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Joint Mathematics Meetings
Hyatt Regency Atlanta and Marriott Atlanta Marquis, Atlanta, GA
January 4-7, 2017 (Wednesday - Saturday)
Meeting #1125

Associate secretaries:

Brian D Boe, AMS brian@math.uga.edu
Gerard A Venema, MAA venema@calvin.edu

Saturday January 7, 2017

• Saturday January 7, 2017, 7:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
  Joint Meetings Registration
  Grand Hall Lobby, Exhibit Level, Hyatt Regency
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 7:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
  Email Center
  Exhibit Level Prefunction Area, Hyatt Regency
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Advances in Mathematics of Ecology, Epidemiology and Immunology of Infectious Diseases, II
  M101, Marquis Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  Abba Gumel, Arizona State University agumel@asu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Analysis of an SIR Model with Population Dynamics.
    Ronald E. Mickens*, Clark Atlanta University
    (1125-92-464)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Modeling Hantavirus Among Rodents in Paraguay.
    Suzanne Lenhart*, University of Tennessee and NIMBioS
    (1125-92-331)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Target reproduction numbers with applications in ecology and epidemiology.
    Zhisheng Shuai*, University of Central Florida
    (1125-92-2698)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Transmission Dynamics of Two Dengue Serotypes with vaccination scenarios.
    Jorge X Velasco-Hernandez*, Instituto de Matematicas UNAM-Juriquilla
    (1125-92-1779)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Transmission Dynamics of a Within-and Between-Hosts Malaria Model.
    F. B. Agusto*, University of Kansas
    (1125-92-790)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Multi-Scale Model of Vector-Host Infection Dynamics and Evolution.
    Hayriye Gulbudak*, Arizona State University, School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
    Vincent Cannataro, Yale University
    Necibe Tuncer, Florida Atlantic University
    Maia Martcheva, University of Florida
    (1125-92-1119)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    An Immuno-Eco-Epidemiological Model of Competition.
    Michael Barfield, University of Florida
    Maia Martcheva*, University of Florida
    Necibe Tuncer, Florida Atlantic University
    Robert Holt, University of Florida
    Yena Kim, University of Florida
    (1125-92-761)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Optimal control with multiple human papillomavirus vaccines.
    Tufail M Malik*, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi
    M Imran, Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait
    R Jayaraman, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi
    (1125-92-78)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Analytic Number Theory and Arithmetic, I
  Inman, Conference Level, Hyatt Regency
  Organizers:
  Robert Lemke Oliver, Tufts University robert.lemke_oliver@tufts.edu
  Paul Pollack, University of Georgia
  Frank Thorne, University of South Carolina
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Random multiplicative walks on the residues modulo n.
    Nathan G McNew*, Towson University
    (1125-11-1111)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    New results on arithmetic equivalence using a Galois representation analog of Tate's isogeny theorem.
    Guillermo Mantilla-Soler*, Universidad de los Andes
    (1125-11-670)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Brun-Titchmarsh, Chebotarev, and Lang-Trotter.
    Jesse Thorner, Stanford University
    Asif Zaman*, University of Toronto
    (1125-11-925)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Partitions into values of a polynomial.
    Ayla R. Gafni*, University of Rochester
    (1125-11-845)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Differencing methods for Korobov-type exponential sums.
    Joseph A Vandehey*, The Ohio State University
    (1125-11-438)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Poisson spacings between sums of two squares and spectral correlations for the square billiard.
    Tristan Freiberg*, University of Waterloo
    Pär Kurlberg, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
    Lior Rosenzweig, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
    (1125-11-847)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Small scale equidistribution of eigenfunctions on the torus.
    Steve Lester*, University of Montreal
    Zeev Rudnick, Tel Aviv University
    (1125-11-454)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Local to global principles in integral circle packings.
    Elena Fuchs*, UC Davis
    (1125-11-968)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Applications of Partially Ordered Sets in Algebraic, Topological, and Enumerative Combinatorics, I
  Spring, Conference Level, Hyatt Regency
  Organizers:
  Rafael S. González D'León, University of Kentucky rafaeldleon@uky.edu
  Joshua Hallam, Wake Forest University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    SCHEDULE CHANGE: Colorful Graph Associahedra.
    Satyan L Devadoss*, University of San Diego
    Mia Smith, Williams College
    (1125-05-648)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Wilf-equivalences of non-overlapping permutations, the cluster method, and linear extensions of posets.
    J Tim Dwyer*, Dartmouth College
    (1125-05-1502)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The structure of the consecutive pattern poset.
    Sergi Elizalde, Dartmouth College
    Peter R. W. McNamara*, Bucknell University
    (1125-05-1212)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Pattern-avoiding polytopes and Bruhat orders I.
    Robert Davis, Michigan State University
    Bruce E Sagan*, Michigan State University
    (1125-05-381)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Pattern-avoiding polytopes and Bruhat orders II.
    Robert Davis*, Michigan State University
    Bruce E. Sagan, Michigan State University
    (1125-05-382)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A poset of reduced words for the longest element.
    Thomas McConville*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1125-05-478)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Homology of Partition Posets.
    Michelle L. Wachs*, University of Miami
    (1125-05-3027)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Complex Analysis and Special Functions, II
  M103 & 104, Marquis Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  Brock Williams, Texas Tech University BROCK.WILLIAMS@ttu.edu
  Kendall Richards, Southwestern University
  Alex Solynin, Texas Tech University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Asymptotic Properties of Finite Perimeter Sets in Metric Spaces.
    James T. Gill*, Saint Louis University
    Panu Lahti, University of Cincinnati
    Nageswari Shanmugalingam, University of Cincinnati
    (1125-28-2504)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Distortion of dimension by Sobolev and quasiconformal mappings.
    Jeremy T. Tyson*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1125-30-1695)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Jump decomposition on quasicircles.
    Eric D. Schippers*, University of Manitoba
    Wolfgang Staubach, Uppsala Universitet
    (1125-30-3049)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Sewing homeomorphisms and conformal invariants.
    Tao Cheng, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
    Huiqiang Shi, Emory University, Atlanta, GA and Hunan University of Commerce, Hunan, China
    Shanshuang Yang*, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
    (1125-30-806)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Möbius invariant Cassinian metric.
    Zair Ibragimov*, California State University, Fullerton
    (1125-30-599)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    An Extremal Problem Approach to Korenblum's Maximum Principle in Bergman Spaces.
    Pritha Chakraborty*, Texas A&M University Corpus-Christi
    Alexander Solynin, Texas Tech University
    (1125-30-1392)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Quasi-Hyperbolic Geodesics are Hyperbolic Quasi-Geodesics.
    David A Herron*, University of Cincinnati
    Stephen M Buckley, National University of Ireland
    (1125-51-1958)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Quotients of hyperbolic metrics.
    C. David Minda*, University of Cincinnati
    (1125-30-1148)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Continued Fractions, I
  Dunwoody, Conference Level, Hyatt Regency
  Organizers:
  James McLaughlin, West Chester University jmclaughlin@wcupa.edu
  Geremías Polanco, Hampshire College
  Nancy J. Wyshinski, Trinity College
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Classical Convergence of Random Continued Fractions.
    Lisa Lorentzen*, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
    (1125-30-2326)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Continued Fraction Algorithm for Quadratic Numbers, Forms, and Ideals.
    J. Larry Lehman*, University of Mary Washington
    (1125-11-1778)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Constructing exact Hermite matrices using approximate roots.
    Tulay Ayyildiz Akoglu*, North Carolina State University
    (1125-15-2428)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Minkowski Question Mark Type Functions for a Family of Multi-dimensional Continued Fractions.
    Thomas Garrity*, Williams
    Peter McDonald, Williams
    (1125-11-2439)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Invertible substitutions and continued fractions.
    Bernd Sing*, University of the West Indies, Barbados
    Dirk Frettlöh, Universität Bielefeld, Germany
    (1125-37-2618)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On the Stolt Fundamental Solutions of $x^2 - d y^2 = 4 n$.
    Keith R Matthews, University of Queensland and Australian National University, Australia
    John P Robertson*, National Council on Compensation Insurance, Boca Raton, USA
    (1125-11-3153)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Applications of the Heine and Bauer-Muir transformations to Rogers-Ramanujan type continued fractions.
    Jongsil Lee, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
    James Mc Laughlin*, West Chester University
    Jaebum Sohn, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
    (1125-33-2195)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  MAA Invited Paper Session on Current Trends in Mathematical and Computational Biology
  A602, Atrium Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  Raina Robeva, Sweet Briar College robeva@sbc.edu
  Erin Bodine, Rhodes College
  Brian Walton, James Madison University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Entangled Proteins: Knotting and Linking.
    Kenneth C Millett*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1125-AA-901)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Combinatorics of RNA Branching.
    Christine Heitsch*, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1125-AA-2103)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Combinatorial and Computational Models in Synthetic Biology.
    Laurie J Heyer*, Davidson College
    Jeffrey L Poet, Missouri Western State University
    (1125-AA-2350)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The role of the autologous immune response in chronic myelogenous leukemia.
    Doron Levy*, University of Maryland
    (1125-AA-1904)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    A mathematical framework to personalize gastric carcinogenesis screening.
    Rachel Walker, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
    Jaime Mejia, Instituto de Patología Mejía Jiménez
    Domenico Coppola, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
    Heiko Enderling*, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
    (1125-AA-1079)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Determining Near-Optimal Treatment Protocols via Nonlinear Cancer Models.
    Shelby Nicole Wilson*, Morehouse College
    (1125-AA-2685)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, II
  M106 & M107, Marquis Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  Mrinal Kanti Roychowdhury, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley mrinal.roychowdhury@utrgv.edu
  Tamara Kucherenko, City College of New York
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Periodicity and ergodicity in the trihexagonal tiling.
    Diana Davis, Williams College
    W. Patrick Hooper*, City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center
    (1125-37-425)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Periodic billiard paths on the pentagon.
    Diana Davis*, Williams College
    (1125-37-465)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A multifractal analysis for cuspidal windings on hyperbolic surfaces.
    Johannes Jaerisch*, Department of Mathematics, Shimane University, Japan
    Marc Kesseböhmer, University Bremen, Germany
    Sara Munday, University of Bologna, Italy
    (1125-37-898)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Finding Roots of Any Polynomials by Random Relaxed Newton's Methods.
    Hiroki Sumi*, Department of Mathematics, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University
    (1125-37-317)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Hereditarily Non Uniformly Perfect Sets of Full Dimension.
    Rich Stankewitz*, Ball State University
    Toshiyuki Sugawa, Tohoku University
    Hiroki Sumi, Osaka University
    (1125-37-1211)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Dynamics of neutral dissipative holomorphic germs of $(\mathbb{C}^{2},0)$.
    Remus Radu*, Stony Brook University
    (1125-37-2223)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Random geometric graphs on nonuniform and fractal measures.
    Carl P Dettmann*, University of Bristol, UK
    (1125-60-2259)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Graphs and Matrices, I
  Embassy D, International Tower, LL2, Hyatt Regency
  Organizers:
  Sudipta Mallik, Northern Arizona University sudiptamallik.cu@gmail.com
  Keivan Hassani Monfared, University of Calgary
  Bryan Shader, University of Wyoming
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Combinatorial Matrix Theory modulo $k$.
    Richard A Brualdi*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
    (1125-15-947)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Graphs for which inertia bounds are not tight.
    John Sinkovic*, University of Waterloo
    (1125-05-2198)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On the Characteristic Set, Centroid, and Centre for a Tree.
    Steve Kirkland*, University of Manitoba
    (1125-05-1080)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Spectral Approaches to Graph Coloring And Its Variations.
    Franklin H. J. Kenter*, United States Naval Academy
    (1125-05-1864)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the addressing problem for triangular graphs.
    S. Cioaba, University of Delaware
    R. Elzinga, Info-Tech Research Group
    M. Markiewitz, University of Delaware
    K. Vander Meulen*, Redeemer University College
    T. Vanderwoerd, Redeemer University College
    (1125-15-1482)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Distance Laplacian eigenvalues and forbidden subgraphs.
    Maria A. A. Freitas*, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
    Celso M. Silva Jr, CEFET-RJ
    Renata R. Del-Vecchio, Universidade Federal Fluminense
    (1125-15-1544)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Constructions for distance cospectral graphs.
    Kristin Heysse*, Iowa State University
    (1125-05-1861)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Group Actions and Geometric Structures, I
  International C, International Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  Anna Wienhard, Universität Heidelberg wienhard@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de
  Jeffrey Danciger, University of Texas at Austin
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Simple length spectrum rigidity.
    Martin Bridgeman, Boston College
    Richard Canary*, University of Michigan
    François Labourie, Universite de Nice
    (1125-57-1627)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    $N$--chain groups of homeomorphisms of one-manifolds.
    Sang-hyun Kim, Seoul National University
    Thomas Koberda*, University of Virginia
    Yash Lodha, EPFL
    (1125-20-735)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Rigidity of divisible domains in flag manifolds.
    Andrew Zimmer*, University of Chicago
    (1125-53-1530)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Spaces of nonnegatively curved surfaces.
    Igor Belegradek*, Georgia Tech
    (1125-53-419)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The geometry of quasi-Hitchin symplectic Anosov representations.
    Daniele Alessandrini, University of Heidelberg
    Sara Maloni*, University of Virginia
    Anna Wienhard, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
    (1125-57-636)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    TIME CHANGED: On the complexity of finite subgraphs of the curve graph.
    Edgar A Bering, University of Illinois - Chicago
    Gabriel Conant, University of Notre Dame
    Jonah Gaster*, Boston College
    (1125-51-1498)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Inverse Problems and Multivariate Signal Analysis, I
  International 9, International Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  M. Zuhair Nashed, University of Central Florida M.Nashed@ucf.edu
  Willi Freeden, University of Kaiserslautern
  Otmar Scherzer, University of Vienna
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Multivariate Sampling in Signal Processing: A Tutorial Review with Brief Analysis and Applications.
    Abdul J. Jerri*, Emeritus member:Clarkson Univesity,Potsdam,New York 13676
    (1125-94-1711)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Some new results on Lavrentiev regularization for linear accretive ill-posed problems.
    Robert Plato*, Department of Mathematics, University of Siegen
    (1125-65-838)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Sampling for multi-spectral theory of Sturm-Liouville systems.
    Amin Boumenir*, University of West Georgia
    (1125-42-540)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Orthonormal basis systems on the ball and their role in inverse problems.
    Volker Michel*, Geomathematics Group, Department of Mathematics, University of Siegen
    Sarah Orzlowski, Geomathematics Group, Department of Mathematics, University of Siegen
    (1125-45-1026)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A general mollifier approach to the regularization of linear ill-posed problems.
    Pierre R. Marechal*, Mathematical Institute of Toulouse, Paul Sabatier University, France
    (1125-49-2288)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Parameter Estimation in Optical Coherence Tomography.
    Otmar Scherzer*, Computational Science Center, University Vienna
    (1125-44-1008)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Reconstruction of signals from phaseless samples of evolutionary systems.
    Akram Aldroubi*, Vanderbilt
    Ilya Krishtal, Northern Illinois University
    Sui Tang, John Hopkins
    (1125-42-1060)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Bayesian statistics in variational inverse problems.
    Mila Nikolova*, CMLA, CNRS, ENS Cachan, Universite Paris Saclay
    (1125-49-2503)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Mathematics and Music, II
  M301, Marquis Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  Mariana Montiel, Georgia State University mmontiel@gsu.edu
  Robert Peck, Louisiana State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Measuring Distances of Musical Schemata.
    David John Baker*, Louisiana State University
    (1125-00-3081)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A Diachronic Approach to Musical Prototypicality with Dynamic Time Warping.
    Daniel T Shanahan*, Louisiana State University
    (1125-62-2866)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Christoffel Words, Rich Words, and Perfect Balance.
    Norman Carey*, The City University of New York
    (1125-00-3059)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Fibonacci sequence as metric suspension in Luigi Nono's "Il canto sospeso".
    Jon Kochavi*, Swarthmore College
    (1125-00-1635)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Difference sets in mathematical music theory.
    Robert W. Peck*, Louisiana State University
    (1125-05-1574)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    $\sqrt2$, a musical exploration.
    Gerry Myerson*, Mathematics, Macquarie University
    (1125-11-87)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Geometrical Realizations of Two- and Three-Dimensional Generalized Tonnetze.
    Jason D Yust*, Boston University
    (1125-00-1997)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Voice Leading and Composition.
    Dmitri Tymoczko*, Princeton University
    (1125-51-605)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Mathematics of Signal Processing and Information, I
  International 10, International Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  Rayan Saab, University of California, San Diego rsaab@ucsd.edu
  Mark Iwen, Michigan State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Super-resolution by means of Beurling minimal extrapolation.
    John J. Benedetto*, Norbert Wiener Center, Dept. of Mathematics, U. Maryland, College Park
    Weilin Li, Norbert Wiener Center, Dept. of Mathematics, U. Maryland, College Park
    (1125-42-66)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Frequency extrapolation from band-limited data.
    Rongrong Wang*, University of British Columbia
    (1125-42-894)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Phase retrieval on infinite dimensions.
    Ingrid Daubechies*, Duke University
    (1125-94-269)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Robust and Fast Phase Retrieval from Local Correlation Measurements.
    Brian Preskitt, University of California, San Diego
    Aditya Viswanathan*, Michigan State University
    Mark Iwen, Michigan State University
    Rayan Saab, University of California, San Diego
    (1125-42-214)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Fixed Point Algorithms for Phase Retrieval.
    Albert Fannjiang*, UC Davis
    Pengwen Chen, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
    (1125-42-286)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Statistics of the Stability Bounds in the Phase Retrieval Problem.
    Radu Balan*, University of Maryland
    (1125-60-227)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Computational microscopy for phase retrieval.
    Laura Waller*, UC Berkeley
    (1125-92-183)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Lens design for X-ray imaging.
    Huibin Cang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    Stefano Marchesini*, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    Anne Sakdinawat, Stanford
    (1125-41-3034)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Minimal Integral Models of Algebraic Curves, I
  The Learning Center, Ballroom Level, Hyatt Regency
  Organizers:
  Tony Shaska, Oakland University shaska@oakland.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Brauer Manin Obstruction for a family of surfaces.
    Jennifer Berg*, Rice University
    (1125-11-2733)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A universal pair of genus-two curves.
    Tony Shaska*, Oakland University
    Andreas Malmendier, Utah State University
    (1125-14-1705)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Tropical geometry and uniformity of rational points.
    David Zureick-Brown*, Emory University
    Eric Katz, The Ohio State University
    Joe Rabinoff, Georgia Tech
    (1125-11-55)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The number of binary forms of bounded moduli height.
    Lubjana Beshaj*, The University of Texas at Austin
    Tony Shaska, Oakland University
    (1125-11-265)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Integrality of the Kleinian sigma function and Rankin-Cohen brackets on modular forms.
    Emma Previato*, Boston University
    (1125-11-367)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on New Developments in Noncommutative Algebra & Representation Theory, I
  A705, Atrium Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  Ellen Kirkman, Wake Forest University kirkman@wfu.edu
  Chelsea Walton, Temple University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Tilting Modules and the centralizer of a regular nilpotent.
    Laura Rider*, University of Georgia
    (1125-22-2381)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Deformations of the skew group algebras of truncated quantum polynomial rings.
    Lauren Grimley*, Spring Hill College
    Christine Uhl, St. Bonaventure University
    (1125-16-1621)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Discriminants of Polynomial Identity Quantized Weyl Algebras.
    Jesse S. F. Levitt*, University of Southern California
    Milen Yakimov, Louisiana State University
    (1125-16-2965)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Mutation of $A_n$ friezes.
    Karin Baur, University of Graz
    Eleonore Faber*, University of Michigan
    Sira Gratz, University of Oxford
    Khrystyna Serhiyenko, University of California at Berkeley
    Gordana Todorov, Northeastern University
    (1125-16-1501)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    From prime ideals to physics, via total nonnegativity.
    Siân Fryer*, UC Santa Barbara
    (1125-16-1934)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Adelic grassmannians for finite dimensional algebras.
    Emil Horozov, University of Sofia, Bulgaria
    Milen Yakimov*, Louisiana State University
    (1125-16-1355)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Auslander's Theorem for permutation actions on $(-1)$-skew polynomial rings.
    Jason Gaddis*, Wake Forest University
    Ellen Kirkman, Wake Forest University
    W. Frank Moore, Wake Forest University
    Robert Won, Wake Forest University
    (1125-16-1319)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Noncommutative Auslander Theorem and McKay correspondence.
    James Zhang*, University of Washington
    (1125-16-722)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Open & Accessible Problems for Undergraduate Research, I
  International 4, International Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  Allison Henrich, Seattle University henricha@seattleu.edu
  Michael Dorff, Brigham Young University
  Nicholas Scoville, Ursinus College
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Past, Current, and Potential Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Research Problems in Math Biology.
    Eva Marie Strawbridge*, James Madison University
    (1125-92-684)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Examples of Research by Undergraduates at the Summer Undergraduate Research Institute in Experimental Mathematics (SURIEM).
    Aklilu Zeleke*, Michigan State University
    (1125-00-105)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    New Problems in Graph Theory from Self-Assembly.
    Joanna A. Ellis-Monaghan*, Saint Michael's College
    (1125-05-846)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Modeling Shapes of Objects with Undergraduates.
    Kathryn Leonard*, CSU Channel Islands
    (1125-51-2484)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Non-Euclidean Photography: The World of Mirrors.
    Casey Douglas*, St. Mary's College of Maryland
    (1125-35-2071)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Summer research projects for First Year students.
    Enrique Treviño*, Lake Forest College
    (1125-11-3022)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    They Really Can Do Research in Pure Math: Group-theoretic Problems Accessible to Underprepared Students.
    Meghan De Witt*, St. Thomas Aquinas College
    (1125-97-1776)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Least-perimeter Tiles of the Hyperbolic Plane.
    Frank Morgan*, Williams College and Notices
    (1125-49-807)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on PDE Analysis on Fluid Flows, I
  Embassy F, International Tower, LL2, Hyatt Regency
  Organizers:
  Xiang Xu, Old Dominion University x2xu@odu.edu
  Geng Chen, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Ronghua Pan, Georgia Institute of Technology
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Nonuniqueness of weak solutions to the nematic liquid crystal flows.
    Huajun Gong, College of Mathematics and Statistics, Shenzhen University
    Tao Huang*, NYU-ECNU Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU Shanghai
    Jinkai Li, Department of Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    (1125-35-390)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Harmonic map flow in 2 dimension under weak anchoring boundary condition.
    Tao Huang, New York University at Shanghai
    Yuanzhen Shao, Purdue University
    Changyou Wang*, Purdue University
    (1125-35-1110)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Finite element methods for nematic liquid crystals with variable degree of orientation.
    Wujun Zhang*, Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University
    Shawn Walker, Department of Mathematics and Center for Computation & Technology (CCT) Louisiana State University
    (1125-65-2123)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Analysis of a one-dimensional Landau-de Gennes model for bent-core liquid crystals.
    Tiziana Giorgi*, New Mexico State University
    (1125-49-1345)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Break
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Bifurcation study of smectic A liquid crystals in three dimensions.
    S Joo*, Old Dominion University
    A Contreras, New Mexico State University
    C Garcia-Azpeitia, Facultad de Ciencias
    C Garcia-Cervera, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1125-82-1908)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Uniaxiality vs Biaxiality in the Q-tensor model.
    Andres Contreras*, New Mexico State University
    (1125-35-2095)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Global well-posedness for nonlinear wave equations with applications in nematic liquid crystals.
    Geng Chen*, University of Kansas
    (1125-35-1694)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Recent Progress on Nonlinear Dispersive and Wave Equations, III
  L405 & L406, Lobby Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  Dana Mendelson, University of Chicago dana@math.uchicago.edu
  Carlos Kenig, University of Chicago
  Hao Jia, University of Chicago
  Andrew Lawrie, University of California, Berkeley
  Gigliola Staffilani, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Magdalena Czubak, University of Colorado Boulder
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Instability of solitary waves in the KdV-type equations.
    Svetlana Roudenko*, The George Washington University
    (1125-35-2778)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The rigorous derivation of the 2D cubic focusing NLS from quantum many-body evolution.
    Xuwen Chen, University of Rochester
    Justin Holmer*, Brown University
    (1125-35-2816)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The symplectic non-squeezing for nonlinear Schrodinger equations.
    Xiaoyi Zhang*, University of Iowa
    (1125-35-1818)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Solitons and scattering for a semi--linear Skyrme equation.
    Casey P Rodriguez*, University of Chicago
    Andrew Lawrie, MIT
    (1125-35-2098)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Break
  • 10:30 a.m.
    New methods for the study of supercritical semilinear wave equations.
    Marius Beceanu*, State University of New York - Albany
    Avy Soffer, Rutgers
    (1125-34-1626)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Minimal mass-energy dynamics for rotating BEC.
    Shijun Zheng*, Georgia Southern University
    (1125-35-2091)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Scattering for the 3D Gross-Pitaevskii equation.
    Zihua Guo, School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash University
    Zaher Hani*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Kenji Nakanishi, Osaka University
    (1125-35-1935)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research in Mathematics by Undergraduates and Students in Post-Baccalaureate Programs, III
  International 8, International Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  Darren A. Narayan, Rochester Institute of Technology dansma@rit.edu
  Tamas Forgacs, California State University, Fresno
  Ugur Abdulla, Florida Institute of Technology
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    When is $a^n+1$ the sum of two squares?
    Kylie Hess, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
    Jeremy Rouse, Wake Forest University
    Emily Stamm*, Vassar College
    Terrin Warren, University of Georgia
    (1125-11-118)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Classification of All Crescent Configurations on Four and Five Points.
    Rebecca F. Durst, Williams College/SMALL 2016
    Max Hlavacek*, Harvey Mudd College/SMALL 2016
    Chi Huynh, Georgia Institute of Technology/SMALL 2016
    (1125-52-1569)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Index Divisibility in Dynamical Sequences and Cyclic Orbits Modulo $p$.
    Annie S. Chen*, Boulder High School
    T. Alden Gassert, Western New England University
    Katherine E. Stange, University of Colorado Boulder
    (1125-11-235)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Towards a Characterization of Graphs with Distinct Betweenness Centralities.
    Ruth Lopez*, California State University, Long Beach
    Jacob Worrell, Indiana University - Bloomington
    (1125-05-134)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On Some Edge Folkman Numbers, Large and Small.
    Jenny Kaufmann*, Princeton University
    Henry Wickus, DeSales University
    (1125-05-135)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Control of Cardiac Tissue Using Feedback-Based Synchronization.
    Nirja Dave*, University of Pittsburgh
    Andre Lesartre, Colorado School of Mines
    (1125-37-136)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Using Delay Differential Equations to Study Calcium Alternans in a Model of Intracellular Calcium Cycling.
    Jamshaid Shahir*, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
    Kimberly Truong, Brown University
    (1125-37-137)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Average saturation numbers of double stars.
    Kristofer Siy*, Tufts University
    Heather Weaver, Case Western Reserve University
    (1125-05-188)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Teaching Assistant Development Programs: Why and How?, I
  International 3, International Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  Solomon Friedberg, Boston College solomon.friedberg@bc.edu
  Jessica Deshler, West Virginia University
  Jeffrey Remmel, University of California, San Diego
  Lisa Townsley, University of Georgia
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Preparing graduate students for 40 years of teaching.
    D. I. Wallace*, Dartmouth College
    (1125-97-1054)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Arizona Mathematics GTA Training: A Gentle Crash Course in Teaching.
    Tina Deemer*, The University of Arizona
    (1125-97-1005)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    NEW PRESENTER: Career-long and Timely Training for TAs: An overview of the various components of the Math TA Training at the University of Washington, how the program evolved, and lessons learned.
    Judith M Arms*, University of Washington
    Alexandra Nichifor, University of Washington
    (1125-97-1123)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Mathematics GTA PD: Where we are and where we are going.
    Jess Ellis*, Colorado State University
    Daniel Bragdon, Fort Collins, CO
    Jessica Gehrtz, Colorado State University
    (1125-97-2539)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Evolution of TA Training at Texas A&M.
    David Manuel, Texas A&M University
    Tracy Weyand*, Baylor University
    (1125-97-814)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The College Fellow Program at the University of Chicago.
    John Boller*, University of Chicago
    (1125-97-1409)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Thirteen Hours: Graduate Student Teacher Training Under Time Constraints.
    Daniel J Katz*, Brown University
    (1125-97-638)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Current Teaching Assistant Professional Development Program Structures: Findings from a National Survey.
    Jessica M Deshler*, West Virginia University
    (1125-97-2053)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on The Modeling First Approach to Teaching Differential Equations
  A601, Atrium Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  Chris McCarthy, City University of New York cmccarthy@bmcc.cuny.edu
  Brian Winkel, US Military Academy, West Point
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Remodel Your Differential Equations Course.
    Jon Paynter*, United States Military Academy
    (1125-34-1308)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Bringing the Differential Course into the Twenty-First Century With a Computer Algebra System and a Modeling First Approach.
    Patrice G Tiffany*, Manhattan College
    Rosemary C Farley, Manhattan College
    (1125-34-371)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Creating and using videos in support of modeling in differential equations course work.
    John T. Sieben*, Texas Lutheran University
    (1125-34-324)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Modeling Improvisation: Taking Classroom Materials & Making Them Your Own.
    Jessica Libertini*, Virginia Military Institute
    Karen Bliss, Virginia Military Institute
    (1125-97-372)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Baby steps for introducing Modeling First with teaching Differential Equations.
    Dina M. Yagodich*, Frederick Community College
    (1125-34-441)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Modeling in an Engineering Mathematics Class -- Tuned Mass Dampers.
    Keith A Landry*, Georgia Southern University
    Brian Winkel, SIMIODE
    (1125-34-293)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Successful modeling motivation for beam equations.
    Tiernan R. Fogarty*, Oregon Institute of Technology
    (1125-34-28)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Modeling Feral Cat Control.
    Rachel Louise Bayless*, Agnes Scott College
    (1125-34-228)
  • 12:00 p.m.
    SIMIODE--a supportive community for teaching and learning differential equations using the "modeling first" approach: from the classroom to preparing students for research.
    Chris McCarthy*, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
    Brian J. Winkel, SIMIODE
    (1125-34-314)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Combinatorics and Graph Theory, III
  Greenbriar, Conference Level, Hyatt Regency
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Circular Separation Dimension.
    Sarah Loeb*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    Douglas B. West, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Zhejiang Normal University
    (1125-05-1999)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Spherical configurations over finite fields.
    Neil Lyall, University of Georgia
    {Á}kos Magyar, University of Georgia
    Hans Parshall*, University of Georgia
    (1125-05-2069)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    On graphs representable by pattern-avoiding words.
    Yelena Mandelshtam*, Stanford University
    (1125-05-2087)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Grünbaum colorings extended to non-facial 3-cycles.
    sarah-marie belcastro*, MathILy / Smith College
    Ruth Haas, Smith College
    (1125-05-2094)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    4-Cycle Decompositions of Complete 3-Uniform Hypergraphs.
    Heather D Jordon*, Albion College
    Genevieve Newkirk, Illinois State University
    (1125-05-2113)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    The $3\times 3$ Rook's graph is the unique smallest graph with lazy cop number 3.
    Brendan W Sullivan*, Emmanuel College
    Nikolas Townsend, Emmanuel College
    Mikayla Werzanski, Emmanuel College
    (1125-05-2175)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Graphs whose only odd cycles are small.
    Kristen Wetzler*, Louisiana State University
    (1125-05-2212)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    A Sharp Upper Bound on the $k$-Color Connection Number of a Graph.
    Alexander Halperin, Salisbury University
    Adam Jump*, Salisbury University
    (1125-05-2279)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Two $q$-countings related to $q$-multinomial coefficients.
    Mark Bly*, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
    (1125-05-2301)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    On Different Topological Indices and polynomials of the Boron Zigzag nanotube $BNT[p,q]$.
    Sarfraz Ahmad*, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Lahore
    (1125-05-2304)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Structure constants for $K$-theory of Grassmannians, revisited.
    Huilan Li, Shandong Normal University
    Jennifer Morse, University of Virginia
    Patrick Shields*, Drexel University
    (1125-05-2361)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    On Orbits of Toggling Actions on Independent Sets of a Path Graph and the Homomesy Phenomenon.
    Michael J. Joseph*, University of Connecticut
    (1125-05-2364)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The upper and lower independence-partition number on bipartite graphs.
    Anne C Sinko*, College of St. Benedict/St. John's University
    (1125-05-2371)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    An algorithm toward finding solutions to the general multi-constraint cable-trench problem.
    Jonathan Bloom, Lafayette College
    Carl Hammarsten*, Lafayette College
    (1125-05-2396)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Chain decompositions for $q,t$-Catalan numbers.
    Kyungyong Lee, Univ. of Nebraska Lincoln and Korea Institute for Advanced Study
    Li Li, Oakland University Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics
    Nicholas A. Loehr*, Virginia Tech Department of Mathematics
    (1125-05-2400)
  • 11:45 a.m.
    Gamification of combinatorial research via Nim on graphs.
    Lindsay A Erickson*, Augustana University
    (1125-05-2419)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Convex and Discrete Geometry
  International B, International Level, Marriott Marquis
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Hyperbolicity and Congestion.
    Matthew Yancey*, Institute of Defense Analyses / Center for Computing Sciences
    (1125-05-1073)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Counting lattice points with solid-angle weights in irrational polytopes.
    Ricardo Diaz, University of Northern Colorado
    Quang-Nhat Le*, Brown University, Providence, RI
    Sinai Robins, University of Sao Paulo, Brasil
    (1125-05-2855)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Generating point configurations via hypersingular Riesz energy with an external field.
    Douglas P. Hardin, Vanderbilt University
    Edward B. Saff, Vanderbilt University
    Oleksandr V. Vlasiuk*, Vanderbilt University
    (1125-31-2028)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Approximating continuous maps by isometries.
    Barry Minemyer*, Ohio State University
    (1125-51-178)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On a functional equation related to a pair of hedgehogs with congruent projections.
    Sergii Myroshnychenko*, Kent State University
    (1125-51-610)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    On the Principle of Planimeters.
    Osman Yardimci*, Auburn University
    (1125-51-2537)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Hypersurfaces with central convex cross-sections.
    Metin Alper Gur*, Indiana University
    (1125-52-61)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    On the average volume of sections of convex bodies.
    S Brazitikos, University of Athens
    S Dann*, University of Technology Vienna
    A Giannopoulos, University of Athens
    A Koldobsky, University of Missouri
    (1125-52-537)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Variations of Toeplitz' Conjecture.
    Doyon Kim*, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama
    (1125-52-1296)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    On Convex and Higher Dimensional Extensions of Conway's Thrackle Theorem.
    David Walter Stoner*, Harvard University
    Zoe Wellner, Cornell University
    Ryan Chen, Princeton University
    Frederick Huang, Cornell University
    Maxwell Polevy, Northeastern University
    (1125-52-1550)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Alexandrov curvature of convex hypersurfaces in Hilbert space forms.
    Jonathan Dahl*, Lafayette College
    (1125-52-2116)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    On L-structures and other related convexity structures.
    Andrzej Szymanski*, Slippery Rock University of PA
    (1125-52-2447)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Using Rotations, If You Can Hide Behind It, Can You Hide Inside It?
    Michelle R. Cordier*, Wheeling Jesuit University
    (1125-52-2814)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    Lorentzian Ricci Solitons on Solvable Lie groups.
    T. H. Wears*, Longwood University
    (1125-52-2952)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on Discrete Mathematics in the Undergraduate Curriculum - Ideas and Innovations for Teaching, I
  A701, Atrium Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  John S. Caughman, Portland State University
  Art Duval, University of Texas El Paso
  Elise Lockwood, Oregon State University elise314@gmail.com
  

  • 8:20 a.m.
    Computational thinking in undergraduate discrete mathematics using Python and Jupyter notebooks.
    Robert Talbert*, Grand Valley State University
    (1125-C1-1159)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Four Problems from Computer Engineering to Enhance Student Enthusiasm in the Discrete Mathematics Classroom.
    Gregory V. Bard*, The University of Wisconsin---Stout
    (1125-C1-1659)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    New Presenter: New web-native animated interactive learning material for discrete math.
    Sandy Irani, Univ. of California, Irvine
    Frank Vahid*, Univ. of California, Riverside / zyBooks
    Alex Edgcomb, Univ. of California, Riverside / zyBooks
    (1125-C1-1449)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Definitions and Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics.
    Joshua Hallam*, Wake Forest University
    (1125-C1-1688)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Projects for Graph Theory Course.
    Yun Lu*, Kutztown University
    (1125-C1-2192)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Tricks to make counting harder for students.
    Oscar Levin*, University of Northern Colorado
    (1125-C1-1976)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    The Evolution of Problem Posing Approaches for Counting Problems.
    Aviva Halani*, Phillips Exeter Academy
    (1125-C1-910)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    The Password Activity: An Instructional Tool for the Combinatorics Classroom.
    Zackery Kevin Reed*, Oregon State University
    (1125-C1-3100)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Avoiding minimal elements in the poset of ways to introduce posets.
    John S. Caughman*, Portland State University
    (1125-C1-3131)
  • 11:20 a.m.
    Bridging Calculus and Discrete Math via the Discrete Derivative.
    Christopher J. Catone*, Albright College
    (1125-C1-668)
  • 11:40 a.m.
    Many Incarnations of Pascal.
    Hyman Bass*, University of Michigan
    (1125-C1-2606)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-11:40 a.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Game Theory, Systems, Control
  International 1, International Level, Marriott Marquis
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A fast relaxed normal two split method and an effective weighted TV approach for Euler's elastica image inpainting.
    Maryam Yashtini*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Sung Ha Kang, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1125-90-144)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Multi-commodity flow applied to tracking multiple targets.
    Thy M. Tran, Metron, Inc.
    James P. Ferry, Metron, Inc.
    John D. Foley*, Metron, Inc.
    Gregory A. Godfrey, Metron, Inc.
    (1125-90-2700)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Modeling Portfolios using Big Data: Histories and Weight Presentation.
    Rodrigue M Djikeuchi*, Morgan State University
    Isabelle Kemajou-Brown, Morgan State University
    (1125-90-2848)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Territorial movement game.
    Jan Rychtar*, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    (1125-91-452)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Asset Pricing Models with Heterogeneous Behavioral Investors.
    Yuanying Guan*, Indiana University Northwest
    (1125-91-650)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    A genetic algorithm approach to finding an optimal strategy for a folk dice game.
    David P Ebert*, Tarleton State University
    (1125-91-2560)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Optimal Control of Quadrotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles on Time Scales.
    Ozkan Ozturk*, Missouri University of Science and Technology
    Haci Mehmet Guzey, Missouri University of Science and Technology
    (1125-93-568)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Controllability of fractional neutral impulsive integro-differential equations in Banach spaces.
    Dimplekumar N Chalishajar*, Virginia Military Institute (VMI)
    C Ravichandran, KPR Institute of Engineering and Technology
    S Dhanalakshmi, Kongunadu Arts and Science College,
    (1125-93-837)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Causal Impact Modeling in Impulsive Systems using Non-standard Analysis.
    Nak-seung Patrick Hyun*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Erik I Verriest, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1125-93-1552)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    On the inverse problems for the nonlinear dynamical systems arising in mathematical biology.
    Roby Poteau*, Florida Institute of Technology
    Ugur G. Abdulla, Florida Institute of Technology
    (1125-93-3103)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    New bounds for equiangular lines and spherical two-distance sets.
    Wei-Hsuan Yu*, Michigan State University
    (1125-94-653)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    An alternative perspective for EEG data analysis.
    Michelle R DeDeo*, Univ. of North Florida
    (1125-94-658)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Filtering and Decoding Non-binary Tenengolts Codes Capable of Correcting Multiple Insertion/Deletion Errors.
    Alexander T Drumm, Rowan University
    Hieu D Nguyen*, Rowan University
    (1125-94-1033)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: One-Round Authenticated Group Key Establishment from Multilinear Mappings.
    Kashi Neupane*, University of North Georgia
    (1125-94-2922)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Violations of The Ingleton inequality and the inclusion-exclusion ratio.
    Michael E O'Sullivan*, San Diego State University
    John Mackenzie, San Diego State University
    (1125-94-3102)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-11:10 a.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Group Theory, Topological Groups, Lie Groups
  Fairlie, Conference Level, Hyatt Regency
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A GAP-conjecture and its solution: isomorphism classes of capable special $p$-groups of rank 2.
    Luise-Charlotte Kappe*, Binghamton University
    H. Heineken, University of Wuerzburg
    R. F. Morse, University of Evansville
    (1125-20-203)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    The Brauer Complex and Decomposition Numbers of Symplectic Groups.
    Ian Hogan*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Kent State University
    Michael Decker, Department of Computer Science, Kent State University
    (1125-20-564)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Connections Between the Number of Constituents and the Derived Length of a Group.
    Lisa Rose Hendrixson*, Kent State University
    Mark L. Lewis, Kent State University
    (1125-20-593)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    The lattice of algebraic closure operators on infinite subgroup lattices.
    Martha Kilpack, Brigham Young University
    Arturo Magidin*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    (1125-20-659)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A family of graphs that cannot occur as character degree graphs of solvable groups.
    Mark W Bissler*, Kent State University
    Mark L Lewis, Kent State University
    (1125-20-695)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    For what finite lattices does the lattice of closure operators form a subgroup lattice?
    Martha Lee H Kilpack*, Brigham Young University
    Arturo Magidin, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    (1125-20-905)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Inverse Semigroupoids and Their Free Objects.
    Veny Liu*, University of Hawaii-West Oahu
    Jon M Corson, University of Alabama
    (1125-20-1006)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Generalized dihedral groups in non-commutative cryptographic protocols.
    Randall D. Helmstutler*, University of Mary Washington
    (1125-20-1236)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A generalization of the Hanoi towers group.
    Rachel Skipper*, Binghamton University
    (1125-20-1640)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    The word problem for some classes of Adian semigroups, Adian inverse semigroups and Adian groups.
    Muhammad Inam*, University of West Georgia
    (1125-20-2050)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Break
  • 10:45 a.m.
    A Spectral Sequence Reduction for Low Dimensional Group Homology.
    Joshua Roberts*, Georgia Gwinnett College
    (1125-20-2655)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Action of intertwining operators on pseudo-spherical K-types and automorphic forms on metaplectic groups.
    Shiang Tang*, University of Utah
    (1125-22-89)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-9:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on Innovative and Effective Ways to Teach Linear Algebra, II
  Courtland, Conference Level, Hyatt Regency
  Organizers:
  Gil Strang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  David Strong, Pepperdine University
  Megan Wawro, Virginia Tech mwawro@vt.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Examining linear algebra students' endeavors in moving between the embodied, symbolic and formal worlds of mathematical thinking.
    Sepideh Stewart*, University of Oklahoma
    (1125-E5-3037)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    Student Mathematical Connections in an Introductory Linear Algebra Course Employing Both Inquiry-Oriented Teaching and Traditional Lecture.
    Spencer Payton*, Washington State University
    (1125-E5-1396)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Implementation of Various Teaching Practices to Address an Identity Crisis in Elementary Linear Algebra.
    Gulden Karakok*, University of Northern Colorado
    Emilie Hancock, University of Northern Colorado
    (1125-E5-3020)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Multiplying Matrices: an activity based approach.
    Maria Trigueros*, Department of Mathematics ITAM Mexico
    Edgar Possani, Department of Mathematics ITAM
    Ana Paulina Figueroa, Departamento de Matematicas ITAM
    (1125-E5-3065)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Inspiring Linear Algebra with Problems in Image Analysis.
    Marie A. Snipes*, Kenyon College
    Amanda Harsy Ramsay, Lewis University
    (1125-E5-2635)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: The Rank of a Circle of 1's in a Matrix.
    Gilbert Strang*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1125-E5-2561)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on Inquiry-Based Teaching and Learning, IV
  International 7, International Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  Judith Covington, Louisiana State University in Shreveport
  Theron Hitchman, University of Northern Iowa
  Angie Hodge, University of Nebraska Omaha
  Brian P. Katz, Augustana College briankatz@augustana.edu
  Alison Marr, Southwestern University
  Victor Piercey, Ferris State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Examples of Inquiry-Based Teaching and Learning: Applications with Public-use Cancer Data.
    Khairul Islam*, Eastern Michigan University
    (1125-G1-512)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    Experiences in an IBL Numerical Analysis course.
    Andrew-David Bjork*, Siena Heights University
    John Duvall, Siena Heights University
    Jesse Stires, Siena Heights University
    (1125-G1-1829)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    In a traditional Calculus class, students explored several topics using Excel with data. This helped connect the topics with their Engineering classes and introduced integration early in the course.
    James R Eby*, Blinn College - Bryan Campus
    (1125-G1-962)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Weighing Fog: Hands on Modeling for Day 1 of Differential Equations.
    Thomas J Clark*, Dordt College
    (1125-G1-1505)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Don't Drink the Kool-Aid!
    Audrey Malagon*, Virginia Wesleyan College
    Lydia Kennedy, Virginia Wesleyan College
    Kristin Burney, Virginia Wesleyan College
    (1125-G1-1821)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    A Novice Attempt at Teaching IBL Real Analysis.
    Jessica L Williams*, Converse College
    (1125-G1-2009)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Students Teaching Students Through Video Presentations.
    Matthew A Morena*, Young Harris College
    (1125-G1-2049)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    IBL with Jupyter notebooks.
    Carl Toews*, University of Puget Sound
    (1125-G1-3074)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Using a Problem Sequence to Teach Mathematics Majors Basic Programming Skills.
    Anneliese H. Spaeth*, Huntingdon College
    (1125-G1-1811)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Pushing Symbols: IBL in Mathematics and Computer Science.
    Randall E. Cone*, Salisbury University
    (1125-G1-706)
  • 11:20 a.m.
    How Can We Foster Collaboration and Inquiry in an Online Mathematics Course?
    Nermin Bayazit*, Fitchburg State University
    Florian Enescu, Georgia State University
    (1125-G1-2256)
  • 11:40 a.m.
    Implementing inquiry-based learning via online polls.
    Jonathan K. Hodge*, Grand Valley State University
    (1125-G1-2541)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on Intertwining Mathematics with Social Justice in the Classroom, I
  Embassy A, International Tower, LL2, Hyatt Regency
  Organizers:
  Catherine Buell, Fitchburg State University
  Zeynep Teymuroglu, Rollins College
  Joanna Wares, University of Richmond jwares@richmond.edu
  Carl Yerger, Davidson College
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Supermarkets, Highways, and Oil Production: Statistics and Social Justice.
    John Ross*, Southwestern University
    Therese Shelton, Southwestern University
    (1125-H1-2670)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    Social justice general education statistics course.
    J. D. Berg*, Fitchburg State University
    Catherine Buell, Fitchburg State University
    Danette Day, Fitchburg State University
    Rhonda Evans, Fitchburg State University
    (1125-H1-778)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Quantitative Ethics -- the Other Side of Mathematics and Social Justice.
    Victor I Piercey*, Ferris State University
    (1125-H1-2082)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Raising Awareness of Social Justice Issues in Calculus I: How to Get Started.
    Kathy W Hoke, University of Richmond
    Lauren Keough*, Grand Valley State University
    (1125-H1-1789)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Historical Perspectives on Social Justice in Mathematics.
    Nathan Napoleon Alexander*, University of San Francisco
    Aditya Adiredja, University of Arizona
    (1125-H1-2430)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Hard Conversations on Social Justice in Mathematical Spaces.
    Nathan Napoleon Alexander, University of San Francisco
    Zeynep Teymuroglu, Rollins College
    Carl R Yerger*, Davidson College
    (1125-H1-2501)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Discovering Undergraduate Mathematics in American Indian Culture.
    Charles Peter Funkhouser*, California State University Fullerton
    Miles R Pfahl, Turtle Mountain Community College
    Harriet C Edwards, California State University Fullerton
    (1125-H1-294)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Athletes, Education, and Welfare: Problems that Promote Quantitative Literacy and Social Justice.
    Samuel Luke Tunstall*, Michigan State University
    (1125-H1-232)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    A Quantitative Literacy Project on Poverty in the United States.
    Tricia Muldoon Brown*, Armstrong State University
    (1125-H1-2010)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Mapping Police Violence in Introduction to Statistics.
    Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson*, CUNY College of Staten Island
    (1125-H1-212)
  • 11:20 a.m.
    Authentic Messiness: Using data sourced from community-based partner organizations in an introductory level statistics course.
    Phong Le*, Goucher College
    (1125-H1-1855)
  • 11:40 a.m.
    Bias in the Courts? A Student-led Study of New York City's Arraignment Courts.
    Jared Warner*, Guttman Community College (CUNY)
    (1125-H1-2566)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  MAA Session on LOCATION CHANGE: Me and My Gadgets: Teaching with Technology
  International 2, International Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  Thomas Hagedorn, The College of New Jersey
  Karl R. B. Schmitt, Valparaiso University karl.schmitt@valpo.edu
  Michael Scott, California State University at Monterey Bay
  John Travis, Mississippi College
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Setup
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Poster Viewing/Mingling Time
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Using $Learning Catalytics^{TM}$ Technology as a Tool to Enhance Student Engagement in Pre-Calculus & Calculus.
    Denise Natasha Brewley*, Georgia Gwinnett College
    Priya Shilpa Boindala, Georgia Gwinnett College
    (1125-97-400)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Flipped Mastery Cycle Learning of Calculus II using a Plethora of Tools.
    J Todd Lee*, Elon University
    (1125-97-1657)
  • 9:25 a.m.
    Slope and Direction Fields --- Online, Without Java.
    Darryl K Nester*, Bluffton University, Bluffton, Ohio
    (1125-34-2458)
  • 9:35 a.m.
    Playing with Multivariable Calculus Concepts Wearing 3D Glasses.
    Paul E Seeburger*, Monroe Community College
    (1125-97-1718)
  • 9:50 a.m.
    Interactive textbooks in MathBook XML.
    Matt Boelkins, Grand Valley State University
    Oscar Levin*, University of Northern Colorado
    Bruce Yoshiwara, Los Angeles Pierce College
    (1125-97-3046)
  • 9:55 a.m.
    An OER textbook for Calculus-based Probability and Statistics using Mathbook XML.
    John P. Travis*, Mississippi College
    (1125-60-1338)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    One-On-One/Mingling Time
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Adaptations of Learning Glass Technology in Undergraduate STEM Education.
    Shawn Firouzian*, University of California San Diego
    Chris Rasmussen, San Diego State University
    Richard Levine, San Diego State University
    Matt Anderson, San Diego State University
    (1125-00-2994)
  • 11:05 a.m.
    Creating a Synchronous Learning environment through Advances in Technology.
    Vandana Sharma*, Arizona State University
    (1125-97-2625)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    "You ask ME a question!" What happens when we let students "strike back" on online quizzes?
    Brendan W Sullivan*, Emmanuel College
    (1125-97-2177)
  • 11:20 a.m.
    Assessing online teaching versus traditional face-to-fact teaching across multiple sections of service mathematics courses.
    Ju Zhou*, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
    Yun Lu, Kutztown university of Pennsylvania
    (1125-00-1722)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Two gadgets -- Simulations Using the Language Processing and Cell Phone Cameras.
    Frank Wattenberg*, United States Military Academy
    (1125-97-2367)
  • 11:35 a.m.
    The Clickers They Carry: Using smartphones and open platforms for spontaneous student feedback.
    Drew C. Youngren*, New York University
    (1125-97-2862)
  • 11:45 a.m.
    Gesture-Based Geometry on Mobile Platforms.
    Michael Hvidsten*, Gustavus Adolphus College
    (1125-97-449)
  • 11:50 a.m.
    Using MyMathLab for teaching undergraduate Mathematics courses.
    Bariaa Ghazi Shatila*, Flagler College
    (1125-97-603)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Applied Mathematics, III
  Piedmont, Conference Level, Hyatt Regency
  Organizers:
  Emelie Kenney, Siena College kenney@siena.edu
  Kimberly Presser, Shippensburg University kjpres@ship.edu
  Melvin Royer, Indiana Wesleyan University melvin.royer@indwes.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A predator-prey model for the ecological system in a lake with the effect of acid rain.
    Sharee Brewer*, Fisk University
    Taylor Swett, Fisk University
    Qingxia Li, Fisk University
    (1125-VC-1310)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Incoherent Matrices for Compressed Sensing.
    Ghanshyam Bhatt*, Tennessee State University
    (1125-VC-1313)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Multiplayer Fibonacci Nim.
    Annela R Kelly*, Bridgewater State University
    (1125-VC-1325)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Efficient Numerical Methods for Magnetohydrodynamics Flow.
    Timo Heister, Clemson University
    Muhammad Mohebujjaman*, Clemson University
    Leo Rebholz, Clemson University
    (1125-VC-1337)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Development of Modal Interval Algorithm for Solving Continuous Minimax Problems.
    Xin Luo*, The University of Alabama
    Min Sun, The University of Alabama
    (1125-VC-1437)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Wave-Induced Momentum Transport through a Non-Uniformly Stratified Thin Layer near the Tropoause.
    Ryan Joseph Nicely*, Arizona State University
    Ali S Cole, Arizona State University
    Mohammed Moustaoui, Arizona State University
    (1125-VC-1448)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A Numerical Simulation of Mountain Waves.
    Alexandra S Cole*, Arizona State University
    Ryan J Nicely, Arizona State University
    Mohamed Moustaoui, Arizona State University
    (1125-VC-1450)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Impact of Stability above, below and within the Tropopause on Mountain Wave-Induced Momentum Transfer to the Stratosphere.
    Duane C Harris*, Arizona State University
    Mohamed Moustaoui, Arizona State University
    Collin Kofroth, Arizona State University
    (1125-VC-1452)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Elliptic Curve based RFID authentication scheme and its software implementation.
    Parshuram Budhathoki*, Cameron University
    (1125-VC-1527)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Numerical Simulation of the Protostellar Jet HH24 C/E.
    Connor D Lincoln*, Arizona State University
    Carl Gardner, Arizona State University
    (1125-VC-1551)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Leading indicators of bifurcations in ecological systems.
    Suzanne M. O'Regan*, North Carolina A&T State University
    Danielle L. Burton, University of Tennessee
    (1125-VC-1578)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Global Existence of Solutions to Shallow Water Equations with Alternative Frictional Operators.
    Collin Kofroth*, Arizona State University
    Don Jones, Arizona State University
    (1125-VC-1592)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Pseudo Quantum Steganography and M-Band Wavelet based Denoising in Color Barcode.
    Hieu Nguyen*, Western Connecticut State University
    Julia Yu, Ridgefield High School
    Sarah Zhao, Phillips Academy
    Xiaodi Wang, Western Connecticut State University
    (1125-VC-1625)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    A Bisection Method for the Banded Hyperbolic Quadratic Eigenvalue Problem.
    Ahmed T. Ali*, University of Texas Arlington
    Li Ren-Ceng, University of Texas Arlington
    (1125-VC-1633)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Connecting Regional-scale Tree Distribution Models with Seed Dispersal Kernels.
    Ram C Neupane*, University of Wisconsin Whitewater
    (1125-VC-1654)
  • 11:45 a.m.
    Techniques in Lattice Basis Reduction.
    Bal K. Khadka*, Georgia Military College
    Spyros M. Magliveras, Florida Atlantic University
    (1125-VC-1678)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-10:10 a.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Geometry
  Kennesaw, Conference Level, Hyatt Regency
  Organizers:
  Emelie Kenney, Siena College kenney@siena.edu
  Kimberly Presser, Shippensburg University kjpres@ship.edu
  Melvin Royer, Indiana Wesleyan University melvin.royer@indwes.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On Path Width and Bridge Index of Virtual Knots.
    Noureen Khan*, University of North Texas at Dallas
    (1125-VE-76)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Intrinsic Surfaces of Revolution.
    Daniel J Freese*, Liberty University
    (1125-VE-890)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A New Set of Axioms for Metric Geometry.
    Bangyan Wen, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
    Yi Lin, Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA
    Zengxiang Tong*, Otterbein University
    (1125-VE-1002)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Distance in Geometry.
    Jerry Lodder*, New Mexico State University
    (1125-VE-1254)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Minimal tilings of the unit square.
    Iwan Praton*, Franklin & Marshall College
    (1125-VE-1451)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Who Really Proved the Ispoerimetric Theorem?
    James Case*, Baltimore MD
    (1125-VE-1897)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Seeing the Light: Connecting Conic Section Representations Using Flashlights and Parametric Functions.
    Jonathan M. Clark*, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    Lauren J. Clark, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    (1125-VE-2032)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Random walks on Gromov hyperbolic spaces.
    Matt Sunderland*, Graduate Center CUNY
    (1125-VE-2825)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    3-Ellipses on Spheres.
    Alfredo Villanueva*, Savannah State University
    (1125-VE-2869)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-10:25 a.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Other Topics, III
  Roswell, Conference Level, Hyatt Regency
  Organizers:
  Emelie Kenney, Siena College kenney@siena.edu
  Kimberly Presser, Shippensburg University kjpres@ship.edu
  Melvin Royer, Indiana Wesleyan University melvin.royer@indwes.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Sugihara's Impossible Cylinder Illusion.
    David Richeson*, Dickinson College
    (1125-VW-1195)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Outer Billiards, Fuchisan Groups, and Fundamental Regions.
    Stephanie Loewen, Grand Valley State University
    Tristan Wells*, Kansas State University
    (1125-VW-1427)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    When do we get erroneous roots?
    Steven Gottlieb*, Saugerties, New York
    Chris McCarthy, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
    (1125-VW-1440)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Mathematics Education Research Abroad: Observations from ICME-13.
    Emelie A Kenney*, Siena College
    (1125-VW-1531)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Enumerations on Non-decreasing Dyck Paths.
    Leandro Junes*, California University of Pennsylvania
    Rigoberto Florez, The Citadel
    Eva Czabarka, University of South Carolina
    (1125-VW-1496)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    The Settlers of "Catanbinatorics".
    Susanna Molitoris-Miller*, Kennesaw State University
    Brian Kronenthal, Kutztown University
    Jathan Austin, Salisbury University
    (1125-VW-1697)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Constructing a matroid from a finite group.
    Xueyi Lei*, Washington & Jefferson College
    (1125-VW-1931)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Subtraction Squares.
    R. Daniel Hurwitz*, Skidmore College
    (1125-VW-1988)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Four-Movement Classical Symphony: Mentoring Pre-Service Teachers Through IBL Model.
    Annie Han*, Department of Mathematics, BMCC, The City University of New York
    Fangyang Shen, City Tech, The City University of New York
    (1125-VW-2008)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Principal Component Analysis in Image Processing.
    Mohamed Allali*, Chapman University
    (1125-VW-1892)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-3:55 p.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Probability and Statistics, III
  Baker, Conference Level, Hyatt Regency
  Organizers:
  Emelie Kenney, Siena College kenney@siena.edu
  Kimberly Presser, Shippensburg University kjpres@ship.edu
  Melvin Royer, Indiana Wesleyan University melvin.royer@indwes.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Machine Learning for the Classification of Toxicological Endpoints.
    Channing S. Parker*, James Madison University
    Joshua R. Abrams, University of Arizona
    Denise J. Harness, East Tennessee State University
    Nina E. Galanter, Grinnell College
    (1125-VP-115)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Mixing Times for a Generalization of the Curie-Weiss Model via Aggregate Path Coupling.
    Peter Otto, Willamette University
    Benjamin Savoie*, University of Michigan - Flint
    Ana Wright, Willamette University
    Renjun Zhu, University of California - Berkeley
    (1125-VP-2631)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Corners in tree--like tableaux.
    Amanda Lohss*, Drexel University
    Paweł Hitczenko, Drexel University
    (1125-VP-2805)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Towards Developing Strategies for Winning at Pick-n Lotteries.
    Gerald Y Agbegha*, Georgia Gwinnett College
    (1125-VP-2829)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Decentralized change-point detection in correlated sensor networks.
    Grigory Sokolov*, SUNY at Binghamton
    Georgios Fellouris, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1125-VP-2706)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Characterizing the space of distributions of simple stochastic processes.
    Josh M Beal*, Indiana University East
    (1125-VP-2511)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Adjusted Empirical Likelihood for Long-memory Time Series Models.
    Ramadha D Piyadi Gamage*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
    Wei Ning, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
    Arjun K Gupta, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
    (1125-VP-2741)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    A Return Level Analysis of the 2016 Blizzard in New York City.
    Mintaek Lee*, Boise State University
    Jaechoul Lee, Boise State University
    (1125-VP-2798)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Multivariate Longitudinal Analysis of the effects of Depressive Symptoms, Financial Strain and Self Rated Health on Spiritual Connectedness.
    Budhinath Padhy*, State University of New York at Oswego
    Gemechis Djira, South Dakota State University
    (1125-VP-2800)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    On the Association of Certain Feller Processes.
    Eddie Tu*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    (1125-VP-2489)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    If Twitter Could Vote: Predicting Primary Results using Social Media.
    Adam Swayze*, Tarleton State University
    Mikaela Jordan, Tarleton State University
    Joseph Brown, Tarleton State University
    (1125-VP-2666)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    REML for cure rate model with extra partial information of diagnostic results.
    Durga H Kutal*, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
    (1125-VP-2874)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Mathematical Analysis of Lottery Voting.
    Stephanie Thrash*, St. Edward's University
    Nicole Buczkowski, Jacksonville University
    (1125-VP-3039)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    The Role of Technology in Overcoming the Common and Resistant Misconceptions about Probability.
    Kemal Akoglu*, North Carolina State University
    (1125-VP-3067)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Regional Discrepancies in Cancer Mortality Rates.
    Keshav P. Pokhrel*, University of Michigan-Dearborn
    (1125-VP-3116)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Relocated talk - 1125-VP 647 Steve Bacinski
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Mathematics Applied to the Physical Sciences
  Techwood, Conference Level, Hyatt Regency
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Surface Energy in Bond-Counting Models.
    Tim Krumwiede*, University of Tennessee
    Tim P Schulze, University of Tennessee
    (1125-70-1381)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Dynamics and locomotion of flexible foils in a frictional medium.
    Xiaolin Wang*, University of Michigan
    Silas Alben, University of Michigan
    (1125-70-2066)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    TALK RELOCATED: Inverse problems related to monitoring depth profile of residual stress via Rayleigh-wave dispersion.
    Yue Chen*, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Auburn University at Montgomery
    Chi-Sing Man, Department of Mathematics, University of Kentucky
    Kazumi Tanuma, Department of Mathematics, Gunma University, Japan
    (1125-74-1067)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Damage Modeling using Dissipation Potentials for State Based Peridynamic Fracture Evolution.
    Robert Lipton, Louisiana State University
    Eyad Said*, Louisiana State University
    (1125-74-2251)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    An efficient particle vortex method for vorticity dynamics in free space.
    Ling Xu*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
    Robert Krasny, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
    (1125-76-598)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Well-Posedness for Systems of Fluid-Particle Interaction.
    Joshua Ballew*, Carnegie Mellon University
    Konstantina Trivisa, University of Maryland, College Park
    (1125-76-739)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Viscous erosion and generalized traction integral equations.
    William H Mitchell*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Saverio Spagnolie, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1125-76-1188)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Flying Spiders: Simulating and modeling the dynamics of ballooning.
    Longhua Zhao*, Case Western Reserve University
    Angela Chuang, University of Tennessee
    Iordanka N. Panayotova, Christopher Newport University
    Kimberly S. Sheldon, University of Tennessee
    Lydia Bourouiba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Laura A. Miller, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (1125-76-2206)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Wave intensity analysis of left ventricle-systemic arteries interaction.
    Weiwei Chen*, University of Glasgow
    Hao Gao, University of Glasgow
    Xiaoyu Luo, University of Glasgow
    Nicholas A Hill, University of Glasgow
    (1125-76-2278)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Numerical Simulation of a Fluid Ratchet using an Immersed Boundary Framework.
    John C Chrispell*, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
    (1125-76-2691)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Tailoring Tails in Taylor Dispersion: How Boundaries Shape Chemical Deliveries in Microfluidics.
    Manuchehr Aminian, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Francesca Bernardi*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Roberto Camassa, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Daniel M. Harris, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Richard M. McLaughlin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (1125-76-2708)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Non-linear dynamics and analysis of Intracranial Saccular Aneurysms with growth and remodeling.
    Manal Badgaish*, George Mason University
    Jeng-Eng Lin, George Mason University
    Padmanabhan Seshaiyer, George Mason University
    (1125-76-2888)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: A 3-dimensional model of sperm motility in a Brinkman fluid.
    Nguyenho Ho*, University of Cincinnati
    Karin Leiderman, Colorado School of Mines
    Sarah Olson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    (1125-76-2917)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    Coupled microring cavities under PT-symmetry.
    Alexey Sukhinin*, University of Vermont
    (1125-78-1706)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Computation of wavefront aberration in rigid gas permeable corneal lenses.
    Sanjeewa S K Karunarathna*, Texas Tech University
    Ram Iyer, Texas Tech University
    (1125-78-2545)
  • 11:45 a.m.
    Prescribed Curvature and Optics.
    Sarah G Rody*, Drexel University
    (1125-78-2646)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on PIC Math and Preparing Students for Nonacademic Careers
  Embassy C, International Tower, LL2, Hyatt Regency
  Organizers:
  Michael Dorff, Brigham Young University mdorff@math.byu.edu
  Elly Farnell, Kenyon College
  Suzanne Weekes, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Students solving research problems from industry.
    Michael Dorff*, Brigham Young University
    (1125-L1-3120)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    Successes and Trials with PIC Math and Beyond.
    Michael W Schroeder*, Marshall University
    (1125-L1-2514)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Joint Program for PIC Math between Two Institutions.
    Hyunju Oh, Bennett College
    Jan Rychtar*, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    (1125-L1-1443)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Mathematics Seminar class: undergraduate research in mathematics.
    Zhifu Xie*, University of Southern Mississippi
    (1125-L1-1464)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Achieving Balance in a PIC Math Course.
    Steve M Cohen*, Roosevelt University
    (1125-L1-2864)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Please Come Back: Analyzing Alumni and Donor Data in my PIC Math Course.
    Chris Camfield*, Hendrix College
    (1125-L1-2215)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Learning Objectives and Assessment Techniques in a Preparation for Industrial Careers in Mathematical Sciences Course.
    Christina M. Selby*, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
    Joseph A. Eichholz, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
    (1125-L1-2652)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    How to find good industrial mathematics problems?
    Namyong Lee*, Minnesota State University
    (1125-L1-3126)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    PIC Math at Winthrop University: Finding Problems, Course Design, and Lessons Learned.
    Zachary J Abernathy*, Winthrop University
    (1125-L1-2601)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Gathering Research Problems from Local Industries: Our Experience in the N. Kentucky and Cincinnati Area.
    Dhanuja Kasturiratna*, Northern Kentucky University
    Lisa Holden, Northern Kentucky University
    (1125-L1-1683)
  • 11:20 a.m.
    Designing an Industrial Project Course for Mathematics Majors.
    Laura M Smith*, California State University, Fullerton
    (1125-L1-103)
  • 11:40 a.m.
    Introducing Industrial Problems via Capstone Experience.
    Stephen Pankavich*, Colorado School of Mines
    (1125-L1-2141)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Partial Differential Equations, I
  International A, International Level, Marriott Marquis
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On Nonlocal Keller-Segel Type Equations.
    Suleyman Ulusoy*, Sakarya, Turkey
    (1125-35-1394)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Blow-up problems for the heat equation with a local nonlinear Neumann boundary condition.
    Xin Yang*, Michigan State University
    (1125-35-36)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Global regularity for the 2D magneto-micropolar equations with partial dissipation.
    Dipendra Regmi*, Farmingdale State College (SUNY)
    (1125-35-149)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    On a family of inhomogeneous torsional creep problems.
    Marian Bocea*, Loyola University Chicago
    (1125-35-326)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Weak well-posedness of a fully coupled model of chemical thermo-poroelasticity arising in petroleum rock mechanics.
    Tetyana Malysheva*, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay
    Luther W. White, University of Oklahoma
    (1125-35-342)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Weak solutions and blow-up for wave equations of $p$-Laplacian type with supercritical sources.
    Pei Pei*, Otterbein University
    Mohammad Rammaha, University of Nebraska-Lincon
    Daniel Toundykov, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1125-35-479)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Identification of time dependent control parameter through finite difference method in parabolic partial differential equation.
    Melvin Lipka*, Cameron University
    Narayan Thapa, Cameron University
    (1125-35-518)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    On the Semigroup Generator for the Total Linearization of a Hydro-Elasticity Model.
    Steven Derochers*, North Carolina State University
    (1125-35-579)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Operator Differential Equations in Hilbert Spaces.
    Zhivko S. Athanassov*, Institute of Mathematics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
    (1125-35-675)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    A Dual-Flux Conservation Law for Plume Migration in Carbon Sequestration.
    Elisabeth MM Brown*, North Carolina State University
    Michael Shearer, North Carolina State University
    (1125-35-786)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Existence and symmetry of small-amplitude solitary water waves with discontinuous vorticity.
    Adelaide Akers*, University of Missouri-Columbia
    (1125-35-822)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    A theory of synchrony for active compartments with delayed coupled through bulk diffusion.
    Bin Xu*, University of Utah
    Paul Bressloff, University of Utah
    (1125-35-834)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On Riemann-Roch-Liouville theorem for elliptic PDEs on abelian coverings.
    Minh Kha*, Texas A&M University
    Peter Kuchment, Texas A&M University
    Yehuda Pinchover, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
    (1125-35-1074)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    Analysis of steady states for classes of reaction-diffusion equations with U-shaped density dependent dispersal on the boundary.
    Jerome Goddard II, Auburn University at Montgomery
    Quinn Morris*, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    Catherine Payne, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    Jordan Price, Auburn University at Montgomery
    R. Shivaji, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    (1125-35-1078)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Uniqueness results for classes of semipositone $p$-Laplacian problems.
    Ratnasingham Shivaji, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    Inbo Sim, University of Ulsan
    Byungjae Son*, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    (1125-35-1092)
  • 11:45 a.m.
    Validated Numerics Methods for Mixed Boundary Value Problem for the System of Elastostatics.
    Hussein Awala*, Temple University
    (1125-35-1520)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-10:15 a.m.
  MAA Session on The Advancement of Open Educational Resources, I
  A702, Atrium Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  Benjamin Atchison, Framingham State University batchison@framingham.edu
  Jeremy Russell, The College of New Jersey
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Curated Courses in Mathematics: Resources for Creation of Online Mathematics Content.
    Petra Bonfert-Taylor*, Dartmouth College
    Sarah E. Eichhorn, University of California, Irvine
    Tom Roby, UConn
    (1125-B5-216)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    Open Source Materials for QL: Modeling & Personal Financial Mathematics.
    Lindsay Orlando*, Austin Community College
    Mary Parker, Austin Community College
    (1125-B5-3010)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Building a Better Business Calculus (for Free!).
    Eric D Bancroft*, Grove City College
    (1125-B5-1703)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Active Calculus: Recent Developments.
    Matt Boelkins*, Grand Valley State University
    (1125-B5-236)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Sage Cells: Making Sage Accessible to Students, Teachers, and Authors.
    Thomas W. Judson*, Stephen F. Austin State University
    (1125-B5-959)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    The Journey of one Open Source Applied Combinatorics Text.
    Mitchel T. Keller*, Washington & Lee University
    (1125-B5-1166)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Using OERs Extensively in a Flipped Geometry Classroom.
    Roger Wolbert*, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
    (1125-B5-3025)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on The Creation and Implementation of Effective Homework Assignments, III
  L401 & L402, Lobby Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  Sarah Greenwald, Appalachian State University greenwaldsj@appstate.edu
  Judy Holdener, Kenyon College
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Are graphing skills a thing of the past?
    Monika Kiss*, Saint Leo University
    Brian Camp, Saint Leo University
    Doris Van Kampen-Breit, Saint Leo University
    Shawn Weatherford, Saint Leo University
    (1125-A5-1141)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    The Practicality of Writing Prompts in Freshman-Level Math Courses.
    Benjamin Gaines*, Iona College
    (1125-A5-741)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Shifting Feedback and Responsibility: Homework Presentations.
    Erika L. Ward*, Jacksonville University
    (1125-A5-2522)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Assigning Homework via Mixed Practice.
    Lori Carmack*, Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD
    (1125-A5-1859)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Learning Math Through Your Arm.
    Patricia L Hale*, Cal Poly Pomona
    (1125-A5-524)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    A Blended Approach to Homework Design Promotes Critical Thinking.
    Filippo Posta*, Grand Canyon University
    (1125-A5-2076)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair: Filling in the Gaps in Online Homework.
    Sara L Malec*, Hood College
    (1125-A5-2507)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Balancing online work and written work in calculus and general studies courses.
    Shelley B. Rohde*, Metropolitan State University of Denver
    (1125-A5-285)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Attempting to develop students' communication and critical thinking skills while using an online homework system.
    Michelle L Ghrist*, U.S. Air Force Academy
    (1125-A5-2938)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Creating Effective Online Homework Problems in Algebra, Calculus, and Differential Equations (Using WeBWorK).
    Paul E Seeburger*, Monroe Community College
    (1125-A5-2233)
  • 11:20 a.m.
    Writing effective questions and creating a successful homework system.
    David McCune*, William Jewell College
    (1125-A5-353)
  • 11:40 a.m.
    Challenge Investigations in a Sophomore/Junior-Level Geometry Course.
    Matthew J Haines*, Augsburg College
    (1125-A5-2316)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AWM Workshop: Special Session on Number Theory, I
  A704, Atrium Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  Alina Bucur, University of California, San Diego alina@math.ucsd.edu
  Ellen Eischen, University of Oregon eeischen@uoforegon.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Ring-LWE for the number theorist.
    Yara Elias, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics
    Ekin Ozman, Boğaziçi University
    Kristin E. Lauter, Microsoft Research
    Katherine E Stange*, University of Colorado Boulder
    (1125-11-747)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Curves with many automorphisms.
    Irene Bouw, Ulm University
    Wei Ho, University of Michigan
    Beth Malmskog, Villanova University
    Renate Scheidler, University of Calgary
    Padmavathi Srinivasan, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Christelle Vincent*, University of Vermont
    (1125-14-159)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The inverse Galois problem for symplectic groups.
    Valentijn Karemaker*, University of Pennsylvania
    Sara Arias-de-Reyna, University of Seville
    Cécile Armana, Université de Franche-Comté
    Marusia Rebolledo, Université Blaise Pascal Clermont-Ferrand 2
    Lara Thomas, Université de Franche-Comté
    Núria Vila, University of Barcelona
    (1125-11-641)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Explicit constructions of Ramanujan Bigraphs.
    Cristina M Ballantine*, College of the Holy Cross
    Brooke Feigon, The City College of New York
    Radhika Ganapathy, University of British Columbia
    Janne Kool, Max Plank Institute for Mathematics
    Kathrin Maurischat, University of Heidelberg
    Amy Wooding, McGill University
    (1125-20-746)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Classification of Elliptic Fibrations of a Singular K3 Surface.
    Marie José Bertin, Jussieu Institute of Mathematics, Pierre and Marie Curie University, France
    Alice Garbagnai, University of Milan,Italy
    Ruthi Hortsch*, Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics
    Odile Lecacheux, Jussieu Institute of Mathematics, Pierre and Marie Curie University, France
    Makiko Mase, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
    Cecília Salgado, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    Ursula Whitcher, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
    (1125-11-783)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Symmetries of Rational Functions Arising in Ecalle's Study of Multiple Zeta Values.
    Adriana Salerno*, Bates College
    Damaris Schindler, Hausdorff Center for Mathematics
    Amanda Tucker, SUNY Geneseo
    (1125-11-1323)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Orbital Integrals and Shalika Germs for $\mathfrak{sl}_n$ and $\mathfrak{sp}_{2n}$.
    Sharon M Frechette*, College of the Holy Cross
    Julia Gordon, University of British Columbia
    Lance Robson, Vancouver, British Columbia
    (1125-11-1139)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Transfer of Transfer.
    Thomas C. Hales, University of Pittsburgh
    Julia Gordon*, University of British Columbia
    Sharon Frechette, College of the Holy Cross
    Lance Robson, Vancouver, BC
    (1125-22-1605)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
  Project NExT Workshop
  Regency Ballroom VI, Ballroom Level, Hyatt Regency
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  MAA Invited Paper Session on New Directions in Quantitative Literacy for General Education, in Honor of Lynn Steen
  A706, Atrium Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  Catherine Crockett, Point Loma Nazarene University
  Gary Franchy, Southwestern Michigan College
  Andrew Miller, Belmont University andrew.miller@belmont.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Carnegie's Quantway Pathway: Using a Network Improvement Approach to Improve Quantitative Literacy Pedagogies.
    Cinnamon Hillyard*, University of Washington Bothell
    (1125-AD-3029)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Quantitative Reasoning Approach to Algebra for Business Students: Analysis and Preliminary Results.
    Victor I Piercey*, Ferris State University
    (1125-AD-613)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On Utilitarian and Aesthetic Goals of Mathematics Education: Quantitative Literacy and Humanistic Mathematics.
    Gizem Karaali*, Pomona College
    (1125-AD-781)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Quantitative Literacy and Social Justice: From Basic Examples to Transformative Experiences.
    Lily S. Khadjavi*, Loyola Marymount University
    (1125-AD-2252)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Thinking Quantitatively: Teaching and Assessing a Quantitative Reasoning Course.
    Eric Gaze*, Bowdoin College
    (1125-AD-1853)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 8:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Women in Analysis (In Honor of Cora Sadosky), I
  Embassy E, International Tower, LL2, Hyatt Regency
  Organizers:
  Alexander Reznikov, Vanderbilt University aleksandr.b.reznikov@vanderbilt.edu
  Oleksandra Beznosova, University of Alabama
  Hyun-Kyoung Kwon, University of Alabama
  Katharine Ott, Bates College
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Boundary value problems for second order parabolic and elliptic operators.
    Jill C Pipher*, Brown University
    (1125-35-1568)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Dirichlet problem for elliptic systems with data in Köthe function spaces.
    Irina Mitrea*, Department of Mathematics, Temple University
    (1125-35-1949)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Analysis of 2+1 Diffusive-Dispersive PDE Arising in River Braiding.
    Saleh Tanveer, The Ohio State University
    Charis Tsikkou*, West Virginia University
    (1125-35-811)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Box approximation for a pseudo-differential operator with an unbounded symbol.
    Vita Borovyk*, University of Cincinnati
    Konstantin Makarov, University of Missouri
    (1125-47-1261)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On an extension of Minkowski's theorem for measures.
    Galyna V Livshyts*, Georgia institute of technology
    (1125-52-432)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Persistence as a spectral property.
    Naomi Feldheim, Stanford University
    Ohad Feldheim, Stanford University
    Shahaf Nitzan*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1125-42-1680)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Falconer conjecture and its variants.
    Alex Iosevich*, University of Rochester
    (1125-42-620)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Exhibits and Book Sales
  Grand Hall, Exhibit Level, Hyatt Regency
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  AMS Invited Address
  Arrival time.
  Atrium Ballroom, Atrium Level, Marriott Marquis
  Tobias Holck Colding*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (1125-00-9)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  ASL Invited Address
  Expansions of Divisible Ordered Abelian Groups Without the Independence Property.
  A707, Atrium Level, Marriott Marquis
  Alfred R Dolich*, Kingsborough Community College and The Graduate Center (CUNY)
  (1125-03-857)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  CANCELLED: MAA Minicourse #9: Part B
  Statistical Education of Teachers
  L504 & L505, Lobby Level, Marriott Marquis
  Presenters:
  Anna E. Bargagliotti, Loyola Marymount University
  Christine Franklin, University of Georgia
  Denise Spangler, University of Georgia
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse #10: Part B
  Teaching an Applied Topology Course
  L508, Lobby Level, Marriott Marquis
  Presenters:
  Colin Adams, Williams College
  Robert Franzosa, University of Maine
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse #11: Part B
  Teaching an Introduction to the Mathematics of Computer Graphics
  L506 & L507, Lobby Level, Marriott Marquis
  Presenters:
  Nathan C. Carter, Bentley University
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  MAA Panel
  Outside the Equation - Exploring Alternative Forms of Mathematical Communication
  International 6, International Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  Samuel Hansen, ACMEScience
  Panelists:
  Anna Haensch, Dusquense Univeristy
  Robert Schneider, Emory University
  Edmund Harriss, University of Arkansas
  Tim Chartier, Davidson College
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  MAA Panel Discussion
  Roadblocks for Implementing Active Learning Strategies in Calculus Courses
  International 5, International Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  Debbie Gochenaur, Shippensburg University
  Larissa Schroeder, University of Hartford
  Panelists:
  Angie Hodge, University of Nebraska Omaha
  Matthew Boelkins, Grand Valley State University
  Darryl Yong, Harvey Mudd College
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  MAA Workshop
  Using Interactive Dynamic Technology in Teaching Introductory Statistics: Simulation-Based Inference.
  M304, Marquis Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  Gail Burrill, Michigan State University
  Presenters:
  Beth Chance, California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo
  Chris Franklin, American Statistics Association
  Darren Starnes, The Lawrenceville School
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  NAM Panel Discussion
  Transforming Post-Secondary Education (TPSE) Mathematics: Implications for the Preparation of African American Undergraduates and Institutions.
  A708, Atrium Level, Marriott Marquis
  Moderators:
  Duane Cooper, Morehouse College
  Panelists:
  Sylvester James Gates,Jr., University of Maryland at College Park
  Frank Ingram, Winston-Salem State University
  Asamoah Nkwanta, Morgan State University
  Suzanne L. Weekes, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Employment Center
  Centennial Ballroom, Ballroom Level, Hyatt Regency
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  ASL Invited Address
  Computation and information in sofic shifts.
  A707, Atrium Level, Marriott Marquis
  Linda Brown Westrick*, University of Connecticut
  (1125-00-123)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  MAA Special Presentation
  Weird Ways to Multiply (and isn't the spelling of "weird" weird?)
  Regency Ballroom VII, Ballroom Level, Hyatt Regency
  Presenters:
  James Tanton, MAA
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  NAM Business Meeting
  A708, Atrium Level, Marriott Marquis
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 10:05 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  MAA Invited Address
  Finding meaningful patterns: the decoding of the human microbiome.
  Atrium Ballroom, Atrium Level, Marriott Marquis
  Susan Holmes*, Stanford University
  (1125-A0-26)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 10:30 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Logic and Foundations
  Kennesaw, Conference Level, Hyatt Regency
  Organizers:
  Emelie Kenney, Siena College kenney@siena.edu
  Kimberly Presser, Shippensburg University kjpres@ship.edu
  Melvin Royer, Indiana Wesleyan University melvin.royer@indwes.edu
  

  • 10:30 a.m.
    Split Principles.
    Kaethe Minden*, The Graduate Center, CUNY
    (1125-VJ-1927)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    A Mitchell-like order for Ramsey cardinals.
    Erin Carmody, Nebraska Wesleyan University
    Victoria Gitman, The Graduate Center, CUNY
    Miha E. Habič*, The Graduate Center, CUNY
    (1125-VJ-1928)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Term Functors and Signature Product Models: A Brief.
    Cyrus F Nourani, DAI TU Berlin,DE & SFU Burnaby, Vancouver, BC, Canada
    Patrik Eklund*, Umea University, Department of Computing Science, SE-90187 Umea, Sweden
    (1125-VJ-2308)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    Club Guessing in Prikry Models.
    Shehzad Ahmed*, Ohio University
    (1125-VJ-2463)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Separable equivalence.
    Ron Taylor*, Berry College
    Carter Smith, Georgia Tech / Berry College
    Michael Papazian, Berry College
    (1125-VJ-2942)
  • 11:45 a.m.
    Effective Categoricity of Infinite Directed Graphs and Trees.
    Hakim J. Walker*, The George Washington University
    (1125-VJ-3013)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 10:35 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  MAA Panel
  The Impact of High School Calculus on the Transition to College Mathematics
  International 5, International Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  David Bressoud, Macalester College
  Brendan Murphy, John Bapst High School
  Panelists:
  Vilma Mesa, University of Michigan
  Dixie Ross, Pflugerville High School
  Phillip Sadler, Harvard University
  Bill Trapp, The College Board
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 10:35 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  MAA Panel
  What We Talk About When We Talk About Mathematics
  International 6, International Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  Samuel Hansen, ACMEScience
  Colin Adams, Williams College and Author
  Panelists:
  Beth Malmskog, Villanova University
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 10:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Project NExT Session
  Surviving and Thriving in Your First Course using Active Learning Techniques
  Regency Ballroom VI, Ballroom Level, Hyatt Regency
  Organizers:
  Leesa Anzaldo, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Sarah Hanusch, SUNY Oswego
  Scott Hottovy, United States Naval Academy
  Ben Wilson, Stevenson University
  Presenters:
  Martha Byrne, Sonoma State University
  Randall Crist, Creighton University
  Eric Hsu, San Francisco State University
  Thomas LoFaro, Gustavus Adolphus College
  Panelists:
  Amanda Sutherland, Shenandoah University
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  ASL Invited Address
  An application of model theory to noncommutative algebra.
  A707, Atrium Level, Marriott Marquis
  Rahim Moosa*, University of Waterloo
  (1125-03-122)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  SIGMAA on Math Circles for Students and Teachers(SIGMAA MCST) Special Presentation
  Math Circle Demonstration
  Regency Ballroom V, Ballroom Level, Hyatt Regency
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 11:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Mathemati-Con Special Presentation
  Mathemagician
  Regency Ballroom VII, Ballroom Level, Hyatt Regency
  Presenters:
  Arthur Benjamin, Harvey Mudd College
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Mathemati-Con Presents: Showtime!
  Three highly entertaining mathematics presentations by Arthur Benjamin, Sarah Greenwald, and Tim and Tanya Chartier.
  Regency Ballroom VII, Ballroom Level, Hyatt Regency
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 11:10 a.m.-11:40 a.m.
  MAA Business Meeting
  Atrium Ballroom, Atrium Level, Marriott Marquis
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 11:20 a.m.-11:40 a.m.
  Mathemati-Con Special Presentation
  Mathematical morsels from the Simpsons and Futurama.
  Regency Ballroom VII, Ballroom Level, Hyatt Regency
  Presenters:
  Sarah J. Greenwald, Appalachian State University
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 11:40 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Mathemati-Con Special Presentation
  Mime-matics
  Regency Ballroom VII, Ballroom Level, Hyatt Regency
  Presenters:
  Tanya Chartier, The Davidson Center
  Tim Chartier, Davidson College
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 11:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
  AMS Business Meeting
  Atrium Ballroom, Atrium Level, Marriott Marquis
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-1:50 p.m.
  NAM Claytor-Woodard Lecture
  Paths of minimal lengths on the set of exact differential $k$--forms.
  A708, Atrium Level, Marriott Marquis
  Wilfrid D. Gangbo*, Mathematics Department, UCLA
  Bernard Dacorogna, EPFL, Swiss
  Olivier Kneuss, Industry
  (1125-49-2327)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Advanced Mathematical Programming and Applications
  M301, Marquis Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  Ram N. Mohapatra, University of Central Florida ram.mohapatra@ucf.edu
  Ram U. Verma, University of North Texas
  Gayatri Pany, Indian Institute of Technology
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    A study on vector invex equilibrium problems with convexificator approach.
    Gayatri Pany*, Indian Institute of Technology
    (1125-90-338)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    On the asymptotic behavior of the solutions to the general weighted low rank approximation as one block of the weights approach to infinity.
    Xin Li*, University of Central Florida
    Aritra Dutta, University of Central Florida
    (1125-15-2490)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Self Adjoint Operator Harmonic Chebyshev-Grüss Inequalities.
    George A Anastassiou*, University of Memphis
    (1125-47-157)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Extended Complementarity Problems.
    Sabyasachi Pani*, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar
    Bijaya Kumar Sahu, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar
    (1125-90-1566)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Problem of Weighted Low-Rank Approximation of Matrices and its Applications in Machine Learning.
    Aritra Dutta*, University of Central Florida
    Xin Li, University of Central Florida
    (1125-65-2488)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Optimal methods to withstand cyber attacks: two case studies.
    Rachid Ait Maalem Lahcen*, University of Central Florida
    (1125-49-3007)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Mathematical Programming Approach Applied to Solve Aircraft Recovery Problems.
    Deepmala*, SQC & OR Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
    R. N. Mohapatra, University of Central Florida
    (1125-49-757)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On relations between vector variational inequality and nonsmooth vector optimization problems via strict minimizers.
    Balendu Bhooshan Upadhyay*, National Institute of Technology Manipur
    (1125-90-701)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Possibilistic Optimization: Some Recent Developments.
    Pankaj Gupta*, Department of Operational Research, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007, India
    (1125-90-1758)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Portfolio Optimization: Some Recent Developments.
    Mukesh Kumar Mehlawat*, University of Delhi, India
    (1125-90-1764)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Analytic Number Theory and Arithmetic, II
  Inman, Conference Level, Hyatt Regency
  Organizers:
  Robert Lemke Oliver, Tufts University robert.lemke_oliver@tufts.edu
  Paul Pollack, University of Georgia
  Frank Thorne, University of South Carolina
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Zeros of normalized combinations of the Riemann Xi function on the critical line.
    Sneha Chaubey*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Amita Malik, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Nicolas Robles, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Alexandru Zaharescu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1125-11-990)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    On $r$-gaps between zeros of the Riemann zeta-function.
    Caroline Turnage-Butterbaugh*, Duke University
    (1125-11-2148)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Microlocal analysis on representations and number-theoretic applications.
    Paul D Nelson*, ETH Zurich
    (1125-11-2857)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Averages of twisted $\mathrm{GL}(2)$ $L$-functions.
    Jesse Thorner*, Stanford University
    (1125-11-986)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Average central values of the degree 4 $L$-function on $\text{GSp}(4)/\mathbb{Q}$.
    Maria Monica Nastasescu*, Brown University
    (1125-11-1770)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Cubic Moments of $L$-functions and the Petersson formula for newforms.
    Ian Petrow*, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
    (1125-11-803)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The 4th moment of quadratic Dirichlet $L$-functions in function fields.
    Alexandra M Florea*, Stanford University
    (1125-11-825)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Sums of arithmetic functions over short intervals.
    Brad Rodgers*, University of Michigan
    (1125-11-864)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Correlations of multiplicative functions and applications.
    Oleksiy Klurman*, Department of Mathematics, University of Montreal and University College London
    (1125-11-1650)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    New Sifting Iterations.
    Zarathustra Elessar Brady*, Stanford
    (1125-11-2077)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Applications of Partially Ordered Sets in Algebraic, Topological, and Enumerative Combinatorics, II
  Spring, Conference Level, Hyatt Regency
  Organizers:
  Rafael S. González D'León, University of Kentucky rafaeldleon@uky.edu
  Joshua Hallam, Wake Forest University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Homology of Filters in the Partition Lattice.
    Dustin Hedmark*, University of Kentucky
    (1125-05-816)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: C-Monoids in Species and Posets.
    Miguel A. Mendez*, Universidad Antonio Nariño (UAN)
    (1125-12-978)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    On conjugacy classes of $S_n$ containing all irreducibles.
    Sheila Sundaram*, Pierrepont School, Westport, CT
    (1125-05-1720)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    A poset approach to the $q$-Stirling numbers.
    Yue Cai*, Texas A&M University
    Margaret Readdy, University of Kentucky
    (1125-05-316)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Infinite Neighbor Complexes.
    James J Madden, Louisiana State University
    Trevor McGuire*, Illinois Wesleyan University
    (1125-05-1144)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    SCHEDULE CHANGE: Progress on the $1/3-2/3$ Conjecture.
    Emily J Olson*, Michigan State University
    Bruce Sagan, Michigan State University
    (1125-05-2276)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The configuration space of a robotic arm in a tunnel.
    Federico Ardila*, San Francisco State University
    Hanner Bastidas, Universidad del Valle
    Cesar Ceballos, University of Vienna
    John Guo, San Francisco State University
    (1125-05-303)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Frankl Conjecture for subgroup lattices.
    Alireza Abdollahi, University of Isfahan
    Russ Woodroofe*, Mississippi State University
    Gjergji Zaimi, Los Angeles, CA
    (1125-05-896)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Baxter posets.
    Emily Meehan*, North Carolina State University
    (1125-05-1101)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Parabolic generalizations of the Catalan numbers.
    Matthew J Willis*, Wesleyan University
    (1125-05-357)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Continued Fractions, II
  Dunwoody, Conference Level, Hyatt Regency
  Organizers:
  James McLaughlin, West Chester University jmclaughlin@wcupa.edu
  Geremías Polanco, Hampshire College
  Nancy J. Wyshinski, Trinity College
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Some questions related to $R_{II}$ continued fractions.
    Mourad E. H. Ismail*, University of Central Florida
    (1125-33-683)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Continued fractions and Stern polynomials.
    Karl Dilcher*, Dalhousie University
    Larry Ericksen, Millville, NJ
    (1125-11-1306)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Continued fractions from Stern numbers and generalized polynomials.
    Larry Ericksen*, Millville, New Jersey
    Karl Dilcher, Dalhousie University
    (1125-11-1686)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Super-Apollonian continued fractions.
    Sneha Chaubey, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    Elena Fuchs, University of California, Davis
    Robert Hines*, University of Colorado, Boulder
    Katherine Stange, University of Colorado, Boulder
    (1125-11-933)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Simple applications of continued fractions and an elementary result on Heron's algorithm (with a generalization to $n$-adic numbers).
    Antonino Leonardis*, Milan, Italy
    (1125-11-1224)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On multidimensional Diophantine approximation of algebraic numbers.
    Csanád Bertók*, University of Debrecen, Institute of Mathematics, Hungary
    Attila Pethő, University of Debrecen, Institute of Informatics, Hungary
    Michael E. Pohst, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
    (1125-11-727)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the subgroup generated by solutions of Pell's equation and elements of order 2 in the corresponding quotient group.
    Elena C. Covill, Siena College
    Mohammad Javaheri, Siena College
    Nikolai A. Krylov*, Siena College
    (1125-11-992)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Indefinite forms, continued fractions, and binary necklaces.
    Barry R Smith*, Lebanon Valley College
    (1125-11-116)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Conjugates and reduced surds for non simple continued fractions.
    John Greene*, University of Minnesota Duluth
    Jesse Schmieg, University of Minnesota Duluth
    (1125-11-82)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Graphs and Matrices, II
  Embassy D, International Tower, LL2, Hyatt Regency
  Organizers:
  Sudipta Mallik, Northern Arizona University sudiptamallik.cu@gmail.com
  Keivan Hassani Monfared, University of Calgary
  Bryan Shader, University of Wyoming
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Average mixing of quantum walks.
    Chris Godsil*, University of Waterloo
    (1125-15-887)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Quantum state transfer on graphs with potential.
    Mark Kempton*, Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications, Harvard University
    (1125-05-2788)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Nowhere--zero bases for the nullspace of the incidence matrices of graphs.
    Saieed Akbari, Sharif University of Technology
    Amir Hossein Ghodrati, Sharif University of Technology
    Shahriar Shahriari*, Pomona College
    (1125-05-1735)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Eigenvalues of the Graphs $D(4,q)$.
    G. Eric Moorhouse, Department of Mathematics, University of Wyoming
    Shuying Sun*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware
    Jason Williford, Department of Mathematics, University of Wyoming
    (1125-05-225)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Combinatorial conditions that preclude SAPpiness.
    Louis Deaett, Quinnipiac University
    Colin M Garnett*, Black Hills State University
    (1125-15-1620)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Algebraic conditions induced by matrix patterns.
    Louis Deaett*, Quinnipiac University
    Colin Garnett, Black Hills State University
    (1125-15-1645)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Generalizations of the Strong Arnold Property and the inverse eigenvalue problem of a graph.
    Leslie Hogben*, Iowa State University and American Institute of Mathematics
    (1125-15-334)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Signed graphs with maximum nullity at most two.
    Marina Arav*, Georgia State University
    Frank Hall, Georgia State University
    Hein van der Holst, Georgia State University
    Zongshan Li, Georgia State University
    (1125-15-2169)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Essential sign change numbers of full sign pattern matrices.
    Xiaofeng Chen, Chongqing Jiaotong University
    Wei Fang, North University of China
    Wei Gao, Auburn University
    Yubin Gao, North University of China
    Guangming Jing, Georgia State University
    Zhongshan Li*, Georgia State University
    Yanling Shao, North University of China
    Lihua Zhang, Georgia State University
    (1125-15-2042)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Group Actions and Geometric Structures, II
  International C, International Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  Anna Wienhard, Universität Heidelberg wienhard@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de
  Jeffrey Danciger, University of Texas at Austin
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Fast Nielsen--Thurston Classification.
    Dan Margalit*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Balazs Strenner, Georgia Institute of Technology
    S. Őykü Yurttaş, Dicle University
    (1125-57-1356)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    The geometry of locally homogeneous complex manifolds.
    Andrew Michael Sanders*, University of Heidelberg
    (1125-51-557)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Classification of generalized cusps.
    Samuel A Ballas*, Florida State University
    Daryl Cooper, University of California Santa Barbara
    Arielle Leitner, Technion
    (1125-51-732)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A disconnected deformation space of rational maps.
    Eriko Hironaka*, Florida State University/AMS
    Sarah Koch, University of Michigan
    (1125-57-429)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    TIME CHANGED: Spectral networks craft hour.
    Aaron Fenyes*, University of Toronto
    (1125-57-1874)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The braid group of crystallographic complex reflection groups.
    Philip C Puente*, University of North Texas
    (1125-55-2703)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Inverse Problems and Multivariate Signal Analysis, II
  International 9, International Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  M. Zuhair Nashed, University of Central Florida M.Nashed@ucf.edu
  Willi Freeden, University of Kaiserslautern
  Otmar Scherzer, University of Vienna
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Shannon-Type Sampling, Paley-Wiener Reproducing Hilbert Space Structure, and Multi-Variate Antenna Problem.
    Willi Freeden*, University of Kaiserslautern
    M Zuhair Nashed, University of Central Florida
    (1125-42-1477)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Ultrasonic tomography inversion of the Helmholtz equation via indefinite convolution.
    Frank Stenger*, University of Utah
    (1125-41-3121)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Some inverse problems and boundary controls for phase-space transport equations.
    Guillaume Bal*, Columbia University
    (1125-35-2144)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Inverse Transport and Acousto-Optic Imaging.
    John C Schotland*, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan
    (1125-35-1587)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Numerical implementation of $\pi$-line reconstruction formulas in tomography.
    Adel Faridani*, Oregon State University
    (1125-65-2183)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Inverse Problems for the Wave Equation on Graphs.
    Sergei Avdonin*, University of Alaska Fairbanks
    Nina Avdonina, University of Alaska Fairbanks
    Julian Edward, Florida International University
    (1125-93-1028)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Stability in an hybrid inverse conductivity problems from minimal data.
    Alexandru Tamasan*, University of Central Florida
    (1125-35-3135)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Graph filter banks and signal reconstruction.
    Cheng Cheng*, University of Central Florida
    Junzheng Jiang, Guilin University of Electronic Technology
    Qiyu Sun, University of Central Florida
    (1125-94-1684)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Variational Multiscale Estimators for Nonparametric Regression and Statistical Inverse Problems.
    Miguel del Alamo*, Institute for Mathematical Stochastics, Georg-August-University Goettingen
    Axel Munk, Institute for Mathematical Stochastics, Georg-August-University Goettingen
    Housen Li, Institute for Mathematical Stochastics, Georg-August-University Goettingen
    (1125-62-1825)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Parameter Choices for Fast Harmonic Spline Approximation.
    Martin Gutting*, University of Siegen, Germany
    (1125-65-2263)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
  CANCELLED: MAA Minicourse #7: Part B
  Mathematical Modeling Contest Papers: Insights for Instructors and Students
  L504 & L505, Lobby Level, Marriott Marquis
  Presenters:
  Gregory Rhoads, Appalachian State University
  William Bauldry, Appalachian State University
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Mathematics of Signal Processing and Information, II
  International 10, International Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  Rayan Saab, University of California, San Diego rsaab@ucsd.edu
  Mark Iwen, Michigan State University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    On Generalized Phase Retrieval.
    Yang Wang*, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    (1125-41-893)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Phase Retrieval: under Corruption or with Quantization.
    Thang Huynh*, UC San Diego
    (1125-90-1009)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Multichannel Blind Deconvolution: New models, Fast algorithms, and Mathematical Performance Guarantees.
    Justin Romberg*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Kiryung Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Ning Tian, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1125-94-1143)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Error moments and optimal sampling distributions for the randomized Kaczmarz algorithm.
    Alexander M Powell*, Vanderbilt University
    Xuemei Chen, University of San Francisco
    (1125-42-1292)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Batched Stochastic Gradient Descent with Weighted Sampling.
    Deanna Needell*, Claremont McKenna College / UCLA
    Rachel Ward, UT Austin
    (1125-65-182)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Breaking sample complexity barriers via nonconvex optimization?
    Mahdi Soltanolkotabi*, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California
    (1125-49-795)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A tale of two bases: local-nonlocal regularization on image patches with convolution framelets.
    Rujie Yin*, Department of Mathematics, Duke University
    Tingran Gao, Department of Mathematics, Duke University
    Yue M. Lu, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
    Ingrid Daubechies, Department of Mathematics, Duke University
    (1125-41-627)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Some recent advances on equiangular tight frames.
    Matthew Fickus*, Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics, Air Force Institute of Technology
    (1125-42-224)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Biangular Harmonic Frames.
    Peter G. Casazza*, University of Missouri
    John Haas, University of Missouri
    Amineh Farzannia, University of Missouri
    Tin T. Tran, Department of Mathematics
    (1125-43-687)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    1-Bit Tensor Completion.
    Navid Ghadermarzy*, Mathematics Department, University of British Columbia
    Yaniv Plan, Mathematics Department, University of British Columbia
    Ozgur Yilmaz, Mathematics Department, University of British Columbia
    (1125-94-853)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Measure and Measurable Dynamics (In Memory of Dorothy Maharam, 1917-2014)
  M101, Marquis Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  Cesar Silva, Williams College csilva@williams.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Benford's Law: Detecting Fraud in Business Using Ergodic Theory.
    Jane M. Hawkins*, Univ. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (1125-37-758)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Dorothy Maharam's "On orbits under ergodic measure preserving transformations".
    Terrence M Adams*, U.S. Government
    (1125-37-774)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Radon-Nikodym derivatives for rational $p$-adic translations.
    Joanna Furno*, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
    (1125-37-1421)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Proximal and distal equivalence of minimal flows.
    Joseph Auslander*, University of Maryland
    (1125-37-2217)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Polynomial ergodic descent and uniformly metastable convergence.
    Eduardo Dueñez*, University of Texas, San Antonio
    José N Iovino, University of Texas, San Antonio
    (1125-37-2337)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Distances between regular languages using entropy.
    Kelly B. Yancey*, Institute for Defense Analyses - Center for Computing Sciences
    Austin J. Parker, Institute for Defense Analyses - Center for Computing Sciences
    Matthew P. Yancey, Institute for Defense Analyses - Center for Computing Sciences
    (1125-37-691)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Partially Bounded Transformations have Trivial Centralizer.
    Johann D. Gaebler*, Harvard University
    Cesar E. Silva, Williams College
    Xiaoyu Xu, Princeton University
    Zirui Zhou, University of California, Berkeley
    (1125-37-1077)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Qptimal Quantization.
    Dogan Comez, North Dakota State University
    Mrinal K Roychowdhury*, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
    (1125-37-759)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The mathematical work of Dorothy Maharam in ergodic theory and measure theory.
    Cesar E Silva*, Williams College
    (1125-37-2600)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Minimal Integral Models of Algebraic Curves, II
  The Learning Center, Ballroom Level, Hyatt Regency
  Organizers:
  Tony Shaska, Oakland University shaska@oakland.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Regular models of curves.
    Dino J Lorenzini*, University of Georgia
    (1125-14-1334)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    The Satake sextic in elliptic fibrations on K3.
    Andreas Malmendier*, Utah State University
    Tony Shaska, Oakland University
    (1125-14-2062)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Surjectivity of Galois Representations in Rational Families of Abelian Varieties.
    Ashvin A Swaminathan*, Harvard University
    Aaron Landesman, Stanford University
    James Tao, Harvard University
    Yujie Xu, California Institute of Technology
    (1125-11-879)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Dessins d'enfants and a curve of Wiman.
    Emilio Bujalance, UNED, Spain
    Antonio F. Costa, UNED, Spain
    Milagros Izquierdo*, Linköping University, Sweden
    (1125-14-289)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Conductors and minimal discriminants of hyperelliptic curves.
    Padmavathi Srinivasan*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1125-11-2325)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Higher-order Weierstrass points on certain hyperelliptic curves, superelliptic curves, and associated towers.
    Caleb McKinley Shor*, Western New England University
    (1125-14-2886)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    An explicit theta lift from Hilbert modular forms to Siegel parmodular forms.
    Malcolm Edward Rupert*, University of Idaho
    (1125-11-3012)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on NSFD Discretizations: Recent Advances, Applications, and Unresolved Issues
  L405 & L406, Lobby Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  Talitha M. Washington, Howard University talitha.washington@howard.edu
  Ronald E. Mickens, Clark Atlanta University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    What is a NSFD Scheme?
    Ronald E. Mickens*, Clark Atlanta University
    (1125-39-485)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    A NSFD Scheme For Discretizing Radial Derivatives: History, Application and Significance.
    Ron Buckmire*, National Science Foundation
    (1125-65-407)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Construction of Dynamically-consistent Discrete-time Models Arising in the Natural and Engineering Sciences.
    Abba Gumell*, Arizona State University
    (1125-92-490)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Continuous and discrete models for the declines of honeybee colonies.
    Jean MS Lubuma*, University of Pretoria
    Mataeli B Lerata, University of Pretoria
    Abdullahi Yusuf, University of Pretoria
    (1125-92-98)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    NSFDMs as FOFDMs for robust simulation of parameter sensitive partial differential equations.
    Kailash C. Patidar*, Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
    (1125-65-29)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Employing Conservation Laws to Construct Nonstandard Finite Difference Schemes.
    Talitha M Washington*, Howard University
    (1125-39-957)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A Class of Nonstandard Finite Difference Methods for Autonomous Dynamical Systems.
    Hristo V Kojouharov*, The University of Texas at Arlington
    Daniel T Wood, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
    Dobromir T Dimitrov, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
    (1125-65-850)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Creating Non-standard Finite Difference Schemes : Why Bother?
    Oluwaseye Adekanye*, Howard University
    Talitha Washington, Howard University
    (1125-39-401)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Global Dynamics and Geometry of Competitive Maps.
    E Cabral Balreira*, Trinity University
    Saber Elaydi, Trinity University
    Rafael Luis, Center for Mathematical Analysis, Geometry, and Dynamical Systems, Technical University of Lisbon
    (1125-51-1397)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on New Developments in Noncommutative Algebra & Representation Theory, II
  A705, Atrium Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  Ellen Kirkman, Wake Forest University kirkman@wfu.edu
  Chelsea Walton, Temple University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Cartan Subalgebras for Quantum Symmetric Pair Coideals.
    Gail Letzter*, National Security Agency
    (1125-17-725)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Bernstein--Sato polynomials and monodromy conjectures for Weyl arrangements.
    Asilata Bapat*, The University of Georgia
    Robin Walters, Northeastern University
    (1125-17-2191)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Quivers from Double Bruhat Cells of Kac-Moody Algebras.
    Maitreyee Chandramohan Kulkarni*, Louisiana State University
    (1125-00-2164)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Higher Schur-Weyl duality for Lie supersubalgebras.
    Mee Seong Im*, United States Military Academy, West Point
    (1125-16-476)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Automorphisms, derivations, and subalgebras of the insertion-elimination algebra.
    Emilie B Wiesner*, Ithaca College
    Matthew Ondrus, Weber State University
    (1125-17-373)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Path algebras of quivers and representations of locally finite Lie algebras.
    J Hennig*, University of Alberta
    S Sierra, University of Edinburgh
    (1125-17-2403)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the structures of Hopf algebras in prime characteristic.
    Van C. Nguyen*, Northeastern University
    Xingting Wang, Temple University
    (1125-16-1349)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Non-noetherian Hopf algebras versus noetherian Hopf algebras.
    Xingting Wang*, Temple University
    Xiaolan Yu, Hangzhou Normal University
    Yinhuo Zhang, University of Hasselt
    (1125-16-1769)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Projectivity and tensor products for some Hopf algebras.
    Julia Plavnik*, Texas A&M University
    Sarah Witherspoon, Texas A&M University
    (1125-16-998)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Eigenvalues of rotations in ribbon fusion categories.
    Daniel Barter, University of Michigan
    Corey Jones, Australian National University
    Henry Tucker*, UC San Diego
    (1125-18-2833)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Open & Accessible Problems for Undergraduate Research, II
  International 4, International Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  Allison Henrich, Seattle University henricha@seattleu.edu
  Michael Dorff, Brigham Young University
  Nicholas Scoville, Ursinus College
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Some open problems in computational Galois theory.
    Chad Awtrey*, Elon University
    (1125-12-1660)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Undergraduate Research for Non Academic Careers.
    Alicia Prieto Langarica*, Youngstown State University
    (1125-97-2518)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Projects for Undergraduates in the construction of solutions to truncated Moment Problems and applications to PDEs.
    C Flores*, California State University Channel Islands
    (1125-35-3142)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Open accessible problems in knot theory.
    Colin Adams*, Williams College
    (1125-57-606)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Knot mosaics - something for everyone.
    Lew Ludwig*, Denison University
    (1125-55-1639)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Some problems related to networks, random walks and choice.
    Kenneth Stephen Berenhaut*, Wake Forest University
    (1125-60-2951)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Undergraduate research projects in graph theory.
    Dewey Taylor*, Virginia Commonwealth University
    (1125-05-2785)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Puzzle type undergraduate projects in combinatorics and graph theory.
    Darren A. Narayan*, Rochester Institute of Technology
    (1125-05-1017)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Prime labelings of graphs with the Gaussian integers.
    Steven Klee*, Seattle University
    (1125-05-1052)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Data Mining the MathFeed News App.
    Francis Edward Su*, Harvey Mudd College
    (1125-62-2632)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on PDE Analysis on Fluid Flows, II
  Embassy F, International Tower, LL2, Hyatt Regency
  Organizers:
  Xiang Xu, Old Dominion University x2xu@odu.edu
  Geng Chen, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Ronghua Pan, Georgia Institute of Technology
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Deterministic and stochastic aspects of fluid mixing.
    Michele Coti Zelati*, University of Maryland
    (1125-35-772)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Uniqueness for shock reflection problem.
    Gui-Qiang Chen, University of Oxford, UK
    Mikhail Feldman*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Wei Xiang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
    (1125-35-2142)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Singular Shocks in a Chromatography Model.
    Charis Tsikkou*, West Virginia University
    (1125-35-812)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Hyperbolic Conservation Laws for Isometric Immersions.
    Dehua Wang*, University of Pittsburgh
    (1125-35-885)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Break
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Global wellposedness of cubic Camassa-Holm equations.
    Qingtian Zhang*, University of California, Davis
    (1125-35-922)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Global dynamics of Cahn-Hilliard-Brinkman equations in critical space.
    Kun Zhao*, Tulane University
    (1125-35-662)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Coupling of free flow with porous media flow.
    Xiaoming Wang*, Florida State University
    (1125-35-2097)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Analysis of microstructures in martensite-austenite phase transitions using sharp variational bounds.
    Oleksandr Misiats*, Courant Institute, NYU
    Robert Kohn, Courant Institute, NYU
    Stefan Muller, University of Bonn
    (1125-35-109)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The quasi-geostrophic equations for large-scale geophysical flows with a free surface.
    Qingshan Chen*, Clemson University
    (1125-35-456)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Pure and Applied Talks by Women Math Warriors Presented by EDGE (Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education)
  M106 & M107, Marquis Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  Candice Price, University of San Diego candice.r.price@gmail.com
  Amy Buchman, Tulane University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    What is the EDGE(Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education) Program?
    Amy Buchmann, Tulane University
    Candice Price*, University of San Diego
    (1125-00-2899)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Slender body theory: an error analysis.
    Laurel A Ohm*, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
    (1125-76-2530)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Synchrony and the dynamic dichotomy in a class of matrix population models.
    Amy Veprauskas*, University of Louisiana, Lafayette
    (1125-92-1512)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Rat GPS: Drawing Place Field Diagrams of Neural Codes Using Toric Ideals.
    Nida K. Obatake*, Texas A&M University
    Elizabeth Gross, San Jose State University
    Nora E. Youngs, Colby College
    (1125-92-246)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Computational Model of Ciliary Beating.
    Amy Buchmann*, Tulane University
    Ricardo Cortez, Tulane University
    Lisa Fauci, Tulane University
    (1125-76-2889)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The Generating Family Cohomology Ring for Legendrian Submanifolds.
    Ziva Myer*, Bryn Mawr College
    (1125-53-1051)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Forget Yellow: Follow the Properly Colored Brick Road Instead.
    Kathleen Ryan*, DeSales University
    Vincent Coll, Lehigh University
    Jonelle Hook, Mount St. Mary's University
    Colton Magnant, Georgia Southern University
    Karen McCready, King's College
    (1125-05-1478)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Super-Catalan numbers and rooted binary trees.
    Stefanie Wang*, Iowa State University
    (1125-17-1194)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A new lower bound for a vertex-identifying code in general graphs.
    Ryan R. Martin, Iowa State University
    Brendon Stanton, US Government
    Shanise Walker*, Iowa State University
    (1125-05-356)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Saturation and Constructing $(K_t-e)$-saturated graphs.
    Jessica Fuller*, Emory University
    Ronald J. Gould, Emory University
    (1125-05-920)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research in Mathematics by Undergraduates and Students in Post-Baccalaureate Programs, IV
  International 8, International Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  Darren A. Narayan, Rochester Institute of Technology dansma@rit.edu
  Tamas Forgacs, California State University, Fresno
  Ugur Abdulla, Florida Institute of Technology
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Impact of Light and Temperature on the Transpiration Ratio of Plants.
    Payson Merrit Lippert*, Montana Tech of the University of Montana
    Laurie Battle, Montana Tech of the University of Montana
    (1125-92-440)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Living on the Edge: Improved Reconstruction of Fourier Series using Jump Information with Applications to MRI.
    Jade Larriva-Latt, Wellesley College
    Angela Morrison*, Albion College
    Alison Radgowski, Goucher College
    Joseph Tobin, University of Virginia
    (1125-42-2406)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Predicting methane concentration in the atmosphere through mathematical modeling, computation and simulation.
    Christopher Moro*, Inter American University of PR- Bayamon Campus
    Padmanabhan Seshaiyer, George Mason University
    Carmen Caiseda, Inter American University of PR- Bayamon Campus
    (1125-65-2650)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    On sets of cardinality 2 of nondecreasing diameter.
    Adam T. O'Neal*, Marshall University
    Michael Schroeder, Marshall University
    (1125-05-792)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Classically Integral Quadratic Forms Excepting at Most Two Values.
    Madeleine Barowsky*, Wellesley College
    William Damron, Davidson College
    Andres Mejia, Bard College
    Frederick Saia, Tufts University
    Nolan Schock, California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo
    Katherine Thompson, DePaul University
    (1125-11-125)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Enumeration of Triangles in a $2^{t}$th Residue Graph.
    Benjamin J. Hamlin*, Armstrong State University
    Joshua K. Lambert, Armstrong State University
    Mark R. Budden, Western Carolina University
    (1125-05-1066)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Isoperimetric tiling in the hyperbolic plane.
    Leonardo Di Giosia, Lewis & Clark College and Williams College
    Jahanger Habib, Williams College
    Lea Kenigsberg, Stony Brook University and Williams College
    Dylanger Pittman, Williams College
    Weitao Zhu*, Williams College
    (1125-51-543)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Log Convex Density Conjecture in Hyperbolic Space.
    Leonardo S. Digiosia*, Lewis & Clark College, Williams College
    Lea Kenigsberg, Stony Brook University, Williams College
    Dylanger Pittman, Williams College
    Jay Habib, Williams College
    Weitao Zhu, WIlliams College
    (1125-53-583)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Double Bubbles In Borell Space.
    Leonardo DiGiosia, Lewis & Clark College
    Jahangir Habib, Williams College
    Lea Kenigsberg, Stony Brook University
    Dylanger Pittman*, Williams College
    Weitao Zhu, Williams College
    (1125-51-1372)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Teaching Assistant Development Programs: Why and How?, II
  International 3, International Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  Solomon Friedberg, Boston College solomon.friedberg@bc.edu
  Jessica Deshler, West Virginia University
  Jeffrey Remmel, University of California, San Diego
  Lisa Townsley, University Of Georgia
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    A Dean's Perspective.
    David Manderscheid*, The Ohio State University
    (1125-97-766)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Graduate Student Instructor Mentorship Model: A professional development that trains experienced graduate students to pedagogically mentor novice mathematics graduate student instructors.
    Sean P Yee*, University of South Carolina
    Kimberly Rogers, Bowling Green State University
    (1125-97-46)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    TIME CHANGED: The Teaching Seminar and Beyond: What Do Graduate Students Find Valuable as They Learn to Teach?
    Juliana V. Belding*, Boston College
    (1125-97-719)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Using research on student learning and teachers' knowledge to design professional development for novice college mathematics instructors.
    Natasha M. Speer*, The University of Maine
    (1125-97-2383)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Mentoring GTAs as they teach: Providing tools to develop successful teachers.
    Lisa Townsley*, University of Georgia
    (1125-97-1428)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: `I teach' versus `I am a teacher': The Role of Identity in Graduate Student Professional Development.
    Eliza Dargan Gallagher*, Clemson University
    (1125-97-813)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    TIME CHANGED: Identifying Opportunities to Renovate the Professional Development of Teaching Assistants.
    Fabiana Cardetti*, University of Connecticut
    (1125-97-982)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    How can we help novice college mathematics instructors know what their students know? Questioning strategies and formative assessment for the college mathematics classroom.
    Jack Bookman*, Duke University
    (1125-97-2480)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Rutgers TA Training: Continuity and Change.
    Michael Weingart*, Rutgers University
    (1125-00-1227)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    From Graduate Student to Classroom Teacher: Constructing Pathways for Success.
    Robin J. Gottlieb*, Harvard University
    Jameel Habib Al-Aidroos, Harvard University
    (1125-97-681)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #13: Part B
  Teaching Modeling-First Differential Equations--Technology and Complete End Game Efforts.
  L506 & L507, Lobby Level, Marriott Marquis
  Presenters:
  Rosemary Farley, Manhattan College
  Jon Paynter, US Military Academy
  Therese Shelton, Southwestern College
  Patrice Tiffany, Manhattan College
  Brian Winkel, SIMIODE
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #15: Part A
  Unraveling Four Interesting Ciphers
  L508, Lobby Level, Marriott Marquis
  Presenters:
  Chris Christensen, Northern Kentucky University
  Jeffrey Ehme, Spelman College
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Women in Analysis (In Honor of Cora Sadosky), II
  Embassy E, International Tower, LL2, Hyatt Regency
  Organizers:
  Alexander Reznikov, Vanderbilt University aleksandr.b.reznikov@vanderbilt.edu
  Oleksandra Beznosova, University of Alabama
  Hyun-Kyoung Kwon, University of Alabama
  Katharine Ott, Bates College
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Equivalent definitions of product Hardy spaces on spaces of homogeneous type.
    Maria Cristina Pereyra*, University of New Mexico
    (1125-46-2015)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Higher order Journe commutators and multi-parameter BMO.
    Stefanie Petermichl*, Universite Paul Sabatier
    (1125-42-360)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Cesàro-type operators on Hardy and Bergman space of analytic functions on the unit ball.
    Snehalatha Ballamoole*, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi
    Thomas Len Miller, Mississippi State University
    Vivien Glass Miller, Mississippi State University
    Mathew Scott McBride, Mississippi State University
    (1125-32-2431)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Wavelet Sets in Vector Spaces over Cyclic Groups of Prime Order.
    Azita Mayeli*, City University of New York, The Graduate Center and Queensborough
    (1125-42-2340)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Uniform sparse domination of singular integrals via dyadic shifts.
    Amalia Culiuc*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Francesco Di Plinio, The University of Virginia
    Yumeng Ou, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1125-26-1894)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Recent Results in Sparse Domination.
    Michael T Lacey*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1125-42-114)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Muckenhoupt-Wheeden conjectures for sparse operators.
    Cong Q Hoang*, University of Alabama
    Kabe Moen, University of Alabama
    (1125-42-575)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Strong pseudoconvexity in infinite dimension.
    Sofia Ortega-Castillo*, CIMAT (Mexico)
    (1125-32-3062)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Associative and Nonassociative Rings and Algebras, Category Theory, and Homological Algebra
  Fairlie, Conference Level, Hyatt Regency
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    The Bar Simplicial Module.
    Jacob Laubacher*, Bowling Green State University
    Mihai D. Staic, Bowling Green State University
    Alin Stancu, Columbus State University
    (1125-16-106)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    Global Dimension of Connected Hopf Algebras.
    Daniel O Yee*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    (1125-16-274)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    An Invitation to $\mathcal{A}$-Calculus for Undergraduates.
    James S. Cook*, Liberty University
    (1125-16-276)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    Calculus on a Real Associative Algebra.
    Daniel J Freese*, Liberty University
    (1125-16-892)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    The Cancellation Problem for Some Quantum Algebras.
    Xin Tang*, Math & Computer Science, Fayetteville State University
    (1125-16-1485)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Associativity and Infinite Matrices.
    Daniel P. Bossaller*, Ohio University
    Sergio R. López-Permouth, Ohio University
    (1125-16-1499)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Presenting cyclotomic Schur algebras.
    Jieru Zhu*, University of Oklahoma
    Jonathan Kujawa, University of Oklahoma
    (1125-16-1828)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    On the representation theory of the marked Brauer algebra.
    Benjiman C Tharp*, University of Oklahoma
    (1125-16-2002)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Structure of certain von Neumann regular rings.
    Hazar M. Abu-Khuzam*, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
    (1125-16-2026)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Drinfeld orbifold algebras for symmetric groups.
    Briana Foster-Greenwood*, Cal Poly Pomona
    Cathy Kriloff, Idaho State University
    (1125-16-2235)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Strongly Non-Singular Rings, Morita-Equivalence, and the Maximal Ring of Quotients.
    Bradley S. McQuaig*, Auburn University
    (1125-16-2253)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Gröbner basis for local Weyl modules for the hyper and trucated current $\mathfrak{sl}_2$--algebras.
    Angelo Bianchi, Federal University of São Paulo (ICT - Unifesp), Brazil
    Evan Wilson*, Franklin & Marshall University
    (1125-17-312)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    New Realization of Twisted Toroidal Lie Algebras.
    Naihuan Jing, North Carolina State University
    Chad R. Mangum*, Niagara University
    Kailash C. Misra, North Carolina State University
    (1125-17-335)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Crystal folding.
    John M. Dusel*, Whittier College
    (1125-17-1800)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Multiplicities of maximal dominant weights of integrable modules.
    Rebecca L. Jayne*, Hampden-Sydney College
    (1125-17-1993)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Principal Subspaces of Twisted Modules of Lattice Vertex Operator Algebras.
    Michael Penn*, Colorado College
    Christopher Sadowski, Ursinus College
    Gautam Webb, University of Oregon
    (1125-17-2472)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Invariants of the Free-Fermion Vertex Algebra under the Action of $\mathbb{Z}/2$.
    Olivia Chandrasekhar*, The Colorado College
    Hanbo Shao, The Colorado College
    Michael Penn, The Colorado College
    (1125-17-2572)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Diagrammatic categorification of the Chebyshev polynomials.
    Radmila Sazdanovic*, North Carolina State University
    Mikhail Khovanov, Columbia University
    (1125-18-1534)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Categorified Geometry through Stacks of 2-Rings.
    Karthik Yegnesh*, Lansdale, Pennsylvania
    (1125-18-1582)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Combinatorics and Graph Theory, IV
  Greenbriar, Conference Level, Hyatt Regency
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Vertex Minimal Graphs with Dihedral Symmetry.
    Lindsey-Kay Lauderdale*, University of Texas at Tyler
    Christina Graves, University of Texas at Tyler
    Stephen Graves, University of Texas at Tyler
    (1125-05-2422)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    On Robust Colorings of the Hamming-Distance Graph.
    Isaiah Harney*, University of Kentucky
    Heide Gluesing-Luerssen, University of Kentucky
    (1125-05-2481)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Unimodal rooted forests.
    Katie Anders*, University of Texas at Tyler
    Kassie Archer, University of Texas at Tyler
    (1125-05-2500)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    A Remmel-Whitney style rule for products of quasisymmetric and symmetric Schur functions.
    Elizabeth Niese*, Marshall University
    (1125-05-2533)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Pattern-avoiding cycles.
    Kassie Archer*, University of Texas at Tyler
    Lindsey-Kay Lauderdale, University of Texas at Tyler
    (1125-05-2577)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Multiplicative properties of partitions of integers.
    Stephen M. Gagola III*, Miami University
    (1125-05-2579)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Base Size Sets and Determining Sets.
    Joshua D Laison*, Willamette University
    Erin M McNicholas, Willamette University
    Nicole S Seaders, Oregon State University
    (1125-05-2589)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    A Pattern Avoidance Criteria for Parabolic Fiber Bundle Structures of Schubert Varieties.
    Timothy Alland*, Oklahoma State University
    Edward Richmond, Oklahoma State University
    (1125-05-2649)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Reconstructing Partitions from their Multisets of $k$-Minors.
    Pakawut Jiradilok*, Harvard University
    (1125-05-2661)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Not all communities are far apart: Incorporating community distance into community detection.
    Stephen J Young*, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    Tobias Hagge, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    Patrick Mackey, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    Kathleen Nowak, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    Jennifer Webster, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    (1125-05-2851)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Oriented Gain Graphs, Line Graphs and Eigenvalues.
    Nathan H Reff*, The College at Brockport, State University of New York
    (1125-05-2872)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Computing Odd Graceful Labelings in Noncomputable Graphs.
    Taylor McMillan*, University of Northern Colorado
    Oscar Levin, University of Northern Colorado
    (1125-05-2900)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Break
  • 4:15 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Enumeration of $k$-Fuss-Catalan paths and $(k, r)$-Fuss-Schröder paths.
    JiYoon Jung*, Marshall University
    Suhyung An, Yonsei University
    Sangwook Kim, Chonnam National University
    (1125-05-2996)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Involution Factorizations of Random Permutations Chosen from the Ewens Distribution.
    Charles D. Burnette*, Drexel University
    Eric Schmutz, Drexel University
    (1125-05-3005)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    On Chromatic Number of Generalized Kneser Graphs.
    Amir Jafari*, Sharif University of Technology
    Sharareh Alipour, Sharif University of Technology
    (1125-05-3106)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Commutative Algebra, Linear and Multilinear Algebra and Matrix Theory
  International 1, International Level, Marriott Marquis
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Some properties of saturations of submodules.
    Lokendra Paudel, The University of Akron
    Simplice Tchamna*, Georgia College
    (1125-13-565)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    Polynomial and power series rings with finite quotients.
    Greg Oman, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
    Adam Salminen*, University of Evansville
    (1125-13-1264)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Foundations of Boij-Söderberg Theory for Grassmannians.
    Nic Ford, University of California, Berkeley
    Jake Levinson*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    Steven Sam, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    (1125-13-1545)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    A class of modules with infinite regularity.
    Luigi Ferraro*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1125-13-1698)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    The Classification of Zero-Divisor Graphs of Commutative Rings Without Identity.
    Darrin Weber*, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    (1125-13-1975)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Homological characterizations of quasi-complete intersections.
    Jason M Lutz*, Gonzaga University
    (1125-13-2513)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Trace ideals of modules and algebras over commutative rings.
    Haydee Lindo*, Williams College
    (1125-13-2702)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Nonunique factorization in the ring of integer-valued polynomials.
    Paul Baginski*, Fairfield University
    Gregory Knapp, Case Western Reserve University
    Jad Salem, Oberlin College
    Gabrielle Scullard, University of Rochester
    (1125-13-3031)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Existence of totally reflexive modules in graded local rings with Hilbert series $1+et+(e-1)t^2$.
    Basanti Sharma Poudyal*, University of Texas at Arlington
    (1125-13-3134)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    A Novel Technique for Calculating the Effective Resistance of an Undirected Graph.
    Emily J Evans*, Brigham Young University
    Jeffery Humpherys, Brigham Young University
    Nathaniel Merrill, Brigham Young University
    (1125-15-730)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Weighted Moore-Penrose Inverses and the Fundamental Theorem of Even-Order Tensors with Einstein Product.
    Jun Ji*, Kennesaw State University
    Yimin Wei, Fudan University
    (1125-15-1189)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    The epr-sequence over a field of characteristic 2.
    Xavier Martinez-Rivera*, Iowa State University
    (1125-15-1278)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Derivations of the Lie algebra of strictly block upper triangular matrices.
    Prakash Ghimire*, Louisiana State University Of Alexandria
    (1125-15-1833)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Symmetrization of Principal Minors and Cycle Sums.
    Huajun Huang, Auburn University
    Luke Oeding*, Auburn University
    (1125-15-1973)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A New Characterization of Simultaneous Lyapunov Diagonal Stability via Hadamard Products.
    Mehmet Gumus*, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
    Jianhong Xu, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
    (1125-15-2411)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    A new spectral graph entropy.
    Robert Erra*, EPITA - FRANCE
    Marwan Burelle, EPITA - FRANCE
    Alexandre Letois, EPITA - FRANCE
    Mark Angoustures, Akheros & CNAM Paris
    (1125-15-2442)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The minimum rank problem on loop graphs.
    Jephian C.-H. Lin*, Iowa State University
    (1125-15-2495)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    The Determinant of Graphs Joined by Edges.
    Boyko Gyurov, Georgia Gwinnett College
    Daniel Pinzon*, Georgia Gwinnett College
    (1125-15-2890)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Related problems to the Bernstein-Szegő moment problem in two variables.
    Chung Y Wong*, The College of New Jersey
    Hugo J Woerdeman, Drexel University
    (1125-15-2934)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    On the structure of certain class of Hankel-like Kernels.
    Troy Banks*, Salisbury University
    (1125-15-3000)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
  MAA Session on Discrete Mathematics in the Undergraduate Curriculum - Ideas and Innovations for Teaching, II
  A701, Atrium Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  John S. Caughman, Portland State University
  Art Duval, University of Texas El Paso
  Elise Lockwood, Oregon State University elise314@gmail.com
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Introductory Combinatorics: Language, Visual Representations, and Models.
    Susanna S. Epp*, DePaul University
    (1125-C1-611)
  • 1:20 p.m.
    How to Help Your Students Prove Combinatorial Identities.
    Elise Lockwood*, Oregon State University
    (1125-C1-2804)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Teaching Combinatorics to Diverse Student Interests.
    Jeffrey W. Clark*, Elon University
    (1125-C1-760)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    A Candy Exchange, Legos and a Brand New Car!
    Cayla D. McBee*, Providence College
    (1125-C1-2887)
  • 2:20 p.m.
    Team-Based Learning in Discrete Math.
    Katie V. Johnson*, Florida Gulf Coast University
    (1125-C1-680)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    "Small Teaching" in Introduction to Discrete Mathematics.
    Debra L. Hydorn*, University of Mary Washington
    (1125-C1-1799)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Success with Standards-Based Grading in Discrete Mathematics.
    Jean Marie Linhart*, Central Washington University
    (1125-C1-2363)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Guided Discovery Based Learning in Discrete Mathematics via Pre & In-class Activities.
    Feryal Alayont*, Grand Valley State University
    (1125-C1-2710)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Teaching Approaches in Discrete Mathematics for Pre-service Teachers.
    Ali S Shaqlaih*, University of North Texas at Dallas
    (1125-C1-2505)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Partnering for Success: Developing a high school discrete mathematics curriculum Connecting a university course with a local high school course using the standards for mathematical practice.
    Osvaldo D. Soto*, University of California San Diego
    (1125-C1-3110)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  MAA Session on Do Mathematicians Really Need Philosophy?
  A602, Atrium Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  Carl Behrens, Alexandria VA
  Bonnie Gold, Monmouth University bgold@monmouth.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Otavio Bueno's Mathematical Fictionalism.
    James R Henderson*, Penn State Behrend
    (1125-C5-248)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Why Can't Those With Conflicting Views on the Foundations of Mathematics Just Get Along?
    Thomas Drucker*, University of Wisconsin--Whitewater
    (1125-C5-2521)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    The unexpected usefulness of epistemological skepticism.
    Katalin Bimbó*, University of Alberta, Department of Philosophy
    (1125-C5-1670)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Melding realism and social constructivism.
    Bonnie Gold*, Monmouth University
    (1125-C5-507)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Geometry, Differential Geometry, Mathematical Physics
  Techwood, Conference Level, Hyatt Regency
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Is there a Simpson's line for a quadrilateral?
    Tanvir Prince*, Hostos Community College
    (1125-51-5)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    History of Geometry's Origin and Development and Connection to Various Mathematical Fields.
    Lina Wu*, Borough of Manhattan Community College-The City University of New York
    (1125-51-369)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Rational Points over Finite Fields on A Family of Higher Genus Curves And Hypergeometric Functions.
    Yih Sung*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1125-51-497)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    Image reconstruction from limited view Radon data using GPCA.
    Sl-ghi Choi*, University of Texas at Arlington
    (1125-51-1070)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Topological Measure of Order on Lattice Patterns.
    Rachel A. Neville*, Colorado State University
    Patrick Shipman, Colorado State University
    Mark Bradley, Colorado State University
    Francis Motta, Duke University
    Daniel Pearson, Colorado State University
    (1125-51-2802)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    On the Stationary Acceleration of the Frenet Curves in 3-Dimensional Lie Groups.
    Nemat Abazari*, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences.
    Ilgin Sager, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
    (1125-53-2)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Non-Solvable Subalgebras of g L (4, R).
    Ryad Ghanam*, Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar
    Gerard Thompson, University of Toledo
    (1125-53-239)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    The $G$-invariant spectrum and non-orbifold singularities.
    Ian M Adelstein*, Trinity College
    Mary R Sandoval, Trinity College
    (1125-53-501)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Spectral Geometry of the Steklov Problem on Orbifolds.
    Teresa Arias-Marco, University of Extremadura
    Emily Dryden, Bucknell University
    Carolyn Gordon, Dartmouth College
    Asma Hassannezhad, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics
    Allie Ray*, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
    Elizabeth Stanhope, Lewis and Clark College
    (1125-53-1622)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Compact Gradient Shrinking Ricci Solitons, the Hitchin-Thorpe Inequality, and Spin Structures.
    Brian Klatt*, Lehigh University
    (1125-53-1929)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Gauss Maps of Embeddings into Calibrated Manifolds and the h-Principle.
    Ibrahim Unal*, Middle East Technical University
    (1125-53-2559)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Classification of Spacetimes with Symmetry.
    Jesse W. Hicks*, Dixie State University
    (1125-53-2565)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Symplectically replacing plumbings with Euler characteristic 2 4-manifolds.
    Jonathan Simone*, University of Virginia
    (1125-53-2878)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Quantum analogues of geometric information theoretic inequalities.
    Stefan Huber, IAS & Technical University of Munich, Germany
    Robert Koenig, IAS & Technical University of Munich, Germany
    Anna Vershynina*, BCAM (Basque Center for Applied Mathematics), Bilbao, Spain
    (1125-81-197)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Fusion rules for some tensor categories attached to Kazhdan-Lusztig cells in Coxeter groups.
    Tianyuan Xu*, University of Oregon
    (1125-81-973)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Critical Points in the Spectrum of Infinite Periodic Graphs.
    Ram Band, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
    Gregory Berkolaiko, Texas A&M University
    Tracy Weyand*, Baylor University
    (1125-81-1424)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Factor ordering and path integral measure for quantum gravity in (1+1) dimensions.
    Rachel Maitra*, Wentworth Institute of Technology
    John Haga, Wentworth Institute of Technology
    (1125-83-2830)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    The Geometry of the Complex Matter Space in Relativistic Quantum Mechanics.
    R. R. Ahangar*, Texas A& M University Kingsville
    (1125-83-2929)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Astrophysical Jet HH30: Hot, Dense, and Colorful.
    Perry Bialek Vargas*, Arizona State University
    Carl Gardner, Arizona State University
    Jeremiah Jones, Arizona State University
    (1125-85-1120)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
  MAA Session on Inquiry-Based Teaching and Learning, V
  International 7, International Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  Judith Covington, Louisiana State University in Shreveport
  Theron Hitchman, University of Northern Iowa
  Angie Hodge, University of Nebraska Omaha
  Brian P. Katz, Augustana College briankatz@augustana.edu
  Alison Marr, Southwestern University
  Victor Piercey, Ferris State University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Cut-Apart Proofs: a hands-on activity in varied contexts.
    Carol Gwosdz Gee*, St. Edward's University
    (1125-G1-2347)
  • 1:20 p.m.
    Clock Buddies: An Engaging, Open-Ended Scheduling Activity with Mathematical Depth and Pedagogical Flexibility.
    Debra K. Borkovitz*, Wheelock College
    (1125-G1-2586)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Flipping Precalculus through Guided Notes.
    Dywayne A Nicely*, Ohio University-Chillicothe
    (1125-G1-379)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    IBL Calculus I Successes and Failures.
    Susan B Crook*, Loras College
    (1125-G1-1724)
  • 2:20 p.m.
    When IBL drops in to Calculus: A cautionary tale.
    Karl-Dieter Crisman*, Gordon College
    (1125-G1-1205)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Implementing POGIL Activities in a Community College First-Semester Calculus Course.
    Miriam Harris-Botzum*, Lehigh Carbon Community College
    (1125-G1-826)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Towards guided reinvention of Riemann sums and the Fundamental Theorem of Integral Calculus.
    Robert L Sachs*, George Mason University
    (1125-G1-2497)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Using Inquiry-Based Learning to Explore Applications of Integration.
    Jonathan P. Keiter*, East Stroudsburg University
    (1125-G1-2306)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Inquiry based Calculus with Difference: Continuous and Discrete Modeling of Mathematics in Population Growth.
    Celil Ekici*, University of the Virgin Islands
    Christopher Plyley, University of the Virgin Islands
    (1125-G1-1400)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Using Image Processing to Inspire Inquiry in Real Analysis Courses.
    Marie Snipes*, Kenyon College
    Tom Asaki, Washington State University
    Chris Camfield, Hendrix College
    Heather Moon, Lewis-Clark State College
    (1125-G1-2645)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-2:55 p.m.
  MAA Session on Intertwining Mathematics with Social Justice in the Classroom, II
  Embassy A, International Tower, LL2, Hyatt Regency
  Organizers:
  Catherine Buell, Fitchburg State University
  Zeynep Teymuroglu, Rollins College
  Joanna Wares, University of Richmond jwares@richmond.edu
  Carl Yerger, Davidson College
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Revolutions in Flatland: Questioning Social Hierarchies with Geometry.
    Priya V. Prasad*, University of Texas at San Antonio
    (1125-H1-1058)
  • 1:20 p.m.
    Enriching Student Experiences Through Service Learning.
    Samuel R Kaplan*, University of North Carolina Asheville
    (1125-H1-148)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Social science and servant leadership: reflections on game theory at the secondary level.
    Jason Quinley*, Brookstone School and University of Tuebingen (Germany)
    (1125-H1-2118)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Lessons Learned from School Mathematics and Global Citizenship.
    Kyle Evans*, University of Connecticut
    Fabiana Cardetti, University of Connecticut
    (1125-H1-2137)
  • 2:20 p.m.
    Using Context to Address Social Justice Issues in the Statway Classroom.
    John Kellermeier*, Vancouver, WA
    (1125-H1-2454)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Progress and Resistance in Exploring Social Justice Mathematics with Graduate Students.
    Erin R Moss*, Millersville University of Pennsylvania
    (1125-H1-987)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Applied Mathematics, IV
  Piedmont, Conference Level, Hyatt Regency
  Organizers:
  Emelie Kenney, Siena College kenney@siena.edu
  Kimberly Presser, Shippensburg University kjpres@ship.edu
  Melvin Royer, Indiana Wesleyan University melvin.royer@indwes.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Strategies and tactics to approximate the diameter and the center of a graph or a point set.
    Robert Erra*, EPITA - FRANCE
    Marwan Burelle, EPITA - FRANCE
    Alexandre Letois, EPITA - FRANCE
    Mark Angoustures, Akheros & CNAM Paris
    (1125-VC-2388)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    A new algorithm for finding valid permutations for solving Sudoku puzzles.
    Pallavi Mishra*, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
    Dharmendra Kumar Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology
    (1125-VC-3118)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Coexistence and Extinction in Time-Periodic Volterra-Lotka Type Systems with Nonlocal Dispersal.
    Nar Rawal*, Hampton University
    Tung Nguyen, University of Illinois Springfield
    (1125-VC-2531)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    Polynomial systems of differential equations and functions with removable singularities.
    David C. Carothers*, James Madison University
    (1125-VC-2536)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Stalking methods for ensemble Kalman filter covariance inflation.
    Thomas Bellsky*, University of Maine
    (1125-VC-2553)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Using Little's Law in Stochastic Modeling.
    Celeste R Vallejo*, University of Florida
    James E Keesling, University of Florida
    (1125-VC-2571)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Periodic Advection-Diffusion-Reaction Systems.
    Curtis Taylor Peterson*, Arizona State University
    Wenbo Tang, Arizona State University
    (1125-VC-2656)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    A Network-Induced Multi-Neuronal Spike Train Metric.
    Gary R. Engler*, Stevens Institute of Technology
    Kenneth R. Blaney, Stevens Institute of Technology
    (1125-VC-2813)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Numerical Study about the Origin of the Flow Chaos in Late Boundary Layer Transition.
    Manoj K Thapa*, Georgia Southwestern State University
    (1125-VC-2841)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Improved Probabilistic Principal Component Analysis for Application to Reduced Order Modeling.
    Indika Gayani Udagedara*, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY
    Brian Helenbrook, Clarkson university
    Aaron Luttman, National security technologies, Nevada
    (1125-VC-2845)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Comparison of Three Clustering Algorithms, K-Means, Self-Organizing Maps, and Relational Self-Organizing Maps, on Porcine Atherosclerotic Tissues.
    Amanda J Mangum*, Niagara University
    Mansoor Haider, North Carolina State University
    (1125-VC-2882)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Numerical Solutions of the Taylor-Goldstein Equation for Gravity Waves Propagating through the Tropopause Inversion Layer.
    Collin Kofroth*, Arizona State University
    Duane Harris, Arizona State University
    Mohamed Moustaoui, Arizona State University
    (1125-VC-2902)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Stability in a scalar differential equation with multiple, distributed time delays.
    Israel Ncube*, Alabama A & M University
    (1125-VC-2912)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Analysis of Individual Greensboro Officers' Stopping Patterns Using Propensity Scores.
    Ivanti Galloway*, Wake Forest University
    Brandon Joyce, UNCG
    Christopher Pritchard, UNCG
    Ashely Jones, UNCG
    (1125-VC-2683)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Simplex Gradients and Generalized Simplex Derivatives.
    Rommel G. Regis*, Saint Joseph's University
    (1125-VC-3009)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Qualitative analysis of the solutions of a partial differential equation with piecewise constant arguments.
    Mehtap Lafci*, Ankara University
    Huseyin Bereketoglu, Ankara University
    (1125-VC-2429)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Teaching and Learning Introductory Mathematics, II
  Kennesaw, Conference Level, Hyatt Regency
  Organizers:
  Emelie Kenney, Siena College kenney@siena.edu
  Kimberly Presser, Shippensburg University kjpres@ship.edu
  Melvin Royer, Indiana Wesleyan University melvin.royer@indwes.edu
  

  • 4:30 a.m.
    Break
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Reflections on Emporium, Stretch, and Corequisite for Developmental and Gateway Courses.
    Anna Mummert*, Marshall University
    (1125-VQ-2470)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    Profile of a Quality Collegiate Mathematics Learner.
    Wade Ellis*, West Valley College (retired)
    (1125-VQ-3093)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Common Video Resources for Multi-Section Developmental Algebra Courses.
    Sarah V. Cook*, Washburn University
    (1125-VQ-2621)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    Understanding Community College Math Faculty Perceptions and Use of Cooperative Learning.
    Adam J Castillo*, The University of Texas at Austin, The Charles A. Dana Center
    (1125-VQ-2644)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Introducing Fermi Problems and the Art of Reckoning to Students in an Introductory Statistics Class.
    Alexander G. Atwood*, SUNY Suffolk County Community College
    (1125-VQ-2663)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Vector Calculus as a Path to STEM Research Notes from the Secondary Level.
    Jason Quinley*, Brookstone School and University of Tuebingen (Germany)
    (1125-VQ-2707)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Do College-Level Mathematics Courses Support Student Success in Introductory Statistics?
    Leah Nicole Hollingsworth*, Florida State University
    Kelly Patrick Findley, Florida State University
    Elizabeth H Jakubowski, Florida State University
    (1125-VQ-2293)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    A Flipped Precalculus Course.
    Michael P. Doyle*, The Linsly School
    (1125-VQ-2812)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Incorporating Reading-Writing Assignments into a Liberal Arts Mathematics Course.
    Adam Giambrone*, University of Connecticut
    (1125-VQ-2815)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Using iClickers or Plickers and Worked Examples in a College Algebra Course to Foster Discourse.
    H. Tyrone Washington*, Millersville University
    (1125-VQ-3085)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Do We Teach the Wrong Thing? The Impact of Mathematical and Scientific Background on Economics Success.
    Galit Eizman*, Harvard University
    (1125-VQ-2719)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Factoring: Knowing When To Do What You Know How To Do.
    Jayson L Jackson*, University of North Alabama/University of Alabama
    (1125-VQ-2516)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Measuring online student's motivation using MyMathLab and fuzzy logic.
    Jalalidin Jaenbai*, Zayed University
    (1125-VQ-3144)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Reversing the Feedback: Effective Technique for Assessing Students in an Online College Algebra Course.
    Michael D. Miner*, American Public University System
    (1125-VQ-1642)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Teacher Education and Quantitative Literacy: Improved Training for Teachers.
    Rachel M Bates*, Redlands Community College
    (1125-VQ-511)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Enriching the Flipped Classroom for All Students.
    Matthew K Voigt*, San Diego State University
    (1125-VQ-1563)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Mathematical Biology, III
  International B, International Level, Marriott Marquis
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    A Mathematical Model of Translational Regulation by the Integrated Stress Response.
    Laura F. Strube*, University of Utah
    Frederick R. Adler, University of Utah
    (1125-92-2243)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    "Fast" and "slow" traveling impulses and trains in FitzHugh Model with diffusion and cross-diffusion.
    Faina Berezovskaya*, Howard University
    (1125-92-2258)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Dynamics of a Two-Vector, Two-Pathogen, Two-Host Model.
    Caleb L Adams*, Radford University
    (1125-92-2286)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    Density and Environmental-Dependent Transmission in the North American Gypsy and Its Two Pathogens.
    Eli E Goldwyn*, Trinity College
    Greg Dwyer, University of Chicago
    (1125-92-2315)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Modeling the Role of Education in Preventing An Outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease.
    Christina J Edholm*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    Benjamin Levy, Fitchburg State University
    Orou G Gaoue, University of Hawaii at Manoa
    Roselyn Kaondera, Botho University, Gaborone
    Moatlhodi Kgosimore, Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resources
    Enock Koga, University of Namibia
    Suzanne Lenhart, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    (1125-92-2348)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Critical population size for multitype branching process approximation.
    Evan Milliken*, University of Florida
    (1125-92-2354)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Controlling Viral Outbreaks: Quantitative Strategies.
    Anna Mummert*, Marshall University
    Howard Weiss, Georgia Tech
    (1125-92-2475)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Modeling an Infectious Disease in a Continuous Region with an Embedded Metapopulation.
    Patrick T Davis*, Central Michigan University
    (1125-92-2544)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    An Ito stochastic differential equations model for the dynamics of the MCF-7 breast cancer cell line treated by radiotherapy with the experimental results.
    Amin Oroji, Department of mathematics, University of Malaya, Malaysia
    Mohd Omar, Department of mathematics, University of Malaya, Malaysia
    Ivy Chung, Department Of Pharmacology, University of Malaya, Malaysia
    Shantia Yarahmadian*, Department of Mathematics, Mississippi State University
    (1125-92-2690)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Modeling Epidemics: An Application Using Big Data.
    Turayo Tijani*, Morgan State University
    Isabelle Kemajou-Brown, Morgan State University
    (1125-92-2725)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    TIME CHANGED: B-CLL progression considering immune response.
    Seema Nanda*, Dartmouth College
    L G DePillis, Harvey Mudd College
    Ami Radunskaya, Pomona College
    (1125-92-2744)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Modeling HIV-Antibody-Mucin Kinetics.
    Timothy Wessler*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Alex Chen, GE
    Scott A McKinley, Tulane University
    Richard Cone, Johns Hopkins University
    M Gregory Forest, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Samuel K Lai, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (1125-92-2772)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Understanding Adipocyte Dynamics through Mathematical Modeling.
    Katrina Johnson*, University of Utah
    Frederick R. Adler, University of Utah
    (1125-92-2775)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    A mathematical model for calcium signaling in neurons in the presence of Amyloid Beta.
    Joe Latulippe*, Norwich University
    Derek Lotito, Norwich University
    Donovan Murby, Norwich University
    (1125-92-2792)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Energy Conservation and the Function of Sleep: A Mathematical Model.
    Markus H. Schmidt, Ohio Sleep Medicine Institute
    Theodore W. Swang*, The Ohio State University
    Ian M. Hamilton, The Ohio State University
    Janet A. Best, The Ohio State University
    (1125-92-2807)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Implications of policy adjustment costs for fisheries management.
    Dan Ryan, NIMBioS
    Carl Toews*, University of Puget Sound
    James Sanchirico, UC Davis
    Paul Armsworth, UT Knoxville
    (1125-92-2861)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Phase resetting and bistability in a neuronal network.
    Zeynep Akcay*, Queensborough Community College- CUNY
    Xinxian Huang, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Farzan Nadim, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Amitabha Bose, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    (1125-92-2905)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Conditions for endemicity in a compartmental model with deceased-infectious class.
    Matthew Glomski*, Marist College
    Olivia Brozek, George Mason University
    (1125-92-2974)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Modeling slow growth of thyroid nodules and initiation of cancer.
    Balamurugan Pandiyan*, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
    (1125-92-3003)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Modeling nucleosomal DNA in living yeast.
    Caitlin S Hult*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    Paula A Vasquez, University of South Carolina
    David Adalsteinsson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    Josh Lawrimore, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    M Gregory Forest, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    Kerry Bloom, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    (1125-92-3038)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Partial Differential Equations, II
  International A, International Level, Marriott Marquis
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Nodal solutions for indefinite Robin problems.
    Michael E. Filippakis*, University of Piraeus, Department of Digital Systems, Piraeus, Greece
    (1125-35-1737)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    Global existence and asymptotic behavior of classical solutions to a parabolic-elliptic chemotaxis system with logistic source on $R^N$.
    Rachidi Bolaji Salako*, Auburn University
    Wenxian Shen, Auburn University
    (1125-35-1741)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Steklov Problems with Non-Smooth Boundary: Bounds and Asymptotics on Eigenvalues.
    Josiah Park*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1125-35-1848)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    A Method of Directly Defining the Inverse Mapping for Solutions of Coupled Systems of Nonlinear Differential Equations.
    Mathew Baxter*, Florida Gulf Coast University
    Mangalagama Dewasurendra, University of Central Florida
    Kuppalapalle Vajravelu, University of Central Florida
    (1125-35-2019)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    On quasi-static limits of one-dimensional dynamic cohesive fracture.
    Farhod Abdullayev*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    (1125-35-2080)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Using Torain's Equations as a Predictable Model in the Sciences.
    David S Torain II*, Montgomery College
    (1125-35-2134)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Qualitative Properties of Solutions to Nonlinear Parabolic PDEs with Double Degenerate Fast Diffusion.
    Adam Louis Prinkey*, Florida Institute of Technology
    Ugur G. Abdulla, Florida Institute of Technology
    (1125-35-2226)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Non-degeneracy and uniqueness of $ H^1 $ symmetric minima for combined power-type non-linearities.
    Daniele Garrisi*, Inha University
    Vladimir Georgiev, Universita' di Pisa
    (1125-35-2247)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Evolution of Interfaces for the Nonlinear Parabolic p-Laplacian Type Reaction-Diffusion Equations.
    Ugur G. Abdulla, Florida Institute of Technology
    Roqia A. Jeli*, Florida Institute of Technology
    (1125-35-2320)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    On the Numerical Solution of Second Order Hyperbolic Nonlinear Partial Differential Equation.
    Narayan Thapa*, Cameron University
    (1125-35-2382)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the global regularity of two-dimensional incompressible Boussinesq equations with mixed partial dissipation.
    Dhanapati Adhikari*, Marywood University
    (1125-35-2401)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Quasi-period solutions to reduced DKN hierarchy.
    Yuan Zhou*, University of South Florida
    Wen-Xiu Ma, University of South Florida
    (1125-35-2467)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Periodic Oscillations in a Nonlinear Suspension Bridge Model.
    Ryan Honan Pellico*, Trinity College
    (1125-35-2583)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Some blow-up rates of solutions to nonlinear Schrödinger equations with rotations.
    Nyla Basharat, Augusta University
    Yi Hu*, Georgia Southern University
    Shijun Zheng, Georgia Southern University
    (1125-35-2648)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Global Existence for Volume Surface Reaction Diffusion Systems with Dynamic Boundary Conditions.
    Jeff Morgan, University of Houston
    Vandana Sharma*, Arizona State University
    (1125-35-2717)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Geometry of underlying set in Mean Value Theorem for general divergence form elliptic operators.
    Ashok Aryal*, Kansas State University
    (1125-35-2737)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Nonclassical Symmetries of a Nonlinear Diffusion Equation and a System Equivalent.
    Danny Arrigo*, University of Central Arkansas
    Brandon Ashley, University of Central Arkansas
    Seth Bloomberg, University of Central Arkansas
    Thomas Deatherage, University of Central Arkansas
    (1125-35-2781)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    A Regularity Analysis of Parabolic Transmission Problem on Polygonal Domain.
    Yajie Zhang*, Pennsylvania State University
    (1125-35-3152)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Small data global existence and decay for relativistic Chern-Simons equations.
    Sung-Jin Oh*, UC Berkeley
    (1125-35-3068)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
  MAA Session on The Advancement of Open Educational Resources, II
  A702, Atrium Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  Benjamin Atchison, Framingham State University batchison@framingham.edu
  Jeremy Russell, The College of New Jersey
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Find, Review, Promote: CuratedCourses aligns OER to the course syllabus.
    Jim Fowler*, The Ohio State University
    David Farmer, American Institute of Mathematics
    (1125-B5-215)
  • 1:20 p.m.
    How the Ohio Mathematics Initiative Influenced our OER Precalculus book.
    Jeff Zeager*, Lorain County Community College
    (1125-B5-2108)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Using Instructional Apps to Visualize Graph Theory.
    Anne Quinn*, Edinboro University of PA
    (1125-B5-510)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Design and Implementation of Affordable Learning Georgia Basic Statistics Project.
    Zephyrinus C Okonkwo*, Albany State University
    Anilkumar Devarapu, Albany State University
    (1125-B5-2838)
  • 2:20 p.m.
    Do you get what you pay for?: Students' opinions of textbooks' formats.
    Brad Bailey*, University of North Georgia
    Thomas Cooper, University of North Georgia
    (1125-B5-562)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Using the bookdown R package to create a free modern introductory statistics textbook focused on data visualization, reproducibility, and resampling techniques.
    Chester I Ismay*, Reed College / Pacific University
    (1125-B5-2747)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Algorithmic generation of calculus problems: beyond random coefficients.
    Jonathan Dahl*, Lafayette College
    (1125-B5-2701)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Using open resources in a freshman general education course for non-STEM majors to promote learning and improve attitudes towards mathematics.
    John Watson*, Arkansas Tech University
    (1125-B5-2391)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Classroom Discourse - your class's own private Stack-like forum.
    Mark C McClure*, University of North Carolina Asheville
    (1125-B5-1305)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
  MAA Session on The Creation and Implementation of Effective Homework Assignments, IV
  L401 & L402, Lobby Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  Sarah Greenwald, Appalachian State University greenwaldsj@appstate.edu
  Judy Holdener, Kenyon College
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Developing Critical Thinking Skills in Introductory Statistics.
    Karen B Stanish*, Keene State College
    Kimberly Schmidl-Gagne, Keene State College
    (1125-A5-1884)
  • 1:20 p.m.
    Combining Online Homework and In-Class Writing Prompts for Increased Conceptual Understanding and Critical Thinking in Introductory Statistics.
    Alana Unfried*, California State University, Monterey Bay
    Roger Woodard, North Carolina State University
    (1125-A5-3083)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Intentionally Unstructuring Assignments for future elementary educators.
    Joanna G. Jauchen*, George Mason University
    (1125-A5-2988)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Grading geometry homework in less than 6 hours a week.
    Tamas Szabo*, UW Whitewater
    (1125-A5-2404)
  • 2:20 p.m.
    Proof-Writing Workshops.
    Daniel R. Jordan*, Columbia College Chicago
    (1125-A5-1495)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Developing Intermediate Algebra Students Mathematical Communications via Workspace Assignments in MyLabsPlus.
    Ruthmae Sears, University of South Florida
    NEW PRESENTER: Kenneth Butler*, University of South Florida
    Frances Hopf, University of South Florida
    (1125-A5-2218)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Class Assignments as an Enhancement to Online Homework.
    Laura DiMillo Barnes*, The University of Rhode Island
    (1125-A5-1573)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: How does Mastery Learning on Homework Affect Student Success in Precalculus?
    Frances Hopf*, University of South Florida
    Ruthmae Sears, University of South Florida
    (1125-A5-2303)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Online tools for homework assignments in hybrid courses - to use or not to use -.
    Rodica Cazacu*, Georgia College
    (1125-A5-2064)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
  MAA Session on Women in Mathematics
  Courtland, Conference Level, Hyatt Regency
  Organizers:
  Meghan De Witt, St. Thomas Aquinas College
  Semra Kilic-Bahi, Colby-Sawyer College skilic-bahi@colby-sawyer.edu
  Kim Roth, Juniata College
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Fisk University Math Club.
    Qingxia Li*, Fisk University
    (1125-R1-773)
  • 1:20 p.m.
    Middle School Mathematics Day for Girls.
    Theresa N Martines*, University of the Incarnate Word
    (1125-R1-282)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Fullerton Mathematical Circle.
    Isabel M. Serrano*, California State University, Fullerton
    (1125-R1-345)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    ExploreU Summer STEM Program.
    Jitka Stehnova*, University of Chicago, Department of Mathematics
    (1125-R1-358)
  • 2:20 p.m.
    GEM: Girls Exploring Mathematics.
    Meghan De Witt*, St. Thomas Aquinas College
    (1125-R1-1784)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    AWE+SUM Outreach Program: Challenges after 12 Years.
    Carolyn Connell*, Westminster College
    (1125-R1-1324)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Southeastern Conference for Undergraduate Women in Math.
    Sarah Schott*, Duke University
    Emily Braley, Duke University
    (1125-R1-1488)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Building the Pipeline From High School to College Mathematics.
    Jillian Folino*, Indian River High School, Philadelphia, NY
    Blair Madore, State University of New York at Potsdam
    (1125-R1-1752)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Engaging Women in Extracurricular Math Activities.
    Violeta Vasilevska*, Utah Valley University
    (1125-R1-721)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    KWIM: struggles and successes.
    Yuliya Babenko*, Kennesaw State University
    (1125-R1-2477)
  • 4:20 p.m.
    The MiA Scholars Program: Bringing an Interdisciplinary Mathematics Experience to Middle School Girls.
    D. Natasha Brewley*, Georgia Gwinnett College
    Alvina J. Atkinson, Georgia Gwinnett College
    (1125-R1-3019)
  • 4:40 p.m.
    Keeping the Pipeline Full: A Woman Mathematician's Perspective.
    Junalyn P Navarra-Madsen*, Texas Woman's University
    (1125-R1-3115)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  ASL Contributed Paper Session, II
  A707, Atrium Level, Marriott Marquis
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Weihrauch reducibility and finite dimensional subspaces.
    Sean Sovine*, Marshall University
    (1125-00-3169)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Graph labelings and computability theory.
    Oscar Levin*, University of Northern Colorado
    (1125-03-1961)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    On-line algorithms and reverse mathematics.
    Seth Harris*, Drew University
    (1125-00-3178)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Skolem functions for a weakly o-minimal structure with a new convex predicate.
    Michael C. Laskowski, University of Maryland, College Park
    Christopher S. Shaw*, Columbia College Chicago
    (1125-03-1339)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The reverse mathematics of a theorem of Steffens.
    Stephen Flood, Bridgewater State University
    Matthew Jura*, Manhattan College
    Oscar Levin, University of Northern Colorado
    Tyler Markkanen, Springfield College
    (1125-03-1963)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A Mathematical Linguistics.
    Joachim Mueller-Theys*, Heidelberg, Germany
    (1125-00-1816)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
  SIAM Minisymposium on PDEs in Biology and Materials Science
  A703, Atrium Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  Yuliya Gorb, University of Houston gorb@math.uh.edu
  Suncica Cancic, University of Houston canic@math.uh.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Free Boundary Problems Arising in Biology.
    Avner Friedman*, Ohio State University
    (1125-35-3162)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Multiscale Modeling of Blood Clotting.
    George Karniadakis*, Brown University
    (1125-35-3163)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Modeling Challenges for the Flutter of a Cantilevered Structure in a Flow.
    Justin T. Webster*, College of Charleston
    (1125-35-581)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Mathematical modeling of stents as a net of 1D elastic curved rods.
    Josip Tambaca*, University of Zagreb
    (1125-35-3166)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    TALK CANCELED: Global existence for fluid-structure models.
    Mihaela Ignatova*, Princeton University
    (1125-35-3164)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Multi-scale reduced order models with S-fraction sparsification for large wave propagation problems.
    Vladimir Druskin*, Schlumberger
    Alexander Mamonov, University of Houston
    Mikhail Zaslavsky, Schlumberger
    (1125-65-2006)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Compatible meshfree discretization with applications to electrophoretic suspension flows.
    Nathaniel Trask*, Sandia National Laboratory
    (1125-35-3165)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Asymptotic Analysis for High Contrast Problems.
    Yuliya Gorb*, University of Houston
    (1125-35-3167)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  MAA Panel
  SAT Test Development Committee Reflections
  International 5, International Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  Bill Trapp, College Board
  Panelists:
  Rinav Mehta, Central Piedmont Community College
  Gloria Barrett, North Carolina School of Mathematics and Science
  Luke Wilcox, East Kentwood High School
  Organizers:
  Katrina Piatek-Jimenez, Central Michigan University
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-2:45 p.m.
  AMS Special Presentation
  Who Wants to be a Mathematician---national contest.
  Regency Ballroom VII, Ballroom Level, Hyatt Regency
  Organizers:
  Michael S. Breen, American Mathematical Society
  William T. Butterworth, DePaul University
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
  SIGMAA on Math Circles for Students and Teachers
  Math Wrangle.
  Regency Ballroom V, Ballroom Level, Hyatt Regency
  Organizers:
  Ed Keppelmann, University of Nevada Reno
  Paul Zeitz, University of San Francisco
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 1:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  AWM Workshop: Special Session on Number Theory, II
  A704, Atrium Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  Alina Bucur, University of California, San Diego alina@math.ucsd.edu
  Ellen Eischen, University of Oregon eeischen@uoforegon.edu
  

  • 1:30 p.m.
    Obstructions to the Hasse principle on Enriques surfaces.
    Francesca Balestrieri, University of Oxford
    UPDATED SPEAKER: Jennifer Berg*, Rice University
    Michelle Manes, University of Hawai'i
    Jennifer Park, University of Michigan
    Bianca Viray, University of Washington
    (1125-11-712)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Galois action on Fermat curves.
    R. Davis, University of Wisconsin
    R. Pries, University of Colorado
    V. Stojanoska, UIUC
    K. Wickelgren*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1125-11-1229)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Fermat curves and Heisenberg extensions.
    Rachel Davis*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Rachel Pries, Colorado State University
    Vesna Stojanoska, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Kirsten Wickelgren, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1125-11-1253)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Kneser-Hecke operators for codes over finite chain rings.
    Amy Feaver, The King's University
    Anna Haensch*, Duquesne University
    Jingbo Liu, University of Hong Kong
    Gabi Nebe, RWTH Aachen
    (1125-11-166)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Generalized Legendre Curves and Quternionic Multiplication.
    Alyson Deines, Center for Communications Research
    Jenny G. Fuselier, High Point University
    Ling Long, Louisiana State University
    Holly Swisher, Oregon State University
    Fang-Ting Tu*, Louisiana State University
    (1125-11-305)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    p-adic q-expansion principle and families of automorphic forms on unitary groups of arbitrary signature.
    Ana Caraiani, Universität Bonn
    Ellen Eischen, University of Oregon
    Jessica Fintzen*, University of Michigan / University of Cambridge
    Elena Mantovan, Caltech
    Ila Varma, Columbia University
    (1125-11-1108)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Bad reduction of genus 3 curves with Complex Multiplication.
    Irene Bouw, Ulm University
    Jenny Cooley, Department of Education, Warwick, England
    Elisa Lorenzo-Garcia, Leiden University
    Kristin Lauter, Microsoft Research
    Michelle Manes*, University of Hawaii at Manoa
    Rachel Newton, University of Reading
    Ekin Ozman, Boğaziçi University
    (1125-11-435)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 2:35 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
  MAA Panel
  Introductory Statistics: Where Are We and Where Do We Need to Go?
  International 5, International Level, Marriott Marquis
  Organizers:
  Gail Burrill, Michigan State University
  Panelists:
  Roxy Peck, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
  Uri Triesman, University of Texas at Austin
  Rob Gould, University of California Los Angeles
  Nathan Tintle, Dordt College
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 3:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  MAA-AMS-SIAM Gerald and Judith Porter Public Lecture
  Mathematics for art investigation.
  Atrium Ballroom, Atrium Level, Marriott Marquis
  Ingrid Daubechies*, Duke University
  (1125-A0-14)
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
  AMS Dinner Reception
  Imperial Ballroom Prefunction, Marquis Level, Marriott Marquis
• Saturday January 7, 2017, 7:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m.
  AMS Dinner Celebration
  Imperial Ballroom, Marquis Level, Marriott Marquis