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Friday, August 10th

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:   Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier is a nationally recognized political scientist and scholar who assumed the role of interim executive dean and vice provost of the College of Arts and Sciences

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

Session: I-A       Room: SO 004       Chair: Zeytuncu
1:45pm  SO 004	The Numerical Range of a Composition Operator on the Hardy Space on the Unit Ball Laney T Bowden & Ellie N Lochner University of Michigan-Dearborn
2:15pm  SO 004	Rank and Bias in Families of Hyperelliptic Curves via Nagao's Conjecture Ben C Logsdon & Trajan A Hammonds SMALL REU Williams College
2:45pm  SO 004	Deformations of the Weyl Character Formula via Ice Models Alexander M Vetter & Alexandra I Embry University of Minnesota

Session: I-B       Room: SO 024       Chair: Clifford
1:45pm  SO 024	Vertex Rankings of Some Trees and Some Dense Subgraphs of Complete and Complete Bipartite Graphs Stephanie R Gaston & Ethan R Burroughs Rochester Institute of Technology
2:15pm  SO 024	Introducing 3-Path Domination in Graphs Rayan K Ibrahim & Rebecca L Jackson Hobart and William Smith Colleges
2:45pm  SO 024	Intersecting Subgraph Families Sonali Durham & Tessa Murthy Yale University

Session: I-C       Room: SO 040       Chair: Kim
1:45pm  SO 040	Gaussian Behavior in Zeckendorf Decompositions Arising From Lattices Joshua M Siktar Williams College
2:15pm  SO 040	Frequency of Elliptic Carmichael Numbers Alice Lin & Calvin Yost-Wolff Boise State University
2:45pm  SO 040	Local $h$ polynomials and the monodromy conjecture Matt W Larson Yale University

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

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

Session: II-A       Room: SO 004       Chair: Zeytuncu
3:45pm  SO 004	Spectral Theory of Perturbed Kohn Laplacians on Spheres John T Ahn & Emilee L Cardin University of Michigan-Dearborn
4:15pm  SO 004	Beyond Curves and Shapes of Constant Width Sandra M Batakana & Sakile A Farah Duke University

Session: II-B       Room: SO 024       Chair: Celik
3:45pm  SO 024	Vertex-Minimal Planar Graphs with Prescribed Automorphism Groups Colin J Jones & Carlie J Triplitt University of Texas at Tyler
4:15pm  SO 024	All Ramsey-critical graphs and star-critical Ramsey numbers for cycles versus $K_5$ Melanie J Ferreri Rochester Institute of Technology

Session: II-C       Room: SO 040       Chair: Seneviratne
3:45pm  SO 040	The Embedding Theorem for Module Categories Desmond J Coles & Srivatsa C Srinivas The Ohio State University
4:15pm  SO 040	Rotatable Random Sequences in Local Fields Daniel C Raban UC Berkeley

  5:00pm - 6:00pm     Plenary Talk

5:00pm  EA 160

Resolution of Singularities Karen Smith University of Michigan

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

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Saturday, August 11th

8:00am - 9:00am     Set up posters


  9:30am - 10:30am     Plenary Talk

9:30am  EA 160

A polytopal generalization of Sperner's lemma Francis Edward Su Harvey Mudd College

  10:45am - 12:15pm     Posters Presentations

Scott Lab Hallway (lower level)

Edges, and Vertices, and Paths! Oh, my! - Hamiltonicity of Unbalanced Tripartite Graphs Hayley M Boynton Texas State University

Polyhedral Circle Packings Alisa F Cui Rutgers

A Graph-Theoretic Approach to Stern's Diatomic Series Alice Chudnovsky University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Every integer can be found within a prime number Eugene M Dorokhin Brooklyn College

Classifying Module Categories for Generalized Temperley-Lieb-Jones Categories Giovanni E Ferrer The Ohio State University

Support Equalities Among Ribbon Schur Functions Marisa R Gaetz Univ. of MN - Twin Cities

Sato-Tate in Arithmetic Progressions and Lehmer's Conjecture Trajan A Hammonds & Casimir M Kothari SMALL REU Williams College

Combining Quandle Cohomological and State-Sum Polynomial Knot Invariants William E Hoffer III & Adu Vengal and Vilas Winstein The Ohio State University

Conditions for Lipschitz Continuity on Post-Critically Finite Self-Similar Sets Anchala Krishnan University of Connecticut

Properties and Parameters of Codes from Line Graphs of Circulant Graphs Jennifer D Melendez Texas AM University-Commerce

Kähler-Einstein Metrics on Compact Cohomogeneity One Fano Manifolds via Effective Approximations Pilar A Orellana UC Riverside

Analysis on the Intersection of Two Disks Micalyn D Rowe & Cristo R Sanchez Texas AM University-Commerce

Twists of the Rabbit Polynomial Abigail M Saladin Georgia Institute of Technology

High-Dimensional Sphere Packings Zachary J Stier Rutgers University

Eigenvalue Distribution of Kronecker Products of Random Matrices Mengxi Wang & Noah Luntzlara Williams College

The Scaling Function Connection Problem in the Two-Dimensional Ising Model William P Warner University of Michigan

Sums of Two Polygonal Numbers in Rings Hongkwon V Yi Muhlenberg College

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


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

Session: III-A       Room: SO 004       Chair: Defant
1:15pm  SO 004	Linear Recurrence Relations with Non-constant Coefficients and Benford's Law Mengxi Wang & Lily Shao Williams College
1:45pm  SO 004	Perfect Divisibility of Fork-Free Graphs Jenny M Kaufmann Princeton University
2:15pm  SO 004	Anti-Power Subwords of the Thue-Morse Word Marisa R Gaetz Univ. of MN - Duluth

Session: III-B       Room: SO 024       Chair: Remski
1:15pm  SO 024	The Symmetry Index of a Graph and Families of Asymmetric Graphs Quindel D Jones Rochester Institute of Tech.
1:45pm  SO 024	Expected Chromatic Number of Random Subgraphs Catherine Lee & Henry Reichard Yale University
2:15pm  SO 024	Graph-Restricted Decompositions: A Further Generalization of Zeckendorf's Theorem Noah Luntzlara & Hunter Wieman Williams College

Session: III-C       Room: SO 040       Chair: Mainkar
1:15pm  SO 040	Rank-One Transformations for Irrationals with Certain Diophantine Properties Hindy Drillick & Alonso Espinosa Dominguez Williams College
1:45pm  SO 040	Phase transitions in the distribution of missing sums Hung Viet Chu & Lily Shao Williams College
2:15pm  SO 040	Eigenform Product Identities for Degree-Two Siegel Modular Forms Alexandra M Walsh Clemson University

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


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

Session: IV-A       Room: SO 004       Chair: Kim
3:45pm  SO 004	An Extension on Conway's Wizard Problem Hongkwon V Yi & Barbara L Maldonado Muhlenberg College
4:15pm  SO 004	Distribution of Primes in Number Fields Maria R Ross & Casimir M Kothari SMALL REU Williams College

Session: IV-B       Room: SO 024       Chair: Clifford
3:45pm  SO 024	The Sandpile Group of Cayley Graphs Jared N Marx-Kuo University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
4:15pm  SO 024	On Bidegree Sequences of Directed Trees William Meyers CUNY Bronx Community College

Session: IV-C       Room: SO 040       Chair: Thorner
3:45pm  SO 040	A Formula for the Number of Monic Degree $m$ Polynomials in $F_q[x]$ with Discriminant $d$ Michael J Seaman Caltech
4:15pm  SO 040	Edge-Colored Graphs and Nilpotent Lie Algebras Savannah V. Swiatlowski Central Michigan University

  5:10pm - 6:10pm     Plenary Talk

5:10pm  EA 160

Algebraic and combinatorial aspects of vertex operator algebras Corina Calinescu NYC College of Technology, CUNY

6:30pm     Group photo in front of Math Tower

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Sunday, August 12th

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: Chmutov
11:00am  SO 004	Symmetric Chromatic Polynomial for Signed Graphs Rushil Raghavan & Eric W Fawcett The Ohio State University
11:30am  SO 004	Unweighted Contraction-Deletion of Stanley's Symmetric Chromatic Polynomial Ishaan Shah & James Enouen Ohio State University
12:00am  SO 004	A Few More Trees the Symmetric Chromatic Function can Distinguish Jake F. Huryn The Ohio State University

Session: V-B       Room: SO 024       Chair: Miller
11:00am  SO 024	A skein theoretic approach to the quotients of $A_2*T_2$ Brian Reyes-Velez & Andre Hernandez-Espiet Ohio State University
11:30am  SO 024	The Jones polynomial of an almost alternating link Dean D. Spyropoulos Vassar College
12:00am  SO 024	Minimizing Properties of $(1/k)$-Geodesics on Doubled Polygons Alexander F Schlesinger & Arthur J Azvolinsky Yale University

Session: V-C       Room: SO 040       Chair: Thorner
11:00am  SO 040	Efficiency of a Moving Mesh System with a Curvature-type Monitor Applied to Burgers' Equation Annaliese E Keiser & Marianne C DeBrito University of Michigan at Dearborn
11:30am  SO 040	Playing Ball with the Largest Prime Factor Madeleine L Farris Williams College
12:00am  SO 040	Analogs of Polynomials on the Sierpinski Gasket for Families of Laplacians W. Jacob Ogden & Ely Sandine Cornell University

12:45pm - 1:15pm     Closing Meeting

12:45pm   SO 040

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

YMC 2018 is supported by NSF Grant DMS-1550117