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Program of the SessionsSan Diego, California, January 6–9, 2008

Friday, January 4AMS Short Course on Applications of Knot Theory(Part I)

8:00 AM – 5:30 PM

Organizers: Dorothy Buck, Imperial College ofLondonErica L. Flapan, Pomona College

8:00AM Registration.10:15AM Opening remarks by Dorothy Buck and Erica Flapan.10:30AM

(1)Introduction to knot theory.Colin Adams, Williams College

2:00PM

(2)Introduction to topological chirality.Erica Flapan, Pomona College

3:30PM Break.4:00PM

(3)Introduction to knots and DNA.Dorothy Buck, Imperial College London

MAA Short Course on Combinatorics: Past, Present,and Future (Part I)

8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Organizer: Robin Wilson, The Open University8:00AM Registration.9:00AM Robin Wilson, Welcome and Introduction.9:15AM

(4)China.Andrea Breard, Universite des Sciences etTechnologies de Lille

10:00AM

(5)Combinatorics in the Islamic and Hebrew traditions.Victor J. Katz, University of the District of Columbia

10:45AM Break.11:15AM

(6)European combinatorics, 1200–1700.Eberhard Knobloch, Technical University of Berlin

2:00PM

(7)Latin squares.Lars D. Andersen, University of Aalborg

2:45PM

(8)Euler’s ‘De Partitio Numerorum’.George E. Andrews, Pennsylvania State University

3:30PM Break.

The time limit for each AMS contributed paper in the sessions is tenminutes. The time limit for each MAA contributed paper varies. In theSpecial Sessions the time limit varies from session to session and withinsessions. To maintain the schedule, time limits will be strictly enforced.For papers with more than one author, an asterisk follows the name ofthe author who plans to present the paper at the meeting.

Papers flagged with a solid triangle (�) have been designated by theauthor as being of possible interest to undergraduate students.Abstracts of papers presented in the sessions at this meeting will befound in Volume 29, Issue 1 of Abstracts of papers presented to theAmerican Mathematical Society, ordered according to the numbers inparentheses following the listings.

4:00PM

(9)Early graph theory.Robin Wilson, The Open University

Saturday, January 5MAA Short Course on Combinatorics: Past, Present,and Future (Part II)

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Organizer: Robin Wilson, The Open University9:00AM

(10)Triple systems, schoolgirls, and designs.Robin Wilson, The Open University

9:45AM

(11)Graphs and games: The game of Hex.Bjarne Toft, Southern Denmark University


(12)20th-century graph theory.Lowell W. Beineke, Indiana University-PurdueUniversity

2:00PM

(13)Sister Celine as we knew her.Herbert S. Wilf*, University of Pennsylvania,Philadelphia, and Lily Yen*, Capilano College

2:45PM

(14)Combinatorics: The future and beyond.Ronald L. Graham*, University of California SanDiego, and Doron Zeilberger*, Rutgers University

3:30PM Break.4:00PM General Discussion.

MAA Board of Governors

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

AMS Short Course on Applications of Knot Theory(Part II)

9:30 AM – 5:30 PM

Organizers: Dorothy Buck, Imperial College ofLondonErica L. Flapan, Pomona College

JANUARY 2008 NOTICES OF THE AMS 117

9:30AM

(15)Knots and physics.Lou Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago


(16)Single-stranded DNA topology.Ned Seeman, New York University

3:00PM

(17)Long tangled filaments.Jon Simon, University of Iowa

4:30PM Break.4:45PM Panel discussion.

AMS Council

1:30 PM – 10:00 PM

Joint Meetings Registration

3:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Sunday, January 6Joint Meetings Registration

7:30 AM – 4:00 PM

MAA Session on Assessment of Student Learning inUndergraduate Mathematics, I

7:30 AM – 10:55 AM

Organizers: William O. Martin, North Dakota StateUniversityBernard L. Madison, University ofArkansasMaura B. Mast, University ofMassachusetts-BostonKimberly M. Vincent, WashingtonState University

7:30AM

(18)Doing Away with Grades: A Mastery-BasedApproach to Assessment. Preliminary report.Jonathan K Hodge, Grand Valley State University(1035-A5-437)

7:45AM

� (19)The Effect of Grading Quizzes on SubsequentStudent Performance.John J. Schiller, Temple University (1035-A5-678)

8:00AM

� (20)Using statistical methods for assessment of studentlearning.Jacob B Sloujitel, Globe Institute of Technology(1035-A5-1092)

8:15AM

� (21)Developing a Survey to Assess Pre-Service TeachersViews and Uses of Problem-Solving in Mathematics.Preliminary report.Jane R Cushman, Buffalo State College, SUNY(1035-A5-1350)

8:30AM

� (22)Decisions, Decisions, Decisions! Or Decision analysisof avoiding the prerequisite. Preliminary report.Joe Liddle, University of Alaska Southeast(1035-A5-1390)

8:45AM

(23)Mathematics Assessment at One Four-YearInstitution: Closing the Loop. Preliminary report.Kevin E. Charlwood, Washburn University(1035-A5-881)

9:00AM

� (24)Assessment 101: Creating and Implementing anAssessment Plan for a Mathematics Program.Preliminary report.Lisa A Lister, Bloomsburg University(1035-A5-1990)

9:15AM

� (25)Improving the Validity of Assessments inUndergraduate Mathematics: Lessons We CanLearn From the Analysis of High Stakes Tests.Erica Slate Young, United States Military Academyat West Point (1035-A5-1785)

9:30AM

� (26)Out the Door: Using Exit Interviews as anAssessment Tool. Preliminary report.Sarah V. Cook, Washburn University (1035-A5-613)

9:45AM

(27)Assessment of Critical Thinking Skills inIntroductory Business Statistics.Sue B. Schou, Idaho State University(1035-A5-1036)

10:00AM

� (28)Mathematics Readiness Assessment andRemediation Using Maple T.A. - A Model forCreating and Implementing Computer-BasedAssessment and Remediation.Salvatrice F Keating*, Marsha Davis andChristian Yankov, Eastern Connecticut StateUniversity (1035-A5-53)

10:15AM

� (29)Using SP Analysis to Detect Unexpected Test ItemPerformance.James H Fife, Educational Testing Service(1035-A5-1643)

10:30AM

(30)The Evolving Process of Mathematics Placement.Preliminary report.Daniel Ray Miller, Millikin University (1035-A5-929)

10:45AM

(31)Assessing student attitude toward mathematics,their mathematical skills and critical thinkingabilities in general education classrooms.Debasree Raychaudhuri, California StateUniversity at Los Angeles (1035-A5-1981)

AMS-MAA Special Session on The Scholarship ofTeaching and Learning in Mathematics, I

8:00 AM – 10:50 AM

Organizers: Curtis D. Bennett, Loyola MarymountUniversityJacqueline M. Dewar, LoyolaMarymount University

8:00AM

� (32)Developing scholarship of teaching and learningmathematics with in-service K-8 teachers.Preliminary report.David S. Allen, Andrew G. Bennett, Julia E.Bergner* and Melisa J. Hancock, Kansas StateUniversity (1035-97-1127)

8:30AM

� (33)Engaging graduate student teaching assistants andprospective teachers in expository research.Preliminary report.Elena Anne Marchisotto* and Michael Cole,California State University, Northridge(1035-97-697)

9:00AM

� (34)Comparing Methods of Instruction in IntermediateAlgebra for College Students. Preliminary report.Susan Elaine Thompson, Otterbein College(1035-97-222)

9:30AM

� (35)What Really Happens When Students Work Online?Andrew G Bennett, Kansas State University(1035-97-1310)

10:00AM

� (36)Interactive Internet-based Teaching and Learning inCalculus and Geometry.Thomas F Banchoff, Brown University(1035-97-725)

10:30AM

� (37)Building the Capacity of a Department ofMathematics to Engage in the Scholarship ofTeaching and Learning.Simei Tong* and Donald F. Reynolds, University ofWisconsin-Eau Claire (1035-97-108)

Program of the Sessions – Saturday, January 5 (cont’d.)

118 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 55, NUMBER 1

AMS-SIAM Special Session on Asymptotic Methods inAnalysis with Applications, I

8:00 AM – 10:55 AM

Organizers: Diego Dominici, SUNY New PaltzPeter A. McCoy, U.S. Naval Academy

8:00AM

(38)A Γ -convergence Result in Nonlinear Plate Theory.Preliminary report.Cristina Popovici, North Dakota State University(1035-49-487)

8:30AM

(39)Difference equations: Asymptotics, Borelsummability and applications.Ovidiu Costin, The Ohio State University(1035-41-2019)

9:00AM

(40)Integral Formulas for the Asymmetric SimpleExclusion Process.Craig A Tracy*, UC Davis, and Harold Widom, UCSanta Cruz (1035-60-131)

9:30AM

� (41)Efficient evaluation of propagation and scatteringof high-frequency acoustic and electromagneticwaves. Preliminary report.Oscar P Bruno, Applied and ComputationalMathematics, Caltech (1035-78-180)

10:00AM

(42)On the Shortest Queue Version of the Erlang LossModel.Charles Knessl*, University of Illinois at Chicago,and Haishen Yao, Queensborough CommunityCollege, CUNY (1035-41-755)

10:30AM

(43)Asymptotic estimation of ξ(2n)(1/2): Proof of aconjecture of Farmer and Rhoades.Mark W Coffey, Colorado School of Mines(1035-30-718)

AMS-SIAM Special Session on EnvironmentalMathematics: Some Mathematical Problems onClimate Change and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, I

8:00 AM – 10:40 AM

Organizers: Samuel S. Shen, San Diego StateUniversityGerald R. North, Texas A&M University

8:00AM

� (44)Status of Climate Change Research.Gerald R North, Texas A&M University(1035-86-931)

9:00AM

� (45)Greenhouse Effect, Atmospheric Brown Clouds andClimate Change: Scientific and Societal Dilemma.V. Ramanathan, Scripps Institution ofOceanography (1035-58-1412)

10:00AM

� (46)Some Simple Mathematics Used in Support ofClimate Change Studies. Preliminary report.K. K. Tung, University of Washington (1035-86-601)

AMS-ASL Special Session on Set Theory and BanachSpaces, I

8:00 AM – 10:40 AM

Organizers: Christian Rosendal, University ofIllinois at Urbana-ChampaignStevo B. Todorcevic, University ofToronto and CNRS, Universite Paris 7

8:00AM

(47)Classes of Banach spaces admitting small universalspaces. Preliminary report.Pandelis Dodos, Equipe d’Analyse Fonctionnelle,Universite Paris 6 (1035-46-2024)

9:00AM

(48)Some problems in Banach spaces. Preliminaryreport.E. Odell, University of Texas at Austin(1035-46-1190)

10:00AM

(49)Isometry groups of separable metric spaces.Maciej Malicki and Slawomir Solecki*, Universityof Illinois (1035-03-1527)

AMS-AWM Special Session on Zeta Functions ofGraphs, Ramanujan Graphs, and Related Topics, I

8:00 AM – 10:50 AM

Organizers: Audrey A. Terras, University ofCalifornia San DiegoMatthew Horton, Wellesley College

8:00AM

(50)Ihara zeta functions of graphs and digraphs.Matthew D. Horton, Wellesley College(1035-05-390)

8:30AM

(51)Hypergraph zeta functions and isospectraldigraphs.Christopher K. Storm*, Adelphi University, andBarry Balof, Whitman College (1035-05-368)

9:00AM

(52)Determinants associated to Zeta matrices of posetsand their relation to graph theory.Cristina M Ballantine*, Sharon M Frechetteand John B Little, College of the Holy Cross(1035-05-381)

9:30AM

(53)Zeta functions of buildings and Shimura varieties.Preliminary report.Jerome William Hoffman, Louisiana StateUniversity (1035-14-1054)

10:00AM

(54)Equi-transmitting scattering matrices for quantumgraphs.Jonathan Harrison*, Baylor University, Brian Winn,Loughborough University, and Uzy Smilansky, TheWeizmann Institute of Science (1035-43-70)

10:30AM

� (55)Zeta functions of infinite graphs. Preliminary report.Sam Northshield, SUNY-Plattsburgh(1035-05-1297)

AMS Special Session on Automorphic Forms andRelated Topics, I

8:00 AM – 10:50 AM

Organizers: Olav K. Richter, University of NorthTexasKathrin Bringmann, University ofMinnesotaHarold M. Stark, University ofCalifornia San Diego

8:00AM

� (56)Heegner divisors, L-functions, and Maass forms.Ken Ono, University of Wisconsin at Madison(1035-11-507)

8:30AM

(57)Durfee symbol congruences and higher rankmoments.Kathrin Bringmann, University of Minnesota,Frank Garvan, University of Florida, and KarlMahlburg*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology(1035-11-1693)

9:00AM

� (58)Irreducibility of Hecke Polynomials.Scott Ahlgren, University of Illinois (1035-11-1651)

9:30AM

(59)Paramodular Cusp Forms.David S Yuen, Lake Forest College (1035-11-763)

10:00AM

(60)Arithmetic Trace Formula.Bernhard Heim, MPI Mathematics Bonn(1035-11-883)

Sunday, January 6 – Program of the Sessions


10:30AM

(61)Averages and asymptotics of automorphicL-functions over families.Paul Garrett, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis(1035-11-1385)

AMS Special Session on Recent Advances inMathematical Biology, Ecology, and Epidemiology, I

8:00 AM – 10:55 AM

Organizers: Linda J. S. Allen, Texas Tech UniversitySophia R. Jang, University of Louisianaat LafayetteLih-Ing W. Roeger, Texas TechUniversity

8:00AM

(62)Phenotypic oscillations and frequency-dependentselection.J. M. Cushing* and Sheree Lynn Arpin, Universityof Arizona (1035-92-782)

8:30AM

(63)A two compartment model of the marinephage-host system.Joseph M. Mahaffy, San Diego State University(1035-92-1689)

9:00AM

(64)The Basic Reproduction Number in a Discrete-TimeModel for Hantavirus in Rodents.P. van den Driessche*, University of Victoria,and Linda J.S. Allen, Texas Tech University(1035-92-597)

9:30AM

� (65)Reproductive Synchrony: An Egg-laying Model forGlaucous-winged Gulls. Preliminary report.Shandelle M. Henson*, James L. Hayward,Andrews University, Joseph G. Galusha, Walla WallaUniversity, and J. M. Cushing, University of Arizona(1035-92-1513)

10:00AM

(66)Resonant and Attenuant Cycles in PeriodicallyForced Population Models. Preliminary report.John E Franke, North Carolina State University(1035-92-1017)

10:30AM

� (67)Optimal Dynamic Harvest in a Diffusive RenewableResource.Suzanne Lenhart*, University of Tennessee,G. Herrera, Bowdoin College, H. R. Joshi,Xavier University, and M. Neubert, Woods HoleOceanographic Institute (1035-92-218)

AMS Special Session on Progress in CommutativeAlgebra, I

8:00 AM – 10:50 AM

Organizers: Janet Striuli, University of Nebraska,LincolnSean M. Sather-Wagstaff, NorthDakota State UniversityLars Winther Christensen, TexasTech University

8:00AM

(68)A length inequality on multiplicities. Preliminaryreport.C. Huneke*, University of Kansas, M. Mustata,University of Michigan, S. Takagi, KyushuUniversity, and K. Watanabe, Nihon University(1035-13-856)

8:30AM

(69)Matrix factorizations of the classical discriminant.Bradford G Hovinen, University of Toronto(1035-13-1563)

9:00AM

(70)An extension of Hilbert-Samuel and Hilbert-Kunzmultiplicities to non-m-primary ideals. Preliminaryreport.Neil Epstein*, University of Michigan, and YongweiYao, Georgia State University (1035-13-1759)

9:30AM

(71)Multiplicity Bounds for Quadratic Monomial Ideals.Manoj Kummini, University of Kansas(1035-13-501)

10:00AM

(72)Dedekind-like rings and their module categoies.Greg Piepmeyer*, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia,and Lee Klingler, Florida Atlantic University(1035-13-1224)

10:30AM

(73)Connected Sums and the Gorenstein Colength of anArtinian Local Ring. Preliminary report.Ananthnarayan Hariharan, University of Kansas(1035-13-1181)

AMS Special Session on Hyperbolic DynamicalSystems, I

8:00 AM – 10:40 AM

Organizers: Todd L. Fisher, Brigham YoungUniversityBoris Hasselblatt, Tufts University

8:00AM

(74)Mixing for smooth dynamical systems.M J Field, University of Houston (1035-37-531)

8:30AM

(75)Holder forms and integrability of invariantdistributions.Slobodan N. Simic, San Jose State University(1035-37-1214)

9:00AM

(76)Quasi-Anosov diffeomorphisms of 3-manifolds.Todd Fisher*, Brigham Young University, and JanaRodriguez Hertz, Facultad de Ingenieria -Universidad de la Republica (1035-37-1106)

9:30AM

(77)Anosov Automorphisms on Nilmanifolds.Meera G. Mainkar*, Dartmouth College, andCynthia E. Will, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba,Cordoba, Argentina (1035-37-1055)

10:00AM

(78)On invariant volumes of codimension-one Anosovflows.Masayuki Asaoka, Kyoto University (1035-37-331)

AMS Special Session on Interactions BetweenNoncommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, I

8:00 AM – 10:50 AM

Organizers: Daniel S. Rogalski, University ofCalifornia San DiegoLance W. Small, University ofCalifornia San DiegoJames J. Zhang, University ofWashington

8:00AM

(79)Some recent developments in quadratic growth.Jason P Bell, Simon Fraser University (1035-16-766)

8:30AM

(80)The Poisson Dixmier-Moeglin equivalence.K R Goodearl*, University of California at SantaBarbara, and S Launois, University of Kent atCanterbury (1035-16-798)

9:00AM

(81)A Shephard-Todd-Chevalley Theorem for SkewPolynomial Rings. Preliminary report.Ellen E. Kirkman, James Kuzmanovich*, WakeForest University, and James J Zhang, University ofWashington (1035-16-1192)

9:30AM

(82)Reflections of Regular Algebras.Ellen E. Kirkman*, James J. Kuzmanovich, WakeForest University, and James J. Zhang, University ofWashington (1035-16-1293)

10:00AM

(83)Watts Theorem for Schemes.Adam Nyman*, University of Montana, and S. PaulSmith, University of Washington (1035-14-627)

Program of the Sessions – Sunday, January 6 (cont’d.)


10:30AM

(84)The geometry of birationally commutative gradedrings.Susan J. Sierra, University of Michigan(1035-16-1700)

AMS Special Session on Algebraic Topology, I

8:00 AM – 10:40 AM

Organizers: Nitu Kitchloo, University of CaliforniaSan DiegoRalph L. Cohen, Stanford UniversityJames P. Lin, University of CaliforniaSan DiegoJustin Roberts, University of CaliforniaSan DiegoPeter Teichner, University ofCalifornia Berkeley

8:00AM

(85)String topology as a topological conformal fieldtheory.Mahmoud Zeinalian, Long Island University(1035-55-1940)

9:00AM

(86)String topology of classifying spaces.Craig C. Westerland*, University ofWisconsin–Madison, and Kate Gruher, StanfordUniversity (1035-55-689)

10:00AM

(87)Graph homology: Koszul and Verdier duality.Andrey Lazarev, University of Leicester, UK, andAlexander A. Voronov*, University of Minnesota,Minneapolis (1035-55-1471)

AMS Special Session on Groups, Representations, andCharacter Theory, I

8:00 AM – 10:50 AM

Organizers: Manouchehr Misaghian, Johnson C.Smith UniversityMohammad Reza Darafsheh,University of Tehran, Iran

8:00AM

� (88)Bounds on Cohomology Groups and Presentations.Preliminary report.Robert M. Guralnick, University of SouthernCalifornia (1035-20-484)

8:30AM

(89)Decomposition of tensor products of irreducibleunitary representations of the unitary group U(N).Tuong Ton-That*, University of Iowa, and WilliamH Klink, Department of Physics and Astronomy,University of Iowa (1035-22-426)

9:00AM

(90)Groups with triality and Moufang loops.Jonathan I Hall, Michigan State University(1035-20-1328)

9:30AM

(91)Quadratic Base Change for p-adic SL(2) as atheta-correspondence: Supercuspidalrepresentations.David C Manderscheid, University of Nebraska -Lincoln (1035-22-1124)

10:00AM

(92)Universal deformation rings for finite groups.Preliminary report.Frauke M Bleher, University of Iowa (1035-20-781)

10:30AM

(93)Theta Correspondence for Unitary Groups in TwoVariables.Jitka Stehnova, University of Iowa (1035-11-814)

AMS Session on Partial Differential Equations, I

8:00 AM – 10:55 AM

8:00AM

(94)Computational modeling of chemical transport inblood and plasma flow coupled with a visco-elasticarterial wall model.Shelly M McGee*, Texas Tech University, andPadmanabhan Seshaiyer, George Mason University(1035-35-1058)

8:15AM

(95)Singular Limits of Reaction Diffusion Equations ofKPP type in an Infinite Cylinder.Fernando Carreon, Arizona State University(1035-35-1174)

8:30AM

(96)Existence and Estimates of solutions to a singularDirichlet problem for the Monge-Ampere equation.Ahmed Mohammed, Ball State University(1035-35-1366)

8:45AM

(97)Long-time Error Estimation for the ExtendedFisher-Kolmogorov Equation.Champike Attanayake, Bowling Green StateUniversity (1035-35-1447)

9:00AM

(98)Local Solvability of Some Partial DifferentialEquations with Polynomial Coefficients: CriteriaArising from ODE Asymptotic Estimates.Christopher J Winfield, UW - Oshkosh(1035-35-1453)

9:15AM

(99)On a unique solution to equations modelingincompressible fluid flow. Preliminary report.Diane L. Denny, Texas A&M University-CorpusChristi (1035-35-1608)

9:30AM

� (100)Rigorous asymptotic-numeric examination of thedynamics of semilinear parabolic equations.Michael Robinson, Cornell University(1035-35-1473)

9:45AM Break10:00AM

� (101)Methane activity in soils.R. Thelwell*, James Madison University, J. vonFischer, G. Butters and P. DuChateau, ColoradoState University (1035-35-1620)

10:15AM

(102)Black Monotone Iterative Method for ParabolicEquations with Nonlinear Boundary Conditions.Preliminary report.Xin Lu, UNC Wilmington (1035-35-1686)

10:30AM

(103)Flow of a surfactant-laden thin liquid film down aninclined plane.Rachel Levy, Harvey Mudd College (1035-35-1832)

10:45AM

(104)Asymptotics of the Semiclassical Sine-GordonEquation.Robert J. Buckingham* and Peter D. Miller,University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1035-35-1837)

AMS Session on Algebra and Group Theory, I

8:00 AM – 10:55 AM

8:00AM

(105)Spectrally arbitrary patterns: The 2n conjecture forn = 5.Luz Maria DeAlba, Drake University (1035-15-247)

8:15AM

(106)Spectral Radius and Infinity Norm of Matrices.Baodong Zheng, Harbin Institute of Technology,China, and Liancheng Wang*, Kennesaw StateUniversity, USA (1035-15-434)

8:30AM Break8:45AM

(107)Submatrices of Laplacian Matrices for Graphs withCut Vertices.Jason J Molitierno, Sacred Heart University(1035-15-610)



9:00AM

(108)Use of Leibniz Matrices to Compute Determinants ofMatrices With Generated Entries. Preliminary report.Yongzhi Yang, Luke D. Edholm* and Jason Q.McClintic, University of St Thomas (1035-15-1358)

9:15AM Break9:30AM

(109)Iterative Methods for Leontief Input-output Model.Preliminary report.Lala B. Krishna, The University of Akron(1035-15-1038)

9:45AM

(110)Generalizations of Frobenius algebras andrepresentation theoretic proofs of fundamentalresults in Hopf algebras.Miodrag Cristian Iovanov, State University of NewYork, Buffalo NY (1035-16-1827)

10:00AM

(111)Noncommutative Algebras Associated toPolynomials over Skew Fields.David Nacin, William Paterson University(1035-16-1168)

10:15AM

(112)Rings determined by covers of groups. Preliminaryreport.G Alan Cannon, Southeastern Louisiana University,Carl J Maxson, Texas A&M University, and Kent MNeuerburg*, Southeastern Louisiana University(1035-16-44)

10:30AM

(113)On the commutativity of certain weaklyperiodic-like rings. Preliminary report.Adil Yaqub, University of California, Santa Barbara(1035-16-186)

10:45AM

(114)Rings Generated by Units.Ashish K. Srivastava, St. Louis University, MO(1035-16-242)

AMS Session on Algebra and Number Theory, I

8:00 AM – 10:55 AM

8:00AM

� (115)Number-Theoretic Weighted Transform forLarge-Integer Arithmetic.Mark G Yarbrough, University of Sioux Falls(1035-11-1094)

8:15AM

(116)Nathanson Heights in Finite Vector Spaces.Joshua D. Batson, Yale University (1035-11-1139)

8:30AM

(117)The Mathematical Magic Of Triangular and PerfectNumbers.Mulatu Lemma, Savannah State University(1035-11-1153)

8:45AM

(118)An Asymptotic Formula for the Number of AbelianExtensions of a Number Field.Behailu Mammo, Hofstra University(1035-11-1300)

9:00AM

� (119)On uniform bounds for rational points on rationalcurves and thin sets. Preliminary report.Patrick X Rault, UW Madison (1035-11-1235)

9:15AM

� (120)Feedback, Control and the Distribution of PrimeNumbers.Susan Hammond Marshall* and Donald R. Smith,Monmouth University (1035-11-1345)

9:30AM

� (121)Sums of cyclotomic polynomials. Preliminary report.Carrie E Finch*, Washington & Lee University,and Lenny Jones, Shippensburg University(1035-11-1455)

9:45AM

� (122)On the Unit Group Analogue of Carmichael’sConjecture. Preliminary report.Jonathan Bayless, Dartmouth College(1035-11-1485)

10:00AM

(123)Algebraic Properties of a Family of JacobiPolynomials.John T Cullinan, Bard College (1035-11-1626)

10:15AM

(124)A Few Remarks on Congruent Numbers.Terutake Abe*, Texas A&M International University,Ashvin Rajan, Baltimore, MD, and FrancoisRamaroson, Howard University (1035-11-1640)

10:30AM

� (125)Is the sum SS := 1 + sqrt(2) + ln(1 + sqrt(2)) aspecial number? Preliminary report.Sylvester Reese, QCC-CUNY (1035-11-1699)

10:45AM

(126)Towards a Proof of the Twin Prime Conjecture.Badih N. Ghusayni, Lebanese University(1035-11-47)

AMS Session on History of Mathematics

8:00 AM – 10:55 AM

8:00AM

� (127)Math as solace, math as addiction.Reuben Hersh and Vera John-Steiner*, Universityof New Mexico (1035-01-13)

8:15AM

� (128)Roger Boscovich and the notion of continuity.Preliminary report.Radoslav Dimitric, DIBR, Pittsburgh (1035-01-86)

8:30AM

� (129)History of the Movement for Applications ofUndergraduate Mathematics: Advocacy andOutcome. Preliminary report.Walter Meyer, Adelphi University (1035-01-107)

8:45AM

� (130)The history of origami geometric constructions.Thomas Hull, Merrimack College (1035-01-138)

9:00AM

(131)Al-Risala al-Muhitiyya (The Treatise on theCircumference). Preliminary report.Mohammad K. Azarian, University of Evansville(1035-01-248)

9:15AM

� (132)Ten Principles in Teaching the Course History ofMathematics.Zengxiang Tong, Otterbein College (1035-01-560)

9:30AM

� (133)Rare Chinese Mathematical Books in the DavidEugene Smith Collection.Yibao Xu, CUNY/BMCC (1035-01-617)

9:45AM

� (134)Development of Korean Mathematics in the late19th and early 20th Centuries. Preliminary report.Sang-Gu Lee*, Sungkyunkwan University, JihwaNoh, University of Northern Iowa, and Sung-YellSong Song, Iowa State University (1035-01-717)

10:00AM

� (135)The Mathematics of the Mayan Cross.M. Alejandra Sorto, Texas State University - SanMarcos (1035-01-1142)

10:15AM

� (136)Weierstrass’s construction of the real numbers.J Christopher Tweddle, University of Evansville(1035-01-1143)

10:30AM

� (137)The Enigma of Stanislaw Ulam: MathematicalTriumph in the Face of Brain Injury.Alexander G. Atwood, Suffolk County CommunityCollege, Selden, NY (1035-01-1841)

10:45AM

� (138)Influence of the French on Elementary AmericanMathematics Textbooks, 1820-1850.Andrew B Perry, Springfield College(1035-01-1932)

MAA Session on Crossing the “Bridge to HigherMathematics”: What Works and Why, I

8:00 AM – 10:55 AM

Organizer: George J. Davis, Georgia StateUniversity

8:00AM

(139)The Foundations of Mathematics course atSoutheastern.Charles A Matthews, Southeastern Oklahoma StateUniversity (1035-F1-250)



8:20AM

(140)A Two-Step Transition to Higher Mathematics.David C Marshall, Monmouth University(1035-F1-273)

8:40AM

� (141)A Concrete Transition to Abstract Mathematics.John J. Schiller, Temple University (1035-F1-671)

9:00AM

� (142)Methods to Enhance Mathematical Writing andThinking. Preliminary report.Saburo Matsumoto, College of the Canyons(1035-F1-684)

9:20AM

� (143)Crossing the Bridge to Higher Mathematics: Using aModified Moore Approach to Assist StudentsTransitioning to Higher Mathematics.M. Padraig McLoughlin, Kutztown University ofPennsylvania (1035-F1-900)

9:40AM

� (144)Mathematical Reasoning at Winthrop University.Thomas W Polaski, Winthrop University(1035-F1-935)

10:00AM

(145)The ”Write” Transition to Abstract Mathematics.Penelope H. Dunham, Muhlenberg College(1035-F1-967)

10:20AM

� (146)When Time is Short: Using Notebooks to Supplementthe Bridge Course.Karl-Dieter Crisman, Gordon College(1035-F1-1023)

10:40AM

� (147)Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning: A CaseStudy. Preliminary report.Anton Betten, Colorado State University(1035-F1-1051)

MAA Session on Ethnomathematics and Its Uses inTeaching

8:00 AM – 10:55 AM

Organizers: Dorothee J. Blum, MillersvilleUniversityXimena P. Catepillan, MillersvilleUniversityRobert E. Jamison, Clemson UniversityShemsi I. Alhaddad, University ofSouth CarolinaAmy Shell-Gellasch, Pacific LutheranUniversity

8:00AM

� (148)South Africa Social Influences and MthematicsEducation. Preliminary report.Anass Bayaga, University of Fort Hare - SouthAfrica (1035-J1-235)

8:20AM

� (149)A Java Drawing Program for Nitus, Kolam, CelticKnots, etc.Darrah P. Chavey, Beloit College (1035-J1-1925)

8:40AM

� (150)Teaching an Ethnomathematics Course through theLens of Geometry.Ann Robertson, Connecticut College(1035-J1-1451)

9:00AM

� (151)Mathematics and Culture: A critical inquiry into thedevelopment of Mathematics. Preliminary report.Ann E Moskol, Rhode Island college (1035-J1-1894)

9:20AM

(152)Cultural study through mathematics.Kevin Hartshorn, Moravian College (1035-J1-1454)

9:40AM

� (153)The Locus of Islamic Mathematics.William Branson, St Cloud State University(1035-J1-1724)

10:00AM

� (154)The Ethnomathematics of Weaving.Thomas E. Gilsdorf, University of North Dakota(1035-J1-200)

10:20AM

� (155)Maya Calendar Conversions. Preliminary report.Waclaw Szymanski*, West Chester University, andXimena Catepillan, Millersville University(1035-J1-1459)

10:40AM

� (156)A Critical Thinking Assignment Involving Plimpton322.Dorothee Jane Blum, Millersville University ofPennsylvania (1035-J1-1867)

MAA Session on Great Activities for an IntroductoryStatistics Class, I

8:00 AM – 10:55 AM

Organizers: Patricia B. Humphrey, GeorgianSouthern UniversityChristopher J. Lacke, RowanUniversityGinger Holmes-Rowell, MiddleTennessee State University

8:00AM

� (157)Some (Fast) Food For Thought - Gathering andUsing a Meaningful Data Set for College Students.Preliminary report.Chris Lacke, Rowan University (1035-K1-1889)

8:20AM

� (158)Where Does Data Come From?? The Class!Sarah L Mabrouk, Framingham State College(1035-K1-1909)

8:40AM

� (159)”Two-Third of the Average” a Simple Day One Gameto Jump Start an Introductory Statistics Course.William H Rybolt, Babson College (1035-K1-1705)

9:00AM

� (160)Hands-on Correlation Activities in IntroductoryStatistics.Melvin G Royer, Indiana Wesleyan University(1035-K1-206)

9:20AM

� (161)Motivating Statistics-based Problem Solving throughMonte-Carlo Simulation.Randal E. Hickman, United States MilitaryAcademy, West Point (1035-K1-1895)

9:40AM

� (162)Innovative, Research-Based Activities for a FirstCourse in Statistics.Robert delMas*, Joan Garfield and AndrewZieffler, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities(1035-K1-1351)

10:00AM

(163)Live Science-based Data Collection in IntroductoryStatistics.Timothy M Hendrix, Meredith College(1035-K1-1059)

10:20AM

� (164)What works? An overview of several group andindividual activities implemented in IntroductoryStatistics.Catherine A Matos*, Clayton State University,and Aprillya Lanz, Virginia Military Institute(1035-K1-1822)

10:40AM

� (165)Which Team is the Most Popular? Preliminary report.Klay Kruczek, Western Oregon University(1035-K1-1836)

MAA Session on Preparing Faculty for Success in aProblem-Solving and Technology-Rich Curriculum

8:00 AM – 10:50 AM

Organizers: Alex J. Heidenberg, U.S. MilitaryAcademyGerald C. Kobylski, U.S. MilitaryAcademyBarbra Melendez, U.S. MilitaryAcademyRodney Sturdivant, U.S. MilitaryAcademy

8:00AM

� (166)An interactive website to help faculty incorporateapplications of core mathematics courses.Fusun Akman, Illinois State University(1035-S1-1327)



8:30AM

� (167)Practice What You Preach: The Use of ProblemSolving and Literature Review in FacultyDevelopment.Bradley A Warner, Jadonna Brewton* andChristopher Nelson, United States Air ForceAcademy (1035-S1-1379)

9:00AM

(168)Preparing Liberal Arts Faculty to Teach Modelingand Problem Solving at the College Algebra Level atFrancis Marion University.Richard D West*, Francis Marion University, andWilliam P Fox, Naval Postgraduate School(1035-S1-640)

9:30AM

(169)The IBL Workshop: A Model for Training Faculty toTeach Using Inquiry-Based Learning.Stan Yoshinobu, California State University,Dominguez Hills (1035-S1-1114)

10:00AM

(170)Professional Development for Adjunct MathematicsFaculty: Professional Development throughStructured Lesson Planning.Matthew G Jones, California State University,Dominguez Hills (1035-S1-371)

10:30AM

(171)A Faculty Development Program Designed toMotivate Faculty to Reflect on How They Teach.Preliminary report.Gerald Kobylski* and Heather Jackson, UnitedStates Military Academy (1035-S1-1600)

MAA Session on Research and ProfessionalDevelopment Activities for Math Majors, I

8:00 AM – 10:55 AM

Organizers: Suzanne M. Lenhart, University ofTennesseeMike O’Leary, Towson UniversityMargaret M. Robinson, MountHolyoke College

8:00AM

� (172)Undergraduate Research in Imaging Science.Preliminary report.Larry A Gratton, Berea College (1035-T1-2003)

8:20AM

(173)The Benefit of Locally Hosted UndergraduateConferences and Speaker Series.Jacqueline A Jensen, Sam Houston State University(1035-T1-1206)

8:40AM

(174)Change begins with a WiSH: the Women in ScienceHouse at St. Mary’s College of Maryland.Katherine Socha* and Julia Burton, St. Mary’sCollege of Maryland (1035-T1-1246)

9:00AM

� (175)A Professional Skills Preparation for the SeniorResearch Experience. Preliminary report.Theresa L. Friedman, Mesa State College(1035-T1-1951)

9:20AM

� (176)Industrial Student Research at SJSU.B. Cayco, San Jose State University (1035-T1-1900)

9:40AM

� (177)Promoting Professional Development by Integratingthe Mathematics Curriculum with Co- andExtra-Curricular Activities.G. Daniel Callon, Franklin College (1035-T1-1586)

10:00AM

� (178)Spirographs, Encryption, and other fun studentresearch projects!Kevin Lee Anderson, Missouri Western StateUniversity (1035-T1-1419)

10:20AM

� (179)My Experiences Researching With UndergraduateMathematicians: The Collaboration Model.Joshua D Laison, Willamette University(1035-T1-1380)

10:40AM

� (180)Statistical consulting for a local high school.Preliminary report.Wiebke S. Diestelkamp* and Karen A. Eckberg,University of Dayton (1035-T1-1353)

MAA General Contributed Paper Session, I

8:00 AM – 10:55 AM

Organizer: Sarah L. Mabrouk, Framingham StateCollege

Moderators: Melvin A. Nyman, Alma CollegeJ.Marshall Ash, DePaul UniversityJesse W. Byrne, University of CentralOklahomaCharlotte K. Simmons, University ofCentral Oklahoma

8:00AM

� (181)Mathematical Modeling, MCM, and HiMCM.William P Fox, Naval Postgraduate School(1035-Z1-579)

8:15AM

� (182)You Too Can Be a M/ a/t/h/e/m/ a/t/i/c/i/a/n/ a Magician.John P Bonomo, Westminster College(1035-Z1-438)

8:30AM

� (183)Hybrids: They’re Not Just Cars or Roses.Kristi D. Jarman, Eastern New Mexico University(1035-Z1-339)

8:45AM

� (184)Preparatory mathematics: working with challengedstudents to get them ready for college level mathcourses. Preliminary report.Susan J Diesel, Norwich University (1035-Z1-1222)

9:00AM

� (185)Using the Sympodium to Support the Teaching andLearning of Modeling. Preliminary report.Michael Huber, Muhlenberg College (1035-Z1-534)

9:15AM

� (186)Math Masters: An Innovative Inservice Program forMiddle School Teachers.Robert L. Wilson*, University of Wisconsin -Madison, and Brian Sniff, Madison MetropolitanSchool District (1035-Z1-1298)

9:30AM

� (187)Loaded Dice and Dreidels. Preliminary report.Allan Alexander Struthers, Michigan TechnologicalUniversity (1035-Z1-185)

9:45AM

� (188)Chebyshev’s Inequality for Fuzzy RandomVariables.Larry Wayne Lewis, Spalding University(1035-Z1-1829)

10:00AM

(189)Existence and Uniqueness of Solutions to theBackward 2D Stochastic Navier-Stokes Equations.Padmanabhan Sundar, Louisiana State University,and Hong Yin*, Michigan Tech University(1035-Z1-1103)

10:15AM

(190)The Introductory Session of College Algebra.Hongbiao Zeng, Fort Hays State University(1035-Z1-1771)

10:30AM

� (191)Approximating a Function.Yajun Yang* and Sheldon P. Gordon, FarmingdaleState College, State University of New York(1035-Z1-1511)

10:45AM

� (192)Creative Homework in Effective Teaching.Preliminary report.Edward L Mason, Natali Hritonenko* and JasonRouse, Prairie View A&M University (1035-Z1-1375)

SIAM Minisymposium on Education and AppliedMathematics

8:00 AM – 10:55 AM

Organizer: William L. Briggs, University ofColorado at Denver

8:00AM

(193)Modeling and Simulation in the MathematicsProgram at the United States Military Academy.Frank Wattenberg, United States Military Academy(1035-97-663)

8:30AM

� (194)Modeling as Motivation in an Online Calculus Text.David A. Smith, Duke University (1035-97-1053)



9:00AM

(195)Project Based Calculus: Stretching and RetainingStudents.Carl V Lutzer, Rochester Institute of Technology(1035-97-1627)

9:30AM

(196)Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis at Olin Collegeof Engineering.John B. Geddes* and Mark H. Somerville, F. W.Olin College of Engineering (1035-00-1101)

10:00AM

� (197)Integrated Calculus and Physics Projects Based onRoller Coaster Design.K R Fowler*, J Skufca, A Alhakim and TNishikawa, Clarkson University (1035-97-657)

10:30AM

� (198)Controlling Epidemics: Modeling the Spread of SARS.Deborah Hughes Hallett, University ofArizona/Harvard University (1035-92-703)

AMS Workshop: Part I

8:00 AM – 10:55 AM

Grant writing in the mathematical sciences.Organizers: Michelle Wagner, National Security

AgencyDeborah F. Lockhart, National ScienceFoundation

AMS Special Session on The Mathematics ofInformation and Knowledge, I

9:00 AM – 10:45 AM

Organizers: Peter W. Jones, Yale UniversityJames G. Glimm, SUNY at Stony BrookSteve Smale, Toyota Institute ofTechnology at Chicago

9:00AM

(199)Coordinate Systems, Eigenfunctions, and LocalRiemann Mapping Theorems.Peter W. Jones, Yale University (1035-51-990)

10:00AM

� (200)Fast Randomized Algorithms of Numerical LinearAlgebra.Vladimir Rokhlin, Yale University (1035-65-2028)

MAA Minicourse #12: Part A

9:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Developing department self-studies.Organizers: Donna L. Beers, Simmons College

Richard Alan Gillman, ValparaisoUniversity


9:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Teaching a Galois theory course forundergraduates.Organizer: John R. Swallow, Davidson College


9:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Directing undergraduate research.Organizer: Aparna W. Higgins, University of

Dayton

MAA-Project NExT and Young MathematiciansNetwork Joint Panel Discussion

9:00 AM – 10:20 AM

Tenure (and promotion)—You know you want it.Organizers: James E. Hamblin, Shippensburg

UniversityKimberly A. Roth, Juniata College

MAA Special Presentation

9:00 AM – 10:20 AM

National Science Foundation programs supportinglearning and teaching in the mathematical sciences.Organizers: Lloyd E. Douglas, National Science

FoundationDaniel P. Maki, National ScienceFoundationElizabeth J. Teles, National ScienceFoundationLee L. Zia, National Science Foundation

SIGMAA on Research in Undergraduate MathematicsEducation Panel Discussion

9:00 AM – 10:20 AM

Making the connection between research andteaching in undergraduate mathematics education.Organizers: Chris Rasmussen, San Diego State

UniversityMarilyn P. Carlson, Arizona StateUniversityDavid E. Meel, Bowling Green StateUniversity

Student Hospitality Center

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

MAA Department Liaisons Meeting

9:30 AM – 10:50 AM

MAA Session on Using Ideas from Asian Mathematicsin the Classroom, I

9:40 AM – 10:55 AM

Organizers: Victor J. Katz, University of the Districtof ColumbiaKim L. Plofker, Brown UniversityFrank Swetz, Pennsylvania StateUniversity, Harrisburg

9:40AM

� (201)Examples on Integrating History of Mathematicsinto the Elementary Education MathematicsCurriculum. Preliminary report.A. S. Elkhader, Northern State University(1035-X1-687)

10:00AM

� (202)Thabit Teaches How to Read a Text: AmicableNumbers for Prospective Elementary Teachers.Preliminary report.Edith Prentice Mendez, Sonoma State University(1035-X1-493)

10:20AM

� (203)Al-Samaw’al and Division of Polynomials.Benjamin V.C. Collins, University of Wisconsin -Platteville (1035-X1-301)



10:40AM

� (204)Abu’l Wafa and a Rusty Compass.Shahriar Shahriari, Pomona College(1035-X1-1694)

AMS Invited Address

10:05 AM – 10:55 AM

(205) Combinatorics and Number Theory.Wen-Ching Winnie Li, Pennsylvania State University(1035-11-05)

AMS-MAA Invited Address

11:10 AM – NOON

(206) Structure and randomness in the prime numbers.Terence Tao, University of California Los Angeles(1035-11-08)

Exhibits and Book Sales

12:15 PM – 5:30 PM

Come to the Grand Opening at 12:15!

AMS Colloquium Lecture: Lecture I

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

(207) Random conformally invariant pictures (Part I).Wendelin Werner, University of Paris-Sud(1035-00-09)

MAA Invited Address

2:15 PM – 3:05 PM

(208) Three-dimensional crystallographic groups: Thethirty-five prime space groups.John H. Conway, Princeton University (1035-A0-15)

AMS-MAA Special Session on the Scholarship ofTeaching and Learning in Mathematics, II

2:15 PM – 6:05 PM

Organizers: Curtis D. Bennett, Loyola MarymountUniversityJacqueline M. Dewar, LoyolaMarymount University

2:15PM

� (209)Do students learn more from quizzes or homework?Preliminary report.Edwin P Herman, University of Wisconsin, StevensPoint (1035-97-1102)

2:45PM

� (210)Integrative Learning in a Mathematics Classroom.Michael C. Burke, College of San Mateo(1035-97-271)

3:15PM

� (211)Declarative and Procedural Knowledge inQuantitative Reasoning: Knowing ”What” andKnowing ”How”.Lloyd Bond, Carnegie Foundation for theAdvancement of Teaching (1035-97-1402)

3:45PM

(212)A Definition of Mathematics and Its PedagogicalConsequences.Guershon Harel, University of California at SanDiego (1035-97-157)

4:15PM

� (213)Pride and Prejudice - Resistance to the Scholarshipof Teaching and Learning in a Research OrientedMathematics Department. Preliminary report.Jack Bookman, Duke University (1035-97-965)

4:45PM

� (214)Guided Discovery in Linear Algebra.David E Meel, Bowling Green State University(1035-97-907)

5:15PM

� (215)Communicating Mathematically by Presenting andValidating Proofs.Hortensia Soto-Johnson, University of NorthernColorado (1035-97-326)

5:45PM

� (216)A Model Teacher-Scholar Program in Mathematics.Preliminary report.Saad I. El-Zanati*, Cynthia Langrall, Illinois StateUniversity, and Wendy A. Ohanlon, Illinois CentralCollege (1035-97-1833)

AMS-SIAM Special Session on Asymptotic Methods inAnalysis with Applications, II

2:15 PM – 6:10 PM

Organizers: Diego Dominici, SUNY New PaltzPeter A. McCoy, U.S. Naval Academy

2:15PM

(217)Asymptotics in the NIST Digital Library ofMathematical Functions.Daniel W. Lozier, National Institute of Standardsand Technology (1035-33-1221)

2:45PM

(218)Sampling Expansions for a Class of AnalyticFunctions and Their Asymptotics. Preliminaryreport.Ahmed I Zayed, DePaul University (1035-41-779)

3:15PM

(219)Effective Computation of Bessel Functions.Jonathan M. Borwein, Dalhousie University(1035-41-2020)

3:45PM

(220)Asymptotics and Connection Formulae for thePainleve Equations.Peter A Clarkson, University of Kent, Canterbury,UK (1035-33-190)

4:15PM

(221)A Turning-Point Theory for Second-Order DifferenceEquations.Roderick Wong, City University of Hong Kong(1035-41-407)

4:45PM

(222)Liouville-Green (WKB) asymptotics for second-ordersystems of difference equations.Renato Spigler, University “Roma Tre”(1035-41-178)

5:15PM

� (223)Nonlinear integral-equation formulation oforthogonal polynomials.Eli Ben-Naim, Los Alamos National Laboratory(1035-12-926)

5:45PM

� (224)Imaginary Axis Coverage of the Stability Domainsof Adams Multistep Methods.Michelle L Ghrist*, U.S. Air Force Academy, andJonah A Reeger, Rice University (1035-65-1820)

AMS-SIAM Special Session on EnvironmentalMathematics: Some Mathematical Problems onClimate Change and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, II

2:15 PM – 6:05 PM


2:15PM

(225)Stochastic treatments of cloud-radiationinteractions in climate models.Richard C. J. Somerville, Scripps Institutionof Oceanography, University of California(1035-86-732)



2:45PM

� (226)Combining climate models and weatherobservations using dynamical systems andstatistics.Douglas W Nychka* and Jeffrey L Anderson,National Center for Atmospheric Research(1035-62-1998)

3:15PM

� (227)Robust climate projections and stochastic structuralstability of dynamical systems. Preliminary report.Michael Ghil*, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, andUCLA, Mickael Chekroun, Ecole NormaleSuperieure, Paris, and IPSA, France, Eric Simonnet,Institut Non-Lineaire de Nice, France, andIlya Zaliapin, University of Nevada, Reno(1035-37-1713)

3:45PM

(228)Mathematics and Climate Change: Two Examples.Dale R Durran, Atmospheric Sciences, Univ. ofWashington, Seattle, WA (1035-86-1422)

4:15PM

� (229)Stochastic Climate Models.Timothy M DelSole, George Mason University(1035-60-1583)

4:45PM

(230)Stochastic PDEs in GFD and Climate Prediction.Joseph Tribbia, National Center for AtmosphericResearch (1035-76-1738)

5:15PM

� (231)Analysis of Biases in a Tropical Channel ClimateSimulation and Implications to Climate Prediction.L. Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest NationalLaboratory (1035-86-1587)

5:45PM

(232)New Algorithms and Applications of theFluctuation-Dissipation Theorem for ClimateResponse.Rafail V. Abramov*, University of Illinois atChicago, and Andrew J. Majda, Courant Institute ofMathematical Sciences, New York University(1035-82-1299)

AMS-ASL Special Session on Set Theory and BanachSpaces, II

2:15 PM – 5:55 PM


2:15PM

(233)Global aspects of ergodic group actions andequivalence relations. Preliminary report.Alexander S. Kechris, California Institute ofTechnology (1035-37-683)

3:15PM

(234)On the complexity of uniform homeomorphism ofBanach spaces. Preliminary report.Su Gao, Steve Jackson and Bunyamin Sari*,University of North Texas (1035-46-1223)

4:15PM

(235)Oscillation stability from a metric point of view.Jordi Lopez-Abad, Universite Paris 7, LionelNguyen Van The* and Norbert Sauer, University ofCalgary (1035-51-1078)

5:15PM

(236)Banach spaces of bounded Szlenk index.Edward W Odell, University of Texas at Austin,Thomas B Schlumprecht*, Texas A&M University,and Andras Zsak, University of Leeds, UK(1035-46-873)

AMS-AWM Special Session on Zeta Functions ofGraphs, Ramanujan Graphs, and Related Topics, II

2:15 PM – 6:05 PM

Organizers: Audrey A. Terras, University ofCalifornia San DiegoMatthew Horton, Wellesley College

2:15PM

(237)Zeta functions of complexes.Ming-Hsuan Kang and Wen-Ching Winnie Li*,Penn State University (1035-11-324)

2:45PM

(238)L2 zeta functions and infinite cyclic covers ofgraphs.Bryan Clair, Saint Louis University (1035-05-404)

3:15PM

(239)Two-variable Riemann-Roch zeta-functions ofgraphs.Dino Lorenzini, University of Georgia(1035-05-1120)

3:45PM

� (240)A Synopsis of Old and New Results about GassmannTriples. Preliminary report.Robert Perlis, Louisiana State University(1035-20-155)

4:15PM

(241)An application of the edge zeta function to codingtheory.Judy L Walker, University of Nebraska(1035-94-1334)

4:45PM

(242)Ihara Zeta Functions for Self-Similar Fractal Graphs.Daniele Guido, Tommaso Isola, Universita diRoma ”Tor Vergata”, and Michel L. Lapidus*,University of California, Riverside (1035-46-472)

5:15PM

(243)Poles of Zeta Functions of Graphs and Coverings.Preliminary report.H. M. Stark, UCSD (1035-05-1133)

5:45PM

� (244)Nonbacktracking spectrum and surprises innon-regular graphs. Preliminary report.Joel Friedman, University of British Columbia(1035-05-1097)

AMS Special Session on Automorphic Forms andRelated Topics, II

2:15 PM – 6:05 PM

Organizers: Olav K. Richter, University of NorthTexasKathrin Bringmann, University ofMinnesotaHarold M. Stark, University ofCalifornia San Diego

2:15PM

(245)On 2nd order Poincare series.Ozlem Imamoglu*, ETH Zurich, and CormacO‘Sullivan, Bronx Community College(1035-11-1361)

2:45PM

(246)Metaplectic Eisenstein series and Gelfand-Tsetlinpatterns. Preliminary report.Daniel Bump, Stanford University, Ben Brubaker,Massachusetts Institute of Technology, andSolomon Friedberg*, Boston College(1035-11-379)

3:15PM

(247)Modified Atkinson’s Formulas for the Mean Squareof the Riemann Zeta Function.Jennifer Beineke*, Western New EnglandCollege, and Daniel Bump, Stanford University(1035-11-224)

3:45PM

(248)On U(p)-congruences.Pavel Guerzhoy, University of Hawaii at Manoa(1035-11-805)

4:15PM

(249)On symmetry in q-series transformations.George E. Andrews, The Pennsylvania StateUniversity (1035-11-148)

4:45PM

(250)Odd coefficients of weakly holomorphic modularforms.Scott Ahlgren, University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign, and Matthew Boylan*,University of South Carolina (1035-11-1199)



5:15PM

(251)Rank generating functions as weakly holomorphicmodular forms.Scott Ahlgren, University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign, and Stephanie Treneer*,Dartmouth College (1035-11-1742)

5:45PM

� (252)An investigation of k-component multipartitions.Preliminary report.Holly Swisher*, Oregon State University, JoannaFurno, Wisconsin Lutheran College, and PatrickWaters, Oregon State University (1035-11-1376)

AMS Special Session on Recent Advances inMathematical Biology, Ecology, and Epidemiology, II

2:15 PM – 6:10 PM


2:15PM

(253)Evolution of conditional dispersal: Areaction-diffusion-advection model. Preliminaryreport.Yuan Lou*, Ohio State University, Xinfu Chen,University of Pittsburgh, and Richard Hambrock,Ohio State University (1035-35-776)

2:45PM

(254)Derivation of Stochastic Partial DifferentialEquations for Size-Structured and Age-StructuredPopulations. Preliminary report.Edward Allen, Texas Tech University (1035-92-204)

3:15PM

� (255)A Fetal Energy Balance Equation Based on MaternalExercise and Diet.Diana M Thomas*, Montclair State University,James F Clapp, MetroHealth Medical Campus ofCase Western Reserve University, and SusanShernce, Montclair State University (1035-92-263)

3:45PM

(256)A Selection-Mutation Model.Azmy S Ackleh*, John Cleveland, University ofLouisiana at Lafayette, and Shuhua Hu, NorthCarolina State University (1035-92-897)

4:15PM

(257)Population Models with Allee Effect: A New Model.Saber Elaydi, Trinity University, San Antonio, andRobert J Sacker*, University of Southern California(1035-92-1621)

4:45PM

(258)Dynamics of Some Nonlinear DiscontinuousDifference Equations.V. L. Kocic, Xavier University of Louisiana(1035-39-823)

5:15PM

(259)Asymptotic behavior for a cellular replication andmaturation model.Keng Deng, University of Louisiana at Lafayette(1035-35-936)

5:45PM

(260)Competition of Two Species for Two LimitedResources with One Species Mediated by Parasites.Preliminary report.Sze-Bi Hsu, National Tsing-Hua University, andLih-Ing W. Roeger*, Texas Tech University(1035-92-445)

AMS Special Session on The Mathematics ofInformation and Knowledge, II

2:15 PM – 6:00 PM


2:15PM

(261)Equation-free and variable-free computation forcomplex/multiscale systems.Yannis Kevrekidis, Princeton University(1035-37-1148)

3:15PM

(262)A Simple and Efficient Method for CompressedSensing and Related Optimization Problems.Stanley Osher*, UCLA, Wotao Yin, Rice U., DonaldGoldfarb, IEOR, Columbia U., and Jerome Darbon,UCLA (1035-49-903)

4:15PM Panel Discussion.

AMS Special Session on Hyperbolic DynamicalSystems, II

2:15 PM – 5:55 PM

Organizers: Todd L. Fisher, Brigham YoungUniversityBoris Hasselblatt, Tufts University

2:15PM

(263)Hyperbolic attractors in foliations. Preliminaryreport.Steven Hurder, University of Illinois at Chicago(1035-37-1500)

2:45PM

(264)Iterated Holomorphic Function Systems.Kourosh Tavakoli, Fordham University(1035-37-769)

3:15PM

(265)Anosov rigidity: Pointwise nonuniform hyperbolicityimplies uniform hyperbolicity.Boris Hasselblatt*, Tufts University, Yakov BPesin, The Pennsylvania State University, and JorgSchmeling, Lunds Institute of Technology(1035-37-1672)

3:45PM

(266)Moduli of smooth conjugacy for Anosov systems.Preliminary report.Andrey Gogolev, Penn State (1035-37-1279)

4:15PM

(267)Rigidity of abelian cocycles with values indiffeomorphisms groups.Viorel Nitica*, West Chester University ofPennsylvania, and Anatole Katok, PennsylvaniaState University (1035-37-550)

4:45PM

(268)Rigidity of partially hyperbolic higher-rank actionsobtained as restrictions of the Weyl chamber flow.Danijela Damjanovic, Harvard University(1035-37-533)

5:15PM

(269)On smooth conjugacy of dynamical systems.Anatole Katok, Pennsylvania State University(1035-37-1641)

AMS Special Session on Interactions BetweenNoncommutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, II

2:15 PM – 6:05 PM

Organizers: Daniel S. Rogalski, University ofCalifornia San DiegoLance W. Small, University ofCalifornia San DiegoJames J. Zhang, University ofWashington

2:15PM

� (270)The homology and geometry of truncated pathalgebras.A S Dugas, B Huisgen-Zimmermann* and JLearned, University of California at Santa Barbara(1035-16-796)

2:45PM

(271)Spaces of Linear Modules on Regular GradedClifford algebras. Preliminary report.Colin J Ingalls, University of New Brunswick(1035-16-1639)



3:15PM

(272)Elliptically fibred orders on surfaces. Preliminaryreport.Daniel Chan, University of New South Wales,Sydney, Australia, and Rajesh S Kulkarni*,Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan(1035-16-1791)

3:45PM

(273)Representations of some Hopf algebras associatedto the symmetric groups.Andrea Jedwab and Susan Montgomery*,University of Southern California (1035-16-1339)

4:15PM

(274)Generalizing the notion of Koszul Algebras.Brad Shelton*, University of Oregon, and ThomasCassidy, Bucknell University (1035-16-1664)

4:45PM

(275)Equidimensionality of characteristic varieties overCherednik algebras.I Gordon, Edinburgh University, and J T Stafford*,Manchester University (1035-16-1010)

5:15PM

(276)Generalized Graded Clifford Algebras. Preliminaryreport.Thomas Cassidy, Bucknell University, andMichaela Vancliff*, University of Texas at Arlington(1035-16-787)

5:45PM

(277)Algebras of infinite differential operators withpathological properties.E. Zelmanov, UCSD (1035-16-1824)

AMS Special Session on Algebraic Topology, II

2:15 PM – 5:55 PM

Organizers: Nitu Kitchloo, University of CaliforniaSan DiegoRalph L. Cohen, Stanford UniversityJames P. Lin, University of CaliforniaSan DiegoJustin Roberts, University of CaliforniaSan DiegoPeter Teichner, University ofCalifornia Berkeley

2:15PM

(278)Congruences amongst modular forms and thedivided beta family. Preliminary report.Mark Behrens, MIT (1035-55-1308)

3:15PM

(279)Spaces of trees, spaces of graphs, and spaces ofembeddings.Gregory Arone, University of Virginia(1035-55-1466)

4:15PM

(280)Chain rules for Goodwillie calculus and algebraicK-theory. Preliminary report.Michael Ching, Johns Hopkins University(1035-55-1285)

5:15PM

(281)The Lie cooperad and Hopf invariants.Dev Prakash Sinha, University of Oregon(1035-55-754)

AMS Special Session on Groups, Representations, andCharacter Theory, II

2:15 PM – 6:05 PM

Organizers: Manouchehr Misaghian, Johnson C.Smith UniversityMohammad Reza Darafsheh,University of Tehran, Iran

2:15PM

(282)Clifford-Fischer theory applied to split and non-splitgroup extensions.Jamshid Moori, University of KwaZulu-Natal(1035-20-708)

2:45PM

(283)Recent Progress in Block Theory of Finite Groups.Jiping Zhang, Peking University (1035-20-761)

3:15PM

(284)Division algebras over surfaces. Preliminary report.David J Saltman, CCR-Princeton/University ofTexas (1035-12-1775)

3:45PM

(285)Computing characters of groups with a solvablenormal subgroup.Vahid Dabbaghian*, The IRMACS Centre, SimonFraser University, and John D. Dixon, CarletonUniversity (1035-20-538)

4:15PM

(286)On recognition property of the projective speciallinear group over GF(3).M. R. Darafsheh, University of Tehran(1035-20-156)

4:45PM

(287)Bases for the Center of the Symmetric GroupAlgebra Using Jucys–Murphy Elements. Preliminaryreport.Lenny Jones*, Shippensburg University, andAndrew Francis, University of Western Sydney(1035-20-128)

5:15PM

(288)Finding Proper Supplements in Finite Groups.Preliminary report.Joseph Kirtland, Marist College (1035-20-113)

5:45PM

(289)Trace Forms of Abelian Extensions of NumberFields. Preliminary report.Karli A. Morris, Louisiana State University(1035-11-1707)


2:15 PM – 4:15 PM

Teaching and the philosophy of mathematics.Organizer: Martin E. Flashman, Humboldt State

University


2:15 PM – 4:15 PM

Some deterministic models in mathematical biologyand their simulations.Organizers: Cammey Cole Manning, Meredith

CollegeHuseyin Kocak, University of MiamiJames F. Selgrade, North CarolinaState University


2:15 PM – 4:15 PM

Classroom response systems: Teaching withclickers.Organizers: Derek Bruff, Vanderbilt University

Matthew Leingang, Harvard UniversityKelly Cline, Carroll CollegeMark R. Parker, Carroll CollegeHolly S. Zullo, Carroll College

AMS Session on Combinatorics, I

2:15 PM – 6:10 PM

2:15PM

� (290)On the Representation of Certain Type of RealNumbers Using Combinatorial Identities.Aklilu Zeleke, Michigan State University(1035-05-800)

2:30PM

� (291)A New Proof of the Ballot Theorem.Marc S. Renault, Shippensburg University(1035-05-730)



2:45PM

(292)A family of non-orientable matroids of rank three ina projective plane.Rigoberto Florez*, University of South CarolinaSumter, and David Forge, Laboratoire deRecherche en Informatique Universite Paris-Sud.(1035-05-1788)

3:00PM

� (293)Eavesdropping on Graphs.Jeffrey Stuart, Pacific Lutheran University(1035-05-1983)

3:15PM

(294)Matchwebs and their enumeration. Preliminaryreport.Tim Hsu and Katherine Shelley*, San Jose StateUniversity (1035-05-88)

3:30PM

(295)On γ-labeling almost-bipartite graphs.Desiree L. Bowman*, Saad I. El-Zanati and Keri A.Sebesta, Illinois State University (1035-05-1821)

3:45PM

(296)Forbidding and Enforcing Graphs.Daniela Genova*, University of North Florida, andNatasha Jonoska, University of South Florida(1035-05-1760)

4:00PM

� (297)Dynamic Domination in Graphs.Ralucca Michelle Gera*, Naval PostgraduateSchool, Jean Blair and Horton Steve, United StatesMilitary Academy West Point, NY (1035-05-66)

4:15PM

(298)Finite groups of derangements on the n-cube.Larry W Cusick, California State University, Fresno(1035-05-75)

4:30PM

(299)The Necklace Poset as a Symmetric Chain Order.Preliminary report.Kelly Kross Jordan* and J. Griggs, University ofSouth Carolina (1035-05-95)

4:45PM

(300)On the Tightness of the 5/14 Independence Ratio.Christopher Carl Heckman, Arizona StateUniversity (1035-05-169)

5:00PM

(301)Adjacent vertex distinguishing edge-colorings ofplanar graphs with girth at least six.Yuehua Bu, Zhejiang Normal University, Ko-WeiLih*, Academia Sinica, and Weifan Wang, ZhejiangNormal University (1035-05-232)

5:15PM

� (302)On Shephard’s Conjecture for Special Classes ofPolyhedra.Pinciu Val, Southern Connecticut State University(1035-05-284)

5:30PM

(303)The solution to the partition reconstructionproblem.Maria J Monks, MIT (1035-05-286)

5:45PM

(304)Fixing numbers of hypercubes and hypercubevariants.Hannah L Breckbill, Carleton College(1035-05-303)

6:00PM

� (305)On the feasible number of monochromatictriangles. Preliminary report.Brett Frankel*, Johns Hopkins University, andRebecca Payne, Pomona College (1035-05-1381)

AMS Session on Algebra and Group Theory, II

2:15 PM – 6:10 PM

2:15PM

(306)Completions of quantum coordinate rings.Preliminary report.Linhong Wang, Temple University (1035-16-432)

2:30PM

(307)Action of the symmetric group on the universalalgebra related to factorization of noncommutativepolynomials.Colleen Duffy, Rutgers, the State University of NewJersey (1035-16-758)

2:45PM

(308)Characterization of Square-Free Rings.Martin W Montgomery, Piedmont College(1035-16-1304)

3:00PM

(309)Classifications of Pseudo-Local Rings.Jason P Huffman, Georgia College & StateUniversity (1035-16-1728)

3:15PM

(310)Centralizers in R. Thompson’s group V.Jenya Sapir*, University of Chicago, and AlisonGordon, University of Delaware (1035-20-594)

3:30PM

(311)More results on the capability of finite groups ofclass two and prime exponent.Arturo Magidin, University of Louisiana atLafayette (1035-20-84)

3:45PM

(312)Cohomology Groups in Algebra and in Geometry.Jorge Maciel, The City University of NewYork-BMCC (1035-20-237)

4:00PM

(313)Low-dimensional complex representations of oddcharacteristic symplectic groups.Hung Ngoc Nguyen, University of Florida(1035-20-291)

4:15PM

(314)Continuous Control in Exact Non-Split Categories.Timothy K Lance, Francis Marion University(1035-19-413)

4:30PM

(315)A brief introduction to cubulating groups.Tim Hsu, San Jose State University (1035-20-175)

4:45PM

(316)On Some Subnormality Conditions in MetabelianGroups.Luise-Charlotte Kappe*, SUNY at Binghamton, andDavid Garrison, Lockheed Martin SystemsIntegration - Owego (1035-20-547)

5:00PM

(317)Null Decomposition of Conformal Algebras.Daniela Mihai, Carnegie Mellon University(1035-20-257)

5:15PM

(318)Fast Fourier Transforms for Inverse Semigroups.Preliminary report.Martin Malandro, Dartmouth College(1035-20-401)

5:30PM

(319)Decomposing p-groups via Jordan algebras.James B. Wilson, University of Oregon(1035-20-960)

5:45PM

(320)Frobenius complements of exponent dividing 2m · 9.Enrico Jabara, Dipartimento di MatematicaApplicata, Universita di Ca’ Foscari, Venezia, Italy,and Peter Mayr*, Institut fur Algebra, JohannesKepler Universitat Linz, Austria (1035-20-970)

6:00PM

(321)Sn-normal Semigroups of Partial Transformations.Roberto Palomba*, Sean Droms and JanuszKonieczny, University of Mary Washington(1035-20-976)

AMS Session on Partial Differential Equations, II

2:15 PM – 4:55 PM

2:15PM

(322)Population Models with Diffusion, Strong AlleeEffect and Constant Yield Harvesting.Jaffar Ali*, Ratnasingham Shivaji, MississippiState University, and Kellan Wampler, Rose HulmanInstitute of Technology (1035-35-81)

2:30PM

(323)Computation of the wave forces on a floatingcylinder due to scattering and radiation due tosurge, heave and pitch.Dambaru Bhatta, University of Texas-Pan American(1035-35-283)

2:45PM

(324)On the Gevrey wave-front set of traces of CRfunctions on maximally real submanifolds.Ziad Adwan, Texas University at Brownsville,and Gustavo Hoepfner*, Temple University(1035-35-447)

3:00PM

(325)Lower bounds for blow-up time in some porousmedium problems.Philip W Schaefer, University of Tennessee(1035-35-474)



3:15PM

� (326)A constructive method for finding critical points ofa Ginzburg-Landau type functional.Parimah T Kazemi, University of North Texas(1035-35-258)

3:30PM

� (327)Adjoint-Based Optimization Applied to a System ofNonlinear Partial Differential Equations.David C. Szurley, Francis Marion University(1035-35-690)

3:45PM

(328)Wave Scattering in In-homogeneous Strings.Preliminary report.Nezam Iraniparast, Western Kentucky University(1035-35-807)

4:00PM

(329)Infinitely Many Radially Symmetric Solutions to aSuperlinear Dirichlet Problem in a Ball.Sridevi Pudipeddi, University of North Texas(1035-35-821)

4:15PM

(330)Travelling Solution of a Variational Wave Equationon Two Space Dimension.Tae-Wan Park, Grand Valley State University(1035-35-912)

4:30PM

(331)Coefficient recovery in parabolic initial boundaryvalue problems.Paul D DuChateau, Colorado State University, andTrent C Kull*, Winthrop University (1035-35-1057)

4:45PM

� (332)Variational Approach for Free Boundary Problems:A Seepage Problem With Singularity.Sadia M. Makky*, Owens College, and Fadhel S.Fadhel, University of Baghdad (1035-76-270)

AMS Session on Algebra and Number Theory, II

2:15 PM – 5:55 PM

2:15PM

(333)New estimates for multidimensional Weyl sums.Preliminary report.Scott T. Parsell, Butler University (1035-11-1726)

2:30PM

(334)Sign Ambiguities.Heon Kim, Louisiana State University(1035-11-1823)

2:45PM

� (335)On the equation X2p + Y 2p = Z2p. Preliminaryreport.Adeniran Adeboye, Howard University(1035-11-1871)

3:00PM

(336)Class Numbers and Lengths of Hilbert Class TowerFields.Michael W Daub, Williams College (1035-11-1872)

3:15PM

(337)Approximating the U11 operator on overconvergentmodular forms. Preliminary report.Lloyd J Kilford, University of Bristol (1035-11-79)

3:30PM

� (338)Sum of powers of integers and binomial coefficients.George W Grossman* and Zinyun Zhu, CentralMichigan University (1035-11-309)

3:45PM

� (339)On Solving the Diophantine Equationx3 +y3 + z3 = n.Susil Kumar Jena, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar,Orissa, India (1035-11-378)

4:00PM

(340)Asymptotic valuations of sequences satisfying firstorder recurrences.Luis A. Medina*, Tewodros Amdeberhan andVictor H. Moll, Tulane University (1035-11-728)

4:15PM

(341)Waring’s number in a finite field. Preliminary report.James Arthur Cipra, Kansas State University(1035-11-794)

4:30PM

� (342)Poincare Series of Weil and Igusa Type for EllipticCurves.Samuel Paul Ruth, Northwestern University(1035-11-127)

4:45PM

� (343)A special case of rational thetas for terminatingθ-expansions.Santanu Chakraborty, University of Texas - PanAmerican (1035-11-844)

5:00PM

(344)Singular Moduli of Shimura Curves.Eric Errthum, Winona State University(1035-11-872)

5:15PM

(345)Error Zeta Function.Abdul Hassen* and Hieu D Nguyen, RowanUniversity (1035-11-905)

5:30PM

� (346)A simple prime-generating recurrence.Eric S. Rowland, Rutgers University (1035-11-986)

5:45PM

(347)Upper bounds for Discrete Moments of the RiemannZeta-Function. Preliminary report.Micah B. Milinovich, University of Rochester(1035-11-1040)

MAA Session on College Algebra: Concepts, Data, andModels, I

2:15 PM – 3:40 PM

Organizers: Florence S. Gordon, New YorkInstitute of TechnologyLaurette Foster, Prairie A&M UniversityMary R. Robinson, University of NewMexico, Valencia CampusYajun Yang, Farmingdale StateUniversity of New York

2:15PM

� (348)Application of Dutch Curriculum Design Principlesin College Algebra: Meaningful Contexts thatPromote Mathematical Insight.David C. Webb*, University of Colorado at Boulder,Henk van der Kooij, Freudenthal Institute,University of Utrecht, and Monica Geist, FrontRange Community College (1035-D1-1931)

2:30PM

� (349)The Impact of Curriculum Change on TeacherPractice: The Case of College Algebra. Preliminaryreport.Monica R. Geist*, Front Range Community College,David C. Webb, University of Colorado at Boulder,and Henk van der Kooij, Freudenthal Institute(1035-D1-832)

2:45PM

� (350)Beat the Pumps with Algebra. Preliminary report.Kimberly J. Burch, Indiana University ofPennsylvania (1035-D1-195)

3:00PM

� (351)Integrating College Algebra Modularity andTechnology.Dale Magoun*, Steve Richters, Serpil Saydam,Charlotte Owens, University of Louisiana atMonroe, and Beth Smith, University of Lousiana atMonroe (1035-D1-1845)

3:15PM

� (352)Algebra, Guided Discovery and a HandheldComputer Algebra System: The Perfect Trio.Preliminary report.Thomas Fox, University of Houston-Clear Lake(1035-D1-1680)

3:30PM

� (353)Why Teach Transformations of Graphs? Preliminaryreport.Heidi Burgiel* and Ward Heilman, BridgewaterState College (1035-D1-591)

MAA Session on Curriculum Materials for PreserviceMiddle School Mathematics Teachers, I

2:15 PM – 4:50 PM

Organizers: Laurie J. Burton, Western OregonUniversity



Maria G. Fung, Western OregonUniversityKlay T. Kruczek, Western OregonUniversity

2:15PM

� (354)A Discrete Mathematics Course for PreserviceMiddle School Mathematics Teachers. Preliminaryreport.Bonnie Gold, Monmouth University (1035-H1-815)

2:35PM

� (355)Using Precalculus and Calculus to DevelopMathematical Connections Surrounding MiddleSchool Mathematics.Theresa A. Jorgensen, University of Texas atArlington (1035-H1-1091)

2:55PM

� (356)Visual College Algebra for Middle School Teachers.Laurie J. Burton, Western Oregon University(1035-H1-620)

3:15PM

� (357)Promoting understanding of middle schoolmathematics.Elizabeth George Bremigan, Ralph Bremigan* andJohn Lorch, Ball State University (1035-H1-1074)

3:35PM

� (358)Going ’Round in Circles.Jeff McLean, University of St. Thomas(1035-H1-1087)

3:55PM

� (359)Algebra for Elementary and Middle SchoolTeachers: An Inquiry Approach.Sheryl Stump* and Kay Roebuck, Ball StateUniversity (1035-H1-1030)

4:15PM

� (360)Supplemental Materials from Number Systems forMiddle School Teachers. Preliminary report.Maura A. Murray, Salem State College(1035-H1-1271)

4:35PM

� (361)Exploring Concepts of Euclidean Geometry ThroughComparison with Spherical and Taxicab Geometries.Maria G. Fung*, Western Oregon University, TevianDray, Oregon State Univeristy, David Damcke,University of Portland, Lyn Riverstone and DianneHart, Oregon State University (1035-H1-877)

MAA Session on the Power of Inductive and RecursiveThinking

2:15 PM – 5:10 PM

Organizer: William A. Marion, ValparaisoUniversity

2:15PM

� (362)Two inquiry based learning tasks to help studentsthink inductively and recursively.Morton Brown, University of Michigan(1035-R1-1745)

2:30PM

� (363)Using Integer Rods to Visualize Induction.Elizabeth A. Burroughs, Montana State University(1035-R1-123)

2:45PM

� (364)Induction: It’s Only Natural.J. Winston Crawley* and Douglas E Ensley,Shippensburg University of PA (1035-R1-1333)

3:00PM

� (365)Examples of Inductive Reasoning and RecursiveThinking in Undergraduate Mathematics.Preliminary report.Jialing Dai, The University of the Pacific(1035-R1-1808)

3:15PM

� (366)Teaching Induction Using Fractals.David J Hunter, Westmont College (1035-R1-1817)

3:30PM

(367)Strong Induction.Brian P. Kelly, Bryant University (1035-R1-1619)

3:45PM

� (368)The Blarney’s Party: An Exercise in MathematicalInduction.Linda McGuire* and Elyn Rykken, MuhlenbergCollege (1035-R1-1258)

4:00PM

� (369)Self-discovery Techniques for Bridging the Gapbetween Precalculus and Calculus. Preliminaryreport.Susan Schmoyer* and Heather A Jackson, UnitedStates Military Academy (1035-R1-1901)

4:15PM

� (370)Checkerboard Tiling and Mathematical Induction.Preliminary report.Melinda Schulteis, Concordia University, Irvine(1035-R1-985)

4:30PM

� (371)Some Examples of Induction in CombinatorialGeometry.Norton Starr, Amherst College (1035-R1-55)

4:45PM

� (372)Patterns in Biology. Preliminary report.Anthony Tongen, James Madison University(1035-R1-1935)

5:00PM

� (373)Using Spreadsheets to Help Students ThinkRecursively.Robert P. Webber, Longwood University(1035-R1-317)

MAA Session on Serving Students Who Have TakenCalculus in High School

2:15 PM – 6:30 PM

Organizers: Ann E. Watkins, California StateUniversity, NorthridgeDaniel J. Teague, North CarolinaSchool of Science and Mathematics

2:15PM

� (374)Calculus in High Schoo—The Numbers. Preliminaryreport.David Bressoud, Macalester College (1035-V1-860)

2:35PM

� (375)A National Survey About the Choices Made byStudents Who Take Calculus before 12th Grade.Ann E. Watkins, California State University,Northridge (1035-V1-1130)

2:55PM

� (376)A Creative Way for High Schools to Serve Post APMathematics Students.Harrison W. Straley, Wheaton College, Norton, MA(1035-V1-753)

3:15PM

� (377)Thematic Calculus: Approximations and Primes.Shahriar Shahriari, Pomona College(1035-V1-1710)

3:35PM

(378)Graph Theory as an Introduction to Proofs Coursefor Post Calculus High School Students.Daniel J Teague, NC School of Science andMathematics (1035-V1-1716)

3:55PM

(379)Using Integrated First-Year College MathematicsCourses to Challenge and Motivate Students WhoHave Had Calculus and to Level the Playing Field forThose Who Haven’t.John L. Scharf, Carroll College (1035-V1-1464)

4:15PM

(380)Foundations of Abstract Mathematics.Suzanne Hamon, John Burroughs School(1035-V1-151)

4:35PM

� (381)An Applied Calculus Course for Everyone.Rachel M Dunwell* and Christopher W Seaton,Rhodes College (1035-V1-1630)

4:55PM

(382)Linear Algebra in High School.Al Cuoco, Center for Mathematics Education, EDC(1035-V1-406)

5:15PM

� (383)College “Calculus” for Students Who Have AlreadyHad Some Calculus.Sarah-Marie Belcastro, Smith College andHampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics(1035-V1-971)



5:35PM

(384)Linear Algebra at Strath Haven H.S.Catherine Stambaugh*, Strath Haven H.S.,Wallingford, PA, and Stephen B Maurer,Swarthmore College (1035-V1-922)

5:55PM

� (385)Redesigning the Advanced Mathematics Program atthe United States Military Academy.Donald A. Outing*, Todd P. Retchless and RandyBoucher, United States Military Academy(1035-V1-810)

6:15PM

(386)Selecting Students for the Advanced MathematicsProgram at the United States Military Academy.Todd P Retchless*, Randy Boucher and DonaldA Outing, United States Military Academy(1035-V1-191)

MAA Session on Topics and Techniques for RealAnalysis, I

2:15 PM – 5:00 PM

Organizers: Erik O. Talvila, University College ofthe Fraser ValleyRobert W. Vallin, Slippery RockUniversityJames E. Peterson, BenedictineCollege

2:15PM

� (387)Keep it real! Preliminary report.Richard J. Bagby, New Mexico State University(1035-W1-645)

2:35PM

� (388)Motivating Concepts Through the Use of Metaphor.Paul M Musial, Chicago State University(1035-W1-1578)

2:55PM

� (389)A Physical Motivator for Some Topics inIntermediate Analysis.Charles W. Groetsch, The Citadel (1035-W1-65)

3:15PM Break.3:45PM

� (390)Questions My Calculus Teacher Couldn’t Answer.Louis A Talman, Metropolitan State College ofDenver (1035-W1-1110)

4:05PM

� (391)Feather boas, yarn, and post-it notes: A dynamicway to teach real analysis definitions. Preliminaryreport.Julia A Barnes, Western Carolina University(1035-W1-1312)

4:25PM

(392)Group Activities for Real Analysis.Lynette J Boos, Trinity College (1035-W1-701)

4:45PM

� (393)Real Analysis for Education majors: Achieving theRight Balance.Srilal N Krishnan, Iona College (1035-W1-325)

MAA Session on Using Ideas from Asian Mathematicsin the Classroom, II

2:15 PM – 5:50 PM

Organizers: Victor J. Katz, University of the Districtof ColumbiaKim L. Plofker, Brown UniversityFrank Swetz, Pennsylvania StateUniversity, Harrisburg

2:15PM

� (394)A beginning college class reviews basic algebra byway of ancient and medieval Mesopotamia, Egypt,India, China, and Islam. Preliminary report.Rachelle M Ankney, North Park University(1035-X1-367)

2:35PM

� (395)Origins of Trigonometric Functions.Julie Belock, Salem State College, and KateMcGivney*, Shippensburg University (1035-X1-892)

2:55PM

� (396)Use of Original Asian Sources in a Liberal ArtsClass on the History of Mathematics.Homer S White, Georgetown College, Kentucky(1035-X1-340)

3:15PM

� (397)The Geometric Series: Visually.Chiru Bhattacharya, Randolph-Macon College(1035-X1-546)

3:35PM

� (398)“The Net of Numbers”: Combinatorics in AncientIndia Engaging Early Examples for ContemporaryClassrooms.Clemency J. Montelle, University of Canterbury,New Zealand (1035-X1-1378)

3:55PM

� (399)Kuttaka and Ta-Yen: A Comparison of Indian andChinese Methods of Solving Linear IndeterminateEquations. Preliminary report.James F Kiernan, Brooklyn College of the CityUniversity of New York (CUNY) (1035-X1-482)

4:15PM

� (400)Heavenly Mathematics: The Mathematics of theChinese, Indian, and Islamic calendars. Preliminaryreport.Helmer Aslaksen, National University of Singapore(1035-X1-1444)

4:35PM

� (401)A Sangaku problem with a western proof.Michael Woltermann*, Katelin Ennis, and RomanWong, Washington and Jefferson College(1035-X1-233)

4:55PM

� (402)An Ancient View on Proportionality in SimilarTriangles. Preliminary report.Jerry Lodder, New Mexico State University(1035-X1-557)

5:15PM

� (403)Illustrating the use of The Nine Chapters in theclassroom.Joel Haack, University of Northern Iowa(1035-X1-928)

5:35PM

(404)The Gougu Theorem, etc. in a Euclidean Geometryclass.David Gove, California State University, Bakersfield(1035-X1-1405)

MAA General Contributed Paper Session, II

2:15 PM – 5:55 PM


Moderators: Cynthia J. Woodburn, Pittsburg StateUniversityPeter Staab, Fitchburg State CollegeAlbert W. Schueller, Whitman CollegeLeon Hardy, Valencia CommunityCollege

2:15PM

� (405)Improving Student Performance in a ProblemSolving Curriculum by Emphasizing FundamentalMathematical Skills, a Follow-Up Discussion.Heather A Jackson* and Gerald Kobylski, UnitedStates Military Academy (1035-Z1-1897)

2:30PM

� (406)Normal distribution as the limit of the binomialdistribution—a graphical argument.Aldo R Maldonado, Park University (1035-Z1-1491)

2:45PM

(407)Sharing The Students’ Classroom: Joint TeachingTales. Preliminary report.Amy H Lin Erickson* and Leigh L Noble, UnitedStates Military Academy (1035-Z1-1272)

3:00PM

(408)Simplicity of Endomorphism Centralizer Nearrings.Preliminary report.G. Alan Cannon*, Southeastern LouisianaUniversity, and Gary Walls, West Texas A&MUniversity (1035-Z1-2011)



3:15PM

� (409)Efficacy of Peer-led Team Learning in Calculus I atMorehouse College.John C. Merkel, Morehouse College (1035-Z1-1811)

3:30PM

� (410)Differentiated Problem Solving for Prospective K-8Teachers. Preliminary report.Trisha A Bergthold*, San Jose State University,and David Foster, Robert Noyce Foundation(1035-Z1-1152)

3:45PM

� (411)Translating Euler’s works: How to get yourstudents’ feet wet in undergraduate research.Preliminary report.Hieu D Nguyen* and Thomas Osler, RowanUniversity (1035-Z1-806)

4:00PM

� (412)Higher Math: An Introduction.Jean Bee Chan, Sonoma State University(1035-Z1-963)

4:15PM

� (413)Exploring Loci with Dynamic Geometry Software.Owen D Byer and Deirdre Longacher Smeltzer*,Eastern Mennonite University (1035-Z1-1762)

4:30PM

� (414)Augustus De Morgan: The Man Behind the Scenes.Preliminary report.Jesse W Byrne* and Charlotte K Simmons,University of Central Oklahoma (1035-Z1-210)

4:45PM

(415)Psychology, pedagogy and epistemology in contextof secondary mathematics: A content course forsecondary mathematics teachers.Debasree Raychaudhuri, California StateUniversity, Los Angeles (1035-Z1-1982)

5:00PM

� (416)Oreos and Experimental Design.Michelle Everson, University of Minnesota(1035-Z1-321)

5:15PM

� (417)From Chinese Mathematics to Calculus and Beyond.Youyu Phillips, Keystone College (1035-Z1-1000)

5:30PM

� (418)On the Distribution of the Number of SimplexIterations to Optimality.Susan Kim, Claremont Graduate University(1035-Z1-58)

5:45PM

� (419)The potential of Cognitively Guided Instructionfacets in the preparation of under-prepared andanxious students in 7th to 12th grades. Preliminaryreport.Stephen Max Lancaster, California State University,Fullerton (1035-Z1-889)

SIAM Minisymposium on Analysis and Computation ofStochastic Equations

2:15 PM – 6:40 PM

Organizer: Jack Xin, University of California Irvine2:15PM

(420)From Stochastic Variational Integrators tosuper-diffusive transport at uniform temperaturewith fluctuation-driven magnetic motors.Houman Owhadi*, California Institute ofTechnology, and Nawaf Bou-Rabee, Caltech(1035-60-457)

2:45PM

(421)Inertial particles and explosive diffusions.Leonid Piterbarg, University of Southern California(1035-60-762)

3:15PM

(422)Almost sure stability for a stochastic beamequation.Peter Baxendale, University of Southern California(1035-60-676)

3:45PM

� (423)Reaction-diffusion fronts in random flows.Preliminary report.Jack Xin, UC Irvine (1035-35-792)

4:15PM

(424)Phase Transitions and Limit Reults forHomopolymers.Michael C. Cranston*, University of California,Irvine, and Stanislav Molchanov, UNiversity ofNorth Carolina, Charlotte (1035-60-1667)

4:45PM

(425)Nested Stochastic Simulation Algorithms forChemical Kinetic Systems with Multiple Time Scales.Di Liu, Michigan State University (1035-60-908)

5:15PM

(426)Time reversal and super-resolution in randommedium.Hongkai Zhao, University of California, Irvine(1035-65-830)

5:45PM

(427)Simulation and Measurement of Time-Reversal inan Indoor Environment using Wide-angle Antennas.Peter Blomgren, San Diego State University(1035-35-1662)

6:15PM

� (428)Monte Carlo simulations for 2-dimensional Maxwellequations in random media.Chang-Yeol Jung, The Institute for ScientificComputing and Applied Mathematics (1035-35-509)

Math on the Web, I

2:15 PM – 4:30 PM

2:15PM

(429)Communicating mathematics on the Web inpractice.Patrick Ion, American Mathematical Society

3:00PM

(430)Managing math in Moodle.Bob Mathews, Design Science, Inc.

4:00PM

(431)Student answers to math homework on the Webusing proper mathematical notation: A scalable,universal approach.John Risley, WebAssign

MAA-Project NExT and Young MathematiciansNetwork Joint Poster Session

2:15 PM – 4:15 PM

Organizers: Kevin E. Charlwood, WashburnUniversityMichael C. Axtell, Wabash College

AMS Workshop: Part II

2:15 PM – 5:30 PM

Grant writing in the mathematical sciences.Organizers: Michelle Wagner, National Security

AgencyDeborah F. Lockhart, National ScienceFoundation

MAA SIGMAA on Mathematics and the Arts PanelDiscussion

2:15 PM – 3:35 PM

Mathematics and Hollywood: A conversation withmathematical Hollywood writers and mathematicsfaculty.Organizers: Christopher Goff, University of the

PacificSarah J. Greenwald, Appalachian StateUniversity

Panelists: David M. Bressoud, MacalesterCollegeKen Keeler, Futurama, 20th CenturyFox



Alice Silverberg, University ofCalifornia IrvineEric Weisstein, Wolfram Research, Inc.Jeff Westbrook, The Simpsons, 20thCentury Fox

MAA Committee on Graduate Students–YoungMathematicians Network Joint Panel Discussion

2:15 PM – 3:35 PM

How to interview for a job in the mathematicalsciences.Organizer: David C. Manderscheid, University of

IowaPanelists: Allen Butler, Daniel H. Wagner

Associates, Inc.Sharon M. Clarke, PepperdineUniversityJames H. Freeman, Cornell CollegeSarah Ann Stewart, Belmont UniversityDavid C. Manderscheid

MAA Session for Chairs

2:15 PM – 3:35 PM

What every chair should know about NSF funding.Organizers: Catherine M. Murphy, Purdue

University CalumetDaniel P. Maki, Indiana University

AWM Panel Discussion

2:15 PM – 3:40 PM

The unseen AWM opportunitiesModerator: Cathy Kessel, Berkeley, CAPanelists: Victoria E. Howle, Sandia National

LaboratoriesElizabeth G. Yanik, Emporia StateUniversityRachel A. Kuske, University of BritishColumbiaSuzanne Lenhart, University ofTennessee, KnoxvilleCathy Kessel

MAA Section Officers

2:30 PM – 5:00 PM

Session for Math Club Advisors

3:00 PM – 3:50 PM

MAA Invited Address

3:20 PM – 4:10 PM

(432) Mathematics and the law: The apportionment of theHouse of Representatives.Paul H. Edelman, Vanderbilt University(1035-A0-18)

AWM Business Meeting

3:45 PM – 4:15 PM

MAA Committee on Curriculum Renewal Across theFirst Two Years Panel Discussion

3:50 PM – 5:50 PM

Tracking our students from college algebra tocalculus: Where they come from, where they go,and where they don’t.Organizer: Sheldon P. Gordon, Farmingdale State

CollegePanelists: Barbara E. Edwards, Oregon State

UniversitySteven R. Dunbar, University ofNebraskaAimee Ellington, VirginiaCommonwealth UniversityScott Herriott, Maharishi InternationalUniversityMercedes McGowen, William RaineyHarper CollegeWilliam A. Wallter, University ofHouston-Downtown

MAA Panel Discussion

3:50 PM – 5:10 PM

Engaging students in college mathematics courses.Organizer: Juli D’Ann Ratheal, West Texas A&M

UniversityPanelists: James A. Epperson, University of

Texas-ArlingtonWinifred A. Mallam, Texas Woman’sUniversityKimberly M. Childs, Stephen F. AustinState UniversityBowen Brawner, Tarleton StateUniversityRebecca Walls, West Texas A&MUniversityJuli D’Ann Ratheal

MAA Session on Research on the Teaching andLearning of Undergraduate Mathematics, I

4:00 PM – 5:20 PM

Organizers: David E. Meel, Bowling Green StateUniversityMichelle J. Zandieh, Arizona StateUniversityChris Rasmussen, San Diego StateUniversity

4:00PM

� (433)Mathematical Reasoning: Insights from CognitivePsychology.Michelle J Zandieh, Arizona State University(1035-U1-628)

4:35PM

(434)College students’ understandings of conditionalstatements.Kyeong Hah Roh, Arizona State University(1035-U1-1979)

5:00PM

� (435)Students’ Conceptions of Vectors, Span, and LinearDependence and Independence.Christine Joy Larson*, Indiana University and SanDiego State University, and Michael Smith, SanDiego State University (1035-U1-1917)



Reception for Undergraduate Students and Math ClubAdvisors

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

SIGMAA on Environmental Mathematics Guest Lectureand Business Meeting

4:30 PM – 6:00 PM

AMS Special Presentation on CongressionalFellowships

4:30 PM – 6:00 PM

Organizer: Samuel M. Rankin, III, AMS


4:45 PM – 6:45 PM

Beyond formulas and algorithms: Teaching aconceptual/thematics single variable calculuscourse.Organizer: Shahriar Shahriari, Pomona College


4:45 PM – 6:45 PM

Introduction to the mathematics of moderncryptography.Organizers: Jeffrey Ehme, Spelman College

Colm K. Mulcahy, Spelman College


4:45 PM – 6:45 PM

Mathematics and geometry of voting.Organizer: Donald G. Saari, University of

California Irvine

MAA Special Film Presentation

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Flatland: The Movie.Organizer: Thomas F. Banchoff, Brown University


5:00 PM – 6:30 PM

Help for undergraduates: Negotiating the JointMeetings.Organizer: Elizabeth Mayfield, Hood CollegePanelists: Dan Kalman, American University

Jacqueline A. Jensen, Sam HoustonState University

Reception for Graduate Students and First-TimeParticipants

5:30 PM – 6:30 PM

The AMS and MAA warmly invite these specialgroups to meet the leadership of your sponsoringorganization.

SIGMAA on the History of Mathematics Guest Lecture,Business Meeting, and Reception

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM


7:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Dancing mathematics and the mathematics ofdance.Organizers: Sarah-Marie Belcastro, Smith College

Karl Schaffer, DeAnza College

AMS Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture

8:30 PM – 9:30 PM

(436) Randomness—A computational complexity view.Avi Wigderson, Institute for Advanced Study(1035-68-01)

Monday, January 7Joint Meetings Registration

7:30 AM – 4:00 PM

AMS Session on Geometry and Topology, I

7:45 AM – 11:55 AM

7:45AM

� (437)The Bundle Theorem in Laguerre Geometry–ASynthetic Approach.Robert D Knight, Ohio University, Chillicothe(1035-51-1178)

8:00AM

(438)On m-accretive Schrodinger operators withsingular potentials on Riemannian manifolds.Ognjen Milatovic, University of North Florida(1035-58-1306)

8:15AM

(439)Liouville properties, stochastic completeness, andself-adjointness.Jun Masamune, Worcester Polytechnic Institute(1035-58-1611)

8:30AM

(440)Small Time Heat Kernel Behavior for RiemannianPolytopal Complexes. Preliminary report.Melanie Anne Pivarski, Texas A&M University(1035-58-1852)

8:45AM

(441)Fixed hypersurfaces of holomorphic C

∗ actions onexotic complex projective spaces.Ryan Brown, Georgia College & State University(1035-53-1598)

9:00AM

(442)Hypersurfaces of low type in real space forms viathe immersions by projectors.Ivko M Dimitric, Penn State University Fayette(1035-53-1666)

9:15AM

(443)The Geometry of Landmark-based Shape Manifolds.Mario Micheli, Division of Applied Mathematics,Brown University (1035-53-1172)

9:30AM

(444)Gromov-Lawson concordance implies isotopy.Mark G Walsh, University of Oregon(1035-53-1831)

9:45AM

(445)On the classification of low-dimensional fixed pointhomogeneous Riemannian manifolds withnonnegative sectional curvature. Preliminary report.Fernando Galaz-Garcia, University of Maryland,College Park (1035-53-1180)



10:00AM

(446)On the moduli space of triply periodic minimalsurfaces.Adam G. Weyhaupt, Southern Illinois UniversityEdwardsville (1035-53-2006)

10:15AM

(447)Nonorientable Contact Structures on 3-manifolds.David H Crombecque, Bryn Mawr College(1035-57-428)

10:30AM

� (448)Menasco Normal Form and Recognizing UnknotDiagrams.Chan-Ho Suh, University of California, Davis(1035-57-1441)

10:45AM

(449)Torus leveling for (1,1) knots. Preliminary report.Arim Seo, University of Oklahoma (1035-57-1601)

11:00AM

(450)The self-linking of algebraic knots. Preliminaryreport.Alan Durfee, Mount Holyoke College(1035-57-1743)

11:15AM

� (451)An invariant for flat virtual knots.Neil R. Nicholson, William Jewell College(1035-57-161)

11:30AM

� (452)Isoperimetric Inequalities on Manifolds with Density.Max D. Engelstein, Yale University (1035-51-1879)

11:45AM

� (453)Nonarchimedean Cantor Set and String.Hung Lu*, Hawaii Pacific University, and Michel L.Lapidus, University of California, Riverside(1035-51-71)

AMS-ASL Special Session on Set Theory and BanachSpaces, III

8:00 AM – 11:40 AM


8:00AM

(454)On w*-null sequences. Preliminary report.Jordi Lopez-Abad, Equipe de LogiqueMathematique, Universite Paris 7 (1035-46-2022)

9:00AM

(455)Banach spaces universal for all separable strictlyconvex spaces.Nigel J Kalton, University of Missouri(1035-46-893)

10:00AM

� (456)Definable Davies’ Theorem. Preliminary report.Asger D Tornquist, University of Toronto(1035-03-1588)

11:00AM

(457)Partial Unconditionality.Stephen J Dilworth*, University of South Carolina,E Odell, University of Texas at Austin, ThomasSchlumprecht, Texas A&M University, and AndrasZsak, University of Leeds (1035-46-1197)

AMS Special Session on Structure, Geometry, andSymbolic Computation of Algebraic Groups andSymmetric Spaces, I

8:00 AM – 11:50 AM

Organizers: Jennifer R. Daniel, Lamar UniversityAloysius G. Helminck, North CarolinaState University

8:00AM

(458)Making the Lie correspondence effective foralgebraic groups in characteristic 0.Willem A. de Graaf, University of Trento(1035-20-288)

8:30AM

(459)A new approach to computing generators for thecentralizer of K in the universal enveloping algebraof g . Preliminary report.Steven Glenn Jackson and Alfred G. Noel*,University of Massachusetts Boston (1035-22-193)

9:00AM

(460)Computational Problems Concerning Kac-MoodyAlgebras and Groups.William Casselman, University of British Columbia(1035-20-1035)

9:30AM

(461)Some invariant theoretic computations related toquantum computing. Preliminary report.Nolan R Wallach, University of California, SanDiego (1035-22-1409)

10:00AM

(462)Spin Flips and KAK Decompositions.Stephen S. Bullock, IDA Center for ComputingSciences (1035-81-624)

10:30AM

(463)Compact symmetric spaces, triangularfactorization, and Cayley coordinates.Derek Habermas, SUNY Potsdam (1035-22-1374)

11:00AM

(464)Combinatorics of Blattner’s formula. Preliminaryreport.Jeb F. Willenbring*, University of Wisconsin -Milwaukee, and Gregg J. Zuckerman, YaleUniversity (1035-22-240)

11:30AM

(465)Tau signatures, cells and nilpotent orbits.Preliminary report.B. Binegar, Oklahoma State University(1035-22-1764)

AMS Special Session on Stochastic, Large-Scale, andHybrid Systems with Applications, I

8:00 AM – 11:50 AM

Organizers: Aghalaya S. Vatsala, University ofLouisiana at LafayetteG. S. Ladde, University of Texas atArlington

8:00AM

(466)Stochastic Systems: A Class of Hybrid Systems.Preliminary report.G. S. Ladde, University of South Florida at Tampa(1035-60-1084)

8:30AM

(467)Interacting Markovian systems. Preliminary report.Andrzej Korzeniowski, UT Arlington(1035-60-1489)

9:00AM

(468)Stochastic Modeling of Global Warming Entities.Preliminary report.Chris P. Tsokos, University of South Florida atTampa (1035-60-1226)

9:30AM

� (469)Restoration the Coefficient in Euler-BernoulliEquation from Over-posed Data. Preliminary report.Tchavdar T. Marinov*, University of Louisiana atLafayette, and Aghalaya S. Vatsala, University ofLouisiana at Lafayette, (1035-34-418)

10:00AM

(470)The Semilinear Evolution Equation for AmericanContingent Claims: Successive Approximations andBounds.Valery A. Kholodnyi, Platts Analytics (1035-91-392)

10:30AM

(471)A Numerical Comparison of Three State EstimationSchemes Applied to a Nonlinear Stochastic System.Elaine T. Hale, Rice University (1035-93-1135)

11:00AM

(472)Uniqueness of weak solutions of semilinear waveequations with interior-boundary supercriticalsources and damping.Lorena Bociu, University of Virginia (1035-35-361)

11:30AM

(473)Improved Generalized Quasilinearization Methodand Rapid Convergence for Nonlinear VolterraIntegral Equations.Tanya G. Melton*, LSU at Alexandria, andAghalaya S. Vatsala, University of Louisiana atLafayette (1035-45-338)

Monday, January 7 – Program of the Sessions


AMS Special Session on Time-Frequency Analysis:Hilbert Huang Transform and Wavelet Analysis, I

8:00 AM – 11:50 AM

Organizers: Yuesheng Xu, Syracuse UniversitySherman D. Riemenschneider, WestVirginia UniversitySamuel S. Shen, San Diego StateUniversity

8:00AM

� (474)Basic Elements of Empirical Mode Decompositionand Hilbert Spectral Analysis.Norden E Huang, National Central University(1035-41-2014)

9:00AM

(475)A characterization of wavelet frames by themultiplicative Zak transform. Preliminary report.John J. Benedetto*, Norbert Wiener Center,University of Maryland, College Park, WojciechCzaja and Justin C. Flake, University of Maryland,College Park (1035-42-656)

9:30AM

(476)Quantization for Finite Frame Expansions and theWhite Noise Hypothesis.Yang Wang, Michigan State University(1035-94-1807)

10:00AM

� (477)Image analysis using two-dimensional empiricalmode decomposition.Lixin Shen, Syracuse University (1035-94-2009)

10:30AM

(478)Decomposition into Intrinsic Mode Functions.Vesselin I Vatchev, The University of Texas atBrownsville (1035-41-1767)

11:00AM

� (479)Hilbert-Huang Transform and signals with positiveinstantaneous frequency.Daniel R Van Vliet, West Virginia University(1035-41-1673)

11:30AM

(480)Orthonormal Bases with Nonlinear Phase.Tao Qian, FST, University of Macau, Rui Wang,Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yuesheng Xuand Haizhang Zhang*, Syracuse University(1035-41-422)

AMS Special Session on Recent Advances inMathematical Biology, Ecology, and Epidemiology, III

8:00 AM – 11:55 AM


8:00AM

� (481)Species disappearance: A combination of infectiousdisease and Allee effect?Horst R Thieme, Arizona State University(1035-92-430)

8:30AM

(482)Mathematical Analysis of the Interaction ofCytotoxic T Lymphocytes and Epithelial Cells in theInfluenza Infection.Abdessamad Tridane*, Arizona State university,Karl P Hadeler and Yang Kuang, Arizona StateUniversity (1035-92-63)

9:00AM

� (483)Heterogeneous mixing in epidemic models.Fred Brauer, University of British Columbia(1035-92-452)

9:30AM

(484)Spatial patterns in a discrete-time epidemic patchmodel.Linda J. S. Allen, Texas Tech University, Yuan Lou,The Ohio State University, and Andrew L Nevai*,Mathematical Biosciences Institute, The Ohio StateUniversity (1035-92-955)

10:00AM

(485)SIR Models with Square-Root Dynamics.Ronald E Mickens, Clark Atlanta University(1035-39-234)

10:30AM

(486)The 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic in England andWales: Spatial Patterns in Transmissibility andMortality Impact.Gerardo Chowell*, Arizona State University, LuisMA Bettencourt, Los Alamos National Laboratory,Niall Johnson, Sidney Sussex College, WladimirAlonso and Cecile Viboud, Fogarty InternationalCenter (1035-92-403)

11:00AM

� (487)Malaria Model In Seasonal Environments.Preliminary report.Bassidy Dembele*, Howard University, AvnerFriedman, Ohio State University, and Abdul-AzizYakubu, Howard University (1035-34-619)

11:30AM

(488)Continuous-time predator-prey models withparasites. Preliminary report.Sophia Jang*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette,and James Baglama, University of Rhode Island(1035-92-1596)

AMS Special Session on Progress in CommutativeAlgebra, II

8:00 AM – 11:50 AM

Organizers: Janet Striuli, University of Nebraska,Lincoln

Sean M. Sather-Wagstaff, NorthDakota State University

Lars Winther Christensen, TexasTech University

8:00AM

(489)Ascent of module structures, vanishing of Ext, andextended modules.Anders J. Frankild, University of Copenhagen,Sean Sather-Wagstaff, North Dakota StateUniversity, and Roger Wiegand*, University ofNebraska (1035-13-715)

8:30AM

(490)Hilbert Functions for Ext-Modules. Preliminaryreport.Andrew Crabbe* and Janet Striuli, University ofNebraska - Lincoln (1035-13-1136)

9:00AM

(491)On the projective dimension of four quadrics.Preliminary report.Bahman Engheta, University of California(1035-13-1880)

9:30AM

(492)Vanishing conditions which force regularity in localrings of prime characteristic.Ian Aberbach, University of Missouri, and JinjiaLi*, Syracuse University (1035-13-1068)

10:00AM

(493)On the nonrigidity of Frobenius.Jinjia Li and Claudia Miller*, Syracuse University(1035-13-1392)

10:30AM

(494)Cohomology of connected sums of artinianGorenstein rings. Preliminary report.Luchezar L Avramov and W. Frank Moore*,University of Nebraska - Lincoln (1035-13-1512)

11:00AM

(495)Contracting Endomorphisms and GorensteinModules. Preliminary report.Hamid Rahmati, University of Nebraska-Lincoln(1035-13-1141)

11:30AM

(496)On homological properties of Gorenstein rings.David A Jorgensen, University of Texas atArlington (1035-13-1332)

Program of the Sessions – Monday, January 7 (cont’d.)


AMS Special Session on Monotone Discrete DynamicalSystems with Applications, I

8:00 AM – 11:50 AM

Organizers: M. R. S. Kulenovic, University of RhodeIsland

Orlando Merino, University of RhodeIsland

Hal L. Smith, Arizona State University8:00AM

(497)Global Bifurcation for Competitive Systems in thePlane.Orlando Merino* and Mustafa Kulenovic,University of Rhode Island (1035-39-1027)

8:30AM

(498)Positive Difference Equations with SeveralEquilibrium Points: Attractivity and Basins ofAttraction. Preliminary report.Ann Brett* and M. R. S. Kulenovic, University ofRhode Island (1035-37-899)

9:00AM

(499)On the Global Behavior of Nonnegative Solutions to

xn+1 = α+βxn+γ xn−1A+B xn+C xn−1

with positive parameters.Sukanya Basu* and Orlando Merino, University ofRhode Island (1035-39-1242)

9:30AM

� (500)Non-hyperbolic Dynamics for Competitive Systemsin the Plane. Preliminary report.M. R. S. Kulenovic*, University of Rhode Island, Dz.Burgic, University of Tuzla, and Senada Kalabusic,University of Sarajevo (1035-37-859)

10:00AM

� (501)A nonautonomous model with Allee effect.Preliminary report.Saber N Elaydi, Trinity University (1035-39-1996)

10:30AM

(502)Existence, uniqueness and asymptotic phase in thecarrying simplex for certain competitive maps.Morris W Hirsch, University of California, Berkeleyand University of Wisconsin, Madison (1035-37-209)

11:00AM

(503)Global Stability for Mixed Monotone Systems.Hal L Smith, Arizona State University (1035-37-942)

11:30AM

(504)Two Applications of Monotone Systems toQuasilinear Elliptic Problems.Peter Takac, University of Rostock, Germany(1035-35-1073)

AMS Special Session on The Mathematics ofInformation and Knowledge, III

8:00 AM – 11:45 AM

Organizers: Peter W. Jones, Yale University

James G. Glimm, SUNY at Stony Brook

Steve Smale, Toyota Institute ofTechnology at Chicago

8:00AM

� (505)New Mathematical Challenges Arising fromStudying Internet-like Systems.Walter Willinger, AT&T Labs-Research(1035-94-1326)

9:00AM

(506)Learning from examples; What is ”learning theory”?Stephen Smale, Toyota Technological Institute inChicago (1035-94-1037)

10:00AM

(507)Inferential diffusions as a tool for geometrization ofdigital data sets. Preliminary report.Ronald R. Coifman, Yale University (1035-43-2027)

11:00AM

(508)Learning Behavior as a Function of Brain Dynamics.Francois G Meyer, University of Colorado atBoulder (1035-92-835)

AMS Special Session on Mathematics for Teaching:Educating Elementary and Middle School Teachersfor Success, I

8:00 AM – 11:55 AM

Organizers: Babette M. Benken, California StateUniversity, Long BeachLynn C. McGrath, University of SanDiegoPerla L. Myers, University of San Diego

8:00AM

� (509)Evaluating Mathematics Courses for ElementaryTeachers: Mathematical Knowledge andDispositions for Teaching.Jim Gleason, The University of Alabama(1035-97-73)

8:30AM

� (510)Mathematics classes for elementary and middleschool teacher certification.Raven S. McCrory, Michigan State University(1035-97-549)

9:00AM

� (511)The Mathematics Semester: Educating FutureElementary Teachers at the University ofNebraska-Lincoln. Preliminary report.W. James Lewis* and Ruth Heaton, University ofNebraska-Lincoln (1035-97-1813)

9:30AM

� (512)Using Technology to Build Understanding inTeaching and Learning Mathematics.Laurie J. Riggs, California State PolytechnicUniversity, Pomona (1035-97-412)

10:00AM

(513)Non-traditional Content Courses for Prospectiveand Practicing Mathematics Teachers: A UniqueProgram.Babette M. Benken* and Lindsay Tartre, CaliforniaState University, Long Beach (1035-97-1418)

10:30AM

� (514)Focusing on Justification in the Context ofComputation: A First Course for ProspectiveTeachers.Kate Kline*, Theresa J Grant, Western MichiganUniversity, and Judy Flowers, University ofMichigan-Dearborn (1035-97-582)

11:30AM

� (515)Oakland/East Bay Middle School Math Circle.Preliminary report.Brandy S. Wiegers, University of California, Davis(1035-97-134)

AMS Special Session on Conformally Flat LorentzianManifolds, I

8:00 AM – 11:50 AM

Organizers: Virginie Charette, Universite deSherbrookeWilliam M. Goldman, University ofMarylandKarin H. Melnick, Yale UniversityKevin Scannel, Saint Louis University

8:00AM

(516)Conformal actions of nilpotent Lie groups oncompact Lorentz manifolds. Preliminary report.Karin Melnick*, Yale University, and CharlesFrances, Universite Paris-Sud XI (1035-53-1414)

8:30AM

(517)Admissible Decomposition of Complex ProjectiveStructures.Shinpei Baba, UC Davis (1035-53-1171)

9:00AM

(518)Earthquakes on hyperbolic surfaces with geodesicboundary and multi black holes.Francesco Bonsante, Universita degli Studi di Pavia(1035-53-726)

10:00AM

(519)Actions on Hermitian symmetric spaces.Alessandra Iozzi, ETH Zurich (1035-22-1193)



10:30AM

(520)Fundamental domains of properly convex realprojective structures. Preliminary report.Jaejeong Lee, University of California, Davis(1035-53-1399)

11:00AM

(521)Holomorphic Riemannian metrics on compactcomplex 3-manifolds.Abdelghani Zeghib, CNRS, UMPA, Ecole NormaleSuperieure de Lyon (1035-51-992)

11:30AM

(522)Rigidity of boundaries in conformal Lorentzgeometry.Charles Frances, Universite Paris-Sud(1035-51-853)

AMS Special Session on Voting Theory, I

8:00 AM – 11:40 AM

Organizers: Michael A. Jones, Montclair StateUniversityEric I. Gottlieb, Rhodes CollegeBrian P. Hopkins, Saint Peter’s College

8:00AM

� (523)Symmetry of Nonparametric Statistical Tests onThree Samples.Anna E Bargagliotti*, University of Mephis, andDonald G Saari, University of California Irvine(1035-62-280)

8:30AM

� (524)A geometric approach to judgement aggregation.Preliminary report.Christian Klamler* and Daniel Eckert, Universityof Graz (1035-91-608)

9:00AM

� (525)A voting rule based on the spatial median.Preliminary report.William S. Zwicker, Union College (1035-91-716)

9:30AM

(526)Applications of Topology to Decisions.Jason Kronewetter* and Donald G Saari,University of California, Irvine (1035-91-1177)

10:00AM

� (527)How to Elect a Representative Committee UsingApproval Balloting.D. Marc Kilgour*, Wilfrid Laurier University, StevenJ. Brams, New York University, and M. RemziSanver, Istanbul Bilgi University (1035-91-596)

10:30AM

� (528)Are Societies Agreeable?Francis Edward Su*, Kristen Huff, Harvey MuddCollege, and Alex Izsak, University of BritishColumbia (1035-91-1857)

11:00AM

(529)Voting Systems That Combine Approval andPreference.Steven J. Brams*, New York University, andM. Remzi Sanver, Istanbul Bilgi University(1035-91-316)

AMS Special Session on Graph Theory, I

8:00 AM – 11:50 AM

Organizers: Andre Kundgen, California StateUniversity, San MarcosK. Brooks Reid, California StateUniversity, San Marcos

8:00AM

(530)Cost parameterization in dynamic locationproblems. Preliminary report.D. Jacob Wildstrom, University of Louisville(1035-05-351)

8:30AM

(531)Graphs with Champions. Preliminary report.W. D. Wallis, Southern Illinois University Carbondale(1035-05-83)

9:00AM

(532)Bootstrap percolation in regular graphs.Jacques A Verstraete, University of California SanDiego (1035-05-1443)

9:30AM

(533)Spectra of (3,6)-Fullerenes.Matt DeVos, Luis Goddyn*, Robert Samal, SimonFraser University, and Bojan Mohar, Simon FraserUniversity (1035-05-174)

10:00AM

(534)The search for cages of girth 5 and 7.Allen J Schwenk, Western Michigan University(1035-05-756)

10:30AM

(535)How Useful is the Mathematics SubjectClassification? Share Your Ideas on Improving It!Jerrold W. Grossman, Oakland University andMathematical Reviews (1035-05-354)

11:00AM

(536)The Distinguishing Chromatic Number.Karen L. Collins, Mark Hovey, WesleyanUniversity, and Ann N. Trenk*, Wellesley College(1035-05-858)

11:30AM

(537)Distance graph—p-adic approach.Jeong-Hyun Kang*, University of West Georgia, andHiren Maharaj, Clemson University (1035-05-1163)

AMS Special Session on Modular Forms andModularity, I

8:00 AM – 11:50 AM

Organizers: Ling Long, Iowa State UniversityWen-Ching Winnie Li, PennsylvaniaState UniversityTong Liu, University of Pennsylvania

8:00AM

(538)Modularity of certain K3-fibered Calabi-Yauthreefolds.Noriko Yui, Queen’s University (1035-14-572)

8:30AM

(539)Zeta-functions and L-series of certain Calabi-Yauthreefolds.Yasuhiro Goto, Hokkaido Univ. of Education(1035-11-995)

9:00AM

(540)Cuspidal divisor class groups of the modular curvesX1(N).Yifan Yang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan(1035-11-529)

9:30AM

(541)Heights of higher weight Heegner cycles.Preliminary report.Hui Xue, Clemson University (1035-11-882)

10:00AM

� (542)Dyson’s challenge for the future: The mock thetafunctions.Ken Ono, University of Wisconsin at Madison(1035-11-515)

10:30AM

(543)Odd coefficients of weakly holomorphic modularforms.Scott Ahlgren*, University of Illinois, andMatthew Boylan, University of South Carolina(1035-11-1682)

11:00AM

(544)Half-integral weight Maass form correspondencesand vector valued forms.Amanda Folsom, University of Wisconsin, Madison(1035-11-1275)

11:30AM

(545)Traces of singular values of Maass forms.William Duke and Paul Jenkins*, UCLA(1035-11-1286)

AMS Special Session on Algebraic Topology, III

8:00 AM – 11:40 AM

Organizers: Nitu Kitchloo, University of CaliforniaSan DiegoRalph L. Cohen, Stanford UniversityJames P. Lin, University of CaliforniaSan DiegoJustin Roberts, University of CaliforniaSan Diego



Peter Teichner, University ofCalifornia Berkeley

8:00AM

(546)K-theory and supersymmetric QFTs.Henning Hohnhold, University of California, SanDiego (1035-55-1388)

9:00AM

(547)Stable homology of automorphism groups of freegroups.Soren Galatius, Stanford (1035-55-1786)

10:00AM

(548)Higher loop group genera and the fibered WZWmodels of Distler and Sharpe.Matthew Ando, University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign (1035-55-1329)

11:00AM

(549)Morita-Invertible Conformal Nets. Preliminaryreport.Christopher L. Douglas*, University of California,Berkeley, Arthur Bartels, University of Muenster,and Andre Henriques, University of Utrecht(1035-55-469)


8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Wavelets and applications: A multidisciplinaryundergraduate course with an emphasis onscientific computing.Organizers: Patrick J. Van Fleet, University of St.

ThomasDavid K. Ruch, Metropolitan StateCollege of Denver

AMS Session on Analysis and Ordinary DifferentialEquations, I

8:00 AM – 11:55 AM

8:00AM

(550)A g-function and Hermite expansion. Preliminaryreport.Javad Namazi, Fairleigh Dickinson University(1035-28-1218)

8:15AM

(551)“Lifting” Bailey pairs to WP-Bailey pairs.James McLaughlin, West Chester University of PA,Andrew V Sills, Georgia Southern University, andPeter J Zimmer*, West Chester University of PA(1035-33-1612)

8:30AM

(552)Harmonic functions via restricted mean-valuetheorems.Mohammad Javaheri, University of Oregon(1035-31-1818)

8:45AM

(553)Oscillation of second-order forced functionaldynamic equations with oscillatory potentials.Douglas R Anderson, Concordia College-Moorhead(1035-34-40)

9:00AM

(554)Positive solutions of second-order nonlineardifferential equations.Zhivko S. Athanassov, Bulgarian Academy ofSciences (1035-34-349)

9:15AM

(555)Zeta Functions of Multifractals. Preliminary report.John A. Rock, California State University, Stanislaus(1035-00-1476)

9:30AM

(556)Dynamics and stability of impulsive hybrid setvalued delay integro-differential equations.Seenith Sivasundaram, Embry Riddle AeronauticalUniversity (1035-34-385)

9:45AM

(557)Preliminary Results on Two New OscillatoryFunctions: Lcn(t) and Lsn(t). Preliminary report.Ronald E Mickens, Clark Atlanta University(1035-34-387)

10:00AM Break

10:15AM

(558)Optimal Selling Rules in a Regime-SwitchingExponential Gaussian Diffusion Model.Paul Eloe* and Ruihua Liu, University of Dayton(1035-34-937)

10:30AM

(559)Uniqueness Implies Existence for NonlinearConjugate-Like Boundary Value Problems.Jeffrey A. Ehme*, Spelman College, and AprillyaLanz, Virginia Military Institute (1035-34-1081)

10:45AM

(560)Stepanov-like Almost Automorphic Solutions ofSemilinear Evolution Equations with DeviatedArgument.Haewon Lee, Hadi Alkahby*, Dillard University,and Gaston N’Guerekata, Morgan State University(1035-34-1112)

11:00AM

� (561)Blow-up Behavior of Solutions for RiccatiInitial-Value Problems.Nadejda Dyakevich*, Sarah Bahk and StefanJohnson, California State University at SanBernardino (1035-34-1809)

11:15AM

(562)Γ -Convergence Approximation to Piecewise SmoothMedical Image Segmentation.Jung-Ha An*, California State University, Stanislaus,Mikael Rousson and Chenyang Xu, SiemensCorporate Research, Imaging and VisualizationDept. (1035-49-1492)

11:30AM

(563)Sufficient Conditions for the Existence of(Bi)Simulation Relations for Nonlinear ControlSystems. Preliminary report.Munteanu Laura, University of Oklahoma(1035-49-1860)

11:45AM

(564)An Lp Inequality for Polynomials.Mohammed A. Qazi, Tuskegee University(1035-41-843)

AMS Session on Applications of Mathematics, I

8:00 AM – 10:55 AM

8:00AM

� (565)Dynamical Behavior of a Two-Inhibin Model forHormonal Control of the Menstrual Cycle.Preliminary report.R. Drew Pasteur* and James F. Selgrade, NorthCarolina State University (1035-92-449)

8:15AM

(566)Numerical Methods for an Immunology Model UsingReaction-Diffusion Equations with Stochastic SourceTerms.Timothy A Lucas, Duke University (1035-92-1080)

8:30AM

(567)Modeling aspects of neural-glial networks.Anne J. Catlla, Duke University (1035-92-1373)

8:45AM

� (568)Three-Dimensional Internal Source Primary RootGrowth Model.Brandy S. Wiegers*, Angela Y. Cheer and WendyK. Silk, University of California, Davis (1035-92-69)

9:00AM

(569)Nonlinear dynamics of a double bilipid membrane.Christine Sample* and Alexander Golovin,Northwestern University (1035-92-254)

9:15AM

� (570)Harvesting in biological populations: Models andanalysis.Natalia Hritonenko*, Prairie View A&M University,Renan Ulrich Goetz, Universitat de Girona, YuriYatsenko, Houston Baptist University, and AngelsXabadia, Universitat de Girona (1035-92-322)



9:30AM

� (571)A model of the acute inflammatory response withimmune mediators in both the blood and tissue andthe effects of linking multiple tissue units to thesame blood compartment.Angela Reynolds*, University of Pittsburgh, GillesClermont, Department of Critical Care Medicine,University of Pittsburgh, Jonathan Rubin and G.Bard Ermentrout, University of Pittsburgh(1035-92-1169)

9:45AM

� (572)Conditions under which Vectors Develop Resistanceto Spray.Jemal S. Mohammed-Awel*, Valdosta StateUniversity, and Blayneh W. Kebenesh, Florida A&MUniversity (1035-92-285)

10:00AM

� (573)A New Mathematical Model of Schistosomiasis.Ruijun Zhao* and Fabio A. Milner, PurdueUniversity (1035-92-337)

10:15AM

(574)Stability analysis of a model of atherogensis: Anenergy estimate approach.L R Ritter*, Southern Polytechnic State University, AI Ibragimov, Texas Tech University, J R Walton,Texas A&M University, and C J McNeal, Departmentof Internal Medicine, Scott & White Hospital(1035-92-359)

10:30AM

� (575)The Role of Time Dependence in the Exchange ofOxygen and Substrates in a Multi-Capillary Systemof the Skeletal Muscle.Akongnwi C Mformbele, Georgia Gwinnett College(1035-92-788)

10:45AM

� (576)The interplay of abstinence and infertility with theexistence of sub-threshold endemic states inepidemic models of persistent sexually transmitteddiseases. Preliminary report.Daniel Maxin, Valparaiso University(1035-92-1164)

AMS Session on Abstract Harmonic Analysis andOperator Theory, I

8:00 AM – 9:10 AM

8:00AM

(577)On C∗-extreme Maps and Homomorphisms of C(X).Preliminary report.Martha C. Gregg, University of Nebraska-Lincoln(1035-47-1548)

8:15AM

(578)An Invariant Subspace for Some CompositionOperators on H2(D). Preliminary report.Rebecca G. Wahl, Butler University (1035-47-1719)

8:30AM

(579)The Berezin Transform and mth Order BergmanMetric.Bo Li, State University of New York at Buffalo(1035-47-1804)

8:45AM

(580)The multidimensional moment problem andreproducing kernels.Roger A. Roybal, California State UniversityChannel Islands (1035-47-1865)

9:00AM

� (581)Asymptotic behavior of nonexpansive maps in finitedimensional normed spaces.Brian C. Lins, Dickinson College (1035-47-1154)

MAA Session on College Algebra: Concepts, Data, andModels, II

8:00 AM – 11:55 AM

Organizers: Florence S. Gordon, New YorkInstitute of TechnologyLaurette Foster, Prairie A&M UniversityMary R. Robinson, University of NewMexico, Valencia Campus

Yajun Yang, Farmingdale StateUniversity of New York

8:00AM

� (582)Factors that Shape Community College MathematicsFaculty Members’ Reasoning About College AlgebraReform: A Multiple Case Study.Helen E Burn, Highline Community College(1035-D1-398)

8:20AM

(583)Phase Two In Developing Effective TeachingTechniques For Undergraduate College AlgebraCourses.Jonathan P Lambright, Savannah State University(1035-D1-1255)

8:40AM

� (584)A Modeling Alternative to College Algebra—LessonsLearned.Mary Ellen Davis, Georgia Perimeter College(1035-D1-723)

9:00AM

� (585)Redesigning College Algebra: CombiningEducational Theory, Forward-Thinking Pedagogyand Web-Based Learning to Improve StudentPerformance.Gary W. Hagerty*, Stan S. Smith, Black Hills StateUniversity, and Danielle Marie Goodwin, PennState Erie (1035-D1-1411)

9:20AM

� (586)Time to Change the Name.Sol Garfunkel, COMAP (1035-D1-1262)

9:40AM

(587)A Taxonomy of Mathematical Modeling in HighSchool. Preliminary report.Eric Robinson* and John C Maceli, Ithaca College(1035-D1-1248)

10:00AM

(588)Environmental Mathematics Modeling inConnections: College Algebra and EnglishComposition.Ken Smith, Indiana University South Bend, andMorteza Shafii-Mousavi*, Indiana University SouthBend (1035-D1-201)

10:20AM

� (589)An inconvenient truth: College algebra coursesstudy applications from climate change in acampus-wide teach-in at Framingham State College.Preliminary report.Victoria A Sapko, Framingham State College(1035-D1-1029)

10:40AM

� (590)Honey, I Shrunk the Dollar.Ronald J Harshbarger*, University of SouthCarolina - Beaufort, and Lisa S. Yocco, GeorgiaSouthern University (1035-D1-1393)

11:00AM

� (591)Shocking Applications of Mathematical Modeling inthe Undergraduate Classroom. Preliminary report.Christopher M. Smith* and Jon Roginski,United States Military Academy at West Point(1035-D1-1761)

11:20AM

� (592)Mathematics in Industry. Preliminary report.Caroline Maher Boulis, Lee University(1035-D1-350)

11:40AM

(593)Developing Algebraic Understanding With Excel.Eileen Fernandez, Montclair State University(1035-D1-1494)

MAA Session on Crossing the “Bridge to HigherMathematics”: What Works and Why, II

8:00 AM – 10:55 AM

Organizer: George J. Davis, Georgia StateUniversity

8:00AM

� (594)Logic and Axiomatics at King’s College: A BridgeCourse for First Semester Freshmen.Joseph Evan* and Anthony D Berard, King’sCollege (1035-F1-1219)



8:20AM

(595)A Sophomore-Level Transition Course: FromConception to Maturity.Michael A Jones and Aruo Mukherjee*, MontclairState University, Montclair, NJ (1035-F1-1243)

8:40AM

� (596)Student Generated Examples of Proof Techniques.Preliminary report.Morteza Seddighin, Indiana University East(1035-F1-1257)

9:00AM

� (597)Learning To Be a Mathematician.David C Haines, Bates College (1035-F1-1331)

9:20AM

� (598)Repercussions of Eliminating a Bridge Course.Preliminary report.Jeremy Case, Taylor University (1035-F1-1338)

9:40AM

� (599)Active Learning in a Bridge Course.Magnhild Lien* and Katherine Stevenson,California State University Northridge(1035-F1-1362)

10:00AM

� (600)Teachers, majors, data structures takers: Learningproofs in a very mixed class. Preliminary report.Terry A Loring, University of New Mexico(1035-F1-1425)

10:20AM

� (601)A Discrete Transition to Advanced Mathematics.Preliminary report.Tom Richmond, Western Kentucky University(1035-F1-1495)

10:40AM

(602)Inquiry-based learning in a proofs course.Preliminary report.Feryal Alayont, Grand Valley State University(1035-F1-1847)

MAA Session on Demos and Strategies withTechnology that Enhance Teaching and LearningMathematics, I

8:00 AM – 11:55 AM

Organizers: David R. Hill, Temple UniversityScott Greenleaf, University of NewEnglandMary L. Platt, Salem State CollegeLila F. Roberts, Georgia College &State University

8:00AM

� (603)Mathematical Opportunities in Robotics. Preliminaryreport.Jong H Chung, United States Military Academy(1035-I1-1359)

8:20AM

� (604)Ramanujan and Fourier with GeoGebra. Preliminaryreport.David Fowler, University of Nebraska-Lincoln(1035-I1-884)

8:40AM

� (605)Visualizing Lagrange multipliers: A discoveryapproach to constrained optimization.Elisha Peterson, United States Military Academy(1035-I1-1195)

9:00AM

� (606)Demos and Strategies That Work in a MathematicalModeling Course.William P Fox, Naval Postgraduate School(1035-I1-580)

9:20AM

� (607)Sliding Into Calculus Lab. Preliminary report.Roland B Minton, Roanoke College (1035-I1-1690)

9:40AM

� (608)A Java Simulator for Voting Methods. Preliminaryreport.Richard E Klima, Appalachian State University(1035-I1-62)

10:00AM

� (609)Spreadsheet-based Modeling and Applications.Morteza Shafii-Mousavi, Indiana University SouthBend (1035-I1-106)

10:20AM

� (610)Analyzing the Solutions, Approximations,and Stability of Time-Varying Difference andDifferential Equations with Excel and Flash.Paul R Bouthellier, University ofPittsburgh-Titusville (1035-I1-1001)

10:40AM

� (611)Calculus from the Mouths of Babes: ImprovingStudents’ Math Communication Skills Using FormalProblem Briefs. Preliminary report.Kimberly R. Swetz* and Jadonna Brewton, UnitedStates Air Force Academy (1035-I1-1774)

11:00AM

� (612)Cool Tools for the Tablet PC. Preliminary report.Denise LeGrand, University of Arkansas at LittleRock (1035-I1-165)

11:20AM

(613)Interactive Modules (Produce with Flash) toFacilitate the Construction of Knowledge in FiniteMathematics for Liberal Arts Students.J. Alfredo Jimenez, Penn State Hazleton(1035-I1-1470)

11:40AM

(614)Presenting Fully-Interactive Mathematics WithinWeb Browsers.Kunio Mitsuma, Kutztown University ofPennsylvania (1035-I1-857)

MAA Session on Topics and Techniques for RealAnalysis, II

8:00 AM – 11:35 AM

Organizers: Erik O. Talvila, University College ofthe Fraser ValleyRobert W. Vallin, Slippery RockUniversityJames E. Peterson, BenedictineCollege

8:00AM

� (615)The Euler-Stirling Correspondence.Robert L. Brabenec, Wheaton College (IL)(1035-W1-54)

8:20AM

� (616)Introducing Computation and Numerical Examplesin Real Analysis Courses.Paul S Rossi, College of Saint Elizabeth(1035-W1-1165)

8:40AM

� (617)A Project on Baire Class One Functions. Preliminaryreport.Robert A Fontenot, Whitman College(1035-W1-829)

9:00AM

� (618)Applications of Elementary Analysis.Richard B Darst, Colorado State University(1035-W1-1751)

9:20AM

� (619)From Classical Analysis to Neoclassical Analysis:Extending the Scope of Analysis. Preliminary report.Mark Burgin, UCLA (1035-W1-188)


� (620)Using regulated functions to teach integration.Franklin Mendivil, Acadia University(1035-W1-536)

10:20AM

� (621)A Local Maximal Function Simplifying MeasureDifferentiation.Peter A. Loeb, University of Illinois,Urbana-Champaign (1035-W1-565)

10:40AM

� (622)Distributional integrals.Erik Talvila, University College of the Fraser Valley(1035-W1-1886)

11:00AM

(623)Henstock-Kurzweil integration for linear operators.Woodford W. Zachary, Howard University(1035-W1-693)

11:20AM

(624)Ergodic theory examples to illustrate concepts fromreal analysis.Cesar E. Silva, Williams College (1035-W1-837)



MAA General Contributed Paper Session, III

8:00 AM – 11:55 AM


Moderators: Mike Huber, Muhlenberg College

Jihwa Noh, University of Northern Iowa

Salar Alsardary, University of theSciences

Heather A. Jackson, United StatesMilitary Academy

8:00AM

� (625)Investigating Graphs Using Handheld Technology.C. C. Edwards, Western Kentucky University(1035-Z1-1945)

8:15AM

(626)Classroom Response Systems in Calculus:Facilitating Student Discussion and Preparation forClass. Preliminary report.David G. Taylor*, Chris R. Lee, Jeff L. Spielman,Roland B. Minton and Jan G. Minton, RoanokeCollege (1035-Z1-410)

8:30AM

� (627)On the relationship between the Hausdorffdimension and the integration order.Leon C Hardy, Valencia Community College(1035-Z1-314)

8:45AM

� (628)A Talk Without Words: Visualizing Group Theory.Nathan C Carter, Bentley College (1035-Z1-1062)

9:00AM

� (629)Student Generated Demonstrations.Albert W Schueller, Whitman College(1035-Z1-1261)

9:15AM

� (630)Teaching Linear Algebra in a Finite MathematicsCourse using WebCAS.Peter L Staab, Fitchburg State College(1035-Z1-1207)

9:30AM

� (631)Using a Smartboard in Abstract Algebra.Preliminary report.Cynthia J Woodburn, Pittsburg State University(1035-Z1-411)

9:45AM

� (632)”In America”, the combinatorics are not ”as simpleas pie”. Preliminary report.Michael David Smith, Morningside College, SiouxCity, Iowa (1035-Z1-789)

10:00AM

� (633)Cardinality and Measure.H. Vic Dannon, San Diego, California (1035-Z1-477)

10:15AM

� (634)A transition course using improvisation guided bymetacognition, experience, and mathematicalknowledge and culture. Preliminary report.Ward Heilman* and Heidi Burgiel, BridgewaterState College (1035-Z1-1070)

10:30AM

(635)A Hybrid (Half On-Line) Model for a LargeEnrollment Mathematical Ideas Course.Alexander Alekseenko, Elena Anne Marchisotto,Mark F Schilling* and Michael Cole, CaliforniaState University Northridge (1035-Z1-1336)

10:45AM

(636)Using writing to help mathematics educationstudents connect to the curriculum.Kelleen H. Bonomo, Grove City College(1035-Z1-1551)

11:00AM

(637)A Team-Taught Biometry Course With Lectures andLabs. Preliminary report.Dexter C. Whittinghill, Rowan University(1035-Z1-1606)

11:15AM

� (638)Connect your preservice teachers to real, livemiddle school students using a free (grantsupported) MathNerds Mentoring Network.Preliminary report.W. Ted Mahavier, Lamar University (1035-Z1-1212)

11:30AM

� (639)Sudoku Calculus. Preliminary report.Q. W. Harris, Georgia Perimeter College(1035-Z1-1994)

11:45AM

� (640)Preparing to Teach an Online SophomoreDifferential Equations Course. Preliminary report.William M. Kinney, Bethel University (1035-Z1-290)

SIAM Minisymposium on From Global Predictions toLocal Action, I: Dynamical Systems Challenges inClimate Change

8:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Organizers: Inez Fung, Berkeley Institue of theEnvironment, University of CaliforniaBerkeleyChristopher K. Jones, University ofNorth CarolinaMary Lou Zeeman, Bowdoin College

8:00AM Welcome remarks and symposium goals.8:10AM

� (641)Addressing the key climate questions of the nextfew decades to inform adaptation strategies andpolicy.Emily F Shuckburgh, British Antarctic Survey(1035-37-1423)

8:40AM

(642)Coupling between the carbon cycle and physicalprocesses on multiple scales in the past andpresent.Amala Mahadevan, Boston University(1035-00-2015)

9:10AM

� (643)Dynamics of grounded meridional abyssal flow.Gordon E Swaters, University of Alberta(1035-86-727)

9:40AM

(644)Scaling laws, scale invariance, and climateprediction. Preliminary report.William D Collins, UC Berkeley and LawrenceBerkeley Laboratory (1035-60-1976)

10:10AM

� (645)A dynamical systems approach to weatherforecasting and climate prediction.Eric J Kostelich, Arizona State University(1035-37-746)

10:40AM Roundtable discussion on outstanding problems inthe field.

MAA Session on Philosophy of Mathematics

8:30 AM – 11:55 AM

Organizers: Kevin M. Iga, Pepperdine UniversityBonnie Gold, Monmouth University

8:30AM

� (646)Mathematical Rigor in the Classroom. Preliminaryreport.Laura Mann Schueller, Whitman College(1035-Q1-1936)

9:00AM

� (647)Mathematics is a Meme(plex).Andrew G. Borden, Palo Alto College, San Antonio,TX (1035-Q1-25)

9:30AM

� (648)Are Euclid’s Postulates Really Essences?Carl E. Behrens, Alexandria, VA (1035-Q1-1360)

10:00AM

� (649)The De Continuo of Thomas Bradwardine.Preliminary report.Daniel C. Sloughter, Furman University(1035-Q1-181)

10:30AM

� (650)Ignoring the Obvious in Philosophical Applicationsof the Goedel Incompleteness theorems.Jeff Buechner, Rutgers University and the KripkeCenter, CUNY Graduate Center (1035-Q1-1461)



11:00AM

� (651)What Does It Mean for One Problem to Reduce toAnother? Preliminary report.James R Henderson, Edinboro University ofPennsylvania (1035-Q1-94)

11:30AM

(652)Remarks about the notion of EXISTENCE inmathematics.Ruggero Ferro, University of Verona, Italy(1035-Q1-1722)

MAA Session on Innovative and Effective Ways toTeach Linear Algebra, I

8:40 AM – 11:55 AM

Organizers: David M. Strong, PepperdineUniversityGilbert Strang, MassachusettsInstitute of Technology

8:40AM

� (653)A Java Applet and Tutorial for the Jacobi,Gauss-Seidel and SOR Methods.David Strong, Pepperdine University(1035-M1-1567)

9:00AM

� (654)The Effects of Perturbations on MatrixMultiplication-Interactive Flash Simulation.Paul R Bouthellier, University ofPittsburgh-Titusville (1035-M1-408)

9:20AM

� (655)Making Transition to Linear Independence throughSet Theory and a Web Module. Preliminary report.Hamide Dogan-Dunlap, University of Texas at ElPaso (UTEP) (1035-M1-1060)

9:40AM

� (656)A Double-Minded Fractal.Andrew J Simoson, King College (1035-M1-167)

10:00AM

� (657)Computational Linear Algebra and Social Networks.Mason Alexander Porter, University of Oxford(1035-M1-51)

10:20AM

� (658)The Problem with the “Junk Food Problem”.Stephen Szydlik, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh(1035-M1-1147)

10:40AM

� (659)Matrices and Their Adjoints. Preliminary report.Jack W. Rogers Jr., Auburn University(1035-M1-1159)

11:00AM

� (660)Homogeneous Coordinates: They work, but wheredo they come from?Jonathan R Senning, Gordon College(1035-M1-1553)

11:20AM

� (661)Getting Down with Determinants: Defining det(A)via the PA = LU Decomposition.Henry J. Ricardo, Medgar Evers College (CUNY)(1035-M1-1702)

11:40AM

� (662)Computing the Moore-Penrose Inverse of a Matrixwith a Computer Algebra System.Karsten K. Schmidt, Schmalkalden University ofApplied Sciences, Germany (1035-M1-41)

MAA Invited Address

9:00 AM – 9:50 AM

(663) 4000 years of algebra: An historic tour from BM13901 to Moderne Algebra.Karen H. Parshall, University of Virginia(1035-A0-17)


9:00 AM – 11:00 AM

The Fibonacci and Catalan numbers.Organizer: Ralph P. Grimaldi, Rose-Hulman

Institute of Technology


9:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Evaluating student presentations in mathematics.Organizers: Suzanne Doree, Augsburg College

Richard Jardine, Keene State CollegeThomas Linton, Central College

MAA Invited Paper Session on Using the NewTechnologies in Teaching Mathematics

9:00 AM – NOON

Organizers: Lawrence C. Moore, Duke UniversityBruce W. Yoshiwara, Los AngelesPierce College

9:00AM

(664)Taking a bite of (the) Apple: Innovations formathematics teaching and learning.Lila F. Roberts, Georgia College & State University(1035-A2-631)

9:30AM

� (665)iPod Math - How to use screencasting technology tohelp students relate activities and homework.Preliminary report.Andrew G Bennett, Kansas State University(1035-A2-1069)

10:00AM

(666)Mobile Learning Environments and VirtualMathematics Workspaces.Russell L. Herman* and Gabriel Lugo, Universityof North Carolina, Wilmington (1035-A2-1256)

10:30AM

(667)Poll the Audience: How Clickers Can EnhanceLearning in a Math Class.Patti Frazer Lock, St. Lawrence University(1035-A2-1220)

11:00AM

(668)21st century technologies for 21st centurymathematics and science.Frank Wattenberg, U. S. Military Academy(1035-A2-510)

11:30AM Discussion.

MAA Poster Session on Outreach Programs forUnderrepresented Populations in Mathematics

9:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Organizers: Elizabeth Yanik, Emporia StateUniversityJennifer Hontz, Meredith CollegeKathleen Sullivan, Seattle University


9:00 AM – 10:20 AM

Proposal writing workshop for grant applications tothe NSF Division of Undergraduate Education.Panelists: Daniel P. Maki, National Science

FoundationElizabeth J. Teles, National ScienceFoundationLee L. Zia, National Science Foundation


9:00 AM – 10:20 AM

Exciting, surprising, and satisfying: Why and how toteach proof.Organizers: Carol S. Schumacher, Kenyon College

Diane L. Herrmann, University ofChicago



Panelists: T. Christine Stevens, Saint LouisUniversitySusanna S. Epps, DePaul UniversityLisa A. Mantini, Oklahoma StateUniversityDiane Hermann


9:00 AM – 10:20 AM

Research and outreach focusing on themathematics education of K–8 Latino/a students.Organizers: Taliesin Sutton, University of Arizona

Laura Kondek McLeman, University ofArizona

Panelists: Richard Kitchen, University of NewMexicoVirginia Horak, University of ArizonaLaura Kondek McLemanJose Maria Menendez, University ofArizonaTaliesin Sutton


9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

AMS Session on Dynamical Systems

9:15 AM – 12:10 PM

9:15AM

(669)A General Criterion for Control of Chaos withFeedback.Dmitry A Altshuller, Crane Aerospace andElectronics (1035-37-943)

9:30AM

� (670)Angular-Asymmetric Binary Branching Trees.Parousia Rockstroh*, Harvey Mudd College, andDavid Brown, Ithaca College (1035-37-1988)

9:45AM

(671)Sequences and Cycles of Schwarzian Derivatives.Stephen M. Zemyan, Penn State Mont Alto(1035-37-1729)

10:00AM

(672)One Dimensional Stochastic Cellular Automata.Donna Molinek*, Davidson College, and JaneHawkins, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill(1035-37-1574)

10:15AM

� (673)Particle-Tracking Simulations: Evolving Curves andSurfaces in Time-Dependent Velocity Fields.Paul von Dohlen*, William Paterson University, andPatrick D. Miller, Stevens Institute of Technology(1035-37-1157)

10:30AM

(674)Superlattice patterns in oscillatory systems withmulti-frequency forcing.Jessica M Conway* and Hermann Riecke,Department of Engineering Sciences andApplied Mathematics, Northwestern University(1035-37-1236)

10:45AM

(675)Fixed Point Sets of Finite Order Automorphisms onMixing Shifts of Finite Type.Nicholas Long, University of Maryland(1035-37-1432)

11:00AM

(676)Chain recurrence rates and topological entropy.David Richeson, Dickinson College, and JimWiseman*, Agnes Scott College (1035-37-1009)

11:15AM

(677)Smoothness of density functions for random maps.Md. Shafiqul Islam*, University of Prince EdwardIsland, and Pawel Gora, Concordia University(1035-37-748)

11:30AM

(678)Bowen’s Formula in Graph Directed MarkovSystems. Preliminary report.Eugen Andrei Ghenciu, University of AlaskaFairbanks (1035-37-696)

11:45AM

� (679)An n-cell in Rn+1 that is not the attractor of any IFSon Rn+1.Manuel J Sanders, University of South CarolinaBeaufort (1035-37-574)

NOON

(680)Example of a mean ergodic L1 operator with thelinear rate of growth.Wojciech K Kosek, Colorado College(1035-37-1613)


9:30 AM – 5:30 PM

Math on the Web, II

10:00 AM – 3:30 PM

10:00AM

(681)Managing math in Moodle.Bob Mathews, Design Science, Inc.

11:00AM

(682)The use of MathML and interactive online oraclesthrough Maplesoft’s new student help center.Tom Lee, Maplesoft

12:15PM

(683)Writing questions with randomized parameters inproper mathematical notation for online homeworkassignments.John Risley, WebAssign

1:00PM

(684)WebALT calculus.Mika Seppala, WebALT

2:00PM

(685)Creating mathematical documents for the Web withScientific WorkPlace.Barry MacKichan, MacKichan Software, Inc.

3:00PM

(686)Speaking of math: Spoken math and accessibility.Bob Mathews, Design Science, Inc.

AWM Emmy Noether Lecture

10:05 AM – 10:55 AM

(687) Fun with zeta functions of graphs.Audrey A. Terras, University of California SanDiego (1035-05-99)


10:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Visualizing abstract mathematics with cellularautomata.Organizers: Michael J. Bardzell, Salisbury

UniversityDonald E. Spickler, SalisburyUniversity

SIGMAA Officers Meeting

10:30 AM – NOON

Chair: Amy Shell-Gellasch, Pacific LutheranUniversity


10:45 AM – 12:05 PM

Undergraduate career paths in math: What can youdo with a math degree?Organizers: Vanessa Garcia, Texas State

University-San Marcos



Dov N. Chelst, DeVry University

MAA Committee on the Teaching of UndergraduateMathematics Panel Discussion

10:45 AM – 12:05 PM

Classroom voting comes to the mathematicsclassroom.Organizers: Mark R. Parker, Carroll College

Cheryl L. Olsen, Nebraska WesleyanUniversity

Panelists: Kelly Cline, Carroll CollegeDavid O. Lomen, University of ArizonaMaria S. Terrell, Cornell University

SIAM Invited Address

11:10 AM – NOON

(688) From global predictions to local action:Mathematical challenges in global warming.Inez Fung, University of California Berkeley

AMS Colloquium Lecture: Lecture II

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

(689) Random conformally invariant pictures (Part II).Wendelin Werner, University of Paris-Sud(1035-00-10)

AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research inMathematics by Undergraduates, I

1:00 PM – 3:50 PM

Organizers: Darren A. Narayan, RochesterInstitute of TechnologyBernard Brooks, Rochester Institute ofTechnologyJacqueline A. Jensen, Sam HoustonState UniversityVadim Ponomarenko, San Diego StateUniversityTamas Wiandt, Rochester Institute ofTechnology

1:00PM

� (690)On Ramsey Numbers for Quadrilaterals in 3 and 4Colors.Evan Heidtmann*, The College of Wooster,Timothy Hopper, Grove City College, andStanislaw Radziszowski, Rochester Institute ofTechnology (1035-05-1189)

1:30PM

� (691)Minimal k-rankings and the rank number of P2

n.Sarah Novotny*, Sacred Heart University, JuanOrtiz, California Lutheran University, andDarren A Narayan, University of South Carolina(1035-05-236)

2:00PM

� (692)Non-negative expressions of certain matrix minors.Preliminary report.Kristen DiGiacomo, Providence College, GaryGordon, Lafayette College, Garth Isaak, LehighUniversity, Chor Ham Lam, Dartmouth College, JoeTenini, Furman University, and Olga Turanova*,Bard College (1035-05-460)

2:30PM

� (693)Characterization of the Vertex-Reinforced RandomWalk and Trapping Subgraphs.Aaron M Yeager*, Missouri State Universtiy,and Thomas A Gassert, Bowdoin College(1035-60-282)

3:00PM

� (694)External Cavity Mode Solutions to theLang-Kobayashi Equations.Sara Reynolds*, Nazareth College, StanleySnelson, Columbia University, and Tamas Wiandt,Rochester Institute of Technology (1035-37-614)

3:30PM

� (695)Topological Anomaly Detection in HyperspectralSatellite Images.Jennifer Mahle*, Florida Atlantic University, PaulPrue, University of California - Davis, and William FBasener, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agencyand RIT (1035-62-616)

AMS Special Session on Structure, Geometry, andSymbolic Computation of Algebraic Groups andSymmetric Spaces, II

1:00 PM – 3:50 PM


1:00PM

(696)A Step Towards the Determination of the UnitaryDual.Alessandra Pantano, University of California, Irvine(1035-20-1276)

1:30PM

(697)On the omega-regular unitary dual of themetaplectic group. Preliminary report.A. Pantano, University of California, Irvine, A.Paul, Western Michigan University, and S. A.Salamanca-Riba*, New Mexico State University(1035-22-1437)

2:00PM

(698)Signed Kazhdan-Lusztig Polynomials and theUnitary Dual Problem.Wai Ling Yee, University of Windsor (1035-22-894)

2:30PM

(699)The Combinatorics of Involutions and TwistedInvolutions in Weyl groups.Ruth Haas, Smith College (1035-05-1311)

3:00PM

(700)On the classification of orbits of minimal parabolick-subgroups acting on symmetric k-varieties ofSL(n,k).Stacy L. Beun* and Aloysius G. Helminck, NorthCarolina State University (1035-22-435)

3:30PM

(701)Representations associated with p -adic symmetricspaces.Gerardus Franciscus Helminck*, University ofTwente, and Aloysius Gerardus Helminck, NorthCarolina State University (1035-43-1427)

AMS Special Session on Stochastic, Large-Scale, andHybrid Systems with Applications, II

1:00 PM – 3:50 PM

Organizers: Aghalaya S. Vatsala, University ofLouisiana at LafayetteG. S. Ladde, University of Texas atArlington

1:00PM

(702)Perturbation of a Gradient Temperature Field Dueto the Presence of Two Spheres.Abhinandan Chowdhury* and Christo I. Christov,University of Louisiana at Lafayette (1035-65-734)

1:30PM

(703)Variation of Constants Method for StochasticDiscrete Systems. Preliminary report.G. S. Ladde, University of South Florida, and M.Sambandham*, Morehouse College (1035-34-812)

2:00PM

(704)Dynamic Models For Social Networks.Chung-Chien Hong*, Albany State University, andN G Medhin, North Carolina State University(1035-60-633)



2:30PM

(705)Analysis of Gene Expression Data using Johnson’sSystem of Distributions.Florence George*, Florida International University,and Ramachandran M. Kandethody, University ofSouth Florida (1035-62-1107)

3:00PM

(706)Generalized Monotone Method for FunctionalDifferential Equations with Retardation andAnticipation.Aghalaya S Vatsala, University of Louisiana atLafayette (1035-34-751)

3:30PM

(707)McKean-Vlasov equations driven by fractionalBrownian motion. Preliminary report.Mark A McKibben*, Goucher College, and David NKeck, Ohio University (1035-60-77)

AMS Special Session on Time-Frequency Analysis:Hilbert Huang Transform and Wavelet Analysis, II

1:00 PM – 3:50 PM

Organizers: Yuesheng Xu, Syracuse UniversitySherman D. Riemenschneider, WestVirginia UniversitySamuel S. Shen, San Diego StateUniversity

1:00PM

(708)Time-frequency surrogates.Patrick Flandrin, CNRS - ENS Lyon (1035-94-64)

1:30PM

(709)Identifying Super-Annual Oscillations of anInfectious Disease in a Space-Time Pattern with theUse of the Hilbert-Huang Transform.Arthur Getis, San Diego State University(1035-44-639)

2:00PM

� (710)Some Applications of EMD Analysis in ClimateChange Studies, and Some Challenges.K. K. Tung, University of Washington (1035-86-602)

2:30PM

� (711)A Non-Linear Filtering Process for Empirical ModeDecomposition.Reginald N Meeson, Institute for Defense Analyses(1035-00-556)

3:00PM

(712)Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition: A NoiseAssisted Data Analysis Method.Zhaohua Wu*, Center for Ocean-Land-AtmosphereStudies, and Norden E Huang, National CentralUniversity (1035-42-1048)

3:30PM

(713)HHT Applications to Signal Detection on MechanicalVibration Problems in Underwater Vessels.Liming W Salvino, Naval Surface Warfare Center(1035-00-2017)

AMS Special Session on Progress in CommutativeAlgebra, III

1:00 PM – 3:50 PM

Organizers: Janet Striuli, University of Nebraska,LincolnSean M. Sather-Wagstaff, NorthDakota State UniversityLars Winther Christensen, TexasTech University

1:00PM

(714)Universal Grobner bases of varieties of minimaldegree.Sonja Petrovic, University of Kentucky(1035-13-1150)

1:30PM

(715)Modules with prescribed intersection properties.Erin E Chamberlain, University of Utah(1035-13-555)

2:00PM

(716)Commutativity of Intersection with Divisors.Paul Roberts, University of Utah, and SandraSpiroff*, Seattle University (1035-13-1408)

2:30PM

� (717)Structure on the set of closure operations of acommutative ring.Janet C. Vassilev, University of California, Riverside(1035-13-742)

3:00PM

(718)Joint Hilbert-Kunz multiplicities and a-tight closure.Adela Vraciu, University of South Carolina(1035-13-890)

3:30PM

(719)Liaison addition and the structure of a Gorensteinliaison class.Robin Hartshorne, University of California,Berkeley, Juan Migliore, University of NotreDame, and Uwe Nagel*, University of Kentucky(1035-14-1842)

AMS Special Session on Monotone Discrete DynamicalSystems with Applications, II

1:00 PM – 3:50 PM

Organizers: M.R.S. Kulenovic, University of RhodeIslandOrlando Merino, University of RhodeIslandHal L. Smith, Arizona State University

1:00PM

� (720)An application of planar monotone maps tosynchronized cohort oscillations in populationdynamics.J. M. Cushing, University of Arizona (1035-92-760)

1:30PM

� (721)Globally Attracting Attenuant versus ResonantCycles in Periodic Compensatory Leslie Models.Abdul-Aziz Yakubu, Howard University, and JohnE Franke*, North Carolina State University(1035-39-777)

2:00PM

(722)A monotone difference equation for pulsecirculation in a loop of cardiac tissue.Hassan Sedaghat, Virginia CommonwealthUniversity (1035-39-902)

2:30PM

� (723)Dynamics of cooperative discrete systems.Preliminary report.Winfried Just*, Ohio University, and German AEnciso, Harvard Medical School and MathematicalBiosciences Institute (1035-39-1302)

3:00PM

(724)Asymptotic Stability for Difference Equations withDecreasing Arguments.Candace M. Kent*, Hassan Sedaghat, David M.Chan, Eun R. Chang, Virginia CommonwealthUniversity, Mehdi Dehghan and RezaMazrooei-Sebdani, Amirkabir University ofTechnology, Tehran, Iran (1035-37-1442)

3:30PM

(725)Fractional Multivariate Opial Type Inequalities OverSpherical Shells. Preliminary report.George A Anastassiou, University of Memphis(1035-26-61)

AMS Special Session on The Mathematics ofInformation and Knowledge, IV

1:00 PM – 4:00 PM


1:00PM

(726)Analysis of and on data sets with diffusionprocesses.Mauro Maggioni, Duke University (1035-42-1987)



2:00PM

(727)Learning unified low-level and context informationfor image analysis. Preliminary report.Zhuowen Tu* and Arthur W. Toga, Lab of NeuroImaging, University of California Los Angeles(1035-62-2034)

3:00PM Discussion.

AMS Special Session on Mathematics for Teaching:Educating Elementary and Middle School Teachersfor Success, II

1:00 PM – 3:55 PM

Organizers: Babette M. Benken, California StateUniversity, Long BeachLynn C. McGrath, University of SanDiegoPerla L. Myers, University of San Diego

1:00PM

(728)Engaging Prospective Elementary School Teachersin Mathematics Through Children’s Thinking.Randolph Philipp*, Bonnie Schappelle, San DiegoState University, and John Zig Siegfried, San DiegoState University & University of California-San Diego(1035-97-711)

2:00PM

(729)Mathematics for Teaching Elementary SchoolMathematics: Incorporating Japanese CurriculumMaterials.Tad Watanabe, Kennesaw State University(1035-97-553)

2:30PM

� (730)Place Value for Future Teachers: A Lesson Study,Preliminary report.Edith Prentice Mendez*, Brigitte Lahme, RickMarks and Ben Ford, Sonoma State University(1035-97-959)

3:00PM

� (731)Teacher-Student Parallels in Concepts of Unit.Christopher M. Kribs Zaleta, University of Texas atArlington (1035-97-397)

3:30PM

(732)Exposing Pre-service Elementary and Middle SchoolTeachers to Mathematics in Depth.Jerrold W. Grossman, Oakland University(1035-97-352)

AMS Special Session on Low Genus Curves andApplications, I

1:00 PM – 3:50 PM

Organizers: Kristin E. Lauter, Microsoft ResearchPeter Stevenhagen, Leiden University

1:00PM

(733)The Complexity of the Complex Analytic CM Methodfor Computing Class Polynomials in Genus 2.Marco Streng, Universiteit Leiden (1035-11-1198)

1:30PM

(734)Implementing the Genus 2 CM Method.David Freeman*, University of California atBerkeley, and Kristin Lauter, Microsoft Research(1035-11-1352)

2:00PM

(735)Denominators of Igusa class polynomials.Kristin E Lauter, Microsoft Research(1035-11-1941)

2:30PM Break.3:00PM

(736)CM-constructions in genus 1 and 2. Preliminaryreport.Peter Stevenhagen, Universiteit Leiden(1035-11-1750)

3:30PM

(737)Genus 2 point-counting and Kummer surfaces.Pierrick Gaudry, CNRS/LORIA, and Eric Schost*,The University of Western Ontario (1035-68-1649)

AMS Special Session on Conformally Flat LorentzianManifolds, II

1:00 PM – 3:50 PM

Organizers: Virginie Charette, Universite deSherbrookeWilliam M. Goldman, University ofMarylandKarin H. Melnick, Yale UniversityKevin Scannel, Saint Louis University

1:00PM

(738)Causal boundary of flat Lorentzian manifolds andother spacetimes, given as quotient spaces.Preliminary report.Steven G Harris, Saint Louis University(1035-53-1383)

1:30PM

(739)Asymptotic behavior of flat spacetimes.Lars Andersson, University of Miami(1035-53-1503)

2:00PM

(740)Quasi-Fuchsian representations into SO(2, n).Thierry Barbot, CNRS, Ecole Normale Superieure deLyon (1035-51-504)

3:00PM

(741)Conformal geometry and possible kinematics for2-dimensional spacetimes.Alan S McRae, Washington and Lee University(1035-53-1071)

3:30PM

(742)Involutions of the Einstein universe. Preliminaryreport.Virginie Charette, Universite de Sherbrooke(1035-53-1777)

AMS Special Session on Voting Theory, II

1:00 PM – 3:50 PM

Organizers: Michael A. Jones, Montclair StateUniversityEric I. Gottlieb, Rhodes CollegeBrian P. Hopkins, Saint Peter’s College

1:00PM

� (743)Voting, the Symmetric Group, and RepresentationTheory.Michael E Orrison, Harvey Mudd College(1035-20-946)

1:30PM

� (744)Points-based rules respecting apairwise-change-symmetric ordering. Preliminaryreport.Karl-Dieter Crisman, Gordon College(1035-91-1128)

2:00PM

(745)Characterizations of Arrovian Social WelfareFunctions. Preliminary report.Alan D Taylor, Union College (1035-91-1525)

2:30PM

� (746)A Characterization of the Maxmin Rule in theContext of Voting. Preliminary report.R Vincent Merlin*, CREM, CNRS and University ofCaen, and Ronan Congar, CARE and University ofRouen (1035-91-525)

3:00PM

(747)Multilinear Extensions and Semivalues forMultichoice Games.Jennifer M. Wilson*, Eugene Lang College, TheNew School for Liberal Arts, and Michael A. Jones,Montclair State University (1035-91-1469)

3:30PM

� (748)Anonymous voting games with multiple levels ofapproval: Classification and counting.Josep Freixas*, Department of AppliedMathematics 3 and Engineering School of Manresa,Technical University of Catalonia, and William S.Zwicker, Union College (1035-91-1185)



AMS Special Session on Graph Theory, II

1:00 PM – 3:50 PM


1:00PM

(749)A Class of Interval Digraphs. Preliminary report.Shilpa Das Gupta, J. Richard Lundgren* and ElenaOrtega, University of Colorado at Denver(1035-05-699)

1:30PM

(750)Characterizing Interval Tournaments.David E Brown, Utah State University, Arthur HBusch*, University of Dayton, and J. RichardLundgren, University of Colorado at Denver(1035-05-636)

2:00PM

� (751)Hypergraph transversals and kernels in digraphs.Preliminary report.Hortensia Galeana-Sanchez*, UNAM, andMatej Stelik, Instituto de Matematicas, UNAM(1035-05-179)

2:30PM

(752)On the Number of Proper Nodes in Rooted Trees.Preliminary report.J. W. Moon* and Laura L.M. Yang, University ofAlberta (1035-05-462)

3:00PM

� (753)Cycle Lengths Occurring in Hamiltonian Graphs.Michael S. Jacobson*, University of Colorado atDenver, Michael J. Ferrara, University of Akron,and Angela Harris, University of Colorado atDenver (1035-05-1066)

3:30PM

(754)Some recent results on strong connectivity.Ronald J. Gould, Emory University (1035-05-414)

AMS Special Session on Modular Forms andModularity, II

1:00 PM – 3:20 PM


1:00PM

(755)Iwasawa theory, Hida families, and vanishing ofL-functions. Preliminary report.Trevor S Arnold, University of Washington(1035-11-662)

1:30PM

(756)Congruences among automorphic forms on unitarygroups and the Bloch-Kato conjecture.Krzysztof Klosin, University of Utah (1035-11-313)

2:00PM

(757)Congruences between modular forms and ranks ofnew parts of completed Hecke rings.Ravi Ramakrishna, Cornell University(1035-11-878)

2:30PM

(758)Hodge, Newton, and tame inertia polygons.Xavier Caruso, Univ. de Rennes 1, and DavidSavitt*, Univ. of Arizona (1035-11-906)

3:00PM

(759)On lattices in semi-stable representations.Tong Liu, University of Pennsylvania (1035-11-506)


1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

More music and mathematics.Organizer: Leon Harkleroad, Wilton, ME


1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

A beginner’s guide to the scholarship of teachingand learning in mathematics.Organizers: Curtis D. Bennett, Loyola Marymount

UniversityJacqueline M. Dewar, LoyolaMarymount University


1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Sonification for mathematics instruction.Organizers: Steven M. Hetzler, Salisbury State

UniversityRobert M. Tardiff, Salisbury StateUniversity

AMS Session on Analysis and Ordinary DifferentialEquations, II

1:00 PM – 4:10 PM

1:00PM

� (760)Jacobi polynomials (α=β=-1), their Sobolevorthogonality, and self-adjoint operators.Andrea S Bruder, Baylor University (1035-33-1426)

1:15PM

� (761)Chapter 23 of Abramowitz and Stegun.Jonathan M. Borwein, Dalhousie University, Neil J.Calkin, Clemson University, and Dante Manna*,Dalhousie University (1035-33-681)

1:30PM

(762)A continuous version of the Grothendieck inequality.Adam Bowers, University of Connecticut(1035-28-1347)

1:45PM

(763)On entire solutions of nonlinear differential anddifference equations. Preliminary report.Chung-Chun Yang, The Hong Kong University ofSci. & Tech. (1035-34-182)

2:00PM

(764)The Schwarzian Operator on Fuchsian Connections.David J Pinchbeck, St. Joseph’s College (Maine)(1035-30-458)

2:15PM

(765)Computation of the Ahlfors map for multiplyconnected domains with nonsmooth boundaries.Preliminary report.Thomas J Tegtmeyer, Truman State University(1035-30-1330)

2:30PM Break2:45PM

(766)Various types of convexity of Banach spaces andsolutions to dual extremal problems.Irina Peterburgsky, Suffolk University(1035-30-1456)

3:00PM

(767)Distribution of Polynomial Zeros. Preliminary report.Andrzej Piotrowski, California State University,Fresno (1035-30-1389)

3:15PM

(768)Local Banach space theory and solutions to the ∂equation in infinite dimensions.Andreas Defant, University of Oldenburg,and Aaron Zerhusen*, Purdue University(1035-32-1530)

3:30PM

(769)Accuracy of computer generated pictures of Juliasets for the family λ tan(z).John W Hoggard, Edinboro University ofPennsylvania (1035-30-1753)

3:45PM

(770)Canonical Products Over the Roots of CertainDirichlet Polynomials.Scot Paul Childress, University of California atRiverside (1035-30-80)



4:00PM

(771)Finite rank Toeplitz operators on Bergman space.Daniel H. Luecking, University of Arkansas(1035-30-1805)

AMS Session on Geometry and Topology, II

1:00 PM – 4:25 PM

1:00PM

(772)On an A∞-structure on H∗(Cn × Cm).Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson,Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena, Germany(1035-55-111)

1:15PM

(773)Surgery description of colored knots.Richard A. Litherland and Steven D Wallace*,Louisiana State University (1035-55-177)

1:30PM

� (774)Generalized Quandle Polynomials.V. Sam Nelson, Pomona College (1035-55-384)

1:45PM

(775)RO(G)-Graded Serre Spectral Sequence.William C Kronholm, University of Oregon(1035-55-950)

2:00PM

(776)The �2-homology of even Coxeter groups.Timothy A Schroeder, University ofWisconsin-Milwaukee (1035-55-968)

2:15PM

� (777)A new invariant of virtual knots. Preliminary report.Allison K Henrich, Dartmouth College(1035-55-1077)

2:30PM

(778)Qd(p) Groups and Free Actions on Products ofSpheres. Preliminary report.Jane Holsapple Long, University of Maryland(1035-55-1532)

2:45PM

(779)Using Unstable Modules over the Steenrod Algebra

to Obtain H∗(XS1;R) from H∗S1 (X;R). Preliminary

report.Courtney K. Taylor, Purdue University(1035-55-1555)

3:00PM

(780)Fibration and Cofibration in Module Theory.C. Joanna Su, Providence College (1035-55-1898)

3:15PM

(781)p-adic K-theory and the Bousfield-Kuhn Functor.Preliminary report.Kristen Joy Schemmerhorn, Dominican University(1035-55-1943)

3:30PM

(782)Volumes of p-adic Analogues of Rational Polyhedra.Wesley S. Cross, Richard Stockton College of NewJersey (1035-52-136)

3:45PM

(783)Diameter graphs of polygons and the proof of aconjecture of Graham.Jim Foster, Weber State University, and TamasSzabo*, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater(1035-52-682)

4:00PM

� (784)Describing Conjugacy Classes of ProperlyDiscontinous Affine Groups of Euclidean Space.Preliminary report.Robert M. Sulman, Pennsylvania State University(1035-52-1421)

4:15PM

� (785)Algorithm and pseudo-code for a contourconstruction of a smooth closed surface when it isgiven by its approximate triangulation.Avraham Goldstein* and Chokri Cherif, BMCC /The City University of New York (1035-68-1435)

AMS Session on Algebra and Number Theory, III

1:00 PM – 4:25 PM

1:00PM

(786)Reflexive Covers and Envelopes. Preliminary report.Richard G. Belshoff, Missouri State University(1035-13-772)

1:15PM

� (787)On Infinite Syzygies.Meri T Hughes, University of Texas at Arlington(1035-13-1318)

1:30PM

� (788)Factorization in Krull Domains with Cyclic DivisorClass Group. Preliminary report.Karl Kattchee* and Mike Fitzpatrick, University ofWisconsin-La Crosse (1035-13-1493)

1:45PM

� (789)On Computating a Minimal Generating Set ofCovariants for a Binary Form of Degree 10.Preliminary report.Thomas R. Hagedorn, The College of New Jersey(1035-13-1920)

2:00PM

(790)The Dieudonne module of a Hopf algebrageneratedby two elements. Preliminary report.Alan Koch, Agnes Scott College (1035-13-1253)

2:15PM

(791)A new factorization invariant.Jack Maney, University of South Dakota, andVadim Ponomarenko*, San Diego State University(1035-13-528)

2:30PM

(792)Two Types of Zariski-Samuel Associated PrimeIdeals. Preliminary report.Tracy Dawn Hamilton* and Howard B. Hamilton,California State University Sacramento(1035-13-446)

2:45PM

(793)The Arithmetic Degree of Squarefree StronglyStable Ideals.Erik Stokes, University of Kentucky (1035-13-130)

3:00PM

(794)A local version of Gotzmann’s Persistence.Morgan Sherman, California State University,Channel Islands (1035-13-1885)

3:15PM

(795)The Image of the Totalling Functor.Kristen A Beck, The University of Texas atArlington (1035-13-1660)

3:30PM

(796)The character variety’s new clothes: How tracediagrams reveal new structure and simplifycomputations in the coordinate ring.Elisha Peterson, United States Military Academy(1035-14-1203)

3:45PM

(797)List Decoding BCH Codes. Preliminary report.Philip R Busse, University of Kentucky (1035-14-96)

4:00PM

(798)On a class of reducible determinantal varietiesarising in computer vision. Preliminary report.GianMario Besana*, DePaul University, MarinaBertolini and Cristina Turrini, Universita’ degliStudi di Milano (1035-14-1828)

4:15PM

� (799)A Basis For Covariants of Degree 3 for a BinaryForm.Thomas R. Hagedorn and Glen M. Wilson*, TheCollege of New Jersey (1035-13-1635)

AMS Session on Applications of Mathematics, II

1:00 PM – 4:25 PM

1:00PM

� (800)Finite Element Methods Applied to ComputationalNeuroscience. Preliminary report.Felix J Apfaltrer, BMCC/CUNY (1035-92-1230)

1:15PM

� (801)Deterministic Models of Initiation and Propagationof Unidirectional Excitations (Action Potentials) InExcitable Media. Preliminary report.John Gordon Alford, Sam Houston State University(1035-92-1340)

1:30PM

(802)Process based modeling of soil respiration fluxes ina subalpine forest.John M Zobitz*, Augsburg College, David Moore,King’s College London, William Sacks, University ofWisconsin, Russell Monson, University ofColorado, David Schimel, NCAR/UCAR, and DavidBowling, University of Utah (1035-92-1372)

1:45PM

� (803)Complex Analysis and Dynamics of PolynomialHele-Shaw Cells.Kim I. Meyer, University of Louisville(1035-92-1801)



2:00PM

(804)Fast and slow traveling wave solutions of themodified FitzHugh model.Faina Berezovskaya, Howard University(1035-92-1888)

2:15PM

� (805)Mathematical predictions for surgical andendovascular aneurysm repair.Dawn A. Lott*, Delaware State University, CharlesJ. Prestigiacomo, University of Medicine andDentistry of New Jersey, Anwar Atif, Sami Atif andDarius Wheeler, Delaware State University(1035-92-1995)

2:30PM

� (806)An Enzyme Kinetic Model of Blood Island Formation.Andrew Lewis Matteson, Texas A&M University(1035-92-1732)

2:45PM

� (807)Pedestrian Motion in Complex Geometries UsingNonlinear Dynamical Systems Approach.Preliminary report.Rossitza S Marinova, Edmonton (1035-92-145)

3:00PM

(808)Weight Distributions of Hamming codes.Dae San Kim, Sogang University (1035-94-972)

3:15PM

(809)On the Taylor Series of Asymptotic WeightEnumerators.Sarah L Sweatlock*, Srinivas Aji, and Robert JMcEliece, California Institute of Technology(1035-94-1131)

3:30PM

(810)Foliating Metric Spaces: A Generalization ofFrobenius’ Theorem.Craig Calcaterra, Metropolitan State University(1035-93-599)

3:45PM

� (811)Synchronization analysis of a network model inmammalian suprachiasmatic nucleus.Menaka B Navaratna*, Florida Gulf CoastUniversity, and Channa N Navaratna, IndianaUniversity of Pennsylvania (1035-93-1475)

4:00PM

(812)Determination of Stress Tensor by WaveletAnalysis. Preliminary report.George Roy, Natural Resources Canada,CANMET/MTL (1035-74-1955)

4:15PM

� (813)Key Management in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networksusing Cryptography.Biswajit Panja, Morehead State University(1035-94-770)

MAA Session on Assessment of Student Learning inUndergraduate Mathematics, II

1:00 PM – 4:10 PM

Organizers: William O. Martin, North Dakota StateUniversityBernard L. Madison, University ofArkansasMaura B. Mast, University ofMassachusetts-BostonKimberly M. Vincent, WashingtonState University

1:00PM

� (814)Bridging the Perceived Gap between Content andProcess Standards: Incorporating a ContentPortfolio into Math Methods Courses for Pre-serviceSecondary Mathematics Teachers. Preliminaryreport.Janet A. White, Millersville University of PA(1035-A5-909)

1:15PM

(815)Student placement in calculus courses. A casestudy. Preliminary report.Radoslav Dimitric, DBRI, Pittsburgh (1035-A5-87)

1:30PM

� (816)Blending Individual and Group Assessment: A Modelfor Measuring Student Performance.Elana Epstein, St. Joseph’s College (1035-A5-158)

1:45PM

� (817)What is wrong with this picture? A rich type ofassignment.Greisy Winicki Landman, Cal Poly Pomona(1035-A5-207)

2:00PM

� (818)The Validity of Assessing College Algebra LearningOutcomes from a Conceptual Point of View:Implications to Deep and Surface Learning.Jerry C Obiekwe, University of Akron-WayneCollege (1035-A5-305)

2:15PM

(819)Assessment of Student Learning in QuantitativeReasoning.Joe A. Stickles Jr., Millikin University (1035-A5-369)

2:30PM

� (820)QL Outcomes Assessment within an IntegrativeStudies Program.Dick Jardine, Keene State College (1035-A5-1570)

2:45PM

� (821)Assessing How a Mathematics Degree ProgramContributes to Core Competencies.Tom McMillan* and Jim Fulmer, University ofArkansas at Little Rock (1035-A5-1636)

3:00PM

(822)Revising a Portfolio Assessment Program to Make ItWork.Susan Hammond Marshall* and Bonnie Gold,Monmouth University (1035-A5-658)

3:15PM

� (823)Including Faculty and Tutors in Math Placement.Preliminary report.Nicole A Hoover and Cinnamon Hillyard*,University of Washington Bothell (1035-A5-1252)

3:30PM

(824)Quantitative literacy: Methods for developingappropriate assessment instruments.Susan L. Ganter*, Clemson University, and JackBookman, Duke University (1035-A5-757)

3:45PM

� (825)Assessment of General Education Math Courses.James E. Hamblin, Shippensburg University(1035-A5-863)

4:00PM

� (826)The Impact of the Mathematics Across theCommunity College (MAC3) Project on Students’Learning and Attitudes about Mathematics.Preliminary report.Deann A. Leoni, Edmonds Community College(1035-A5-1984)

MAA Session on Curriculum Materials for PreserviceMiddle School Mathematics Teachers, II

1:00 PM – 3:55 PM

Organizers: Laurie J. Burton, Western OregonUniversityMaria G. Fung, Western OregonUniversityKlay T. Kruczek, Western OregonUniversity

1:00PM

(827)A Stimulating Journey on a Road of Discovery:Mathematical Projects Designed to Engage bothStudent and Teacher During a Dynamic Explorationof Mathematics. Preliminary report.Gail Kaplan, Towson University (1035-H1-312)

1:20PM

(828)Mathematics Books for Middle School Teachers.Ira J Papick, University of Missouri-Columbia(1035-H1-749)

1:40PM

(829)A Framework for Integrating Mathematics andScience in Middle School.George Rublein, College of William and Mary(1035-H1-1623)

2:00PM

� (830)An On-Line Course to Encourage ProspectiveTeachers to Develop Habits for Life-Long Learning.Preliminary report.Elena Anne Marchisotto* and Michael Cole,California State University, Northridge(1035-H1-583)



2:20PM

� (831)A Textbook in Geometry for Preservice MiddleSchool Mathematics Teachers.Carol E. Seaman, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh(1035-H1-1115)

2:40PM

� (832)Discrete Mathematics Materials for Middle SchoolMathematics Teachers. Preliminary report.Klay Kruczek, Western Oregon University(1035-H1-1239)

3:00PM

� (833)The Mathematics of Change for Middle GradesTeachers, an Alternative to Calculus. Preliminaryreport.David C. Carothers, James Madison University(1035-H1-1642)

3:20PM

� (834)Developing an Online Statistics Class for MiddleSchool Teachers. Preliminary report.Alexander Kevin White, Texas State University(1035-H1-1815)

3:40PM

(835)A Course for Preservice Middle School MathematicsTeachers That Integrates Mathematics and Science.Philip Wagreich, Learning Sciences Research Inst.;University of Illinois-Chicago (1035-H1-122)

MAA Session on Demos and Strategies withTechnology that Enhance Teaching and LearningMathematics, II

1:00 PM – 2:55 PM

Organizers: David R. Hill, Temple UniversityScott Greenleaf, University of NewEnglandMary L. Platt, Salem State CollegeLila F. Roberts, Georgia College &State University

1:00PM

� (836)Using Digital Video and Data Collection Software toMake Math Class Fun.Josh W. Helms* and Keith A. Erickson, UnitedStates Military Academy (1035-I1-1712)

1:20PM

� (837)Using Blue Man Group and Sound Waves toIntroduce Fourier Analysis in Calculus. Preliminaryreport.Phil Gustafson, Mesa State College (1035-I1-1956)

1:40PM

� (838)Animated Visual Demonstrations of HistoricalMathematics via Excel.Deane E. Arganbright, Martin, Tennessee(1035-I1-289)

2:00PM

� (839)Use of Geometer’s Sketchpad and Guided Inquiry toFoster Conceptual Understanding of PrecalculusTopics.Becky J. Krakowski, University of Dayton(1035-I1-1544)

2:20PM

(840)Interactive Probability Modules for a Calculus-BaseSequence in Probability and Mathematical Statistics.Agnes M Rash* and Deborah Lurie, Saint Joseph’sUniversity (1035-I1-585)

2:40PM

� (841)JavaScript Simulations for a Probability Course forMiddle and High School Teachers. Preliminaryreport.Kimberly J Presser, Shippensburg University(1035-I1-500)

MAA Session on Great Activities for an IntroductoryStatistics Class, II

1:00 PM – 4:15 PM

Organizers: Patricia B. Humphrey, GeorgiaSouthern UniversityChristopher J. Lacke, RowanUniversity

Ginger Holmes-Rowell, MiddleTennessee State University

1:00PM

� (842)Show Me Your Data: Statistics for Millennials.Penelope H Dunham, Muhlenberg College(1035-K1-1043)

1:20PM

� (843)Statistics Projects. Preliminary report.Queen W. Harris, Georgia Perimeter College(1035-K1-1992)

1:40PM

� (844)The first three days of introductory statistics: Whoknew it was going to be fun.Kathryn G. Shafer, Bethel College (1035-K1-220)

2:00PM

� (845)Activities to Illustrate Standard Error in RegressionModeling.Jan O. Case, Jacksonville State University(1035-K1-593)

2:20PM

� (846)Using Humming to Teach Experimental Design inElementary Statistics.Cora Neal, Sonoma State University (1035-K1-816)

2:40PM

� (847)Threading a Topic Throughout a Statistics Course:Two Examples.William R. Harris* and Homer S. White,Georgetown College (1035-K1-1594)

3:00PM

� (848)Service Learning Projects in an IntroductoryStatistics Class. Preliminary report.Cathy L Whitlock, UNC - Asheville (1035-K1-1282)

3:20PM

� (849)Base-ic Statistical Concepts: Using Baseball to BringStatistics to Life.Stanley Rothman, Quinnipiac University(1035-K1-231)

3:40PM

� (850)The Pythagorean won-loss theorem: An introductionto modeling.Steven J Miller, Brown University (1035-K1-91)

4:00PM

� (851)Anthrax, Killer Bees and Murder to MotivateStatistics.Rodney X Sturdivant, United States MilitaryAcademy, West Point, NY (1035-K1-1269)

MAA Session on Mathematics and the Arts, I

1:00 PM – 3:55 PM

Organizer: Douglas E. Norton, VillanovaUniversity

1:00PM

� (852)Algorithmic Art from Streams of InteractingParticles.Gary R Greenfield, University of Richmond(1035-N1-393)

1:20PM

(853)A formula for the intersection angle of backbonearcs with the bounding circle for general CircleLimit III patterns. Preliminary report.Douglas Dunham*, University of MinnesotaDuluth, and Luns Tee, University of CaliforniaBerkeley (1035-N1-1891)

1:40PM

� (854)Which 17 Planar Crystallographic Groups AreRepresented at the Alhambra?B Lynn Bodner, Monmouth University (1035-N1-56)

2:00PM

� (855)Some Historical Geometric Constructions and theirArts.Reza Sarhangi, Towson University (1035-N1-1727)

2:20PM

� (856)Geometry, Perspective and Proportion in Art: ATraveler’s Guide.Elizabeth C Rogers, Piedmont College(1035-N1-1964)

2:40PM

� (857)Pattern Analysis of Traditional Thai Designs.Susan A. McBurney, Western Springs, Illinois(1035-N1-819)

3:00PM

� (858)Hyperbolic Pillows. Preliminary report.Samuel R Kaplan, Universitry of North Carolina,Asheville (1035-N1-296)



3:20PM

� (859)Perspective, Mathematics, and the Renaissance.Andrius Tamulis, Cardinal Stritch University(1035-N1-1370)

3:40PM

� (860)The Artist’s Eye Was Not Enough.John F. Putz, Alma College (1035-N1-1781)

MAA Session on Research and ProfessionalDevelopment Activities for Math Majors, II

1:00 PM – 4:15 PM

Organizers: Suzanne M. Lenhart, University ofTennesseeMike O’Leary, Towson UniversityMargaret M. Robinson, MountHolyoke College

1:00PM

� (861)CURM and Mini-grants for Undergraduate Research.Michael Dorff, Brigham Young University(1035-T1-199)

1:20PM

� (862)LURE-ing students at 4 different institutions:the science apprenticeship model applied tomathematics. Preliminary report.James A Davis*, University of Richmond, SarahSpence-Adams, Olin College, Ken Smith, SamHouston State University, Nicholas Eugene, CoppinState University, and Sivaram Narayan, CentralMichigan University (1035-T1-919)

1:40PM

� (863)Undergraduate Research for all Math Majors:Reality or Pipe Dream? Preliminary report.Anant P Godbole, East Tennessee State University(1035-T1-450)

2:00PM

� (864)International Research Experience forUndergraduate Mathematics Students: ACollaboration between the U.S. and Hong Kong.Graeme Fairweather* and Barbara M. Moskal,Colorado School of Mines (1035-T1-1337)

2:20PM

� (865)Mathematics Teacher Candidates and ModelEliciting Activities: A Journey Towards Research.Paula R Stickles, Millikin University (1035-T1-362)

2:40PM

� (866)Research Motivates Students.Leslie Hogben, Iowa State University & AmericanInstitute of Mathematics (1035-T1-604)

3:00PM

� (867)Math in the City—A Mathematical ModelingProgram for Undergraduates.Petronela Radu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln(1035-T1-638)

3:20PM

(868)Field Trips Motivate Students to PursueMathematics.Jason E Miller, Truman State University(1035-T1-775)

3:40PM

� (869)Research Program for the Academic Year.Zsuzsanna Szaniszlo, Valparaiso University(1035-T1-1031)

4:00PM

(870)Successful Mentoring of Undergraduate Students onResearch Projects.Michael A. Jones, Montclair State University(1035-T1-818)

MAA Session on Research on the Teaching andLearning of Undergraduate Mathematics, II

1:00 PM – 2:45 PM

Organizers: David E. Meel, Bowling Green StateUniversityMichelle J. Zandieh, Arizona StateUniversityChris Rasmussen, San Diego StateUniversity

1:00PM

� (871)Beyond the mathematics: What else is needed toteach in an inquiry-oriented classroom? Preliminaryreport.Joseph F. Wagner, Xavier University (1035-U1-494)

1:35PM

� (872)Comparison of native-English and Native-Koreanspeaking university students’ discourses on infinityand limit. Preliminary report.Dong Joong Kim, Michigan State University(1035-U1-1904)

2:00PM

(873)Using Computer Simulations to Facilitate CalculusStudents’ Understanding of Related Rates Problems.Preliminary report.Nicole M Engelke, California State University,Fullerton (1035-U1-1691)

2:25PM

� (874)Research Results on the Relationship BetweenGraduate Teaching Assistant Instructor Expertiseand Algebra Performance of College Students.Karla Marie Childs, Pittsburg State University,Pittsburg, KS (1035-U1-1156)

MAA General Contributed Paper Session, IV

1:00 PM – 4:10 PM


Moderators: Susan J. Diesel, Norwich UniversityMichael Smith, Morningside CollegeBruce S. Burdick, Roger WilliamsUniversityHongbiao Zeng, Fort Hays StateUniversity

1:00PM

� (875)Using Visual Cues in Teaching Exponent Rules.Preliminary report.Jim Brandt, Southern Utah University(1035-Z1-1072)

1:15PM

� (876)Connecting Pascal’s Triangle to Thirteen NumberSets.Jim Fulmer* and Tom McMillan, University ofArkansas at Little Rock (1035-Z1-1367)

1:30PM

� (877)Applying interactive, learner-centered methods toteaching Mathematics.Salar Alsardary* and Phyllis Blumberg, Universityof the Sciences in Philadelphia (1035-Z1-74)

1:45PM

� (878)On Generalized Alternating Galileo Sequences.Hari Pulapaka, Stetson University (1035-Z1-162)

2:00PM

(879)Concept Acquisition in Linear Algebra. Preliminaryreport.Melvin A Nyman*, Alma College, John Berry,University of Plymouth, and Douglas Lapp, CentralMichigan University (1035-Z1-828)

2:15PM

(880)How to ”create” more class time for active learning.Min-Lin Lo, California State University SanBernardino (1035-Z1-330)

2:30PM

(881)A quadrilateral inside another one.J. Marshall Ash*, DePaul University, Michael A.Ash, Economic Dept., University of MassachusettsAmherst, and Peter F. Ash, Cambridge College(1035-Z1-1467)

2:45PM

� (882)Limits of zeros of polynomial sequences.Xinyun Zhu* and George Grossman, CentralMichigan University (1035-Z1-304)

3:00PM

� (883)Chaos and Bifurcations in the Dynamical System ofStudent Attitudes toward Mathematics in TenUndergraduate Classes.Zaur Berkaliev, Illinois Institute of Technology(1035-Z1-1487)



3:15PM

� (884)Numbers Simultaneously Polygonal and CenteredPolygonal.Steven Schlicker, Grand Valley State University(1035-Z1-281)

3:30PM

� (885)Educating about Sustainability while TeachingCalculus. Preliminary report.Thomas J Pfaff, Ithaca College (1035-Z1-685)

3:45PM

� (886)Algebraic and Geometric Aspects of Stability ofLinear Equations.Avraham Goldstein* and Chokri Cherif, BMCC /The City University of New York (1035-Z1-1301)

4:00PM

� (887)Baseball and general education mathematics.Fred Worth, Henderson State University(1035-Z1-949)

SIAM Minisymposium on From Global Predictions toLocal Action, II: Mathematics of Social and EconomicFeedback in Climate Change

1:00 PM – 4:15 PM

Organizers: Inez Fung, Berkeley Institute of theEnvironment, University of CaliforniaBerkeleyChristopher K. Jones, University ofNorth CarolinaMary Lou Zeeman, Bowdoin College

1:00PM Welcome remarks and symposium goals.1:05PM

(888)The Challenge of Measuring and Modeling theEconomic Impacts of Climate Change.Maximilian Auffhammer, University of CaliforniaBerkeley (1035-00-1677)

1:35PM Questions and discussion.2:00PM

� (889)Self-Enforcing Climate-Change Treaties.Roy Radner*, Stern School, New York University,and Prajit K. Dutta, Columbia University(1035-91-1516)

2:30PM Questions and discussion.3:00PM

(890)The Mathematics of Climate Change.Graciela Chichilnisky, Columbia University(1035-91-2021)

3:30PM Questions and discussion.


1:00 PM – 2:20 PM

Creating and implementing a capstone course inmathematics for preservice secondary teachers.Organizers: David W. Dempsey, Jacksonville State

UniversityMatthew Winsor, University of Texasat El Paso

Panelists: Edward E. Aboufadel, Grand ValleyState UniversityRebecca Walker, Grand Valley StateUniversityGail Burrill, Michigan State UniversityHenry S. Kepner, University ofWisconsin-MilwaukeeDavid W. DempseyMatthew Winsor

SIGMAA on the History of Mathematics PanelDiscussion

1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

The political dimension of ethnomathematics.Organizers: Amy Shell-Gellasch, Pacific Lutheran

UniversityJanet L. Beery, University of Redlands

Presenters: Ubiratan D’Ambrosio, UniversidadeEstadual de Campinas, BrazilAna Lucia Bras Dias, Central MichiganUniversityArthur B. Powell, Rutgers University

MAA-AMS Special Presentation

1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Putting math on the Web the correct way.Organizers: Paulo Ney de Souza, University of

California Berkeley and MathematicalSciences PublishersWilliam F. Hammond, SUNY at AlbanyPatrick D. F. Ion, MathematicalReviews and W3C MathML WorkingGroup

Summer Program for Women in Mathematics (SPWM)Reunion

1:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Organizer: Murli M. Gupta, George WashingtonUniversity

MAA Poster Session on Projects Supported by the NSFDivision of Undergraduate Education

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Organizer: Jon W. Scott, Montgomery CommunityCollege

2:00PM

(891)PRofessional Enhancement Program (PREP).J. Michael Pearson, Mathematical Association ofAmerica, William Haver, Virginia CommonwealthUniversity, Nancy Baxter Hastings, DickinsonCollege, Nathaniel Dean, Texas StateUniversity-San Marcos, and Jon Scott*, MontgomeryCollege

2:00PM

(892)Renewal of College Algebra.Norma Agras*, Miami Dade College, and J. MichaelPearson, Mathematical Association of America

2:00PM

(893)Collaborative Research: Lessons in Mathematicsand Art.Annalisa Crannell*, Franklin and Marshall College,and Marc Frantz, Indiana University

2:00PM

(894)Adapting and Implementing Innovative Materials inStatistics Courses (AIMS).Robert delMas, Joan Garfield* and AndrewZieffler, University of Minnesota

2:00PM

(895)WeBWorK, a Web-based Interactive HomeworkSystem.Michael Gage*, Arnold Pizer and Vicki Roth,University of Rochester

2:00PM

(896)Research-focused Learning Communities inMathematical Biology.Jason Miller*, Jon Beck, Michael Kelrick andLaura Rechav-Fielden, Truman State University



2:00PM

(897)Interdisciplinary Training for Undergraduates inBiological and Mathematical Sciences at ASU.Yang Kuang*, Hal Smith, Carlos Castillo-Chavez,James Elser and John Anderies, Arizona StateUniversity

2:00PM

(898)The National Curve Bank Project: A MATH Archive.Shirley Gray*, California State University, LosAngeles, Bill Austin, Chris Caldwell, University ofTennessee at Martin, Phillip Johnson, AppalachianState University, and Lou Talman, MetropolitanState College of Denver

2:00PM

(899)Technically Speaking.Lew Ludwig, Denison University

2:00PM

(900)Paradigms in Physics: Multiple Entry Points.Corinne Manogue, Tevian Dray*, BarbaraEdwards, David McIntyre and Emily van Zee,Oregon State University

2:00PM

(901)Adapting K–8 Mathematics Curricular Materials forPre-Service Teacher Education.William Moss, Clemson University

2:00PM

(902)SOCR Analyses: A Free Internet-based StatisticalAnalysis Toolkit.Annie Che, Nicolas Christou, Jenny Cui and IvoDinov*, University of California at Los Angeles

2:00PM

(903)Biocalculus: Text Development, Dialog, andAssessment.Timothy Comar*, Lisa Townsley and BrendaAlberico, Benedictine University

2:00PM

(904)The STEM Real World Applications Modules Project.Darren Narayan*, University of South Carolina,William Basener, National Geospatial-IntelligenceAgency, and Moises Sudit, Rochester Institute ofTechnology

2:00PM

(905)The Next STEP: Integrating STEM LearningCommunities.Jason Miller*, Maria Nagan and JenniferThompson, Truman State University

2:00PM

(906)Math Questions to Engage Students (Math QUEST).Holly Zullo*, Kelly Cline and Mark Parker, CarrollCollege

2:00PM

(907)Quantitative Reasoning in the Contemporary World.Bernard Madison*, University of Arkansas, StuartBoersma, Central Washington University, CarenDiefenderfer, Hollins University, and ShannonDingman, University of Arkansas

2:00PM

(908)CSUMS: Computational Science Training in theMathematical Sciences at Rensselaer.Victor Roytburd*, Mark Holmes, Isom Herron,Gregor Kovacic and Peter Kramer, RensselaerPolytechnic Institute

2:00PM

(909)Enhancing the Teaching of Linear Algebra UsingDigital Image Processing.Mohamed Allali, Chapman University

2:00PM

(910)The PascGalois Project: Visualizing AbstractMathematics.Michael Bardzell*, Kathleen Shannon and DonaldSpickler, Salisbury University

2:00PM

(911)Training Undergraduate Students in Mathematicsand Biology at UL Lafayette.Azmy Ackleh*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette,Jacoby Carter, USGS National Wetlands ResearchCenter, and Susan Mopper, University of Louisianaat Lafayette

2:00PM

(912)Classroom Response Systems in Statistics Courses.Teri J. Murphy*, Curtis McKnight, MichaelRichman and Robert Terry, University of Oklahoma

2:00PM

(913)Research and Education Program (REP) in BioMath.Semen Koksal*, Richard Sinden, JewgeniDshalalow, David Carroll and Robert van Woesik,Florida Institute of Technology

2:00PM

(914)College Algebra in Context: A Learner-centeredApproach Incorporating Data-driven ActivitiesRelated to Social Issues.Michael Catalano, Dakota Wesleyan University

2:00PM

(915)Synthetic Biology Research for Undergraduates(SyBR-U).Laurie Heyer*, Davidson College, Jeffrey Poet,Missouri Western State University, A. MalcolmCampbell, Davidson College, and Todd Eckdahl,Missouri Western State University

2:00PM

(916)Refocusing College Algebra.Laurette Foster*, Prairie View A&M University, andDon Small, U.S. Military Academy

2:00PM

(917)Developing a Mathematics Curriculum to Serve theBiosciences: The First Step.Sheldon Gordon*, John Winn, MatthewBahamonde, Farmingdale State College, LindaSabatino and James Fulton, Suffolk CountyCommunity College

2:00PM

(918)A Comprehensive WeBWorK Problem Library.Jeff Holt*, University of Virginia, John Jones,Arizona State University, and William Ziemer,California State University, Long Beach

2:00PM

(919)Long Beach Project in Geometry and Symmetry.Scott Crass and Temma Leiman*, California StateUniversity-Long Beach

2:00PM

(920)From ILAP to iLabAP–Linking Investigative BiologyLaboratories to the Mathematics Curriculum.Kirk Bartholomew*, Hema Gopalakrishnan, RoseKinik and Jennifer Mattei, Sacred Heart University

2:00PM

(921)BioGrapher: An Excel Front-End for Computation ofGraph Theoretical Properties and GraphicalVisualization of Networks.Rama Viswanathan*, Han Lai, Hlaing Lin, KhalidQumsieh and John Jungck, Beloit College

2:00PM

(922)A Phase II Expansion of the Development of aMultidisciplinary Course on Wavelets andApplications.Patrick Van Fleet*, University of St. Thomas,Catherine Beneteau, University of South Florida,Caroline Haddad, SUNY Geneseo, and David Ruch,Metropolitan State College of Denver

2:00PM

(923)PHASER: A Universal Simulator for DynamicalSystems.Huseyin Kocak*, Brian Coomes, and BurtonRosenberg, University of Miami

2:00PM

(924)Team Research Training Program in Biology andMathematics.Edwin Tecarro, Steve London*, Youn-Sha Chan,Jeong-Mi Yoon and Aaron Krochmal, University ofHouston-Downtown

2:00PM

(925)Quantitative Literacy Across the Curriculum in aLiberal Arts Setting.Semra Kilic-Bahi*, Lavonne Batalden and BenSteele, Colby-Sawyer College

2:00PM

(926)Integrating Field Trips into Calculus Courses.Despina Prapavessi* and Karen Edwards, DiabloValley College

2:00PM

(927)Foundation in Mathematical Biology throughInterdisciplinary Research, Training, andCurriculum Development.Elissa Schwartz*, Richard Gomulkiewicz, RobertDillon, Judith McDonald, Charlotte Omoto andBala Krishnamoorthy, Washington State University



2:00PM

(928)Interdisciplinary Training of Undergraduates inBiological and Mathematical Sciences withEmphasis on Fisheries Stock Assessment.Tor Kwembe* and Hyung Cho, Jackson StateUniversity

2:00PM

(929)A Radical Approach to Teaching Object-OrientedProgramming.Ann Moskol* and Kate Sanders, Rhode IslandCollege

2:00PM

(930)A Model Teacher-Scholar Program in SecondaryMathematics.Saad El-Zanati*, Sharon McCrone and CynthiaLangrall, Illinois State University

2:00PM

(931)Preparing Computational Biologists by Encouragingan Academic Minor.Dmitry Gokhman*, David Senseman, KayRobbins, James Bower and Nandini Kannan,University of Texas at San Antonio

2:00PM

(932)Computer Interfaces for Enhancing Visual Learningfor Students with Visual Processing Disabilities.Karen Luxton Gourgey*, Annette Gourgey, BaruchCollege, and Steven Landau, Touch GraphicsCompany

2:00PM

(933)Transforming Science and Mathematics TeacherPreparation.James Curry*, Richard McCray, Carl Wieman,Valerie Otero and William Wood, University ofColorado, Boulder

2:00PM

(934)History Across the Mathematics Curriculum forPreservice Teachers.Gabriela R. Sanchis, Elizabethtown College

2:00PM

(935)Mathematics Research Experience for Pre-serviceand for In-service Teachers.Wendy O’Hanlon* and Saad El-Zanati, Illinois StateUniversity

2:00PM

(936)Interdisciplinary Teaching: Using The Study ofSprouts To Teach Mathematics and Science at aLiberal Arts College.Cheri Boyd*, Beverly Brown and WilliamLammela, Nazareth College of Rochester

2:00PM

(937)Mathematics Across the Community CollegeCurriculum.Deann Leoni*, Edmonds Community College,Caren Diefenderfer, Hollins University, andChristie Gilliland, Green River Community College

2:00PM

� (938)Appropriately Using WeBWorK, WebAssign andMaple in Calculus I and II. Preliminary report.Bryan Dorner*, Daniel Heath, Jessica Sklar andJeffrey Stuart, Pacific Lutheran University

AMS Invited Address

2:15 PM – 3:05 PM

(939) Quantum field theory and generalized cohomology.Peter Teichner, University of California Berkeley(1035-81-07)

Project NExT Panel Discussion

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM

Making the math major work for theunder-prepared student.Organizers: Linda Braddy, East Central University

Pamela B. Pierce, The College ofWooster

Panelists: Bonnie Gold, Monmouth UniversityJohn Ramsay, The College of Wooster

Laura A. Taalman, James MadisonUniversity


2:30 PM – 3:50 PM

Dueling platforms: Java vs. Flash.Organizers: Mary L. Platt, Salem State College

Lawrence C. Moore, Duke UniversityModerator: Mary L. PlattPanelists: Thomas E. Leathrum, Jacksonville

State UniversityKyle T. Siegrist, University ofAlabama, HuntsvilleDoug Ensley, Shippensburg UniversityBarbara Kaskosz, University of RhodeIsland

SIGMAA on Business, Industry, and Government GuestLecture

3:00 PM – 3:45 PM

� (940) From Flapping Birds to Space Telescopes: TheModern Science of Origami. Preliminary report.Robert J. Lang, www.langorigami.com(1035-A0-1999)

AMS Retiring Presidential Address

3:20 PM – 4:10 PM

(941) Semisimple groups as universal examples.James G. Arthur, University of Toronto(1035-22-03)

Joint Prize Session

4:25 PM – 5:25 PM

Joint Prize Session Reception

5:30 PM – 6:30 PM

SIGMAA on the Philosophy of Mathematics BusinessMeeting, Guest Lecture, and Reception

5:45 PM – 7:15 PM

� (942) How applied mathematics became pure.Penelope Maddy, Department of Logic andPhilosophy of Science, University of California Irvine(1035-A0-292)


5:45 PM – 7:45 PM

Sharing residues from college algebra workshops.Organizers: Donald B. Small, U.S. Military Academy

William E. Haver, VirginiaCommonwealth University

SIGMAA on Quantitative Literacy Business Meetingand Reception

5:45 PM – 6:45 PM

SIGMAA on Statistics Education Business Meeting

5:45 PM – 7:15 PM



BIGSIGMAA Reception for Mathematicians inBusiness, Industry, and Government

5:45 PM – 6:45 PM

MAA Two-Year College Reception

5:45 PM – 7:00 PM


6:00 PM – 7:30 PM

The proof is in the pudding: Humorous theater ofthe mathematical variety.Presenter: Colin C. Adams, Williams College

MAA Committee on Minority Participation-NorthAmerican Institutes Informal Gathering

6:30 PM – 8:00 PM

Conversations with minority scientists.Organizers: William A. Hawkins, Jr, University of

the District of ColumbiaRobert E. Megginson, University ofMichiganCamille A. McKayle, University of theVirgin IslandsIvelisse M. Rubio, University of PuertoRico, Rio Piedras

MAA Music Presentation

7:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Tones are real functions, rhythms are sequences.Presenter: Erich Neuwirth, University of Vienna

Tuesday, January 8Joint Meetings Registration

7:30 AM – 4:00 PM

AMS Special Session on Modular Forms andModularity, III

7:30 AM – 10:50 AM


7:30AM

(943)On modular forms for some noncongruencesubgroups.Chris A. Kurth and Ling Long*, Iowa StateUniversity (1035-11-978)

8:00AM

(944)L-functions and l-adic representations fornoncongruence subgroups.Jerome William Hoffman* and Helena Verrill,Louisiana State University (1035-11-791)

8:30AM

(945)Farey Symbols and Finite Index Subgroups ofPSL2(Z).Chris Kurth, Iowa State University (1035-11-1604)

9:00AM

� (946)Computing with Modular Forms Using SAGE.William A Stein, University of Washington(1035-11-382)

9:30AM

(947)The module of vector-valued modular forms onSL(2, Z). Preliminary report.Geoff Mason, University of California, Santa Cruz(1035-11-124)

10:00AM

(948)The Local Langlands Correspondence for GSp(4).Wee Teck Gan, University of California, San Diego(1035-11-239)

10:30AM

(949)Actions of finite groups on modular forms andcoherent sheaves. Preliminary report.Ted C Chinburg*, University of Pennsylvania,and Amy Ksir, United States Naval Academy(1035-14-89)

AMS Session on Combinatorics, II

7:45 AM – 10:55 AM

7:45AM

� (950)Graph energy change due to single edge deletion.Preliminary report.Wasin So, San Jose State University (1035-05-1307)

8:00AM

� (951)Some Results on Antidesigns. Preliminary report.Ian Rogers, Rose Hulman Institute of Technology(1035-05-508)

8:15AM

(952)Combinatorial enumeration of rectangular kolamdesigns of the Tamil land.Rethinasamy K Kittappa, Millersville University(1035-05-543)

8:30AM

� (953)Extremal systems for the fair and biasedErdos–Selfridge theorem.Eric Lars Sundberg, Occidental College(1035-05-544)

8:45AM

� (954)A New Lower Bound on the Number of ObliviousQuestions Required to Guess Two Secrets.Preliminary report.Kelley Harris, Harvard University (1035-05-650)

9:00AM

(955)Three-Dimensional Generalized Solitary Waves via aSpatial Dynamical Approach.Shengfu Deng* and Shu-Ming Sun, Virginia Tech(1035-05-672)

9:15AM

(956)Sequences with small subsum sets.Aaron Pixton, Princeton University (1035-05-677)

9:30AM

� (957)Boundaries of the minimum Pk total weights.Preliminary report.Ji Young Choi, Shippensburg University of PA(1035-05-695)

9:45AM

(958)Almost avoiding classes of permutations.Robert Brignall, University of Bristol, WilliamGriffiths, Southern Polytechnic State University,Rebecca Smith*, SUNY Brockport, Vincent Vatter,DIMACS, Daniel Warren, Ohio State, and DoronZeilberger, Rutgers (1035-05-804)

10:00AM

� (959)On (64,28,12) Difference Sets. Preliminary report.Omar A. AbuGhneim, Jordan University(1035-05-871)

10:15AM

(960)New families of non-embeddable quasi-deriveddesigns.Tariq A. Alraqad, Central Michigan University(1035-05-918)

10:30AM

(961)Some results on λx -invertible graphs.John P. Georges, David Mauro and Yan Wang*,Trinity College, Hartford, CT (1035-05-939)

10:45AM

(962)A Combinatorial Approach to the DistinguishingNumber of a Tournament and Other Digraphs.Michael Babcock, Larry J. Langley and Sarah K.Merz*, University of the Pacific (1035-05-1354)



AMS Session on Geometry and Topology, III

7:45 AM – 10:55 AM

7:45AM

� (963)A Characterization of the Interior of a Triangle.Shing S So* and Alvin R Tinsley, University ofCentral Missouri (1035-51-1213)

8:00AM

� (964)Upper Bound of Edge Number for Links. Preliminaryreport.Lucas Bennett, University of Iowa (1035-54-187)

8:15AM

(965)A modified Wallman method for compactificationsof certain arbitrary topological spaces and anarbitrary Hausdorff compactification.Hueytzen J Wu*, Texas A&M University – Kingsville,and Wan-Hong Wu, Institute of Drug Development,Cancer Therapy & Research Center (1035-54-173)

8:30AM

� (966)The Kauffman-Harary Conjecture.P R Solis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology(1035-54-225)

8:45AM

(967)New Metrization Theorems in Terms of Semi-openCovers. Preliminary report.Gangadhar R. Hiremath, University of NorthCarolina Pembroke (1035-54-295)

9:00AM

(968)Covering Properties Extending Several Special BaseProperties.Brad Bailey, North Georgia Coll. & State Univ.(1035-54-710)

9:15AM

� (969)Problems of scalable topology. Preliminary report.Mark Burgin, UCLA (1035-54-189)

9:30AM

� (970)Asphericity of Random Equilateral Knots.Eric J Rawdon*, University of St. Thomas, AndrzejStasiak, University of Lausanne, John C Kern,Duquesne University, Patrick Plunkett, Universityof California Santa Barbara, Michael Piatek,University of Washington, and Kenneth C Millett,University of California Santa Barbara (1035-57-342)

9:45AM

(971)Quantum invariants can provide sharp bounds onHeegaard genus.Helen Wong*, Bowdoin College, and AndrewCasson, Yale University (1035-54-1655)

10:00AM

(972)Quasi-conformal Homeomorphisms on CompactUltrametric Spaces.Mozhgan Mirani, The University of the South,Sewanee, TN (1035-54-1605)

10:15AM

(973)Homological Codimension. Preliminary report.Kailash C Ghimire, Georgia Southwestern StateUniversity (1035-54-1229)

10:30AM

(974)Intrisically n-linked spatial graphs.Danielle O’Donnol, UCLA (1035-54-1382)

10:45AM

(975)The qo-topology – An order topology on a space ofquasicontinuous functions.Rodica Cazacu, Georgia College & State University(1035-54-1457)

AMS General Session

7:45 AM – 10:55 AM

7:45AM

� (976)Shortest paths and optimal solutions for evacuationin emergency situations. Preliminary report.Mitch A. Phillipson* and Simei Tong, University ofWisconsin Eau Claire (1035-00-163)

8:00AM

(977)A Mathematical Model of the Evolution of the ABOBlood Group System.Sara Jensen, Carthage College, and AnnaSparacino*, Westminster College, PA(1035-00-1862)

8:15AM

� (978)Discovery Precalculus projects: Modeling with agraphing calculator TI-84+.Nataliya I. Latushkina, Columbia College,Columbia, Missouri (1035-00-48)

8:30AM

(979)Reducts of Countably Categorical Graphs.Yun Lu, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania(1035-03-1064)

8:45AM

(980)On the classification of torsion-free abelian groupsup to quasi-isomorphism.Samuel Gregory Coskey, Rutgers University(1035-03-1806)

9:00AM

(981)Characterizing “Planar” Abstract SimplicialComplexes by Excluded Minors (GeneralizingKuratowski’s Theorem to Higher Dimensions).Taylor Dupuy, University of New Mexico(1035-06-72)

9:15AM

(982)On the local multiple-valued logic algebras.Lavinia Corina Ciungu, State University of NewYork at Buffalo (1035-06-444)

9:30AM

(983)Fractional Weak Discrepancy, Interval Orders, andForbidden Configurations.Alan Shuchat*, Randy Shull and Ann Trenk,Wellesley College (1035-06-1481)

9:45AM

(984)A Priestley Style Duality for Meet Semi Lattices.Aditya Kumar Nagrath, University of Denver(1035-06-1906)

10:00AM

(985)On the Natural Density of the k-Zeckendorf NivenNumbers.Curtis Cooper, University of Central Missouri(1035-11-1254)

10:15AM

(986)Direct Sum Decompositions over Two-dimensionalLocal Domains.Nicholas R Baeth, University of Central Missouri(1035-13-688)

10:30AM

(987)On Compact Connected Mobs. Preliminary report.Phoebe H McLaughlin*, Shing So, University ofCentral Missouri, and Haohao Wang, SoutheastMissouri State University (1035-22-1210)

10:45AM

(988)Point spectra for generalized Hausdorff matrices.B. E. Rhoades, Indiana University (1035-40-276)

AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research inMathematics by Undergraduates, II

8:00 AM – 10:50 AM


8:00AM

� (989)Modeling Atomic Force Microscope Deformation ofFibrin Fibers.Callie A Johnson* and Anthony Tongen, JamesMadison University (1035-74-1780)

8:30AM

� (990)Cardinal Invariants Beyond the Continuum.E. T. Brown, J. L. Bruno and C. L. Wingfield*, JamesMadison University (1035-03-1752)

9:00AM

(991)Existence of Asymptotic Solutions to SemilinearPartial Difference Equations on Graphs.Jason Dean Lee*, Duke University, and JohnNeuberger, Northern Arizona University(1035-35-261)

Tuesday, January 8 – Program of the Sessions


9:30AM

� (992)Nested Chain Partitions of Normalized-MatchingPosets.Elinor Gardner Escamilla, Andreea CristinaNicolae, Paul Russell Salerno, Shahriar Shahriari,Pomona College, and Jordan Olliver Tirrell*,Lafayette College, (1035-06-132)

10:00AM

� (993)Minimum Semidefinite Rank of a Graph with CutSets of Size 2 and Graphs with msr(G) =vruleheight1.5exG − 2.Jonathan E. Beagley*, Illinois Institute ofTechnology, Eileen L. Radzwion, Central MichiganUniversity, and Andrew M. Zimmer, University ofPuget Sound (1035-15-119)

10:30AM

� (994)Hadamard Difference Sets in Groups of Order 144and the Spread Construction.Nicole Kroeger, North Carolina State University,Marcus Miller*, Harvard University, ChristopherMooney, Transylvania University, and KathleenShepard, Grinnell College (1035-05-120)

AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics, I

8:00 AM – 10:50 AM

Organizers: Joseph W. Dauben, Lehman College,CUNYPatti Hunter, Westmont CollegeVictor J. Katz, University of District ofColumbiaKaren H. Parshall, University ofVirginia

8:00AM

� (995)Mathematics and Mathematical Astronomy inAncient India.Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, Brown University(1035-01-496)

8:30AM

� (996)A Different Sort of Sacred Geometry: The MedievalAnalemma for Finding the Direction of Mecca.Glen R Van Brummelen, Quest University(1035-01-532)

9:00AM

� (997)A New Interpretation of Cardano’s Liber De LudoAleae. Preliminary report.Mary Sol de Mora Charles, Universidad del PaisVascos (1035-01-609)

9:30AM

(998)Navigating Between Triangular Numbers andTrigonometric Tables: How Thomas HarriotDeveloped His Interpolation Formulas.Janet L. Beery, University of Redlands(1035-01-561)

10:00AM

� (999)Joaquim Gomes de Souza, a controversial 19thcentury Brazilian mathematician.Ubiratan D’Ambrosio, Pontificia UniversidadeCatolica de Sao Paulo (1035-01-269)

10:30AM

� (1000)Introduction of set theory in Mexico. Preliminaryreport.Alejandro R. Garciadiego, Universidad NacionalAutonoma de Mexico (1035-01-491)

AMS Special Session on Structure, Geometry, andSymbolic Computation of Algebraic Groups andSymmetric Spaces, III

8:00 AM – 10:50 AM


8:00AM

(1001)Modules of covariants in modular invariant theory.Abraham Broer, Universite de Montreal, andJianjun Chuai*, Memorial University ofNewfoundland (1035-13-483)

8:30AM

(1002)A Proof of The First Main Theorem for the TwoDimensional Modular Representation of Cp.H. E. A. Eddy Campbell*, Memorial University ofNewfoundland, R. James Shank, University of Kentat Canterbury, and David L. Wehlau, Royal MilitaryCollege and Queen’s University (1035-13-562)

9:00AM

(1003)A Proof of The First Main Theorem for the TwoDimensional Modular Representation of Cp.Preliminary report.Eddy Campbell, Memorial University ofNewfoundland, R. J. Shank, University ofCanterbury at Kent, and David L. Wehlau*, RoyalMilitary College of Canada (1035-20-498)

9:30AM

(1004)Separating Invariants. Preliminary report.Emilie Dufresne, Queen’s University (1035-13-588)

10:00AM

(1005)Computation of gradient flows in flag manifolds.Ralph Bremigan, Ball State University(1035-22-867)

10:30AM

(1006)Quotients of finite and affine Weyl groups bymaximal parabolic subgroups and applications.Preliminary report.Markus Hunziker* and W. Andrew Pruett, BaylorUniversity (1035-22-1465)

AMS Special Session on Financial Mathematics, I

8:00 AM – 10:55 AM

Organizers: Jean-Pierre Fouque, University ofCalifornia Santa BarbaraKay Giesecke, Stanford UniversityRonnie Sircar, Princeton UniversityKnut Solna, University of CaliforniaIrvine

8:00AM

(1007)Extracting and Using Credit Information in HybridModels.Sanjiv R Das, Santa Clara University (1035-91-466)

9:00AM

(1008)Two-Dimensional Markovian Model for Dynamics ofAggregate Credit Loss.Andrei Lopatin*, NumeriX LLC, and TimurMisirpashaev, Merrill Lynch (1035-60-566)

9:30AM

� (1009)Multiname and Multiscale Default Modeling.Preliminary report.Knut Solna, University of California at Irvine(1035-60-1315)

10:00AM

(1010)Calibration of portfolio credit risk models: Solutionof an inverse problem via intensity control.Preliminary report.Rama Cont*, Columbia University, and AndreeaMinca, Ecole Polytechnique (1035-60-535)

10:30AM

(1011)Default Correlation, Cluster Dynamics and SingleNames: The GPCL Dynamical Loss Model.Damiano Brigo, Q-SCI, Derivativefitch, FitchRatings QFR, London (1035-60-567)

AMS Special Session on Secant Varieties and RelatedTopics, I

8:00 AM – 10:50 AM

Organizers: Christopher S. Peterson, ColoradoState UniversityHirotachi Abo, University of IdahoAnthony V. Geramita, Queen’sUniversity and University of Genoa

8:00AM

(1012)Secant varieties of Grassmann and Segre varieties.Giorgio Ottaviani, Universita’ di Firenze, Italy(1035-14-607)

Program of the Sessions – Tuesday, January 8 (cont’d.)


9:00AM

(1013)Secant varieties and polynomial interpolation.Maria Chiara Brambilla, University of Florence(Italy) (1035-14-1510)

9:30AM

(1014)The Fibers of a General Projection.David Eisenbud*, University of California, Berkeley,and Roya Beheshti-Zavareh, WashingtonUniversity, St. Louis (1035-14-1498)

10:30AM

(1015)Secant varieties and optimal low-rankapproximations of tensors.Vin de Silva*, Pomona College, and Lek-Heng Lim,University of California, Berkeley (1035-14-1942)

AMS Special Session on Wavelet Sets and Tilings ofRn, I

8:00 AM – 10:50 AM

Organizers: Kathy D. Merrill, Colorado CollegeLawrence W. Baggett, University ofColorado, BoulderJudith A. Packer, University ofColorado, Boulder

8:00AM

� (1016)A Characterization Of Two and Three IntervalWavelet Sets.Kenneth R. Hoover, California State University,Stanislaus (1035-42-1838)

8:30AM

(1017)Construction and reconstruction of tight frameletsand wavelets via matrix mask functions.Marcin Bownik*, University of Oregon, andZiemowit Rzeszotnik, University of Wroclaw,Poland (1035-42-424)

9:00AM

(1018)Simple smooth wavelet frames approximatingParseval frames. Preliminary report.John J. Benedetto*, Norbert Wiener Center,University of Maryland, College Park, and Emily J.King, University of Maryland, College Park(1035-42-655)

9:30AM

� (1019)β-Expansion and the Golden Ratio Encoder.Yang Wang, Michigan State University(1035-41-1797)

10:00AM

(1020)Wavelet sets that are finite unions of convex sets.Kathy D. Merrill, Colorado College (1035-42-1288)

10:30AM

(1021)Basic Ternary Digit Sets and Associated Tilings.Jeffrey C Lagarias, University of Michigan(1035-11-1377)

AMS Special Session on Low Genus Curves andApplications, II

8:00 AM – 10:50 AM


8:00AM

� (1022)An Efficient Time-Bound Hierarchical KeyManagement Scheme for Secure Broadcasting.Ning Shang*, Elisa Bertino and Samuel S.Wagstaff, Purdue University (1035-11-1146)

8:30AM

(1023)Combinatorics of Elliptic Curves and Chip-FiringGames.Gregg Musiker, Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology (1035-05-154)

9:00AM

(1024)Tate-Lichtenbaum Self Pairings and Residuosity.Preliminary report.Susan L. Schmoyer, U.S. Military Academy(1035-11-1317)

9:30AM

(1025)A Weil pairing on the p-torsion of ordinary ellipticcurves over K[ε].Juliana V. Belding, University of Maryland, CollegePark (1035-11-118)

10:00AM

(1026)A new approach to the discrete log problem on anelliptic curve.Samuel Maurycy Kadziela, University of Californiaat Irvine (1035-11-448)

10:30AM

(1027)Explicit Formulas for Real Hyperelliptic Curves ofGenus 2.Stefan Erickson*, Colorado College, Michael J.Jacobson, Jr., University of Calgary, Ning Shang,Shuo Shen, Purdue University, and Andreas Stein,University of Wyoming (1035-11-669)

AMS Special Session on Algebraic Dynamics, I

8:00 AM – 10:50 AM

Organizers: Diana M. Thomas, Montclair StateUniversityLennard F. Bakker, Brigham YoungUniversityDonald Mills, Rose-Hulman Institute ofTechnology

8:00AM

� (1028)Shift Dynamics on Partitions. Preliminary report.Brian Hopkins, Saint Peter’s College (1035-05-731)

8:30AM

(1029)Spatzier’s Conjecture and Generalized Symmetries.Preliminary report.Lennard F Bakker, Brigham Young University(1035-37-1472)

9:00AM

� (1030)Ducci Sequences in Higher Dimensions.Florian Breuer, Stellenbosch University, SouthAfrica (1035-11-388)

9:30AM

(1031)Module Shifts and Measure Rigidity in LinearCellular Automata.Marcus J. Pivato, Trent University (1035-37-739)

10:00AM

(1032)Integer Points in Backwards Orbits.Vijay Sookdeo, University of Rochester(1035-11-1479)

10:30AM

� (1033)Permutations for in-place matrix transpose.Jeff Hooper and Franklin Mendivil*, Math Dept,Acadia University (1035-11-299)

AMS Special Session on Biomathematical Modeling, I

8:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Organizers: Olcay Akman, Illinois State UniversityTimothy D. Comar, BenedictineUniversity

8:00AM

(1034)Population dynamics and differential equationswith discontinuities.Marat Akhmet, Middle East Technical University(1035-92-706)

8:30AM

� (1035)A Computational Algebra Method for BiochemicalNetwork Modeling. Preliminary report.Elena S Dimitrova*, Clemson University, ReinhardLaubenbacher and Abdul Salam Jarrah, VirginiaBioinformatics Institute (1035-92-554)

9:00AM

� (1036)A Mathematical Model of the Drosophila Heart.Genevieve Y. Toutain*, Arizona State University,Pamela Reitsma, University of Maine, and SharonCrook, Arizona State University (1035-92-400)

9:30AM

(1037)Haematopoietic modelling with stage-structure andvariable lifespan.Jacques Belair, Universite de Montreal(1035-92-1875)

10:00AM

� (1038)Detection of Optimal Protein Structures inHomology Modeling Using Various Sequence FitnessScores. Preliminary report.Keith A. Erickson, United States Military Academy(1035-92-1749)



10:30AM

� (1039)A Mathematical Model of Cholesterol Metabolism.Preliminary report.Saziye Bayram*, Joaquin Carbonara, SUNY-BuffaloState College, and Mitra S. Feizabadi, CanisiusCollege (1035-92-1740)

AMS Special Session on Dynamics and Stability ofCoherent Structures, I

8:00 AM – 10:50 AM

Organizers: Ricardo Carretero, San Diego StateUniversityJennifer M. Gorsky, University of SanDiego

8:00AM

(1040)Recent Results on Stability of Traveling Waves inNonlinear, Dispersive Media. Preliminary report.Jerry L. Bona, University of Illiniois at Chicago(1035-35-57)

8:30AM

(1041)Dynamics of ultraviolet light filament and vortexpropagation in the atmosphere.Alejandro B. Aceves*, Alexey Sukhinin, Universityof New Mexico, and Jean-Claude Diels, Departmentof Physics and Astronomy, U. of New Mexico(1035-78-2016)

9:00AM

(1042)The pole dynamics of rational solutions of theviscous Burgers equation.Bernard Deconinck, University of Washington(1035-70-463)

9:30AM

(1043)Azimuthal Modulation Stability for Vortices in theFocusing Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation.Ronald Meyer Caplan*, Computational ScienceResearch Center, San Diego State University,Ricardo Carretero, Nonlinear Dynamical SystemsGroup, San Diego State University, Enam Hoq,Western New England College, and PanayotisG. Kevrekidis, University of Massachusetts(1035-37-1803)

10:00AM

(1044)The piston dispersive shock wave problem.Mark Hoefer, National Institute of Standards andTechnology, Boulder, CO (1035-35-738)

10:30AM

(1045)Detection of Ocean Bathymetry from Surface WaveMeasurements.David P. Nicholls* and Mark Taber, University ofIllinois at Chicago (1035-76-842)

AMS Special Session on Graph Theory, III

8:00 AM – 10:50 AM


8:00AM

(1046)Saturation Numbers of Books.Guantao Chen, Georgia State University, Ralph J.Faudree*, University of Memphis, and Ron J.Gould, Emory University (1035-05-480)

8:30AM

(1047)Properly colored cycles and rainbow cycles inedge-colored graphs. Preliminary report.Tao Jiang, Miami University (1035-05-1445)

9:00AM

(1048)Rainbow decompositions.Raphael Yuster, University of Haifa (1035-05-405)

9:30AM

(1049)On transversal problems.Penny Haxell, University of Waterloo(1035-05-1496)

10:00AM

(1050)Induced-universal graphs for graphs with boundeddegree.Steve Butler, UC San Diego (1035-05-479)

10:30AM

� (1051)Large families of subsets avoiding a givenconfiguration. Preliminary report.Jerrold R. Griggs, University of South Carolina(1035-05-879)

AMS Session on Probability, Statistics, andApplications, I

8:00 AM – 10:55 AM

8:00AM

(1052)Standardized conditional expectation and itsapplications in finance. Preliminary report.Radoslav Dimitric, DBRI, Pittsburgh (1035-60-85)

8:15AM

� (1053)Quest for the constant in the expected length oflongest common subsequences. Preliminary report.Ilona Yershov, City College of New York(1035-60-577)

8:30AM

� (1054)Variations on the Menage Problem I. Preliminaryreport.Eduardo Espinola*, University of Texas El Paso,Paige Shy, University of North Carolina at Asheville,and Megan Watson, University of Texas Austin(1035-60-581)

8:45AM

� (1055)Variations on the Menage Problem II. Preliminaryreport.Megan Watson*, University of Texas, Austin,Eduardo Espinola, University of Texas, El Paso, andPaige Shy, University of North Carolina at Asheville(1035-60-586)

9:00AM

� (1056)How close are pairwise and mutual independence?Preliminary report.Roger B. Nelsen, Lewis & Clark College(1035-60-589)

9:15AM

� (1057)Biased monotonic random walks in the plane.Preliminary report.Mohammad Javaheri, University of Oregon(1035-60-644)

9:30AM

(1058)Tail Dependence of Multivariate Distributions.Yannan Sun, Washington State University(1035-60-652)

9:45AM

� (1059)Probability of ruin with dependent marginalmortality distribution. Preliminary report.Guangwei Fan, Maryville University (1035-60-850)

10:00AM

(1060)Backward Stochastic Differential Equations withJumps and Quadratic Growth.Jin Ma, University of Southern California, andMeike Niederhausen*, University of Portland(1035-60-1650)

10:15AM

(1061)Expected Length of Random Minimum Spanningtree. Preliminary report.Wenbo Li and Xinyi Zhang*, University of Delaware(1035-60-1684)

10:30AM

(1062)Checking the Censored Two-Sample Accelerated LifeModel using Integrated Cumulative HazardDifference.Seung-Hwan Lee, Illinois Wesleyan University(1035-62-904)

10:45AM

(1063)Toward Quandle Dichotomy. Preliminary report.Robert W McGrail, Mona B Merling* and JaphethWood, Bard College (1035-68-686)

AMS Session on Applications of Mathematics, III

8:00 AM – 10:55 AM

8:00AM

(1064)Reduction and reconstruction aspects ofLagrangian systems with symmetry.Tom Mestdag, University of Michigan(1035-70-1260)



8:15AM

� (1065)The Planar, Circular, Restricted Four-Body Problem.Preliminary report.Gareth E Roberts*, Julianne Kulevich andChristopher J. Smith, College of the Holy Cross(1035-70-1701)

8:30AM

(1066)Applications of reduction in the separation ofoverall rotation and internal motion in theHamiltonian dynamics of a three-body system.Preliminary report.F. J. Lin, University of Southern California(1035-70-1776)

8:45AM

� (1067)A Finite Difference Calculation Procedure for theNavier-Stokes Equation on a Staggered CartesianGrid.Bashar Zogheib*, Nova Southeastern University,and R. M. Barron, University of Windsor(1035-76-649)

9:00AM

(1068)On the stability of KdV equation with negativeforcing.Jeongwhan Choi*, Korea University, and SungimWhang, NIMS (1035-76-941)

9:15AM

(1069)Particle capture by a freezing front in a binaryalloy. Preliminary report.Justin C.T. Kao*, Alexander A. Golovin andStephen H. Davis, Engineering Sciences andApplied Mathematics / Northwestern University(1035-76-1049)

9:30AM

� (1070)Granular flow on erodible surface. Preliminaryreport.Long H Le, University of Central Arkansas(1035-76-1122)

9:45AM

(1071)Implicit Interfacing in a Ck Least Squares FiniteElement Method for a Fluid Structure InteractionProblem.Wayne M. McGee*, Texas Tech University, andPadmanabhan Seshaiyer, George Mason University(1035-76-1937)

10:00AM

� (1072)Shape analysis of droplets on patterned surfaces.Yousef Daneshbod, Universty of La Verne(1035-76-1391)

10:15AM

(1073)Polytopes and Arrangements: Diameter andCurvature.Yuriy Zinchenko*, Antoine Deza and TamasTerlaky, CAS, McMaster University (1035-90-336)

10:30AM

� (1074)Ensemble Based Simulated Annealing as Applied toConformal Radiotherapy Planning. Preliminaryreport.Abebaw Tadesse, Langston University(1035-90-358)

10:45AM

(1075)Robustness in Nonlinear Parameter Estimation withInterval Arithmetic.Humberto Munoz*, Southern University at BatonRouge, and Baker R Kearfott, University ofLouisiana at Lafayette (1035-90-1483)

MAA Session on Building Diversity in AdvancedMathematics: Models that Work

8:00 AM – 10:40 AM

Organizers: Abbe H. Herzig, University at Albany,SUNYPatricia L. Hale, California StatePolytechnic University, Pomona

8:00AM

� (1076)Diversity in Graduate Education: Learning byExample.Abbe H. Herzig*, University at Albany, StateUniversity of New York, Amy Cohen, RutgersUniversity, and David Manderscheid, University ofNebraska-Lincoln (1035-C1-1217)

8:15AM

� (1077)Diversifying a Math Graduate Program at a LargePublic University. Preliminary report.James P Lin, University of California at San Diego(1035-C1-521)

8:30AM

� (1078)Building Diversity in Advanced Mathematics: TheNorth Carolina State University Model.Aloysius G Helminck* and Steve Campbell, NorthCarolina State University (1035-C1-495)

8:45AM

� (1079)Professional Socialization as a tool to Recruit andRetain Women in Graduate Mathematics.Preliminary report.Orpha K. Ongiti, University at Albany(1035-C1-1204)

9:00AM

� (1080)The Women’s Education Equity Act: Increasingthe Representation of Women in AdvancedMathematics.Patricia Hale, California State PolytechnicUniversity, Pomona (1035-C1-1754)

9:15AM

� (1081)A Model of Academic Choice for MathematicallyTalented College Women.Judith Lynn Gieger, Oglethorpe University(1035-C1-253)

9:30AM

� (1082)The Infinite Possibilities Conference: CreatingOpportunities for Connectedness and Success forUnderrepresented Minority Women in theMathematical Sciences. Preliminary report.Kimberly S. Weems*, North Carolina StateUniversity, Tanya A. Moore, City of Berkeley,Division of Public Health, and Leona A. Harris, TheCollege of New Jersey (1035-C1-1397)

9:45AM

(1083)Evaluation of a Program to Help Minorities Succeedat College Math: U. C. Berkeley’s ProfessionalDevelopment Program.Steven Chin*, Uninversity of California at Berkeley -Professional Development Program, Jeffrey Perloff,Maoyong Fan, University of California atBerkeley, and Guido Imbens, Harvard University(1035-C1-1784)

10:00AM

� (1084)African Americans and STEM: An Examination ofOne Intervention Program.Deborah L Gochenaur, Elizabethtown College(1035-C1-1448)

10:15AM

� (1085)Montgomery College: Project Portal to Success inEngineering. Preliminary report.Miriam Carter, Sanjay Rai and Zine Boudhraa*,Montgomery College, Rockville (1035-C1-409)

10:30AM

� (1086)The MESA model: Math, Engineering, and ScienceAchievement in California.Alyson L Ponomarenko, San Diego City College(1035-C1-68)

MAA Session on Countering “I Can’t Do Math”:Strategies for Teaching Under-PreparedMath-Anxious Students Interested in Business and theSciences

8:00 AM – 10:55 AM

Organizers: Kimberly J. Presser, ShippensburgUniversityJ. Winston Crawley, ShippensburgUniversity

8:00AM

� (1087)The Math Inquiry Course: A Gentle Introduction toSophisticated Mathematical Thinking.Andrew B Perry, Springfield College(1035-E1-1907)

8:20AM

� (1088)Using Reading Questions in Trigonometry andCalculus. Preliminary report.Dianne S. Marquart, National Park CommunityCollege, Hot Springs, AR (1035-E1-1843)



8:40AM

� (1089)Precalculus with Review for Math-Intensive Majors.Preliminary report.Annela R Kelly, Roger Williams University(1035-E1-1644)

9:00AM

� (1090)“I can’t do math”— What Helps Some StudentsOvercome the Attitude?Jean M Horn*, Northern Virginia CommunityCollege - Woodbridge Campus, and Toni TRobertson, NVCC-Woodbridge (1035-E1-319)

9:20AM

� (1091)Dealing with Anxiety and Attitudes TowardsMathematics in an Algebra Classroom.Laura Schmidt, University of Wisconsin-Stout(1035-E1-370)

9:40AM

� (1092)Successful use of software in college developmentalclasses: Now being used in our high schools!Sue R. Beck, Morehead State University(1035-E1-439)

10:00AM

� (1093)Coping With Mathematics Anxiety in College: AnAnalysis of Successful Strategies for Precalculus.Fred Peskoff* and Leonid Khazanov, Borough ofManhattan Community College/CUNY(1035-E1-1166)

10:20AM

� (1094)How to shift a math-anxious student into a ”can do”place using language patterns and belief changingstrategies.Wendiann R Sethi, Seton Hall University(1035-E1-1756)

10:40AM

(1095)Individualized Remedial Prescriptions forMathematically Underprepared Students via ALEKS.Ken W Lee, Missouri Western State University(1035-E1-1522)

MAA Session on Innovative and Effective Ways toTeach Linear Algebra, II

8:00 AM – 10:55 AM

Organizers: David M. Strong, PepperdineUniversityGilbert Strang, MassachusettsInstitute of Technology

8:00AM

� (1096)More Linear Algebra for All.C. L. Greeno, MALEI Mathematics Institute(1035-M1-244)

8:20AM

� (1097)Developing Reading Comprehension in anIntroductory Linear Algebra Course. Preliminaryreport.J. Alfredo Jimenez, Penn State Hazleton(1035-M1-1477)

8:40AM

(1098)Using WeBWorK in linear algebra labs.Karen Clark* and Thomas Hagedorn, The Collegeof New Jersey (1035-M1-724)

9:00AM

(1099)Classroom Voting in Linear Algebra.Holly Zullo*, Kelly Cline and Mark Parker, CarrollCollege (1035-M1-747)

9:20AM

� (1100)Connecting Linear Algebra to the Real Worldthrough Group Presentations.Elaine T. Hale, Rice University (1035-M1-1322)

9:40AM

� (1101)More Quantum Mechanics and Linear Algebra: TheNeutrinos and Other Subatomic Particles.Itai Seggev, Knox College (1035-M1-1624)

10:00AM

� (1102)Biological Applications Illustrating Linear AlgebraConcepts.D. Brian Walton, James Madison University(1035-M1-1591)

10:20AM

(1103)Singular Value Decomposition and Digital ImageProcessing.Mohamed Allali, Chapman University(1035-M1-1342)

10:40AM

� (1104)A Remote Sensing Demo Using ENVI.Elyn Rykken* and Linda McGuire, MuhlenbergCollege (1035-M1-1270)

MAA Session on Mathematics Experiences in Business,Industry, and Government

8:00 AM – 10:45 AM

Organizers: Philip Gustafson, Mesa State CollegeMichael G. Monticino, University ofNorth Texas

8:00AM Opening remarks and BIG SIGMAA announcements.8:10AM

� (1105)Set Partitions of a Union. Preliminary report.R. Peter DeLong, Math C2 Inc (1035-O1-1765)

8:30AM

� (1106)Using mathematics to improve the automatedscoring of short constructed-response answers.Preliminary report.James H Fife, Educational Testing Service(1035-O1-1730)

8:50AM

(1107)Binary Code Imbalance and DC Bias Rejection for aSimple Hard-Limited Radar Detection Chain.Gregory Emmett Coxson, Technology ServiceCorporation (1035-O1-1933)

9:10AM

� (1108)Billiards and signal processing.David S Mazel and Greg E Coxson*, TechnologyService Corporation (1035-O1-1991)

9:30AM

(1109)What I did on my sabbatical: Experiencing the “realworld”.Mark A Mills, Central College (1035-O1-183)

9:50AM

� (1110)Longer Hamming Codes Are Better Over BPSKChannels. Preliminary report.Peter M. Jarvis, Castle Rock, CO (1035-O1-1723)

10:10AM

(1111)Problems and Solutions in Efficient, AccurateComputation of the Airy Functions in the ComplexPlane. Preliminary report.James K Beard, Medford NJ (1035-O1-1238)

10:30AM

(1112)Differential Hierarchical Game BetweenManufacturer and Retailer.Ellina Grigorieva*, Texas Woman’s University, andEvgenii Khailov, Moscow State LomonosovUniversity (1035-O1-365)

MAA General Contributed Paper Session, V

8:00 AM – 10:55 AM


Moderators: Nissa Yestness, University ofNorthern ColoradoKristi Jarman, Eastern New MexicoUniversityMahmoud Yousef, University ofCentral Missouri

8:00AM

(1113)Using the Math Fair to Connect MathematicsCurricula and Teaching Experience.Mary D Beisiegel, University of Alberta(1035-Z1-551)

8:15AM

� (1114)A Bridge to Higher Mathematics for Science andEngineering Majors. Preliminary report.Ralph W Carr, St. Cloud State University(1035-Z1-140)

8:30AM

(1115)A Minimax Entropy Principle Arising in theTreatment of Certain Multivariate Ill-PosedProblems.Fred Samuel Greensite, University of California,Irvine (1035-Z1-300)



8:45AM

� (1116)On a conjecture posed by Bertram Huppert.Thomas P Wakefield, Kent State University(1035-Z1-415)

9:00AM

� (1117)A Computer-Controlled Function Box for PlottingSurfaces. Preliminary report.Andrew E Long, Northern Kentucky University(1035-Z1-848)

9:15AM

� (1118)Functions, how well are they understood?Preliminary report.Firooz Khosraviyani*, Terutake Abe, FaridounFarrokh, Juan R. Lira, Texas A&M InternationalUniversity, and James J. McCarry, LaredoCommunity College (1035-Z1-1541)

9:30AM

� (1119)Mathematical Problems from the Maine Farmer’sAlmanac. Preliminary report.Bruce S. Burdick, Roger Williams University(1035-Z1-1914)

9:45AM

(1120)A Means for Updating and Validating MathematicsPrograms.Laurie A Dunlap, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio(1035-Z1-1144)

10:00AM

� (1121)Animations Easily Generated and Adapted For Usein Pre-Calculus through Calculus III.Brad Bailey, North Georgia Coll. & State Univ.(1035-Z1-709)

10:15AM

� (1122)Encouraging Critical Thinking With MathematicalUncertainties.Mike Pinter, Belmont University (1035-Z1-888)

10:30AM

� (1123)Online homework systems and student outcomes:Results of a two-year study. Preliminary report.Laurie Lenz, Marymount University (1035-Z1-846)

10:45AM

(1124)Biographical podcasts in a history of mathematicscourse.David S Richeson, Dickinson College(1035-Z1-875)

SIAM Minisymposium on From Global Predictions toLocal Action, III: Working Groups and Round TableDiscussion

8:00 AM – 11:00 AM

We will summarize the outstanding problems fromMonday’s sessions and define steps toward thedevelopment of integrated economic and climatemodels.Organizers: Inez Fung, Berkeley Institue of the

Environment, University of CaliforniaBerkeleyChristopher K. Jones, University ofNorth CarolinaMary Lou Zeeman, Bowdoin College

PME Council

8:00 AM – 11:00 AM

AMS Session on Numerical Analysis, I

8:15 AM – 10:40 AM

8:15AM

� (1125)Newton’s Method with Fewer Bits.Raymond B Moberly, San Diego State University(1035-65-197)

8:30AM

� (1126)Discretized Picard’s Method.James H Money, North Carolina Central University(1035-65-211)

8:45AM

� (1127)Wavelet Collocation Solution to Boundary IntegralEquation on a Domain with Corners. Preliminaryreport.Michael Cheng*, Albany College of Pharmacy,Union University, and Tzu-chu Lin, University ofWisconsin-Milwaukee (1035-65-262)

9:00AM

(1128)An Adaptive Finite Element Method with LumpedMasses for Second Order Hyperbolic PartialDifferential Equations in One Space Dimension.Preliminary report.M. Ziaul Haque, Southern Methodist University,Dallas, TX (1035-65-622)

9:15AM

(1129)A New Wavelet Multigrid Method Applied to theIncompressible Navier-Stokes Problem. Preliminaryreport.Doreen De Leon, CSU Fresno (1035-65-632)

9:30AM

(1130)GNUFFT: A Geometric Nonuniform Fast FourierTransform.Ian Sammis* and John Strain, UC Berkeley(1035-65-1137)

9:45AM

(1131)Adjoint-based algorithm for optimal control of flowwith discontinuities. Preliminary report.Wenyuan Liao, University of Calgary(1035-65-1363)

10:00AM

(1132)The Discrete Fourier Transform and FractalDimension of a Sequence of Hexagonal Arrays for aMultiresolution Digital Earth Model. Preliminaryreport.Xiqiang Zheng, University of Florida (1035-65-344)

10:15AM

� (1133)Mathematical Modeling and Simulation of BiologicalArterial Wall-Flow Interaction. Preliminary report.Padmanabhan Seshaiyer*, George MasonUniversity, Elizabeth McGinnis, Monterey HighSchool, Eugenio Aulisa, Texas Tech University, andKurt Litsch, Lubbock High School (1035-65-1614)

10:30AM

� (1134)The RBF-QR method on the surface of the sphereand two applications: Stable interpolation andsolution of a convective PDE with near-flat radialfunctions.Bengt Fornberg and Cecile Piret*, University ofColorado (1035-65-1488)

AMS Special Session on Inverse Problems inGeometry, I

8:30 AM – 10:50 AM

Organizers: Peter A. Perry, University of KentuckyCarolyn S. Gordon, Dartmouth College

8:30AM

(1135)The broken scattering relation and inverseproblems.Gunther Uhlmann*, University of Washington,Yaroslav Kurylev, University College London, andMatti Lassas, Helsinki University of Technology(1035-53-1244)

9:00AM

(1136)Partial Wave-traces for Two Classes of Examples ofSingular Spaces.M. R. Sandoval, Trinity College, Hartford,Connecticut (1035-58-1234)

9:30AM

(1137)The wave invariants on Riemannian two-stepnilmanifolds.Ruth Gornet, University of Texas at Arlington(1035-58-667)

10:00AM

(1138)Spectral Asymptotics on Heisenberg Manifolds andRelated Problems in Analytic Number Theory.Mahta Khosravi, Johns Hopkins University(1035-58-1962)

10:30AM

(1139)Spectral problems for orbifolds.Emily B. Dryden, Bucknell University(1035-58-1876)



MAA Invited Address

9:00 AM – 9:50 AM

(1140) The covering congruences of Paul Erdos.Carl Pomerance, Dartmouth College (1035-A0-19)

ASL Invited Address

9:00 AM – 9:50 AM

(1141) Model Theory and algebraic groups.Gregory L. Cherlin, Rutgers University(1035-03-267)

MAA Minicourse #12: Part B

9:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Developing department self-studies.Organizers: Donna L. Beers, Simmons College

Richard Alan Gillman, ValparaisoUniversity


9:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Teaching a Galois theory course forundergraduates.Organizer: John R. Swallow, Davidson College


9:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Directing undergraduate research.Organizer: Aparna W. Higgins, University of

Dayton

MAA Session on Biomathematics in theUndergraduate Curriculum, I

9:00 AM – 10:55 AM

Organizers: Timothy D. Comar, BenedictineUniversityOlcay Akman, Illinois State UniversityGlenn W. Ledder, University ofNebraskaLisa G. Townsley, BenedictineUniversity

9:00AM

� (1142)Concepts from Biocalculus: The Spread of aBenevolent Disease.Eric S Marland, Appalachian State University(1035-B1-964)

9:20AM

� (1143)The 1918 Influenza Pandemic: Mathematics,Biology, and History.Sheila K. Miller* and Josh Helms, United StatesMilitary Academy (1035-B1-1816)

9:40AM

� (1144)Predicting Flu Season Requirements: AnUndergraduate Modeling Project. Preliminaryreport.G R Kramlich* and J Braunstein, United StatesMilitary Academy (1035-B1-1251)

10:00AM

� (1145)Laboratory Projects for a Second Semester ofBiocalculus.Timothy D. Comar, Benedictine University(1035-B1-634)

10:20AM

(1146)A Two-Semester Sequence in Calculus and Modeling.Laurie J Heyer, Davidson College (1035-B1-1658)

10:40AM

� (1147)Probability and dynamical systems for biologystudents with minimal calculus background.Preliminary report.Glenn Ledder, University of Nebraska-Lincoln(1035-B1-1800)

AMS Special Presentation

9:00 AM – 10:55 AM

Wiki math.Organizer: William Casselman, University of

British Columbia

AMS-MAA Committee on Teaching Assistants andPart-Time Instructors Panel Discussion

9:00 AM – 10:20 AM

Becoming a teacher of college mathematics:Research on mathematics graduate students’professional development.Organizers: Kevin E. Charlwood, Washburn

UniversityLarry Chrystal, University of CaliforniaIrvineNatasha M. Speer, Michigan StateUniversity

Panelists: Jason K. Belnap, Brigham YoungUniversityShandy Hauk, University of NorthernColoradoDavid E. Meel, Bowling Green StateUniversityNatasha M. Speer


9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

AMS-MAA Grad School Fair

9:30 AM – 11:00 AM

Undergrads! Take this opportunity to meetrepresentatives from mathematical sciencesgraduate programs.


9:30 AM – 5:30 PM

ASL Invited Address

10:00 AM – 10:50 AM

(1148) Answer Set Programming.Victor Marek, University of Kentucky (1035-03-100)

Math on the Web, III

10:00 AM – 5:00 PM

10:00AM

(1149)Student answers to math homework on the Webusing proper mathematical notation: A scalable,universal approach.John Risley, WebAssign

12:30PM

(1150)One source, two outputs: Using a single LaTeX-likemarkup to generate both PDF and XHTML+MathML.William Hammond, University at Albany, StateUniversity of New York



1:30PM

(1151)Maplets for calculus.Doug Meade*, University of South Carolina, andPhilip Yasskin*, Texas A&M University

2:30PM

(1152)Project CALC on the Web.Lawrence Moore* and David Smith*, DukeUniversity

3:30PM

(1153)The use of MathML and interactive online oraclesthrough Maplesoft’s new student help center.Tom Lee, Maplesoft

4:30PM

(1154)MathType ∈ Word ∩ TeX ∩ Wikipedia.Robert Miner, Design Science, Inc.

AMS Special Presentation

10:00 AM – 10:55 AM

Who wants to be a mathematician.Organizers: Michael A. Breen, AMS

William T. Butterworth, DePaulUniversity

AMS Invited Address

10:05 AM – 10:55 AM

(1155) A new mathematical frontier: The social andbehavioral sciences.Donald G. Saari, University of California Irvine(1035-91-04)

AMS-MAA Invited Address

11:10 AM – NOON

� (1156) The mathematics of PageRank.Fan Chung, University of California San Diego(1035-05-21)

AMS Colloquium Lecture: Lecture III

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

(1157) Random conformally invariant pictures (Part III).Wendelin Werner, University of Paris-Sud(1035-00-11)

ASL Invited Address

1:00 PM – 1:50 PM

(1158) Proof complexity after NP �= coNP.Pavel R. Hrubes, Czech Academy of Sciences(1035-03-102)

MAA Lecture for Students

1:00 PM – 1:50 PM

(1159) The Riemann Hypothesis.J. Brian Conrey, The American Institute ofMathematics (1035-A0-39)

AMS Current Events Bulletin

1:00 PM – 4:45 PM

Organizer: David Eisenbud, University ofCalifornia Berkeley

1:00PM

(1160)Invisibility.Gunther Uhlmann*, University of Washington,Allan Greenleaf, University of Rochester, YaroslavKurylev, University College London, and MattiLassas, Helsinki University of Technology(1035-35-1241)

2:00PM

� (1161)Birational Geometry: Old and New.Antonella Grassi, Univeristy of Pennsylvania(1035-14-1565)

3:00PM

(1162)Conformal Invariance and 2-d Statistical Physics.Gregory F. Lawler, University of Chicago(1035-60-1518)

4:00PM

(1163)Why are solitons stable?Terence C Tao, UCLA (1035-35-559)

AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research inMathematics by Undergraduates, III

1:00 PM – 5:50 PM


1:00PM

� (1164)Shifts of Generators and Delta Sets of NumericalMonoids.Tyler Lemburg*, University of Nebraska–Lincoln,Christina Zlogar, Cornell University, AndrewNiles, University of Rochester, Nathan Kaplan,Princeton University, and Scott Chapman, TrinityUniversity (1035-20-150)

1:30PM

� (1165)An Algebraic Approach to Characterizing GraphInvariants, with an Emphasis towards Computation.Preliminary report.Elliot Andrew Paquette, Kalamazoo College(1035-05-380)

2:00PM

� (1166)The Lie Symmetry Groups of Minimal Surfaces.Evelyn Leigh Crofts*, UC Berkeley, and DarrenOng, Texas Christian University (1035-22-704)

2:30PM

� (1167)Pricing the Asian Call Option.Harrison Potter*, Marietta College, Brigham YoungUniversity REU, Vinh Xuan Dang, Brigham YoungUniversity, Brigham Young University REU, ScottGlasgow, Brigham Young University, and StephenTaylor, Brigham Young University, SUNY StonyBrook (1035-60-637)

3:00PM

� (1168)Analytical connections between nonlinear coupledoscillator models.Rytis Umbrasas, Lafayette College (1035-34-630)

3:30PM

� (1169)A Buckling Problem for Graphene Sheets.J. Gallagher, Rochester Institute of Technology, Y.Milman, City University of New York, S. Ryan*, D.Golovaty, J. P. Wilber and A. Buldum, TheUniversity of Akron (1035-74-612)

4:00PM

� (1170)Self-intersection properties of generalized Kochcurves. Preliminary report.Michael Cantrell*, Yale University, and RobertPrice*, Rider University (1035-51-552)

4:30PM

� (1171)Classification of Subgroups of a Matrix Group ofPrime Power Order. Preliminary report.Natalie J. Bowlus*, Swarthmore College, and AlexHalperin*, Rochester University (1035-20-440)

5:00PM

(1172)Lost on a Torus.Marc Allen Pereira* and Mark Andrew Tokarz,Westfield State College (1035-54-1558)

5:30PM

(1173)Flat cyclotomic polynomials.Nathan Kaplan, Princeton University(1035-11-2058)



AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics,II

1:00 PM – 5:50 PM


1:00PM

� (1174)The early history of F = ma: approaches to centralforce motion at the beginning of the eighteenthcentury.Niccolo0 Guicciardini, Universita’ di Bergamo(Italy) (1035-01-334)

1:30PM

(1175)Richard Dedekind (1831–1916): A path-breakingmathematician.Israel Kleiner, York University (1035-01-374)

2:00PM

(1176)Publishing Research: Specialized MathematicalJournals in Italy (1850-1914).Laura Martini, Siena, Italy (1035-01-347)

2:30PM

� (1177)Lord Kelvin—the Irish connection.Raymond G. Flood, Kellogg College, OxfordUniversity (1035-01-391)

3:00PM

� (1178)Formulas, concepts, and the “Jacobi limit”:Observations on change in late-nineteenth-centurymathematics. Preliminary report.Tom Archibald, Simon Fraser University(1035-01-221)

3:30PM

(1179)Jacques Hadamard (1865-1963) and the Calculusof Variations. Preliminary report.Craig G. Fraser, University of Toronto(1035-01-592)

4:00PM

� (1180)How influential was mechanics in the developmentof neo-classical economics?Ivor Grattan-Guinness, Middlesex University, UK(1035-03-318)

4:30PM

� (1181)“Anti-aircraft guns all day long”: Computing for theMinistry of Munitions.June E Barrow-Green, The Open University, MiltonKeynes, UK (1035-01-279)

5:00PM

� (1182)L.S. Pontrjagin’s letters to I.I. Gordon. Preliminaryreport.Evgeny I Gordon, Eastern Illinois University(1035-01-278)

5:30PM

(1183)Mathematicians fleeing from Hitler’s Germany.Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze, University of Agder,Kristiansand (Norway) (1035-01-332)

AMS Special Session on Financial Mathematics, II

1:00 PM – 5:55 PM


1:00PM

(1184)Toric models for correlated defaults. Preliminaryreport.Xin Guo*, Onur Filiz, Jason Morton and BerndSturmfels, UC Berkeley (1035-60-1554)

1:30PM

(1185)Modeling dependence between stochastic processeswith applications to finance.Tomasz R Bielecki*, Illinois Institute ofTechnology, Jacek Jakubowski, Warsaw University,Andrea Vidozzi and Luca Vidozzi, Illinois Instituteof Technology (1035-60-1365)

2:00PM

(1186)Local Volatility Stochastic Dynamics as a BuildingBlock for Equity Market Models.Rene A Carmona, Princeton University(1035-60-308)

3:00PM

� (1187)Geometries and Smile Asymptotics for a Class ofStochastic Volatility Models. Preliminary report.Alan L. Lewis, optioncity.net (1035-60-203)

3:30PM

(1188)Multiscale Stochastic Volatility Diffusion Models.Jean-Pierre Fouque, U.C. Santa Barbara, GeorgePapanicolaou, Stanford University, Ronnie Sircar*,Princeton University, and Knut Solna, U.C. Irvine(1035-91-1368)

4:00PM

� (1189)Developments in Volatility Derivatives Pricing.Jim Gatheral, Merrill Lynch, NY and CourantInstitute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU(1035-91-356)

5:00PM

(1190)Hedging Variance Options on ContinuousSemimartingales.Roger Lee, University of Chicago (1035-60-297)

5:30PM

(1191)On the Finite Time Horizon American Put Option forJump Diffusions: A Smoothness Proof and anExponentially Fast Algorithm.Erhan Bayraktar, University of Michigan(1035-60-252)

AMS Special Session on Representation Theory andNonassociative Algebras

1:00 PM – 5:50 PM

Organizers: Murray R. Bremner, University ofSaskatchewanIrvin R. Hentzel, Iowa State UniversityLuiz A. Peresi, University of Sao Paulo

1:00PM

(1192)Nonassociative algebra structures onrepresentations of Lie algebras. Preliminary report.Andrew Douglas, New York City College ofTechnology (CUNY) (1035-17-1387)

1:30PM

(1193)Fine gradings on e 6.Cristina Draper*, Candido Martın and AntonioViruel, Universidad de Malaga (1035-17-855)

2:00PM

(1194)Free split-null extensions of Lie triple systems.Nora C. Hopkins, Indiana State University(1035-17-1083)

2:30PM

(1195)Weyl modules for hyper loop algebras.Dijana Jakelic*, University of Illinois at Chicago,and Adriano A. Moura, University of Campinas(1035-17-1052)

3:00PM

(1196)Leibniz algebras and their coquecigrues.Michael K Kinyon, University of Denver(1035-17-1599)

3:30PM

(1197)Finite-Dimensional Representations of Hyper LoopAlgebras Over Non-Algebraically Closed Fields.Dijana Jakelic, University of Illinois at Chicago(UIC), and Adriano Moura*, University of Campinas(UNICAMP) (1035-20-1018)

4:00PM

(1198)Nonassociative bialgebras and loops.Jacob Mostovoy, Instituto de Matematicas (UnidadCuernavaca), Universidad Nacional Autonoma deMexico, and Jose M. Perez-Izquierdo*, Universidadde La Rioja (1035-17-1188)



4:30PM

(1199)Pro-finite p-adic Lie algebras.David M Riley, The University of Western Ontario(1035-17-1208)

5:00PM

� (1200)Finite Semifields: Theory and ComputationalMethods.Ignacio Fernandez Rua, Universidad de Oviedo(1035-17-885)

5:30PM

(1201)The isomorphism problem for restricted envelopingalgebras.Hamid Usefi, University of British Columbia(1035-17-759)

AMS Special Session on Secant Varieties and RelatedTopics, II

1:00 PM – 5:50 PM

Organizers: Christopher S. Peterson, ColoradoState UniversityHirotachi Abo, University of IdahoAnthony V. Geramita, Queen’sUniversity and University of Genoa

1:00PM

� (1202)Secant varieties and ideals.Luca Chiantini, Universita’ di Siena, Italy(1035-14-1184)

2:00PM

(1203)Hilbert functions of fat points in P2 whose supportis a pseudo-linear configuration.Susan Cooper, California Polytechnic StateUniversity, Brian Harbourne*, University ofNebraska-Lincoln, and Zach Teitler, Texas A&MUniversity (1035-14-1113)

2:30PM

(1204)Comparing Powers and Symbolic Powers of Ideals.Cristiano Bocci*, ITIS A. Avogadro, Abbadia S.S.,Italy, and Brian Harbourne, University of Nebraskaat Lincoln (1035-14-654)

3:00PM

(1205)Regularity and normality of secant varieties.Peter Vermeire, Central Michigan University(1035-14-275)

3:30PM

(1206)Multisecants of surfaces in projective fourspace.Kristian Ranestad, University of Oslo(1035-14-1089)

4:30PM

(1207)Rational normal curves in projective space.Enrico Carlini*, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy,and Maria Virginia Catalisano, University of Genoa(1035-14-1021)

5:00PM

(1208)Secant varieties and statistical models.Elizabeth S. Allman* and John A. Rhodes,University of Alaska Fairbanks (1035-60-1182)

5:30PM

(1209)Algebraic factor analysis.Mathias Drton, University of Chicago, BerndSturmfels, University of California, Berkeley, andSeth Sullivant*, Harvard University (1035-14-255)

AMS Special Session on Wavelet Sets and Tilings ofRn, II

1:00 PM – 5:50 PM

Organizers: Kathy D. Merrill, Colorado CollegeLawrence W. Baggett, University ofColorado, BoulderJudith A. Packer, University ofColorado, Boulder

1:00PM

(1210)Wavelets and Coxeter Groups.Mihaela Dobrescu*, CNU, and Gestur Olafsson,LSU (1035-47-1433)

1:30PM

(1211)Coxeter Groups and Wavelet Sets.David R. Larson*, Texas A&M University, and PeterMassopust, Technische University, Munich(1035-42-1550)

2:00PM

(1212)Three-way tiling sets in the plane.Gestur Olafsson*, Louisiana State University,David Larson, Texas A&M, and Peter Massopust,GSF-National Research Center for Environment andHealth and the University of Munich (1035-42-1356)

2:30PM

(1213)The Steinhaus tiling problem for lattices in Rn.R. Daniel Mauldin, University of North Texas(1035-51-1121)

3:00PM

(1214)Minimally supported frequency composite dilationwavelets. Preliminary report.Jeffrey D. Blanchard, University of Utah(1035-42-1413)

3:30PM

(1215)Orthogonal exponentials with respect to convolutionmeasures and iterated function systems.Keri Kornelson*, Grinnell College, PalleJorgensen, University of Iowa, and Karen Shuman,Grinnell College (1035-42-1063)

4:00PM

(1216)Moments and iterated function systems. Preliminaryreport.Palle Jorgensen, University of Iowa, KeriKornelson and Karen Shuman*, Grinnell College(1035-46-1065)

4:30PM

(1217)Use of radix representations and solenoid inunderstanding geometries of wavelet sets.Palle E. T. Jorgensen, University of Iowa(1035-42-24)

5:00PM

(1218)Fractal Wavelet Frames. Preliminary report.Jonas D’Andrea, University of Colorado at Boulder(1035-43-1787)

5:30PM

(1219)Entropy Encoding using Karhunen-Loeve transformin Wavelet Image Compression.Myung-Sin Song, Southern Illinois UniversityEdwardsville (1035-42-673)

AMS Special Session on Low Genus Curves andApplications, III

1:00 PM – 5:40 PM


1:00PM

(1220)Isogenies and the Discrete Logarithm Problem inGenus Three.Benjamin Smith, INRIA Futurs / Royal Holloway,University of London (1035-11-1289)

2:00PM

(1221)Using complex multiplication to count points onelliptic curves.Alice Silverberg, University of California, Irvine(1035-11-729)

2:30PM

(1222)Modular polynomials for genus 2.Reinier Broker, Microsoft Research (1035-14-1227)

3:30PM Break.4:00PM

(1223)Elliptic factors in the Jacobian varieties of lowgenus curves.Jennifer Paulhus, Kansas State University(1035-11-1638)

4:30PM

(1224)Nonisomorphic curves that become isomorphic overextensions of coprime degree.Daniel Goldstein, Center for CommunicationsResearch, La Jolla, Robert M. Guralnick, Universityof Southern California, Everett W. Howe*, Centerfor Communications Research, La Jolla, andMichael E. Zieve, Center for CommunicationsResearch, Princeton (1035-11-765)

5:00PM

(1225)Elliptic Nets.Katherine E Stange, Brown University(1035-11-1830)



AMS Special Session on Learning and Math GraduateStudents in K–12 Classroom

1:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Organizers: Richard S. Millman, University ofKentuckyLoyce M. Adams, University ofWashingtonOvertoun M. Jenda, Auburn UniversityM. Helena Noronha, California StateUniversity, Northridge

1:00PM

� (1226)The Algebra Cubed GK–12 program of theUniversity of Kentucky in Bath and Powell counties.Richard S. Millman, University of Kentucky(1035-97-160)

1:30PM

(1227)The University of Washington’s GK–12 Program inMathematics.Loyce M. Adams, University of Washington(1035-97-320)

2:00PM

� (1228)Graduate student panel on the effect of graduatestudents on content knowledge issues in the K–12classroom.Daniel Kiteck*, University of Kentucky, EmilySchnitger*, California State University, Northridge,and Matthew Wells*, University of Kentucky(1035-97-1278)

3:00PM

� (1229)The Effects of a K–12 Classroom Experience onGraduate Fellows’ Personal Pedagogies.Rachelle R Bouchat*, Erin Militzer*, University ofKentucky, Cynthia Shepherd* and EmilySchnitger*, California State University, Northridge(1035-97-1292)

4:00PM

� (1230)FERMAT, a GK–12 Project at California StateUniversity Northridge.M. Helena Noronha, California State UniversityNorthridge (1035-97-790)

4:30PM

(1231)Effects of the University of Washington’s GK–12project on fellows’ teaching pedagogy and onelementary school teachers’ and students’ contentknowledge.Kim Gunnerson*, University of Washington,Federico Prado*, University of Washington, BiologyDepartment, Christiine Lind*, University ofWashington, and Mebbie Landsness*, StoughtonHigh School (1035-97-745)

5:30PM

� (1232)Discussion of integration of math research in theK–12 classroom.Cynthia Flores*, California State University,Northridge, Tricia Muldoon*, University ofKentucky, and Yeranuhi Semerdjian*, CaliforniaState University, Northridge (1035-97-1215)

AMS Special Session on Algebraic Dynamics, II

1:00 PM – 5:50 PM

Organizers: Diana M. Thomas, Montclair StateUniversityLennard F. Bakker, Brigham YoungUniversityDonald Mills, Rose-Hulman Institute ofTechnology

1:00PM

(1233)Interval-exchange transformations over algebraicnumber fields.Franco Vivaldi*, Queen Mary, University of London,and John H Lowenstein, New York University(1035-37-172)

2:00PM

(1234)Twist-wise flow equivalence and matrices over anon-PID ring.Michael C. Sullivan, Southern Illinois University -Carbondale (1035-15-147)

2:30PM

(1235)Intersections of polynomial orbits, and a dynamicalMordell-Lang conjecture.Dragos Ghioca, University of Lethbridge, ThomasJ. Tucker*, University of Rochester, and Michael E.Zieve, Princeton, NJ (1035-11-264)

3:00PM

(1236)S-Integral Preperiodic Points for Dynamical Systemsover Number Fields.Clayton Petsche, CUNY Graduate Center(1035-11-1474)

3:30PM

(1237)The algebraic entropy of the automorphism groupof a cubic polynomial on R

3.Richard J Brown, Johns Hopkins University(1035-37-845)

4:00PM

� (1238)Intersections of polynomial orbits.Dragos Ghioca, University of Lethbridge, Thomas JTucker, University of Rochester, and Michael EZieve*, Center for Communications Research(Princeton) (1035-12-82)

4:30PM

� (1239)Dynamical systems on the Riemann sphere.Morgan Sherman, California State University,Channel Islands (1035-53-2000)

5:00PM

(1240)The branch locus in one-dimensional Pisotsubstitution tiling spaces.Marcy Barge*, Montana State University, BeverlyDiamond, College of Charleston, and RichardSwanson, Montana State University (1035-55-345)

5:30PM

(1241)Algebraic actions of the discrete Heisenberg group.Preliminary report.Douglas Lind, University of Washington(1035-37-152)

AMS Special Session on Applications of ComputerAlgebra in Enumerative and Algebraic Combinatorics

1:00 PM – 5:55 PM

Organizers: Akalu Tefera, Grand Valley StateUniversityMoa Apagodu, VirginiaCommonwealth University

1:00PM

(1242)Further developments in MacMahon’s partitionanalysis.George E. Andrews*, The Pennsylvania StateUniversity, and Peter Paule, Research Institute forSymbolic Computation, Johannes Kepler UniversityLinz (1035-05-149)

1:30PM

� (1243)How to Cleverly Count Pattern-Avoiding Words.Lara K. Pudwell, Rutgers University (1035-05-1086)

2:00PM

(1244)Solving Multivariate Linear Recurrences in Wedges.Marko Petkovsek, University of Ljubljana(1035-05-1216)

2:30PM

� (1245)Multi-Summation in Difference Fields.Carsten Schneider, RISC, J. Kepler University(1035-33-1044)

3:00PM

(1246)The q-WZ Method for Infinite Sums.William Y. C. Chen* and Ernest X. W. Xia, NankaiUniversity (1035-33-1631)

3:30PM

(1247)Smoothness and Rational Smoothness in AffineGrassmannians.Sara C. Billey* and Stephen A. Mitchell, Universityof Washington (1035-05-1637)

4:00PM

� (1248)Computer-Generated Conjectures(!) and Proofs(!!) inCombinatorial Game Theory.Doron Zeilberger* and Thotsaporn “Aek”Thanatipanonda, Rutgers University(1035-05-1237)



4:30PM

� (1249)Computer-Generated Conjectures(!) and Proofs(!!) inCombinatorial Game Theory (II).Thotsaporn “Aek” Thanatipanonda, RutgersUniversity (1035-05-1296)

5:00PM

� (1250)Enumerating the Saneblidze-Umble diagonal inHaskell.Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson,Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena, Germany(1035-05-110)

5:30PM

(1251)Implementing Algebraic Combinatorics:Some feedback from the development ofMuPAD-Combinat.Nicolas Thiery, Univ Paris-Sud, Laboratorie deMathematiques d’Orsay; UC Davis (1035-05-1853)

AMS Special Session on Biomathematical Modeling, II

1:00 PM – 5:50 PM

Organizers: Olcay Akman, Illinois State University

Timothy D. Comar, BenedictineUniversity

1:00PM

� (1252)Angiogenic Signaling in Tumor Development:Pharmacological Inhibition, Analysis, and Models.Mike Martin, Johnson County Community College(1035-92-1950)

1:30PM

(1253)Stability in a simplified version of the Jia Lipopulation model for wild and transgenicmosquitoes including heterogeneity.Hubertus F von Bremen*, California StatePolytechnic University Pomona, Pomona, California,and Shyanah D’Amico, California Edison(1035-92-1899)

2:00PM

� (1254)Predator-prey interaction in a size-structuredmodel.Glenn Ledder* and J David Logan, University ofNebraska-Lincoln (1035-92-1790)

2:30PM

(1255)An Application of Kohonen Self-Organizing FeatureMaps in Ecology.Olcay Akman and Andrew L Thurman*, IllinoisState University (1035-62-666)

3:00PM

(1256)The Dynamics of One-Predator Two-Prey Systems.Timothy D. Comar*, Joy Holowicki and DebraWitczak, Benedictine University (1035-92-635)

3:30PM

(1257)Parameter Estimation for a Mathematical Model ofErythropoiesis.Azmy S Ackleh, University of Louisiana atLafayette, and Jeremy J Thibodeaux*, University ofCentral Oklahoma (1035-92-1167)

4:00PM

� (1258)Computational Strategies in the Evaluation ofAttention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).Raina S. Robeva*, Sweet Briar College, and TimLoboschefski, Department of Psychology, SweetBriar College (1035-92-1125)

4:30PM

(1259)Length-Biased and Current Duration Sampling.Broderick Oluyede, Georgia Southern University(1035-62-598)

5:00PM

� (1260)Modeling Mammalian Hibernation.Marshall Hampton* and Matthew T Andrews,Univ. Minnesota Duluth (1035-92-1571)

5:30PM

� (1261)Continuum Models for the Spread of Alcohol Abuse.Preliminary report.Zeynep Teymuroglu, University of Cincinnati(1035-92-241)

AMS Special Session on Expanders and RamanujanGraphs: Construction and Applications, I

1:00 PM – 5:20 PM

Organizers: Michael T. Krebs, California StateUniversity, Los AngelesAnthony M. Shaheen, California StateUniversity, Los AngelesAudrey A. Terras, University ofCalifornia San Diego

1:00PM

� (1262)Zigzag product, expander constructions,connections and applications.Avi Wigderson, Institute for Advanced Study,Princeton (1035-68-659)

2:00PM

(1263)On the Ramanujancy of Heisenberg graphs of order6 or more.Michelle DeDeo*, Univ. of North Florida, VincentDang and Yang Ge, Jacksonville, FL (1035-11-1076)

2:30PM

(1264)Constructing Expander Graphs using theGeneralized Riemann Hypothesis.David Y Jao, University of Waterloo (1035-11-1490)

3:00PM

(1265)Symmetric Group Characters and Applications.Yuval Roichman, Bar-Ilan University, Israel(1035-05-994)

4:00PM

(1266)Exact Groups, K-theory, and Expanders.Paul Frank Baum, Penn State University(1035-20-774)

5:00PM

(1267)Expansion and Product Decompositions of FiniteGroups: Variations on a Theme of Gowers.Laszlo Babai*, University of Chicago, NikolayNikolov, Imperial College, London, and LaszloPyber, Renyi Institute, Budapest (1035-05-802)

AMS Special Session on Dynamics and Stability ofCoherent Structures, II

1:00 PM – 5:50 PM

Organizers: Ricardo Carretero, San Diego StateUniversityJennifer M. Gorsky, University of SanDiego

1:00PM

� (1268)Solitons and the Inverse Scattering Method.Robert M. Miura, New Jersey Institute ofTechnolody (1035-35-486)

1:30PM

� (1269)Formation of vortices, vortex lines and vortex ringsin sliced condensates.Ricardo Carretero*, San Diego State University,Panayotis G. Kevrekidis, Nathaniel Whitaker,University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Dimitri J.Frantzeskakis, University of Athens, and Brian P.Anderson, University of Arizona (1035-37-2023)

2:00PM

(1270)Krein Signature for Non-selfadjoint SpectralProblems.Richard Kollar, University of Michigan(1035-34-1721)

2:30PM

(1271)Defect Eigenvalues and Diophantine Equations viathe Evan’s function. Preliminary report.Jared C Bronski*, University of IllinoisUrbana-Champaign, and Zoi Rapti, University ofIllinois (1035-34-1468)

3:00PM

(1272)Semi-strong pulse interaction in thermally detunedPNLS equation.Keith Promislow*, Michigan State University, andRichard Moore, NJIT (1035-35-1160)

3:30PM

(1273)Unique continuation for Camassa-Holm andDegasperis-Procesi equations.A. Alexandrou Himonas, Unviersity of Notre Dame(1035-35-1012)



4:00PM

(1274)Breather solutions in the discrete NLS withparametric forcing.Panayotis Panayotaros, Universidad NacionalAutonoma de Mexico (1035-37-360)

4:30PM

(1275)Wave Propagation in Phononic Crystals.Mason Alexander Porter, University of Oxford(1035-70-50)

5:00PM

� (1276)Numerical experiments on the propagation andinteraction of well-prepared and non-well-preparedpulses in dispersive media. Preliminary report.Christopher Chong*, University of Karlsruhe,Germany, and Guido Schneider, University ofStuttgart, Germany (1035-35-226)

5:30PM

(1277)A diagnostic tool for ergodicity.Sherry E Scott*, Marquette University, Chris Jones,University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, IgorMezic, University of California Santa Barbara,Thomas Corey Redd, Louisiana State UniversityBaton Rouge, and Leonid Kuznetsov, SusquehannaInternational Group, LLP (1035-37-116)

AMS Special Session on Inverse Problems inGeometry, II

1:00 PM – 5:50 PM

Organizers: Peter A. Perry, University of Kentucky

Carolyn S. Gordon, Dartmouth College

1:00PM

(1278)Can you hear the shape of an analytic drum:Higher dimensions.Steve Zelditch, Johns Hopkins University(1035-35-839)

1:30PM

(1279)Counting nodal lines which touch the boundary ofan analytic domain. Preliminary report.John A. Toth*, McGill University, and SteveZelditch, Johns Hopkins University (1035-58-849)

2:00PM

(1280)Upper and lower bounds on resonances formanifolds hyperbolic near infinity.David Borthwick, Emory University (1035-58-999)

2:30PM

(1281)Metric Degeneration and Spectral Convergence.J M Rowlett, University of California at SantaBarbara (1035-58-1187)

3:00PM

(1282)Scattering with Singular Muira Potentials on theLine.Christopher S Frayer, University of Kentucky(1035-00-1013)

3:30PM Break.

4:00PM

(1283)A negative mass theorem for the 2-torus.Kate Okikiolu, University of California, San Diego(1035-58-1835)

4:30PM

(1284)Length and eigenvalue equivalence.D. B. McReynolds*, University of Chicago,Christopher J Leininger, University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign, Walter D. Neumann, BarnardCollege, Columbia University, and Alan W. Reid,University of Texas (1035-51-854)

5:00PM

(1285)Semiclassical analogues of the heat invariants.Preliminary report.Alejandro Uribe, University of Michigan(1035-58-1225)

5:30PM

(1286)Equivalence of geometric quantizations ofisospectral manifolds.William D Kirwin, Max Planck Institute forMathematics in the Natural Sciences(1035-53-1502)


1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Teaching and the philosophy of mathematics.Organizer: Martin E. Flashman, Humboldt State

University


1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Some deterministic models in mathematical biologyand their simulations.Organizers: Cammey Cole Manning, Meredith

CollegeHuseyin Kocak, University of MiamiJames F. Selgrade, North CarolinaState University


1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Classroom response systems: Teaching withclickers.Organizers: Derek Bruff, Vanderbilt University

Matthew Leingang, Harvard UniversityKelly Cline, Carroll CollegeMark R. Parker, Carroll CollegeHolly S. Zullo, Carroll College

AMS Session on Algebra and Group Theory, III

1:00 PM – 4:55 PM

1:00PM

(1287)Finite Index Subgroups of R. Thompson’s Group F.Bronlyn Wassink*, SUNY at Binghamton, andCollin Bleak, University of Nebraska-Lincoln(1035-20-1099)

1:15PM

(1288)Endomorphism Rings of Representations of S5 inCharacteristic 2.Jennifer Froelich, The University of Iowa(1035-20-1118)

1:30PM

(1289)An Examination of Subgroups that Satisfy theFrattini Argument or Strong Frattini Argument.Joseph Evan, King’s College (1035-20-1228)

1:45PM

� (1290)The Probability that Two Elements of a SemigroupCommute. Preliminary report.Berit Nilsen Givens, Cal Poly Pomona(1035-20-1384)

2:00PM

(1291)If You Can Expand a Group to a Semigroup, WhatCan You Expand a Semigroup to?Rebecca Noonan Heale, Department ofMathematics and the Maxwell Institute forMathematical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University(1035-20-1585)

2:15PM

(1292)Pseudo-Levi subgroups and finite double cosetcollections. Preliminary report.W Ethan Duckworth, Loyola College in Maryland(1035-20-1697)

2:30PM

� (1293)Examples of Non-Rigid CAT(0) Groups from theCategory of Knot Groups.Christopher P Mooney, University ofWisconsin-Milwaukee (1035-20-1814)

2:45PM

(1294)Subsemigroups of βS containing the idempotents.Neil Hindman*, Howard University, and DonaStrauss, University of Leeds (1035-22-891)

3:00PM Break



3:15PM

(1295)Realizations of intersection matrix algebras.Preliminary report.Sandeep Bhargava, York University, Toronto(1035-17-476)

3:30PM

(1296)The Centroid of the Cheng-Kac JordanSuperalgebras. Preliminary report.Pamela A Richardson, Westminster College(1035-17-660)

3:45PM

(1297)Vertex Algebras and Strongly Homotopy LieAlgebras.Daniel F. Pinzon, University of Arkansas at FortSmith (1035-17-1887)

4:00PM

(1298)Combinatorics of Crystal Bases for CertainDemazure Modules.Julie C Beier, North Carolina State University(1035-17-1989)

4:15PM

(1299)The structure of endomorphism monoids inconjugate categories. Preliminary report.Randall D. Helmstutler* and Roberto Palomba,University of Mary Washington (1035-18-1045)

4:30PM

(1300)Covers for Interpretations.Daniel Kiteck, University of Kentucky(1035-18-1930)

4:45PM

� (1301)The minimum rank problem over finite fields.Preliminary report.Jason Grout, Iowa State University (1035-15-1905)

AMS Session on Abstract Harmonic Analysis andOperator Theory, II

1:00 PM – 5:10 PM

1:00PM

(1302)Variation of the Radon Transform.James V. Peters, Long Island University(1035-44-20)

1:15PM

(1303)A Class of Calderon-Zygmund Integral Operators.Jean-Paul Pemba, Prairie View A&M University(1035-44-712)

1:30PM

(1304)A Rees Product for Topological Semihypergroup.Norbert N. Youmbi, Saint Francis University(1035-43-920)

1:45PM

(1305)Admissibility for Generalized 2d Oscillator Groups.Brad Currey and Tom McNamara*, St. LouisUniversity (1035-43-1396)

2:00PM

� (1306)Discrete and Continuous Optimization of AssetReplacement in Economics and OR.Yuri Yatsenko*, Houston Baptist University, andNatali Hritonenko, Prairie View A&M University(1035-45-386)

2:15PM

(1307)On the Mean Value Theorems for Functions of TwoVariables. Preliminary report.Nasser Dastrange, Buena Vista University(1035-26-944)

2:30PM

� (1308)A New Approach to Totally Positive Functions andSequences.Michael I. Ganzburg, Hampton University(1035-26-105)

2:45PM

(1309)Strongly Quasibounded Maximal MonotonePerturbations for the Berkovits-MustonenTopological Degree Theory.Dhruba R. Adhikari*, Mississippi University forWomen, Columbus, Mississippi, and AthanassiosG. Kartsatos, University of South Florida, Tampa,Florida (1035-47-468)

3:00PM Break3:15PM

(1310)Block matrix operators and p-hyponormality.Preliminary report.George R. Exner*, Bucknell University, Il Bong Jungand Mi Ryeong Lee, Kyungpook National University(1035-47-568)

3:30PM

(1311)On nonstandard nonlinear spectral theory.Dan D. Pascali, Courant Institute, New YorkUniversity (1035-47-578)

3:45PM

(1312)Toeplitz-composition C∗-algebras with piecewisecontinuous symbols.Rebecca Schmitz, University of Virginia(1035-47-692)

4:00PM

� (1313)Linear Operators on Some Fractional p-adic HilbertSpaces. Preliminary report.Toka Diagana, Howard University (1035-47-827)

4:15PM

(1314)Topological Degree Theory for Multivalued DenselyDefined (S+)L- Perturbation of Multivalued MaximalMonotone Operators in Reflexive Banach Spaces.Preliminary report.Boubakari Ibrahimou, University of South Florida(1035-47-940)

4:30PM

(1315)Stepanov-like Almost Automorphic Solutions forNonlocal Cauchy Problems. Preliminary report.Peter Frempong-Mireku* and Haewon Lee, DillardUniversity (1035-47-974)

4:45PM

(1316)A Uniqueness Result for Unitary Group.Alexandru G Atim, University of North Texas(1035-47-1098)

5:00PM

(1317)Classes of Stable Complex Matrices Defined via theTheorems of Gersgorin and Lyapunov.Sivaram K. Narayan, Central Michigan University(1035-47-1404)

AMS Session on Numerical Analysis, II

1:00 PM – 3:55 PM

1:00PM

(1318)On the Validity and Order of Convergence of aNovel Numerical Method for Models in PopulationBiology.Kailash C. Patidar* and Jo-anne Wyngaardt,University of the Western Cape (1035-65-117)

1:15PM

(1319)An application of quaternions to a problem inposition registration.Carl Toews, Duquesne University (1035-65-1997)

1:30PM

(1320)Numerical Analysis of Approximate DeconvolutionModels of Turbulence.Iuliana Stanculescu, University of Pittsburgh(1035-65-1911)

1:45PM

(1321)An Iterative Substructuring Algorithm for C0

Interior Penalty Methods.Kening Wang*, University of North Florida, andBrenner, Louisiana State University (1035-65-1877)

2:00PM

� (1322)Numerical study of a set of differential boundaryconditions for a problem of constrained evolution.Preliminary report.Alexander M. Alekseenko, California StateUniversity, Northridge (1035-65-1798)

2:15PM

(1323)An efficient algorithm for the solution ofhigh-frequency scattering by infinite roughsurfaces.Harun Kurkcu* and Fernando Reitich, Universityof Minnesota (1035-65-1509)

2:30PM

� (1324)Adaptive panel method for partical simulation ofthree dimensional vortex sheet motion.Leon Kaganovskiy*, New College of Florida, andRobert Krasny, University of Michigan Ann Arbor(1035-65-1652)

2:45PM

(1325)Unorthodox Approach to Solve an OverdeterminedSystem.Saadat Moussavi, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh(1035-65-1825)



3:00PM

(1326)A Parametric Sensitivity Analysis for Fluid Models.Preliminary report.Faranak Pahlevani, The City University of NewYork, Medgar Evers College (1035-65-1634)

3:15PM

� (1327)On Numerical Solutions of a Nonlinear DifferentialEquation with Square Root Dissipative Term.Ron Buckmire*, Occidental College, Ron S.Mickens, Clark Atlanta University, and KarlMcMurtry, Occidental College (1035-65-170)

3:30PM

(1328)Optimized waveform relaxation methods for circuitsimulations.Mohammad Al-Khaleel*, Yarmouk University,and Martin J. Gander, University of Geneva(1035-65-1497)

3:45PM

(1329)Computing the complete CS decomposition.Brian D. Sutton, Randolph-Macon College(1035-15-564)

AMS Session on Analysis and Functional Analysis, I

1:00 PM – 5:25 PM

1:00PM

(1330)Bochner-Riesz Means With Respect to a 2 by 2Cylinder.Paul T Taylor, Shippensburg University(1035-42-1042)

1:15PM

(1331)Size and Derivative Estimates for the Szego Kernelon a Model Non-Pseudoconvex Domain. Preliminaryreport.Christine Carracino*, Richard Stockton College ofNew Jersey, and Jennifer Halfpap, University ofMontana-Missoula (1035-42-1321)

1:30PM

(1332)Estimates for multilinear singular integraloperators associated with Borel measures.Preliminary report.Geoff Diestel*, University of South Carolina, andLoukas Grafakos, University of Missouri(1035-42-1357)

1:45PM

(1333)Multivariate Hausdorff Transformations Generatedby the Linear Group. Preliminary report.Constantine Georgakis, DePaul University(1035-42-1938)

2:00PM

� (1334)An Examination of Fingerprint Analysis Using theFourier Transform. Preliminary report.Micah J Smith and Jonathan Hunt*, Berea College(1035-42-2005)

2:15PM

� (1335)Vieta like products involving Fibonacci and Lucasnumbers.Thomas J. Osler, Rowan University (1035-40-606)

2:30PM

� (1336)The periodic character of some rational differenceequations of arbitrary order with truncation.Preliminary report.Kenneth S. Berenhaut and Richard T Guy*, WakeForest University (1035-39-1132)

2:45PM

� (1337)Basic uniqueness and approximation results forpositive solutions to nonlinear dynamic equationson time scales.Allan C. Peterson*, Lynn Erbe, University ofNebraska-Lincoln, and C. C. Tisdell, University ofNew South Wales (1035-39-1138)

3:00PM Break

3:15PM

(1338)Singular second order boundary value problems onpurely discrete time scales.Curtis J Kunkel, University of Tennessee at Martin(1035-39-665)

3:30PM

� (1339)An Update on the Trichotomy Character of

xn+1 = βnxn+γnxn−1An+Bnxn with Period-two Coefficients.

Preliminary report.Carol H. Gibbons, Salve Regina University, RI,Senada Kalabusic, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo,Bosnia, and Herzegovina, and Carol B Overdeep*,Saint Martin’s University, Lacey, WA (1035-39-97)

3:45PM

(1340)Forced second order nonlinear oscillation on timescales.Lynn H. Erbe*, Allan Peterson, University ofNebraska-Lincoln, and Samir Saker, MansouraUniversity (1035-39-1313)

4:00PM

(1341)Oscillation for a Certain Nonlinear Second OrderDynamic Equation on a Time Scale. Preliminaryreport.Raegan J Higgins, University of Nebraska-Lincoln(1035-39-1145)

4:15PM

(1342)Global Attractivity of the Positive Equilibrium of

xn+1 = α+βxn+γ xn−1A+B xn+C xn−1

with Positive Parameters in theNon-Hyperbolic Case.Sukanya Basu, University of Rhode Island(1035-39-1324)

4:30PM

(1343)On Dual Space Characterizations of Real Locally C*-and Locally JB-Algebras.Alexander A. Katz, St. John’s University, andOleg Friedman*, University of South Africa(1035-46-1582)

4:45PM

(1344)The Radon-Nikodym Property for Tensor Productsof Banach Lattices II.Q. Bu, G. Buskes and W. Lai*, The University ofMississippi (1035-46-1625)

5:00PM

(1345)Operators Determined by Subspaces. Preliminaryreport.Elizabeth M Bator*, University of North Texas, andRhonda Huettenmueller, Texas Woman’sUniversity (1035-46-1715)

5:15PM

(1346)Cyclic Behavior of Certain Operators on the DiscAlgebra. Preliminary report.Gabriela Bulancea, University of Puerto Rico atCayey (1035-46-1926)

MAA Session on Cryptology for Undergraduates, I

1:00 PM – 4:35 PM

Organizers: Chris Christensen, Northern KentuckyUniversityRobert E. Lewand, Goucher College

1:00PM

� (1347)Finding Large Primes: Miller-Rabin and Beyond.Jeffrey A. Ehme, Spelman College (1035-G1-1090)

1:20PM

� (1348)Using Maple worksheets to enable explorations ofcryptography with minimal background.Mike May, Saint Louis University (1035-G1-825)

1:40PM

� (1349)Zero-knowledge proofs: How to convince someoneyou know everything without telling them anything.Cheryl Beaver, Western Oregon University(1035-G1-293)

2:00PM

� (1350)Cryptology on Campus During World War II.Preliminary report.Craig Bauer, York College of Pennsylvania(1035-G1-114)

2:20PM

� (1351)Cryptology as Outreach to Prospective CollegeStudents in a Summer Enrichment Program.David E Boliver, University of Central Oklahoma(1035-G1-651)

2:40PM

� (1352)Teaching Cryptography in a Wireless Environmentusing Maplets. Preliminary report.Neil P Sigmon, Radford University (1035-G1-1126)



3:00PM

� (1353)Cyclic Patterns of Points on Koblitz Curves.Preliminary report.John H. Wilson, Centre College (1035-G1-913)

3:20PM

(1354)Public Key Cryptography with TI Voyage 200.Jerzy Wojdylo, Southeast Missouri State University(1035-G1-1202)

3:40PM

� (1355)The Pohlig-Hellman exponentiation cipher as abridge between classical and modern cryptography.Joshua Brandon Holden, Rose-Hulman Institute ofTechnology (1035-G1-836)

4:00PM

� (1356)Lessons from a Course in Cryptography.Preliminary report.Yesem Kurt, Randolph College, Lynchburg, VA(1035-G1-1259)

4:20PM

� (1357)Are You Talking to Me? An Introduction toIdentity-Based Encryption.Kristen A. Meyer, Wisconsin Lutheran College(1035-G1-674)

MAA Session on Guided Discovery in MathematicsEducation

1:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Organizers: Jerome S. Epstein, PolytechnicUniversity

Chris Rasmussen, San Diego StateUniversity

1:00PM Introduction.

1:05PM

� (1358)Applying Physics Education Research to MathEducation.John M Clement, St. Pius X High School, Houston,TX (1035-L1-1868)

1:45PM

� (1359)Using Contextual Problems to Support StudentDiscovery in Pre-Calculus Mathematics: Exemplarsand Efficacy.Christian Hirsch, Western Michigan University(1035-L1-2025)

2:25PM

(1360)An Integrated Math and Physical ScienceLaboratory Program for Cognitive Development.Jerome Epstein, Polytechnic University, Dept. ofMathematics (1035-L1-694)

3:05PM

(1361)Guided Discovery: Theoretical Implications andPractical Considerations.Robert G Stein, California State University, SanBernardino (1035-L1-1273)

3:25PM

� (1362)Concept Development Using Guided Discovery.Preliminary report.Nathaniel Miller* and Frieda Parker, University ofNorthern Colorado (1035-L1-328)

3:45PM

� (1363)Undergraduate Mathematics Majors’ andProspective Mathematics Teachers’ Conceptions ofProof after Lecture-Based and the Problem-BasedInstruction. Preliminary report.Sera Yoo* and Jennifer C. Smith, The University ofTexas at Austin (1035-L1-1839)

4:05PM

� (1364)An Inquiry-oriented Approach to UndergraduateMathematics.Chris L Rasmussen*, San Diego State University,and Oh Nam Kwon, Seoul National University(1035-L1-1819)

4:25PM

(1365)Guided Discovery at the Riverbend CommunityMath Center. Preliminary report.Amanda Katharine Serenevy, RiverbendCommunity Math Center (1035-L1-1011)

4:45PM

� (1366)Effects of Teacher Practices on MathematicsAchievement Gain of First-Grade Children ofDifferent Racial-Ethnic Backgrounds. Preliminaryreport.Anna E. Bargagliotti*, University of Memphis,Cassandra Guarino, Michigan State University, andWilliam Mason, University of California, LosAngeles (1035-L1-520)

5:05PM

� (1367)Teaching Calculus Coherently. Preliminary report.Tevian Dray, Oregon State University(1035-L1-1140)

5:25PM

(1368)Providing Support for Pre-service Teachers’Development of Mental Computation Strategies.Ian Whitacre* and Susan D. Nickerson, San DiegoState University (1035-L1-1970)

5:45PM

(1369)Teaching Finite Mathematics UsingLearner-Centered Pedagogy.Debra L Hydorn, Unversity of Mary Washington(1035-L1-1714)

MAA General Contributed Paper Session, VI

1:00 PM – 5:55 PM


Moderators: Mihaela D. Iftime, MassachusettsCollege of Pharmacy and HealthSciencesMarc Brodie, Wheeling JesuitUniversityGavin Waters, Missouri Western StateUniversityJ. Alan Alewine, McKendree UniversityAndrew B. Perry, Springfield CollegeRobert L. Wilson, University ofWisconsin-Madison

1:00PM

(1370)How Would Muppets Multiply? Using Base 6 inCourses for Future Mathematics Teachers.Preliminary report.John R. Prather, Ohio University–Eastern(1035-Z1-720)

1:15PM

� (1371)Using the Internet/computers as a tool fordeveloping critical thinking skills within a generaleducational mathematics course. Preliminaryreport.Gavin J Waters, Missouri Western State University(1035-Z1-526)

1:30PM

� (1372)Review and Refinement: An Update on aMathematics Capstone Course in a SmallDepartment.Alan Alewine, McKendree University (1035-Z1-419)

1:45PM

(1373)Transitioning to higher mathematics viaprogramming and proofs, Part I.Jeffrey K Denny* and Keith E Howard, MercerUniversity (1035-Z1-1343)

2:00PM

(1374)Transitioning to higher mathematics viaprogramming and proofs, Part II.Keith E Howard* and Jeffrey K Denny, MercerUniversity (1035-Z1-1344)

2:15PM

� (1375)A Naive Introduction to Trans-Elliptic DiophantineEquations.Donald E Hooley, Bluffton University (1035-Z1-680)

2:30PM

(1376)The MacLane Class and the Interaction BetweenCoefficient Conditions and Solution Conditions ofDifferential Equations in the Unit Disk. Preliminaryreport.Kari Fowler, University of Tampa (1035-Z1-202)



2:45PM

� (1377)Explaining Standard Deviation Geometrically.Preliminary report.Michael S Marion (1035-Z1-664)

3:00PM

� (1378)4-Moves on Links up to Two Components.Ramanjit K Sahi*, Austin Peay State University, andMieczyslaw K. Dabkowski, The University of Texasat Dallas (1035-Z1-1056)

3:15PM

� (1379)Building a Learning Community for Instructors ofRemedial Courses. Preliminary report.Janet Nichols, Colorado State University - Pueblo(1035-Z1-1622)

3:30PM

� (1380)Bacterial Computers: Can E. coli Solve a HamiltonPath Problem? Preliminary report.Jeffrey L. Poet*, Missouri Western State University,A. Malcolm Campbell, Davidson College, Todd T.Eckdahl, Missouri Western State University, andLaurie J. Heyer, Davidson College (1035-Z1-1047)

3:45PM

� (1381)Revising and Studying a Capstone Course forFuture High School Mathematics Teachers.Preliminary report.Richard O. Hill, Michigan State University(1035-Z1-1739)

4:00PM

� (1382)Active Learning and Teaching with Technology.Preliminary report.Mihaela D Iftime, MCP & Boston U. (1035-Z1-478)

4:15PM

� (1383)It is time to integrate dynamic geometry withcomputer algebra system. Preliminary report.Wei-Chi Yang, Radford University (1035-Z1-208)

4:30PM

� (1384)What do Korean preservice secondary teacherslearn during their university teacher educationprogram?Jin-Ah Kwon, Jun-Soo Choa, SungkyunkwanUniversity, Seoul, Korea, and Jihwa Noh*,University of Northern Iowa (1035-Z1-1151)

4:45PM

� (1385)Calculus Activities Inspired by the History ofMathematics.Gabriela R Sanchis, Elizabethtown College(1035-Z1-1834)

5:00PM

� (1386)Generating random numbers using chaoticequations.Ken S. Li, Southeastern Louisiana University(1035-Z1-1993)

5:15PM

� (1387)Analysis of optimal solutions and its tiling in m×nsize Black-Out Game.Duk-Sun Kim* and Sang-Gu Lee, SungkyunkwanUniversity (1035-Z1-838)

5:30PM

� (1388)Teaching Mathematics Course using CreativeHands-on Activities. Preliminary report.Ryo Ohashi, King’s College (1035-Z1-675)

5:45PM

� (1389)Improving Teaching and Learning at Midsemester.Diane L Johnson, Humboldt State University(1035-Z1-1034)

MAA General Contributed Paper Session, VII

1:00 PM – 5:55 PM


Moderators: Jim Fulmer, University of Arkansas atLittle RockTom McMillan, University of Arkansasat Little RockCarolyn Yackel, Mercer UniversityBarbara Pence, San Jose StateUniversityJanet Nichols, Colorado StateUniversity-Pueblo

Vicky Williams Klima, AppalachianState University

1:00PM

� (1390)Summer Bridge vs. Non-Summer Bridge Students’First Year Retention and Achievement in Calculus:Addressing Undergraduate MathematicsAchievement for Underrepresented Ethnic Students.Preliminary report.Joy Moore, Xavier University (1035-Z1-1508)

1:15PM

(1391)Kinesthetic Math: Is That Like MathematicalCalisthenics? (No.). Preliminary report.Carolyn Yackel, Mercer University (1035-Z1-1547)

1:30PM

� (1392)Using DyKnow Vision and Tablet PCs to FacilitateActive Learning in Calculus.Matthew DeLong, Taylor University (1035-Z1-1194)

1:45PM

� (1393)Group Projects Reinforcing Most Crucial Concepts ofan Introductory Statistics Class. Preliminary report.Katarzyna Potocka, Ramapo College of New Jersey(1035-Z1-822)

2:00PM

� (1394)The unexpected expected value.Roman Wong* and Tyler Raspat, Washington andJefferson College (1035-Z1-453)

2:15PM

� (1395)Multidisciplinary research and training forenhancing teaching and learning of undergraduatemathematics. Preliminary report.Padmanabhan Seshaiyer, George Mason University(1035-Z1-1657)

2:30PM

� (1396)An old tool revisited: What liberal arts students canlearn from spreadsheet mathematics. Preliminaryreport.Margaret L Morrow, SUNY Plattsburgh(1035-Z1-1927)

2:45PM

� (1397)Teacher’s Attitude in the Classroom: A Student’sPerspective. Preliminary report.Mahmoud Yousef*, University of Central Missouri,and Khaled Al-Agha, Wiley College (1035-Z1-1200)

3:00PM

� (1398)What Is Studied In, Written For, and RememberedFrom Western Oregon University’s Bridge Course.Preliminary report.Michael B Ward, Western Oregon University(1035-Z1-429)

3:15PM

� (1399)Quantitative Literacy, A Lesson Plan Revision andCurriculum Development Workshop for In-ServiceK–12 Teachers. Preliminary report.Lisa E Marano, West Chester University of PA(1035-Z1-548)

3:30PM

� (1400)Using Discussion Activities in the Abstract AlgebraClassroom. Preliminary report.Vicky Williams Klima, Appalachian State University(1035-Z1-1319)

3:45PM

� (1401)Geometric Forensics.James W Mauch, Cedar Crest College(1035-Z1-399)

4:00PM

� (1402)Using student-created digital learning objects inmathematics and science. Preliminary report.Rebecca L LeDocq*, Jennifer J Kosiak and BobHoar, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse(1035-Z1-1734)

4:15PM

� (1403)Students Don’t Do Optional. Preliminary report.Tristan Denley, University of Mississippi(1035-Z1-1430)

4:30PM

� (1404)Some Puzzling Results. Preliminary report.Marc A. Brodie, Wheeling Jesuit University(1035-Z1-874)

4:45PM

(1405)Teacher Retention through Building ProfessionalLearning Communities. Preliminary report.Barbara Johnson Pence, San Jose State University(1035-Z1-1355)



5:00PM

� (1406)Using Maple to Enhance Understanding of 3DProblems in Multivariable Calculus Courses.Preliminary report.David Brian Williams, Clayton State University(1035-Z1-1874)

5:15PM

� (1407)Road Rage and the FTC.Jody M Sorensen*, Augsburg College, Maureen TCarroll, University of Scranton, and Elyn K Rykken,Muhlenberg College (1035-Z1-1954)

5:30PM

� (1408)Enriching Calculus with Montessori Materials.Preliminary report.Theodore S. Erickson, Wheeling Jesuit University(1035-Z1-1028)

5:45PM

� (1409)Adaptive Error Control for an Elliptic OptimizationProblem.Sheldon Lee* and Don Estep, Colorado StateUniversity (1035-Z1-1629)

MAA General Contributed Paper Session, VIII

1:00 PM – 5:55 PM

Organizer: Sarah L. Mabrouk, Framingham StateCollege y

Moderators: David B. Williams, Clayton StateUniversityGary L. Walls, West Texas A&MUniversityJoy Moore, Xavier UniversityTheodore S. Erickson, Wheeling JesuitUniversityDominic Klyve, Carthage CollegePaul R. Coe, Dominican University

1:00PM

� (1410)Interdisciplinary Case Studies for an IntermediateStatistics Course.Terje Hoim* and Stephanie Fitchett, FloridaAtlantic University, Honors College (1035-Z1-1240)

1:15PM

(1411)Analog-modeling scientific activities as a vehicle forexploration basic statistical concepts: Case study infuture teachers’ statistics education classes.Olga Kosheleva* and Laura Serpa, University ofTexas at El Paso (1035-Z1-1873)

1:30PM

(1412)Vector Measures and the Strong Operator Topology.Paul Lewis*, University of North Texas, KimberlyMuller, Lake Superior State University, and AndyYingst, University of South Carolina Lancaster(1035-Z1-721)

1:45PM

� (1413)Large-Lecture Techniques. Preliminary report.Patrick X Rault, UW Madison (1035-Z1-924)

2:00PM

� (1414)Using Force Fields to Construct 1-1 ComplexPolynomials.Alan D. Gluchoff* and Frederick W. Hartmann,Villanova University (1035-Z1-42)

2:15PM

� (1415)An algorithm for creating “equal” regions.Mark A Mills, Central College (1035-Z1-184)

2:30PM

� (1416)Minimum Sets Forcing Monochromatic Triangles.Arie Bialostocki and Mark J. Nielsen*, Universityof Idaho (1035-Z1-1428)

2:45PM

� (1417)Inverse Preserving Functions.David J Schmitz* and Charles W Gatz, NorthCentral College (1035-Z1-366)

3:00PM

� (1418)A search for Wieferich primes to 6× 1015.Dominic W. Klyve*, Carthage College, and FrancoisG. Dorais, Cornell University (1035-Z1-1546)

3:15PM

� (1419)Comparing Mechanical and Thermal Damping inElastic Beams. Preliminary report.Richard J. Marchand, Slippery Rock University(1035-Z1-1718)

3:30PM

� (1420)A Uniqueness Result for Nonlinear Hyperbolic InitialValue Problems.Greg S Spradlin, Embry-Riddle University(1035-Z1-1506)

3:45PM

� (1421)Authorship and Statistical Profiling. Preliminaryreport.Alan Safer* and Eric Chuk, California StateUniversity, Long Beach (1035-Z1-646)

4:00PM

� (1422)Improving Undergraduate Calculus Students’Learning through Ability Group Sectioning.Randal E. Hickman, United States MilitaryAcademy, West Point (1035-Z1-1597)

4:15PM

� (1423)A generalization of Ceva’s Theorem and Menelaus’Theorem. Preliminary report.Kelly B Funk* and Robert Powers, University ofLouisville (1035-Z1-841)

4:30PM

� (1424)A Construction of Convex Figures of ConstantWidth. Preliminary report.Zokhrab Mustafaev, University of Houston-ClearLake (1035-Z1-153)

4:45PM

� (1425)What is geometric superspace ?James S Cook, North Carolina State University(1035-Z1-298)

5:00PM

� (1426)Active Learning through Classroom Voting.Kelly S. Cline*, Mark R. Parker and Holly S. Zullo,Carroll College (1035-Z1-750)

5:15PM

� (1427)Models of Computational Science Curricula.Ignatios E Vakalis, CalPoly, San Luis Obispo(1035-Z1-1973)

5:30PM

� (1428)A Seminar for Pre-Service Teachers on the Teachingof College Algebra.Angela Marie Hodge, North Dakota StateUniversity (1035-Z1-1846)

5:45PM

� (1429)On Orbits of Automorphism Groups.Marian Deaconescu, Kuwait University, and Gary LWalls*, West Texas A&M University (1035-Z1-917)

NAM Granville-Brown-Haynes Session ofPresentations by Recent Doctoral Recipients in theMathematical Sciences

1:00 PM – 3:15 PM

Organizer: Dawn A. Lott, Delware State University1:00PM

(1430)Volumes of hyperbolic orbifolds.Ilesanmi Adeboye, University of SouthernCalifornia (1035-57-600)

1:20PM

� (1431)Case-Control Association Testing with IncompleteGenealogy. Preliminary report.Timothy Alvin Thornton, University of California,Berkeley (1035-62-1162)

1:40PM

(1432)Edgeworth Type Expansion Of The Distribution OfThe Largest Eigenvalue In Classical Random MatrixEnsembles.Leonard N Choup, University of Alabama inHunstville (1035-60-1371)

2:00PM

(1433)Characterizing Right-Veering SurfaceHomeomorphisms using the Burau Representation.Emille K. Davie, University of California, SantaBarbara (1035-57-1417)

2:20PM

(1434)The Dimension of the Space of Smooth Splines ofDegree 8 on Tetrahedral Partitions.Ben N. Kamau, Delaware State University(1035-41-1480)

2:40PM

� (1435)Evaluation of a Rotavirus Vaccine Program.Omayra Y Ortega, University of Iowa / ArizonaState University at the West campus (1035-92-1844)



3:00PM

(1436)Parabolic Equation Techniques forRange-Dependent Seismo-Acoustics.Donald A. Outing, United States Military Academy(1035-35-2012)

AMS Committee on Education Panel Discussion

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM

Making teacher preparation our businessOrganizer: William G. McCallum, The University

of ArizonaPanelists: Solomon Friedberg, Boston College

Theodore W. Gamelin, University ofCalifornia Los AngelesJames Lewis, University of NebraskaMagnhild Lien, California StateUniversity, Northridge


1:00 PM – 2:20 PM

A quick introduction to WebWork, a web-basedinteractive homework system.Organizers: Michael E. Gage, University of

RochesterArnold K. Pizer, University ofRochesterVicki Roth, University of Rochester

Project NeXT Panel Discussion

1:00 PM – 2:20 PM

Capstone and one-semester research projects for avariety of students.Organizers: Steven W. Morics, University of

RedlandsMary D. Shepherd, Northwest MissouriState University

Panelists: William E. Fenton, BellarmineUniversitySteven W. MoricsBarbara Reynolds, Cardinal StritchUniversity

SIAM Minisymposium on From Global Predictionsto Local Action, IV: Working Groups and PanelDiscussion

1:00 PM – 5:00 PM

This session includes a panel discussion on how todevelop the training required to tackle themathematical challenges in modeling climatechange.Organizers: Inez Fung, Berkeley Institue of the

Environment, University of CaliforniaBerkeleyChristopher K. Jones, University ofNorth CarolinaMary Lou Zeeman, Bowdoin College

ASL Session for Contributed Papers, I

2:00 PM – 5:10 PM

2:00PM

(1437)Turing computable embeddings into p-groups.Sara Quinn, University of Notre Dame

2:25PM

(1438)The degree of categoricity for an algebraic numberfield.Russell Miller, Queens College and C.U.N.Y.Graduate Center

2:50PM

(1439)Reverse mathematics and Godel’s Dialecticainterpretation (preliminary report).Jeffry L. Hirst, Appalachian State University

3:15PM

(1440)Genericity and Schnorr triviality.Johanna N. Franklin, National University ofSingapore

3:40PM Break.4:00PM

(1441)A new notion of reducibility.Brooke Andersen, Dartmouth College

4:25PM

(1442)Topological aspects of poset spaces.Carl Mummert*, University of Michigan, and FrankStephan, National University of Singapore

4:50PM

(1443)Sets with a non-uniform self-modulus.Peter M. Gerdes, UC Berkeley

RMMC Board of Directors

2:15 PM – 4:10 PM

MAA Presentations by Teaching Award Recipients

2:30 PM – 4:25 PM

Organizer: Martha J. Siegel, Towson UniversityModerator: Joseph A. Gallian, University of

Minnesota-Duluth2:30PM

(1444)Everyone Can Teach Applications.Gilbert Strang, Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology (1035-A0-2056)

3:00PM

(1445)(Speaking in favor of) Redundancy, Inefficiency,Extravagance, and Waste.Annalisa Crannell, Franklin & Marshall College(1035-A0-315)

3:30PM

� (1446)Elementary School Teachers as Mathematicians:The Vermont Model for Raising StudentMathematics Achievement.Kenneth I. Gross, University of Vermont(1035-A0-966)

4:00PM

(1447)Motiviation in Mathematics and UndergraduateResearch.James A. Morrow, University of Washington(1035-A0-2057)

SUMMA Special Presentation

2:30 PM – 3:50 PM

Summer research programs.Organizers: William A. Hawkins Jr, MAA

Robert E. Megginson, University ofMichigan

Panelists: Tuncay Aktosum, University of Texasat ArlingtonMinerva Cordero, University of Texasat ArlingtonMonica Stephens, Spelman College

AMS Committee on Science Policy Panel Discussion

3:00 PM – 4:30 PM

Advocating for mathematics: Influencingpolicymakers through congressional visits indistricts and states.Organizer: Sheldon H. Katz, University of Illinois

at Urbana-Champaign



MAA Poster Session for Undergraduates

3:00 PM – 5:30 PM

Organizer: Diana M. Thomas, Montclair StateUniversity


3:30 PM – 5:30 PM

Beyond formulas and algorithms: Teaching aconceptual/thematics single variable calculuscourse.Organizer: Shahriar Shahriari, Pomona College


3:30 PM – 5:30 PM

Introduction to the mathematics of moderncryptography.Organizers: Jeffrey Ehme, Spelman College

Colm K. Mulcahy, Spelman College


3:30 PM – 5:30 PM

Mathematics and geometry of voting.Organizer: Donald G. Saari, University of

California Irvine

AMS Session on Applications of Mathematics, IV

3:45 PM – 4:40 PM

3:45PM

� (1448)Results on the dynamical behavior of a one island,selection-migration model with partial dominance.Preliminary report.Jordan West Bostic, North Carolina State University(1035-39-1755)

4:00PM

� (1449)Boundary control approach to the spectralestimation problem.Anna S. Bulanova* and Sergei A. Avdonin,University of Alaska Fairbanks (1035-93-2018)

4:15PM

(1450)Replicator Equation and the Principal of MinimumDiscrimination Information.Georgy P Karev, National Center forBiotechnological Information, NIH (1035-92-1773)

4:30PM

� (1451)An Omnivore Brings Chaos.Joseph P Previte*, Penn State Erie, The BehrendCollege, and James Greene, Penn State(1035-92-615)

MAA Information Session

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Current issues in actuarial science education.Organizers: Robert E. Buck, Slippery Rock

UniversityBettye Anne Case, Florida StateUniversityMatthew J. Hassett, Arizona StateUniversitySteve Paris, Florida State University

SIGMAA on Mathematics and Computational BiologyBusiness Meeting and Reception

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Organizer: Jennifer R. Galovich, St. JohnsUniversity

MAA Film Presentation and Reception

6:00 PM – 8:30 PM

Hard Problems: A documentary about the USAteam’s participation in the 2006 InternationalMathematical Olympiad.Organizer: George P. Csicsery, Zala Films

AMS Mathematical Reviews Reception

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM

SIGMAA on Research in Undergraduate MathematicsBusiness Meeting

6:30 PM – 7:30 PM

MAA Dramatic Presentation

7:00 PM – 8:00 PM

So you want to teach environmental math, do you?Presenters: Martin E. Walter, University of

Colorado at BoulderPatricia Clark Kenschaft, BloomfieldCollege

Young Mathematicians Network Town Meeting

7:00 PM – 8:00 PM

MAA-Project NExT Reception

8:30 PM – 10:30 PM

All Project NExT Fellows, consultants, and otherfriends of Project NExT are invited.Organizers: T. Christine Stevens, St. Louis

UniversityJoseph A. Gallian, University ofMinnesota, DuluthAparna W. Higgins, University ofDayton

NAM Cox-Talbot Address

8:45 PM – 9:30 PM

(1452) Title to be announced.Earl R. Barnes, Morgan State University

Wednesday, January 9MAA Minority Chairs Breakfast Meeting

7:00 AM – 8:45 AM

Joint Meetings Registration

7:30 AM – 2:00 PM

Wednesday, January 9 – Program of the Sessions


AMS Session on Combinatorics, III

7:45 AM – 10:40 AM

7:45AM

(1453)On k-ordered hamiltonian connectivity of graphs.Bing Wei, University of Mississippi (1035-05-1250)

8:00AM

(1454)On Chromatic, Flow, and Tutte Polynomial UniqueGraphs.Yinghua Duan, Nankai University, Haidong Wu*,University of Mississippi, and Qinglin Yu, NankaiUniversity and Thompson Rivers University(1035-05-1400)

8:15AM

� (1455)Critical Pebbling Numbers of Graphs. Preliminaryreport.Joshua D Laison*, Willamette University, CourtneyR. Gibbons, University of Nebraska Lincoln, andErick J. Paul, University of California Santa Barbara(1035-05-1415)

8:30AM

(1456)Skew Hadamard Difference Sets from the Ree-TitsSlice Symplectic Spreads in PG(3,32h+1).Cunsheng Ding, Hong Kong University of Scienceand Technology, Zeying Wang* and Qing Xiang,University of Delaware (1035-05-1463)

8:45AM

(1457)Hamiltonian cycles in subspace graphs. Preliminaryreport.Petre I Ghenciu, University of Wisconsin-Stout(1035-05-1484)

9:00AM

(1458)Latin squares especially order 8 and planes.Robert W Sternfeld, Indiana State University, DavidKoster, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, LarryTaylor, California State University, Bakersfield,and Raymond Killgrove*, Vista, California(1035-05-1504)

9:15AM

� (1459)Semiorders and Riordan Numbers.Barry A Balof* and Jacob V Menashe, WhitmanCollege (1035-05-1618)

9:30AM

(1460)The subconstituent algebra of a Latin square.Ibtisam Daqqa, University of South florida(1035-05-1632)

9:45AM

(1461)Higher Dimensional Spanning Trees.Molly Maxwell, Augsburg College, Minneapolis,Minnesota (1035-05-1654)

10:00AM

(1462)Forbidden characterization of the fractional weakdiscrepancy of posets.Jeong Ok Choi, University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign (1035-05-1659)

10:15AM

(1463)Classification of Hadamard matrices by switchingand codes.William P. Orrick, Indiana University, Bloomington(1035-05-1581)

10:30AM

(1464)Infinite families of non-embeddable quasi-residualMenon designs. Preliminary report.Tariq A. Alraqad and Mohan S. Shrikhande*,Central Michigan University (1035-05-1543)

AMS Session on Statistics, Game Theory, and SocialSciences

7:45 AM – 10:55 AM

7:45AM

(1465)Utility functions for vaccination games withdelay-strategies. Preliminary report.Timothy C. Reluga, Penn State (1035-91-1912)

8:00AM

(1466)Partitioning k Multivariate Normal Populations withRespect to a Standard Vector and Its Equivalence inMultiple Testing.Weixing Cai* and Pinyuen Chen, SyracuseUniversity (1035-62-1779)

8:15AM

(1467)Some Properties of the Exact and Score Methods forBinomial Proportion and Sample Size Calculation.Jie Peng* and K. Krishnamoorthy, University ofLouisiana at Lafayette (1035-62-764)

8:30AM

� (1468)Compressed Sensing Signal Recovery in thePresence of Noise.Elaine T. Hale, Rice University (1035-62-1284)

8:45AM

� (1469)Bayesian Mark Recapture for Small Samples.Preliminary report.Joe Liddle, University of Alaska Southeast(1035-62-1395)

9:00AM

� (1470)Parametric Estimation for Single Photon EmissionComputed Tomography (SPECT). Preliminary report.Arkady Shemyakin, University of St Thomas, St.Paul, MN, and Jason Q McClintic*, University of StThomas, St Paul, MN (1035-62-1410)

9:15AM

(1471)Inference on the Common Variance of CorrelatedNormal Random Variables.Daniel J. Ghezzi, King’s College (1035-62-1615)

9:30AM

� (1472)Singular Value Decomposition and Its Applicationsto Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy Studiesof Amyloid Protein Dynamics.Taylor R Pressler* and Sean M Decatur, MountHolyoke College (1035-62-1859)

9:45AM

� (1473)Inflationary Trends with Bayesian Learning.Barbara A Bennie* and Jarod V Hart, University ofWisconsin - La Crosse (1035-91-416)

10:00AM

� (1474)Separable Preferences and Referendum Elections.Jonathan K Hodge, Grand Valley State University(1035-91-436)

10:15AM

� (1475)Restricted Truthful Combinatorial AuctionMechanisms.Andrei Lapets and Alex Levin*, Harvard University(1035-91-1482)

10:30AM

� (1476)Using evolutionary models to infer leadershipstructure from linguistic data. Preliminary report.W. Garrett Mitchener, College of Charleston(1035-91-1736)

10:45AM

� (1477)Voting by Proportional Representation: Theory andPractice. Preliminary report.Richard H. Burkhart, Seattle, WA (1035-91-129)

AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research inMathematics by Undergraduates, IV

8:00 AM – 10:50 AM


8:00AM

(1478)A combinatorial Lusternik-Schnirelman-Borsuktheoerem on the d-cube.Kyle E. Kinneberg, Claremont McKenna College,Aaron Mazel-Gee*, Brown University, MutiaraSondjaja and Francis Edward Su, Harvey MuddCollege (1035-52-135)

8:30AM

� (1479)Effects of Localized Forcing on Driven Thin LiquidFilms.Rachel Levy and Steven Rosenthal*, Harvey MuddCollege (1035-35-137)

Program of the Sessions – Wednesday, January 9 (cont’d.)


9:00AM

� (1480)A probability model in population genetics.Preliminary report.Eline Boghaert*, Cooper Union, SandhyaRamakrishnan, Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology, and Evan Fisher, Lafayette College(1035-60-962)

9:30AM

� (1481)The Stick Index of Satellite Knots.Tirasan Khandhawit, Duke University(1035-54-954)

10:00AM

� (1482)Bishop’s Volume Comparison Theorem with IntegralCurvature-Bounds on Lorentz Manifolds.Bryon Aragam*, University of Tennessee -Knoxville, Justin Corvino, Lafayette College,Andrew Karl, University of Notre Dame, and AustinRochford, University of Maryland - BaltimoreCounty (1035-53-930)

10:30AM

� (1483)Alexander Polynomials of Central Braid Knots.Preliminary report.Nathan Brothers*, University of North Carolina,Asheville, and Sean Evans, Millersville University(1035-57-834)

AMS-MAA-MER Special Session on Mathematics andEducation Reform, I

8:00 AM – 10:50 AM

Organizers: Bonnie S. Saunders, University ofIllinois, ChicagoWilliam H. Barker, Bowdoin CollegeDale R. Oliver, Humboldt StateUniversityMichael Starbird, University of Texas,Austin

8:00AM

� (1484)Helping Students Cross the Bridge.Susanna S. Epp, DePaul University (1035-97-1263)

8:30AM

(1485)How do your students think about proof? A DVDresource for mathematicians.Lara J. Alcock, Mathematics Education Centre,Loughborough University, UK (1035-97-768)

9:00AM

� (1486)The Necessity Principle and Its Implementation inMathematics Instruction.Guershon Harel, University of California, San Diego(1035-97-733)

9:30AM

(1487)The Learning of Infinity-Related Topics in BridgeCourses.Kirk Weller, University of Michigan - Flint(1035-97-691)

10:00AM

� (1488)A Beginning Graduate Transition-to-Proof Course.Annie Selden* and John Selden, New Mexico StateUniversity (1035-97-797)

10:30AM

(1489)Discussion of the Bridge to the Upper Division: FromPedagogical Research into Pedagogy and BackAgain.George R. Exner*, Bucknell University, andChristopher C. Leary, SUNY Geneseo(1035-97-1024)

AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics,III

8:00 AM – 10:50 AM


8:00AM

� (1490)The method for the extraction of square roots inGiacomo Rho’s ‘Chou Suan’. Preliminary report.Jose A. Cervera, Tecnologico de Monterrey(1035-01-558)

8:30AM

� (1491)Beyond Trigonometry: On the Study ofQuadrilaterals in the Early 17th Century DutchRepublic. Preliminary report.Eisso J Atzema, University of Maine (1035-01-455)

9:00AM

� (1492)When Euler Met l’Hospital.William Dunham, Muhlenberg College(1035-01-272)

9:30AM

� (1493)Euler (and DeMoivre) Meet Doc Holliday: TheMathematical Analysis of a Popular Game ofChance. Preliminary report.Todd Timmons, University of Arkansas-Fort Smith(1035-01-421)

10:00AM

� (1494)Benjamin Franklin’s Numbers.Paul C. Pasles, Villanova University (1035-01-503)

10:30AM

� (1495)It’s All for the Best: Optimization in the History ofScience. Preliminary report.Judith V. Grabiner, Pitzer College (1035-01-705)

AMS-SIAM Special Session on EnvironmentalMathematics: Some Mathematical Problems onClimate Change and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, III

8:00 AM – 10:50 AM


8:00AM

(1496)Hysteresis in a Rotating Differentially HeatedSpherical Shell of Boussinesq Fluid.William F. Langford*, University of Guelph, andGregory M. Lewis, University of Ontario Institute ofTechnology (1035-76-45)

8:30AM

(1497)On the dissipativity of the two-layerquasi-geostrophic beta plane equations.R. Lee Panetta, Texas A&M University(1035-86-1394)

9:00AM

� (1498)Macroturbulence and the General Circulation of theAtmosphere.Tapio Schneider, California Institute of Technology(1035-76-817)

9:30AM

� (1499)Bayesian Climate Change Assessments.Richard A. Levine, San Diego State University(1035-62-735)

10:00AM

(1500)Reconstruction of Meteorological Fields UsingSpatial Functions With Examples.Thomas M Smith*, NOAA/STAR/SCSB, SamuelShen, San Diego State University, Phillip A Arkinand Mathew Sapiano, CICS/ESSIC, University ofMaryland (1035-86-569)

10:30AM

(1501)A Theory for Estimating Uncertainties in theAssessment of Global, Hemispherical and RegionalSurface Air Temperature Changes Since 1861.Samuel S Shen, San Diego State University(1035-86-431)

AMS Special Session on Financial Mathematics, III

8:00 AM – 10:55 AM




8:00AM

(1502)Inverse problems in option pricing: a probabilisticsolution via random mixtures of martingales.Rama Cont, Columbia University (1035-60-363)

9:00AM

� (1503)On a second order numerical scheme for computingexercise regions of American lookback options.Preliminary report.Stephane Villeneuve*, University of CaliforniaSanta Barbara, and Toulouse School of Economics,and Antonino Zanette, Finanziari Universita diUdine (1035-65-545)

9:30AM

(1504)Markovian projection on stochastic volatilitymodels.Alexandre Antonov, NumeriX, TimurMisirpashaev*, Merrill Lynch, and VladimirPiterbarg, Barclays Capital (1035-60-372)

10:00AM

(1505)Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: The Effectof Commitment and Competition on Mutual FundAllocations.Ron Kaniel, Duke University, Stathis Tompaidis*and Ti Zhou, University of Texas at Austin(1035-91-364)

10:30AM

(1506)A Multi Time Scale Microstructure Model — AnEmpirical Study. Preliminary report.Zhifeng Zhang, LaBranche Structured Products,LLC (1035-62-702)

AMS Special Session on Heegaard Splittings, BridgePositions, and Low Dimensional Topology, I

8:00 AM – 10:50 AM

Organizers: Jesse Johnson, Yale UniversityAbigail A. Thompson, University ofCalifornia DavisRobin Wilson, University of CaliforniaSanta Barbara

8:00AM

(1507)The width complex for knots and 3-manifolds.Preliminary report.Jennifer Schultens, UC Davis (1035-57-198)

8:30AM

(1508)Studying knots via c-compressions.Maggy Tomova, Rice University (1035-57-938)

9:00AM

(1509)A Classification of Spanning Surfaces forAlternating Knots and Links.Colin C Adams*, Williams College, and ThomasKindred, University of California-Santa Barbara(1035-57-1562)

9:30AM

(1510)Circular thin position for 3-manifolds. Preliminaryreport.Fabiola Manjarrez-Gutierrez, University ofCalifornia, Davis (1035-57-603)

10:00AM

(1511)Stabilization and amalgamation of Heegaardsplittings.Ryan Derby-Talbot, The American University inCairo (1035-57-851)

10:30AM

(1512)Counterexamples to the Stabilization Conjecture.David C Bachman, Pitzer College (1035-57-166)

AMS Special Session on E-Theory, Extensions, andElliptic Operators, I

8:00 AM – 10:40 AM

Organizers: Constantin D. Dumitrascu, Universityof ArizonaJohn D. Trout, Dartmouth College

8:00AM

(1513)Dirac operator and K-theory for discrete groups.Paul Frank Baum, Penn State University(1035-19-773)

9:00AM

(1514)Projective and Semiprojective C*-Algebras Relatedto K-Theory. Preliminary report.Terry A Loring, University of New Mexico(1035-46-1420)

9:30AM

(1515)Wreath products and their invariants. Preliminaryreport.C Farsi*, University of Colorado, and C Seaton,Rhodes College (1035-19-459)

10:00AM

(1516)Contractions of semisimple groups and the Mackeyanalogy.Nigel Higson, Penn State University (1035-22-1149)

AMS Special Session on Algebraic and GeometricAspects of Integrable Systems, I

8:00 AM – 10:50 AM

Organizers: Baofeng Feng, University of Texas-PanAmericanWenxiu Ma, University of South FloridaKenichi Maruno, University ofTexas-Pan AmericanZhijun Qiao, University of Texas-PanAmericanTaixi Xu, Southern Polytechnic StateUniversity

8:00AM

(1517)A New Multi-component KP Hierarchy.Yunbo Zeng, Tsinghua University (1035-35-1429)

8:30AM

(1518)The Generic Dimension of the Space of SmoothSplines of Degree 7 on Tetrahedral Partitions.Xiquan Shi*, Ben Kamau, Delaware StateUniversity, Baocai Yin, College of ComputerScience, Beijing Polytechnic University, andFengshan Liu, Delaware State University(1035-65-60)

9:00AM

(1519)Multicusped solitons of the Camassa-Holm equation.Allen Parker, Newcastle University (1035-35-2001)

9:30AM

(1520)Cupsons and Smooth Solitons of theDegasperis-Procesi Equation Under InhomogeneousBoundary Condition.Guoping Zhang*, Morgan State University, andZhijun Qiao, University of Texas-Pan American(1035-35-1108)

10:00AM

(1521)Finite-Dimensional Integrable Systems Associatedwith the Modified Dispersive Water Wave Equation.Taixi Xu, Southern Polytechnic State University(1035-35-1678)

10:30AM

(1522)A connection between HH3 and KdV with onesource.Junxiao Zhao*, School of Mathematical Sciences ofGraduate University of Chinese Academy ofSciences, and Robert Conte, SPEC/CEA Saclay,(1035-35-1505)

AMS Special Session on Expanders and RamanujanGraphs: Construction and Applications, II

8:00 AM – 10:40 AM


8:00AM

(1523)Connectivity of a family of expanders. Preliminaryreport.Patrick Bahls, University of North Carolina,Asheville (1035-05-171)



8:30AM

� (1524)On the Probability that Random Graphs areRamanujan.Steven J Miller*, Brown University, Tim Novikoff,Cornell University, and Anthony Sabelli, BrownUniversity (1035-05-92)

9:00AM

(1525)Jacobian of a finite graph.Tatiana Smirnova-Nagnibeda, University ofGeneva, Switzerland (1035-05-1123)

9:30AM

(1526)The Spectra of Random Cayley Graphs.Alexander C Russell, University of Connecticut(1035-43-1552)

10:00AM

(1527)Applications of Ramanujan graphs inCryptography.Kristin E Lauter, Microsoft Research(1035-11-1953)

AMS Special Session on Probability Theory andStatistical Mechanics, I

8:00 AM – 10:40 AM

Organizers: Itai Benjamini, Weizmann Instituteand Microsoft ResearchWendelin Werner, University ofParis-Sud

8:00AM

(1528)Statistical mechanics on sparse random graphs.Andrea Montanari, Stanford University(1035-82-2026)

9:00AM

(1529)Dynamical sensitivity of critical planar percolation,and the incipient infinite cluster.Pete Gabor, Microsoft Research (1035-60-1902)

10:00AM

(1530)Eigenvalue order statistics for random Schrodingeroperators with doubly exponential tails. Preliminaryreport.Marek Biskup*, UCLA, and Wolfgang Konig,Leipzig University (1035-82-1486)

AMS Special Session on Global Optimization andOperations Research Applications, I

8:00 AM – 10:50 AM

Organizer: Ram U. Verma, University of CentralFlorida

8:00AM

(1531)A Transformation-Based Optimization Method.George Leitmann, College of Engineering,University of California (1035-49-23)

8:30AM

� (1532)Scheduling Algorithms with Applications to RadarResource Management.Zoran Spasojevic, MIT-Lincoln Laboratory(1035-05-228)

9:00AM

(1533)Optimal Control of Systems Determined by StronglyNonlinear Operator Valued Measures.N.U Ahmed, University of Ottawa (1035-93-159)

9:30AM

� (1534)Advances on the Bessis-Moussa-Villani traceconjecture.Christopher J Hillar, Texas A&M University(1035-15-648)

10:00AM

(1535)Gradient Methods for Minimization in Non-HilbertSobolev Spaces with Applications. Preliminaryreport.Ivie Stein Jr., University of Toledo (1035-49-831)

10:30AM

(1536)Analysis of Greedy Approximation withNonsubmodular Potential Function.Ding-Zhu Du, University of Texas at Dallas(1035-68-256)

MAA Session on Biomathematics in theUndergraduate Curriculum, II

8:00 AM – 10:35 AM


8:00AM

(1537)A Joint Computer Lab Can Serve Both Biocalculusand Traditional Calculus Students.Lisa Townsley, Benedictine University(1035-B1-576)

8:20AM

� (1538)S3: Sand, Surf, and Slopes - Integration of MarineScience (and Computing Sciences) into Precalculus.Preliminary report.Pam Crawford*, Anne Acker, and DanielMcCarthy, Jacksonville University (1035-B1-799)

8:40AM

� (1539)Evolution of a Statistics/Biology LearningCommunity.William Ardis* and Sukanya Subramanian, CollinCounty Community College (1035-B1-1783)

9:00AM

� (1540)Linking The Mathematics Curriculum toInvestigative Biology Exercises. Preliminary report.Hema Gopalakrishnan* and Kirk Bartholomew,Sacred Heart University (1035-B1-1303)

9:20AM

� (1541)An Extension of Tajima’s D Statistic by aStudent-Faculty Cross-Interdisciplinary Team.Preliminary report.Pam J Ryan, Truman State University (1035-B1-740)

9:40AM

� (1542)Inspiring Examples from Biology for Teaching LimitTheorems in Probability.Raina S. Robeva, Sweet Briar College(1035-B1-1129)

10:00AM

� (1543)Multiple Visualizations of Quantitative Biology: TheESTEEM Collection.Rama Viswanathan*, Beloit College, and GretchenA. Koch, Goucher College (1035-B1-1967)

10:20AM

� (1544)Programming bioinformatics: Using biopython andsage to make life easier.Marshall Hampton, Univ. Minnesota Duluth(1035-B1-1561)

MAA Session on Cryptology for Undergraduates, II

8:00 AM – 10:55 AM

Organizers: Chris Christensen, Northern KentuckyUniversityRobert E. Lewand, Goucher College

8:00AM

� (1545)Art and Science of Secret Communication.Preliminary report.Semra Kilic-Bahi and LaVonne Batalden*,Colby-Sawyer College (1035-G1-808)

8:20AM

� (1546)Cryptology as a Pedagogical Tool.Manmohan Kaur, Benedictine University(1035-G1-1946)

8:40AM

� (1547)ECrypting Images and Sound. Preliminary report.Tim McDevitt, Elizabethtown College(1035-G1-1746)

9:00AM

� (1548)Applications of Galois Field to Coding Theory andCryptology. Preliminary report.Ahlam E Tannouri* and Sam F Tannouri, MorganState University (1035-G1-1961)



9:20AM

� (1549)Cryptology with Spreadsheets: A Computer Coursefor Everyone. Preliminary report.James M, Belk, Texas A&M University(1035-G1-1918)

9:40AM

� (1550)“Codes, Ciphers, and Cryptography”: An HonorsColloquium in Mathematics.Michael Karls, Ball State University (1035-G1-1534)

10:00AM

� (1551)Attacking Digraphs using Singular ValueDecomposition. Preliminary report.Bill Linderman* and Andrew Simoson, KingCollege (1035-G1-1795)

10:20AM

(1552)Cryptology Course: A Perfect Marriage of Theoryand Applications.Izabela Kanaana, Sonoma State University(1035-G1-1709)

10:40AM

� (1553)Coding Theory Topics for Your Cryptology Course.Preliminary report.Keith E. Mellinger, University of Mary Washington(1035-G1-1093)

MAA Session on Mathematics and the Arts, II

8:00 AM – 10:55 AM


8:00AM

(1554)The Aesthetics of Rectangles.Kevin Hartshorn, Moravian College(1035-N1-1452)

8:20AM

� (1555)Origami Fold Patterns as Patchwork: An OrigamiCrane Quilt.Elaine T. Hale, Rice University (1035-N1-1323)

8:40AM

� (1556)Teaching Symmetry with Depression Glass.Darrah P. Chavey, Beloit College (1035-N1-1916)

9:00AM

� (1557)Fractal Patchwork Quilts. Preliminary report.Pedro Teixeira, Knox College (1035-N1-1096)

9:20AM

� (1558)Design, Fabrication, and Properties of a FractalCrystal. Preliminary report.Robert W. Fathauer*, Tessellations Company,Nicholas Duchnowski and Hank Kaczmarski,Beckman Institute, University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign (1035-N1-1305)

9:40AM

� (1559)Kaleidoscopes and Other Reflections. Preliminaryreport.Anne M. Burns, Long Island University(1035-N1-306)

10:00AM

� (1560)Blackwork embroidery and algorithms for mazetraversals.Joshua Brandon Holden, Rose-Hulman Institute ofTechnology (1035-N1-826)

10:20AM

� (1561)Knitting Uniformly Curved Pants.Sarah-Marie Belcastro, Smith College andHampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics(1035-N1-956)

10:40AM

� (1562)Models of Surfaces and Abstract Art in the Early20th Century.Angela G. Vierling-Claassen, Lesley University(1035-N1-626)

MAA Session on Mathlets and Web Resources forMathematics and Statistics Education, I

8:00 AM – 10:55 AM

Organizers: Thomas E. Leathrum, JacksonvilleState UniversityPatricia B. Humphrey, GeorgiaSouthern UniversityChristopher J. Lacke, RowanUniversity

David M. Strong, PepperdineUniversityJoe Yanik, Emporia State University

8:00AM

� (1563)Flash mathlets incorporating student-drawngraphs.Daniel Gries, Merrimack College (1035-P1-192)

8:20AM

� (1564)Steal this Applet!Doug Ensley*, Shippensburg University, andBarbara Kaskosz, University of Rhode Island(1035-P1-417)

8:40AM

(1565)Parametric Functions in a Flash.Therese Shelton, Southwestern University(1035-P1-618)

9:00AM

� (1566)Applying the Lessons of Flash at the Beach (MAAPREP 2007 Workshop) to Developing Mathlets forCalculus.Barbara H Margolius, Cleveland State University(1035-P1-1769)

9:20AM

� (1567)Incorporating Conceptual Software into anIntroductory Statistics Service Course.John D McKenzie, Babson College (1035-P1-1840)

9:40AM

� (1568)ComplexTool: An applet and discovery activities tovisualize complex functions. Preliminary report.Beth Schaubroeck* and Jim Rolf, U.S. Air ForceAcademy (1035-P1-1100)

10:00AM

� (1569)Maplets for Calculus—Intuition, Computation, Drilland Simple Proofs.Philip B. Yasskin*, Texas A&M University, andDouglas B. Meade, University of South Carolina(1035-P1-1661)

10:20AM

� (1570)Spreadsheets Make EXCELlent Tools for ExploringStatistics.Sarah L Mabrouk, Framingham State College(1035-P1-1959)

10:40AM

� (1571)Demonstrating a Tool for Content MathMLAuthoring.Thomas E Leathrum, Jacksonville State Univ.(1035-P1-1267)

MAA Session on Using Innovative Technologies toImplement Active Learning in Mathematics (and inother STEM disciplines)

8:00 AM – 10:55 AM

Organizers: Marilyn A. Reba, Clemson UniversityBeth Simon, University of CaliforniaSan Diego

8:00AM

� (1572)Realizing active learning in a physics classroomusing Ubiquitous Presenter and Tablet PCs.Ed Price*, California State University SanMarcos, and Beth Simon, Carl Wieman ScienceEducation Initiative, University of British Columbia(1035-Y1-1757)

8:20AM

(1573)Active Learning in Stem Courses via Tablet PCs withWeb-Based Classroom Interaction Software.Marilyn Reba, Clemson University (1035-Y1-1864)

8:40AM

(1574)Tablet PC as a Gateway to Calculus. Preliminaryreport.Kyle Riley* and Jill Trimble, South Dakota Schoolof Mines & Technology (1035-Y1-1616)

9:00AM

� (1575)Successful implementation of Tablet PC technologyin future teachers’ mathematics education classes.Olga Kosheleva*, The University of Texas at ElPaso, Ana Medina-Rusch, University of Georgia,and Vera Ioudina, University of California at LosAngeles (1035-Y1-1364)



9:20AM

(1576)PRAXIS Project: Interactive Materials for FutureTeachers.Erick B Hofacker, University of Wisconsin-RiverFalls, and Kathryn T Ernie*, University of Wisconsin- River Falls (1035-Y1-1858)

9:40AM

� (1577)Using Clickers in Introductory Statistics to EnhanceConceptual Understanding. Preliminary report.Teri J Murphy, University of Oklahoma(1035-Y1-679)

10:00AM

(1578)Claiming Virtual Worlds for Mathematics Education.Jon Roginski, United States Military Academy atWest Point (1035-Y1-1766)

10:20AM

� (1579)Using the TI-Navigator Network of GraphingCalculators in College Algebra.Bernadette M. Mendoza-Spencer*, Joe Champion,University of Northern Colorado, and RobertPowers, University of Northern Colorado(1035-Y1-1653)

10:40AM

(1580)Integrating Clickers into Calculus.Kimberly A. Roth, Juniata College (1035-Y1-1793)

MAA General Contributed Paper Session, IX

8:00 AM – 10:40 AM


Moderators: Elizabeth A. Stanhope, Lewis & ClarkCollegeLeigh L. Noble, USMA West Point &Army Research LabK. Scott Alberts, Truman StateUniversityBrad Bailey, North Georgia College &State University

8:00AM

� (1581)The Advent Of Sound Pedagogy In Early NineetnthCentury Elementary American Textbooks.Andrew B Perry, Springfield College(1035-Z1-1758)

8:15AM

� (1582)Mathematics legends: Real, purely imaginary, andcomplex. Preliminary report.David Fowler, University of Nebraska - Lincoln(1035-Z1-1646)

8:30AM

(1583)Just-in-time precalculus reviews for calculusstudents.Jeffry L. Hirst* and William C. Bauldry,Appalachian State University (1035-Z1-259)

8:45AM

� (1584)Illustrating Economic Inequality AnalysisTechniques with Major League Baseball SalaryData.J Travis Hale, LBJ School of Public Affairs –University of Texas at Austin (1035-Z1-343)

9:00AM

� (1585)Toward Free, Open Source Textbooks.David R Guichard, Whitman College (1035-Z1-402)

9:15AM

(1586)New Math Faculty. Preliminary report.Nissa R Yestness* and Shandy Hauk, University ofNorthern Colorado (1035-Z1-1741)

9:30AM

(1587)Fishing for Estimates.Paul R. Coe, Dominican University (1035-Z1-1969)

9:45AM

� (1588)Fostering Technical Writing in the UndergraduateMath Classroom.Leigh L Noble, USMA West Point & Army ResearchLab (1035-Z1-1881)

10:00AM

� (1589)Using Ideas from Asian Mathematic in theClassroom.Shinemin Lin, Savannah State University, Savannah,Georgia (1035-Z1-451)

10:15AM

� (1590)A fundamental theorem of algebra for the perplexnumbers.Robert D. Poodiack* and Kevin J. LeClair, NorwichUniversity (1035-Z1-925)

10:30AM

� (1591)Magic squares and a magic tortoise developed inthe 17th century in Korea. Preliminary report.Heakyung Lee, Winthrop University (1035-Z1-323)

SIAM Minisymposium on Graph Coloring andPartitioning, I

8:00 AM – 10:50 AM

Organizers: Andre Kundgen, California StateUniversity, San MarcosRadhika Ramamurthi, California StateUniversity, San Marcos

8:00AM

(1592)Recent results and open problems in mixedhypergraph coloring.Vitaly Voloshin, Troy University (1035-05-287)

8:30AM

� (1593)Computer methods for finding graphdecompositions. Preliminary report.Stephen G. Hartke, University of Nebraska–Lincoln(1035-05-1022)

9:00AM

� (1594)Coloring triangle-free graphs on surfaces.Zdenek Dvorak*, Georgia Institute of Technology,Daniel Kral, Charles University, Prague, CzechRepublic, and Robin Thomas, Georgia Institute ofTechnology (1035-68-570)

9:20AM Break.9:35AM

(1595)List-coloring outerplanar graphs.Joan P. Hutchinson, Macalester College(1035-05-934)

10:00AM

� (1596)Star coloring planar graphs.Craig M. Timmons, California State University SanMarcos (1035-05-1406)

10:30AM

� (1597)On-line Ramsey theory in bounded-degree graphs.Jane Butterfield, Tracy Grauman, Bill Kinnersley,Kevin Milans, Christopher Stocker and Douglas B.West*, University of Illinois - Urbana (1035-05-605)

ASL Session for Contributed Papers, II

8:00 AM – 8:45 AM

8:00AM

(1598)On Russell’s mathematical philosophy: Is also SetTheory a part of philosophy?Sandro Skansi, Zagreb, Croatia

8:25AM

(1599)Integration and differentiation in an elementarytopos.Matthew Jackson, Lawrence University

AWM Workshop

8:20 AM – 4:20 PM

This session has several parts that will belisted separately by time in the program. Allpresentations are open to all JMM participants.

AMS Session on Analysis and Ordinary DifferentialEquations, III

8:30 AM – 10:10 AM

8:30AM

(1600)Compactness of the ∂-Neumann operator.Mehmet Celik, Texas A&M University(1035-32-786)

8:45AM

(1601)A sufficient condition and higher regularity ofstrong local minimizers.Worku T. Bitew* and Yury Grabovsky, TempleUniversity (1035-49-78)



9:00AM

(1602)Hybrid Functios Approach for the Solution ofNonlinear Problems in the Calculus of Variations.Mohsen Razzaghi, Mississippi State University(1035-49-219)

9:15AM

(1603)Lipschitzian Stability and Optimal Value Functionsvia Generalized Differentiation.Boris Mordukhovich, Wayne State University, andMau Nam Nguyen*, University of Texas-PanAmerican (1035-49-485)

9:30AM

(1604)The Power-Law Asymptotics for Some ModelProblems of Polycrystal Plasticity.Marian Bocea, North Dakota State University(1035-49-492)

9:45AM

(1605)On a Verification Theorem for an Optimal ControlProblem. Preliminary report.Jesus A Pascal, American University of Nigeria(1035-49-1111)

10:00AM

(1606)Optimal control of a time-dependent thermistorproblem. Preliminary report.Volodymyr Hrynkiv*, Worcester PolytechnicInstitute, Suzanne Lenhart, University ofTennessee at Knoxville, and VladimirProtopopescu, ORNL (1035-49-1348)

AMS Session on Algebra and Group Theory, IV

8:30 AM – 10:25 AM

8:30AM

(1607)Killing-Coxeter Diagrams in the Root Lattice.Miriam H. Lamb, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh(1035-22-1717)

8:45AM

(1608)A Grothendieck Module with Applications toRationality of the Poincare Series.Daniel R Jordan, Columbia College Chicago(1035-18-104)

9:00AM

(1609)Non-connective delooping of K-theory of exactcategories.Seshendra Pallekonda, SUNY at Binghamton(1035-19-1067)

9:15AM

(1610)Supercharacter theories of cyclic p-groups.Anders O. F. Hendrickson, University of Wisconsin- Madison (1035-20-1855)

9:30AM

(1611)Structure Theorems for Subgroups ofHomeomorphisms Groups of the Unit Circle.Preliminary report.Collin Bleak, University of Nebraska, Lincoln,Martin Kassabov and Francesco Matucci*, CornellUniversity (1035-20-1849)

9:45AM

(1612)IA-automorphisms and localization of nilpotentgroups.Marcos Zyman, City University of New York-BMCC(1035-20-1910)

10:00AM

(1613)Restricting supercharacters of the finite group ofunipotent uppertriangular matrices.Nat Thiem, University of Colorado at Boulder, andVidya Venkateswaran*, University of Chicago(1035-20-1974)

10:15AM

(1614)Braids Without Twists.James M. Belk*, Texas A&M University, andFrancesco Matucci, Cornell University(1035-20-1861)

AWM Workshop: Research Presentations by RecentPh.D.’s, I

8:30 AM – 10:20 AM

8:30AM

(1615)Graceful Labelings Meet Directed Graphs.Alison Marr, Southwestern University

9:00AM

(1616)Hypergeometric functions over Fp and Ramanujan’sT-Function.Jenny Fuselier, United States Military Academy

9:30AM

(1617)Growth of the Bass Numbers.Janet Striuli, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

10:00AM

(1618)Random Effects Models for Quantitative Trait Locus(QTL) Mapping with Inbred Strains.Lara Bauman, University of California Los Angeles

AMS Invited Address

9:00 AM – 9:50 AM

(1619) Progress in Hyperbolic Conservation Laws.Constantine M. Dafermos, Brown University(1035-35-02)

ASL Invited Address

9:00 AM – 9:50 AM

(1620) Applications of set theory to operator algebras.Ilijas Farah, York University (1035-03-103)

AMS Special Session on The Feynman Integral inMathematics and Physics, I

9:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Organizer: Lance W. Nielsen, Creighton University9:00AM

(1621)Path Integral Representations for the PropagatorsAssociated to Schrodinger Operators on LocalFields.Trond Digernes, The Norwegian University ofScience and Technology (NTNU), V. S. Varadarajan,University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), andDavid E. Weisbart*, The Norwegian University ofScience and Technology (1035-81-1186)

9:30AM

� (1622)Noncommutative space variables and a letter ofvon Neumann.Randall Crist, Creighton University (1035-01-1971)

10:00AM

(1623)Taylor’s formula with remainder in Feynman’soperational calculus.Byoung Soo Kim, School of Liberal Arts, SeoulNational University of Technology (1035-44-1183)

10:30AM

(1624)Weak Convergence and Vector–Valued Functions:Improving the Stability Theory of Feynman’sOperational Calculi.Lance Nielsen, Creighton University (1035-47-590)


9:00 AM – 11:00 AM

The Fibonacci and Catalan numbers.Organizer: Ralph P. Grimaldi, Rose-Hulman

Institute of Technology


9:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Evaluating student presentations in mathematics.Organizers: Suzanne Doree, Augsburg College

Richard Jardine, Keene State CollegeThomas Linton, Central College




9:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Wavelets and applications: A multidisciplinaryundergraduate course with an emphasis onscientific computing.Organizers: Patrick J. Van Fleet, University of St.

ThomasDavid K. Ruch, Metropolitan StateCollege of Denver

NAM Panel Discussion

9:00 AM – 9:50 AM


9:00 AM – 2:00 PM


9:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Project NExT Panel Discussion

9:30 AM – 11:00 AM

New technologies for faculty: Wikis, discussionboards, and clickers.Organizers: Mason A. Porter, University of Oxford

Holly S. Zullo, Carroll CollegePanelists: Joy L. Becker, University of Wisconsin,

StoutKris Green, St. John Fisher CollegeJean McGivney-Burelle, University ofHartfordSteven W. Morics, University ofRedlandsReva Narasimhan, Kean University

ASL Invited Address

10:00 AM – 10:50 AM

(1625) Measures and their random reals.Jan Reimann, University of California Berkeley(1035-03-266)

NAM Business Meeting

10:00 AM – 10:50 AM

MAA Retiring Presidential Address

10:05 AM – 10:55 AM

(1626) The teaching-technology linkage in mathematics.Carl C. Cowen, Indiana University-Purdue UniversityIndianapolis (1035-A0-16)

AWM Workshop: Poster Session with Presentationsfrom Women Graduate Students

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM

Organizer: Bettye Anne Case10:30AM

(1627)Computing Cryptographic Curves Using theCanonical Lift of Supersingular Elliptic Curves.Juliana Belding, University of Maryland

10:30AM

(1628)Minimal Distortion Bending and Morphing ofCompact Manifolds.Oksana Bihun, University of Missouri-Columbia

10:30AM

(1629)Using Regularized Singularities and SpectralDeferred Correction Methods to Model Fluid FlowGenerated by a.Elizabeth Bouzarth, University of North Carolina atChapel Hill

10:30AM

(1630)Prime Ideals in Rings of Power Series over theIntegers.Christina Eubanks-Turner, University ofNebraska-Lincoln

10:30AM

(1631)On the Classification of Orbits of Minimal Parabolick-Subgroups Acting on Symmetric k-Varieties ofSL(n, k).Stacy Beun, North Carolina State University †

10:30AM

(1632)Solving Boundary Value Problems Using CriticalPoint Theory.Heidi Feller, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

10:30AM

(1633)Representations of Some Hopf Algebras Associatedto the Symmetric Group.Andrea Jedwab, University of Southern California

10:30AM

(1634)The Relative Strength of the Atomic HomogeneousModel Theorems.Karen Lange, University of Chicago

10:30AM

(1635)Redefining Gorenstein: Toward a Theory ofNon-Noetherian Gorenstein Rings.Livia Miller, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

10:30AM

(1636)Computing Distance in the Space of PhylogeneticTrees.Megan Owen, Cornell University

10:30AM

(1637)The Geometry and Topology of Reconfiguration.Valerie Peterson, University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign

10:30AM

(1638)Nonlinear Dynamics of a Double Bilipid Membrane.Christine Sample, Northwestern University

10:30AM

(1639)Cabling Homomorphisms and the KnotConcordance Group.Cornelia Van Cott, Indiana University

10:30AM

(1640)Expected Length of Random Minimum SpanningTree.Xinyi Zhang, University of Delaware

10:30AM

(1641)Universal Deformation Rings Related to theSymmetric Group S5.Jennifer Froelich, University of Iowa

MAA Business Meeting

11:10 AM – 11:40 AM

Organizer: Martha J. Siegel, Towson UniversityModerator: Joseph A. Gallian, University of

Minnesota-Duluth

AMS Business Meeting

11:45 AM – 12:15 PM

NAM Claytor-Woodard Lecture

1:00 PM – 1:50 PM

(1642) Box Products 25 Years Later.Scott W. Williams, SUNY at Buffalo (1035-22-2054)



ASL Invited Address

1:00 PM – 1:50 PM

(1643) A Descriptive View of Geometric Group Theory.Simon R. Thomas, Rutgers University(1035-03-101)

AMS-MAA-SIAM Special Session on Research inMathematics by Undergraduates, V

1:00 PM – 5:50 PM


1:00PM

� (1644)Normal Subgroups of the Free Group.Natasha Komarov, Carnegie Mellon University,Reagin Taylor McNeill*, Smith College, and JustinWebster, University of San Diego (1035-55-1075)

1:30PM

� (1645)The Genus and m-alternating Excess of CentralBraid Knots.Carolyn M Yarnall*, University of San Diego,and Debra Witczak, Benedictine University(1035-57-1020)

2:00PM

� (1646)Combinatorics and Characterizations forInvolutions and Twisted Involutions of Weyl Groups.Constance G. Baltera*, Smith College, Kathryn A.Brenneman, North Carolina State University, andAshley E. Hatfield, Smith College (1035-08-1117)

2:30PM

(1647)Arc presentations: A new way to look at knots.Matt Steinke, Denison University (1035-55-1205)

3:00PM

� (1648)Symmetric Permutations Avoiding a Pattern ofLength Three and a Pattern of Length Four.Jonah K Ostroff* and David Lonoff, CarletonCollege (1035-05-1266)

3:30PM

� (1649)Energy Decay Estimates for the Dissipative WaveEquation with Space-Time Dependent Potential.Jonathan J. Kenigson* and Jessica S. Kenigson,University of Tennessee (1035-35-1320)

4:00PM

� (1650)Arithmetic Derivatives and Number Theory.Arielle M Leitner, California State University, Chico(1035-11-1386)

4:30PM

� (1651)Synchronization in Coupled Phase Oscillators.Preliminary report.Natasha A. Cayco Gajic, California Institution ofTechnology (1035-37-1440)

5:00PM

� (1652)Some Remarks on a Fibonacci-Type PolynomialSequence. Preliminary report.Tom McCollum* and Aklilu Zeleke, Michigan StateUniversity (1035-05-1462)

5:30PM

� (1653)Parseval-Type Relations for Laplace Transform andtheir Applications.Matthew R Rogala, Ithaca College (1035-44-1556)

AMS-MAA-MER Special Session on Mathematics andEducation Reform, II

1:00 PM – 5:40 PM

Organizers: Bonnie S. Saunders, University ofIllinois, ChicagoWilliam H. Barker, Bowdoin College

Dale R. Oliver, Humboldt StateUniversityMichael Starbird, University of Texas,Austin

1:00PM

(1654)Focus on Mathematics: Mathematicians Working inSchools.Al Cuoco, Center for Mathematics Education, EDC(1035-97-2002)

1:30PM

� (1655)Teachers’ Circles. Preliminary report.Tom Davis, San Jose Math Circle (1035-97-1610)

2:00PM

(1656)The SMARTS (Science and Mathematics Avenues toRenewed Teachers and Students) project.Walter I Seaman, University of Iowa (1035-97-895)

2:30PM

(1657)Influence on content courses for preservice teachersresulting from the participation of mathematiciansand math graduate students in the ALGEBRA CUBEDproject.Richard Millman, University of Kentucky(1035-97-957)

3:00PM

(1658)Classroom experiences with new curriculummaterials during the implementation ofperformance standards in mathematics: A casestudy of teachers coping with change.Samuel Obara, Texas State University, San MarcosTexas (1035-97-1770)

3:30PM

� (1659)Physical Manipulatives for Visualizing MultivariableConcepts and How They Can Reform MathematicsCourses Such as Basic Algebra, Precalculus andCalculus.Daniel Lee McGee*, University of Puerto Rico -Mayaguez, Deborah Moore-Russo, SUNY - Buffalo,David Lomen, University of Arizona, DennisEbersole, Northhampton Community College, andMaider Marin Quintero, University of Puerto Rico -Mayaguez (1035-97-38)

4:00PM

(1660)Women in the Mathematical Sciences: TheUniversity of California Context.Kenneth C Millett, University of California, SantaBarbara (1035-00-1116)

4:30PM

� (1661)Project Catalyst: Positive Actions to Recruit andRetain Women Faculty in the Mathematical andPhysical Sciences.Margaret-Ann Armour, University of Alberta(1035-97-1085)

5:00PM

(1662)Recommendations for Change: Why and How.Cathy Kessel, Berkeley, California (1035-97-1884)

AMS-MAA Special Session on History of Mathematics,IV

1:00 PM – 5:50 PM


1:00PM

� (1663)Sophie Germain’s manuscripts on Fermat’s LastTheorem: A further evaluation of their scope,depth, and original techniques.Reinhard Laubenbacher, Virginia PolytechnicInstitute and State University, and DavidPengelley*, New Mexico State University(1035-01-348)

1:30PM

� (1664)Hubert Newton and the study of mathematics in themid-nineteenth century.Steve Batterson, Emory University (1035-01-490)



2:00PM

� (1665)The Mathematics of Nature, 1869-1900.Sloan Evans Despeaux, Western CarolinaUniversity (1035-01-302)

2:30PM

(1666)The Algorithmic Side of Riemann’s Mathematics.Harold M. Edwards, New York University(1035-01-443)

3:00PM

� (1667)Paucissima et Maturissima: Kurt Goedel’sReluctance to Publish in the Philosophy ofMathematics. Preliminary report.Thomas Drucker, University ofWisconsin–Whitewater (1035-01-505)

3:30PM

� (1668)American Mathematicians and School Reform: ASurvey of Motives, Methods, and Outcomes from the1890s to the Present. Preliminary report.David Lindsay Roberts, Prince George’sCommunity College (1035-01-473)

4:00PM

� (1669)Who was Miss Mullikin?Thomas L. Bartlow, Villanova University, and DavidE. Zitarelli*, Temple University (1035-01-571)

4:30PM

(1670)Tracing curve tracing. Preliminary report.John McCleary, Vassar College (1035-14-1557)

5:00PM

� (1671)Mathematician In Search of War Work: Alice BacheGould, 1917–1918. Preliminary report.Deborah Kent, Hillsdale College (1035-01-1026)

5:30PM

(1672)Priority arguments are not priority disputes.Preliminary report.John W Dawson, Pennsylvania State University,York (Emeritus) (1035-01-396)

AMS Special Session on Financial Mathematics, IV

1:00 PM – 5:55 PM


1:00PM

(1673)Stochastic partial differential equations andportfolio choice.Marek Musiela, BNP Paribas, and ThaleiaZariphopoulou*, University of Texas at Austin(1035-60-1416)

2:00PM

(1674)Interacting Particle Systems for the EfficientComputation of CDO Tranche Spreads with RareDefaults.Doug Vestal*, UC Santa Barbara, Rene Carmona,Princeton University, and Jean-Pierre Fouque, UCSanta Barbara (1035-60-125)

2:30PM

(1675)Monte Carlo Simulations with Skews of ImpliedVolatilities.Jean-Pierre Fouque*, University of California SantaBarbara, Ronnie Sircar, ORFE, Princeton University,and Knut Solna, University of California Irvine(1035-60-389)

3:00PM

(1676)Investing and Pricing for the Long Run.Paolo Guasoni* and Scott Robertson, BostonUniversity (1035-91-527)

3:30PM

(1677)A new approach to singular stochastic controlwith applications to optimal hedging andinvestment-consumption under transaction costs.Tze Leung Lai, Department of Statistics, StanfordUniversity, Tiong Wee Lim, Department ofStatistics and Applied Probability, NationalUniversity of Singapore, and Kevin J Ross*,Stanford University (1035-60-595)

4:00PM

(1678)Optimal portfolio liquidation: Market impactmodels, algorithms, and competition.Aurelien Alfonsi, Ecole Nationale des Ponts etChaussees, Marne-la-vallee, France, AlexanderSchied*, TU Berlin and Cornell University, TorstenSchoneborn and Antje Schulz, QP Lab and TUBerlin, Germany (1035-90-274)

5:00PM

(1679)Indifference pricing with L2 convex risk measures:A first step towards risk calibration.Antoine Toussaint, Stanford University(1035-60-1161)

5:30PM

(1680)The correlation-neutral measure for countingprocesses.Kay Giesecke, Stanford University, Departmentof Management Science and Engineering(1035-60-497)

AMS Special Session on the Feynman Integral inMathematics and Physics, II

1:00 PM – 5:20 PM

Organizer: Lance W. Nielsen, Creighton University1:00PM

(1681)Disentanglement in the Construction Formulation ofthe Feynman Operator calculus.Tepper L. Gill* and Woodford W. Zachary, HowardUniversity (1035-47-752)

1:30PM

(1682)Inverse integral transforms and the generalizedconvolution product.Seung Jun Chang, Dankook University(1035-44-700)

2:00PM

(1683)The Weyl-McCoy operational calculi as a subfamilyof Feynman’s operational calculi fornon-commuting operators. Preliminary report.Gerald W. Johnson*, University ofNebraska-Lincoln, and Lisa M. Rezac, University ofSt. Thomas (1035-28-587)

2:30PM

(1684)Feynman Integrals with Highly Singular Potentials.Preliminary report.Michel L. Lapidus, University of California,Riverside (1035-58-471)

3:00PM

(1685)Feynman-Kac formulas, backward stochasticdifferential equations and Markov processes.Jan A. Van Casteren, University of Antwerp(1035-60-489)

3:30PM

(1686)The generalized Feynman-Kac formula aLebesgue-Stieltjes measure.Jun Tanaka, University of California Riverside(1035-81-481)

4:00PM

(1687)Multiple stochastic integrals with respect toVolterra random fields: Properties and applications.Anna Amirdjanova, University of Michigan(1035-60-311)

4:30PM

(1688)Integral Transforms of Functions in L2(Ca,b[0, T ]).Seung Jun Chang, Hyun Soo Chung, DankookUniversity, and David L. Skoug*, University ofNebraska-Lincoln (1035-28-470)

5:00PM

(1689)Quantum Hidden Subspace Algorithm.Jeremy James Becnel, Stephen F. Austin StateUniversity (1035-46-249)

AMS Special Session on Heegaard Splittings, BridgePositions, and Low Dimensional Topology, II

1:00 PM – 5:50 PM

Organizers: Jesse Johnson, Yale UniversityAbigail A. Thompson, University ofCalifornia Davis



Robin Wilson, University of CaliforniaSanta Barbara

1:00PM

(1690)Lower bounds for the distance of a Heegaardsplitting. Preliminary report.John Hempel, Rice University (1035-57-1669)

1:30PM

(1691)Heegaard splittings of amalgamated 3-manifoldsand distance in the curve complex.Tao Li, Boston College (1035-57-833)

2:00PM

(1692)Constructing knot tunnels using giant steps.Sangbum Cho and Darryl McCullough*, Universityof Oklahoma (1035-57-811)

2:30PM

(1693)Bridge numbers of tunnel number one knots.Sangbum Cho* and Darryl McCullough, Universityof Oklahoma (1035-57-973)

3:00PM

(1694)Surface Homeomorphisms that Do Not Extend toAny Handlebody and the Johnson Filtration.Jamie B. Jorgensen, Rice University (1035-57-194)

3:30PM

(1695)Random Heegaard Splittings.Joseph Maher, Oklahoma State (1035-57-168)

4:00PM

(1696)Finiteness properties of 3-manifolds related bynon-zero degree maps. Preliminary report.J Hyam Rubinstein*, University of Melbourne, M.Boileau and S. Wang (1035-57-1985)

4:30PM

(1697)Curvature bounds for strongly irreducibleHeegaard surfaces in hyperbolic 3-manifolds.William Breslin, University of California at Davis(1035-57-1810)

5:00PM

(1698)Creating small Seifert fiber spaces by Dehn surgeryon knots in S3. Preliminary report.Kenneth Baker*, Georgia Institute of Technology,Cameron Gordon and John Luecke, University ofTexas at Austin (1035-57-573)

5:30PM

(1699)Lens space surgeries and tunnel number one knots.Michael J. Williams, University of California, Davis(1035-57-1401)

AMS Special Session on The Linear DiophantineProblem of Frobenius

1:00 PM – 5:50 PM

Organizers: Matthias Beck, San Francisco StateUniversityStanley Wagon, Macalester CollegeKevin M. Woods, Oberlin College

1:00PM

� (1700)On a linear Diophantine problem of Frobenius inthree variables. Preliminary report.Amitabha Tripathi, Indian Institute of Technology,Delhi, and SUNY at Oswego (1035-11-1569)

1:30PM

� (1701)Integer Linear Programming, Frobenius Instances,and Frobenius Numbers.Daniel A Lichtblau, Wolfram Research(1035-11-456)

2:00PM

� (1702)My Favorite Simplicial Complex and Applications tothe Frobenius Problem.Herbert E. Scarf, Yale University (1035-05-953)

2:30PM

(1703)When is the Frobenius Problem Easy?David M Einstein, Structured DecisionsCorporation (1035-05-824)

3:00PM

(1704)Computing Frobenius Numbers Using Test Sets.Bjarke Hammersholt Roune, University of Aarhus(1035-11-1032)

3:30PM

(1705)Automated Proofs of Quadratic Frobenius Formulas.Stan Wagon, Macalester College (1035-11-141)

4:00PM

(1706)Frobenius number, covering radius, andwell-rounded lattices.Lenny Fukshansky*, Claremont McKenna College,and Sinai Robins, Temple University (1035-11-109)

4:30PM

(1707)The Frobenius Problem in a Free Monoid.Jeffrey O. Shallit and Zhi Xu*, School of ComputerScience, University of Waterloo (1035-05-355)

5:00PM

� (1708)Fibonacci semigroups and their duals. Preliminaryreport.Gretchen L Matthews, Clemson University(1035-20-713)

5:30PM

� (1709)The Multi-Dimensional Frobenius Problem.J. Amos, Kansas State University, Iuliana Pascu,Wellesley College, Vadim Ponomarenko*, SanDiego State University, Enrique Trevino,Dartmouth College, and Yan Zhang, HarvardUniversity (1035-15-880)

AMS Special Session on E-Theory, Extensions, andElliptic Operators, II

1:00 PM – 5:50 PM

Organizers: Constantin D. Dumitrascu, Universityof ArizonaJohn D. Trout, Dartmouth College

1:00PM

(1710)First steps towards a noncommutative theory ofnonlinear elliptic equations. Preliminary report.Jonathan M. Rosenberg, University of Maryland(1035-46-1039)

2:00PM

(1711)Functional analytic properties of cubical complexes.Erik Guentner*, University of Hawaii at Manoa,Nigel Higson, Pennsylvania State University, JacekBrodzki, Sarah Campbell, Graham Niblo and NickWright, University of Southampton (1035-57-1573)

2:30PM

(1712)Lefschetz-type invariants for correspondences.Heath Emerson, University of Victoria(1035-97-542)

3:00PM

(1713)Asymptotic morphisms on separable metrisablealgebras.Edwin J Beggs, Swansea University (1035-19-1446)

3:30PM

(1714)K-theory for non-Hausdorff groupoids.Radu Popescu, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon,Portugal (1035-19-1247)

4:00PM

(1715)Traces and Determinants of Toeplitz Operators.Efton Park, Texas Christian University(1035-47-1088)

4:30PM

(1716)Asymptotic Tensor Norms.Oscar Antonio Campos, Dartmouth College(1035-46-783)

5:00PM

(1717)Asymptotic morphisms and extensions ofC∗-algebras (after V. Manuilov and K. Thomsen).Constantin Dorin Dumitrascu, University ofArizona (1035-46-1869)

5:30PM Open problems/Discussions.

AMS Special Session on Algebraic and GeometricAspects of Integrable Systems, II

1:00 PM – 5:50 PM

Organizers: Baofeng Feng, University of Texas-PanAmericanWenxiu Ma, University of South FloridaKenichi Maruno, University ofTexas-Pan AmericanZhijun Qiao, University of Texas-PanAmericanTaixi Xu, Southern Polytechnic StateUniversity

1:00PM

(1718)On Head-on Collisions Between Two Solitary Wavesof General Boussinesq Model.Chen Chunli, Shanghai Jiao Tong University(1035-76-1501)



1:30PM

(1719)Integrable systems and invariant geometrical flowsin Klein geometry. Preliminary report.Changzheng Qu, Northwest University, Xi’an, P.R.China (1035-53-1890)

2:00PM

(1720)Integrable systems associated to Hopf surfaces.Ruxandra Moraru, University of Waterloo(1035-51-467)

2:30PM

(1721)On the classical inhomogeneous Heisenberg spinchain.Atsushi Mukaihira, Ohio State University(1035-35-1458)

3:00PM

(1722)Hamiltonian Structures of Integrable Couplings.Wen-Xiu Ma, University of South Florida(1035-37-464)

3:30PM

(1723)A dispersionless limit of theCalogero-Bogoyavlenskii-Schiff hierarchy.K Toda, Toyama Prefectural University(1035-35-653)

4:00PM

(1724)Cable Knot Solutions of the Vortex Filament Flow.Thomas A. Ivey* and Annalisa M. Calini, Collegeof Charleston (1035-35-1134)

4:30PM

(1725)Integrable systems and soliton theory onnoncommutative spaces.Masashi Hamanaka, University of Nagoya(1035-35-993)

5:00PM

(1726)The Pfaff lattice and the symplectic eigenvalueproblem.Yuji Kodama and Virgil U. Pierce*, The Ohio StateUniversity (1035-34-1211)

5:30PM

(1727)Vector soliton and multi-component KP hierarchy.Kenichi Maruno*, The University of Texas-PanAmerican, Yasuhiro Ohta, Kobe University,and Masayuki Oikawa, Kyushu University(1035-35-1679)

AMS Special Session on Expanders and RamanujanGraphs: Construction and Applications, III

1:00 PM – 5:40 PM


1:00PM

(1728)Covering graphs and block diagonalizationtechniques.Howard Skogman*, SUNY Brockport, and MarvinMinei, University of California, Irvine (1035-05-911)

1:30PM

(1729)Rigidity of Ramanujan graphs. Preliminary report.Brigitte Servatius, WPI (1035-05-801)

2:00PM

(1730)Ramanujan hypergraphs and Drinfeld modules.Alireza Sarveniazi, University of Applied SciencesKarlsruhe, and Stefan Wiedmann*, MathematicsInstitute Gottingen (1035-05-852)

3:00PM

� (1731)Eigenvalues and the structure of graphs.Preliminary report.Sebastian M Cioaba, University of California, SanDiego (1035-05-394)

4:00PM

(1732)Ramanujan Graphs and Optimal Expander Graphsfrom Algebraic Geometric Codes.Heeralal Janwa, University of Puerto Rico(1035-94-1794)

5:00PM

(1733)Graphs whose subgraphs tend to be acyclic.Eitan Bachmat, Ben-Gurion U. (1035-05-795)

AMS Special Session on Probability Theory andStatistical Mechanics, II

1:00 PM – 5:40 PM

Organizers: Itai Benjamini, Weizmann Instituteand Microsoft ResearchWendelin Werner, University ofParis-Sud

1:00PM

(1734)Noise Sensitivity in Criticality. Preliminary report.Eyal Lubetzky, Microsoft Research (1035-60-1309)

2:00PM

� (1735)Random Averaging.Eli Ben-Naim, Los Alamos National Laboratory(1035-60-927)

3:00PM

� (1736)Random Sorting Networks.Alexander E Holroyd*, University of BritishColumbia, Omer Angel, University of Toronto, DanRomik, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and BalintVirag, University of Toronto (1035-60-803)

4:00PM

(1737)Spin glasses and Stein’s method.Sourav Chatterjee, University of California atBerkeley (1035-60-793)

5:00PM

(1738)The loop-erased random walk and the uniformspanning tree on the four-dimensional discretetorus.Jason Schweinsberg, University of California at SanDiego (1035-60-427)

AMS Special Session on Global Optimization andOperations Research Applications, II

1:00 PM – 5:50 PM

Organizer: Ram U. Verma, University of CentralFlorida

1:00PM

(1739)Global invertibility for ray-proper and relatedoperators in optimization and nonlinear functionalanalysis. Preliminary report.M. Zuhair Nashed, University of Central Florida(1035-49-2029)

1:30PM

(1740)Some Global Optimization Methods and Applicationsof Inequalities.R N Mohapatra, University of Central Florida(1035-49-1295)

2:00PM

(1741)Mellin and global optimization techniques forsingular integrals in two dimensions.Katharine A Ott, University of Virginia(1035-35-1349)

2:30PM

(1742)Discrete Optimization Models for the NumberPartitioning Problem.Bala Krishnamoorthy*, William Webb and NathanMoyer, Washington State University, Pullman(1035-11-139)

3:00PM

(1743)On the Semilocal Convergence Analysis of Newton’sMethod.Ioannis Konstantinos Argyros, CameronUniversity (1035-65-357)

3:30PM

(1744)Necessary and sufficient conditions for global weakPareto solutions in constrained multiobjectiveoptimization.Bao Quang Truong* and Boris S Mordukhovich,Wayne State University (1035-49-90)

4:00PM

(1745)Second Order Necessary Optimality Conditions forProblems with Locally Lipschitz Data.Elena Constantin, University of Pittsburgh atJohnstown (1035-90-333)



4:30PM

(1746)Generalizations of the Concept of AlmostAutomorphy and their Applications to AbstractDifferential Equations. Preliminary report.Haewon Lee* and Peter Frempong-Mireku, DillardUniversity (1035-47-969)

5:00PM

� (1747)The Lying Oracle With a Biased Coin.Robb T Koether, Marcus Pendergrass,Hampden-Sydney College, and John K Osoinach*,Millsaps College (1035-91-121)

5:30PM

(1748)Design of Electron Devices using 3D SimulationCodes and Computer Optimization.Adam R Attarian*, John David and Hien Tran,North Carolina State University (1035-49-1016)

AMS Special Session on Mathematical Problems inBiological Formations

1:00 PM – 5:50 PM

Organizer: Yuanwei Qi, University of CentralFlorida

1:00PM

(1749)Asymptotic Analysis of Dirichlet Problem forParabolic and Elliptic Equations on a Domain withCoated Boundary.Jingyu Li, Northeast Normal University, SteveRosencrans, Xuefeng Wang*, Tulane University,and Kaijun Zhang, Northeast Normal University(1035-35-1744)

1:30PM

(1750)Strange Attractors for PDE’s.Kening Lu*, Brigham Young University, QiudongWang, University of Arizona, and Lai-Sang Young,New York University (1035-35-1287)

2:00PM

(1751)Formation of Morphogen Gradients in DorsalVentral Patterning.Qing Nie, U. of California, Irvine (1035-92-886)

2:30PM

(1752)Approximating the Ideal Free Distribution viaReaction-Diffusion-Advection Equations.Yuan Lou*, Ohio State University, Robert StephenCantrell and Chris Cosner, University of Miami(1035-35-778)

3:00PM

(1753)Pattern Formation on Growing Square Domains: ACase Study via Mode Interactions.Adela Nicoleta Comanici*, Virginia Tech, andMartin Golubitsky, University of Houston(1035-35-736)

3:30PM

(1754)Solvability conditions for inhomogeneous reactiondiffusion equations.Qi S. Zhang* and J. M. Wrkich, UC Riverside(1035-35-641)

4:00PM

(1755)Analysis on a reaction-diffusion system in patternformation.Huiqiang Jiang, University of Pittsburgh(1035-35-621)

4:30PM

(1756)Some recent results on auto-catalytic chemicalreactions.Yuanwei Qi, University of Central Florida(1035-35-488)

5:00PM

(1757)Stability of Travelling Waves with Noncritical Speedsfor Double Degenerate Fisher-Type Equations.Yi Li*, University of Iowa, and Yaping Wu, CapitalNormal University, Beijing, China (1035-35-376)

5:30PM

(1758)Stability of the Bicarbonate System in the Blood.Jisun Lim*, University of Colorado at Boulder, andSeungjoon Choi, Ajou University School ofMedicine (South Korea) (1035-35-133)


1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

More music and mathematics.Organizer: Leon Harkleroad, Wilton, ME


1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

A beginner’s guide to the scholarship of teachingand learning in mathematics.Organizers: Curtis D. Bennett, Loyola Marymount

UniversityJacqueline M. Dewar, LoyolaMarymount University


1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Visualizing abstract mathematics with cellularautomata.Organizers: Michael J. Bardzell, Salisbury

UniversityDonald E. Spickler, SalisburyUniversity

AMS Session on Combinatorics, IV

1:00 PM – 4:40 PM

1:00PM

� (1759)The 2-color Rado Number of x +y + kz = 3w.Preliminary report.Dan Saracino and Brian Wynne*, ColgateUniversity (1035-05-1681)

1:15PM

� (1760)Feedback Arc Sets and Girth in Digraphs.Blair Dowling Sullivan, Princeton University(1035-05-1568)

1:30PM

� (1761)Path and Cycle Decomposition Numbers.Hosien S. Moghadam*, G. Bullington, L. Erohand S. Winters, Univ. of Wisconsin Oshkosh(1035-05-1725)

1:45PM

� (1762)Making Your House Safe from Zombie Attacks.Preliminary report.Maria T. Belk* and James M. Belk, Texas A&MUniversity (1035-05-1763)

2:00PM

(1763)Linear Diophantine Equations in GraphDecompositions.Robert A. Beeler, East Tennessee State University(1035-05-1033)

2:15PM

� (1764)Uniquely pairable graphs. Preliminary report.Zhongyuan Che, Penn State University BeaverCampus (1035-05-945)

2:30PM

(1765)Tree Pegging.Ariel R Levavi, Carnegie Mellon University(1035-05-952)

2:45PM

(1766)A Non-Tableaux Proof for Duality of the EuclideanProperty for Oriented Matroids.Leandro Junes, SUNY at Binghamton(1035-05-1025)

3:00PM Break3:15PM

� (1767)Differentials on Paths and Grids.Sandra L. Gaskins and Mark C Ginn*, AppalachianState University (1035-05-1095)

3:30PM

� (1768)Rainbow Connectivities of Graphs.Futaba Okamoto, University of Wisconsin - LaCrosse (1035-05-1158)



3:45PM

(1769)The spectral gap of a random subgraph of a graph.Fan Chung and Paul K Horn*, University ofCalifornia, San Diego (1035-05-1176)

4:00PM

� (1770)The Tableaux Graph of a Permutation. Preliminaryreport.Eric S Egge*, Carleton College, and KristinaGarrett, St. Olaf College (1035-05-1201)

4:15PM

(1771)Edge Coloring of Multigraphs: Some Results on theChromatic Structure of Overflow Subgraphs UnderOptimal Colorings. Preliminary report.Christopher McClain, The Ohio State University(1035-05-1249)

4:30PM

� (1772)Degree sum conditions in graph pebbling.Anna Blasiak, Cornell University, and John RogerSchmitt*, Middlebury College (1035-05-1290)

AMS Session on Mathematics Education

1:00 PM – 6:10 PM

1:00PM

� (1773)Effect of a Web-based Instruction on PreserviceTeachers’ Knowledge of Fraction. Preliminaryreport.Cheng-Yao Lin, Southern Illinois UniversityCarbondale (1035-97-251)

1:15PM

� (1774)Mathematical Analysis of Diabetes in America.Preliminary report.Jon Roginski* and Tyler B. Smith, United StatesMilitary Academy (1035-97-1735)

1:30PM

� (1775)The Relationships Between California High SchoolTeachers’ Mathematics History Knowledge andTheir Images of Mathematics.Danielle M Goodwin, Penn State Erie (1035-97-59)

1:45PM

� (1776)An Electronic Classroom Model for Content Courses:Influences on Classroom Teaching.Brooke Evans*, Patty McKenna, Jim Loats, DonGilmore and Lew Romagnano, The MetropolitanState College of Denver (1035-97-98)

2:00PM

� (1777)U.C. Davis Explore Math: A model for bringingtogether graduate, undergraduate, and high schoolstudents.Y. Yvonne Lai, UC Davis Explore Math: Math CircleProgram (1035-97-126)

2:15PM

� (1778)Impact of Human Resource Capital on StudentEngagement in Communities of Practice andMathematics Identities.Tracey L Keck, Winston-Salem State University(1035-97-196)

2:30PM

� (1779)Strategies and Content Every ProspectiveMathematics Teacher Should Know.Elizabeth K. Mauch, Bloomsburg University ofPennsylvania (1035-97-230)

2:45PM

� (1780)Enhancing Middle School Teachers MathematicsKnowledge for Teaching. Preliminary report.Harvey B. Keynes, University of MN (1035-97-277)

3:00PM

� (1781)Some topics for undergraduate research usingcomputer algebra systems.Duane M Broline and Evgeny I Gordon*, EasternIllinois University (1035-97-420)

3:15PM

� (1782)Calculus I Oral Assessments: Improved Grades,Retention, and Calculus II Success.Mary Ann Nelson*, University of Colorado,Boulder, and Michael Ruston, University ofColorado, Boulder (1035-97-433)

3:30PM Break3:45PM

� (1783)The Sound of Mathematics and The Standards forIntroductory College Mathematics.Ann H Pham* and Andy Wekin, Washington StateUniversity (1035-97-1294)

4:00PM

� (1784)Research Experience for All!Timothy G. Feeman, Villanova University(1035-97-441)

4:15PM

� (1785)Why Do Chinese Students Excel on the InternationalMathematical Olmpiad?Zengxiang Tong Tong, Otterbein College, andZhaochi Zhang*, The Northwestern PolytechnicalUniversity (1035-97-741)

4:30PM

(1786)A Model for Shifts in Viewpoint, as Applied toMathematics Education.Paul S Prueitt, Talladega College (1035-97-813)

4:45PM

� (1787)Assisting Students Be Successful on theMathematics PRAXIS II Exam.Kenneth J Bernard, Virginia State University(1035-97-914)

5:00PM

� (1788)The Use of On-Line Quiz and Homework Systems inPrecalculus Mathematics. Preliminary report.Steven E. Rigdon, Southern Illinois UniversityEdwardsville (1035-97-1628)

5:15PM

(1789)An Intermediate Algebra Experimental Class.Dan Boros, Otterbein College (1035-97-1695)

5:30PM

� (1790)Using a Wiki for a Mathematics Class. Preliminaryreport.John F Carter, Franklin and Marshall College(1035-97-1772)

5:45PM

� (1791)Cryptology: An Attractor Set for UndergraduateResearch.Manmohan Kaur, Benedictine University(1035-97-1792)

6:00PM

� (1792)Choosing the right representation: A key tosuccessful proof.May F Hamdan, Lebanese American University(1035-97-1977)

AMS Session on Probability, Statistics, andApplications, II

1:00 PM – 5:10 PM

1:00PM

(1793)Recurrence and Transience of Some VertexReinforced Random Walks. Preliminary report.Noah Dean, Purdue University (1035-60-1196)

1:15PM

(1794)System Reliability: A Dynamic Model Using CountingProcesses. Preliminary report.Marcus Agustin, Southern Illinois UniversityEdwardsville (1035-60-1280)

1:30PM

(1795)Quenched limits for a transient one-dimensionrandom walk in random environment.Jonathon Peterson, University of Minnesota(1035-60-737)

1:45PM

(1796)On a Form of Coordinate Percolation.Elizabeth R Moseman*, United States MilitaryAcademy, and Peter Winkler, Dartmouth College(1035-60-1281)

2:00PM

(1797)The long-range dependence of unbalancedlog-fractional stable motion. Preliminary report.Joshua B. Levy, The University of Texas of thePermian Basin (1035-60-475)

2:15PM

(1798)Supremum concentration inequality and modulus ofcontinuity for generalized sub-Gaussian processesusing Malliavin derivatives and generic chaining.Andrew B Vizcarra, Purdue University(1035-60-1325)

2:30PM

� (1799)An Optimal Pension Funding under StochasticInvestment Returns. Preliminary report.J Tao, University of Central Missouri(1035-60-1812)



2:45PM

(1800)A notion of robust geodesic distance between datapoints. Preliminary report.Maxim J. Goldberg*, Ramapo College of NewJersey, and Seonja Kim, The College of New Jersey(1035-60-1934)

3:00PM

� (1801)Possible biological applications of time scales.Preliminary report.Unal Ufuktepe, Izmir University of Economics(1035-60-698)

3:15PM

� (1802)Stochastic extinction of epidemics in largepopulations and role of vaccinations.Alexandra Sasha Landsman*, Ira B Schwartz,Dynamical Systems Section, Naval Research Lab,Washington DC, and Mark I Dykman, PhysicsDept., Michigan State University (1035-60-1645)

3:30PM

(1803)Estimating linear functionals of indirectly observedinput functions.Eun-Joo Lee*, Millikin University, and F Ruymgaart,Texas Tech University (1035-62-910)

3:45PM

(1804)Generating Functions: Web-based SOCR Applets andComputational Library Interfaces.Rahul A Gidwani*, Nicolas Christou and Ivo DDinov, UCLA (1035-62-1789)

4:00PM

� (1805)A New Approach to Learning Game Theory and ItsApplications.James Kuodo Huang, California InformationTechnology (1035-68-43)

4:15PM

� (1806)Exactness of Grover’s original quantum searchalgorithm.Zijian Diao, Ohio University Eastern Campus(1035-68-1434)

4:30PM

(1807)On the standard deviation of position distributionfor a quantum walk on the line.Chaobin Liu, Bowie State University (1035-81-668)

4:45PM

(1808)Eigenvalue Statistics for Random CMV Matrices.Mihai V Stoiciu, Williams College (1035-82-2004)

5:00PM

(1809)The Highly Damped Quasinormal Modes ofExtremal Non-Rotating, Charged Black Holes.Ramin G. Daghigh and Michael D. Green*,Metropolitan State University (1035-83-1398)

AMS Session on Analysis and Functional Analysis, II

1:00 PM – 5:10 PM

1:00PM

� (1810)A reexamination of the structure of the irrationalnumbers. Preliminary report.Emily H Sprague*, Edinboro University of PA, andBerhane T. Ghaim, Baldwin-Wallace College(1035-46-49)

1:15PM

(1811)On locally Kaplansky algebras and abstractcharacterization of locally W*-algebras.Alexander A Katz, St. John’s University, NY(1035-46-238)

1:30PM

(1812)L*-structures and Nash equilibrium theorems.Preliminary report.Wladyslaw Kulpa, Silesian University, Katowice,Poland, and C.S. Wyszynski University, Warszawa,Poland, and Andrzej Szymanski*, Slippery RockUniversity of Pennsylvania (1035-46-375)

1:45PM

(1813)Applications of Schwartz functions to waveletanalysis and random fields.George K Yang, Tennessee State University(1035-46-623)

2:00PM

(1814)Normalizers of Subalgebras of II1 Factors.Alan D Wiggins, Vanderbilt University(1035-46-670)

2:15PM

(1815)Some constructive proofs of Bollobas’ Extension tothe Bishop-Phelps Theorem for the spaces C(K) andc0.Antonia E. Cardwell, Millersville University ofPennsylvania (1035-46-809)

2:30PM

(1816)The tracial Rokhlin property: Very outer groupactions.Dawn Archey, University of Oregon (1035-46-840)

2:45PM

(1817)Spaces of Operators with c0 and l∞. Preliminaryreport.Polly Schulle, University of North Texas(1035-46-948)

3:00PM

(1818)Flows of weights and automorphism groups of reala.f.d. factors of type IIIλ,0 < λ < 1. Preliminaryreport.Shukhrat M Usmanov, Ashford University(1035-46-1119)

3:15PM

(1819)Unitarily Invariant Norms Related to Factor vonNeumann Algebras.Junsheng Fang* and Don W. Hadwin, University ofNew Hampshire (1035-46-1173)

3:30PM Break3:45PM

(1820)Noncompact Operators on a Banach Space.Frank Sanacory, SUNY-Old Westbury(1035-46-1314)

4:00PM

(1821)An A1 Function that is Not in Lipα For Any Positiveα.Ryan Mullen, Sacred Heart University(1035-46-887)

4:15PM

(1822)On the existence of eigenvalues of self-adjointToeplitz operators associated with representingmeasures on multiply connected planar regions II.Cyrus Parsi Aryana, Saginaw Valley StateUniversity (1035-46-1407)

4:30PM

(1823)Homotopy class of projections in Corona algebras ofa non-simple stable C∗-algebra. Preliminary report.Larry G Brown and Hyun Ho Lee*, PurdueUniversity in West Lafayette (1035-46-1424)

4:45PM

(1824)On Stochastic Ergodic Theorem for BesicovitchBounded Sequences in Jordan Algebras.Genady Ya Grabarnik*, T. J. Watson IBM ResearchCenter, Alexander A Katz, St. John’s University,and Laura Shwartz, University of South Africa(1035-46-1431)

5:00PM

(1825)Criteria of Stochastic Banach Principal for the JBWAlgebras.Genady Ya Grabarnik and Larisa Shwartz*, IBM T.J. Watson Research (1035-46-1460)

MAA Session on Biomathematics in theUndergraduate Curriculum, III

1:00 PM – 3:55 PM


1:00PM

� (1826)Helping Calculus Students Predict the Health of aNatural Water System.Gregory H. Graves* and Lance Edling, U.S. MilitaryAcademy (1035-B1-1706)

1:20PM

� (1827)BioMath I: Getting Biology Students Prepared for aCourse in Mathematical Biology. Preliminary report.James P. Peirce, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse(1035-B1-629)



1:40PM

� (1828)Media to Motivate: Math in the Middle.Mike Martin, Johnson County Community College(1035-B1-1958)

2:00PM

� (1829)Teaching a course on biodiversity. Preliminaryreport.Paul H. Schuette, Meredith College (1035-B1-1683)

2:20PM

� (1830)On The Mathematics Component of a BiologicalImaging Course.Gary Greenfield*, Carolyn Marks and GaryRadice, University of Richmond (1035-B1-243)

2:40PM

� (1831)Geometry and biology—a project-based course.Greg Huber, University of Connecticut(1035-B1-1768)

3:00PM

� (1832)Mathematics and Biology Student Engagement inBiomathematics Research Projects.Olcay Akman, Illinois State University(1035-B1-1647)

3:20PM

(1833)Math-Biophysics in the class room.Hala Jadallah, Purdue University (1035-B1-1403)

3:40PM

(1834)If You Build It (Carefully), They Will Come.Christopher N Hay-Jahans, University of AlaskaSoutheast, Juneau Campus (1035-B1-1665)

MAA Session on Mathematics and the Arts, III

1:00 PM – 3:35 PM


1:00PM

(1835)Learning Geometry in the Dance Studio.Jason Parsley* and Christina Soriano, Wake ForestUniversity (1035-N1-1893)

1:20PM

� (1836)Mathematics in International Folk Dances.Leon Harkleroad, Wilton, ME (1035-N1-265)

1:40PM

� (1837)Group Structure in Musical Inversions.Craig M Johnson, Marywood University(1035-N1-423)

2:00PM

� (1838)Demonstrating Fourier Series and Its ApplicationsThrough Music. Preliminary report.Michelle L Ghrist, U.S. Air Force Academy(1035-N1-1341)

2:20PM

� (1839)Making Pictures of Music.James S. Walker, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire(1035-N1-743)

2:40PM

� (1840)Juggling Permutations. Preliminary report.Nate M Iverson, Bowling Green State University(1035-N1-1593)

3:00PM

� (1841)Building Reason: Baroque History and Mathematics.Barbara T Faires, Westminster College(1035-N1-1737)

3:20PM

� (1842)How many books are there in the Library of Babel?Preliminary report.David L. Neel* and Charles Tung, SeattleUniversity (1035-N1-1733)

MAA Session on Mathlets and Web Resources forMathematics and Statistics Education, II

1:00 PM – 2:15 PM

Organizers: Thomas E. Leathrum, JacksonvilleState UniversityPatricia B. Humphrey, GeorgiaSouthern UniversityChristopher J. Lacke, RowanUniversityDavid M. Strong, PepperdineUniversityJoe Yanik, Emporia State University

1:00PM

� (1843)A Simulation Application for the Exponential.Richard Cornez, University of Redlands, Redlands,CA. (1035-P1-46)

1:20PM

(1844)Interactive Web-Based Probability DistributionMathlets: www.SOCR.ucla.edu.Rahul Ashok Gidwani*, Christou and Dinov,UCLA (1035-P1-707)

1:40PM

� (1845)Mathlets for Problem Analysis.Michael E. Mays, West Virginia University(1035-P1-67)

2:00PM

� (1846)Modeling data with linear, quadratic, exponential,and other functions. Preliminary report.Mary R. Parker*, Austin Community College, andHunter D. Ellinger, Exemplar Technologies, Inc.(1035-P1-1939)

MAA Session on Research on the Teaching andLearning of Undergraduate Mathematics, III

1:00 PM – 5:15 PM

Organizers: David E. Meel, Bowling Green StateUniversity

Michelle J. Zandieh, Arizona StateUniversity

Chris Rasmussen, San Diego StateUniversity

1:00PM

(1847)Mathematics teaching assistants learning to teach:Recasting early teaching experiences as richlearning opportunities.Natasha Speer*, Michigan State University, andDavid Kung, St. Mary’s College of Maryland(1035-U1-611)

1:35PM

� (1848)The Development of Covariational Reasoning in aCollege Algebra Course. Preliminary report.Stacey A. Bowling*, Kevin C. Moore and Marilyn P.Carlson, Arizona State University (CRESMET)(1035-U1-1675)

2:00PM

� (1849)Exploring Rational Numbers with K-5 MathematicsSpecialists: A Case for Examining the DensityProperty. Preliminary report.Joy W. Whitenack*, Virginia CommonwealthUniversity, Laurie O. Cavey, James MadisonUniversity, and Aimee J. Ellington, VirginiaCommonwealth University (1035-U1-915)

2:25PM

� (1850)An Analysis of Students’ Development ofUnderstanding of Number Systems.Joyce A Cutler, Framingham State College(1035-U1-1436)

2:50PM

� (1851)Conceptual Understanding and ProceduralPerformance in Undergraduate Survey of Calculus.Ted R Hodgson*, Northern Kentucky University,and Gaye W Fearn, Montana State University(1035-U1-176)

3:15PM

� (1852)The Impact of an Algebra Framework onUnderstanding and Skill in College Algebra.Jon F Hasenbank*, University of Wisconsin - LaCrosse, and Ted Hodgson, Northern KentuckyUniversity (1035-U1-373)

3:40PM

� (1853)Measuring Mathematical Sophistication.Jennifer E. Szydlik, University of WisconsinOshkosh (1035-U1-820)



4:05PM

(1854)Addressing Students’ Misconceptions AboutProbability in an Introductory College StatisticsCourse: The Instructors’ Perspectives.Leonid Khazanov*, Borough of ManhattanCommunity College of the City University of NewYork, Annette F Gourgey, City University of NewYork, and Frederick Peskoff, Borough ofManhattan Community College of the CityUniversity of New York (1035-U1-584)

4:30PM

� (1855)Evaluating the effectiveness of remediation:Longitudinal effects of developmental courseworkon mathematics achievement.H. Smith Risser, Texas Woman’s University(1035-U1-1439)

4:55PM

� (1856)Teaching a Beginning College Student to Read aMathematics Textbook, a Case Study. Preliminaryreport.Mary D Shepherd, Northwest Missouri StateUniversity (1035-U1-1580)

MAA General Contributed Paper Session, X

1:00 PM – 5:40 PM


Moderators: Srilal Krishnan, Iona CollegeBryan Nankervis, Texas StateUniversity-San MarcosMaegan Bos, St. Lawrence UniversityJohn Villalpando, Gonzaga UniversityJoy L. Becker, University ofWisconsin-StoutAldo R. Maldonado, Park University

1:00PM

� (1857)NIMbly Bridging the Gap. Preliminary report.Maegan K Bos, St. Lawrence University(1035-Z1-1590)

1:15PM

� (1858)Irreducible no-hole colorings of grid graphs,hypercube and other bipartite graphs.John J Villalpando*, Gonzaga University, and RenuC Laskar, Clemson University (1035-Z1-1104)

1:30PM

� (1859)An “advanced perspectives” course for prospectivehigh school math teachers. Preliminary report.Erica L Johnson, St. John Fisher College(1035-Z1-1748)

1:45PM

(1860)A Follow-Up Investigation on the Effects of aRefocused College Algebra Course.Erick B Hofacker, University of Wisconsin-RiverFalls (1035-Z1-1854)

2:00PM

� (1861)Engaging Students through Applications andDiscussion Boards. Preliminary report.Joy L Becker, University of Wisconsin-Stout(1035-Z1-454)

2:15PM

� (1862)A Conceptual Booster for Mathematically DistressedStudents. Preliminary report.C. L. Greeno, The MALEI Mathematics Institute(1035-Z1-1175)

2:30PM

� (1863)WeBWorK to stimulate reading: Computationalversus conceptual problems. Preliminary report.George R. Exner*, Bucknell University, and Mary DShepherd, Northwest Missouri State University(1035-Z1-961)

2:45PM

(1864)Having fun in classroom with Mathematics fromIndia.Srilal N Krishnan, Iona College (1035-Z1-329)

3:00PM

� (1865)Building a Foundation for Algebra: How Fluencywith Rational Numbers and Proportionality is Key toAchievement.Bryan Nankervis, Texas State University-SanMarcos (1035-Z1-1061)

3:15PM

� (1866)Studying Math Anxiety: A Case Study in CooperationBetween a University and a Community College.K. Scott Alberts*, Truman State University, andJane Roads, Moberly Area Community college(1035-Z1-523)

3:30PM

� (1867)Spiral Knots. Preliminary report.Leonard A. Van Wyk* and Laura A. Taalman,James Madison University (1035-Z1-1685)

3:45PM

(1868)NoteBlogging in the Classroom.Beth Simon, University of California at San Diego(1035-Z1-1856)

4:00PM

(1869)Improving high school geometry by carefullyselecting what and how we teach prospective highschool teachers.Shlomo Libeskind, University of Oregon(1035-Z1-1960)

4:15PM

(1870)Spherical Superbowl? In Search of a Round Football.Elizabeth A. Stanhope*, Lewis & Clark College,Emily Dryden, Bucknell University, Jeanie Karns,Lewis & Clark College, Wai Chit Lam, McGillUniversity, and Matt Lang, Lewis & Clark College(1035-Z1-1802)

4:30PM

� (1871)The Most Fundamental Inequality.Anand Kumar, Ramanujan School of Mathematics,Patna, India (1035-Z1-227)

4:45PM

(1872)Nonlinear filtering of random fields in the presenceof long-memory noise.Matthew Linn, University of Michigan (1035-Z1-93)

5:00PM

� (1873)To Infinity and Beyond.Jeffrey M. Groah, Montgomery College(1035-Z1-268)

5:15PM

(1874)Distributing Vertices on a Hamiltonian Cycle.Ralph J. Faudree, University of Memphis, Ronald J.Gould, Emory University, Michael S. Jacobson,University of Colorado at Denver, and Colton R.Magnant*, Emory University (1035-Z1-383)

5:30PM

� (1875)Pedagogy of Arithmetic. Preliminary report.L Franklin Kemp, Collin County CommunityCollege (1035-Z1-847)

SIAM Minisymposium on Graph Coloring andPartitioning, II

1:00 PM – 5:50 PM

Organizers: Andre Kundgen, California StateUniversity, San MarcosRadhika Ramamurthi, California StateUniversity, San Marcos

1:00PM

(1876)Circular consecutive choosability for cvery cycleand for θ2,2,4 is 2.Daphne Der-Fen Liu, California State University,Los Angeles (1035-05-537)

1:25PM

� (1877)Circular choosability of graphs.Serguei Norine, Princeton University (1035-05-771)

1:50PM

� (1878)Algebraically Solvable Problems: DescribingPolynomials as Equivalent to Explicit Solutions.Uwe Schauz, Tubingen Germany (1035-05-722)

2:10PM Break.2:30PM

� (1879)Level three graph sums.Sam Vandervelde, St. Lawrence University(1035-05-341)



2:55PM

� (1880)Distinguishing Chromatic Number of Graphs.Jeong-Ok Choi, University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign, Stephen Hartke, University ofNebraska, and Hemanshu Kaul*, Illinois Institute ofTechnology (1035-05-1155)

3:20PM

� (1881)Degree Sequences for Edge Colored Graphs.Garth Isaak, Lehigh University (1035-05-947)

3:40PM Break.4:00PM

(1882)Edge-colorings avoiding rainbow andmonochromatic subgraphs.Maria Axenovich*, Iowa State University, and PerryIverson, Lousiana State University (1035-05-1232)

4:30PM

� (1883)Dominating Sets in Triangulations.Erika L. C. King, Hobart and William SmithColleges, and Michael J. Pelsmajer*, IllinoisInstitute of Technology (1035-05-1209)

5:00PM

� (1884)On the existence of a rainbow 1-factor in

1-factorizations of K(r )rn.

Saad I. El-Zanati*, Michael J. Plantholt, Papa A.Sissokho and Lawrence Spence, Illinois StateUniversity (1035-05-1949)

5:30PM

(1885)A new look at Szemeredi’s regularization.Preliminary report.Y Ishigami, University of Electro-Communications(1035-05-1450)

AWM Workshop Panel Discussion

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Establishing a career in mathematics.Moderator: Magnhild Lien, California State

University NorthridgePanelists: Megan M. Kerr, Wellesley College

Elizabeth S. Allman, University ofAlaska, FairbanksElana J. Fertig, Matron, Inc.

ASL Session for Contributed Papers, III

2:00 PM – 5:35 PM

2:00PM

(1886)On maximal subgroups of the automorphism groupof a countable arithmetically saturated model of PA.Ermek S. Nurkhaidarov, University of MontanaWestern

2:25PM

(1887)More on decidable theories of l-groups ofcontinuous functions.Brian Wynne, Colgate University

2:50PM

(1888)Parameterization in Monadic Logic.Grigori Mints* and Tomohiro Hoshi, StanfordUniversity

3:15PM

(1889)Incompleteness Theorem and empirical stability.Dan E. Willard, University at Albany

3:40PM Break.4:00PM

(1890)Results on off-branch numbers and otherinvariants.John Bourke, Dartmouth College

4:25PM

(1891)A model with a very good scale and a bad scale.Dima Sinapova, University of California at LosAngeles

4:50PM

(1892)Semantics for positive entailment and forentailment.Katalin Bimbo, Indiana University

5:15PM

(1893)Independence-friendly cylindric set algebras.Allen L. Mann, Colgate University

AWM Workshop: Research Presentations by RecentPh.D.’s, II

2:30 PM – 4:20 PM

2:30PM

(1894)Imaginary Whittaker Modules for Affine LieAlgebras.Konstantina Christodoulopoulou, University ofWisconsin-Madison

3:00PM

(1895)Conditioning Super-Brownian Motion on its ExitMeasure.Deniz Sezer, York University

3:30PM

(1896)Continuous Dependence on Modeling for NonlinearIll-Posed Problems.Beth Campbell Hetrick, Pennsylvania StateUniversity, Harrisburg

4:00PM

(1897)Comparison of Relative Cohomology Theories.Diana White, University of South Carolina

MAA General Contributed Paper Session, XI

2:45 PM – 5:10 PM


Moderators: Firooz Khosraviyani, Texas A&MInternational UniversityAndrew E. Long, Northern KentuckyUniversityG. Alan Cannon, SoutheasternLouisiana UniversityLarry Wayne Lewis, SpaldingUniversity

2:45PM

� (1898)Re-thinking How We Introduce Mathematics to FirstYear Students. Preliminary report.Colm Mulcahy*, Spelman College, and Ed Burger,Williams College (1035-Z1-1882)

3:00PM

� (1899)Gender Differences in Mathematics Performance—APilot Study. Preliminary report.Melissa A Desjarlais, Valparaiso University(1035-Z1-1778)

3:15PM

(1900)Kernels of an Integro-Differential Equation from anInitial Pulse. Preliminary report.J. Angela Hart Murdock, Middle Tennesee StateUniversity (1035-Z1-1986)

3:30PM

(1901)1. NCTM Focal Points for K-8 Avoid 2-stepArithmetic Word Problems with Math Content. 2.K-8 Math Textbooks Avoid Word Problems withReading Content.Jerome Dancis, Univ. of Maryland (1035-Z1-1896)

3:45PM

� (1902)Batteries Not Included: Using the Abacus toMotivate Liberal Arts Mathematics Students.Sandra E. Boer, Borough of Manhattan CommunityCollege (1035-Z1-1883)

4:00PM

� (1903)How to Assess Effective Teaching in a ProblemSolving Mathematics Curriculum.Charles Anthony Sulewski, United States MilitaryAcademy (1035-Z1-933)

4:15PM

� (1904)The Central Ideas of the First-Year Calculus:Views from Calculus Textbook Authors andOther Well-Known Experts, Preliminary Report.Preliminary report.Kimberly S. Sofronas*, Emmanuel College,Nicholas Gorgievski, Nichols College, LarissaSchroeder, Chris Hamelin, Thomas C. DeFrancoand Charles Vinsonhaler, University of Connecticut(1035-Z1-975)



4:30PM

� (1905)So You Want to Be an Engineering Major but You’reAfraid of Math.Robert E Burks, United States Military Academy(1035-Z1-1274)

4:45PM

(1906)Effective Teaching in Discrete Mathematics.Weiwei Zhang, King’s College (1035-Z1-1283)

5:00PM

(1907)Using Writing Techniques To Enhance Learning InThe Pre-Calculus Mathematics Classroom.Jonathan P Lambright*, Savannah State University,and Josephine Foster, Armstrong Atlantic StateUniversity (1035-Z1-1291)


3:30 PM – 5:30 PM

Sonification for mathematics instruction.Organizers: Steven M. Hetzler, Salisbury State

UniversityRobert M. Tardiff, Salisbury StateUniversity

MAA General Contributed Paper Session, XII

4:00 PM – 5:40 PM


Moderators: David Taylor, Roanoke UniversityRobert D. Poodiack, NorwichUniversity

4:00PM

� (1908)A Comparison of Quantitative (Aiken & Dreger’sMathematics Attitude Scale and a SemanticDifferential) and Qualitative (Open-response)Methods in Measuring Student Attitudes towardMathematics.Mike J Simmers, University of Wisconsin-StevensPoint (1035-Z1-1549)

4:15PM

(1909)Increasing Student Success in Engineering andScience through a Freshman Enrichment Program.Galen E. Turner III*, James D. Nelson, Kelly B.Crittenden and Alicia Boudreaux, Louisiana TechUniversity (1035-Z1-1579)

4:30PM

� (1910)Students’ Perceptions of Partial Notes in PromotingUnderstanding of Calculus.Larissa B. Schroeder* and Thomas C. DeFranco,Center for Research in Mathematics Education/University of Connecticut (1035-Z1-1595)

4:45PM

� (1911)Surreal Numbers and Combinatorial Game Theoryin Undergraduate Research Projects at Penn StateErie.Paul D. Olson, Penn State Erie, the Behrend College(1035-Z1-1617)

5:00PM

� (1912)How to help calculus students understand more andmemorize less.Wojciech K Kosek, Colorado College(1035-Z1-1633)

5:15PM

� (1913)Teaching and Learning Calculus Using Maplets forCalculus.Douglas B Meade*, University of South Carolina,and Philip B Yasskin, Texas A&M University(1035-Z1-1704)

5:30PM

� (1914)Bracelets with Magic Applications. Preliminaryreport.Colm Mulcahy*, Spelman College, and Neil Calkin,Clemson University (1035-Z1-1870)

AMS Banquet Reception

6:30 PM – 7:30 PM

AMS Banquet

7:30 PM – 10:00 PM

Michel L. LapidusAMS Associate SecretaryRiverside, California

James J. TattersallMAA Associate SecretaryProvidence, Rhode Island



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