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• Lee, Lina - Supnorm estimate for the [`(¶)]-equation on weakly convex domains in C²
  
  
• Adams, Jeff - Involutions of Representations
• Adrian, Moshe - Revisiting the Local Langlands Correspondence for GL(n,F), n a prime
• Agarwal, Mahesh - Bloch-Kato conjecture for convolution L-functions
• Ahmed, S. Ejaz - Biased Estimation in Generalized Linear Models
• Alfakih, Abdo - On Bar Frameworks, Stress Matrices and Semidefinite Programming
• Amezziane, Mohamed - Kernel Estimation and Bandwidth Matrix Selection for Multivariate Distribution Functions
• Anco, Stephen - Conserved integrals of compressible fluid flow in n > 1 spatial dimensions
• Anshelevich, Michael - A Bochner-Pearson type class
• Arnold, Trevor - Vanishing of L-functions in families
• Askaripour, Nadya - On holomorphic k-differentials on open Riemann surfaces
  
  
• Barbasch, Dan - Dirac cohomology and unipotent representations
• Barbero, Maria - Weak high order Maximum Principle for control-affine systems and applications
• Baribeau, Line - Hyperbolic divided differences and the Nevanlinna-Pick problem
• Barrett, David - Dual Hardy spaces on dual hypersurfaces in CPⁿ
• Batra, Punita - Classification of Integrable representations for twisted toroidal Lie algebras
• Belostotski, Gregory - Researching the Classroom Experience of the Mathematics Student: The role of discourse analysis and phenomenology in mathematics education research
• Beltaos, Elaine - Fixed Point Factorization and Applications
• Benkart, Georgia - Motzkin Algebras
• Bezdek, Karoly - On the density of finitely many unit balls relative to their outer parallel domain
• Bickis, Mikelis - Imprecise probabilities and exponential families
• Binder, Ilia - Quasiconformal images of McMullen carpets and self-affine percolation clusters
• Binegar, Birne - W-graphs and Primitive Ideals
• Bisztriczky, Ted - The T(5) property of families of overlapping unit disks
• Bloom, Thomas - Voiculescu's Entropy and potential Theory
• Borwein, Jonathan - Future challenges for variational analysis
• Borwein, Jonathan - Why Convex?
• Brav, Chris - Smaller resolutions of Pfaffian varieties
• Braverman, Mark - Computability and Complexity of Julia Sets
• Brenken, Berndt - The C^*-algebra of a Partial Isometry
• Brenner, Eliot - Analytic Properties of Residual Eisenstein Series
• Brosnan, Patrick - Essential dimension for moduli stacks
• Broucke, Mireille - Geometric Control of Patterned Linear Systems
  
  
• Calin, Ovidiu - Non-Holonomic Systems and Sub-Riemannian Geometry
• Caron, Richard - Extreme Point Identification and Linear Constraint Classification
• Caron, Rick - New Advancements for the Set Covering Paradigm for Constraint Analysis
• Cavers, Michael - On the normalized Laplacian energy of a graph
• Chang, Dong Eui - A Short Proof of the Pontryagin Maximum Principle on Manifolds
• Chen, Fuqi - Equivariance method and generalized inference in two-sample location-scale families
• Chen, Jiahua - Adjusted Empirical Likelihood with High-Order Precision
• Chen, Xueqing - Algebraic Structures over Derived Categories and Triangulated Categories
• Cheviakov, Alexei - Narrow escape problems: asymptotic optimization of small trap locations for the unit sphere
• Chitsaz, Shabnam - Improving the Performance of the Mean Response in Multivariate Multiple Regression Model With application to a Financial Model
• Choi, Man-Duen - Completely positive linear maps made more difficult
• Choi, Yemon - Convolution operators with empty residual spectrum
• Christie, Aaron
• Ciubotaru, Dan - On formal degrees for discrete series of classical affine Hecke algebras
• Cliff, Gerald - Explicit bases for representations of Lie algebras and superalgebras
• Connelly, Bob - Global Rigidity II
• Coons, Michael - The residue class distribution of W(n)
• Costea, Serban - Corona Theorems for Multiplier Algebras on B_n
• Cunningham, Clifton - Cohomological compact restriction functors
  
  
• Dahmen, Sander - Visualizing elements of Sha[3] in genus 2 jacobians
• Davidson, Kenneth R. - Commutant Lifting for Commuting Row Contractions
• Deza, Antoine - More bounds on the diameter of convex polytopes
• Dimitrov, Ivan - Weight modules over classical infinite-dimensional Lie algebras
• Doksum, Kjell - Genomics, Matrices, and Statistical Inference
• Duren, Peter - Schwarzian derivatives of convex mappings
  
  
• El Karoui, Noureddine - On the spectral properties of large-dimensional kernel random matrices
• Elliott, George - Some remarks on classification
  
  
• Faber, Xander - Prime Factors of Dynamical Sequences
• Fallahpour, Saber - Improved estimation in partially linear models with nonlinear time series errors
• Fallat, Shaun - Oppenheim's Determinantal Inequality for Certain P-matrices
• Fan, Guihong - The impact of maturation delay of mosquitoes on the transmission of West Nile Virus
• Farenick, Douglas - Weakly continuous Hilbert bundles
• Ferland, René - Boltzmann-like equations with particle replacement: merging of solutions
• Floricel, Remus - Conjugacy properties of pure E₀-semigroups
• Forrest, Brian E. - Multipliers of the Fourier Algebra, Ideals and an Extension Property
• Fraser, Don - Curvature for the Bayes-frequentist disconnect
  
  
• Gabrielov, Andrei - Dessins d'Enfants for the Eigenfunctions of Anharmonic Oscillator
• Ghahramani, Fereidoun - Approximate amenability of Schatten classes, Lipschitz algebras and Segal algebras
• Gilligan, Bruce - Compact CR-solvmanifolds as Kaehler obstructions
• Goebel, Rafal - Homogeneous approximations of hybrid dynamical systems
• Goldmakher, Leo - Multiplicative mimicry and improvements of the Polya-Vinogradov theorem
• Gombay, Edit - Testing for changes in the covariance structure of linear processes
• Gordon, Yulia - Harish-Chandra characters and motivic integration
• Gottsbacher, Gerald - On modular forms for orthogonal groups of rank 2
• Graham, Colin C. - A half new characterization of I₀ sets
• Graham, Ian - The structure of Loewner chains in several variables which are normalized at 0 in terms of a positive linear operator
• Graves, Hester - Euclidean Ideals in Quadratic Imaginary Fields
• Gruber, Marvin H. - A Matrix Identity and Ridge Type Estimators from Different Points of View
• Guenther, Markus - Modeling the diffusion process of a second generation biofuel: an agent-based simulation approach
  
  
• Hall, Frank - Some Eigenvalue Interlacing Results on Matrices Associated with Graphs
• Hare, Kathryn E. - Determining the `size' of orbital measures on compact, simple Lie groups
• Hare, Warren - A Strong Proximal Average
• Howard, Tatiana - Real Lie subalgebras of equal rank
  
  
• Ingram, Patrick - Periodic points of cubic polynomials with a specified multiplier
• Ion, Bogdan - On positive formulas for q-multiplicities
• Islam, Shafiqul - Markov processes induced by random dynamical systems and valuation of options.
• Ivanoff, Gail - Asymptotics for Spatial Causal ARMA Processes
• Izzo, Alexander - Function Algebras Invariant under Group Actions
  
  
• Jarvis, D., Z. Karadag, D. Martinovic, and O. Radu - GeoGebra Group - GeoGebra: Dynamic Mathematics for Teaching and Research
• Jarvis, Daniel H. - GeoGebra Group - Computer Algebra Systems (CAS) in Post-Secondary Mathematics Instruction: Preliminary Results from a Research Study Investigating CAS Usage and Sustainability
• Jaworski, Wojciech - Distal properties of totally disconnected locally compact groups of polynomial growth and certain ideals in group algebras
• Johnson, Charles R. - Matrix Equilibrants and Diagonal Scaling
• Jurdjevic, Velimir - Hamiltonian systems on Lie groups and Symmetric spaces
  
  
• Kajander, Ann - Math for teaching: Who needs it?
• Kamnitzer, Joel - Categorical Lie algebra actions and braid groups
• Kapoor, Vishaal - Short Sums of Pretentious Multiplicative Functions
• Karadag, Z., D. Martinovic, O. Radu - GeoGebra Group, and D. Jarvis - GeoGebra: Dynamic Mathematics for Teaching and Research
• Karney, Bryan - Effective Motivation of Engineering Mathematical Education
• Kedem, Rinat - Integrable cluster algebras
• Kennedy, Matthew - Wandering vectors and the reflexivity of free semigroup algebras
• Khalili, Abbas - New estimation and variable selection method in mixture-of-experts models
• Kinzebulatov, Damir - Holomorphic almost periodic functions on coverings of complex manifolds
• Kitchen, Sarah - Localization of degenerate principal series
• Kolokolnikov, Theodore - Simple PDE model of spot replication in any dimension
• Kotsopoulos, Donna - Searching for Fuller Rather than Partial Truths: Transdisciplinarity in Mathematics Education Research
• Kribs, David - Quantum error correction on infinite dimensional Hilbert spaces
• Kulik, Rafal - Panorama of limits for long memory processes
• Kulperger, Reg - A Corporate Exit Model, Smooth Baseline Hazards, and Biostatics Tools in Finance
• Kuo, Wentang - On Erdös-Pomerance's conjecture for the Carlitz module
• Kuttler, Jochen - Schubert varieties in the affine Grassmannian
  
  
• Lalin, Matilde - Statistics for traces of cyclic trigonal curves over finite fields
• Lanzani, Loredana - Representations for holomorphic functions on domains with reduced boundary regularity
• Lau, Anthony To-Ming - The Fourier algebra and the group von Neumann algebra
• Ledyaev, Yuri - On tangential and normal criteria for convexity of sets in Banach spaces
• Leonard, Naomi - Stability and Robustness of Collective Dynamics
• Li, Deli - A refinement of the Kolmogorov-Marcinkiewicz-Zygmund strong law of large numbers
• Li, Deli - Necessary and suffcient conditions for the asymptotic distribution of the largest entry of a sample correlation matrix
• Li, Xiannan - L-functions at the edge of the critical strip
• Li, Yi - The Dantzig Selector for Censored Linear Regression Models: Identifying Predictive Genes for Myeloma Disease Progression
• Loly, Peter - 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.
• Lorch, Lee and Martin Muldoon - Monotonic sequences related to zeros of Bessel functions
• Lucet, Yves - Applications of Computational Convex Analysis
• Lukeman, Ryan - Inferring interaction rules from empirical data of collective motion in animal groups
  
  
• Madras, Neal - Entangled Clusters in Percolation
• Maggiore, Manfredi - Reduction Theorems for Stability of Closed Sets in Finite-Dimensional Dynamical Systems, with Application in Control Theory
• Mamon, Rogemar - Filtering and parameter estimation of an electricity spot price model
• Mani, Niloofar - Fast numeric geometric techniques for computer generated DAE models
• Marcoux, Laurent - Relative annihilators and relative commutants
• Martin, Greg - Prime number races: An asymptotic formula for the densities
• Martinovic, D., O. Radu - GeoGebra Group, D. Jarvis, and Z. Karadag - GeoGebra: Dynamic Mathematics for Teaching and Research
• Mashreghi, Javad - On the derivative of inner functions
• Mason, R., J. McFeetors, and E. Simmt - Teachers as Curriculum Designers: Finding Authentic Spaces for Mathematical Inquiry in High School
• Mason, R., J. McFeetors, and E. Simmt - 200 000 mathematicians in Manitoba: Determining the nature of mathematics through mathematics in practice
• Mason, Ralph and Janelle McFeetors - The centrality of learning in mathematics educational research: Attending to the complexities of cognition, epistemology, and identity in mathematics class
• Massam, Helene - A conjugate prior for discrete hierarchical loglinear models
• McFeetors, J., E. Simmt, and R. Mason - Teachers as Curriculum Designers: Finding Authentic Spaces for Mathematical Inquiry in High School
• McFeetors, J., E. Simmt, and R. Mason - 200 000 mathematicians in Manitoba: Determining the nature of mathematics through mathematics in practice
• McFeetors, Janelle and Ralph Mason - The centrality of learning in mathematics educational research: Attending to the complexities of cognition, epistemology, and identity in mathematics class
• Mingo, James A. - Cumulants of the Weingarten Function
• Mohammed, Alip - Poisson Equation with the Third Boundary Condition
• Mondal, Pinaki - Projective completion of affine varieties via degree-like functions
• Monfared, Mehdi - On finite-dimensional left ideals in the double dual of some Banach algebras
• Montarani, Silvia - Representations of Gan-Ginzburg algebras and quiver-related differential operators
• Mordukhovich, Boris - Metric Regularity and Lipschitzian Stability of Parametric Variational Systems
• Morris, Kirsten - Optimal control of a mechnical system with play
• Mugdadi, Abdel-Razzaq - The mise and the Hellinger distance of the kernel distribution estimator of functions of observations
• Muldoon, Martin and Lee Lorch - Monotonic sequences related to zeros of Bessel functions
• Murnaghan, Fiona - Relatively supercuspidal representations
• Musin, Oleg - The strong thirteen spheres problem
  
  
• Namazi, Maryam - A pitfall in using central scheme in atmospheric modeling
• Naresh, Nirmala - Ethnomathematics, Everyday Mathematics and Workplace Mathematics-Implications for teaching and learning mathematics
• Nechita, Ion - Random matrix models in quantum information theory
• Neher, Erhard - Finite-dimensional irreducible representations of equivariant map algebras
• Neslehova, Johanna - Goodness-of-fit tests for bivariate extreme-value dependence
• Nevins, Monica - Patterns in branching rules for representations of SL(2,k), k a p-adic field
• Ng, Chi-Keung - Linear orthogonality preservers of Hilbert C^*-modules over general C^*-algebras
• Nica, Alexandru - Infinitesimal non-crossing cumulants and free probability of type B
• Ning, Wei - A Generalized Lambda Distribution (GLD) Change Point Model For the Detection of DNA Copy Number Variations in Array CGH Data
• Nkurunziza, Severien - Statistical Modeling and Testing Concerning the Homogeneity of Some Predator-Prey Populations
  
  
• Pachl, Jan - Uniform structures on probability distributions
• 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'?
• Patrick, George - On converting any one-step method to a variational integrator of the same order
• Paul, Annegret - Unitary Principal Series of Split Real Groups
• Pehlivan, Lerna - No feedback card guessing for top to random shuffles
• Pineda-Krch, Mario - Evolutionary dynamics of eco-physiological traits in bark beetle-host interactions
• Pitts, David R. - The D-Radical of an Inclusion
  
  
• Qiu, Pehua - Jump Regression Analysis and Image Processing
• Qu, Harvey - Optimal Designs in High-Throughput Screening
• Quadir, Tanvir
• Quessy, Jean-François - Breakpoint detection in dependance functions
  
  
• Radu, O. - GeoGebra Group, D. Jarvis, Z. Karadag, and D. Martinovic - GeoGebra: Dynamic Mathematics for Teaching and Research
• Raheem, Enayetur - Shrinkage Versus Lasso in Partially Linear Models
• Rainer, Armin - Quasianalytic perturbation of polynomials and linear operators
• Rathugamage, Sriyani - A Membrane in Dynamic Adhesive Contact
• Reid, Greg - Stable numerical-geometric approaches for differential algebraic equations
• Reid, Nancy - Likelihood inference in complex models
• Richter, David - Ghost Symmetries in the Plane
• Robinson-Sturridge, Erica - The Application of Biostatistical Analysis to Applied Health Scenarios: Realities in Curriculum, Instructional Models and Application to Service Learning
• Roche, Daniel S. - Sparse interpolation and small primes in arithmetic progressions
• Ross, Elissa - The Rigidity of Periodic Graphs
• Rousseau, Christiane - Singularities of analytic dynamical systems with 1-summable normalizing transformation
• Ruan, Zhong-Jin - p-Approximation Properties of PF_p(G) and PM_p(G)
  
  
• Sahi, Siddhartha - Littlewood-Richardson coefficients for Macdonald polynomials
• Sakellaridis, Yiannis - On the Plancherel formula for spherical varieties over p-adic fields
• Salamanca, Susana - On genuine omega regular unitary representations of Mp(2n)
• Samei, Ebrahim - The similairty problem for Fourier algebras and corepresentations of the group von Neumann algebras
• Savage, Alistair - Quiver grassmannians, quiver varieties and the preprojective algebra
• Schippers, Eric - The Teichmueller space of an annulus and the semigroup of rigged annuli
• Schoenfeld, Alan H. - How We Think (a work in progress)
• Shafikov, Rasul - Holomorphic closure dimension of real analytic sets
• Shalit, Orr - Can every k-tuple of commuting CP maps be dilated to a k-tuple of commuting *-endomorphisms?
• Shang, Junfeng - A Multiple Comparison Procedure Based on a Variant of the Schwarz Information Criterion in Mixed Models
• Sharifi, Romyar - Cup products and p-adic L-values
• Shelestunova, Veronika - Integral Points on Quadratic Surfaces
• Shoemaker, Christine - Continuous Optimization with Response Surfaces for Computationally Expensive Simulation Models Including Environmental Applications
• Shramchenko, Vasilisa - Fuchsian Riemann-Hilbert problem associated to Frobenius manifolds
• Simmt, E., R. Mason, and J. McFeetors - Teachers as Curriculum Designers: Finding Authentic Spaces for Mathematical Inquiry in High School
• Simmt, E., R. Mason, and J. McFeetors - 200 000 mathematicians in Manitoba: Determining the nature of mathematics through mathematics in practice
• Sinha, Kaneenika - Ranks of Jacobians of modular curves
• Sitar, Scott - Counting Diophantine Quadruples
• Small, Christopher - Analyzing the UK 2001 foot-and-mouth disease outbreak using stochastic graph models
• Smart, Angela - Exploring one student's experience of learning calculus through a reflection interview
• Song, Peter XK - Improving Quadratic Inference Functions via Covariance Matrix Shrinkage
• Sowa, Artur - On the topological characteristic of the spectra of some composite quantum systems
• Speissegger, Patrick - A definable version of Haefliger's Theorem
• Spivakovsky, Mark - On local uniformization in arbitrary characteristic
• Spronk, Nico - Symmetry of Beurling-Fourier algebras on compact groups
• Stange, Katherine - Amicable pairs of primes for elliptic curves
• Stephens, David - Bayesian Nonparametric Hypothesis Testing in Two Sample Problems
• Stewart, Cam - Integer points on cubic Thue equations
• Stoica, Cristina - Escape dynamics in a collinear three-point-mass system
• Styan, George - Philatelic Sudoku Puzzles
• Sun, Jie - Universal central extensions of infinite dimensional Lie algebras
• Szasz, Reka - Teaching-specific mathematics knowledge lying on the boundary of mathematics and education: dilemmas arising from a Mathematics for Teachers course
• Szmigielski, Jacek - Orthogonal and Biorthogonal Polynomials and integrable models of weakly dispersive water waves
• Szyszkowicz, Barbara - Weighted Approximations of Partial Sums-an Overview
  
  
• Tang, Adrian - Ideal Reduction in Unit Rank One Function Fields
• Toth, Csaba D. - Convex partitions with 2-edge connected dual graphs
• Tuncel, Levent - Convex Optimization meets Real Algebraic Geometry
  
  
• Vogan, David - Signatures of Hermitian forms and unitary representations
• Voight, John - On nondegeneracy of curves
  
  
• Wang, Bingwu - Normal Compactness and Its Extensions
• Wang, Shawn - On Borwein-Wiersma Decompositions of Monotone Linear Relations
• Watier, François - Mean-variance optimization in a financial market with stochastic correlations
• Watmough, James - Mechanistic models for the spread of forest alien invasive insects
• Weatherby, Chester - Transcendence of Infinite Series of Rational Functions
• Weiss, Asia Ivic - Cayley graphs and symmetric 4-polytopes
• Whiteley, Walter - Bridging Mathematics and Mathematics Education: Mathematics departments' contributions to the preparation of teachers
• Whiteley, Walter - Global Rigidity I: Coning
• Williams, Hugh - Compact Representation of the Generator of a Principal Ideal
• Willms, N. Brad - A Geometric Necessary Condition for the Schiffer Problem
• Wlodarczyk, Jaroslaw - Resolution algorithm in characteristic zero and its possible extension in positive characteristic
• Wolfson, David - The Statistical Analysis of Survival Data from Prevalent Cohort Studies with Follow-up
• Wolkowicz, Gail - Predator-prey models with time delay in the conversion process
• Wolkowicz, Henry - Strong Duality and Minimal Representations for Cone Optimization
• Wong, Chi Song - Robustness of optimal designs for correlated random variables
• Wong, Erick - Pseudorandom measures for sums of two squares
• Wu, Jianhong - Impact of Environmental Changes on Disease Spread: Case study of Avian Influenza
• Wu, Yuehua - A note on the convergence rate of the kernel density estimator of the mode
  
  
• Xie, Feng - On Extensions of Cyclic Arrangements
  
  
• Yi, Grace - Some thoughts on composite likelihood
  
  
• Zeidan, Vera - Extension of Clarke Generalized Jacobian to infinite dimension
• Zhang, Yichao - An identity of divisor functions defined on quaternion algebras
• Zhao, Kaiming - Supports of weight modules over Witt algebras
• Zhou, Xiaowen - The Reversibility of Interacting Fleming-Viot Processes
• Zhu, Huaiping - Modeling the Population of Culex Pipiens and Culex Restuans Mosquitoes with Weather Conditions
• Zhu, Ji - Partial Correlation Estimation by Joint Sparse Regression Models
• Zhu, Jim - Trend-Following Trading under a Regime Switching Model
• Zhu, Rong - The geometric down-weighting method and its applications