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• Banach Algebras and Abstract Harmonic Analysis
• Complex Analysis
• Convex and Variational Analysis
• Exact and Approximate Methods for Nonlinear Differential Equations
• Lie Algebras and Representation Theory
• Lie Groups and Automorphic Forms
• Mathematical Models in Environmental Sciences
• Mathematical Statistics
• Mathematics Education
• Matrix Theory and Statistics
• Measure, Probability, and Stochastic Processes
• Non-Linear Control Theory
• Number Theory
• Operator Algebras
• Real and Complex Singularities
• Recent Trends in Discrete Geometry
• Contributed Papers

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Banach Algebras and Abstract Harmonic Analysis    [PDF]

• Yemon Choi - Convolution operators with empty residual spectrum
• Brian E. Forrest - Multipliers of the Fourier Algebra, Ideals and an Extension Property
• Fereidoun Ghahramani - Approximate amenability of Schatten classes, Lipschitz algebras and Segal algebras
• Colin C. Graham - A half new characterization of I₀ sets
• Kathryn E. Hare - Determining the `size' of orbital measures on compact, simple Lie groups
• Wojciech Jaworski - Distal properties of totally disconnected locally compact groups of polynomial growth and certain ideals in group algebras
• Mehdi Monfared - On finite-dimensional left ideals in the double dual of some Banach algebras
• Chi-Keung Ng - Linear orthogonality preservers of Hilbert C^*-modules over general C^*-algebras
• Zhong-Jin Ruan - p-Approximation Properties of PF_p(G) and PM_p(G)
• Ebrahim Samei - The similairty problem for Fourier algebras and corepresentations of the group von Neumann algebras
• Nico Spronk - Symmetry of Beurling-Fourier algebras on compact groups

Complex Analysis    [PDF]

• Nadya Askaripour - On holomorphic k-differentials on open Riemann surfaces
• Line Baribeau - Hyperbolic divided differences and the Nevanlinna-Pick problem
• David Barrett - Dual Hardy spaces on dual hypersurfaces in CPⁿ
• Ilia Binder - Quasiconformal images of McMullen carpets and self-affine percolation clusters
• Thomas Bloom - Voiculescu's Entropy and potential Theory
• Serban Costea - Corona Theorems for Multiplier Algebras on B_n
• Peter Duren - Schwarzian derivatives of convex mappings
• Bruce Gilligan - Compact CR-solvmanifolds as Kaehler obstructions
• Ian Graham - The structure of Loewner chains in several variables which are normalized at 0 in terms of a positive linear operator
• Alexander Izzo - Function Algebras Invariant under Group Actions
• Damir Kinzebulatov - Holomorphic almost periodic functions on coverings of complex manifolds
• Loredana Lanzani - Representations for holomorphic functions on domains with reduced boundary regularity
• Lina Lee - Supnorm estimate for the [`(¶)]-equation on weakly convex domains in C²
• Javad Mashreghi - On the derivative of inner functions
• Alip Mohammed - Poisson Equation with the Third Boundary Condition
• Eric Schippers - The Teichmueller space of an annulus and the semigroup of rigged annuli
• Vasilisa Shramchenko - Fuchsian Riemann-Hilbert problem associated to Frobenius manifolds

Convex and Variational Analysis    [PDF]

• Abdo Alfakih - On Bar Frameworks, Stress Matrices and Semidefinite Programming
• Jonathan Borwein - Future challenges for variational analysis
• Rick Caron - New Advancements for the Set Covering Paradigm for Constraint Analysis
• Rafal Goebel - Homogeneous approximations of hybrid dynamical systems
• Warren Hare - A Strong Proximal Average
• Yuri Ledyaev - On tangential and normal criteria for convexity of sets in Banach spaces
• Yves Lucet - Applications of Computational Convex Analysis
• Boris Mordukhovich - Metric Regularity and Lipschitzian Stability of Parametric Variational Systems
• Levent Tuncel - Convex Optimization meets Real Algebraic Geometry
• Bingwu Wang - Normal Compactness and Its Extensions
• Shawn Wang - On Borwein-Wiersma Decompositions of Monotone Linear Relations
• Henry Wolkowicz - Strong Duality and Minimal Representations for Cone Optimization
• Vera Zeidan - Extension of Clarke Generalized Jacobian to infinite dimension
• Jim Zhu - Trend-Following Trading under a Regime Switching Model

Exact and Approximate Methods for Nonlinear Differential Equations    [PDF]

• Stephen Anco - Conserved integrals of compressible fluid flow in n > 1 spatial dimensions
• Alexei Cheviakov - Narrow escape problems: asymptotic optimization of small trap locations for the unit sphere
• Theodore Kolokolnikov - Simple PDE model of spot replication in any dimension
• Niloofar Mani - Fast numeric geometric techniques for computer generated DAE models
• Maryam Namazi - A pitfall in using central scheme in atmospheric modeling
• George Patrick - On converting any one-step method to a variational integrator of the same order
• Greg Reid - Stable numerical-geometric approaches for differential algebraic equations
• Artur Sowa - On the topological characteristic of the spectra of some composite quantum systems
• Cristina Stoica - Escape dynamics in a collinear three-point-mass system
• Jacek Szmigielski - Orthogonal and Biorthogonal Polynomials and integrable models of weakly dispersive water waves

Lie Algebras and Representation Theory    [PDF]

• Punita Batra - Classification of Integrable representations for twisted toroidal Lie algebras
• Elaine Beltaos - Fixed Point Factorization and Applications
• Georgia Benkart - Motzkin Algebras
• Chris Brav - Smaller resolutions of Pfaffian varieties
• Xueqing Chen - Algebraic Structures over Derived Categories and Triangulated Categories
• Gerald Cliff - Explicit bases for representations of Lie algebras and superalgebras
• Ivan Dimitrov - Weight modules over classical infinite-dimensional Lie algebras
• Joel Kamnitzer - Categorical Lie algebra actions and braid groups
• Rinat Kedem - Integrable cluster algebras
• Jochen Kuttler - Schubert varieties in the affine Grassmannian
• Silvia Montarani - Representations of Gan-Ginzburg algebras and quiver-related differential operators
• Erhard Neher - Finite-dimensional irreducible representations of equivariant map algebras
• Alistair Savage - Quiver grassmannians, quiver varieties and the preprojective algebra
• Jie Sun - Universal central extensions of infinite dimensional Lie algebras
• Kaiming Zhao - Supports of weight modules over Witt algebras

Lie Groups and Automorphic Forms    [PDF]

• Jeff Adams - Involutions of Representations
• Moshe Adrian - Revisiting the Local Langlands Correspondence for GL(n,F), n a prime
• Dan Barbasch - Dirac cohomology and unipotent representations
• Birne Binegar - W-graphs and Primitive Ideals
• Eliot Brenner - Analytic Properties of Residual Eisenstein Series
• Aaron Christie
• Dan Ciubotaru - On formal degrees for discrete series of classical affine Hecke algebras
• Clifton Cunningham - Cohomological compact restriction functors
• Yulia Gordon - Harish-Chandra characters and motivic integration
• Gerald Gottsbacher - On modular forms for orthogonal groups of rank 2
• Tatiana Howard - Real Lie subalgebras of equal rank
• Bogdan Ion - On positive formulas for q-multiplicities
• Sarah Kitchen - Localization of degenerate principal series
• Fiona Murnaghan - Relatively supercuspidal representations
• Monica Nevins - Patterns in branching rules for representations of SL(2,k), k a p-adic field
• Annegret Paul - Unitary Principal Series of Split Real Groups
• Siddhartha Sahi - Littlewood-Richardson coefficients for Macdonald polynomials
• Yiannis Sakellaridis - On the Plancherel formula for spherical varieties over p-adic fields
• Susana Salamanca - On genuine omega regular unitary representations of Mp(2n)

Mathematical Models in Environmental Sciences    [PDF]

• Guihong Fan - The impact of maturation delay of mosquitoes on the transmission of West Nile Virus
• Markus Guenther - Modeling the diffusion process of a second generation biofuel: an agent-based simulation approach
• Ryan Lukeman - Inferring interaction rules from empirical data of collective motion in animal groups
• Severien Nkurunziza - Statistical Modeling and Testing Concerning the Homogeneity of Some Predator-Prey Populations
• Mario Pineda-Krch - Evolutionary dynamics of eco-physiological traits in bark beetle-host interactions
• James Watmough - Mechanistic models for the spread of forest alien invasive insects
• Gail Wolkowicz - Predator-prey models with time delay in the conversion process
• Jianhong Wu - Impact of Environmental Changes on Disease Spread: Case study of Avian Influenza
• Huaiping Zhu - Modeling the Population of Culex Pipiens and Culex Restuans Mosquitoes with Weather Conditions

Mathematical Statistics    [PDF]

• Fuqi Chen - Equivariance method and generalized inference in two-sample location-scale families
• Jiahua Chen - Adjusted Empirical Likelihood with High-Order Precision
• Abbas Khalili - New estimation and variable selection method in mixture-of-experts models
• Reg Kulperger - A Corporate Exit Model, Smooth Baseline Hazards, and Biostatics Tools in Finance
• Helene Massam - A conjugate prior for discrete hierarchical loglinear models
• Johanna Neslehova - Goodness-of-fit tests for bivariate extreme-value dependence
• Wei Ning - A Generalized Lambda Distribution (GLD) Change Point Model For the Detection of DNA Copy Number Variations in Array CGH Data
• Junfeng Shang - A Multiple Comparison Procedure Based on a Variant of the Schwarz Information Criterion in Mixed Models
• Christopher Small - Analyzing the UK 2001 foot-and-mouth disease outbreak using stochastic graph models
• David Stephens - Bayesian Nonparametric Hypothesis Testing in Two Sample Problems
• David Wolfson - The Statistical Analysis of Survival Data from Prevalent Cohort Studies with Follow-up
• Chi Song Wong - Robustness of optimal designs for correlated random variables
• Yuehua Wu - A note on the convergence rate of the kernel density estimator of the mode
• Grace Yi - Some thoughts on composite likelihood
• Rong Zhu - The geometric down-weighting method and its applications

Mathematics Education    [PDF]

• Gregory Belostotski - Researching the Classroom Experience of the Mathematics Student: The role of discourse analysis and phenomenology in mathematics education research
• D. Jarvis & Z. Karadag & D. Martinovic & O. Radu - GeoGebra Group - GeoGebra: Dynamic Mathematics for Teaching and Research
• Daniel H. Jarvis - GeoGebra Group - Computer Algebra Systems (CAS) in Post-Secondary Mathematics Instruction: Preliminary Results from a Research Study Investigating CAS Usage and Sustainability
• Ann Kajander - Math for teaching: Who needs it?
• Bryan Karney - Effective Motivation of Engineering Mathematical Education
• Donna Kotsopoulos - Searching for Fuller Rather than Partial Truths: Transdisciplinarity in Mathematics Education Research
• R. Mason & J. McFeetors & E. Simmt - 200 000 mathematicians in Manitoba: Determining the nature of mathematics through mathematics in practice
• Janelle McFeetors & Ralph Mason - The centrality of learning in mathematics educational research: Attending to the complexities of cognition, epistemology, and identity in mathematics class
• Nirmala Naresh - Ethnomathematics, Everyday Mathematics and Workplace Mathematics-Implications for teaching and learning mathematics
• Panel 1 - Mathematics is what mathematicians think. It is a COGNITIVE phenomenon - no more, no less
• Panel 2 - The mathematical education of mathematics teachers: Is there such a thing as 'the mathematics of the mathematics teacher'?
• Erica Robinson-Sturridge - The Application of Biostatistical Analysis to Applied Health Scenarios: Realities in Curriculum, Instructional Models and Application to Service Learning
• E. Simmt & R. Mason & J. McFeetors - Teachers as Curriculum Designers: Finding Authentic Spaces for Mathematical Inquiry in High School
• Angela Smart - Exploring one student's experience of learning calculus through a reflection interview
• Reka Szasz - Teaching-specific mathematics knowledge lying on the boundary of mathematics and education: dilemmas arising from a Mathematics for Teachers course

Matrix Theory and Statistics    [PDF]

• S. Ejaz Ahmed - Biased Estimation in Generalized Linear Models
• Mohamed Amezziane - Kernel Estimation and Bandwidth Matrix Selection for Multivariate Distribution Functions
• Shabnam Chitsaz - Improving the Performance of the Mean Response in Multivariate Multiple Regression Model With application to a Financial Model
• Kjell Doksum - Genomics, Matrices, and Statistical Inference
• Noureddine El Karoui - On the spectral properties of large-dimensional kernel random matrices
• Saber Fallahpour - Improved estimation in partially linear models with nonlinear time series errors
• Shaun Fallat - Oppenheim's Determinantal Inequality for Certain P-matrices
• Don Fraser - Curvature for the Bayes-frequentist disconnect
• Marvin H. Gruber - A Matrix Identity and Ridge Type Estimators from Different Points of View
• Frank Hall - Some Eigenvalue Interlacing Results on Matrices Associated with Graphs
• Charles R. Johnson - Matrix Equilibrants and Diagonal Scaling
• Deli Li - Necessary and suffcient conditions for the asymptotic distribution of the largest entry of a sample correlation matrix
• Yi Li - The Dantzig Selector for Censored Linear Regression Models: Identifying Predictive Genes for Myeloma Disease Progression
• Peter Loly - Eigenvalues of an Algebraic Family of Compound Magic Squares of Order n=3^l, l=1,2,..., and Construction and Enumeration of their Fundamental Numerical Forms.
• Abdel-Razzaq Mugdadi - The mise and the Hellinger distance of the kernel distribution estimator of functions of observations
• Pehua Qiu - Jump Regression Analysis and Image Processing
• Harvey Qu - Optimal Designs in High-Throughput Screening
• Tanvir Quadir
• Enayetur Raheem - Shrinkage Versus Lasso in Partially Linear Models
• Peter XK Song - Improving Quadratic Inference Functions via Covariance Matrix Shrinkage
• George Styan - Philatelic Sudoku Puzzles
• Ji Zhu - Partial Correlation Estimation by Joint Sparse Regression Models

Measure, Probability, and Stochastic Processes    [PDF]

• Mikelis Bickis - Imprecise probabilities and exponential families
• René Ferland - Boltzmann-like equations with particle replacement: merging of solutions
• Edit Gombay - Testing for changes in the covariance structure of linear processes
• Shafiqul Islam - Markov processes induced by random dynamical systems and valuation of options.
• Gail Ivanoff - Asymptotics for Spatial Causal ARMA Processes
• Rafal Kulik - Panorama of limits for long memory processes
• Deli Li - A refinement of the Kolmogorov-Marcinkiewicz-Zygmund strong law of large numbers
• Neal Madras - Entangled Clusters in Percolation
• Rogemar Mamon - Filtering and parameter estimation of an electricity spot price model
• Ion Nechita - Random matrix models in quantum information theory
• Jan Pachl - Uniform structures on probability distributions
• Lerna Pehlivan - No feedback card guessing for top to random shuffles
• Jean-François Quessy - Breakpoint detection in dependance functions
• Barbara Szyszkowicz - Weighted Approximations of Partial Sums-an Overview
• François Watier - Mean-variance optimization in a financial market with stochastic correlations
• Xiaowen Zhou - The Reversibility of Interacting Fleming-Viot Processes

Non-Linear Control Theory    [PDF]

• Mireille Broucke - Geometric Control of Patterned Linear Systems
• Ovidiu Calin - Non-Holonomic Systems and Sub-Riemannian Geometry
• Dong Eui Chang - A Short Proof of the Pontryagin Maximum Principle on Manifolds
• Velimir Jurdjevic - Hamiltonian systems on Lie groups and Symmetric spaces
• Manfredi Maggiore - Reduction Theorems for Stability of Closed Sets in Finite-Dimensional Dynamical Systems, with Application in Control Theory
• Kirsten Morris - Optimal control of a mechnical system with play

Number Theory    [PDF]

• Mahesh Agarwal - Bloch-Kato conjecture for convolution L-functions
• Trevor Arnold - Vanishing of L-functions in families
• Michael Coons - The residue class distribution of W(n)
• Sander Dahmen - Visualizing elements of Sha[3] in genus 2 jacobians
• Xander Faber - Prime Factors of Dynamical Sequences
• Leo Goldmakher - Multiplicative mimicry and improvements of the Polya-Vinogradov theorem
• Hester Graves - Euclidean Ideals in Quadratic Imaginary Fields
• Patrick Ingram - Periodic points of cubic polynomials with a specified multiplier
• Vishaal Kapoor - Short Sums of Pretentious Multiplicative Functions
• Wentang Kuo - On Erdös-Pomerance's conjecture for the Carlitz module
• Matilde Lalin - Statistics for traces of cyclic trigonal curves over finite fields
• Xiannan Li - L-functions at the edge of the critical strip
• Greg Martin - Prime number races: An asymptotic formula for the densities
• Daniel S. Roche - Sparse interpolation and small primes in arithmetic progressions
• Romyar Sharifi - Cup products and p-adic L-values
• Veronika Shelestunova - Integral Points on Quadratic Surfaces
• Kaneenika Sinha - Ranks of Jacobians of modular curves
• Scott Sitar - Counting Diophantine Quadruples
• Katherine Stange - Amicable pairs of primes for elliptic curves
• Cam Stewart - Integer points on cubic Thue equations
• Adrian Tang - Ideal Reduction in Unit Rank One Function Fields
• John Voight - On nondegeneracy of curves
• Chester Weatherby - Transcendence of Infinite Series of Rational Functions
• Hugh Williams - Compact Representation of the Generator of a Principal Ideal
• Erick Wong - Pseudorandom measures for sums of two squares
• Yichao Zhang - An identity of divisor functions defined on quaternion algebras

Operator Algebras    [PDF]

• Michael Anshelevich - A Bochner-Pearson type class
• Berndt Brenken - The C^*-algebra of a Partial Isometry
• Man-Duen Choi - Completely positive linear maps made more difficult
• Kenneth R. Davidson - Commutant Lifting for Commuting Row Contractions
• George Elliott - Some remarks on classification
• Douglas Farenick - Weakly continuous Hilbert bundles
• Remus Floricel - Conjugacy properties of pure E₀-semigroups
• Matthew Kennedy - Wandering vectors and the reflexivity of free semigroup algebras
• David Kribs - Quantum error correction on infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces
• Laurent Marcoux - Relative annihilators and relative commutants
• James A. Mingo - Cumulants of the Weingarten Function
• Alexandru Nica - Infinitesimal non-crossing cumulants and free probability of type B
• David R. Pitts - The D-Radical of an Inclusion
• Orr Shalit - Can every k-tuple of commuting CP maps be dilated to a k-tuple of commuting *-endomorphisms?

Real and Complex Singularities    [PDF]

• Andrei Gabrielov - Dessins d'Enfants for the Eigenfunctions of Anharmonic Oscillator
• Pinaki Mondal - Projective completion of affine varieties via degree-like functions
• Armin Rainer - Quasianalytic perturbation of polynomials and linear operators
• Christiane Rousseau - Singularities of analytic dynamical systems with 1-summable normalizing transformation
• Rasul Shafikov - Holomorphic closure dimension of real analytic sets
• Patrick Speissegger - A definable version of Haefliger's Theorem
• Mark Spivakovsky - On local uniformization in arbitrary characteristic
• Jaroslaw Wlodarczyk - Resolution algorithm in characteristic zero and its possible extension in positive characteristic

Recent Trends in Discrete Geometry    [PDF]

• Karoly Bezdek - On the density of finitely many unit balls relative to their outer parallel domain
• Ted Bisztriczky - The T(5) property of families of overlapping unit disks
• Richard Caron - Extreme Point Identification and Linear Constraint Classification
• Bob Connelly - Global Rigidity II
• Antoine Deza - More bounds on the diameter of convex polytopes
• Oleg Musin - The strong thirteen spheres problem
• David Richter - Ghost Symmetries in the Plane
• Elissa Ross - The Rigidity of Periodic Graphs
• Csaba D. Toth - Convex partitions with 2-edge connected dual graphs
• Asia Ivic Weiss - Cayley graphs and symmetric 4-polytopes
• Walter Whiteley - Global Rigidity I: Coning
• Feng Xie - On Extensions of Cyclic Arrangements

Contributed Papers    [PDF]

• Maria Barbero - Weak high order Maximum Principle for control-affine systems and applications
• Michael Cavers - On the normalized Laplacian energy of a graph
• Martin Muldoon & Lee Lorch - Monotonic sequences related to zeros of Bessel functions
• Sriyani Rathugamage - A Membrane in Dynamic Adhesive Contact
• N. Brad Willms - A Geometric Necessary Condition for the Schiffer Problem