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• Algebraic Varieties with Group Actions
• Banach Algebras and Abstract Harmonic Analysis
• Complex Function Theory
• Computer Algebra and Computer Algebra Systems
• Finite Combinatorics
• Mathematical Algorithms for Medical Imaging
• Mathematical Biology
• Mathematical / Computational Finance
• Mathematical Immunology
• Mathematical Physics
• Mathematics Education
• Mathematics of Infectious Diseases
• Model Theory and its Applications
• Network Algorithms
• Nonlinear Methods in Computational Mathematics
• Quantum Information Theory
• Representations of Finite and Algebraic Groups
• Resource Allocation Optimization
• Statistical Learning
• Contributed Papers

Algebraic Varieties with Group Actions    [PDF]

• Megumi Harada - An introduction to the topology of symplectic quotients
• Colin Ingalls - Central extensions of finite subgroups of GL2
• Kiumars Kaveh - String polytopes, G-C polytopes and geometry of flag and spherical varieties
• Jochen Kuttler - On the Luna stratification of quotients
• Hugh Thomas - (Co)minuscule Schubert calculus
• Matthieu Willems - A Chevalley formula in Equivariant K-theory

Banach Algebras and Abstract Harmonic Analysis    [PDF]

• Yemon Choi - Biflatness for Clifford semigroup algebras
• Constantin Costara - On local irreducibility of the spectrum
• Brian Forrest - Projective Operator Spaces, Almost Periodicity and Completely Complemented
• Niels Gronbaek - The L₁(H)-module L₁(G)_H
• Zhiguo Hu - Multipliers on Banach algebras and applications to the second dual Banach algebras
• Zinaida Lykova - The Hochschild and cyclic cohomology of simplicially trivial topological algebras
• Tianxuan Miao - Approximation Properties of A_p(G) and A_p^r(G)
• Matthias Neufang - Jordan Arens irregularity
• Chi-Keung Ng - Property (T) and strong property (T) for C^*-algebras
• Thomas Ransford - Pseudospectra and power growth
• Zhong-Jin Ruan - Completely Bounded Multipliers on Locally Compact Quantum Groups
• Ebrahim Samei - 2-weak amenability of Beurling algebras
• Nico Spronk - Amenability constants for semilattice algebras
• Ross Stokke - Approximate and pseudo-amenability of the Fourier Algebra
• Thomas V. Tonev - Peripheral additivity and isomorphisms between semisimple
• Faruk Uygul - A Representation Theorem for Completely Contractive Dual Banach Algebras
• Michael C. White - The Bicyclic semigroup algebra
• Yong Zhang - Fixed point properties characterized by existence of left invariant means on semigroups

Complex Function Theory    [PDF]

• Roger Barnard - Iceberg-type problems in two dimensions
• Tom Bloom - Random polynomials and pluripotential theory
• André Boivin - Weighted Hardy spaces for the unit disc: Approximation properties
• Maritza Branker - Weighted pluripotential theory on Kahler manifolds
• Richard Fournier - Asymptotics of the Bohr radius for polynomials of fixed degree
• David Herron - Euclidean Quasiconvexity
• Dan Jupiter - Weak Stein Neighbourhood Bases
• Gabriela Kohr
• Daniela Kraus - Critical points of inner functions, nonlinear partial differential equations, and an extension of Liouville's theorem
• Javad Mashreghi - Integral representations of the derivatives of functions in H(b)
• David Minda - Geometric variations of Schwarz's Lemma
• Jerry Muir Jr. - Preservation of geometric properties by a class of extension operators
• Rajesh Pereira - Inequalities in the Analytic Theory of Polynomials
• John Pfaltzgraff - Conformal mapping of multiply connected slit domains
• David Radnell - Interactions between conformal field theory and Teichmueller spaces
• Thomas Ransford - Computation of capacity
• Oliver Roth - On the isolated singularitites of a class of subharmonic functions
• Stephan Ruscheweyh - Universally convex univalent functions
• Alexander Solynin - Hyperbolic convexity and the analytic fixed point function
• Ted Suffridge - Invariant mappings on the ball and extremal problems
• Dror Varolin - Non-negative Hermitian polynomials and quotients of squared norms
• Brock Williams - Circle Packings, Welding Operations, and Applications

Computer Algebra and Computer Algebra Systems    [PDF]

• Oleg Golubitsky A - Implementation of Arithmetics in Aldor
• Howard Cheng - Time- and Space-Efficient Evaluation of Some Hypergeometric Constants
• Vahid Dabbaghian-Abdoly - Implementation of Cellular Automata Models on Maple
• Ron Ferguson - Search Algorithms for Low Autocorrelation Sequences
• Mark Giesbrecht - Complexity and Practicality in Sparse Matrix Computation
• Oleg Golubitsky B - Comprehensive Triangular Decomposition
• Bryan Krawetz - Faster polynomial arithmetic over algebraic number and function fields in Maple 11
• Scott MacLean - Mathematical Symbol Recognition in the MathBrush System
• Matt Malenfant - Better Evaluation Points for the Interpolation of Sparse Symbolic Polynomials
• Michael Monagan - Solving Linear Systems over Cyclotomic Fields
• Roman Pearce - Sparse Polynomial Arithmetic using Heaps
• Greg Reid - Introduction to Symbolic-Numeric Completion Methods for PDE
• Allan Wittkopf - What's new in Maple 11
• Wenyuan Wu - New Progress on Implicit Riquier Bases for PDE
• Wei Zhou - Fraction-free Computation of LCM and GCD by values

Finite Combinatorics    [PDF]

• Wayne Broughton - Systems of Parallel Representatives
• Zoltan Furedi - Color critical hypergraphs and forbidden configurations
• Penny Haxell - On stable paths
• Jonathan Jedwab - Bounds on the growth rate of the peak sidelobe level of binary sequences
• Hadi Kharaghani - The asymptotic existence of amicable orthogonal designs
• William Kocay - Non-Fano Quads in Finite Projective Planes
• Vaclav Linek - Chromatic numbers of Steiner quadruple systems
• Dhruv Mubayi - Turan's theorem with colors
• Wendy Myrvold - Investigating Conjectures about Fullerenes
• Ortrud Oellermann - Steiner Trees and Convex Geometries
• Ranganathan Padmanabhan - A group representation for the anti-Pappian design
• Bruce Reed - The diameter of sparse random graphs
• Douglas Stinson - Unconditionally secure chaffing and winnowing with short authentication tags
• Jacques Verstraete - Clique partitions of dense graphs
• Mieko Yamada - Self-dual Z₄ codes generated by Hadamard matrices and conference matices

Mathematical Algorithms for Medical Imaging    [PDF]

• Jorge Alpuche - The Application of the Filtered Back Projection (FBP) Algorithm to Quantitative Scatter CT Reconstruction
• Ali Ashtari - Resolution limits in nonlinear microwave image reconstruction
• Homa Fashandi - Frequency Based Portal Image Registration for Radiotherapy Treatment
• Daniel Flores - Wavefront Reconstruction Method for Microwave Imaging
• Mickael Germain - Lie algebra data processing applied to medical images
• Colin Gilmore - An Overview of The Electromagnetic Inverse Problem with Biomedical Applications
• Ian Jeffrey - Adaptive Basis Functions Suitable for a Well-Conditioned Formulation to the Inverse Electromagnetic Scattering Problem under the BIM
• Amir Meghdadi - Temporal and Spatial Imaging of Brain Epileptic Activities by Dynamical Characterization of EEG Signal
• Puyan Mojabi - The use of the L-curve and NCP parameter-choice methods in electromagnetic inverse scattering problems
• Malcolm Ng - Accuracy Improvement of an Existing Permittivity Measurement Technique for Dielectric Disk Samples
• Barbara Pawlak - PET Image Reconstruction by Density Estimation
• Abas Sabouni - Parallel FDTD/GA for Microwave Image Reconstruction
• Parimala Thulasiraman - Design, development and implementation of a parallel algorithm for computed tomography using algebraic reconstruction technique
• Niranjan Venugopal - A 3D Model-Based Outer Volume Suppression Technique for MR Spectroscopic Imaging of the Prostate

Mathematical Biology    [PDF]

• Caroline Bampfylde - Biological control through intraguild predation: what is the most efficient control method?
• Jacques Belair - Stability in an Epidemiological Model with Two Transmission Rates and Application to Antibiotic Resistance in Commensal Bacteria
• Luciano Buono - Delays, Oscillations and Hopf Bifurcations in Drug Delivery Systems
• Eric Cytrynbaum - Connections between a 1D-spiral wave, fast and slow pulses
• Raluca Eftimie - Modelling complex spatial animal group patterns: the role of different communication mechanisms
• Kevin Hall
• Frank Hilker - Dynamical behavior of a population with nonlinear growth and fatal disease
• Yu Jin - Spatial Dynamics of a Periodic Population Model with Dispersal
• Anmar Khadra - Robust Rhythmogenesis in Endocrine GnRH Neurons via Autocrine Regulations in a Common Pool of Extracellular Hormone
• Frithjof Lutscher - The effect of foraging patterns on population dynamics for central place foragers
• Fahima Nekka - Impact of Drug Intake Variability on Therapeutic Outputs
• Alex Potapov - Modeling aquatic invasions and control in a lake system: principles and approaches
• Robert Smith - The basic reproductive ratio: does the emperor have no clothes?
• Philippe Tracqui - Proteolytic control of the mechanical switch leading to in vitro morphogenesis of capillary-like networks: a theoretical analysis
• Rebecca Tyson - Modelling the swimming behaviour of the nematode
• Allan Willms - A Geometric Comparison of Hodgkin-Huxley and Multi-State Models

Mathematical / Computational Finance    [PDF]

• Raj Appadoo - Lattice Valuation Model Using O(m,n)-Trapezoidal Type Fuzzy Numbers
• Joe Campolieti - New State Dependent Diffusions and their Application to Option Pricing
• Tahir Choulli - Two optimal pricing measures: A comparative study
• Haohan Huang - Estimating Value at Risk with Non-negative Matrix Factorization technique
• Ali Lazrak - Perfect competition among generations: growth theory under time
• Alex Paseka - Information in Option Prices and the Underlying Asset Dynamics
• Luis Seco - Modeling stochastic correlation in financial markets
• Liqun Wang - First Hitting Time Distribution for Diffusion Processes and Time-Dependent Double Barriers
• Xiaonan Wu - Anomaly Detection in Financial Fraud Data

Mathematical Immunology    [PDF]

• Catherine Beauchemin - Characterizing T Cell Movement within Lymph Nodes
• Daniel Coombs - Virus competition and evolution at multiple scales
• Vitaly Ganusov - Modeling CD8 T cell dynamics following acute and chronic viral infections
• Beni Sahai - A Basis for Immunological Protection from Death Upon Pandemic Influenza Infection
• Robert Smith - Predicting the potential impact of a cyctotoxic T-lymphocyte HIV vaccine: how often should you vaccinate and how strong should the vaccine be?
• Dominik Wodarz - HIV coinfection, immunity, and virus evolution in vivo

Mathematical Physics    [PDF]

• Twareque Ali - Berezin-Toeplitz operators and vector coherent states related to supersymmetric quantum mechanics
• Rainer Dick - String and brane techniques for surface science and nanotechnology
• Richard Froese - Absolutely continuous spectrum for discrete Schrödinger operators on tree like graphs
• Stephen Gustafson - Schroedinger Flow and Landau-Lifshitz Dynamics
• Nan-Kuo Ho - Yang-Mills connections on 2-manifolds
• Eugene Kritchevski - Hierarchical Anderson Model
• Karl-Peter Marzlin - Criteria for the Existence of Decoherence-free Subspaces
• Marco Merkli - Infinite Products of Random Matrices and Repeated Interaction Dynamics
• Rob Milson - Curvature homogeneous geometries
• David Rowe - Quasi-symmetry, critical phenomena, and embedded representations
• Cristina Stoica - Variational principles for systems with configuration space isotropy

Mathematics Education    [PDF]

• Dhavide Aruliah - Mathematics Learning Objects in Undergraduate Math Education
• Jim Brookes - Internship opportunities for grad students and post docs
• Rebeccah Marsh and Hong Miao
• Panel Discussion - Panelists
• Randall Pyke
• J.F. Williams - On the hows, wheres and whys of Industrial Mathematics Education

Mathematics of Infectious Diseases    [PDF]

• Christopher Bowman
• Fred Brauer - Epidemic models with heterogeneous mixing
• Elamin Elbasha - Global dynamics of an HPV vaccination model
• Hongbin Guo - Global Dynamics of a Staged Progression Model for Infectious Diseases with Amelioration
• Mudassar Imran - The Pharmacodynamics of Antibiotic Treatment
• Zack Jacobson - How does vaccination affect transient population dynamics?
• Edward Lungu - Anti-Tuberculosis resistance in patients co-infected with HIV and TB
• Tufail Malik - Microbial Quiescence, A Survival Strategy In Environmental Stress
• Ronald Mickens - SIR Models with Ö{SI} Dynamics
• Jeff Musgrave - An evaluation of control strategies for the HIV epidemic
• Chandra Podder - Mathematical Analysis of a Model for Assessing the Impact of Antiretroviral Therapy, Voluntary Testing and Condom Use in Curtailing HIV
• Timothy Reluga - Population Games for Epidemiology
• Oluwaseun Sharomi - Mathematical Analysis of the Transmission Dynamics of HIV/TB Co-infection in the Presence of Treatment and Condom Use
• Naveen Vaidya - Modeling, Analysis, and Contol of the HIV Epidemics in Far Western Nepal
• James Watmough - The final size of an epidemic
• Matthias Winter - Spikes for Biological Systems: The Role of Boundary Conditions

Model Theory and its Applications    [PDF]

• John Baldwin - Notions of Excellence
• Paul Bankston - Chainability and Unidimensionality from a Model-Theoretic Perspective
• Alf Dolich - Independence relations, universality, and SOP₄
• Alina Duca - Description of the injective modules over a principal left and right ideal domain
• Dragos Ghioca - A dynamical version of the Mordell-Lang Theorem
• Bradd Hart - Group existence in simple continuous theories
• Dierdre Haskell - Stable domination and algebraically closed valued fields
• Ivo Herzog - Definable subspaces of finite dimensional representations
• Thomas Kucera - Elementary Socles and Radicals
• Salma Kuhlmann - Restricted Exponentiation in Fields of Algebraic Power Series
• Chris Laskowski - Ideals of formulas, 2-cardinal models, and group existence
• Rahim Moosa - A consequence of the canonical base property
• Philipp Rothmaler - Cotorsion modules
• Thomas Scanlon - Trivial types and rational dynamics
• Patrick Speissegger - A reasonably tame Cantor set
• Yevgeniy Vasilyev - Externally definable sets in simple structures

Network Algorithms    [PDF]

• Anthony Bonato - Models of the Web Graph
• Mark Coates - Compressed Network Monitoring
• Stefan Dobrev - Local Computation in Location-Aware Ad-Hoc Networks
• George Karakostas - Selfish Routing with More than One Kinds of Users
• Michel Paquette - Communication in Networks with Positively Correlated Faults
• Yiqiang Q. Zhao - Tail Asymptotics and Block-Form Compensation Algorithm for Parallel Systems

Nonlinear Methods in Computational Mathematics    [PDF]

• A. Bass Bagayogo - Hybrid Octree Grid Based Method and Application to an Aircraft Geometry
• Feng Dai - An inequality on m-term approximation by ultraspherical polynomials and its applications
• Zeev Ditzian - Sharp Jackson inequalities
• German Dzyubenko - Shape preserving approximation of periodic functions
• Qiang Guo - Adaptive wavelet method for aerosol dynamic equation
• Tom Hogan - Implications of design optimization on geometry generation in aerospace
• Yingkang Hu - Global Optimization using hyperbolic cross points with application in clustering
• Francisco-Javier Muñoz-Delgado - Optimal shape perserving linear operators with different types of data
• Bojan Popov - L₁ approximations of Hamilton-Jacobi equations
• Andriy Prymak - Ul'yanov-type inequality for bounded convex sets in R^d
• Igor Shevchuk - Convex and coconvex polynomial approximation in the uniform norm
• Ping Zhou - Newton's interpolation formula in study of multivariate functions

Quantum Information Theory    [PDF]

• Gilad Gour - Quantum Resource Theories and Super Selection Rules
• Patrick Hayden - A reverse Shannon theorem for quantum broadcast channels
• Debbie Leung - Approximate error correction
• Aidan Roy - Weighted complex projective 2-designs from bases
• Barry Sanders - Information-theoretic security for authenticated long-distance quantum key distribution with partial trust networks
• Alain Tapp - Anonymous message transmission

Representations of Finite and Algebraic Groups    [PDF]

• Peter Campbell - K-types for principal series representations of GL(3)
• Xueqing Chen - Quivers, Ringel-Hall Algebras and Lie Theory
• Jaydeep Chipalkatti - The higher transvectants are redundant
• Allen Herman - The Group of Ring Automorphisms of a Rational Group Algebra
• Greg Lee - Nilpotent symmetric units in group rings
• David McNeilly
• Fernando Szechtman - Modular Reduction of the Steinberg Lattice of the General Linear Group
• Qianglong Wen - Some Irreducible Characters of GL(2,Z/pⁿZ) and GL(3,Z/pⁿZ)

Resource Allocation Optimization    [PDF]

• Robert Benkoczi - Collection depots facility location problems
• Harvey Greenberg - Quadratic Binary Progamming Models in Computational Biology
• David Kirkpatrick - Bit-Thrifty Algorithms for Facility Location
• Katta G. Murty - New Algorithm for Linear Inequalities, Linear Programs (LP), using no Matrix Inversions
• Godfried Toussaint - Facility Location and Assignment Problems with Applications to Computational Musicology

Statistical Learning    [PDF]

• Loubna Benabbou - Generalization bounds for multiclass classifiers
• Yoshua Bengio - On the Challenge of Learning Abstractions
• Julie Carreau - Hybrid Pareto models for asymmetric fat-tailed data
• Ali Ghodsi - An SVD-based approach to nonnegative matrix factorization
• Nicolas Le Roux - Representational Power of Restricted Boltzmann Machines and Deep Belief Networks
• Ruslan Salakhutdinov - Non-linear Dimensionality Reduction using Neural Networks
• Dana Wilkinson - Learning Useful Subjective Representations

Contributed Papers    [PDF]

• Natalia Bryksina - On the number and stability of limit cycles in an SIR model with saturated incidence
• Chuanbin Du - Efficient splitting and domain decomposition methods for time-dependent problems and the applications
• Carolyn Huston - Finding the fish: Straying trends between BC Pacific herring (Clupea pallasi) populations
• Cheng Liu - Stockwell Transform as the Instantaneous Frequency Estimator
• Odile Marcotte - Average Distance and Maximum Induced Forest
• Michael Skotiniotis - The Spekkens toy model Revisited
• Iickho Song - On the number of partitions with the length fixed
• Jie Sun - Descent constructions for central extensions of infinite dimensional Lie algebras
• Tamas Terlaky - Polytopes & Arrangements: Diameter & Curvature
• Hong Yue - A John-Nirenberg Type Inequality for Q(Rⁿ)
• Hu Zhang - Minimizing the Number of Critical Vertices in Network Design