May 21, Wednesday A.M. (1) Sessions

SS1:       Oscillations and Synchronization in Neuronal Networks                   Organized by:  Qishao Lu,  Georgi Medvedev and Jonathan Rubin		Location: 321 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Steven Schiff, Penn State University, USA
	Kalman Filter Control of Spatiotemporal Cortical Dynamics
8:30 – 9:00	Rachel Kuske, University of British Columbia, Canada
	Noise-sensitive amplitude and phase dynamics in the context of multiple time scales
9:00 – 9:30	Georgi S Medvedev, Drexel University, USA
	Noise-induced bursting
9:30 – 10:00	Feng Zhang, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
	Transition in Complex Calcium Bursting Induced by IP3 Degradation

SS3:       Qualitative Behavior of Solutions to Evolutionary PDE's                  Organized by:       Irena Lasiecka, Grozdena Todorova and Mitsuhiro Nakao		Location: 110 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Oleg Emanouilov,  Colorado State University, USA
	Some results on Global controllability of Burgers equation
8:30 – 9:00	Fabio Ancona,  University of Bologna, Italy
	On the convergence rate of Glimm scheme for general nonlinear hyperbolic systems
9:00 – 9:30	Paola Loreti,   Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
	Hopf-Lax type formulas and related problems
9:30 – 10:00	Yuri Latushkin,  University of Missouri-Columbia, USA
	Quasilinear parabolic systems with fully nonlinear boundary conditions

SS4:       Effective Stochastic and Statistical Modeling of Multiscale Systems                   Organized by:       Ilya Timofeyev  and Gregor Kovacic		Location: 103 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Xiaoming Wang,  Florida State University, USA
	A numerical scheme for stationary statistical properties of the infinite Prandtl number model
8:30 – 9:00	Rafail Abramov,  University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
	Linear fluctuation-dissipation for a model of the barotropic climate
9:00 – 9:30	John Harlim  New York University, USA
	Mathematical strategies for filtering turbulent signals in complex systems
9:30 – 10:00	Gregor Kovacic, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
	Applications of kinetic theory to neuronal network dynamics

SS5:       Boundary Value Problems and Control Theory                  Organized by:       Hongqiu Chen, Mathieu Colin and Reika Fukuizumi		Location: 105 PKH
8:30 – 9:00	Chun-Hsiung Hsia,  University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
	The bifurcation of doubly-diffusive convection
9:00 – 9:30	Michael M Tom,  Louisiana State University, USA
	Comparison of solutions of model evolution equations
9:30 – 10:00	Tatsuo Iguchi,  Keio University, Japan
	Shallow water approximations for water waves

SS8:       Nonstandard PDE and PDE Control                  Organized by:       D. L. Russell and R. Triggiani		Location: 308 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Cancelled
8:30 – 9:00	Cancelled
9:00 – 9:30	George Avalos, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
	Analysis of a Fluid-Structure Interactive Pde Model
9:30 – 10:00	Jan Sokolowski, Institute Elie Cartan and Systems Research Institute Pan, France
	Shape Optimization Problems for Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations

SS11:     Hamiltonian systems and applications                 Organized by:       Amadeu Delshams, Marian Gidea and Rafael de la Llave		Location: 319 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Cancelled
8:30 – 9:00	Pablo Roldán, Universitat Politecnica Catalunya, Spain
	Biasymptotic trajectories in the Planar and Spatial Restricted 3-Body Problem
9:00 – 9:30	Daniel C Offin, Queen's University, Canada
	Hyperbolicity for symmetric periodic orbits in the three body problem
9:30 – 10:00	Edward A Belbruno, Princeton University and IOD, USA
	Random Walk in the Three-Body Problem and Instability

SS14:     Smooth dynamical systems and ergodic theory                 Organized by:       Miaohua Jiang, Andrew Torok and  Mahesh Nerurkar		Location: 102 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Roland Gunesch, University of Hamburg, Germany
	Applications of the measure of maximal entropy in nonpositive curvature, orbit counting and volume estimates
8:30 – 9:00	Christian P Wolf, Wichita State University, USA
	Hausdorff dimension of typical and non-typical orbits in one-dimensional holomorphic dynamics
9:00 – 9:30	Viorel Nitica, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, USA
	Rigidity of higher rank abelian cocycles with values in diffeomorphisms groups
9:30 – 10:00	Andrey Gogolev, PennState, USA
	Smooth conjugacy problem in the neighborhood of de la Llave's example.

SS20:     Partial Differential Equations from Fluid Mechanics and Mathematical Physics                 Organized by:       Xiaoming Wang, Jiahong Wu and Ning Ju		Location: 212 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Qiang Du, Penn State University, USA
	Closure approximations to micro-macro models of complex fluid
8:30 – 9:00	Yanqiu Wang, Oklahoma State University, USA
	Computation of Navier-Stokes equations with the pseudostress-velocity formulation
9:00 – 9:30	JaEun Ku, Oklahoma State University, USA
	Least-Squares Finite Element Methods
9:30 – 10:00	Juan-Ming Yuan, Providence University, Taiwan
	The Kawahara Equation in Weighted Sobolev Spaces

SS22:     Modeling and Analysis of Multi-Phase Lipid Bilayer Membranes                 Organized by:       Tim Healey and Qiang Du		Location: 229 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Tobias Baumgart, University of Pennsylvania, USA
	Of domains and boundaries: lipid bilayer membranes with phase coexistence
8:30 – 9:00	Elliot L Elson, Washington University - St. Louis, USA
	Detection and Prediction of Nanodomains in Lipid Bilayer Model Membranes
9:00 – 9:30	Luca Deser, University Molise-Italy & DIMS-Trento, Italy
	Derivation of a new free energy for biological membranes
9:30 – 10:00	David J Steigmann, University of California, USA
	Theory and analysis of coexistent phases in biomembranes

SS25:     Long Time Behavior of Hamiltonian and Dissipative Systems                 Organized by:       Atanas Stefanov and Milena Stanislavova		Location: 223 PKH
8:30 – 9:00	Olivier Goubet, Universite de Picardie, France
	Long time behavior of damped Boussinesq systems
9:00 – 9:30	Aslihan Demirkaya, University of Kansas, USA
	Existence of global attractor for a periodic Kuramoto-Sivashinsky type
9:30 – 10:00	Milena Stanislavova, University of Kansas, USA
	Refined Gevrey estimates for the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation

SS27:     Sign-changing Solutions for Nonlinear Elliptic Problems                 Organized by:       Dumitru Motreanu		Location: 109 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Satoshi Tanaka, Okayama University of Science, Japan
	On the uniqueness of nodal radial solutions of sublinear elliptic equations in a ball
8:30 – 9:00	Leszek Gasinski, Jagiellonian University, Poland
	Nodal and Multiple Constant Sign Solutions for p-Laplacian Equations at Resonance
9:00 – 9:30	Anna Ochal, Jagiellonian University, Poland
	A class of dynamic hemivariational inequalities modeling fully nonlinear viscoelastic contact problems
9:30 – 10:00	Stanislaw Migorski, Jagiellonian University, Poland
	Variational asymptotic method for homogenization of boundary hemivariational inequalities

SS29:     Nonlocal Equations and Diffusion Problems                 Organized by:       Arnaud Rougirel		Location: 220 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Marcelo M Cavalcanti, State University of Maringa, Brazil
	Optimal decay rate estimates for viscoelastic dissipative
8:30 – 9:00	Valeria N Domingos-Cavalcanti, State University of Maringa, Brazil
	Asymptotic stability of the wave equation on compact surfaces
9:00 – 9:30	Georg Hetzer, Auburn University, USA
	Nonlocal Reaction-Diffusion Problems from Climate
9:30 – 10:00	Arnaud Rougirel, University of Poitiers, France
	Elliptic Equations with Nonlocal Diffusion

SS35:     Differential Equations of Mixed Type Arising in Engineering, Biology and Ecology                 Organized by:       Zhaosheng Feng, Qishao Lu,  David Y. Gao, and Qingguo Meng		Location: 204 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Asad Salem, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, USA
	Numerical Modeling of the Tear Film Rupture Employing Lubrication Theory
8:30 – 9:00	Kai-Bin Fu, Texas A&M University, USA
	The singular perturbation analysis in the modeling of fracture using a new multiscale theory

SS36:     Nonlinear Elliptic and Parabolic PDEs with Applications                 Organized by:       Junping Shi		Location: 305 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Sze-Bi Hsu, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan
	Microbial competition for a single nutrient with internal storage in an unstirred chemostat
8:30 – 9:00	Eiji Yanagida, Tohoku University, Japan
	Minimization of the principal eigenvalue and its applications to population dynamics
9:00 – 9:30	Jianjun Paul Tian, College of William and Mary, USA
	Mathematical model for maintenance of germline stem cell niche
9:30 – 10:00	Kotaro Morimoto, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
	On the multi-peak stationary solutions to the Gierer-Meinhardt system with weak saturation and source term

SS38:     Evolution Dynamics in Ecology and Epidemiology                 Organized by:       Zhilan Feng, Dashun Xu and Xiaoqiang Zhao		Location: 107 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Fabio A Milner, Purdue University, USA
	Two-Sex, Age-Structured, Logistic Population Models
8:30 – 9:00	John D Reeve, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA
	An application of diffusion models to insects inhabiting a complex landscape
9:00 – 9:30	Min A, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA
	Dispersal Behavior of Insects around Boundary between Two Habitat Types
9:30 – 10:00	Bingtuan Li, University of Louisville, USA
	Heteroclinic bifucation in the Michaelis-Menten type ratio-dependent predator-prey system

SS42:     Delay Differential Equations                 Organized by:       Tibor Krisztin		Location: 113 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Jean-Philippe Lessard,  Rutgers University & VU University Amsterdam, USA
	Recent advances about the uniqueness of the slowly oscillating periodic solutions of Wright's equation
8:30 – 9:00	Yuming Chen, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
	Periodic solutions and global attractor of a class of delay differential equations
9:00 – 9:30	Anatoli F Ivanov,  Pennsylvania State University, USA
	On the stability of periodic solutions of a differential delay equaiton
9:30 – 10:00	Tibor Krisztin, University of Szeged, Hungary
	Large periodic orbits for delayed monotone positive feedback

SS43:     Dynamical systems in Biology and Medicine                  Organized by:  Yang Kuang, Bingtuan Li, and Jiaxu Li		Location: 309 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Irakli Loladze,  University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA
	Biochemical, ecological, and dynamical origins of Redfield ratio N:P=16 in oceans
8:30 – 9:00	Jianjun Paul Tian, College of William and Mary, USA
	Germline stem cell competition
9:00 – 9:30	Hristo V Kojouharov, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
	Qualitatively Stable Numerical Methods for Autonomous Dynamical Systems in Ecology
9:30 – 10:00	Yixin Guo, Drexel University, USA
	Desynchronization of subthalamic bursting clusters and the application in Parkinson's disease

SS45:     Water Waves                 Organized by:  Adrian Constantin		Location: 205 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Eugen Varvaruca, University of Bath, England
	On the existence of extreme waves and the Stokes conjecture with vorticity
8:30 – 9:00	Erik Wahlen, Lund University, Sweden
	Solitary water waves with constant vorticity
9:00 – 9:30	Mats Ehrnstrom, Lund University, Sweden
	Symmetry of steady rotational gravity water waves
9:30 – 10:00	Akif Ibragimov, Texas Tech University, USA
	Geometrical Modeling of Dynamics of Non-Linear Flows in Porous Media

SS48:     Inverse Problems and Imaging                  Organized by:       Lassi Paivarinta		Location: 209 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Matti Lassas, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
	Rigidity of broken geodesic flow and inverse problems for radiative transfer equation
8:30 – 9:00	Natee Pantong, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
	Numerical Studies on an Inverse Elliptic Problem for Optical Tomography SA

SS49:     Recent developments of analytic and algebraic methods in integrable systems and applications  

                Organized by:       Tuncay Aktosun, Sarbarish Chakravarty, and Kenichi Maruno