom*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    John A Baldwin, Boston College
    (1096-57-838)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Homology for quandles with partial group operations.
    J. Scott Carter, University of South Alabama
    Atsushi Ishii, University of Tsukuba
    Masahico Saito*, University of South Florida
    (1096-57-1174)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Self-, multi- and $G$-distributivity with a braided flavor.
    Victoria Lebed*, Advanced Mathematical Institute, Osaka City University
    (1096-17-299)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On some ternary algebras in knot theory.
    Maciej Niebrzydowski*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    (1096-57-1389)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Torsion in One-term Distributive Homology.
    Alissa S. Crans*, Loyola Marymount University
    Jozef Przytycki, George Washington University
    Krzysztof Putyra, Columbia University
    (1096-22-1495)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Analytic Number Theory, I
  Room 329, BCC
  Organizers:
  Angel Kumchev, Towson University akumchev@towson.edu
  Scott Parsell, West Chester University
  Gang Yu, Kent State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Finite Euler product approximations of the Riemann zeta-function.
    Steven M. Gonek*, University of Rochester
    (1096-11-804)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Pair correlation of the zeros of the derivative of the Riemann $\xi$-function.
    David W Farmer, American Institute of Mathematics
    Steven M Gonek, University of Rochester
    Yoonbok Lee*, University of Rochester
    (1096-11-509)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Low-lying zeros of elliptic curve $L$-functions: Beyond the ratios conjecture.
    Daniel Fiorilli*, University of Michigan
    James Parks, University of Lethbridge
    Anders Södergren, University of Copenhagen
    (1096-11-897)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Non-vanishing of derivatives of $L$-functions.
    Ram M Murty, Queen's University
    Naomi Tanabe*, Queen's University
    (1096-11-539)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The mean square of the Riemann zeta-function and its twists.
    J. Brian Conrey*, American Institute of Mathematics
    (1096-11-2024)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Computing class numbers beyond Odlyzko's bounds: Real cyclotomic fields.
    John C. Miller*, Rutgers University
    (1096-11-631)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Explicit estimates for $\psi(x)$.
    Laura Faber, University of Lethbridge
    Habiba Kadiri*, University of Lethbridge
    Allysa Lumley, University of Lethbridge
    (1096-11-1499)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Large values of the zeta function at critical points.
    Hugh L. Montgomery*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    Steven M. Gonek, University of Rochester
    (1096-11-2371)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Applied Harmonic Analysis: Large Data Sets, Signal Processing, and Inverse Problems, III
  Room 315, BCC
  Organizers:
  Mauro Maggioni, Duke University
  Naoki Saito, University of California, Davis
  Thomas Strohmer, University of California, Davis strohmer@math.ucdavis.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Geometric methods for graph partitioning.
    Braxton Osting*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (1096-49-1050)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Interpolation via weighted l1 minimization.
    Rachel A Ward*, University of Texas at Austin
    Holger Rauhut, Aachen University
    (1096-65-2100)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Optimal Shrinkage of Singular values and Eigenvalues.
    David L. Donoho*, Stanford University
    Matan Gavish, Stanford University
    (1096-94-2769)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Estimation of probability measures in high dimensions, with optimal transport and fast algorithms.
    Mauro Maggioni*, Duke University
    (1096-60-2768)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Classification Problems in Operator Algebras, III
  Room 331, BCC
  Organizers:
  Ionut Chifan, University of Iowa
  David Penneys, University of Toronto dpenneys@math.toronto.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Nuclearity for $C^*$-algebras with real rank zero.
    Nicola Watson*, University of Toronto
    (1096-47-1613)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Upper triangular forms for elements of finite von Neumann algebras.
    Ken Dykema*, Texas A&M University
    Fedor Sukochev, University of New South Wales
    Dmitriy Zanin, University of New South Wales
    (1096-46-1779)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The structure of simple operator algebras.
    Nate Brown*, Penn State
    (1096-46-1607)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Results on Nuclearity and Exactness for Groupoid Crossed Product $C^*$-algebras.
    Scott M. LaLonde*, Dartmouth College
    (1096-47-1709)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The effect of homotopies of groupoid 2-cocycles on $C^*$-algebraic $K$-theory.
    Elizabeth A. Gillaspy*, Dartmouth College
    (1096-19-1825)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Crossed products and MF algebras.
    Weihua Li*, Columbia College Chicago
    Stefanos Orfanos, DePaul University
    (1096-46-34)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Complex Dynamics, I (a Mathematics Research Communities Session)
  Room 322, BCC
  Organizers:
  Scott Kaschner, University of Arizona
  Holly Krieger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Paul Reschke, University of Michigan paul.reschke@gmail.com
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Shapes of Polynomial Julia Sets.
    Kathryn A. Lindsey*, Cornell University
    (1096-37-317)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Approximation of Julia sets with computer assisted validation for complex analytic dynamical systems.
    J. D. Mireles James*, Rutgers University
    Haripriya Chakraborty, University of Deleware
    (1096-37-515)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the bifurcation locus of cubic polynomials and the size of Siegel disks.
    Ilies Zidane*, University of Toulouse
    (1096-37-2110)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Rational Maps: Julia sets from accessible Mandelbrot sets are not homeomorphic.
    Elizabeth L. Fitzgibbon*, Boston University
    Stefano Silvestri, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
    (1096-30-819)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Parameter Space Structures for Singular Perturbations of Polynomials.
    Daniel Cuzzocreo*, Boston University
    (1096-37-1078)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Periodic points in towers of finite fields for polynomials associated to algebraic groups.
    Bianca A. Thompson*, University of Hawaii at Manoa
    Michelle Manes, University of Hawaii at Manoa
    (1096-11-552)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Haar Measures and Hausdorff Dimensions of $p$-adic Julia Sets.
    Joanna Marie Furno*, Dickinson College
    (1096-37-2094)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    $p$-adic Mandelbrot sets and their boundaries.
    Jacqueline Anderson*, Bridgewater State University
    (1096-37-418)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Computability in Geometry and Topology, I
  Room 319, BCC
  Organizers:
  Mieczyslaw Dabkowski, University of Texas at Dallas
  Rumen D. Dimitrov, Western Illinois University rd-dimitrov@wiu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Notions of degree spectra.
    Valentina Harizanov*, The George Washington University
    (1096-03-1364)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Computability in Cantor space and in orderings of an abelian group.
    Reed Solomon*, University of Connecticut
    (1096-03-925)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Ordering algebraic structures on trees.
    Jennifer Chubb Reimann*, University of San Francisco
    (1096-03-2219)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Power of Uniform Distribution Randomness.
    Wesley C Calvert*, Southern Illinois University
    Johanna N. Y. Franklin, University of Connecticut
    (1096-03-1729)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Computability in the class of Real Closed Fields.
    Victor A. Ocasio*, University of Notre Dame
    (1096-03-1138)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Effective Symmetry Breaking.
    Rebecca M. Steiner*, Vanderbilt University
    (1096-03-2131)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Algebraic existential quantifiers.
    Michael Chris Laskowski*, University of Maryland
    (1096-03-1680)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, I (a Mathematics Research Communities Session)
  Room 321, BCC
  Organizers:
  Tariq Aougab, Yale University
  Curt Kent, University of Toronto
  Sang Rae Lee, Texas A&M University
  Emily Stark, Tufts University emily.stark@tufts.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Convex cocompactness in mapping class groups via quasiconvexity in right-angled Artin groups.
    Johanna Mangahas*, Brown University
    Samuel J Taylor, University of Texas at Austin
    (1096-20-1347)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Pseudo-Anosov mapping classes with dilatation of algebraic degree $2g$.
    Hyunshik Shin*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1096-57-2484)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Higher dimensional filling and divergence functions for mapping class groups.
    Jason Behrstock*, CUNY, Lehman College and the Graduate Center
    Cornelia Drutu, Oxford
    (1096-20-2517)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Generalizations of the Kan-Thurston Theorem.
    Raeyong Kim*, The Ohio State University
    (1096-57-2520)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Nonpositively curved Eulerian cube complexes and reciprocity.
    Richard A Scott*, Santa Clara University
    (1096-57-826)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Almost Hyperbolic---Flat Strips are "Rare" in Rank One CAT(0) Spaces.
    Russell M Ricks*, University of Michigan
    (1096-51-2453)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Quasi-isometry properties of subdivision rules.
    Brian C Rushton*, Temple University
    (1096-57-2147)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    A Space of CAT(-1) structures.
    Sang-hyun Kim, KAIST
    Genevieve S Walsh*, Tufts University
    (1096-57-2619)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Graph Theory: Structural and Extremal Problems, III
  Room 330, BCC
  Organizers:
  Daniel Cranston, Virginia Commonwealth University dcranston@vcu.edu
  Gexin Yu, College of William & Mary
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Beyond Ohba's Conjecture: A bound on the choice number of $k$-chromatic graphs with $n$ vertices.
    Jonathan A. Noel, McGill University
    Douglas B. West*, Zhejiang Normal University and University of Illinois
    Hehui Wu, Simon Fraser University
    Xuding Zhu, Zhejiang Normal University
    (1096-05-1609)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Steinberg's Conjecture, the Bordeaux Coloring Conjecture and Near-Coloring.
    Carl R Yerger*, Davidson College
    Kyle Yang, Davidson College
    (1096-05-892)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Maximizing the number of proper colorings of graphs.
    Jie Ma*, Carnegie Mellon University
    Humberto Naves, UCLA
    (1096-05-320)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    TALK MOVED: The 1-2-3 Conjecture for Hypergraphs.
    Florian Pfender*, University of Colorado Denver
    Maciej Kalkowski, AMU Poznan
    Michał Karoński, AMU Poznan
    (1096-05-325)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Extending Alon-Tarsi Orientations.
    Hal Kierstead, Arizona State University
    Landon Rabern*, Branford, CT
    (1096-05-786)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Graphs with $\chi=\Delta$ have Big Cliques.
    Daniel W. Cranston*, Virginia Commonwealth University
    Landon Rabern, Branford, CT
    (1096-05-258)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    TALK TITLE CHANGE: Extensions from precoloured sets of edges.
    Katherine Edwards*, Princeton University
    Jan van den Heuvel, LSE
    Ross J Kang, Utrecht University
    Jean-Sebastien Sereni, CNRS, LORIA
    (1096-05-784)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Tutte's $5$-flow conjecture and Jaeger's modulo $5$-orientation.
    Cun-Quan Zhang*, West Virginia University
    (1096-05-1315)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS-SIAM Special Session on Mathematics of Computation: Differential Equations, Linear Algebra, and Applications, II
  Room 320, BCC
  Organizers:
  Susanne C. Brenner, Louisiana State University brenner@math.lsu.edu
  Chi-Wang Shu, Brown University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Robust Polynomial Preserving Recovery On Boundary.
    Hailong Guo, Wayne State University
    Zhimin Zhang, Wayne State University
    Ren Zhao*, Wayne State University
    (1096-65-1719)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Recovering exponential accuracy from collocation point values of smooth functions with end-point singularities.
    Zheng Chen*, Brown University
    Chi-Wang Shu, Brown University
    (1096-65-720)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Robust Methods for Eigenvalue Computations in Linear Stability Analysis.
    Howard C Elman*, University of Maryland
    Minghao Wu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    (1096-65-1559)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A posteriori error estimates for biharmonic eigenvalue problems.
    Joscha Gedicke*, Louisiana State University
    (1096-65-1902)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A cochain complex for interior penalty methods: error estimates and multigrid through differential relations.
    G. Kanschat, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
    Natasha S. Sharma*, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
    (1096-35-1057)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    $L_2$ and pointwise error estimates for FEM for elliptic PDE on surfaces.
    Fernando Camacho*, University of Kentucky
    Alan Demlow, University of Kentucky
    (1096-65-2382)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Computational modeling of polycrystals: accuracy and sensitivity analysis.
    Maria Emelianenko*, George Mason University
    Claudio Torres, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Chile
    Dmitry Golovaty, University of Akron
    (1096-65-1380)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Eventual linear convergence of the Douglas-Rachford iteration for basis pursuit.
    Xiangxiong Zhang*, MIT
    (1096-65-1284)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on My Favorite Graph Theory Conjectures, I
  Room 314, BCC
  Organizers:
  Craig Larson, Virginia Commonwealth University clarson@vcu.edu
  Ralucca Gera, Naval Postgraduate School
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On the Eulerian Cycle Decomposition Conjecture.
    Gary Chartrand, Western Michigan University
    Heather Jordon, Mathematical Reviews and Illinois State University
    Ping Zhang*, Western Michigan University
    (1096-05-526)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The infinite motion conjecture.
    Thomas W. Tucker*, Colgate University
    (1096-05-1319)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    All Graph Genus Distributions Are Log-Concave, and Related Conjectures.
    Jonathan L. Gross*, Columbia University
    (1096-05-583)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Are almost all graphs determined by their spectrum?
    Chris Godsil*, University of Waterloo
    (1096-05-481)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Conjectures on Cops and Robbers.
    Anthony Bonato*, Ryerson University
    (1096-05-308)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Some questions about generalized colorings.
    John Gimbel*, University of Alaska Fairbanks
    (1096-05-248)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Optimal linear arrangements and graceful labelings of graphs.
    William R. Pulleyblank*, United States Military Academy, West Point
    (1096-05-2217)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Random Matrices: Theory and Applications, III
  Room 301, BCC
  Organizers:
  Paul Bourgade, Harvard University
  Horng-Tzer Yau, Harvard University htyau@math.harvard.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Altshuler-Shklovskii formulas for random band matrices.
    Antti Knowles*, Courant Institute, NYU
    (1096-60-1837)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    From Kontsevich-Witten to (monotone) Hurwitz via HCIZ.
    Jonathan Novak*, MIT
    (1096-05-1012)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Free Monotone Transport.
    Alice Guionnet, MIT/CNRS Lyon
    Dimitri Shlyakhtenko*, UCLA
    (1096-46-1064)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Regularity Problem for Nonlinear PDEs Modeling Fluids and Complex Fluids, I (a Mathematics Research Communities Session)
  Room 324, BCC
  Organizers:
  Jacob Bedrossian, New York University
  Hao Jia, University of Chicago
  Jared Whitehead, Los Alamos National Laboratory knrider@gmail.com
  Tak Kwong Wong, University of Pennsylvania
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On the size of the Navier - Stokes singular set.
    Walter Craig*, Fields Institute and McMaster University
    (1096-35-638)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Gevrey regularity of the Navier-Stokes Equations and its applications.
    Hantaek Bae*, UC Davis
    Marco Cannone, Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France
    (1096-35-560)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the radius of analyticity of solutions to the 3D Navier-Stokes equations at interior points of a bounded domain.
    Zachary Bradshaw*, University of Virginia
    (1096-35-275)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    New advances in boundary layers for Navier Stokes equations.
    Emmanuel Grenier*, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
    (1096-76-1583)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Vanishing viscosity limit of some symmetric flows.
    Gung-Min Gie*, Indiana University
    James P. Kelliher, University of California, Riverside
    Milton C. Lopes Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
    Anna L. Mazzucato, Penn State University
    Helena J. Nussenzveig Lopes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
    (1096-35-821)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Bounds on energy and enstrophy for the 3D Navier-Stokes-$\alpha$ and Leray-$\alpha$ models.
    Aseel Farhat*, University of Indiana, Bloomington
    Michael Jolly, University of Indiana, Bloomington
    Evelyn Lunasin, United States Naval Academy
    (1096-76-1571)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Dispersive Navier-Stokes Systems for Gas Dynamics.
    C. David Levermore*, University of Maryland, College Park
    (1096-35-1136)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    On the well-posedness of an interface damped free boundary fluid-structure model.
    Mihaela Ignatova, Stanford University
    Igor Kukavica*, University of Southern California
    Irena Lasiecka, The University of Memphis
    Amjad Tuffaha, Petroleum Institute
    (1096-35-2638)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on The Changing Education of Preservice Teachers in Light of the Common Core, III
  Room 310, BCC
  Organizers:
  William McCallum, University of Arizona wmc@math.arizona.edu
  Kristin Umland, University of New Mexico
  Ellen Whitesides, University of Arizona
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A Capstone Experience for Teacher Candidates.
    Laura McLeman*, University of Michigan-Flint
    (1096-97-1145)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    How future teachers use two distinct definitions to reason about proportional relationships.
    Sybilla Beckmann*, University of Georgia
    Andrew Izsak, University of Georgia
    (1096-97-2071)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Three Specialized Courses for Preparing Secondary Mathematics Teachers.
    Elizabeth A. Burroughs*, Montana State University
    (1096-97-527)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Developing and Sustaining Professional Communities of Teachers around Mathematical Content and Student Intellectual Need.
    Guershon Harel*, UCSD
    (1096-97-2454)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Knowledge and Beliefs for Teaching Proof: A Conceptual Framework for Mathematics Teacher Educators.
    Justin D Boyle*, University of New Mexico
    (1096-97-577)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Developing preservice teachers' conceptual understanding of algebra.
    Cody L Patterson*, The University of Arizona
    (1096-97-1306)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Using the ideas of Calculus to transition teachers from a computational to a conceptual understanding of functions.
    Ayşe A. Şahin*, DePaul University
    (1096-97-2431)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Discussion
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on The Ubiquity of Dynamical Systems, I
  Room 302, BCC
  Organizers:
  Edray H. Goins, Purdue University
  Talitha M. Washington, Howard University talitha.washington@howard.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The Effect of Latency Variables on Repeated Measures Inference Applied to the Measurement of Risk-taking as a function of Psychopathy.
    Monica Christine Jackson*, American University
    Adria Trotman, Washington, DC
    Melissa Stephens, Washington, DC
    Kimberly F Sellers, Georgetown University
    (1096-62-1608)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Nonstandard Finite Difference Discretizations of Population Models Satisfying Conservation Laws.
    Talitha M. Washington*, Howard University
    Ronald E. Mickens, Clark Atlanta University
    (1096-39-2571)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    $ABC$ Triples in Families.
    Edray H Goins*, Purdue University
    (1096-11-2561)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Spectral correspondences on Quaternion Groups.
    Terrence Richard Blackman*, University of Denver, Morgridge College of Education
    (1096-11-2246)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Discussion
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Tropical and Nonarchimedean Analytic Geometry, I (a Mathematics Research Communities Session)
  Room 323, BCC
  Organizers:
  Dustin Cartwright, Yale University tropical-nonarchimedean-2013@googlegroups.com
  Melody Chan, Harvard University
  Joseph D. Rabinoff, Georgia Institute of Technology
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Tropical Del Pezzo Surfaces.
    Qingchun Ren, UC Berkeley
    Kristin Shaw, University of Toronto
    Bernd Sturmfels*, UC Berkeley
    (1096-14-457)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Fock Space, Feynman Diagrams, Floor Diagrams, and (Refined) Severi Degrees.
    Florian Block*, UC Berkeley
    Lothar Göttsche, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
    (1096-14-740)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Stiefel tropical linear spaces.
    Alex Fink*, Queen Mary University of London
    Felipe Rincón, University of Warwick
    (1096-05-578)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Harmonic Group Actions, Genus Bounds, and Combinatorial Maps.
    Scott M Corry*, Lawrence University
    (1096-05-718)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Towards a tropical Castelnuovo-Severi inequality.
    Nathan Pflueger*, Harvard University
    (1096-14-1830)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Rational points on curves and chip firing.
    David Zureick-Brown*, Emory University
    Eric Katz, University of Waterloo
    (1096-11-1490)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    P-adic integration on algebraic curves in the bad reduction case.
    Eric Katz*, University of Waterloo
    (1096-14-1689)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Effective Chabauty for symmetric powers of curves.
    Jennifer Park*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1096-11-1668)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on the History of Mathematics, III
  Room 317, BCC
  Organizers:
  Sloan Despeaux, Western Carolina University
  Della Dumbaugh, University of Richmond ddumbaugh@richmond.edu
  Glen van Brummelen, Quest University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Tarski in Poland: Teaching and Teacher Training.
    James T Smith*, San Francisco State University
    (1096-01-233)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Tullio Levi-Civita, Giuseppe Levi and the Fascist Loyalty Oath of 1931.
    Judith R. Goodsein*, California Institute of Technology
    (1096-01-321)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the representation of `abstract' algebras by `concrete' ones, and the rise of spectral methods : Marshall Stone's representation theorems (1936-1938).
    Michel Pierre Serfati*, IREM- Universite Paris Diderot
    (1096-01-794)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Mathematics for the World: Publishing Mathematics and the International Book Trade, Macmillan and Co. 1870-1910.
    Sylvia M Nickerson*, Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto
    (1096-01-1482)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: The teaching of mathematics during the Fascism dictatorship through the lens of the educational journals.
    Erika Luciano*, University of Turin
    (1096-01-1531)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Influence of Some Twentieth-Century American Popularizers of Mathematics: E. T. Bell, Edward Kasner, James Newman, and Lillian Lieber.
    David Lindsay Roberts*, Prince George's Community College
    (1096-01-563)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The Cajori Two Project.
    Walter J. Meyer*, Adelphi University
    (1096-01-466)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Sino-US Mathematical Relations: 1950s--1970s.
    Yibao Xu*, City University of New York/BMCC
    (1096-01-597)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  AMS Session on Applied Mathematics I: Mechanics, Fluids, Waves
  Room 304, BCC
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Upper bounds on quantum dynamics for quasiperiodic Schrödinger operators with rough potentials.
    Rajinder Singh Mavi*, University of Virginia
    Svetlana Jitomirskaya, University of California, Irvine
    (1096-70-600)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Buckling in vertex models of epithelial sheets.
    Nebojsa Murisic*, Lewis-Sigler Institute, Princeton University
    Basile Audoly, CNRS & Institut de mecanique d'Alembert
    Yannis G. Kevrekidis, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University
    Stanislav Y. Shvartsman, Lewis-Sigler Institute, Princeton University
    (1096-70-2512)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Analytical Estimates for Pipe-lines Longevity.
    Alla V. Balueva*, University of North Georgia
    (1096-74-868)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Dynamics for a System of Screw Dislocations.
    Timothy Blass, Carnegie Mellon University
    Irene Fonseca, Carnegie Mellon University
    Giovanni Leoni, Carnegie Mellon University
    Marco Morandotti*, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal
    (1096-74-2493)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Free Vibration Analysis of Thick Cylindrical Composite Shells Using Higher Order Shear Deformation Theory.
    Mohammad Salim Zannon*, CMU
    Mohamad S. Qatu, Central Michigan University
    Leela Rakesh, Central Michigan University
    (1096-76-1249)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Interval analysis computation of the critical Rayleigh number for the asymmetric Rayleigh-Bénard problem.
    Matthew Glomski*, Marist College
    Matthew A. Johnson, Marist College
    (1096-76-1941)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Spontaneous oscillations in simple fluid networks.
    Nathaniel Karst*, Babson College
    Brian Storey, F.W. Olin College of Engineering
    John Geddes, F.W. Olin College of Engineering
    (1096-76-621)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Singularity approach to study the particle encapsulation in a liquid thread.
    Muhammad Hameed*, University of South Carolina Upstate
    (1096-76-1670)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Tsunami wave propagation over underwater obstacles and steps.
    Vladimir A. Chugunov, Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics, Kazan Federal University, Russia
    Sergei A. Fomin*, CSU Chico
    Ravi Shankar, Department of Chemistry, UC Davis
    (1096-76-618)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    A new numerical scheme based on the leapfrog method for atmospheric and ocean modeling.
    Lee M. Burke*, Arizona State University
    Lauren R. Johnson, Arizona State University
    Chris Barton, Arizona State University
    Mohamed Moustaoui, Arizona State University
    (1096-76-1997)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Stability and accuracy analysis for a novel semi-implicit leapfrog time-stepping scheme.
    Lauren R. Johnson*, Arizona State University
    Lee M. Burke, Arizona State University
    Chris Barton, Arizona State University
    Mohamed Moustaoui, Arizona State University
    (1096-76-1771)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Two Layer Model for Tear Film Dynamics.
    Nicholas Gewecke*, University of Delaware
    Rich Braun, University of Delaware
    Chris Breward, University of Oxford
    P. Ewen King-Smith, Ohio State University
    (1096-76-2176)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Settling of a Porous Particle in Stratified Flow.
    Shilpa Khatri*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Roberto Camassa, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Claudia Falcon, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Richard McLaughlin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Jennifer Prairie, Departments of Mathematics and Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Brian White, Department of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Sungduk Yu, Department of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (1096-76-2395)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    Computational Modeling of the Dynamics of Edge Flames in Narrow Channels.
    Joanna A Bieri*, University of Redlands
    (1096-76-2496)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Three dimensional hydro-thermal convective flow in an aquifer system.
    Dambaru Bhatta*, The University of Texas-Pan American
    (1096-76-634)
  • 11:45 a.m.
    Propagation of Waves in Homogeneous Isotropic Plates.
    Devinder Singh Bittoo*, Guru Nanak Dev Engg. College Ludhiana,Punjab, India
    (1096-76-235)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on Assessing Student Learning: Alternative Approaches, III
  Room 340, BCC
  Organizers:
  Jane Butterfield, University of Minnesota butter@umn.edu
  Robert Campbell III, College of St. Benedict/St. John's University
  David Clark, University of Minnesota
  John Peter, Utica College
  Cassie Williams, James Madison University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The Utility and Practice of the Daily Quiz.
    Edwin O'Shea*, James Madison University
    (1096-B5-1457)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    Tell Me What You Know: Oral Exams in the Undergraduate Mathematics Classroom.
    Kristi Meyer*, Wisconsin Lutheran College
    (1096-B5-845)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Assessing Students' Learning: The Interview Approach.
    Victor U. Odafe*, Bowling Green State University Firelands
    (1096-B5-381)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Using oral examinations to improve student learning.
    Emma Smith Zbarsky*, Wentworth Institute of Technology
    (1096-B5-1648)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    The Old is New Again: Oral Assessment in Undergraduate Mathematics.
    Elizabeth Theta Brown*, James Madison University
    (1096-B5-2486)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Learner-centered Assessment in Calculus.
    Annela R Kelly*, Bridgewater State University
    (1096-B5-2570)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Aligning Assessments to Problem-based Mathematics Classrooms: Three Examples of Assessment Tools.
    Polina Sabinin*, Bridgewater State University
    (1096-B5-1451)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Beyond the Letter Grade: Teaching and Learning in Mathematics Classrooms.
    Girija S Nair-Hart*, University of Cincinatti Clermont College
    (1096-B5-177)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Holistic, diagnostic grading rubric for student presentations in an IBL geometry course.
    Nina Juliana White*, University of Michigan
    (1096-B5-1388)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Assessing Projects and Inquiry-Based Activities in Quantitative Reasoning.
    Victor I Piercey*, Ferris State University
    (1096-B5-1171)
  • 11:20 a.m.
    Spying on your students (mathematically, of course).
    Gail M. Tang*, University of La Verne
    (1096-B5-143)
  • 11:40 a.m.
    Using Multiple-Choice Items to Assess Students Individually and Immediate Feedback Assessment Technique (IF-AT) to Foster Student Engagement and Small Group Discussion.
    Kien H Lim*, University of Texas at El Paso
    (1096-B5-548)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-9:15 a.m.
  MAA Session on Assessment of Proof Writing Throughout the Mathematics Major
  Room 337, BCC
  Organizers:
  Sarah Cook, Washburn University sarah.cook@washburn.edu
  Moderators:
  Mariam Harris-Botzum, Lehigh Carbon Community College
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Communal Assessment of Proof: Undergraduates' Development of Proof-Writing Criteria.
    Sarah K. Bleiler*, Middle Tennessee State University
    Justin D. Boyle, University of New Mexico
    Yi-Yin Ko, Indiana State University
    Sean P. Yee, California State University Fullerton
    (1096-C1-569)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    Mathematics Professors' Evaluation of Students' Proofs.
    Robert C. Moore*, Andrews University
    (1096-C1-1787)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Using Common Final Questions to Assess Proof.
    James E Hamblin*, Shippensburg University
    (1096-C1-707)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Using a Rubric to Assess Development of Proof-Writing.
    Sarah V Cook*, Washburn University
    (1096-C1-2623)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  AMS Session on Game Theory and Computing
  Room 313, BCC
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Approximation algorithm for the visibility counting problem using randomized method.
    Sharareh Alipour*, Sharif University of Technology
    (1096-68-283)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Traversals of Infinite Graphs with Random Local Orientations.
    David White*, Wesleyan University
    (1096-68-1517)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: mystic: a framework for high-dimensional nonlinear constrained optimization.
    Michael McKerns*, UQ Foundation / Caltech
    Tim Sullivan, UQ Foundation / University of Warwick
    Clint Scovel, UQ Foundation / Caltech
    Houman Owhadi, UQ Foundation / Caltech
    (1096-68-2686)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    A quadratic cone relaxation-based algorithm for linear programming.
    Mutiara Sondjaja*, Cornell University
    James Renegar, Cornell University
    (1096-90-2299)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Pattern Classification by Ellipsoidal Machines Using Semidefinite Programming.
    Sofya Chepushtanova*, Colorado State University
    Michael Kirby, Colorado State University
    (1096-90-2507)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Finite Difference Method for the Black-Scholes Option Pricing Model.
    Justin Ziegler*, Minot State University
    Narayan Thapa, Minot State University
    (1096-35-504)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Systemic Risk and Financial Contagion in Agent-Based Networks.
    Yuanying Guan*, Indiana University Northwest
    (1096-91-1782)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Optimal asset trading under regime switching models.
    Duy Nguyen*, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
    (1096-93-312)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The evolution of cooperation - kin selection and greenbeard genes.
    Jan Rychtar*, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    Mark Broom, City University London
    (1096-91-431)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Stability of Markov Chains: A Time Scales Viewpoint with Applications to Control.
    Dylan R Poulsen*, Baylor University
    John M Davis, Baylor University
    Ian A Gravagne, Baylor University
    (1096-93-311)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Encryption Through Intrinsic Series.
    Julio Enrique Posada*, San Salvador, El Salvador
    (1096-94-45)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  AMS Session on Logic and Probability
  Room 311, BCC
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Domatic Partitions of $A$-Computable Graphs and c.e. Permitting.
    Matthew Jura*, Manhattan College
    Oscar Levin, University of Northern Colorado
    Tyler Markkanen, Manhattan College
    (1096-03-2105)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Highly computable graphs and their domatic numbers.
    Matthew Jura, Manhattan College
    Oscar Levin, University of Northern Colorado
    Tyler Markkanen*, Manhattan College
    (1096-03-1916)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Stable Matchings Exist, But Why?
    Olivia M. Carducci*, East Stroudsburg University
    (1096-05-2158)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Long Graph Decompositions.
    Stephen Flood*, University of Connecticut
    (1096-03-1472)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Strong Finite Submodel Property of Countable Categorical Graphs.
    Yun Lu*, Kutztown University of PA
    (1096-03-1066)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    A Busy Beaver Problem for Infinite-Time Turing Machines.
    James T. Long*, Lehigh University
    Lee J. Stanley, Lehigh University
    (1096-03-1881)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A density question where the usual constructions haven't worked.
    Joshua A. Cole*, Butler University
    (1096-03-2629)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Applications and Methods of Forcing.
    Cynthia Northrup*, University of California, Irvine
    (1096-03-2344)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Large Cardinals: Killing Them Softly.
    Erin Kathryn Carmody*, The Graduate Center - City University of New York
    (1096-03-1167)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    The finite Steinhaus problem.
    Jef f Lobe*, University of North Texas
    Devon Henkis, University of North Texas
    Steve Jackson, University of North Texas
    (1096-03-2415)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Restricted Steinhaus sets in the plane.
    Devon Henkis*, University of North Texas
    Jeff Lobe, University of North Texas
    Steve Jackson, University of North Texas
    (1096-03-2401)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Ulam's measure problem, saturated ideals, and cardinal arithmetic.
    Monroe B Eskew*, UC Irvine
    (1096-03-2465)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Restricting Martin's Axiom to a ccc ground model.
    Miha E. Habič*, CUNY Graduate Center
    (1096-03-1834)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    The complexity of transcendence bases in computable ordered fields.
    Oscar Levin*, University of Northern Colorado
    (1096-03-2464)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    On VC-minimal fields.
    Vincent N Guingona*, University of Notre Dame
    (1096-03-430)
  • 11:45 a.m.
    Certain Order Topologies on the Bicomplex Space and a Study of Bicomplex Nets.
    Sukhdev Singh*, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India
    Rajiv K. Srivastava, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University, Agra, India
    (1096-54-184)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Mathematics Education, II
  Room 347, BCC
  Organizers:
  Jennifer Beineke, Western New England University jbeineke@wne.edu
  Bem Cayco, San Jose State University bem.cayco@sjsu.edu
  Kimberly Presser, Shippensburge University kjpres@ship.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Putting Professional Development into Practice: How Teachers Implement and Share their Knowledge of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics with Peers -- The Research Process and Early Results
    Kacey M Diemert*, Montana State University - Bozeman
    (1096-VE-2374)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    A Mathematician's Foray into the Common Core State Standards (for Mathematical Practice): A Question of Interpretation?
    D. Christopher Stephens*, Middle Tennessee State University
    Sarah K. Bleiler, Middle Tennessee State University
    Wesley A. Baxter, Middle Tennessee State University
    (1096-VE-2339)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Rational Numbers and the Common Core: A Descriptive Case Study.
    Roger Mark Fischer*, Montana State University
    (1096-VE-1153)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Examining Math-Educators Preparation CAEP's first Standard and CCSS for Math Practice.
    Atma R Sahu*, Coppin State University
    (1096-VE-851)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Mathematicians and K12 curriculum development.
    Victor Kostyuk, Reasoning Mind
    Nathaniel Rounds, Reasoning Mind
    Paulette N Willis*, Reasoning Mind
    (1096-VE-1029)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    A comparison of the Common Core and the Indian Standards on Fractions.
    Sayonita Ghosh Hajra*, University of Georgia
    (1096-VE-1084)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Distorted mathematics: what math education teaches students about math.
    Victor Kostyuk, Reasoning Mind
    Nathaniel Rounds*, Reasoning Mind
    Paulette N Willis, Reasoning Mind
    (1096-VE-1027)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Professional Development and Student Achievement on Standardized State Exams.
    Melissa L Goss*, University of Northern Colorado
    Rebecca Anne Dibbs, University of Northern Colorado
    Robert Powers, University of Northern Colorado
    (1096-VE-2162)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Pilot Study on the Impact of Incorporating Problems with Incorrect Solutions into Exams on Students' Understanding of Mathematical Concepts.
    Manyiu Tse*, Molloy College
    (1096-VE-1986)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Comparative of Stratified Alpha, Mosier, and Wang Reliability Coefficient.
    Diana Suzana Mandar*, Jakarta State University, Indonesia
    (1096-VE-1890)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The effect of early high school mathematics achievement on public schools' students' college ready performance in Texas.
    Niloofar Ramezani*, University of Northern Colorado
    (1096-VE-1115)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    A comparison and contrast of undergraduate students' mathematics and statistics anxiety levels based on gender, college-year, major field of study, and mathematics background.
    Soofia Malik*, University of Northern Colorado
    Niloofar Ramezani, University of Northern Colorado
    (1096-VE-1059)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    A Continuing Study of Gender Difference on a Qualifying Exam.
    Jane Butterfield, University of Minnesota
    Harvey Keynes, University of Minnesota
    Jonathan Rogness, University of Minnesota
    Justin Sukiennik*, Colby College
    (1096-VE-2047)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    Strategies for teaching mathematics in a multicultural classroom.
    Natalie M Aviles*, Adelphi University
    Magdalena Mulvihill, Adelphi University
    (1096-VE-1158)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Quantitative and Mathematics Support Centers: Update from the National Science Foundation Workshop.
    Grace L. Coulombe*, Bates College
    Mary B. O'Neill, Hamilton College
    Michael E. Schuckers, St. Lawrence University
    (1096-VE-123)
  • 11:45 a.m.
    The genesis of a mathematics learning community from a mathematics tutorial center.
    Ronald L Merritt*, Athens State University
    (1096-VE-39)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Research in Algebra and Topology, II
  Room 348, BCC
  Organizers:
  Jennifer Beineke, Western New England University jbeineke@wne.edu
  Bem Cayco, San Jose State University bem.cayco@sjsu.edu
  Kimberly Presser, Shippensburge University kjpres@ship.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Algebra with Anyonic Braiding.
    Ik Jae Lee*, Rowan University
    (1096-VJ-1705)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Twist Knots and Thickenings.
    Whitney Klaryn George*, West Chester University of PA
    (1096-VJ-1102)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Algebraic structure in the card game SET.
    Timothy E Goldberg*, Lenoir-Rhyne University
    (1096-VJ-1425)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Characterizing Covering Properties Using Limited Information Strategies for Topological Games.
    Steven Clontz*, Auburn University
    (1096-VJ-1309)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: $R^{n} x G(n)$ is Algebraically Determined.
    Weam M. Al-tameemi*, Texas A& M International University
    Robert R. Kallman, University of North Texas
    (1096-VJ-1222)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Noetherian properties on generalized power series rings.
    Jung Wook Lim*, Kyungpook National University
    (1096-VJ-976)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Finitary Incidence Algebras and the Idealization of $I(P)$.
    Bradley M Wagner*, Baylor University
    Manfred Dugas, Baylor University
    (1096-VJ-860)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    On the $k$-involutions of $O(n,k)$ when $k$ has characteristic 2.
    Nathaniel J Schwartz*, Washington College
    (1096-VJ-836)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Research in Graph Theory and Combinatorics, II
  Room 346, BCC
  Organizers:
  Jennifer Beineke, Western New England University jbeineke@wne.edu
  Bem Cayco, San Jose State University bem.cayco@sjsu.edu
  Kimberly Presser, Shippensburge University kjpres@ship.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On atom expansions of Macdonald polynomials.
    Avinash J. Dalal*, Drexel University
    (1096-VN-2434)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Edelman-Greene insertion and the Little map.
    Zachary Hamaker*, Dartmouth College
    Benjamin Young, University of Oregon
    (1096-VN-2407)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Prime Factorization of Kászonyi Numbers.
    Emily Marie Walther*, Westminster College, PA
    Ariana Cappon, Indiana University
    (1096-VN-2402)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    A new combinatorial interpretation of generalized Genocchi numbers.
    Feryal Alayont*, Grand Valley State University
    (1096-VN-2235)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Explicit Formulas for Bernoulli and Euler Numbers.
    Francesca Romano*, Siena College
    (1096-VN-1803)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Generalized Fine and Motzkin Number Sequences.
    Naiomi T. Cameron*, Lewis & Clark College
    (1096-VN-1159)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    (t,r)-Broadcasting Domination Numbers of Grids.
    David Blessing*, Florida Gulf Coast University
    Erik Insko, Florida Gulf Coast University
    Katie Johnson, Florida Gulf Coast University
    Christie Mauretour, Florida Gulf Coast University
    (1096-VN-953)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Observations of $m-$ary partitions on an $m-$ary tree.
    Timothy B. Flowers, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
    Shannon R. Lockard*, Bridgewater State University
    (1096-VN-2088)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Extending the PC-Tree Algorithm to the Torus.
    Charles Suer*, University of Louisville
    (1096-VN-1746)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Counting Matrices Over a Finite Field With All Eigenvalues in the Field.
    Lisa Kaylor, Wesleyan University
    David Offner*, Westminster College
    (1096-VN-1964)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Non-restricted fillings of layer polynominoes.
    Mitch A Phillipson*, Texas A&M University
    Catherine Yan, Texas A&M University
    (1096-VN-1882)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Positive Semidefinite Propagation Time.
    Nathan Warnberg*, Iowa State University
    (1096-VN-290)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Location of the First Ascent in a 123-Avoiding Permutation.
    Samuel Connolly, University of Pennsylvania
    Zachary Gabor*, Haverford College
    Anant Godbole, East Tennessee State University
    (1096-VN-1856)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    Bounds on superpatterns containing all layered permutations.
    Daniel Gray*, University of Florida
    (1096-VN-1842)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Reconstruction of Tetrahedron from Edge length.
    Derege H. Mussa*, Texas A&M University-Commerce
    (1096-VN-1139)
  • 11:45 a.m.
    The polytope of fractional realizations of degree sequences.
    Michael D. Barrus*, Brigham Young University
    (1096-VN-1019)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-11:35 a.m.
  MAA Session on Student Activities, I
  Room 349, BCC
  Organizers:
  Lisa Marano, West Chester University of Pennsylvania lmarano@wcupa.edu
  Jennifer Bergner, Salisbury State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Building Relationships with Student Activities in Math Learning Communities.
    Karla M Childs*, Pittsburg State University
    Jean Coltharp, Pittsburg State University
    (1096-M1-490)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    Building Community -- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
    Nicholas J Willis*, George Fox University
    (1096-M1-1168)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Activities for Undergraduate Students in Mathematics and Computer Science: Two Programs.
    Lidia Gonzalez*, York College, CUNY
    (1096-M1-2333)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Lions and Tigers and Mathematicians.
    Cathy W. Grilli, Christian Brothers University
    George E. Gallarno*, Christian Brothers University
    Rebekah Herrman, Christian Brothers University
    (1096-M1-2381)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Math Club Hosts Math Circle.
    Jacci White*, Saint Leo University
    Monika Kiss, Saint Leo University
    (1096-M1-301)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Reviving the Math Club at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania: 2007 -- 2013.
    Emily H. Sprague*, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
    (1096-M1-665)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Math Club Favorites at Lawrence Technological University.
    Ruth G Favro*, Lawrence Technological University
    (1096-M1-2567)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Breaking Codes for Mathematics Enjoyment (and Cash).
    Jeffrey Liebner*, Lafayette College
    (1096-M1-2353)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    The Evolution of an Integration Bee at the University of Scranton.
    Stacey Muir*, University of Scranton
    (1096-M1-2514)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    A Non-Competitive ProblemFest.
    David E Molnar*, Felician College
    (1096-M1-2689)
  • 11:20 a.m.
    Mathematics -- for life, for love, for a living.
    Deborah L Gochenaur*, Shippensburg University
    Luis Melara, Shippensburg University
    (1096-M1-2030)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on the Intersection of Mathematics and the Arts, III
  Room 338, BCC
  Organizers:
  Douglas Norton, Villanova University douglas.norton@villanova.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Knot Theory: Rational Tangles and Wirtinger Presentations.
    Sara E Rocha-Juarez*, University of North Texas at Dallas
    (1096-C5-2269)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    Patterns with Color Symmetry on Triply Periodic Polyhedra.
    Douglas Dunham*, University of Minnesota, Duluth
    (1096-C5-1959)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Triple gear.
    Saul Schleimer, University of Warwick
    Henry Segerman*, Oklahoma State University
    (1096-C5-730)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Visualizing the Collatz conjecture.
    Elijah M. Allen*, Savannah Ga
    Louis H. Kauffman, University of Illinois
    (1096-C5-2748)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Stumbling towards a pattern: how to make pants.
    Rebecca E. Field*, James Madison University
    (1096-C5-2660)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Implementing Multiple Compositional and Color Constraints in Algorithmic Art.
    Robert M Spann*, Washington, DC
    (1096-C5-1407)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Fractal Trees Inspired by Iterating Rational Functions.
    Anne M. Burns*, Long Island University
    (1096-C5-434)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Colorings of Plane Patterns Defined by Sequences ad Arrays, With Applications to Weaving.
    Shelley Lynn Rasmussen*, University of Massachusetts/Lowell
    (1096-C5-136)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    What does a finite nonabelian group sound like?
    William DeMeo*, University of South Carolina
    (1096-C5-2578)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Animating Still Images.
    Michael Pilosov*, SUNY Geneseo
    (1096-C5-1416)
  • 11:20 a.m.
    It Came from the Fourth Dimension!: Visualizing Higher Dimensions through the Art of Comic Books.
    Daniel M. Look*, St. Lawrence University
    (1096-C5-229)
  • 11:40 a.m.
    Food for empathy in the School of Pythagoras and his wife Theano.
    Irene Iaccarino*, School of Music, Crotone, Italy
    Rosanna Iembo, University of Calabria, Italy and MAA member
    (1096-C5-1016)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  SIAM Minisymposium on Modeling Modules and Activities for Students
  Room 325, BCC
  Organizers:
  Suzanne Lenhart, University of Tennessee Knoxville
  Maeve McCarthy, Murray State
  Peter Turner, Clarkson University pturner@clarkson.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Modeling across the Curriculum.
    Peter R Turner*, Clarkson University
    (1096-97-1123)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Using a Virtual Laboratory to Teach Mathematical Modeling.
    Glenn Ledder*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1096-97-2377)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Modeling Calculus: A first course in the Calculus Sequence.
    Brian J. Birgen*, Wartburg College
    Mariah H. Birgen, Wartburg College
    (1096-97-1070)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Quantitative modeling of biological and engineering systems through STEM problem solving activities.
    Padmanabhan Seshaiyer*, George Mason University
    (1096-65-2411)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Mathematical Models in Medicine.
    Lester F. Caudill*, University of Richmond
    (1096-92-2355)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    How to introduce sustainability topics in classrooms grades 8-14 - with samples}, {\bf Margaret (Midge) Cozzens,Rutgers University DIMACS Center.
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  SIAM Minisymposium on Recent Advances in Financial Mathematics, II
  Room 326, BCC
  Organizers:
  Maxim Bichuch, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  Ronnie Sircar, Princeton University sircar@princeton.edu
  Stephan Sturm, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Taylor approximation of incomplete Radner equilibrium models.
    Kasper Larsen*, Carnegie Mellon University
    Jin Hyuk Choi, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1096-60-1918)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Understanding the Risks of Commodity Exchange-Traded Funds.
    Kevin Guo*, Columbia University
    Tim Leung, Columbia University, Industrial Engineering & Operations Research Department
    (1096-60-2005)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Mean-Field Games of Inhomogeneous Populations in Financial Markets.
    Andrew Papanicolaou*, University of Sydney
    (1096-60-2721)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Please see the JMM newsletter for details.
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Time consistency of risk measures in markets with transaction costs.
    Zachary Feinstein*, Princeton University
    Birgit Rudloff, Princeton University
    (1096-91-1821)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Interactions in the system of interbank lending.
    Tomoyuki Ichiba*, University of California Santa Barbara
    (1096-60-1501)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 8:20 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on Research on the Teaching and Learning of Undergraduate Mathematics, I
  Room 341, BCC
  Organizers:
  Kyeong Hah Roh, Arizona State University khroh@asu.edu
  Michael Oehrtman, University of Northern Colorado
  Timothy Fukawa-Connelly, University of New Hampshire
  

  • 8:20 a.m.
    Does inherent Platonism predict strength in abstract mathematics?
    Gregory M Johnson, Carnegie Mellon University
    Hunter R Johnson, City University of New York
    Christopher S Shaw*, Columbia College Chicago
    (1096-L1-2075)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    The contributions of a history and philosophy of mathematics course on undergraduate students' mathematical thinking.
    Kathleen M Clark*, Florida State University
    (1096-L1-2592)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    An Investigation of Student Perceptions of Linear Algebra Modules.
    Laurel A Cooley, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
    William O Martin*, North Dakota State University
    Draga Vidakovic, Georgia State University
    (1096-L1-1954)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Developing Reinvention Materials in Ring Theory: Analysis of Students' Mathematical Activity.
    John Paul Cook, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma
    Brian Katz*, Augustana College
    Milos Savic, University of Oklahoma
    (1096-L1-2618)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    On the reconciliation of different non-equivalent definitions designed for the same concept, in the context of limits for two-variable functions.
    Joanna Mamona-Downs*, Arizona State University & University of Patras,Greece
    (1096-L1-2705)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Relating Delta and Epsilon: How Students Graphically Create an Understanding of the Formal Definition of Limit at a Point.
    Timothy C Boester*, Wright State University
    (1096-L1-2380)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    A Unified Framework for Argumentation and Proof.
    Kelly M. Bubp*, Ohio University
    Michael A. Smith, Ohio University
    (1096-L1-1302)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: A Comparison of Four Pedagogical Strategies in Calculus.
    Spencer Bagley*, San Diego State University
    (1096-L1-529)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Graduate students Teaching Assistants' (GTAs') beliefs, instructional practices, and student success.
    Jessica Ellis*, San Diego
    (1096-L1-291)
  • 11:20 a.m.
    Analyzing student understanding in linear algebra through mathematical activity.
    Megan Wawro*, Virginia Tech
    David Plaxco, Virginia Tech
    (1096-L1-1775)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 8:30 a.m.-8:50 a.m.
  Mathematics Awareness Month 2014
  The theme is "Mathematics, Magic, and Mystery"; please come to hear about the impressive presentation plans.
  Room 308, BCC
  Presenters:
  Eve Torrence, Randolph-Macon College
  Bruce Torrence, Randolph-Macon College
  Colm Mulcahy, Spelman College and American University
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  MAA Invited Address
  Snark attack! Visualizations of "uncolorable" graphs on surfaces.
  Ballrooms I&II, 400 Level, BCC
  Sarah-Marie Belcastro*, Sarah Lawrence College
  (1096-A0-13)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse: #8: Part A
  Directing undergraduate research.
  Room 343, BCC
  Presenters:
  Aparna Higgins, University of Dayton
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  SESSION CANCELLED: MAA Minicourse #6: Part A
  Historical role-playing in the mathematics classroom.
  Room 342, BCC
  Presenters:
  John P. Curran, Eastern Michigan University
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 9:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  MAA Invited Paper Session on Mathematics and Effective Thinking, I
  Room 307, BCC
  Organizers:
  Michael Starbird, University of Texas Austin starbird@math.utexas.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    A 21st century curriculum that raises education to a global maximum.
    Edward B. Burger*, Southwestern University
    (1096-AF-636)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Context and Evidence: Aligning Goals and Practice in the Undergraduate Mathematics Program.
    J Michael Pearson*, Mathematical Association of America
    (1096-AF-641)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Supporting Math Instructors to Teach in Ways that Foster Effective Thinking.
    Stan Yoshinobu*, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
    (1096-AF-425)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Hearts and Minds: Waging the Battle to Win Over Liberal Arts Students.
    Jodi Cotten*, Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY
    (1096-AF-750)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Inquiry and Effective Thinking: Evidence from a Multi-Site Educational Research Study.
    Sandra Laursen*, University of Colorado Boulder
    (1096-AF-716)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Harnessing the Flow of History.
    David Bressoud*, Macalester College
    (1096-AF-353)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 9:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Recent Progress in the Langlands Program, III
  Room 318, BCC
  Organizers:
  Moshe Adrian, University of Utah madrian@math.utah.edu
  Shuichiro Takeda, University of Missouri
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Matching of Hecke operators for exceptional dual groups.
    Gordan Savin, University of Utah
    Michael C Woodbury*, Columbia University
    (1096-11-1696)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Cuspidal part of an Eisenstein series restricted to an index 2 subfield.
    Yueke Hu*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1096-11-967)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    $L$-functions from Langlands-Shahidi method and the generic Arthur packet conjecture.
    Yeansu Kim*, University of Iowa
    (1096-11-659)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On Extension of Ginzburg-Jiang-Soudry Correspondence to Certain Automorphic Forms on $Sp_{4mn}(\mathbb{A})$ and $\widetilde{Sp}_{4mn \pm 2n}(\mathbb{A})$.
    Baiying Liu*, University of Utah
    (1096-11-159)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The Langlands-Shahidi method for the classical groups in positive characteristic and the Riemann Hypothesis.
    Luis A. Lomelí*, University of Oklahoma
    (1096-11-161)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Application of Langlands Functoriality to the special values of L-functions.
    A. Raghuram*, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, India.
    (1096-11-1113)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse: #13: Part A
  Teaching an applied topology course.
  Room 344, BCC
  Presenters:
  Colin Adams, Williams College
  Robert Franzosa, University of Maine
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 9:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  MAA Workshop
  Introductory proposal writing for grant applications to the NSF Division of Undergraduate Education. (advance registration required)
  Peale B/C, 1st Floor, Hilton
  Presenters:
  John Haddock, Division of Undergraduate Education, NSF
  Michael Jacobson, Division of Undergraduate Education, NSF
  Lee Zia, Division of Undergraduate Education, NSF
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  MAA Committee on the Participation of Women Poster Session
  Mathematical outreach programs.
  Exhibit Hall G, 100 Level, BCC
  Organizers:
  Elizabeth Yanik, Emporia State University
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  MAA-Young Mathematicians' Network Panel Discussion
  Undergraduate internships and research experiences for undergraduates.
  Room 316, BCC
  Organizers:
  Thomas Wakefield, Youngstown State University
  Ralucca Gera, Naval Posgraduate School
  Panelists:
  Emily Kessler, Society of Actuaries
  Stephanie Edwards, Hope College
  Krista Maxson, Shawnee State University
  Saad El-Zanati, Illinois State University
  Leslie Hogben, Iowa State University
  Cindy Wyels, California State University Channel Islands
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
  Student Hospitality/Information Center
  Swing Hall, 100 Level, BCC
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
  Exhibits and Book Sales
  Exhibit Hall F, 100 Level, BCC
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 9:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  AMS Special Presentation
  Who wants to be a mathematician---National contest.
  Holiday Ballrooms 1--3, 2nd Floor, Hilton
  Organizers:
  Mike A. Breen, AMS
  William T. Butterworth, DePaul University
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AWM Noether Lecture
  Walking on graphs the Representation Theory way.
  Ballrooms I&II, 400 Level, BCC
  Georgia Benkart*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  (1096-05-1587)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 10:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  MAA Invited Paper Session on Graphs Don't Have to Lie Flat: The Shape of Topological Graph Theory
  Room 308, BCC
  Organizers:
  Sarah-Marie Belcastro, Sarah Lawrence College smbelcas@toroidalsnark.net
  Mark Ellingham, Vanderbilt University
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    Coloring graphs on surfaces, contrasted with coloring on the plane.
    Joan P Hutchinson*, Macalester College, emerita
    (1096-AE-1737)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Superfluous crossings.
    Michael J. Pelsmajer*, Illinois Institute of Technology
    (1096-AE-2761)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Polynomials of graphs in surfaces.
    Joanna A. Ellis-Monaghan*, Saint Michael's College
    (1096-AE-1947)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Embeddings of graphs with hamilton cycle faces.
    Mark Ellingham*, Vanderbilt University
    (1096-AE-513)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 10:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Teaching Mathematics Beyond the Calculus Sequence
  Room 348, BCC
  Organizers:
  Jennifer Beineke, Western New England University jbeineke@wne.edu
  Bem Cayco, San Jose State University bem.cayco@sjsu.edu
  Kimberly Presser, Shippensburge University kjpres@ship.edu
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    We Started a Directed Reading Program And So Can You.
    Steve Balady*, University of Maryland, College Park
    Rebecca Black, University of Maryland, College Park
    Josh Ballew, University of Maryland, College Park
    Elizabeth Fleming, University of Maryland, College Park
    (1096-VQ-2163)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Learning to Write Arguments.
    Joyati Debnath*, Winona State University
    (1096-VQ-2000)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    An IBL Approach to Advanced Calculus That Incorporates Proficiency.
    Scott Beaver*, Western Oregon University
    (1096-VQ-1377)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Mathematicians' views on transition-to-proof and advanced mathematics courses.
    Milos Savic*, University of Oklahoma
    Melissa Mills, Oklahoma State University
    Robert Moore, Andrews University
    (1096-VQ-1161)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Analyzing Students' Difficulties with Proving in Light of the Structure of Proof Construction.
    Tetsuya Yamamoto*, the University of Oklahoma
    (1096-VQ-1082)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    Course Redesign Applied to a History of Math Course.
    Cynthia Huffman Woodburn*, Pittsburg State University
    (1096-VQ-70)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Applications of Maxima CAS to Differential Equations.
    Leon Kaganovskiy*, Touro College
    (1096-VQ-183)
  • 11:45 a.m.
    The Conundrum of Teaching Finite Mathematics.
    Michelle DeDeo*, University of North Florida
    (1096-VQ-540)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  MAA SIGMAA Officers Meeting
  Holiday Ballroom 6, 2nd Floor, Hilton
  Chairs:
  Karen A. Marrongelle, Portland State University
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  AMS Special Presentation
  A conversation on nonacademic employment.
  Room 336, BCC
  Moderators:
  C. Allen Butler, Daniel H. Wagner Associates, Inc.
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 10:35 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  MAA Council on Outreach Presentation
  Math Days for high school students at local colleges and universities.
  Room 327, BCC
  Organizers:
  Deanna Haunsperger, Carleton College
  Rebecca Swanson, Colorado School of Mines
  Panelists:
  Robert Devaney, Boston University
  Justin Gash, Franklin College
  Teresa Moore, Ithaca College
  Angela Spalsbury, Youngstown State University
  David Strong, Pepperdine University
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 10:35 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  MAA Committee on Minority Participation in Mathematics and the Office of Minority Participation Panel Discussion
  Summer research programs.
  Room 316, BCC
  Organizers:
  William Hawkins Jr, University of the District of Columbia
  Robert Megginson, University of Michigan
  Lloyd Douglas, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  Panelists:
  Noureen Kahn, University of North Texas at Dallas
  Aprillya Lanz, Norfolk State University
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  SIAM Invited Address
  On variational formulation of entropy solutions to nonlinear conservation laws.
  Ballrooms I&II, 400 Level, BCC
  Eitan Tadmor*, University of Maryland
  (1096-35-1675)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-1:50 p.m.
  AMS Colloquium Lectures, Lecture II
  Symplectic Topology Today: Embedding questions: obstructions and constructions.
  Ballrooms I&II, 400 Level, BCC
  Dusa McDuff*, Barnard College, Columbia University
  (1096-53-2197)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Advances in Analysis and PDEs, III
  Room 332, BCC
  Organizers:
  Tepper L. Gill, Howard University tgill@howard.edu
  Daniel A. Williams, Howard University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Strichartz Inequality for Orthonormal Functions.
    Elliott H Lieb*, Princeton University
    (1096-91-360)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    On thresholds for scattering and blow up in the nonlinear Schroedinger equation.
    Svetlana Roudenko*, The George Washington University
    (1096-35-1515)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    A New Approach to Soliton Stability for the KdV Equation.
    Brian Pigott, Wake Forest University
    Sarah Raynor*, Wake Forest University
    (1096-35-2292)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    New monotonicity formulas and the optimal regularity in the Signorini problem with variable coefficients.
    Mariana Smit Vega Garcia*, Purdue University
    Nicola Garofalo, Universita' di Padova
    (1096-00-293)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Regularization of nonautonomous ill-posed problems from linear to quasi-linear.
    Matthew A Fury*, Penn State Abington
    (1096-47-974)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Analytic Number Theory, II
  Room 310, BCC
  Organizers:
  Angel Kumchev, Towson University akumchev@towson.edu
  Scott Parsell, West Chester University
  Gang Yu, Kent State University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    The range of Carmichael's universal exponent function.
    Kevin Ford*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Florian Luca, Fundación Marcos Moshinsky, Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares UNAM
    Carl Pomerance, Dartmouth College
    (1096-11-215)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    On the reciprocal sum of primes dividing Mersenne numbers.
    Zebediah Engberg*, Dartmouth College
    (1096-11-970)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    The primes that Euclid forgot.
    Enrique Treviño*, Lake Forest College
    Paul P Pollack, University of Georgia
    (1096-11-2552)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Abelian surfaces over finite fields with prescribed groups.
    Chantal David, Concordia University
    Derek Garton, Portland State University
    Zachary Scherr, University of Pennsylvania
    Arul Shankar, Harvard University
    Ethan Smith, Liberty University
    Lola Thompson*, Oberlin College
    (1096-11-493)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Sieve weights in the GPY method and small gaps between primes.
    James Maynard*, Universite de Montreal
    (1096-11-441)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Small gaps between primes: A new method.
    Yitang Zhang*, University of New Hampshire
    (1096-11-2529)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Big Data: Mathematical and Statistical Modeling, Tools, Services, and Training
  Room 317, BCC
  Organizers:
  Ivo Dinov, University of California Los Angeles dinov@stat.ucla.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Big Data Challenges in Neuroimaging, Informatics and Genomics Computing.
    Ivo D Dinov*, University of Michigan and UCLA
    Arthur W Toga, University of Southern California
    (1096-68-27)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Mathematical Challenges in Causal Inference with Emphasis on Transportability and External Validity.
    Elias Bareinboim*, University of California, Los Angeles
    Judea Pearl, University of California, Los Angeles
    (1096-62-2468)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Hidden Markov Model for High Frequency Data.
    Nguyet T Nguyen*, Florida State University
    (1096-62-2312)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Consensus Spectral Techniques and Machine Learning.
    Jeff Randell Knisley*, East Tennessee State University
    (1096-62-1122)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy for Link Prediction in Dynamic Social Networks.
    Catherine A. Bliss*, University of Vermont
    Morgan R Frank, University of Vermont
    Chris M Danforth, University of Vermont
    Peter S Dodds, University of Vermont
    (1096-65-1009)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    My Life as a Tweet Word.
    John Ensley*, Brown University
    James Abello, Rutgers University
    Mika Sumida, Yale University
    (1096-68-2249)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #2: Part A
  CATALST: Introductory statistics using randomization and bootstrap methods.
  Room 342, BCC
  Presenters:
  Andrew Zieffler, University of Minnesota
  Robert delMas, University of Minnesota
  Nicola Parker, University of Minnesota
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Complex Dynamics, II (a Mathematics Research Communities Session)
  Room 322, BCC
  Organizers:
  Scott Kaschner, University of Arizona
  Holly Krieger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Paul Reschke, University of Michigan paul.reschke@gmail.com
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Random iteration in $CP^k$.
    Turgay Bayraktar*, Indiana University
    (1096-37-411)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Rational maps on ${\mathbf P}^2$ with invariant two form, piecewise linear maps on ${\mathbf R}^2$, and the rotation number.
    Jan-Li Lin*, University of Notre Dame
    (1096-37-2015)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    New Geometric Proof of Lambda Lemma.
    Tanya Firsova*, Stony Brook University
    (1096-37-2391)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Fatou components of Chebyshev-like maps.
    Joshua P Bowman*, Smith College
    (1096-37-1308)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Trees of spheres and holomorphic dynamics.
    Matthieu Arfeux*, Institut Mathematique de Toulouse (France)
    (1096-37-460)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Analytic and algebraic stability.
    Laura G DeMarco*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1096-37-2590)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Fractal Geometry: Mathematics of Fractals and Related Topics, I
  Room 315, BCC
  Organizers:
  Michel Lapidus, University of California Riverside
  Erin Pearse, California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo
  Robert Strichartz, Cornell University
  Machiel Van Frankenhuijsen, Utah Valley University vanframa@uvu.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Hausdorff dimension of a certain measure.
    Murat Akman*, University of Kentucky
    John Lewis, University of Kentucky
    Andrew Vogel, Syracuse University
    (1096-35-89)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Vector analysis for Dirichlet forms on fractals.
    Alexander Teplyaev*, University of Connecticut
    Michael Hinz, Bielefeld University
    Daniel Kelleher, University of Connecticut
    (1096-46-1876)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Magnetic operators on resistance spaces.
    Luke Rogers*, University of Connecticut
    (1096-46-2477)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Bounded variation conditions and absolutely continuous spectrum.
    Milivoje Lukic*, Rice University
    (1096-47-459)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Fredholm modules and spectral triples associated with hyperbolic groupoids.
    Volodymyr Nekrashevych*, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
    (1096-37-1038)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Geometric Group Theory, II (a Mathematics Research Communities Session)
  Room 321, BCC
  Organizers:
  Tariq Aougab, Yale University
  Curt Kent, University of Toronto
  Sang Rae Lee, Texas A&M University
  Emily Stark, Tufts University emily.stark@tufts.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Hyperbolicity of the Cyclic Splitting Complex.
    Brian Mann*, University of Utah
    (1096-51-949)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Subfactor projections for Out($F_n$).
    Samuel J Taylor*, University of Texas, Austin
    (1096-20-1151)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Quasi-isometry rigidity for right-angled Artin group with finite outer automorphism group.
    Jingyin Huang*, New York University
    (1096-20-1936)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Stable commutator length in Baumslag--Solitar groups.
    Matt Clay, University of Arkansas
    Max Forester, The University of Oklahoma
    Joel Louwsma*, The University of Oklahoma
    (1096-20-608)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Finiteness Properties of Arithmetic Groups.
    Brendan Kelly*, University of Utah
    (1096-22-1810)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Acylindrically hyperbolic groups.
    Michael Hull*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1096-20-2725)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Homological and Characteristic p Methods in Commutative Algebra, I
  Room 303, BCC
  Organizers:
  Neil Epstein, George Mason University
  Sean Sather-Wagstaff, North Dakota State University
  Karl Schwede, Penn State University schwede@math.psu.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Residual Intersections and Duality.
    David Eisenbud*, MSRI/University of California, Berkeley
    (1096-13-1415)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Depth of modules at non sharply $F$-pure centers and base-change for the relative canonical sheaf.
    Zsolt Patakfalvi*, Princeton Universtiy
    Karl Schwede, Pennsylvania State University
    (1096-44-2038)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Ideals Generated by Principal Minors.
    A. K. Wheeler*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (1096-13-1620)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    The Closure of a Linear Space in $(\mathbb{P}^1)^n$.
    Adam Boocher*, University of California Berkeley
    Federico Ardila, San Francisco State University
    (1096-13-409)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Non-simplicial decompositions of Betti diagrams of complete intersections.
    Branden Stone*, Bard College
    Courtney Gibbons, Hamilton College
    Jack Jeffries, University of Utah
    Sarah Mayes, Quest University Canada
    Claudiu Raicu, Princeton University
    Bryan White, University of New Mexico
    (1096-13-1831)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Applications of CI Matrix Factorizations.
    Irena Peeva*, Cornell University
    David Eisenbud, UC Berleley and MSRI
    (1096-13-377)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Homotopy Theory, I
  Room 329, BCC
  Organizers:
  Niles Johnson, Ohio State University at Newark
  Mark W. Johnson, Penn State University, Altoona
  Nitu Kitchloo, Johns Hopkins University
  James Turner, Calvin College
  Donald Yau, Ohio State University at Newark dyau@math.ohio-state.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Models for infinity prop(erad)s.
    Marcy Robertson*, University of Western Ontario
    Philip Hackney, Stockholm University
    Donald Yau, Ohio State Newark
    (1096-55-1645)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Formal Hecke algebras and algebraic oriented cohomology theories.
    Alex Hoffnung*, Temple University
    Jose Malagon-Lopez, University of Toronto Mississauga
    Alistair Savage, University of Ottawa
    Kirill Zainoulline, University of Ottawa
    (1096-16-1800)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Recent work in Homotopy Type Theory.
    Steve Awodey*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1096-03-417)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Homotopy coherent adjunctions.
    Emily Riehl*, Harvard University
    (1096-18-1432)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Bousfield Localization and Commutative Monoids.
    David White*, Wesleyan University
    (1096-55-1516)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Additional Structure on the Category of Mackey Functors.
    Kristen Luise Mazur*, Lafayette College
    (1096-55-1014)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Hyperplane Arrangements and Applications, III
  Room 318, BCC
  Organizers:
  Takuro Abe, Kyoto University
  Max Wakefield, United States Naval Academy wakefiel@usna.edu
  Masahiko Yoshinaga, Hokkaido University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Logarithmic vector fields and curve configurations in the projective plane.
    Hal Schenck*, University of Illinois
    Hiroaki Terao, Hokkaido University
    Masahiko Yoshinaga, Hokkaido University
    (1096-14-1200)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Classification of Factored Gain-Graphic Hyperplane Arrangements.
    Jackie Kaminski*, Juniata College
    (1096-05-2262)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    an oriented matroid with a disconnected realization space.
    Yasuyuki Tsukamoto*, Department of Human Coexistence, Kyoto University
    (1096-05-1901)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Arrangements with quadratic complete intersection Orlik-Terao algebras.
    Graham Denham, Western University
    Mehdi Garrousian*, University of Windsor
    Stefan Tohaneanu, University of Idaho
    (1096-15-1325)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A construction for canonical systems of basic invariants for reflection groups.
    Norihiro Nakashima*, Hokkaido University
    (1096-16-1290)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Ideals generated by products of linear forms.
    Stefan O Tohaneanu*, University of Idaho
    (1096-13-615)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS-ASL Special Session on Logic and Probability, III
  Room 319, BCC
  Organizers:
  Wesley Calvert, Southern Illinois University
  Doug Cenzer, University of Florida
  Johanna Franklin, University of Connecticut johanna.franklin@uconn.edu
  Valentina Harizanov, George Washington University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Effective fractal dimensions for point processes.
    Jan S Reimann*, Pennsylvania State University
    (1096-60-1236)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Points and Lines, Randomness and Dimension.
    Jack H. Lutz*, Iowa State University
    (1096-03-1435)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Schnorr randomness for noncomputable measures.
    Jason M Rute*, Pennsylvania State University
    (1096-03-2014)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Dimension of the intersection of a translation of a subset of the reals by a Martin-Lof random real with the set of all numbers with a given constructive dimension .
    R. Daniel Mauldin*, University of North Texas
    (1096-03-2208)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Algorithmic Randomness in Ergodic Theory.
    Johanna Franklin, University of Connecticut
    Henry P Towsner*, University of Pennsylvania
    (1096-03-1208)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Martin-Löf random Brownian motion.
    Kelty Allen*, University of California, Berkeley
    (1096-03-1073)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
  MAA Invited Paper Session on Mathematics and Effective Thinking, II
  Room 307, BCC
  Organizers:
  Michael Starbird, University of Texas Austin starbird@math.utexas.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Mathematical writing and effective thinking.
    Paul Zorn*, St. Olaf College
    (1096-AF-861)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    On The Elements of Style.
    Katherine Socha*, Math for America
    (1096-AF-801)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Think Before You Speak: using presentations and prepared questions to promote effective thinking.
    Deborah J Bergstrand*, Swarthmore College
    (1096-AF-1443)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    What is the Definition of Definition? and Other Conundrums.
    Carol Schumacher*, Kenyon College
    (1096-AF-695)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Thinking about Mathematics and Meaning.
    Francis Edward Su*, Harvey Mudd College
    (1096-AF-1235)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Panel Discussion on Mathematics and Effective Thinking.
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on My Favorite Graph Theory Conjectures, II
  Room 314, BCC
  Organizers:
  Craig Larson, Virginia Commonwealth University clarson@vcu.edu
  Ralucca Gera, Naval Postgraduate School
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Circuit double cover conjecture.
    Cun-Quan Zhang*, West Virginia University
    (1096-05-1316)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Selected extremal problems in graph theory.
    Douglas B. West*, Zhejiang Normal University and University of Illinois
    (1096-05-386)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Some of my (and other people's) favorite conjectures on chromatic topological graph theory.
    Joan P. Hutchinson*, Macalester College
    (1096-05-1156)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Competition Graphs and Food Webs: Some of My Favorite Conjectures.
    Fred S Roberts*, Rutgers University
    (1096-05-590)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Folkman Numbers: Some Results and Open Questions.
    Stanisław P. Radziszowski*, Department of Computer Science, Rochester Institute of Technology
    (1096-05-1300)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The Meta-Conjecture for median graphs.
    Henry Martyn Mulder*, Econometrisch Instituut, Erasmus Universiteit, Rotterdam
    (1096-05-300)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Nonlinear Systems: Polynomial Equations, Nonlinear PDEs, and Applications, III
  Room 328, BCC
  Organizers:
  Wenrui Hao, University of Notre Dame whao@nd.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Numerical algebraic geometry over number fields.
    Andrew Sommese*, University of Notre Dame
    (1096-14-1040)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Applications of Numerical Real Algebraic Geometry to Kinematics.
    Charles W. Wampler*, General Motors R&D
    (1096-14-722)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    The numerical factorization of polynomials.
    Wenyuan Wu, Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Zhonggang Zeng*, Northeastern Illinois University
    (1096-65-1370)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Linkage disequilibrium between independently assorting loci, via numerical algebraic geometry.
    Jesse W Drendel, Colorado State University
    Michael F Antolin, Colorado State University
    Daniel J Bates*, Colorado State University
    Patrick D Shipman, Colorado State University
    Simon J. Tavener, Colorado State University
    (1096-92-951)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Homotopy continuation and signal decomposition.
    Jonathan D Hauenstein*, North Carolina State University
    Alessandra Bernardi, Universita di Torino
    Noah S Daleo, North Carolina State University
    (1096-65-1015)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Path tracking algorithms for homotopy continuation methods in weighted projective spaces.
    Tianran Chen*, Michigan State University
    Tien-Yien Li, Michigan State University
    (1096-65-1683)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Progress in Free Analysis and Free Probability, I
  Room 301, BCC
  Organizers:
  Dmitry Kaliuzhnyi-Verbovetskyi, Drexel University dmitryk@math.drexel.edu
  Todd Kemp, University of California San Diego
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Quantum symmetric states on free product C$^*$-algebras.
    Kenneth J. Dykema, Texas A&M University
    Claus Koestler*, University College Cork, Ireland
    John D. Williams, Texas A&M University
    (1096-46-1852)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    On Second Order Fluctuations for Some Classes of Random Matrices.
    Mihai Popa*, University of Texas at San Antonio
    James A Mingo, Queen's University
    Yong Jiao, Central South University
    (1096-47-2410)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Choquet simplices of quantum symmetric states.
    Yoann Dabrowski, Universite Claude-Bernard (Lyon I)
    Ken Dykema*, Texas A&M University
    Claus Koestler, University College, Cork
    Kunal Mukjherjee, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
    John D. Williams, Texas A&M University
    (1096-46-1768)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Infinite Divisibility and Semigroups Indexed by Completely Positive Maps in Free Probability.
    John D. Williams*, Texas A&M University
    (1096-47-1933)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Asymptotics of looped cumulant lattices.
    Jonathan Novak*, MIT
    (1096-46-906)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Recent Progress in Geometric and Complex Analysis, III
  Room 302, BCC
  Organizers:
  Zheng Huang, City University of New York, Graduate Center and College of Staten Island zheng.huang@csi.cuny.edu
  Longzhi Lin, Rutgers University
  Marcello Lucia, City University of New York, Graduate Center and College of Staten Island
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Geometry and topology of noncompact, complete, finite volume, Riemannian $4$-manifolds $M$ with sectional curvature $-1<K<0$.
    Grigori Avramidi, Utah University
    Tam Nguyen Phan, Binghamton University
    Yunhui Wu*, Rice University
    (1096-53-753)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Topological type of Limit Laminations of Embedded Minimal Disks.
    Jacob Bernstein*, Johns Hopkins University
    Giuseppe Tinaglia, King's College London
    (1096-53-637)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Linear stability of gradient shrinking Ricci solitons.
    Chenxu He*, University of Oklahoma
    Huai-Dong Cao, Lehigh University
    (1096-53-721)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    The Hyperplane is the Only Stable, Smooth Solution to the Isoperimetric Problem in Gaussian Space.
    Matthew McGonagle*, Johns Hopkins University
    John Ross, Johns Hopkins University
    (1096-53-668)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Connected sum construction of constant $Q$-curvature manifolds in higher dimensions.
    Yueh-Ju Lin*, University of Notre Dame
    (1096-53-655)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Conformally flat, constant $Q$-curvature metrics with isolated singularities.
    Jesse Ratzkin*, University of Cape Town
    (1096-53-675)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Recent Progress in Multivariable Operator Theory, I
  Room 331, BCC
  Organizers:
  Ron Douglas, Texas A&M University
  Michael Jury, University of Florida mjury@ufl.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Determinantal representations of stable polynomials.
    Hugo J Woerdeman*, Drexel University
    (1096-47-1305)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Determinantal representations of semi-hyperbolic polynomials.
    Greg Knese*, Washington University in St. Louis
    (1096-15-1567)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Two-Variable Transfer Function Realizations and Agler Kernels.
    Kelly Bickel*, Georgia Institute of Techonology
    Greg Knese, Washington University in St. Louis
    (1096-46-1633)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Multidimensional linear systems and multivariable weighted Bergman spaces.
    Joseph A Ball*, Virginia Tech
    (1096-47-613)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Multipliers of embedded discs.
    Kenneth R. Davidson*, University of Waterloo
    Michael Hartz, University of Waterloo
    Orr M. Shalit, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
    (1096-47-1295)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The noncommutative lifting principle.
    J E Pascoe*, UCSD
    (1096-47-1225)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Regularity Problem for Nonlinear PDEs Modeling Fluids and Complex Fluids, II (a Mathematics Research Communities Session)
  Room 324, BCC
  Organizers:
  Jacob Bedrossian, New York University
  Hao Jia, University of Chicago
  Jared Whitehead, Los Alamos National Laboratory knrider@gmail.com
  Tak Kwong Wong, University of Pennsylvania
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Invariant Manifolds for Euler Equations and related equations.
    Zhiwu Lin*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1096-35-1926)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Ill-Posedness Issues for Truncated Series Models of Water Waves.
    David Ambrose*, Drexel University
    Jerry Bona, University of Illinois at Chicago
    David Nicholls, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1096-35-267)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Existence and regularity of invariant measures for the three dimensional stochastic primitive equations.
    Nathan Glatt-Holtz, Virginia Tech
    Igor Kukavica, University of Southern California
    Vlad Vicol*, Princeton University
    Mohammed Ziane, University of Southern California
    (1096-35-1460)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Regularity "in large" for the 3D Salmon's planetary geostrophic model of ocean dynamics.
    Chongsheng Cao, Florida International University
    Edriss S. Titi*, Weizmann Institute of Science and The University of California - Irvine
    (1096-35-1011)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Stability of Solutions to the Dissipative Quasi-Geostrophic Equation.
    Mimi Dai*, University of Illinois Chicago
    (1096-35-474)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Change of phase for the humid atmosphere.
    Roger M Temam*, Indiana University
    Michele Coti Zelati, Indiana University
    (1096-76-825)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Symplectic and Contact Structures on Manifolds with Special Holonomy, III
  Room 320, BCC
  Organizers:
  Sergey Grigorian, University of Texas Pan American
  Sema Salur, University of Rochester salur@math.rochester.edu
  Albert J. Todd, University of California, Riverside
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    The helicity invariant and topological strictly contact dynamics.
    Peter Spaeth*, Penn State University, Altoona
    (1096-53-135)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Cylindrical contact homology as a well-defined homology?
    Joanna Nelson*, Barnard College, Columbia University
    (1096-53-680)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    On SFT invariants of the complements of ample normal crossing divisors in projective varieties.
    Khoa Lu Nguyen*, Stanford
    (1096-51-557)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Sasaki join, transverse Hamiltonian 2-forms, and Sasaki-Einstein metrics.
    Charles P Boyer*, University of New Mexico
    (1096-53-1379)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Bach-Maxwell Equations and Extremal Kähler Metrics.
    Caner Koca*, Vanderbilt University
    (1096-53-1267)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Topological Graph Theory: Structure and Symmetry, I
  Room 330, BCC
  Organizers:
  Jonathan L. Gross, Columbia University
  Thomas W. Tucker, Colgate University ttucker@colgate.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Enumerating regular objects with a given automorphism group.
    Martin Downs, Phoenix, Arizona
    Gareth A. Jones*, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
    (1096-05-1539)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Pseudo-orientability versus orientability.
    Antonio Breda d'Azevedo*, University of Aveiro
    (1096-05-1152)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Infinite regular median graphs.
    Wilfried Imrich*, Department Mathematics and Information Technology, Montanuniversitaet Leoben, Austria
    (1096-05-1337)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Growth Rates of Face-Homogeneous Planar Tessellations.
    Stephen J. Graves, University of Texas at Tyler
    Mark E. Watkins*, Syracuse University
    (1096-05-1068)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Graph coverings and harmonic functions on graphs.
    Roman Nedela*, Slovak Academy of Sciences
    (1096-05-2144)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Classical mathematical structures within topological graph theory.
    Oliver R Knill*, Harvard University
    (1096-05-873)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Tropical and Nonarchimedean Analytic Geometry, II (a Mathematics Research Communities Session)
  Room 323, BCC
  Organizers:
  Dustin Cartwright, Yale University tropical-nonarchimedean-2013@googlegroups.com
  Melody Chan, Harvard University
  Joseph D. Rabinoff, Georgia Institute of Technology
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Tropical Morse functions and their homological mirrors.
    Gabriel D Kerr*, Kansas State University
    (1096-51-1576)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    The skeleton of the Jacobian, the Jacobian of the skeleton, and lifting meromorphic functions from tropical to algebraic curves.
    Matt Baker*, Georgia Tech
    Joe Rabinoff, Georgia Tech
    (1096-14-1272)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Algorithms for Mumford curves: period matrix and canonical embedding.
    Ralph Morrison, University of California, Berkeley
    Qingchun Ren*, University of California, Berkeley
    (1096-14-1445)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Algorithms for Mumford Curves: Good Starting Data.
    Ralph E Morrison*, UC Berkeley
    Qingchun Ren, UC Berkeley
    (1096-14-993)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Faithful Tropicalization of Abelian Varieties.
    Tyler Foster, University of Michigan
    Joseph Rabinoff, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Farbod Shokrieh*, Cornell University
    Alejandro Soto, University of Regensburg
    (1096-14-450)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Classical and nonarchimedean spaces.
    Andrew Joseph Dudzik*, UC Berkeley
    (1096-54-1453)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #5: Part A
  Using randomization methods to build conceptual understanding of statistical inference.
  Room 343, BCC
  Presenters:
  Robin H. Lock, St. Lawrence University
  Patti Frazer Lock, St. Lawrence University
  Kari Lock Morgan, Duke University
  Eric Frazer Lock, Duke University
  Dennis Frazer Lock, Iowa State University
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse: #14: Part B
  Visualizing projective geometry through photographs and perspective drawings.
  Room 344, BCC
  Presenters:
  Annalisa Crannell, Franklin & Marshall College
  Marc Frantz, Indiana University Bloomington
  Fumiko Futamura, Southwestern University
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
  AMS Session on Difference Equations, Approximations, Sequences, and Special Functions
  Room 305, BCC
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    The Spectral Analysis of the Exceptional Jacobi Differential Expression for Extreme Parameter Choices.
    Jessica D. Stewart*, Baylor University
    Lance L. Littlejohn, Baylor University
    Constanze Liaw, Baylor University
    (1096-33-1780)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    Lacunary Statistical and Sliding Window Convergence for Measurable Functions.
    Jeff Connor*, Ohio University
    Ekrem Savas, Istanbul Ticaret University
    (1096-40-679)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Regular Families of Interpolators on Scattered Data.
    Jeff Ledford*, Virginia Commonwealth University
    (1096-41-779)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    {\bf Mean value of entire functions of exponential type}.
    Tariq M Qazi*, Virginia State University
    (1096-41-1546)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Beurling-Selberg Extremal Problems in de Branges Spaces.
    Mark A Spanier*, North Dakota State University
    (1096-41-1804)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Using Osculatory Smoothing Splines To Approximate The Solutions To Ordinary Differential Equations.
    Kendall A Gillies*, Texas Tech University
    Clyde F Martin, Texas Tech University
    (1096-41-2190)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    A Generalized Linear Functional Equation Defined on Groups.
    Heather B. Hunt*, University of Louisville
    Prasanna K. Sahoo, University of Louisville
    (1096-39-1652)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Weak Enveloping and Global Attractors for Periodic Dynamical Systems.
    Justin Wright*, Plymouth State University
    (1096-39-2097)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Dynamics and Estimation of Parameters in a Discrete Time Model linking Unemployment and Inflation.
    Mingfei Li, Bentley University
    Mihaela Predescu*, Bentley University
    (1096-39-2212)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Stochastic Persistence in a Contest-Competition Model with Allee Effect.
    Eddy A Kwessi*, Trinity University
    Saber Elaydi, Trinity University
    George Livatiodis, Southwest Research Institute
    David Ribble, Trinity University
    Laila Assas, Umm Al-Qura University
    (1096-39-1366)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Applications of stability analysis of model ecosystems to problems in sustainability and collapse.
    Harold M Hastings*, Simon's Rock College and Hofstra University
    (1096-39-2662)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    On the discrete analogous to one initial-boundary value problem to nonlinear diffusion equation.
    Mikheil Tutberidze*, Ilia State University
    (1096-39-2307)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A number theoretic twist on second order recurrence relations.
    John R Greene*, University of Minnesota Duluth
    (1096-39-1189)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
  MAA Session on History of Mathematical Communities
  Room 337, BCC
  Organizers:
  Amy Shell-Gellasch, Montgomery College amy.shell-gellasch@montgomerycollege.edu
  Linda McGuire, Muhlenberg College
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Where Zijes Went: The Travels of Astronomical Tables in Medieval Islam.
    Glen R Van Brummelen*, Quest University
    (1096-E3-1382)
  • 1:20 p.m.
    The Mathematics Class at the Berlin Academy in the 18th Century.
    Lawrence D'Antonio*, Ramapo College
    (1096-E3-1487)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    The "Partly-Visible" College: Euler and the mathematical community in the 18th century.
    Dominic Klyve*, Central Washington University
    (1096-E3-2220)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    History of Mathematics in Punjab.
    Satish C Bhatnagar*, University of Nevada Las Vegas
    (1096-E3-1253)
  • 2:20 p.m.
    Origins and National Character of the Polish School of Mathematics in pre-WWII Lwow, Warszawa, and Krakow.
    Emelie A. Kenney*, Siena College
    (1096-E3-532)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Time and Place: Sustaining the American Mathematical Community.
    Della Dumbaugh*, University of Richmond
    (1096-E3-484)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Queering Mathematical History: A Queer Genealogy of the Mathematical Community, Bourbaki.
    Kat Rands*, Elon University
    (1096-E3-2751)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    The NCTM Oral History Project: Documenting Community Memory of Mathematics Education in the United States.
    Penny H. Dunham*, Muhlenberg College
    (1096-E3-96)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    40+ Years of the AWM (Association for Women in Mathematics): The History of AWM and the AWM Archives.
    Sarah J Greenwald*, Appalachian State University
    (1096-E3-221)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    An incident in planning national meetings for the mathematical community.
    James J. Tattersall*, Providence College
    Kenneth A. Ross, University of Oregon
    (1096-E3-1586)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
  MAA Session on Is Mathematics the Language of Science?
  Room 340, BCC
  Organizers:
  Carl Behrens, Alexandria, VA cbehrens@crs.loc.gov
  Thomas Drucker, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
  Dan Sloughter, Furman University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Mathematics Is a Science in its Own Right.
    Carl E. Behrens*, Alexandria, VA
    (1096-G1-1195)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    The Mathematics of Quantum Mechanics: Making the Math Fit the Philosophy.
    James R Henderson*, University of Pittsburgh-Titusville
    (1096-G1-149)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    A group theory perspective of mathematical constructs in physics.
    Horia I. Petrache*, Department of Physics, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
    (1096-G1-2359)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    The Roots Of Kalmár's Empiricism.
    Mate Szabo*, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Philosophy
    (1096-G1-842)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    No surprise for the effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences.
    Ruggero Ferro*, University of Verona, Italy
    (1096-G1-2034)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Mathematics as an Emergent Feature of the Physical Universe.
    Ronald E. Mickens*, Clark Atlanta University
    (1096-G1-743)
  • 3:55 p.m.
    A New Look at Wigner's `The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences'.
    Jeff Buechner*, Rutgers University-Newark & Saul Kripke Center, CUNY
    (1096-G1-1414)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-1:55 p.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Interdisciplinary Topics
  Room 348, BCC
  Organizers:
  Jennifer Beineke, Western New England University jbeineke@wne.edu
  Bem Cayco, San Jose State University bem.cayco@sjsu.edu
  Kimberly Presser, Shippensburge University kjpres@ship.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Modeling the Reliability of a Hydrogen Gas Nanosensor.
    Kristin McCullough*, Grand View University
    Nader Ebrahimi, Northern Illinois University
    Zhili Xiao, Northern Illinois University
    (1096-VD-2425)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    Parameter Estimation of Tumor Growth Model.
    Breanne M Hatfield*, Minot State University
    Narayan Thapa, Minot State University
    (1096-VD-1767)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Patients with Advanced Cancer and their Survival in a Rural Community: The Impact of Hospice Services.
    Veera Holdai*, Salisbury University
    David Eric Cowall, Coastal Hospice, Inc
    (1096-VD-1164)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    Modeling the Energy Level of Hydrogen Using the Schrödinger Equation.
    Johannah M Miller*, Minot State University
    Narayan Thapa, Minot State University
    (1096-VD-533)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Research in Geometry and Linear Algebra
  Room 347, BCC
  Organizers:
  Jennifer Beineke, Western New England University jbeineke@wne.edu
  Bem Cayco, San Jose State University bem.cayco@sjsu.edu
  Kimberly Presser, Shippensburge University kjpres@ship.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Uniform Edge-$c$-Colorings of the Archimedean Tilings.
    Casey Mann*, University of Washington Bothell
    Laura Asaro, East Central University
    John Hyde, The University of Texas at Tyler
    Melanie Jensen, Tulane University
    Tyler Schroeder, North Central College
    (1096-VM-2714)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    On some $3$-way transportation polytopes.
    Bernd Sing*, The University of the West Indies, Barbados
    (1096-VM-2527)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Computer Models of Negatively-Curved Surfaces.
    Benjamin H DeMeo*, Williams College
    Chaim Goodman-Strauss, University of Arkansas
    Matthew Cole, University of Notre Dame
    Diana Davis, Brown University
    (1096-VM-2386)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: The Construction of Faces of $\rm{CP}_{2}$.
    Andrew J. Klimas*, Xavier University of Louisiana
    (1096-VM-2134)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Two old geometrical chestnuts revisited.
    Ivko M Dimitric*, Pennsylvania State University Fayette
    (1096-VM-1988)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Some inequalities on Riemannian submersion and isometric immersions.
    Yun Myung Oh*, Andrews University
    (1096-VM-1784)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Determining Properties of Semifields by Investigating Their Cubical Arrays.
    Kelly Aman*, University of Texas at Arlington
    (1096-VM-1178)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    On the Hausdorff dimension of p-adic Cantor sets.
    William C Abram, Hillsdale College
    Artem Bolshakov*, University of Texas at Dallas
    (1096-VM-1146)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Hadwiger's Theorem for Functions.
    Matthew L. Wright*, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota
    (1096-VM-751)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Generalized Signed-Rank Estimation for Nonlinear Models with Multidimensional Indices.
    Brice M. Nguelifack*, Auburn University
    Eddy A. Kwessi, Trinity University
    Asheber Abebe, Auburn University
    (1096-VM-197)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Spectrally Arbitrary Patterns and Algebraic Solutions.
    Timothy C Melvin*, Washington State University and Carroll College
    (1096-VM-362)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Classical Linear Optimization in an Abstract Setting.
    Tien Chih*, University of Montana
    (1096-VM-2226)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Electronic Computation of Simple Perfect Squared Squares.
    Joseph F DiNatale*, Armstrong Atlantic State University
    (1096-VM-2254)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Research in Graph Theory and Combinatorics, III
  Room 346, BCC
  Organizers:
  Jennifer Beineke, Western New England University jbeineke@wne.edu
  Bem Cayco, San Jose State University bem.cayco@sjsu.edu
  Kimberly Presser, Shippensburge University kjpres@ship.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    On Distributive Cross Section Lattices of $\mathcal{J}$-irreducible Reductive Monoids.
    Stephen M. Adams*, North Carolina State University
    (1096-VN-1731)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    Aperiodic Binary Strings.
    Zachary George Pochiba*, Washington & Jefferson College
    Sean Leavor, Washington & Jefferson College
    (1096-VN-1656)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Bounds on the Maximum Number of Minimum Dominating Sets.
    Samuel Connolly*, University of Pennsylvania
    Zachary Gabor, Haverford College
    Anant Godbole, East Tennessee State University
    Bill Kay, Emory University
    (1096-VN-1473)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    Odd-Neighbored Subsets.
    Ralph P. Grimaldi*, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
    (1096-VN-1216)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    The Flag Descent Algebra.
    Matthew Moynihan*, The College of Wooster
    (1096-VN-2613)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Finding mono-chromatic $ K^{3} $ shapes within a complete, unweighted graph with variable c-edge-coloring.
    Marilyn Titus*, Bentonville, Arkansas
    (1096-VN-32)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Enumeration of bipartite graphs and blocks.
    Andrew R Gainer-Dewar*, Carleton College
    (1096-VN-442)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Exploiting Connections Between Graph Theory and Finite Geometry.
    Elizabeth Lane-Harvard*, Colorado State University
    Tim Penttila, Colorado State University
    (1096-VN-445)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Universal and Overlap Cycles.
    Kai Orans*, Pomona College
    Adam D. King, University of Louisville
    Amanda N. Laubmeier, University of Arizona
    (1096-VN-962)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Enclosings of $\lambda$-fold $5$-cycle systems.
    John Asplund*, Auburn University
    C. A. Rodger, Auburn University
    Melissa Keranen, Michigan Technological University
    (1096-VN-799)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Some Consequences of a New Bijective Proof of the shape-Wilf-equivalence of 231 and 312.
    Jonathan S Bloom*, Dartmouth College
    (1096-VN-782)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Dominating Sets in $Cay(\mathbb{Z}_{n},{ \pm 1,\pm 3, \pm 5, ... , \pm (2k-1) })$.
    Jon Woltz*, Kennesaw State University
    Matthew Lee Force, Kennesaw State University
    Joe DeMaio, Kennesaw State University
    (1096-VN-712)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Connections between Hamming codes over $q$-element fields and Singer block designs.
    Bud Brown*, Virginia Tech
    (1096-VN-628)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
  AMS Session on Mathematics Education
  Room 311, BCC
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Student Profiling and Mathematical Models for MOOCs.
    Mika K Seppala*, Florida State University
    (1096-97-1631)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Investigating Strategies when designing Geometry in Art as an Online Course, student's attitudes, and achievement.
    Pamela Lowry*, Lawrence Technological University
    (1096-51-1182)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Visually Verifying Homework Problems in Multivariable Calculus.
    Paul E. Seeburger*, Monroe Community College
    (1096-97-2659)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    Teaching and Learning Differential Equations for Engineers through Modelling and Technology.
    Ruth Rodriguez*, Tecnologico de Monterrey
    (1096-97-2598)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Teaching in College without Calculator.
    Mulugeta Markos*, North Carolina Wesleyan College
    Bishal Karanjit, North Carolina Wesleyan College
    (1096-97-238)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    From the Spiral Program at UMCP: Research projects suitable for students after completing a first course in mathematical proofs.
    Kenneth R Berg*, University of Maryland, College Park
    (1096-97-1369)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Mathematical Fidelity of Virtual Manipulatives: Teacher Candidates' Perceptions.
    Mara Alagic*, Wichita State University
    (1096-97-2736)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Investigating Statistical Concepts, Applications and Methods using Minitab.
    Julie M Clark*, Hollins University
    (1096-62-808)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Using Knitting To Construct Seamless Regular and Semi-Regular Polyhedra.
    Rebecca Plassmann*, Central Oregon Community College
    (1096-00-2695)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    MArTH Madness: Building a Culture of Creating Math Through Art at Saint Ann's School.
    Anna Weltman*, Saint Ann's School
    (1096-97-1791)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Communicating snapshots of news from contemporary mathematics - an on-going study carried out in senior high-schools in Israel.
    Nitsa B. Movshovitz-Hadar*, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
    (1096-97-323)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Problems and methods that develop creativity.
    Ellina Grigorieva*, TWU
    (1096-97-693)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
  AMS Session on Numerical Methods and Computing, II
  Room 313, BCC
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    A new a posteriori error estimate for numerical solutions of the radiative transport equation.
    Joseph A Eichholz*, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
    (1096-65-1943)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    Fast Solution Methods for the Space-Time Fractional Diffusion Equations.
    Treena Basu*, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
    Hong Wang, University of South Carolina
    (1096-65-1467)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Computer-Assisted Proof of Periodic Solutions of ODE and PDE systems.
    A. R. Hungria*, University of Delaware
    J. D. Mireles James, Rutgers University
    J. P. Lessard, Laval University, Quebec City, Canada
    (1096-65-725)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    Regularized Restoration for Two Dimensional Band-Limited Signals.
    Weidong Chen*, University of Georgia
    (1096-65-396)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Data-Fitted Generic Second Order Macroscopic Traffic Flow Models and Model Accuracy on Real Data.
    Shimao Fan*, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
    (1096-65-622)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    The Mathematics of Hierarchical T-splines.
    Emily J Evans*, Brigham Young University
    Michael A. Scott, Brigham Young University
    (1096-65-1181)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Fuzzy Logic: A Departure from Mathematical Modeling to Computing Problem Solving.
    Atma R. Sahu*, Coppin State University
    (1096-65-847)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    New Fibonacci Type Collocation Approach for n-th Order Uncertain Differential Equations.
    S. Chakraverty*, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha, India
    Smita Tapaswini, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha, India
    (1096-65-1359)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Guaranteed Adaptive, Automatic, Quadrature.
    Fred J. Hickernell*, Illinois Institute of Technology
    (1096-65-499)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Analyzing the Errors of an Extension of Wilkinson's Iterative Refinement or Improvement Algorithm.
    Abdramane Serme*, BMCC/CUNY-The City University of New York
    Jean W. Richard, BMCC/CUNY-The City University of New York
    (1096-65-2528)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A Reduction Method For Matrix Pairs with Application to Tikhonov Regularization.
    Xuebo Yu*, Kent State University
    Lothar Reichel, Kent State University
    (1096-65-1355)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: The Universal Algebra Calculator at the command line and in the cloud.
    William DeMeo*, University of South Carolina
    (1096-06-2287)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-4:25 p.m.
  AMS Session on Optimization, Calculus of Variations, Nonlinear Programming
  Room 304, BCC
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    The Log-Convex Density Conjecture.
    Frank Morgan*, Williams College
    (1096-49-153)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    Centroidal Voronoi Tessellations of Rigid Shapes: A Variational Perspective.
    Lisa J Larsson*, McGill University
    Rustum Choksi, McGill University
    Jean-Christophe Nave, McGill University
    (1096-49-185)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    A Levenberg-Marquardt method using Sobolev gradients.
    Parimah Kazemi*, Beloit College
    Robert Renka, University of North Texas
    (1096-49-531)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Continuous Newton Method for Elliptic Inverse Problems.
    Corinne Teravainen*, Rochester Institute of Technology
    (1096-49-2554)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Treatment of Single Special Constraint in the Framework of Interval Method for Global Optimization.
    Mengyi Ying*, University of Alabama
    Min Sun, University of Alabama
    (1096-49-1808)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Solution of delay systems in optimization problems by hybrid functions.
    Mohsen Razzaghi*, Mississippi State University
    (1096-49-369)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Effect of convection on optimal design of a bar with attached mass.
    John Matthews*, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
    Boris Belinskiy, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
    James W. Hiestand, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
    (1096-49-1754)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Gradient and Extragradient Methods for Elliptic Inverse Problems with an Application to the Tumor Identification Problem.
    Brian C Winkler*, Rochester Institute of Technology
    (1096-49-1867)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Optimal Control of SIR Model with Education.
    Hem Raj Joshi*, Xavier University, Cincinnati
    (1096-49-2448)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    An Equation Error Approach for the Elasticity Imaging Inverse Problem for Predicting Tumor Location.
    Erin R. Crossen*, Rochester Institute of Technology
    (1096-49-2300)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Parameter Estimation for Atmospheric Vortices.
    Lynn Raburn Greenleaf*, Stephen F. Austin State University
    (1096-49-1667)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    A Characterization of the Reflected Quasipotential.
    Kasie G Farlow*, USMA West Point
    (1096-49-1365)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Existence and Uniqueness of Solution of Second Order Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equation with Point Effect.
    Narayan Thapa*, Minot
    (1096-49-2054)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: On Handling Free Variables in Semidefinite Programming Using a Primal-Dual Regularized Interior-Point Method.
    Ahad Dehghani*, Queen's University
    Jean-Louis Goffin, McGill University
    Dominique Orban, Mathematics and Industrial Engineering Department Montreal Ecole Polytechnique
    (1096-49-2622)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
  MAA Session on Projects, Demonstrations, and Activities that Engage Liberal Arts Mathematics Students, III
  Room 345, BCC
  Organizers:
  Sarah Mabrouk, Framingham State University smabrouk@framingham.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Juggling as an Introduction to Mathematical Thinking.
    Otis C. Wright, III*, Cedarville University
    (1096-J5-1214)
  • 1:20 p.m.
    The Stable Marriage Problem in the Classroom.
    Raymond N Greenwell*, Hofstra University
    Daniel E Seabold, Hofstra University
    (1096-J5-120)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Walking the Line.
    Cathy W. Grilli*, Christian Brothers University
    (1096-J5-2370)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Adapting liberal arts mathematics hands-on activities to a large-lecture format.
    Darci L. Kracht*, Kent State University
    (1096-J5-2316)
  • 2:20 p.m.
    Infographics Activities to Promote Graphical and Quantitative Literacy.
    Debra L. Hydorn*, University of Mary Washington
    (1096-J5-2039)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Counting Melodies: A Musical Introduction to Recursion.
    Kurt Ludwick*, Salisbury University
    (1096-J5-2237)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Win, Lose, or Draw: An Analytical Reasoning Course at Butler University.
    Karen Holmes*, Butler University
    (1096-J5-52)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Venn Diagram Bingo and other Games for Liberal Arts Math Classes.
    Teena Carroll*, Emory & Henry College
    (1096-J5-2490)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Puzzles + Games = Mathematical Thinking.
    Edmund A Lamagna*, University of Rhode Island
    (1096-J5-576)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
  MAA Session on Research on the Teaching and Learning of Undergraduate Mathematics, II
  Room 341, BCC
  Organizers:
  Kyeong Hah Roh, Arizona State University khroh@asu.edu
  Michael Oehrtman, University of Northern Colorado
  Timothy Fukawa-Connelly, Drexel University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Calculus Instructors' Resources, Orientations and Goals in Teaching Low Achieving Students.
    Misun Lee*, University of Oklahoma
    (1096-L1-1650)
  • 1:20 p.m.
    How can we (or should we) assess undergraduate students' creativity?
    Milos Savic*, University of Oklahoma
    Gulden Karakok, University of Northern Colorado
    (1096-L1-2538)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Investigating the Links between Students' Knowledge of Rational Numbers and Algebraic Procedures and Students' Success in Undergraduate Mathematics.
    Jennifer Yantz*, Middle Tennessee State University
    (1096-L1-1413)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Developing the Notion of Function Between Sets of Equivalence Classes from the APOS Perspective.
    Harrison E. Stalvey*, Georgia State University
    Draga Vidakovic, Georgia State University
    Mariana Montiel, Georgia State University
    (1096-L1-1096)
  • 2:20 p.m.
    The effectiveness of 5 minute preview video lectures using Smart Board, Camtasia Studio, and Podcasting on mathematical achievement and mathematics self-efficacy.
    Minsu Kim*, University of North Georgia
    (1096-L1-364)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    An Evaluation of Argumentation and Proof Opportunities in Transition-to-Proof Textbooks.
    Michael A. Smith*, Ohio University
    Kelly M. Bubp, Ohio University
    (1096-L1-2128)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Promoting Calculus Understanding Through Explanation and Reflection.
    Daniel Lee Reinholz*, University of California, Berkeley
    (1096-L1-913)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    The Emergence of Algebraic Structure: Students Come to Understand Units and Zero-divisors.
    John Paul Cook*, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma
    (1096-L1-2332)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Inverting the transition-to-proof course.
    Robert Talbert*, Grand Valley State University
    (1096-L1-1566)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-4:25 p.m.
  AMS Session on Structural and Extremal Problems in Graph Theory
  Room 312, BCC
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Degree conditions for weakly geodesic pancyclic graphs and their exceptions.
    Emlee W Nicholson*, Millsaps College
    Bing Wei, University of Mississippi
    (1096-05-1716)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    On the maximum induced decomposition of graphs.
    Zoltan Furedi, Renyi Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
    Zeinab Maleki*, Isfahan University of Technology
    (1096-05-2642)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Planar Graphs of Fixed Tree Width.
    Brett C. Smith*, Wesleyan University
    (1096-05-1187)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    Circumference and Pathwidth of Highly Connected Graphs.
    Emily A. Marshall*, Vanderbilt University
    David R. Wood, Monash University
    (1096-05-2106)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Uniqueness and minimal obstructions for tree depth.
    Michael D. Barrus*, Brigham Young University
    (1096-05-1010)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    On semi-linkage with prescribed lengths.
    Alexander Halperin*, Lehigh University
    (1096-05-706)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    On The Potential Function For Degree Sequences Of Multi-Graphs.
    Casey Kenneth Moffatt*, University Of Colorado - Denver
    (1096-05-2361)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Degree-Sequence Stability of Graphs.
    Catherine Erbes*, University of Colorado Denver
    Michael Ferrara, University of Colorado Denver
    Ryan R. Martin, Iowa State University
    Paul Wenger, Rochester Institute of Technology
    (1096-05-1700)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A construction of uniquely $n$-colorable digraphs without short cycles.
    Michael Severino*, University of Montana
    (1096-05-2074)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Sidon sets and graphs without 4-cycles.
    Craig M Timmons*, University of California, San Diego
    Michael Tait, University of California, San Diego
    (1096-05-2437)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On $L(2,1)$ labeling of trees.
    Jobby Jacob*, Rochester Institute of Technology
    Christopher Wood, University of California, Irvine
    (1096-05-2456)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    On the $L(2,1)$-Labelings of Amalgamations of Graphs.
    Sarah Spence Adams, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
    Noura Howell, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
    Nathaniel Karst, Babson College
    Denise Sakai Troxell, Babson College
    Junjie Zhu*, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
    (1096-05-1099)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    $L(d,1)$-labelings of Edge-Path-Replacements by Factorization of Graphs.
    Nathaniel Karst, Babson College
    Jessica Oehrlein*, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
    Denise Sakai Troxell, Babson College
    Junjie Zhu, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
    (1096-05-1098)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Independence sequences in a graph, constrained and unconstrained.
    Allen J. Schwenk*, Western Michigan University
    (1096-05-1753)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
  MAA Session on Student Activities, II
  Room 349, BCC
  Organizers:
  Lisa Marano, West Chester University of Pennsylvania lmarano@wcupa.edu
  Jennifer Bergner, Salisbury State University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Hosting mathematics treasure hunts.
    Julie Barnes*, Western Carolina University
    (1096-M1-1845)
  • 1:20 p.m.
    A Mathematical Scavenger Hunt.
    Janine E. Janoski*, King's College
    (1096-M1-2264)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Pi-Miler: An Irrational Race.
    Brooke Buckley*, Northern Kentucky University
    Bethany Noblitt, Northern Kentucky University
    (1096-M1-76)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    The Radical Dash: A Mathematical Amazing Race.
    Jennifer Bergner*, Salisbury University
    (1096-M1-2053)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
  MAA Session on the Intersection of Mathematics and the Arts, IV
  Room 338, BCC
  Organizers:
  Douglas Norton, Villanova University douglas.norton@villanova.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Symmetries of generalized Truchet tiles.
    David A Reimann*, Albion College
    (1096-C5-2682)
  • 1:20 p.m.
    Math, Art and GeoGebra.
    Violeta Vasilevska*, Utah Valley University
    (1096-C5-1213)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Magic Squares and Their Magic Secrets.
    Margaret E Kepner*, Washington, DC
    (1096-C5-2154)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Hyperbolic Fractal Tilings.
    Robert W Fathauer*, Tessellations Company
    (1096-C5-1922)
  • 2:20 p.m.
    Applying an Historical Approach to Contemporary Pattern Design.
    Elizabeth Whiteley*, Washington DC
    (1096-C5-1405)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Artists and Their Use of Mathematics.
    Elizabeth C Rogers*, Piedmont College
    (1096-C5-2758)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Interlocking Polygonal Tiling of Some Special Class of Star Polygons.
    Reza Sarhangi*, Towson University
    (1096-C5-413)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Extending the poetry of mathematics to non-mathematicians.
    JoAnne Growney*, http://poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com
    (1096-C5-1781)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Literary Mathematics and Mathematical Literature.
    Rita A. Capezzi*, Canisius College
    L. Christine Kinsey, Canisius College
    (1096-C5-1522)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
  SIAM Minisymposium on New Developments with Entropic Solutions to Nonlinear Conservation Laws
  Room 325, BCC
  Organizers:
  Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin, University of Maryland
  Eitan Tadmor, University of Maryland tadmor@cscamm.umd.edu
  Konstantina Trivisa, University of Maryland
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Long Time Behavior of Periodic Solutions to Scalar Conservation Laws In Several Space Dimensions.
    Constantine M. Dafermos*, Brown University
    (1096-35-1017)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    New development of the relative entropy method applied to shocks of conservation laws.
    Alexis F Vasseur*, The University of Texas at Austin
    (1096-35-908)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Non-uniqueness and boundary effects for the incompressible Euler equations.
    Emil Wiedemann*, University of British Columbia and Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences
    (1096-35-1221)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Numerical schemes that converge to the entropy measure valued solutions of systems of conservation laws.
    Siddhartha Mishra*, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
    (1096-35-1172)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Singular limit of a nonlinear hyperbolic system with a two-scale relaxation parameter at an interface.
    Jian-Guo Liu*, Duke University
    Frederic Coquel, École Polytechnique
    Shi Jin, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Li Wang, UCLA
    (1096-35-1095)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Relaxation approximations to hyperbolic balance laws.
    Alexey Miroshnikov, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
    Konstantina Trivisa*, University of Maryland
    (1096-35-1108)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  MAA Committee on Mutual Concerns-College Board Panel Discussion
  AP calculus, computer science, and statistics.
  Room 316, BCC
  Organizers:
  Roxy Peck, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
  Panelists:
  Don King, Northeastern University
  Paul Tymann, Rochester Institute of Technology
  Allan Rossman, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
  Lien Diaz, College Board
  Serena Magrogan, College Board
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  MAA-Young Mathematicians' Network Panel Discussion
  Finding the right grant.
  Room 327, BCC
  Organizers:
  Josh Laison, Willamette University
  Jacob White, Texas A&M University
  Panelists:
  Lloyd Douglas, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  Florence Fasanelli, AAAS
  Eric Gaze, Bowdoin College
  Frank Sottile, Texas A&M University
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
  Joint Committee on Women in the Mathematical Sciences Panel Discussion
  Negotiating in mathematical careers.
  Room 326, BCC
  Organizers:
  Janet Best, Ohio State University
  Christine Guenther, Pacific University
  Amber Puha, California State University San Marcos
  Panelists:
  Rachelle DeCoste, Wheaton College
  Peter March, Ohio State University
  Tanya Moore, Building Diversity in Science
  Catherine Roberts, College of the Holy Cross
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Summer Program for Women in Mathematics (SPWM) Reunion
  Room 336, BCC
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 2:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Modeling and Applications of Mathematics, I
  Room 348, BCC
  Organizers:
  Jennifer Beineke, Western New England University jbeineke@wne.edu
  Bem Cayco, San Jose State University bem.cayco@sjsu.edu
  Kimberly Presser, Shippensburge University kjpres@ship.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    An Enzymatic Model of Prion Aggregate Dynamics.
    Jason Karl Davis*, University of California, Merced
    Suzanne S Sindi, University of California, Merced
    (1096-VG-2704)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Risk factors in the spread of Visceral Leishmaniasis in two highly endemic but ecologically different regions.
    Kamal Kevin Barley*, Arizona State University
    (1096-VG-2698)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Novel Properties of Deterministic and Stochastic SIR Models.
    Jessica Ginepro, Western New England University
    Emma Hartman, Wheaton College
    Ryo Kimura, Oberlin College
    Matthew McDermott, Harvey Mudd College
    Colin Pawlowski*, Yale University
    Dylan Shepardson, Mount Holyoke College
    (1096-VG-2688)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Anti-tumor immune dynamics: using ODEs to model a novel cancer therapy.
    Sean M. Laverty*, University of Central Oklahoma
    Bryan Dawkins, University of Central Oklahoma
    (1096-VG-2674)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Action Potentials in Peripheral Auditory Nervous System: A Novel PDE Distribution Model.
    Rebecca E. Gasper*, The University of Iowa
    (1096-VG-2632)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Descriptive analysis and modeling of wave propagation during epileptic seizures.
    Laura R. Gonzalez-Ramirez*, Boston University
    Omar Ahmed, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School
    Sydney S. Cash, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School
    C. Eugene Wayne, Boston University
    Mark A. Kramer, Boston University
    (1096-VG-2537)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A mathematical model of human papillomavirus with application to cervical cancer in African women.
    Najat Ziyadi*, Morgan State University
    Avner Friedman, The Ohio State University
    (1096-VG-2231)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Automated Estimation of Wound Size.
    James Brian Hall*, University of California, San Diego
    (1096-VG-2143)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A Mathematical Model for a Self-Expanding Hemostatic Bandage.
    Keith Wojciechowski, University of Wisconsin Stout
    Kelsey Linnell*, Bowdoin College
    (1096-VG-1980)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 2:15 p.m.-3:05 p.m.
  AMS Invited Address
  Random matrices and Dyson Brownian Motion.
  Ballrooms I&II, 400 Level, BCC
  Horng-Tzer Yau*, Harvard University
  (1096-60-2260)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 2:15 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
  Young Mathematicians' Network-Project NExT Poster Session
  Exhibit Hall G, 100 Level, BCC
  Organizers:
  Kim Roth, Juniata College
  Mike Axtell, University of St. Thomas
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 2:35 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
  MAA Committee on Two-Year Colleges Panel Discussion
  Collaborations between two-year and four-year institutions that create pathways to a math major.
  Room 327, BCC
  Organizers:
  Elizabeth Teles, National Science Foundation
  Judy Ackerman, Montbomery College, Rockville Campus
  Panelists:
  Debra Poese, Montgomery College, Rockville Campus
  Nancy Sattler, Terra State Community College
  Eric Kostelich, Arizona State University
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 2:35 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
  MAA Subcommittee on Research by Undergraduates Panel Discussion
  Directing undergraduate research: How to get started.
  Room 316, BCC
  Organizers:
  Herbert Medina, Loyola Marymount University
  Rebecca Garcia, Sam Houston State University
  Panelists:
  Michael Dorff, Brigham Young University
  Joyati Debnath, Winona State University
  Angel Pineda, California State University, Fullerton
  Sandy Ganzell, St. Mary's College of Maryland
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 3:20 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
  AMS Retiring Presidential Address
  Reflections on a Mathematical World.
  Ballrooms I&II, 400 Level, BCC
  Eric M. Friedlander*, University of Southern California
  (1096-00-1505)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 4:25 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
  Joint Prize Session
  Ballrooms I&II, 400 Level, BCC
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 5:30 p.m.-7:20 p.m.
  SIGMAA on the Philosophy of Mathematics Reception, Business Meeting, and Guest Lecture
  Room 340, BCC
  

  • 5:30 p.m.
    Reception and Business Meeting; lecture to follow immediately at 6:30 p.m.
  • 6:30 p.m.
    Hermann Minkowski: The quiet genius.
    Steve Gimbel*, Gettysburg College
    (1096-A0-79)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
  Joint Prize Session Reception
  Ballrooms I&II Lobby, 400 Level, BCC
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 5:45 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
  MAA Two-Year College Reception
  Holiday Ballroom 4, 2nd Floor, Hilton
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 6:00 p.m.-7:50 p.m.
  SIGMAA on Mathematical and Computational Biology Reception, Business Meeting, and Guest Lecture
  Room 349, BCC
  

  • 6:00 p.m.
    Reception and Business Meeting; lecture to follow immediately at 7:00 p.m.
  • 7:00 p.m.
    Explorations in phytoplankton fluid dynamics.
    Lisa Fauci*, Tulane University
    (1096-A0-59)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 6:00 p.m.-7:50 p.m.
  SIGMAA on Quantitative Literacy Reception, Business Meeting, and Guest Lecture
  Room 338, BCC
  

  • 6:00 p.m.
    Reception and Business Meeting; talk to immediately follow at 7:00 p.m.
  • 7:00 p.m.
    Sustainability + Serendipity = Math Awareness Month 2013.
    Victor Donnay*, Bryn Mawr College
    (1096-A0-2787)
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 6:00 p.m.-7:10 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Special Film Presentation
  The Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan.
  Ballrooms I&II, 400 Level, BCC
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 7:30 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
  MAA Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics Discussion Session
  Course Area Reports (broad umbrella definitions): Abstract Algebra; Geometry; Transitions to Proofs; Probability and Statistics
  Room 347, BCC
  Presenters:
  Carol Schumacher, Kenyon College
  Martha Siegel, Towson University
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 7:30 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
  MAA Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics Discussion Session
  Course Area Reports (broad umbrella definitions): Linear Algebra; Differential Equations; Real and Complex Analysis; Mathematical Modeling
  Room 348, BCC
  Presenters:
  Carol Schumacher, Kenyon College
  Martha Siegel, Towson University
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 7:30 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
  MAA Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics Discussion Session
  Program Area Reports (concentrations, double majors, minors, integrated majors): Financial Math and Actuarial Science; Statistics; Computing; Mathematical Programming; Applied Math
  Room 346, BCC
  Organizers:
  Carol Schumacher, Kenyon College
  Martha Siegel, Towson University
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 7:30 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
  MAA Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics Discussion
  Program Area Reports (concentrations, double majors, minors, integrated majors): Teacher Education; Biomathematics and Environmental Science; Operations Research; Engineering
  Room 345, BCC
  Organizers:
  Carol Schumacher, Kenyon College
  Martha Siegel, Towson University
• Thursday January 16, 2014, 7:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
  Young Mathematicians' Network Open Forum
  Room 337, BCC