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Friday, August 27th

12:00nn - 1:45pm     Registration & Welcome

12:00nn   MW 154	Registration:   Conference Room MW 154   across from reception desk of Math Tower (231 W 18th Ave)
12:00nn   MW 724	Refreshments:  7th Floor Lounge (MW 724) of Math Tower
1:15pm   MW 724	Welcome Address:   by Professor Matt Platz                (Dean, College of Mathematics & Physical Sciences)

  1:45pm - 3:15pm     Student Talks   (I)

Session: I-A       Room: EA 265       Chair: Prof Michael Cranston
1:45pm  EA 265	Proving that a Group of Hyperbolic Isometries is Discrete Kyler B Siegel Columbia University
2:15pm  EA 265	A Discrete Consideration of Aleksandrov's Projection Theorem Hannah D. Yee Kent State University
2:45pm  EA 265	3D Polytopes of Minkowski Length 1 Matthew Grimm & Bradley R Weaver Kent State University

Session: I-B       Room: EA 275       Chair: Prof Moira Chas
1:45pm  EA 275	The Relative Tutte and Bollobas-Riordan Polynomials Robert M McCann The Ohio State University
2:15pm  EA 275	An arrow generalization of the Bollobas-Riordan polynomial Clark W Butler III The Ohio State University
2:45pm  EA 275	Virtual Milnor numbers and the Conway polynomial Zhanpeng Cheng The Ohio State University

Session: I-C       Room: EA 285       Chair: Prof Elizabeth Arnold
1:45pm  EA 285	Quadratic fields with cyclic 2-class groups Carlos R Dominguez Williams College
2:15pm  EA 285	A solution to the lonely runner conjecture for almost all points, and a reformulation Christopher Horvat & Matthew H Stoffregen University of Pittsburgh
2:45pm  EA 285	Biting Boolean Functions Maxwell L Bileschi & Daniel Padgett University at Buffalo

3:15pm - 3:45pm     Coffee & Cookies   in   MW 724

  3:45pm - 4:45pm     Student Talks   (II)

Session: I-A       Room: EA 265       Chair: Prof Michael Cranston
3:45pm  EA 265	Metric and Topological Spaces for Studying Partition Regularity Liam Solus Mt. Holyoke College
4:15pm  EA 265	Inscribability of Bipartite Polyhedra Rachel Kogan & Ian Barnett Bard College

Session: I-B       Room: EA 275       Chair: Prof Conrad Plaut
3:45pm  EA 275	Permissible Plane Embeddings of Ribbon Graph Blow-Ups Sarah J Loeb Louisiana State University
4:15pm  EA 275	Stick Number of Knots in the Cubic Lattice Michelle Chu & Stephanie A Jensen Williams College

Session: I-C       Room: EA 285       Chair: Prof Steven Miller
3:45pm  EA 285	Benford's Law for Coefficients of Modular Forms and Partition Functions Larry Rolen UW Madison
4:15pm  EA 285	Packets, Solving Symmetries and Sudoku Malcolm E Rupert & Harrison C Chapman James Madison University

  5:10pm - 6:10pm     Plenary Talk

5:10pm  EA 160

From Combinatorics to Dynamics and Back Bryna Kra Northwestern University

6:30pm - 9:30pm     Dinner at the Faculty Club

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Saturday, August 28th

8:30am - 10:00am     Breakfast in MW 724


  9:30am - 10:30am     Plenary Talk

9:30am  EA 160

Blown Away: What Knot to Do When Sailing Colin Adams Williams College

  10:45am - 12:15pm     Posters Presentations

Room: MW 724

On Universal Cycles for new Classes of Combinatorial Structures Antonio Blanca East Tennessee State University

Arithmetic Progressions Over Quadratic Fields Alexander Diaz Mathematical Sciences Research Institute

Positive Extensions of Matrices Indexed by a Homogeneous Tree Jeremy L Garcia & Laura M Garcia Kansas State University

The $k$-Independence Polynomial of a Graph Nicole A Gin University of North Carolina at Asheville

Totally geodesic surfaces in chain links James P Kaiser & Clinton H Rollins Brigham Young University

Mean Value Properties of Harmonic Functions on the Sierpinski Gasket Anna Levina Cornell University

Rook Polynomials in Higher Dimensions Rachel E Moger-Reischer Grand Valley State University

Visualization of the Family of Expander Graphs, $SL_2(q)$ with various generating sets Stephanie S Oh & Shravas K Rao UC Santa Barbara

Log-linear ODEs and Applications to the Ricci Flow for Homogeneous Spaces Mary E Russell University of Arizona

Hom Complexes and the Lefshetz Fixed Point Theorem Mychael Sanchez New Mexico State University

Families of Hyperplanes in the Real and Complex Hyperbolic Plane Melanie I Stam Georgia Institute of Technology

Applications of and Alternatives to Algorithm X for the Exact Cover Problem Bjorn S Wastvedt & Eddie B Tu James Madison University

A solvable hyperbolic free boundary problem modeling tumor recurrence Dian Yang College of William and Mary

An investigation of the geometry of topological surfaces with combinatorics and multi-words Jingyu Zhao & Keren Li Stony Brook University

12:15pm - 1:15pm     Lunch Break in MW 724


  1:15pm - 2:45pm     Student Talks   (III)

Session: III-A       Room: EA 265       Chair: Prof Christino Tamon
1:15pm  EA 265	On an extremal problem of Polya Tuan Le California State Univ., Fullerton
1:45pm  EA 265	A universal Cauchy-Riemann function Louis-Philippe Thibault Universite de Montreal
2:15pm  EA 265	Ricci Flow on Warped Product Manifolds and Pinching Estimates Robert J Abramovic Cornell University

Session: III-B       Room: EA 275       Chair: Prof Steve Campbell
1:15pm  EA 275	On the Splitting Fields of Generalized Rikuna Polynomials Fan Wei & Zev Chonoles Williams College
1:45pm  EA 275	Smooth Representations of a $p$-adic Heisenberg Group Via Sheaves on the Dual Space Justin Campbell University of Michigan
2:15pm  EA 275	From Fibonacci Numbers to Central Limit Type Theorems Yinghui Wang Williams College

Session: III-C       Room: EA 285       Chair: Prof Andrew Beveridge
1:15pm  EA 285	Clifford Algebra Filtrations and Supersymmetry Samantha M Sirignano & Nathaniel A Rook Bard College
1:45pm  EA 285	Approaching Constructability of Triangles Stefanie R. Zukowski Miami University (Ohio)
2:15pm  EA 285	On Subbarao's Conjecture on the parity of the partition function Mckenzie R West & Rebecca Hoberg University of Wisconsin-Madison

2:45pm - 3:45pm     Coffee & Refreshments   in   MW 724


  3:45pm - 4:45pm     Student Talks   (IV)

Session: IV-A       Room: EA 265       Chair: Micah Miller
3:45pm  EA 265	Distributions of Eigenvalues of Real Symmetric $m$-Circulant Matrices Gene S Kopp Williams College
4:15pm  EA 265	Principal $G$-bundles, stacks and classifying spaces Meng Guo University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Session: IV-B       Room: EA 275       Chair: Prof Steve Campbell
3:45pm  EA 275	The Weak Bruhat Order and Separable Permutations Fan Wei Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4:15pm  EA 275	Hypercyclicity and Subspace Hypercyclicity of Invertible Operators in Hilbert Space Caitlin E Foulser & Stephen J Trefethen SUNY Potsdam-Clarkson

Session: IV-C       Room: EA 285       Chair: Prof Moira Chas
3:45pm  EA 285	The distribution of the fractional parts of $N/k$, for restricted ranges of $k$ David W Montague University of Michigan
4:15pm  EA 285	Deducing a $q$-analog for Fleck's Congruence Robert M Walker UIUC

  5:10pm - 6:10pm     Plenary Talk

5:10pm  EA 160

Combinatorics of Staircase Tableaux Lauren Williams UC Berkeley

6:30pm - 9:30pm     Dinner at the Ohio Union

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Sunday, August 29th

8:30am - 10:45am     Breakfasts & Discussions

8:30am   MW 724	Breakfast   for everyone in 7th floor lounge.
8:15am   Blackwell	Mentor Breakfast:   at the The Blackwell Inn   Chaired by Dr. Bart Snapp.
9:15am   MW 724	Graduate School Orientation: at the 7th floor lounge. Question and Answer sesssion on graduate schools with representatives from following institutions: Stanford U: Robert Hough UC Berkeley: Prof Lauren Williams Arizona State: Prof Juan Lopez NC State: Prof Steven Campbell UC Irvine: Prof Michael Cranston CUNY Grad Center: Micah Miller SUNY Stony Brook: Prof Moira Chas Univ Tennessee: Prof Conrad Plaut Ohio State: Prof Herb Clemens

  10:45am - 12:45pm     Student Talks   (V)

Session: V-A       Room: EA 265       Chair: Prof Beata Randrianantoanina
10:45am  EA 265	Julia Sets Converging to the Filled Basilica Robert T Kozma Boston University
11:15am  EA 265	Spectral Analysis of Non-Hermitian Matrices Amalia V Culiuc Williams College
11:45am  EA 265	Eigenvalue Density and Level-Spacing for Self-Adjoint Non-Symmetric Random Matrices Bill Karr Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
12:15pm  EA 265	A Simultaneous Random Walk Game Jorge H Banuelos Macalester College
12:30pm  EA 265	Maps and Indicatrices of Knots Liyang Zhang Williams College

Session: V-B       Room: EA 275       Chair: Robert Hough
10:45am  EA 275	Exploring the Effects of Surface Transformations on Closed Curves Ren Yi & Anand Chandran Stony Brook University
11:15am  EA 275	Perfect state transfer, graph products, and equitable partitions Benjamin C Greenberg Clarkson University
11:45am  EA 275	The Homotopy Critical Values and Parameterization of $S^1$ with discrete chains. Alex T Happ & Chris V Carlile University of Tennessee at Knoxville
12:15pm  EA 275	Homotopy Critical Values of Metric Solenoids Zachery A Lindsey & Matthew J Barber University of Tennessee

Session: V-C       Room: EA 285       Chair: Prof Jenya Soprunova
10:45am  EA 285	On the Distribution of Orders of Basis for $\mathbb{Z}_n$ Wesley J Souza UC Santa Barbara
11:15am  EA 285	Cops and Robbers on Planar Graphs Silviya D Valeva University of Minnesota IMA
11:45am  EA 285	A Winning Strategy for Tic-Tac-Toe on an Affine Plane of Order 4 Matthew P Conlen & Juraj Milcak The Fields Institute
12:15pm  EA 285	Tropical determinants and cheating when solving a Rubiks cube Thomas J Dinitz Kent State University

1:00pm - 1:20pm     Closing Meeting

1:00pm   MW 724

Closing Address:   by Professor Luis Casian (incoming department chair) Outstanding Presentation Awards.

YMC 2010 is supported by NSF Grant DMS-0841054