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Friday, August 28th

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
1:00pm   MW 724	Welcome Address:   by Dave Andereck                (Senior Associate Dean, College of BMPS)

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

Session: I-A       Room: EA 265       Chair: Prof Elizabeth Arnold
1:45pm  EA 265	The Steiner Problem on Surfaces of Revolution Ryan Jensen Brigham Young University
2:15pm  EA 265	Triangulations of n-gons and their corresponding monomial ideals Jessica M. Glover Mount Holyoke College
2:45pm  EA 265	The first coefficient of the Conway polynomial Jeffrey W Lindquist The Ohio State University

Session: I-B       Room: EA 275       Chair: Prof Jim Fowler
1:45pm  EA 275	Greedy Algorithms for Generalized $k$-Rankings of Paths Andrew N Zemke RIT
2:15pm  EA 275	Beautifully Ordered Balanced Incomplete Block Designs Hau Chan College of Charleston
2:45pm  EA 275	Reconstruction of a Family of Seperable Graphs Hannah R Kolb University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Session: I-C       Room: EA 285       Chair: Prof Sergei Chmutov
1:45pm  EA 285	Relative Tutte polynomial and virtual links Yishun Dong OSU
2:15pm  EA 285	Multivariate Tutte polynomial of graphs and HOMFLYPT polynomial of links. Robert M. Bradford Ohio State
2:45pm  EA 285	Rook Polynomials in Three Dimensions Nicholas B Krzywonos Grand Valley State University

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

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

Session: I-A       Room: EA 265       Chair: Prof Steven Miller
3:45pm  EA 265	Zeta Functions of Graph Sequences Mollie E Stein Canisius College
4:15pm  EA 265	A Census of Two Dimensional Toric Codes over Galois Fields of Sizes 7, 8, and 9 Alejandro U Carbonara Berkeley

Session: I-B       Room: EA 275       Chair: Prof Neal Stoltzfus
3:45pm  EA 275	The Relative Class Number for Real Quadratic Feilds Amanda Furness Mount Holyoke University
4:15pm  EA 275	Perfect state transfer, integral circulants, and join of graphs Matthew C. Russell Clarkson University

Session: I-C       Room: EA 285       Chair: Prof Sergei Chmutov
3:45pm  EA 285	The Conjugacy Classes of $SO(5,\mathbb{F}_p)$ Benjamin L Kornacki University of Michigan
4:15pm  EA 285	Stochastic difference equation with dependent coefficients Diana Hay & Vivek Hirpara Iowa State University

  5:10pm - 6:10pm     Plenary Talk

5:10pm  EA 160

Finding stability in chaos Laura DeMarco University of Illinois at Chicago

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

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Saturday, August 29th

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


  10:00am - 11:00am     Plenary Talk

10:00am  EA 160

Diophantine Analysis of Apollonian Packings Peter Sarnak Princeton University & I.A.S.

  11:00pm - 12:30nn     Posters Presentations

Room: MW 724

Visualizing Algebraic Surfaces Jennifer E Bonsangue CSU Channel Islands

Sudoku, Shidoku, and...Gröbner Bases?: An Algebraic Approach To Counting Boards Matthew J Menickelly & Katharina M Carella James Madison University

Algorithmic Game Theory: Selfish Set Packing Jamie Quadri & Sam Cole Oberlin College

Laplacians on the Airplane, Basilica in Rabbit and Dendrite Julia Sets Chu Yue (Stella) Dong Cornell University

Computing the number of complete Sperner families of linear chromatic number 2 Maxwell S Forlini Miami University

Extensions of the Heisenberg Group Laura E Janssen Canisius College

Self-Contact in Three Branch Planar Fractal Trees Heather A McLendon Ithaca College

Asymptotics for Class Numbers and Strict Class Numbers for Fundamental Discriminants Hudson Harper & Katherine R Poulsen Mount Holyoke College

Self-Contact in Ternary Planar Fractal Trees Bolanle O Salaam Ithaca College

Discrete Complex Analysis Joseph W Seaborn III Taylor University

Characterizing Inscribable Polyhedral Graphs Giang T.H. Tran & William Vickery Bard College

A systematic census of generalized toric codes over $\mathbb{F}_4, \mathbb{F}_5, \mathbb{F}_{16}$ Brian M Vega & James E Amaya UC Berkeley

Selfish Set Covering Elara Willett & David Leibovic Oberlin College

Taking Curvature to the Extreme! Lindsay M. Willett Hope College

Constant Curvature Curves on Polyhedra Leah Wolberg Indiana University

Spectral Theory of Mêlé Graphs Michelle T Zagardo & Casey L McKnight University of Wyoming

12:30nn - 1:15pm     Lunch Break in MW 724


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

Session: III-A       Room: EA 265       Chair: Prof Elizabeth Arnold
1:15pm  EA 265	The Finte Weyl Group of Type $B_n$ as the Automorphisms of the $n$-Cube: Isomorphism and Conjugacy David D Chen University of Georgia
1:45pm  EA 265	(0,2)-graphs From Roots Systems Using Tableaux Alexander C Garver University of Georgia
2:15pm  EA 265	Factorial and Noetherian Subrings of Power Series Rings Damek Davis University of California, Irvine

Session: III-B       Room: EA 275       Chair: Prof Jeff Selden
1:15pm  EA 275	Isoperimetric Regions in Planar Sectors with Density $r^{p}$ Sean P Howe Williams College
1:45pm  EA 275	Isoperimetric Inequalities for Wave Fronts and Menzin's Conjecture on Surfaces of Constant Curvature Valentin Zakharevich & Sean Howe Penn State University REU
2:15pm  EA 275	Joint Dilation $\mathbb{W}$avelet Set Zhiwei Wu Texas A\&M University

Session: III-C       Room: EA 285       Chair: Prof Zahava Wilstein
1:15pm  EA 285	Towards an "average" version of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer John W Goes Williams College
1:45pm  EA 285	2-Selmer groups of quadratic twists of elliptic curves George A Boxer & Peter Z Diao University of Wisconsin, Madison
2:15pm  EA 285	Effective nonvanishing of canonical Hecke $L$-functions Peter Z Diao & George A Boxer University of Wisconsin

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


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

Session: IV-A       Room: EA 265       Chair: Prof Neal Stoltzfus
3:45pm  EA 265	Categorification of Krushkal's Polynomial Sam E Calisch Louisiana State University
4:15pm  EA 265	Low-Lying Zeros of Number Field L-functions Ryan N Peckner Williams College

Session: IV-B       Room: EA 275       Chair: Prof Christino Tamon
3:45pm  EA 275	Homotopy Classes of Linear 3-Fields on the 3-Sphere Lauren R. McGough MIT
4:15pm  EA 275	Positive Hankel Matrices are Sums of Squares Ali Gokal & Kailee A. Gray University of Iowa

Session: IV-C       Room: EA 285       Chair: Prof Tom Kennedy
3:45pm  EA 285	Conjectures on Twisted Kloosterman Sums Anastassia Etropolski University of Wisconsin - Madison
4:15pm  EA 285	The Exponential and Worpitzky Series Modulo $p$ James E Pascoe CSU Chico
4:30pm  EA 285	On the Maximum Number of Isosceles Right Triangles in a Finite Point Set David B Roberts California State Univ., Northridge

  5:05pm - 6:05pm     Plenary Talk

5:05pm  EA 160

You can't hear the shape of a drum Carolyn Gordon Dartmouth College

6:30pm - 9:30pm     Dinner at the Fawcett Center

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Sunday, August 30th

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

8:30am   MW 724	Breakfast   for everyone in 7th floor lounge.
8:30am   Blackwell	Mentor Breakfast:   at the The Blackwell Inn   Chaired by TBA.
9:15am   MW 724	Graduate School Orientation: at the 7th floor lounge. Question and Answer sesssion on graduate schools, moderated by [TBA], with representatives from following institutions: University of Chicago: Jim Fowler University of Arizona: Tom Kennedy U.I.U.C.: Bob Muncaster Lehigh University: Juan Ortiz M.I.T.: Amanda Redlich Iowa State University: Alexander Roitershtein Louisiana State University: Neal Stoltzfus University of Nebraska Lincoln: Zahava Wilstein Ohio State University: James Cogdell

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

Session: V-A       Room: EA 265       Chair: Prof Steven Miller
10:45am  EA 265	New Bounds on Some Ramsey Numbers Daniel E Leven & Kevin M Black Rochester Institute of Technology
11:15am  EA 265	Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians William A. Karr Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
11:45am  EA 265	$C^*$-algebras of Graph Products Ann K Johnston & Andrew S Reynolds Canisius College
12:15pm  EA 265	The Dynamics of an Ammann Aperiodic Protoset Vivian Olsiewski Healey Notre Dame

Session: V-B       Room: EA 275       Chair: Prof Arlo Caine
10:45am  EA 275	Matrices and Tensors of Small Norm Elizabeth M Collins-Wildman & Matthew J Hoffman Kent State University
11:15am  EA 275	Description of the space of Cartier boundary divisors on $\bar{M}_{n,1}(\mathbb{A})$ Khoa L Nguyen Rutgers University
11:45am  EA 275	Nested Traps in Parity Games Andrey V Grinshpun & Andrei Tarfulea Cornell University
12:15pm  EA 275	Manifolds with Density as Quotients of Riemannian Manifolds Nate R Harman Williams College

Session: V-C       Room: EA 285       Chair: Prof Feryal Alayont
10:45am  EA 285	Duality Properties of Indicatrices of Knots and their Relationship to Physical Knot Invariants Charmaine J Sia Williams College
11:15am  EA 285	The Topology of Spaces of Triads Michael J Catanzaro Wayne State University
11:45am  EA 285	Harmonic Maps on Cayley Graphs and Compactification Robert J. Abramovic Canisius College
12:15pm  EA 285	Spiraling to My Doom: The Revenge (In 3D!) Kiri E Sunde & Jessalyn G Bolkema Hope College

1:00pm - 1:20pm     Wrap Up Meeting

1:00pm   MW 724

Closing Address:   by David Goss (Chair of OSU Dept of Math), Awards.

YMC 2009 is supported by NSF Grant DMS-0841054