Joint Mathematics Meetings Full Program

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Joint Mathematics Meetings
San Diego Convention Center and Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, San Diego, CA
January 10-13, 2018 (Wednesday - Saturday)
Meeting #1135

Associate secretaries:

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

Monday January 8, 2018

• Monday January 8, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
  AMS Short Course on Discrete Differential Geometry, Part I
  Room 5A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Introduction & Overview
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Discrete Laplace operators - theory.
    Max Wardetzky*, University of Goettingen
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Break
  • 9:50 a.m.
    Discrete Laplace operators - applications.
    Max Wardetzky*, University of Goettingen
  • 10:50 a.m.
    Break
  • 11:10 a.m.
    Discrete parametric surfaces - theory.
    Johannes Wallner*, TU Graz
  • 12:10 p.m.
    Lunch
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Discrete parametric surfaces - applications.
    Johannes Wallner*, TU Graz
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Free Time
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Demo Session
• Monday January 8, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  NSF-EHR Grant Proposal Writing Workshop
  Coronado Room, 4th Floor, South Tower, Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina
  Organizers:
  Ron Buckmire, National Science Foundation
  Lee Zia, National Science Foundation
• Monday January 8, 2018, 5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  AMS Short Course Reception
  Room 5B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center

Tuesday January 9, 2018

• Tuesday January 9, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
  AMS Short Course on Discrete Differential Geometry, Part II
  Room 5A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Discrete mappings - theory.
    Yaron Lipman*, Weizmann Institute of Science
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Break
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Discrete mappings - applications.
    Yaron Lipman*, Weizmann Institute of Science
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Break
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Discrete conformal geometry - theory.
    Keenan Crane*, Carnegie Mellon University
  • 11:40 a.m.
    Lunch
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Discrete conformal geometry - applications.
    Keenan Crane*, Carnegie Mellon University
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Break
  • 2:20 p.m.
    Optimal transportation on discrete domains - theory.
    Justin Solomon*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Break
  • 3:50 p.m.
    Optimal transportation on discrete domains - applications.
    Justin Solomon*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • 4:50 p.m.
    Wrap-up
• Tuesday January 9, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-6:30 p.m.
  AMS Department Chairs Workshop
  Marina Ballroom E, 3rd Floor, South Tower, Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina
  Organizers:
  Malcolm Adams, University of Georgia
  Krista Maxson, University of Science & Arts of Oklahoma
  Irina Mitrea, Temple University
  Douglas Mupasiri, University of Northern Iowa
• Tuesday January 9, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
  MAA Congress
  Marina Ballroom D, 3rd Floor, South Tower, Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina
• Tuesday January 9, 2018, 1:30 p.m.-10:00 p.m.
  AMS Council
  Marina Ballroom F, 3rd Floor, South Tower, Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina
• Tuesday January 9, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
  Joint Meetings Registration
  Advanced registration will remain open until 7:30 pm
  Exhibit Hall B1, Ground Level, San Diego Convention Center

Wednesday January 10, 2018

• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 7:00 a.m.-8:45 a.m.
  MAA Minority Chairs Meeting
  Cardiff/Carlsbad Room, 3rd Floor, South Tower, Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 7:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
  Joint Meetings Registration
  Exhibit Hall B1, Ground Level, San Diego Convention Center
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 7:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
  Email Center
  Exhibit Hall B1, Ground Level, San Diego Convention Center
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 7:45 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Networks and Data
  Room 29D, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 7:45 a.m.
    Dynamics of Quadratic Networks.
    Simone Evans*, State University of New York at New Paltz (SUNY New Paltz)
    Anca Radulescu, State University of New York at New Paltz (SUNY New Paltz)
    (1135-37-2229)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    Delay embeddings and topological time series analysis.
    Boyan Xu*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1135-37-2940)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Promiscuity of Nodes in Multilayer Networks.
    Florian Klimm*, University of Oxford
    Gorka Zamora-López, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
    Jonny Wray, e-therapeutics
    Charlotte M. Deane, University of Oxford
    Jürgen Kurths, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
    Mason A. Porter, University of California at Los Angeles
    (1135-92-1652)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Why do they not believe?: The network dynamics of opinion.
    Tucker E Evans*, Dartmouth College
    Feng Fu, Dartmouth College
    (1135-91-873)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Dynamical Modeling for Multiplex Networks.
    Daryl R DeFord*, Dartmouth College Department of Mathematics
    (1135-05-967)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Persistent homology measures of stochastic network models.
    Ted Theodosopoulos*, The Nueva School
    (1135-60-3197)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    The SIR Modeling for the Biological Flu using Artificial Neural Network.
    Yinshu Wu*, Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University
    (1135-68-3158)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Flooding filtration on directed networks.
    B I Mahler*, Oxford
    (1135-00-3190)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    A new proof that effective resistance is a metric on graphs.
    Nathan Albin, Kansas State University
    Jason Clemens, Missouri Valley College
    Nethali Fernando*, Kansas State University
    Pietro Poggi-Corradini, Kansas State University
    (1135-94-855)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The combinatorial data fusion problem: A Gomory-Hu cut tree approach.
    R. W. R. Darling, National Security Agency, Fort Meade MD 20755
    Dev R Phulara*, National Security Agency, Fort Meade MD, 20755
    (1135-05-2187)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Variants of Competition Graphs in Information Networks.
    Bryan L. Williams*, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic
    Lucas A. Overbey, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic
    Lakeisha D. Williams, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic
    (1135-05-3164)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Cybersecurity: Time Series Predictive Modeling of Vulnerabilities of Desktop Operating System Using Linear and Non-linear Approach.
    Nawa Raj Pokhrel*, University of South Florida
    Chris Tsokos, University of South Florida
    Hansapani Rodrigo, University of south Florida
    (1135-68-619)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Organizing the mathematical literature: On the road to MSC 2020.
    Edward Dunne, AMS/Mathematical Reviews
    Fabian Müller*, FIZ Karlsruhe/zbMATH
    Norman Richert, AMS/Mathematical Reviews
    Olaf Teschke, FIZ Karlsruhe/zbMATH
    (1135-00-2528)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Advances in Applications of Differential Equations to Disease Modeling, I
  Room 29C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Libin Rong, Oakland University
  Elissa Schwartz, Washington State University
  Naveen K. Vaidya, San Diego State University nvaidya.anyol@gmail.com
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Mathematical Modeling of Immune Dynamics in Disease.
    Lisette dePillis*, Harvey Mudd College
    (1135-92-2301)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Bistable dynamics in a model of SIV infection with antibody response.
    Stanca Ciupe, Virginia Tech
    Jonathan Forde*, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
    Christopher Miller, University of California, Davis
    (1135-92-3150)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Modeling Immune Responses to HIV infection Under Drugs of Abuse.
    Jones M Mutua*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Missouri -- Kansas City, USA
    Alan S Perelson, Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
    Anil Kumar, Division of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, University of Missouri -- Kansas City, USA
    Naveen K Vaidya, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USA
    (1135-34-2957)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Unraveling within-host signatures of dengue infection at the population level.
    Ryan Nikin-Beers, Virginia Tech
    Lauren M Childs, Virginia Tech
    Julie Blackwood, Williams College
    Stanca M Ciupe*, Virginia Tech
    (1135-92-2650)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Epidemic Growth Scaling: Implications for Disease Forecasting and Estimation of the Reproduction Number.
    Gerardo Chowell*, Georgia State University
    (1135-37-443)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    NEW PRESENTER: Model and Parameter Uncertainty in Environmentally Driven Disease Models.
    Marisa C Eisenberg*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (1135-93-2338)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Applied and Computational Combinatorics, I
  Room 9, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Torin Greenwood, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Jay Pantone, Dartmouth College jaypantone@dartmouth.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Analyzing RGB Images using Topology: How to use discrete Morse theory to study crime data.
    Nima Rasekh*, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
    Ruth Davidson, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
    Rosemary Guzman, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
    Chuan (Sophie) Du, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
    Adarsh Manawa, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
    Christopher Szul, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
    Titan Wibowo, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
    (1135-55-1282)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    On the Distribution of Ramsey Objects.
    Aaron Robertson*, Colgate University
    (1135-05-617)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Tableaux and the ASEP.
    Amanda Lohss*, Messiah College
    (1135-05-565)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Enumeration of binomial coefficients by their $p$-adic valuations.
    Eric Rowland*, Hofstra University
    (1135-05-222)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A polytopal generalization of Sperner's lemma, and applications.
    Jesus De Loera, University of California Davis
    Elisha Peterson, Ellicott City, MD
    Francis Edward Su*, Harvey Mudd College
    (1135-52-1294)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Patterns and Colorability in Chord Diagrams.
    Peter Doyle, Dartmouth College
    Jay Pantone*, Dartmouth College
    Everett Sullivan, Lewis & Clark College
    (1135-05-1788)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Arithmetic Dynamics, I
  Room 16A, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Robert L. Benedetto, Amherst College
  Benjamin Hutz, Saint Louis University
  Jamie Juul, Amherst College jjuul@amherst.edu
  Bianca Thompson, Harvey Mudd College
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The arithmetic of Newton's method.
    Xander Faber*, Center for Computing Sciences
    (1135-11-1078)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    An arithmetic dynamical Mordell-Lang theorem.
    Trevor Hyde*, University of Michigan
    Michael Zieve, University of Michigan
    (1135-37-1224)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A lower bound on the canonical height for polynomials.
    Nicole Looper*, Northwestern University
    (1135-11-1568)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On Small Heights of Abelian Totally $p$-adic Numbers.
    Emerald Tatiana Stacy*, Oregon State University
    (1135-11-675)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Effective unlikely intersections and a metric of mutual energy.
    Paul Fili*, Oklahoma State University
    (1135-11-1966)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Multiplicatively dependent points in orbits of algebraic dynamical systems.
    Alina Ostafe*, The University of New South Wales
    (1135-11-62)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Discrete Dynamical Systems and Applications, I
  Room 31A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  E. Cabral Balreira, Trinity University
  Saber Elaydi, Trinity University
  Eddy Kwessi, Trinity University ekwessi@trinity.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The Sierpinski Mandelbrot Arc.
    Eric Chang*, Boston University
    (1135-30-1818)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Discrete-time infectious disease models.
    Abdul-Aziz Yakubu*, Howard University, Mathematics Department, Washington, DC
    Pauline Van den Driessche, University of Victoria, Victoriam BC, Canada
    (1135-92-1576)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Persistence versus extinction for a class of discrete-time structured population models.
    Hal L Smith*, Arizona State University
    (1135-37-1028)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Optimal quantization.
    Mrinal K Roychowdhury*, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
    (1135-37-830)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Changes in population outcomes resulting from evolutionary responses to a disturbance.
    Azmy S Ackleh*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    Amy M Veprauskas, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    John E Banks, California State University, Monterey Bay
    John D Stark, Washington State University
    (1135-92-651)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Dynamical effects of nonlocal interactions in discrete-time growth-dispersal models with logistic-type nonlinearities.
    Yun Kang*, Arizona State University
    O. Aydogmus, Social Sciences University of Ankara
    M. E. Kavgaci, Ankara University
    H Bereketoglu, Ankara University
    (1135-39-2138)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Financial Mathematics, Actuarial Sciences, and Related Fields, I
  Room 30C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Albert Cohen, Michigan State University
  Nguyet Nguyen, Youngstown State University ntnguyen01@ysu.edu
  Oana Mocioalca, Kent State University
  Thomas Wakefield, Youngstown State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Sensitivity and Robustness of Financial Models.
    Giray Okten*, Department of Mathematics, Florida State University
    (1135-60-2381)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A time dynamic Eisenberg-Noe financial contagion model.
    Alex Bernstein, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Tathagata Banerjee, Washington University in St. Louis
    Zachary Feinstein*, Washington University in St. Louis
    (1135-91-469)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Enterprise Risk Management Stochastic Analysis Tools: Risk Drivers Revealed.
    Steven L Craighead*, Pacific Life Insurance Company
    (1135-62-2156)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Historical Capital Buffers, Overlapping Portfolios, and Contagion of U.S. Financial System.
    Micah Pollak, School of Business and Economics, Indiana University Northwest
    Yuanying Guan*, Department of Mathematics, Indiana University Northwest
    (1135-91-412)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Geometric Analysis and Geometric Flows, I
  Room 30B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  David Glickenstein, University of Arizona glickenstein@math.arizona.edu
  Brett Kotschwar, Arizona State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Optimal curvature pinching in mean curvature flow.
    Mat Langford*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    Stephen Lynch, Freie Universität Berlin
    (1135-53-1967)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Asymptotic behavior of $\beta$-polygon flows.
    Jinjin Liang*, University of Arizona
    (1135-53-652)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Collapsing ancient solutions of mean curvature flow.
    Theodora Bourni*, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
    Mat L Langford, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
    Giuseppe Tinaglia, King's College London
    (1135-53-785)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Poisson equation on complete manifolds.
    Ovidiu Munteanu*, University of Connecticut
    (1135-53-293)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Extremal questions for Steklov eigenvalues in higher dimensions.
    Ailana Fraser*, University of British Columbia
    Richard Schoen, U.C. Irvine
    (1135-53-1931)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Constructing complete manifolds with lots of spectral gaps.
    Richard Schoen*, University of California, Irvine
    (1135-53-1915)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on History of Mathematics, I
  Room 10, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Sloan Despeaux, Western Carolina University
  Jemma Lorenat, Pitzer College
  Clemency Montelle, University of Canterbury
  Daniel Otero, Xavier University otero@xavier.edu
  Adrian Rice, Randolph-Macon College
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Floating sexagesimal arithmetic in Antiquity (Mesopotamia, early second millennium BCE).
    Christine Proust*, CNRS & Université Paris Diderot
    (1135-01-1061)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Shadow Tables and the Origins of the Tangent Function.
    Elizabeth Cornwall*, University of Canterbury & Dixie State University
    (1135-01-1355)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Ancient Greek Geographical Maps vs. Geometrical Diagrams.
    Jacqueline Feke*, University of Waterloo
    (1135-01-803)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Diagrams for Dummies: Visual Auxiliaries in printed diagrams of Euclid's Elements.
    Eunsoo Lee*, Stanford University
    (1135-01-2843)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Johannes Hjelmslev and the Didactics of Geometry.
    Toke Lindegaard Knudsen*, University of Copenhagen
    (1135-01-2391)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Mathematical Analysis and Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, I
  Room 30E, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Hongjie Dong, Brown University
  Peiyong Wang, Wayne State University
  Jiuyi Zhu, Louisiana State University zhu@math.lsu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A rigidity result for effective Hamiltonians with $3$-mode periodic potentials.
    Hung Tran, University of Wisconsin at Madison
    Yifeng Yu*, University of California at Irvine
    (1135-35-1742)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A min-max formula for Lipschitz operators that satisfy the global comparison principle and some applications.
    Russell W Schwab*, Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University
    (1135-35-2556)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Liouville theorem for the axially symmetric Navier-Stokes equations with some super-critical conditions.
    Zheb Lei, School of Mathematics, Fudan University, Shanghai China
    Qi S. Zhang*, Math. Dept. UC Riverside
    (1135-35-1847)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Convergence of a thresholding scheme to motion by mean curvature of filaments in $R^3$.
    Tim Laux, University of California, Berkeley
    Nung Kwan Yip*, Purdue University
    (1135-35-1559)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Nodal curves of eigenfunctions in the disc.
    Xiaolong Han*, California State University, Northridge
    Michael Murray, California State University, Northridge
    Chuong Tran, California State University, Northridge
    (1135-35-82)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    $S$-shaped bifurcation diagrams in exterior domains.
    Maya Chhetri, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    Pavel Drabek, University of West Bohemia
    Ratnasingham Shivaji*, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    (1135-35-1201)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Mathematical Fluid Mechanics: Analysis and Applications, I
  Room 30A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Zachary Bradshaw, University of Virginia zb8br@virginia.edu
  Aseel Farhat, University of Virginia
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Subgrid Scale Models for Large Eddy Simulation.
    Evelyn M Lunasin*, United States Naval Academy
    (1135-35-2776)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Existence of a determining form for the subcritical surface quasi-geostrophic equation.
    Vincent R. Martinez*, Tulane University
    Michael Jolly, Indiana University-Bloomington
    Tural Sadigov, SUNY Polytechnic Institute
    Edriss Titi, Texas A & M University
    (1135-35-498)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Local regularity conditions for the Navier-Stokes equations.
    Igor Kukavica, University of Southern California
    Walter Rusin*, Oklahoma State University
    Nabil Ziane, University of Southern California
    (1135-35-3019)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Energy law for the type I blowup of solutions to the 3D Navier-Stokes system.
    Roman Shvydkoy*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1135-35-504)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Mathematical Information in the Digital Age of Science, I
  Room 6E, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Patrick Ion, University of Michigan pion@umich.edu
  Olaf Teschke, zbMath Berlin
  Stephen Watt, University of Waterloo
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Formal Abstracts in Mathematics.
    Thomas Hales*, University of Pittsburgh
    (1135-03-2040)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Mathematical Language from a Design Perspective.
    Jeremy Avigad*, Departments of Philosophy and Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1135-03-1100)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Continuing toward a Global Digital Mathematics Library.
    Patrick D. F. Ion*, GDML WG / University of Michigan
    Olaf Teschke, zbMATH / FIZ Karlsruhe
    (1135-00-2147)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Web-Based Toolkit for Mathematical Word Processing Applications with Semantics.
    Nathan C Carter*, Bentley University
    Kenneth G Monks, University of Scranton
    (1135-68-2032)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Mathematics of Gravitational Wave Science, I
  Room 30D, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Andrew Gillette, University of Arizona agillette@math.arizona.edu
  Nikki Holtzer, University of Arizona
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Generalized Regge elements and Regge calculus.
    Douglas N. Arnold*, University of Minnesota
    Lizao Li, Seven Bridges Genomics
    (1135-65-2925)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    NEW PRESENTER: Asymptotic Boredom and Equipartition in the Expanding Direction of Model Cosmological Solutions of Einstein's Equations.
    James Isenberg*, University of Oregon
    Beverly Berger, Livermore, California
    Adam Layne, University of Oregon
    (1135-83-899)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Gravitational wave model for an eccentric binary based on EOBNR.
    Zhoujian Cao*, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, CAS, Beijing, China
    (1135-83-460)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Gravitational wave memory.
    David Garfinkle*, Oakland University
    (1135-83-1561)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Modeling in Differential Equations - High School, Two-Year College, Four-Year Institution, I
  Room 29B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Corban Harwood, George Fox University
  William Skerbitz, Wayzata High School
  Brian Winkel, SIMIODE brianwinkel@simiode.org
  Dina Yagodich, Frederick Community College
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Comparing Simulations with Solutions for Classical Differential Equation Models.
    Daniel J. Teague*, NC School of Science and Mathematics
    (1135-97-2987)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Incorporating a Modeling First Approach into a Traditional ODE Course.
    Michael A. Karls*, Ball State University
    (1135-34-1433)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Brewing the Perfect Cup of Tea with Differential Equations.
    Jesica Bauer*, Carroll College
    Eric Sullivan, Carroll College
    (1135-34-1129)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Experiencing the "Logic of Logistics".
    Bill Skerbitz*, Wayzata High School, Plymouth, MN
    (1135-34-1016)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Experience and Lessons Learned from Using SIMIODE Modeling Scenarios.
    Wandi Ding*, Middle Tennessee State University
    Ryan J. Florida, Middle Tennessee State University
    Jeffery Summers, Middle Tennessee State University
    Puran Nepal, Middle Tennessee State University
    (1135-34-37)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Modeling with Differential Equations: Student Projects and Research Opportunities at a 2 Year College.
    Chris McCarthy*, Borough of Manhattan Community College (City University of New York)
    (1135-97-1544)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Network Science, I
  Room 33B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  David Burstein, Swarthmore College dburste1@swarthmore.edu
  Franklin Kenter, United States Naval Academy
  Feng Shi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Prediction Models for Graph-Linked Data with Localized Regression.
    Alexander Cloninger*, University of California, San Diego
    (1135-62-549)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Internet is a Hall of Mirrors.
    Leigh Metcalf*, Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute
    (1135-94-767)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Temporal Random Graphs and Reachability in Cybersecurity Networks.
    Aric Hagberg*, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    (1135-60-2687)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Detecting changes in node importance in time evolving networks.
    Christine Klymko*, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    Olivia Simpson, Adobe
    (1135-60-1660)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Community Structures in Hypergraph Networks.
    Feng Bill Shi*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (1135-15-2320)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Nilpotent and Solvable Geometry, I
  Room 16B, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Michael Jablonski, University of Oklahoma
  Megan Kerr, Wellesley College mkerr@wellesley.edu
  Tracy Payne, Idaho State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Heisenberg groups and division algebras.
    Aroldo Kaplan*, University of Massachusetts (Amherst)
    (1135-53-3217)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    When does a solvable Lie group fail to admit a maximally symmetric metric?
    Jonathan Epstein*, University of Oklahoma
    (1135-22-2167)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Survey of Spectral and Nilpotent Geometry, with recent results.
    Ruth Gornet*, University of Texas Arlington
    (1135-53-1325)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Ricci negative solvmanifolds and their nilradicals.
    Jonas Deré*, KU Leuven Kulak
    (1135-53-1167)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Properties of 2-step nilpotent Lie groups associated with graphs.
    Rachelle DeCoste*, Wheaton College (MA)
    Lisa DeMeyer, Central Michigan University
    Meera Mainkar, Central Michigan University
    Allie Ray, Trinity College
    (1135-53-947)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Symmetry properties of homogeneous Ricci soliton metrics on solvable Lie groups.
    Carolyn Gordon*, Dartmouth College
    Michael Jablonski, University of Oklahoma
    (1135-53-2153)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Operators on Function Spaces in One and Several Variables, I
  Room 33A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Catherine Bénéteau, University of South Florida cbenetea@usf.edu
  Matthew Fleeman, Baylor University
  Constanze Liaw, Baylor University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Carlson's theorem for different measures.
    Meredith Sargent*, WashingtonUniversity in St Louis
    (1135-30-1021)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Spectral Properties of Sturm-Liouville Operators via Perturbation Theory.
    Matthew Fleeman, Baylor University
    Dale Frymark*, Baylor University
    Constanze Liaw, University of Delaware
    (1135-47-1202)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Convexity of level curves of Martin functions and associated Maximum principles.
    Koushik Ramachandran*, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Ok -74074.
    (1135-30-1338)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A characterization of Dirichlet inner functions.
    Daniel Seco*, Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas, Madrid (Spain)
    (1135-30-1844)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The obstruction function and deformations of three-dimensional strictly pseudoconvex CR manifolds.
    Peter Ebenfelt*, University of California, San Diego
    (1135-32-2522)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: A New Index Theorem for Monomial Ideals by Resolutions.
    Ronald G Douglas*, Texas A&M University
    (1135-47-384)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research in Mathematics by Undergraduates and Students in Post-Baccalaureate Programs, I
  Room 29A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Tamas Forgacs, CSU Fresno
  Darren A. Narayan, Rochester Institute of Technology dansma@rit.edu
  Mark David Ward, Purdue University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Minimal Orbits, Sharkovski Ordering and Universality in Chaos.
    Muhammad U. Abdulla*, Florida Institute of Technology
    Ugur G. Abdulla, Florida Institute of Technology
    Naveed H. Iqbal, Florida Institute of Technology
    Jake Barrett, Florida Institute of Technology
    (1135-37-77)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Isoperimetry in Surfaces of Revolution.
    Nat Sothanaphan*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Eilot Bongiovanni, Michigan State University
    Arjun Kakkar, Williams College
    Alejandro Diaz, University of Maryland, College Park
    (1135-51-610)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Taming Information Leaks in Machine Learning.
    Lorena Mejia Domenzain*, ITAM
    Natalia Dibbern, Loyola Marymount University
    Harjasleen Malvai, Brown University
    (1135-68-662)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Dynamics of Toxoplasma gondii in feral cats.
    Emily Kelting*, University of Central Oklahoma
    Brittany Bannish, University of Central Oklahoma
    Sean Laverty, University of Central Oklahoma
    (1135-92-708)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Lacunary Eta-quotients Modulo Powers of Primes.
    Tessa Cotron*, Emory University
    Anya Michaelsen, Williams College
    Emily Stamm, Vassar College
    Weitao Zhu, Williams College
    (1135-11-136)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Moonshine for all finite groups.
    Samuel DeHority, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Xavier Gonzalez, Harvard University
    Neekon Vafa, Harvard University
    Roger Van Peski*, Princeton University
    (1135-20-342)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS-ASL Special Session on Set Theory, Logic and Ramsey Theory, I
  Room 7B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Andrés Caicedo, Mathematical Reviews
  José Mijares, University of Colorado, Denver jose.mijarespalacios@ucdenver.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Canonical functions and the Ramsey property, revisited.
    Michael Pinsker*, Technische Universität Wien
    (1135-03-2050)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Sequential- $M$-separable spaces.
    Francisco Guevara Parra*, University of Toronto
    (1135-03-1369)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Ultrafilters and forcing on the space of block sequences of finite sets.
    Carlos A. Di Prisco*, Universidad de Los Andes
    (1135-03-1857)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Banach Spaces from Barriers in High Dimensional Ellentuck Spaces.
    Alvaro Arias*, University of Denver
    Natasha Dobrinen, University of Denver
    Gabriel Giron, University of Denver
    Jose Mijares, University of Colorado at Denver
    (1135-46-2105)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Reasoning about incomplete structures.
    Andre Kornell*, University of California, Davis
    (1135-03-3167)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Special Functions and Combinatorics (in honor of Dennis Stanton's 65th birthday), I
  Room 7A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Susanna Fishel, Arizona State University sfishel1@asu.edu
  Mourad Ismail, University of Central Florida
  Vic Reiner, University of Minnesota
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Combinatorial properties of traces of matrix products.
    John R Greene*, University of Minnesota Duluth
    (1135-05-603)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Winnie-the-Pooh and the Strange Expectations.
    Nathan F Williams*, University of Texas at Dallas
    Marko Thiel, Universität Zürich
    (1135-05-2070)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Discrete cubical homology groups.
    Helene Barcelo*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
    Curtis Greene, Haverford College
    Abdul Salam Jarrah, American University of Sharjah
    Volkmar Welker, Philipps-Universitat Marburg
    (1135-05-2380)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A combinatorial bijection on $k$-noncrossing partitions.
    Dongsu Kim*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
    Zhicong Lin, School of Science, Jimei University, Xiamen 361021, P.R. China; Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Austria
    (1135-05-2404)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Particle processes and Markov chains.
    Sylvie Corteel, Paris 7
    Olya Mandelshtam, Brown
    Lauren Williams*, UC Berkeley
    (1135-05-935)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Combinatorics of Koornwinder polynomials.
    Sylvie Corteel*, CNRS et Universite Paris Diderot /Miller Institute Berkeley
    (1135-05-3213)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Structure and Representations of Hopf Algebras: a Session in Honor of Susan Montgomery, I
  Room 17A, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Siu-Hung Ng, Louisiana State University
  Lance Small, University of California, San Diego
  Henry Tucker, University of California, San Diego htucker@usc.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Dynamics on quantum groups.
    Alexandru Chirvasitu*, SUNY Buffalo
    Issan Patri, Chennai Mathematical Institute
    (1135-16-1132)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Drinfeld twists of small quantum groups and Belavin-Drinfeld triples.
    Cris Negron*, MIT
    (1135-16-2816)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On classification of semisimple Hopf algebras of dimension 32.
    Yevgenia Kashina*, DePaul University
    (1135-16-2917)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Categorical twisted Frobenius--Schur indicators.
    Maria D Vega*, United States Military Academy
    (1135-16-2694)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Quivers, Modules and Group Theory.
    Robert M Guralnick*, University of Southern California
    (1135-20-1248)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Topological Graph Theory: Structure and Symmetry, I
  Room 17B, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Jonathan L. Gross, Columbia University
  Thomas W. Tucker, Colgate University ttucker@colgate.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Ribbon Graphs, Partial Duality, and Homogeneously Adequate States of a Link Diagram.
    Adam Giambrone*, University of Connecticut
    (1135-05-1719)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Genus Spectrum of Abelian Groups.
    Jay J. Zimmerman*, Towson University
    Angel V. Kumchev, Towson University
    Coy L. May, Towson University
    (1135-57-178)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Generalized Cayley maps and Petrie duals.
    Robert Jajcay*, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
    (1135-05-2508)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Jacobians of circulant graphs.
    Alexander Mednykh*, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk State University, Russia
    (1135-05-762)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Amply upper embeddable graphs.
    Roman Nedela, Mathematical institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences
    Martin Skoviera*, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
    (1135-05-2721)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Complete regular dessins and skew-morphisms of cyclic groups.
    Roman Nedela*, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech republic
    (1135-05-764)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  MAA Invited Paper Session on Trends in Mathematical and Computational Biology
  Room 3, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Timothy Comar, Benedictine University
  Carrie Eaton, Unity College
  Raina Robeva, Sweet Briar College robeva@sbc.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Emergent dynamics from neural network connectivity.
    Katie Morrison*, University of Northern Colorado
    (1135-AA-1677)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A discrete multiscale modeling perspective to the innate immune response to ischemic injury.
    Elena S. Dimitrova*, Clemson University
    Reinhard Laubenbacher, University of Connecticut School of Medicine
    Linda H. Shapiro, University of Connecticut School of Medicine
    (1135-AA-1729)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Limb Coordination in Crustacean Swimming: Neural Mechanisms and Mechanical Implications.
    Tim Lewis*, University of California Davis
    (1135-AA-2014)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Cryptochromes link circadian clocks with metabolism and cancer.
    Katja A Lamia*, The Scripps Research Institute
    (1135-AA-2382)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Using a Mathematical Model with Individual Patient Data to Quantify Differences Between Patients with Diabetic Foot Ulcers.
    Richard Schugart*, Western Kentucky University
    (1135-AA-2538)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Mathematical Model for the Cholinesterase Inhibitors in the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease.
    Richard Leonard, Mississippi State University
    Shantia Yarahmadian*, Mississippi State University
    Seth Oppenheimer, Mississippi State University
    (1135-AA-2885)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on Arts and Mathematics: The Interface, I
  Room 4, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Douglas Norton, Villanova University douglas.norton@villanova.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Creating Hyperbolic Wallpapers and Animations.
    Emily Gullerud*, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
    James S. Walker, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
    (1135-F1-1335)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    Automating String Art through the use of 3D Printers.
    Donald J Plante*, University of New Hampshire
    (1135-F1-1710)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    NEW TIME AND DAY: Rock Me Fibonacci: Using Recurrence Relations to Count Rock Drum Fill Patterns.
    Joshua Brandon Holden*, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
    (1135-F1-2611)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Examples of connections to mathematics through the lens of art.
    Zdenka Guadarrama*, Rockhurst University
    (1135-F1-2805)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Mandelboxen: mathematical extensions to the artistic toolkit for 2D and 3D Mandelbox fractals.
    Gregg Helt*, Genomancer
    (1135-F1-3199)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Fibonacci Wallpaper Spirals: Painting and Animation.
    Frank A. Farris*, Santa Clara University
    (1135-F1-2157)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Non-euclidean virtual reality.
    Vi Hart, eleVR
    Andrea Hawksley, eleVR
    Elisabetta Matsumoto, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Henry Segerman*, Oklahoma State University
    (1135-F1-880)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    3D printed tours.
    Robert Bosch*, Oberlin College
    (1135-F1-1732)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    3D Hyperbolic Tilings and Horosphere Cross Sections.
    Vladimir Bulatov*, Shapeways
    (1135-F1-1363)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Imaging and Inverse Problems
  Room 19, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Homogenization of the Transmission Eigenvalue Problem for a Periodic Media.
    Isaac Harris*, Texas A&M University
    Fioralba Cakoni, Rutgers University
    Houssem Haddar, Ecole polytechnique
    (1135-35-1315)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Parameter Determination for Tikhonov Regularization Problems in General Form.
    Yonggi Park*, Department of Mathematical Science/Kent State University
    Lothar Reichel, Department of Mathematical Science/Kent State University
    G Rodriguez, Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica/Universita` di Cagliari,
    X Yu, Department of Mathematical Science/Kent State University
    (1135-68-881)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Field Control Through Manipulation of Surface Sources.
    Daniel Onofrei*, University of Houston
    Eric Platt, University of Houston
    (1135-35-2178)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Dipole approximation for shape magnetic forming.
    Jaemin Shin*, Hanbat National University, South Korea
    (1135-78-1838)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Regularized Two-Dimensional Sampling Algorithm.
    Weidong Chen*, Minnesota State University, Mankato
    (1135-65-910)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Medical Images Atlas by averaging Diffeomorphisms through Mesh Generation.
    Zicong Zhou*, University of Texas at Arlington
    Guojun Liao, University of Texas at Arlington
    (1135-65-180)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Sparse conductivity reconstructions from electrical impedance tomography data using complex geometrical optics solutions and prior structural information.
    Michael Capps*, Colorado State University
    (1135-35-2672)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Randomization for Efficient Reduced Order Models.
    Selin Sariaydin*, Virginia Tech
    Eric de Sturler, Virginia Tech
    Serkan Gugercin, Virginia Tech
    Misha Kilmer, Tufts University
    (1135-65-2049)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Three dimensional surface reconstruction from a single portrait based on supervised learning and optimization in Sobolev norm.
    Yesom Park*, Ewha Womans University
    Yoonkeong Lee, Ewha Womans University
    Chohee Park, Ewha Womans University
    Seunghui Park, Ewha Womans University
    Chohong Min, Ewha Womans University
    (1135-68-826)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Filtering and Positivity Incorporation.
    Youssef Qranfal*, Wentworth Institute of Technology
    (1135-90-1322)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Use of a novel radiative transport solver to recover optical properties of layered media from Spatial Frequency Domain Imaging data.
    Sean Horan*, University of California, Irvine
    Adam Gardner, University of California, Irvine
    Rolf Saager, University of California, Irvine
    Anthony Durkin, University of California, Irvine
    Vasan Venugopalan, University of California, Irvine
    (1135-78-3001)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Recovering a source function in a parabolic equation.
    Sedar Ngoma*, State University of New York at Geneseo
    (1135-35-2397)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Algebra, I
  Room 15A, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Tim Comar, Benedictine University tcomar@ben.edu
  James Reid, University of Mississippi
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Universal Groebner Bases of Circulant Polynomial Systems.
    Ryan Shifler*, Salisbury University
    (1135-VL-895)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Markov number ordering conjectures.
    Michelle Rabideau*, University of Connecticut
    Ralf Schiffler, University of Connecticut
    (1135-VL-1109)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Hardness Results for the Subpower Membership Problem.
    Jeff Shriner*, University of Colorado Boulder
    (1135-VL-1518)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    How do you fix an oval track puzzle?
    David A Nash*, Le Moyne College
    Sara Randall, Le Moyne College
    (1135-VL-1903)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Intersection Pairing and Determinant Line Bundle.
    Yordanka Aleksandrova Kovacheva*, The University of Chicago
    (1135-VL-1978)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    The Position Vector of a Numerical Semigroup.
    Lance Bryant, Shippensburg University
    James Hamblin*, Shippensburg University
    (1135-VL-1988)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Error Correcting Codes within a Frobenius Ambient.
    Erik Hieta-aho*, Ohio University
    (1135-VL-2135)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    The Index of a Family of Complete Intersection Numerical Semigroup Rings.
    Bernadette Boyle*, Sacred Heart University
    (1135-VL-2162)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A multilinear toolkit for isomorphism.
    Joshua Maglione*, Kent State University
    (1135-VL-2242)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Demazure Crystals of the Quantum Affine Lie Algebra $U_q(A_{n-1}^{(1)})$.
    Maggie Rahmoeller*, Roanoke College
    (1135-VL-2258)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Computing the minimal Euclidean function over $\mathbb{Z}[i]$.
    R. Scott Williams*, University of Central Oklahoma
    Erin Williams, University of Central Oklahoma
    (1135-VL-2737)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Module Theory With Group Von Neumann Algebras.
    Wade Mattox*, Salem College
    (1135-VL-2880)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:10 a.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Assessment
  Room 28D, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Tim Comar, Benedictine University tcomar@ben.edu
  James Reid, University of Mississippi
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Predictive Analytics and Intangibles: Using data to improve student success and retention rates in core mathematics courses.
    Alison Reddy*, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
    (1135-VA-632)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Departmental assessment at a small liberal arts college.
    Douglas A Riley*, Birmingham-Southern College
    Bernadette Mullins, Birmingham-Southern College
    (1135-VA-1348)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Using Metacognitive Reading/Writing Assignments in a General Education Mathematics Course.
    Adam Giambrone*, University of Connecticut
    (1135-VA-1721)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Evaluating Assessments for Learning in the Mathematics Classroom: An Item Response Theory Primer for Mathematics Educators.
    Allen G Harbaugh, Boston University
    Andrew S Richman*, Boston University
    Suzanne Chapin, Boston University
    (1135-VA-1793)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Ordinal Regression to Analyze Postgraduate Students' Attitudes toward the Application of Statistical Procedures in the Western Cape Institutions.
    Germaine Kamleu -Ndouma*, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
    Lorna Holtman, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
    Bingwen Yan, Cape Peninsula university of Technology
    (1135-VA-2343)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Ximera: Measuring the effectiveness of an open-source interactive textbook.
    Jim Fowler, The Ohio State University
    Bart Snapp*, The Ohio State University
    (1135-VA-2452)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Formative assessment as a mechanism to improve calculus persistence through increased STEM major utility perception.
    Heather Z Brooks, University of Utah
    Anna Romanov*, University of Utah
    (1135-VA-2520)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Using specifications grading in a five-week summer calculus I course.
    Erin E. M. Rizzie*, University of Connecticut
    (1135-VA-2685)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Assessment of An On-Going Flip-IBL Study: Comparison of Traditional and F/IBL (Flipped and Inquiry-Based Learning) for College Algebra Classrooms.
    Perry Y.C. Lee*, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
    Padraig M. McLoughlin, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
    (1135-VA-2896)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Number Theory, I
  Room 13, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Bounds on the Number of Connected Components of the Sigma Divisor Function.
    Nina V Zubrilina*, Stanford University
    (1135-11-2077)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Comparing anticyclotomic Selmer groups of positive coranks for congruent modular forms.
    Jeffrey Hatley*, Union College
    Antonio Lei, Laval University
    (1135-11-734)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Rational points on solvable curves over $\mathbb{Q}$ via non-abelian Chabauty.
    Jordan S. Ellenberg, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Daniel Rayor Hast*, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1135-11-1112)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Local-to-Global Principles for Galois Covers of Curves in Characteristic $p$.
    Renee Bell*, MIT
    (1135-11-2285)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Supercharacters and Mixed Moments of Kloosterman Sums.
    Ángel Chávez, Pomona College
    George Todd*, Union College
    (1135-11-2863)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Generalizing the Gan-Gross-Prasad Conjecture to a Similitude Group
    Melissa Emory*, University of Missouri
    (1135-11-3131)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    NEW DAY & TIME: Hypergeometric Properties of Genus 3 Generalized Legendre Curves.
    Heidi Goodson*, Haverford College
    (1135-11-1213)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Constructing irreducible polynomials over finite field.
    Tyler Melton*, Armstrong State University
    Rosina Campbell, Armstrong State University
    Duc Van Huynh, Armstrong State University
    (1135-11-2498)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    An effective Chebotarev density theorem for families of fields, with applications to class groups.
    Lillian B. Pierce, Duke University and Institute for Advanced Study
    Caroline L. Turnage-Butterbaugh*, Duke University
    Melanie Matchett Wood, University of Wisconsin-Madison and American Institute of Mathematics
    (1135-11-1848)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On Klingen Eisenstein Series.
    Alok B Shukla*, University of Oklahoma
    (1135-11-1170)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Another look at Zagier's formula for multiple zeta values involving 2's and 3's.
    Cezar Lupu*, University of Pittsburgh
    (1135-11-2828)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Iterates of Schemmel Totient Functions.
    Colin Defant*, Princeton University
    (1135-11-711)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Congruences of Power Sums.
    Nicholas J. Newsome, University of California, Riverside
    Maria S. Nogin, California State University, Fresno
    Adnan H. Sabuwala*, California State University, Fresno
    (1135-11-2130)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Collegiate Mathematics, I
  Room 14A, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Tom Banchoff, Brown University
  Curt Bennett, Loyola Marymount University
  Pam Crawford, Jacksonville University
  Jacqueline Dewar, Loyola Marymount University jdewar@lmu.edu
  Edwin Herman, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
  Lew Ludwig, Denison University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Computers and Constructivist Learning Environments:Pedagogy and Achievement in College-Level Mathematics.
    Rachel M Bates*, Redlands Community College
    (1135-B5-315)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    Supporting Teaching Assistants Facilitating Instruction in a Blended Synchronous Learning Environment.
    Greg Mayer*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Asad Abbas, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1135-B5-2741)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Understanding How Two-Year College Math Faculty Perceptions of Cooperative Learning Influence Its Use in Math Courses.
    Adam J. Castillo*, Florida International University
    (1135-B5-1821)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Does collaboration help create change in college teachers?
    Kirthi Premadasa*, University of Wisconsin- Baraboo/Sauk County
    Geetha Samaranayake, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
    Rajee Amarasinghe, California State University-Fresno
    Khyam Paneru, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
    (1135-B5-1392)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Increasing Growth Mindset in Business Calculus Students.
    Jenny G Fuselier, High Point University
    Laurie Zack*, High Point University
    (1135-B5-1473)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    How is growth mindset and metacognitive self awareness linked in developmental math students?
    Yevgeniya Rivers*, University of New Haven
    (1135-B5-92)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Grit and Diligence as Predictors of Success in Mathematics Courses.
    Ben Hartlage, United States Air Force Academy
    David Higginbotham, United States Air Force Academy
    Ian Pierce*, United States Air Force Academy
    Beth Schaubroeck, United States Air Force Academy
    (1135-B5-2830)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Analyzing the Impact of Mastery-based Testing in Mathematics Courses.
    Lauren Klamerus*, Lewis University
    Christina Carlson, Lewis University
    Amanda Harsy, Lewis University
    (1135-B5-888)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Teaching Writing in Mathematics: What does it mean to communicate as a mathematician?
    Susan Ruff*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Lisa Emerson, Massey University, New Zealand
    (1135-B5-2675)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  SIAM Minisymposium on Data Science in the Mathematics Curriculum
  Room 11A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Suzanne Weekes, Worcester Polytechnic Institute sweekes@wpi.edu
  Ron Buckmire, National Science Foundation rbuckmir@nsf.gov
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Designing and Running a Data Science Program at a Regional Liberal Arts University.
    Amanda Harsy*, Lewis University
    Piotr Szczurek, Lewis University
    (1135-68-2912)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Teaching data science at the epicenter of data science, a reflection on both graduate and undergraduate programs at University of San Francisco.
    David Uminsky*, University of San Francisco
    (1135-97-2176)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Data Analytics Throughout Undergraduate Mathematics.
    Kristin P Bennett*, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    (1135-97-3123)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Thinking like a Data Scientist In and Out of Class.
    Tim Chartier*, Davidson College
    (1135-00-3223)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Exploiting Algorithmizable Mathematical Structure Theorems To Represent Data.
    Linda A. Ness*, Rutgers DIMACS
    (1135-28-2385)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Discussion with Ron Buckmire and Nandini Kannan, National Science Foundation
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
  Project NExT Workshop
  Room 6F, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-9:20 a.m.
  MAA Panel
  How do we use assessment? What do we learn from it and how does it help us make related changes?
  Room 1A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Beste Gucler, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth bgucler@umassd.edu
  Gulden Karakok, University of Northern Colorado
  Panelists:
  Marilyn Carlson, Arizona State University
  Pablo Meija-Ramos, Rutgers University
  Sandra Laursen, University of Colorado Boulder
  William Martin, North Dakota State University
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
  Employment Center
  Exhibit Hall A, Ground Level, San Diego Convention Center
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 8:15 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Algebraic Topology
  Room 12, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 8:15 a.m.
    Algebraic Models of Homotopy n-Types.
    Ivan Dungan*, United States Military Academy, West Point
    Ettore Aldrovandi, Florida State University
    (1135-55-400)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Complexity of virtual multistrings.
    David Freund*, Dartmouth College
    (1135-57-104)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Roots of unity in $K(n)$-local stable homotopy theory.
    Sanath Devalapurkar*, MIT
    (1135-55-167)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Equivariant formality of homogeneous spaces.
    Chi-Kwong Fok*, The University of Adelaide
    Jeffrey D Carlson, The University of Toronto
    (1135-55-2518)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Cohomology algebras of configuration spaces: preliminary report.
    Ayah Almousa, Cornell University
    Derek Francour, University of Wisconsin -- Madison
    Megan Maguire*, University of Wisconsin -- Madison
    (1135-55-2210)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Decorated Heegaard Diagrams and Combinatorial Heegaard Floer homology.
    Carl C Hammarsten*, Lafayette College
    (1135-57-2774)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    An Invariant of Mapping Tori from Moduli of Stable Pairs.
    Andrew Lee*, University of California, Santa Cruz
    Timothy Perutz, University of Texas at Austin
    (1135-53-1049)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: A Hodge-type decomposition of holomorphic Poisson cohomology on nilmanifolds.
    John A Simanyi*, UC Riverside
    (1135-53-2800)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Persistence and stability for the quiver $\mathbb{A}_n$.
    Killian F. Meehan*, University of Missouri
    David C. Meyer, University of Missouri
    (1135-55-2505)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Generalized persistence modules and taking limits.
    Killian Meehan, University of Missouri
    David C Meyer*, University of Missouri
    (1135-55-1754)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Using Topology to Study the Brain: An Analysis of fMRI data using TDA.
    Maria Gommel*, University of Iowa
    (1135-55-2595)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 8:15 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Applied Mathematics, I
  Room 28E, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Tim Comar, Benedictine University tcomar@ben.edu
  James Reid, University of Mississippi
  

  • 8:15 a.m.
    High-Order Adaptive Extended Finite Element Method (AES-FEM) and Direct Treatment of Neumann Boundary Conditions on Curved Boundaries.
    Rebecca Conley*, Saint Peter's University
    Tristan J. Delaney, San Jose, CA
    Xiangmin Jiao, Stony Brook University
    (1135-VN-417)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Stable ADI Scheme with Super-Gaussian Dielectric Distribution and Minimal Molecular Surface.
    Tania Hazra*, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
    Shan Zhao, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
    (1135-VN-444)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Third Derivative Block Multistep Algorithm for solving the Second Order Nonlinear Lane-Emden Type Equations.
    Olusheye A Akinfenwa*, University of Lagos, Akoka , Lagos
    Ridwanulai I Abdulganiy, University of Lagos, Akoka , Lagos
    Adebola S. Okunuga, University of Lagos, Akoka , Lagos
    (1135-VN-524)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Rational Approximation of the Mittag-Leffler Functions with Real Distinct Poles.
    Olaniyi S. Iyiola*, Minnesota State University, Moorhead, MN
    Emmanuel O. Asante-Asamani, Hunter College of the City University of New York
    Bruce Wade, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI
    (1135-VN-596)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    A numerical method for conical Radon transform with the vertices on a helix.
    Kiwoon Kwon*, Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea
    Sungwhan Moon, Kyungbook University, Daegu, Korea
    (1135-VN-655)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Inference of transition rates in a birth-death chain from conditional extinction times.
    Yingxiang Zhou*, University of Delaware
    Pak-Wing Fok, University of Delaware
    (1135-VN-719)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Intrusion Detection Algorithm Based On Discrete Wavelet Transform and Support Vector Machines.
    Kevin L. Li*, Western Connecticut State University
    Xiaodi Wang, .Department of Math, Western Connecticut State University
    (1135-VN-940)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Quantum circuits for arithmetic operations over binary field.
    Samundra Regmi*, Cameron University
    Parshuram Budhathoki, Cameron University
    (1135-VN-982)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Long-wave asymptotic model for deformation and breakup of a fluid thread.
    Muhammad Hameed*, University of South Carolina Upstate
    (1135-VN-983)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    New double Wronskian solutions for a generalized (2+1)-dimensional Boussinesq system with variable coefficients.
    Alrazi M Abdeljabbar*, Khalifa University The Petroleum Institute
    (1135-VN-1160)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Research by Postdocs of the Alliance for Diversity in Mathematics, I
  Room 33C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Aloysius Helminck, University of Hawaii - Manoa
  Michael Young, Iowa State University myoung@iastate.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Entropy production in random billiards and the second law of thermodynamics.
    Timothy Chumley*, Mount Holyoke College
    Renato Feres, Washington University in St. Louis
    (1135-60-2421)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Forecasting and uncertainty quantification using a hybrid of mechanistic and non-mechanistic models.
    Kevin B. Flores*, North Carolina State University
    (1135-92-2439)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Diblock copolymers and their aligning properties due to electric fields.
    Saulo Orizaga*, Duke University
    Karl Glasner, University of Arizona
    (1135-35-3033)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On Invariant-Preserving Finite Difference Schemes for the Camassa-Holm Equation and the Two-Component Camassa-Holm System.
    Terrance L Pendleton*, Drake University
    Hailiang Liu, Iowa State University
    (1135-35-2932)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Quantitative Mostow Rigidity: Relating volume to topology for hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
    Rosemary K Guzman*, University of Chicago
    Peter B Shalen, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1135-57-2702)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse #1: Part A
  Introduction to Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) in Mathematics Courses
  Room 28A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Presenters:
  Catherine Beneteau, University of South Florida
  Jill E. Guerra, University of Arkansas Fort Smith
  Laurie Lenz, Marymount University
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse #2: Part A
  Teaching Introductory Statistics Using the Guidelines from the American Statistical Association
  Room 28C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Presenters:
  Carolyn K. Cuff, Westminster College
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Difference, Dynamic, and Integral Equations
  Room 18, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Nonsmooth invariant manifolds in a conceptual climate model.
    James Walsh*, Oberlin College
    (1135-39-388)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Constructing Nonstandard Finite Difference (NSFD) Schemes for Dynamical Systems.
    Oluwaseye Adekanye*, Howard University
    Talitha Washington, Howard University
    (1135-39-2438)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Modeling releases of sterile mosquitoes with Beverton-Holt survival functions.
    Yang Li*, Mathematics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    (1135-39-1616)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Asymptotically periodic solutions of a $q-$integral equation.
    Jeffrey T. Neugebauer*, Eastern Kentucky University
    Muhammad N. Islam, University of Dayton
    (1135-39-285)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Period-Four Solution with Period-Two Parameters Applied to a Rational Difference Equation.
    Carol B Overdeep*, Saint Martin's University
    Sally Fletcher, Saint Martin's University
    (1135-39-459)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Asymptotically stable and $L^1$ Solutions of Caputo Fractional Differential Equations.
    Muhammad Islam*, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio
    (1135-45-360)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On square integrable solutions and principal solutions for second order Sturm--Liouville dynamic equations.
    Petr Zemánek*, Masaryk University
    (1135-34-523)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on Discrete Mathematics in the Undergraduate Curriculum -- Ideas and Innovations in Teaching, I
  Room 15B, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  John Caughman, Portland State University
  Art Duval, University of Texas El Paso elise314@gmail.com
  Elise Lockwood, Oregon State University
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Using WebAssign in Discrete Mathematics.
    Kathleen M. Shannon*, Salisbury University
    (1135-M5-669)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Discrete mathematics as a first course for mathematics and computer science majors.
    Jeffery D Sykes*, Ouachita Baptist University
    (1135-M5-1834)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Problems Inspired by Nordhaus-Gaddum.
    Colin Starr*, Willamette University
    (1135-M5-2133)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Fibonacci and the Stochastic Abacus.
    Bruce F. Torrence*, Randolph-Macon College
    (1135-M5-1923)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Bioinformatics-themed projects in Discrete Mathematics.
    Art Duval*, University of Texas at El Paso
    (1135-M5-2384)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Transforming Mathematics Assessments to Drive Better Learning.
    Kristin M. Arney*, United States Military Academy
    Kayla K. Blyman, United States Military Academy
    (1135-M5-2862)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on Mathematics and Sports, I
  Room 5B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  John David, Virginia Military Institute
  Drew Pasteur, College of Wooster rpasteur@wooster.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    New Theorems to Predict Winning Percentages and Compare Parity in the MLB, NBA, and NFL.
    Stanley Rothman*, Quinnipiac University
    (1135-B1-88)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    What is a walk a week worth?
    Robert Franzosa*, University of Maine
    (1135-B1-2402)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    On Bonobos and Baseball: an Application of David's Score.
    Thomas W Polaski*, Winthrop University
    (1135-B1-2718)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Predictive Modeling and Analysis of Golf and Softball Teams Using Linear Algebra.
    Marissa Koronkiewicz*, Lewis University
    Carley Maupin, Lewis University
    Amanda Harsy, Lewis University
    (1135-B1-2963)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Modeling and simulation of a bicycle race.
    J. Christopher Tweddle*, Governors State University
    (1135-B1-2306)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    What can a jump tell us about a pitcher?
    John Mayberry*, The University of the Pacific
    (1135-B1-409)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  MAA-SIAM-AMS Hrabowski-Gates-Tapia-McBay Session: Lecture
  Room 8, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Ricardo Cortez, Tulane University rcortez@tulane.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Mathematics for the masses.
    Talithia Williams*, Harvey Mudd College
    (1135-62-3229)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
  AMS Directors of Undergraduate Studies
  Rancho Santa Fe Rm 2, Lobby Level, North Twr, Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 9:35 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  MAA Workshop
  Creating Interdisciplinary Activities for Mathematical Sciences Classrooms
  Room 5A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Presenters:
  Eugene Fiorini, Muhlenberg College eugenefiorini@muhlenberg.edu
  Linda McGuire, Muhlenberg College
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 9:35 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  MAA Panel
  Mathematicians' Work in Creating Open Education Resources for K-12
  Room 1A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  William McCallum, University of Arizona william.mccallum@gmail.com
  Panelists:
  Scott Baldridge, Louisiana State University
  Hugo Rossi, University of Utah
  Kristin Umland, Illustrative Mathematics
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 9:35 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  MAA Panel
  What Every Student Should Know about the JMM
  Room 2, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Violeta Vasilevska, Utah Valley University violeta.vasilevska@uvu.edu
  Peri Shereen, California State University Monterey Bay
  Panelists:
  Joyati Debnath, Winona State University
  Michael Dorff, Brigham Young University
  Frank Morgan, Williams College
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 9:45 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  Project NExT Panel
  Creating Meaningful Classroom Activities to Deepen Student Learning
  Room 6F, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Rene Ardila, Grand Valley State University
  Emi Kennedy, Hollins University
  Erica Shannon, Pierce College
  Shawnda Smith, California State University Bakersfield
  Panelists:
  Dana Ernst, Northern Arizona University
  Jessica Libertini, Virginia Military Institute
  Ji Son, California State University Los Angeles
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 9:50 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
  MAA-SIAM-AMS Hrabowski-Gates-Tapia-McBay Panel
  Access to Quality Mathematics by All.
  Room 8, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Ricardo Cortez, Tulane University
  Panelists:
  James A. M. Álvarez, University of Texas at Arlington
  Ron Buckmire, National Science Foundation
  Talithia Williams, Harvey Mudd College
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 10:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on Innovative Curricular Strategies for Increasing Mathematics Majors
  Room 14B, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Stuart Boersma Boersma, Central Washington University
  Eric S. Marland, Appalachian State University marlandes@appstate.edu
  Victor Piercey, Ferris State University
  

  • 10:00 a.m.
    An Alternative Calculus Sequencing for an Undergraduate Core Mathematics Program.
    Ivan Dungan*, United States Military Academy, West Point
    Randy Boucher, United States Military Academy, West Point
    (1135-G5-401)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Entry Year Experience for New Mathematics Majors: Creating and refining a course tailored to your mathematics program.
    Kimberly J Presser*, Shippensburg University
    Luis Melara, Shippensburg University
    Douglas Ensley, Shippensburg University
    (1135-G5-1108)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Open Discussion
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 10:05 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  AMS Invited Address
  The Navier-Stokes, Euler and related equations.
  Room 6AB, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Edriss S. Titi*, Texas A&M University; and The Weizmann Institute of Science
  (1135-35-3239)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 10:15 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Algebra, II
  Room 32B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Tim Comar, Benedictine University tcomar@ben.edu
  James Reid, University of Mississippi
  

  • 10:15 a.m.
    Computing maximal genetic distance in terms of signed permutations.
    Tanner J Rosenberg*, Northern Arizona University
    (1135-VL-2919)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Space of Biorders on Some Solvable Groups.
    Kelli M Karcher*, Virginia Tech
    Peter Linnell, Virginia Tech
    (1135-VL-2966)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Relative Brauer Relations of Abelian p-Groups.
    M. F. Anton*, Central Conn St Univ
    (1135-VL-3048)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 10:15 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Outreach, I
  Room 28D, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Tim Comar, Benedictine University tcomar@ben.edu
  James Reid, University of Mississippi
  

  • 10:15 a.m.
    Teacher development through the mathematical practice standard continuum.
    Erick B Hofacker*, University of Wisconsin - River Falls
    Sherrie Serros, Mount Mary University
    Ashlee LeGear, University of Wisconsin - River Falls
    (1135-VG-1799)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Mathematics and Global Citizenship: Preparing for the Future.
    Kyle Evans*, University of Connecticut
    Fabiana Cardetti, University of Connecticut
    (1135-VG-2985)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Invited Address
  Topological Modeling of Complex Data.
  Room 6AB, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Gunnar Carlsson*, Stanford University
  (1135-00-33)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 12:15 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
  Exhibits and Book Sales
  Come to the Grand Opening at 12:15 p.m.!
  Exhibit Hall B1, Ground Level, San Diego Convention Center
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-1:50 p.m.
  AMS Colloquium Lectures: Lecture I
  Alternate Minimization and Scaling algorithms: theory, applications and connections across mathematics and computer science.
  Room 6AB, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Avi Wigderson*, Institute for Advanced Study
  (1135-68-3224)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
  AMS Committee on Meetings and Conferences Panel Discussion
  Collaborative Research Communities in Mathematics
  Room 11B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Panelists:
  Sam Ballas, Florida State University
  Ruth Charney, Brandeis University
  Brian Conrey, American Institute of Mathematics
  Satayan Devados, University of San Diego
  Moderators:
  NEW: Irina Mitrea, Temple University
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-3:05 p.m.
  MAA Invited Address
  Quintessential quandle queries.
  Room 6AB, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Alissa Crans*, Loyola Marymount University
  (1135-A0-108)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on A Showcase of Number Theory at Liberal Arts Colleges, I
  Room 16A, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Adriana Salerno, Bates College
  Lola Thompson, Oberlin College lola.thompson@oberlin.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    The sup-norm problem for $\mathrm{GL}(2)$ over number fields.
    Djordje Milićević*, Bryn Mawr College
    Valentin Blomer, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
    Gergely Harcos, MTA Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics and Central European University
    Péter Maga, MTA Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics
    (1135-11-1147)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Quantum modular forms and quantum Jacobi forms.
    Amanda Folsom*, Amherst College
    (1135-11-745)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Arithmetic Properties of Jacobians of Curves Defined by the Generalized Laguerre Polynomials.
    John Cullinan*, Bard College
    (1135-11-680)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Primitive root biases for prime pairs.
    Stephan Ramon Garcia*, Pomona College
    (1135-11-289)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Lattice point visibility on generalized lines of sight.
    Edray H. Goins, Purdue University
    Pamela E. Harris*, Williams College
    Bethany Kubik, University of Minnesota Duluth
    Aba Mbirika, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
    (1135-11-309)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Bisected theta series, least $r$-gaps in partitions, and polygonal numbers.
    Cristina M Ballantine*, College of the Holy Cross
    Mircea Merca, Academy of Romanian Scientists
    (1135-11-1735)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Perfect powers in orbits of rational functions over number fields.
    Rafe Jones*, Carleton College
    Jordan Cahn, Carleton College
    Jacob Spear, Carleton College
    (1135-11-2523)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Sierpiński and Riesel numbers: computations and coverings.
    Carrie E. Finch-Smith*, Washington and Lee University
    (1135-11-2288)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-6:35 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Algebraic, Analytic, and Geometric Aspects of Integrable Systems, Painlevé Equations, and Random Matrices, I
  Room 31A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Vladimir Dragovic, University of Texas at Dallas
  Anton Dzhamay, University of Northern Colorado adzham@unco.edu
  Sevak Mkrtchyan, University of Rochester
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    A Robust Inverse Scattering Transform for the Focusing Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation.
    Deniz Bilman, University of Michigan
    Peter D. Miller*, University of Michigan
    (1135-35-2583)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Nearly singular Jacobi matrices and applications to the finite Toda lattice.
    Kenneth T.-R. McLaughlin, Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University
    Robert Jenkins, Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona
    Kyle Pounder*, Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona
    (1135-34-1620)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Asymptotics of gap probabilities via Riemann--Hilbert approach.
    Manuela Girotti*, Colorado State University
    (1135-60-494)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Nonintersecting Brownian bridges on the unit circle with drift.
    Robert Buckingham*, University of Cincinnati
    (1135-60-1786)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Pfaffian Sign Theorem for the Dimer Model on a Triangular Lattice.
    Pavel Bleher, IUPUI
    Brad Elwood, IUPUI
    Dražen Petrović*, IUPUI
    (1135-82-2267)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    A Moment Method for Invariant Ensembles.
    Jonathan Novak*, UC San Diego
    (1135-60-437)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    NEW! Discussion
  • 5:15 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: The scaling function constant problem in the two-dimensional Ising model.
    Thomas Joachim Bothner*, University of Michigan
    (1135-82-1196)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Turning point processes in plane partitions with periodic weights of arbitrary period.
    Sevak Mkrtchyan*, University of Rochester
    (1135-60-1406)
  • 6:15 p.m.
    Bifurcations of Liouville Tori for Goryachev-Chaplygin system Vs. Poincare system.
    Fariba Khoshnasib*, UW-Eau Claire/ UTDallas
    (1135-70-3084)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-6:35 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Analysis of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications, I
  Room 9, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Tarek M. Elgindi, University of California, San Diego tme2@princeton.edu
  Edriss S. Titi, Texas A&M University and Weizmann Institute of Science
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Stability of Kolmogorov flows.
    Slim Ibrahim*, University of Victoria
    Yasunori Maekawa, University of Kyoto
    Nader Masmoudi, Courant Institute, NY University
    (1135-35-3153)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    On flocking and global well-posedness of singular models of self organized dynamics.
    Roman Shvydkoy*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1135-35-502)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Finite-time singularity formation for the Boussinesq system.
    Tarek M. Elgindi, UCSD
    In-Jee Jeong*, Princeton University
    (1135-35-571)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Stability and regularity results for the 2D Boussinesq equations with partial dissipation.
    Jiahong Wu*, Oklahoma State University
    (1135-35-938)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Local regularity for the modified SQG patch equation.
    Alexander Kiselev, Duke University
    Yao Yao, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Andrej Zlatos*, UC San Diego
    (1135-35-2550)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Vorticity Gradient Growth for the Axisymmetric 3D Euler Equations Without Swirl.
    Tam Do*, University of Southern California
    (1135-35-2116)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Techniques of 2D fluids applied to the aggregation equation.
    Hantaek Bae, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
    Elaine Cozzi, Oregon State University
    Gung-Min Gie, University of Louisville
    James P Kelliher*, University of California Riverside
    (1135-35-1726)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    An ensemble data assimilation algorithm via feedback-control.
    Cecilia F Mondaini*, Texas A&M University
    Animikh Biswas, University of Maryland Baltimore County
    Ciprian Foias, Texas A&M University
    Edriss S. Titi, Texas A&M University, US, AND Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
    (1135-35-2638)
  • 6:15 p.m.
    Global regularity for Burgers equation with density-dependent fractional dissipation.
    Changhui Tan*, Rice University
    (1135-35-2874)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-6:35 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Applied and Computational Combinatorics, II
  Room 7A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Torin Greenwood, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Jay Pantone, Dartmouth College jaypantone@dartmouth.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Using Symbol-Crunching to find ALL Sucker's Bets (with given deck sizes).
    Shalosh B. Ekhad, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
    Doron Zeilberger*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
    (1135-05-712)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Using Experimental Data to Deconvolve Structural Signals.
    Torin Greenwood*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1135-05-1789)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Analyzing Boltzmann samplers for Bose--Einstein condensates with Dirichlet generating functions.
    Megan Bernstein, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Matthew Fahrbach*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Dana Randall, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1135-05-714)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    A Generative Graph Model for Electrical Infrastructure Networks.
    Sinan G Aksoy*, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez, Oregon State University
    Mahantesh Halappanavar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    Emilie Purvine, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    (1135-05-2124)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Distinguishing phylogenetic networks.
    Elizabeth Gross*, San Jose State University
    Colby Long, Mathematical Biosciences Institute
    (1135-92-950)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Meanders and RNA Folding.
    Christine E. Heitsch*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1135-05-860)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Analytic Combinatorics in Several Variables: Applications and Effective Methods.
    Stephen Melczer*, University of Pennsylvania
    (1135-05-849)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Radon and Tverberg theorem with concrete coordinates.
    J De Loera*, University of California, Davis
    Thomas Hogan, University of California, Davis
    Frederic Meunier, CERMICS, Ecole des Ponts et Chausses, Paris
    Nabil Mustafa, Universite Paris-Est Marne la Vallee
    (1135-52-870)
  • 6:15 p.m.
    The Ballots are Missing, Who Won the Election? Inferring Rankings from First Order Marginals.
    Sarah Wolff*, Denison University
    (1135-05-1861)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Combinatorial Commutative Algebra and Polytopes, I
  Room 33B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Robert Davis, Michigan State University davisr@math.msu.edu
  Liam Solus, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    The toric ring of a two-borel ideal is Koszul.
    Michael DiPasquale*, Oklahoma State University
    (1135-13-60)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Graph Realization for Atomic Simplexes.
    Jackson Autry, San Diego State University
    Christopher O'Neill, UC Davis
    Vadim Ponomarenko*, San Diego State University
    Samuel Yih, Pomona College
    (1135-05-636)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Number Sequences of Truncated Simplices.
    Michael G Augspurger, Grove City College
    Rachel E Falk, Grove City College
    Joseph E Swanson*, Grove City College
    Michael A Jackson, Grove City College
    (1135-40-3098)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Classifications of lattice polytopes.
    Gabriele Balletti*, Stockholm University
    (1135-52-1552)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Laplacian Simplices.
    Marie Meyer*, University of Kentucky
    Benjamin Braun, University of Kentucky
    (1135-05-1957)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Level algebras and lecture hall polytopes.
    Florian Kohl, Freie Universitaet Berlin
    McCabe Olsen*, University of Kentucky
    (1135-05-1738)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Normal Gorenstein Fano polytopes arising from perfect graphs.
    Akiyoshi Tsuchiya*, Osaka University
    (1135-05-657)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Differential Geometry, I
  Room 30D, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Vincent B. Bonini, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo vbonini@calpoly.edu
  Joseph E. Borzellino, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
  Bogdan D. Suceava, California State University, Fullerton
  Guofang Wei, University of California, Santa Barbara
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    The first eigenvalue of the $p$-Laplacian with integral curvature condition.
    Shoo Seto*, UC Santa Barbara
    (1135-53-906)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Existence of metrics maximizing the first eigenvalue on closed surfaces.
    Anna M Siffert*, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics
    Henrik Matthiesen, MPIM Bonn
    (1135-53-994)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    The Moduli Space of Flat Connections over Higher Dimensional Manifolds.
    Casey Blacker*, UC Santa Barbara
    (1135-53-2515)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Non-negative curvature and torus actions.
    Christine Escher*, Oregon State University
    Catherine Searle, Wichita State University
    (1135-53-521)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Modified Mean Curvature Flow in Hyperbolic Space.
    Patrick Allmann*, University of California, Santa Cruz
    Longzhi Lin, University of California, Santa Cruz
    Jingyong Zhu, University of Science and Technology of China
    (1135-53-2266)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: A conformally invariant gap theorem in Yang-Mills theory.
    Casey Lynn Kelleher*, Princeton University
    Jeffrey D Streets, University of California, Irvine
    Matthew J Gursky, University of Notre Dame
    (1135-58-2756)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    On the size of compact Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature and convex boundary.
    Xiaodong Wang*, Michigan State University
    (1135-53-1212)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Rigidity of the Ambient Obstruction Flow.
    Christopher Lopez*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1135-53-2845)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-6:35 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems--to Celebrate the Work of Jane Hawkins, I
  Room 17B, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Julia Barnes, Western Carolina University
  Rachel Bayless, Agnes Scott College
  Emily Burkhead, Duke University
  Lorelei Koss, Dickinson College koss@dickinson.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Modeling Virus Dynamics with Stochastic Cellular Automata.
    Emily G. Burkhead*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Jane M. Hawkins, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (1135-37-2319)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: A family of infinite local complexity tiling flows with countable Lebesgue spectrum.
    Natalie Priebe Frank, Department of Mathematics, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
    E Arthur Robinson, Jr.*, Deptartment of Mathematics, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052
    (1135-37-1483)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Elliptic functions and Herman rings.
    Mónica Moreno Rocha*, Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas
    (1135-37-1905)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    The Dynamics of Two Circle Inversions.
    Daniel M Look*, St. Lawrence University
    (1135-37-698)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Seeing Repelling Dynamics.
    Daniel Cuzzocreo, Northwestern University
    Joanna Furno*, University of Houston
    Kenneth Jacobs, Northwestern University
    Scott Kaschner, Butler University
    (1135-37-2799)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Computational adventures in complex dynamics.
    Mark C McClure*, UNC - Asheville
    (1135-37-1142)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    An exploration of Mandelbrot sets in unexpected places.
    Joshua J Clemons*, Virginia Tech
    (1135-37-2945)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Odometer actions of more general groups.
    Ayse A Sahin*, Wright State University
    Ilie Ugarcovici, DePaul University
    (1135-37-2981)
  • 6:15 p.m.
    Speedups of $\mathbb{Z}^d$-odometers.
    David M McClendon*, Ferris State University
    Aimee S.A. Johnson, Swarthmore College
    (1135-37-1017)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-6:35 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Financial Mathematics, Actuarial Sciences, and Related Fields, II
  Room 30C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Albert Cohen, Michigan State University
  Nguyet Nguyen, Youngstown State University ntnguyen01@ysu.edu
  Oana Mocioalca, Kent State University
  Thomas Wakefield, Youngstown State University
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Mathematics of Quantitative Finance and Actuarial Science: A Biased Viewpoint.
    Robert R Reitano*, Brandeis International Business School
    (1135-91-1661)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Barndorff-Nielsen and Shephard model- oil commodity hedging with variance swap and option.
    Indranil SenGupta*, North Dakota State University
    William Wilson, North Dakota State University
    William Nganje, North Dakota State University
    (1135-60-36)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Testing Option Pricing Models with Memory.
    Flavia Sancier*, Antioch College
    (1135-60-2496)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    A Monte Carlo scheme for a singular control problem.
    Arash Fahim*, Florida State University, Department of Mathematics
    Wan-Yu Tsai, Florida State University, Department of Mathematics
    (1135-60-492)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Pricing with Markov Chain Monte Carlo and a Coupled Additive-Multiplicative Stochastic Model.
    Ibukun O Amusan*, Kentucky State University
    (1135-60-1810)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    First hitting time of integral diffusions and applications.
    Duy Nguyen*, Marist College
    (1135-60-518)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Application of Stochastic Maximum Principle Risk-Sensitive Regime Switching in Asset Management.
    Isabelle Kemajou-Brown*, Morgan State University
    Olivier Menoukeu-Pamen, Institute for Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, University of Liverpool
    Zhongyang Sun, School of Mathematical Sciences
    (1135-49-2334)
  • 6:15 p.m.
    Sensitivity analysis of the utility maximization problem with respect to model perturbations.
    Oleksii Mostovyi*, University of Connecticut
    Mihai Sirbu, University of Texas at Austin
    (1135-60-216)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #3: Part A
  Flipping your Mathematics Course using Open Educational Resources
  Room 28A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Presenters:
  Sarah Eichhorn, University of California, Irvine
  David Farmer, American Institute of Mathematics
  Jim Fowler, The Ohio State University
  Petra Taylor, Dartmouth University
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Geometric Analysis and Geometric Flows, II
  Room 30B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  David Glickenstein, University of Arizona glickenstein@math.arizona.edu
  Brett Kotschwar, Arizona State University
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Maximal symmetry in solvmanifolds.
    Michael Jablonski*, University of Oklahoma
    (1135-53-2731)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Progress in symplectic curvature flow.
    Casey Lynn Kelleher*, Princeton University
    (1135-58-2747)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Scaling and Entropy for the RG-2 flow.
    Christine Guenther*, Pacific University
    (1135-58-2651)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Blow-up Continuity for Mean-Convex, Type-I Mean Curvature Flow.
    Kevin Sonnanburg*, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    (1135-53-2282)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    On the equivalence between bounded entropy and noncollapsing for ancient solutions to the Ricci flow.
    Yongjia Zhang*, University of California, San Diego
    (1135-53-1158)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Ricci Flow on Doubly-Warped Products.
    Maxwell Stolarski*, University of Texas at Austin
    (1135-53-2197)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Non-Kaehler Ricci Flows that Converge to Kaehler-Ricci Solitons.
    James Isenberg*, University of Oregon
    Dan Knopf, University of Texas
    Natasa Sesum, Rutgers University
    (1135-53-905)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on History of Mathematics, II
  Room 10, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Sloan Despeaux, Western Carolina University
  Jemma Lorenat, Pitzer College
  Clemency Montelle, University of Canterbury
  Daniel Otero, Xavier University otero@xavier.edu
  Adrian Rice, Randolph-Macon College
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Where Did They Learn That? Mathematical Knowledge in 18th Century Portugal.
    Maria Zack*, Point Loma Nazarene University
    (1135-01-944)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Newton's Headache: the Motion of the Lunar Apse.
    Lawrence D'Antonio*, Ramapo College
    (1135-01-458)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    A Guilty Euler Searches for Large Primes.
    Dominic Klyve*, Central Washington University
    (1135-01-2848)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    D'Alembert and the Case for Limits.
    Robert E. Bradley*, Adelphi University
    (1135-01-1581)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Euler and Mathematical Rigor.
    Craig Fraser*, University of Toronto
    (1135-01-1880)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    A Decade in the Life of William Playfair.
    David R Bellhouse*, University of Western Ontario
    (1135-01-512)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    The mathematical education of George Gabriel Stokes.
    June Barrow-Green*, The Open University, U.K.
    (1135-01-1417)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Thomas P. Kirkman -- a life in mathematics.
    Tony Crilly*, St. Albans, UK
    (1135-01-738)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #4: Part A
  How to Run Successful Math Circles for Students and Teachers
  Room 28B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Presenters:
  Jane Long, Stephen F. Austin State University
  Brianna Donaldson, American Institute of Mathematics
  Gabriella Pinter, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  Diana White, University of Colorado Denver and National Association of Math Circles
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Infectious Diseases, I
  Room 29C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Kazuo Yamazaki, University of Rochester kyamazak@ur.rochester.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    A theoretical approach to understanding population dynamics with seasonal developmental durations.
    Yijun Lou*, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    Xiao-Qiang Zhao, Memorial University of Newfoundland
    (1135-92-394)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    NEW: Discussion
  • 3:15 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: On multi-species and cross diffusion.
    Dung Le*, University of Texas at San Antonio
    (1135-35-432)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    An epidemic model with superspreading.
    Fred Brauer*, University of British Columbia
    (1135-92-1603)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Impact of Environmental Temperature on Dengue Epidemics: Mathematical Models.
    Naveen K. Vaidya*, San Diego State University, California, USA
    (1135-92-1480)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Mathematical modeling of PDGF-driven glioma reveals the infiltrating dynamics of immune cells into tumors.
    Jianjun Paul Tian*, New Mexico State University
    (1135-35-2183)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Modeling the role of superspreaders in infectious disease outbreaks.
    Christina Joy Edholm*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    (1135-92-1777)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Modeling in Differential Equations - High School, Two-Year College, Four-Year Institution, II
  Room 29B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Corban Harwood, George Fox University
  William Skerbitz, Wayzata High School
  Brian Winkel, SIMIODE brianwinkel@simiode.org
  Dina Yagodich, Frederick Community College
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Panel Discussion and Audience Participation: Experience with Engaging in Modeling in a Differential Equations Course.
    Dina Yagodich*, Frederick Community College, Frederick MD
    Brian Winkel, SIMIODE, Cornwall NY
    Corban Harwood, George Fox University, Newberg OR
    William Skerbitz, Wayzata High School, Plymouth MN
    (1135-97-608)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Modeling challenges for a high school course on differential equations.
    Ted Theodosopoulos*, The Nueva School
    (1135-34-3196)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Qualitative Analysis of Differential Equations and the Zombie Apocalypse in a Mathematical Biology Course.
    Christina M. Alvey*, Mount Saint Mary College
    (1135-34-931)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Modeling in an Integrated Mathematics and Physics course.
    Nathan Pennington*, Creighton University
    (1135-97-97)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    What outcomes might we anticipate from students engaging concurrently with modeling and differential equations content?
    Jennifer Ann Czocher*, Texas State University
    (1135-97-1696)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    It's Time to Change our Traditional Differential Equations Course.
    Patrice G Tiffany*, Manhattan College
    Rosemary C Farley, Manhattan College
    (1135-34-735)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Managing Project Logistics in Teaching Differential Equations.
    Corban Harwood*, George Fox University
    (1135-34-151)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-6:35 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Nilpotent and Solvable Geometry, II
  Room 16B, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Michael Jablonski, University of Oklahoma
  Megan Kerr, Wellesley College mkerr@wellesley.edu
  Tracy Payne, Idaho State University
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Geodesic orbit and naturally reductive nilmanifolds associated with graphs.
    Yuri Nikolayevsky*, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
    (1135-53-1814)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: The X-ray transform on nilpotent Lie groups.
    Evangelia Samiou*, University of Cyprus
    (1135-53-1662)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Metrics on 4-dimensional unimodular Lie groups.
    Scott Van Thuong*, Pittsburg State University
    (1135-53-51)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Geodesics properties of two-step nilmanifolds constructed from graphs.
    Rachelle C DeCoste, Wheaton College, MA
    Lisa DeMeyer*, Central Michigan University
    Meera Mainkar, Central Michigan University
    (1135-22-1010)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Central conjugate locus of 2-step nilpotent Lie groups.
    Patrick B. Eberlein*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (1135-53-520)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Sectional curvature and Weitzenböck formulae.
    Renato G. Bettiol*, University of Pennsylvania
    (1135-53-1862)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Anosov diffeomorphisms on infra-nilmanifolds associated to graphs.
    Meera Mainkar*, Central Michigan University
    Jonas Dere, KU Leuven Kulak, Kortrijk, Belgium
    (1135-22-1103)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Left-invariant pseudo-Riemannian metrics on some solvable Lie groups.
    Hiroshi Tamaru*, Hiroshima University
    (1135-53-1084)
  • 6:15 p.m.
    On the Classification of Seven Dimensional solvable Lie Algebras With six-dimensional Niradical.
    Firas Y Hindeleh*, Grand Valley State University
    (1135-22-298)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Operators on Function Spaces in One and Several Variables, II
  Room 33A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Catherine Bénéteau, University of South Florida cbenetea@usf.edu
  Matthew Fleeman, Baylor University
  Constanze Liaw, Baylor University
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    The Sarason Space $H^\infty + C$.
    Sheldon Axler*, San Francisco State University
    (1135-46-59)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    What is an "inner function"?
    Dmitry Khavinson*, University of South Florida
    (1135-30-439)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Singularities of rational inner functions on the bidisk.
    K Bickel, Bucknell University
    J E Pascoe, Washington University in St Louis
    A A Sola*, Stockholm University
    (1135-32-1421)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    The problem of existence of universal Taylor series.
    Myrto Manolaki*, University of South Florida
    (1135-30-1155)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    The Khavinson-Shapiro conjecture: a call to arms.
    Erik Lundberg*, Florida Atlantic University
    (1135-31-1343)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Bianalytic maps in "matrix" variables.
    J. William Helton*, Math Dept. UC San Diego
    (1135-46-758)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Multiplier algebra functional calculus.
    Kelly A. Bickel, Bucknell University
    Michael Hartz, Washington University
    John E. McCarthy*, Washington University
    (1135-47-532)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Pythagoras Lives!
    William T Ross*, University of Richmond
    (1135-46-397)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Orthogonal Polynomials and Applications
  Room 30E, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Abey Lopez-Garcia, University of South Alabama
  Xiang-Sheng Wang, University of Louisiana at Lafayette xswang@louisiana.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Interpolatory Quadrature Rules and Orthogonal Polynomials of Varying Rational Weights.
    Ulises Fidalgo*, Case Western Reserve University
    (1135-65-784)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Asymoptotics of Orthogonal Polynomials Associated with a Generalized Freud Weight.
    Roderick Wong*, City University of Hong Kong
    Zhitao Wen, Taiyuan University of Technology of China
    (1135-33-1063)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Asymptotics of Pseudo-Jacobi Polynomials with Varying Parameters.
    Zilong Song*, York University
    R Wong, City University of Hong Kong
    (1135-33-1397)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Doubly infinite Jacobi matrices revisited: resolvent and spectral measure.
    Dan Dai*, Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
    Mourad E.H. Ismail, Department of Mathematics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA
    Xiang-Sheng Wang, Department of Mathematics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA 70503, USA
    (1135-33-1843)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Towards a turning point theory for $q$-orthogonal polynomials.
    Mourad E.H. Ismail*, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816
    Chun-Kong Law, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan 804, R.O.C
    (1135-32-519)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Generalizations of generating functions for basic hypergeometric orthogonal polynomials.
    Howard S Cohl*, National Institute of Standards and Technology
    Roberto S Costas-Santos, Universidad de Alcala, Alcala, Spain
    Philbert R. Hwang, University of Maryland
    Tanay V. Wakhare, University of Maryland
    (1135-33-402)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Geronimus Polynomials on the Unit Circle.
    Brian Simanek*, Baylor University
    (1135-41-1268)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Vector critical measures and the hermitian plus external source random matrix model.
    Guilherme Silva*, University of Michigan
    (1135-31-475)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Quaternions, I
  Room 33C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Terrence Blackman, Medgar Evers College, City University of New York
  Johannes Familton, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York jfamilton@bmcc.cuny.edu
  Chris McCarthy, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Subalgebras of the Split Octonions.
    Lida Bentz, Virginia Tech
    Tevian Dray*, Oregon State University
    (1135-17-368)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Quaternionic Spin.
    Corinne A. Manogue*, Oregon State University (Physics)
    Tevian Dray, Oregon State University
    (1135-17-367)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    A quaternionic unraveling of the double-twist in three-space.
    David Pengelley*, Oregon State University
    Daniel Ramras, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis
    (1135-20-422)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Using quaternions to colour the cells of a tiling of $\mathbb{H}^3$.
    Vi Hart, eleVR, HARC
    Andrea Hawksley, eleVR, HARC
    Elisabetta A Matsumoto, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Henry Segerman*, Oklahoma State University
    (1135-57-42)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Carcinogenesis: does indefinite metric of a split-quaternion give a clue?
    Garri Davydyan*, Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Canada
    (1135-53-350)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    A Brief introduction to Clifford Algebras.
    Johannes C. Familton*, Borough of Manhattan Community College
    (1135-51-590)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Quaternions in Geometric Algebra and Physics.
    David Hestenes*, Arizona State University
    (1135-00-139)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #5: Part A
  Reach the World: Writing Math Op-Eds for a Post-Truth Culture
  Room 28C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Presenters:
  Kira Hamman, Pennsylvania State University, Mont Alto
  Francis Su, Harvey Mudd College
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Structure and Representations of Hopf Algebras: a Session in Honor of Susan Montgomery, II
  Room 17A, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Siu-Hung Ng, Louisiana State University
  Lance Small, University of California, San Diego
  Henry Tucker, University of California, San Diego htucker@usc.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    From group theory to Hopf algebras via integrals.
    Miriam Cohen*, Ben Gurion University
    Sara Westreich, Bar Ilan university
    (1135-16-923)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Survey on Hopf crossed products.
    Akira Masuoka*, University of Tsukuba
    (1135-16-445)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Hopf algebras of Gelfand-Kirillov dimension 1 and 2.
    James J Zhang*, University of Washington
    (1135-16-878)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Reflection Hopf Algebras.
    Ellen E. Kirkman*, Wake Forest University
    (1135-16-1751)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Group Gradings on Matrix Algebras and Actions of Taft Algebras.
    Yuri Bahturin*, Memorial University of Newfoundland
    (1135-16-1599)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    The tame-wild dichotomy for infinite dimensional algebras and Brauer-Thrall 3 conjectures.
    Miodrag C Iovanov*, University of Iowa
    (1135-16-3082)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Discussion
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  MAA Invited Paper Session on Teaching for Equity and Broader Participation in the Mathematical Sciences
  Room 3, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Lisette de Pillis, Harvey Mudd College
  Rachel Levy, Harvey Mudd College
  Darryl Yong, Harvey Mudd College dyong@hmc.edu
  Talithia Williams, Harvey Mudd College
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Black learners, citizenship, and the desegregation of mathematics.
    Danny Bernard Martin*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1135-AB-3243)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    From Inquiry to Critical Inquiry.
    Chris L Rasmussen*, San Diego State University
    (1135-AB-1227)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Mathematical modeling and inclusivity: tales from teacher collaborators and their classrooms.
    Rachel Levy*, Harvey Mudd College
    (1135-AB-3256)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    NEW PRESENTER: Building strong relationships with underrepresented students in undergraduate mathematics: Drawing on students' voices and exemplars from K-12 mathematics teaching.
    Dan Battey*, Rutgers University
    (1135-AB-1514)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Experiments in Inclusion: Designing Instruction that Welcomes Students into the Mathematics Community.
    Uri Treisman*, University of Texas at Austin
    (1135-AB-2742)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Rehumanizing Mathematics: Should That Be Our Goal?
    Rochelle Gutiérrez*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1135-AB-2139)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Discussion and Participant Reflections
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Topological Data Analysis, I
  Room 6E, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Henry Adams, Colorado State University henry.adams@colostate.edu
  Gunnar Carlsson, Stanford University
  Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson, CUNY College of Staten Island
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Persistence Images for Differentiating Class Based Network Structures.
    Tegan H Emerson*, Naval Research Laboratory
    (1135-00-1362)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Machine learnings on persistence diagrams and materials structural analysis.
    Yasuaki Hiraoka*, Tohoku University
    (1135-55-678)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Topology in the Furnace: Using the Mapper Algorithm as a Data Analysis Tool to Evaluate an Electric Arc Furnace Energy Model.
    Leo Carlsson*, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Material Science.
    Mattia De Colle, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Material Science.
    Christoffer Schmidt, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Material Science.
    Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson, CUNY College of Staten Island, Department of Mathematics.
    Pär Jönsson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Material Science.
    (1135-55-1820)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Fibres of Failure: diagnosing predictive models using Mapper.
    Leo Carlsson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
    Gunnar Carlsson, Stanford University
    Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson*, CUNY College of Staten Island
    (1135-54-325)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Data-Driven Topological Methods for Reasoning about Motion.
    Florian T Pokorny*, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
    (1135-68-1312)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Topological and Geometric Methods in Robotic Manipulation and Path Planning.
    Anastasiia Varava*, KTH The Royal Institute of Technology
    (1135-68-1328)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Persistent homology and probabilistic models of the Gaussian primes.
    Rae Helmreich*, Wheaton College, MA
    Anchala Krishnan, University of Washington, Bothell
    Nathan Schmitz, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
    John Meier, Lafayette College
    (1135-55-112)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Maximal interesting paths in the Mapper.
    Ananth Kalyanaraman, Washington State University
    Methun Kamruzzaman, Washington State University
    Bala Krishnamoorthy*, Washington State University
    (1135-55-1825)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
  MAA Session on Arts and Mathematics: The Interface, II
  Room 4, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Douglas Norton, Villanova University douglas.norton@villanova.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Two-color wallpaper groups in quarter-circle quilting patterns.
    Mary D Shepherd*, Northwest Missouri State University
    (1135-F1-2182)
  • 2:35 p.m.
    Quilt Designs Inspired by Ruler and Compass Constructions.
    M. Carol Williams*, Texas Tech University
    (1135-F1-1289)
  • 2:55 p.m.
    Teaching Mathematics in a Fine Arts Museum.
    Natasha Rozhkovskaya*, Department of Mathematics, Kansas State University
    (1135-F1-477)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Recursively Constructed Keyboards for Non-Standard Musical Scales.
    Jordan Schettler, San Jose State University
    Kecia Sako*, San Jose State University
    (1135-F1-846)
  • 3:35 p.m.
    Symmetric Substructures in Musical 12-Tone Rows.
    Anil Venkatesh*, Ferris State University
    (1135-F1-2025)
  • 3:55 p.m.
    Categories and Arts: Some cARTegory Theory of Music and Visual Arts.
    Maria C Mannone*, University of Minnesota
    (1135-F1-2149)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Using Music to Increase Understanding and Performance in Trigonometry.
    Andrew Diener*, Christian Brothers University
    Cathy Grilli, Christian Brothers University
    (1135-F1-2711)
  • 4:35 p.m.
    Problem solving and creativity.
    Teresa L Downard*, Western Washington University
    (1135-F1-1990)
  • 4:55 p.m.
    An Exploratory Approach to Polyhedra Using the Open-Access Software, Archimedean.
    Alice E Petillo*, Marymount University
    (1135-F1-1526)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Vanishing points in paintings: An algebra educational activity.
    Rachel Schmitz*, Towson University
    (1135-F1-483)
  • 5:35 p.m.
    Influence of Art on the Development of Projective Geometry.
    Sandra Fital-Akelbek*, Weber State Univeristy
    (1135-F1-7)
  • 5:55 p.m.
    Developing Mathematical Metaphors Through Open-Ended Art Projects.
    Cindy Marie Blois*, University of Southern California
    (1135-F1-3066)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
  MAA Session on Discrete Mathematics in the Undergraduate Curriculum -- Ideas and Innovations in Teaching, II
  Room 15B, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  John Caughman, Portland State University
  Art Duval, University of Texas El Paso elise314@gmail.com
  Elise Lockwood, Oregon State University
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Puzzling Through Discrete Mathematics.
    Edmund A Lamagna*, University of Rhode Island
    (1135-M5-1364)
  • 2:35 p.m.
    Conjunctions of runners on a circular track.
    Andrew J Simoson*, King University
    Andrew F Rich, Manchester University
    (1135-M5-1246)
  • 2:55 p.m.
    Effective instructional strategies for teaching a Discrete Structures proof writing course.
    Katarzyna Kowal*, Ramapo College of New Jersey
    (1135-M5-964)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Motivating examples for teaching discrete mathematics.
    Edward Hanson*, SUNY New Paltz
    (1135-M5-2254)
  • 3:35 p.m.
    Figurate Numbers and Mathematical Induction.
    Jerry Lodder*, New Mexico State University
    (1135-M5-1495)
  • 3:55 p.m.
    An Inquiry-Based Learning Course in Discrete Mathematics (for mathematics majors, computer science majors, and future teachers).
    Suzanne I Dorée*, Augsburg University, Minneapolis
    (1135-M5-1890)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    The SDSU and Sweetwater Discrete Math Partnership: Developing a high school discrete mathematics curriculum targeting standards for mathematical practice.
    Osvaldo D. Soto*, San Diego State University
    Kristofer J Siy, University of Waterloo
    Trang Vu, San Diego State University
    (1135-M5-3168)
  • 4:35 p.m.
    Experiencing the mathematical process through combinatorial games in a high school discrete math course.
    Kristofer J. Siy*, University of Waterloo
    Osvaldo D. Soto, San Diego State University
    Trang K. Vu, San Diego State University
    (1135-M5-3174)
  • 4:55 p.m.
    Game Theory for Less Advanced Students.
    Filip D Sain*, Phillips Exeter Academy
    (1135-M5-3135)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Shifting perspectives for counting.
    Oscar Levin*, University of Northern Colorado
    (1135-M5-3184)
  • 5:35 p.m.
    Subtleties of the Multiplication Principle.
    John S Caughman*, Portland State University
    Elise Lockwood, Oregon State University
    Zackery Reed, Oregon State University
    (1135-M5-2089)
  • 5:55 p.m.
    Reinventing the Multiplication Principle.
    Elise Lockwood*, Oregon State University
    Branwen Purdy, Oregon State University
    John S. Caughman, Portland State University
    (1135-M5-2087)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
  MAA Session on Flipped Classes: Implementation and Evaluation, I
  Room 15A, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Joel Kilty, Centre College joel.kilty@centre.edu
  Alex M. McAllister, Centre College
  John H. Wilson, Centre College
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Learning Assistants' Roles in Flipping Large Classrooms.
    Sheeva Doshireh*, George Mason University
    (1135-H1-948)
  • 2:35 p.m.
    Designing and assessing out-of-class activities in Technical Mathematics.
    Melissa Lindsey*, Dordt College
    (1135-H1-2559)
  • 2:55 p.m.
    A Case for a Partial Flip: A Blended Model for a College Trigonometry Course.
    Ranthony A.C. Edmonds*, University of Iowa
    (1135-H1-2193)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Using Collaborative Annotation to Flip a Trigonometry Course.
    Darci L. Kracht*, Kent State University
    (1135-H1-3051)
  • 3:35 p.m.
    Enhancing the Hybrid College Algebra Course with a Flipped Classroom.
    Violeta Vasilevska*, Utah Valley University
    (1135-H1-2043)
  • 3:55 p.m.
    Developing and Implementing a Modularized Flipping-The-Class Model.
    Vinod Arya*, University of North Texas at Dallas
    (1135-H1-1126)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Evaluating A Promising Practice: A Multi-Year Study of Student Outcomes in Flipped and Traditional College Algebra and Pre-Calculus.
    Jennifer Elyse Clinkenbeard*, California State University Channel Islands
    (1135-H1-2203)
  • 4:35 p.m.
    NEW TIME: Results from applying a Flipped model in Pre-calculus to Engage Students for Higher Retention and Building Stronger Foundations: Results after One Semester.
    Anne M Fernando*, Norfolk State University
    Rhonda D Fitzgerald, Norfolk State University
    (1135-H1-2999)
  • 4:55 p.m.
    Course notes to augment a flipped classroom.
    Meghan M De Witt*, St. Thomas Aquinas College
    (1135-H1-1914)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    A flipped classroom journey from all angles: Planning, creating, launching, evaluating, and improving.
    Selin Kalaycioglu*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU
    Matthew Leingang, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU
    (1135-H1-2837)
  • 5:35 p.m.
    Video Textbooks in the Active Learning Classroom.
    Mike Weimerskirch*, Univ. of Minnesota
    (1135-H1-1567)
  • 5:55 p.m.
    Digging Out of the Hole -- One Solution for Struggling Calculus Students.
    Barbara J Wilkins*, Missouri S&T
    Paul N Runnion, Missouri S&T
    (1135-H1-474)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Graphs and Computational Combinatorics
  Room 18, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Polynomial relations of matrices of graphs.
    Sam Spiro*, UC San Diego
    (1135-05-258)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Laplacian Polynomials of Threshold Graphs.
    Jessica De Silva*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1135-05-3193)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Smith groups and Critical groups of Polar Graphs.
    Venkata Raghu Tej Pantangi*, University of Florida.
    Peter Sin, University of Florida
    (1135-05-831)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the spectral radius of hypergraph with $e$ edges and ${0, 1}$-tensor with $e$ ones.
    Shuliang Bai*, University of South Carolina
    Linyuan Lu, University of South Carolina
    (1135-15-1117)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Veto Interval Graphs and Variations.
    Breeann Flesch, Western Oregon University
    Jessica Kawana, Willamette University
    Joshua D Laison*, Willamette University
    Dana Lapides, UC Berkeley
    Stephanie Partlow, Woodburn Wellness, Business and Sports School
    (1135-05-1998)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Improving the known bound in Vizing's conjecture.
    Shira Zerbib*, University of Michigan and MSRI
    (1135-05-478)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Split Domination in Tournaments.
    K. A. S. Factor, Marquette University
    S. K. Merz*, University of the Pacific
    (1135-05-2206)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Efficient and Perfect Domination on Archimedean Lattices.
    Yunfan Zhao*, Johns Hopkins University
    Thomas G Marge, Johns Hopkins University
    (1135-00-1266)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Connected Dominating Sets and a New Graph Invariant.
    Vladimir Bercov*, Borough of Manhattan Community College
    (1135-05-1520)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Domination of unitary Cayley Graphs.
    Colin Defant, Princeton University
    Sumun Iyer*, Williams College
    (1135-05-1395)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Fibonacci Fractals: From Global to Local Structure.
    Benjamin Steinhurst*, McDaniel College
    (1135-05-2023)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Fiboquadratic Numbers as a Solution of a Recurrence Relation.
    Tomas E. Guardia*, Gonzaga University
    (1135-05-2262)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Open Questions in the Forest of Polytope Number Sequences.
    Michael A. Jackson*, Grove City College
    (1135-05-2409)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Properties of the Promotion Markov Chain on Linear Extensions.
    Kara Stasikelis*, Clemson University
    Svetlana Poznanovic, Clemson University
    (1135-05-865)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    The Curious Bounds of Floor Function Sums.
    Thotsaporn "Aek" Thanatipanonda*, Mahidol University International College
    (1135-05-1535)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Groups
  Room 29A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Nilpotency class of powerful $p$-subgroups.
    Risto Atanasov*, Western Carolina University
    (1135-20-1904)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Finite Groups with a Frattini Subgroup Property Satisfied by Nilpotent Groups.
    Joseph Kirtland*, Marist College
    (1135-20-295)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    The lattice of algebraic closure operators on an infinite subgroup lattice.
    Arturo Magidin*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    Martha L.H. Kilpack, Brigham Young University
    (1135-20-1204)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On covering numbers of groups.
    Martino Garonzi, Universidade de Brasilia
    Luise-Charlotte Kappe*, Binghamton University
    Eric Swartz, William and Mary
    (1135-20-666)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Groups with the weak maximal condition on non-permutable subgroups.
    Laxmi K Chataut*, University of Wisconsin-Marinette
    Martyn R Dixon, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
    (1135-20-332)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Structure of Symmetry Classes of Tensors Associated with Characters of a Group.
    Avantha Kodithuwakku*, Auburn University
    (1135-20-1055)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    When the mapping from characters to kernels is injective.
    Stephen M Gagola, Jr*, Kent State University
    (1135-20-2732)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Fields of Character Values in Finite Groups.
    Dan Rossi*, University of Arizona
    (1135-20-2174)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Coarse Geometric Properties of \text{Out}(G).
    Saikat Das*, Rutgers-Newark
    (1135-20-2772)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Acylindrical group actions on quasi-trees.
    Sahana Hassan Balasubramanya*, Vanderbilt University
    (1135-20-344)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Algebraic subgroups of acylindrically hyperbolic groups.
    Bryan Jacobson*, Vanderbilt University
    (1135-20-2226)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Hierarchies for Relatively Hyperbolic Virtually Special Groups.
    Eduard Einstein*, Cornell University
    (1135-20-660)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    The Star Geometry of Diestel-Leader Groups.
    Keith Jones, State University of New York College at Oneonta
    Gregory A. Kelsey*, Bellarmine University
    (1135-20-170)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Uncountably many quasi-isometry classes of groups of type FP.
    Robert Kropholler, Tufts University
    Ian J. Leary, University of Southampton
    Ignat Soroko*, University of Oklahoma
    (1135-20-1304)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Invariants of the duals of Warfield groups.
    Peter Loth*, Sacred Heart University
    (1135-22-447)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Structure and a duality of binary operations on monoids and groups.
    Masayoshi Kaneda*, American University of Kuwait
    (1135-20-2026)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  MAA Session on Implementing Recommendations from the Curriculum Foundations Project
  Room 31B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Mary Beisiegel, Oregon State University
  Janet Bowers, San Diego State University
  Tao Chen, City University of New York - LaGuardia Community College
  Susan Ganter, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University sganter@vt.edu
  Caroline Maher-Boulis, Lee University
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Intro/Discussion
  • 2:35 p.m.
    A Modeling Approach to Developmental Algebra.
    Karen G. Santoro*, Central Conn St Univ
    M. F. Anton, Central Conn St Univ
    (1135-P5-3117)
  • 2:55 p.m.
    What Mathematics do Economics Students Need to Know?
    Stella K Hofrenning*, Augsburg University
    Suzanne I Dorée, Augsburg University
    (1135-P5-1441)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Contextualize College Algebra with Economics.
    Tao Chen*, City University of New York--LaGuardia Community College
    Glenn Henshaw, City University of New York--LaGuardia Community College
    Soloman Kone, City University of New York--LaGuardia Community College
    Choon Shan Lai, City University of New York--LaGuardia Community College
    (1135-P5-2617)
  • 3:35 p.m.
    Creating Connections in the Content: Using Curriculum Foundations to Improve College Algebra.
    Mary Beisiegel*, Oregon State University
    Lori Kayes, Oregon State University
    Michael Lopez, Oregon State University
    Richard Nafshun, Oregon State University
    Devon Quick, Oregon State University
    (1135-P5-2807)
  • 3:55 p.m.
    Adjusting Math Courses for Business and Building a Dialog in the Spirit of CRAFTY.
    Mike May, S.J.*, Saint Louis University
    (1135-P5-932)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Applying the Curriculum Foundations Recommendations to Mathematics for Business, Nursing, and Social Work.
    Victor I Piercey*, Ferris State University
    Rhonda L Bishop, Ferris State University
    Mischelle T Stone, Ferris State University
    (1135-P5-197)
  • 4:35 p.m.
    Promoting Active Learning and Modeling in PreCalculus: Design Features for Creating Engaging Labs.
    Janet Bowers*, San Diego State University
    Matt Anderson, San Diego State University
    Kathy Williams, San Diego State University
    Antoni Luque, San Diego State University
    Nicole Tomassi, San Diego State University
    (1135-P5-2535)
  • 4:55 p.m.
    Resequencing the Calculus Curriculum.
    Mark Gruenwald*, University of Evansville
    David Dwyer, University of Evansville
    (1135-P5-1993)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Collaboration Conversations for Differential Equations (a SUMMIT-P collaboration).
    Rebecca A Segal*, Virginia Commonwealth Universtiy
    (1135-P5-2029)
  • 5:35 p.m.
    Why Do I Have to Take This Class? How Interdisciplinary Collaborations Can Improve Student AttitudesToward Mathematics.
    Caroline Maher Maher-Boulis*, Lee University
    Jason Robinson, Lee University
    (1135-P5-2407)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
  MAA Session on Integrating Research into the Undergraduate Classroom
  Room 31C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Timothy B. Flowers, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
  Shannon R. Lockard, Bridgewater State University slockard@bridgew.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Guided Inquiry for Undergraduates in a Classroom Setting.
    Helmut Knaust*, The University of Texas at El Paso
    (1135-N5-3188)
  • 2:35 p.m.
    Student work on flexible solar panels for NASA geostationary satellites.
    Malgorzata A Marciniak*, City University of New York, LaGuardia Community College
    (1135-N5-3139)
  • 2:55 p.m.
    Incorporating Student Research in a Beginning Problem-Solving and Procedural Programming Class.
    Caroline Haddad*, SUNY Geneseo
    (1135-N5-2890)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Undergraduate Research at the Community College?
    Kristin Lassonde*, Contra Costa College
    (1135-N5-1461)
  • 3:35 p.m.
    PIC Math Courses: Facilitating Student Research Projects in Business, Industry and Government.
    Thomas Philip Wakefield*, Youngstown State University
    (1135-N5-1162)
  • 3:55 p.m.
    Engaging Undergraduate Students in Research.
    Tanweer J Shapla*, Eastern Michigan University
    Khairul Islam, Eastern Michigan University
    (1135-N5-1423)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Connecting students with the outside world.
    Ping Ye*, University of North Georgia
    (1135-N5-433)
  • 4:35 p.m.
    Sophomores can do Research!
    Eric Sullivan*, Carroll College
    (1135-N5-661)
  • 4:55 p.m.
    Integrating Source Use into Undergraduate Research in Mathematics.
    Malcah Effron*, MIT
    (1135-N5-2576)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Article Analysis in a Graph Theory Course.
    Liz Lane-Harvard*, University of Central Oklahoma
    (1135-N5-510)
  • 5:35 p.m.
    My experiences at FAU with integrating undergraduate research into the classroom.
    Erik Lundberg*, Florida Atlantic University
    (1135-N5-1341)
  • 5:55 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: A Mathematical Research Methods Course.
    Edwin Herman*, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
    (1135-N5-1830)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Knots and Diagram Categories
  Room 13, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    HOMFLY-PT homology for general link diagrams and braidlike isotopy.
    Michael Abel*, Duke University
    (1135-57-2519)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Patterns in Khovanov link and chromatic graph homology.
    Radmila Sazdanovic, North Carolina State University
    Daniel Scofield*, North Carolina State University
    (1135-55-1983)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Homotopy Commutative Algebras, Knots and Graphs.
    Maksym Zubkov*, University of California, Irvine
    (1135-55-3129)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Action of Kauffman Bracket Skein Algebra of the Torus on the Skein Module of 3-Twist Knot Complement.
    Hongwei Wang*, Texas A&M International University
    (1135-55-528)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    On Computing Slice Genus of Non-alternating Prime Knots.
    Hanbo Shao*, Colorado College
    Lyujiangnan Ye, Colorado College
    (1135-54-1776)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Detected slopes of manifolds with symmetries.
    Jay MJ Leach*, Florida State University
    (1135-57-3192)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Mutations and geometric invariants of hyperbolic links and 3-manifolds.
    Christian Millichap*, Linfield College
    David Futer, Temple University
    (1135-57-744)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Character Varieties of a Family of Two-Component Links.
    Leona Sparaco*, University of Scranton
    (1135-57-2714)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Finite-type invariants of virtual knots and tangles.
    Nicolas Petit*, Oxford College of Emory University
    (1135-57-419)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    On the virtual singular braid monoid.
    Carmen Caprau*, California State University, Fresno
    Sarah McGahan, Fresno, CA
    (1135-57-2766)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Spiders and Asymptotic Faithfulness.
    Wade Bloomquist*, University of California Santa Barbara
    Zhenghan Wang, University of California Santa Barbara and Microsoft Station Q
    (1135-54-2240)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Rigidification of algebras over algebraic theories in diagram categories.
    Alex Sherbetjian*, University of California, Riverside
    (1135-55-2778)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The classifying diagram of the category of finite sets.
    Christina Osborne*, University of Virginia
    (1135-55-770)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    The immersed cross-cap number of a knot.
    Mark Hughes*, Brigham Young University
    Seungwon Kim, National Institute for Mathematical Sciences
    (1135-57-2853)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Lie Theory and Related Topics
  Room 19, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Minimal representations of Lie algebras with non-trivial Levi decomposition.
    Ryad Ghanam*, Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar
    Gerard Thompson, University of Toledo
    (1135-53-101)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Presenting cyclotomic Schur algebras.
    Jieru Zhu*, University of Oklahoma
    Jonathan Kujawa, University of Oklahoma
    (1135-16-543)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Generalized Littlewood-Richardson coefficients for branching rules and extremal weight crystals.
    Brett Collins*, University of Missouri-Columbia
    (1135-16-1467)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Factorizable Module Algebras.
    Karl Schmidt*, University of Oregon
    (1135-08-2872)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    QHWM of the "orthogonal" and "symplectic" types Lie subalgebras of the matrix quantum pseudodifferential operators.
    Karina H Batistelli*, CIEM - Famaf
    Carina Boyallian, CIEM - Famaf
    (1135-17-363)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Quantum Weyl-Polynomial Algebras and Their Localizations.
    Xin Tang*, Math & Computer Science, Fayetteville State University
    (1135-16-1440)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Trace of the twisted Heisenberg category.
    Michael Reeks*, University of Virginia
    Can Oguz, University of Southern California
    (1135-17-2412)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Uniserial representations of Vec(R) with a single Casimir eigenvalue.
    Nehemiah Kuhns*, University of North Texas
    (1135-17-874)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Non-resonant uniserial representations of $\mathop{\rm Vec}\nolimits (\mathbb{R})$.
    Connor O'Dell*, University of North Texas
    (1135-17-1223)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Weight Functions and Multiplicities Associated to Demazure Flags.
    Lisa Schneider*, Salisbury University
    (1135-17-2500)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Global Weyl Modules for Maximal Parabolics of Twisted Affine Lie Algebras.
    Matthew Lee*, University of California, Riverside
    (1135-17-2735)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Finite presentability of Kac-Moody groups over finite fields.
    Zachary Gates*, University of Virginia
    (1135-20-3200)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Integral bases for the universal enveloping algebras of cartan type map superalgebras.
    Irfan Bagci, University of North Georgia
    Samuel Chamberlin*, Park University
    (1135-17-1356)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Inhomogeneous Supersymmetric Bilinear Forms.
    S. McKay Sullivan*, Dixie State University
    Bojko Bakalov, North Carolina State University
    (1135-17-1323)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Logic and Set Theory
  Room 12, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Order Type of the Rational Numbers.
    Jean S. Joseph*, Florida Atlantic University
    (1135-06-1763)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Symmetry in Abstract Elementary Classes.
    Monica VanDieren*, Robert Morris University
    (1135-03-2533)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Definable counterexamples to the Continuum Hypothesis and consistency results from determinacy axioms.
    Rachid Atmai*, MiraCosta College, Oceanside, California
    (1135-03-3142)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Disjoint Infinity-Borel Functions.
    Daniel J Hathaway*, University of Denver
    (1135-03-1222)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    The Two Quantifier Theory of the Effectively Closed Muchnik Degrees.
    Joshua A. Cole*, Wabash College
    (1135-03-2618)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Diamond, Scales and SCH down to $\aleph_{\omega^2}$.
    Jin Du*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1135-03-1643)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Applied Mathematics, II
  Room 28E, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Tim Comar, Benedictine University tcomar@ben.edu
  James Reid, University of Mississippi
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Comparison of Simulated Models for ADR Systems to Idealized Models with Constant Reaction Propagation Speed.
    Bryce M. Barclay*, Arizona State University
    (1135-VN-1187)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Calibrating Robotic Systems with Mathematics.
    Mili Shah*, Loyola University Maryland
    (1135-VN-1452)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Low Dispersion Numerical Scheme for Maxwell's Equations.
    Casey J Smith*, Arizona State University - School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
    (1135-VN-1528)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Non-Convex Shannon Entropy for Photon-Limited Imaging.
    Lasith Adhikari, Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610 USA
    Reheman Baikejiang, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616 USA
    Omar DeGuchy*, Applied Mathematics, University of California, Merced, Merced, CA 95343 USA
    Roummel F. Marcia, Applied Mathematics, University of California, Merced, Merced, CA 95343 USA
    (1135-VN-1585)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Social learning can promote population optimal use of antibiotics.
    Feng Fu, Dartmouth College
    Xingru Chen*, Dartmouth College
    (1135-VN-1700)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Behavior of the Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm.
    Hum Nath Bhandari*, Texas Tech University
    (1135-VN-1753)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    NEW PRESENTER: Personalization of Indexed Content via Collaborative Filtering and Topic Modeling.
    Rachel Antoniette Lewis*, Georgia Southern
    Kira Parker, University of Utah
    Sheng Gao, University of Cambridge
    Rong Li, Wellesley College
    Ehsan Ebrahimzadeh, University of California, Los Angeles
    (1135-VN-1947)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    RNA State Inference with Deep Recurrent Neural Networks.
    Devin Willmott*, University of Kentucky
    David Murrugarra, University of Kentucky
    Qiang Ye, University of Kentucky
    (1135-VN-1953)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Quantum Circuits for Multiplication Operation.
    Parshuram Budhathoki*, Cameron University
    (1135-VN-2041)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    A Low Dispersion Numerical Scheme for Nonlinear Electromagnetic Propagation.
    Alex Ander Kirvan*, Arizona State University
    (1135-VN-2058)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Imaging the Human Body using Electrical Impedance Data and a D-bar Algorithm with an Optimized Spatial Prior.
    Melody Alsaker*, Gonzaga University
    (1135-VN-2060)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Traveling wave solutions in a PDE model of cell motility.
    Matthew S Mizuhara*, The College of New Jersey
    (1135-VN-2091)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    On the Nature of Advection-Diffusion-Reaction Systems Exhibiting Long-Term Limit Cycles or Stable Asymptotic States at a Bifurcation Point.
    Curtis Taylor Peterson*, Arizona State University
    Wenbo Tang, Arizona State University
    (1135-VN-2095)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Magnetic Resonance Recovery from Single-Shot Time Dependent Data.
    Alyssa E. Burgueno*, Arizona State University
    Rodrigo Platte, Arizona State University
    (1135-VN-2102)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Heuristics of Large-Scale Semidefinite Programming.
    Alexander Putnam Barnes*, University of Alabama
    Brendan Ames, University of Alabama
    (1135-VN-2192)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Modeling and Applications, I
  Room 28D, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Tim Comar, Benedictine University tcomar@ben.edu
  James Reid, University of Mississippi
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Mathematical modeling of climate change.
    Esther R. Widiasih*, University of Hawaii - West O'ahu
    (1135-VF-639)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Accurately Modeling the Healing Process of Chronic Wounds.
    Nikhil Krishna*, Western Kentucky University
    Arjun Kanthawar, Western Kentucky University
    (1135-VF-647)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Bayesian Artificial Intelligence Neural Networks for Nonlinear Poisson Regression and Survival Modeling.
    Hansapani S Rodrigo*, Assistant Professor/ University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
    Chris P Tsokos, Professor/ University of South Florida
    (1135-VF-843)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Integrating the method of moments with numerical algebraic geometry and multicomplex Taylor series expansion for parameter estimation in large Gaussian mixture models.
    Sara Shirinkam*, University of Texas at San Antonio
    Adel Alaeddini, University of Texas at San Antonio
    Ngoc Mai Tran, University of Texas at Austin
    (1135-VF-857)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Modeling Nutrient-Plankton Reactions in Oceanic Chain Vortices.
    Samantha J. Brozak*, Arizona State University
    (1135-VF-868)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Wavelet based Option pricing algorithms using machine learning techniques.
    Srihita Mediboina*, Western Connecticut State University
    Xiaodi Wang, Western Connecticut State University
    (1135-VF-941)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Backward Bifurcations in a Periodic Matrix Model of Seabird Population Dynamics.
    Mykhaylo M Malakhov*, Andrews University
    Benjamin MacDonald, University of Vermont
    Shandelle M Henson, Andrews University
    J M Cushing, University of Arizona
    (1135-VF-984)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Bifurcations in an animal behavior model for egg-laying synchrony in a seabird colony.
    Christiane Gallos, Andrews University
    Dorothea Gallos*, Andrews University
    Shandelle M. Henson, Andrews University
    (1135-VF-990)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    A Model of Population Dynamics and Behavior for Pacific Northwest Seabirds.
    Benjamin MacDonald*, University of Vermont
    Mykhaylo M. Malakhov, Andrews University
    Shandelle M. Henson, Andrews University
    J. M. Cushing, University of Arizona
    (1135-VF-1052)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Ways that the mathematical modeling cycle differs for different grade levels.
    Elizabeth W. Fulton*, Montana State University
    (1135-VF-1107)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Number Theory, I
  Room 14B, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Tim Comar, Benedictine University tcomar@ben.edu
  James Reid, University of Mississippi
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    The algebra and arithmetic of vector valued modular forms.
    Richard Benjamin Gottesman*, University of California, Santa Cruz
    (1135-VS-12)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    A Generalized Fermat Equation with an Emphasis on Non-Primitive Solutions.
    Richard F. Ryan*, Marymount California University
    (1135-VS-221)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Polynomial Orbits of the Ring of Integers Modulo n.
    Robert M Sulman*, State University of New York, College at Oneonta
    Tyler Fedoris, SUNY Oneonta
    (1135-VS-385)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Rumor conjecture.
    Bruce G Dearden, University of North Dakota
    Joel E Iiams*, University of North Dakota
    Jerrry M Metzger, University of North Dakota
    (1135-VS-640)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    $\nu$-Gap Balancing Numbers.
    Jeremiah Bartz*, University of North Dakota
    Bruce Dearden, University of North Dakota
    Joel Iiams, University of North Dakota
    (1135-VS-686)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Weak Visibility Preserving Functions.
    Jack J. Billings*, North Central College
    Neil Nicholson, North Central College
    (1135-VS-800)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Up-Down Ternary Strings.
    Ralph P Grimaldi*, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
    (1135-VS-1072)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Zeros of polynomials with four-term recurrence.
    Khang Tran, California State University Fresno
    Andres I Zumba Quezada*, California State University Fresno
    (1135-VS-1115)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    The Greatest Common Divisor of Multinomial Coefficients.
    John E. Mosley*, Phillips Exeter Academy
    (1135-VS-1186)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Preperiodic hypersurfaces and preperiodic points.
    Sebastian I Troncoso*, Birmingham-Southern College
    (1135-VS-1207)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Number of solutions to the Diophantine equation $X+Y= c^z$.
    Robert Styer*, Villanova University
    Reese Scott, Somerville, MA
    (1135-VS-1277)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On a Generalized Identity Connecting Theta Series Associated with Discriminants $\Delta$ and $\Delta p^2$.
    Frank Patane*, Samford University
    (1135-VS-1344)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    NEW TIME: Heegner cycles and derivatives of p-adic L-functions.
    Daniel Disegni*, Université Paris-Sud
    (1135-VS-2191)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Partition of Integers Through Euler and Beyond.
    Catherine L McAdoo*, Washington & Jefferson College
    Greg Lu, Washington & Jefferson College
    (1135-VS-2076)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    On Unique Integers in the Catalan Triangle.
    Eugene Fiorini, Muhlenberg College
    Eric Jovinelly*, Muhlenberg College
    Edgar Jaramillo-Rodriguez, UC-Berkeley
    Tony Wong, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
    Grant Fickes, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
    Nathaniel Benjamin, Iowa State University
    (1135-VS-2017)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
  MAA Session on Mathematics and Sports, II
  Room 5B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  John David, Virginia Military Institute
  Drew Pasteur, College of Wooster rpasteur@wooster.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Statistical Modeling of a Mercy Rule in College Football to Reduce Major Injuries: A Second Report.
    Reza O. Abbasian*, Texas Lutheran University, Department of Math-CS-IS
    John T. Sieben, Texas Lutheran University, Department of Math-CS-IS
    (1135-B1-866)
  • 2:35 p.m.
    Using Machine Learning to Classify Quality and Style of Play at the Quarterback Position.
    Eric Eager*, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
    (1135-B1-621)
  • 2:55 p.m.
    Analyzing NFL Overtime.
    Megan O Powell*, University of St. Francis
    Renee Martin, University of St. Francis
    (1135-B1-1383)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    The Ins and Outs of the Elo Rating System.
    Steve Bacinski*, Davenport University
    (1135-B1-1340)
  • 3:35 p.m.
    Predicting Outcomes of College Football Games.
    Keri D'Angelo, The College of New Jersey
    Quyen Do, Millersville University
    Jamie Kunzmann, Stony Brook University
    Joshua Radack*, Lafayette College
    Trent Gaugler, Lafayette College
    (1135-B1-375)
  • 3:55 p.m.
    A Generative Markov Model for Bowling Scores.
    Douglas VanDerwerken, United States Naval Academy
    Franklin H. J. Kenter*, United States Naval Academy
    (1135-B1-1784)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    You win some and you lose some: scoring a two-team cross-country race.
    Stephen Szydlik*, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
    (1135-B1-41)
  • 4:35 p.m.
    A Search for Champion Boxers.
    Tien Chih*, Montana State University-Billings
    Demitri J Plessas, Seattle, Washington
    (1135-B1-627)
  • 4:55 p.m.
    Stayman and Four-Way Transfers in Contract Bridge.
    Juan Sanchez, Carthage College
    Noah Weiss*, Carthage College
    (1135-B1-1085)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Research in Combinatorics, Matrix Theory, and Number Theory by Undergraduate and Post-Baccalaureate Students
  Room 29D, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    A Generalization of the Carlson-Simpson Theorem Analogous to Gowers' Theorem.
    Sam Bardwell-Evans*, California Institute of Technology
    (1135-05-2907)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Investigating bounds for the bond and site percolation thresholds of a 2-uniform lattice.
    Gabrielle C.W Moss*, Johns Hopkins University
    (1135-60-979)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Rendezvous Search on the Edges of Platonic Solids.
    Elanor West*, Johns Hopkins University
    Xiao Xie, Johns Hopkins University
    Hayden S Helm, Johns Hopkins University
    Anan Zhang, Johns Hopkins University
    (1135-05-1025)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Norm-Euclidean Ideal Classes in Galois Cubic Fields.
    Kelly A Emmrich*, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
    Clark Lyons, University of California, Berkeley
    (1135-11-2148)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    The Borel Quantum Chromatic Number.
    Luke Juusola*, California Institute of Technology
    Martino Lupini, California Institute of Technology
    (1135-05-2913)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The total coloring game on $k$-bounded graphs.
    Joshua M Schroeder*, Michigan State University
    Prairie Wentworth-Nice, Swarthmore College
    James Zak, University of North Carolina
    Charles Dunn, Linfield College
    (1135-00-2311)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    The Total Coloring Game on Forests.
    James Zak*, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
    (1135-05-2287)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A Relaxation of the Total Coloring Game on Trees.
    Prairie Wentworth-Nice*, Swarthmore College
    (1135-00-2109)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Determining algebras of Hasse graphs associated with the $600$-cell.
    Geoffrey T Glover*, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
    Austin Holmes, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
    Tennie Jacobson, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
    Jared Johnson, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
    (1135-16-2231)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Potential Stability of Matrix Sign Patterns.
    Christopher Logan Hambric*, College of William and Mary
    Chi-Kwong Li, College of William and Mary
    Diane Pelejo, University of the Philippines Diliman
    Junping Shi, College of William and Mary
    (1135-15-2980)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Factorizations of $k$-nonnegative matrices.
    Ewin N Tang*, University of Texas at Austin
    Neeraja R Kulkarni, Carleton College
    Joe Suk, Stony Brook University
    (1135-05-2882)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Anti-Games on Steiner Triple Systems.
    Sophia R Mancini*, James Madison University
    (1135-91-1257)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Symmetry of the Power Sum Polynomials.
    Nicholas J. Newsome*, University of California, Riverside
    Maria S. Nogin, California State University, Fresno
    Adnan H. Sabuwala, California State University, Fresno
    (1135-11-1336)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    An Euler phi function for the Eisenstein integers and some applications.
    Emily Gullerud*, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
    aBa Mbirika, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
    (1135-11-2034)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Zeros of Newform Eisenstein Series on $\Gamma_0(q_1 q_2)$.
    Victoria Jakicic*, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
    (1135-11-2784)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  MAA Session on The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Collegiate Mathematics, II
  Room 14A, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Tom Banchoff, Brown University
  Curt Bennett, Loyola Marymount University
  Pam Crawford, Jacksonville University
  Jacqueline Dewar, Loyola Marymount University jdewar@lmu.edu
  Edwin Herman, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
  Lew Ludwig, Denison University
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Improving Preparation for Calculus with Gaming.
    Brett C Smith*, Yale University
    James S Rolf, Yale University
    (1135-B5-2984)
  • 2:35 p.m.
    Peer Problem Review in Calculus I.
    Alison G. Lynch*, California State University, Monterey Bay
    (1135-B5-2930)
  • 2:55 p.m.
    The Calculus Knowledge Assessment: an open-source instrument for measuring learning gains in calculus courses.
    Jim Fowler*, The Ohio State University
    Bart Snapp, The Ohio State University
    (1135-B5-2450)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    The Death of Paper: Should we use Digital Assessments in Undergraduate Mathematics?
    Lisa Bromberg*, US Military Academy- West Point
    Michael Seminelli, US Military Academy- West Point
    (1135-B5-71)
  • 3:35 p.m.
    Course Innovation: A large-scale active learning program in pre-calculus and trigonometry.
    Keri Kornelson*, University of Oklahoma
    (1135-B5-2513)
  • 3:55 p.m.
    Developing a course in mathematical modeling for pre-service secondary teachers: challenges and opportunities.
    Jen-Mei Chang*, California State University, Long Beach
    Joshua Chesler, California State University, Long Beach
    (1135-B5-1367)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Inquiries into Student Understanding and Insights into Student Misunderstanding.
    Girija Sarada Nair-Hart*, University of Cincinnati Clermont College
    (1135-B5-2751)
  • 4:35 p.m.
    How do students select questions in a math exam?
    Tharanga M. K. Wijetunge, Lyon College
    Kirthi Premadasa*, University of Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County
    (1135-B5-2128)
  • 4:55 p.m.
    Prerequisites: Past and Future.
    Deborah Hughes Hallett*, University of Arizona
    (1135-B5-2502)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Bailout Pre-Calculus: An Approach to Improving Retention.
    Andrew G. Bennett, Kansas State University
    Ian Manly*, Kansas State University
    (1135-B5-2640)
  • 5:35 p.m.
    A Systematic Departmental Effort to Improve Undergraduate Proof Capabilities.
    William O. Martin*, North Dakota State University
    Ben Duncan, NDSU
    Josef Dorfmeister, NDSU
    Friedrich Littmann, NDSU
    (1135-B5-1918)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  MAA Session on Trends in Undergraduate Mathematical Biology Education
  Room 32A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Timothy D. Comar, Benedictine University tcomar@ben.edu
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Exploring Mathematical Modeling in Biology Through Case Studies and Experimental Activities.
    Rebecca Sanft*, UNC Asheville
    Anne Walter, St. Olaf College
    (1135-D1-1951)
  • 2:35 p.m.
    REU projects on mathematical biology at Arizona State University.
    Eric J Kostelich*, Arizona State University
    (1135-D1-2706)
  • 2:55 p.m.
    The Dynamics of Pulse Vaccination Models for the Spread of Disease.
    Timothy D Comar*, Benedictine University
    (1135-D1-1650)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Development of a Biological Science Quantitative Reasoning Exam (BioSQuaRE).
    Elizabeth Stanhope*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Lewis & Clark College
    (1135-D1-1242)
  • 3:35 p.m.
    A "Rule-of-Five" Framework for Models and Modeling to Unify Mathematicians and Biologists and Improve Student Learning.
    Hannah Callender Highlander*, University of Portland
    Carrie Eaton, Unity College
    (1135-D1-2235)
  • 3:55 p.m.
    Modeling and simulation in the calculus classroom.
    Marcus Roper*, Dept. of Mathematics, UCLA
    Heather Dallas, Curtis Center for Mathematics and Teaching, Dept. of Mathematics, UCLA
    (1135-D1-2567)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Teaching Modeling and Dynamics to Freshman Biology Students.
    Alan Garfinkel*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (1135-D1-2929)
  • 4:35 p.m.
    Translating Marine to Math.
    Carrie Diaz Eaton*, School for Environmental Citizenship, Unity College
    Emma Perry, School for Biodiversity Conservation, Unity College
    (1135-D1-629)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  SIAM Minisymposium on Numerical Linear Algebra
  Room 11A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Daniel B Szyld, Temple University szyld@temple.edu
  Eugene Vecharynski, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory eugene.vecharynski@gmail.com
  

  • 2:15 p.m.
    Generalized Preconditioned Locally Harmonic Residual Method for large non-Hermitian eigenproblems.
    Eugene Vecharynski*, Pilot AI Labs, Inc and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    Fei Xue, Clemson University
    Chao Yang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    (1135-65-2353)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Solving Large-scale Eigenvalue Problems in Electronic Structure Calculations.
    Chao Yang*, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    (1135-65-1574)
  • 3:05 p.m.
    Projected Commutator DIIS method for linear and nonlinear eigenvalue problems.
    Lin Lin*, University of California, Berkeley
    Wei Hu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    Chao Yang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    (1135-65-1813)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the Semi-definite B-Lanczos algorithm for sparse symmetric generalized eigenproblems.
    Chao-Ping Lin*, University of California, Davis
    Huiqing Xie, East China University of Science and Technology
    Zhaojun Bai, University of California, Davis
    (1135-65-2016)
  • 4:05 p.m.
    A new framework for understanding block Krylov methods applied to the computation of functions of matrices.
    Andreas Frommer, Bergische Universität Wuppertal
    Kathryn Lund*, Temple University and Bergische Universität Wuppertal
    Daniel B. Szyld, Temple University
    (1135-65-701)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Using Block Low-Rank techniques for industrial problems.
    Cleve Ashcraft, Livermore Software Technology Corporation
    Eric Darve, Stanford University
    Roger G Grimes, Livermore Software Technology Corporation
    Yun Huang, Livermore Software Technology Corporation
    Pierre L'Eplattenier, Livermore Software Technology Corporation
    Robert F Lucas, Livermore Software Technology Corporation
    Francois-Henry Rouet*, Livermore Software Technology Corporation
    Clément Weisbecker, Livermore Software Technology Corporation
    Zixi Xu, Stanford University
    (1135-65-2582)
  • 4:55 p.m.
    Matrix-free construction of HSS representations using adaptive randomized sampling.
    X. Sherry Li*, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    C. Gorman, UC Santa Barbara
    P. Ghysels, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    G. Chavez, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    F.-H. Rouet, Livermore Software Technology Corporation
    (1135-15-1673)
  • 5:20 p.m.
    Asynchronous Optimized Schwarz for the solution of PDEs.
    José C Garay, Temple University
    Fréderic Magoulés, CentraleSupelec, Châtenay Malabry, France
    Daniel B. Szyld*, Temple University
    (1135-65-1388)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
  Radical Dash Kickoff Meeting
  A daily scavenger hunt filled with math challenges and creativity for teams of undergraduates. Individuals are welcome and encouraged to participate;they will be formed into teams.
  Room 6D, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Stacey Muir, University of Scranton
  Janine Janoski, Kings College
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
  MAA Workshop
  Championing Master's Programs in Mathematics: A forum for advocacy, networking, and innovation
  Room 5A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Presenters:
  Michael O'Sullivan, San Diego State University mosullivan@mail.sdsu.edu
  Nigel Pitt, University of Maine
  Virgil Pierce, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-3:35 p.m.
  MAA Panel
  Ethics, Morality and Politics in the Quantitative Literacy Classroom
  Room 1A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Ethan Bolker, University of Massachusetts, Boston ebolker@gmail.com
  Maura Mast, Fordham University
  Moderators:
  Ethan Bolker, University of Massachusetts, Boston
  Panelists:
  David Lavie Deville, Northern Arizona University
  Gizem Karaali, Pomona College
  David Kung, St. Mary's College of Maryland
  Rob Root, Lafayette College
  Ksenija Simic-Muller, Pacific Lutheran University
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
  MAA Panel
  NSF Funding Opportunities to Improve Learning and Teaching in the Mathematical
  Room 2, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Ron Buckmire, Division of Undergraduate Education, NSF rbuckmir@nsf.gov
  Karen Keene, National Science Foundation
  Karen King, Division of Research on Learning, NSF
  Swatee Naik, Division of Mathematical Sciences, NSF
  Sandra Richardson, Division of Undergraduate Education, NSF
  Tara Smith, Division of Graduate Education, NSF
  Lee Zia, Division of Undergraduate Education, NSF
  Panelists:
  Ron Buckmire, Division of Undergraduate Education, NSF
  Karen King, Division of Research on Learning, NSF
  Swatee Naik, Division of Mathematical Sciences, NSF
  Sandra Richardson, Division of Undergraduate Education, NSF
  Tara Smith, Division of Graduate Education, NSF
  Lee Zia, Division of Undergraduate Education, NSF
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
  Association for Women in Mathematics Panel Discussion
  Using Mathematics in Activism.
  Room 1B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Michelle Manes, University of Hawaii at Manoa
  Adriana Salerno, Bates College
  Moderators:
  Michelle Manes, University of Hawaii at Manoa
  Panelists:
  Federico Ardila, San Francisco State University
  Piper Harron, University of Hawaii at Manoa
  Lily Khadjavi, Loyola Marymount University
  Beth Malmskog, Vilanova University
  Rachel Pries, Colorado State University
  Karen Saxe, American Mathematical Society
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:30 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Number Theory, II
  Room 32B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Tim Comar, Benedictine University tcomar@ben.edu
  James Reid, University of Mississippi
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Average number of Zeckendorf Integers.
    Sungkon Chang*, Armstrong State University
    (1135-VS-2295)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Generalized Collatz functions and Jacobsthal numbers.
    Ji Young Choi*, Shippensburg University of PA
    (1135-VS-2471)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Polynomial Extensions of a Diminnie Delight.
    Thomas Koshy, Framingham State University
    Zhenguang Gao*, Department of Computer Science, Framingham State University, Framingham, MA 01701
    (1135-VS-2492)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Number Theory Math Fair.
    Amanda Beecher*, Ramapo College of New Jersey
    (1135-VS-2549)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Universal p-adic sigma and Weierstrass zeta functions.
    Clifford Blakestad*, University of Colorado Boulder
    David Grant, University of Colorado Boulder
    (1135-VS-2572)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Computing isogenies and endomorphism rings of supersingular elliptic curves.
    Kirsten Eisentraeger, Penn State
    Sean Hallgren, Penn State
    Travis Morrison*, Penn State
    (1135-VS-2593)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Congruence and noncongruence vector-valued modular forms in the theory of vertex operator algebras.
    Matthew Krauel*, California State University, Sacramento
    (1135-VS-2632)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Presentation and Analysis of Modified Fibonacci Sequences, Generalized Golden Ratios and Their Convergence.
    Tyler J Sullivan, Coastal Carolina University
    Dominique E Forbes*, Coastal Carolina University
    (1135-VS-2729)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A Generalization of the Goresky-Klapper Conjecture.
    Christopher Richardson*, Kansas State University
    Chris Pinner, Kansas State University
    Todd Cochrane, Kansas State University
    (1135-VS-2771)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    On Symmetric but not Cyclotomic Numerical Semigroups.
    David Walter Stoner*, Harvard University
    (1135-VS-2803)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Galois Groups and Integral Basis for some Lucas Polynomial Sequences.
    Tristan Phillips*, Shippensburg University
    (1135-VS-2835)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Results on 3-Free Tribonacci Sequences.
    Jeremy Alm, Lamar University
    Robert W. Vallin*, Lamar University
    José Vega-Guzman, Lamar University
    (1135-VS-2464)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Missing Class Groups for Imaginary Quadratic Number Fields.
    Cam McLeman*, University of Michigan - Flint
    (1135-VS-3140)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Eisenstein's criterion, Fermat's last theorem, and a conjecture on powerful numbers.
    Pietro Paparella*, University of Washington Bothell
    (1135-VS-3147)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    NEW DAY & TIME: On the x-coordinates of Pell equations which are Fibonacci numbers.
    Bir Kafle*, Purdue University Northwest
    A. Togbé, Purdue University Northwest
    F. Luca, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
    A. Montejano, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM Campus Juriquilla, Mexico
    L. Szalay, University of West Hungary, Hungary
    (1135-VS-3163)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 2:45 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Mathematical Fluid Mechanics: Analysis and Applications, II
  Room 30A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Zachary Bradshaw, University of Virginia zb8br@virginia.edu
  Aseel Farhat, University of Virginia
  

  • 2:45 p.m.
    Global weak solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations with initial values in critical spaces.
    Dallas Albritton*, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
    Tobias Barker, OxPDE, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
    (1135-76-2045)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    The incompressible limit of the compressible free-boundary Euler equations with surface tension.
    Marcelo M Disconzi*, Vanderbilt University
    Chenyun Luo, Vanderbilt University
    (1135-35-1686)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Singularity formation in incompressible fluids.
    Tarek M Elgindi*, UC-San Diego
    In-Jee Jeong, Princeton University
    (1135-35-2388)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Suppression of chemotactic explosion by mixing.
    Xiaoqian Xu*, Carnegie Mellon University
    Alexander Kiselev, Duke University
    (1135-35-2323)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    A Lagrangian analyticity result for the Euler equations.
    Guher Camliyurt*, University of Southern California
    Igor Kukavica, University of Southern California
    (1135-35-2769)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    The global existence of a fluid-structure system with small data.
    Mihaela Ignatova, Princeton University
    Igor Kukavica*, University of Southern California
    Irena Lasiecka, University of Memphis
    Amjad Tuffaha, American University of Sharjah
    (1135-35-3110)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 3:20 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
  MAA Invited Address
  Groups, graphs, algorithms: The Graph Isomorphism problem.
  Room 6AB, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Lázló Babai*, University of Chicago
  (1135-A0-184)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 3:45 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
  AWM Business Meeting
  Room 1B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 3:50 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
  MAA Panel
  A Mathematician Teaches Statistics: The Road Less Traveled
  Room 1A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Stacey Hancock, Montana State University stacey.hancock@montana.edu
  Panelists:
  Patti Frazer Lock, St. Lawrence College
  Chris Oehrlein, Oklahoma City Community College
  Sue Schou, Idaho State University
  Charilaos Skiadas, Hanover College
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
  MAA Section Officers
  Marina Ballroom D, 3rd Floor, South Tower, Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina
  Chairs:
  Betty Mayfield, Hood College
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 4:15 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Lattices and Geometries
  Room 12, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 4:15 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Loop representation for closure operator lattices.
    Martha Lee Hollist Kilpack*, Brigham Young University
    (1135-06-2759)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Computing the lattice size.
    Anthony W Harrison*, Kent State University
    (1135-52-2415)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Counting lattice points on hyperboloids.
    David Lowry-Duda*, University of Warwick
    (1135-11-1842)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Finding line arrangements with interesting realization spaces.
    Moshe Cohen*, Vassar College
    Baian Liu, Vassar College
    (1135-52-2010)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    "Duality" in Laguerre Planes.
    Robert D Knight*, Ohio University-Chillicothe
    (1135-51-3183)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Imaginary Triangles, Pythagorean Theorems and Algebraic Geometry.
    Sergiy Koshkin*, University of Houston-Downtown
    (1135-51-322)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    The Least-Perimeter Tetrahedral Tile of Space.
    Eliot Bongiovanni*, Michigan State University
    Alejandro Diaz, University of Maryland, College Park
    Arjun Kakkar, Williams College
    Nat Sothanaphan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1135-51-214)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 4:15 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
  MAA-JCW-AWM-NAM Panel
  Implicit Bias and Its Effects in Mathematics
  Room 2, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Andrew Cahoon, Colby-Sawyer College
  Naomi Cameron, Lewis & Clark College
  Charles Doering, University of Michigan
  Semra Kilic-Bahi, Colby-Sawyer College skilic-bahi@colby-sawyer.edu
  Moderators:
  Maura Mast, Fordham College at Rose Hill
  Panelists:
  Ron Buckmire, National Science Foundation
  Jenna P. Carpenter, Campbell University
  Lynn Garrioch, Colby-Sawyer College
  Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska, National Science Foundation
  Francis Su, Harvey Mudd College
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 4:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  AMS Committee on the Profession Panel Discussion
  Paths to Collaboration with Scientists
  Room 11B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Panelists:
  Gunnar Carlsson, Stanford University
  Ruth Williams, University of California San Diego
  John Lowengrub, University of California Irvine
  Michelle DeDeo, University of North Florida
  Ellen Panagiotou, University of California Santa Barbara
  Moderators:
  Hal Sadofsky, University of Oregon
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 4:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
  Town Hall Meeting
  Current Questions and Opportunities in Undergraduate Education
  Room 5A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 4:45 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Linear Algebra
  Room 28D, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Tim Comar, Benedictine University tcomar@ben.edu
  James Reid, University of Mississippi
  

  • 4:45 p.m.
    A Generalization of Additive $D$-Stability.
    Mehmet Gumus*, Auburn University
    (1135-VQ-649)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Properties of a generalized determinant.
    Samuel C Schaub*, Washington & Jefferson College
    Ryan S Higginbottom, Washington & Jefferson College
    (1135-VQ-1374)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Powers of Arbitrary $2 \times 2$ and $3 \times 3$ Matrices.
    Joshua Boone*, Lincoln Memorial University
    (1135-VQ-1897)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Square Roots of $2\times2$ Matrices.
    Shulai Yang*, Washington & Jefferson College
    (1135-VQ-2064)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    On the rank of random tensors.
    Göran Bergqvist*, Linköping University
    (1135-VQ-2411)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Minimising the largest mean first passage time of a Markov chain and the influence of directed graphs.
    Jane Breen*, University of Manitoba
    Steve Kirkland, University of Manitoba
    (1135-VQ-2743)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
  Reception for Graduate Students and First-Time Participants
  Marina Ballroom FG, 3rd Floor, South Tower, Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
  SIGMAA on the History of Mathematics (HOM SIGMAA) Reception and Business Meeting
  Room 6D, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Toke Knudsen, State University of New York, Oneonta
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 6:15 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
  NEW: SIGMAA Arts Reception and Business Meeting
  Room 4, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 6:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
  AMS Education and Diversity Department Panel
  Strategies for Diversifying Graduate Mathematics Programs
  Room 11B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Helen Grundman, American Mathematical Society
  Moderators:
  Helen Grundman, American Mathematical Society
  Panelists:
  Edray Goins, Purdue University
  Richard Laugesen, University of Illinois
  Richard McGehee, University of Minnesota
  Katrin Wehrheim, University of California, Berkeley
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 7:00 p.m.-7:45 p.m.
  SIGMAA on the History of Mathematics (HOM SIGMAA) Guest Lecture
  Room 6D, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 7:00 p.m.
    The history of Chinese mathematics: 60th anniversary of the founding of the IHNS (CAS), Beijing.
    Joseph W. Dauben*, Herbert H. Lehman College and Ph.D. Program in History, The Graduate Center City University of New York
    (1135-A0-245)
• Wednesday January 10, 2018, 8:30 p.m.-9:20 p.m.
  AMS Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture
  Privacy in the land of plenty.
  Room 6AB, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Cynthia Dwork*, Harvard University
  (1135-68-1860)

Thursday January 11, 2018

• Thursday January 11, 2018, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Joint Meetings Registration
  Exhibit Hall B1, Ground Level, San Diego Convention Center
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 7:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Analysis of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications, II
  Room 9, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Tarek M. Elgindi, University of California, San Diego tme2@princeton.edu
  Edriss S. Titi, Texas A&M University and Weizmann Institute of Science
  

  • 7:30 a.m.
    On degenerate circular and shear flows: the point vortex and power law circular flows.
    Christian Zillinger*, University of Southern California
    Michele Coti Zelati, Imperial College, London
    (1135-76-1275)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    Existence of solutions for strongly damped wave equations of the $p$-Laplacian type with boundary sources.
    Nicholas J Kass*, University of Nebraska--Lincoln
    Mohammad A. Rammaha, University of Nebraska--Lincoln
    (1135-35-1958)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Asymptotic Coupling and Uniqueness of Invariant Measures in Hydrodynamic Equations.
    Vincent R Martinez*, Tulane University
    Nathan Glatt-Holtz, Tulane University
    Geordie Richards, Utah State University
    (1135-35-497)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Enstrophy cascade and helical nature of turbulence.
    Aseel Farhat*, University of Virginia
    Zoran Grujić, University of Virginia
    (1135-76-1479)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Curvature effect in shear flow: slowdown of turbulent flame speeds with Markstein number.
    Jiancheng Lyu, University of California at Irvine
    Jack Xin, University of California at Irvine
    Yifeng Yu*, University of California at Irvine
    (1135-35-1739)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Asymptotics for magnetostrophic turbulence in the Earth's fluid core.
    Susan Friedlander*, University of Southern California
    Juraj Foldes, U of Virgina
    Nathan Glatt-Holtz, Tulane University
    Geordie Richards, Utah State University
    (1135-35-818)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Regularity and emergence of flocking in PDE models with a commutator structure.
    Eitan Tadmor*, University of Maryland
    (1135-35-1159)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On singularity formation in a Hele-Shaw model.
    Peter Constantin, Princeton University
    Tarek Elgindi, University of California at San Diego
    Huy Nguyen*, Princeton University
    Vlad Vicol, Princeton University
    (1135-35-755)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    A Proof of Onsager's Conjecture for the Incompressible Euler Equations.
    Philip Isett*, University of Texas at Austin
    (1135-35-2871)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 7:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Commutative Algebra in All Characteristics, I
  Room 31A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Neil Epstein, George Mason University nepstei2@gmu.edu
  Karl Schwede, University of Utah
  Janet Vassilev, University of New Mexico
  

  • 7:30 a.m.
    The Zariski-Nagata theorem in all characteristics.
    Alessandro De Stefani, The University of Nebraska Lincoln
    Eloísa Grifo, The University of Virginia
    Jack Jeffries*, The University of Michigan
    (1135-13-659)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    Bounds for and Computations of $s$-multiplicity.
    William D Taylor*, University of Arkansas
    Lance Edward Miller, University of Arkansas
    (1135-13-2170)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Hilbert-Kunz multiplicity, F-signature, and finite determinacy of singularities.
    Thomas Polstra, University of Utah
    Ilya Smirnov*, University of Michigan
    (1135-13-743)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Frobenius Complexity for Pairs.
    Janet Page*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1135-13-2644)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Log canonical thresholds of graded sequences of ideals in positive characteristic.
    Eric Canton*, University of Nebraska
    (1135-13-1717)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Characterization of $F$-rationality when $R$ is Cohen Macaulay via its canonical module.
    Shuenn Siang Ng*, Georgia State University
    (1135-13-550)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Tight closure invariants in combinatorial rings of characteristic 0.
    Thomas M Ales*, George Mason University
    (1135-13-2220)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Test Ideals for all Characteristics.
    Rebecca R.G.*, Syracuse University
    Felipe Pérez, Toronto, ON
    (1135-13-1902)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Generalized Depth and Associated Primes in the Perfect Closure $R^\infty$.
    George Whelan*, George Mason University Korea
    (1135-13-2491)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 7:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
  Email Center
  Exhibit Hall B1, Ground Level, San Diego Convention Center
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 7:45 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Graph Theory, I
  Room 15B, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Tim Comar, Benedictine University tcomar@ben.edu
  James Reid,
  

  • 7:45 a.m.
    Chromatic Polynomials of Graph Subdivisions and the Integral Root Problem.
    Rebecca Robinson*, University of Michigan - Flint
    Cameron McLeman, University of Michigan - Flint
    (1135-VP-3162)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    The Hadwiger-Nelson Problem with Two Forbidden Distances.
    Jang Hun Choi*, Hofstra University
    Celine Lee, Hofstra University
    Soo Hyun Ahn, Hofstra University
    Junwon Lee, Hofstra University
    (1135-VP-284)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    The unimodality of the independent polynomials of trees with non-regular structure.
    Patrick Bahls*, University of North Carolina, Asheville
    (1135-VP-328)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Algebraically defined graphs of girth eight.
    Brian G. Kronenthal*, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
    (1135-VP-335)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    The Minimum Coprime Number and Graph Operations.
    John Asplund*, Dalton State College
    Brad Fox, Austin Peay State University
    (1135-VP-567)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Graph Complement Conjecture for Minimum Semidefinite Rank.
    Monsikarn Jansrang*, Central Michigan University
    (1135-VP-595)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Beta invariants of 3-connected matroids.
    Sooyeon Lee*, University of Mississippi
    Haidong Wu, University of Mississippi
    (1135-VP-624)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Entries of the group inverse of the Lapalcian matrix for generalized Johnson graphs.
    Jason J Molitierno*, Sacred Heart University
    (1135-VP-638)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Enumerating unimodal rooted forests avoiding the pattern 321.
    Katie Anders*, University of Texas at Tyler
    Kassie Archer, University of Texas at Tyler
    (1135-VP-807)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    New families of edge-isoperimetric graphs.
    Sergei Bezrukov, University of Wisconsin-Superior
    Pavle Bulatovic, University of Wisconsin-Superior
    Nikola Kuzmanovski*, University of Wisconsin-Superior
    (1135-VP-958)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Shortest paths and centrality in circulant graphs.
    Darren A Narayan*, Rochester Institute of Technology
    (1135-VP-1067)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The maximum number of non-zero elements in a joint degree vector.
    Éva Czabarka, University of South Carolina
    Kayvan Sadeghi, University of Cambridge
    Johannes Rauh, Max Planck Institute for the Mathematics in the Sciences
    Taylor Short*, Grand Valley State University
    László Székely, University of South Carolina
    (1135-VP-1176)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Irreducible L(2,1)-Colorings for Products of Paths and Cycles.
    Karrolyne Fogel*, California Lutheran University
    Aparna Higgins, University of Dayton
    William Higgins, Wittenberg University
    John Villalpando, California Lutheran University
    (1135-VP-1233)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Minimizing the number of labels for an irreducible L(2,1)-labeling on the Cartesian product of two cycles.
    J Villalpando*, California Lutheran University
    K Fogel, California Lutheran University
    A Higgins, University of Dayton
    W Higgins, Wittenberg University
    (1135-VP-1236)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    A graph-based approach for counting all Sudoku squares of rank $n$.
    Pallavi Mishra*, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
    Dharmendra Kumar Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
    (1135-VP-1548)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Graceful Colorings of Graphs.
    Alexis Byers*, Western Michigan University
    (1135-VP-1590)
  • 11:45 a.m.
    Graph Polynomials for a Class of DI-Pathological Graphs.
    James M Hammer*, Cedar Crest College
    Joshua Harrington, Cedar Crest College
    (1135-VP-1894)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on A Showcase of Number Theory at Liberal Arts Colleges, II
  Room 16A, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Adriana Salerno, Bates College
  Lola Thompson, Oberlin College lola.thompson@oberlin.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Computing arboreal Galois groups of some PCF polynomials.
    Robert L. Benedetto*, Amherst College
    (1135-11-926)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Appell-Lauricella Hypergeometric Functions over Finite Fields.
    Sharon Frechette*, College of the Holy Cross
    Holly Swisher, Oregon State University
    Fang-Ting Tu, Louisiana State University
    (1135-11-1961)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces, quaternion algebras, and the Chebotarev density theorem in short intervals.
    Benjamin Linowitz*, Oberlin College
    (1135-11-10)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Sign of Fourier Coefficients for Hilbert Modular Forms.
    Surjeet Kaushik, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
    Narasimha Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
    Naomi Tanabe*, Bowdoin College
    (1135-11-2239)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    An effective variation of Kronecker's approximation theorem.
    Lenny Fukshansky*, Claremont McKenna College
    Nikolay Moshchevitin, Moscow State University
    (1135-11-996)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Decomposable Jacobian Varieties.
    Jen Paulhus*, Grinnell College
    (1135-11-706)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The Liouville function and the Riemann hypothesis.
    Michael J. Mossinghoff*, Davidson College
    Timothy S. Trudgian, University of New South Wales Canberra
    (1135-11-1674)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Finding the four squares in Lagrange's Theorem.
    Paul Pollack, University of Georgia
    Enrique Treviño*, Lake Forest College
    (1135-11-1722)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:40 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Accelerated Advances in Mathematical Fractional Programming
  Room 30B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Ram Verma, International Publications USA verma99@msn.com
  Alexander Zaslavski, Israel Institute of Technology
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Principles of General Fractional Analysis for Banach space valued functions.
    George A Anastassiou*, Memphis
    (1135-26-18)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The generalized double shift-splitting preconditioner for nonsymmetric generalized saddle point problems from the steady Navier-Stokes equations.
    Xinyun Zhu*, University of Texas of the Permian Basin, Odessa, TX
    Hongtao Fan, Lanzhou University
    Bing Zheng, Lanzhou University
    (1135-65-267)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Hybrid fractional integral type programming.
    Ram Verma*, International Publications USA
    (1135-90-725)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Comparing the Local Convergence Analysis of Some Two-Step Newtons Method for Solving Equations.
    Nirjal Shrestha*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Cameron University
    Ioannis K Argyros, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Cameron University
    (1135-65-259)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Quantization of Two and Three player Games.
    Aden Omar Ahmed*, Texas A&M University - Kingsville
    (1135-49-230)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Second-Order Variational Analysis in Second-Order Cone Programming.
    Hang Nguyen*, Wayne State University
    Boris S. Mordukhovich, Wayne State University
    Ebrahim Sarabi, Miami University
    (1135-49-1933)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Subgradient Algorithms in Convex Minimization with Computational Errors.
    Alexander J Zaslavski*, The technion - Israel Institute of Technology
    (1135-49-1550)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Advances in Operator Theory, Operator Algebras, and Operator Semigroups, I
  Room 33A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Asuman G. Aksoy, Claremont McKenna College
  Zair Ibragimov, California State University, Fullerton
  Marat Markin, California State University, Fresno mmarkin@csufresno.edu
  Ilya Spitkovsky, New York University, Abu Dhabi
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Deviation of elements of a Fréchet space from a system of subspaces.
    Asuman Güven Aksoy*, Claremont McKenna College
    (1135-47-349)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Strong topological transitivity.
    Mohammad Ansari*, Azad University of Gachsaran
    (1135-47-1217)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Toeplitz Operators and Lattices.
    Stephan Ramon Garcia*, Pomona College
    (1135-47-687)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Weighted graphs as compact quantum metric spaces.
    Michael Hartglass*, Santa Clara University
    (1135-46-2186)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Quasi-Isometric Extensions of Quasisymmetric Mappings of the Real Line Compatible with Composition.
    Zair Ibragimov*, California State University, Fullerton
    (1135-30-810)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the notion of Stonean *-algebras.
    Alexander A. Katz*, St. John's University, NY
    (1135-46-3093)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On the Gevrey ultradifferentiability of weak solutions of an abstract evolution equation with a scalar type spectral operator.
    Marat V. Markin*, California State University, Fresno
    (1135-47-1593)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Non-commutative Clark measures for the free and abelian Toeplitz algebras.
    M. T. Jury, University of Florida
    R. T.W. Martin*, University of Cape Town
    (1135-47-1869)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Algebraic, Discrete, Topological and Stochastic Approaches to Modeling in Mathematical Biology, I
  Room 30C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Olcay Akman, Illinois State University
  Timothy D. Comar, Benedictine University tcomar@ben.edu
  Daniel Hrozencik, Chicago State University
  Raina Robeva, Sweet Briar College
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Environmental effect estimation under hidden heterogeneity.
    Olcay Akman*, Illinois State University
    Timothy Comar, Benedictine University
    Daniel Hrozencik, Chicago State University
    (1135-92-3204)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Modeling non-human primate alcohol consumption: a Markov approach.
    Erich Baker, Baylor University
    Sharon Moore, Baylor University
    Ami Radunskaya, Pomona College
    Elizabeth Zollinger*, St. Joseph's College
    (1135-92-1854)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Branching random walk models for cell differentiation in developmental neurobiology.
    Mansoor A Haider*, Dept. of Mathematics & Biomathematics Graduate Program, NC State University
    Christine Mennicke, Dept. of Mathematics, NC State University
    Troy Ghashghaei, Dept. of Molecular Biomedical Sciences, NC State University
    (1135-92-1241)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Stochastic dynamical models for assessing the effects of radiation on living cells.
    Raina S Robeva*, Sweet Briar College
    (1135-92-2780)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Intertrial correlations in sequential decision-making tasks.
    Khanh P Nguyen*, University of Houston
    Kresimir Josic, University of Houston
    Zachary Kilpatrick, University of Colorado Boulder
    (1135-92-2430)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Systems Approaches to Optimization and Control with Agent-Based Models.
    Ben G Fitzpatrick*, Loyola Marymount University
    (1135-92-1447)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    An Agent-Based Model for Integrated Pest Management with Periodic Control Strategies.
    Timothy D Comar*, Benedictine University
    Elizabeth Rodriguez, Benedictine University
    (1135-92-1649)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Should I get a flu shot? How well did this go last year?
    Winfried Just, Ohio Univeristy
    David Gerberry, Xavier University
    Ying Xin*, Ohio University
    (1135-91-2798)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Beyond Planarity: Crossing Numbers of Graphs (a Mathematics Research Communities Session), I
  Room 29B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Axel Brandt, Davidson College
  Garner Cochran, University of South Carolina gcochran@math.sc.edu
  Sarah Loeb, College of William and Mary
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Convex Drawings of the Complete Graph: Topology meets Geometry.
    Alan Arroyo, University of Waterloo
    Dan McQuillan*, Norwich University
    R. Bruce Richter, University of Waterloo
    Gelasio Salazar, Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi
    (1135-52-587)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Taking a Detour: Gioan's Theorem, and Pseudolinear Drawings of Complete Graphs.
    Marcus Schaefer*, DePaul University
    (1135-05-290)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Crossing number and the tangle crossing number analogies.
    Robin Anderson, Saint Louis University
    Shuliang Bai, University of South Carolina
    Fidel Barrera-Cruz*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Éva Czabarka, University of South Carolina
    Giordano Da Lozzo, University of California, Irvine
    Natalie L.F. Hobson, Sonoma State University
    Jephian C.H. Lin, Iowa State University
    Austin Mohr, Nebraska Wesleyan University
    Heather C. Smith, Georgia Institute of Technology
    László A. Székely, University of South Carolina
    Hays Whitlatch, University of South Carolina
    (1135-05-1935)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A tanglegram Kuratowski theorem.
    Eva Czabarka*, University of South Carolina
    Laszlo A. Szekely, University of South Carolina
    Stephan Wagner, Stellenbosch University
    (1135-05-45)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    How Low Can You Go? On the Biplanar Crossing Number of the Hypercube.
    Gwen Spencer*, Smith College
    Greg Clark, University of South Carolina
    (1135-00-2009)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Biplanar Crossing Numbers: The Probabilistic Method.
    John Asplund, Dalton State College
    Thao Do*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Arran Hamm, Winthrop University
    László Székely, University of South Carolina
    Libby Taylor, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Zhiyu Wang, University of South Carolina
    (1135-05-272)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On Local Crossing Numbers of Complete Graphs and Hypercubes.
    Hsien-Chih Chang*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Computer Science
    Axel Brandt, Davidson College, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
    Tanya Jeffries, University of Arizona, Department of Computer Science
    Sarah Loeb, College of William and Mary, Mathematics Department
    Marcus Schaefer, DePaul University, College of Computing and Digital Media, School of Computing
    (1135-05-2749)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    On the rectilinear local crossing number of complete graphs.
    Bernardo M. Abrego*, California State University, Northridge
    Silvia Fernandez, California State University, Northridge
    (1135-05-2625)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Boundaries for Groups and Spaces, I
  Room 16B, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Joseph Maher, CUNY College of Staten Island joseph.maher@csi.cuny.edu
  Genevieve Walsh, Tufts University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Counting conjugacy classes in $Out(F_N)$.
    Michael Hull, University of Florida
    Ilya Kapovich*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1135-20-391)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Compactifying Teichmüller Space Using the Right Trousers.
    Catherine Pfaff*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Daryl Cooper, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1135-20-1290)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Loxodromics for the cyclic splitting complex.
    Derrick Wigglesworth*, University of Utah
    Radhika Gupta, Technion University
    (1135-20-1245)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Largest projections for random walks and shortest geodesics in random mapping tori.
    Alessandro Sisto, ETH
    Samuel Taylor*, Temple University
    (1135-51-1872)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Volume and entropy for Hilbert geometries.
    Ilesanmi Adeboye, Wesleyan University
    Harrison Bray*, University of Michigan
    David Constantine, Wesleyan University
    (1135-54-664)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Linear Progress in Weakly Hyperbolic Groups.
    Matt Sunderland*, Grad Center CUNY
    (1135-20-1205)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Geometry of the Thurston Metric on Teichmuller Space.
    David Dumas, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Anna Lenzhen, University of Rennes
    Kasra Rafi, University of Toronto
    Jing Tao*, University of Oklahoma
    (1135-51-1306)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Combinatorics and Geometry, I
  Room 6E, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Federico Ardila, San Francisco State University
  Anastasia Chavez, MSRI and University of California, Davis
  Laura Escobar, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign lescobar@illinois.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Combinatorics of nested Braid fan.
    Federico Castillo, MSRI/University of Kansas
    Fu Liu*, University of California, Davis
    (1135-05-1216)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Surfaces, orbifolds, and dominance.
    Shira Viel*, North Carolina State University
    (1135-05-2093)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The maximum size of a partial spread in a finite projective space.
    Esmeralda Nastase, Xavier University
    Papa Amar Sissokho*, Illinois State University
    (1135-05-845)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    {/bf SCHEDULE CHANGE:} Realization Spaces of Phased Matroids.
    Amanda Ruiz*, University of San Diego
    (1135-05-2113)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Incidence Problems in Convex Geometry.
    Mohamed Omar*, Harvey Mudd College
    (1135-05-1069)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    $K$-orbit closures and Barbasch-Evens-Magyar varieties.
    Laura Escobar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Benjamin J. Wyser*, Oklahoma State University
    Alexander Yong, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1135-05-3240)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Growth Diagrams from Polygons in the Affine Grassmannian.
    Tair Akhmejanov*, Cornell University
    (1135-05-576)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Examples of non-finitely generated Cox rings.
    Jose Luis Gonzalez*, University of California, Riverside
    Kalle Karu, University of British Columbia
    (1135-14-440)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Discrete Dynamical Systems and Applications, II
  Room 30E, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  E. Cabral Balreira, Trinity University
  Saber Elaydi, Trinity University
  Eddy Kwessi, Trinity University ekwessi@trinity.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Periodic matrix models for seasonal dynamics of stage structured populations I: A general class of models.
    Jim M Cushing*, Department of Mathematics & Interdisciplinary Program in Applied Mathematics, University of Arizona
    Shandelle Henson, Department of Mathematics & Department of Biology, Andrews University
    James Hayward, Department of Biology, Andrews University
    (1135-39-631)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Periodic matrix models for seasonal dynamics of stage structured populations II: Application to a seabird colony.
    Shandelle M. Henson*, Department of Mathematics, Andrews University
    J. M. Cushing, Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona
    J. L. Hayward, Department of Biology, Andrews University
    (1135-92-630)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Almost Periodicity, Ricker Map, Beverton-Holt Map and Others, a General Method.
    Robert J Sacker*, University of Southern California
    George R Sell, University od Minnesota
    (1135-39-485)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Competitive outcomes between zebra and quagga mussels in a discrete-time model with migration among patches.
    Paul L. Salceanu*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    Hao Wang, University of Alberta
    (1135-92-1804)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Robust permanence for ecological maps.
    Gregory Roth, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), University of Amsterdam
    Paul L. Salceanu, Department of Mathematics, University of Louisiana, Lafayette
    Sebastian J. Schreiber*, University of California, Davis
    (1135-92-1707)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The spectral radius of homogeneous operators as threshold between persistence and extinction in discrete-time population models.
    Horst R Thieme*, School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Arizona State University
    (1135-39-643)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On the embedding of a discrete dynamical system into a dynamical system of higher dimension.
    Ziyad AlSharawi*, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE
    (1135-39-588)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Some Methodologies for Constructing Discrete-Time Population Models.
    Ronald E. Mickens*, Clark Atlanta University
    (1135-92-539)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Dynamical Systems: Smooth, Symbolic, and Measurable (a Mathematics Research Communities Session), I
  Room 29C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Kathryn Lindsey, Boston College kathryn.a.lindsey@gmail.com
  Scott Schmieding, Northwestern University
  Kurt Vinhage, University of Chicago
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On Mixing Properties of Rank One Subshifts.
    Caleb J Ziegler*, University of North Texas
    (1135-37-2692)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The automorphism group of the square of a subshift.
    Scott Schmieding, Northwestern University
    Kitty Yang, Northwestern University
    May Mei*, Denison University
    Claire Merriman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1135-37-2684)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Dimension of shrinking target sets arising from nonautonomous dynamical systems.
    Marco Antonio López*, University of North Texas
    (1135-37-1622)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Eventually always hitting sets in rapid mixing systems.
    Dmitry Kleinbock, Brandeis University
    Ioannis Konstantoulas*, University of Bristol
    Florian Richter, Ohio State University
    (1135-37-2614)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Graph iterated function systems, Bratteli diagrams, and random substitution tilings of $\mathbb{R}^d$.
    Rodrigo Treviño*, University of Maryland, College Park
    Scott Schmieding, Northwestern University
    (1135-37-2250)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Hausdorff Dimension of Exceptional Directions for The Teichmüler Geodesic Flow.
    Hamid Al-Saqban, University of Maryland
    Paul Apisa, University of Chicago
    Alena Erchenko, Pennsylvania State University
    Osama Khalil*, Ohio State University
    Shahriar Mirzadeh, Brandeis University
    Caglar Uyanik, Vanderbilt University
    (1135-37-2223)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Exceptional sets in the moduli space of translation surfaces and Hausdorff dimension.
    Shahriar Mirzadeh*, Brandeis University
    (1135-37-2631)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Good lower bounds for multiple recurrence.
    Sebastian Donoso, University of O'Higgins
    Anh Le*, Northwestern University
    Joel Moreira, Northwestern University
    Martina Neuman, University of California, Berkeley
    Wenbo Sun, Ohio State University
    (1135-05-1691)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Homotopy Type Theory (a Mathematics Research Communities Session), I
  Room 29A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Simon Cho, University of Michigan seamooncho@gmail.com
  Liron Cohen, Cornell University
  Edward Morehouse, Wesleyan University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Homotopical trinitarianism: a perspective on homotopy type theory.
    Michael Shulman*, University of San Diego
    (1135-03-2395)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Weak factorization systems as models of dependent type theory.
    Paige North*, Ohio State University
    (1135-18-2884)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Higher Inductive Types as Homotopy-Initial Algebras.
    Kristina Sojakova*, Cornell University
    (1135-03-3046)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A general definition of dependent type theories.
    Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine*, Stockholm University, Sweden
    (1135-03-387)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Weak equivalences between categories of models of type theory.
    Simon Cho, University of Michigan
    Cory M. Knapp, University of Birmingham
    Clive Newstead, Carnegie Mellon University
    Liang Ze Wong*, University of Washington, Seattle
    (1135-03-274)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On the directed univalence axiom.
    Emily Riehl*, Johns Hopkins University
    Evan Cavallo, Carnegie Mellon University
    Christian Sattler, University of Gothenburg
    (1135-18-2052)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Localization at degree p maps in Homotopy Type Theory.
    Dan Christensen, University of Western Ontario
    Morgan Opie, Harvard University
    Egbert Rijke*, Carnegie Mellon University
    Luis Scoccola*, University of Western Ontario
    Aliaksandra Yarosh, University of Pittsburgh
    (1135-55-2841)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  MAA Invited Paper Session on MAA Instructional Practices Guide
  Room 3, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Martha Abell, Georgia Southern University martha@georgiasouthern.edu
  Doug Ensley, MAA
  Lew Ludwig, Denison University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    MAA IP Guide: Entry Points for Fostering Student Engagement in the Classroom.
    James A. Mendoza Álvarez*, The University of Texas at Arlington
    (1135-AC-2088)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    MAA IP Guide: A Resource for Implementing Meaningful Mathematical Tasks to Foster Student Engagement.
    April D. Strom*, Scottsdale Community College
    (1135-AC-479)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Assessment for Teaching and Learning.
    Richard Cleary*, Babson College
    (1135-AC-637)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Broadening Assessment Methods in Postsecondary Mathematics.
    Benjamin Braun*, University of Kentucky
    (1135-AC-625)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Incorporating the MAA IP Guide Design Practices into Instructional Planning: Principles to Know and Questions to Ask.
    Karen Allen Keene*, North Carolina State University
    (1135-AC-2793)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The MAA IP Guide in the Context of Partner Organizations and Departmental Initiatives.
    Elizabeth A. Burroughs*, Montana State University
    Elizabeth G. Arnold, Montana State University
    (1135-AC-1165)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Mathematical Analysis and Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, II
  Room 30A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Hongjie Dong, Brown University
  Peiyong Wang, Wayne State University
  Jiuyi Zhu, Louisiana State University zhu@math.lsu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On quantitative uniqueness for solutions of elliptic and parabolic PDEs.
    Guher Camliyurt, University of Southern California
    Igor Kukavica*, University of Southern California
    (1135-35-2658)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Sphere Covering Inequality and Its Applications.
    Changfeng Gui, University of Texas at San Antonio
    Amir Moradifam*, University of California, Riverside
    (1135-35-2655)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Green's function for second order elliptic equations in non-divergence form.
    Sukjung Hwang, Yonsei University
    Seick Kim*, Yonsei University
    (1135-35-489)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Boundary value problems for stationary Stokes system in weighted Sobolev spaces.
    Doyoon Kim*, Korea University
    (1135-35-1407)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Symmetry and approximate symmetry for a singularly perturbed free boundary problem.
    Peiyong Wang*, Wayne State University
    (1135-35-1855)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    How to approximate the fractional Laplacian by the fractional discrete Laplacian.
    Pablo Raúl Stinga*, Iowa State University
    (1135-35-574)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Mean Value Theorems and the Geometry of Mean Value Sets for Divergence Form Elliptic PDEs.
    Ivan A Blank*, Kansas State University
    Niles Armstrong, Kansas State University
    Ashok Aryal, Minnesota State University Moorhead
    Brian Benson, University of California Riverside
    Zheng Hao, South Dakota State University
    Jeremy LeCrone, University of Richmond
    (1135-35-1819)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Positive ground states for nonlinear static Schrödinger equations that have potentials vanishing at infinity.
    Qi Han*, Texas A&M University at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78224
    (1135-35-919)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Mathematics of Quantum Computing and Topological Phases of Matter, I
  Room 10, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Paul Bruillard, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  David Meyer, University of California San Diego
  Julia Plavnik, Texas A&M University julia@math.tamu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Quantum query complexity of symmetric problems.
    Daniel Copeland*, UC San Diego
    Jamie Pommersheim, Reed College
    (1135-68-2608)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Quantum advantage via non-local games.
    Zak Webb*, San Diego, CA
    (1135-68-2775)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Computational Approach to Classifying Rank 6 Modular Categories.
    Daniel Creamer*, Texas A&M University
    Eric Rowell, Texas A&M University
    (1135-18-2707)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Fermionic Topological Phases and Modular Transformations.
    Parsa Bonderson*, Microsoft Station Q
    Meng Cheng, Yale University
    Roger Mong, University of Pittsburgh
    Alan Tran, UC Santa Barbara
    (1135-18-817)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Charged String Languages in Quantum Information.
    Arthur M Jaffe*, Harvard University
    (1135-94-1627)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Braiding Necklaces and Loops.
    Eric Carson Rowell*, Texas A&M University
    (1135-20-2426)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    On Two Quantum Invariants of Three Manifolds from Hopf Algebras.
    Liang Chang, Nankai University
    Shawn X Cui*, Stanford University
    (1135-57-1837)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Open and Accessible Problems for Undergraduate Research, I
  Room 17B, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Michael Dorff, Brigham Young University
  Allison Henrich, Seattle University henricha@seattleu.edu
  Nicholas Scoville, Ursinus College
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Kostant's Partition Function.
    Pamela E. Harris*, Williams College
    (1135-05-310)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Some open problems in computational Galois theory.
    Chad Awtrey*, Elon University
    (1135-12-2122)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Permutation polynomial research with beginning undergraduates.
    Dawn C. Nelson*, Saint Peter's University
    (1135-12-1705)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Patterns in trees.
    Lara Pudwell*, Valparaiso University
    (1135-05-597)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Number Theory meets Graphs in Discrete Morse Theory.
    Dominic Klyve*, Central Washington University
    Nicholas Scoville, Ursinus College
    (1135-55-2856)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Circle Maps Dynamics and Their Relationship to Julia Sets.
    Debra Mimbs*, Lee University
    (1135-37-2542)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Finding accessible open problems in topology & geometry.
    Jason Parsley*, Wake Forest University
    (1135-57-3159)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Open and accessible problems in knot theory.
    Colin C Adams*, Williams College
    (1135-57-338)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS-ASL Special Session on Set Theory, Logic and Ramsey Theory, II
  Room 7B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Andrés Caicedo, Mathematical Reviews
  José Mijares, University of Colorado, Denver jose.mijarespalacios@ucdenver.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The triangle-free homogeneous graph had finite big Ramsey degrees.
    Natasha Dobrinen*, University of Denver
    (1135-03-2038)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Ramsey Theory, Topology and Forcing.
    Marion Scheepers*, Department of Mathematics, Boise State University
    (1135-03-1828)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Madness in vector spaces, round 2.
    Iian B. Smythe*, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    (1135-03-1279)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Some Results on Ramsey-Type Problems for Graph Saturation.
    Michael Ferrara*, University of Colorado Denver
    (1135-05-1256)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Parametrizing topological Ramsey spaces.
    Yuan Yuan Zheng*, University of Toronto
    (1135-05-972)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Hypernatural numbers in ultra-Ramsey theory.
    Timothy Trujillo*, Sam Houston State University
    (1135-03-2249)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Ramsey Theory on generalized Baire space.
    Daniel J Hathaway*, University of Denver
    (1135-03-406)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Special Functions and Combinatorics (in honor of Dennis Stanton's 65th birthday), II
  Room 7A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Susanna Fishel, Arizona State University sfishel1@asu.edu
  Mourad Ismail, University of Central Florida
  Vic Reiner, University of Minnesota
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Cyclic Sieving Phenomenon on Matchings.
    Younghwan Kim*, Arizona State University
    (1135-05-1565)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Geometric representations of finite groups on real toric spaces.
    Soojin Cho*, Department of Mathematics, Ajou University, Korea
    Suyoung Choi, Department of Mathematics, Ajou University, Korea
    Shizuo Kaji, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Yamaguchi University, Japan
    (1135-05-2396)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Variations on the $S_n$-module $Lie_n$: results and conjectures.
    Sheila Sundaram*, Pierrepont School, Westport, CT
    (1135-05-1584)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Regular Hessenberg varieties and parabolic characters of Hecke algebras.
    Ryan Schneider, Washington University
    John Shareshian*, Washington University
    (1135-05-2324)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On r-inversions and symmetric functions.
    Yuval Roichman, Bar Ilan University
    Michelle Wachs*, University of Miami
    (1135-05-3091)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Proof of the Functional Equation Conjecture.
    Adriano Garsia*, University of California-San Diego
    G. Xin, Capital Normal University, Beijing
    (1135-05-2719)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Rational functions with nonnegative power series coefficients.
    Ira M. Gessel*, Brandeis University
    (1135-33-3100)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Interesting inequalities.
    Richard Askey*, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1135-33-399)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Stochastic Processes, Stochastic Optimization and Control, Numerics and Applications, I
  Room 30D, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Hongwei Mei, University of Central Florida
  Zhixin Yang, Ball State University
  Quan Yuan, Ball State University
  Guangliang Zhao, GE Global Research dr.gzhao@gmail.com
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Jump Type Stochastic Differential Equations with Non-Lipschitz Coefficients: Non Confluence, Feller and Strong Feller Properties, and Exponential Ergodicity.
    Fubao Xi, Beijing Institute of Technology
    Chao Zhu*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    (1135-60-359)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Expected number and height distribution of critical points of smooth isotropic Gaussian random fields.
    Dan Cheng*, Texas Tech University
    Armin Schwartzman, University of California San Diego
    (1135-60-653)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Infinite dimensional regime-switching stochastic approximation algorithms.
    Quan Yuan*, Ball State University
    George Yin, Wayne State University
    (1135-60-1074)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Comparison Theorems for Complex Interconnected Large-scale Stochastic Dynamic Systems.
    Gangaram S. Ladde*, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
    (1135-60-2671)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Finite Horizon Optimal Execution with Bounded Rate of Transaction.
    Yipeng Yang*, University of Houston - Clear Lake
    (1135-60-49)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Analysis of variance based financial instruments for Ornstein-Uhlenbeck type models.
    Indranil SenGupta*, North Dakota State University
    Aziz Issaka, North Dakota State University
    (1135-91-40)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Exploring the effects of white noise on the dynamics of malaria in a highly random environment.
    Divine Wanduku*, Georgia Southern University
    (1135-60-1011)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Controllability in Term of Mean Reaching Time for Markovian Switching Diffusion System.
    Guangliang Zhao*, GE Global Research
    Zhixin Yang, Ball State University
    Quan Yuan, Ball State University,
    Leyi Wang, Wayne State University,
    (1135-93-1615)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  MAA Session on 20th Anniversary-The EDGE (Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education) Program: Pure and Applied Talks by Women, I
  Room 14B, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Shanise Walker, Iowa State University shanise1@iastate.edu
  Laurel Ohm, University of Minnesota
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Mathematics in Public Service.
    Carla D Cotwright-Williams*, Social Security Administration
    (1135-I5-2298)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The EDGE Program Turns 20: What Have We Learned?
    Susan D'Agostino*, Southern New Hampshire University
    (1135-I5-1189)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    From Apprehension to Enthusiasm: Getting Students on Board with Inquiry-Based Learning.
    Jill E Jordan*, Houghton College
    (1135-I5-1175)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    20 years of Density of Closed Geodesics on 2-step Nilmanifolds.
    Rachelle DeCoste*, Wheaton College (MA)
    (1135-I5-844)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Random Graph Model Related to One Face Maps.
    Angelica Gonzalez*, University of Arizona
    (1135-I5-614)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Generalized Petersen Graphs with Maximum Nullity Equal to Zero Forcing Number.
    Emelie Jeanine Curl*, Iowa State University
    (1135-I5-2372)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Applications of SMP to the determination of the minimum number of distinct eigenvalues.
    Carolyn Reinhart*, Iowa State University
    (1135-I5-1225)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Building Partition Regularity.
    Kendra E Pleasant*, Morgan State University
    (1135-I5-1154)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Differential and Metric Geometry and Geometric Analysis
  Room 18, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Nilpotent Metric Lie Algebras Constructed from Schreier Graphs.
    Rachelle DeCoste, Wheaton College
    Lisa DeMeyer, Central Michigan University
    Meera Mainkar, Central Michigan University
    Allie Ray*, Trinity College, CT
    (1135-53-2074)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Coarse quotients by group actions and the preservation of Property A.
    Logan McKee Higginbotham*, University of Tennessee
    Thomas Weighill, University of Tennessee
    (1135-54-326)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Tight Span of Subsets of The Plane With The Maximum Metric.
    Mehmet Kilic*, Claremont McKenna College, CA
    (1135-51-2160)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    The Jacobian variety of Riemann surfaces with short simple closed geodesics.
    Peter Buser, Swiss Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland
    Eran Makover, Central Connecticut State University
    Bjoern Muetzel*, Dartmouth College, Hanover
    Robert Silhol, University of Montpellier 2, Montpellier
    (1135-51-780)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Geometry of Curves and Surfaces in the Three-dimensional Lie Group E(1, 1).
    T. H. Wears*, Longwood University
    (1135-53-3036)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Asymptotic time-like polygons in staircase metric space-times.
    J Mealy*, Austin College
    Aimi Hardy, Austin College
    (1135-51-201)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    An Induced Isometry on a Vector Bundle.
    Hulya Kadioglu*, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
    (1135-53-2018)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    p-Laplacian's Surjectivity on Infinite Graphs.
    Lucio M-G Prado*, Department od Mathematics, BMCC, The City University of New York, 199 Chambers Street New York, NY 10007.
    (1135-31-2700)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Total Curvature and the Betti Numbers of a Complex Projective Manifold.
    Joseph Ansel Hoisington*, University of Pennsylvania
    (1135-53-3075)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Neumann Li-Yau gradient estimate under integral Ricci curvature bounds.
    Xavier Ramos Olive*, University of California, Riverside
    (1135-58-1601)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Liouville Theorem for Ancient Mean Curvature Flows.
    Kevin Sonnanburg*, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    (1135-53-2307)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Bubbling with $L^2$ almost constant mean curvature and an Alexandrov type theorem for crystals.
    Matias Delgadino, Imperial College London
    Francesco Maggi, University of Texas at Austin
    Cornelia Mihaila*, University of Texas at Austin
    Robin Neumayer, Northwestern University
    (1135-53-2273)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On the Existence of a Closed, Embedded, Rotational Lambda-Hypersurface.
    John D Ross*, Southwestern University
    (1135-58-2944)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    Complex and SKT structures on the total space of principal bundles.
    Mainak Poddar*, Middle East Technical University, Northern Cyprus Campus
    Ajay Singh Thakur, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
    (1135-53-1823)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Flat surfaces in hyperbolic 3-space via twistor reduction.
    Michael Benjamin Deutsch*, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
    (1135-53-2101)
  • 11:45 a.m.
    An embedding theorem: differential geometry behind massive data analysis.
    Chen-Yun Lin*, Duke University
    Hau-Tieng Wu, Duke University
    (1135-53-1003)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-9:35 a.m.
  MAA Session on Environmental Modeling in the Classroom
  Room 5B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Emek Kose, St Mary's College of Maryland
  Ellen Swanson, Centre College ellen.swanson@centre.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Identifying Sinkholes in an Introductory Numerical Methods Course.
    Celes A. Woodruff*, James Madison University
    Yonathan Admassu, James Madison University
    (1135-K1-2703)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    Predicting Extreme Rainfall Events in Sonoma County: A Service-Learning Project in Mathematical and Statistical Modeling.
    Martha Shott*, Sonoma State University
    (1135-K1-2376)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Environmental Modeling in Lower Division Mathematics Courses.
    Rikki B. Wagstrom*, Metropolitan State University, MN
    (1135-K1-1119)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Using math modeling to teach mathematics.
    Carl Olimb*, Augustana University
    (1135-K1-1018)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Mathematics for Sustainability: A new course and textbook, and experience using it for non technical majors in a large state university.
    John Roe, Penn State University
    Russell deForest*, Penn State University
    (1135-K1-9)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
  MAA Session on Humanistic Mathematics, I
  Room 15A, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Gizem Karaali, Pomona College
  Eric Marland, Appalachian State University marlandes@appstate.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Productive Failures: From Class Requirement to Fostering a Peer-led Support Group.
    Milos Savic*, University of Oklahoma
    Devon Gunter, University of Oklahoma
    Emily Curtis, University of Washington
    Ariana Paz Pirela, University of Oklahoma
    (1135-H5-3089)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    Life Values and Mathematics.
    Satish C. Bhatnagar*, University of Nevada Las Vegas
    (1135-H5-911)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Incorporating Philosophy, Theology and the History of Mathematics in an Introduction to Proof Course.
    Steven M Deckelman*, Department of MSCS, University of Wisconsin-Stout
    (1135-H5-670)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    An Inquiry General Education Mathematics Course for Students in the Humanities, Fine Arts, and the Social Sciences.
    Manmohan Kaur*, Benedictine University
    (1135-H5-1252)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Learning from the humanities: mathematics reading comprehension.
    Melanie Butler*, Mount St. Mary's University
    (1135-H5-471)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Victorian Puzzle Addiction: "The Final Problem" as a Mathematical Puzzle.
    Brittany Anne Carlson*, University of California, Riverside
    (1135-H5-135)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Studio Course in the Mathematical Art.
    James M. Henle*, Smith College
    (1135-H5-1099)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Ikebana: A mathematical experience.
    Felicia Yeung Tabing*, University of Southern California
    (1135-H5-2909)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Clandestine Mathematics in Poland: The World War II Years.
    Emelie A Kenney*, Siena College
    (1135-H5-1972)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The Mathematics of Gossip.
    Izabel Aguiar*, University of Colorado, Boulder
    Jessica Deters, Virginia Tech
    Jacquie Feuerborn, Wellington, New Zealand
    (1135-H5-374)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:35 a.m.
  MAA Session on Innovative and Effective Ways to Teach Linear Algebra, I
  Room 14A, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Sepideh Stewart, University of Oklahoma
  Gil Strang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  David Strong, Pepperdine University David.Strong@pepperdine.edu
  Megan Wawro, Virginia Tech
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Meaning and context in teaching linear algebra.
    David Strong*, Pepperdine University
    (1135-C1-2086)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    Investigating drawing as a cognitive strategy in undergraduate linear algebra course.
    Mile Krajcevski*, University of South Florida
    (1135-C1-2432)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Moving between the Three Worlds of Mathematical Thinking in Linear Algebra.
    Sepideh Stewart*, University of Oklahoma
    (1135-C1-2489)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Development and Validation of an Assessment for Introductory Linear Algebra Courses.
    Muhammad Qadeer Haider*, Florida State University
    (1135-C1-3072)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Teaching Matrix Algebra Using Technology -- Do the Students' Attitudes Change with Time?
    Karsten Schmidt*, Schmalkalden University of Applied Sciences, Germany
    (1135-C1-1545)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Teaching introductory linear algebra with open software and textbooks.
    Robert A Beezer*, University of Puget Sound
    (1135-C1-1698)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Linear Algebra using Curated Courses Open Educational Resources.
    Sarah E. Eichhorn*, University of Texas at Austin
    Petra Bonfert-Taylor, Dartmouth College
    David Farmer, American Institute of Mathematics
    Jim Fowler, The Ohio State University
    (1135-C1-1896)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Visualization of each Step and the Solution of Gauss-Jordan Elimination using GeoGebra.
    James D. Factor*, Alverno College, Milwaukee WI
    (1135-C1-2120)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Exploring Linear Algebra through SageMath Labs.
    Gilbert Adam, Southern New Hampshire University
    William Jamieson*, Southern New Hampshire University
    Megan Sawyer, Southern New Hampshire University
    Christina Starkey, Southern New Hampshire University
    (1135-C1-1445)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Determining the Determinant: learning in the footsteps of Cramer and Cauchy.
    Daniel E. Otero*, Xavier Univeristy (Ohio)
    (1135-C1-1636)
  • 11:20 a.m.
    Linear Algebra in Digital World.
    Naima Naheed*, Benedict College, Columbia, SC
    (1135-C1-503)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:10 a.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on History or Philosophy of Mathematics
  Room 28D, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Tim Comar, Benedictine University tcomar@ben.edu
  James Reid, University of Mississippi
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Charles Davies as a Philosopher of Mathematics Education.
    Amy Ackerberg-Hastings*, Independent Scholar
    (1135-VB-134)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    The Integral methods of the equations of the partial differential in the mathematical physics by Poisson.
    Shigeru Masuda*, RIMS, KYOTO UNIVERSITY
    (1135-VB-279)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Comparing two first-year algebra books from the 1840's, Warren Colburn's "An Introduction to Algebra" and Joseph Ray's "Algebra: Part First", to today's "modern" first-year algebra curriculum.
    Patricia Baggett*, Dept. of Math Sci, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces NM 88003-8001
    Andrzej Ehrenfeucht, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO emeritus
    (1135-VB-748)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Word Problems from the Mid-1800s to Now: A Textbook Survey.
    Samuel M Hansen*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1135-VB-1191)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Two Fields Separated by a Common Language.
    James P. Howard, II*, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
    (1135-VB-2083)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: The Mathematics of Eastern Architecture.
    Clarissa McMillar*, University of Texas of the Permian Basin
    (1135-VB-2327)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Learning the History of Mathematics in the British Isles: A Travel Course.
    Mariah Birgen*, Wartburg College
    Jeannie Dees, Wartburg College
    (1135-VB-2630)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    The Future Impact of Artificial Intelligence on College Mathematics Education.
    Alexander G. Atwood*, Suffolk County Community College
    (1135-VB-2908)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Singing sines in Sanskrit slokas.
    Deepak Basyal*, University of Wisconsin-Washington County
    (1135-VB-3041)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:10 a.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Interdisciplinary Topics in Mathematics
  Room 28E, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Tim Comar, Benedictine University tcomar@ben.edu
  James Reid, University of Mississippi
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Math Language: A First Look at Understanding the Complexities in Elementary Mathematics Curriculum.
    Rebecca Metcalf*, Bridgewater State University
    Sandra Ciocci, Bridgewater State University
    (1135-VC-219)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Mathematical models of combination cancer immunotherapy based on adoptive cell transfer.
    Feng Fu*, Dartmouth College
    (1135-VC-1702)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Studying Harmonic Measure through Brownian Motion Simulation and Teleportation.
    Kevin Gerstle*, Oberlin College
    Miranda Schaum, Oberlin College
    (1135-VC-1723)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Discrete Morse Theory and Poset Homomorphism Complexes.
    Benjamin J. Braun, University of Kentucky
    Wesley K. Hough*, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater
    (1135-VC-1895)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: A Speededness Item Response Model for Associating Ability And Speededness Parameters.
    Immanuel James Williams*, University of California, Santa Cruz
    (1135-VC-1901)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    A New Lens for Prostate Cancer Modeling: Cholesterol's Role in Predicting a De-Differentiating Tumor.
    Sierra Nicole Murphy*, Arizona State University
    (1135-VC-2354)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Image Analysis Using Mathematical Morphology.
    Mohamed Allali*, Chapman University
    (1135-VC-2693)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Identifying Optimal Sampling Distributions for Individual Patients.
    Nigar Karimli*, Western Kentucky University
    Ayush Prasad, Johns Hopkins University
    Richard Schugart, Western Kentucky University
    (1135-VC-2870)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Relativity and Differential Geometry: an interdisciplinary course in England.
    Colleen Duffy*, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
    Paul Thomas, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
    (1135-VC-3130)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching Grades 6-12 Mathematics, I
  Room 32A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  David C. Carothers, James Madison University
  Bonnie Gold, Monmouth University bgold@monmouth.edu
  Yvonne Lai, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    MODULE(S2) Project: Developing Prospective Secondary Mathematics Teachers' Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching in College Geometry.
    Alyson E. Lischka*, Middle Tennessee State University
    Candice M. Quinn, Middle Tennessee State University
    (1135-G1-679)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    Connecting the Common Core Math Practices to Mathematical Proof in a course for Middle and Secondary Teachers.
    Christina Eubanks-Turner*, Loyola Marymount University
    (1135-G1-1826)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Mathematics Education of Teachers - Developing a Language for Engaging Mathematics Problems.
    Marshall Gordon*, Columbia, MD
    (1135-G1-854)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Changing Classroom Expectations and Culture through Mathematical Modeling.
    Ashlee LeGear*, University of Wisconsin - River Falls
    Erick Hofacker, University of Wisconsin - River Falls
    Sherrie Serros, Mount Mary University
    (1135-G1-2085)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    A Report on Prospective Teachers' Development of Content Knowledge in Mathematical Modeling and the Use of Reflections to Promote the Emergence of Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching.
    Cynthia Oropesa Anhalt*, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
    Ricardo Cortez, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
    (1135-G1-733)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Prioritizing Statistical Knowledge for Teaching: Designing and Testing a Curriculum Module on Categorical Association.
    Andrew M. Ross*, Eastern Michigan University
    Stephanie Casey, Eastern Michigan University
    Randall Groth, Salisbury University
    Rrita Zejnullahi, Northwestern University
    James Albert, Bowling Green State University
    (1135-G1-2065)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Understandings that Prospective Secondary Teachers bring to Geometry from a Transformation Viewpoint.
    Yvonne Lai*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1135-G1-2467)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Supporting prospective teachers' understandings of triangle congruence.
    Priya V Prasad*, University of Texas at San Antonio
    Steven Boyce, Portland State University
    (1135-G1-1962)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Number Talks: Building Numeracy and Conceptual Understanding Ten Minutes at a Time.
    Jennifer Earles Szydlik*, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
    (1135-G1-1027)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Preservice Secondary Mathematics Teachers' Conceptions of Functions and Equations.
    Theresa A. Jorgensen*, University of Texas at Arlington
    Kathryn Rhoads, University of Texas at Arlington
    James Mendoza Alvarez, University of Texas at Arlington
    (1135-G1-1101)
  • 11:20 a.m.
    Designing Real Analysis courses for Secondary Mathematics Teachers.
    Nicholas Wasserman*, Teachers College, Columbia University
    Keith Weber, Rutgers University
    Juan Pablo Mejia-Ramos, Rutgers University
    Tim Fukawa-Connelly, Temple University
    (1135-G1-839)
  • 11:40 a.m.
    The Mathematical Education of Teachers as an Application of Undergraduate Mathematics.
    James Álvarez, University of Texas, Arlington
    Elizabeth G. Arnold, Montana State University
    Elizabeth A. Burroughs*, Montana State University
    Elizabeth Fulton, Montana State University
    (1135-G1-1920)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:35 a.m.
  MAA Session on Mathematical Themes in a First-Year Seminar, I
  Room 6D, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Jennifer Bowen, The College of Wooster
  Pamela Pierce, The College of Wooster ppierce@wooster.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Mathematics for Earthling Ambassadors to Outer Space.
    Neelesh Venkat Tiruviluamala*, University of Southern California Department of Mathematics
    (1135-Q1-3155)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    A First-Year Seminar on "Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics".
    Aaron M. Montgomery*, Baldwin Wallace University
    (1135-Q1-1468)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Chance, Data, and Decision-Making: What the Teacher Learned.
    Lisa Carnell*, High Point University
    (1135-Q1-2571)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Order and Disorder: A First-Year Seminar.
    Michael P. Saclolo*, St. Edward's University
    (1135-Q1-2620)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    The Nature of Mathematics - First Yer Seminar at the University of Richmond.
    William T Ross*, University of Richmond
    (1135-Q1-765)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    The Mathematics of Art: A First-Year Seminar's Impact on Students and the Instructors that Teach It.
    Cheryl J. McAllister*, Southeast Missouri State University
    Laurie W. Overmann, Southeast Missouri State University
    (1135-Q1-641)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Signal and the Noise: Why Numeracy Really Matters.
    Jennifer R. Bowen*, The College of Wooster
    (1135-Q1-2291)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Breakthroughs and Controversies in Science and Mathematics: Standards-based Learning in a First-Year Seminar.
    Sarah J Greenwald*, Appalachian State University
    (1135-Q1-884)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    A First Seminar Course on The Mathematics of Equity.
    Karen E Clark*, The College of New Jersey
    (1135-Q1-1911)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The Mathematics and Ethics of Infinity.
    David C. Marshall*, Monmouth University
    (1135-Q1-663)
  • 11:20 a.m.
    Decisions, Decisions: A First-Year Seminar Incorporating Mathematical Themes.
    Pamela B. Pierce*, The College of Wooster
    (1135-Q1-1950)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:25 a.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Mathematics Education
  Room 13, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    An Undergraduate Number Theory Course in Disguise.
    Manmohan Kaur*, Benedictine University
    (1135-97-1124)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    A conceptual approach to financial mathematics.
    Nathan Tintle*, Dordt College
    (1135-97-2996)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Assessing an Inquiry Based Curriculum using Bayesian Networks.
    Lochana Siriwardena*, University of Indianapolis
    Yasanthi Kottegoda, University of New Haven
    (1135-97-1805)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Deepen student understanding of mathematics using technology: Justifying a hierarchical classification of convex quadrilaterals using dynamical software.
    Orlando B. Alonso*, Associate Professor/Lehman College of the City University of New York (CUNY)
    (1135-97-2619)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Sneaking in LaTeX while teaching by modeling.
    Dina Yagodich*, Frederick Community College
    (1135-34-648)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Symbol System Flexibility and Transfer in Multiplying Polynomials.
    Cameron Sweet*, Washington State University
    (1135-97-2606)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Evidence for Concept Modification -- The limit Concept of Post-secondary Students.
    Girija Sarada Nair-Hart*, University of Cincinnati Clermont College
    (1135-97-2757)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    How do students experience the transition to proof?
    Younggon Bae, Michigan State University
    V. Rani Satyam*, Michigan State University
    Mariana Levin, Western Michigan University
    Kevin Voogt, Michigan State University
    John P Smith III, Michigan State University
    (1135-97-2466)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Proof of the Formula for Arc Length in a New Way.
    Jun Tao*, Poway, California
    (1135-26-1486)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: One of the easiest proof of the Pythagoras theorem.
    Gabriel Merced Casiano*, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Cayey campus
    (1135-51-835)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    SAS and SSA Conditions for Congruent Triangles.
    Alexander Fedorovich Mironychev*, Challenge Early College High School, Houston ISD
    (1135-97-292)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Play again! Developing spatial reasoning and visualization through games and puzzles (with emphasis on the mathematical mindset).
    Polina D. Sabinin*, Bridgewater State University
    (1135-97-377)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Collaborative Teaching: Math History and Ethno-mathematics.
    Margo Alexander*, Georgia State University
    (1135-97-671)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    Increasing scope and quality of a math circle program for minority students.
    Alessandra Pantano*, University of California, Irvine
    (1135-00-2978)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Noncommutative Algebra and Hopf Algebras
  Room 19, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Waring's Problem in Finite Rings.
    Yesim Demiroglu Karabulut*, University of Rochester
    (1135-05-1032)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Classification of Weakly Azumaya Algebras Using Weak Galois Cohomology.
    Holly E Attenborough*, University of Wisconsin-Platteville
    (1135-16-1219)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Maximal Subalgebras of Finite-Dimensional Algebras.
    Alexander H Sistko*, University of Iowa
    Miodrag C Iovanov, University of Iowa
    (1135-16-2904)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    On Module over infinite-dimensional Algebras.
    Rebin A Muhammad*, Ohio Univeristy
    Sergio López-Permouth, Ohio univeristy
    (1135-00-2331)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Algebras Having Bases Consisting Solely of Strongly Regular Elements.
    Daniel P. Bossaller*, Ohio University
    Sergio R. Lopez-Permouth, Ohio University
    (1135-16-1274)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    A simple hermitian analogue of the Morita theorems.
    Bhanumati Dasgupta*, University of Iowa
    Soura Dasgupta, University of Iowa
    (1135-18-646)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Counting Elementary Gradings of Matrix Rings.
    Kenneth L Price*, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
    (1135-16-1206)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Quantum cluster algebra and quantum foldings.
    Bach Nguyen*, Louisiana State University
    (1135-16-3189)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Commuting Squares of Bismash Product Hopf Algebras.
    Chase T Worley*, Maryville College (TN)
    (1135-46-2634)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Combinatorial Models of Quantum Matrices.
    Diljit Singh*, University of California Santa Barbara
    (1135-05-2950)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Comodule algebras and 2-cocycles over the Drinfeld double.
    Robert Laugwitz*, Rutgers University
    (1135-16-1375)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Modular categories are not determined by their modular data.
    Peter Schauenburg*, Institut de Mathématiques de Bourgogne - UMR 5584 CNRS
    Michaël Mignard, Institut de Mathématiques de Bourgogne - UMR 5584 CNRS
    (1135-18-2401)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On classification of (weakly integral) modular categories by dimension.
    Kathleen Lee*, Whittier College
    (1135-18-2972)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    Ultraproducts of Tannakian Categories.
    Michael Norman Crumley*, The University of Findlay
    (1135-18-1199)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Hom-Tensor Categories and the Hom-Yang-Baxter Equation.
    Florin Panaite, Institute of Mathematics of The Romanian Academy
    Paul T. Schrader*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Bowling Green State University
    Mihai Staic, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Bowling Green State University
    (1135-17-67)
  • 11:45 a.m.
    Modeling the composition of networks with operads.
    John C. Baez, University of California, Riverside
    John D. Foley*, Metron, Inc.
    Joseph Moeller, University of California, Riverside
    Blake S. Pollard, University of California, Riverside
    (1135-18-2414)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Research in Geometry, Groups, and Representations by Undergraduate and Post-Baccalaureate Students
  Room 29D, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Computations over Local Rings in Macaulay2.
    Mahrud Sayrafi*, University of California, Berkeley
    Michael Stillman, Cornell University
    (1135-14-2092)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Uniform bounds for the number of rational points on symmetric squares of curves with low Mordell--Weil rank.
    Sameera Vemulapalli*, University of California, Berkeley
    (1135-14-410)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Degrees of freedom in constructing algebraic and tropical curves in the plane.
    Andrew Scharf*, Williams College
    Ralph Morrison, Williams College
    Sifan Jiang, Smith College
    Desmond Coles, The Ohio State University
    Neelav Dutta, The University of Kentucky
    (1135-14-2615)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Most Planar Graphs do not Admit Faithful Tropicalizations in the Plane.
    Desmond Coles*, The Ohio State University
    Neelav Dutta, University of Kentucky
    Sifan Jiang, Smith College
    Ralph Morrison, Williams College
    Andrew Scharf, Williams College
    (1135-14-1725)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Relations Between Theta Functions in Genus One and Two from Geometry.
    Thomas B Hill*, Utah State University
    Shantel Spatig, Utah State University
    Andreas Malmendier, Utah State University
    (1135-14-2964)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Mapping the moduli space of complex graded associative algebras through computer algebra systems.
    Chris A Magyar*, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
    (1135-16-3175)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Moduli Space of Complex $\mathbb Z_2$-graded $3\vert 2$-dimensional associative algebras.
    Tyler Jules Gonzales*, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
    Jory Lee Wagner, University of Wisconsin- Eau Claire
    (1135-16-2956)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    The Moduli Space of 5-dimensional Non Nilpotent Complex Associative Algebras.
    Grant James Keane*, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
    Haotian Wu, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
    Alice Ching, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
    (1135-16-2951)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Taming the Loch Ness Monster: Symmetries of Infinite Surfaces.
    Santana F. Afton*, College of William and Mary
    Samuel Freedman, University of Michigan
    Justin Lanier, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Liping Yin, Georgia State University
    (1135-55-3063)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    An Explorational of Tangential Curvature.
    Jasmine Camero*, California State University, Fullerton
    Oscar Rocha Rocha, California State University, Fullerton
    Nicholas Brubaker, California State University, Fullerton
    Bogdan Suceava, California State University, Fullerton
    (1135-53-2609)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Geometries in the Absence of the Side-Angle-Side Axiom.
    Elizabeth Theta Brown, James Madison University
    Emily Castner*, Mount Holyoke College
    Stephen Davis, University of Virginia
    Edwin O'Shea, James Madison University
    Edouard Seryozhenkov, Willamette University
    Alfredo Vargas, University of Rochester
    (1135-51-2586)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Finite-Dimensional Quantum Metric Spaces.
    Konrad Aguilar, Arizona State University
    Samantha Brooker*, University of Denver
    (1135-46-2278)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The Fraïssé Limit of Finite Dimensional Matrix Algebras with the Rank Metric.
    Aaron W Anderson*, California Institute of Technology
    Martino Lupini, California Institute of Technology
    (1135-03-642)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    A Partial Characterization of the Symmetric Spaces of the Unitary Group of Degree Two and Three.
    Johnathan R Marquardt*, University of St. Francis, Joliet, Illinois.
    (1135-22-1485)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Algebraic Voting Theory.
    Brian Camara*, Bridgewater State University
    John Pike, Bridgewater State University
    (1135-15-2876)
  • 11:45 a.m.
    Additional Authors: An extension of cleaning for the Dessin d'Enfant.
    Gabrielle Melamed*, University of Hawaii at Manoa
    Austin Wei, Pomona College
    Jonathan Pham, University of California, Irvine
    (1135-20-2704)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education (RUME), I
  Room 4, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Stacy Brown, California State Polytechnic University
  Megan Wawro, Virginia Tech mwawro@vt.edu
  Aaron Weinberg, Ithaca College
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Support mathematical proofs through peer annotations.
    Daniel L Reinholz*, San Diego State University
    (1135-J5-312)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    The Impact of Mandatory Participation in Math Excel Labs Associated with Calculus Courses.
    Chris Watkins*, Chapman University
    Mary Beisiegel, Oregon State University
    (1135-J5-1529)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Developmental and Affective Takes on Undergraduates Learning How to Prove.
    V. Rani Satyam*, Michigan State University
    (1135-J5-3067)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Improving undergraduate students' proof capabilities.
    Draga Vidakovic*, Georgia State University
    Darryl Chamberlain, University of Florida
    Aubrey Kemp, Georgia State University
    Valerie Miller, Georgia State University
    (1135-J5-2664)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching Examples in Pre-Calculus: A Collective Case Study.
    Erica R Miller*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1135-J5-347)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Relationships Between What a Teacher Knows, What a Teacher Does in Classroom, and What His or Her Students Learn.
    Hyunkyoung Yoon*, Arizona State University
    (1135-J5-514)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Relationship Between Pre-service Elementary Teachers' Calibration, Mathematics Anxiety and Achievement.
    Brian Arthur Christopher*, University of Northern Colorado
    Gulden Karakok, University of Northern Colorado
    (1135-J5-1779)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    The Learning Experience Framework: Conceptualizing Student Engagement In and Out of the Classroom.
    Andrew J Krause*, Michigan State University
    (1135-J5-3053)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    A Refinement of a Genetic Decomposition for Differentiating a Function to a Function Power.
    Rachel L. Rupnow*, Virginia Tech
    (1135-J5-2512)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:35 a.m.
  MAA Session on Using Mathematics to Study Problems from the Social Sciences, I
  Room 32B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Jason Douma, University of Sioux Falls jason.douma@usiouxfalls.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    How To Assign Win Probabilities In An Election Based On Polling Results.
    Marcus Pendergrass*, Hampden-Sydney College
    (1135-J1-2854)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Using the Status Quo to Define Fair District Plans.
    McKenzie Lamb*, Ripon College
    (1135-J1-2564)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Explaining the Impact of Cosponsorship in Legislative Processes: An Application of Optimal Transport Theory.
    Carol Ann Downes*, Hendrix College
    Philip D Waggoner, University of Houston
    (1135-J1-369)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Investigating Wealth Distributions of Econophysics Models.
    Steven A Reed, School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at Arizona State University
    James PR Larrison*, School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at Arizona State University
    (1135-J1-1515)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Modeling and Experiencing the Tragedy of the Commons.
    Steven D. Leonhardi*, Winona State University
    (1135-J1-2509)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Measuring Health Outcomes of Uncovered Employment: A study of income, social mobility, equality, and health indicators in an underlooked segment of the labor force.
    Zakariya Mohamed Kmir*, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
    (1135-J1-2345)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Youth at Risk: Data Mining A Longitudinal Cohort to Predict Patterns of Family Instability and Crime.
    Linn E. Carothers*, California Baptist University
    (1135-J1-2054)
  • 11:20 a.m.
    Body Image in Popular Culture: A Comparison of Body Mass Index (BMI) among Celebrities, Students, and Superheroes.
    M. Leigh Lunsford*, Longwood University
    JoEllen G. Pederson, Longwood University
    Marcus H. Pendergrass, Hampden-Sydney College
    (1135-J1-1709)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  SIAM Minisymposium on Advances in Imaging Science
  Room 11A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Misha Kilmer, Tufts University misha.kilmer@tufts.edu
  Eric de Sturler, Virginia Tech sturler@vt.edu
  Eric Miller, Tufts University elmiller@ece.tufts.edu
  Avind Saibaba, North Carolina State University asaibab@ncsu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Optimal control of systems governed by PDEs with random parameter fields using quadratic approximations.
    Noemi Petra*, University of California Merced
    Alen Alexanderian, North Carolina State University
    Omar Ghattas, University of Texas Austin
    Georg Stadler, Courant Institute, New York University
    (1135-65-1977)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Graph-based learning as a Bayesian inverse problem.
    Matthew Dunlop*, CalTech
    Dejan Slepčev, Carnegie Mellon University
    Andrew Stuart, CalTech
    Matthew Thorpe, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1135-65-2261)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Mathematics of Compton camera imaging.
    Fatma Terzioglu*, Texas A & M University
    Peter Kuchment, Texas A & M University
    Leonid Kunyansky, University of Arizona
    (1135-44-2099)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Efficient Bayesian Inversion in High-Dimensional Inverse Problems.
    Eric de Sturler*, Virginia Tech
    Misha E. Kilmer, Tufts University
    Eric L. Miller, Tufts University
    Arvind K. Saibaba, North Carolina State University
    (1135-65-2994)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Uncertainty in Joint inversion.
    Jodi Mead*, Boise State University
    Diego Domenzain, Boise State University
    John Bradford, Colorado School of Mines
    (1135-65-1970)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    RandMCMC: Randomization based MCMC samplers for Bayesian Inverse Problems.
    Arvind Saibaba*, North Carolina State University
    Misha Kilmer, Tufts University
    Eric de Sturler, Virginia Tech
    Eric Miller, Tufts University
    (1135-65-1741)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
  Project NExT Workshop
  Room 6F, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  PME Council Meeting
  Miramar Room, 3rd Floor, South Tower, Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
  Employment Center
  Exhibit Hall A, Ground Level, San Diego Convention Center
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 8:20 a.m.-11:35 a.m.
  MAA Session on Flipped Classes: Implementation and Evaluation, II
  Room 31C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Joel Kilty, Centre College joel.kilty@centre.edu
  Alex M. McAllister, Centre College
  John H. Wilson, Centre College
  

  • 8:20 a.m.
    Designing Pre-Class Activities for a Flipped Calculus Course Based on Learning Theory Principles.
    Theresa Laurent*, St Louis College of Pharmacy
    Jamie Pace, St Louis College of Pharmacy
    (1135-H1-1472)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Flipping the Precalculus Classroom: A Quasi-Experimental Study.
    Benjamin V.C. Collins*, University of Wisconsin-Platteville
    (1135-H1-329)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Flipping an Integral Calculus Course with Multiple Instructors.
    James S Rolf*, Yale University
    Brett Smith, Yale University
    Sarah Vigliotta, Yale University
    (1135-H1-2988)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Flipping Calculus II.
    Sarah Dumnich*, Frostburg State University
    (1135-H1-2413)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    A first experience in a flipped Calculus II course.
    Mike Janssen*, Dordt College
    (1135-H1-448)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Flipping Calculus II - Creating Materials that Others Can Use.
    Rebecca Swanson*, Colorado School of Mines
    Deb Carney, Colorado School of Mines
    (1135-H1-1347)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Linear Algebra: A Flipping Success.
    Rachelle Bouchat*, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
    (1135-H1-3038)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Flipping a Proof Class using Faculty and Student Videos.
    James T Sandefur*, Department of Mathematics, Georgetown University
    (1135-H1-1379)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Two Flipped Introductory Real Analysis Courses.
    Casey Mann*, University of Washington Bothell
    (1135-H1-1381)
  • 11:20 a.m.
    Productive Failure in the Flipped Mathematics Classroom.
    John A. Kerrigan*, Rutgers University
    (1135-H1-172)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Novel Methods of Enhancing Success in Mathematics Classes
  Room 33B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Ellina Grigorieva, Texas Womans University egrigorieva@twu.edu
  Natali Hritonenko, Prairie View A&M University
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: The Best Way to Teach Math.
    Andrew D. Jones*, The STEM Education Center
    (1135-97-893)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Facilitating the understanding of mathematics curriculum in students through problem development exercises.
    Natali Hritonenko*, Prairie View A&M University
    (1135-97-484)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    YouTube University: shared upper level math courses across schools.
    Steven J Miller*, Williams College
    (1135-97-16)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Teaching Methods of Solving Number Theory Problems.
    Ellina Grigorieva*, Texas Woman's University
    (1135-11-380)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    : An Undergraduate Research Experience with Emphasis on Topics Covered in the GRE Math Test.
    Alicia Machuca*, Texas Woman's University
    Junalyn Navarra-Madsen, Texas Woman's University
    (1135-97-1919)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Communication with students outside the classroom and international education and learning.
    Michael Alexander Radin*, Rochester Institute of Technology
    (1135-97-13)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Calculus for the 21st century.
    Elizabeth Theta Brown*, James Madison University
    (1135-97-2643)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Research by Postdocs of the Alliance for Diversity in Mathematics, II
  Room 33C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Aloysius Helminck, University of Hawaii - Manoa
  Michael Young, Iowa State University myoung@iastate.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Existence of solutions to a semilinear elliptic boundary value problem with augmented Morse index bigger than two.
    Alfonso Castro, Harvey Mudd College
    Ivan Ventura*, Cal Poly, Pomona
    (1135-35-2493)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Schrodinger Group and the Minimum-Uncertainty Squeezed States for the Non-Relativistic Harmonic Oscillator.
    Jose M Vega-Guzman*, Lamar University
    (1135-81-2405)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Cocycle deformations and Galois objects for semisimple Hopf algebras of dimension $p^3$.
    Maria D. Vega*, United States Military Academy
    (1135-16-1997)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Differential Galois theory for difference equations and hypertranscendence.
    Carlos E. Arreche*, The University of Texas at Dallas
    (1135-12-1941)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Decay of Twisted Harmonic Spinors on Taub-NUT Space.
    Andres Larrain-Hubach*, University of Dayton
    (1135-53-1562)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Sensitivity and bifurcation analysis of disruptive mechanisms in a menstrual cycle model.
    Erica J Graham*, Bryn Mawr College
    (1135-92-2057)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Avoidance and perception of risk and their effects on an outbreak.
    Kamuela Yong*, University of Hawaii - West Oahu
    (1135-92-939)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  MAA Invited Address
  Information, computation, optimization: connecting the dots in the traveling salesman problem.
  Room 6AB, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  William Cook*, University of Waterloo
  (1135-A0-157)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse #6: Part A
  Directing Undergraduate Research
  Room 28A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Presenters:
  Aparna Higgins, University of Dayton
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Multi-scale Modeling with PDEs in Computational Science and Engineering:Algorithms, Simulations, Analysis, and Applications, I
  Room 17A, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Salim M. Haidar, Grand Valley State University haidars@gvsu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Algorithm Refinement - A 20 year Retrospective.
    Alejandro L. Garcia*, Dept. Physics & Astronomy, San Jose State Univ.
    (1135-65-124)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Applications of PDEs to Process Modeling of Metal Additive Manufacturing at mm- and sub-micron Length Scales.
    Alex Plotkowski*, ORNL
    M. M. Kirka, ORNL
    R. R. Dehoff, ORNL
    Y. Lee, ORNL
    N. Raghavan, University of Tennessee
    M. Haines, University of Tennessee
    A. Prabhu, University of Tennessee
    H. Rezayat, University of Tennessee
    S. S. Babu, ORNL/University of Tennessee
    (1135-35-2079)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Renormalized Reduced Order Models with Memory for Long Time Prediction.
    Jacob R Price*, University of Washington
    Panos Stinis, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    (1135-65-288)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    A High Resolution Numerical Algorithm for Fluid Flows.
    Samet Y Kadioglu*, Yildiz Technical University
    (1135-65-1852)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse #7: Part A
  Starter Kit for Teaching Modeling-First Differential Equations Course
  Room 28B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Presenters:
  Brian Winkel, SIMIODE, Cornwall, NY
  Rosemary Farley, Manhattan College
  Therese Shelton, Southwestern University
  Patrice Tiffany, Manhattan College
  Holly Zullo, Westminster College
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse #8: Part A
  Teaching Statistics using R and R Studio
  Room 28C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Randall Pruim, Calvin College
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on Math Circle Topics with Visual or Kinesthetic Components, I
  Room 31B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Amanda Katharine Serenevy, Riverbend Community Math Center amanda@riverbendmath.org
  Martin Strauss, University of Michigan
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Simon Says, Four Gallons.
    Sharon Lanaghan*, California State University, Dominguez Hills
    (1135-Q5-2236)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Creating and Justifying Platonic Solids.
    Judith Coviington*, LSU Shreveport
    (1135-Q5-1571)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Snapology Origami: Folding and Snapping Your Way to Geometry, Topology, Art, and More.
    David Honda, Marshall Middle School, San Diego, CA
    Yana Mohanty, Imathgination LLC
    David Patrick*, Art of Problem Solving
    (1135-Q5-1211)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Realizing Seifert Surfaces and More!
    Whitney George*, University of Wisconsin- La Crosse
    (1135-Q5-766)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Mathematical Modeling in 3-5th Grade Math Circle.
    Jenna Tague*, California State University, Fresno
    (1135-Q5-2844)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Knotted mathematics for elementary-aged students.
    Mark C Hughes*, Brigham Young University
    (1135-Q5-2115)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Nim-like games with 2D boards.
    Maria S. Nogin*, California State University, Fresno
    Adnan H. Sabuwala, California State University, Fresno
    Jenna Tague, California State University, Fresno
    (1135-Q5-2112)
  • 11:20 a.m.
    Ready, Set, Eureka!
    Joie F. Escuadro*, Juniata College
    (1135-Q5-1774)
  • 11:40 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Let's get cracking: Russian egg roulette.
    Frederick A Peck*, University of Montana
    Matt B Roscoe, University of Montana
    (1135-Q5-268)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-11:40 a.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Research in Mathematical Biology, Modeling, and Neural Networks by Undergraduate and Post-Baccalaureate Students
  Room 12, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Vegetation Patterns in Semi-Arid Regions.
    Arjun Kakkar*, Williams College
    (1135-92-2125)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Probabilistic Models, Machine Learning, and the Future of Breast Cancer Risk Assessment.
    Alyssa Hope Columbus*, University of California, Irvine
    (1135-62-2350)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Modeling directed evolution with coupon-collecting and mixing problems.
    Devin Mattoon*, Missouri Western State University
    Altan Tutar, Davidson College
    Hannah S Sinks, Davidson College
    Autumn Estrada, Missouri Western State University
    David Sullivan, Missouri Western State University
    Daniel Zweerink, Missouri Western State University
    A. Malcolm Campbell, Davidson College
    Todd T Eckdahl, Davidson College
    Jeffrey L Poet, Missouri Western State University
    Laurie J Heyer, Davidson College
    (1135-92-2982)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Modeling Chronic Vascular Responses Following a Major Arterial Occlusion.
    Jordan J. Pellett*, University of Wisconsin- La Crosse
    Emma Brewer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
    (1135-92-2330)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Model of Iron Metabolism in the Human Body.
    Mary Gockenbach*, University of Texas at Arlington
    Tim Barry, University of Maryland, College Park
    (1135-92-1606)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Transportation Networks Optimized for Various Income Groups and their Impact on the Spread of Airborne Disease.
    Rachel Matheson*, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York
    Jaysha Camacho, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
    Juliana Noguera, Los Andes University, Bogotá D.C., Colombia
    Brandon Summers, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
    Nanda Mallapragada, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
    Baojun Song, Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey
    (1135-91-1798)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Computational Simulation of a Partial Differential Equation Based Model of Electrostatic Forces on Neuronal Electrodynamics.
    Kaia Lindberg*, Roger Williams University
    Edward Dougherty, Roger Williams University
    (1135-92-2199)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    A simplified mathematical model to explore the output of a rhythmic neural network.
    Madel R. Liquido*, Saint Peter's University
    Nickolas Kintos, Saint Peter's University
    (1135-92-1193)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Survey on Triplet Mining for Facial Recognition Convolutional Neural Networks.
    Islam Faisal*, The American University in Cairo
    Andrew Nguyen, UC San Diego
    Surabhi Desai, University of St Andrews
    Prem Talwai, Cornell University
    Shantanu Joshi, University of California Los Angeles
    (1135-00-3201)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    Exploration of Numerical Precision in Deep Neural Networks.
    Yunkai Zhang*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Yu Ma, University of California, Berkeley
    Zhaoqi Li, Macalester College
    Catalina Marie Vajiac, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame
    (1135-68-1051)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Simplicial Homology and Neural Networks: An analysis of biological neural networks using persistent homology.
    Mark C Agrios*, College of William and Mary
    (1135-92-2517)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  PANEL CANCELLED: MAA Panel
  Communicating Mathematics to a Wider Audience
  Room 1A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Joel Cohen, University of Maryland
  Paul Zorn, St. Olaf College zorn@stolaf.edu
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  MAA Panel
  MAA Session for Chairs: Bridging the Gap
  Room 2, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Catherine Murphy, Purdue University Northwest cmmurphy@pnw.edu
  Linda Braddy, Tarrant County College Northeast Campus
  Daniel Maki, Indiana University Bloomington
  Panelists:
  Michael Dorff, Brigham Young University
  Lewis Ludwig, Denison University
  Alycia Marshall, Anne Arundel Community College
  Karen Saxe, Macalester College
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  MAA Workshop
  Get to Know the National Science Foundation
  Room 5A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Presenters:
  Ron Buckmire, National Science Foundation rbuckmir@nsf.gov
  Karen Keene, National Science Foundation
  Sandra Richardson, National Science Foundation
  Lee Zia, National Science Foundation
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
  Exhibits and Book Sales
  Exhibit Hall B1, Ground Level, San Diego Convention Center
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  MAA Poster Session
  Mathematical Outreach Programs
  Exhibit Hall B2, Ground Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Betsy Yanik, Emporia State University
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 10:05 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  AWM-AMS Noether Lecture
  Nonsmooth boundary value problems.
  Room 6AB, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Jill Pipher*, Brown University
  (1135-00-152)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 10:15 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Outreach, II
  Room 28E, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Tim Comar, Benedictine University tcomar@ben.edu
  James Reid, University of Mississippi
  

  • 10:15 a.m.
    Gifted for all.
    Victoria Kofman*, Stella Academy
    (1135-VG-953)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Impact of Math Teachers' Circles on Persistence, Confidence, and Implementation of Inquiry-based Learning for K-12 Teachers.
    Rita M Patel*, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL
    Amanda Harsy, Lewis University
    Dave Klanderman, Trinity Christian College
    (1135-VG-1045)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Collaborative Effort and Outcome in Providing In-Person and Online Professional Development to High-Need K-12 Schools in Washington State.
    Mei Zhu*, Mathematics Department, Pacific Lutheran Universty, Tacoma, WA 98447
    Belinda Louie, University of Washington Tacoma, 1900 Commerce Street, Tacoma, WA 98402
    Jose Rios, University of Washington Tacoma, 1900 Commerce Street, Tacoma, WA 98402
    Riki Thompson, University of Washington Tacoma, 1900 Commerce Street, Tacoma, WA 98402
    (1135-VG-1134)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Popularizing Mathematics with YouTube.
    Marc Chamberland*, Grinnell College
    (1135-VG-1153)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    MAGIC (Mathematics Advances Great Intellectual Confidence).
    Jie Liu*, Dixie State University
    Clare Banks, Dixie State University
    Vinodh Chellamuthu, Dixie State University
    (1135-VG-2369)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Frameworks for different types of mathematics outreach programs: A proposed model.
    Gangadhar Acharya*, Texas Tech University
    (1135-VG-2370)
  • 11:45 a.m.
    Summer Illinois Math Camp.
    Claire Merriman*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Emily Heath, University of Ilinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Simone Sisneros-Thiry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1135-VG-2797)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 10:15 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Teaching and Learning Developmental Mathematics
  Room 28D, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Tim Comar, Benedictine University tcomar@ben.edu
  James Reid, University of Mississippi
  

  • 10:15 a.m.
    Math Tutoring Center's Online Presence Within Virtual Classrooms - Changing Attitudes & Cultures.
    James A Young-Nastally*, University of Northwestern Ohio (UNOH)
    (1135-VH-426)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Classroom Instructional Experiences of Latinx Students in a Community College Intermediate Algebra Course.
    Anne Cawley*, University of Michigan
    (1135-VH-517)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Support Needs in Teaching Developmental Mathematics Courses.
    Qingxia Li*, Fisk University
    (1135-VH-962)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Supplementary Instruction - A success story for remedial mathematics in three CUNY community colleges.
    Johannes C. Familton*, Borough of Manhattan Community College
    (1135-VH-1250)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    Impact of functional programming on visual-spatial ability and functional reasoning of gifted elementary school students.
    Michael E Matthews*, University of Nebraska at Omaha
    Michelle Friend, University of Nebraska at Omaha
    Betty Love, University of Nebraska at Omaha
    Victor Winter, University of Nebraska at Omaha
    (1135-VH-1394)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: A Exploration of College Algebra Students' Understanding of Higher Order Polynomial Functions.
    Victor V. Cifarelli*, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
    Volkan Sevim, Department of Mathematics and Computational Science
    (1135-VH-2676)
  • 11:45 a.m.
    Switching to a Corequisite Remediation Model for GenEd Mathematics and Statistics Courses.
    Benjamin Atchison*, Framingham State University
    (1135-VH-3018)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  SIGMAA Officers Meeting
  Marina Ballroom D, 3rd Floor, South Tower, Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina
  Organizers:
  Andrew Miller, Belmont University
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  AWM Committee on Education Panel
  Supporting, Evaluating and Rewarding Work in Mathematics Education in Mathematical Sciences Departments
  Room 11B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Jacqueline Dewar, AWM Education Committee
  Pao-sheng Hsu, AWM Education Committee
  Harriet Pollatsek, AWM Education Committee
  Moderators:
  Minerva Cordero, University of Texas at Arlington
  Panelists:
  Jenna Carpenter, Campbell University
  Rebecca Garcia, Sam Houston State University
  Daniel Maki, Indiana University, Bloomington
  Thomas Roby, University of Connecticut
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 10:35 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  MAA Workshop
  Hungarian Approach to Teaching Proof-writing Pósa's Discovery-Based Pedagogy
  Room 5A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Presenters:
  Péter Juhász, MTA Rényi Institute and Budapest Semesters in Mathematics Education juhasz.peter@renyi.mta.hu
  Réka Szász, Budapest Semesters in Mathematics Education
  Ryota Matsuura, St. Olaf College and Budapest Semesters in Mathematics Education
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 10:35 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  Town Hall Meeting
  Revising MAA Guidelines on the Work of Faculty and Departments: Supporting Student Success
  Room 2, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Tim Flowers, Indiana University of Pennsylvania flowers@iup.edu
  Moderators:
  Edward Aboufadel, Grand Valley State University
  Panelists:
  Mary Beisiegel, Oregon State University
  Suzeanne Doree, Augsburg College
  Tyler Jarvis, Brigham Young University
  Benedict Nmah, Morehouse College
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Project NExT Lecture on Teaching and Learning
  Room 6C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 11:00 a.m.
    Changing mathematical relationships and mindsets: how all students can succeed in mathematics learning.
    Jo Boaler*, Stanford University
    (1135-A0-158)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  AMS Informational Session
  Report on the findings of the 2015 CBMS survey of undergraduate mathematical and statistical sciences in the U.S.
  Room 8, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Presenters:
  Ellen Kirkman, Wake Forest University
  Organizers:
  Jim Maxwell, American Mathematical Society
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  SIAM Invited Address
  Tensor Decomposition: A Mathematical Tool for Data Analysis.
  Room 6AB, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Tamara G. Kolda*, Sandia National Laboratories
  (1135-65-1281)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-1:50 p.m.
  AMS Colloquium Lectures: Lecture II
  Proving algebraic identities.
  Room 6AB, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Avi Wigderson*, Institute for Advanced Study
  (1135-68-3231)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Advances in Operator Theory, Operator Algebras, and Operator Semigroups, II
  Room 33A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Asuman G. Aksoy, Claremont McKenna College
  Zair Ibragimov, California State University, Fullerton
  Marat Markin, California State University, Fresno mmarkin@csufresno.edu
  Ilya Spitkovsky, New York University, Abu Dhabi
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Positivity and geometry of unit balls in operator algebras on Pontryagin space$ \Pi_1$.
    Sofya S Masharipova*, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown
    (1135-46-1630)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Remark on arithmetic topology.
    Igor Nikolaev*, St. John's University (New York)
    (1135-46-1927)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Nevanlinna-Pick interpolation on the boundary of the bidisk.
    Linda J Patton*, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
    (1135-47-1450)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Piecewise syndetic recurrence sets in hypercyclicity.
    Yunied Puig de Dios*, University of California Riverside
    (1135-47-308)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On operators from the algebra generated by two orthogonal projections.
    Ilya M Spitkovsky*, New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD)
    (1135-47-922)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Periodic automorphisms of special flows on Lebesgue space and factors of type $III_0$.
    Shukhrat M Usmanov*, Waldorf University
    (1135-46-1632)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Algebraic, Analytic, and Geometric Aspects of Integrable Systems, Painlevé Equations, and Random Matrices, II
  Room 33B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Vladimir Dragovic, University of Texas at Dallas
  Anton Dzhamay, University of Northern Colorado adzham@unco.edu
  Sevak Mkrtchyan, University of Rochester
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Topological recursion of Eynard-Orantin, ribbon graphs, and Feynman diagrams.
    K. Kappagantula, Concordia University
    M. Cutimanco, University of Sherbrooke
    P. Labelle, Champlain college
    V. Shramchenko*, University of Sherbrooke
    (1135-05-441)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Algebro-geometric approach to the Schlesinger systems: from Poncelet to Painleve VI.
    Vladimir Dragovic*, The University of Texas at Dallas, Department of Mathematical Sciences
    Vasilisa Shramchenko, University of Sherbrooke
    (1135-34-2069)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Reduction from ABS equations to the Painlevé equations.
    Nobutaka Nakazono*, Department of Physics and Mathematics, Aoyama Gakuin University
    (1135-30-577)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    NEW PRESENTER: Gap probabilities in q-Racah tiling model and discrete Painlevé equations.
    Alisa Knizel*, Columbia University
    Anton Dzhamay, University of Northern Colorado
    (1135-60-2055)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The space of initial conditions for some 4D Painlevé systems.
    Tomoyuki Takenawa*, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology
    (1135-58-1836)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Log-Aesthetic Curves in Industrial Design as a Similarity Geometric Analog of Euler's Elastic Curves.
    J. Inoguchi, Institute of Mathematics, University of Tsukuba, Japan
    K. Kajiwara*, Institute of Mathematics for Industry, Kyushu University, Japan
    K. T. Miura, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, Japan
    M. Sato, Serio Corporation, Japan
    W. K. Schief, School of Mathematics, The University of New South Wales, Australia
    Y. Shimizu, UEL Corporation, Japan
    (1135-53-1503)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Analysis of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Applications, III
  Room 9, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Tarek M. Elgindi, University of California, San Diego tme2@princeton.edu
  Edriss S. Titi, Texas A&M University and Weizmann Institute of Science
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Existence of weak solutions to a class of fluid-structure interaction problems involving composite structures.
    Suncica Canic*, University of Houston
    Boris Muha, University of Zagreb, Croatia
    Martina Bukac, University of Notre Dame
    (1135-35-601)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Merging-splitting models of group dynamics by Bernstein function theory.
    Robert L Pego*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1135-35-1393)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Domain Variations and Moving Boundary Problems.
    Patrick Guidotti*, University of California, Irvine
    (1135-35-1938)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    A normal form flow for two dimensional water waves.
    Mihaela Ifrim*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    John Hunter, UC Davis
    (1135-35-352)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Global Well-Posedness and Scattering for the cubic Dirac equation.
    Ioan Bejenaru*, University of California San Diego
    Sebastian Herr, Bielefeld University
    (1135-35-1039)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Special solution for the generalized Schrödinger equation.
    F. Linares, IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    G. Do Nascimento, Univeridade Federal do Piaui-UFPI, Teresina, Brazil
    G. Ponce*, University of California-Santa Barbara
    (1135-35-1009)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #11: Part A
  Authoring Integrated Online Textbooks with MathBook XML
  Room 28C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Presenters:
  Karl-Dieter Crisman, Gordon College
  Mitchel T. Keller, Washington and Lee University
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Beyond Planarity: Crossing Numbers of Graphs (a Mathematics Research Communities Session), II
  Room 29B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Axel Brandt, Davidson College
  Garner Cochran, University of South Carolina gcochran@math.sc.edu
  Sarah Loeb, College of William and Mary
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Rectilinear Crossing Number.
    Aida Abiad, Maastricht University
    Elie Alhajjar, George Mason University
    Pavel Avdeyev*, Department of Mathematics, George Washington University
    Martin Balko, Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics
    Garner Cochran, University of South Carolina
    Kenan Ince, Westminster College
    Gelasio Salazar, Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi, Mexico
    (1135-92-1489)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Approximating the rectilinear crossing number.
    Jacob Fox, Stanford University
    Janos Pach, EPFL
    Andrew Suk*, University of California San Diego
    (1135-05-988)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    On The Maximum Rectilinear Crossing Number of Subdivided Stars.
    Joshua Fallon*, Louisiana State University
    Kirsten Hogenson, Colorado College
    Lauren Keough, Grand Valley State University
    Mario Lomeli, Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi
    Marcus Schaefer, DePaul University
    Pablo Soberon Bravo, Northeastern University
    (1135-05-1105)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    On the rectilinear crossing numbers of complete 4-partite graphs.
    Carlos A Alfaro, Banco de Mexico
    Walter Carballosa*, Florida International University
    Silvia Fernandez-Merchant, California State University, Northridge
    Alain Olavarrieta, University of Texas, Austin
    Yakov Sapozhnikov, California State University, Northridge
    (1135-05-2308)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On crossing numbers of complete multipartite graphs.
    Leslie Hogben*, Iowa State University and American Institute of Mathematics
    (1135-05-2100)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    NEW PRESENTER: Bounding The Tripartite-Circle Crossing Number of Complete Tripartite Graphs.
    Elizabeth Bailey Matson*, Auburn University
    Charles Camacho, Oregon State University
    Silvia Fern{á}ndez-Merchant, California State University-Northbridge
    Marija Jelic, University of Belgrade
    Rachel Kirsch, University of Nebraska
    Linda Kleist, Technische Universit at Berlin
    Jennifer White, Saint Vincent College
    (1135-05-1228)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Commutative Algebra in All Characteristics, II
  Room 31A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Neil Epstein, George Mason University nepstei2@gmu.edu
  Karl Schwede, University of Utah
  Janet Vassilev, University of New Mexico
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Extended Plus Closure in Complete Local Rings.
    Raymond C Heitmann*, University of Texas at Austin
    Linquan Ma, University of Utah
    (1135-13-1498)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Subadditivity of test ideals.
    Daniel Smolkin*, University of Utah
    (1135-13-1516)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Recovering and exploring Lech's inequality.
    Patricia Klein*, University of Michigan
    (1135-13-2642)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Uniform Symbolic Topologies in Normal Toric Rings.
    Robert M. Walker*, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
    (1135-13-966)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Symbolic powers: the Containment Problem and Harbourne's conjecture.
    Eloísa Grifo*, University of Virginia
    (1135-13-1353)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Capacities and cancellation.
    Robin Baidya*, Georgia State University
    (1135-13-365)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Discrete Neural Networking and Applications, I
  Room 30E, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Murat Adivar, Fayetteville State University
  Michael A. Radin, Rochester Institute of Technology michael.radin@rit.edu
  Youssef Raffoul, University of Dayton
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Rulkov & Izhikevich Neural Networking Models; Master neurons and slave neurons with applications in modeling Alzheimer's Disease. Delays in the signal and eventually periodic solutions.
    Michael Alexander Radin*, Rochester Institute of Technology
    (1135-39-536)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Shortest Path Computations in Stochastic Neural Systems.
    Gary R Engler*, Stevens Institute of Technology
    Michael Zabarankin, Stevens Institute of Technology
    (1135-90-1080)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Arctangent function based Banach space valued neural network approximation.
    George A Anastassiou*, Memphis
    (1135-41-19)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Generalizations of Zeckendorf's Theorem to Two-Dimensional Sequences.
    Joshua Siktar*, Carnegie Mellon University
    Steven J Miller, Williams College
    (1135-39-2352)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Distributions in Generalized Zeckendorf Decompositions.
    Steven J Miller*, Williams College
    Yujin Kim, Columbia University
    Shannon Sweitzer, University California Riverside
    Eric Winsor, University of Michigan
    Jianing Yang, Colby College
    (1135-39-2360)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Dynamical Systems: Smooth, Symbolic, and Measurable (a Mathematics Research Communities Session), II
  Room 29C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Kathryn Lindsey, Boston College kathryn.a.lindsey@gmail.com
  Scott Schmieding, Northwestern University
  Kurt Vinhage, University of Chicago
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Unique equilibrium states and equilibrium states with positive entropy.
    Leonard John Carapezza*, University of Utah Mathematics Department
    (1135-37-1572)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Entropy rigidity and flexibility for suspension flows of Anosov diffeomorphisms.
    Cameron Bishop, Wesleyan University
    David Hughes*, The Pennsylvania State University
    Kurt Vinhage, The University of Chicago
    Yun Yang, The City University of New York
    (1135-37-1127)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Entropy production in random billiards and the second law of thermodynamics.
    Renato Feres*, Washington University
    Timothy Chumley, Mount Holyoke College
    (1135-37-1537)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Angels' staircases and trajectories on homothety surfaces.
    Joshua P. Bowman*, Pepperdine University
    Slade Sanderson, Pepperdine University
    (1135-37-358)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Dynamics of generalized beta-transformations.
    Harrison Bray, University of Michigan
    Diana Davis, Williams College
    Kathryn Lindsey, Boston College
    Chenxi Wu*, Rutgers University
    (1135-37-2738)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Rotation Number, Ziggurat Fringes, and Fractal Boundary.
    Subhadip Chowdhury*, The University of Chicago
    (1135-37-2903)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on History of Mathematics, III
  Room 10, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Sloan Despeaux, Western Carolina University
  Jemma Lorenat, Pitzer College
  Clemency Montelle, University of Canterbury
  Daniel Otero, Xavier University otero@xavier.edu
  Adrian Rice, Randolph-Macon College
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Ada's Poetic Science: Correspondences of Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage.
    Gizem Karaali*, Pomona College
    (1135-01-1013)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    What does Ada Lovelace's correspondence with Augustus De Morgan tell us about her ability?
    Ursula H Martin*, University of Oxford
    Christopher D Hollings, University of Oxford
    Adrian Rice, Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia
    (1135-01-438)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Riemann's Twofold Path to Curvature.
    Paul R Wolfson*, West Chester University
    (1135-01-1372)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Dehn and Hilbert's Third Problem.
    John McCleary*, Vassar College
    (1135-01-1613)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Abstraction and axioms: some parallels between 19th-century British and 20th-century American mathematics.
    Christopher D Hollings*, University of Oxford
    (1135-01-465)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The role of socialist competition in the Soviet mathematics curriculum reform of the 1960's and 1970's.
    Mariya Boyko*, University of Toronto, IHPST
    (1135-97-1906)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Homotopy Type Theory (a Mathematics Research Communities Session), II
  Room 29A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Simon Cho, University of Michigan seamooncho@gmail.com
  Liron Cohen, Cornell University
  Edward Morehouse, Wesleyan University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Differential Cohesive Type Theory.
    Jacob A Gross, University of Oxford
    Daniel R Licata, Wesleyan University
    Max S New, Northeastern University
    Jennifer Paykin, University of Pennsylvania
    Mitchell Riley, Wesleyan University
    Michael Shulman, University of San Diego
    Felix Wellen*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1135-53-1166)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Applications of Cohesive Homotopy Type Theory.
    Daniel Cicala, University of California, Riverside
    Liron Cohen, Cornell University
    Nachiket Karnick, Indiana University
    Chandrika Sadanand, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Michael Shulman, University of San Diego
    Amelia Tebbe*, Indiana University Kokomo
    Dmitry Vagner, Duke University
    (1135-55-2514)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    The Joy of QIITs.
    Thorsten Altenkirch*, University of Nottingham
    (1135-03-1926)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Experiments in cubical type theory.
    Guillaume Brunerie*, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
    (1135-68-1505)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #10: Part A
  Incorporating Mathematical and Statistical Forensics Activities into the Undergraduate Mathematics Classroom
  Room 28B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Presenters:
  Eugene Fiorini, Muhlenberg College
  James Russell, Muhlenberg College
  Gail Marsella, Muhlenberg College
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Interactions of Inverse Problems, Signal Processing, and Imaging, I
  Room 16A, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  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.
    Alternating structure-adapted proximal gradient for nonconvex regularised problems with multiconvex coupling terms. Applications in imaging inverse problems.
    Mila Nikolova*, CMLA, CNRS, ENS Cachan, Université Paris-Saclay
    Paumine Tan, CMLA, CNRS, ENS Cachan, Université Paris-Saclay
    (1135-49-1414)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Transfer operators and their applications.
    Palle Jorgensen*, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
    (1135-41-1330)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Restoration of images corrupted by atmospheric turbulence.
    Jerome Gilles, San Diego State University
    Melissa Tong, UC Irvine
    Luminita Vese*, Department of Mathematics, UCLA
    (1135-65-2378)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Metric Generalized Inverses in Banach Spaces and Their Applications in Bifurcation Theory.
    Yuwen Wang*, Y Y Tseng Functinal Analysis Research Center, Harbin Normal University, Harbin, 150025, China
    (1135-47-2507)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Phaseless sampling and reconstruction of signals with finite rate of innovation.
    Qiyu Sun*, University of Central Florida
    (1135-94-3079)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Inverse Gravimetry in Reproducing Kernel Spaces.
    Willi Freeden*, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
    M. Zuhair Nashed, University of Central Florida, Orlando
    (1135-65-1794)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Mathematical Information in the Digital Age of Science, II
  Room 6E, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Patrick Ion, University of Michigan pion@umich.edu
  Olaf Teschke, zbMath Berlin
  Stephen Watt, University of Waterloo
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Let's make a DEAL: Open Access, Business Models, and Transformation Dynamics.
    Günter M. Ziegler*, Freie Universität Berlin
    (1135-94-833)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Trends and Topics in Mathematics Publishing.
    Jan J. Blom*, Springer Nature, New York
    (1135-00-1980)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Supporting the move to diamond open access: The launch of Centre Mersenne.
    Thierry Bouche*, Cellule Mathdoc, Université Grenoble Alpes (France)
    (1135-94-1436)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Open Access and the Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics.
    Victor Reiner, University of Minnesota
    Hugh Thomas*, UQAM
    (1135-00-2804)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Preserving information on mathematical software via web archives.
    Helge Holzmann, L3S Research Center
    Mila Runnwerth*, German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB)
    (1135-00-1331)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Infectious Diseases, II
  Room 30A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Kazuo Yamazaki, University of Rochester kyamazak@ur.rochester.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Can infectious pathogens drive their host populations into extinction?
    Alex P Farrell, Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University
    James P Collins, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
    Amy L Greer, Department of Population Medicine, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph
    Horst R Thieme*, School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Arizona State University
    (1135-92-645)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Dynamics and asymptotic profiles of endemic equilibrium for SIS epidemic models with cross-diffusion.
    Huicong Li*, East China Normal University
    (1135-35-883)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Analyzing the impact of awareness programs on cholera dynamics.
    Jin Wang*, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
    (1135-92-1527)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A Stochastic SIRI Model of Opioid Abuse.
    Allison R Torsey*, State University of New York, College at Buffalo
    Saziye Bayram, State University of New York, College at Buffalo
    (1135-92-73)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Mathematical Modeling, Analysis and Applications in Population Biology, I
  Room 30B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Yu Jin, University of Nebraska-Lincoln yjin6@unl.edu
  Ying Zhou, Lafayette College
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    How different disease transmission modes (vector-borne and sexual) and different dispersal types (vector and host) affect the spread speed of a Zika virus invasion.
    William F. Fagan*, University of Maryland
    Sharon Bewick, University of Maryland
    Jeffery Demers, Smithsonian Institution
    Folashade Agusto, University of Kansas
    Justin M Calabrese, Smithsonian Institution
    Bingtuan Li, University of Louisville
    (1135-92-573)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    The Importance of being Atomic: Ecological Invasions as Random Walks.
    Timothy C Reluga*, The Pennsylvania State University
    (1135-92-2679)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Risk assessments on eradication of aquatic invasive species.
    Yanyu Xiao*, Univeristy of Cincinnati
    (1135-92-2325)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Pest Control by Generalist Parasitoids: a Bifurcation Theory Approach.
    Gunog Seo*, Colgate University
    Gail S.K. Wolkowicz, McMaster University
    (1135-37-1432)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Gender differences in hepatic one-carbon metabolism.
    Farrah Sadre-Marandi*, Mathematical Biosciences Institute
    (1135-92-2561)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Outbreak or bio-terrorism? An optimal control model to reduce and eradicate Anthrax disease.
    Ana-Maria Croicu*, Kennesaw State University
    (1135-49-1209)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Metric Geometry and Topology, I
  Room 16B, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Christine Escher, Oregon State University
  Catherine Searle, Wichita State University searle@math.wichita.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Volume Entropy Rigidity For RCD Spaces.
    C. Connell, Indiana University
    X. Dai, UC Santa Barbara
    R. Perales, Institute of Mathematics, UNAM
    J. Núñez-Zimbrón, SISSA
    P. Suárez-Serrato, National Autonomous University of Mexico
    G. Wei*, UC Santa Barbara
    (1135-51-1386)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Integral Currents on Alexandrov Spaces and IF convergence.
    Raquel Perales*, Math Institute, National Autonomous University of Mexico
    Anna Siffert, Max Planck Institute, Bonn
    Priyanka Rajan, UC Riverside
    Maree Jaramillo, U Conn
    Catherine Searle, Wichita State University
    Nan Li, CUNY
    (1135-53-1638)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Complex Riemannian foliations of Kaehler manifolds.
    Thomas Murphy*, California State University Fullerton
    (1135-53-604)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Kähler-Ricci solitons on crepant resolutions.
    Olivier Biquard, UPMC Université Paris 6 and École Normale Supérieure
    Heather Macbeth*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1135-53-3026)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    3-Manifolds with Constant Ricci Eigenvalues $\lambda, \lambda, 0$.
    Thomas Brooks*, University of Pennsylvania
    (1135-51-6)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Gradient flow in the Wasserstein metric.
    Katy Craig*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1135-49-434)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on New Trends in Celestial Mechanics, I
  Room 30D, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Richard Montgomery, University of California Santa Cruz
  Zhifu Xie, University of Southern Mississippi zhifu.xie@usm.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Metric Geometry and Marchal's lemma.
    Richard Montgomery*, U.C. Santa Cruz
    (1135-70-965)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Symmetries and choreographies in families that bifurcate from the polygonal relative equilibrium of the n-body problem.
    Renato Carlos Calleja*, IIMAS-National Autonomous University of Mexico
    Eusebius Doedel, Concordia University
    Carlos Garcia Azpeitia, Facultad de Ciencias-UNAM
    (1135-34-1501)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Free time minimizers for the planar three body problem.
    Hector Sanchez*, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
    Richard Moeckel, Univerisity of Minnesota
    Richard Montgomery, University of California, Santa Cruz
    (1135-70-1111)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Remarks on the n-body problem on surfaces of revolution.
    Cristina Stoica*, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
    (1135-70-1512)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Euler and Lagrange relative equilibria in the curved $3$--body problem.
    Ernesto Perez-Chavela*, ITAM-Mexico
    (1135-70-1885)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Open and Accessible Problems for Undergraduate Research, II
  Room 17B, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Michael Dorff, Brigham Young University
  Allison Henrich, Seattle University henricha@seattleu.edu
  Nicholas Scoville, Ursinus College
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Choosing accessible and open problems for undergraduate researchers.
    Kumer Pial Das*, Lamar University
    (1135-60-2442)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Open Problems for Undergraduates: Vaccination Strategies for the Control of Infectious Disease.
    Hannah Callender Highlander*, University of Portland
    (1135-92-869)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Too Big is Better than Too Small: In Pursuit of Just Right.
    Gwen Spencer*, Smith College
    (1135-97-1994)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Developing Applied Mathematics Research Projects for Undergraduates.
    Laura M Smith*, California State University, Fullerton
    (1135-00-373)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Quotient sets.
    Stephan Ramon Garcia*, Pomona College
    (1135-11-317)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Outsourcing Undergraduate Research: Using Community Based Research to Generate Undergraduate Research Problems.
    Andrea Young*, Ripon College
    (1135-92-1366)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
  MAA Invited Paper Session on Quandle Questions
  Room 3, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Alissa Crans, Loyola Marymount University acrans@lmu.edu
  Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna College
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Quandle Generalizations and Enhancements.
    Sam Nelson*, Claremont McKenna College
    (1135-AD-427)
  • 1:50 p.m.
    G-families of quandles, their homology theory and cocycle invarians of handlebody-knots.
    Kanako Oshiro*, Sophia University
    (1135-AD-1056)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    An introduction to quandle cocycle invariants of knots.
    Seung Yeop Yang*, University of Denver
    (1135-AD-435)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    Quandle coloring invriants of knots and surface-knots.
    Jieon Kim*, Pusan National University
    (1135-AD-885)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Enumerating cosets, quandles, and coset-quandles.
    Patrick D Shanahan*, Loyola Marymount University
    Jim Hoste, Pitzer College
    (1135-AD-1491)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Quotients of the fundamental quandle of a link.
    Jim Hoste*, Pitzer College
    Patrick D. Shanahan, Loyola Marymount University
    (1135-AD-1477)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Quaternions, II
  Room 18, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Terrence Blackman, Medgar Evers College, City University of New York
  Johannes Familton, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York jfamilton@bmcc.cuny.edu
  Chris McCarthy, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Rodrigues, Euler, and Hamilton: The problem of Rotations.
    Johannes C. Familton, Department of Mathematics, BMCC, The City University of New York, NY 10007,.
    Lucio Prado*, Department of Mathematics, BMCC, The City University of New York, NY 10007,.
    (1135-00-1243)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Computational advantages and historical insights from viewing quaternion multiplication as geodesic vector addition on $S^2$.
    Bob Palais*, Utah Valley University
    (1135-22-415)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Quaternionic manifolds.
    Justin Sawon*, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
    (1135-53-392)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Hilbert-Blumenthal Quaternionic Surfaces.
    Joseph A. Quinn*, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
    Alberto Verjovsky Sola, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
    (1135-57-148)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Spectral correspondences for Maass waveforms on quaternion groups.
    Terrence Richard Blackman*, Medgar Evers College, CUNY
    (1135-11-336)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Recent Trends in Analysis of Numerical Methods of Partial Differential Equations, I
  Room 30C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Sara Pollock, Wright State University
  Leo Rebholz, Clemson University rebholz@clemson.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Efficient nonlinear iteration schemes based on algebraic splitting for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations.
    Leo G. Rebholz, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Clemson University
    Alex Viguerie, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Emory University
    Mengying Xiao*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Clemson University
    (1135-65-495)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    An Introduction to Trimmed Serendipity Finite Element Spaces.
    Andrew Gillette*, University of Arizona
    Tyler Kloefkorn, AAAS STP Fellow, hosted by NSF
    (1135-65-1000)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    High Accuracy Partitioned Method for Fluid-Fluid Interaction.
    M. Aggul, Michigan Technological University
    J. Connors, University of Connecticut
    D. Erkmen, Michigan Technological University
    A. Labovsky*, Michigan Technological University
    (1135-65-1083)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    A posteriori error analysis on polytopal meshes and simple methods for the problems with non-divergence forms.
    Xiu Ye*, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
    Lin Mu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    (1135-65-710)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Convergent finite difference methods with second order local truncation error for Hamilton-Jacobi equations.
    Thomas L Lewis*, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    (1135-65-1307)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Finite Element Approximations of Singular Solutions in $W^1_p$.
    Hengguang Li*, Wayne State University
    (1135-65-1291)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research in Mathematics by Undergraduates and Students in Post-Baccalaureate Programs, II
  Room 29D, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Tamas Forgacs, CSU Fresno
  Darren A. Narayan, Rochester Institute of Technology dansma@rit.edu
  Mark David Ward, Purdue University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Intersection Graphs of Maximal Convex Sub-Polygons of $k$-Lizards.
    Caroline Daugherty, Kenyon College
    Josh Laison, Willamette University
    Rebecca Robinson, University of Michigan at Flint
    Kyle Salois*, Willamette University
    (1135-05-2806)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Classifications of Edge-Transitive and Edge-Betweenness-Uniform Graphs.
    Hector Miranda*, Rochester Institute of Technology
    Heather Newman, Princeton University
    (1135-05-118)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Weak dynamic coloring of graphs.
    Caroline Accurso*, DeSales University
    Leaha Hand, Boise State University
    (1135-05-121)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    $L(h,k)$ labeling of graphs.
    Connor Mattes*, Colorado School of Mines
    Marika Witt, Whitworth University
    (1135-05-120)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Controlling period-2 electrical activity in a cardiac cell model.
    Daniel Olszewski*, Carroll College
    Mariya Savinov, University of Pittsburgh
    (1135-37-119)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Observability Analysis and Estimator Design for a Cardiac Cell Model.
    Anthony Guzman*, Boston University
    Ryan Vogt, University of Minnesota
    (1135-35-204)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS-ASL Special Session on Set Theory, Logic and Ramsey Theory, III
  Room 7B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Andrés Caicedo, Mathematical Reviews
  José Mijares, University of Colorado, Denver jose.mijarespalacios@ucdenver.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Canonical models for fragments of the Axiom of Choice.
    Paul B. Larson*, Miami University
    Jindrich Zapletal, University of Florida
    (1135-03-1699)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    (\mathbf{I}_0) Implies (\mathbf{PD}).
    Johann D. Gaebler*, Oxford University
    W. Hugh Woodin, Harvard University, Department of Mathematics, Department of Philosophy
    (1135-03-1231)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Unfriendly colorings: a descriptive set-theoretic view.
    Clinton T Conley*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1135-03-2416)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Models of the Axiom of Determinacy and Their Generic Extensions.
    Nam Trang*, University of California, Irvine
    (1135-03-851)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Some Ramsey theorems on metric spaces.
    Peter Komjath*, Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary
    (1135-03-2686)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Squares, ascent paths, and chain conditions.
    Chris Lambie-Hanson*, Bar-Ilan University
    Philipp Lücke, University of Bonn
    (1135-03-1194)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Spectral Theory, Disorder and Quantum Physics, I
  Room 33C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Rajinder Mavi, Michigan State University mavi@math.msu.edu
  Jeffery Schenker, Michigan State University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Manifestations of localization in the random XXZ quantum spin chain.
    Abel Klein*, University of California, Irvine
    (1135-82-1006)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Entanglement of a class of non-Gaussian states in disordered harmonic oscillator systems.
    Houssam Abdul-Rahman*, University of Arizona
    (1135-81-1689)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Lyapunov exponents for the discrete one-dimensional generalized Anderson model.
    Valmir Bucaj*, Rice University
    (1135-46-508)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Spectral Characteristics of the Unitary Almost-Mathieu Operator.
    Jake Fillman*, Virginia Tech
    Darren C. Ong, Xiamen University, Malaysia
    Zhenghe Zhang, University of California, Riverside
    (1135-81-408)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Eigenvalue statistics for random Schrödinger operators with point interactions on $R^d$.
    Peter D. Hislop*, Mathematics Department, University of Kentucky, Lexington KY
    (1135-81-2449)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Structure and Representations of Hopf Algebras: a Session in Honor of Susan Montgomery, III
  Room 17A, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Siu-Hung Ng, Louisiana State University
  Lance Small, University of California, San Diego
  Henry Tucker, University of California, San Diego htucker@usc.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    New Families of Quasihopf algebras and tensor Categories.
    Geoffrey -- Mason*, UC Santa Cruz
    (1135-20-1377)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    On the classification of super-modular categories by rank.
    Paul Bruillard, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    Cesar Galindo, Universidad de los Andes
    Siu-Hung Ng, Louisiana State University
    Julia Plavnik*, Texas A$&$M University
    Eric Rowell, Texas A$&$M University
    Zhenghan Wang, Microsoft Research Station Q and Department of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1135-18-2839)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Investigating invariants of, and new categories obtained from, $\operatorname{Rep}(D(G))$ via change of braidings.
    Marc Keilberg*, Torrance, California
    (1135-18-2990)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Hochschild Cohomology and the Modular Group.
    Simon Lentner, Universität Hamburg
    Svea Nora Mierach, Memorial University of Newfoundland
    Christoph Schweigert, Universität Hamburg
    Yorck Sommerhäuser*, Memorial University of Newfoundland
    (1135-16-1239)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Discussion
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #9: Part A
  Teaching Undergraduate Mathematics via Primary Source Projects
  Room 28A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Presenters:
  Diana White, University of Colorado Denver
  Janet Barnett, Colorado State University, Pueblo
  Kathy Clark, Florida State University
  Dominic Klyve, Central Washington University
  Jerry Lodder, New Mexico State University
  Danny Otero, Xavier University
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Theory, Practice, and Applications of Graph Clustering, I
  Room 7A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  David Gleich, Purdue University
  Jennifer Webster, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  Stephen J. Young, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory stephen.young@pnnl.gov
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Graph Theory and the Mathematics of Cybersecurity.
    John R. Johnson*, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    Emilie AH Purvine, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    (1135-68-2846)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    The ground truth about metadata and community detection in networks.
    Daniel B Larremore*, University of Colorado, Boulder
    Leto Peel, Université catholique de Louvain
    Aaron Clauset, University of Colorado, Boulder
    (1135-68-2777)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Partitioning with Eigenvector Norms.
    Franklin H. J. Kenter*, United States Naval Academy
    (1135-05-1971)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Spectral clustering is dead! Long live spectral clustering!
    Juhee Cho, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
    Donggyu Kim, Princeton
    Yilin Zhang, UW-Madison
    Song Wang, UW-Madison
    Thu Le, UW-Madison
    Karl Rohe*, UW-Madison
    (1135-62-1940)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Spectral algorithm without trimming or cleaning works for exact reocvery in SBM.
    Emmanuel Abbe, Princeton University/Institute for Advanced Study
    Jianqing Fan, Princeton Univeristy
    Kaizheng Wang, Princeton University
    Yiqiao Zhong*, Princeton University
    (1135-62-2067)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Clustering in sequences of points and graphs.
    Fan Chung*, University of California, San Diego
    (1135-05-1688)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-4:25 p.m.
  MAA Session on 20th Anniversary-The EDGE (Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education) Program: Pure and Applied Talks by Women, II
  Room 14B, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Shanise Walker, Iowa State University shanise1@iastate.edu
  Laurel Ohm, University of Minnesota
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    An SIR Model on Time Scales.
    Raegan Higgins*, Texas Tech University
    Kristen Weasenforth, Texas Tech University
    (1135-I5-2062)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Why So Fast? Investigation of the Superfast Discharge of Nematocysts.
    Wanda Strychalski, Case Western Reserve University
    Laura Miller, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Sarah Bryant*, Shippensburg, PA
    Baasansuren Jadamba, Rochester Institute of Technology
    Eirini Kilikian, University of Delaware
    Xiulan Lai, Mathematical Biosciences Institute
    Leili Shahriyari, Mathematical Biosciences Institute
    Rebecca Segal, Virginia Commonwealth University
    Ning Wei, Duke University
    (1135-I5-2480)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Using Classification Algorithms to Predict Promoter Regions in E. Coli Based on DNA Structural Properties.
    Carmen Wright*, Jackson State University
    Jasleen Kaur, Mississippi Valley State University
    Abigail Newsome, Mississippi Valley State University
    Charles Bland, Mississippi Valley State University
    (1135-I5-2351)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    How do robots find their way home?: Optimizing Bluetooth beacon placement for robot localization and navigation in indoor spaces.
    Karoline P Pershell*, Service Robotics & Technologies
    Jamie Haddock, University of California Davis
    (1135-I5-2927)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Place field diagrams of neural codes.
    Nida Obatake*, Texas A&M University
    Elizabeth Gross, San Jose State University
    Nora Youngs, Colby College
    (1135-I5-569)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A lower bound for a vertex-identifying code in $(p, \beta)$-jumbled graphs.
    Ryan R. Martin, Iowa State University
    Shanise Walker*, Iowa State University
    (1135-I5-570)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    Mixing and pumping by pairs of helices in a viscous fluid.
    Amy Buchmann*, Tulane University
    Lisa J Fauci, Tulane University
    Karin Leiderman, Colorado School of Mines
    Eva Strawbridge, James Madison University
    Longhua Zhao, Case Western Reserve University
    (1135-I5-1326)
  • 4:10 p.m.
    Mathematical Modeling of Cardiovascular Dynamics during Orthostatic Stress.
    Nakeya D Williams*, United States Military Academy at West Point
    (1135-I5-2096)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Algebraic Geometry
  Room 12, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Transversal intersection for absolute irreducibility of hyperplane sections of generalized Fermat varieties and on the conjecture on exceptional APN Functions.
    Moises R Delgado*, University of Puerto Rico, Cayey campus.
    (1135-12-702)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    Hessian Dynamics on the Hesse pencil.
    Malgorzata A Marciniak*, City University of New York, LaGuardia Community College
    Shenglan Yuan, City University of New York, LaGuardia Community College
    (1135-14-3126)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Towards Minimal Models of Elliptic Fourfolds.
    David Wen*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1135-14-834)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    Good reduction of covers of elliptic curves.
    James Phillips*, University of Virginia
    (1135-14-2317)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    The Local Lifting Problem for $D_4$.
    Bradley Weaver*, University of Virginia
    (1135-14-2403)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Birational geometry of moduli spaces of parabolic bundles.
    Han-Bom Moon*, Institute for Advanced Study
    Sang-Bum Yoo, UNIST
    (1135-14-1525)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    GIT Stability of some toric surfaces.
    King Leung Lee*, Rutgers University
    Zhiyuan Li, Shanghai Center for Mathematical Sciences, Fudan University
    Jacob Sturm, Rutgers University
    Xiaowei Wang, Rutgers University
    (1135-14-2791)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Hilbert scheme of smooth curves of genus $g$ in $\mathbb{P}^3$ of degree $g-1$.
    Changho Keem*, Seoul National University
    (1135-14-161)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Picard Group of Genus Zero Stable Quotients to Flag Varieties.
    Perry Robert Strahl*, Encinitas, California
    (1135-14-146)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Positivity in $T$-equivariant $K$-theory of flag varieties associated to Kac-Moody groups II.
    Seth Baldwin*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    Shrawan Kumar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    (1135-19-176)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Bott-Samelson varieties and combinatorics.
    Laura Escobar*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1135-05-1747)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    On the Waring rank of binary forms.
    Neriman Tokcan*, Postdoctoral Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
    (1135-14-2960)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Combinatorics
  Room 13, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    The Prime Number Theorem For Juggling Patterns.
    Erik R. Tou*, University of Washington -- Tacoma
    (1135-11-1471)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    On the Distribution of Maximal Runs in Binary Words.
    James J. Madden*, Louisiana State University
    (1135-05-2825)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    A Path Through the StArrs: Using the Transfer Matrix Method to Compute Generating Functions for Strip Arrangements on Chessboards.
    Arthur L Gershon*, Case Western Reserve University
    (1135-05-2842)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    $\left(a,b\right)$-Sudoku Latin Squares Forbidding Distance One.
    Kristina Marotta*, Cedar Crest College
    James Hammer, Cedar Crest College
    Joshua Harrington, Cedar Crest College
    (1135-05-1095)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Impartial Avoidance and Achievement Games For Generating Finite Groups.
    Bret J. Benesh, College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University
    Dana C. Ernst, Northern Arizona University
    Nandor Sieben*, Northern Arizona University
    (1135-05-473)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Numerical semigroup invariants and eventually quasipolynomial behavior.
    Jeske Glenn, University of Oregon
    Christopher ONeill*, University of California Davis
    Vadim Ponomarenko, San Diego State University
    Benjamin Sepanski, Baylor University
    (1135-05-592)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Characteristic polynomial of hyperplane arrangements via enumerative combinatorics and finite field method.
    Joungmin Song*, Gwangju Institute of Science and Engineering
    (1135-05-2544)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    The polar complex of hyperplane codes.
    Alexander B Kunin*, Pennsylvania State U
    Zvi H Rosen, U California, Berkeley
    Vladimir Itskov, Pennsylvania State U
    (1135-05-3099)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    $\pm$Skolem-Type Difference Sets.
    Heather D Jordon*, Albion College
    Benjamin Abels, Illinois State University
    Nichole Brown, Albion College
    Alexandria Pokorny, Illinois State University
    (1135-05-986)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    All (96, 20, 4) Difference Sets.
    Omar A. AbuGhneim, University of Jordan
    Dylan Peifer*, Cornell University
    Ken W. Smith, Sam Houston State University
    (1135-05-2233)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Vertex Isoperimetry and Independent Set Stability for Tensor Powers of Cliques.
    Joshua D Brakensiek*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1135-05-24)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Disproof of a conjecture of Alon and Spencer.
    Huseyin Acan*, Rutgers University
    Jeff Kahn, Rutgers University
    (1135-05-2955)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-2:35 p.m.
  MAA Session on Humanistic Mathematics, II
  Room 15A, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Gizem Karaali, Pomona College
  Eric Marland, Appalachian State University marlandes@appstate.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Data, Design and Social Justice.
    Jennifer Wilson*, Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts
    (1135-H5-1657)
  • 1:20 p.m.
    Understanding Mathematics using Historical, Cultural, and Sociological Perspectives from Feminist Theory.
    Linda McGuire*, Muhlenberg College
    (1135-H5-83)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    (De)Constructing Mathematical Authority.
    Brian P Katz*, Augustana College (IL)
    (1135-H5-3191)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Fighting Alternative Facts: Teaching Quantitative Reasoning with Social Issues.
    Mark Branson*, Stevenson University
    (1135-H5-787)
  • 2:20 p.m.
    Visualizing the Mathematics of Hate.
    Randall E. Cone*, Salisbury University
    (1135-H5-1076)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
  MAA Session on Innovative Mathematical Outreach in Alternative Settings
  Room 31C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Hector Rosario, Gwinnett County Public Schools, South Gwinnett High School
  Jennifer Switkes, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona jmswitkes@cpp.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    The Alliance of Indigenous Math Circles.
    Tatiana Dezbah Shubin*, San Jose State University
    (1135-A1-3144)
  • 1:20 p.m.
    Kittitas Valley Math Circle: Circling parents, guardians, and other adults to join in their student's Math Circle experience.
    Brandy S. Wiegers*, Central Washington University
    (1135-A1-2889)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Julia Robinson Mathematics Festivals---An Alternative to Competition.
    Mark Saul*, Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival, a program of AIM
    Nancy Blachman, Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival
    (1135-A1-3236)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Initial outcomes and lessons from the International Mathematics Enrichment Project (IMEP).
    Catherine Paolucci*, SUNY New Paltz
    Helena Wessels, Stellenbosch University
    (1135-A1-2154)
  • 2:20 p.m.
    Advanced, underserved students: strategies for program design.
    Daniel Zaharopol*, The Art of Problem Solving Initiative, Inc.
    Ruthi Hortsch, The Art of Problem Solving Initiative, Inc.
    (1135-A1-480)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    St. Mary's GED: Mathematics Underpinning GED Education.
    Caleb C Moxley*, Birmingham-Southern College
    (1135-A1-628)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Teaching Math in Prison: Observations from the Cornell Prison Education Program.
    Robert Scott*, Cornell University
    (1135-A1-2425)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Math Outreach at Graterford State Correctional Institution.
    Katie Haymaker*, Villanova University Department of Mathematics and Statistics
    Beth Malmskog, Colorado College Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
    (1135-A1-2270)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    An Iranian woman studying in a historical black university teaches College Algebra in prison ... .
    Zeinab Bandpey*, Morgan State University
    (1135-A1-3113)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Advising undergraduate research in prison, what worked and what didn't work.
    Branden Stone*, Adelphi University
    (1135-A1-2622)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
  MAA Session on Innovative Teaching Practices in Number Theory, I
  Room 15B, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Patrick Rault, University of Arizona
  Thomas Hagedorn, The College of New Jersey hagedorn@tcnj.edu
  Mark Kozek, Whittier College
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    An extended Euclidean algorithm.
    J J Tattersall*, Providence College
    (1135-O5-796)
  • 1:20 p.m.
    IBL Quadratic Reciprocity.
    Patrick X Rault*, University of Arizona
    (1135-O5-1664)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Heads or tails? Coin-flipping with elementary number theory.
    Jeffrey Hatley*, Union College
    (1135-O5-736)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    #quadraticreciprocity: from $140$-character tweets to polished student-authored textbooks.
    Lola Thompson*, Oberlin College
    (1135-O5-3039)
  • 2:20 p.m.
    Using infographics to visualize number theory.
    Mark Kozek*, Whittier College
    (1135-O5-1835)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Teaching a first year seminar on cryptography using IBL.
    Benjamin Linowitz*, Oberlin College
    (1135-O5-722)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Number Theory Courses at Davidson College and Carnegie Mellon University: A Comparison.
    Katherine Thompson*, DePaul University/Carnegie Mellon University
    (1135-O5-1446)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Introducing Number Theory in High Schools using Inquiry.
    Frank Sanacory*, College at Old Westbury
    (1135-O5-933)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Divisibility Rules and Proofs: K-12 and Beyond.
    Brian S Chen*, Pasadena, CA
    (1135-O5-606)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-2:55 p.m.
  MAA Session on Innovative and Effective Ways to Teach Linear Algebra, II
  Room 14A, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Sepideh Stewart, University of Oklahoma
  Gil Strang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  David Strong, Pepperdine University David.Strong@pepperdine.edu
  Megan Wawro, Virginia Tech
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Powers of Matrices and Exponential Matrices.
    Chon In Luk, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
    Jeffrey Yeh*, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
    Lyheng Phey, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
    Luis Cervantes, California State University, Long Beach
    John Kath, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
    Tanner Thomas, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
    (1135-C1-2898)
  • 1:20 p.m.
    Exploring Subspaces and Bases through Magic Squares.
    Michelle L Ghrist*, Gonzaga University
    (1135-C1-2838)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Solving a system of linear equations using ancient Chinese methods.
    Mary Flagg*, University of St. Thomas
    (1135-C1-2312)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    From Linear Algebra to Cech Cohomology in one Undergraduate Semester.
    Cheyne J Miller*, St. Joseph's College New York
    (1135-C1-557)
  • 2:20 p.m.
    A thematic linear algebra course focused on four problems of the form $T(x) = b$.
    David M McClendon*, Ferris State University
    (1135-C1-1020)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Di-Eigenals.
    Jennifer R. Galovich*, College of St. Benedict/St. John's University
    (1135-C1-306)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Geometry
  Room 28E, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Tim Comar, Benedictine University tcomar@ben.edu
  James Reid, University of Mississippi
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Tailoring geodesics in geometries with smooth metrics, and in geometries with staircase metrics.
    J Mealy*, Austin College
    Congling Zhang, Austin College
    (1135-VO-815)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    Static Potentials and Area Minimizing Hypersurfaces.
    L.-H. Huang, University of Connecticut
    D. Martin*, University of Connecticut
    P Miao, University of Miami
    (1135-VO-1345)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Curves, graphs, and tangent lines.
    Yoav Len*, University of Waterloo
    (1135-VO-1683)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    Tropical hyperelliptic curves in the plane.
    Ralph Morrison*, Williams College
    (1135-VO-1745)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Hyperelliptic classes are rigid and extremal in genus two.
    Vance T. Blankers*, Colorado State University
    (1135-VO-2047)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Unitals in Figueroa planes.
    Oscar Vega*, California State University, Fresno
    (1135-VO-2094)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    A Property of Area and Perimeter.
    John Shier, Apple Valley, Minnesota
    Douglas Dunham*, University of Minnesota Duluth
    (1135-VO-2198)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Explicit constructions of integrable systems of semitoric type.
    Sonja Hohloch, University of Antwerp
    Yohann Le Floch, University of Strasbourg
    Joseph Palmer*, Rutgers University
    (1135-VO-2633)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Your friendly neighborhood Voderberg Tile.
    Casey Mann, University of Washington Bothell
    Jadie Adams, Westminster College
    Gabriel Lopez*, California State University San Bernadino
    Nhi Tran, University of Washington Bothell
    (1135-VO-2637)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Exploring Exceptional Points For Fuchsian groups.
    Andrew Lazowski*, Sacred Heart University
    (1135-VO-2646)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Maximal tilings with the minimal tile condition.
    Iwan Praton*, Franklin & Marshall College
    (1135-VO-2661)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: The Perimeter Bisecting Deltoid of a Triangle.
    Allan Berele, DePaul University, Chicago
    Stefan Catoiu*, DePaul University, Chicago
    (1135-VO-3077)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Modeling and Applications, II
  Room 28D, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Tim Comar, Benedictine University tcomar@ben.edu
  James Reid, University of Mississippi
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Modeling Adsorption Based Filters: 1 Dimensional Filter Equation (Bio-remediation of Heavy Metal Contaminated Water).
    Chris McCarthy*, Borough of Manhattan Community College (CIty University of New York)
    (1135-VF-1546)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    Dispersal and the spread of language with frequency-dependent fitness.
    Jacquelyn L Rische*, Marymount University
    (1135-VF-1676)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Exploring Differential Regulation of Blood Clot Degradation.
    Brittany Bannish*, University of Central Oklahoma
    (1135-VF-1684)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    Heave and Flow: Understanding the role of resonance and shape evolution for heaving flexible panels.
    Alexander P Hoover*, Tulane University
    Ricardo Cortez, Tulane University
    Eric Tytell, Tufts University
    Lisa Fauci, Tulane University
    (1135-VF-1720)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Modeling the Behavior of Problem Drinkers in a Clinical Trial.
    Judith E Canner*, California State University, Monterey Bay
    H T Banks, North Carolina State University
    Kidist Bekele-Maxwell, North Carolina State University
    Rebecca Everett, North Carolina State University
    Jennifer Menda, North Carolina State University
    Lyric Stephenson, North Carolina State University
    Jon Morgenstern, The North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System
    Sijing Shao, The North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System
    Alexis Kuerbis, The North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System
    (1135-VF-1833)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Optimal Control Theory and Parameter Estimation of Parameters in a Differential Equation Model for Patients with Lupus.
    Peter Agaba*, Western Kentucky University
    (1135-VF-2217)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Urban snow removal - just in time the mathematical model and algorithm.
    Zeinab Bandpey, Morgan State University
    Isabelle Kemajou-Brown, Morgan State University
    Xiao-Xiong Gan, Morgan State University
    Ahlam Tannouri*, Morgan State University
    (1135-VF-2524)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    How High Impact Undergraduate Health Research Initiatives Can Be Discovered and Implemented in The Statistics Classroom.
    Benjamin D Knisley*, California Baptist University
    Dr. Linn Carothers, California Baptist University
    (1135-VF-2612)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Investigating the Mechanism of Oscillatory Frequency Changes due to NMDA in the CA3 Neural Network of the Hippocampus.
    Syed Abid Rizvi*, The College of William & Mary
    (1135-VF-2782)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    A Multi-Scale Model of Tumor Growth in Response to an Anti-Nodal Antibody Therapy Combined with a Chemotherapy.
    Qing Wang*, Dept. of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Engineering, Shepherd University
    Zhijun Wang, Dept. of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Engineering, Shepherd University
    David J Klinke, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, West Virginia University
    (1135-VF-3037)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Analysis of micro-fluidic tweezers in the Stokes regime.
    Yang Ding, Beijing Computational Science Research Center, Beijing, China
    Li Zhang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin NT, Hong Kong SAR,
    Longhua Zhao*, Case Western Reserve University
    (1135-VF-3209)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:15 p.m.
  MAA Session on Math Circle Topics with Visual or Kinesthetic Components, II
  Room 31B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Amanda Katharine Serenevy, Riverbend Community Math Center amanda@riverbendmath.org
  Martin Strauss, University of Michigan
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Islamic Geometric Pattern: Point-Construction Method.
    Rebin A. Muhammad*, Ohio University
    (1135-Q5-2935)
  • 1:20 p.m.
    Spatial Reasoning at the Central Oklahoma Math Circle.
    Erica Bajo Calderon*, University of Central Oklahoma
    Liz Lane-Harvard, University of Central Oklahoma
    Carol Lucas, University of Central Oklahoma
    (1135-Q5-2470)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Teaching Group Theory Through Twisty Puzzles.
    Jameson C Hardy*, Dixie State University
    (1135-Q5-2305)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Barbie Bungee: Multivariable Edition.
    Thomas J Clark*, Dordt College
    (1135-Q5-1563)
  • 2:20 p.m.
    Groups, Symmetries and $\text{?`}$Dancing?
    Javier Alfredo Ronquillo Rivera*, Ohio University
    (1135-Q5-561)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    A simple construction problem.
    Russell A Gordon*, Whitman College
    (1135-Q5-424)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Counting and symmetry in conceptual art.
    Joshua P. Bowman*, Pepperdine University
    (1135-Q5-357)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-2:55 p.m.
  MAA Session on Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching Grades 6-12 Mathematics, II
  Room 32A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  David C. Carothers, James Madison University
  Bonnie Gold, Monmouth University bgold@monmouth.edu
  Yvonne Lai, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Teachers' Structural Reasoning with Algebraic Expressions and Equations.
    Stacy Musgrave*, Cal Poly Pomona
    (1135-G1-2887)
  • 1:20 p.m.
    Argumentation as a Habit of Mind in the Preparation and Professional Development of Teachers.
    Steven R LeMay*, Fairfield University
    Fabiana Cardetti, University of Connecticut
    (1135-G1-2263)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Examining the Development of the Concept of Slope in one CCSSM-aligned Secondary Mathematics Text with a Focus on Enhancing Access for Linguistically Diverse Students.
    Carren Senn Walker*, San Diego State University
    William Zahner, San Diego State University
    Lynda Wynn, San Diego State University
    (1135-G1-2864)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Making sense of students' thinking about graphing, covariation, and linearity.
    Cody L Patterson*, The University of Texas at San Antonio
    Rebecca McGraw, The University of Arizona
    (1135-G1-2484)
  • 2:20 p.m.
    Developing prospective secondary mathematics teachers' knowledge of exponential functions through engaging in multiplicative reasoning and the work of teaching.
    Melissa L Troudt*, University of Northern Colorado
    Jodie Novak, University of Northern Colorado
    (1135-G1-2134)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Implications of Expert Teachers' MKT of Analyzing Exponential Functions Tasks on the Preparation of Future Secondary Mathematics Teachers.
    Robert A Powers*, University of Northern Colorado
    (1135-G1-1464)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
  MAA Session on Mathematics and Sports, III
  Room 5B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  John David, Virginia Military Institute
  Drew Pasteur, College of Wooster rpasteur@wooster.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    The Value of Placement: Athletes' Contributions to Figure Skating Teams.
    Diana S Cheng*, Towson University
    Peter Coughlin, University of Maryland College Park
    (1135-B1-90)
  • 1:20 p.m.
    Defining SPORTHEMATICS: Characterizing Task-Design for Sports and Mathematics Education.
    Tetyana Berezovski*, Saint Joseph's University
    (1135-B1-125)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Mathematical interpretations of figure skaters' blade tracings.
    Rachael Talbert*, Towson University
    Diana Cheng, Towson University
    Tetyana Berezovski, St. Joseph's University
    (1135-B1-1139)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Exploring how students learn in youth archery.
    Tyler Skorczewski*, University of Wisconsin Stout
    (1135-B1-2516)
  • 2:20 p.m.
    Measuring Umpire Consistency.
    David J Hunter*, Westmont College
    (1135-B1-1667)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Statistical Evidence of Referee Bias in the NBA and NFL.
    Andrew B Perry*, Springfield College (MA)
    (1135-B1-562)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Bits and Bytes in March Madness.
    Sheldon H Jacobson*, University of Illinois
    Douglas M King, University of Illinois
    Arash Khtaibi, University of Illinois
    (1135-B1-1034)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Homers and Roadies in March Madness.
    Roland Minton*, Roanoke College
    (1135-B1-1856)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Serving up a Winner: Modeling Tennis Match Win Probability.
    Adam Childers*, Roanoke College
    (1135-B1-771)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
  MAA Session on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education (RUME), II
  Room 4, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Stacy Brown, California State Polytechnic University
  Megan Wawro, Virginia Tech mwawro@vt.edu
  Aaron Weinberg, Ithaca College
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Exploring the inequitable experiences of students in Calculus II.
    Jessica Ellis Hagman*, Colorado State University
    Matt Voigt, San Diego State University, University of California San Diego
    Nancy Kress, University of Colorado, Boulder
    Jessica Gehrtz, Colorado State University
    (1135-J5-1510)
  • 1:20 p.m.
    Effects of the Operation STEM Program on Underrepresented Minority Students.
    Jenna R Van Sickle*, Cleveland State University
    (1135-J5-2641)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Active-learning in pre-calculus and calculus: impact and performance outcomes for 2-year HSI students and 4-years HSI transfers.
    Guadalupe Lozano, The University of Arizona
    Jose Maria Menendez*, Pima Community College
    (1135-J5-2499)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    The Role of Context in How Students Majoring in the Biological and Life Sciences Solve Calculus Tasks Involving the Definite Integral.
    William L Hall*, Washington State University
    (1135-J5-2071)
  • 2:20 p.m.
    Knowing functions before learning limits: undergraduate students' unique perceptions of limits and compromised foundational knowledge of functions.
    Margaret Adams*, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
    (1135-J5-2158)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Measuring Self-Regulated Learning: A Tool for Understanding Disengagement in Calculus I.
    Benjamin David Sencindiver*, Colorado State University
    Mary E. Pilgrim, Colorado State University
    James E. Folkestad, Colorado State University
    (1135-J5-345)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Students' Emerging Ideas of the Symmetries of Molecular Structures.
    Anna Marie Bergman*, Portland State University
    (1135-J5-1265)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Introductory calculus students' approaches to conceptual problems and what it reveals about their understandings of core calculus concepts.
    Caroline J. Merighi*, Tufts University
    (1135-J5-1669)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Ways secondary mathematics teachers transfer and apply definitions from Euclidean to Taxicab context: An example of a real-life situation.
    Aubrey Kemp*, Georgia State University
    Draga Vidakovic, Georgia State University
    (1135-J5-1185)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Motivating Function Spaces via Uniform Convergence.
    Zackery K. Reed*, Oregon State University
    (1135-J5-2698)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Statistical Analysis and Risk Management
  Room 19, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    A Bayesian Estimation for the Fractional Order of the Differential Equation that Models Transport in Unconventional Hydrocarbon Reservoirs.
    Joshua M Whitlinger*, Virginia Commonwealth University
    Edward L Boone, Virginia Commonwealth University
    Ryad Ghanam, Virginia Commonwealth University- Qatar
    (1135-62-2628)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    Global sensitivity analysis for statistical model parameters.
    Joey L Hart*, North Carolina State University
    Julie Bessac, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
    Emil Constantinescu, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL and The University of Chicago
    (1135-62-339)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Generalizations Using the Composition of Beta Distribution and Truncated Poisson Distribution.
    Gokarna R. Aryal, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Sciences, Purdue University Northwest
    Sher B. Chhetri*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Florida Atlantic University
    Hongwei Long, Florida Atlatntic University
    Alfred A. Akinsete, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Marshall University
    (1135-62-3034)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    The log-logistic exponential-Poisson distribution.
    Mavis Pararai*, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
    Gayan Warahena-Liyanage, Central Michigan University
    (1135-62-2970)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Generalized signed-rank estimation for regression models with non-ignorable missing responses.
    Brice Merlin Nguelifack*, United States Naval Academy
    (1135-62-364)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Multinomial logit regression models help describe novel spatiotemporal dimensions in environmental policy enrollment patterns.
    Mauricio M Nunez-Regueiro*, BBCS - University of Arizona
    Josh Hiller, Adelphi University
    (1135-62-3160)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Regression Models with a Universal Penalized Function.
    Mingwei Sun*, The University of Alabama
    Patrick Wang, The University of Alabama
    (1135-62-2241)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    A cross-validated tuning parameter estimator for decision trees.
    Andre K Waschka*, University of California, Berkeley
    (1135-62-2460)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Analysis of some variance based instruments for Ornstein-Uhlenbeck type models.
    Aziz Issaka*, North Dakota State University
    Indranil SenGupta, North Dakota State University
    (1135-60-281)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Optimal stopping problems in computational finance and risk management.
    Tim Leung*, University of Washington
    (1135-60-1)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Recovery of ruin probability and Value at Risk from the scaled Laplace transform inversion.
    Adetokunbo I Fadahunsi*, West Virginia University
    (1135-60-2569)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Mahalanobis Based k-Nearest Neighbor with Change Point Detection for Foreign Exchange Data.
    Vindya Kumari Pathirana*, Department of Mathematics, University of Connecticut
    (1135-62-2557)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
  MAA Session on Using Mathematics to Study Problems from the Social Sciences, II
  Room 32B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Jason Douma, University of Sioux Falls jason.douma@usiouxfalls.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    An Unsupervised Machine Learning Approach for Detecting the Language of Prejudice Including Micro-aggressions on Social Media.
    Alex John Quijano*, University of California Merced
    (1135-J1-3128)
  • 1:20 p.m.
    Understanding Legal Terminology through Symbolic Logic.
    Christopher S Shaw*, Columbia College Chicago
    (1135-J1-2019)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Gatekeeping and the Professional Network of Therapist Supervisors.
    Jonathan C. Davis, Samford University
    Jeffrey S. Powell*, Samford University
    (1135-J1-2483)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Identifying Communities of Specialized Knowledge in a Tech Economy.
    Sirui Wang*, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
    (1135-J1-68)
  • 2:20 p.m.
    On the Shoulders of Giants: When is it better to work in sequence versus in parallel?
    John C Lang*, University of California Los Angeles
    PJ Lamberson, University of California Los Angeles
    (1135-J1-89)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Strategies for "Buy-It-Now or Make Offer" Auctions on eBay.
    William J. Britt, Muhlenberg College
    William E. Gryc*, Muhlenberg College
    Jamie A. Oliva, Muhlenberg College
    Brittney N. Tuff, Muhlenberg College
    Charli E. White, Muhlenberg College
    (1135-J1-199)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The tipping point: a mathematical model for the profit-driven abandonment of restaurant tipping.
    Sara M Clifton*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Eileen Herbers, Northwestern University
    Jack Chen, Northwestern University
    Daniel M Abrams, Northwestern University
    (1135-J1-594)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Topologies on Cognitive Substructures.
    Abdur-Rahman Munajj*, The City College of New York (The City University of New York) , New York
    Shaquille Winston, Hunter College (The City University of New York), New York
    Brett Sims, Borough of Manhattan Community College (The City University of New York), New York
    (1135-J1-2418)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Induced Mental-Endomorphisms.
    Abdur-Waajid Munajj*, New York City College of Technology (The City University of New York), New York
    Brett Sims, Borough of Manhattan Community College (The City University of New York), New York
    (1135-J1-2424)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
  SIAM Minisymposium on Tensors! Mathematical Challenges and Opportunities
  Room 11A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  David Gleich, Purdue University dgleich@purdue.edu
  Tamara G Kolda, Sandia National Laboratories tgkolda@sandia.gov
  Luke Oeding, Auburn University oeding@auburn.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Dynamical systems for tensor eigenvectors.
    David F Gleich*, Purdue University
    Austin Benson, Cornell University
    (1135-65-1278)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Tensor Eigenvalue Complementarity Problems.
    Jinyan Fan, Shanghai Jiaotong University
    Jiawang Nie*, University of California, San Diego
    Anwa Zhou, Shanghai University
    (1135-65-257)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Singular Values for Tensors.
    Harm Derksen*, University of Michigan
    (1135-15-1430)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Duality of graphical models and tensor networks.
    Elina Robeva, MIT
    Anna Seigal*, UC Berkeley
    (1135-15-1354)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Secant varieties and tensor ranks.
    Yang Qi*, University of Chicago
    Lek-Heng Lim, University of Chicago
    (1135-15-294)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Decomposing Tensors into Frames.
    Luke Oeding*, Auburn University
    Elina Robeva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Bernd Sturmfels, University of California, Berkeley and Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences Leipzig, Germany
    (1135-14-254)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  MAA Panel
  Effectively Chairing a Mathematical Sciences Department
  Room 2, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Kevin Charlwood, Washburn University kevin.charlwood@washburn.edu
  Robert Buck, Slippery Rock University
  Joanna Ellis-Monaghan, Saint Michael's College
  Panelists:
  Curtis Bennett, Loyola Marymount University
  Karrolyne Fogel, California Lutheran University
  Matthew Koetz, Nazareth College
  Sergio Loch, Grand View University
  Joe Yanik, Emporia State University
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  MAA Panel
  Out in Mathematics: Professional Issues Facing LGBTQ Mathematicians
  Room 1A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  David Crombecque, University of Southern California crombecq@usc.edu
  Christopher Goff, University of the Pacific
  Moderators:
  Lily Khadjavi, Loyola Marymount University
  Panelists:
  Shelly Bouchat, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
  Juliette Bruce, University of Wisconsin Madison
  Ron Buckmire, National Science Foundation
  Frank Farris, Santa Clara University
  Emily Riehl, Johns Hopkins University
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
  AMS Committee on Education Panel Discussion
  Preparing mathematics students for non-academic careers
  Room 11B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Erica Flapan, Pomona College
  Manmohan Kaur, Benedictine University
  Douglas Mupasiri, University of Northern Iowa
  Diana White, University of Colorado-Denver
  Moderators:
  Erica Flapan, Pomona College
  Panelists:
  Andrew J. Bernoff, Harvey Mudd College
  Johanna Hennig, Center for Communications Research, division of the Institute for Defense Analysis
  NEW: Jasmine Ng, ALEKS
  WITHDRAWN: Srikrishna Rupanagunta, Mu Sigma
  Lee Zia, Division of Undergraduate Education, National Science Foundation
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  MAA Workshop
  Using Problem Solving and Discussions in Mathematics Courses for Prospective Elementary Teachers
  Room 5A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Presenters:
  Ziv Feldman, Boston University zfeld@bu.edu
  Ryota Matsuura, St. Olaf College
  Suzanne Chapin, Boston University
  Lynsey Gibbons, Boston University
  Laura Kyser Callis, Boston University
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
  Summer Program for Women in Mathematics (SPWM) Reunion
  Del Mar Room, 3rd Floor, South Tower, Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 1:50 p.m.-3:05 p.m.
  Project NExT Panel
  Incorporating Coding Into All Levels of the College Math Curriculum
  Room 6F, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Sara Clifton, University of Illinois
  Michael Kelly, Transylvania University
  Alicia Marino, University of Hartford
  Paul Savala, Whittier College
  Panelists:
  Will Cipolli, Colgate University
  Suzanne Lenhart, University of Tennesee
  Eric Sullivan, Carroll College
  Jade White, High Tech High
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
  MAA Poster Session: Projects Supported by the NSF Division of Undergraduate Education
  Exhibit Hall B2, Ground Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Jon Scott, Montgomery College jon.scott@montgomerycollege.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Modeling Across the Curriculum.
    Peter Turner*, Clarkson University
    James Crowley, SIAM
    Ben Galluzzo, Shippensburg University
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Project SMILES: Student-Made Interactive Learning with Educational Songs for Introductory Statistics.
    John J. Weber III*, Perimeter College at Georgia State University
    Lawrence M. Lesser, University of Texas at El Paso
    Dennis K. Pearl, Pennsylvania State University
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Promoting Reasoning in Undergraduate Mathematics (PRIUM).
    William Martin*, North Dakota State University
    Josef Dorfmeister, North Dakota State University
    Benton Duncan, North Dakota State University
    Friedrich Littman, North Dakota State University
    Draga Vidakovic, Georgia State University
    Guantao Chen, Georgia State University
    Valerie Miller, Georgia State University
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Undergraduate Curriculum Guide for the Mathematical Sciences.
    Martha Siegel*, Towson University
    Carol Schumacher, Kenyon College
    Doug Ensley, Mathematical Association of America
    J. Michael Pearson, Mathematical Association of America
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Heartland: The Carver Bridge to STEM Success Program.
    Heidi Berger*, Simpson College
    Mark Brodie, Simpson College
    Derek Lyons, Simpson College
    Clint Meyer, Simpson College
  • 2:00 p.m.
    A Learning Progression for Partial Derivatives.
    Corinne A. Manogue, Oregon State University
    Tevian Dray*, Oregon State University
    Paul Emigh, Oregon State University
    Elizabeth Gire, Oregon State University
    David Roundy, Oregon State University
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Science and Mathematics Attraction, Retention, and Training for Texas (SMART Texas).
    Keith Hubbard*, Stephen F. Austin State University
    Nola Schmidt, Stephen F. Austin State University
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Talented Teachers in Training for Texas Phase II.
    Lesa Beverly*, Stephen F. Austin State University
    Keith Hubbard, Stephen F. Austin State University
    Dennis Gravatt, Stephen F. Austin State University
    Chrissy Cross, Stephen F. Austin State University
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Progress through Calculus.
    David Bressoud*, Macalester College
    Jess Ellis, Colorado State University
    Sean Larsen, Portland State University
    Chris Rasmussen, San Diego State University
    Doug Ensley, Mathematical Association of America
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Native American-based Mathematics Materials for Integration into Undergraduate Courses.
    Charles Funkhouser*, California State University Fullerton
    Harriet C. Edwards, California State University Fullerton
    Miles Pfahl, Turtle Mountain Community College
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Improving the Preparation of Graduate Students to Teach Undergraduate Mathematics.
    Jack Bookman*, Duke University
    Natasha Speer, University of Maine
  • 2:00 p.m.
    SUMMIT-P at SLU: Math for Business Students in the Spirit of CRAFTY.
    Mike May*, Saint Louis University
    Debra Pike, Saint Louis University
    Michael Alderson, Saint Louis University
    Anneke Bart, Saint Louis University
  • 2:00 p.m.
    CAREER: Developing Undergraduate Combinatorial Curriculum In Computational Settings.
    Elise Lockwood*, Oregon State University
  • 2:00 p.m.
    The SDSU Noyce Mathematics and Science Master Teaching Fellowship Program.
    Lisa Lamb, San Diego State University
    Susan Nickerson, San Diego State University
    Randolph Philipp, San Diego State University
    Donna L. Ross, San Diego State University
    Meredith H. Vaughn, San Diego State University
    Kathy Williams, San Diego State University
    Raymond LaRochelle*, San Diego State University
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Open Resources for the Mathematics Curriculum.
    Jim Fowler*, Ohio State University
    Petra Bonfert-Taylor, Dartmouth
    David Farmer, American Institute of Mathematics
    Sarah Eichhorn, University of Texas at Austin
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Passion-Driven Statistics: A multidisciplinary project-based supportive model for statistical reasoning and application.
    Lisa Dierker*, Wesleyan University
    David Beveridge, Wesleyan University
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Algebra Instruction at Community Colleges (AICC).
    Laura Watkins*, Glendale Community College
    April Strom, Scottsdale Community College
    Vilma Mesa, University of Michigan
    Irene Duranczyk, , University of Minnesota
    Nidhi Kohli, University of Minnesota
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Transitioning Learners to Calculus I in Community Colleges (TLC3).
    Vilma Mesa*, University of Michigan
    Helen Burn, Highline College
    Luke Wood, San Diego State University
    Eboni Zamani-Gallaher, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Ambitious Math and Science Teaching Fellows.
    Thomas Dick*, Oregon State University
    Rebekah Elliott, Oregon State University
    SueAnn Bottoms, Oregon State University
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Enhancing Explorations in Functions for Preservice Secondary Mathematics Teachers.
    Theresa Jorgensen*, The University of Texas at Arlington
    James A. Alvarez, The University of Texas at Arlington
    Kathryn Rhoads, The University of Texas at Arlington
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Transforming Instruction in Undergraduate Mathematics via Primary Historical Sources (TRIUMPHS).
    Jerry Lodder*, New Mexico State University
    Kathleen Clark, Florida State University
    Janet Barnett, Colorado State University-Pueblo
    Dominic Klyve, Central Washington University
    Nicholas Scoville, Ursinus College
    Daniel Otero, Xavier University
    Diana White, University of Colorado at Denver-Downtown
  • 2:00 p.m.
    URI Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program.
    Anne Seitsinger*, University of Rhode Island
    David Byrd, University of Rhode Island
    Bryan Dewsbury, University of Rhode Island
    Kees de Groot, University of Rhode Island
    Jay Fogelman, University of Rhode Island
    Joan Peckham, University of Rhode Island
    Kathy Peno, University of Rhode Island
  • 2:00 p.m.
    STEM Teaching Scholars for High Need Chicago-Area Schools.
    Melanie Pivarski*, Roosevelt University
    Byoung Sug Kim, Roosevelt University
    Vicky McKinley, Roosevelt University
    Chandra James, Chicago Public Schools
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Scholarships for STEM at the University of Hawaii at Hilo (S-STEM).
    Reni Ivanova*, University of Hawaii at Hilo
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Raising Calculus to the Surface.
    Aaron Wangberg*, Winona State University
    Jason Samuels, City University of New York -- BMCC
    Brian Fisher, Lubbock Christian University
    Elizabeth Gire, Oregon State University
    Tisha Hooks, Winona State University
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Collaborative Research: Raising Physics to the Surface.
    Aaron Wangberg*, Winona State University
    Robyn Wangberg, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota
    Elizabeth Gire, Oregon State University
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Noyce Mathematics Fellows, TeachDETROIT.
    Jennifer Lewis*, Wayne State University
    Saliha Ozgun-Koca, Wayne State University
    Robert Bruner, Wayne State University
  • 2:00 p.m.
    POSTER WITHDRAWN: Hofstra Noyce Scholars Program Phase II: Expanding the Model.
    Behailu Mammo*, Hofstra University
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Framing Lee Academics for Mathematics, Education and Social Sciences Success (part of the SUMMIT-P collaboration).
    Caroline Maher-Boulis*, Lee University
    Jason Robinson, Lee University
    Bryan Poole, Lee University
    John Hearn, Lee University
  • 2:00 p.m.
    NSF Scholarship Program in Science and Mathematics at Kennesaw State University.
    Ana-Maria Croicu*, Kennesaw State University
    (1135-00-1214)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Discovering the Art of Mathematics: Inquiry Based Learning in Mathematics for Liberal Arts.
    Philip Hotchkiss*, Westfield State University
    Christine Von Renesse, Westfield State University
    Julian Fleron, Westfield State University
    Volker Ecke, Westfield State University
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Collaborative Research: A National Consortium for Synergistic Undergraduate Mathematics via Multi-institutional Interdisciplinary Teaching Partnerships (SUMMIT-P).
    Susan Ganter*, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
    Jack Bookman, Duke University
    Suzanne Dorée, Augsburg University
    William Haver, Virginia Commonwealth University
    Rosalyn Hobson Hargraves, Virginia Commonwealth University
    Stella Hofrenning, Augsburg University
    Victor Piercey, Ferris State University
    Erica Slate, Appalachian State University
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Renovating Calculus (a SUMMIT-P collaboration).
    Suzanne Dorée*, Augsburg University
    Pavel Belik, Augsburg University
    Stella Hofrenning, Augsburg University
    Joan Kunz, Augsburg University
    Jody Sorensen, Augsburg University
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Quantitative Reasoning for Professionals (a SUMMIT-P collaboration).
    Victor Piercey*, Ferris State University
    Rhonda Bishop, Ferris State University
    Mischelle Stone, Ferris State University
  • 2:00 p.m.
    PRODUCT 1: Professional Development and Uptake through Collaborative Teams.
    Angie Hodge*, Northern Arizona University
    Sandra Laursen, University of Colorado Boulder
    Yousuf George, Nazareth College
    Volker Ecke, Westfield State University
    Philip Hotchkiss, Westfield State University
    Partick Rault, University of Arizona
  • 2:00 p.m.
    PRODUCT 2: Professional Development and Uptake through Collaborative Teams.
    Stan Yoshinobu*, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
    Christine von Renesse, Westfield State University
    Chuck Hayward, University of Colorado Boulder
    Ryan Gantner, St. John Fisher College
    Brian Katz, Augustana College
    Xiao Xiao, Utica College
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Assessing the Impact of the Emporium Model on Student Persistence and Dispositional Learning by Transforming Faculty Culture.
    Kathy Cousins-Cooper*, North Carolina A&T State University
    Dominic P. Clemence, North Carolina A&T State University
    Nicholas S. Luke, North Carolina A&T State University
    Katrina N. Staley, North Carolina A&T State University
  • 2:00 p.m.
    POSTER WITHDRAWN: When is seeing believing? Challenges in characterizing STEM teaching.
    Sandra Laursen*, University of Colorado Boulder
    Chuck Hayward, University of Colorado Boulder
    Tim Weston, University of Colorado Boulder
    Tim Archie, University of Colorado Boulder
  • 2:00 p.m.
    WeBWorK: Improving Student Success in Mathematics.
    Michael Gage*, University of Rochester
    John Travis, Mississippi College
    Arnold Pizer, University of Rochester
    Vicki Roth, University of Rochester
    Douglas Ensley, Mathematical Association of America
  • 2:00 p.m.
    MODULE($S^2$): Mathematics of Doing, Understanding, Learning and Educating for Secondary Schools.
    Alyson Lischka*, Middle Tennessee State University
    Andrew Ross, Eastern Michigan University
    Yvonne Lai, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Brynja Kohler, Utah State University
    Jason Aubrey, University of Arizona
    Jeremy F. Strayer, Middle Tennessee State University
    Stephanie Casey, Eastern Michigan University
    Cynthia Anhalt, University of Arizona
    Howard Gobstein, Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Collaborative Research: Improving Conceptual Understanding of Multivariable Calculus Through Visualization Using CalcPlot3D.
    Paul Seeburger*, Monroe Community College
    Monica VanDieren, Robert Morris University
    Deborah Moore-Russo, State University of New York at Buffalo
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Transforming Students' Mathematical Experiences: Advancing Quality Teaching with Reliability at Scale.
    Ann Edwards*, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
    Anthony Bryk, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
    Alicia Grunow, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
    James Stigler, UCLA
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Scaling Up through Networked Improvement (SUNI): Testing a practical theory about improving math outcomes for developmental students at scale.
    Ann Edwards*, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
    Christopher Thorn, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
    Karon Klipple, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
    Donald Peurach, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Collaborative Research: Attaining Excellence in Secondary Mathematics Clinical Experiences with a Lens on Equity.
    Marilyn Strutchens*, Auburn University
    Ruthmae Sears, University of South Florida
  • 2:00 p.m.
    UTMOST: Undergraduate Teaching in Mathematics with Open Software and Textbooks.
    Robert Beezer*, University of Puget Sound
    David Farmer, American Institute of Mathematics
    Tom Judson, Stephen F. Austin State University
    Kent Morrison, American Institute of Mathematics
    Vilma Mesa, University of Michigan
    Angeliki Mali, University of Michigan
    Susan Lynds, University of Colorado
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Guide to Evidenced-Based Instructional Practices in Undergraduate Mathematics.
    Martha Abell, Georgia Southern University
    Linda Braddy, Tarrant County College
    Doug Ensley*, Mathematical Association of America
    Lew Ludwig, Denison University
    Hortensia Soto-Johnson, University of Northern Colorado
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Professional Development Emphasizing Data-Centered Resources and Pedagogies for Instructors of Undergraduate Introductory Statistics.
    Mike Brilleslyper, United States Air Force Academy
    Jenna Carpenter, Campbell University
    Doug Ensley*, Mathematical Association of America
    Danny Kaplan, Macalester College
    Kate Kozak, Coconino Community College
  • 2:00 p.m.
    The Mathematical Education of Teachers as an Application of Undergraduate Mathematics.
    James Alvarez, University of Texas at Arlington
    Beth Burroughs, Montana State University
    Doug Ensley*, Mathematical Association of America
    Nancy Neudauer, Pacific University
    James Tanton, Mathematical Association of America
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Supporting and Sustaining Scholarly Mathematical Teaching.
    Larissa Schroeder*, University of Hartford
    David Miller, University of Hartford
    Mako Haruta, University of Hartford
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Transforming Undergraduate Statistics Education at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions through Experiential Learning.
    Tracy Morris*, University of Central Oklahoma
    Cynthia Murray, University of Central Oklahoma
    Tyler Cook, University of Central Oklahoma
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Data Integration in Undergraduate Mathematics Education.
    Paul Wenger*, Rochester Institute of Technology
    Nicole Juersivich, Nazareth College
    Matthew Hoffman, Rochester Institute of Technology
    Carl Lutzer, Rochester Institute of Technology
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Emphasizing Applications in Differential Equations (a SUMMIT-P collaboration).
    Rebecca Segal*, Virginia Commonwealth University
    Afroditi Filippas, Virginia Commonwealth University
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Collaborative Research: Maplets for Calculus.
    Philip B. Yasskin*, Texas A&M University
    Douglas B. Meade, University of South Carolina
    Matthew Barry, Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service
    Andrew Crenwelge, Texas A&M University
    Joseph Martinson, Texas A&M University
    Matthew Weihing, Texas A&M University
  • 2:00 p.m.
    2+1 STEM Scholars Program at Solano Community College.
    Genele G. Rhoads*, Solano Community College
    Audrey Rose de Leon, Solano Community College
    Joshua Orosco, Solano Community College
    Chelsea Breaw, Solano Community College
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Enhancing Academic Achievement and Career Preparation for Scholars in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Engineering.
    Qing Wang*, Shepherd University
    Zhijun Wang, Shepherd University
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Ensuring Early Mathematics Success for STEM Majors.
    Amanda L Hattaway*, Wentworth Institute of Technology
    Emma Smith Zbarsky, Wentworth Institute of Technology
    Joan Giblin, Wentworth Institute of Technology
    Driscoll Fred, Wentworth Institute of Technology
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Serving as a Peer Mentor Promotes Reflective Mathematical Pedagogy.
    RaKissa D Manzanares*, University of Colorado Denver
    Michael Ferrara, University of Colorado Denver
    Michael Jacobson, University of Colorado Denver
    Gary Olson, University of Colorado Denver
    Brandy Bourdeaux, University of Colorado Denver
  • 2:00 p.m.
    ASSESSMENT: Transforming the Silent Killer of Learning to an Active Booster of Learning.
    Frank Wattenberg*, United States Military Academy
    Kristin Arney, United States Military Academy
    John Bacon, United States Military Academy
    Kayla Blyman, United States Military Academy
    Lisa Bromberg, United States Military Academy
    David Delcuadro-Zimmerman, United States Military Academy
    David Harness, United States Military Academy
    Scott Warnke, United States Military Academy
    Sarah Wohlberg, United States Military Academy
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Transforming Linear Algebra Education with GeoGebra Applets.
    James D. Factor*, Alverno College
    Susan Pustejovsky, Alverno College
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Collaborative Research: Investigating Student Learning and Sense-Making from Instructional Calculus Videos.
    Aaron Weinberg*, Ithaca College
    Matt Thomas, Ithaca College
    Michael Tallman, Oklahoma State University
    Jason Martin, University of Central Arkansas
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Students' Understanding of Vectors and Cross Products: Results from a Series of Visualization Tasks Using CalcPlot3D.
    Monica VanDieren*, Robert Morris University
    Deborah Moore-Russo, State University of New York at Buffalo
    Paul Seeburger, Monroe Community College
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Using Bricklayer Coding and Visual Art to Engage Students in Learning Mathematics.
    Betty Love*, University of Nebraska -- Omaha
    Michael Matthews, University of Nebraska -- Omaha
    Victor Winter, University of Nebraska -- Omaha
    Michelle Friend, University of Nebraska -- Omaha
  • 2:00 p.m.
    MPWR-ing Women in RUME: Continuing Support.
    Stacy Musgrave*, Cal Poly Pomona
    Jess Ellis, Colorado State University
    Kathleen Melhuish, Texas State University
    Eva Thanheiser, Portland State University
    Megan Wawro, Virginia Tech
  • 2:00 p.m.
    CSUN NSF Teaching Fellowship Program.
    Kellie Michele Evans*, California State University, Northridge
    Alina Lee, Granada Hills Charter High School
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Designing Learning Activities.
    Ivona Grzegorczyk*, California State University Channel Islands
  • 2:00 p.m.
    College Algebra: Adding Real-World Applications and Interactivity (a SUMMIT-P collaboration).
    Tao Chen*, City University of New York-LaGuardia Community College
    Glenn Henshaw, City University of New York-LaGuardia Community College
    Soloman Kone, City University of New York-LaGuardia Community College
    Choon Shan Lai, City University of New York-LaGuardia Community College
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Student Engagement in Mathematics through an Institutional Network for Active Learning (SEMINAL).
    David C. Webb*, University of Colorado Boulder
    Janet Bowers, San Diego State University
    Matt Voigt, San Diego State University
    Nancy Kress, University of Colorado Boulder
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Attracting and Retaining Scholars in the Mathematical Sciences.
    Alexandra Kurepa*, North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University
    A. Giles Warrack, North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University
    Guoqing Tang, North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University
    Janis Oldham, North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Reviving Calculus For Engineering Majors(a SUMMIT-P collaborative).
    Shahrooz Moosavizadeh*, Norfolk State University
    Rhonda D. Fitzgerald, Norfolk State University
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-3:05 p.m.
  AMS Invited Address
  Algebraic structures on polytopes.
  Room 6AB, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Federico Ardila*, San Francisco State University
  Marcelo Aguiar, Cornell University
  (1135-05-38)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 2:30 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
  Estimathon!
  A mindbending mixture of math and trivia.
  Room 6D, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Andy Niedermaier, Jane Street Capital
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 2:30 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Joint Committee on TAs and Part-Time Instructors Panel
  Teaching-Focused Faculty at Research Institutions
  Room 1B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Angela Kubena, University of Michigan
  Jean Marie Linhart, Central Washington University
  Thomas Roby, University of Connecticut
  Michael Weingart, Rutgers University
  Moderators:
  Thomas Roby, University of Connecticut
  Panelists:
  Amy Cohen, Rutgers University
  John Eggers, University of California San Diego
  Ellen Goldstein, Boston College
  Robin Gottlieb, Harvard University
  Amit Savkar, University of Connecticut
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 2:35 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
  MAA Panel
  The Dolciani Award: Mathematicians in K-16 Education
  Room 2, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  David Stone, Georgia Southern University dstone@georgiasouthern.edu
  Will Abram, Hillsdale College
  Ken Gross, University of Vermont
  Bill Hawkins, University of the District of Columbia
  Glenn Stevens, Boston University
  Ann Watkins, California State Northridge
  Susan Wildstrom, Walt Whitman HS, Bethesda MD
  Panelists:
  Jim Lewis,
  Alan Schoenfeld,
  Tatiana Shubin,
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 2:35 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
  MAA Panel
  What is a "Math Center" and What Can it do For Your Department?
  Room 1A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Christina Lee, Oxford College of Emory University christina.lee@emory.edu
  Jason Aubrey, University of Arizona
  Panelists:
  Jason Aubrey, University of Arizona
  Christina Lee, Oxford College of Emory University
  Rosalie Belanger-Rioux, Harvard University
  WITHDRAWN: Kaitlyn Gingras, Trinity College
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 2:35 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
  MAA Workshop
  Writing Pedagogical and Expository Papers
  Room 5A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Presenters:
  Janet Beery, University of Redlands
  Matt Boelkins, Grand Valley State University boelkinm@gvsu.edu
  Susan Jane Colley, Oberlin College
  Joanna Ellis-Monaghan, St Michael's College
  Brian Hopkins, St Peter's University
  Michael Jones, Mathematical Reviews
  Gizem Karaali, Pomona College
  Marjorie Senechal, Smith College
  Brigitte Servatius, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 2:35 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
  SIAM-MAA-AMS Panel
  Multiple Paths to Mathematics Careers in Business, Industry and Government (BIG)
  Room 8, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Allen Butler, Daniel H. Wagner Associates, Inc.
  Rachel Levy, Harvey Mudd College
  Karen Saxe, American Mathematical Society
  Suzanne Weekes, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  Moderators:
  Rachel Levy, Harvey Mudd College and SIAM
  Panelists:
  Joe Callender, Ernst & Young
  Skip Garibaldi, Center for Communications Research, La Jolla
  Genetha Gray, Intel
  Tasha Inniss, INFORMS and Former Deputy Division Director, NSF/HRD
  Rolando Navarro, Options Clearing Corporation
  Bryan Williams, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 3:10 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Project NExT Panel
  Assessing and Addressing Diverse Mathematical Backgrounds in the Classroom
  Room 6F, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Sungwon Ahn, Roosevelt University
  Angelynn Alvarez, State University of New York Potsdam
  Kevin Gerstle, Oberlin College
  Emily Herzig, Texas Christian University
  Panelists:
  Kristin Camenga, Juniata College
  Cynthia Flores, California State Channel Islands
  Adam Giambrone, University of Connecticut
  Edray Goins, Purdue University
  Judy Holdener, Kenyon College
  Anthony Rizzie, University of Connecticut
  Michael Young, Iowa State University
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 3:20 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
  AMS Invited Address
  Searching for hyperbolicity.
  Room 6AB, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Ruth Charney*, Brandeis University
  (1135-20-69)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 3:25 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
  SIGMAA on Math Circles for Students and Teachers Business Meeting
  Room 31B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 3:45 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Logic and Foundations
  Room 28D, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Tim Comar, Benedictine University tcomar@ben.edu
  James Reid, University of Mississippi
  

  • 3:45 p.m.
    K-Triviality in General Settings.
    William J Franczak*, Lehigh University
    (1135-VR-2121)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Does Logic Help Us Beat Monty Hall?
    Tucker R. Rhodes*, Cedarville University
    Adam J. Hammett, Cedarville University
    Nathan A. Harold, Cedarville University
    (1135-VR-2670)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 4:25 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
  Joint Prize Session
  Room 6AB, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
  Joint Prize Session Reception
  Lobby outside Room 6AB, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 5:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
  MAA Two-Year College Reception
  Point Loma/Solana Room, 1st Floor, South Twr, Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 5:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  SIGMAA on the Philosophy of Mathematics (POM SIGMAA) Reception
  Room 5B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Bonnie Gold,
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
  SIGMAA on Mathematical and Computational Biology Reception and Business Meeting
  Room 6D, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Tim Comar, Benedictine University
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 6:00 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
  SIGMAA on the Philosophy of Mathematics (POM SIGMAA) Business Meeting
  Room 5B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Bonnie Gold,
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 6:15 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
  SIGMAA on the Philosophy of Mathematics (POM SIGMAA) Guest Lecture
  Room 5B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 6:15 p.m.
    Philosophy of mathematics in the 21st century: why does it need the sciences of the mind?
    Rafael Núñez*, University of California at San Diego
    (1135-A0-752)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 7:00 p.m.-7:45 p.m.
  SIGMAA on Mathematical and Computational Biology Guest Lecture
  Room 6D, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 7:00 p.m.
    Using Deep Learning to Model the Hierarchical Structure and Function of a Cell.
    Trey Ideker*, San Diego Center for Systems Biology, UC San Diego
    (1135-92-2073)
• Thursday January 11, 2018, 7:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
  AMS Panel, sponsored by the U.S. National Committee for Mathematics
  ICM 2018 in Rio de Janeiro - The First International Congress of Mathematicians in the Southern Hemisphere
  Room 6E, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Eric Friedlander, American Mathematical Society
  Presenters:
  Marcelo Viana, Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada

Friday January 12, 2018

• Friday January 12, 2018, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Joint Meetings Registration
  Exhibit Hall B1, Ground Level, San Diego Convention Center
• Friday January 12, 2018, 7:30 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Applied Mathematics, I
  Room 19, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 7:30 a.m.
    Index theory and K-theory of Topological insulators.
    Ralph M Kaufmann, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University
    Dan Li*, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University
    Birgit Wehefritz-Kaufmann, Department of Mathematics and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University
    (1135-82-963)
  • 7:45 a.m.
    Free damage propagation with memory.
    Eyad Said*, Department Of Mathematics, Louisiana State University.
    Robert Lipton, Department Of Mathematics, Louisiana State University.
    Prashant Jha, Department Of Mathematics, Louisiana State University.
    (1135-74-414)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    Collapse events of two-color optical beams.
    Alexey Sukhinin*, University of Vermont
    (1135-78-131)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Mott moving boundary problem of metal oxidation.
    Maxim Zyskin*, University of Nottingham
    (1135-35-3060)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Rigidity Percolation in Composite Materials.
    Samuel B. Heroy*, UNC Chapel Hill
    Dane Taylor, SUNY Buffalo
    F. Bill Shi, UNC Chapel Hill
    M. Gregory Forest, UNC Chapel Hill
    Peter J. Mucha, UNC Chapel Hill
    (1135-70-1197)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    An Acoustic Eigenvalue Problem and Its Application to Electrochemistry.
    Jeffrey K Landgren*, University of North Georgia
    Gerhard Strohmer, University of Iowa
    (1135-76-1908)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Witten Laplacian method for Bose Einstein Condensation.
    Assane Lo*, University of Wollongong in Dubai
    (1135-82-1064)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    A delay differential equation model of activation of endothelial nitric oxide synthase.
    Lake R Ritter*, Kennesaw State University
    (1135-92-1429)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A population balance model to optimize chemotherapy infusion rate.
    Parul Verma*, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
    Reshma Kalyan Sundaram, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
    Doraiswami Ramkrishna, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
    (1135-35-2033)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Pattern formation - on the modeling of multi-constituent inhibitory systems.
    Chong Wang*, George Washington University
    Yanxiang Zhao, George Washington University
    Xiaofeng Ren, George Washington University
    (1135-35-2103)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Computational Model of Electrode-induced Microenvironmental Effects on pH Measurements Near a Cell Membrane.
    Jamie Prezioso*, Case Western Reserve University
    Daneila Calvetti, Case Western Reserve University
    Erkki Somersalo, Case Western Reserve University
    Rossana Occhipinti, Case Western Reserve University
    Walter Boron, Case Western Reserve University
    (1135-92-2975)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Oscillations and Macropatterning in Electroless Silver Deposition on Copper.
    Vanessa Danielle Machuca*, Pomona College
    (1135-92-3234)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    When solutions of the Laplace equation are not smooth. How much degeneracy is needed?
    Timur Akhunov*, Binghamton University
    Lyudmilla Korobenko, Reed College
    Cristian Rios, University of Calgary
    (1135-35-2578)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Existence of weak solutions to refraction problems in negative refractive index materials.
    Eric C. Stachura*, Haverford College
    (1135-35-177)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 7:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
  Email Center
  Exhibit Hall B1, Ground Level, San Diego Convention Center
• Friday January 12, 2018, 7:40 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on Mathematical Experiences and Projects in Business, Industry, and Government (BIG)
  Room 15A, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Allen Butler, Wagner Associates
  Bill Fox, Naval Post Graduate School wpfox@nps.edu
  

  • 7:40 a.m.
    CARVER 2.1: Weighting Methods.
    William P. Fox*, Naval Postgraduate School
    Robert Burks, Naval Postgraduate School
    Bradley Greaver, Fort Bragg, NC
    Leo Raabe, NPS
    Reed Kitchen, NPS, Monterey, CA
    Steven Powell, NPS
    Gregory Spence, NPS
    (1135-I1-366)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    Modeling the Human Terrain.
    Robert E Burks*, Naval Postgraduate School
    Peter Wilcox, Naval Postgraduate School
    Jeff Appleget, Naval Postgraduate School
    (1135-I1-786)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    A Mathematician, Engineer, and Brain Surgeon Walk into a Bar: Collaborating with Biomedical Engineers and Neuroscientists in the Study of Epilepsy.
    Paul E. Fishback*, Grand Valley State University
    (1135-I1-316)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Capturing Equations for Automated Scoring---Typed or Handwritten.
    James H Fife*, Educational Testing Service
    (1135-I1-538)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Emerging Data Science and Mathematics in Classroom -- A PIC Math Approach.
    Aihua Li*, Montclair State University
    (1135-I1-1137)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Data Analytics Competitions: The New PIC Math Classroom for Teaching Data Science.
    Tracy A Bibelnieks*, University of Minnesota Duluth
    (1135-I1-3226)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Improving Student Surveys With Natural Language Processing (NLP).
    Patrick Kuiper*, United States Military Academy
    Karoline Hood, United States Military Academy
    (1135-I1-2744)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Strategies for finding and incorporating projects from BIG in an undergraduate classroom.
    Uma Ravat*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1135-I1-1651)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Preparation for Industrial Careers in Mathematics at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
    Joseph A Eichholz*, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
    (1135-I1-1497)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Vector Space Embeddings of Words.
    Shirley L Yap*, California State University East Bay
    (1135-I1-1140)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 7:45 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Commutative Algebra
  Room 13, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 7:45 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Powers of ideals associated to graphs.
    Nursel Erey*, North Dakota State University
    (1135-13-2683)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Isomorphisms of Idea-Based Zero-Divisor Graphs.
    Jesse Gerald Smith*, Maryville College
    (1135-13-2677)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Zero-Divisor Graphs on Commutative Rings Without Identity.
    David F. Anderson, University of Tennessee
    Darrin Weber*, University of Evansville
    (1135-13-2104)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Commutative Algebra in the Graded Category with an Application to Equivariant Cohomology Rings.
    Mark N. Blumstein*, Colorado State University
    (1135-13-2688)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Properties of the secondary Hochschild homology.
    Jacob Laubacher*, St. Norbert College
    (1135-16-1110)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Ya. S. Krylyuk "The Poisson Conjecture and its connection to the classical invariant theory" (Preliminary Report).
    Ya. S. Krylyuk*, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA
    (1135-13-211)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Completions of Noncatenary Local Integral Domains.
    Chloe I. Avery, UCSB College of Creative Studies
    Caitlyn Booms*, University of Notre Dame
    Timothy M. Kostolansky, Williams College
    S. Loepp, Williams College
    Alex Semendinger, Williams College
    (1135-13-209)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    How Noncatenary Can a Local UFD Be?
    Chloe I. Avery, UCSB College of Creative Studies
    Caitlyn Booms, University of Notre Dame
    Timothy M. Kostolansky, Williams College
    S. Loepp, Williams College
    Alex Semendinger*, Williams College
    (1135-13-210)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Completions of Noncatenary Local UFDs.
    Chloe I. Avery*, UCSB College of Creative Studies
    Caitlyn Booms, University of Notre Dame
    Timothy M. Kostolansky, Williams College
    S. Loepp, Williams College
    Alex Semendinger, Williams College
    (1135-13-213)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Atoms in Quasi-local Atomic Domains.
    Kevin Bombardier*, University of Iowa
    (1135-13-2851)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Kappa-Slender Modules.
    Rad Dimitric*, CUNY-CSI
    (1135-16-907)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A structure theorem for length sets in local quaternion orders.
    Nicholas R Baeth*, University of Central Missouri
    Daniel Smertnig, Karl Franzens University of Graz
    (1135-16-240)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Stabilizer Codes over Local Frobenius Rings.
    Heide Gluesing-Luerssen, University of Kentucky
    Tefjol Pllaha*, University of Kentucky
    (1135-81-2821)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 7:45 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Operator Algebras and Function Spaces
  Room 18, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 7:45 a.m.
    A mixed hyponormality-contractivity condition.
    George R. Exner*, Bucknell University
    (1135-47-398)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    Generalized composition operators on Weighted Hilbert Spaces of Analytic Functions.
    Waleed K. Al-Rawashdeh*, Montana Tech
    (1135-47-2770)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Nonlinear $*$-Lie Derivations of Standard Operator Algebras.
    Wu Jing*, Fayetteville State University
    (1135-47-1044)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Canonical operator on the space of formal series.
    Xiao-Xiong Gan*, Morgan State University
    (1135-47-305)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    A Matrix Characterization of Boundary Representations of Positive Matrices in the Hardy Space.
    John E. Herr*, Butler University
    Eric S. Weber, Iowa State University
    Palle E. T. Jorgensen, University of Iowa
    (1135-42-2061)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Carleson measures and Douglas' question on the Bergman space.
    Anthony Vasaturo*, University of Toledo
    Zeljko Cuckovic, University of Toledo
    (1135-47-411)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Necessary Condition for the Hyponormality of Toeplitz Opetators on the Weighted Bergman Space.
    Krishna Subedi*, The University of Toledo
    Zeljko Cuckovic, The University of Toledo
    (1135-30-1031)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: On some spectral properties of triangular band matrices.
    Arnab Patra*, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
    Riddhick Birbonshi, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
    Parmeshwary Dayal Srivastava, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
    (1135-47-79)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Closed range composition operator on $BMOA$.
    Kevser Erdem*, University of Arkansas
    Maria Tjani, University of Arkansas
    (1135-47-2194)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Algebraic Combinations of Composition and Differentiation Operators on Analytic Function Spaces.
    Soumyadip Acharyya*, Embry - Riddle Aeronautical University, Worldwide
    Timothy Ferguson, University of Alabama
    (1135-47-1179)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Linear maps on function spaces preserving inner functions.
    Javad Mashreghi*, Laval University
    Thomas Ransford, Universite Laval
    (1135-47-449)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Corona Problem for the Weight Dirichlet Space of Weight 1/2.
    Berhanu T Kidane*, University of North Georgia
    (1135-47-225)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Sturm-Liouville Problems with Eigenvalue-Dependent Boundary Conditions.
    Casey Lynn Johnson*, Claremont Graduate University
    (1135-47-2300)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 7:45 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Topology and Geometry
  Room 12, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 7:45 a.m.
    The twisted rabbit problem via the arc complex.
    Justin Lanier, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Dan Margalit, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Rebecca R Winarski*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    (1135-57-2763)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    Linear actions of $\mathbb{Z}/p \times \mathbb{Z}/p$ on $S^n \times S^n$.
    Jim Fowler*, The Ohio State University
    Courtney Thatcher, University of Puget Sound
    (1135-57-2818)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Relative Topological Complexity of a Pair of Spheres.
    Robert Short*, Lehigh University
    (1135-55-1736)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A new construction of exotic 4-manifolds.
    Jonathan Simone*, University of Virginia
    (1135-57-3228)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Compactifications of manifolds with boundary.
    Shijie Gu*, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
    (1135-57-1539)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Distortion of surfaces in $3$--manifolds.
    Hoang Thanh Nguyen*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    (1135-20-1465)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    An Algorithmic Property of Thompson's Group $F$.
    Nathan Corwin, Villanova University
    Gili Golan, Vanderbilt University
    Susan Hermiller, University of Nebraska
    Ashley Johnson*, University of North Alabama
    Zoran Sunic, Hofstra University
    (1135-20-2448)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Fuzzy Topological Spaces.
    Gezahagne Mulat Addis*, University of Gondar
    (1135-54-168)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Constructing new geometries in the light of the Erlangen program.
    Sandipan Dutta*, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
    Debapriya Biswas, Indian institute of Technology Kharagpur
    (1135-51-78)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Spherical Geometry and the Least Symmetric Triangle.
    Laney Bowden, Colorado State University
    Andrea Haynes, Colorado State University
    Clayton Shonkwiler, Colorado State University
    Aaron Shukert*, Colorado State University
    (1135-51-2359)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Combinatorial geometry in origami: the Kawasaki-Maekawa connection.
    Thomas C. Hull*, Western New England University
    (1135-05-946)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Dual Tetrahedra and Their Relation.
    Derege H Mussa*, Department of Mathematical Science, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
    (1135-51-452)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    A Topological and Algebraic Model for 3D Printing.
    Greg Dreifus*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering
    Fred Cohen, University of Rochester, Department of Mathematics
    (1135-55-2335)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Advances in Applications of Differential Equations to Disease Modeling, II
  Room 29A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Libin Rong, Oakland University
  Elissa Schwartz, Washington State University
  Naveen K. Vaidya, San Diego State University nvaidya.anyol@gmail.com
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Negative density dependence can cause partial migration.
    Patrick De Leenheer*, Oregon State University
    (1135-92-2344)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Population dynamics of honeybee: Effects of Disease, Parasites, and Dispersal Behavior.
    Yun Kang*, Arizona State University
    K. Messan, Arizona State University
    G. DeGrandi-Hoffman, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research
    C. Castillo-Chavez, Arizona State University
    (1135-34-2201)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Parameter Analysis for a a model for Tuberculosis Spread in India.
    Seema Nanda, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
    Yash Vyas*, Stanford University
    (1135-92-2788)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Dynamics of an Age-Structured SIR Epidemic Model.
    Yanyu Xiao*, Univeristy of Cincinnati
    (1135-92-2313)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Traveling waves in epidemic models: non-monotone diffusive systems with non-monotone incidence rates.
    Xiang-Sheng Wang*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    (1135-92-1014)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Optimal Control of Vaccination in an Epidemiological Model of Clostridium difficile Transmission.
    Brittany Stephenson*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    Cristina Lanzas, North Carolina State University
    Suzanne Lenhart, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    Judy Day, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    (1135-49-1564)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Algebraic, Discrete, Topological and Stochastic Approaches to Modeling in Mathematical Biology, II
  Room 29D, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Olcay Akman, Illinois State University
  Timothy D. Comar, Benedictine University tcomar@ben.edu
  Daniel Hrozencik, Chicago State University
  Raina Robeva, Sweet Briar College
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Knotting and Linking in Proteins.
    Kenneth C Millett*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1135-57-772)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Topological Approaches for Characterizing in Polymeric Materials the Local and Global Entanglement of Polymer Chains Relevant to Viscoelastic Mechanical Responses.
    Eleni Panagiotou*, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Ken Millett, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Paul Atzberger, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1135-74-2216)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Detecting complexity and patterns in a scrambled genome.
    Nataša Jonoska*, University of South Florida
    Masahiko Saito, University of South Florida
    (1135-92-2511)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Reconstructing Stochastic Gene Regulatory Networks with Recurrent Neural Network Models Using Particle Swarm Optimization.
    Dan Hrozencik*, Chicago State University
    Olcay Akman, Illinois State University
    Devin Akman, University of Illinois
    Tim Comar, Benedictine University
    (1135-92-2998)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Maps between neural codes.
    Nora Youngs*, Colby College
    Carina Curto, The Pennsylvania State University
    (1135-92-2750)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Geometry of the Sample Frequency Spectrum.
    Zvi H. Rosen*, UC Berkeley
    Anand Bhaskar, Facebook
    Yun S. Song, UC Berkeley
    (1135-92-2869)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Boundaries for Groups and Spaces, II
  Room 16B, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Joseph Maher, CUNY College of Staten Island joseph.maher@csi.cuny.edu
  Genevieve Walsh, Tufts University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Boundaries of relatively hyperbolic groups under Dehn filling.
    Daniel Groves*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Jason Fox Manning, Cornell University
    Alessandro Sisto, ETH, Zurich
    (1135-20-769)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Groups with Menger Curve Boundary.
    Matt Haulmark*, Vanderbilt University
    (1135-57-1875)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Groups with Bowditch boundary a 2-sphere.
    Bena Tshishiku*, Harvard University
    Genevieve Walsh, Tufts University
    (1135-20-1871)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Quasi-Möbius maps on the Morse boundary.
    Ruth Charney, Brandeis University
    Matt Cordes, Technion
    Devin Murray*, Brandeis University
    (1135-20-1685)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The quasi-isometry classification of certain hyperbolic right-angled Coxeter groups.
    Christopher Cashen, University of Vienna
    Pallavi Dani*, Louisiana State University
    Anne Thomas, University of Sydney
    (1135-20-1806)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Combinatorics and Geometry, II
  Room 7A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Federico Ardila, San Francisco State University
  Anastasia Chavez, MSRI and University of California, Davis
  Laura Escobar, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign lescobar@illinois.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Hilbert functions for Chow rings of uniform matroids and their q-analogues.
    Thomas Hameister, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison
    Sujit Rao, Cornell University
    Victor Reiner*, University of Minnesota
    Connor Simpson, Cornell University
    (1135-05-579)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    SCHEDULE CHANGE: A General Method to Determine Limiting Optimal Shapes for Edge-Isoperimetric Inequalities.
    Ellen Veomett*, Saint Mary's College of California
    Emmanuel Tsukerman, University of California Berkeley
    (1135-05-56)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Hyperplane arrangements and birational geometry of elliptic fibrations.
    Jonathan Mboyo Esole*, Northeastern University
    (1135-14-2530)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: A parking function model for flow polytopes.
    Carolina Benedetti V.*, Universidad de los Andes
    (1135-05-1387)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The cohomology of abelian Hessenberg varieties.
    Martha Precup*, Northwestern University
    Megumi Harada, McMaster University
    (1135-05-2453)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Gamma-positivity of variations of Eulerian polynomials.
    John Shareshian, Washington University
    Michelle Wachs*, University of Miami
    (1135-05-3106)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Discrete Neural Networking and Applications, II
  Room 33A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Murat Adivar, Fayetteville State University
  Michael A. Radin, Rochester Institute of Technology michael.radin@rit.edu
  Youssef Raffoul, University of Dayton
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A Discrete Mathematical Model for the Aggregation of $\beta$-Amyloid.
    Saber Elaydi*, Trinity University
    (1135-39-2674)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Global asymptotic behavior of certain class of nonlinear nonautonomous difference equations.
    Vlajko L. Kocic*, Xavier University of Louisiana
    (1135-39-506)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Proposal for an Application of a Max-Type Difference Equation to Epilepsy.
    David M. Chan, Virginia Commonwealth University
    Candace M. Kent*, Virginia Commonwealth University
    Vlajko L. Kocic, Xavier University of Louisiana
    Stevo Stevic, Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences
    (1135-39-453)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Asymptotic Behavior of the Solutions of a kth-order Difference Equation.
    Chris D Lynd*, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA USA
    James Wright Sharpe, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA USA
    (1135-39-123)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Nonstandarized Discretization Scheme In Volterra Integro-differential Equations that Preserves Uniform Asymptotic Stability.
    Youssef Naim Raffoul*, University of Dayton
    (1135-39-1200)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Dynamical Algebraic Combinatorics, I
  Room 16A, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  James Propp, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
  Tom Roby, University of Connecticut
  Jessica Striker, North Dakota State University jessica.striker@ndsu.edu
  Nathan Williams, University of California Santa Barbara
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Root system chip-firing.
    Thomas A McConville*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Pavel Galashin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Sam Hopkins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Alexander Postnikov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1135-05-2224)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The biCatalan Kreweras Complement.
    Emily Barnard*, Northeastern University
    (1135-05-1942)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Berenstein-Kirillov group and cactus groups.
    Michael Chmutov, University of Minnesota
    Max Glick*, The Ohio State University
    Pavlo Pylyavskyy, University of Minnesota
    (1135-05-1928)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Increasing Labelings and Generalized Promotion.
    Kevin Dilks*, North Dakota State University
    Jessica Striker, North Dakota State University
    Corey Vorland, North Dakota State University
    (1135-05-2446)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Rowmotion on trim lattices.
    Hugh Thomas*, UQAM
    Nathan Williams, UT Dallas
    (1135-06-2468)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Toggling antichains of posets.
    Michael Joseph*, Dalton State College
    (1135-05-1156)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems--to Celebrate the Work of Jane Hawkins, II
  Room 17B, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Julia Barnes, Western Carolina University
  Rachel Bayless, Agnes Scott College
  Emily Burkhead, Duke University
  Lorelei Koss, Dickinson College koss@dickinson.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The Sierpinski Mandelbrot Spiral.
    Eric Chang*, Boston University
    (1135-37-3055)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Parametrized Homeomorphic measures theorems on cubes.
    Vidhu S Prasad*, University of Massachusetts Lowell
    (1135-37-2494)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Möbius random law and infinite rank one maps.
    e. H. el Abdalaoui, University of Rouen, France
    Cesar E. Silva*, Williams College
    (1135-37-2532)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Matching for translated $\beta$-transformations.
    Henk Bruin*, University of Vienna
    (1135-37-580)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Variations on quantum ergodic theorems.
    Michael E. Taylor*, Mathematics Department, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    (1135-37-511)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Advection diffusion, atmospheric modeling, and methane transport.
    Diane M. Taylor*, Santa Clara University
    Fotini K. Chow, University of California, Berkeley
    (1135-76-915)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Free Convexity and Free Analysis, I
  Room 29B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  J. William Helton, University of California, San Diego
  Igor Klep, University of Auckland igor.klep@auckland.ac.nz
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A non-commutative Julia inequality.
    John E. McCarthy*, Washington University
    James E. Pascoe, Washington University
    (1135-32-545)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Rectangular boundary representations and rectangular matrix convexity.
    Adam H. Fuller, Ohio University
    Michael Hartz*, Washington University in St. Louis
    Martino Lupini, California Institute of Technology
    (1135-46-1094)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Matrix Convex Sets Without Absolute Extreme Points.
    Eric Michael Evert*, UC San Diego
    (1135-46-1513)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Scaling and Inclusion of Matrix Convex Sets.
    Benjamin Passer*, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
    Orr Moshe Shalit, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
    Baruch Solel, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
    (1135-47-117)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Absolute extreme points and generators of matrix convex sets.
    Tom-Lukas Kriel*, University of Konstanz (Germany)
    (1135-47-1547)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Partial Matrix Convexity.
    Scott McCulllough*, University of Florida
    (1135-47-2592)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on History of Mathematics, IV
  Room 10, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Sloan Despeaux, Western Carolina University
  Jemma Lorenat, Pitzer College
  Clemency Montelle, University of Canterbury
  Daniel Otero, Xavier University otero@xavier.edu
  Adrian Rice, Randolph-Macon College
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Partnership, Partition, and Proof: The Path to the Hardy--Ramanujan Partition Formula.
    Adrian Rice*, Randolph-Macon College
    (1135-01-378)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    G.H. Hardy: mathematical biologist.
    Stephan Ramon Garcia*, Pomona College
    (1135-01-683)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Charles Newton Little: America's first knot theorist.
    Jim Hoste*, Pitzer College
    Jozef Przytycki, George Washington University
    (1135-01-1271)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The editor as a scientific entrepreneur: Emile Borel and the promotion of new fields of investigation in mathematics.
    Caroline Ehrhardt*, Universite Paris 8, EA 1571: Centre de recherches historiques, histoire des pouvoirs, savoirs et sociétés
    (1135-01-1640)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    "Maybe from this profusion of formal logic... some useful idea will come": Lebesgue, Borel, Baire, and the birth of descriptive set theory.
    Johann D. Gaebler*, Oxford University
    W. Hugh Woodin, Harvard University, Department of Mathematics, Department of Philosophy
    (1135-01-1251)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Invidious Comparisons: The social and political shaping of the Fields Medal, 1936-1966.
    Michael J. Barany*, Dartmouth College
    (1135-01-1113)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on If You Build It They Will Come: Presentations by Scholars in the National Alliance for Doctoral Studies in the Mathematical Sciences, I
  Room 33C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  David Goldberg, Purdue University
  Phil Kutzko, University of Iowa philip-kutzko@uiowa.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Tame Filling Functions for Diestel-Leader Groups.
    Anisah Nabilah Nu'Man*, Ursinus College
    (1135-20-3042)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Models of social advocacy on networks.
    Oyita Udiani*, National Institute for Mathematical & Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS)
    (1135-91-2813)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Modeling and computation of phase separation models.
    Saulo Orizaga*, Durham, North Carolina
    (1135-37-3080)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    NEW TIME: Versal Deformation Rings and Symmetric Special Biserial Algebras.
    David C. Meyer, University of Missouri
    Roberto C. Soto*, California State University, Fullerton
    Daniel J. Wackwitz, University of Wisconsin-Platteville
    (1135-16-2375)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Unique Factorization in Polynomial Rings with Zero Divisors.
    Ranthony A.C. Edmonds*, University of Iowa
    (1135-13-2165)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Mathematical Information in the Digital Age of Science, III
  Room 9, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Patrick Ion, University of Michigan pion@umich.edu
  Olaf Teschke, zbMath Berlin
  Stephen Watt, University of Waterloo
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Discussion on the future of GDML and IMKT
  • 8:00 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Virtual research environments for computational mathematics: The OpenDreamKit project and the Math-in-the-Middle Approach to System Interoperability.
    Michael Kohlhase*, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
    (1135-00-1456)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Cataloging of DLMF's Special Functions.
    Bruce R Miller*, National Institute of Standards and Technology
    (1135-33-1311)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Semantic Preserving Bijective Mappings of Mathematical Expressions between LaTeX and Computer Algebra Systems.
    Howard S. Cohl*, NIST
    (1135-68-804)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The social machine of mathematics.
    Ursula H Martin*, University of Oxford
    (1135-00-879)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The arXiv: current status and future plans.
    Steinn Sigurdsson*, The Pennsylvania State University
    (1135-00-2302)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Seizure Prediction using Spectral Density Analysis on Pediatric EEGs.
    Michelle DeDeo*, Univ. of North Florida
    Maanasi Garg, Jacksonville, FL
    (1135-92-202)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Mathematical Modeling of Natural Resources, I
  Room 30A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Shandelle M. Henson, Andrews University henson@andrews.edu
  Natali Hritonenko, Prairie View A&M University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Optimal treatment schedule for a vineyard pest.
    Fabio A Milner*, Arizona State University
    Delphine Picart, Bordeaux, France
    Denis Thiery, INRA, Bordeaux, France
    (1135-92-1755)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Reduction of the operation cost via optimal control of an industrial wastewater biotreatment.
    Ellina Grigorieva*, Texas Woman's University
    Evgenii Khailov, Lomonosov Moscow State University
    (1135-49-379)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Remarks on the definition of $R_{0}$.
    Jim M Cushing*, Department of Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Program in Applied Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
    (1135-92-1460)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Assessing the effect of environmental disturbances on population recovery and persistence with application to marine mammals.
    Amy Veprauskas*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    Azmy S. Ackleh, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    Ross A. Chiquet, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    Tingting Tang, University of Notre Dame
    (1135-92-1724)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Population and vitellogenin dynamics of a honeybee colony influencing division of labor.
    Marisabel Rodriguez Rodriguez*, Arizona State University
    Yun Kang, Arizona State University
    Robert E. Page Jr., Arizona State University
    (1135-34-1815)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Structural and Practical Identifiability Issues of Immuno-Epidemiological Vector-Host Models with Application to Rift Valley Fever.
    Necibe Tuncer, Florida Atlantic University
    Hayriye Gulbudak, University of Lousiana at Lafayette
    Vincent Cannataro, Yale University
    Maia Martcheva*, University of Florida
    (1135-92-436)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Mathematical Relativity and Geometric Analysis, I
  Room 31A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  James Dilts, University of California, San Diego jdilts@ucsd.edu
  Michael Holst, University of California, San Diego
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Towards Finite Element Methods over Manifolds via Coordinate Charts.
    Martin Licht*, University of California, San Diego
    Michael Holst, University of California, San Diego
    (1135-65-2781)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Developing Numerical Methods for Solving Geometrical PDEs on Manifolds with Arbitrary Spatial Topologies.
    Lee Lindblom*, University of California at San Diego
    (1135-83-2734)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On Approximation of Certain Geometric Operators Between Sobolev Spaces of Sections of Tensor Bundles on Compact Manifolds Equipped With Rough Metrics.
    Ali Behzadan*, University of California, San Diego
    Michael Holst, University of California, San Diego
    (1135-58-2136)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    "The Null Distance and Spacetime Intrinsic Flat Convergence".
    Christina Sormani*, Lehman College and CUNY GC
    Carlos Vega, SUNY Binghamton
    (1135-83-522)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On special Riemannian manifolds related to Bartnik's mass.
    Armando Jose Cabrera Pacheco, University of Tuebingen
    Carla Cederbaum*, University of Tuebingen
    Stephen McCormick, KTH Stockholm
    Pengzi Miao, University of Miami
    (1135-53-1858)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Noncommutative Algebras and Noncommutative Invariant Theory, I
  Room 17A, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Ellen Kirkman, Wake Forest University
  James Zhang, University of Washington zhang@math.washington.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Poisson geometry of PI elliptic algebras.
    Chelsea Walton*, Temple University
    Xingting Wang, Temple University
    Milen Yakimov, Louisiana State University
    (1135-16-450)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Quivers supporting graded Calabi-Yau algebras.
    Jason Gaddis*, Miami University
    Daniel Rogalski, University of California, San Diego
    (1135-16-593)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    An introduction to derivators.
    John M Zhang*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (1135-18-1404)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Invariant Theory of Reflection Groups.
    Anne V Shepler*, University of North Texas
    Victor Reiner, University of Minnesota
    (1135-16-3210)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The enriched Grothendieck construction.
    Jonathan Beardsley, University of Washington, Seattle
    Liang Ze Wong*, University of Washington, Seattle
    (1135-18-273)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Toward Derived Hopf-Galois Extensions.
    Jonathan Beardsley*, University of Washington
    (1135-16-383)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Nonlinear Evolution Equations of Quantum Physics and Their Topological Solutions, I
  Room 30B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Stephen Gustafson, University of British Columbia
  Israel Michael Sigal, University of Toronto im.sigal@utoronto.ca
  Avy Soffer, Rutgers University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Blow-up for the 2D cubic Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation.
    Luiz Gustavo Farah, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
    Justin Holmer*, National Science Foundation, USA
    Svetlana Roudenko, George Washington University, USA
    (1135-35-2485)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Symmetry Breaking in Density Functional Theory due to Dirac Exchange for a Hydrogen Molecule.
    Jeremy L. Marzuola*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    (1135-35-1054)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Yang-Mills-Higgs Equations on Riemann Surfaces of Higher Genus.
    Nicholas M Ercolani*, University of Arizona
    (1135-35-1405)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Boson gas at finite temperatures: Effect of pair excitation.
    Dionisios Margetis*, University of Maryland, College Park
    (1135-81-99)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Excitation spectra of Bose gases.
    Chiara Boccato, University of Zurich
    Christian Brennecke, University of Zurich
    Serena Cenatiempo, GSSI, L' Aquila
    Benjamin Schlein*, University of Zurich
    (1135-81-1295)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Quantum Link Invariants, Khovanov Homology, and Low-dimensional Manifolds, I
  Room 30E, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Diana Hubbard, University of Michigan
  Christine Ruey Shan Lee, University of Texas at Austin clee@math.utexas.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A bordered interpretation of Manolescu's unoriented skein exact triangle.
    David Shea Vela-Vick*, Louisiana State University
    Michael Wong, Louisiana State University
    (1135-57-1531)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Knot traces and concordance.
    Allison N. Miller*, University of Texas, Austin
    Lisa Piccirillo, University of Texas, Austin
    (1135-57-1349)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Strong functoriality for Khovanov-Floer theories.
    Adam R Saltz*, University of Georgia
    (1135-57-1077)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Left-orderable $3$-manifold groups, taut foliations and contact structures.
    Steve Boyer, UQAM
    Ying Hu*, UQAM/McGill
    (1135-57-2942)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Long flat virtual knots and its associated graded space.
    Karene Chu*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1135-57-1625)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Khovanov-Rozansky homology and Hilbert schemes.
    Eugene Gorsky*, University of California, Davis
    Andrei Negut, MIT
    Jacob Rasmussen, Cambridge University
    (1135-57-291)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Recent Trends in Analysis of Numerical Methods of Partial Differential Equations, II
  Room 29C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Sara Pollock, Wright State University
  Leo Rebholz, Clemson University rebholz@clemson.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Transient Waves in Piezoelectric Media: Analysis, Simulation, and Control.
    Harbir Antil, George Mason University
    Thomas S Brown*, University of Delaware
    Francisco -Javier Sayas, University of Delaware
    (1135-65-264)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A Phase Field Model for Nematic Liquid Crystal Droplets.
    Amanda E. Diegel*, Louisiana State University
    Shawn W. Walker, Louisiana State University
    (1135-65-774)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Discretely entropy stable discontinuous Galerkin methods.
    Jesse Chan*, Rice University
    (1135-65-476)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A Synthetic Turbulence Generation Model for Wall-Bounded Shear Flows Based on Resolvent Analysis.
    Keith J Galvin*, Applied Physical Sciences Corp.
    (1135-35-2151)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Phase Field Model for Polycrystallization Processes in Binary Mixtures.
    R H Hoppe, University of Houston
    Rahul Kumar, University of Houston
    Natasha S Sharma*, University of Texas at El Paso
    James Winkle, University of Houston
    (1135-65-2371)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Numerical Studies of Navier-Stokes-alpha model.
    Monika Neda*, University of Nevada Las Vegas - UNLV
    Sean Breckling, US Air Force Institute of Technology
    (1135-65-1203)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  MAA Invited Paper Session on Research in Improving Undergraduate Mathematical Sciences Education: Examples Supported by the National Science Foundation's IUSE: EHR Program
  Room 3, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Ron Buckmire, NSF, Directorate for Education & Human Resources, Division of Undergraduate Education rbuckmir@nsf.gov
  Sandra Richardson, NSF, Directorate for Education & Human Resources, Division of Undergraduate Education
  Lee Zia, NSF, Directorate for Education & Human Resources, Division of Undergraduate Education
  Karen Keene, National Science Foundation
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A National Consortium for Synergistic Undergraduate Mathematics via Multi-institutional Interdisciplinary Teaching Partnerships (SUMMIT-P).
    Susan L. Ganter*, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
    Jack Bookman, Duke University
    Rhonda Ellis, Norfolk State University
    Rebecca Segal, Virginia Commonwealth University
    (1135-AE-1873)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    CuratedCourses in Mathematics.
    Petra Bonfert-Taylor*, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College
    Sarah Eichhorn, Texas Institute for Discovery Education in Science, The University of Texas at Austin
    Jim Fowler, Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University
    David Farmer, American Institute of Mathematics
    (1135-AE-1352)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Teaching Experience for Undergraduates (TEU) Summer Program: an immersive experience in mathematics pedagogy for students from liberal arts colleges interested in exploring a career in teaching.
    Victor J. Donnay*, Department of Mathematics, Bryn Mawr College
    Ellie Goldberg, Director of Mathematics Education, Teaching Experience for Undergraduates at Brown University
    (1135-AE-1767)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Assessing the Impact of the Emporium Model on Student Persistence and Dispositional Learning by Transforming Faculty Culture.
    Kathy Cousins-Cooper*, North Carolina A&T State University
    Dominic P. Clemence, North Carolina A&T State University
    Katrina N. Staley, North Carolina A&T State University
    (1135-AE-2259)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Applied and Computational Mathematics: A New Degree for 21st Century Discovery and Innovation.
    Jeffrey C Humpherys*, Brigham Young University
    Tyler J Jarvis, Brigham Young University
    (1135-AE-3085)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Broadening the impact and evaluating the effectiveness of simulation-based curricula for introductory statistics.
    Nathan Tintle*, Dordt College
    (1135-AE-2965)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Stochastic Processes, Stochastic Optimization and Control, Numerics and Applications, II
  Room 30D, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Hongwei Mei, University of Central Florida
  Zhixin Yang, Ball State University
  Quan Yuan, Ball State University
  Guangliang Zhao, GE Global Research dr.gzhao@gmail.com
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Optimal Stopping of Two-Time Scale Markovian Systems.
    Qing Zhang, The University of Georgia
    Caojin Zhang*, Wayne State University
    George Yin, Wayne State University
    (1135-93-626)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Ergodic Control of Linear-Quadratic Stochastic Systems.
    Hongwei Mei*, University of Kansas
    Jiongmin Yong, University of Central Florida
    (1135-60-3061)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Mean-Variance Defined Contribution Pension Management under Bounded Rationality.
    Zhixin Yang*, Ball State University
    Zhuo Jin, University of Melbourne
    (1135-60-1286)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Global stability for a system of HIV epidemic stochastic model with treatments.
    Olusegun Michael Otunuga*, Marshall University
    (1135-60-1066)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    An almost sure central limit theorem for autoregressive processes.
    Adina Oprisan*, Canisius College
    (1135-60-1075)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Hölder inequality for norms of Gamma Wick products.
    Aurel I Stan*, The Ohio State University at Marion
    Florin Catrina, St. John's University
    (1135-60-331)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Topological Data Analysis, II
  Room 6E, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Henry Adams, Colorado State University henry.adams@colostate.edu
  Gunnar Carlsson, Stanford University
  Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson, CUNY College of Staten Island
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Dense Random Clique Complexes.
    Greg Malen*, Duke University
    (1135-55-2255)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Stable signatures for dynamic metric spaces via persistent homology.
    Woojin Kim, The Ohio State University. Mathematics Department.
    Facundo Memoli*, The Ohio State University. Mathematics Department.
    (1135-55-2831)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Complete Characterization of the 1-Dimensional Intrinsic Cech Persistence Diagrams for Metric Graphs.
    Lori Beth Ziegelmeier*, Macalester College
    (1135-55-2454)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Persistent Homology and Fractal Dimension.
    Benjamin Schweinhart*, Ohio State University
    (1135-55-1924)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Morse-Witten Theory for Real Operators.
    Gregory Henselman*, Princeton University
    (1135-55-2387)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On the Structural Theorem of Persistent Homology.
    Killian Meehan, University of Missouri
    Andrei Pavlichenko, University of Missouri
    Jan Segert*, University of Missouri
    (1135-55-779)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Visualization in Mathematics: Perspectives of Mathematicians and Mathematics Educators, I
  Room 30C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Karen Allen Keene, North Carolina State University
  Mile Krajcevski, University of South Florida mile@mail.usf.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Nurturing Preservice Elementary Teachers' Creative Mathematical Thinking.
    Mara Alagic*, Wichita State University
    (1135-97-2680)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Kinesthetic Activities.
    Corinne A. Manogue*, Department of Physics, Oregon State University
    Tevian Dray, Dept of Mathematics, Oregon State University
    (1135-97-1948)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Automated Grading of Sketched Graphs in Introductory Calculus Courses.
    Paulina Chin*, Maplesoft
    Louise Krmpotic, Maplesoft
    (1135-97-1484)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Mathematical visualization using Wikki Stix, yarn, or pipe cleaners.
    Julie Barnes*, Western Carolina University
    (1135-97-276)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Assimilation, Accommodation, and Graphing in R3.
    Allison J Dorko*, Oklahoma State University
    (1135-97-319)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Visualization: Constructing what is "out there".
    Kevin C. Moore*, University of Georgia
    (1135-97-39)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS-AWM Special Session on Women in Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology, I
  Room 33B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Bahar Acu, Northwestern University baharacu@gmail.com
  Ziva Myer, Duke University
  Yu Pan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Polyfold Lab Report.
    Katrin Wehrheim*, UC Berkeley
    (1135-58-1030)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Smith inequality for fixed point Floer cohomology.
    Jingyu Zhao*, Brandeis University
    (1135-54-1171)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Homological mirror symmetry for the genus 2 curve in an abelian variety and its SYZ mirror.
    Catherine Kendall Asaro Cannizzo*, University of California, Berkeley
    (1135-51-2020)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Rabinowitz Floer homology and mirror symmetry.
    Sara Venkatesh*, Columbia University
    (1135-51-1907)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Symplectic topology of singularities.
    Roberta Guadagni*, UPenn
    (1135-53-2547)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on Arts and Mathematics: The Interface, III
  Room 1A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Douglas Norton, Villanova University douglas.norton@villanova.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Mathematical Art and Recreation Based on Kite Tiling Rosettes.
    Robert W Fathauer*, Tessellations Company
    (1135-F1-741)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    A Methodology for Creating Fractal Islamic Patterns.
    Phil Webster*, Phil Webster Design
    (1135-F1-2937)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Mathematics in Persian Art II.
    Samaneh G. Hamidi*, Brigham Young University
    (1135-F1-909)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Quantifying the Center of Attention (CA) for Describing Dance Choreography.
    Karl H. Schaffer*, De Anza College
    Joseph Thie, University of Tennessee
    Kasia Williams, Harvard-Westlake School
    (1135-F1-3149)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    A Truncated Octahedron in Dance, Art, Music, and Beyond.
    Debra K Borkovitz*, Wheelock College
    Karl Schaffer, De Anza College
    (1135-F1-1851)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Math as Design Engine: Leveraging mathematics to create 3D printed art.
    Laura Taalman*, James Madison University
    (1135-F1-2886)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Evolving Paintings with Sequences of Coordinate Transforms in 2D and 3D.
    Leo S Bleicher*, San Diego, CA
    (1135-F1-897)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Hypar Zonohedra.
    Eve Torrence*, Randolph-Macon College
    (1135-F1-1910)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Harnessing chaos for generative art and an unusual packing problem.
    Gary R Greenfield*, University of Richmond
    (1135-F1-235)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on Inquiry-Based Teaching and Learning, I
  Room 4, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Eric Kahn, Bloomsburg University
  Brian P. Katz, Augustana College briankatz@augustana.edu
  Victor Piercey, Ferris State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Creating an Inquiry-Based Experience Online.
    Mairead K Greene*, Rockhurst University
    (1135-D5-1324)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    Fostering engagement and inquiry in a linear algebra class.
    Ekaterina Lioutikova*, University of Saint Joseph (CT)
    (1135-D5-1956)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Experiment, conjecture and ...
    Daniel Dobbs*, Trine University
    (1135-D5-2441)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    It's the little differences.
    Ryan Gantner*, St. John Fisher College
    Erica Johnson, St. John Fisher College
    (1135-D5-2566)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Active First Semester Calculus.
    Benjamin Wilson*, Stevenson University
    (1135-D5-2024)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Is it still called a textbook if it is for an IBL course?
    Mona Mocanasu*, MSU Denver
    (1135-D5-1785)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Open Educational Resources and Inquiry-Based Learning: Bogart's Combinatorics through Guided Discovery Gets New Life.
    Mitchel T. Keller*, Washington and Lee University
    Oscar Levin, University of Northern Colorado
    Kent E. Morrison, American Institute of Mathematics
    (1135-D5-623)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    JIBLM -- yes, the IBL material you developed does count toward tenure!
    W. Ted Mahavier*, Lamar University
    (1135-D5-1182)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Using multivariable mathematical modeling activities to facilitate inquiry-based teaching and learning: the derivation of Ampere's Law.
    Gabriella Harris*, Towson University
    Kimberly Corum, Towson University
    (1135-D5-1019)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-9:40 a.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Mentoring
  Room 28E, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Tim Comar, Benedictine University tcomar@ben.edu
  James Reid, University of Mississippi
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Mentoring Students through Computational Science Research Projects: Report on the iPics S-STEM grant program.
    Thomas R Hagedorn*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The College of New Jersey
    Monisha S Pulimood, Department of Computer Science, The College of New Jersey
    (1135-VE-154)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    The Effectiveness of a Mentoring Program at a Small Liberal Arts University.
    Ronald L Merritt*, Athens State University
    (1135-VE-55)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    EQUIPing freshmen STEM majors through the EQUIP program.
    Fumiko Futamura*, Southwestern University
    Alison Marr, Southwestern University
    (1135-VE-2408)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    A Peer Facilitation Model in Precalculus for Increasing Participation in STEM Fields.
    Emily Gismervig*, University of Washington Bothell
    Cinnamon Hillyard, University of Washington Bothell
    Kathryn Mitchell, University of Washington Bothell
    (1135-VE-2565)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Successes and Challenges of Creating a Community of Best Practices for Math Faculty.
    Elizabeth W Schott*, Florida SouthWestern State College
    Laurice L Garrett, Florida SouthWestern State College
    (1135-VE-2717)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Association for Women in Mathematics Mentoring Network - Supporting Female Mathematics Majors throughout their Undergraduate Career.
    Francesca Bernardi*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Katrina Morgan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (1135-VE-3024)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Using Undergraduate Coach/Mentors in an Online Bridge Program for QR and STEM Preparation.
    James S Rolf, Yale University
    John Hall*, Yale University
    (1135-VE-3057)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Teaching and Learning Introductory Mathematics, I
  Room 28D, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Tim Comar, Benedictine University tcomar@ben.edu
  James Reid, University of Mississippi
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Using Activities based on Original Sources in a General Education Mathematics Course.
    Cynthia J Huffman*, Pittsburg State University
    (1135-VI-137)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Desmos.com A free online graphing tool for developing classroom activities!
    Katie Pridemore*, Valencia College
    (1135-VI-217)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Cryptography as a gateway to core mathematics.
    Javad Namazi*, Fairleigh Dickinson University
    (1135-VI-282)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Developing Percents Skills in College Students.
    Olaseni T. Fadipe*, Central Michigan University
    Katrina L Piatek-Jimenez, Central Michigan University
    (1135-VI-423)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: 1H3W for the Teaching of Beginning Algebra.
    Shumei C Richman*, Midlands Technical College
    (1135-VI-516)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Using the Coin Jumping Puzzle to Introduce Students to Polya's Four Phases of Problem Solving.
    Jay A Malmstrom*, Oklahoma City Community College
    (1135-VI-559)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Enhancing Student Engagement by Using Technology Based Interactive Teaching.
    Tumulesh K Solanky*, University of New Orleans
    (1135-VI-564)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    What is 1/2 plus 1/3 ?
    Rad Dimitric*, CUNY
    (1135-VI-918)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Helping and Advancing College Algebra Students.
    Heather Pierce*, Emmanuel College
    (1135-VI-1555)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    The Theme of Observation in a Geometry Course.
    James Morrow*, Mount Holyoke College
    (1135-VI-1570)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: The Importance and Joy of Teaching an "Ideas in Mathematics" Class.
    Igor V Minevich*, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
    (1135-VI-1713)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    (Co)Sine clock.
    L. Franklin Kemp*, Collin College, Plano Texas
    (1135-VI-737)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  MAA Session on Philosophy of Mathematics as Actually Practiced
  Room 6D, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Sally Cockburn, Hamilton College
  Thomas Drucker, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
  Bonnie Gold, Monmouth University (emerita) bgold@monmouth.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The Eroding Foundation of Mathematics.
    David M Shane*, Methodist University
    (1135-A5-144)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    When Physicists Teach Mathematics.
    James Henderson*, Penn State Behrend
    (1135-A5-362)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Hardy, Bishop, and making hay.
    Daniel C. Sloughter*, Furman University
    (1135-A5-609)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Fictionalism, Constructive Empiricism, and the Semantics of Mathematical Language.
    Jae Yong John Park*, New York, NY
    (1135-A5-301)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Gian-Carlo Rota and the Phenomenology of Mathematics.
    Chandra Kethi-Reddy*, University of Central Florida
    (1135-A5-814)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Does Inclusivity Matter in Mathematical Practice?
    sarah-marie belcastro*, MathILy / Smith College
    (1135-A5-1883)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education (RUME), III
  Room 14B, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Stacy Brown, California State Polytechnic University
  Megan Wawro, Virginia Tech mwawro@vt.edu
  Aaron Weinberg, Ithaca College
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Instructors and students' uses of dynamic textbooks: What is new?
    Angeliki Mali*, School of Education, University of Michigan
    Vilma Mesa, School of Education, University of Michigan
    (1135-J5-2277)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    Improving STEM Education Through Departmental Action Teams.
    Mary E. Pilgrim*, Colorado State University
    Daniel Reinholz, San Diego State University
    Joel Corbo, The University of Colorado
    (1135-J5-111)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    GTA Professional Development: Lessons Learned from a Non-STEM Department.
    Gabriela Maria Hernandez*, Colorado State University
    Mary E Pilgrim, Colorado State University
    (1135-J5-403)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Justification of an invariant relationship between two quantities: Coordinating quantities vs. steepness of tangent lines.
    Halil I. Tasova*, University of Georgia
    Kevin C. Moore, University of Georgia
    (1135-J5-1148)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    The ways the discourse around various teaching practices change as graduate teaching assistants engage with professional development.
    Hayley Milbourne*, San Diego State University
    Susan Nickerson, San Diego State University
    (1135-J5-2053)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Linear Algebra Students' Ability to Create a Meaningful Visualization of Objects.
    Deniz Kardes Birinci*, University of South Florida
    Mile Krajcevski, University of South Florida
    Ruthmae Sears, University of South Florida
    (1135-J5-2588)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    An Activity Theory Approach to Mediating the Development of Metacognitive Norms During Problem Solving.
    Emilie R Hancock*, University of Northern Colorado
    (1135-J5-618)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Capturing the Mathematical Content in College Algebra Instruction Through the Lenses of Three Observation Protocols.
    Claire Gibbons*, Oregon State University
    (1135-J5-2857)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Mathematics PhD students' interpretation of explanatory proofs.
    Eyob S Demeke*, California State University Los Angeles
    (1135-J5-333)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on The Advancement of Open Educational Resources, I
  Room 31C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Benjamin Atchinson, Framingham State University batchison@framingham.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Open Source in Teaching Statistics.
    D Scott Dillery*, Lindsey Wilson College
    (1135-P1-2663)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    Asynchronous Online Office Hours with WeBWorK.
    K. Andrew Parker*, CUNY New York City College of Technology
    (1135-P1-2878)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    A new open-access, open-source linear algebra textbook.
    David Austin*, Department of Mathematics, Grand Valley State University
    (1135-P1-2123)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Using CuratedCourses to match OER to other OER.
    Petra Bonfert-Taylor, Dartmouth
    Sarah Eichhorn, University of Texas at Austin
    David Farmer*, American Institute of Mathematics
    Jim Fowler, The Ohio State University
    (1135-P1-2433)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Open Textbooks at Grand Valley State University.
    Steven Schlicker*, Grand Valley State University
    (1135-P1-2570)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Ten Years in Ten Minutes: Surveying the OER Movement in Mathematics.
    Kent E Morrison*, American Institute of Mathematics
    (1135-P1-1964)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    How We Got From There to Here: An Open Source Introductory Real Analysis Text.
    Robert R Rogers*, SUNY Fredonia
    Eugene Boman, The Pennsylvania State University - Harrisburg Campus
    (1135-P1-3182)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Using OER's to Create a Pre-requisite Course for College Algebra.
    Jeff Zeager*, Lorain County Community College
    (1135-P1-2645)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    A 21st century Foundations text.
    Joseph E. Fields*, Southern Connecticut State University
    (1135-P1-2690)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on The Teaching and Learning of Undergraduate Ordinary Differential Equations, I
  Room 14A, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Christopher S. Goodrich, Creighton Preparatory School cgood@prep.creighton.edu
  Beverly H. West, Cornell University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Inspiring engineers to study ordinary differential equations with open-ended modeling problems.
    Karoline Hood*, United States Military Academy (USMA)
    Paul Goethals, United Sates Military Academy (USMA)
    (1135-C5-153)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    Web based lectures for ODEs with Interactivity.
    Stephen H Sapertone*, George Mason University
    (1135-C5-280)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    What happens when you periodically force a nonlinear oscillator?
    James Walsh*, Oberlin College
    (1135-C5-425)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Standards-based grading for ordinary differential equations.
    Jakob Kotas*, University of Portland
    (1135-C5-903)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Verifying One-Dimensional Groundwater Flow with Incomplete Data.
    Michael A. Karls*, Ball State University
    (1135-C5-1438)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Differential Equations and the United States Census Data.
    Jean Marie Linhart*, Central Washington University
    (1135-C5-1504)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Slopes: An Interactive App for Exploring Differential Equations.
    Timothy A Lucas*, Pepperdine University
    (1135-C5-1579)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    An algorithm founded in intuition: Guiding students to reinvent Euler's Method.
    Justin Dunmyre*, Frostburg State University
    Nicholas Fortune, North Carolina State University
    Karen Keene, North Carolina State University
    Chris Rasmussen, San Diego State University
    (1135-C5-1668)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Teaching ODEs with dynamics.
    Alexander M. Gofen*, San Francisco, CA
    (1135-C5-1812)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  SIAM Minisymposium on Advances in Finite Element Approximation
  Room 11A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Constantin Bacuta, University of Delaware bacuta@udel.edu
  Ana Maria Soane, United States Naval Academy soane@usna.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Computational modeling of problems on domains with small holes.
    Ivo Babuska, University of Texas at Austin
    Ana Maria Soane*, United States Naval Academy
    Manil Suri, University of Maryland Baltimore County
    (1135-65-2920)
  • 8:25 a.m.
    New Finite Element Methods for 3D Anisotropic Singular Solutions.
    Hengguang Li*, Wayne State University
    (1135-65-1292)
  • 8:50 a.m.
    A multirate decoupling scheme for transient coupled surface-subsurface flows.
    Prince Chidyagwai*, Loyola University Maryland
    (1135-65-1329)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Some Iterative Algorithms for Biot Equations and Applications in Biomechanics.
    Mingchao Cai*, Morgan State University
    Guoping Zhang, Morgan State University
    (1135-65-1807)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Saddle point least squares methods for first order systems.
    Constantin Bacuta*, University of Delaware
    Jacob Jacavage, University of Delaware
    (1135-65-2521)
  • 10:05 a.m.
    A Nonconforming Saddle Point Least Squares Approach for Elliptic Interface Problems.
    Jacob Jacavage*, University of Delaware
    Constantin Bacuta, University of Delaware
    (1135-65-776)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Computable error estimates for finite element approximations of elliptic partial differential equations with rough stochastic data.
    Eric Joseph Hall*, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    H\r{a}kon Hoel, EPFL
    Mattias Sandberg, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
    Anders Szepessy, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
    Raul Tempone, KAUST
    (1135-65-546)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
  Project NExT Workshop
  Room 6F, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
• Friday January 12, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-9:20 a.m.
  MAA Panel
  Teaching Mathematics Content to Prospective Elementary Teachers: Strategies and Opportunities
  Room 2, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Lynn C. Hart, Georgia State University lhart@gsu.edu
  Panelists:
  Christine Browning, Western Michigan University
  Ziv Feldman, Boston University
  Lynn C. Hart, Georgia State University
  Jennifer Holm, University of Alberta
  Susan Oesterle, Douglas College
• Friday January 12, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
  Employment Center
  Exhibit Hall A, Ground Level, San Diego Convention Center
• Friday January 12, 2018, 8:20 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on Innovative Teaching Practices in Number Theory, II
  Room 15B, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Patrick Rault, University of Arizona
  Thomas Hagedorn, The College of New Jersey hagedorn@tcnj.edu
  Mark Kozek, Whittier College
  

  • 8:20 a.m.
    Prime Sources: A Classroom-tested Student Project Approach to Learning Today's Number Theory through the Works of its Historical Masters.
    Janet Heine Barnett*, Colorado State University - Pueblo
    (1135-O5-2577)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    An Invitation to Integer Partitions.
    Brandt Kronholm*, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
    (1135-O5-1975)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Using projects to teach number theory.
    Duff G. Campbell*, Hendrix College
    (1135-O5-3212)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Number Theory: In Context and Interactive.
    Karl-Dieter Crisman*, Gordon College
    (1135-O5-2304)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Making a Class Textbook in an IBL Number Theory Course.
    Kristin A. Camenga*, Juniata College
    (1135-O5-1448)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    From Oiler to Air-Dish: Guided Group Projects in Number Theory.
    Jordan Schettler*, San Jose State University
    (1135-O5-3000)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    An inquiry-based approach to elementary number theory via proofs without words.
    Tom Edgar*, Pacific Lutheran University
    (1135-O5-3137)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Secret Mission Assignment: Teaching Number Theory Through Cryptography.
    Eva G Goedhart*, Lebanon Valley College
    (1135-O5-2238)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
  AMS-MAA Grad School Fair
  Undergrads! Take this opportunity to meet representatives from mathematical science graduate programs.
  Exhibit Hall B2, Ground Level, San Diego Convention Center
• Friday January 12, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  MAA Invited Address
  Toy models.
  Room 6AB, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Tadashi Tokieda*, Stanford University
  (1135-A0-156)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  ASL Invited Address
  0,1-Laws and pseudofiniteness of $\aleph_0$-categorical theories.
  Room 7B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Cameron Donnay Hill*, Wesleyan University
  (1135-03-842)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse #1: Part B
  Introduction to Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) in Mathematics Courses
  Room 28A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Presenters:
  Catherine Beneteau, University of South Florida
  Jill E. Guerra, University of Arkansas Fort Smith
  Laurie Lenz, Marymount University
• Friday January 12, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  MAA Minicourse #2: Part B
  Teaching Introductory Statistics Using the Guidelines from the American Statistical Association
  Room 28C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Presenters:
  Carolyn K. Cuff, Westminster College
• Friday January 12, 2018, 9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
  AMS Panel
  Historical Chief Editors of the Notices
  Room 1B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Frank Morgan, American Mathematical Society fmorgan@williams.edu
  Panelists:
  Harold Boas,
  Andy Magid,
  Frank Morgan, American Mathematical Society
  Hugo Rossi,
• Friday January 12, 2018, 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
  Exhibits and Book Sales
  Exhibit Hall B1, Ground Level, San Diego Convention Center
• Friday January 12, 2018, 9:35 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  MAA Panel
  The New AP Calculus Curriculum - The First Round of Testing
  Room 2, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  James Sellers, Pennsylvania State University jxs23@psu.edu
  Panelists:
  Gail Burrill, Michigan State University
  Stephen Davis, Davidson College
  Ben Hendrik, College Board
  James Sellers, Pennsylvania State University
• Friday January 12, 2018, 9:45 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Applied Mathematics, III
  Room 28E, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Tim Comar, Benedictine University tcomar@ben.edu
  James Reid, University of Mississippi
  

  • 9:45 a.m.
    Using Computational Bayesian Statistics to Analyze Parameters in a Differential Equation Model.
    Jacob S. Menix*, Western Kentucky University, Mathematics
    (1135-VN-2213)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Predicting Androgen Resistance in Prostate Cancer Using a Kalman Filter.
    Duane C Harris*, Arizona State University
    Eric Kostelich, Arizona State University
    (1135-VN-2271)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    A Convex Realization for an Arbitrary Binary Code.
    Megan K Franke*, UCSB
    Samuel Muthiah, Westmont College
    (1135-VN-2274)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Numerical Study of the van Roosbroeck System for Semiconductors.
    Alan Ghazarians*, San Jose State University
    (1135-VN-2346)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    The Fibonacci-Type Sequence Revisited: A Geometric Progression.
    Anna Cui*, Jack Britt High School
    Zhenlu Cui, Fayetteville State University
    (1135-VN-220)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 9:55 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  Project NExT Panel
  You Can Lead a Horse to Water... : Nurturing Motivation in the Classroom
  Room 6F, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Kyle Golenbiewski, University of North Alabama
  Emily Olson, Millikin University
  Marcos Ortiz, Grinnell College
  Scott Zinzer, Aurora University
  Panelists:
  Jacqueline Jensen-Vallin, Lamar University
  WITHDRAWN: Karen Saxe, Macalester College
  Suzanne Dorée, Augsburg University
  NEW: Steven Schlicker, Grand Valley State University
• Friday January 12, 2018, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  ASL Invited Address
  Non-elementary classification theory.
  Room 7B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Sebastien Vasey*, Harvard University
  (1135-03-193)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 10:05 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  AMS Invited Address
  Emergent phenomena in random structures and algorithms.
  Room 6AB, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Dana Randall*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (1135-00-27)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 10:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  Radical Dash Prize Session
  Room 5A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Stacey Muir, University of Scranton
  Janine Janoski, Kings College
• Friday January 12, 2018, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Invited Address
  Wow, so many minimal surfaces!
  Room 6AB, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  André Neves*, University of Chicago
  (1135-00-34)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-1:50 p.m.
  AMS Colloquium Lectures: Lecture III
  Proving analytic inequalities.
  Room 6AB, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Avi Wigderson*, Institute for Advanced Study
  (1135-68-3232)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-4:45 p.m.
  Current Events Bulletin
  Room 6E, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  David Eisenbud, MSRI and UC Berkeley de@msri.org
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Materials and mathematics.
    Richard D. James*, University of Minnesota
    (1135-82-102)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    How complicated are polynomials in many variables?
    Craig L. Huneke*, University of Virginia
    (1135-13-3255)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    From Newton to Navier-Stokes, or how to connect fluid mechanics equations from microscopic to macroscopic scales.
    Isabelle Gallagher*, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
    (1135-35-1693)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Cap Set Conjecture, the polynomial method, and applications (after Croot-Lev-Pach, Ellenberg-Gijswijt, and others).
    Joshua A. Grochow*, University of Colorado, Boulder
    (1135-05-2051)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-1:50 p.m.
  MAA Lecture for Students
  HOW MANY DEGREES ARE IN A MARTIAN CIRCLE? And other human (and non-human) questions one should ask about everyday mathematics.
  Room 6C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  James Tanton*, Mathematical Association of America
  (1135-A0-159)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Advances in Operator Algebras, I
  Room 33A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Marcel Bischoff, Vanderbilt University
  Ian Charlesworth, University of California, Los Angeles
  Brent Nelson, University of California, Berkeley brent@math.berkeley.edu
  Sarah Reznikoff, Kansas State University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Separable exact C$^\ast$-algebras non-isomorphic to their opposite algebras.
    Maria Grazia Viola*, Lakehead University
    (1135-97-2293)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    A von Neumann-type inequality with universal C*-algebras.
    Kristin Courtney*, University of Virginia
    (1135-47-1455)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Maximal amenable subalgebras in $q$-Gaussian factors.
    Sandeepan Parekh*, Vanderbilt University
    Koichi Shimada, Kyoto University
    Chenxu Wen, University of California, Riverside
    (1135-46-1859)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Orthogonal free quantum group factors are strongly 1-bounded.
    Michael Brannan*, Texas A&M University
    Roland Vergnioux, University of Caen
    (1135-46-1494)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Basic examples of bi-free product.
    Wonhee Na*, Texas A&M University
    (1135-47-2196)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A weakly-defined derivation $\delta^D_w$ and kernels of $(\delta^D_w)^n$.
    Lara Ismert*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1135-47-2536)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Free transport for interpolated free group factors.
    Michael Hartglass*, Santa Clara University
    Brent Nelson, UC Berkeley
    (1135-46-2179)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Two new settings for examples of von Neumann dimension.
    Lauren C. Ruth*, University of California, Riverside
    (1135-46-1608)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    An angle between intermediate subfactors and its rigidity.
    Keshab Chandra Bakshi, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences
    Sayan Das, Vanderbilt University
    Zhengwei Liu*, Harvard University
    Yunxiang Ren, Tennessee state university
    (1135-46-1316)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    The geometry of conformal nets.
    James Tener*, UC Santa Barbara
    (1135-81-2035)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    Joint spectral distributions in finite von Neumann algebras.
    Ian Charlesworth, University of California --- San Diega
    Ken Dykema*, Texas A&M University
    Fedor Sukochev, University of New South Wales
    Dmitriy Zanin, University of New South Wales
    (1135-47-1995)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Arithmetic Dynamics, II
  Room 16A, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Robert L. Benedetto, Amherst College
  Benjamin Hutz, Saint Louis University
  Jamie Juul, Amherst College jjuul@amherst.edu
  Bianca Thompson, Harvey Mudd College
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Böttcher coordinates for one-dimensional superattracting germs over nonarchimedean fields.
    Joseph H Silverman*, Mathematics Department, Brown University
    Adriana Salerno, Department of Mathematics, Bates College
    (1135-37-181)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    A non-archimedean $\lambda$-lemma and J-stability.
    Thomas Silverman*, Brown University
    (1135-37-1118)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Idempotent relations for periodic point counts over finite fields.
    Laura S. Walton*, Brown University
    (1135-11-568)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Bounded height in families of dynamical systems.
    Khoa Dang Nguyen*, University of Calgary
    (1135-11-1240)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Equidistribution and preperiodic points for families of rational maps.
    Niki Myrto Mavraki*, University of British Columbia
    Hexi Ye, Zhejiang University
    (1135-11-1801)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Sylvester sums of compound sequence semigroup complements.
    T. Alden Gassert*, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
    Caleb Shor, Western New England University
    (1135-14-2624)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Dynamical Belyi Maps.
    Jacqueline Anderson*, Bridgewater State University
    (1135-11-1782)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A finiteness theorem for specializations of dynatomic polynomials.
    David Krumm*, Colby College
    (1135-11-689)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Arboreal finite index for cubic polynomials.
    Andrew Bridy*, Texas A&M University
    Thomas J. Tucker, University of Rochester
    (1135-37-183)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Cubic and higher degree arboreal Galois representations.
    TJ Combs, University of Hawaii at Manoa
    Michelle Manes*, University of Hawaii at Manoa
    (1135-11-2809)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Combinatorial Commutative Algebra and Polytopes, II
  Room 16B, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Robert Davis, Michigan State University davisr@math.msu.edu
  Liam Solus, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    A lower bound theorem for centrally symmetric simplicial polytopes.
    Steven Klee*, Seattle University
    Eran Nevo, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Isabella Novik, University of Washington
    Hailun Zheng, MSRI
    (1135-05-1358)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    The Dehn-Somerville relations and the Catalan matroid.
    Anastasia M Chavez*, University fo California, Davis
    Nicole Yamzon, San Jose State University
    (1135-05-537)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Uniqueness of Berline-Vergne's valuation.
    Federico Castillo, MSRI/University of Kansas
    Fu Liu*, University of California, Davis
    (1135-52-1102)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Combinatorial aspects of Non-crossing and $R$-polytopes.
    Carolina Benedetti V.*, Universidad de los Andes
    (1135-05-1385)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Schur-positivity of Gessel's tree symmetric function and the Catalan arrangement.
    Ira M. Gessel, Brandeis University
    Sean T. Griffin, University of Washington, Seattle
    Vasu V. Tewari*, University of Washington, Seattle
    (1135-05-1681)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Crystallizing the Schur Q-functions.
    Maria Monks Gillespie*, University of California, Davis
    Jake Levinson, University of Washington
    Kevin Purbhoo, University of Waterloo
    (1135-05-1283)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Betti numbers and anti-lecture hall compositions of random threshold graphs.
    Alexander Engström, Aalto University
    Christian Go, National University of Singapore
    Matthew T. Stamps*, Yale-NUS College
    (1135-05-975)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A random model for algebraic curves, with a threshold for Cohen-Macaulayness.
    Bruno Benedetti*, University of Miami
    (1135-05-2028)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Augmented Hilbert series of numerical semigroups.
    Jeske Glenn, University of Oregon
    Christopher ONeill*, University of California Davis
    Vadim Ponomarenko, San Diego State University
    Benjamin Sepanski, Baylor University
    (1135-05-591)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Partially Magic Labelings and the Antimagic Graph Conjecture.
    Maryam Farahmand*, UC Berkeley
    (1135-52-1984)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Diophantine Approximation and Analytic Number Theory in Honor of Jeffrey Vaaler, I
  Room 17B, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Shabnam Akhtari, University of Oregon
  Lenny Fukshansky, Claremont McKenna College lenny@cmc.edu
  Clayton Petsche, Oregon State University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    The Convolution Square Root of $1$.
    Harold G Diamond*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1135-11-727)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Fourier optimization and primes gaps.
    Emanuel Carneiro*, IMPA - Rio de Janeiro
    (1135-11-970)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Iteration in the Ideal Sieve.
    Sidney W. Graham*, Central Michigan University
    (1135-11-2144)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    New Trigonometric Extremal Problems Related to Pair Correlations.
    Hugh L. Montgomery*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (1135-11-1321)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Counting reducible polynomials.
    Robert Grizzard*, Lafayette College
    (1135-11-1954)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Height bounds under splitting conditions.
    Paul Fili*, Oklahoma State University
    Lukas Pottmeyer, Universitat Duisburg-Essen
    (1135-11-1973)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Multiplicatively dependent vectors of algebraic numbers.
    Cameron Stewart*, University of Waterloo
    Francesco Pappalardi, Universita Roma Tre
    Min Sha, University of New South Wales
    Igor Shparlinski, University of New South Wales
    (1135-11-1371)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Heights in Function Fields: An Application to the Geometry of Curves.
    Jeffrey Lin Thunder*, Northern Illinois University
    (1135-11-2118)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On parametric geometry of numbers.
    Wolfgang M. Schmidt*, University of Colorado at Boulder
    (1135-11-1238)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Applications of Orthogonality within Non-Archimedean and Human Contexts.
    Edward B. Burger*, Southwestern University
    (1135-11-1173)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Emergent Phenomena in Discrete Models
  Room 9, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Dana Randall, Georgia Institute of Technology randall@cc.gatech.edu
  Andrea Richa, Arizona State University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Distributed Algorithms in Biological Systems: The Diverse Architectures of Natural Computation.
    Theodore P. Pavlic*, Arizona State University
    (1135-92-2552)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Local Stochastic Algorithms for Compression and Shortcut Bridging in Programmable Matter.
    Andrea W. Richa*, Arizona State University
    Sarah Cannon, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Joshua J. Daymude, Arizona State University
    Dana Randall, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Marta Andres Arroyo, University of Granada, Spain
    (1135-60-2786)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Estimating the entropy of activity in excitable networks.
    Daniel B Larremore*, University of Colorado, Boulder
    Vidit Agrawal, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
    Andrew B Cowley, University of Colorado, Boulder
    Woodrow L Shew, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
    Juan G Restrepo, University of Colorado, Boulder
    (1135-37-3065)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    A neural algorithm for similarity search.
    Saket Navlakha*, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
    Charles F. Stevens, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
    Sanjoy Dasgupta, University of California, San Diego
    (1135-68-1959)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Hardness of computing and approximating predicates and functions with leaderless population protocols.
    David Doty*, University of California, Davis
    (1135-68-2662)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Algorithmic Self-Assembly of DNA.
    Erik Winfree*, California Institute of Technology
    (1135-68-2297)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Limiting behavior of 3-color excitable media on arbitrary graphs.
    Hanbaek Lyu*, The Ohio State University, Department of Mathematics
    Janko Gravner, University of California, Davis, Deaprtment of Mathematics
    David Sivakoff, The Ohio State University, Department of Statistics and Mathematics
    (1135-60-811)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The non-locality of graph coloring.
    David Galvin*, University of Notre Dame
    (1135-05-1350)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Dyadic Tilings and Phase Transitions.
    Sarah Cannon*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1135-68-2855)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Topological defects and entropic forces in tilings and colorings.
    Cristopher Moore*, Santa Fe Institute
    (1135-05-2510)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #3: Part B
  Flipping your Mathematics Course using Open Educational Resources
  Room 28A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Presenters:
  Sarah Eichhorn, University of California, Irvine
  David Farmer, American Institute of Mathematics
  Jim Fowler, The Ohio State University
  Petra Taylor, Dartmouth University
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Geometric Analysis, I
  Room 7A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Davi Maximo, University of Pennsylvania dmaxim@math.upenn.edu
  Lu Wang, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Xin Zhou, University of California Santa Barbara
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Global uniqueness of large stable CMC and isoperimetric regions in asymptotically flat 3-manifolds.
    Otis Chodosh*, Princeton University
    (1135-51-1008)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    The singular set of minimal surfaces near polyhedral cones.
    Nick Edelen*, MIT
    Luca Spolaor, MIT
    Maria Colombo, University of Zurich/ETH
    (1135-51-1426)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Uniqueness of mean curvature flow through (some) singularities.
    Or Hershkovits*, Stanford University
    Brian White, Stanford University
    (1135-53-1944)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Positive scalar curvature in singular spaces.
    Chao Li*, Stanford University
    (1135-53-1280)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Min-max theory for constant mean curvature hypersurfaces.
    Jonathan J Zhu*, Harvard University
    (1135-53-794)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #4: Part B
  How to Run Successful Math Circles for Students and Teachers
  Room 28B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Presenters:
  Jane Long, Stephen F. Austin State University
  Brianna Donaldson, American Institute of Mathematics
  Gabriella Pinter, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  Diana White, University of Colorado Denver and National Association of Math Circles
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on If You Build It They Will Come: Presentations by Scholars in the National Alliance for Doctoral Studies in the Mathematical Sciences, II
  Room 33C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  David Goldberg, Purdue University
  Phil Kutzko, University of Iowa philip-kutzko@uiowa.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    The geometry of leukemic proliferation.
    Reginald L. McGee*, Mathematical Biosciences Institute
    Gregory K. Behbehani, The Ohio State University
    Kevin R. Coombes, The Ohio State University
    (1135-92-2150)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    NEW TIME: Holomorphic Sectional Curvature and its Friends on Complex Manifolds.
    Angelynn R Alvarez*, State University of New York at Potsdam
    (1135-53-1891)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    NEW TIME: Results concerning the spectrum of Noetherian rings.
    Cory H Colbert*, Williams College
    (1135-13-2011)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: A mathematical approach to understanding the vibrations within a block subjected to freezing rocking.
    Julia Anderson-Lee*, Iowa State University
    Scott Hansen, Iowa State University
    Sri Sritharan, Iowa State University
    (1135-35-1787)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 3:30 p.m.
    NEW TIME: A Method for Explicit Solution Formulas for Integrable Evolution Equations in 2+1 Dimensions.
    Alicia Machuca*, Texas Woman's University
    (1135-35-1752)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Totally Reflexive Modules.
    Denise A Rangel Tracy*, Central Connecticut State University
    (1135-13-1517)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Direct Method for Reconstructing Inclusions from Electrostatic Data.
    Isaac Harris*, Texas A&M University
    William Rundell, Texas A&M University
    (1135-35-1313)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: A new principal rank characteristic sequence.
    Xavier Martinez-Rivera*, Auburn University
    (1135-15-1263)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Markov Chains, Markov Processes and Applications
  Room 29D, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Alan Krinik, California State Polytechnic University ackrinik@cpp.edu
  Randall J. Swift, California State Polytechnic University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Cutoff for the random-to-random card shuffle.
    Megan Bernstein*, Georgia Tech
    Evita Nestoridi, Princeton University
    (1135-60-530)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Cutoff for a stratified random walk on the hypercube, related to a mysterious random walk on invertible matrices modulo 2.
    Yuval Peres*, Microsoft Research
    (1135-60-1635)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Matrix Properties of a Class of Birth-Death Chains and Processes.
    Alan Krinik*, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
    Uyen Nguyen, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
    Ali Oudich, University of California, Irvine
    Pedram Ostadhassanpanjehali, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
    Luis Cervantes, California State University, Long Beach
    Chon In Luk, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
    Matthew McDonough, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Jeffrey Yeh, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
    Lyheng Phey, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
    (1135-60-1551)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Random Walks in the Quarter Plane with Time-Varying Periodic Transition Rates.
    Barbara H Margolius*, Cleveland State University
    L Felipe Martins, Cleveland State University
    (1135-60-22)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Favorite sites of a persistent random walk on $\mathbb{Z}$.
    Steven Noren*, Iowa State University
    Arka Ghosh, Iowa State University
    Alex Roitershtein, Iowa State University
    (1135-60-1071)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The flashing Brownian ratchet and Parrondo's paradox.
    Stewart N. Ethier*, University of Utah
    Jiyeon Lee, Yeungnam University
    (1135-60-998)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Brownian particles interacting through their ranks.
    Andrey Sarantsev*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1135-60-1267)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A Winner Plays Model.
    Sheldon Ross*, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
    Yang Cao, Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
    (1135-60-999)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Dynamics of a Predator-Prey Model through Stochastic Methods.
    Diana Curtis*, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
    Jennifer Switkes, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
    (1135-60-84)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Network conditions for positive recurrence of stochastically modeled reaction networks and mixing times.
    Jinsu Kim*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    David F Anderson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1135-60-311)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 6:30 p.m.
    Persistence of sums of correlated increments and clustering in cellular automata.
    Hanbaek Lyu*, The Ohio State University, Department of Mathematics
    David Sivakoff, The Ohio State University, Department of Statistics and Mathematics
    (1135-60-808)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Mathematical Modeling of Natural Resources, II
  Room 30A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Shandelle M. Henson, Andrews University henson@andrews.edu
  Natali Hritonenko, Prairie View A&M University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Plants Persistence under Multiple Stressors: Mathematical Modeling Approach.
    Benito Chen-Charpentier, University of Texas at Arlington, Department of Mathematics
    Maria Leite*, University of South Florida St Petersburg, Mathematics and Statistics
    Orou Gaoue, University of Hawai at Manoa, Department of Botany
    Folashade Agusto, University of Kansas, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
    (1135-34-2657)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Dynamics of a Diffusion Reaction Prey-Predator Model with Delay in Prey: Effects of Delay and Spatial Components.
    Yun Kang*, Arizona State University
    C. Castillo-Chavez, Arizona State University
    F. Rao, Nanjing Tech University,
    (1135-92-2373)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Modeling the Role of Public Health Education in Ebola Virus Disease Outbreaks in Sudan.
    Benjamin Levy*, Fitchburg State University
    Christina Edholm, University of Tennessee
    Suzanne Lenhart, University of Tennessee
    Orou Gaoue, University of Hawaii
    Edward Lungu, Botswana International University of Science and Technology
    Moathodi Kgosimore, Botswana College of Agriculture
    Farai Nyabadza, Stellenbosch University
    (1135-92-2488)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Simple approaches to manage natural systems when density dependence can be ignored.
    Alan Hastings*, University of California, Davis
    (1135-92-1507)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Model projections in model space: Multimodel inference beyond model averaging.
    José M Ponciano*, University of Florida
    Mark L Taper, University of Florida
    (1135-62-1500)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Modeling of technological renovation under environmental uncertainty and resource scarcity.
    Yuri Yatsenko*, Houston Baptist University
    Natali Hritonenko, Prairie View A&M University
    Selkhan Boranbayev, Eurasian National University
    (1135-91-482)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Transient predator-prey cycles in bald eagles and glaucous-winged gulls at Protection Island, Washington.
    Eric T. Funasaki*, Sul Ross State University
    Shandelle M. Henson, Andrews University
    James L. Hayward, Andrews University
    (1135-92-2435)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A mathematical model of Nutrients-Phytoplankton-Oysters in a bay ecosystem with oyster filtration based on Moser equation.
    Najat Ziyadi*, Morgan State University
    (1135-92-1569)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A discrete-time anthrax epidemic model.
    Abdul-Aziz Yakubu*, Howard University, Washington DC 20059
    Pauline van den Driessche, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
    (1135-92-1577)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Validating a Trait-Based Model for Predator-Prey Dynamics in a System of Terrestrial Arthropods.
    A. N. Laubmeier*, North Carolina State University
    (1135-92-676)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Mathematical Relativity and Geometric Analysis, II
  Room 30D, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  James Dilts, University of California, San Diego jdilts@ucsd.edu
  Michael Holst, University of California, San Diego
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Topology and singularities in cosmological spacetimes obeying the null energy condition.
    Gregory J Galloway*, University of Miami
    Eric Ling, University of Miami
    (1135-83-1487)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Asymptotic gluing of shear-free hyperboloidal initial data.
    Paul T. Allen*, Lewis & Clark College
    James Isenberg, University of Oregon
    John M. Lee, University of Washington
    Iva Stavrov Allen, Lewis & Clark College
    (1135-83-1637)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    The effects of self-interaction on constructing relativistic point particles.
    Noah Benjamin, Lewis & Clark College
    Iva Stavrov Allen*, Lewis & Clark College
    (1135-83-2377)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    When do spacetimes have constant mean curvature slices?
    James Dilts*, University of California, San Diego
    Michael Holst, University of California, San Diego
    (1135-83-1921)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Instability of focusing initial data sets in high dimensions.
    Bruno Premoselli*, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
    (1135-83-1172)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Proof of a Null Penrose Conjecture using a new Quasi-local Mass.
    Henri Petrus Roesch*, University of California, Irvine
    (1135-83-2031)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    IMCF and the Stability of the PMT and RPI.
    Brian Allen*, United States Military Academy
    (1135-53-142)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    A Positive-Definite Energy Functional for Axially Symmetric Maxwell's Equations on Kerr and Kerr-de Sitter Black Holes.
    Nishanth Abu Gudapati*, Department of Mathematics, Yale University
    (1135-83-816)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Hawking temperature and elliptic curves.
    Jonathan Holland*, Rochester Institute of Technology
    (1135-30-1378)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    A Simple All-time Model for the Birth, Big Bang, and Death of the Universe.
    Arthur E Fischer*, University of California, Santa Cruz
    (1135-83-2365)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Mathematics of Gravitational Wave Science, II
  Room 30C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Andrew Gillette, University of Arizona agillette@math.arizona.edu
  Nikki Holtzer, University of Arizona
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Conservation laws and asymptotics for linear waves.
    Stefanos Aretakis*, Princeton University & University of Toronto
    (1135-83-681)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Gravitational Waves and the Aretakis Instability.
    Samuel E. Gralla*, University of Arizona
    (1135-83-2764)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Microlocal analysis for Kerr-de Sitter black holes.
    Peter Hintz, University of California, Berkeley and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Andras Vasy*, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University
    (1135-35-430)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The stability of Kerr-de Sitter black holes.
    Peter Hintz*, University of California, Berkeley
    András Vasy, Stanford University
    (1135-35-457)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The asymptotically self-similar regime for the Einstein vacuum equations.
    Yakov Shlapentokh-Rothman*, Princeton University
    (1135-35-1541)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Network Science, II
  Room 31A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  David Burstein, Swarthmore College dburste1@swarthmore.edu
  Franklin Kenter, United States Naval Academy
  Feng Shi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    A physical model for efficient ranking in networks.
    Daniel B Larremore*, University of Colorado, Boulder
    Caterina De Bacco, Santa Fe Institute
    Cristopher Moore, Santa Fe Institute
    (1135-91-2773)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    A random walk around the block: personalized PageRank and stochastic block models.
    Johan Ugander*, Stanford University
    (1135-68-128)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Super-resolution community detection for layer-aggregated multilayer networks.
    Dane Taylor*, Mathematics, University at Buffalo SUNY
    Rajmonda Caceres, MIT Lincoln Lab
    Peter J Mucha, Mathematics, UNC Chapel Hill
    (1135-82-472)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Multilayer Networks and their Applications.
    Mason A. Porter*, UCLA
    (1135-91-43)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Tools for constructing graphs with fixed degree sequences.
    David Burstein*, Swarthmore College
    (1135-05-1955)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Random graph models with fixed degree sequences: choices, consequences and irreducibility proofs for sampling.
    Joel Nishimura*, Arizona State University
    Bailey K Fosdick, Colorado State University
    Daniel B Larremore, University Colorado Boulder
    Johan Ugander, Stanford University
    (1135-05-2207)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    An extension of networked dynamical systems suitable for perturbative analysis.
    Stephen G. Eubank*, Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Lab, BioInformatics Institute of Virginia Tech
    Madhurima Nath, Physics Department and Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech
    Yihui Ren, Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech
    (1135-37-2294)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Transitivity Reinforcement in Coevolving Network Models.
    Nishant Malik*, Dartmouth College
    Hsuan-Wei Lee, The University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Feng Shi, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    Peter J Mucha, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    (1135-91-462)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Structural and Functional Redundancy in Biological Networks.
    Alice C. U. Schwarze*, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, UK
    Mason A. Porter, Department of Mathematics, University of California Los Angeles, CA, USA
    Jonny Wray, e-Therapeutics plc, UK
    (1135-92-2811)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    Modeling the Influence Structure of a Network with Hawkes Processes.
    Steven T. Morse*, U.S. Military Academy
    Marta C. Gonzalez, University of California-Berkeley
    Natasha Markuzon, Draper
    (1135-68-467)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Noncommutative Algebras and Noncommutative Invariant Theory, II
  Room 17A, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Ellen Kirkman, Wake Forest University
  James Zhang, University of Washington zhang@math.washington.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    The colored Jones polynomial as an invariant of $q-$Weyl algebras.
    Mustafa Hajij, , University of South Florida
    Jesse S. F. Levitt*, University of Southern California
    (1135-16-3059)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Hopf algebra actions on some AS-regular algebras of small dimension.
    Luigi Ferraro, Wake Forest University
    Ellen Kirkman, Wake Forest University
    W. Frank Moore*, Wake Forest University
    Robert Won, Wake Forest University
    (1135-16-2279)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Simple $\mathbb{Z}$-graded domains of Gelfand-Kirillov dimension 2.
    Robert Won*, Wake Forest University
    Calum Spicer, Imperial College London
    (1135-16-1396)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Extra special fusion categories.
    Henry J Tucker*, UC San Diego
    (1135-18-2553)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Frobenius-Perron Theory of Modified ADE Bound Quiver Algebras.
    Elizabeth Wicks*, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
    (1135-16-1989)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Discussing a few Quadratic Quantum $\mathbb P^3$s.
    Derek Tomlin*, U. Texas at Arlington
    M. Vancliff, U. Texas at Arlington
    (1135-14-1893)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Finite generation of cohomology rings of some pointed Hopf algebras in positive characteristic.
    Van Cat Nguyen, Hood College
    Xingting Wang*, Temple University
    Sarah Witherspoon, Texas A&M University
    (1135-16-1208)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the structure of Connected Hopf Algebras containing a Semisimple Lie Algebra.
    Daniel Yee*, Bradley University
    (1135-16-916)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Twisted tensor product algebras and resolutions.
    Anne V. Shepler, University of North Texas
    Sarah Witherspoon*, Texas A&M University
    (1135-16-1065)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Discussion
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Nonlinear Evolution Equations of Quantum Physics and Their Topological Solutions, II
  Room 30B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Stephen Gustafson, University of British Columbia
  Israel Michael Sigal, University of Toronto im.sigal@utoronto.ca
  Avy Soffer, Rutgers University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Blow-Up of Solutions to the Patlak-Keller-Segel Equation in Dimension $\nu\geq2$.
    Heinz Siedentop*, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
    Li Chen, Universität Mannheim, Germany
    (1135-92-442)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Global well-posedness for the Dirac-Klein-Gordon system.
    Ioan Bejenaru*, University of California San Diego
    Sebastian Herr, Bielefeld University
    (1135-35-1037)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Title: On the pair excitation function.
    M Grillakis, University of Maryland
    M Machedon*, University of Maryland
    (1135-35-507)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the dynamics of polarons in the strong-coupling limit.
    Marcel Griesemer*, Department of Mathematics, University of Stuttgart, Germany
    (1135-81-1909)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Stability of the superselection sectors of Kitaev's abelian quantum double models.
    Matthew Cha, Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University - East Lansing
    Pieter Naaijkens, JARA Institute for Quantum Computing, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
    Bruno Nachtergaele*, Department of Mathematics and Center for Quantum Mathematics and Physics, University of California, Davis
    (1135-81-1679)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Localization of eigenfunctions on quantum graphs.
    Evans M. Harrell*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Anna V. Maltsev, Queen Mary University of London
    (1135-47-1589)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Dispersive estimates for density matrices in quantum dynamics and kinetic theory.
    Thomas Chen*, University of Texas at Austin
    Ryan Denlinger, University of Texas at Austin
    Natasa Pavlovic, University of Texas at Austin
    (1135-82-2461)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Condensation of fermion pairs in a domain.
    Rupert L Frank, California Institute of Technology / LMU Munich
    Marius Lemm*, IAS / Harvard University
    Barry Simon, California Institute of Technology
    (1135-81-1143)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    On the Bogoliubov de Gennes Equations.
    Li Chen*, University of Toronto
    Israel Michael Sigal, University of Toronto
    (1135-81-2789)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Dynamics of Large Boson Systems with Attractive Interaction and a Derivation of the Cubic Focusing NLS in $\mathbb{R}^3$.
    Jacky J. Chong*, University of Maryland, College Park
    (1135-70-3165)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  MAA Invited Paper Session on Polyhedra, Commemorating Magnus J. Wenninger
  Room 3, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Vincent Matsko, University of San Francisco vjmatsko@usfca.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Nurturing Geometrical Intuition.
    Thomas Q Sibley*, St. John's University, College of St. Benedict
    (1135-AF-206)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Working with Magnus Wenninger.
    Vincent J. Matsko*, University of San Francisco
    (1135-AF-2897)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    From Impossible to Obvious: Exploring Origami Polyhedra, and Participating in Wenninger's Polyhedron Email List.
    Rona Gurkewitz*, Western Connecticut State University
    Bennett Arnstein, Grenada Hills, California
    (1135-AF-2181)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Wythoff Polyhedra Construction and its Generalizations.
    Vladimir Bulatov*, Shapeways
    (1135-AF-1342)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Tribute to Magnus Wenninger: A Visual Adventure in Mathematical Thought.
    Joseph D Clinton*, Retired
    (1135-AF-634)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Interviewing Magnus Wenninger.
    Thomas Banchoff*, Brown University
    (1135-AF-1596)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
  MAA Minicourse #5: Part B
  Reach the World: Writing Math Op-Eds for a Post-Truth Culture
  Room 28C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Presenters:
  Kira Hamman, Pennsylvania State University, Mont Alto
  Francis Su, Harvey Mudd College
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Research from the Rocky Mountain-Great Plains Graduate Research Workshop in Combinatorics, I
  Room 29C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Michael Ferrara, University of Colorado Denver michael.ferrara@ucdenver.edu
  Leslie Hogben, Iowa State University
  Paul Horn, University of Denver
  Tyrrell McAllister, University of Wyoming
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Local Dimension and Size of a Poset.
    Jinha Kim, Seoul National University
    Ryan R. Martin, Iowa State University
    Tomáš Masařík, Charles University
    Warren Shull, Emory University
    Heather C. Smith*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Andrew Uzzell, Grinnell College
    Zhiyu Wang, University of South Carolina
    (1135-05-892)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Entire Colorability for a Class of Plane Graphs.
    Axel Brandt*, Davidson College
    Michael Ferrara, University of Colorado Denver
    Nathan Graber, University of Colorado Denver
    Stephen Hartke, University of Colorado Denver
    Sarah Loeb, College of William and Mary
    (1135-05-395)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    A $(5,5)$-coloring of $K_n$ with few colors.
    Alex Cameron*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Emily Heath, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1135-05-813)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Edge-colored saturation for complete graphs.
    Michael Ferrara, University of Colorado Denver
    Daniel Johnston, Grand Valley State University
    Sarah Loeb*, College of William and Mary
    Florian Pfender, University of Colorado Denver
    Alex Schulte, Iowa State University
    Heather Smith, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Eric Sullivan, University of Colorado Denver
    Michael Tait, Carnegie Mellon University
    Casey Tompkins, Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics
    (1135-05-1899)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Saturation for Berge Hypergraphs.
    Sean J English*, Western Michigan University
    Nathan Graber, University of Colorado, Denver
    Pamela Kirkpatrick, Lehigh University
    Abhishek Methuku, Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics
    Eric Sullivan, University of Colorado, Denver
    (1135-05-1390)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Universal partial words.
    Bennet Goeckner, University of Kansas
    Corbin Groothuis, University of Nebraska
    Cyrus Hettle, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Brian Kell, Google
    Pamela Kirkpatrick, Lehigh University
    Rachel Kirsch*, University of Nebraska
    Ryan Solava, Vanderbilt University
    (1135-05-739)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Hunting Invisible Rabbits on the Hypercube.
    Jessalyn Bolkema*, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    Corbin Groothuis, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    (1135-05-3086)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Spectral bounds for the connectivity of regular graphs with given order.
    Aida Abiad, Department of Quantitative Economics, Maastricht University
    Boris Brimkov*, Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University
    Xavier Martinez-Rivera, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Auburn University
    Suil O, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, The State University of New York Korea
    Jingmei Zhang, Department of Mathematics, University of Central Florida
    (1135-05-1230)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Degree conditions for small contagious sets in bootstrap percolation.
    Michael Dairyko, Iowa State University
    Michael Ferrara, University of Colorado Denver
    Bernard Lidický, Iowa State University
    Ryan R Martin, Iowa State University
    Florian Pfender, University of Colorado Denver
    Andrew J Uzzell*, Grinnell College
    (1135-05-1802)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Throttling for Cops and Robbers.
    Josh Carlson*, Iowa State University
    (1135-05-1743)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Zero Forcing Polynomial for Cycles and Singly-Chorded Cycles.
    Kirk Boyer, University of Denver
    Boris Brimkov, Rice University
    Sean English, Western Michigan University
    Daniela Ferrero, Texas State University
    Ariel Keller*, Emory University
    Rachel Kirsch, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    Michael Phillips, University of Colorado Denver
    Carolyn Reinhart, Iowa State University
    (1135-05-2733)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-6:45 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Strengthening Infrastructures to Increase Capacity Around K-20 Mathematics
  Room 10, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Brianna Donaldson, American Institute of Mathematics brianna@aimath.org
  William Jaco, Oklahoma State University
  Michael Oehrtman, Oklahoma State University
  Levi Patrick, Oklahoma State Department of Education
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Strengthening the Improvement Infrastructure for Mathematical Sciences Education.
    Uri Treisman*, The University of Texas at Austin
    (1135-97-2823)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    The Grand Challenges: Mapping the System of K-12 STEM Education.
    Talia Milgrom-Elcott*, 100Kin10
    Grace Doramus, 100Kin10
    (1135-97-2723)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Strengthening Infrastructures for Promoting Equity in Mathematics Education through Research-Practice Partnerships.
    William R. Penuel*, University of Colorado Boulder
    (1135-97-598)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Forging Research and Practice with Improvement Science: Early Lessons from the Better Math Teaching Network.
    Kirk Walters*, American Institutes for Research
    Toni S. Smith, American Institutes for Research
    (1135-97-2253)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Like Terms Communities: Developing Mutualistic K-20 Partnerships within a Statewide Networked Improvement Community to Advance Teacher Content Knowledge.
    Levi J. Patrick*, Oklahoma State Department of Education
    Michael A. Tallman, Oklahoma State University
    (1135-97-3090)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Mathematics Teacher Education Partnership: A Networked Improvement Community of Universities and School Systems to Transform the Preparation of Secondary Mathematics Teachers.
    W. Gary Martin*, Auburn University, Auburn, AL
    Marilyn E. Strutchens, Auburn University, Auburn, AL
    (1135-97-2260)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Seeding Collaboration Through Math Teachers' Circles.
    Brianna Donaldson*, American Institute of Mathematics
    (1135-97-2177)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The Nebraska Center for Science Mathematics and Computer Education.
    W James Lewis*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1135-97-1772)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Two case studies in K--20 collaboration: The Institute for Mathematics & Education and Illustrative Mathematics.
    Bill McCallum*, The University of Arizona
    Kristin Umland, Illustrative Mathematics
    (1135-97-2393)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS Special Session on Topological Graph Theory: Structure and Symmetry, II
  Room 30E, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Jonathan L. Gross, Columbia University
  Thomas W. Tucker, Colgate University ttucker@colgate.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Genus polynomials of ring-like graphs with spiders.
    Yichao Chen, Hunan University, Changsha, China
    Jonathan L Gross*, Columbia University, New York, NY
    (1135-05-421)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    An Euler-genus approach to the calculation of the crosscap-number polynomial.
    Yichao Chen*, Hunan University
    Jonathan L. Gross, Department of Computer Science, Columbia University,
    (1135-05-551)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Imbedding statistics for linear families via Markov chains.
    Thomas Tucker*, Colgage Univesity
    Jonathan Gross, Columbia University
    Toufik Mansour, University of Haifa
    (1135-05-658)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Symmetric Spherical Grids.
    Lowell Abrams*, The George Washington University
    Daniel Slilaty, Wright State University
    (1135-05-685)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The orientable genus of complete tripartite graphs.
    Mark Ellingham*, Vanderbilt University
    D. Christopher Stephens, Middle Tennessee State University
    Xiaoya Zha, Middle Tennessee State University
    (1135-05-372)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Enumeration of Regular Graph Coverings; Some recent results.
    Jin Ho Kwak*, Math., BJTU/China and POSTECH/Korea
    Jean-Bing Liu, Math., BJTU/China
    Jaeun Lee, Math., Yeungnam Univ., Korea
    (1135-05-488)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A Survey of Infinite Graphs of Connectivity 1.
    Mark E. Watkins*, Syracuse University
    (1135-05-513)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Face distributions of embeddings of complete graphs.
    Timothy Sun*, Columbia University
    (1135-05-253)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Applications of ordinary voltage graph theory and intersection theory to graph embeddability.
    Steven Schluchter*, George Mason University
    (1135-05-889)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Symmetric road interchanges.
    Valentas Kurauskas*, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Vilnius University, Lithuania
    Ugnė Šiurienė, Vilnius, Lithuania
    (1135-57-654)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  AMS-AWM Special Session on Women in Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology, II
  Room 33B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Bahar Acu, Northwestern University baharacu@gmail.com
  Ziva Myer, Duke University
  Yu Pan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Annular Khovanov-Lee theory, representation theory, braids, and cobordisms.
    J. Elisenda Grigsby*, Boston College
    Anthony M. Licata, Australian National University
    Stephan M. Wehrli, Syracuse University
    (1135-57-2392)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Satellite ruling polynomials and representations of the Chekanov-Eliashberg algebra.
    Caitlin Leverson*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Dan Rutherford, Ball State University
    (1135-57-1900)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Immersed Lagrangian Fillings of Legendrian Submanifolds via Generating Families.
    Samantha Pezzimenti*, Bryn Mawr College
    (1135-54-1181)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Deformation of Singular Fibers of Genus 2 Fibrations and Small Exotic Symplectic 4-Manifolds.
    Anar Akhmedov, University of Minnesota
    Sumeyra Sakalli*, University of Minnesota
    (1135-57-1157)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Symplectic embeddings and toric geometry.
    Daniel Cristofaro-Gardiner, UC Santa Cruz
    Tara S Holm*, Cornell University
    Alessia Mandini, PUC-Rio
    Ana Rita Pires, Cambridge University
    (1135-53-1597)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Reeb dynamics and contact invariants.
    Jo Nelson*, Columbia University
    (1135-58-525)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Mean action of area-preserving diffeomorphisms of the annulus.
    Morgan Weiler*, University of California, Berkeley
    (1135-53-1506)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Arboreal Skeleta.
    Laura Starkston*, Stanford University
    (1135-53-886)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-6:25 p.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Applied Mathematics, II
  Room 19, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Path-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi equations in infinite dimensions.
    Erhan Bayraktar, University of Michigan
    Christian Keller*, University of Michigan
    (1135-35-182)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Global regularity criteria for 2D micropolar equations with partial dissipation.
    Dipendra Regmi*, University of North Georgia
    (1135-35-705)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Numerical Simulations of Thin Viscoelastic Sheets.
    Valeria Barra*, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Shahriar Afkhami, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Shawn A. Chester, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    (1135-76-3233)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Instability and dynamics of volatile thin films.
    Hangjie Ji*, University of California, Los Angeles
    Thomas P Witelski, Duke University
    (1135-76-882)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Validated Numerical Analysis of the Hele-Shaw free boundary problem.
    Andrew Thomack*, Florida Atlantic University
    Jason Mireles-James, Florida Atlantic University
    Erik Lundberg, Florida Atlantic University
    (1135-76-2969)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Well-Posedness and Control in a Free Boundary Fluid-Structure Interaction.
    Lorena Bociu, North Carolina State University
    Lucas Castle*, North Carolina State University
    Irena Lasiecka, The University of Memphis
    (1135-35-1765)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Simple Second-Order Finite Differences for Elliptic PDEs with Discontinuous Coefficients and Interfaces.
    Chung-Nan Tzou*, University of Wisconsin at Madison
    Samuel Stechmann, University of Wisconsin at Madison
    (1135-65-2145)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Lagrangian aspects of the axisymmetric Euler equation.
    Stephen C Preston, Brooklyn College
    Alejandro Sarria*, University of North Georgia
    (1135-35-468)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Lagrangian chaos and transport in geophysical fluid flows.
    Maleafisha J.P.S. Tladi*, University of Limpopo
    (1135-37-5)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    The wave scattering analysis of flexible trifurcated waveguide using Mode-Matching approach.
    Rab Nawaz*, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Islamabad Pakistan
    Muhammad Afzal, Capital University of Science and Technology Islamabad Pakistan
    (1135-76-348)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Confined Flowing Bacterial Suspensions.
    Zhenlu Cui*, Fayetteville State University
    (1135-76-231)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Symmetry Breaking in a Random Passive Scalar.
    Zeliha Kilic*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Joint Applied Math and Marine Sciences Fluids Lab
    Richard M McLaughlin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Joint Applied Math and Marine Sciences Fluids Lab
    Roberto Camassa, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Joint Applied Math and Marine Sciences Fluids Lab
    (1135-76-2859)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Fine structure symmetry-breaking in decaying passive scalars advected by laminar shear flow.
    Francesca Bernardi*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Manuchehr Aminian, Colorado State University
    Roberto Camassa, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Daniel M. Harris, Brown University
    Richard M. McLaughlin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (1135-76-2495)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Traveling waves in mass and spring dimer Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou lattices.
    Timothy E. Faver*, Drexel University
    J. Douglas Wright, Drexel University
    (1135-35-2084)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Traveling Wave Solutions in Mixed Monotone Models of Population Biology, with Time Delays and Density-Dependent Diffusions.
    Wei Feng*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Carolina Wilmington
    Weihua Ruan, Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics, Purdue University Northwest
    Xin Lu, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Carolina Wilmington
    (1135-35-1380)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Nonclassical Symmetries of a Generalized KdV Equation.
    Danny Arrigo*, University of Central Arkansas
    Andrea Weaver, University of Central Arkansas
    (1135-35-2478)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    \newline Multi-scale modeling of high frequency wave propagation in heterogeneous medium with cracks.
    Viktoria Savatorova*, University of Nevada Las Vegas
    Aleksei Talonov, National Research Nuclear Uniersity MEPhI (Russia)
    (1135-35-66)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Remarks on the global regularity of two-dimensional Boussinesq equations.
    Dhanapati Adhikari*, Marywood University
    (1135-35-2796)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Local Well-Posedness and Blow-up Criteria for the Rotational b-family Equation.
    Emel Bolat*, University of Texas at Arlington
    Yue Liu, University of Texas at Arlington
    (1135-35-2836)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    A Continuation Method for Computing Capillary Surfaces.
    Nicholas D Brubaker*, California State University, Fullerton
    (1135-76-2367)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Using analysis of fast collisions between solitons of the nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation for mathematical modeling of pulse propagation in broadband optical waveguide systems.
    Avner Peleg*, Department of Exact Sciences, Afeka College of Engineering
    Quan M. Nguyen, International University, Vietnam National University-HCMC
    Debananda Chakraborty, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ
    Toan T. Huynh, University of Science, Vietnam National University-HCMC
    (1135-35-418)
  • 6:15 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: On the Navier Stokes Equation with Rough Transport Noise.
    Martina Hofmanova, Technical University of Berlin
    James-Michael Leahy*, University of Southern California
    Torstein Nilssen, Technical University of Berlin
    (1135-35-3154)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
  AMS General Session
  Room 12, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Dynamical modular curves and uniform boundedness of preperiodic points.
    John R. Doyle*, Louisiana Tech University
    (1135-37-1458)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    Template iterations of quadratic maps and hybrid Mandelbrot sets.
    Kelsey Butera*, State University of New York at New Paltz
    Anca Radulescu, State University of New York at New Paltz
    (1135-37-1575)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Cantor Julia Sets and Automorphisms of Shift Quotients.
    Daniel Cuzzocreo*, Northwestern University
    (1135-37-2046)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    Dimensions of non-autonomous meromorphic functions of finite order.
    Jason Atnip*, University of North Texas
    (1135-37-1499)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Limits of Julia sets for sums of power maps and polynomials.
    Micah Brame*, Butler University
    Scott Kaschner, Butler University
    (1135-37-2208)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Boundary values of Thurston's pullback map.
    Russell Lodge*, Stony Brook University
    (1135-37-2753)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Dynamic Active Subspaces.
    Izabel Aguiar*, University of Colorado, Boulder
    Paul Constantine, University of Colorado, Boulder
    (1135-37-376)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    $S$-limited shifts.
    Elizabeth Sattler*, Carleton College
    Ben Matson, Carleton College
    (1135-37-2159)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Lyapunov Exponents for products of matrices.
    De-Jun Feng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Chiu-Hong Lo, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Shuang Shen*, Northwestern Polytechnical University
    (1135-37-456)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Obstructions to Ergodicity in No-slip Billiards.
    Christopher L Cox*, University of Delaware
    (1135-37-2554)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Entropy Locking.
    David Cosper*, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
    Michal Misiurewicz, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
    (1135-37-3027)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Estimating the Distribution of Random Parameters in an Abstract Parabolic System Modelling Transdermal Alcohol Biosensor.
    Melike Sirlanci*, University of Southern California
    Susan E Luczak, University of Southern California
    I G Rosen, University of Southern California
    (1135-37-1403)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Unique Measure for the Time-Dependent Navier-Stokes Equations.
    Gregory Varner*, John Brown University
    (1135-37-496)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: An overview of optimal quantization.
    Mrinal K Roychowdhury*, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
    (1135-37-11)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Stability of Periodic Fixed Points and Invariant Sets of the Modulated Logistic Map.
    Khoa D Tran*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1135-37-2269)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Connectedness of affine Iterated Function Systems.
    Nick Mendler*, University of San Francisco
    (1135-37-2303)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Strange attractors and some dynamical properties of a unimodal map.
    Weam M Al-Tameemi*, Texas A&M International University
    (1135-37-997)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Attracting and repelling cycles, Gröbner bases, and Brouwer's FPT.
    Mojtaba Moniri*, Western Illinois University
    Saman Moniri, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (1135-37-1795)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Stalking methods for ensemble Kalman filter covariance inflation.
    Thomas Bellsky*, University of Maine
    (1135-37-3049)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Huygens' Clocks Revisited.
    Petko M. Kitanov*, Rochester, NY
    (1135-37-2820)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Stability of equilibria in the presence of distributed time delays in neuronal networks.
    Israel Ncube*, Alabama A & M University
    (1135-37-270)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:15 p.m.
  MAA Session on Good Math from Bad: Crackpots, Cranks, and Progress
  Room 31B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Elizabeth T. Brown, James Madison University
  Samuel R. Kaplan, University of North Carolina Asheville skaplan@unca.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Can $1+2+3+4+5+ ... $ really equal $-1/12$?
    John J B Webb*, James Madison University
    (1135-M1-1190)
  • 1:20 p.m.
    Ernő Lendvai and the Bartók Controversy.
    Gareth E. Roberts*, College of the Holy Cross
    (1135-M1-1413)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    On Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism.
    Jason Rosenhouse*, James Madison University
    (1135-M1-1293)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 2:20 p.m.
    Playing with Continued Radicals and Iterated Exponents.
    Hossein Behforooz*, Utica College
    (1135-M1-674)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Kurt Gödel's Last Work on the Power of the Continuum.
    Montgomery Link*, Suffolk University, Boston, Mass., USA
    (1135-M1-928)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Good False Proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Finitely Generated Abelian Groups.
    Elizabeth Theta Brown*, James Madison University
    (1135-M1-2647)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
  MAA Session on Innovative and Effective Online Teaching Techniques
  Room 15B, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Sharon Mosgrove, Western Governors University sharon.mosgrove@wgu.edu
  Doug Scheib, Western Governors University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Online College Algebra Course: Engaging Students in Meaningful Learning Experiences.
    Susan Marla Orme*, Brigham Young University-Idaho
    (1135-L1-1912)
  • 1:20 p.m.
    Online Calculus I in Five Weeks with Remediation Opportunities.
    M. Reba*, Clemson University Clemson, SC
    (1135-L1-58)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    An Approach to Teaching Online Discrete Mathematics.
    Robert J Krueger*, Concordia University, St. Paul
    (1135-L1-823)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Group Projects and Ice-breakers Build Classroom Community in a Finite Math Course.
    Vesna Kilibarda*, Indiana University Northwest
    (1135-L1-2827)
  • 2:20 p.m.
    Opportunities & Challenges: Teaching Mathematics Online to Non-Traditional Pre-Service Teachers.
    Cheryll E Crowe*, Asbury University
    (1135-L1-405)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Facilitating Active Learning in Online Mathematics Courses.
    Michelle Homp*, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    (1135-L1-862)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Best Practices for Teaching an Active and Engaging Online Mathematics Course.
    RaKissa D Manzanares*, University of Colorado Denver
    (1135-L1-2078)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Student Engagement in an Online Mathematics Course.
    Yun Lu*, Kutztown University
    (1135-L1-2021)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Brave New Worlds: My ongoing journey into the world of online mathematics instruction.
    Miriam Harris-Botzum*, Lehigh Carbon Community College
    (1135-L1-1949)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  MAA Session on Inquiry-Based Teaching and Learning, II
  Room 4, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Eric Kahn, Bloomsburg University
  Brian P. Katz, Augustana College briankatz@augustana.edu
  Victor Piercey, Ferris State University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Specifications grading in an IBL-ish Abstract Algebra course.
    J. D. Berg*, Fitchburg State University
    (1135-D5-2914)
  • 1:20 p.m.
    Collaborative Activities in an undergraduate Abstract Algebra Course.
    Gabriel Sosa*, Amherst College
    (1135-D5-3202)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    The i road to upper-level mathematics.
    Robert L. Sachs*, George Mason University
    (1135-D5-2673)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Supervised in-class proving.
    Katherine Vance*, Simpson College
    (1135-D5-3004)
  • 2:20 p.m.
    Exploring the Intersection of Fostering Mathematical Creativity and Inquiry Teaching.
    Milos Savic, University of Oklahoma
    Houssein El Turkey*, University of New Haven
    Emily Cilli-Turner, University of Washington - Tacoma
    Gail Tang, University of La Verne
    Gulden Karakok, University of Northern Colorado
    Mohamed Omar, Harvey Mudd College
    (1135-D5-3070)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    An IBL Freshman Research Initiative Course: IBL FRI - Symmetry.
    Mark L. Daniels*, Mathematics Department/University of Texas at Austin
    (1135-D5-1332)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Course Based Research Experience at the Sophomore Level.
    Michael G. Dabkowski*, Lawrence Technological University
    (1135-D5-1605)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    One Model for a Successful Capstone Course in Problem Solving.
    Jane H Long*, Stephen F. Austin State University
    (1135-D5-3088)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Knowing What You Know.
    Rebekah B Johnson Yates*, Houghton College
    (1135-D5-2995)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Question Formulation Technique: Fostering engagement through student-driven questioning.
    Matthew Fischler*, Math for America
    (1135-D5-1703)
  • 4:20 p.m.
    What to ask next, as students explore Egyptian Fractions.
    Jaewoo Lee*, Borough of Manhattan Community College (The City University of New York)
    (1135-D5-1808)
  • 4:40 p.m.
    Engaging students with the Pell equation through inquiry with primary historical sources.
    Keith M Jones*, SUNY Oneonta
    Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, SUNY Oneonta
    (1135-D5-667)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The Possibility of Inquiry and its Role in the Pursuit of Personally Relevant Mathematics.
    Kathleen M Clark*, Florida State University
    Cihan Can, Florida State University
    (1135-D5-3138)
  • 5:20 p.m.
    NEW TIME: Austism Spectrum Students in IBL Classrooms.
    Susan B Crook*, Loras College
    (1135-D5-2503)
  • 5:40 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Inquiry Based Learning (IBL) and Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT): Increasing Equity, Access, and Success in underrepresented populations through a combination of IBL and CRT.
    Karen Heavin*, Kentucky State University
    Fariba Bigdeli-Jahed, Kentucky State University
    (1135-D5-3170)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Applied Mathematics, IV
  Room 28E, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Tim Comar, Benedictine University tcomar@ben.edu
  James Reid, University of Mississippi
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Sparse Regression for Twitter Analysis.
    Phylisicia Nicole Carter*, University of Alabama
    (1135-VN-2440)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    From Orthonormal basis to Frames: An introduction.
    Ghanshyam Bhatt*, Tennessee State University
    (1135-VN-2445)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Catching a Falling Ball with Reinforcement Learning.
    Sarah Teichman, Amherst College
    Jing Li*, University of Hong Kong
    Quentin Dubroff, University of Delaware
    Xiaoyu Xie, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    (1135-VN-2479)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    Simulations of suspension flows with a meshless moving least squares scheme.
    Amanda A Howard*, Brown University
    Nathaniel Trask, Sandia National Laboratories
    Martin R Maxey, Brown University
    (1135-VN-2587)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    The Firing Squad Synchronization Problem.
    Kathryn A. Lokken*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    (1135-VN-2598)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    A Biochemically-Structured Fisher's Equation with Applications in Wound Healing.
    John T. Nardini*, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado, Boulder
    (1135-VN-2720)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Stock Forecasting Using M-Band Wavelet Based Machine Learning Methods.
    Abdul Hasib Rahimyar*, Western Connecticut State University
    Hieu Nguyen, Western Connecticut State University
    Xiaodi Wang, Western Connecticut State University
    (1135-VN-2745)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Polynomial multiplication over binary field and its implementation.
    Upama Neupane*, Cameron University
    Gokul Raj Kadel, Cameron University
    Parshuram Budhathoki, Cameron University
    (1135-VN-2792)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Linear Analysis of Moisture Transport Due to Baroclinic Atmospheric Waves.
    Alfredo N Wetzel*, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Leslie M Smith, Department of Mathematics & Department of Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Samuel N Stechmann, Department of Mathematics & Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1135-VN-2812)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Intelligent Skincare Assistant: A Deep Learning Approach to Dermatology.
    Robben Teufel*, California State University, Channel Islands
    Xiaofeng Xu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    Guanzhi Wang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    Aldo Gael Carranza, Stanford University
    (1135-VN-2868)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Two Optimization-based Approaches for Computational Proofs of Vizing's Conjecture.
    Susan Margulies*, United States Naval Academy
    Elisabeth Gaar, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
    Daniel Krenn, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
    Angelika Wiegele, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
    (1135-VN-2943)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Crystallization for a Brenner-like potential.
    Brittan Farmer*, University of Minnesota
    Selim Esedoglu, University of Michigan
    Peter Smereka, University of Michigan (deceased)
    (1135-VN-3040)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Stability of Periodic Fixed Points and Invariant Sets of the Modulated Logistic Map.
    Khoa D Tran*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1135-VN-3087)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Classifying Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectra of Biologics.
    Ryan M. Evans*, National Institute of Standards and Technology
    Anthony J. Kearsley, National Institute of Standards and Technology
    Robert G. Brinson, Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research
    Luke W. Arbogast, Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research
    Frank Delaglio, Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research
    (1135-VN-3114)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    NEW PRESENTER: The Dynamics at the Battle of Kruger: Age Structured Defense in a Buffalo and Lion Predator-Prey Model.
    Ricardo J Cordero-Soto, California Baptist University
    Brittni K Hall*, Auburn University
    Joseph D Gemignani, California Baptist University
    (1135-VN-3120)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    On the identification of $k$-inductively pierced codes using toric ideals.
    Molly Hoch, Wellesley College
    Samuel A Muthiah*, Westmont College
    Nida Obatake, Texas A&M University
    (1135-VN-3186)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Using Uncertainty Quantification to Assess the Significance of Product Inhibition in Biochemical Assays.
    Michael T Stobb*, University of California, Merced
    Suzanne Sindi, University of California, Merced
    Karin Leiderman, Colorado School of Mines
    (1135-VN-3194)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    An Extended DEIM Algorithm for Subset Selection.
    Emily Hendryx*, Rice University
    Beatrice Riviere, Rice University
    Craig Rusin, Baylor College of Medicine
    Danny Sorensen, Rice University
    (1135-VN-3225)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Exact and Trajectory Controllability of Nonlinear Fractional order systems with deviated arguments with Infinite delay.
    Dimplekumar N Chalishajar*, Virginia Military Institute
    (1135-VN-3230)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Teaching and Learning Calculus, I
  Room 32B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Tim Comar, Benedictine University tcomar@ben.edu
  James Reid, University of Mississippi
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Peer Assisted Learning in Calculus.
    Corey Shanbrom, Sacramento State University
    Vincent Pigno*, Sacramento State University
    Jennifer Lundmark, Sacramento State University
    Lynn Tashiro, Sacramento State University
    (1135-VJ-1339)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    Riemann Sums Belong at the End of Integral Calculus, Not in the Beginning.
    Robert R. Rogers*, SUNY Fredonia
    (1135-VJ-1412)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Teaching Large Lecture Calculus Using Team Based Learning.
    Elgin H. Johnston*, Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
    Heather Bolles, Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
    Travis Peters, Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
    Craig Ogilvie, Department of Physics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
    Alexis Knaub, Center for Research on Instructional Change in Postsecondary Education, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
    Thomas Holmes, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
    Chassidy Bozeman, Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
    Stefanie Wang, Department of Mathematics, Trinity College, Hartford CT
    Anna Seitz, Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
    (1135-VJ-1587)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    Adapting understanding of functions and domain to create 3D printed art.
    David R. Burns*, Western Connecticut State University
    (1135-VJ-1734)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Two Implementations of Pre Class Readings in Calculus.
    Houssein El Turkey*, University of New Haven
    Salam Turki, Rhode Island College
    Yasanthi Kottegoda, University of New Haven
    (1135-VJ-1889)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Limits Belong at the End of Differential Calculus, Not at the Beginning.
    Eugene C. Boman*, Penn State, Harrisburg campus
    (1135-VJ-2202)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    The impact of the Derivatives in Applied Calculus II course: A case study in Applied Calculus II at the University of Texas Dallas.
    Derege H Mussa*, University of Texas at Dallas
    Jigar Patel, New York Univeristy
    Changsong Li, University of Texas at Dallas
    (1135-VJ-2230)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Discovering Calculus through Pasta.
    Mel Henriksen*, Wentworth Institute of Technology
    Gary Simundza, Wentworth Institute of Technology
    Emma Smith Zbarsky, Wentworth Institute of Technology
    (1135-VJ-2546)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Mixture model approach of classifying students based on their performance in differential calculus.
    Amit A Savkar*, Associate Professor in Resi/Director of Assessment and Teaching Freshmen-level mathematics
    (1135-VJ-2736)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Large Lectures of Flipped Calculus.
    Ryan Maccombs*, Michigan State University
    Andrew Krause, Michigan State University
    (1135-VJ-2783)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Using Points-Free Homework to Promote Perseverance.
    Austin Mohr*, Nebraska Wesleyan University
    (1135-VJ-2893)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Putting the Logs to the Fire -- From Calculus to Algorithmics.
    Tracey Baldwin McGrail*, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York
    (1135-VJ-2901)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    An alternate assessment technique - evaluated.
    Kayla K. Blyman*, United States Military Academy
    Kristin M. Arney, United States Military Academy
    (1135-VJ-2936)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    The Role of Low Instructional Overhead Tasks as Supports for Active Learning in Undergraduate Calculus Courses.
    David C. Webb*, University of Colorado Boulder
    (1135-VJ-3078)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Improving Feedback.
    Karen Edwards*, Harvard
    Brendan Kelly, Harvard
    (1135-VJ-3145)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    New tracks for a Calculus Curriculum in Engineering.
    Gianluca Guadagni, Applied Mathematics, School of Engineering, University of Virginia
    Bernard Fulgham, Applied Mathematics, School of Engineering, University of Virginia
    Stacie Pisano*, Applied Mathematics, School of Engineering, University of Virginia
    Hui Ma, Applied Mathematics, School of Engineering, University of Virginia
    Diana Morris, Applied Mathematics, School of Engineering, University of Virginia
    Monika Abramenko, Applied Mathematics, School of Engineering, University of Virginia
    Julie Spencer, Applied Mathematics, School of Engineering, University of Virginia
    (1135-VJ-3171)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Increasing mathematics self-efficacy in calculus students using study packets.
    Stephanie A Blanda*, Penn State University
    (1135-VJ-1434)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-2:40 p.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Teaching and Learning Introductory Mathematics, II
  Room 28D, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Tim Comar, Benedictine University tcomar@ben.edu
  James Reid, University of Mississippi
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Use of Sudoku Variations in an Introduction to Proofs Course for Majors.
    Jeff Poet*, Missouri Western State University
    (1135-VI-2039)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    South Dakota School of Mines Math Initiative: Part One.
    Michelle Richard-Greer*, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
    Debra Bienert, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
    (1135-VI-2119)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    South Dakota School of Mines Math Initiative: Part Two.
    Debra Bienert*, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
    Michelle Richard-Greer, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
    (1135-VI-2126)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Prospective Teachers Analyzing Transcripts of Teaching.
    Laura M. Singletary*, Lee University
    (1135-VI-2589)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Introducing Linear and Exponential Rates of Change in Linguistically Diverse Secondary Classrooms: Exploring Connections Among Curriculum, Tasks, and Student Understandings.
    Lynda Wynn*, San Diego State University & UC San Diego
    Bill Zahner, San Diego State University
    Hayley Milbourne, San Diego State University & UC San Diego
    (1135-VI-2689)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Reading Mathematics is a Learnable Skill.
    Sean Droms*, Lebanon Valley College
    (1135-VI-2695)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Mathematical Biology and Modeling Disease
  Room 13, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    A map-based approach to understanding sleep/wake dynamics in early childhood.
    Cecilia Diniz Behn*, Colorado School of Mines
    Kelsey Kalmbach, Colorado School of Mines
    Victoria Booth, University of Michigan
    (1135-92-2715)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    A mathematical model of iron metabolism in the human body.
    Timothy Patrick Barry*, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Biology
    (1135-92-2602)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    A mathematical model for Amyloid beta influenced calcium signaling through the IP$_3$ receptors.
    Joe Latulippe*, Norwich University
    Joseph Minicucci, Norwich University
    (1135-34-1428)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    Intermyocellular Lipids and the Progression of Muscular Insulin Resistance.
    Daniel H Burkow*, Arizona State University
    (1135-34-2779)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    A mathematical model of coupled excitation and inhibition in a neuronal network for movement and reward.
    Anca Radulescu*, State University of New York at New Paltz
    Caitlin Kennedy, State University of New York and New Paltz
    Johanna Herron, State University of New York at New Paltz
    Annalisa Scimemi, State University of New York at Albany
    (1135-34-1578)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Analysis for piecewise smooth models of a biological motor control system.
    Yangyang Wang*, Ohio State University
    Jeffery Gill, Case Western Reserve University
    Hillel Chiel, Case Western Reserve University
    Peter Thomas, Case Western Reserve University
    (1135-34-1712)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Breaking the Vicious Limit Cycle: Addiction Relapse-Recovery As a Fast-Slow Dynamical System.
    Jacob P. Duncan*, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN
    Monica McGrath, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN
    Teresa M. Aubele-Futch, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN
    (1135-92-404)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    The statistical mechanics of human weight change.
    John C Lang*, University of California Los Angeles
    Hans De Sterck, Monash University
    Daniel M Abrams, Northwestern University
    (1135-92-81)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Assessing the Impact of 8 Weeks of Almond Consumption on Anthropometric and Clinical Measurements in College Freshmen.
    Marily Barron*, University of California, Merced
    Jaapna Dhillon, University of California, Merced
    Syed A. Asghar, University of California, Merced
    Quintin Kuse, University of California, Merced
    Natalie De La Cruz, University of California, Merced
    Emily Vu, University of California, Merced
    Suzanne S. Sindi, University of California, Merced
    Rudy M. Ortiz, University of California, Merced
    (1135-92-2362)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Coevolving cancer hallmarks: The angiogenic switch is modulated by clonal selection on proliferation.
    Aleesa Monaco*, School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University
    John D. Nagy, School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Arizona State University
    Kalle Parvinen, Department of Mathematics, University of Turku
    (1135-92-2257)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The stability of cellular networks against mutations.
    Lora D Weiss*, University of California Irvine
    Natalia L Komarova, University of California Irvine
    (1135-92-2366)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Equilibria Analysis for a Two-Population Epidemic Model with One Population Being a Reservoir for Infection.
    Rachel Elizabeth TeWinkel*, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
    Istvan Lauko, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
    Gabriella Pinter, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
    (1135-34-2204)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Parsing a Crowd of Near Best Fits: Consensus Ranges for Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Modeling.
    Ellie Mainou*, Emory University
    Robert Dorit, Smith College
    Gwen Spencer, Smith College
    Dylan Shepardson, Mount Holyoke College
    (1135-92-529)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Stochastic Models of Within-Host Viral Infection.
    Krystin E. Steelman Huff*, Texas Tech University
    None, None
    (1135-92-2037)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Mathematical Models of the Immune System's Response to Bacterial Infection on the Surface of an Implant Device.
    Shelby Stanhope*, Temple University
    Isaac Klapper, Temple University
    (1135-92-1913)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    The iterative process of quantitative modeling of infection dynamics in renal transplant recipients.
    Neha Murad*, North Carolina State University
    Harvey Thomas Banks, North Carolina State University
    Rebecca Everett, North Carolina State University
    (1135-34-732)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Mathematics-driven insights into the hostile immune system behavior toward hair follicles.
    Atanaska Dobreva*, Florida State University
    Nick G Cogan, Florida State University
    Ralf Paus, University of Manchester
    (1135-92-1462)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    HIV epidemiology; mass incarceration and HIV incidence; male-female ratio; $R_0$.
    David J. Gerberry, Xavier University
    Hem Raj Joshi*, Xavier University
    (1135-34-2725)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Modeling Autoimmune Disease with Differential Equations.
    Jennifer A Anderson*, Texas Woman's University
    Ellina Grigorieva, Texas Woman's University
    (1135-34-2581)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Autoimmune Diseases Induced by Exposure to Radiation.
    Leila Mirsaleh Kohan*, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX 76204
    Ellina Grigorieva, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX 76204
    (1135-34-1762)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Mucosal Folding and Growth Instabilities in a Finite Element Model of an Atherosclerotic Artery.
    Pak-Wing Fok*, University of Delaware, Department of Mathematical Sciences
    (1135-92-721)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-4:35 p.m.
  MAA Session on Mathematical Themes in a First-Year Seminar, II
  Room 15A, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Jennifer Bowen, The College of Wooster
  Pamela Pierce, The College of Wooster ppierce@wooster.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    "Life in the Data Deluge": A First-Year Seminar on the Implications of Data Science on Daily Life.
    Aimee Schwab-McCoy*, Creighton University
    (1135-Q1-23)
  • 1:20 p.m.
    Historical Codes and Ciphers as a First Year Seminar.
    Tamara B Veenstra*, University of Redlands
    (1135-Q1-515)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    A first-year seminar on the Mathematics of Sports Rankings.
    Jason Parsley*, Wake Forest University
    (1135-Q1-3102)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    On Zombies, The Republic, and Mathematics: Teaching First Year Seminars That Humanize Mathematics.
    Gizem Karaali*, Pomona College
    (1135-Q1-324)
  • 2:20 p.m.
    First Year Seminars as a Gateway to Upper Level Mathematics.
    Ann N Trenk*, Wellesley College
    (1135-Q1-2665)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Student Driven Modeling in a first year Game Theory Seminar.
    Janine Wittwer*, Westminster College, UT
    (1135-Q1-914)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Thinking about a First Year Math Seminar.
    Eddy A Kwessi*, Trinity University
    Merline E Nzenang Tienkoue, EFIL World Foundation
    Mathieu Tienkoue, EFIL World Foundation
    (1135-Q1-2892)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    An Honors First Year Seminar in Network Science.
    Jenny G Fuselier*, High Point University
    (1135-Q1-1457)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Murder, They Wrote: Problem Solving Is Fun!
    Gary Clark Hall*, Lipscomb University
    (1135-Q1-1068)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Mathematics For Liberal Arts In A First-Year Only Course.
    Philip K. Hotchkiss*, Westfield State University
    (1135-Q1-763)
  • 4:20 p.m.
    Quantitative Literacy in a First-Year Seminar.
    Maria G Fung*, Worcester State University
    (1135-Q1-2289)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Matrices and Matroids
  Room 18, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    A new proof of the Gauss-Lucas, Siebeck, and Bôcher-Grace theorems.
    Charles R Johnson, The College of William and Mary
    Pietro Paparella*, University of Washington Bothell
    (1135-15-3169)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    A Proof of a Generalized Lax Conjecture for Numerical Ranges.
    Kristin A. Camenga, Juniata College
    Patrick X. Rault*, University of Arizona
    (1135-15-2219)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Inequalities Related to Geometric Mean of Matrices.
    Sima Ahsani*, Auburn University
    (1135-15-2824)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    The general $\phi$-Hermitian solution to mixed pairs of quaternion matrix Sylvester equations.
    Zhuoheng He, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Auburn University
    Jianzhen Liu*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Auburn University
    Tin-Yau Tam, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Auburn University
    (1135-15-2205)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    On Descartes' rule of sings for matrix polynomials.
    Thomas R Cameron*, Davidson College, Mathematics and Computer Science Department
    (1135-15-1670)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Some open problems in the theory of matrix means and matrix functions.
    Trung Hoa Dinh*, University of North Florida
    (1135-15-70)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Applications of Equitable Decompositions for Graphs with Symmetries.
    Dallas Smith*, Brigham Young Univeristy
    Ben Webb, Brigham Young University
    Amanda Francis, Carol College
    Derek Sorensen, University of Oxford
    (1135-15-2190)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    The index set of scrambling indices.
    Guangming Jing*, Georgia State University
    Zhongshan Li, Georgia State University
    Yubin Gao, North University of China
    Yanling Shao, North University of China
    Wei Fang, Anhui Science And Technology University
    (1135-15-2476)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Isospectral Graph Reductions and Improved Estimates of Matrices' Spectra.
    Ben Z Webb*, Brigham Young University
    Leonid Bunimovich, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1135-15-1043)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Characteristic polynomials and eigenvalues for a family of tridiagonal real symmetric matrices and a tantalizing connection to Pascal's triangle.
    Emily Gullerud, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
    aBa Mbirika*, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
    Rita Post, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
    (1135-15-2961)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Partition Regular Matrices as Cryptographic Primitives.
    Jillian E McLeod*, United States Coast Guard Academy
    (1135-15-2534)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Reduced Row Echelon Forms of Matrices, Canonical Bases for Subspaces of vector Spaces, and Subalgebras of Lie Algebras.
    Uladzimir L Shtukar*, Durham, NC
    (1135-15-1841)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A fast inversion algorithm for the Laurent-Vandermonde matrix.
    David Miller*, University of Hartford
    (1135-15-1675)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Characterizations of regularity in matroids.
    Libby Taylor*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1135-05-228)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    All that glitters is not golden-mean: Structure of golden-mean matroids.
    Kevin M. Grace*, Louisiana State University
    (1135-05-1502)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Unipancyclic Binary Matroids.
    Colin Starr*, Willamette University
    Erin McNicholas, Willamette University
    Will Agnew-Svoboda, Salem, OR
    Alana Huszar, University of Michigan
    Jeff Schreiner-McGraw, Philomath, OR
    Corrine Yap, Rutgers
    (1135-05-2137)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Book Embeddings and Matroids.
    Thomas M McKenzie*, Gonzaga University
    (1135-05-2280)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Matroids and statistical dependency.
    Art Duval*, University of Texas at El Paso
    Amy Wagler, University of Texas at El Paso
    (1135-05-2383)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The Matroid Intersection Conjecture for Singular Matroids.
    Shadisadat Ghaderi*, Guttman Community College, City University of New York
    Jerzy Wojciechowski, West Virginia University
    (1135-05-2817)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-6:25 p.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Orthogonal Polynomials and Function Theory
  Room 29B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    On Unified Integrals involving the product of General Classes of Polynomials of Several Variables with Applications.
    Harish Nagar*, Sangam University, Bhilwara, Rajasthan (India)
    Ajay Kumar Tripathi, Mewar University
    (1135-33-3214)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    q-analogues of 2-D Hermite polynomial and partition statistics.
    Ahmad El-Guindy*, Texas A&M University at Qatar
    Mourad E.H. Ismail, University of Central Florida
    (1135-33-2419)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Dual polar graphs, a nil-DAHA of rank one, and non-symmetric dual $q$-Krawtchouk polynomials.
    Jae-Ho Lee*, University of North Florida
    Hajime Tanaka, Tohoku University
    (1135-33-223)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    Moment Representations of Type I $X_2$ Exceptional Laguerre Polynomials.
    Constanze Liaw, University of Delaware
    Jessica Stewart Kelly, Christopher Newport University
    John M. Osborn*, Baylor University
    (1135-33-3148)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    From scalar polynomial to matrix polynomial bounds.
    Aaron Melman*, Santa Clara University
    (1135-65-760)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Applications of orthogonal polynomials for solving a class of fractional optimal control problems.
    Neelam Singha*, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
    Chandal Nahak, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
    (1135-33-463)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Polynomially Interpolated Legendre Multiplier Sequences.
    M Chasse, Independent Researcher
    T Forgacs, California State University, Fresno
    A Piotrowski*, University of Alaska Southeast
    (1135-30-2979)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    On sector reducing operators.
    David Cardon, Brigham Young University
    Tamas Forgacs*, California State University, Fresno
    Andrzej Piotrowski, University of Alaska
    Evan Sorensen, Brigham Young University
    Jason White, Brigham Young University
    (1135-30-354)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Extending the Grace-Heawood theorem to minimal regions.
    Michael J. Miller*, Le Moyne College
    (1135-30-1771)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: On the asymptotics of Airy functions and their zeros.
    T. M. Dunster*, San Diego State University
    (1135-33-1022)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Zeros of polynomials and their generating functions.
    Khang D Tran*, California State University, Fresno
    (1135-30-1091)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    The asymptotic value of the Mahler measure of the Rudin-Shapiro polynomials.
    Tamas Erdelyi*, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University
    (1135-30-1532)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: On monotonicity and starlikeness of the generalized Bessel function.
    Rosihan M Ali*, Universiti Sains Malaysia
    See Keong Lee, Universiti Sains Malaysia
    Saiful R Mondal, King Faisal University
    (1135-33-140)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    The Imani Periodic Functions.
    Ronald E. Mickens*, Clark Atlanta University
    (1135-33-540)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Hardy-type spaces arising from a vector-valued Cauchy kernel.
    Jerry R. Muir, Jr.*, The University of Scranton
    (1135-32-2654)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    A Bound for Loewner-Weierstrass Hulls.
    David Nielsen Horton*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    (1135-30-2678)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The Multiple Loewner Equation with Rapidly and Randomly Oscillating Functions.
    Andrew Starnes*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    (1135-30-1360)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Properties of a Generalized Harmonic Bernardi Integral Operator.
    Stacey Muir*, The University of Scranton
    (1135-30-2668)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    A Singular Integral as a Boundary Measure.
    Laramie Paxton*, Washington State University
    Kevin R. Vixie, Washington State University
    (1135-28-1418)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Bounded point derivations on $R(X)$ and $R^p(X)$.
    Stephen M Deterding*, University of Kentucky
    (1135-30-48)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Generalized weighted trapezoid and Grüss type inequalities on time scales.
    Eze R Nwaeze*, Tuskegee University
    (1135-26-1886)
  • 6:15 p.m.
    A measurable function similar to the Itô integral on a generalized analogue of Wiener space.
    Dong Hyun Cho*, Kyonggi University
    (1135-28-1060)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Partitions, Paths, and Permutations
  Room 29A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    On a Conjecture Regarding Permutations which Destroy Arithmetic Progressions.
    Mehtaab Sawhney*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    David Stoner, Harvard University
    (1135-05-912)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    The Computation of Ramanujan--Kolberg Identities.
    Nicolas Allen Smoot*, Research Institute for Symbolic Computation
    (1135-11-2417)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Prime Partitions.
    Jie Sun, Michigan Technological University
    Kyle N. Sutela*, Michigan Technological University
    (1135-11-303)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    Toward an arithmetic of partitions.
    Robert Schneider*, Emory University
    (1135-11-825)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Johnson's bijections and their application to counting simultaneous core partitions.
    Jineon Baek, University of Michigan
    Hayan Nam*, University of California, Irvine
    Myungjun Yu, University of Michigan
    (1135-05-2332)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    On the Multiplicity-Free Plethysms $ p_{2}[s_{\lambda}]$.
    Luisa Carini*, University of Messina, Italy
    (1135-05-615)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    The Critical of the Kneser Graphs on 2-subsets of an n-set.
    Ian Hill*, James Madison University
    Johua Ducey, James Madison University
    Peter Sin, University of Florida
    (1135-08-989)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Combinatorics of orthogonal polynomials and skew tableaux.
    Jordan Olliver Tirrell*, Mount Holyoke College
    (1135-05-3222)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Fuss-Schröder Paths and Rooted Plane Forests.
    Michael Kural*, MIT
    (1135-05-2537)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Rainbow Turán Numbers for Paths and Forests of Stars.
    Daniel Johnston*, Grand Valley State University
    Cory Palmer, University of Montana
    Amites Sarkar, Western Washington University
    (1135-05-1791)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Decomposing Graphs With Two Associate Classes Into Paths Of Length 3.
    Chris A Rodger, Auburn University
    Bin Yeh*, Auburn
    (1135-05-2044)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Schur-Concavity for Avoidance of Increasing Subsequences in Block-Ascending Permutations.
    Evan Chen*, MIT
    (1135-05-980)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Cycle-Euler-Mahonian Triples of Permutation Statistics.
    Frederick Butler*, York College of Pennsylvania
    (1135-05-1439)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Exact and asymptotic enumeration of cyclic permutations according to descent set.
    Justin M. Troyka*, Dartmouth College
    Sergi Elizalde, Dartmouth College
    (1135-05-2155)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Sums of powers of the descent set statistic.
    Alex Happ*, University of Kentucky
    Richard Ehrenborg, University of Kentucky
    (1135-05-1174)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Refinements of the $q$-analogue of the Frame-Robinson-Thrall formula by descents.
    William J. Keith*, Michigan Technological University
    (1135-05-703)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A Polyhedral Proof of a Wreath Product Identity.
    Robert Davis*, Michigan State University
    Bruce Sagan, Michigan State University
    (1135-05-275)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    NEW TIME: Reconstructing Cactus Graphs from Shortest Path Information.
    Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton University
    Danny Krizanc, Wesleyan University
    Yun Lu*, Kutztown University of PA
    (1135-05-2048)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Shuffle-compatible permutation statistics.
    Ira M. Gessel, Brandeis University
    Yan Zhuang*, Brandeis University
    (1135-05-381)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Permutations with Restricted Positions and Asymptotic Distributions of Numbers of Cycles of Fixed Sizes.
    Enes Ozel*, University of Southern California
    (1135-05-688)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    The Permutations Project.
    Charles A Matthews*, Southeastern Oklahoma State University
    (1135-20-428)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
  MAA Session on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education (RUME), IV
  Room 14B, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Stacy Brown, California State Polytechnic University
  Megan Wawro, Virginia Tech mwawro@vt.edu
  Aaron Weinberg, Ithaca College
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    How a Pre-Calculus Student Was Able to Reason about Rates of Change Using Magnitudes.
    Irma E. Stevens*, University of Georgia
    (1135-J5-2584)
  • 1:20 p.m.
    On the dialectic of extracting meaning and ascribing meaning.
    Thorsten Scheiner*, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
    (1135-J5-682)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Collective Argumentation Regarding Integration of Complex Functions within Three Worlds of Mathematics.
    Brent Hancock*, University of Northern Colorado
    (1135-J5-299)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    How are we meeting their needs? Investigating Students' Use of a Quantitative Learning Center.
    Melissa Haire*, University of Connecticut
    Fabiana Cardetti, University of Connecticut
    (1135-J5-2967)
  • 2:20 p.m.
    Development of Instrument to Assess Undergraduates' Attitudes toward Mathematics.
    Soofia Malik*, University of Northwestern Ohio
    (1135-J5-1538)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    How Do Undergraduate Mathematics Students Justify Their Self-assessments in Academic Assignments?
    Kedar M Nepal*, Mercer University
    Kailash C Ghimire, Georgia Southwestern State University
    Ramjee Sharma, University of North Georgia-Gainesville
    Manoj Thapa, Georgia Southwestern State University
    (1135-J5-1711)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Students' Conceptual Understanding of Derivatives in Freshmen Calculus.
    Samer Habre*, Lebanese American University
    Iman Osta, Lebanese American University
    Hana Shatila, Lebanese American University
    (1135-J5-150)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Assessment of Flipping the Introductory Statistics Course.
    Constantin Dorin Dumitraşcu*, Adrian College
    (1135-J5-1097)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Dana Center Mathematics Pathways: Early findings from a randomized study of pathways curriculum implementation in four colleges.
    Rebecca Hartzler*, Charles A. Dana Center, University of Texas, Austin
    Jeremy Martin, Charles A. Dana Center, University of Texas, Austin
    (1135-J5-1490)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Dynamic 3D Imagery in Calculus III: Student responses and learning gains.
    Abraham Edwards*, Michigan State University
    (1135-J5-2486)
  • 4:20 p.m.
    "The slope is increasing!"-- Students' takeaways from Calculus.
    Natalie LF Hobson*, Sonoma State University
    (1135-J5-1816)
  • 4:40 p.m.
    Investigating Calculus Instructors' Responsiveness to and Interpretation of Student Thinking.
    Jessica Gehrtz*, Colorado State University
    Jess Ellis Hagman, Colorado State University
    Natasha Speer, University of Maine
    (1135-J5-2973)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  MAA Session on Technology and Apps for Teaching Mathematics and Statistics, I
  Room 5B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Stacey Hancock, Montana State University
  Soma Roy, California Polytechnic State University
  Sue Schou, Idaho State University
  Karl RB Schmitt, Valparaiso University karl.schmitt@valpo.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Using Interactive R Tutorials and Reproducible Research Practices to Introduce Statistical Learning Ideas to Undergraduate Statistics Students.
    Alana J Unfried*, California State University Monterey Bay
    (1135-K5-1220)
  • 1:20 p.m.
    Introducing R to different statistical audiences.
    Kimberly A Roth*, Juniata College
    (1135-K5-2443)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Teaching Statistics with R and Applications to Interdisciplinary Research.
    Leon Kaganovskiy*, Touro College, NY
    (1135-K5-63)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Implementing R Activities and Projects in Introductory Statistics.
    John D. Ross*, Southwestern University
    (1135-K5-2933)
  • 2:20 p.m.
    The Do's and Don'ts of a Statistics Project.
    Christine Davidson*, Suffolk County Community College
    (1135-K5-261)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Learning Statistics through Applications to Community.
    Rasitha R Jayasekare*, Butler University, IN
    (1135-K5-169)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Enhanced student learning and attitudes with bi-weekly MINITAB explorations.
    Dan Seth*, West Texas A&M University
    (1135-K5-21)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Discussion
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Engaging Students by Using Simulations to Address the Question of the Day.
    Kari Lock Morgan*, Pennsylvania State University
    (1135-K5-2991)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Does the Randomization Method Matter?
    Robin H Lock*, St. Lawrence University
    (1135-K5-2768)
  • 4:20 p.m.
    Bayes' Theorem and Lie Detector Tests.
    Howard Troughton*, Babson College
    (1135-K5-1036)
  • 4:40 p.m.
    Clarifying and Reimagining the Empirical Rule: An Introduction to the By-Thirds Rule.
    Allen G Harbaugh*, Boston University
    (1135-K5-1557)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Teaching P-values from Primary Sources.
    Dominic Klyve*, Central Washington University
    (1135-K5-2860)
  • 5:20 p.m.
    Teaching and learning statistics in education through MOODLE in Nepal.
    Durga Prasad Dhakal*, Kathmandu University School of Education, Nepal
    David A. Thomas, University of Great Falls, Montana
    (1135-K5-256)
  • 5:40 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Developing Concept Images Core Statistical Ideas: The Role of Interactive Dynamic Technology.
    Gail F Burrill*, Michigan State university
    (1135-K5-3015)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:15 p.m.
  MAA Session on The Advancement of Open Educational Resources, II
  Room 31C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Benjamin Atchinson, Framingham State University batchison@framingham.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Using Open Resources in a Freshman General Education Course: A progress report.
    John W Watson*, Arkansas Tech University
    (1135-P1-246)
  • 1:20 p.m.
    Open-source course materials for an inquiry-based approach to an introduction to proof course and abstract algebra.
    Dana C. Ernst*, Northern Arizona University
    (1135-P1-3238)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Lessons Learned in the Dissemination of the CalcPlot3D OER Applet and Exploration Activities.
    Monica VanDieren*, Robert Morri University
    Paul Seeburger, Monroe Community College
    Deborah Moore-Russo, University at Buffalo (SUNY)
    (1135-P1-2540)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    The UTMOST Sage Cell Repository.
    Thomas W. Judson*, Stephen F. Austin State University
    (1135-P1-828)
  • 2:20 p.m.
    A sustainable publishing model for open educational resources.
    Claude Laflamme*, University of Calgary / Lyryx Learning
    Stephanie C. Keyowski, Lyryx Learning
    Tamsyn Murnaghan, Lyryx Learning
    (1135-P1-2629)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Open Source Introduction to Game Theory.
    Jennifer Nordstrom*, Linfield College
    (1135-P1-1740)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Implementing OER materials in a quantitative skills and literacy mathematics course.
    Tricia Muldoon Brown*, Armstrong State University/Georgia Southern University
    Joshua Lambert, Armstrong State University/Georgia Southern University
    (1135-P1-1435)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-4:35 p.m.
  MAA Session on The Teaching and Learning of Undergraduate Ordinary Differential Equations, II
  Room 14A, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Christopher S. Goodrich, Creighton Preparatory School cgood@prep.creighton.edu
  Beverly H. West, Cornell University
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    First and Second-Order Models of Vertical Motion of Dry Air Parcels.
    Chris Oehrlein*, Oklahoma City Community College
    Jessica Oehrlein, Columbia University
    (1135-C5-1839)
  • 1:20 p.m.
    What happens when a physicist teaches Ordinary Differential Equations?
    P. P. Yu*, Westminster College
    (1135-C5-2146)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Laplace Transforms vs. The Method of Undetermined Coefficients.
    Paul D. Olson*, Penn State Erie , the Behrend College Erie , PA .
    (1135-C5-2163)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Strategic use of technology and modeling to motivate, investigate, and illuminate.
    William Skerbitz*, Wayzata High School
    (1135-C5-2281)
  • 2:20 p.m.
    Visualizing Topics from Differential Equations Using CalcPlot3D.
    Paul E. Seeburger*, Monroe Community College
    (1135-C5-2357)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Deriving Kepler's Laws in a Differential Equations class.
    Andrew G. Bennett*, Kansas State University
    (1135-C5-2815)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Using Dynamic Visualization to Better Understand the Tractrix and Other "Pulling" Curves.
    Douglas B. Meade*, University of South Carolina - Columbia
    (1135-C5-3010)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    Resisted Projectile Motion: a Trove of ODE Applications/Projects.
    William W Hackborn*, University of Alberta, Augustana Campus
    (1135-C5-3181)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    General Discussion: CODEE invites all who teach ODEs to join us for a meet-and-greet hour. We will include discussion of the online CODEE Journal, with plans for a special issue in 2018
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-3:35 p.m.
  NAM Granville-Brown-Haynes Session of Presentations by Recent Doctoral Recipients in the Mathematical Sciences
  Room 32A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Dr. Talitha M Washington, Howard University talitha.washington@howard.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Orthogonal Projections and Regularity of Sets.
    Bobby Wilson*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1135-28-2437)
  • 1:20 p.m.
    Enlarging Noetherian Rings While Preserving Their Spectrum.
    Cory H Colbert*, Williams College
    (1135-13-2002)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Central Sets Theorem in Adequate Partial Semigroups.
    Kendra E Pleasant*, Morgan State University
    (1135-16-1151)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Trace ideals and their applications in commutative algebra.
    Haydee Lindo*, Williams College
    (1135-13-2790)
  • 2:20 p.m.
    A proof of the peak polynomial positivity conjecture.
    Alexander Diaz-Lopez*, University of Villanova
    Pamela Harris, Williams College
    Erik Insko, Florida Golf Coast University
    Mohamed Omar, Harvey Mudd College
    (1135-05-936)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Nonlinear Filtering Problems for systems governed by PDEs.
    Melissa Guemo Ngamini*, Morehouse College
    (1135-35-2234)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Implications from Modeling of Visceral Leishmaniasis Transmission: A Region-dependent Characterization of Risks.
    Kamal K Barley*, University of Cincinnati
    (1135-92-2814)
  • 3:20 p.m.
    A Bayesian Markov Decision Process to Evaluate Mode of Delivery.
    Karen T. Hicklin*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (1135-90-3074)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  SIAM Minisymposium on Mimetic Multiphase Subsurface and Oceanic Transport
  Room 11A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Jose Castillo, San Diego State University jcastillo@mail.sdsu.edu
  Chris Paolini, San Diego State University paolini@engineering.sdsu.edu
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Effects of CO2 Injection on Calcite Saturation during Geologic CO2 Sequestration.
    Christopher Paolini*, San Diego State University
    (1135-86-2910)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Fluid Structure Interaction in Geologic CO2 sequestration using Coupled Finite Element and Mimetic Methods.
    Jonathan Matthews*, San Diego State University
    Christopher Paolini, San Diego State University
    Jose Castillo, San Diego State University
    (1135-86-2861)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Modeling Multiphase Buoyancy Driven Plume Migration during Geologic CO2 Injection.
    Kyle Campbell*, San Diego State University
    Christopher Paolini, San Diego State University
    Jose Castillo, San Diego State University
    (1135-86-2724)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Parallelized Chemical Equilibrium Solver for Geologic CO2 Sequestration.
    Jose Navarro Nunez*, San Diego State University
    Christopher Paolini, San Diego State University
    Jose Castillo, San Diego State University
    (1135-86-3125)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    SubFlow: Modeling Geological Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide with Mimetic Discretization Methods.
    Johnny Corbino*, Computational Science Research Center, San Diego State University
    (1135-35-2127)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    NEW TIME: High Order Mimetic Methods on Overlapping Grids.
    Angel A Boada*, San Diego State University - Computational Science Research Center
    Jose E Castillo, San Diego State University - Computational Science Research Center
    (1135-35-2626)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    {/bf TIME CHANGE:} Validation of the Nonhydrostatic General Curvilinear Coastal Ocean Model (GCCOM) for Stratified Flows.
    Mariangel Garcia*, Computational Science Research Center- SDSU
    Paul Choboter, Mathematics Department
    Ryan Walter, Physics Department
    Jose Castillo, Computational Science Research Center
    (1135-86-1981)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Development and optimization of a PETSc-based parallel GCCOM model.
    Mary P Thomas, San Diego State University
    Mariangel Garcia, San Diego State University
    Neelam Patel*, San Diego State University
    Manuel Valera, San Diego State University
    Jose E Castillo, San Diego State University
    (1135-35-2562)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Modeling nearshore internal bores and waves in Monterey Bay using the General Curvilinear Coastal Ocean Model (GCCOM).
    Manuel A Valera*, Computational Science Research Center - San Diego State University
    Mariangel Garcia, Computational Science Research Center - San Diego State University
    Paul Choboter, Mathematics Department, California Polytechnic State University
    Ryan Walter, Physics Department, California Polytechnic State University
    Jose Castillo, Computational Science Research Center, San Diego State University.
    (1135-76-2195)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Mimetic Curvilinear Coastal Ocean Modeling.
    William Byrd*, San Diego State University
    Jose E. Castillo, San Diego State University
    (1135-76-2188)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  MAA Panel
  Pathways Through High School Mathematics: Building Focus and Coherence
  Room 2, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Karen J. Graham, University of New Hampshire karen.graham@unh.edu
  Panelists:
  Gail Burrill, Michigan State University
  Yvonne Lai, University of Nebraska Lincoln
  Matt Larson, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
  Francis Su, Harvey Mudd College
  Dan Teague, North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
  AMS-MAA Joint Committee on TAs and Part-Time Instructors Panel: Panel on The Experiences of Foreign Graduate Students as GTAs
  Room 1B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  John Boller, University of Chicago
  Solomon Friedberg, Boston College solomon.friedberg@bc.edu
  Edward Richmond, Oklahoma State University
  Moderators:
  Solomon Friedberg, Boston College
  Panelists:
  Gangotryi Sorcar, Ohio State University
  Fatma Terzioglu, Texas A & M
  Kai Zhao, Temple University
  Zhuohui Zhang, Rutgers University
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
  EVENT CANCELLED: NSF Town Hall Meeting with Joan Ferrini-Mundy
  Room 6D, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Jim Lewis, National Science Foundation
  Lee Zia, National Science Foundation
  Speakers:
  Joan Ferrini-Mundy, National Science Foundation
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
  Town Hall Meeting
  Creating Engaging, Meaningful Experiences for Teachers and Future Teachers
  Room 5A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
• Friday January 12, 2018, 1:15 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Topology
  Room 1A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Tim Comar, Benedictine University tcomar@ben.edu
  James Reid, University of Mississippi
  

  • 1:00 p.m.
    Legendrian Knots and their Lagrangian Fillings.
    Samantha Pezzimenti*, Bryn Mawr College
    (1135-VU-1192)
  • 1:15 p.m.
    Computations in twisted Morava K-theory.
    Aliaksandra Yarosh*, Pennsylvania State University
    (1135-VU-720)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    A polynomial invariant for plane curve complements: Krammer polynomials.
    Mehmet E Aktas*, University of Central Oklahoma
    Serdar Cellat, Florida State University
    Hubeyb Gurdogan, Florida State University
    (1135-VU-836)
  • 1:45 p.m.
    Calculating the classical algebraic topology of a 4-manifold from a trisection diagram.
    Peter Feller, ETH Zurich
    Michael Klug, UC Berkeley
    Trent Schirmer, University of Georgia
    Drew Zemke*, Cornell University
    (1135-VU-1183)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Quasi-Isometric Boundary Swapping.
    Craig R Guilbault, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    Molly A Moran*, Colorado College
    (1135-VU-838)
  • 2:15 p.m.
    Topological complexity of graph configuration spaces.
    Steven Scheirer*, Lehigh University
    (1135-VU-1218)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Legendrian Torus Links.
    Jennifer L. Dalton, The Rivers School
    John B. Etnyre, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Lisa Traynor*, Bryn Mawr College
    (1135-VU-1488)
  • 2:45 p.m.
    Investigating diagonal knot grid diagrams.
    Jack Arndt*, Simpson College
    Malia Jansen, Simpson College
    Payton McBurney, Simpson College
    (1135-VU-1496)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Classifying composite links.
    Brandon Q Tran*, University of St. Thomas
    (1135-VU-1882)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Recognizing knot types using neural networks.
    Zach Sorenson*, University of St. Thomas
    Isaac Vraspir, University of St. Thomas
    (1135-VU-1936)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Knots in tight confinement.
    Isaac Vraspir*, University of St. Thomas
    Zach Sorenson, University of St. Thomas
    (1135-VU-1937)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    A Study of Metrics on Visual Boundaries.
    Malcolm Henry Gabbard*, Colorado College
    Sam Kottler, Colorado College
    (1135-VU-2097)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Bridge Trisections of Surfaces in 4-Manifolds.
    Vincent Longo*, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    Alex Zupan, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    (1135-VU-2171)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Is There a Topology on Q That Detects Continuous Extensions to R?
    Mike Krebs*, California State University, Los Angeles
    (1135-VU-2209)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Finiteness Properties of Nekrashevych Groups.
    Rachel Skipper*, Binghamton University
    Matthew C.B. Zaremsky, University at Albany
    (1135-VU-2299)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Dijkgraaf--Witten type invariants of Seifert surfaces in 3--manifolds.
    Ik Jae Lee*, Rowan University
    David N Yetter, Kansas State University
    (1135-VU-2481)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Spaces With Complexity One.
    Alyson Bittner*, University at Buffalo
    (1135-VU-2728)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    On Trisections of 4-Manifolds.
    Marla Williams*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1135-VU-2986)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    On a paradoxical-type decomposition of Culler-Shalen of a Patterson-Sullivan measure for Kleinian groups.
    Rosemary K Guzman*, University of Chicago
    (1135-VU-3177)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    Generalized dunce hats do not have the double collapsible property.
    Peter Sparks*, Marquette University
    (1135-VU-3219)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  ASL Invited Address
  A synthetic theory of $\infty$-categories in homotopy type theory..
  Room 7B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Emily Riehl*, Johns Hopkins University
  Michael Shulman, University of San Diego
  (1135-18-191)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
  AMS Directors of Graduate Studies
  Rancho Santa Fe Rm 2, Lobby Level, North Twr, Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina
• Friday January 12, 2018, 2:15 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Rocky Mountain Mathematics Consortium Board of Directors Meeting
  Torrey Pines Room 1, Lobby Level, North Tower, Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina
• Friday January 12, 2018, 2:30 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
  Presentations by MAA Teaching Award Recipients
  Room 6C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Barbara Faires, Westminster College
  Deanna Haunsperger, Carleton College
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Teaching on purpose and with a purpose: the scarecrow, the lion, and the tin woodman.
    Hortensia Soto*, University of Northern Colorado
    (1135-A0-250)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    NEW TITLE: Teaching as an act of paying it forward.
    Ronald Taylor*, Berry College
• Friday January 12, 2018, 2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
  AMS Committee on Science Policy Panel Discussion
  Funding at federal agencies & advocacy for grassroots support
  Room 11B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Karen Saxe, American Mathematical Society
  Scott Wolpert, University of Maryland
  Moderators:
  Terrance Blackman, Medger Evers College, CUNY
  Panelists:
  Fariba Fahroo, DARPA
  Charlie Toll, National Security Agency
  Michael Vogelius, Rutgers University
  NEW: Congressman Jerry McNerney (CA-9), U.S. House of Representatives
• Friday January 12, 2018, 2:35 p.m.-3:55 p.m.
  MAA Panel
  Career Trajectories Involving Administrative Roles: What You May Want to Consider
  Room 2, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Ryan Zerr, University of North Dakota ryan.zerr@und.edu
  Edward Aboufadel, Grand Valley State University
  Panelists:
  NEW: Martha Abell, Georgia Southern University
  Edward Aboufadel, Grand Valley State University
  WITHDRAWN:Linda Braddy, Tarrant County College
  Jenna Carpenter, Campbell University
  Rick Gillman, Valparaiso University
  Jennifer Quinn, University of Washington Tacoma
• Friday January 12, 2018, 2:45 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Other Topics, I
  Room 28D, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Tim Comar, Benedictine University tcomar@ben.edu
  James Reid, University of Mississippi
  

  • 2:45 p.m.
    Beautiful Problems.
    Ioana Mihaila*, Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA
    (1135-VV-1621)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Construction and Completion of a Latin Square.
    Xueyi Lei*, Washington & Jefferson College
    (1135-VV-2056)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Any Which Way You Split.
    Denver Stahl*, Washington & Jefferson College
    Roman Wong, Washington & Jefferson College
    (1135-VV-2059)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the Fourier Series of Square Periodic Functions.
    Toirna Lewis*, Clark Atlanta University
    (1135-VV-2248)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Balance weighing - variations on a theme.
    Ethan D. Bolker*, University of Massachusetts Boston
    Samuel A Feuer, Needham High School
    Catalin Zara, University of Massachusetts Boston
    (1135-VV-602)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Tweaking the NFL's head-to-head tiebreaker.
    James A Swenson*, University of Wisconsin-Platteville
    Dan Swenson, Black Hills State University
    (1135-VV-2603)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    Unhyphenated spacetime.
    Knute E Thorsgard*, Knutonian Physics
    (1135-VV-20)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Convex Optimization Techniques: A view point in Item Response Theory Models using I-projections.
    Naama T. Lewis*, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
    (1135-VV-1249)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    A metric for quantifying the accuracy of market indicators.
    Josh M. Beal*, Indiana University East
    (1135-VV-3044)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    On The Structure of The $C_2$ Spider.
    Andres N. Mejia*, Bard College
    (1135-VV-3105)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Mathematical Properties of Semi-Closed Primaries.
    Joseph F. Kolacinski*, Elmira College
    Brandon Payne, Elmira College
    (1135-VV-3122)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The Phi-bonacci Sequence.
    John Robert Botzum*, Kutztown University, Kutztown Pennsylvania
    (1135-VV-3133)
  • 5:45 p.m.
    The Arithmetic and Geometry of (P)s(e)udokus.
    M Beck, San Francisco State University
    J Friedman, University of San Diego
    M Gagliardo, California Lutheran University
    T Hunter, Swarthmore College
    N Sieben, Northern Arizona University
    C Williams, James Madison University
    S Wright*, Fitchburg State University
    (1135-VV-3152)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 3:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  ASL Invited Address
  Power of reasoning over richer domains.
  Room 7B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Antonina Kolokolova*, Memorial University of Newfoundland
  (1135-00-189)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 3:40 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
  Project NExT Panel
  Incorporating Social Justice Projects into the College Mathematics Curriculum
  Room 6F, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Marko Budisic, Clarkson University
  Kaitlin Hill, University of Minnesota
  Natalie Hobson, Sonoma State University
  Bianca Thompson, Harvey Mudd College
  Panelists:
  Aditya Adiredja, University of Arizona
  Karl-Dieter Crisman, Gordon College
  Lily Khadjavi, Loyola Marymount
• Friday January 12, 2018, 4:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  ASL Contributed Paper Session, I
  Room 7B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Loose Number of Graphs on Topological Spaces.
    Francis Adams*, Georgia State University
    (1135-03-2506)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Computable reducibility and equality on a given set.
    Rachel Epstein*, Georgia College
    Karen Lange, Wellesley College
    (1135-03-1015)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Reverse Mathematics of Hypergraph Colorings.
    Caleb Davis, Appalachian State University
    Jeffry Hirst, Appalachian State University
    Jake Pardo*, Appalachian State University
    Tim Ransom, Clemson University
    (1135-03-2221)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Omitting Types in Temporal Logic.
    Farshad Nahangi*, Fremont, CA
    (1135-03-871)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
  National Science Foundation: Update from the Division of Mathematical Sciences (NSF-DMS)
  Room 8, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Henry Warchall, Division of Mathematical Sciences, National Science Foundation
• Friday January 12, 2018, 4:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  MAA Student Poster Session
  Exhibit Hall B2, Ground Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 4:30 p.m.
    
    Eric Ruggieri, College of the Holy Cross eruggier@holycross.edu
    Chasen Smith, Georgia Southern University csmith@georgiasouthern.edu
• Friday January 12, 2018, 4:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
  AMS Congressional Fellowship Session
  Room 11B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Karen Saxe, American Mathematical Society
  Speakers:
  Margaret Callahan, AMS Congressional Fellow 2017-18
• Friday January 12, 2018, 5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
  MAA Panel
  The Evolving Career Outlook in Risk Management
  Room 2, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Kevin Charlwood, Washburn University kevin.charlwood@washburn.edu
  Michelle Guan, Indiana University
  Steve Paris, Florida State University
  Barry Smith, Lebanon Valley College
  Sue Staples, Texas Christian University
  Rick Gorvett, Casualty Actuary Society (CASACT)
  Panelists:
  Paul Bailey, Willis Towers Watson
  Raya Feldman, University of California Santa Barbara
  Zoe Rico, Aon
  Barry Smith, Lebanon Valley College
• Friday January 12, 2018, 5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  Meeting of potential members of SIGMAA on Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching (SIGMAA-MKT)
  Room 3, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Yvonne Lai, University of Nebraska Lincoln
  Bonnie Gold, Monmouth University
• Friday January 12, 2018, 5:30 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
  SIGMAA on Business, Industry, and Government (BIG SIGMAA) Guest Lecture
  Room 15A, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 5:30 p.m.
    Using Navy carriers for disaster relief, and the remarkable Hilbert space.
    Stephen Hobbs*, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego
    (1135-A0-3257)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 5:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  SIGMAA on Mathematics Instruction Using the WEB (WEB SIGMAA) Reception
  Room 5A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
• Friday January 12, 2018, 6:00 p.m.-7:15 p.m.
  AWM Workshop: Poster Presentations by Women Graduate Students and Reception
  Lobby outside Room 6AB, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Alina Bucur, University of California, San Diego
  Matilde Lalin, University of Montreal
  Radmila Sazdanovic, North Carolina State University
  

  • 6:00 p.m.
    The Exit Distribution for Smart Kinetic Walk with Symmetric and Asymmetric Transition Probability.
    Yan Dai*, University of Arizona
  • 6:00 p.m.
    A Kazhdan-Lusztig algorithm for Whittaker modules.
    Anna Macquarie Romanov*, University of Utah
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Asymptotic Syzygies in the Semi-Ample Setting.
    Juliette Bruce*, University of Wisconsin - Madison
  • 6:00 p.m.
    The Effect of the Behavior at Spatial Infinity of Spacetimes on the Pointwise Decay Rate of Waves.
    K Morgan*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Combinatorial interpretations of false theta function identities.
    Hannah E Burson*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Random Coxeter Groups.
    Angelica Rae Deibel*, Brandeis University
  • 6:00 p.m.
    An example towards homological mirror symmetry.
    Catherine Cannizzo*, University of California, Berkeley
  • 6:00 p.m.
    The binary cubic generic Clifford algebra.
    Charlotte Ure*, Michigan State University
    Rajesh Kulkarni, Michigan State University
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Algebraic Voting Theory and Representations of $S_m \wr S_n$.
    Helene Barcelo, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
    Megan Bernstein, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Sarah Bockting-Conrad, DePaul University
    Erin McNicholas, Willamette University
    Kathryn Nyman, Willamette University
    Shira Viel*, North Carolina State University
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Schur--Weyl Duality for Unipotent Upper Triangular Matrices.
    Megan Ly*, University of Colorado Boulder
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Graded Representations of Current Algebras.
    Kayla Murray*, University of California Riverside
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Factor graphs for polar codes.
    Jessalyn Bolkema*, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
  • 6:00 p.m.
    The Gan-Gross-Prasad Conjecture for General Spin Groups.
    Melissa Emory*, University of Missouri
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Two Boundary Centralizer Algebras for $\mathfrak{gl}(n\vert m)$.
    Jieru Zhu*, University of Oklahoma
  • 6:00 p.m.
    On reordering books and self-organizing libraries.
    K Stasikelis*, Clemson University
    S Poznanovic, Clemson University
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Local arboreal representations.
    Laura S Walton*, Brown University
    Jacqueline Anderson, Brown University
    Spencer Hamblen, Brown University
    Bjorn Poonen, Brown University
  • 6:00 p.m.
    A manifold learning approach to image segmentaion.
    Marilyn Vazquez Landrove*, George Mason University
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Elements of algebras of operators that attain their norm in a finite-dimensional representation.
    Kristen Courtney*, University of Virginia
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Immersed Lagrangian Fillings of Legendrian Knots.
    Samantha Pezzimenti*, Bryn Mawr College
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Injective choosability of subcubic planar graphs with girth 6.
    Shanise Walker*, Iowa State University
• Friday January 12, 2018, 6:00 p.m.-6:45 p.m.
  SIGMAA on Mathematics Instruction Using the WEB (WEB SIGMAA) Guest Lecture
  Room 5A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 6:00 p.m.
    Using Ximera to build online interactive math activities.
    Jim Fowler*, The Ohio State University
    Bart Snapp, The Ohio State University
    (1135-A0-2444)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
  Mathematically Bent Theater
  Performed by Colin Adams and the Mobiusbandaid Players.
  Room 6C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
• Friday January 12, 2018, 6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
  AMS {\bit Mathematical Reviews} Reception
  Presidio Room, Lobby Level, North Tower, Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina
• Friday January 12, 2018, 6:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
  SIGMAA on Statistics Education Reception
  Room 6D, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
• Friday January 12, 2018, 6:15 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
  NEW: SIGMAA on Inquiry Based Learning Business Meeting
  Room 4, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
• Friday January 12, 2018, 6:30 p.m.-7:15 p.m.
  SIGMAA on Statistics Education Business Meeting
  Room 6D, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
• Friday January 12, 2018, 6:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
  SIGMAA on Business, Industry, and Government (BIG SIGMAA) Reception
  Room 15A, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
• Friday January 12, 2018, 7:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
  SIGMAA on Business, Industry, and Government (BIG SIGMAA) Business Meeting
  Room 15A, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
• Friday January 12, 2018, 7:20 p.m.-8:10 p.m.
  SIGMAA On Statistics Education Guest Lecture
  Room 6D, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 6:50 p.m.
    We are all data scientists (or we should be).
    Robert Gould*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (1135-A0-166)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 7:45 p.m.-8:35 p.m.
  NAM Cox-Talbot Address
  Hidden in Plain Sight: Mathematics Teaching and Learning Through a Storytelling Lens.
  Marina Ballroom FG, 3rd Floor, South Tower, Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina
  Erica Walker*, Teachers College, Columbia University
  (1135-00-186)
• Friday January 12, 2018, 8:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m.
  Project NExT Reception
  All Project NExT Fellows, consultants, and other friends of Project NExT are invited.
  Marina Ballroom E, 3rd Floor, South Tower, Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina
  Organizers:
  Julia Barnes, West Carolina University
  Alissa Crans, Loyola Marymount University
  Matt Delong, Taylor University
  David Kung, St Mary's College of Maryland
• Friday January 12, 2018, 8:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m.
  Backgammon!
  Learn to play backgammon from expert players.
  Marina Ballroom D, 3rd Floor, South Tower, Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina
  Organizers:
  Arthur Benjamin, Harvey Mudd College

Saturday January 13, 2018

• Saturday January 13, 2018, 7:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
  Joint Meetings Registration
  Exhibit Hall B1, Ground Level, San Diego Convention Center
• Saturday January 13, 2018, 7:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
  Email Center
  Exhibit Hall B1, Ground Level, San Diego Convention Center
• Saturday January 13, 2018, 7:45 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Applied Mathematics, III
  Room 13, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 7:45 a.m.
    Dynamics of Co-Orbital Moons Near Collision.
    Kimberly E. Stubbs*, College of Charelston
    Samuel R. Kaplan, UNC-Asheville
    (1135-70-3005)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    The Jacobi-Maupertuis principle in the strong force N-body problem.
    Connor Jackman*, UCSC
    (1135-70-861)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Relative equilibria in the 4- and 5-body problem.
    Prof. Florin Diacu, University of Victoria
    Sawsan Alhowaity*, University of Vicroia
    (1135-34-945)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Lagrange reduction of the variational principle for Einstein's equations.
    P. P. Yu*, Westminster College
    (1135-83-2251)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    A Stuart-Watson Nonlinear Stability Analysis of a Generalized Matkowsky Heat Equation.
    David J Wollkind, Washington State University
    Richard A Cangelosi, Gonzaga University
    Bonni J Dichone*, Gonzaga University
    Mitchell G David, Washington State University
    (1135-35-1361)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Gradient bounds of heat kernels in the setting of local Dirichlet spaces as co-compact covers of finitely generated polynomial growth groups.
    Melanie Pivarski*, Roosevelt University
    (1135-58-2268)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Feature-Label-Order Effect in A Noisy Learning Environment.
    Timmy Ma*, University of California, Irvine
    Natalia L Komarova, University of California, Irvine
    (1135-91-797)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A Rigidity Theorem in Pillage Games.
    Alexander Munson*, unemployed
    (1135-91-509)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Selective Hedging Against Regret: The Amnesiac Lookback Option.
    Ho-Chun Herbert Chang*, Department of Mathematics, Dartmouth College
    (1135-91-1534)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Forecasting Chaotic Business Cycles.
    James M. Haley*, Point Park University, Pittsburgh, Pa
    (1135-35-2410)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Modeling market based deforestation prevention policy: the effect of fluctuating commodity prices and industrial agriculture.
    Josh Hiller*, Adelphi University Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
    (1135-92-1337)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Applications of Random Forests for Modeling Obsolescence.
    Emily Nystrom*, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center
    (1135-62-1451)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    A new efficient decoding algorithm for correcting multiple insertion or deletion errors in Helberg codes.
    Kaitlyn Myers, Rowan University
    Hieu D Nguyen*, Rowan University
    (1135-94-985)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Results on polar codes via configurations on multitrees.
    Jessalyn Bolkema*, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
    (1135-94-3107)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    Comparing two scoring options for link prediction in networks.
    Amanda E Francis*, Carroll College
    (1135-00-1261)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Global synchronization of pulse-coupled oscillators on trees.
    Hanbaek Lyu*, The Ohio State University, Department of Mathematics
    (1135-93-1523)
  • 11:45 a.m.
    The Minimum Euclidean-Norm Point on a Convex Polytope.
    Jes{ú}s De Loera, University of California, Davis
    Jamie Haddock*, University of California, Davis
    Luis Rademacher, University of California, Davis
    (1135-90-572)
• Saturday January 13, 2018, 7:45 a.m.-9:10 a.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Number Theory, III
  Room 15A, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Tim Comar, Benedictine University tcomar@ben.edu
  James Reid, University of Mississippi
  

  • 8:15 a.m.
    On a Waring's problem for integral quadratic and hermitian forms.
    Constantin N. Beli, Romanian Academy
    Wai Kiu Chan, Wesleyan University
    Maria Ines Icaza, Universidad De Talca
    Jingbo Liu*, University of Hong Kong
    (1135-VS-1553)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Geometric Representations of Dedekind's Proof of Irrationality.
    Kimberly E. Stubbs*, College of Charleston
    (1135-VS-3025)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Constructing Picard Curves with Complex Multiplication.
    Sonny Arora*, The Pennsylvania State University
    (1135-VS-2247)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Permutations between cubic 2-rotation symmetric Boolean functions.
    Elizabeth M. Reid*, Marist College
    Thomas Cusick, SUNY Buffalo
    (1135-VS-2283)
• Saturday January 13, 2018, 7:45 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Metrics and Optimization
  Room 12, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 7:45 a.m.
    Interacting elastic curves on a sphere.
    Vikash Chaurasia*, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University OIST
    Eliot Fried, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University OIST
    Yi Chao Chen, University of Houston, Texas, USA
    (1135-49-2347)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    Distances between Networks and the Stability of Network Invariants.
    Samir Chowdhury*, The Ohio State University
    Facundo Mémoli, The Ohio State University
    (1135-00-2946)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Comparison of Conformal-Like Metrics.
    Kourosh Tavakoli*, Oklahoma City University
    (1135-30-3006)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Ergodicity defect tortuosity metric.
    S E Scott*, Milwaukee School of Engineering
    (1135-46-1999)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Stochastic Proximal Gradient Methods for Metric Learning.
    Prem Talwai*, Cornell University
    (1135-49-3031)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Turning the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality into an equality.
    Christopher Michael Schwanke*, North-West University
    (1135-46-1878)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    `Twisted Dualtity' in the Clifford Hilbert Space.
    Jeramiah Hocutt*, University of Florida
    (1135-46-1884)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A Probably-Approximately-Correct Algorithm for Learning a $C^{1,1}(\mathbb{R}^d)$ Function from Noisy Samples.
    Adam Gustafson, University of Washington
    Matthew Hirn, Michigan State University
    Kitty Mohammed, University of Washington
    Hariharan Narayanan, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
    Jason Xu*, University of California Los Angeles
    (1135-62-1141)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Linear barycentric rational interpolation with guaranteed degree of exactness.
    Jean-Paul Berrut*, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
    (1135-41-556)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Multivariate and abstract Approximation theory for Banach space valued functions.
    George A Anastassiou*, Memphis
    (1135-41-17)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Optimal recovery of operators on the classes of functions with values in L-spaces.
    Vira Babenko*, Ithaca College
    Vladyslav Babenko, Dnipropetrovsk National University
    Mariya Polischuk, Dnipropetrovsk National University
    (1135-41-252)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Further Results for Functionals on BV Space with Carathéodory Integrands.
    Thomas Wunderli*, The American University of Sharjah
    (1135-49-341)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    A Mass Reducing Flow for Transport Networks.
    Carol Ann Downes*, Hendrix College
    (1135-49-370)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Existence and regularity of minimizers for nonlocal energy functionals.
    Cory Wright*, University of Nebraska Linoln
    Petronela Radu, University of Nebraska Linoln
    Mikil Foss, University of Nebraska Linoln
    (1135-49-1728)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    On the Frechet differentiability in optimal control of coefficients in parabolic free boundary problems.
    Ugur G Abdulla, Florida Institute of Technology
    Evan Cosgrove*, Florida Institute of Technology
    Jonathan Goldfarb, Florida Institute of Technology
    (1135-49-95)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Optimal Control of Coefficients in Parabolic Free Boundary Problems Modeling Laser Ablation.
    Jonathan Goldfarb*, Florida Institute of Technology
    Ugur G Abdulla, Florida Institute of Technology
    (1135-49-3179)
  • 11:45 a.m.
    Optimal Control of vertical transmitted vector-borne disease: Treatment and Prevention.
    Hyun Jin Son*, Auburn University
    (1135-49-2539)
• Saturday January 13, 2018, 7:45 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Partial Differential Equations
  Room 29B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 7:45 a.m.
    Time Dependent Parameter Identification Problem in Parabolic Partial Differential Equation Through Over-Specification of Data.
    Jashmon Rana*, Cameron University
    Narayan Thapa, Cameron University
    (1135-35-1090)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    Investigation and Numerical Solution of Difference Analogous to Initial-Boundary Value Problem for One Nonlinear Partial Differential Equation.
    Mikheil Tutberidze*, Tbilisi, Georgia
    (1135-65-2111)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Robust information divergences for model-form uncertainty arising from sparse data in random PDE.
    Eric Joseph Hall*, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    Markos A Katsoulakis, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    (1135-65-1442)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Quantitative analysis of boundary layer in periodic homogenization.
    Jinping Zhuge*, University of Kentucky
    (1135-35-1285)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Dynamics in chemotaxis models of parabolic-elliptic type on bounded domain with time and space dependent logistic sources.
    Tahir Bachar Issa*, Auburn University
    Wenxian Shen, Auburn University
    (1135-35-2710)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Parabolic-elliptic chemotaxis model with space-time dependent logistic sources on $\mathbb{R}^N$. I. Persistence and asymptotic spreading.
    Rachidi B Salako*, Auburn University
    Wenxian Shen, Auburn University
    (1135-35-2959)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Adaptive Difference Potentials Method for the Chemotaxis Model in 3D.
    Qing Xia*, University of Utah
    (1135-65-650)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Gradient method in Besov spaces for the optimal control of parabolic free boundary problems.
    Ugur Abdulla, Florida Institute of Technology
    Vladislav Bukshtynov, Florida Institute of Technology
    Ali Hagverdiyev*, Florida Institute of Technology
    (1135-65-94)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Evolution of Interfaces for the Nonlinear Double Degenerate Parabolic Equation of Turbulent Filtration with Absorption.
    Ugur G. Abdulla, Florida Institute of Technology
    Jian Du, Florida Institute of Technology
    Adam L. Prinkey*, Florida Institute of Technology
    (1135-35-80)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On the Optimal Control of the Stefan Type Parabolic Free Boundary Problems with State Constraints.
    Ugur Abdulla, Florida Intitute of Technology
    Evan Cosgrove, Florida Institute of Technology
    Curtis Earl*, Florida Institute of Technology
    Jonathan Goldfarb, Florida Institute of Technology
    (1135-35-103)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    On the Qualitative Theory of the Nonlinear Degenerate Parabolic Equations of the Reaction-Diffusion-Convection Type.
    Ugur G. Abdulla, Florida Institute of Technology
    Habeeb Aal Rkhais*, Florida Institute of Technology
    (1135-35-105)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Analysis of Interfaces for the Nonlinear Degenerate Second Order Parabolic Equations Modeling Diffusion-Convection Processes.
    Ugur G. Abdulla, Florida Institute of Technology
    Lamees Alzaki*, Florida Institute of Technology
    (1135-35-106)
  • 10:45 a.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
    (1135-35-85)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Some Free Boundary Problems for the Nonlinear Degenerate Multidimensional Parabolic Equations Modeling Reaction-Diffusion Processes.
    Ugur G Abdulla, Florida Institute of Technology
    Amna Ali.S Abu weden*, Florida Institute of Technology
    (1135-35-126)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    A variable nonlinear splitting algorithm for reaction diffusion systems with self and cross-diffusion.
    Matthew A Beauregard*, Stephen F. Austin State University
    Rana Parshad, Clarkson University
    Joshua Padgett, Texas Tech University
    (1135-65-1033)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Stability of multi-dimensional fronts in exponentially weighted norms.
    Anna Ghazaryan, Miami University
    Yuri Latushkin, University of Missouri, Columbia
    Xinyao Yang*, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
    (1135-35-960)
  • 11:45 a.m.
    Nodal solutions for Robin problems.
    Michael E Filippakis*, Department of Digital Systems,University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece
    (1135-35-334)
• Saturday January 13, 2018, 7:45 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Stochastic and Random Processes
  Room 19, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 7:45 a.m.
    Calculation of Fundamental Matrix for an Absorbing Markov Chain and Applications.
    Morteza Shafii-Mousavi*, Indiana University South Bend
    (1135-65-913)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    On almost periodic stochastic difference equations with random delay.
    Paul H Bezandry*, Howard University
    (1135-60-2463)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Continuous Time Interpolation of Marked Random Measures and their Applications.
    Jewgeni H. Dshalalow, Florida Institute of Technology
    Kizza M. Nandyose*, Florida Institute of Technology
    (1135-60-3207)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    An epidemic model obtained by expressing the randomness of contact and recovery rates through Wiener processes.
    Kursad Tosun*, Mugla Sitki Kocman University
    Cemile Tosun, Mugla, Turkey
    (1135-60-1298)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Noise induced mixed-mode oscillations in a predator-prey system with two time-scales near the onset of a limit cycle.
    Susmita Sadhu*, Georgia College and State University
    Christian Kuehn, Technical University of Munich
    (1135-37-1399)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Nonparametric estimation of a mixing distribution for a family of linear stochastic dynamical systems.
    Alona Kryshchenko*, California State University of Channel Islands
    Alan Schumitzky, University of Southern California
    Mike van Guilder, Children's Hospital Los Angeles
    Michael Neely, Children's Hospital Los Angeles
    (1135-62-2794)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Information Theoretic Model Selection for Reconstruction of Stochastic Dynamical Systems from Data.
    David Darmon*, Uniformed Services University
    (1135-37-2172)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Stochastic Enumeration with Importance Sampling.
    Alathea I. Jensen*, George Mason University
    (1135-68-792)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Intermittency fronts and some non-existence results for the space-time fractional diffusion.
    Sunday Amaechi Asogwa*, Auburn University
    (1135-60-3073)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Analysis of space-time fractional stochastic partial differential equations.
    Jebessa B Mijena*, Georgia College & State University
    Erkan Nane, Auburn University
    (1135-60-3203)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Linearly Splitting Methods for a Heston Stochastic Volatility Model.
    Chong Sun*, Baylor University Mathematics Department
    Qin Sheng, Baylor University Mathematics Department
    (1135-65-1628)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Optimization Of Cash Management Fluctuation Through Stochastic Processes.
    Y. M. Dib*, University of Balamand, Koura, Lebanon
    H. Greige, University of Balamand, Koura, Lebanon
    N. Kmeid, University of Balamand, Koura, Lebanon
    Y. N. Raffoul, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
    (1135-60-2398)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Evaluation of Integrals of the Form $\int_{-\infty }^{\infty }\int_{-\infty }^{\infty }f(s,t)\exp\left{ -\frac{1}{2(1-\rho ^{2})}\left[ s^{2}+t^{2}-2\rho st\right] \right} dsdt:$.
    Edmund E Ameyaw*, Howard University, Washington, DC
    Paul Bezandry, Howard university,Washington, DC.
    Victor Apprey, Howard University,Washington, DC
    John Kwagyan, Howard University,Washington, DC
    (1135-62-553)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Exits of Oscillating Random Walks Under Delayed Observation.
    Ryan T. White*, Florida Institute of Technology
    (1135-60-2962)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    Quenched central limit theorem rates of convergence for one-dimensional random walks in random environments.
    Sungwon Ahn*, Roosevelt University
    Jonathon Peterson, Purdue University
    (1135-60-205)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Inferences on the location parameter under multivariate skew normal settings.
    Ziwei, ZM Ma*, Department of Mathematical Science, New Mexico State University
    Tonghui, TW Wang, Department of Mathematical Science, New Mexico State University
    (1135-62-2006)
  • 11:45 a.m.
    On the expected number of zeros of complex Weyl polynomials.
    Zachariah E Tyree*, Florida Atlantic University
    Andrew Thomack, Florida Atlantic University
    (1135-60-819)
• Saturday January 13, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Advances in Operator Algebras, II
  Room 16A, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Marcel Bischoff, Vanderbilt University
  Ian Charlesworth, University of California, Los Angeles
  Brent Nelson, University of California, Berkeley brent@math.berkeley.edu
  Sarah Reznikoff, Kansas State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Most Quantum States are Almost Maximally Entangled.
    Shmuel Friedland, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Todd Kemp*, UC San Diego
    (1135-46-791)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    The Large-$N$ Limit of the $q$-Segal-Bargmann Transform.
    Guillaume Cebron, Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse
    Ching Wei Ho*, University of California, San Diego
    (1135-46-1573)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The inner structure of the $2$-adic ring $C^*$-algebra and its acquaintances.
    Valeriano Aiello*, Vanderbilt University
    (1135-46-2212)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Holomorphic Bundles Over Riemann Surfaces and Subalgebras of $n$-homogeneous $C^*$-algebras.
    Kathryn McCormick*, University of Iowa
    (1135-47-1588)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Rigidity for von Neumann algebras of amalgamated free product groups.
    Adrian Ioana*, University of California, San Diego
    Ionut Chifan, University of Iowa
    (1135-47-1466)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Tensorial Relative Solidity.
    Daniel Drimbe, UC San Diego
    Daniel Hoff*, UCLA
    Adrian Ioana, UC San Diego
    (1135-47-1469)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    W$^*$-superrigidity for coinduced actions.
    Daniel Drimbe*, University of California San Diego
    (1135-47-3016)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: On the classification of group von Neumann algebras.
    Thomas Sinclair*, Purdue University
    (1135-46-1879)
• Saturday January 13, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Alternative Proofs in Mathematical Practice
  Room 30A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  John W. Dawson, Jr., Pennsylvania State University, York jwd7too@comcast.net
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The Brouwer Fixed Point Theorem.
    John Stillwell*, University of San Francisco
    (1135-03-2)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Algebraic symbols and geometrical reality: the algebraic geometry of Charlotte Angas Scott.
    Jemma Lorenat*, Pitzer College
    (1135-01-302)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On Proofs of the Quadratic Reciprocity Theorem.
    Kenneth L Manders*, Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh
    (1135-01-852)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Alternative Proofs in Number Theory.
    Roger B. Nelsen*, Lewis & Clark College
    (1135-11-173)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Alternative proof presentations.
    Rebecca Lea Morris*, Suppes Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Stanford University
    (1135-00-53)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The Cantor-Bernstein Theorem: How many proofs?
    Wilfried Sieg*, Carnegie Mellon, Department of Philosophy
    (1135-03-584)
• Saturday January 13, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Analysis of Fractional, Stochastic, and Hybrid Dynamic Systems
  Room 30B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  John R. Graef, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
  Gangaram S. Ladde, University of South Florida
  Aghalaya S. Vatsala, University of Louisiana at Lafayette vatsala@louisiana.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Smallest eigenvalues for a fractional difference equation with right focal boundary conditions.
    Johnny Henderson*, Baylor University
    Jeffrey Neugebauer, Eastern Kentucky University
    (1135-39-115)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A boundary value problem for a Hadamard fractional differential equation with nonlocal multi-point boundary conditions.
    John R. Graef*, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
    (1135-34-773)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Generalized Monotone Method for Riemann-Liouville Fractional Reaction Diffusion Equation with Applications.
    Pradeep Godar Chhetri*, Department of Mathematics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA,70504
    Aghalaya S Vatsala, Department of Mathematics, UL Lafayette, Lafayette, LA,70504
    (1135-35-991)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Nonlinear Levy-type Dynamic Modeling of Time-to-Event Process.
    Mobolaji O Ogunsolu*, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
    Gangaram S Ladde, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
    (1135-60-2623)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The forward and inverse problems for a fractional boundary value problem.
    Yaqin Feng, Ohio University
    John R Graef, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
    Lingju Kong, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
    Min Wang*, Rowan University
    (1135-34-2296)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Stochastic Hybrid Dynamic Modeling of Time-to-Event Processes.
    Emmanuel A. Appiah*, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
    Gangaram S Ladde, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
    (1135-60-2635)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Fractional Impulsive Differential Equations and Comparison Results.
    Aghalaya S. Vatsala*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana
    Yunxiang Bai, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    (1135-34-1400)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    New fractional integral with applications to time-fractional Porous Medium Equation (fPME).
    Udita N Katugampola*, Florida Polytechnic University
    (1135-35-1059)
• Saturday January 13, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Bifurcations of Difference Equations and Discrete Dynamical Systems
  Room 30E, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Arzu Bilgin, University of Rhode Island
  Toufik Khyat, University of Rhode Island toufik17@my.uri.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    NEW TIME: Pemantle's min-plus binary tree.
    Dylan M Cable*, Stanford University
    Antonio Auffinger, Northwestern University Department of Mathematics
    (1135-60-2030)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    NEW TIME: Global Dynamic Scenarios for Competitive Maps in the Plane.
    Elliott J. Bertrand*, University of Rhode Island
    Mustafa R.S. Kulenovic, University of Rhode Island
    (1135-39-2180)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Piecewise-Defined Difference Equations with Every Solution Eventually Periodic: Open Problem.
    Candace M. Kent*, Virginia Commonwealth University
    (1135-39-455)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Period-doubling and Neimark-Sacker bifurcations in a larch budmoth population model.
    Mihiri De Silva, Texas Tech University
    Sophia Jang*, Texas Tech University
    (1135-92-612)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Equilibrium bifurcations in difference equation models from structured population dynamics: extinction, survival, and strong Allee effects.
    Jim M Cushing*, Department of Mathematics & Interdisciplinary Program in Applied Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
    (1135-39-1463)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Difference Equation with Neimark-Sacker Bifurcation.
    Toufik Khyat*, Trinity College
    (1135-39-2423)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Basins of Attraction of Period- Two Solutions of Monotone Difference Equations.
    Arzu Bilgin*, Recep Tayyip Erdogan University
    (1135-39-1892)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    On the global stability of a class of discrete dynamical systems.
    Saber Elaydi*, Trinity University
    (1135-39-2696)
• Saturday January 13, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Boundaries for Groups and Spaces, III
  Room 16B, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Joseph Maher, CUNY College of Staten Island joseph.maher@csi.cuny.edu
  Genevieve Walsh, Tufts University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Semistability of CAT(0) IFP Groups.
    Kim Ruane*, Tufts University
    Chris Hruska, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
    (1135-20-2652)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Property $P_{naive}$ for acylindrically hyperbolic groups.
    Carolyn Abbott*, University of California, Berkeley
    Francois Dahmani, Universite Grenoble Alpes, Institut Fourier
    (1135-20-2214)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Obstructions to Riemannian smoothings of a locally CAT(0) manifold.
    Bakul Sathaye*, The Ohio State University
    (1135-57-635)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Acylindrical Hyperbolicity and CAT(0) Groups.
    Brendan Burns Healy*, Tufts University
    (1135-20-718)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Lifting curves on surfaces via 3-manifolds and the curve complex.
    Priyam Patel*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Tarik Aougab, Brown University
    Samuel Taylor, Temple University
    (1135-57-2066)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Groups whose word problem is not multiple context free.
    Kropholler*, Tufts University
    Gilman, Stevens Institute of Technology
    Schleimer, Warwick University
    (1135-20-2599)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    CAT(0) Cube Complexes and their Boundaries.
    Talia Fernós*, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    (1135-20-1351)
• Saturday January 13, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Differential Geometry, II
  Room 33A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Vincent B. Bonini, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo vbonini@calpoly.edu
  Joseph E. Borzellino, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
  Bogdan D. Suceava, California State University, Fullerton
  Guofang Wei, University of California, Santa Barbara
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Four-dimensional Shrinking Ricci Solitons with Nonnegative Isotropic Curvature.
    Xiaolong Li*, UC Irvine
    Lei Ni, UC San Diego
    Kui Wang, Soochow University
    (1135-53-1519)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Normalized Ricci Flow on Non-Compact Manifolds.
    Yucheng Lu*, University of California, Santa Cruz
    (1135-53-3176)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Bounding the invariant spectrum of toric Kaehler manifolds.
    Thomas Murphy*, California State University Fullerton
    (1135-53-605)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Some Laplacians on symplectic manifolds.
    Lihan Wang*, University of Connecticut
    (1135-53-894)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Non-negatively curved $6$-manifolds with almost maximal symmetry rank.
    Christine Escher, Oregon State University
    Catherine Searle*, Wichita State University
    (1135-53-1264)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On Morse index estimates for minimal surfaces.
    Davi Maximo*, University of Pennsylvania
    (1135-53-1932)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Hearing the shape of a trapezoid by its eigenvalues.
    Zhiqin Lu*, UC Irvine
    (1135-53-1542)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Some recent gluing constructions of minimal surfaces in the 3-sphere and Euclidean space.
    David Wiygul*, University of California, Irvine
    (1135-53-2072)
• Saturday January 13, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Diophantine Approximation and Analytic Number Theory in Honor of Jeffrey Vaaler, II
  Room 17B, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Shabnam Akhtari, University of Oregon
  Lenny Fukshansky, Claremont McKenna College lenny@cmc.edu
  Clayton Petsche, Oregon State University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Bounds on Autocorrelation Coefficients of Rudin-Shapiro Polynomials.
    Stephen Choi*, Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University
    Jean-Paul Allouche, Mathematics Institute, Pierre & Marie Curie University
    Tamas Erdelyi, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University
    Alain Denise, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences of Orsay University Paris- Sud
    Bahman Saffari, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences of Orsay University Paris-Sud
    (1135-11-757)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Equidistribution of Elements of Norm.
    Kate Petersen*, Florida State
    Christopher Sinclair, University of Oregon
    (1135-11-1346)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Erdos-Selfridge and supersingularity.
    Michael A. Bennett*, University of British Columbia
    Samir Siksek, Warwick University
    (1135-11-949)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Higher dimensional Steinhaus and Slater problems via homogeneous dynamics.
    Alan Haynes*, University of Houston
    Jens Marklof, University of Bristol
    (1135-11-307)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Lind-Lehmer constant for certain $p$-groups.
    Michael J. Mossinghoff*, Davidson College
    Dilum De Silva, Bowling Green State University Firelands
    Vincent Pigno, California State University, Sacramento
    Christopher Pinner, Kansas State University
    (1135-11-1672)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Uniformity of the Möbius function in function fields.
    Thái Hoàng Lê*, University of Mississippi
    Pierre-Yves Bienvenu, University of Bristol
    (1135-11-2767)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Mahler measure, volumes of polynomials and random matrix theory.
    Christopher D Sinclair*, University of Oregon
    (1135-11-2551)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Diophantine inequalities for the Weil height.
    Shabnam Akhtari, University of Oregon
    Jeffrey Vaaler*, University of Texas at Austin
    (1135-11-1370)
• Saturday January 13, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Emerging Topics in Graphs and Matrices, I
  Room 33B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Sudipta Mallik, Northern Arizona University sudipta.mallik@nau.edu
  Keivan Hassani Monfared, University of Calgary
  Bryan Shader, University of Wyoming
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Non-sparse companion matrix constructions.
    Louis Deaett, Quinnipiac University
    Jonathan Fischer, Redeemer University College
    Colin Garnett, Black Hills State University
    Kevin Vander Meulen*, Redeemer University College
    (1135-15-2318)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Matroids and the minimum rank of matrix patterns.
    Louis Deaett*, Quinnipiac University
    (1135-05-3052)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Tree Sign Patterns that Require $\mathbb{H}_n$.
    Wei Gao*, Auburn University
    Zhongshan Li, Georgia State University
    Lihua Zhang, Georgia State University
    (1135-15-200)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Compressed Cliques Graphs and Positive Zero Forcing.
    Shaun Fallat*, University of Regina
    Karen Meagher, University of Regina
    Abolghasem Soltani, University of Regina
    Boting Yang, University of Regina
    (1135-15-2482)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On the error of a priori sampling: zero forcing sets and propagation time.
    Franklin H. J. Kenter*, United States Naval Academy
    Jephian C.-H. Lin, University of Victoria
    (1135-05-1082)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The inverse eigenvalue problem of a graph: Multiplicities and minors.
    Wayne Barrett, Brigham Young University
    Steve Butler, Iowa State University
    Shaun M. Fallat, University of Regina
    H. Tracy Hall, Brigham Young University
    Leslie Hogben, Iowa State University
    Jephian C.-H. Lin*, University of Victoria
    Bryan L. Shader, University of Wyoming
    Michael Young, Iowa State University
    (1135-15-1215)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    7 theorems in spectral extremal graph theory.
    Michael Tait*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1135-05-1178)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Switched symplectic graphs and their 2-ranks.
    Aida Abiad*, Maastricht University
    Willem Haemers, Tilburg University
    (1135-05-1840)
• Saturday January 13, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Fractional Difference Operators and Their Application
  Room 30D, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Christopher S. Goodrich, Creighton Preparatory School cgood@prep.creighton.edu
  Rajendra Dahal, Coastal Carolina University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Vectorial fractional approximation by linear operators.
    George A Anastassiou*, University of Memphis
    (1135-41-232)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    An Analysis of Nonlocal Elements in Discrete Fractional Calculus.
    Christopher S. Goodrich*, Creighton Preparatory School
    Rajendra Dahal, Coastal Carolina University
    (1135-39-1270)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Lyapunov Inequalities for Boundary Value Problems involving Fractional Difference Equations.
    Areeba Ikram*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1135-39-1389)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The General Operator $\nabla^\gamma$ and Using It to Extend Results Involving $\nabla^\gamma_{a}$ and $\nabla^\gamma_{a*}$.
    Scott C. Gensler*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1135-39-1247)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Initial value problems for fractional functional differential inclusions with Hadamard type derivatives in Banach spaces.
    John R. Graef*, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
    N. Guerraiche, Université de Mostaganem, Algeria
    S. Hamani, Université de Mostaganem, Algeria
    (1135-34-775)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Asymptotic behaviour of nabla fractional $h$-difference equations.
    Allan Peterson*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Baoguo Jia, Quandzhou, China
    Feifei Du, Sun Yat-Sen University
    Lynn Erbe, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1135-39-1104)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Quenching problem for one dimensional fractional reaction diffusion equation.
    Subhash Subedi*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    Aghalaya s. Vatsala, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    (1135-35-1781)
• Saturday January 13, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Mathematics Research from the SMALL Undergraduate Research Program, I
  Room 10, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Colin Adams, Williams College
  Frank Morgan, Williams College
  Cesar E. Silva, Williams College csilva@williams.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The Williams College SMALL Program and undergraduate mathematics research.
    Colin Adams, Williams College
    Frank Morgan*, Williams College
    Cesar E. Silva, Williams College
    (1135-00-2456)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    3D shapes associated to Julia sets.
    Kathryn A Lindsey*, Boston College
    (1135-37-2225)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    W-measurable sensitivity of semigroup actions.
    Anthony Sanchez*, University of Washington
    (1135-37-2264)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Tiling billiards and interval exchange transformations.
    Diana Davis*, Swarthmore College
    (1135-37-729)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    An Introduction to Stochastic Homogenization.
    Jessica Lin*, McGill University
    (1135-35-2063)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    From Mathematical Billiards to Dilation Surfaces.
    Jane Wang*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (1135-51-2316)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Partially Ordered Sets and Noetherian Rings.
    Cory H Colbert*, Williams College
    (1135-13-1991)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Bounds on Betti Numbers of Graded Rings.
    Adam Boocher*, University of Utah
    (1135-13-533)
• Saturday January 13, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Mathematics of Quantum Computing and Topological Phases of Matter, II
  Room 17A, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Paul Bruillard, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  David Meyer, University of California San Diego
  Julia Plavnik, Texas A&M University julia@math.tamu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Mapping class group actions on representation sets of surfaces and universality in (2+1)-D TQFT.
    Eric Samperton*, UC Davis
    (1135-57-2597)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Quantum learning from symmetric oracles.
    Jamie Pommersheim*, Reed College
    (1135-68-2244)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Semi-Algebraic Laws of Entanglement.
    Grant W Allen*, University of California, San Diego
    Orest Bucicovschi, University of California, San Diego
    David A Meyer, University of California, San Diego
    (1135-81-2314)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Defects between gapped boundaries in two-dimensional topological phases of matter.
    Iris Cong*, Harvard University
    Meng Cheng, Yale University
    Zhenghan Wang, Microsoft Station Q, UCSB
    (1135-81-2326)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Applications of equivariantization/de-equivarizantization to topological quantum computing.
    Colleen Delaney*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1135-81-2902)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Conformal Field Theories as Scaling Limit of Anyonic Chains.
    Zhenghan Wang*, Microsoft Research Station Q and Dept. of Math., UCSB.
    (1135-81-822)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    NEW PRESENTER: Mathematics of Topological Quantum Computing and its Implementations.
    Krysta M Svore*, Microsoft Research
    (1135-81-3215)
• Saturday January 13, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Multi-scale Modeling with PDEs in Computational Science and Engineering:Algorithms, Simulations, Analysis, and Applications, II
  Room 33C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Salim M. Haidar, Grand Valley State University haidars@gvsu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The Landau equation: Analysis and Approximations to collisional plasmas.
    Irene M. Gamba*, The University of Texas at Austin
    (1135-35-548)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 9:30 a.m.
    New preconditioner techniques for the buoyancy driven flow problems.
    Guoyi Ke*, Texas Tech University
    Eugenio Aulisa, Texas Tech University
    (1135-76-487)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Unifying Forces in Complex Matter Space (CMS).
    Reza R. Ahangar*, Texas A & M University-Kingsville, Texas
    (1135-82-3132)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Analytical and Numerical Study of Detachment Effects for the Upscaled Porous Medium Biofilm Reactor Model.
    Abbas Fazal*, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester NY USA
    Eberl J Hermann, University of Guelph, Guelph ON Canada
    (1135-92-2616)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Spherical harmonics based solutions for modified Laplace equation on a sphere.
    Vani Cheruvu*, The University of Toledo
    Shravan K Veerapaneni, University of Michigan
    (1135-65-1783)
• Saturday January 13, 2018, 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
  Room 31C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Tamas Forgacs, CSU Fresno
  Darren A. Narayan, Rochester Institute of Technology dansma@rit.edu
  Mark David Ward, Purdue University
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Trivalent braids and their closures.
    Gabriel A. Coloma*, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez
    Marguerite R. Davis, Ithaca College
    (1135-57-98)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Virtual spatial trivalent graphs and braids.
    Erica L Sawyer*, The Evergreen State College
    Rita L Post, University of Wisconsin- Eau Claire
    Abigayle L Dirdak, California State University, Fresno
    (1135-57-91)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Asymmetric and Symmetric Rendezvous on the Unit Cube.
    Jeffrey A Braun*, Johns Hopkins University
    John C Wierman, Johns Hopkins University
    (1135-90-1079)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Investigating the Gerchberg-Saxton Phase Retrieval Algorithm.
    Lily Wittle*, University of Miami
    Theresa A Thimons, St. Vincent College
    (1135-42-113)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Classification of Algebraically Defined Graphs by Girth.
    Allison Joan Ganger*, Allegheny College
    Shannon N. Golden, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
    Carter A. Lyons, Nebraska Wesleyan University
    (1135-05-114)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Visualizing 3-dimensional Quasi-crystals.
    Joshua D Nolan*, Lafayette College
    Clifford A Reiter, Lafayette College
    (1135-06-143)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    A Homological Theory of Functions.
    Greg Yang*, Microsoft Research
    (1135-55-1586)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Inflectionary Invariants for Plane Curve Singularities.
    Ashvin Anand Swaminathan*, Princeton University
    Anand Patel, Oklahoma State University
    (1135-14-902)
• Saturday January 13, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Set-theoretic Topology (Dedicated to Jack Porter in Honor of 50 Years of Dedicated Research), I
  Room 9, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Nathan Carlson, California Lutheran University ncarlson@callutheran.edu
  Jila Niknejad, University of Kansas
  Lynne Yengulalp, University of Dayton
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Extending the Tychonoff process of generating H-closed extensions.
    Jack Porter*, University of Kansas
    (1135-54-1655)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Symmetrizable L-spaces and Symmetrizable Dowker Spaces.
    Sheldon W Davis*, University of Texas at Tyler
    (1135-54-407)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Baire, Čech-complete, and Subcompact Spaces.
    William G. Fleissner*, University of Kansas
    (1135-54-992)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Normal Images of the Products and Countably Paracompact Images.
    Jila Niknejad*, The University of Kansas
    (1135-54-589)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Closure Operator for Clopen Topologies.
    Gerald Beer, California State University, Los Angeles
    Colin Bloomfield*, California State University, Los Angeles
    (1135-54-1145)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    New cardinality bounds for Urysohn spaces.
    Fortunata Aurora Basile*, University of Messina, Italy
    Maddalena Bonanzinga, University of Messina, Italy
    Nathan Carlson, California Lutheran University
    (1135-54-1543)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    The loss of the Lindelof property in products of Sorgenfrey-like spaces.
    John S Kulesza*, George Mason University
    (1135-54-1680)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Cardinal characteristics related to permutations of conditionally convergent series.
    Andreas Blass, University of Michigan
    Joerg Brendle, Kobe University
    Will Brian, UNC Charlotte
    Joel David Hamkins, City University of New York
    Michael Hardy, Hamline University
    Paul B. Larson*, Miami University
    (1135-01-1708)
• Saturday January 13, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Topological Data Analysis, III
  Room 6E, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Henry Adams, Colorado State University henry.adams@colostate.edu
  Gunnar Carlsson, Stanford University
  Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson, CUNY College of Staten Island
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    The theory of Vietoris-Rips complexes.
    Henry Adams*, Colorado State University
    (1135-55-1744)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Vietoris-Rips Complexes of Regular Polygons.
    Adam Jaffe*, Stanford University
    Henry Adams, Colorado State University
    Samir Chowdhury, The Ohio State University
    (1135-52-1641)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Metric reconstruction via optimal transport.
    Michal Adamaszek, University of Copenhagen
    Henry Adams, Colorado State University
    Florian Frick*, Cornell University
    (1135-57-1391)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Unfoldings of cubes never overlap.
    Kristin DeSplinter, University of San Diego
    Satyan L. Devadoss*, University of San Diego
    Jordan Readyhough, University of San Diego
    Bryce Wimberly, University of San Diego
    (1135-52-321)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Estimating the Reach of a Manifold.
    Eddie Aamari*, University of California, San Diego
    Jisu Kim, Carnegie Mellon University
    Frédéric Chazal, Inria Saclay
    Bertrand Michel, Ecole Centrale Nantes
    Alessandro Rinaldo, Carnegie Mellon University
    Larry Wasserman, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1135-62-1769)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Interleavings on categories with coherent $[0,\infty)$-action.
    Anastasios Stefanou*, University at Albany, SUNY
    Vin de Silva, Pomona College
    Elizabeth Munch, Michigan State University
    (1135-18-526)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Persistence-Based Summaries for Metric Graphs.
    Radmila Sazdanovic*, NC State University
    (1135-55-2465)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Approximating metric spaces with Reeb type graphs.
    Osman B Okutan*, Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University
    Facundo Memoli, Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University
    (1135-51-1368)
• Saturday January 13, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  AMS Special Session on Visualization in Mathematics: Perspectives of Mathematicians and Mathematics Educators, II
  Room 30C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Karen Allen Keene, North Carolina State University
  Mile Krajcevski, University of South Florida mile@mail.usf.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Mapping Diagrams Visualizing Functions and Equation Solutions: From Algebra Basics to Real and Complex Analysis.
    Martin Flashman*, Humboldt State University
    (1135-97-127)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Using GeoGebra to Visualize and Investigate Complex Valued Functions of a Complex Variable.
    Tim Flood*, Pittsburg (KS) State University
    (1135-97-1210)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On the effect of using Play-Doh as a modeling tool on student's visual understanding and success in multivariable calculus.
    Myron Minn-Thu-Aye, Assistant Professor in Resi /University of Connecticut
    Anthony Rizzie, Assistant Professor in Resi/University of Connecticut
    Amit Savkar*, Associate Professor in Resi, Director of Assessment and Teaching/ University of Connecticut
    (1135-97-1511)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    From concrete to abstract: Student discoveries and conjectures using physical surfaces in multivariable calculus and physics.
    Aaron D Wangberg*, Winona State University
    Elizabeth Gire, Oregon State University
    Robyn Wangberg, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota
    (1135-97-2227)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Improving Conceptual Understanding of Multivariable Calculus & Differential Equations Through 3D Visualization Using CalcPlot3D.
    Paul E. Seeburger*, Monroe Community College
    Monica VanDieren, Robert Morris University
    Deborah Moore-Russo, SUNY University at Buffalo
    (1135-97-2339)
• Saturday January 13, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on Attracting, Involving, and Retaining Women and Underrepresented Groups in Mathematics --Righting the Balance
  Room 5A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Francesca Bernardi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Meghan De Witt, St. Thomas Aquinas College mdewitt@stac.edu
  Moderators:
  Semra Kili/,c-Bahi, Colby-Sawyer College
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Using Makerspaces to Attract and Retain Women In STEM.
    Jenna P Carpenter*, Campbell University
    (1135-L5-61)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    King's College Women in Science and Engineering.
    Janine E. Janoski*, King's College
    (1135-L5-3022)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Diversity in Math Festival: Sharing the experience.
    Alessandra Pantano*, University of California, Irvine
    Casey Kelleher, Princeton University
    Natalia Komarova, University of California, Irvine
    (1135-L5-2968)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Discovering Undergraduate Mathematics in American Indian Culture.
    Charles Peter Funkhouser*, California State University Fullerton
    Miles Ruben Pfahl, Turtle Mountain Community College
    (1135-L5-390)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Programs, Structures and Instructional Strategies that Facilitate Diverse Learners Transitioning to and through Calculus in Two-Year Colleges.
    Helen Burn, Highline College
    Vilma Mesa, University of Michigan
    J Luke Wood*, San Diego State University
    Eboni Zamani-Gallaher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1135-L5-2563)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Learning Assistants and Undergraduate Tutors in Active Learning Precalculus and Calculus Courses: Cultivating a Sense of Belonging Among Students from Marginalized Groups.
    Nancy Emerson Kress*, University of Colorado at Boulder
    Matt Voigt, San Diego State University, University of California - San Diego
    Jess Ellis Hagman, Colorado State University, Fort Collins CO
    Jessica Gehrtz, Colorado State University, Fort Collins CO
    (1135-L5-2610)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Undergraduate Research in Mathematics History and Social Justice.
    Susan E Kelly*, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
    (1135-L5-133)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Cultivating an Inclusive Atmosphere in Scientific Computing through Diverse Historical Perspectives.
    Jacob Price*, University of Washington
    (1135-L5-300)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Re-claiming identity through cultural education.
    L. Marizza Bailey*, BASIS Scottsdale, Scottsdale, AZ
    Carrie Diaz Eaton, School for Environmental Literacy, Unity College
    (1135-L5-620)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Measuring the Global Gender Gap in Mathematics and the Natural Sciences: Working Frameworks and a Recent Grant-Funded International Initiative.
    Guadalupe Lozano*, The University of Arizona, International Mathematical Union (IMU)
    (1135-L5-1598)
  • 11:20 a.m.
    Campus Racial Climate and Sense of Belonging: Psychosocial Factors Impacting Persistence Intentions of Students in Developmental Mathematics.
    Darolyn A. Flaggs*, Texas State University
    (1135-L5-1359)
  • 11:40 a.m.
    The Role of Professional Societies in STEM Diversity.
    Talitha M Washington*, Howard University
    Vernon R. Morris, Howard University
    (1135-L5-2394)
• Saturday January 13, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:40 a.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Differential Equations
  Room 29D, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On Standard Forms of Linear Ordinary Differential Equations with Rational Function Coefficients.
    Erdal Imamoglu*, North Carolina State University
    Mark van Hoeij, Florida State University
    (1135-34-746)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Simple Simulation of Nonlinear Differential Equations with (Fairly) General Deviating Arguments.
    Vincenzo Michael Isaia*, Indiana State University
    (1135-34-1357)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Perron-Type Existence Theorems for First Order Initial Value Problems.
    Zhivko S. Athanassov*, Institute of Mathematics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
    (1135-34-616)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    The Janowski starlikeness of a solution of second order differential equation.
    See Keong Lee*, Universiti Sains Malaysia
    (1135-30-1416)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A BVP nonexistence proof using Green's Theorem.
    Joseph P. Previte, Penn State Behrend
    Joseph E Paullet*, Penn State Behrend
    (1135-34-107)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    The Bessel Differential Equation and Left Definite Theory.
    Katie Elliott*, Baylor University
    (1135-34-2926)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The Existence of Solutions to an Even-Order Boundary Value Problem.
    Daniel Brumley*, University of Central Oklahoma
    Britney Hopkins, University of Central Oklahoma
    (1135-34-3068)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    On asymptotic integration of higher order delay differential equations.
    Ravi P. Agarwal, Texas A&M University-Kingsville
    Turker Ertem*, Toros University
    Agacik Zafer, American University of the Middle East
    (1135-34-2667)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A comparison of the adaptive Magnus expansion method and other ODE solvers for the chemical master equation with time-dependent propensities.
    Khanh Ngoc Dinh*, Department of Mathematics, University of Alabama
    Roger Blaine Sidje, Department of Mathematics, University of Alabama
    (1135-34-2117)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Modeling the Effects of Inflammation in Bone Fracture Healing.
    Imelda Trejo*, University of Texas at Arlington
    Hristo Kojouharov, University of Texas at Arlington
    Benito Chen-Charpentier, University of Texas at Arlington
    (1135-39-2916)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The complex dynamics of a diffusive prey-predator model with an allee effect in prey.
    Feng Rao*, Nanjing Tech University, China
    Yun Kang, Arizona State University
    (1135-35-2272)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Numerical results for Linear Sequential Caputo Fractional Boundary Value problem with mixed boundary conditions.
    Bhuvaneswari Sambandham*, Dixie State University
    Aghalaya S Vatsala, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    Vinodh Kumar Chellamuthu, Dixie State University
    (1135-34-207)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On Continuability, Boundedness, and Monotonicity of Solutions of Nonlinear Systems of Differential Equations.
    Lianwen Wang*, University of Central Missouri
    (1135-34-52)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    An approximate method for solving fractional differential equations.
    Mohsen Razzaghi*, Mississippi State University
    (1135-34-1963)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Cobweb Model with Fractional Order Derivatives.
    Veysel Fuat Hatipoglu*, Mugla Sitki Kocman University
    Martin Bohner, Missouri Science and Technology
    (1135-34-3151)
• Saturday January 13, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:40 a.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Graphs and Their Applications
  Room 18, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Resistance Distance in Linear 2-Trees.
    Emily J Evans*, Brigham Young University
    Wayne Barrett, Brigham Young University
    Amanda E Francis, Carroll College
    (1135-20-1382)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    On $r$-hued coloring of graphs without short induced paths.
    Murong Xu*, West Virginia University
    Hong-Jian Lai, West Virginia University
    Xuezheng Lv, Renmin University of China
    (1135-05-1718)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Rainbows in Graphs.
    Hunter Dane Rehm*, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
    (1135-05-2891)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Increasing Spanning Forests in Graphs and Simplicial Complexes.
    Josh Hallam*, Wake Forest University
    Jeremy Martin, University of Kansas
    Bruce Sagan, Michigan State University
    (1135-05-1582)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Sorting Index and Mahonian-Stirling paris for labeled forests.
    Amy Grady*, Clemson University
    Svetlana Poznanovic, Clemson University
    (1135-05-1449)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Quota Trees.
    Tad P. White*, IDA Center for Computing Sciences
    (1135-05-1376)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A new way to view popping algorithms for perfect simulation.
    Mark L Huber*, Claremont McKenna College
    (1135-60-2621)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Distance energy change of graphs due to edge deletion.
    Wasin So*, San Jose State University
    (1135-05-1508)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: On the fixing sets of finite groups.
    Lindsey-Kay Lauderdale*, University of Texas at Tyler
    (1135-05-1960)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Enumerating acyclic digraphs by descents.
    Kassie Archer, University of Texas at Tyler
    Christina Graves*, University of Texas at Tyler
    (1135-05-3071)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Perfect Matching Transitivity of Graphs.
    Ju Zhou*, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
    (1135-05-1748)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    DNA Origami and Knots in Graphs.
    Ada Nicole Morse*, University of Vermont
    (1135-05-493)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Prime labelings of infinite graphs with connections to computability theory.
    Oscar Levin*, University of Northern Colorado
    (1135-05-2142)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    Weak cop number of infinite graphs.
    Robert W Bell*, Michigan State University
    (1135-05-2469)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Machine learning applied to edge-Nim on graphs.
    Lindsay A Erickson*, Augustana University
    (1135-05-2286)
• Saturday January 13, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  MAA Session on Inquiry-Based Teaching and Learning, III
  Room 4, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Eric Kahn, Bloomsburg University
  Brian P. Katz, Augustana College briankatz@augustana.edu
  Victor Piercey, Ferris State University
  

  • 8:20 a.m.
    Building problem solving skills from existing mathematical knowledge.
    Monika Keindl*, Northern Arizona University
    (1135-D5-1714)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    What if there was no 2?
    Judith Lynn Gieger*, Oglethorpe University
    (1135-D5-2795)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Trust Your Liberal Arts Students with Proof.
    Elizabeth Thoren*, Pepperdine University
    (1135-D5-2321)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Transforming Future Math Teachers into Mathematicians.
    Tara T. Craig*, Coastal Carolina University
    (1135-D5-2911)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    The Effect of Instructional Strategies on Preservice Elementary Teachers Math Anxiety and Achievement.
    Janelle Krause Lorenzen*, Southeastern Louisiana University
    (1135-D5-2173)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Evolution of Prospective Elementary Teachers' Competencies: Procedural Knowledge, Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching, Attitudes, and Enactment of Mathematical Practices.
    Shari Samuels*, Lower Columbia College
    (1135-D5-3185)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Inquiry Based Learning Integrated with Technology in a Geometry for Teachers Course.
    Ali S Shaqlaih*, University of North Texas at Dallas
    (1135-D5-2627)
  • 10:40 a.m.
    Advanced Euclidean Geometry via IBL.
    David M Clark*, SUNY New Paltz
    Samrat S Pathania, SUNY New Paltz
    (1135-D5-1866)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Exploring polygonal centers.
    Ted Theodosopoulos*, The Nueva School
    (1135-D5-3198)
  • 11:20 a.m.
    Inquiry-Based Learning Problem Sets in an Outreach Program for High School Girls: Increasing Confidence and Strengthening Interest Among Underrepresented Groups.
    Katrina Morgan*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Francesca Bernardi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (1135-D5-3029)
  • 11:40 a.m.
    Inquiry-based pathway to Calculus.
    Stuart Boersma*, Central Washington University
    Frank Savina, The Charles A. Dana Center
    (1135-D5-2005)
• Saturday January 13, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-10:25 a.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Analysis, I
  Room 28D, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Tim Comar, Benedictine University tcomar@ben.edu
  James Reid, University of Mississippi
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Inertial proximal method for a system of equilibrium problems and fixed point problems.
    Prashanta Majee*, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur-721302, West Bengal, India
    Chandal Nahak, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur-721302, West Bengal, India
    (1135-VM-87)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Gibbs Phenomenon in tight framelet expansions.
    Mutaz Mohammad*, Zayed University
    (1135-VM-224)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Variable exponent spaces of analytic functions.
    Gerardo R. Chacon*, Gallaudet University
    Gerardo A. Chacon, Universidad Antonio Narino
    (1135-VM-416)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Two Point Centroidal Voronoi Tessellations.
    Sophia DeArment, Rochester Institute of Technology
    Kathrin Gillespie, Redfin
    Albert Schueller*, Whitman College
    (1135-VM-782)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Dynamics of $f(z)=i^z$.
    Michelle Previte*, Penn State Behrend
    Joseph P. Previte, Penn State Behrend
    (1135-VM-788)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Developments in the Heisenberg Group.
    Jacob R Mirra*, University of Pittsburgh
    (1135-VM-1002)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Recent progress on theory and numerical data assimilation algorithm in geophysical and fluid dynamics.
    Yuan Pei*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Adam Larios, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1135-VM-1146)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Homogenization with soft inclusions and interior Lipschitz estimates at every scale.
    B Chase Russell*, University of Kentucky
    (1135-VM-1272)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Geometric Definition of the Derivative.
    Laramie Paxton*, Washington State University
    Kevin R. Vixie, Washington State University
    (1135-VM-1420)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Limit Points of Folding Sequences.
    Matthew J Sequin*, Saint Peter's University
    (1135-VM-1444)
• Saturday January 13, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Probability and Statistics, I
  Room 28E, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Tim Comar, Benedictine University tcomar@ben.edu
  James Reid, University of Mississippi
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Semi-Parametric Rank Estimation of Partially Linear Models with Penalized Wavelets.
    Eddy Kwessi*, Trinity University
    (1135-VT-64)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Studying crime trends in the United States in the XXI century.
    Volodymyr Melnykov, The University of Alabama
    Xuwen Zhu*, The University of Louisville
    (1135-VT-76)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Optimal Estimating Equation for Logistic Regression with Linked Data.
    Jenkin Tsui*, University of Toronto
    Abel Dasylva, Ottawa, ON, Canada
    Kenneth Chu, Ottawa, ON, Canada
    (1135-VT-138)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: The degree distribution and Gini index of random caterpillar trees.
    Panpan Zhang*, University of Connecticut
    Dipak Dey, University of Connecticut
    (1135-VT-149)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Sampling distributions of skew normal populations.
    Xiaonan Zhu*, New Mexico State University
    Baokun Li, Southwestern University of Finance and Economy, P. R. China
    Tonghui Wang, New Mexico State University
    Arjun K. Gupta, Bowling Green State University
    (1135-VT-346)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Comparative Study of Quality Control for the Strength of Carbon Fibers.
    Nehal Adhikari*, Department of Mathematical Sciences/University of South Dakota
    Yuhlong Lio, Department of Mathematical Sciences/University of South Dakota
    (1135-VT-541)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Risk Based Target Lag Clustering of Time Dependent Information in Finance.
    Doo Young Kim*, Arkansas State University
    (1135-VT-693)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Minimal Noise-Induced Stabilization of One-Dimensional Stochastic Differential Equations.
    Tiffany Nicole Kolba*, Valparaiso University
    (1135-VT-783)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Quantization in Statistics.
    Lakshmi Roychowdhury*, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
    (1135-VT-832)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    On the Probability of Random Polynomials with Integer Coefficients Being Irreducible.
    Grigory Terlov*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1135-VT-901)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Spatiotemporal trends in daily precipitation extremes and their connection with North Atlantic tropical cyclones for the Southeastern United States.
    Bhikhari P. Tharu*, Spelman College
    Nirajan Dhakal, Environmental and Health Sciences Program, Spelman College
    (1135-VT-917)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    An unexpected expectation trick for maximums and minimums of two random variables.
    John C. Wierman*, Johns Hopkins University
    (1135-VT-978)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    An Alternative Parameterization for Hormesis Problem in Toxicology.
    Steven B Kim*, California State University, Monterey Bay
    (1135-VT-1012)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    Supervised Learning via Smoothed Polya Trees.
    William Cipolli*, Colgate University
    Timothy Hanson, University of South Carolina
    (1135-VT-1116)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    A Comparison of Robust Logistic Regression Methods.
    Xiaoya Meyer*, Cameron University
    Hong Li, Cameron University
    (1135-VT-1184)
  • 11:45 a.m.
    Necessary and Sufficient Condition for Asymptotic Standard Normality of the Two Sample Pivot.
    Rajeshwari Majumdar, University of Connecticut
    Suman Majumdar*, University of Connecticut
    (1135-VT-1198)
• Saturday January 13, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-9:40 a.m.
  MAA General Contributed Paper Session on Teaching and Learning Introductory Mathematics, III
  Room 32B, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  Organizers:
  Tim Comar, Benedictine University tcomar@ben.edu
  James Reid, University of Mississippi
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Students' Attitude Changing towards Statistics After a First Statistics Course.
    Jialing Chan*, The University of the Pacific
    (1135-VI-2722)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Discussion
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Teaching an Introductory Statistics Course: A New Partially Flipped Approach.
    Sher B. Chhetri*, Florida Atlantic University
    (1135-VI-2808)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    Allowing Test Corrections in STEM (Mathematics) Undergraduate Courses: Benefits versus Time and Energy!
    Terry (Tee) Barron*, Georgia Gwinnett College
    (1135-VI-3104)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Once There Was a King Who had Two Sons: Stories to Inspire Topological Exploration for Non-Majors or Children.
    Skona Brittain*, SB Family School
    (1135-VI-3146)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Improving student success rate.
    Minal Vora*, East Georgia Community College
    (1135-VI-2992)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday January 13, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Modeling Disease and Biological Processes
  Room 29C, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Multi-Objective Extension to Logical Analysis of Data and Its Applications in Medicine.
    Nandini Rakala*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL
    Munevver Mine Subasi, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL
    Ersoy Subasi, Department of Engineering Systems, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL
    (1135-90-2501)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Global stability of the coexistence equilibrium for a general class of models of facultative mutualism.
    Daniel Maxin, Valparaiso University
    Paul Georgescu, Technical University of Iasi
    Laurentiu Sega*, Augusta University
    Ludek Berec, Institute of Mathematics and Biomathematics, University of South Bohemia
    (1135-92-297)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Emergence of Cooperativity in Microbial Consortia.
    Diana Schepens*, Montana State University
    Ross Carlson, Montana State University
    Jeff Heys, Montana State University
    Ashley Beck, Montana State University
    Tomas Gedeon, Montana State University
    (1135-92-1443)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    One the principle of host evolution in immuno-epidemiological models.
    Yena Kim*, University of Florida
    Maia Martcheva, University of Florida
    (1135-00-2081)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Discrete Time West Nile Virus Transmission Model with Optimal Bird- and Vector-Specific Controls.
    Tufail M Malik*, Arizona State University
    (1135-92-1639)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Modeling migratory effects of white-tailed deer on dynamics of hemorrhagic disease: reducing risk of outbreaks via isolation.
    Gerry Baygents*, University of Missouri Kansas City
    (1135-65-2098)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Fixation of neutral mutants in random environments: minority rules.
    Natalia L Komarova*, UC Irvine
    (1135-92-2361)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Evolutionary Stable Strategy for a Multispecies Phytoplankton Competition Model.
    Thomas G Stojsavljevic*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    (1135-92-1617)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Modeling Transposable Element Dynamics with Fragmentation Equations.
    M Banuelos*, University of California, Merced
    S S Sindi, University of California, Merced
    (1135-92-2849)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    A model for quantifying the importance of habitats in a migratory network.
    Christine Sample*, Emmanuel College
    Joanna Bieri, University of Redlands
    Benjamin Allen, Emmanuel College
    Yulia Dementieva, Emmanuel College
    Alyssa Carson, Emmanuel College
    Shirley Qiu, Emmanuel College
    Connor Higgins, Emmanuel College
    Sadie Piatt, Emmanuel College
    (1135-92-2712)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Using Mathematical Model to Study How the Interplay Between Various Stressors Affects the Dynamics of Honeybee Colonies.
    Vardayani Ratti*, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
    Peter G Kevan, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
    Hermann J Eberl, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
    (1135-34-3017)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Maintenance of the pH gradient in the gastric mucus layer.
    Owen L Lewis*, University of Utah
    James P Keener, University of Utah
    Aaron L Fogelson, University of Utah
    (1135-92-3220)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    A method for sensitivity analysis and parameter estimation applied to a large reaction-diffusion model of cell polarization.
    Marissa Renardy*, The Ohio State University
    Tau-Mu Yi, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Dongbin Xiu, The Ohio State University
    Ching-Shan Chou, The Ohio State University
    (1135-92-505)
  • 11:15 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Modeling the dynamics of Cdc42 oscillation in fission yeast.
    Bin Xu*, University of Notre Dame, Department of Applied & Computational Mathematics and Statistics
    (1135-92-1934)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Pattern formation mechanism for homeostatic control of synapse density during C. elegans growth.
    Heather Z. Brooks*, University of Utah
    Paul C. Bressloff, University of Utah
    (1135-92-1982)
  • 11:45 a.m.
    Key Concepts on Mathematics for Bioinformatics.
    Ricardo Sanchez*, Argosy University and Art Institutes International Minnesota
    Lucia Barrera Arenas, Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia
    (1135-92-1188)
• Saturday January 13, 2018, 8:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
  AMS Contributed Paper Session on Numerical Methods and Their Applications
  Room 29A, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Towards a Difference Potentials Method for the Mullins--Sekerka model.
    Yekaterina Epshteyn, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah
    Kyle R. Steffen*, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah
    Qing Xia, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah
    (1135-65-2877)
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Numerical smoothness and error analysis for parabolic equations.
    Todd Romutis*, Bowling Green State University
    Tong Sun, Bowling Green State University
    (1135-65-2526)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    TALK CANCELLED: Analysis of a Multiphysics Finite Element Method for a Poroelasticity Model.
    Xiaobing Feng, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    Zhihao Ge, Henan University
    Yukun Li*, The Ohio State University, Columbus
    (1135-65-2184)
  • 8:45 a.m.
    A phase-field description of dynamic brittle fracture model: a single anti-plane shear crack.
    Mallikarjunaiah S Muddamallappa*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    Ch