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• Plenary Speakers
• Algebra
• Differential Geometry
• Functional Analysis
• Graph Theory & Combinatorics
• Localization & Partial Differential Equations
• Low-Dimensional Topology
• Mathematical Physics
• Mathematics Education
• Probability
• Topology
• Variational Methods in Partial Differential Equations

Plenary Speakers    [PDF]

• Francisco Gonzalez Acuña - Minimal coverings of a 3-manifold with special open subsets
• David Brydges - Self-Avoiding Walks and Trees
• Gonzalo Contreras - C²-densely the 2-sphere has an elliptic closed geodesic
• Pengfei Guan - Nonlinear Differential Equations in Geometry
• Jorge Urrutia - On Quadrangulations of Point Sets
• Maciej Zworski - Quantum chaos in scattering theory

Algebra    [PDF]

• Michael Barot - Graduated inclusions between simply-laced semi-simple Lie algebras: a description with unit forms
• Raymundo Bautista - Representations of tame algebras over rational functions
• Yuly Billig - Thin coverings of modules
• Thomas Bruestle - Cyclic cluster algebras of rank three
• Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz - Noncommutative Version of Hochschild Cohomology
• Vladimir Chernousov - Zero cycles on projective homogeneous varieties
• Jose Antonio de la Peña - Spectra of Coxeter polynomials
• Ivan Gutman - Energy of a Graph
• Srikanth Iyengar - Hochschild cohomological criteria for the Gorenstein property for commutative algebras
• Graham Leuschke - Non-commutative desingularization of the generic determinant
• Shiping Liu - The derived category of algebras with radical squared zero
• Roberto Martinez - On a group graded version of BGG
• Xavier Gómez Mont - The Homological Index of a Vector Field on an Isolated Complete Intersection Singularity
• Arturo Pianzola - Almost commuting subgroups of Lie groups and toroidal Lie algebras
• Juan Rada - A generalization of the energy to digraphs
• Fernando Szetchman - Irreducible representations of Sylow subgroups of symplectic groups
• Dieter Vossieck - Rigid homomorphisms between finite length modules over a discrete valuation ring

Differential Geometry    [PDF]

• Pierre Bayard - Entire spacelike hypersurfaces with prescribed curvature in Minkowski space
• Charles Boyer - On Toric Sasakian Geometry
• Albert Chau - On the uniformization of complete non-negatively curved Kahler manifolds
• Jingyi Chen - Minimal surfaces with isotropic link
• Kenneth Chu - On the geometry of the moduli space of real binary octics
• Rafael Herrera - Parallel Quaternionic Spinors and Riamnnian holonomy
• Niky Kamran - Analytic Lie pseudogroups of infinite type
• Jesús Muciño - Moduli spaces of singular flat metrics from meromorphic one forms
• Jimmy Petean - On the Yamabe invariant of products
• Raul Quiroga - Superrigidity, semisimple Lie groups and pseudoRiemannian geometry
• Adolfo Sanchez - Looking for a natural notion of superspace
• Federico Sanchez - Geometrical extrinsic dynamics of Riemannian submanifolds

Functional Analysis    [PDF]

• Line Baribeau - The spectral Schwarz lemma revisited
• Jonathan Borwein - Maximality of Sums of Monotone Operators
• Carlos Bosch - Multipliers of Temperate Distributions
• Slavisa Djorjevich - Spectrum of Upper Triangular Operator Matrices
• Salvador Pérez Esteva - Atomic decompositions in Banach-valued Hardy spaces on Lipschitz domains
• Fernando Galaz - Iterating the Cesaro operator
• Berta Gamboa de Buen - Empty intesection of slices and the fixed point property in Banach spaces
• Armando García - An extension of Ekeland's variational principle to locally complete spaces
• Zhiguo Hu - Multipliers and topological centre problems
• Michael Lamoureux - Linear operators and minimum phase
• Alexander Livak - A covering lemma and its applications
• Laurent Marcoux - Sums of small numbers of commutators
• Rubén Martínez Avendaño - Eigenmatrices and operators commuting with finite-rank operators
• Mehdi Sangani Monfared - Character Amenability of Banach Algebras
• Matthias Neufang - Quantum groups and quantum information theory
• Nico Spronk - The algebra generated by idempotents in a Fourier-Stieltjes algebra
• Vladimir Troitsky - Minimal vectors and invariant subspaces
• Antoni Wawrzyncyk - Schur Lemma and the spectral mapping formula

Graph Theory & Combinatorics    [PDF]

• Matt Devos - A generalization of Kneser's addition theorem
• Hortensia Galeana - Hypergraph transversals and kernels in digraphs
• Isidoro Gitler - On a new class of Mengerian hypergraphs
• Luis Goddyn - Spanning Trees of Many Different Weights
• Penny Haxell - Hypergraph intersections
• Veselin Jungic - Rainbow Ramsey Theory
• Petr Lisonek - Rainbow Graphs in Steganography
• Luis Montejano - Colorable Transversal Theory
• Miguel Angel Pizaña - Graph Relations and Clique Divergence
• Bruce Reed - Erdös-Posa Property for Cycles of Prescribed Length
• L. Bruce Richmond - Baby-Steps Giant-Steps in Polynomial Factorization
• Eduardo Rivera Campo - Partitions of complete geometric graphs into plane trees
• Gelasio Salazar - On pseudolinear crossing numbers
• Carlos Valencia - Connected graphs with a minimal number of edges
• Jacques Verstraete - Cycles in sparse graphs
• Rafael Villarreal - Ring graphs and complete intersection toric ideals
• Kerri Webb - Balanced Graphs
• Francisco Javier Zaragoza Martínez - Irreducible triangulations of surfaces

Localization & Partial Differential Equations    [PDF]

• Luis Cisneros - A numerical study on the two-dimensional discrete sine-Gordon equation
• Jorge Fujioka - Systems with Embedded Solitons
• Mari Carmen Jorge - A note on interface and bubble type asymptotic solutions to the two-dimensional Cahn-Hilliard equation
• Theodore Kolokolnikov - Spot patterns in the BZ reaction
• Rachel Kuske - Noise-sensitivity in bursting: new approaches for quantitative analysis
• Panayotis Panayotaros - Localized invariant tori in the discrete NLS with diffraction management
• Arturo Vargas - Evolution of Benjamin-Ono Solitons in the Presence of Weak Z-K Lateral Dispersion
• Michael Ward - Eigenvalue Optimization, Spikes, and the Neumann Green's Function
• Ralf Wittenberg - Attractors in one-dimensional spatiotemporal chaos

Low-Dimensional Topology    [PDF]

• Lorena Armas - Paths in Open Book Decompositions
• Hans Boden - The SL(2,C) Casson invariant
• Steven Boyer - On families of virtually fibred Montesinos link exteriors
• Hugo Cabrera Ibarra - Conway polynomials associated to 3-tangle closures
• Marc Culler - Homology of small-volume hyperbolic 3-manifolds
• Mario Eudave - Some examples of knots with interesting properties
• Wolfgang Heil - 3-manifolds covered by three open balls or solid tori
• Gabriel Indurskis - Exceptional fillings of once-punctured torus bundles
• Edgar Jasso - On knots with Seifert Fibered Dehn Surgeries
• Mercedes Jordan-Santana - A geometric proof that the singular braid group is torsion-free
• Christian Laing - Geometric Measures as Brain Shape Descriptors
• J Carlos Gómez Larrañaga - Lusternik-Schnirelmann type invariants for 3-Manifolds
• Max Neumann - Surfaces in semi-alternating knot complements
• Victor Nuñez - Coverings of Montesinos knots of the second kind
• Enrique Ramirez - There exist infinitely many two component links which are 2-universal
• Dale Rolfsen - On R-covered foliations of 3-manifolds
• Marty Scharlemann - Straightening tube sums
• DeWitt Sumners - DNA Knots Reveal Chiral Packing of DNA in Phage Capsids
• Mariel Vazquez - Processes of topology simplification in biology
• Genevieve Walsh - Commensurability classes of two-bridge knot complements

Mathematical Physics    [PDF]

• David Brydges - A combinatorial generalisation of Cramer's rule
• Jaime Cruz Sampedro - Embedded Eigenvalues of Continuous and Discrete Schrödinger Operators
• Rafael del Rio - Sturm-Liouville operators in the half axis with local perturbations
• Richard Froese - AC spectrum for Schrödinger operators on tree-like graphs
• Antonio Hernandez - Symmetry breaking and adiabatic invariants
• Dimitri Jakobsen - Estimates from below for spectral function and error term in Weyl law
• Robert Moody - Between order and disorder: the mathematics of quasicrystals
• Jeremy Quastel - Effect of Noise on Traveling Fronts in the Fisher-KPP equation
• Luis Silva - Applications of M. G. Krein's Theory of Entire Operators to Sampling Theory
• Gordon Slade - Invasion percolation on a tree
• Stephen Sontz - Heat kernel analysis in a deformation of quantum mechanics
• Julio Toloza - Absence of continuous spectrum on a class of unbounded Jacobi operators
• Alexander Turbiner - Anharmonic oscillator and double-well potential: approximating eigenfunctions
• Carlos Villegas - Asymtotics of clusters of eigenvalues for perturbations of the hydrogen atom Hamiltonian
• Ricardo Weder - Inverse Scattering at a Fixed Energy
• Petr Zhevandrov - Water waves guided by underwater obstacles

Mathematics Education    [PDF]

• Tenoch Cedillo - The potential of CAS in promoting changes in teachers' mathematical knowledge, practices and conceptions
• Alejandro Diaz-Barriga - A mathematician's perspective on teacher training in Mexico
• Olimpia Figueras
• Florence Glanfield - A Reflection about Mathematics Teacher Education Programs in Canada
• Fernando Hitt - Reflexión sobre diferentes acercamientos en la enseñanza de las matemáticas en ambientes tecnológicos
• Bernard R. Hodgson - The mathematical education of primary and secondary school teachers: the experience of Université Laval
• Carolyn Kieran - Using Computer Algebra Systems (CAS) in Teaching High School Mathematics: Two Research-Based Examples from Classroom Practice
• Luis Radford - The Investigation of Motion and its Symbolic Mathematical Expression
• Arturo Ramirez - Una propuesta didáctica usando geometría dinámica
• Marcela Santillan
• Thomas Steinke - From Toys to Tools: Reflections of a Math Consultant on Implementing Technology in K-12 Math in Ottawa and Ontario

Probability    [PDF]

• Michelle Boué - Critical values for an epidemic model with moving particles
• María-Emilia Caballero - Conditioned stable Lévy processes and the ruin problem
• Donald Dawson - Catalytic branching processes
• Luis Gorostiza - Some questions on occupation times of branching systems
• Daniel Hernández-Hernández - Pricing, hedging and PDE's
• Gail Ivanoff - Filtering of set-indexed stochastic processes
• J. Alfredo López-Mimbela - Symmetric steady states of a semilinear equation with fractional Laplacian
• Ana Meda - Estimates for the Value at Risk and ruin probabilities of diffusion processes with jumps
• Victor Pérez-Abreu - Representation of Infinitely Divisible Distributions on Cones
• Edwin Perkins - Pathwise uniqueness for parabolic stochastic PDE's
• Bruno Rémillard - On signed-measure solutions of stochastic differential equations
• Victor Rivero - Recurrent extensions of positive self-similar Markov processes and Cramer's condition
• Eliane Rodrigues - A non-homogeneous Poisson model to estimate the number of ozone peaks in Mexico City
• Byron Schmuland - Some recurrence sequences
• Bálint Virág - Scaling limits of random matrices
• John Walsh - The Rate of Convergence of Numberical Solutions of SPDEs

Topology    [PDF]

• Alejandro Adem - Commuting and non-commuting n-tuples in a Lie group
• Sergey Antonyan - Banach-Mazur compacta: Results and Problems
• Jose Luis Cisneros - Characteristic classes and transversality
• Samuel Gitler - Moment angle complexes
• Jesus Gonzalez - Formal groups and BP-homology of finite abelian groups of rank two
• Ian Hambleton - Free actions on products of spheres
• Richard Kane - Torsion and Lie Groups
• Kee Lam - On Yuzvinsky's conjecture arising from the study of sums of squares
• Ernesto Lupercio - Orbifold String Topology
• Grigory Mikhalkin - Tropical intersection theory
• Jacob Mostovoy - Moduli spaces of real curves
• Erik Pedersen - Manifolds and p-compact groups
• Daniel Juan Pineda - The Fibered Isomorphism Conjecture for braid groups
• Jose Seade - Open books and real analytic germs
• Enrique Torres-Giese - Topology of Spaces of Homomorphisms
• Miguel Xicotencatl - The loop orbifold of the symmetric product

Variational Methods in Partial Differential Equations    [PDF]

• Lia Bronsard - Vortices for a rotating toroidal Bose-Einstein condensate
• Rustum Choksi - Scaling laws during the onset and destruction of the intermediate state in a type-I superconductor
• Walter Craig - Remarks on the singular set of solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations
• Ivar Ekeland - A new type of differential equation arising from economic theory
• Renato Iturriaga - Physical solutions of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation
• Hector Lomeli - Invariant manifolds, variational principles and dynamic programming
• Antonmaria Minzoni - Stability of embedded solitons at the edge of the continuum
• Alberto Montero Zarate - A Gamma convergence result for the Gross Pitaevskii energy in R³
• Pablo Padilla - A dynamical systems approach to symmetry in PDE's
• Panayotis Panayotaros - Localized invariant tori in the discrete NLS with diffraction management
• Marianito Rocha - Approximate monotonic traveling wave solutions to reaction-diffusion systems with general nonlinearities
• Hector Sanchez Morgado - Hyperbolicity and exponential convergence of the Lax Oleinik semigroup