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• Algebraic Combinatorics
• Algorithmic Mathematics
• Applied Partial Differential Equations
• Banach Spaces
• Combinatorics
• Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry
• Cryptography and Coding Theory
• Dynamics of Large Groups and Semigroups
• Geometric Group Theory
• History and Philosophy of Mathematics
• Infinite-Dimensional Lie Theory
• Mathematical Aspects of Quantum Information
• Mathematical Biology
• Mathematics Education
• Mathematics and Classical Mechanics
• Number Theory
• Numerical Analysis and Computational Mathematics
• Operator Algebras
• Probability
• Representation Theory of Algebras
• Technology Use in Post-Secondary Mathematics Instruction
• Theory and Applications of Functional Differential Equations
• Contributed Papers

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Algebraic Combinatorics    [PDF]

• Nantel Bergeron - Toward a basis of diagonal harmonic alternants
• Ira Gessel - Applications of quasi-symmetric functions and noncommutative symmetric functions in permutation enumeration
• Aaron Lauve - Hopf objects between the permutahedra and associahedra
• Janvier Nzeutchap - Posets Isomorphisms in the Hopf Algebra of Tableaux

Algorithmic Mathematics    [PDF]

• Vida Dujmovic - Crossing Number and Graph Minors
• Stephane Durocher - Bounding the Locality of Distributed Routing Algorithms
• Konstantinos Georgiou - Lift and Project Systems for Tightening 0/1 Linear Programs: Algorithmic Aspects and Complexity Bounds
• Mia Minnes - Applying automata algorithms to decide properties of graphs
• Michel Paquette - Communication in Random Geometric Radio Networks with Positively Correlated Random Faults
• Godfried Tousaint - Designing a Mathematical Measure of Musical Rhythm Complexity: Trials and Tribulations

Applied Partial Differential Equations    [PDF]

• Mo'tassem Al-arydah
• David Amundsen - Standing waves in a partitioned tube with passive membrane
• Yves Bourgault - Simulation of flow and aerosol in the airway tract
• John Bowman - A Fully Lagrangian Advection Scheme
• Lucy Campbell - Rossby wave propagation in a zonally-varying basic flow
• Alexei Cheviakov - Analytical properties and exact solutions of anisotropic MHD equilibrium systems in three dimensions
• Paul Choboter - Dynamics and internal structure of the cross-shelf circulation during wind-driven coastal upwelling
• Serge D'Alessio - Instability of Gravity-Driven Flow Over Uneven Surfaces
• Michael Haslam - Three-Dimensional Curved Wire Antenna Problems
• Nicholas Kevlahan - Vortices for computing: the engines of turbulence simulation
• Boualem Khouider - A stochastic multicloud model for organized tropical convection
• Greg Lewis - Flow transitions in a differentially heated rotating channel of fluid
• Emmanuel Lorin - Study of a micro-macro model for electromagnetic field propagation in a gas
• Ming Mei - Diffusion Waves for Hyperbolic p-System with Nonlinear Damping
• Abbas Momeni - A variational principle associated to a certain class of boundary value problems
• Chun Hua Ou - How Many Consumer Levels Can Survive in a Chemotactic Food Chain?
• Francis Poulin - Magneto-Shallow Water Waves
• Bartosz Protas - An Inverse Formulation for Solution of Free-Boundary Problems
• Marek Stastna - Is mathematical complexity worth the price? Two case studies from stratified fluid dynamics
• Gordon Swaters - Mixed frictional-Kelvin-Helmholtz destabilization of source-driven abyssal overflows in the ocean
• Michael Waite - Investigating the atmospheric kinetic energy spectrum with numerical simulation

Banach Spaces    [PDF]

• Razvan Anisca - Some remarks on ergodic Banach spaces
• Maxim Burke - Kadec norms on spaces of continuous functions
• Monica Cojocaru - Solvability of Projected Equations in Banach Spaces
• Stephen Dilworth - Discretization of coefficients in Banach spaces
• Nigel Kalton - Extension of linear maps into C(K)-spaces
• Lee Keener - Approximation by Lipschitz, analytic functions on certain Banach spaces
• Edward Odell - Systems formed by translations of one element in L_p(R)
• Alexey Popov - Finitely strictly singular operators between James spaces
• Thomas Schlumprecht - On the sampling and recovery of bandlimited functions via scattered translates of the Gaussian
• Richard Smith - Adequate families and renorming of spaces with unconditional bases
• Adi Tcaciuc - Almost invariant half-spaces
• Vladimir Troitsky - Extensions of Perron-Frobenius Theorem to semigroups of positive operators on Banach lattices

Combinatorics    [PDF]

• Ada Chan - Type-II matrices and the Hamming Scheme
• Charlie Colbourn - Distributing Hash Families and Covering Arrays
• Peter Dukes - Rational decomposition of circulant graphs with large degree
• Penny Haxell - On the coprimality graph
• Jeannette Janssen - Infinite geometric graphs
• Graeme Kemkes - The chromatic number of a random d-regular graph
• Clement Lam - A search for PBD(30,K) where K does not contain a divisor of 6
• Karen Meagher - An algebraic approach to Erdös-Ko-Rado-type theorems
• Lucia Moura - Some problems involving covering arrays and graphs
• Alex Rosa - On a problem of Marco Buratti
• Frank Ruskey - Isoperimetric sequences for infinite complete binary trees and their relation to meta-Fibonacci sequences and signed almost binary partitions
• Mateja Sajna - The probabilistic transitive closure of bipolar weighted digraphs
• Cathy Yan - Crossings and nestings of two edges in set partitions
• Wenan Zang - Packing Circuits in Matroids

Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry    [PDF]

• Tristram Bogart - A Tropical Approach to Rational Curves on General Hypersurfaces
• Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz - Classifying Determinantal Presentations of Hypersurface Singularities
• Enrico Carlini - On Hilbert function for subspace arrangements
• Jaydeep Chipalkatti - On the ideals of general binary orbits
• Brian Coolen - The Saturation of a Catalecticant Ideal
• Susan Cooper - Bounding Hilbert Functions of Fat Points
• Daniel Daigle - Hilbert's 14th Problem: old and new results
• Laura Ghezzi - A generalization of the Strong Castelnuovo Lemma
• Tai Huy Ha - An algebraic approach to Conforti-Cornuejols conjecture
• Brian Harbourne - Symbolic Powers and Ordinary Powers of Ideals
• Graham Leuschke - Gorenstein presentations and semidualizing modules
• Juan Migliore - The Weak Lefschetz Property, almost complete intersections and monomial ideals
• Greg Smith - Determinantal Equations
• Mike Stillman - Computing in intersection rings and intersection theory of Grassmann and flag bundles
• Will Traves - Subspace arrangements yearning for freedom
• Adam Van Tuyl - Nilpotent zero-nonzero patterns over finite fields
• Fabrizio Zanello - Interval Conjectures for Gorenstein and Level Hilbert Functions

Cryptography and Coding Theory    [PDF]

• Tim L. Alderson - Constructions of 2-dimensional codes for OCDMA
• Robert Bailey - Distance enumerators of permutation groups
• Mark Bauer - Cubic Function Fields in Characteristic 3
• Luca de Feo
• Michael Jacobson - Computing Discrete Logarithms on High Genus Hyperelliptic Curves
• David Jao - Boneh-Boyen signatures and the Strong Diffie-Hellman problem
• Atefeh Mashatan - Message Recognition Protocols for Ad Hoc Networks
• Kumar Murty - The ERINDALE hash function
• Terasan Niyomsataya - Space-Time Hamiltonian Constellations From Group Codes
• Daniel Panario - The distribution of the number of encryptions in revocation schemes for stateless receivers
• Mohammad Sadeghi - Capacity achieving low-density parity-check lattices
• Saeed Samet - Privacy-Preserving Data Mining
• Renate Scheidler - Cryptography on Real Hyperelliptic Curves
• Francesco Sica - Exploring a New Factoring Algorithm
• David Thomson - Efficient p-th root computations in finite fields of characteristic p

Dynamics of Large Groups and Semigroups    [PDF]

• Christopher Atkin - Boundedness in some groups of homeomorphisms
• Alexander Berenstein - Actions of groups on probability measure algebras: a model theory perspective
• Mohammed Darras - Kahzadan's property (T) for some infinite dimensional topological groups
• Ilias Farah - Ultrapowers of unitary groups of UHF algebras
• Stefano Ferri - Large free semigroups in the WAP-compactification
• Matthew Foreman - Models for the space of measure-preserving systems
• Jorge Galindo - On the Eberlein compactification of a topological group
• Wadii Hajji - Compact inverse semigroups
• Wojciech Jaworski - Dissipation of Convolution Powers in a Metric Group
• Claude Laflamme - Ramsey Theory on Vector Spaces
• Gabor Lukacs - Locally precompact groups
• Jan Pachl - Ambitable groups and semigroups
• Vladimir Pestov - Amenability test spaces for Polish groups
• Norbert Sauer - Partitions of permutation groups
• Lionel Nguyen Van Thé - The universal minimal flows of S(2) and S(3)

Geometric Group Theory    [PDF]

• Montserrat Casals-Ruiz - On systems of equations over free partially commutative groups
• Sean Cleary - Random subgroups of Thompson's group F
• Tullia Dymarz - Large scale geometry of certain solvable Lie groups
• Bob Gilman - Randomized Word Problems
• Susan Hermiller - The shortest language spoken by a group
• Ilya Kazachkov - Elementary equivalence of right-angled Coxeter groups and graph products of finite abelian groups
• Olga Kharlampovich - Non-orientable surface groups actions on R-trees
• Jeremy Macdonald
• Eduardo Martinez-Pedroza - Separation of Quasiconvex Subgroups
• John Meier - Geometric Realizations of Buildings
• Alexei Myasnikov
• Andrei Nikolaev
• Alexandra Pettet - Twisting out fully irreducible automorphisms
• Akbar Rhemtulla
• Mahmood Sohrabi - Elementary theory of f.g. nilpotent groups
• Nickolas Touikan - The Solvability Problem for Quadratic equations over free groups is NP-complete
• Alexander Ushakov - The Word and Geodesic Problems in Free Solvable Groups

History and Philosophy of Mathematics    [PDF]

• Tom Archibald - Integral Equations: a "Revolution" in Mathematics in the early 20th Century?
• David Bellhouse - The Engravings in Euler's Introductio
• Stanley Burris - Creation of the Algebra of Logic in the 19th Century
• Brenda Davison - Changes to the Foundations of Mathematics in Britain circa 1900
• Robert Dawson - Complex-Number Slide Rules
• Florin Diacu - Celestial mechanics in spaces of constant curvature
• Craig Fraser - De Moivre's Proof of De Moivre's Identity
• Deborah Kent - The Catenary on a Cone in Peirce's Analytic Mechanics
• Duncan Melville - The role of problem texts in Old Babylonian mathematics
• Kim Plofker - Greco-Persian geometry in seventeenth-century India
• Frederick Rickey - Ferdinand Hassler's Fabulous Library
• Paul Rusnock - On Bolzano's concept of consequence
• Dirk Schlimm - Moritz Pasch's philosophy of mathematics

Infinite-Dimensional Lie Theory    [PDF]

• Bruce Allison - Multiloop Lie algebras of nullity 2
• Yuri Bahturin - Functional Identities and Graded Lie and Jordan Algebras
• Elaine Beltaos
• Georgia Benkart - Finding the Onsager algebra in all the right places
• Sandeep Bhargava
• Sabin Cautis - Categorical Lie algebra actions
• Ivan Dimitrov - Weight modules of affine Lie algebras
• Yun Gao - A quantized Tits-Kantor-Koecher algebra
• Joel Kamnitzer - MV polytopes and components of quiver varieties
• Mikhail Kochetov - Group gradings on Lie algebras of Cartan type
• Michael Lau - Modules for Twisted Multiloop Algebras
• Jun Morita - Moody's conjecture (II), from derivations to automorphisms
• Erhard Neher - Universal central extensions of multiloop algebras
• Arturo Pianzola - Derivations of certain algebras given by étale descent
• Hadi Salmasian - Structure and geometry of direct limit Lie algebras
• Prasad Senesi - Finite-dimensional loop-highest weight representation theory
• Peter Tingley - Half twist type formulas for the R-matrix
• Angelika Welte - Universal central extensions of psl₃ (A), A alternative
• Wai Ling Yee - Generalized Harish-Chandra Modules
• Kaiming Zhao - Moody's Conjecture

Mathematical Aspects of Quantum Information    [PDF]

• Thomas Decker - Symmetric measurements attaining the accessible information
• Gus Gutoski - Properties of Local Quantum Operations with Shared Entanglement
• Nathaniel Johnston - The Multiplicative Domain in Quantum Error Correction
• David Poulin
• Mary Beth Ruskai - Additivity after Hastings
• Graeme Smith
• Jon Yard - Quantum communication with zero-capacity channels

Mathematical Biology    [PDF]

• Gerda de Vries
• David Fisman - Gonorrhea Ain't Gone: Dissemination of Resistance via Core Groups
• Elsa Hansen - Optimal Control of Epidemics Using Limited Resources
• Thomas Hillen - Merging and Emerging Patterns in Chemotaxis Models
• Jing Li - An epidemic model with non-local infections on a patchy environment
• Justine GunOg Seo - A comparison of two predator-prey models with a Holling type I functional response
• Robert Smith? - Determining effective spraying periods to control malaria via indoor residual spraying in sub-Saharan Africa
• Rebecca Tyson - Modelling the swimming behaviour of the nematode

Mathematics Education    [PDF]

• Santo D'Agostino - Making a Smooth Transition from High-School Math to University Math
• Bernard R. Hodgson - Difficultés dans le passage vers le postsecondaire en mathématiques: les écueils de l'apprentissage de la rigueur au cégep et à l'université
• Leo Jonker - Engaging First Year Engineers in the Learning of Calculus
• Miroslav Lovric - Mathematics in Transition: Life Sciences Course at McMaster University
• David Poole - Prospects for a Transition Course to University Mathematics
• Margaret Sinclair - Transition to college: Focus on curriculum and pedagogy

Mathematics and Classical Mechanics    [PDF]

• Stephen Anco - Klein geometry and bi-Hamiltonian structure of soliton equations
• Larry Bates - No monodromy in the champagne bottle
• Leo Butler - The Maslov cocycle, smooth structures and real-analytic complete integrability
• Alexei Cheviakov - Nonlocally related PDE systems and exact solutions for one-dimensional nonlinear elastodynamics
• Florin Diacu - The n-body problem in spaces of constant curvature
• Antonio Hernandez-Garduno - Stability of Lagrangian relative equilibria for the roto-translational three-body problem
• Jacques Hurtubise - The geometry of isomonodromic deformations
• Jeroen Lamb - Branching patterns of wave trains in the FPU lattice
• Bill Langford - Poleward Expansion of Hadley Cells
• Tsung-Lin Lee - The polyhedral homotopy continuation method and its applications to celestial mechanics
• Ray McLenaghan - Invariant classification of the orthogonally separable webs in Minkowski 3-space
• George Patrick - Local error analysis of variational integrators
• Gareth Roberts - Using BKK Theory in Restricted N-Body Problems
• Roman Smirnov - Joint invariants and resultants of Killing tensors in classical mechanics
• Edward Thommes - Modelling the birth of planetary systems with a hybrid symplectic integrator

Number Theory    [PDF]

• Shabnam Akhtari - Quartic Thue Equations
• Yuri Bilu - Uniformity in Galois Representations
• Nils Bruin - Fake Selmer sets of curves
• Bryden Cais
• Stephen Choi - An extension to the Brun-Titchmarsh theorem
• Alina C. Cojocaru - Serre curves in one parameter families
• Chantal David - Almost prime orders of elliptic curves over finite fields
• Ernst Kani - Curves of genus 2 and a Conjecture of Gauss
• Stephen Kudla - Arithmetic cycles for unitary groups
• Ram Murty - Special values of L-series and transcendental numbers
• Michael Rubinstein - Computing lower terms for the moments of the zeta function
• Kenneth Williams - The (p,k)-calculus for quadratic forms

Numerical Analysis and Computational Mathematics    [PDF]

• Alexey Kuznetsov - Numerical computation of certain functionals of a Levy process using a combination of Wiener-Hopf and PIDE methods
• Jun Li - In-vivo Breakpoint Estimation Accounting for Variability in Drug Intake
• Sherry Li - Direction-preserving and Schur-monotonic Semi-separable Approximations of Symmetric Positive Definite Matrices
• Emmanuel Lorin - On the reservoir technique convergence for nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws
• Christian Perret - Improving the stability of numerical simulations of quantum dynamical systems using stochastic differential equation techniques
• Damian Rousson - Analysis-based arguments for abstract data type calculus
• Chris Rycroft - A multiscale simulation technique for granular flow

Operator Algebras    [PDF]

• Serban Belinschi - Analytic aspects of free probability of type B
• Bruce Blackadar - C^*-algebras generated by arrays of projections
• Berndt Brenken - A dynamical core for a topological graph
• Nate Brown - Hilbert Modules and the Cuntz Semigroup
• Richard Burstein - Automorphisms of planar algebras
• Man-Duen Choi - The Stinespring Theorem revisited
• Andrew Dean - Classification of C^*-dynamical systems
• George Elliott - How effective an invariant is the Cuntz semigroup?
• Heath W. Emerson - Equivariant correspondences and applications
• Remus Floricel - An isomorphism property for product systems
• David Handelman - Numerical and other classification of approximately transitive Z-actions
• Todd Kemp - Wigner Chaos and the Semicircle Law
• David Kerr - Weak mixing and property T
• Masoud Khalkhali - The Algebra of Formal Twisted Pseudodifferential Symbols and a Noncommutative Residue
• Claus Koestler - A free version of the de Finetti theorem
• James Mingo - The Fluctuations of Kesten's Law
• Ping Wong Ng - Projection Decomposition in Operator Algebras
• Alexandru Nica - Hopf algebras and the logarithm of the S-transform in free probability
• Jonathan Novak - A new formula for the Mobius function of the lattice of noncrossing partitions
• Emily Peters - The D_2n planar algebra and knots
• John Phillips - Modular Index Theory and Twisted Cyclic Cocycles for KMS States on Certain C^*-algebras
• Ionel Popescu - Freeness and Random Matrices with Dependencies
• Volker Runde - Amenability of B(l^p) for p ¹ 2
• Roland Speicher - Quantum groups and liberation of orthogonal matrix groups
• Andrew Toms - Classifying the C^*-algebras of minimal homeomorphisms
• Jiun-Chau Wang - Limit distributions for sums of c-free random variables

Probability    [PDF]

• Omer Angel - Colouring the Voronoi map
• Raluca Balan - The stochastic heat equation with fractional-colored noise
• David Brydges - Self-avoiding walk and the renormalisation group
• Lung-Chi Chen - Limit distribution for long-range oriented percolation
• Miklos Csorgo - Random walk and Brownian local times, Wiener sheets: an interplay
• Don Dawson - Percolation in a hierarchical random graph
• Pierluigi Falco - Universal formulas for nonuniversal statistical models
• Shui Feng - Two-Parameter Poisson-Dirichlet Distribution
• Minyi Huang - Mean Field Stochastic Differential Games Involving A Major Player
• Gail Ivanoff - Optimal detection of a change-set in a spatial Poisson process
• Xiaoyue Jiang
• Michael Kozdron - Using SLE to explain a certain observable in the 2d Ising model
• Manjunath Krishanpur - Random matrix-valued analytic functions
• Rafal Kulik - Adaptive wavelet regression in random design for long memory processes
• Neal Madras - Wasserstein and Total Variation Convergence Rates of Markov Chains
• David Mcdonald - How does the Wi-Fi protocol work?
• Mathieu Merle - Coexistence for the planar Lotka-Volterra model
• Edwin Perkins - Pathwise Uniqueness for Stochastic Heat Equations with Holder Continuous Coefficients: the White Noise Case
• Lea Popovic - Model Reduction for Multiscale Stochastic Networks
• Jeremy Quastel
• Bruno Remillard - On signed measure valued solutions of stochastic evolution
• Wei Sun - On Representations of Non-Symmetric Dirichlet Forms
• Barbara Szyszkowicz - The probable error of a mean and that of a change in a mean
• Adam Timar
• Xiaowen Zhou - Finiteness of the total occupation time for (a,b)-superprocess

Representation Theory of Algebras    [PDF]

• Yu A. Bachturin - Finite-dimensional Graded Simple Algebras
• Margaret Beattie - On the classification of low dimensional Hopf algebras
• Frauke M. Bleher - Universal deformation rings and tame blocks
• Christopher Brav - The projective McKay correspondence
• Thomas Brüstle - From Christoffel words to Markoff numbers
• Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz - On the Endomorphismring of the Syzygies in the Tautological Koszul Complex
• Vlastimil Dlab - Endomorphism algebras of generator-cogenerator modules over hereditary Artin algebras
• Francois Huard
• Shiping Liu - On almost projective and almost injective modules
• Frank Marko - Structure of costandard and simple modules for Schur superalgebras in positive characteristics
• Frank Zorzitto - Endomorphism algebras of rank-two Kronecker modules

Technology Use in Post-Secondary Mathematics Instruction    [PDF]

• Peter Adamic - The pedagogical importance of statistical simulation methods
• Robert Bilinski - Different approach to computer labs
• Chantal Buteau - Triggering University Students' Mathematical Creativity and Intellectual Independence by Use of Technology
• France Caron & Kathleen Pineau - Rethinking representation registers and communication when teaching mathematics with symbolic calculators
• Philippe Etchecopar & Jean-Philippe Villeneuve - Modelling-Simulating Method of Problem Solving and Its Impacts
• D. Jarvis & C. Buteau & Z. Lavicza & N. Marshall - Issues surrounding technology integration in university education: results of a literature review
• Margarita Kondratieva & Oana Radu - Learning precalculus with an interactive computer-based technology
• Zsolt Lavicza - Mathematicians' conceptions of technology use in university-level mathematics teaching
• Panel Discussion - Can we still teach university mathematics without the use of technology in mathematics instruction?
• Yvan Saint-Aubin - Animations in mathematics: cost and impact
• Jack Weiner & Jeremy Balka - Implementing and Evaluating Maple in the Classroom and Maple TA Online Testing in First Year Calculus

Theory and Applications of Functional Differential Equations    [PDF]

• Jacques Belair - Distributed delays and stability in artificial neural networks
• Elena Braverman - On oscillation and stability of equations with a distributed delay
• Pietro-Luciano Buono
• Sue Ann Campbell - Delay Induced Canards
• Yuming Chen - Equivariant normal forms for parameterized delay differential equations with application to equivariant Hopf bifurcation
• Qingwen Hu - Global Continua of Periodic Solutions of Differential Equations with State-Dependent Delay
• Tony Humphries - State Dependent Advanced-Delay BVPs
• Jeroen Lamb - On homoclinic bifurcation in advance-delay equations via Lin's method

Contributed Papers    [PDF]

• Emmanuel Delsinne - The relative Lehmer problem in a torus
• Yan Duokui - Collinear Four Body Problem
• Zizo Farrag - Fault Tolerance of Distributed Loop Networks
• Rebecca Hammond - A two-delay differential equation model for a mite population with multiple life stages.
• Behzad Omidi Koma - The number of irreducible polynomials of degree q-1 over F_q^× with given trace and constant terms
• Franklin Mendivil - A Monge-Kantarovich metric for signed measures
• Maryam Namazi - The extra-tropical effects on the equatorially trapped waves
• James Short - How to find a massive prime number