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Friday, August 11th

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

12:00pm   MW 154	Registration Opens:   Conference Room MW 154   Across from reception desk of Math Tower (231 W 18th Ave)
12:00pm   MW 724	Refreshments:  Math Tower 724
1:10pm   MW 724	Welcome Address:   Prof. Thomas Kerler -- Vice Chair, Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University

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

Session: I-A       Room: SO 004       Chair: Aydin
1:45pm  SO 004	Continued Fractions and Periodicity Vanessa Gomez & Jacob McCann Muhlenberg College
2:15pm  SO 004	Frobenius Distributions in Short Intervals for Elliptic Curves Siddarth P Kannan Clemson University
2:45pm  SO 004	Partially Restricted Connectivity Kaitlin Bruegge & Vanessa Gomez Muhlenberg College

Session: I-B       Room: SO 024       Chair: Chakrabarti
1:45pm  SO 024	Most Planar Graphs do not Admit Faithful Tropicalizations in the Plane Desmond J Coles & Sifan Jiang Williams College
2:15pm  SO 024	Curves of Constant Curvature and Torsion in the 3-Sphere Rahul Sahay & Jared R Williams Central Michigan University
2:45pm  SO 024	Spectrum of $\square_b^t$ on the 3-sphere Tawfik Abbas & Madelyne M Brown University of Michigan-Dearborn

Session: I-C       Room: SO 040       Chair: Kronenthal
1:45pm  SO 040	Minimal Orbits, Sharkovski Ordering, and Universality in Chaos Muhammad U Abdulla & Jake T Barrett Florida Institute of Technology
2:15pm  SO 040	Degrees of freedom in constructing algebraic and tropical curves in the plane Andrew L Scharf & Neelav S Dutta Williams College
2:45pm  SO 040	An Application of Galois Theory to Explore Properties of Recursive Polynomials Mohit Bansil Michigan State Univerisity

3:15pm - 3:45pm     Coffee & Refreshments

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

Session: II-A       Room: SO 004       Chair: Morrison
3:45pm  SO 004	Topology of the Moduli Space of Curves Alois M Cerbu & Andrew T Salmon Yale University
4:15pm  SO 004	Spectral Statistics of Non-Hermitian Random Matrix Ensembles Ryan C Chen & Eric D Winsor Williams College

Session: II-B       Room: SO 024       Chair: McDougall
3:45pm  SO 024	Incidence Geometry in the Tropical Plane Catherine Lee & Milo D Brandt Yale University
4:15pm  SO 024	Dynamics of Surface Homeomorphisms Yandi Wu Georgia Institute of Technology

Session: II-C       Room: SO 040       Chair: Zeytuncu
3:45pm  SO 040	Explicit estimates for the distribution of numbers free of large prime factors Jared D Lichtman Dartmouth College
4:15pm  SO 040	Hyperbolicity of links in S cross I Luya Wang Williams College

  5:00pm - 6:00pm     Plenary Talk

5:00pm  SH 100

Mating habits of polynomials Sarah Koch University of Michigan

6:30pm - 8:30pm     Dinner in Math Tower 724

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Saturday, August 12th

8:00am - 9:00am     Set up posters


  9:30am - 10:30am     Plenary Talk

9:30am  SH 100

Topology for statistical analysis of brain artery images Ezra Miller Duke University

  10:45am - 12:15pm     Posters Presentations

Scott Lab Hallway (lower level)

New Linear Codes over non-Prime Fields Ghada Bakbouk & Jonathan G.G Lambrinos Kenyon College

Weierstrass Points on Tropical Curves Daniel S Brogan & Nikolas K Henderson The Ohio State University

Bounds for the Minimum Step Number for Two Component Links in the Simple Cubic Lattice Gabriel S Freund University of California, Davis

Complexity of leading digit sequences Xinwei He & Yuchen Li University of Illinois

Variance of Gaussian Primes Across Sectors and the Hecke L-Function Ratios Conjecture Jared D Lichtman & Shannon M Sweitzer Williams College

An Algebraic Approach to Incidence Geometry Carter Lyons & Shannon N Golden Lafayette College

Classification of Algebraically Defined Graphs by Girth Carter Lyons & Allison J Ganger Lafayette College

A Finite Version of Favard's Theorem in Orthogonal Polynomials Yue Ma University of Cincinnati

Solving $2 \times 2$ Scramble Squares Puzzles with Repetitions Maria D Mota St. Edward's University

Gluing Formulae for Graph Laplacians Mateo P Muro & Yunting Zhang UIUC

Counting Roots of Polynomials Over Prime Power Rings Angela R Patini & Jeremy S Johnson MSRI

Counting Symmetric Closed Curves On the Sphere With Three Disks Removed Hubert Puszklewicz & Moshe Stein Stony Brook University

One-bit Sensing: Phase Transitions for the RIP Property Emily B Smith & Amadou Y Bah Georgia Tech

Linear Fractional Transformations of the Polydisc Sarah L Strikwerda & Erin Wallace University of Michigan - Dearborn

Slow Decay and Missing Term Distributions in Generalized Sum and Difference Sets Eric D Winsor Williams College

Weyl Asymptotics for Hanoi Attractor and other hybrid fractals Zirui Zhou Cornell University

12:15pm - 1:15pm     Poster Session Continued with Lunch


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

Session: III-A       Room: SO 004       Chair: Miller
1:15pm  SO 004	Zero Forcing and Propagation in Generalized Petersen Graphs Sarah F Gibbons Texas State University
1:45pm  SO 004	Classification of $C_p$-Mackey functors invertible for the box product Kaitlyn F Loyd University of Chicago
2:15pm  SO 004	Limiting Distributions in Generalized $b$-bin Zeckendorf Decompositions Shannon M Sweitzer & Jianing Yang Williams College

Session: III-B       Room: SO 024       Chair: Waxman
1:15pm  SO 024	Cluster Structure of MV Polytopes Eric Y Chen University of Chicago
1:45pm  SO 024	Lower order biases in Fourier coefficients of elliptic curve and cuspidal newform families Jianing Yang & Jared D Lichtman Williams College
2:15pm  SO 024	Classifications of Edge-Transitive Graphs Heather A Newman & Hector Miranda Rochester Institute of Technology

Session: III-C       Room: SO 040       Chair: Bloomquist
1:15pm  SO 040	L(h,k) Labeling of Complete Bipartite Graphs and Their Subgraphs Marika T Witt Rochester Institute of Technology
1:45pm  SO 040	On the Structure of the $C_2$ Spider Andres N Mejia UC Santa Barbara
2:15pm  SO 040	A Path Model for Quantum Skew-Symmetric Matrices Aesha Siddiqui & Jessica Liu UC Santa Barbara

2:45pm - 3:45pm     Coffee & Refreshments


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

Session: IV-A       Room: SO 004       Chair: Miller
3:45pm  SO 004	Sorting Matrices with Context Directed Swaps Rashmika Goswami Boise State University
4:15pm  SO 004	Quantum Representations of the Mapping Class Group Richard D. Carini & Yanjie Zheng UC Santa Barbara

Session: IV-B       Room: SO 024       Chair: Clifford
3:45pm  SO 024	Geometries from Groups Casey D Koch LaRue Grand Valley State University
4:15pm  SO 024	Laplacians on Projective Fractals Diljit Singh Cornell University

Session: IV-C       Room: SO 040       Chair: Abdulla
3:45pm  SO 040	The Spectral Action on Multifractal Robertson--Walker Cosmologies Yeorgia Kafkoulis California Institute of Technology
4:15pm  SO 040	On Symmetric but not Cyclotomic Numerical Semigroups David W Stoner University of Minnesota Duluth

  5:10pm - 6:10pm     Plenary Talk

5:10pm  SH 100

Circles. Lots of circles Alex Kontorovich Rutgers University

6:30pm     Group photo in front of Math Tower

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Sunday, August 13th

8:00am - 9:00am     Mentor Breakfast at Bistro 2110


9:30am - 10:45am     Graduate School Orientation


  11:00am - 12:30pm     Student Talks   (V)

Session: V-A       Room: SO 004       Chair: McDougall
11:00am  SO 004	$k$th-Order Fibonacci-like Polynomials Katherine T Arneson & Jason W Bruce Michigan State University
11:30am  SO 004	ROSETTE SURFACES Sohair Abdullah Colorado College
12:00am  SO 004	Dihedral Sieving Phenomenon Joe Suk & Sujit Rao University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Session: V-B       Room: SO 024       Chair: Aydin
11:00am  SO 024	Intersection Graphs of Maximal Convex Sub-polygons Rebecca J. Robinson Willamette University
11:30am  SO 024	Cusps of Hyperbolic Knots Shruthi Sridhar Williams College
12:00am  SO 024	Representations of the Temperley-Lieb Algebra Hannah M Solomon UC Santa Barbara

Session: V-C       Room: SO 040       Chair: Abdulla
11:00am  SO 040	Bounds for High Vanishing in Families of $L$-Functions Eric D Winsor & Ryan C Chen Williams College
11:30am  SO 040	Gradients on Higher Dimensional Sierpinski Gaskets Karuna Sangam University of Connecticut
12:00am  SO 040	Generators of Jacobians of Random Graphs Ethan J Sciamma & Henry Reichard Yale

12:45pm - 1:15pm     Closing Meeting

12:45pm   SO 040

Closing Address:   Prof. Luis Casian -- Chair, Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University

YMC 2017 is supported by NSF Grant DMS-1550117