Abstracts

BioMathematics

Robert Stephen Cantrell Mathematical and biological consequences of aggregative behavior near habitat boundaries
Nick Cogan Persister Distribution in a Moving Biofilm
Chris Cosner Beyond diffusion: conditional dispersal in ecological models
Gheorghe Craciun Graph-theoretic criteria for injectivity and multiple equilibria in biochemical reaction networks
Sean Ellermeyer A Non-autonomous Model of the Cell Cycle
Willard Keeran The Existence of Periodic Orbits in a Particular Form of Homogeneous Lotka Volterra Systems
Grzegorz A Rempala Least Squares Estimation for Mass Action Stochastic Kinetic Models
Libin Rong Hepatitis C virus (HCV) drug resistance in patients treated with a new protease inhibitor

Combinatorics

Benjamin Braun On the stable Kneser graphs
Joshua Cooper Rotor-router analysis of the liar game
Shanzhen Gao Some results on the self-avoiding walks
Patricia Hersh Combinatorics and topology of regular CW complexes
Eran Nevo Using the Van Kampen obstruction
Heinrich Niederhausen Three Faces of Generating Functions: Riordan Matrices, Finite Operators, and Umbral Calculus
Nathan Reading Noncrossing partitions and the shard intersection order
Bruce Sagan Infinite log-concavity
Jay Schweig The Skeleta of a Shellable Complex
John Shareshian Permutation Statistics and the Cyclic Sieving Phenomenon
Rebecca Smith Enumeration of Permutations sortable by k Pop Stacks in Parallel
Shaun Sullivan Counting Strings in Ballot Paths
Laszlo Szekely Minimizing the number of episodes and Gallai's theorem on intervals
Hua Wang On a distribution problem from Ahlswede and Katona

Image Processing

Michael F. Barnsley Point-Fibred Affine Iterated Function Systems and Stanislaw Ulam
Weihong Guo An Unsupervised Adaptive Non-local Means Filter and Its Application on Partially Parallel Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Feng Huang Toward Automatic Articular Cartilage Segmentation From Mri: Distance Constrained Segmentation
Washington Mio Shape of Surfaces and a Model of Hippocampal Atrophy
Anand Rangarajan Shape matching, learning and classification
Anuj Srivastava Looking for Shapes in Cluttered Point Clouds

Physics

Ashish Gupta Quantum polynomials
Michael Mascagni Monte Carlo Methods: Early History and the Basics

Invited Speakers

Michael F. Barnsley Characterizations of hyperbolic affine (and projective) iterated function systems
David Campbell The Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Problem: The Birth of Nonlinear Science
Michael Creutz Monte Carlo Methods and Simulating Quarks
Michael Farber Topology of random manifolds
Morris W. Hirsch Convergence in Biodynamics
James P. Hobert Honest Exploration of Intractable Probability Distributions Via Markov Chain Monte Carlo
R. Daniel Mauldin Reflections on Stan Ulam: The person and his mathematical problems
Michelle Wachs Poset topology and permutation enumeration