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Friday, August 8

11:30am

Registration

Math Tower

1:30pm

"Quadratic Reciprocity and Weil Reciprocity"

Jacob Lurie (MIT)

McPherson 1015

3:00pm

Parallel Sessions (I)

Session 1 ( Baker Systems 0180)

3:00pm	A.Heaton (Univ of Utah )	Fluid Transport through Sea Ice
3:30pm	S.Borgschulte (Duke University)	Panting and Resonance in canine respiration
4:00pm	M.Facaianeu (South. Conn. State)	The Electoral College and the propotional plan: A new analysis using the Shapley-Shubik Power Index
4:30pm	T.Davis (UC San Diego )	Optimal Design of a Gaupillaud-Type Layered Media
5:00pm	S.Srodulski (Georgetown Coll.)	The Effects of a Constant Alternative Food Source on Ecosystems with One Predator and One Prey

Session 2 (Baker Systems 0184)

3:00pm	N.Bauer (Cent. Mich. Univ.) P.Carmany (Ashland Univ.) P. Landry (U. Michigan )	Progress and Discoveries in Relative Difference Sets
3:30pm	D. Henson (Coll. Charleston)	Group Divisible Designs
4:00pm	P.Bihani (Coll. Charleston)	Inverse problem for Upper Banach density
4:30pm	B.Lagani (Western Kentucky)	Solving the Diophantine Equation
5:00pm	J.Azzam (Univ. Nebraska)	Stabilization of the Beam Equation

Baker Systems

6:30pm

Banquet

Buckeye Hall of Fame,
1421, Olentangy River Road

Saturday, August 9

8:30 am

Coffee

9:30 am

"The Geometry and Topology of Space"

Jeff Weeks (Canton, NY)

Hitchcock Hall 131

11:00 am

Poster Session
& Refreshments

Y. Abouyala (BMCC)	The aggregates of George Cantor
L.Childs (Duke Univ )	Activation Level-Dependent Mutation Rates in the Affinity Maturation of B-cells
R. Coulibaly (U.Wisconsin/Oshkosh)	Quantum Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
A. Douglin (Florida So. Coll)	Numerical Integration of the Levy Motion Driven SDE with Drift Boundaries for Motile Microbes
K. Fletcher (Pacific Lutheran)	A Quantitative Study of Student Retention
A.Johnson (Penn State)	Ground Truth Seismic Events in Tanzania and Ethiopia
L.Mitchell (Penn State/Erie)	Multiple Objective Simulated Annealing applied to Seismic Waveform modeling in the Baikal rift
A.Oloye (BMCC)	Introduction to Turing Machines
L.Olson (Pacific Lutheran)	A Quantitative Study of Student Retention
M.Osorio (Mt. Holyoke)	Modeling Bacterial Conjugation
J. Overbey (SE Missouri State Univ)	On the Keyspace of the Hill Cipher
C.Scheper (Purdue)	N-Dimensional Medians and Convex Functions
M. Senica (NE Illinnois Univ.)	Bifurcations of the Henon map:Routes to Chaos

Mathematics Lounge
MW 724

12:00 pm

Lunch Break

1:00 pm

Parallel Sessions (II)

Session 1 ( Baker Systems 0184)

1:00pm	A.Geiser (Susquehanna Univ.)	Classifying Semigroups Associated to Refinements of a Star Graph
1:30pm	I.Epstein (Rutgers)	On two classes of graphs associated with zero divisor semigroups
2:00pm	W.Wang (Duke Univ.)	Minimum Rank of Positive Semi-Definite Matrices with a Prescribed Graph

Session 2( Baker Systems 0180)

1:00pm	J.Richwine (American Univ.)	Shapley/Owen Voting Power Analysis for Electoral College
1:30pm	A.Yuffa (Colorado Sc. Mines)	A New Formulation of the Integral Equation method for Electromagnetic Scattering
2:00pm	A. Rand (New Mexico Tech)	Extinction Dynamics Due to an Invading Predator

Session 3(Baker Systems 0188)

1:00pm	B.Shtylla (Lafayette Coll.)	Knots, ortho-projection matrices and Jones polynomials
1:30pm	D.Stroup (Cleveland State)	Using the Desktop hypercube to Analyze Spatially Distributed Queueing Models
2:00pm	J.Breen ( Cleveland State)	Discrete-Time Modeling of Time- Dependent Queueing Systems

Baker Systems

2:30 pm

Poster Session
& Refreshments
(See Morning Session)

Mathematics Lounge
MW 724

3:40 pm

Parallel Sessions (III)

Session 1 ( Baker Systems 0180)

3:30pm	E.Militzer (Central Michigan)	Two Families of Randomly Decomposable Graphs
4:00pm	M.Moriarty (Worcester Polytechnic)	Cages of Degree k are k-edge-connected

Session 2 ( Baker Systems 0188)

3:30pm	C.Lichten (McGill)	An Application of the Geometric Heat Equation for Rapid Edge Detection
4:00pm	J.Ferrell (Univ. Louisville)	The Use of Statistical Methods and Data Mining in Applied Math

Baker Systems

4:30 pm

"Elliptic Curves are Everywhere"

Alice Silverberg, (Ohio State Univ.)

EA 0170

8:00 pm

Reception at Professor March's house

Sunday, August 10

8:30 am

Coffee

9:30 am

Closed Session for Mentors

MW 154

9:30 am

Parallel Sessions (IV)

Session 1 ( Baker Systems 0180)

9:30am	C.Price (CSU Chico)	Coloring Invariant & Determinants in Knot Theory
10:00am	R. Ottman (CSU Chico)	A Conjecture on Intrinsically Linked Graphs
10:30am	G.Crum (Univ. of Utah)	Triangle Inequalities on the 2-Sphere

Session 2 (Baker Systems 0188)

9:30am	W.Meyerson ( Harvard Univ.)	Half-Factorial Properties of Congruence Monoids
10:00am	M. Banister (Harvey Mudd College)	On Factorization Properties of Congruence Monoids
10:30am	J.Chaika (Univ. of Iowa)	Factorization of Congruence Monoids

Baker Systems

11:am

Wrap Up Session

Mathematics Lounge
MW 724