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Friday, August 17th

12:00nn - 1:45pm     Registration & Welcome

12:00nn   MW 154	Registration:   Conference Room MW 154   across from reception desk of Math Tower (231 W 18th Ave)
12:00nn   MW 724	Refreshments:  7th Floor Lounge (MW 724) of Math Tower
1:10pm   MW 724	Welcome Address:   by (TBA)

  1:45pm - 3:15pm     Student Talks   (I)

Session: I-A       Room: EA 265       Chair: Prof Neal Stoltzfus
1:45pm  EA 265	Reconstruction problem for graphs on surfaces Douglas M Schaefer The Ohio State University
2:15pm  EA 265	Bollobas-Riordan polynomial and gl(n) Angelo J Nasca III & Trent H Ohl Ohio State University
2:45pm  EA 265	Constructive Generation of Arrow Diagram Formulas for the Coefficients of the Conway Polynomial Alfred V Rossi III The Ohio-State University

Session: I-B       Room: EA 275       Chair: Prof Chunsheng Ban
1:45pm  EA 265	Characterization of Vertex-Reinforced Random Walks and Trapping Subgraphs Aaron M Yeager & Thomas A Gassert Penn State University Park
2:15pm  EA 265	Aldous's Conjecture for Diamonds in the Square Lattice Matthew P. Conomos University of Rochester
2:45pm  EA 265	Instantaneous Uniform Mixing of the Quantum Walk on Cycle Graphs Jennifer Lin SUNY Potsdam

Session: I-C       Room: EA 285       Chair: Prof James Freeman
1:45pm  EA 265	On the Images of Integer Coefficient Non-Constant Polynomials Bryan E Bischof & Andrew C Perriello Pennsylvania State University - New Kensington
2:15pm  EA 265	Existence of Asymptotic Solutions to Semilinear Partial Difference Equations on Graphs Jason D Lee Northern Arizona University
2:45pm  EA 265	The Steiner Problem on Narrow and Wide Cones Joshua W Lytle & Amber Lee BYU

3:15pm - 3:45pm     Coffee & Cookies   in   MW 724

  3:45pm - 4:45pm     Student Talks   (II)

Session: II-A       Room: EA 265       Chair: Prof Jaromy Kuhl
3:45pm  EA 265	Collisions on Punctured Spheres Tim C Heath Williams College
4:15pm  EA 265	Semi-dispersing billiards and infinite topological entropy Tyler A London & Bryan R Gillespie Penn State University

Session: II-B       Room: EA 275       Chair: Prof Chunsheng Ban
3:45pm  EA 265	The Lie Symmetry Groups of Minimal Surfaces Evelyn L Crofts & Darren C Ong Brigham Young University
4:15pm  EA 265	Planar Harmonic Mapping and Minimal Surfaces Leah D Jackman Brigham Young University

Session: II-C       Room: EA 285       Chair: Prof James Freeman
3:45pm  EA 265	Non-Minimal Factorization in Numerical Monoids Jay Daigle Trinity
4:15pm  EA 265	Numerical Monoids: Shifting Generators and Delta Sets Tyler R Lemburg Trinity University

  5:10pm - 6:10pm     Plenary Talk

5:10pm  EA 160

Frodo meets Neo: Studying rings using matrices Amelia Taylor Colorado College

6:30pm - 9:30pm     Dinner at the Faculty Club

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Saturday, August 18th

8:30am - 9:30am     Breakfast in MW 724


  9:30am - 10:30am     Plenary Talk

9:30am  EA 160

The Four-Vertex Theorem and its Converse Dennis DeTurck University of Pennsylvania

  10:30pm - 12:00nn     Posters Presentations

Room: MW 724

Relating Valuations and the Hypergeometric Distribution Kelly C Aman University of Georgia

Bernoulli Polynomials and Pascal's Square Robert J Booth Jr. Rowan University

The Radio Number of Cartesian Products of Graphs, Part 1 Adriana Juarez & Michael M Nava CSU Channel Islands

The Radio Number of Cartesian Products of Graphs, Part 2 Shera E Fournier & Carissa M Mendoza CSU Channel Islands

Self-Contact in Three-Dimensional Three-Branched, Asymmetric Fractal Trees Bailey A Meeker Ithaca College

External Cavity Mode Solutions to the Lang-Kobayashi Equations Sara A Reynolds & Stanley E Snelson Rochester Institute of Technology

The Heat Kernel of Homesick Random Walks on K-Regular Trees Stefan P. Sabo & Eric P. Lownes Canisius College

Edge Detection by Multi-Dimensional Wavelets Julie A Siloti & Katherine T Maschmeyer North Carolina State University

A Mathematical Model for Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension Tracy L Stepien Penn State Erie

Sufficient Conditions for the Completion of Partial Latin Squares Larie C Ward University of West Florida

12:00nn - 1:00pm     Lunch Break


  1:00pm - 2:30pm     Student Talks   (III)

Session: III-A       Room: EA 265       Chair: Prof Jaromy Kuhl
1:00pm  EA 265	Ropelength of Tight Links James Dabbs University of Georgia
1:30pm  EA 265	New Results on the Distortion of Polygonal Knots Christopher M Green University of Georgia
2:00pm  EA 265	The Stick Number of Satellite Knots Nikhil Agarwal Williams College

Session: III-B       Room: EA 275       Chair: Prof Tuncay Aktosun
1:00pm  EA 275	Towards a Positive Rule for the Equivariant Cohomology of Lagrangian Grassmanians Charles M Siegel & Matthew J Samuel Rutgers University
1:30pm  EA 275	Generalized Continued Fractions and Geodesics on the Modular Surface Andrew Kontaxis & Michael Wijaya Penn State
2:00pm  EA 275	The symplectic topology of Hamiltonian systems with one degree of freedom Ashley K Wheeler Kansas State University

Session: III-C       Room: EA 285       Chair: Prof David Brown
1:00pm  EA 285	An Orbital Basis for the Framed Link Vector Space of Chord Diagrams Bryan E Bischof & Roman Kogan Kansas State
1:30pm  EA 285	The Kauffman--Harary Conjecture Pablo R Solis CSU CHICO
2:00pm  EA 285	Geometric Probability on Finite Lattices Jonathan D Weed & Kenneth S Knox University of Georgia

2:30pm - 3:30pm     Coffee & Refreshments   in   MW 724


  3:30pm - 4:30pm     Student Talks   (IV)

Session: IV-A       Room: EA 265       Chair: Prof Hieu Duc Nguyen
3:30pm  EA 265	Evolutionary Games on Graphs with Evolving Structure Elizabeth F Rogers University of Illinois
4:00pm  EA 265	Environmental Evolutionary Graph Dynamics Gregory J Puleo University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Session: IV-B (Summaries)       Room: EA 275       Chair: Prof Tuncay Aktosun
3:30pm  EA 275	Permutation Graphs Paula L Hogrefe University of West Florida
3:45pm  EA 275	Looking at Higher Dimensional Fractals Combinatorially Laina D Mowry Cornell College
4:00pm  EA 275	A class of exact solutions to the Korteweg-de Vries equation Antonio Lopez University of Texas at Arlington
4:15pm  EA 275	Exact solutions to the nonlinear Schrödinger equation Jorge A Ibanez The University of Texas at Arlington

Session: IV-C       Room: EA 285       Chair: Prof Neal Stoltzfus
3:30pm  EA 285	The Two-sum of Dessins and the Bollobás-Riordan-Tutte Polynomial Brittan A Farmer Louisiana State University
4:00pm  EA 285	Generalizations of Results from the Tutte to the BRT Polynomial Noah M. Forman Louisiana State University

  5:00pm - 6:00pm     Plenary Talk

5:00pm  EA 160

The Geometry of Groups Ruth Charney Brandeis University

6:30pm - 9:30pm     Dinner at the Fawcett Center

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Sunday, August 19th

8:15am - 10:30am     Breakfasts & Discussions

8:30am   MW 724	Breakfast   for everyone in 7th floor lounge.
8:15am   Blackwell	Mentor Breakfast:   at the The Blackwell Inn   Chaired by Prof Alayne Parson.
9:00am   MW 724	Graduate School Orientation: at the 7th floor lounge. Question and Answer sesssion on graduate schools, moderated by Prof Fangyang Zheng, with representatives from following institutions: University of California at Berkeley: James Kelley Dartmouth College: Paul Pollack Harvard University: Jesse Kass University of Iowa: Syvillia Averett & Shannon Talbott University of Michigan: Prof Peter Scott Syracuse University: Tom Bleier The Ohio State University: Prof Fangyang Zheng

  10:30am - 12:30pm     Student Talks   (V)

Session: V-A       Room: EA 265       Chair: TBA
10:30am  EA 265	Constructing Families of Hadamard Difference Sets in Groups of Order 144 Nicole R. Kroeger & Chris P. Mooney Central Michigan University
11:00am  EA 265	Searching for Non-Abelian Hadamard Difference Sets in Groups of Order 144 Kathleen A Shepard & Marcus G Miller Central Michigan University
11:30am  EA 265	Column Strict Rook Placements and the q-File Polynomial Cordelia E Csar & Alyssa M Armstrong Trinity University
12:00am  EA 265	Combinatorics and Characterizations for Involutions and Twisted Involutions Ashley E Hatfield & Constance G Baltera Smith College

Session: V-B       Room: EA 275       Chair: Prof Joe Fu
10:30am  EA 275	Finite vs. Infinite Fullernes and the Ihara Zeta Function Alicia K Hoffmann & Tim J Doster Canisius College
11:00am  EA 275	Minimal k-rankings and the rank number of Pn2 Sarah E Novotny & Juan P Ortiz Rochester Institute of Technology
11:30am  EA 275	Intrinsic Linking in Real Projective Space Kirsten A Trickey SUNY Potsdam
12:00am  EA 275	Disallowed Paths on a Genus-g surface Joe D Mitchell University of Washington

Session: V-C       Room: EA 285       Chair: Prof Vittorio Addona
10:30am  EA 285	Noncrossing Pairings of Balanced Bitstrings Anna Fricano & Julius Poh Cornell University
11:00am  EA 285	Stochastic Interest Rate Models, Distributions, and Symmetries Maxx Hyeok J Cho & Aaron R Smith Brigham Young University
11:30am  EA 285	Post-election audits: Statistical power based methods and a trigger for further auditing Katherine Lim Macalester College
12:00am  EA 285	Rank Two Perturbation of Real Symmetric Eigenvalue Problems Mark E Flanagan University of West Florida

12:45pm - 1:00pm     Wrap Up Meeting

12:45pm   MW 724

Closing Address:   by (TBA)

YMC 2007 is supported by NSF Grant DMS-0732622