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• Abadie, Beatriz - Morita equivalence for Quantum Heisenberg Manifolds
• Adem, Alejandro - On spaces of homomorphisms
• Alvarez, Juan - Morita approximations to random copolymer localization
• Ando, Tsuyoshi - Indefinite Contractions
• Angel, Omer - 1 Dimensional DLA
• Anstee, Richard - Robustness of the property of being matchable subject to vertex deletion
• Arino, Julien - An alternative formulation for a delayed logistic equation
• Aussel, Didier - On quasiconvex mathematical programming problems with equilibrium constraints
  
  
• Bahsoun, Wael - Deterministic representation for position dependent random maps
• Bakker, Lennard - The Multiplier Group of a Quasiperiodic Flow
• Balint, Virag - Noise limits for complex eigenvalues
• Bampfylde, Caroline - Perturbing a littoral-zone lake community to release a biological
• Bauer, Kristine - The topological Lie operad
• Bauschke, Heinz - Fitzpatrick functions and (cyclically) monotone operators
• Berggren, Len - Creating Mathematics Textbooks in the Thirteenth Century: The Case of Nasir al-Din al-Tusi and Aristarchos of Samos
• Bezdek, Karoly - The illumination problem and the cube
• Bezdek, Karoly - On the illumination parameters of smooth convex bodies
• Biello, Joe - Rossby wave interaction between the tropics and midlatitudes: a novel asymptotic theory and solitary waves
• Binding, Paul - A generalized eigenvalue problem in the max-algebra
• Bisztriczky, Ted - Transversals and Convex Sets
• Bluskov, Iliya - Pair Covering Designs with Block Size 6
• Bonato, Anthony - Random graph models and the web
• Bourlioux, Anne - Modelling error analysis and estimation for unsteady flamelets
• Boyer, Steven
• Brenken, Berndt - The isolated ideal of a correspondence associated with a topological quiver
• Brewster, Rick - Switch invariant homomorphism targets
• Bruen, Aiden - Combinatorial characterizations of perfect secrecy
• Bruen, Aiden - Co-tangency sets and a configuration theorem
• Brydges, David - Joint density for the local times of continuous-time random walks
• Burke, Jim - Variational Analysis and the Roots of Polynomials
  
  
• Caron, Rick - Random methods for the analysis of quadratic constraint sets
• Cheung, Wai-Shun - A matrix approach to the study of generalised derivatives of polynomials
• Cheviakov, Alexei - Framework for nonlocally-related PDE systems and nonlocal symmetries: Algorithmic approach
• Choi, Man-Duen - Completely Positive Linear Maps
• Choksi, Rustum - The Periodic Isoperimetric and Cahn-Hilliard Problems and Nonlocal Perturbations
• Coombs, Daniel - Virus competition at multiple scales
• Cyr, Amik St. - Optimized Schwarz methods for high-order spectral elements
• Cytrynbaum, Eric - Finding the center-how to solve simple geometry problems at the cellular scale
  
  
• Daugherty, Sean - Exploring the Influence and Total Influence Numbers of a Graph
• Davidson, Ken - Nest representations of directed graph algebras
• De Silva, Daniela - A singular energy minimizing free boundary
• Delmas, Jean-Francois - Fragmentation associated to continuous random trees
• Dennis, John - Mesh Adaptive Direct Search Algorithms
• Dubiel, Malgorzata - Hitchhiker's Guide to Mathematics
• Dyer, Danny - Time constrained searching and sweeping
  
  
• Edelstein-Keshet, Leah - Models of actin dynamics and cell motility
• Edwards, Rod - Stochastic feedback and beats: a generic model for circadian rhythms
• Ekeland, Ivar - A new type of equation arising from noncommitment in economics
• Elliott, George - On the classification of non-simple inductive limits of matrix algebras over the interval-the theorem of Robert
• Emerson, Heath - A Gysin sequence in noncommutative geometry
• Erdahl, Bob - Reducible and irreducible Voronoi polytopes for lattices
• Esposito, Pierpaolo - On a semilinear PDE with a singular nonlinearity
  
  
• Fallat, Shaun - Compressions of totally positive matrices
• Farenick, Doug - Pure matrix states on operator systems
• Fieldsteel, Adam - Relative pressure and the variational principle
• Finbow, Stephen - Generalisations of Domination, Independence and Irredundance
• Fitzpatrick, Shannon - Independent Domination, Domination and Chromatic Number
• Fowler, Patrick - Cospectrality and the fullerenes
• Frantzikinakis, Nikos - Sets of multiple recurrence
• Froese, Richard - AC spectrum for the Anderson model on a tree: a geometric proof
• Fry, Robb - Beyond partitions of unity
  
  
• Gamber, Emily - Topological Properties of D-dimensional Cellular Automata
• Ghoussoub, Nassif - Concentration estimates for Emden-Fowler equations with boundary singularities and critical growth
• Gibson, Peter - Fast iterative Gaussian quadrature
• Giordano, Thierry - Connes and Woods Approximate Transitivity and Dimension Spaces
• Giordano, Thierry - Topological orbit equivalence of free, minimal actions of Z² on the Cantor set
• Goddyn, Luis - Silver Cubes
• Goncalves, Daniel - An Introduction to New C^*-algebras from Tilings
• Gora, Pawel - Properties of invariant densities of random maps
• Grant, Hardy - The Curious Case of the "Mathematicals" in Greek Antiquity
• Greer, Meredith - Interaction of Infectious and Noninfectious Proteins in Prion Disease: Models, Simulations, and Steady State Study
• Gumel, Abba - Modeling the Impact of an Imperfect Vaccine and ART in Curtailing HIV Spread
• Guralnick, Robert - Probabilistic Methods in Finite Group Theory
• Gustafson, Stephen - Schroedinger maps near harmonic maps
  
  
• Haagerup, Uffe - Free probability and the invariant subspace problem for von Neumann algebras
• Hahn, Gena - Recent bounds on the injective chromatic number
• Hales, Thomas
• Hambleton, Ian - Free actions on products of spheres
• Han, Guangyue - Analyticity of Hidden Markov Chains
• Hartenstine, David - Regularity of Weak Solutions of the Monge-Ampère Equation
• Hartnell, Bert - Monitoring a Network with fewer Watchpeople: the trade offs
• Hartsfield, Nora - Self-dual embeddings of strongly regular self-complementary graphs
• Haynes, Ronald - Inverse Positivity of Perturbed M-Matrices
• Heinrich, Katherine
• Hillen, Thomas - Mathematical Models for Mesenchymal Motion
• Horak, Peter - Perfect dominating sets
  
  
• Idels, Lev - Time delays in periodic harvesting
• Illner, Reinhard - Entropy methods for degenerate drift-diffusion equations
• Imran, Mudassar - The Model of Antibiotic Resistance in Biofilm
• Indurskis, Gabriel - On the character varieties of manifolds obtained from the Whitehead link exterior by Dehn filling
• Iosevich, Alex - Erdos distance problem in vector spaces over finite fields
• Islam, Shafiqul - Approximation of absolutely continious invariant measures for random dynamical systems
• Ivanescu, Cristian - Continuous trace C^*-algebras with spectrum [0,1], inductive limits of continuous trace C^*-algebras and their classification
  
  
• Jarai, Antal - A self-organized critical forest fire model
• Jardine, Rick - Cocycle categories
• Jedwab, Jonathan - Proof of the Barker array conjecture
• Jones, Alexander - The Euclid Enigma
• Jungic, Veselin - Ramsey Rainbow Theory
  
  
• Kane, Richard - Invariant Theory and Lie Groups
• Kang, Ross - The t-improper chromatic number of random graphs
• Kayll, Mark - A variation of chip firing
• Kenyon, Richard - Dimers and the complex Burgers equation
• Kenyon, Richard - Groves, Pfaffians, and crossing probabilities
• Kerr, David - Dynamics and rigidity in simple C^*-algebras
• Kevlahan, Nicolas - Multiscale space-time adaptive simulation of 2D turbulence
• Kharaghani, Hadi - On productive Hadamard matrices
• Khouider, Boualem - Multicloud parametrizations for convectively coupled tropical waves
• Kim, In-Jae - Smith Normal Form and Acyclic Matrices
• Kirby, Robion - Singular Lefschetz fibrations
• Kirkland, Steve - Conditioning of the Entries in Google's PageRank Vector
• Kirkpatrick, David - On the existence and construction of bounded curvature paths in narrow roadways
• Klemes, Ivo - Alexandrov's inequality and some conjectures on Toeplitz matrices
• Kocay, Bill - Degree Sequence Problems for 3-Hypergraphs
• Koestler, Claus - Central Limit Laws on Jones Towers
• Kozdron, Mike - Loop-erased random walk and Fomin's identity
• Kra, Bryna - Additive Combinatorics and Ergodic Theory
• Kribs, David - Passive Quantum Error Correction
• Kudryavtseva, Elena - On coincidence points of mappings of the torus into a surface
  
  
• Laba, Izabella - An incidence theorem for pseudoflats
• Lamken, Esther - A few more Kirkman squares with block size 3
• Lancaster, Peter - The Boundary of the Pseudo-spectrum
• Landes, Ruediger - Wave front solutions in the theory of boiling liquids
• Lange, Horst - On the controllabilty of nonlinear Schrödinger equations
• Langi, Zsolt - Ball-polytopes and 1-convexity
• Leroux, Pierre - Characterization and enumeration of projective-planar and toroidal K_3,3-subdivision-free graphs
• Lesosky, Maia - Medical Imaging and Euclidean Motion Deconvolution
• Lewis, Mark - Spread and persistence of competitive species in advective flows
• Li, Chi-Kwong - Spectrum preserving maps
• Li, Hangfeng - A Topology for Ergodic Actions of Compact Quantum Groups
• Li, Yuying - A Graduated Non-convexity Method for Applications in Finance
• Lidstone, Dave - Discrete Mathematics in school curricula across Canada
• Liljedahl, Peter - Mathematics for the Liberal Arts
• Limic, Vlada - Recent progress on the attracting edge problem
• Lin, Huaxin - The Rokhlin property for automorphisms on simple C*-algebras
• Lisonek, Petr - Combinatorial families enumerated by quasi-polynomials
• Liu, Jim - On the recognition of probe graphs of some self-complementary classes of perfect graphs
• Liu, Xiao Ping - Determinantal inequalities for certain classes of totally nonnegative matrices
• Lucet, Yves - Fast Moreau Envelope Algorithms and Applications
  
  
• Majda, Andrew - New waves, PDEs, and coarse-grained stochastic lattice models for the tropics
• Malik, Tufail - A Resource-Based Model of Microbial Quiescence
• Mastnak, Mitja - About Linear Spaces of Matrices
• McCann, Robert - Free Boundaries in Optimal Transport
• McClendon, Dave - Orbit discontinuities of Borel semiflows on Polish spaces
• McCluskey, Connell - Stability for a Class of Epidemic Models with Mass Action Incidence
• McCutcheon, Randall - Central sets and multiple recurrence for non-amenable group actions
• Mendelsohn, Eric - When Systems Collide
• Milner, Susan - Unleashing Enthusiasm: Teaching the History of Mathematics
• Mingo, Jamie - Second Order Freeness and Compound Wishart Matrices
• Mishna, Marni - Walks in the quarter plane
• Momeni, Abbas - Self-dual variational principles for periodic solutions of Hamiltonian and other dynamical systems
• Monahan, Adam - Covariance Structure of a Fluctuating Midlatitude Jet
• Morris, Joy - Cyclic Hamiltonian (Near-)Decompositions of the Complete Graph
• Myrvold, Wendy - Fast Enumeration of All Independent Sets of a Graph
  
  
• Naszodi, Marton - Touching Homothetic Bodies and Antipodality
• Nguyen, Truyen - On Monge-Ampère Type Equations Arising In Optimal Transportation Problems
• Nuñez, Victor - Classical drawings of branched coverings
  
  
• Oberman, Adam - Numerical methods for Mass Transportation
• Oberman, Adam - Numerical approximation of first and second order non-linear elliptic PDEs
• Oellermann, Ortrud - The Strong Metric Dimension of a Graph
• Oesterle, Susan - Mathematics for Liberal Arts: Realities, Opportunities & Challenges
• Omladic, Matjaz - Semigroups of matrices satisfying commutator equations
  
  
• Panario, Daniel - Asymptotics of largest and smallest components in combinatorial structures
• Panferov, Vladislav - Global regularity of one-dimensional solutions of the Boltzmann equation
• Pauluis, Olivier - Toward the end of cumulus parameterization
• Peng, Jiming - 0-1 Semidefinite Programming for Clustering: Modeling and Approximation
• Pereira, Rajesh - Majorization Relations in the Geometry of Polynomials
• Pike, David - Pancyclic PBD block-intersection graphs
• Pivato, Marcus - Crystallographic Defects in Cellular Automata
• Poulin, Francis - Turbulent self-diffusion in isopycnal coordinates
• Pronk, Dorette - The Orbifold Construction
• Putnam, Ian - Orbit equivalence for Cantor minimal Z² systems
• Putnam, Ian - Relative K-theory for C^*-algebras and applications
  
  
• Quas, Anthony - SRB measures for expanding mappings
• Quastel, Jeremy - Travelling fronts in the stochastically perturbed KPP equation
  
  
• Radjavi, Heydar - An Approximate Version of Specht's Theorem
• Ramirez, Antonio - Open-closed string topology
• Rechnitzer, Andrew - Disproving things is easier when you know they are false-experimenting with two conjectures on pattern-avoiding permutations
• Reed, Bruce - On the diameter of a random Minimum Weight Spanning Tree
• Restorff, Gunnar - Classification of Cuntz-Krieger algebras
• Rolfsen, Dale - Ordering knot groups
• Rosenblatt, Joe - Convergence and Divergence of Convolution Operators
• Rosenthal, Peter - Equations such as AX + YB = Z in Matrices and Operators
• Rudolph, Dan - Kakutani equivalence in the finitary and Cantor minimal categories: the beginnings of a theory
• Ruskey, Frank - Counting strings over the integers mod a power of two with given elementary symmetric function evaluations
• Ruskey, Frank - The Amazing Mathematical Object Factory and its Relatives
• Ruuth, Steven - Threshold Dynamics for Willmore Flow
  
  
• Sahin, Ayse - Directional Entropy, Rank One and Even Kakutani Equivalence of Z^d Actions
• Sajna, Mateja - Two models for transitive closure of bipolar weighted digraphs
• Salisbury, Tom - Singular stochastic integral equations
• Savage, Carla - Partitions and compositions defined by digraphs
• Savu, Ana - Closed and exact functions in interacting particle systems
• Schramm, Oded - Understanding 2D critical percolation: from Harris to Smirnov and beyond
• Scinocca, John - Wave Forcing, Parameterization, and the Breakdown of Newton's Third Law
• Scull, Laura - The Equivariant Fundamental Groupoid
• Semrl, Peter - Maps on matrix spaces
• Shramchenko, Vasilisa - Frobenius structures on Hurwitz spaces
• Sidoli, Nathan - Ratio in the Late Ancient Commentators
• Silva, Cesar - Measure-preserving locally scaling transformations of compact-open subsets of non-archimedean local fields
• Solymosi, Jozsef - Extremal problems for linear k-uniform hypergraphs
• Soteros, Chris - Self-avoiding walk models of random copolymers
• Stacho, Ladislav - Ordered k-colorings dichotomy
• Stanley, Donald - Refining Poincaré Duality
• Stevens, Brett - Maximally Pair Separated Round Robin Tournaments: Ordering the Blocks of a Design
• Stuckless, Tara - "Math on the Move" in Saskatchewan
• Suri, Subhash - Detecting Cuts in Sensor Networks
• Szafron, Michael - The Probability of Knotting after a Local Strand Passage in an Unknotted SAP
  
  
• Tardos, Gabor - Extremal theory of geometric graphs
• Tawhid, Mohamed - On some applications of H-differentiability to optimization and complementarity problems
• Teismann, Holger - Bilinear control of Schrödinger equations with confining potentials
• Tisseur, Pierre - Inequalities, equalities between spatial and temporal entropies of cellular automata
• Tomczak-Jaegermann, Nicole
• Toth, Csaba - The number of minimum volume tetrahedra
• Tsatsomeros, Michael - The Principal Minor Assignment Problem
• Tseng, Paul - SOCP Relaxation of Sensor Network Localization
• Tyson, Rebecca - Recolonization of Harvested Forest stands by Tamiasciurus hudsonicus
  
  
• Uhlmann, Gunther - The Calderon problem with partial data
  
  
• Van Brummelen, Glen - Controversies in the Early History of Trigonometry
• van Willigenburg, Stephanie - Multiplicity free expansions of Schur P-functions
• Verde-Star, Luis - Computation of the matrix exponential via the dynamic solution
• von Bergmann, Jens - Compactness for Moduli Spaces of H-Holomorphic Maps
• Vougalter, Vitali - Eigenvalues of zero energy in the linearized NLS problem
  
  
• Wall, Byron - John Venn's Opposition to Probability as Degree of Belief
• Walsh, Genevieve - Which knots are great?
• Wang, Lin - Transient Oscillations in Chemostat Models
• Wang, Xianfu - The extremal characterization of reflexive spaces
• Ward, Michael - Eigenvalue Optimization, Spikes, and the Neumann Green's Function
• Watmough, James - Disease transmission at home and abroad
• Watson, Liam - Tangle surgery and the Jones polynomial
• Wiersma, Herre - Asplund Decomposition of Monotone Operators
• Wolkowicz, Henry - Approximate and Exact Completion Problems for Euclidean Distance Matrices using Semidefinite Programming
• Wu, Jianhong - Modeling Eradicating Vector-borne Diseases via Structured Culling
  
  
• Xu, Baogang - Some results on minimally circular-imperfect graphs
  
  
• Yan, Catherine - Crossings and Nestings of Chord Configurations
• Yassawi, Reem - Rank One measures which are not asymptotically randomised by linear cellular automata
• Ye, Jane - Optimality conditions for generalized semi-infinite programming problems
• Yuan, Xiaoming - Some hybrid methods for structured monotone variational inequalities
  
  
• Zou, Xingfu - Existence and global attractivity of posititve periodic solution in Lotka-Volterra competition systems with deviating argument
• Zvengrowski, Peter - Recent Progress in the Span of Smooth Manifolds