Union Mathematics Conference Schedule



Friday Evening Welcome : Bailey Hall 204

Friday 4/29/11
7:00 - 9:00
Reception


Invited Addresses : Bailey Hall 207

Saturday 4/30/11
11:30 - 12:30
Julie Bergner, UC Riverside
Homotopy theories and higher categories
4:30 - 5:30
Peter Selinger, Dalhousie University
Logical approaches to higher-order quantum information theory
Sunday 5/1/11
11:30 - 12:30
Margaret Cheney, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Introduction to radar imaging


Algebraic Topology Sessions : 2nd Floor Bailey Hall

Saturday 4/30/11
8:00 - 9:00
Registration and Coffee (Bailey Hall 204)
9:00 - 9:30
Shaun Ault, Fordham University
Elements partially annihilated by the Steenrod algebra
9:40 - 10:10
Somnath Basu, Stony Brook University
Transversal string topology and invariants of manifolds
10:20 - 10:50
Olga Stroilova, MIT
The dual of L(n)
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break (Bailey Hall 204)
11:30 - 12:30
Invited Address I
12:30 - 2:00
Lunch
2:00 - 2:30
Bill Lawvere, University of Buffalo
Categorical dynamics
2:40 - 3:10
Benjamin Balsam, Stony Brook University
Turaev-Viro theory, extended TQFTs and topological quantum computation
3:20 - 3:50
Daniel Bravo Vivallo, Wesleyan University
The stable derived category of a ring
4:00 - 4:30
Coffee Break (Bailey Hall 204)
4:30 - 5:30
Invited Address II
6:30 - 10:00
Banquet and Party
Sunday 5/1/11
8:30 - 9:00
Coffee (Bailey Hall 204)
9:00 - 9:30
Jeremy Brazas, University of New Hampshire
The fundamental group as topological group
9:40 - 10:10
Courtney Thatcher, Penn State Altoona
On the classification of free Z_p actions on products of spheres
10:20 - 10:50
Kristine Pelatt, University of Oregon
Geometric representatives of cycles and cocycles in spaces of knots
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break (Bailey Hall 204)
11:30 - 12:30
Invited Address III
12:30 - 2:00
Lunch
2:00 - 2:30
Mark Behrens, MIT
The odd primary EHP sequence
2:40 - 3:10
Mark Johnson, Penn State Altoona
On minimal higher homotopy operations


Category Theory Sessions : 2nd Floor Bailey Hall

Saturday 4/30/11
8:00 - 9:00
Registration and Coffee (Bailey Hall 204)
9:00 - 9:30
Walter Tholen, York University
Considering Kleisli morphisms as bimodules
9:40 - 10:10
Rory Lucyshyn-Wright, York University
Totally distributive toposes, continuous categories, and injective toposes
10:20 - 10:50
John Kennison, Clark University
Coherent spaces, spectra and a Boolean approach to dynamical systems
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break (Bailey Hall 204)
11:30 - 12:30
Invited Address I
12:30 - 2:00
Lunch
2:00 - 2:30
Bill Lawvere, University of Buffalo
Categorical dynamics
2:40 - 3:10
Benjamin Balsam, Stony Brook University
Turaev-Viro theory, extended TQFTs and topological quantum computation
3:20 - 3:50
Daniel Bravo Vivallo, Wesleyan University
The stable derived category of a ring
4:00 - 4:30
Coffee Break (Bailey Hall 204)
4:30 - 5:30
Invited Address II
6:30 - 10:00
Banquet and Party
Sunday 5/1/11
8:30 - 9:00
Coffee (Bailey Hall 204)
9:00 - 9:30
Rick Blute, University of Ottawa
A convenient differential category
9:40 - 10:10
Geoff Cruttwell, University of Calgary
Embeddings of atlas categories
10:20 - 10:50
Peter Selinger, Dalhousie University
Partially traced categories
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break (Bailey Hall 204)
11:30 - 12:30
Invited Address III
12:30 - 2:00
Lunch
2:00 - 2:30
Justin Greenough, University of New Hampshire
Tensor product of module categories and categorical centers
2:40 - 3:10
Mark Johnson, Penn State Altoona
On minimal higher homotopy operations


Applied Math Sessions : Bailey Hall 312

Saturday 4/30/11
8:00 - 9:00
Registration and Coffee (Bailey Hall 204)
9:00 - 9:30
Amina Eladdadi
Mathematical modeling of the HER2-receptor overexpression in breast cancer
9:30 - 10:00
David Isaacson, RPI
EIT at RPI
10:00 - 10:30
Nathaniel Whitaker
The short pulse equation in high/low frequence bands for nonlinear metamaterials
10:30 - 11:00
Chjan Lim
Large deviation principle in network science
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break (Bailey Hall 204)
11:30 - 12:30
Invited Address I
12:30 - 2:00
Lunch
2:00 - 2:30
Natalia Sternberg, Clark University
Resonant transparency of multi-layer structures with opaque materials
2:30 - 3:00
Emily Meissen
Bursting in integrate-and-fire neuronal networks
3:00 - 3:30
Joseph Gibney
Stability of Fokker-Planck description for neuronal network dynamics
3:30 - 4:00
Panayotis Kevrekidis
Coherent structures in granular crystals: From traveling saves to discrete breathers and beyond
4:00 - 4:30
Coffee Break (Bailey Hall 204)
4:30 - 5:30
Invited Address II
6:30 - 10:00
Banquet and Party
Sunday 5/1/11
8:30 - 9:00
Coffee (Bailey Hall 204)
9:30 - 10:00
Rachel Roe-Dale, Skidmore College
A mathematical model of cell cycle effects in gastric cancer chemotherapy
10:00 - 10:30
Gregor Kovacic, RPI
Fokker-Planck description of neuronal network dynamics
10:30 - 11:00
Charles Bergeron
Incorporating prior knowledge to improve nonlinear least-squares curve fitting
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break (Bailey Hall 204)
11:30 - 12:30
Invited Address III
12:30 - 2:00
Lunch
2:00 - 2:30
Lixin Shen
Proximity algorithms for total-variation based image models
2:30 - 3:00
Gregory Moore, Bryant and Stratton College
Advances in model selection for support vector machines
3:00 - 3:30
Amina Shabbeer, RPI
Optimal embedding of heterogeneous graph data with edge crossing constraints
3:30 - 4:00
Weituo Zhang, RPI
Random walk models for opinion dynamics: Exact solutions for total consensus times on the complete graph