Schedules

May 18, Sunday A.M.
8:00 – 9:00 Registration 9:00 – 9:30 Opening Session	Location: Bluebonnet Ballroom, E.H. Hereford University Center (UC, on the campus map)

May 18, Sunday A.M. Sessions

Plenary Lectures 1-3 Chair: Manuel de Leon, Instituto de Ciencias Matematicas, CSIC, Spain		Location: Bluebonnet Ballroom, UC
9:30 – 10:15	George Papanicolaou, Stanford University, USA
	Problems in scattering theory arising in the imaging of edges
10:15 – 11:00	Sijue Wu, University of Michigan, USA
	Almost global wellposedness of the 2-D full water wave equation
11:00 – 11:45	Hans Weinberger, University of Minnesota, USA
	Spreading speeds for a partially cooperative 2-species reaction-diffusion system

Lunch Break
11:45 – 13:30	Lunches Location: The Connection Cafe, E.H. Hereford University Center (UC, on the campus map)

May 18, Sunday P.M. (1) Sessions

SS2: Pattern Formation in Biology and Ecology: from Interfaces to Meta-solutions Organized by: Jean-Michelet Jean-Michel, Julian Lopez-Gomez, T. Ouyang, and Yuanwei Qi		Location: 308 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Yuanwei Qi, University of Central Florida, USA
	Traveling wave of Auto-catalytic chemical reactions
14:00 – 14:30	Yi Li, University of Iowa, USA
	Stability of Traveling Waves with Noncritical Speeds for Double
14:30 – 15:00	Lei Zhang, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
	Approximation theorems for a class of fourth order elliptic equations on Riemannian manifolds
15:00 – 15:30	Xiaojie Hou, University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA
	Stability of traveling wave solutions for a nonlinear reaction diffusion system

SS3: Qualitative Behavior of Solutions to Evolutionary PDE's Organized by: Irena Lasiecka, Grozdena Todorova and Mitsuhiro Nakao		Location: 110 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Mitsuhiro Nakao, Kyushu University, Japan
	Energy decay to the Cauchy problem of nonlinear Klein-Gordon equations with a sublinear dissipative term
14:00 – 14:30	Gustavo Perla Menzala, National Laboratory of Scientific Computation, Brazil
	Energy decay rates of magnetoelastic waves in a bounded (or unbounded) conductive medium
14:30 – 15:00	Karen Yagdjian, University of Texas-Pan American, USA
	The semilinear Klein-Gordon equation in de Sitter spacetime
15:00 – 15:30	Vilmos Komornik, University de Strasbourg, France
	On the boundary stabilization of some hyperbolic systems

SS6: Global or/and Blowup Solutions for Nonlinear Parabolic Equations and Their Applications Organized by: George Chen and Isamu Fukuda		Location: 305 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Ryuichi Suzuki, Kokushikan University, Japan
	Asymptotic Behavior of Solutions of a Semilinear Heat Equation with Localized Reaction
14:00 – 14:30	Akif Ibragimov, Texas Tech University, USA
	About a Pseudo Steady State Invariant as a Global Attractor for Class of the Non-Linear Flow
14:30 – 15:00	Christoph Walker, University of Hannover, Germany
	Global Well-Posedness of a Haptotaxis Model with Spatial Diffusion and Age Structure
15:00 – 15:30	Peter Polacik, University of Minnesota, USA
	Asymptotic Behavior of Global Solutions of a Supercritical Semilinear Heat Equation

SS7: Nonautonomous Dynamical Systems and Applications Organized by: Roberta Fabbri and Carmen Núñez		Location: 103 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Ana M Sanz, Universidad De Valladolid, Spain
	Omega-Limit Sets in Non-Autonomous Infinite Delay FDEs
14:00 – 14:30	Rafael Obaya, Universidad De Valladolid, Spain
	A Dynamical Theory for Monotone Neutral Functional Differential Equations
14:30 – 15:00	Minh Nguyen, University of West Georgia, USA
	Asymptotic Behavior of Periodic evolution equations
15:00 – 15:30	Yi Wang, Univ. of Science Technology of China / Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
	Asymptotic Symmetry in Monotone sSew-Product Semiflows with Applications

SS13: Asymptotic Behavior of PDEs Organized by: Alain Miranville and Maurizio Grasselli		Location: 212 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Vittorino Pata, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
	Two-dimensional reaction-diffusion equations with memory
14:00 – 14:30	Alexey Cheskidov, University of Chicago, USA
	Asymptotic behavior of evolutionary systems without uniqueness
14:30 – 15:00	Ciprian G Gal, University of Missouri-Colum, USA
	Uniform attractors for non-isothermal Cahn-Hilliard equations with dynamic boundary conditions
15:00 – 15:30	Antonio Segatti, Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Germany
	On the Hyperbolic relaxation of the Cahn Hilliard equation in 3-D: wellposedness and long time behavior

SS16: Differential, Integral Equations And Their Applications Organized by: Onur Alp Ilhan		Location: 321 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Goro Akagi, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan
	Existence of solutions for some degenerate parabolic equation with initial data in L^r
14:00 – 14:30	Catherine Choquet, Universite Paul Cezanne, France
	Existence result for a binary-mixture transport model with different densities
14:30 – 15:00	Namjip Koo, Chungnam National University, Korea
	Stability of linear dynamic equations on time scales
15:00 – 15:30	John Burke, University of California at Berkeley, USA
	Homoclinic snaking in the forced complex Ginzburg Landau equation

SS18: Topological Dynamics Organized by: Jerzy Ombach and Piotr Oprocha		Location: 105 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Michal Misiurewicz, Indiana Univ Purdue Univ Indianapolis, USA
	Microdynamics
14:00 – 14:30	Francisco Balibrea, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
	On combinatorics of Newton maps on real polynomial equations
14:30 – 15:00	Judy A Kennedy, Lamar University, University of Delaware, USA
	Inverse limits and the problem of backward dynamics in economics
15:00 – 15:30	Ana Rodrigues, IUPUI, USA
	On the tip of the tongue

SS19: Multiscale numerical methods for partial differential equations Organized by: Yalchin Efendiev		Location: 209 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Seong Lee, Chevron, CA, USA
	Adaptive Multi-Scale Algorithm for Multi-Phase Transport in Porous Media
14:00 – 14:30	Yalchin Efendiev, Texas A&M University, USA
	Stochastic multiscale finite element methods and their applications to uncertainty quantification
14:30 – 15:00	Lijian Jiang, Texas A & M University, USA
	Global mixed multiscale finite element methods and their application in porous media
15:00 – 15:30	Rosangela F Sviercoski, LANL, USA
	Upscaling Flow through Block Permeability Inclusions by an Analytical Approach

SS21: Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Applications Organized by: Vladimir Varlamov and Yue Liu		Location: 319 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	John P Albert, University of Oklahoma, USA
	On the uniqueness of KdV 2-solitons
14:00 – 14:30	Y. Charles Li, University of Missouri, USA
	Chaos in Partial Differential Equations, Navier-Stokes Equations and Turbulence
14:30 – 15:00	Vladimir V Varlamov, University of Texas - Pan American, USA
	Riesz potentials of Airy functions and related properties of KdV-type equations
15:00 – 15:30	Samuli Siltanen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
	Novikov-Veselov equation and the inverse scattering transform

SS23: Applied Analysis and Partial Differential Equations in Engineering and Sciences Organized by: Thomas Hagen and Janos Turi		Location: 113 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Jochen Denzler, University of Tennessee - Knoxville, USA
	Long time asymptotics for fast diffusion
14:00 – 14:30	Richard H Fabiano, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA
	Stability and Approximation for Linear Systems
14:30 – 15:00	Fernanda Botelho, University of Memphis, USA
	Ordinary Differential Equations on Hilbert Spaces Motivated by Learning Models
15:00 – 15:30	James E Jamison, University of Memphis, USA
	Some non-linear Differential Equations in spaces of Compact Operators

SS24: Mathematical Problems in Cancer Research Organized by: Thierry Colin, Olivier Saut and Jerry Bona		Location: 102 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	John Lowengrub, University of California - Irvine, USA
	Multiscale Models of Solid Tumor Growth and Angiogenesis
14:00 – 14:30	Olivier Saut, CNRS - INRIA MC2 – IMB, France
	Modeling tumor growth using a multifluid approach
14:30 – 15:00	Mostafa Adimy, INRIA-Bordeaux, France
	Modelling hematopoiesis with applications to Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia
15:00 – 15:30	Hassan M Fathallah-Shaykh, Rush University Medical Center/University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
	Modeling and Local Filtering of Noise Embedded in Genome-Scale Microarray Datasets

SS28: Fluids and Turbulence Organized by: Animikh Biswas		Location: 223 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Alexey Cheskidov, University of Chicago, USA
	On the regularity of weak solutions to the 3D Navier-Stokes equations in Besov spaces
14:00 – 14:30	Natasa Pavlovic, University of Texas at Austin, USA
	A regularity criterion for the dissipative quasi-geostrophic equations
14:30 – 15:00	Zoran Grujic, University of Virginia, USA
	The role of geometry/topology of the magnetic field in fusion plasmas MHD turbulence

SS34: Wave propagation in nonlinear materials Organized by: Qi Wang, Ziyad Muslimani, Ruhai Zhou, and Rudy Horne		Location: 107 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	M. Gregory Forest, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
	Nonlinear stress & strain wave communication in biological soft matter
14:00 – 14:30	Tianyu Zhang, Florida State University, USA
	Phase-Field Models for Biofilm Growth, Expansion, and Biofilm-Flow Interaction
14:30 – 15:00	Ruhai Zhou, Old Dominion University, USA
	Structures of nematic polymers in the flow
15:00 – 15:30	Qi Wang, Florida State University, USA
	Dynamics of sheared polymer-particulate nanocomposites

SS35: Differential Equations of Mixed Type Arising in Engineering, Biology and Ecology Organized by: Zhaosheng Feng, Qishao Lu, and David Y. Gao		Location: 204 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Y. Charles Li, University of Missouri, USA
	Spin Dynamics of a Long Nano-Magnet Driven by Electrical Currents
14:00 – 14:30	John W. Neuberger, University of North Texas, USA
	Nonlinear Semigroups and the Question of Boundary Conditions for the Tricomi Equation
14:30 – 15:00	Wei Feng, University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA
	Mathematical Analysis for a Model Arising From Public Goods Games
15:00 – 15:30	Lei Zhang, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
	Approximation theorems for a class of fourth order elliptic equations

SS39: Adaptive and Iterative Decomposition Methods for Differential Equations: Stability, Error Analysis and Applications Organized by: J. E. Geiser and Q. Sheng		Location: 309 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Paul Clifford, University of Warwick, UK
	Dimensional Splitting Methods for Exotic Option Pricing
14:00 – 14:30	Alexander Ostermann, University of Innsbruck, Austria
	Splitting methods for nonautonomous evolution equations
14:30 – 15:00	Davut Tuncer, Baylor University, USA
	The left-definite spectral analysis of the fourth-order Legendre type differential equations
15:00 – 15:30	Qin Sheng, Baylor University, USA
	Modified split shooting procedures for solving optical wave quenching-collapsing problems

SS40: Dynamical Systems and Applications Organized by: Carmen Chicone and Yuri Latushkin		Location: 124 LS
13:30 – 14:00	Walter A Strauss, Brown University, USA
	Scattering of fourth-order nonlinear waves
14:00 – 14:30	Discussion
14:30 – 15:00	Zhiwu Lin, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA
	Stability problems in fluid and plasmas
15:00 – 15:30	Vera Mikyoung Hur, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
	Well-posedness of the water-wave problem with surface tension: a new approach

SS41: Dynamical Systems and Spectral Theory Organized by: David Damanik		Location: 229 PKH
14:00 – 14:30	Peter R Stollmann, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
	Quasicrystals in Wonderland
14:30 – 15:00	Gunter Stolz, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
	Eigenvalue statistics in the Anderson model
15:00 – 15:30	Yulia Karpeshina, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
	KAM Method and Limit Periodic Potential.

SS44: Nonholonomic constraints in Mechanics and Optimal Control Theory Organized by: M. de León, J.C. Marrero, D. Martín de Diego		Location: 109 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Willy Sarlet, Ghent University, Belgium
	Conservation laws in non-holonomic mechanics from non-symmetries
14:00 – 14:30	Tom Mestdag, University of Michigan, USA
	Non-Abelian Routh reduction and relative equilibria
14:30 – 15:00	Juan Carlos Marrero, University of La Laguna, Spain
	Geometry of variational nonholonomic Lagrangian systems with symmetries
15:00 – 15:30	Diana Sosa, University of La Laguna, Spain
	Vakonomic mechanics on Lie affgebroids

SS49: Recent developments of analytic and algebraic methods in integrable systems and applications Organized by: Tuncay Aktosun, Sarbarish Chakravarty, and Kenichi Maruno		Location: 104 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Andrew Hone, University of Kent, UK
	Peakons with cubic nonlinearity
14:00 – 14:30	Vladimir Novikov, Loughborough University, UK
	Classification of integrable Camassa-Holm type equations
14:30 – 15:00	Cornelis V van Der Mee, University of Cagliari, Italy and University of Texas at Arlington, USA
	Matrix algebra techniques for solving the matrix KdV equation
15:00 – 15:30	Francesco Demontis, University of Cagliari, Italy
	Explicit Solutions of the Cubic Matrix Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation

Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:00	Location: Palo Duro Lounge, E.H. Hereford University Center (UC, on the campus map)

May 18, Sunday P.M.(2) Sessions

SS2: Pattern Formation in Biology and Ecology: from Interfaces to Meta-solutions Organized by: Jean-Michelet Jean-Michel, Julian Lopez-Gomez, T. Ouyang, and Yuanwei Qi		Location: 308 PKH
16:00 – 16:30	Daniel J. Galiffa, University of Central Florida, USA
	The Analysis of a Numerical Method for a Homogeneous, Nonlinear
16:30 – 17:00	W. Xie, California State Polytechnic University Pomona, USA
	A Nonlinear System Describing an Irreversible Process
17:00 – 17:30	Daniel J. Galiffa, University of Central Florida, USA
	Nonlocal Elliptic Boundary Value Problem With Numerical Experiments
17:30 – 18:00	Maria R. d’Orsogna, California State University at Northridge, USA
	Patterns, Stability and Collapse for Two-dimensional Biological Swarms

SS3: Qualitative Behavior of Solutions to Evolutionary PDE's Organized by: Irena Lasiecka, Grozdena Todorova and Mitsuhiro Nakao		Location: 110 PKH
16:00 – 16:30	Masahito Ohta, Saitama University, Japan
	Remarks on proof of virial identity for nonlinear Schrődinger equations
16:30 – 17:00	Ioan Bejenaru, Texas A&M University, USA
	Global well-posedness for the Mawell-Schroedinger system
17:00 – 17:30	Anahit Galstyan University of Texas-Pan American, USA
	Fundamental Solutions for Wave Equation in Robertson-Walker Models of Universe
17:30 – 18:00	Naoyasu Kita University of Miyazaki
	Nonlinear Schrődinger equations with complex nonlinear coefficient

SS6: Global or/and Blowup Solutions for Nonlinear Parabolic Equations and Their Applications Organized by: George Chen and Isamu Fukuda		Location: 305 PKH
16:00 – 16:30	Steven D Taliaferro, Texas A&M University, USA
	Blow-Up at Isolated Singularities of Nonlinear Parabolic Inequalities
16:30 – 17:00	Ismail Kombe, Oklahoma City University, USA
	The Hardy Inequality and p-Laplace Heat Equation with Singular Potential on Carnot Groups
17:00 – 17:30	Yong-Jung Kim, KAIST, Korea
	Potential Comparison and Asymptotics of Equations in a Divergence Form
17:30 – 18:00	Ming Mei, Champlain College & McGill University, Canada
	Stability of Traveling Wavefronts for Time-Delayed Reaction-Diffusion Equations

SS7: Nonautonomous Dynamical Systems and Applications Organized by: Roberta Fabbri and Carmen Núñez		Location: 103 PKH
16:00 – 16:30	James C Robinson, University of Warwick, England
	The Structure of Attractors in Non-Autonomous Perturbations of Gradient Systems
16:30 – 17:00	Shengfan Zhou, Shanghai Normal University, China
	Compact Kernel Sections of Non-Autonomous Lattice Systems
17:00 – 17:30	Zhivko S Athanassov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
	Generalized Dynamical Systems and Ordinary Differential Equations
17:30 – 18:00	Marco Spadini, University of Florence, Italy
	Some Remarks on a Class of Strangeness Free Differential-Algebraic Equations

SS13: Asymptotic Behavior of PDEs Organized by: Alain Miranville and Maurizio Grasselli		Location: 212 PKH
16:00 – 16:30	Atsushi Yagi, Osaka University, Japan
	Exponential attractors for B-Z reaction model
16:30 – 17:00	Giulio Schimperna, University of Pavia, Italy
	Asymptotic behavior of some singular phase transition systems
17:00 – 17:30	Laurence Cherfils, University of La Rochelle, France
	On the Caginalp system with dynamic boundary conditions and singular potential
17:30 – 18:00	Arnaud Rougirel, University of Poitiers, France
	Asymptotic Behaviour For a Doubly Nonlinear Allen-Cahn Equation

SS16: Differential, Integral Equations And Their Applications Organized by: Onur Alp Ilhan		Location: 321 PKH
16:00 – 16:30	Mervan Pasic, University of Zagreb, Croatia
	Classic and fractal geometry of smooth linear oscillations on a finite interval
16:30 – 17:00	Jean-Michelet Jean-Michelet, The College of New Jersey, USA
	Qualitative Dynamics of Periodic Nonlinearities
17:00 – 17:30	Gerhard Strohmer, University of Iowa, USA
	About the Stability of Gas Balls
17:30 – 18:00	Mu Dong, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
	Research on the Costing and Data Mining Based on ABC in Logistics Firms

SS19: Multiscale numerical methods for partial differential equations Organized by: Yalchin Efendiev		Location: 209 PKH
16:00 – 16:30	Akif Ibragimov, Texas Tech University, USA
	An up-scaling algorithm for non-Darcy flows in inhomogeneous porous media
16:30 – 17:00	Viet Ha Hoang, University of Cambridge, England
	Sparse finite element method for multi-scale problems
17:00 – 17:30	Peter A Popov, Texas A&M University, USA
	Multiscale Simulations of Fluid Flows in Deformable Porous Media
17:30 – 18:00	Xiaohui Wang, University of Texas-Pan American, USA
	Travel wave solutions to the 2d-Korteweg-de Vries-Burgers equation

SS21: Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Applications Organized by: Vladimir Varlamov and Yue Liu		Location: 319 PKH
16:00 – 16:30	Kotaro Tsugawa, Graduate School of Mathematics, Nagoya University, Japan
	Well-posedness and weak rotation limit for the Ostrovsky equation
16:30 – 17:00	Elena I Kaikina, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico
	Nonlinear evolution equations with frctional derivatives on a half-line
17:00 – 17:30	Heather Hannah, East Central University in Oklahoma, USA
	Well-posedness and analyticity in the space variable for a higher order periodic mKdV
17:30 – 18:00	Steve Levandosky, College of the Holy Cross, USA
	Stability and Weak Rotation Limit of Solitary Waves of the Ostrovsky Equation

SS23: Applied Analysis and Partial Differential Equations in Engineering and Sciences Organized by: Thomas Hagen and Janos Turi		Location: 113 PKH
16:00 – 16:30	Adam Besenyei, ELTE, Hungary
	Long-time behaviour of solutions to a nonlinear system related to a fluid flow model
16:30 – 17:00	Jonathan D Evans, University of Bath, England
	Re-entrant corner flow of Phan-Thien-Tanner fluids
17:00 – 17:30	Linda B Smolka, Bucknell University, USA
	On the extensional motion of a falling liquid sheet
17:30 – 18:00	Thomas Hagen, The University of Memphis, USA
	Analytical advances in flows of free liquid fibers and films

SS24: Mathematical Problems in Cancer Research Organized by: Thierry Colin, Olivier Saut and Jerry Bona		Location: 102 PKH
16:00 – 16:30	Marc P Garbey, University of Houston, USA
	Breast Cancer and Thermal Imaging
16:30 – 17:00	Frédérique J Billy, University of Lyon, France
	A multiscale mathematical model of tumor-induced angiogenesis
17:00 – 17:30	Marianne O Stefanini, Johns Hopkins University, USA
	A Compartment Model of VEGF Distribution in Blood, Healthy and Diseased Tissues
17:30 – 18:00	Hans G Othmer, University of Minnesota, USA
	A Hybrid Model for Tumor Growth

SS28: Fluids and Turbulence Organized by: Animikh Biswas		Location: 223 PKH
16:00 – 16:30	Alexandros Sopasakis, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
	Couplings of PDE/stochastic systems
16:30 – 17:00	Weiran Sun, University of Maryland, USA
	Local Well-Posedness of a Dispersive Navier-Stokes System
17:00 – 17:30	David Swanson, University of Louisville, USA
	A free boundary problem for a parabolic equation satisfying an integral condition

SS30: Some Problems in Difference Equations: Deterministic and Stochastic Applications Organized by: Alexandra Rodkina		Location: 220 PKH
16:00 – 16:30	Henri Schurz, Southern Illinois University, USA
	Stability operators of numerical methods for stochastic differential equations
16:30 – 17:00	Vladimir Kazakov, National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico, Mexico
	Sampling-Reconstruction Procedure of Markov continuous processes formed by stochastic differential equations of the first order
17:00 – 17:30	Gro Hovhannisyan, Kent State University, USA
	WKB estimates for 2 x 2 Linear Dynamic Systems on Time Scales
17:30 – 18:00	Marius Michta, University of Zielona Gora, Poland
	Stochastic inclusons with noncontinuous multivalued mappings

SS31: Nonlinear Waves and Solitons Organized by: Christo Christov, Stanley Chin-Bing and Pedro Jordan		Location: 105 PKH
16:00 – 16:30	Ronald E Mickens, Clark Atlanta University, USA
	A NSFD Scheme for the Drift-Diffusion System
16:30 – 17:00	Ivan Christov, Northwestern University, USA
	The coarse-grain description of interacting sine-Gordon solitons with varying widths
17:00 – 17:30	Tchavdar T Marinov, University of Lousiana at Lafayette, USA
	Characteristic line scheme for wave solutions of hierarchical size-structured model with nonlinear growth, mortality and reproduction rate

SS34: Wave propagation in nonlinear materials Organized by: Qi Wang, Ziyad Muslimani, Ruhai Zhou, and Rudy Horne		Location: 107 PKH
16:00 – 16:30	Ziad H Musslimani, Florida State University, USA
	Optical Solitons in PT Periodic Potentials
16:30 – 17:00	Edgar Knoblock, University of California at Berkeley, USA
	Localized traveling pulses in the Swift-Hohenberg equation with and without broken reflection symmetry
17:00 – 17:30	Richard O Moore, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
	Nonlocal stabilization of localized solutions to damped-dispersive equations
17:30 – 18:00	Yeojin Chung, Southern Methodist University, USA
	Signal transmission in multichannel optical fiber communication systems

SS35: Differential Equations of Mixed Type Arising in Engineering, Biology and Ecology Organized by: Zhaosheng Feng, Qishao Lu, and David Y. Gao		Location: 204 PKH
16:00 – 16:30	Goong Chen, Texas A&M University, USA
	Some spatial soliton solutions of two-dimensional generalized nonlinear Schrodinger equation with variable coefficients
16:30 – 17:00	Junping Shi, College of William and Mary, USA
	Bifurcations in diffusive predator-prey systems
17:00 – 17:30	Elena Braverman, University of Calgary, Canada
	Stability analysis for the bacteria population
17:30 – 18:00	Peter Howard, Texas A&M University, USA
	Spectral analysis of stationary solutions of the Cahn-Hilliard equation

SS39: Adaptive and Iterative Decomposition Methods for Differential Equations: Stability, Error Analysis and Applications Organized by: J. E. Geiser and Q. Sheng		Location: 309 PKH
16:00 – 16:30	Xiaobing Liu, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
	Orthogonal H-type and C-type grid generation for 2-d twin deck bridge
16:30 – 17:00	Curtis Kunkel, University of Tennessee at Martin, USA
	Positive solutions of singular initial value problems for integro-differential equations
17:00 – 17:30	Guojun Liao, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
	Adaptive grids and application

SS40: Dynamical Systems and Applications Organized by: Carmen Chicone and Yuri Latushkin		Location: 124 LS
16:00 – 16:30	Chongchun Zeng, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
	Free boundary problems of the Euler equation: local well-posedness and hydrodynamical instabilities
16:30 – 17:00	Discussion
17:00 – 17:30	Jerry L Bona, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
	Sediment transport and sand bar dynamics
17:30 – 18:00	Discussion

SS41: Dynamical Systems and Spectral Theory Organized by: David Damanik		Location: 229 PKH
16:30 – 17:00	Serguei Tcheremchantsev, University of Orleans, France
	Dynamical bounds for the strongly coupled Fibonacci Hamiltonian via complex analysis methods
17:00 – 17:30	Daniel H Lenz, TU Chemnitz, Germany
	Absence of absolutely continuous spectrum for one-dimensional continuum models with aperiodic order
17:30 – 18:00	David Ralston, Rice University, USA
	Fractal Properties of Discrepancy Sums

SS45: Water Waves Organized by: Adrian Constantin		Location: 227 PKH
16:00 – 16:30	Vladimir Kozlov, University of Linkoping, Sweden
	On free-surface profiles for bounded steady water
16:30 – 17:00	Joachim Esche, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
	Shallow water waves with singularities
17:00 – 17:30	David Henry, Trinity College, Ireland
	The trajectories of particles in deep-water Stokes waves
17:30 – 18:00	Rossen I Ivanov, Lund University, Sweden
	Integrable models for shallow water waves

SS49: Recent developments of analytic and algebraic methods in integrable systems and applications Organized by: Tuncay Aktosun, Sarbarish Chakravarty, and Kenichi Maruno		Location: 104 PKH
16:00 – 16:30	Junta Matsukidaira, Ryukoku University, Japan
	A stochastic traffic cellular automaton model with higher velocity
16:30 – 17:00	Virgil U Pierce, The Ohio State University, USA
	QR-type algorithms and lattices of Toda type
17:00 – 17:30	Kaoru Ikeda, Keio University, Japan
	Invariants of certain parabolic subgroups and k-chop integrals of the full Kostant-Toda lattice
17:30 – 18:00	Suleyman Tek, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA
	Some Classes of Surfaces arising from Soliton Theory and a Variational Principle

CS2: ODEs and Applications Chair: Humberto Perez, University of Texas at Arlington, USA		Location: 122 LS
16:00 – 16:20	Nofil Barlas, University of Houston, USA
	Symmetry Breaking Due to Coupling in Systems with Symmetry
16:20 – 16:40	Yutheeka Gadhyan, University of Houston, USA
	Constrained Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Stochastic Volatility Models
16:40 – 17:00	Chaudry M Khalique, North-West University, South Africa
	Group Classification of a Generalized Lane-Emden-Type Equation
17:00 – 17:20	Antonia Katzouraki, Imperial College London, England
	Bio-Inspired "Dynamically Adjusted Traffic Rate Alterations V2" (DATRAv2)
17:20 – 17:40	Adela N Comanici, Virginia Tech, USA
	Nilpotent Period-Doubling Bifurcations for Three-Cell Homogeneous Coupled Maps
17:40 – 18:00	Alexandre Caboussat, University of Houston, USA
	Numerical Methods for Optimization-Constrained Differential Equations with Discontinuities

CS9: PDEs and Applications Chair: Justin Blackwell, University of Texas at Arlington, USA		Location: 109 PKH
16:00 – 16:20	Sheng Xu, Southern Methodist University, USA
	The Immersed Interface Method for the Interaction of a Fluid with Rigid Solids
16:20 – 16:40	Ammar A Khanfer, Western Michigan University, USA
	A Technique for Solving a Class of Hyperbolic Equations with Nonlocal Conditions by Adomian Method
16:40 – 17:00	Jutta Bikowski, Colorado State University, USA
	Electrical Impedance Tomography Reconstructions in 3d Via a Direct Method
17:00 – 17:20	Adrian Muntean, TU Eindhoven, Netherlands
	Error Estimates on Weak Solutions to a Non-Equilibrium Moving-Boundary System Modeling Corrosion of Materials
17:20 – 17:40	Toan T Nguyen, Indiana University, USA
	Stability of Arbitrary-Amplitude Noncharacteristic Boundary Layers
17:40 – 18:00	Mostafa Ghandehari, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
	A System of Partial Differential Equations for Multi-Lane Freeways

May 19, Monday A.M. (1) Sessions

SS2: Pattern Formation in Biology and Ecology: from Interfaces to Meta-solutions Organized by: Jean-Michelet Jean-Michel, Julian Lopez-Gomez, T. Ouyang, and Yuanwei Qi		Location: 308 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Junping Shi, College of William and Mary, USA
	Standing Pulse solution of a reaction-diffusion equation of logistic growth
8:30 – 9:00	Dieter Armbruster, Arizona State University, USA
	Dynamics of plant-herbivore models: Mulitstability, Bursting and Spatial Expansion
9:00 – 9:30	Magnus S. Magnusson, University of Iceland, Iceland
	Structural and Functional Analogies Between Patterns in Real-time Streams of Behavior and DNA Sequences
9:30 – 10:00	Jean-Michelet Jean-Michel, The College of New Jersey, USA
	A Host-Pathogen Model for the Spread of a Grass Species Infected with a Smut Fungus

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	Kenji Nishihara Waseda University, Japan
	Behavior of solutions for the semilinear heat equation and damped wave equation with slowly decaying data
8:30 – 9:00	Takashi Narazaki, Tokai University, Japan
	Global solutions to the Cauchy problem for the system of damped wave equations
9:00 – 9:30	Hideo Kubo, Osaka University, Japan
	An elementary proof of Global existence for nonlinear wave equations in an exterior domain
9:30 – 10:00	Kunio Hidano Mie University, Japan
	Weighted Strichartz estimates and well-posedness for nonlinear wave equations with low-regularity data

SS6: Global or/and Blowup Solutions for Nonlinear Parabolic Equations and Their Applications Organized by: George Chen and Isamu Fukuda		Location: 305 PKH
8:30 – 9:00	Seung-Hoon Jung, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
	Potential Comparison and L^1-Convergence Order for the PME and p-Laplacian Equation
9:00 – 9:30	Jason R Morris, the College at Brockport (SUNY), USA
	A Sobolev Space Approach To Global Solutions for Semilinear Parabolic Equations
9:30 – 10:00	Gerard Misiolek, University of Notre Dame, USA
	Euler Equations on the Virasoro Group