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

SS7: Nonautonomous Dynamical Systems and Applications Organized by: Roberta Fabbri and Carmen Núñez		Location: 103 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Y D Latushkin, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA
	Derivatives of The Evans Function
8:30 – 9:00	David Damanik, Rice University, USA
	Schrődinger Operators with Potentials Generated by The Skew-Shift
9:00 – 9:30	Daniel H Lenz, TU Chemnitz, Germany
	Uniform Szego Cocycles Over Strictly Ergodic Subshifts
9:30 – 10:00	Luca Zampogni, University Di Perugia, Italy
	On K-Dv and Camassa-Holm Hierarchies

SS10: Flow on Networks With Applications in Traffic, Gas, Supply chains and Telecommunication Organized by: Benedetto Piccoli and Michael Herty		Location: 122 LS
8:00 – 8:30	Mauro Garavello, University of Piemonte Orientale, italy
	The p-system at a junction
8:30 – 9:00	Rinaldo M. Colombo, Brescia University, Italy
	Quasidifferential Equations and P.D.E.s on Junctions
9:00 – 9:30	Michel Rascle, University of Nice
	Second Order Models of Traffic Flow
9:30 – 10:00	Michael Herty,
	Flow on Networks With Applications in Traffic, Gas, Supply chains and Telecommunication

SS11: Hamiltonian systems and applications Organized by: Amadeu Delshams, Marian Gidea and Rafael de la Llave		Location: 319 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Anatoly I Neishtadt, Loughborough University, UK & Space Research Institute, Russia
	On adiabatic perturbation theory for systems with elastic collisions
8:30 – 9:00	Philip J Morrison, University of Texas at Austin, USA
	Perturbations of geodesic flows producing unbounded growth of energy
9:00 – 9:30	George W Patrick, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
	Theory and numerics of stability transitions for falling spinning underwater vehicles
9:30 – 10:00	Alejandro Luque, Universitat Politéctica de Catalunya, Spain
	Computation of rotation numbers and derivatives for invariant curves of general planar maps

SS13: Asymptotic Behavior of PDEs Organized by: Alain Miranville and Maurizio Grasselli		Location: 212 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Xiaoming Wang, Florida State University, USA
	Coupled Stokes-Darcy system with Beavers-Joseph interface boundary condition
8:30 – 9:00	Dalibor Prazak, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep
	On the dimension of the attractor for the wave equation with nonlinear damping
9:00 – 9:30	Cecilia Cavaterra, University of Milano, Italy
	Robust exponential attractors for singularly perturbed Hodgkin-Huxley equations
9:30 – 10:00	Martino Prizzi, Universita' di Trieste, Italy
	Singularly perturbed damped wave equations in unbounded domains

SS16: Differential, Integral Equations And Their Applications Organized by: Onur Alp Ilhan		Location: 321 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Svetlin Georgiev, University of Sofia, Bulgaria
	Positive Periodic Solutions of The Nonlinear Parabolic Equations
8:30 – 9:00	Anna Karczewska, University of Zielona Gora, Poland
	On stochastic fractional relaxation equations
9:00 – 9:30	Ngoc Pham Huu Anh, Ilmenau Technical University, Germany
	Characterizations of positive linear Volterra-Stieltjes equations
9:30 – 10:00	Onur Alp Ilhan, Erciyes University Faculty of Education, Turkey
	Solvability of some partial integral equations in Banach Space

SS18: Topological Dynamics Organized by: Jerzy Ombach and Piotr Oprocha		Location: 105 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Jan Kwiatkowski, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland
	Invariant Measures on Stationary Bratteli Diagrams
8:30 – 9:00	John Banks, La Trobe University, Australia
	Dynamics of Spacing Subshifts
9:00 – 9:30	Piotr Oprocha, AGH University, Poland
	Coherent lists and chaotic sets
9:30 – 10:00	Chris Good, Birmingham, UK
	When are indecomposable sets omega-limit sets?

SS23: Applied Analysis and Partial Differential Equations in Engineering and Sciences Organized by: Thomas Hagen and Janos Turi		Location: 113 PKH
8:30 – 9:00	Andras Balogh, The University of Texas-Pan American, USA
	Bifurcation in a System of Functional Equations Modeling Epidemics
9:00 – 9:30	Jozsef Z Farkas, University of Stirling, Scotland
	Structured populations: Stability, immigration and the net growth rate
9:30 – 10:00	J. Angela H Murdock, Middle Tennessee State University, USA
	Spatial Patterns Produced by Neural Field Equations

SS24: Mathematical Problems in Cancer Research Organized by: Thierry Colin, Olivier Saut and Jerry Bona		Location: 102 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Thomas Hillen, University of Alberta, Canada
	Models for Cell Movement in Tissues: Some New Results
8:30 – 9:00	Amina A Qutub, Johns Hopkins University, USA
	HIF1-Targeted Engineering of Tumor Hypoxic Response and Angiogenesis
9:00 – 9:30	Urszula A Ledzewicz, Southern Illinois University, USA
	Multi-Control Problems Arising in Cancer Treatments Combining Angiogenic Inhibitors with Chemotherapy
9:30 – 10:00	Benjamin Ribba, University of Lyon, France
	Towards a mathematical theory of cytotoxic drugs delivery

SS28: Fluids and Turbulence Organized by: Animikh Biswas		Location: 223 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Daniel X Guo, University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA
	Truncation Errors on Spectral Methods of the Shallow Water Equations
8:30 – 9:00	Cheng Wang, University of Tennessee, USA
	Numerical simulation of three-dimensional incompressible fluid in spectral accuracy
9:00 – 9:30	Jesenko Vukadinovic, City University of New York, USA
	Inertial manifolds for a nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation
9:30 – 10:00	Animikh Biswas, University of North Carolina - Charlotte, USA
	3D Navier-Stokes equations in time varying Gevrey spaces

SS30: Some Problems in Difference Equations: Deterministic and Stochastic Applications Organized by: Alexandra Rodkina		Location: 220 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Alexandra Rodkina, University of the West Indies, Jamaica
	On positivity and boundedness of solutions of nonlinear stochastic difference equations
8:30 – 9:00	Lih-Ing W.Roger, Texas Tech University, USA
	Dynamically Consistent Discrete Lotka-Volterra Competition Models
9:00 – 9:30	Elena Braverman, University of Calgary, Canada
	On existence and stability of periodic solutions for delay difference equations
9:30 – 10:00	Valery Cherepennikov, Institute For Systems Dynamics and Control Theory SB RAS, Russia
	Investigation of Initial and Boundary Value Problems for Linear Differential-Difference Equations by the PolynomialQuasisolution Method

SS31: Nonlinear Waves and Solitons Organized by: Christo Christov, Stanley Chin-Bing and Pedro Jordan		Location: 204 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Brian Straughan, Durham University, UK
	Anisotropic effects on poroacoustic waves
8:30 – 9:00	Pedro M Jordan, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, USA
	Nonlinear Phenomena in Acoustics: Traveling Waves, Bifurcations, and Singular Surfaces
9:00 – 9:30	John W Eslick, University of New Orleans, USA
	A Study of the Long-Time Solutions of Rosen's Equation Perturbed by a Harmonic Signal on the Boundary
9:30 – 10:00	Nikolay Moshkin, Thailand
	Numerical simulation of internal waves generated by local density perturbation in stable stratified fluid

SS34: Wave propagation in nonlinear materials Organized by: Qi Wang, Ziyad Muslimani, Ruhai Zhou, and Rudy Horne		Location: 107 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Constance Schober, University of Central Florida, USA
	Recent developments on rogue waves
8:30 – 9:00	Tobias B Schaefer, City University of New York, USA
	Coarse-graining noise in nonlinear systems with scale-separation
9:00 – 9:30	Roy Goodman, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
	Fractal Structure in Solitary Wave Interactions
9:30 – 10:00	Rudy Horne, Florida State University, USA
	Solitary Waves in Discrete Media in the presence of Four-wave mixing products

SS37: Topological Methods for Nonlinear Differential Equations and Equations Governed by Nonlinear Differential Operators Organized by: Cristina Marcelli, Francesca Papalini, Raul Manasevich and James R. Ward, Jr.		Location: 227 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Jean-Pierre Gossez, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
	Multiplicity of positive solutions for some semilinear or quasilinear elliptic problems
8:30 – 9:00	Monica Clapp, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico
	Infinitely many one-bubble solutions to the Bahri-Coron problem in a domain with a shrinking hole
9:00 – 9:30	David G Costa, University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA
	Sharp Weighted-Norm Inequalities for Functions with Compact Support in R^N\{0}
9:30 – 10:00	Anna Capietto, University of Torino, Italy
	On the boundedness of solutions to a nonlinear singular oscillator

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
8:00 – 8:30	Juergen E Geiser, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
	Modified Jacobian Newton iterative method with embedded Domain Decomposition Method
8:30 – 9:00	Eskil Hansen, University of Innsbruck, Austria
	Dimension splitting for quasilinear parabolic equations
9:00 – 9:30	Peter K Moore, Southern Methodist University, USA
	A Posteriori Error Estimation and HP-Adaptivity for Fourth-Order Equations
9:30 – 10:00	Hua Wei, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
	On the superiority of the WCS method for scalar conservation law as truncation errors, dissipation and dispersion are concerned

SS44: Nonholonomic constraints in Mechanics and Optimal Control Theory Organized by: M. de León, J.C. Marrero, D. Martín de Diego		Location: 109 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Luis C Garcia-Naranjo, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
	Reduction of Almost Poisson Brackets for Nonholonomic Systems
8:30 – 9:00	Muhammad Usman, University of Dayton, USA
	A Generalization of the Poincaré-Cartan Integral Invariant for a Nonlinear Nonholonomic Dynamical System
9:00 – 9:30	George W Patrick, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
	Towards better understanding the behaviours of rattlebacks
9:30 – 10:00	Joris Vankerschave, California Institute of Technology, USA
	Symmetries for nonholonomic field theories

SS46: Localized Behavior of Elliptic Equations and Systems Organized by: Jun-cheng Wei, Michael J. Ward		Location: 229 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Michael J Ward, University of British Columbia, Canada
	Self Replicating Spots for Reaction-Diffusion Systems in Two-Space Dimensions
8:30 – 9:00	Michal Kowalczyk, Universidad de Chile, Chile
	Stochastic Stokes' Drift: Diffuse travelling fronts.
9:00 – 9:30	David Iron, Dalhousie University, Canada
	Curved interface solution to the perturbed two-dimensional Allen-Cahn equations
9:30 – 10:00	Xiaofeng Ren, George Washington University, USA
	On the resonance condition of a singular limit problem from the Ohta-Kawasaki and the Gierer-Meinhardt theories

SS48: Inverse Problems and Imaging Organized by: Lassi Paivarinta		Location: 209 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Gunther Uhlmann, University of Washington, USA
	Cloaking and Transformation Optics
8:30 – 9:00	Mikko Salo, University of Helsinki, Finland
	Carleman estimates and anisotropic inverse problems
9:00 – 9:30	Nuutti Hyvőnen, Helsinki University of Technology, USA
	Convex source support and its application to electric impedance tomography

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
8:00 – 8:30	Alexei Rybkin, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA
	On the time evolution of a relative reflection coefficient under the KdV flow
8:30 – 9:00	Tuncay Aktosun, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
	Time evolution of the scattering data for an integrable system associated with a fourth-order ODE
9:00 – 9:30	Barbara Prinari, Dipartimento di Fisica - Universita di Lecce, Italy
	Inverse scattering transform for the vector NLS equation with non-vanishing boundary conditions
9:30 – 10:00	Theresa N Busse, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
	Generalized Inverse Scattering Transform for the Nonlinear Schrődinger Equation

CS6: Control and Optimization Chair: Constantin Corduneanu, University of Texas at Arlington, USA		Location: 424 LS
8:00 – 8:20	Elena K Kostousova, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
	State Estimation for Linear Impulsive Differential Systems Through Polyhedral Techniques
8:20 – 8:40	Ellina Grigorieva, Texas Woman's University, USA
	Bilinear Hierarchical Differential Games Between Manufacturer and Retailer
8:40 – 9:00	Ovidiu Carja, University of Iasi, Romania
	On the Minimal Time Null Controllability of the Heat Equation
9:00 – 9:20	Chengkang Xie, Southwest University, China
	Observability and Global Controllability of a Class of Output Feedback Systems
9:20 – 9:40	Dmitry Zenkov, North Carolina State University, USA
	Controlled Lagrangians and Stabilization of Discrete Mechanical Systems

Coffee Break
10:00 – 10:30	Location: Palo Duro Lounge, E.H. Hereford University Center (UC, on the campus map)

May 19, Monday A.M. (2) Sessions

Plenary Lectures 4-5 Chair: Mitsuharu Otani, Waseda University, Japan		Location: Bluebonnet Ballroom, UC
10:30 – 11:15	Carlangelo Liverani, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy
	Heat equation and Non-equilibrium (Classical) Statistical Mechanics
11:15 – 12:00	Jean-Claude Saut, Université Paris-Sud, France
	Travelling waves for the Gross-Pitaevskii equation

Lunch Break
12:00 – 13:30	Lunches Location: The Connection Cafe, E.H. Hereford University Center (UC, on the campus map)

May 19, Monday 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	Julian Lopez-Gomez, Univ. Complutense de Madrid, Spain
	Metasolutions in Superlinear Indefinite Parabolic Problems
14:00 – 14:30	Zhifu Xie, Virginia State University, USA
	Uniqueness and blow-up rates of large solutions for elliptic equations
14:30 – 15:00	Alessio Porretta, Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
	Gradient estimates for boundary blow-up solutions and applications
15:00 – 15:30	Santiago Cano-Casanova, Universidad Pontificia Comillas Spain
	Blow-up rates of radial large solutions

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	Jerzy Zabczyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
	Stochastic PDEs with discontinuous perturbations
14:00 – 14:30	Qi Zhang, University of California Riverside, USA
	Solvability Conditions for Some Semi-linear Parabolic Equations
14:30 – 15:00	Sergio Polidoro, University Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
	Uniqueness results in the Cauchy problem for degenerate Kolmogorov equation

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	Isamu Fukuda, Kokushikan University, Japan
	Total Vs. Single Point Blow-Up Phenomena for a Nonlocal Parabolic Problem
14:00 – 14:30	Alexander Kurganov, Tulane University, USA
	A Positivity Preserving Central-Upwind Scheme for Chemotaxis and Haptotaxis Models
14:30 – 15:00	Yukihiro Seki, Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan
	Blow-Up at Space Infinity for Quasilinear Parabolic Equations
15:00 – 15:30	Petro Babak, University of Alberta, Canada
	The Effect of Wind on the Propagation of Forest Fires

SS7: Nonautonomous Dynamical Systems and Applications Organized by: Roberta Fabbri and Carmen Núñez		Location: 103 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Alex Haro, University De Barcelona, Spain
	Spectral Theory and Dynamical Systems
14:00 – 14:30	Cinzia Elia, University of Bari, Italy, Italy
	Numerical Techniques for Exponential Dichotomy
14:30 – 15:00	Erik S Van Vleck, University of Kansas, USA
	The Error in QR Integration and Some Applications

SS10: Flow on Networks With Applications in Traffic, Gas, Supply chains and Telecommunication Organized by: Benedetto Piccoli and Michael Herty		Location: 321 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Dieter Armbruster, Arizona State University, USA
	Multiscale Control of Transport Equations
14:00 – 14:30	Armin Fügenschuh, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
	Optimization of Sticky Separation in Waste Paper Processing
14:30 – 15:00	Ali Unver, Arizona State University, USA
	Identification of complex production systems via a kinetic approach
15:00 – 15:30	Sebastien Motsch, University of Paul Sabatier (Toulouse), France
	Macroscopic models for animal displacements

SS13: Asymptotic Behavior of PDEs Organized by: Alain Miranville and Maurizio Grasselli		Location: 212 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Irena Lasiecka, university of Virginia, USA
	Long time behavior in nonlinear thermoelasticity.
14:00 – 14:30	Francesca Bucci, Universitá degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
	Attractors for systems of coupled wave/plate equations with localized damping
14:30 – 15:00	Olivier Goubet, Universite de Picardie, France
	Discrete Nonlinear Schrodinger Equations
15:00 – 15:30	Morgan Pierre, University of Poitiers, France
	Numerical study of the asymptotic behaviour of a viscous diffusion equation

SS15: Topological Methods for Boundary Value Problems Organized by: Kunquan Lan and John R. Graef		Location: 102 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	John V Baxley, Wake Forest University, USA
	Singular Differential Operators and the Asymptotic Behavior of Eigenvalues of Hankel Integral Operators
14:00 – 14:30	Lingju Kong, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA
	Existence of positive solutions for higher order boundary value problems with nonhomogeous boundary conditions
14:30 – 15:00	Nickolai Kosmatov, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA
	A multi-point boundary value problems of distributed order
15:00 – 15:30	John R Graef, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA
	Positive Solutions to a Fourth Order Three Point Boundary Value Problem

SS17: Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Related Topics Organized by: Nobuyuki Kenmochi, Toyohiko Aiki and Mitsuharu Otani		Location: 209 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Junichi Harada, Waseda University, Japan
	H^2-solutions for some elliptic equations with nonlinear boundary conditions
14:00 – 14:30	Tatsuya Watanabe, Waseda University, Japan
	Two positive solutions for an inhomogeneous scalar field equation
14:30 – 15:00	Takahiro Hashimoto, Meteorological College, Japan
	Nonexistence of weak solutions of quasilinear elliptic equations with variable coefficients
15:00 – 15:30	Jun-ping Shi, College of William and Mary, USA
	Extensions of bifurcation from simple eigenvalue theorem

SS18: Topological Dynamics Organized by: Jerzy Ombach and Piotr Oprocha		Location: 105 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Andrejs Reinfelds, University of Latvia, Latvia
	Conjugacy of Discrete Dynamical Systems in the Neighbourhood of Invariant Manifold in Banach Space
14:00 – 14:30	Juan L.G. Guirao, Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena, Spain
	Periodic structure of Morse-Smale diffeomorphims on the torus
14:30 – 15:00	Pawel Wilczynski, Jegiellonian University, Poland
	Semiconjugacy and distributional chaos
15:00 – 15:30	Jason D Mireles-James, University of Texas, USA
	Topological Computations for Area and Volume Preseving Maps

SS21: Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Applications Organized by: Vladimir Varlamov and Yue Liu		Location: 319 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Alex A Himonas, University of Notre Dame, USA
	Dependence of solutions on initial data in Sobolev spaces for the CH equation
14:00 – 14:30	Pavel I Naumkin, Universidad Nacional Automoma de Mexico, Mexico
	Asymptotics of odd solutions of quadratic nonlinear Schrodinger equations
14:30 – 15:00	Jiahong Wu, Oklahoma State University, USA
	A new solution representation for the BBM equation in a quarter plane and the eventual periodicity
15:00 – 15:30	Zhiwu Lin, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA
	Instability of traveling dispersive waves and water waves

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	Peter A Giesl, University of Sussex, UK, England
	Approximating the basin of attraction of time-periodic ODE's by meshless collocation of a Cauchy problem
14:00 – 14:30	JigarKumar S Patel, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
	Finite Element Analysis of a Dynamic Contact Problem
14:30 – 15:00	Janos Turi, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
	Stochastic Variational Inequalities for Elasto-Plastic Oscillators

SS26: Qualitative Analysis of Parabolic Equations Organized by: Gieri Simonett and Patrick Guidotti		Location: 107 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Qi Zhang, University of California, Riverside, USA
	Strong non-collapsing and uniform Sobolev inequality for Ricci flow with surgeries
14:00 – 14:30	Peter Polacik, University of Minnesota, USA
	Asymptotic symmetry of positive solutions of parabolic equations and systems
14:30 – 15:00	Eiji Yanagida, Tohoku University, Japan
	Solutions with moving singularities for a semilinear parabolic equation

SS28: Fluids and Turbulence Organized by: Animikh Biswas		Location: 223 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Luan T Hoang, University of Minnesota, USA
	On the normal form of the Navier-Stokes equations in suitable Banach spaces
14:00 – 14:30	Dongming Wei, University of Maryland, USA
	On the global regularity of sub-critical Euler-Poisson equations
14:30 – 15:00	Bin Cheng, University of Michigan, USA
	Effects of scales on rotational Euler equations
15:00 – 15:30	Ciprian Foias, Texas A&M University, USA
	A search for a Shangri-la norm for the 3D Navier-Stokes equations

SS30: Some Problems in Difference Equations: Deterministic and Stochastic Applications Organized by: Alexandra Rodkina		Location: 220 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Suhasini Subba Rao, Texas A&M University, USA
	On some mixing properties of ARCH and time-varying ARCH processes
14:00 – 14:30	Yoshihiro Hamaya, Okayama University of Science, Japan
	Stability properties and existence of almost periodic solutions of Volterra difference equations
14:30 – 15:00	Gregory Berkolaiko, Texas A&M University, USA
	Non-exponential stability and decay rates in nonlinear stochastic difference equation with unbounded noise
15:00 – 15:30	Conall Kelly, University of the West Indies, Jamaica
	Discretising a polynomial differential equation with fading stochastic perturbation

SS33: Thermomechanics and Phase Change Organized by: Alain Miranville and Ulisse Stefanelli		Location: 122 LS
13:30 – 14:00	Gunduz Caginalp, University of Pittsburgh, USA
	Phase Field Equations: The Next Generation
14:00 – 14:30	Elisabetta Rocca, University of Milan, Italy
	Some results on phase change models with microscopic movements
14:30 – 15:00	Takesi Fukao, Gifu National College of Technology, Japan
	Time-dependent Obstacle problems in thermohydraulics

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	Yuncheng You, University of South Florida, USA
	Global Attractor of the Schnackenberg Equations
14:00 – 14:30	Antonio Vitolo, University of Salerno, Italy
	Inequalities for C^α-norms of Solutions of Fully Nonlinear Elliptic Equation
14:30 – 15:00	Laura R Ritter, Southern Polytechnic State University, USA
	Stability analysis using an energy estimate approach of a reaction-diffusion model of atherogenesis
15:00 – 15:30	Edwin S Tecarro, University of Houston-Downtown, USA
	A Model of Signaling Pathways in Embryonic Xenopus laevis

SS37: Topological Methods for Nonlinear Differential Equations and Equations Governed by Nonlinear Differential Operators Organized by: Cristina Marcelli, Francesca Papalini, Raul Manasevich and James R. Ward, Jr.		Location: 227 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Hossein Tehrani, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
	On the Fucik spectrum of the wave operator
14:00 – 14:30	Bernhard Ruf, Universita` di Milano, Italy
	Non-variational Elliptic Systems in Dimension Two
14:30 – 15:00	Alessandro Calamai, Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy
	Front propagation in non-local reaction-diffusion equations
15:00 – 15:30	Laura Ferracuti, Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy
	Travelling waves in some reaction-diffusion-aggregation models

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	Yuri A Melnikov, Middle Tennessee State University, USA
	Greens functions for Laplace equation and some new infinite product representations of elementary functions
14:00 – 14:30	Ron B Morgan, Baylor University, USA
	Deflated Krylov Methods for Large Systems of Linear Equations
14:30 – 15:00	Dywayne A Nicely, Baylor University, USA
	Restarting the Lanczos Algorithm for Large Eigenvalue Problems and Linear Equations
15:00 – 15:30	Ren-Cang Li, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
	Integrate Matrix Differential Riccati Equations Whose Solutions May Have Singularities

SS40: Dynamical Systems and Applications Organized by: Carmen Chicone and Yuri Latushkin		Location: 124 LS
13:30 – 14:00	Rafael de la Llave, University of Texas at Austin, USA
	Quasi-periodic and almost periodic solutions in extended systems
14:00 – 14:30	Discussion
14:30 – 15:00	Renato C Calleja, University of Texas at Austin, USA
	A construction of propagating solutions in extended nonlinear lattices
15:00 – 15:30	Patrick Guidotti, University of California, Irvine, USA
	A Novel Nonlocal Nonlinear Diffusion with Interesting Dynamics

SS41: Dynamical Systems and Spectral Theory Organized by: David Damanik		Location: 229 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Christian Remling, University of Oklahoma, USA
	The absolutely continuous spectrum of Jacobi matrices
14:00 – 14:30	Anton Gorodetski, University of California - Irvine, USA
	Hyperbolic dynamics and the spectrum of the Fibonacci Hamiltonian
14:30 – 15:00	Helge Krueger , Rice University, USA
	Dynamics of the Toda Flow
15:00 – 15:30	Jairo Bochi, PUC-Rio, Brazil
	Cantor spectrum for Schrődinger operators with potentials arising from generalized skew-shifts

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	Anthony M Bloch, University of Michigan, USA
	Nonholonomic mechanics, action principles, and control
14:00 – 14:30	Maria Barber, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
	Strict abnormal extremals in optimal control problems with nonholonomic constraints.
14:30-15:00	Manuel de Leo, Instituto de Ciencias Matematicas, CSIC, Spain
	A presymplectic approach to Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation
15:00-15:30	Sebastián J Ferraro, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina
	A momentum-energy integrator for nonholonomic mechanical systems with symmetry

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	Stephen Anco, Brock University, Canada
	Group-invariant soliton equations and bi-Hamiltonian flows in symmetric Lie algebras
14:00 – 14:30	Paul Bracken, University of Texas, USA
	Intrinsic Formulation of Geometric Integrability and Generation of Conservation Laws
14:30 – 15:00	Folkert Mueller-Hoissen, MPI for Dynamics and Selforganization, Germany
	Bidifferential graded algebras and integrable models
15:00 – 15:30	Sarbarish Chakravarty, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA
	Integrable systems and modular forms

CS4: Modeling and Math Biology Chair: Natee Pantong, University of Texas at Arlington, USA		Location: 424 LS
13:30 – 13:50	Chandra nath Podder, University of Manitoba, Canada
	Mathematical Study of the Impact of Quarantine, Isolation and Vaccination in Curtailing An Epidemic
13:50 – 14:10	Humberto D Perez, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
	Modeling and Simulation of Foreign Body Reactions to Neural Implants
14:10 – 14:30	Chikahiro Egami, Numazu National College of Technology, Japan
	Positive Periodic Solutions of a Nonautonomous Delay Competitive System
14:30 – 14:50	Priti K Roy, Barasat Government College, India
	Role of Finite Recovery in a Mathematical Model of Host-Pathogen
14:50 – 15:10	Yuri Rogovchenko, University of Kalmar, Sweden
	Asymptotic behavior of solutions to nonlinear differential and functional differential equations

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

May 19, Monday 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	Alan V. Lair Air Force Institute of Technology, USA
	Large Solutions of Mixed Sublinear/Superlinear Elliptic Equations

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	Taeko Yamazaki, Tokyo University of Science, Japan
	Singular limit for Kirchhoff type quasilinear hyperbolic equation with weak dissipation
16:30 – 17:00	Masaru Yamaguchi, Tokai University, Japan
	Global smooth solutions of IBVP to nonlinear suspended string equations
17:00 – 17:30	Daniel Y Toundykov, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, USA
	Finite-dimensionality and smoothness of the global attractor for a semilinear wave equation with localized interior or boundary damping and a critical source term.

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	Ross G Pinsky, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
	The Critical Blow-Up Exponent for the Equation in the Case That the Potential V Decays Quadratically
16:30 – 17:00	Tatsuki Kawakami, Mathematical Institute, Tohoku University, Japan
	Entropy Dissipations Methods for the Sign-Changing Solutions of the Heat Equation with Nolin
17:00 – 17:30	Alina Chertock, North Carolina State University, USA
	Strongly Degenerate Parabolic Equations with Saturating Diffusion
17:30 – 18:00	Shaohua Chen, Cape Breton University, Canada
	Global and Blowup Solutions for Quasilinear Parabolic Systems

SS13: Asymptotic Behavior of PDEs Organized by: Alain Miranville and Maurizio Grasselli		Location: 212 PKH
16:00 – 16:30	Nobuyuki Kenmochi, Chiba University, Japan
	Quasi-variational evolution problems
16:30 – 17:00	Maria Gokieli, ICM University of Warsaw, Poland
	Stability and instability of equilibria on singular domains
17:00 – 17:30	Adela N Comanici, Virginia Tech, USA
	Bifurcation of the Attractor for Chafee-Infante Equation with Parameter Dependent Boundary Conditions
17:30 – 18:00	James C Robinson, University of Warwick, England
	Embedding finite-dimensional attractors into finite-dimensional spaces

SS15: Topological Methods for Boundary Value Problems Organized by: Kunquan Lan and John R. Graef		Location: 102 PKH
16:00 – 16:30	Gennaro Infante, University of Calabria, Italy
	Positive solutions of nonlocal boundary value problems with singularities
16:30 – 17:00	Qingkai Kong, Northern Illinois University, USA
	Nodal solutions of multi-point Boundary Value Problems
17:00 – 17:30	Bo Yang, Kennesaw State University, USA
	Positive solutions of a nonlinear higher order three point boundary value problem
17:30 – 18:00	Miroslav Bartusek, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
	Existence of noncontinuable solutions of a system of differential equations

SS16: Differential, Integral Equations And Their Applications Organized by: Onur Alp Ilhan		Location: 321 PKH
16:00 – 16:30	Diane Denny, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, USA
	On solutions to nonlinear equations modeling compressible fluid flow with capillary stress effects
16:30 – 17:00	Maria Leite, Purdue University, USA
	Quotient Coupled Systems of ODE's
17:00 – 17:30	Marcus A Khuri, Stony Brook University, USA
	The Issue of Local Solvability for Nonlinear Equations
17:30 – 18:00	Janos Englander, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
	Problems in the Theory of Semilinear PDE's and their Connection to Probability

SS17: Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Related Topics Organized by: Nobuyuki Kenmochi, Toyohiko Aiki and Mitsuharu Otani		Location: 122 LS
16:00 – 16:30	Hiroshi Matsuzawa, Numazu National College of Technology, Japan
	On a solution with transition layers for a bistable reaction-diffusion equation with spatially heterogeneous enviromnents.
16:30 – 17:00	Zhenbu Zhang, Jackson State University, USA
	A chemotaxis model with general Wentzell boundary condition
17:00 – 17:30	Goro Akagi, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan
	Doubly nonlinear evolution equations in reflexive Banach spaces
17:30 – 18:00	Ghader Darbandi, Material and Energy Research Center, Iran
	Bifurcation Theory of Both Electron and Hole in AlAs/ GaAs Semiconductor Superlattices

SS18: Topological Dynamics Organized by: Jerzy Ombach and Piotr Oprocha		Location: 105 PKH
16:00 – 16:30	Kazuhiro Sakai, Utsunomiya University, Japan
	C^1-stable shadowing property on chain components
16:30 – 17:00	Keonhee Lee, Chungnam National University, Korea
	Hyperbolicity of C^1 stably expansive homoclinic classes
17:00 – 17:30	Artur Siemaszko, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland
	Cylinder cocycle extensions of minimal rotations on monothetic groups
17:30 – 18:00	Jerzy Ombach, Jagiellonian University, Poland
	Lyapunov function and stochastic search for the global minimum

SS21: Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Applications Organized by: Vladimir Varlamov and Yue Liu		Location: 319 PKH
16:00 – 16:30	Dmitry Pelinovsky, McMaster University, Canada
	Periodic oscillations in the Gross-Pitaevskii equation with a parabolic potential
16:30 – 17:00	Baofeng Feng, University of Texas at Pan American, USA
	The global weak solutions of the Degasperis-Procesi (DP) equation and its numerical aspects
17:00 – 17:30	Valery A Kholodnyi, Platts Analytics, USA
	The Semilinear Evolution Equation for Universal Contingent Claims in a General Market Environment

SS26: Qualitative Analysis of Parabolic Equations Organized by: Gieri Simonett and Patrick Guidotti		Location: 107 PKH
16:00 – 16:30	Dung Le, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
	Regularity of solutions to strongly coupled parabolic systems
16:30 – 17:00	Gary M Lieberman, Iowa State University, USA
	Oblique derivative problems for parabolic equations
17:00 – 17:30	Giorgio Fusco, University di L'Aquila, Italy
	A variational model for microstructure generation

SS28: Fluids and Turbulence Organized by: Animikh Biswas		Location: 223 PKH
16:00 – 16:30	Richard L Panetta, Texas A&M University, USA
	Dissipativity in Models of Quasi-Geostrophic Turbulence
16:30 – 17:00	Radu Dascaliuc, Indiana University, USA
	Behavior of average energy and enstrophy of turbulent flows for big Grashof numbers
17:00 – 17:30	Michael S Jolly, Indiana University, USA
	2-D turbulence estimates for general forces

SS31: Nonlinear Waves and Solitons Organized by: Christo Christov, Stanley Chin-Bing and Pedro Jordan		Location: 103 PKH
16:00 – 16:30	Anthony D Rosato, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
	Experiments, Simulations and Nonlinear Dynamics Modeling of Galton's Board
16:30 – 17:00	William j Sonnier, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA
	Repulsive Soliton Collision in Strongly Coupled Nonlinear Schrodinger Equations
17:00 – 17:30	Michail D Todorov, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria and University of Texas at Arlington, USA
	Impact of the Initial Polarization on the Collision Dynamics of Quasi-Particles Governed by Vector NSE
17:30 – 18:00	Christo I Christov, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA
	A Perturbation Method for Stationary Propagating Solitons of the 2D Boussinesq Equation

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	Roderick Melnik, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
	Coupled Electromechanical Effects in Nanostructures: Electrostriction in the Multidimensional Case
16:30 – 17:00	Emine Y Kaya, Texas Tech University, USA
	Stability analysis of the inhomogeneous equilibrium for axially and transversely excited non-linear beam
17:00 – 17:30	Long Lee, University of Wyoming, USA
	Nonlinear interfacial dynamics and mechanisms of liquid transport in a gas-liquid core-annular flow
17:30 – 18:00	Hua Shan, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
	A Fully Integrated Finite Element Hydrodynamic Model for Coastal Regions

SS37: Topological Methods for Nonlinear Differential Equations and Equations Governed by Nonlinear Differential Operators Organized by: Cristina Marcelli, Francesca Papalini, Raul Manasevich and James R. Ward, Jr.		Location: 227 PKH
16:00 – 16:30	Nikolaos S Papageorgiou, National Technical University, Athens, Greece
	Multiple solutions for scalar periodic problems via Morse theory
16:30 – 17:00	Leszek Gasinski, Jagiellonian University, Poland
	Existence and Multiplicity of Solutions for Neumann p-Laplacian-Type Equations
17:00 – 17:30	Sophia T Kyritsi, National Technical University, Athens, Greece
	Solutions and nultiple solutions for periodic systems with nonhomogeneous differential operators
17:30 – 18:00	Jose-Angel Cid-Araujo, University of Jaen, Spain
	Heteroclinic solutions for non-autonomous boundary value problems with singular P-Laplacian operators

SS40: Dynamical Systems and Applications Organized by: Carmen Chicone and Yuri Latushkin		Location: 124 LS
16:00 – 16:30	Arnd Scheel, University of Minnesota, USA
	Hopf bifurcation from localized structures
16:30 – 17:00	Discussion
17:00 – 17:30	Michael I Weinstein, Columbia University, USA
	Resonance problems, waves and applications
17:30 – 18:00	Discussion

SS41: Dynamical Systems and Spectral Theory Organized by: David Damanik		Location: 229 PKH
16:00 – 16:30	Roberta Fabbri, University Firenze, Italy
	On the density of uniformly hyperbolic SL(2, R)-valued cocycles.
16:30 – 17:00	Sylvia Novo, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
	Kotani's theory for random linear hamiltonian systems
17:00 – 17:30	Carmen Nunez, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
	Strange Non-Chaotic Attractors and the spectrum of the Dirac, Schrödinger and Jacobi operators

SS42: Delay Differential Equations Organized by: Tibor Krisztin		Location: 113 PKH
16:00 – 16:30	Hans-Otto Walther, Universitaet Giessen, Germany
	Center-stable manifolds for differential equations with state-dependent delays
16:30 – 17:00	Hermen Jan Hupkes, University of Leiden, Netherlands
	Floquet Theory for Functional Differential Equations of Mixed Type
17:00 – 17:30	Bernhard Lani-Wayda, Universitaet Giessen, Germany
	The change of invariant manifolds for x'(t) = f(x(t-1)), when the shape of f changes from monotone to non-monotone.
17:30 – 18:00	Marion Weedermann, Dominican University, USA
	Heteroclinic connections for neutral functional differential equations

SS43: Dynamical systems in Biology and Medicine Organized by: Yang Kuang, Bingtuan Li, and Jiaxu Li		Location: 309 PKH
16:00 – 16:30	Hao Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
	A Reservoir Mediated Infectious Disease Model with Threshold
16:30 – 17:00	Abdessamad Tridane, Arizona State University, USA
	Modelling the Interaction of Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes and Epithelial Cells in Influenza
17:00 – 17:30	Dashun Xu, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA
	On the role of schistosome mating structure in the maintenance of drug resistant strains
17:30 – 18:00	Sze-Bi Hsu, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan
	On a nonlocal problem arising from phytoplankton blooms: incomplete mixing and competition for light

SS44: Nonholonomic constraints in Mechanics and Optimal Control Theory Organized by: M. de León, J.C. Marrero, D. Martín de Diego		Location: 109 PKH
16:00 – 16:30	Dmitry Zenkov, North Carolina State University, USA
	Stability of Relative Equilibria of Discrete Nonholonomic Systems
16:30 – 17:00	Yuri Fedorov, Politechnic University of Catalonia, Spain
	Preservation of an invariant measure in continuous and discrete nonholonomic systems
17:00 – 17:30	David Martin de Diego, CSIC, Spain
	New developments in Geometric Integration of Nonholonomic Systems
17:30 – 18:00	Marin Kobilarov, University of Southern California, USA
	Geometric Discretization of Nonholonomic Systems with Symmetries

SS48: Inverse Problems and Imaging Organized by: Lassi Paivarinta		Location: 209 PKH
16:00 – 16:30	Allan Greenleaf, University of Rochester, USA
	A Functional FIO Calculus for Linearized Offshore Seismic Imaging
16:30 – 17:00	Tuncay Aktosun, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
	Small-energy limits of the matrix Schrődinger equation on the half line
17:00 – 17:30	Samuli Siltanen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
	Direct reconstruction method for electrical impedance tomography
17:30 – 18:00	Richard Tsai, University of Texas at Austin, USA
	Exploratory path planning and target detection in an unknown environment

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	Peter Miller, University of Michigan, USA
	On the Semiclassical Limit for the Sine-Gordon Equation
16:30 – 17:00	Robert Buckingham, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, USA
	Asymptotics of the Semiclassical Sine-Gordon Equation
17:00 – 17:30	Jeffery C DiFranco, Seattle University, USA
	The Semiclassical Modified Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation
17:30 – 18:00	Alexander Tovbis, University of Central Florida, USA
	Semiclassical Limit of Scattering Transform (Direct and Inverse ) for the Focusing Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation.

CS2: ODEs and Applications Chair: Feng Zhang, University of Texas at Arlington, USA		Location: 220 PKH
16:00 – 16:20	Tamas Kalmar-Nagy, Texas A&M University, USA
	Center Manifold Analysis of the Delayed Lienard Equation
16:20 – 16:40	Paula a Kemp, Missouri State University, USA
	Fixed Point Theorems and Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
16:40 – 17:00	Festus I Arunaye, University of the West Indies, Jamaica
	On the Constants of the Motion of the Generalized Ermakove Systems
17:00 – 17:20	Cuiping Li, Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics, China
	The Algebraic Structure of Abelian Integrals for a Kind of Purterbated Quartic Hamoltonian Systems
17:20 – 17:40	Roumen Anguelov, University of Pretoria, South Africa
	Dynamically Consistent Nonstandard Finite Difference Schemes for Continuous Dynamical Systems
17:40 – 18:00	Felix Sadyrbaev, Daugavpils University, Latvia
	Multiple Solutions of the Second Order Nonlinear Boundary Value

Banquet (Optional)
19:00 – 21:00	Location: Hilton Arlington Hotel, 2401 East Lamar Boulevard, Arlington, TX, (within a walking distance from other 3 conference hotels)

May 20, Tuesday 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	Mingzhou Ding, University of Florida, USA
	Neuronal Mechanisms of Synchronized 10 Hz Oscillations in Visual Cortices
8:30 – 9:00	Maciej Krupa, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
	Mixed Mode Oscillations in Three Time Scale Systems
9:00 – 9:30	Igor Belykh, Georgia State University, USA
	Rhythmogenesis in bursting motifs
9:30 – 10:00	Martin Golubitsky, University of Houston, USA
	Dynamical Properties of a Simple Feed Forward Network

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	Henry C Simpson, University of Tennessee, USA
	Buckling Instabilities and Global Continuation in Nonlinear Elasticity
8:30 – 9:00	Barbara Kaltenbacher, University of Stuttgart, Germany
	Some well-posedness results in nonlinear acoustics
9:00 – 9:30	Petronela Radu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
	Decay Rates for Damped Wave Equations with Variable Coefficients
9:30 – 10:00	Mohammad A Rammaha, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
	The influence of damping and source terms on solutions of nonlinear wave equations

SS8: Nonstandard PDE and PDE Control Organized by: D. L. Russell and R. Triggiani		Location: 308 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Goong Chen, Texas A&M University, USA
	D.L. Russell's Controllability Via Stabilizeability Principle and the Associated Entropy Change
8:30 – 9:00	Walter Littman, University of Minnesota, USA
	The Balayage Method : Boundary Control of a Thermo-Elastic Plate
9:00 – 9:30	Zhonghai Ding, University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA
	Mathematical Analysis of the Dimensional Scaling Method in Quantum Mechanics
9:30 – 10:00	Paola Loreti, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
	Semi-Discrete Ingham Type Inequalities

SS9: Variational Inequalities, Theory, Methods and Applications in the Engineering Sciences Organized by: Daniel Goeleven and Khalid Addi		Location: 103 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Kenneth L Kuttler, Brigham Young University, USA
	An Elastic Viscoplastic Contact Problem
8:30 – 9:00	George Isac, Royal Military College of Canada
	Scalarly Compactness, (S)+ -Type Conditions, Variational Inequalities and Complementarity Problems in Banach Spaces
9:00 – 9:30	Michel H Geoffroy, University of Antilles and Guyana, Guadeloupe
	Some Methods for Solving Metrically Regular Inclusions
9:30 – 10:00	Dumitru Motreanu, University of Perpignan, France
	Positive and Multiple Solutions for Hemivariational Inequalities

SS11: Hamiltonian systems and applications Organized by: Amadeu Delshams, Marian Gidea and Rafael de la Llave		Location: 319 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Rafael de la Llave, University of Texas at Austin, USA
	Instabilities in higher dimensional Hamiltonian systems
8:30 – 9:00	Gemma Huguet, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya and University of Texas at Austin, USA
	Existence of Arnold diffusion in a-priori unstable Hamiltonian systems. An example.
9:00 – 9:30	Marian Gidea, Northeastern Illinois University, USA
	Perturbations of geodesic flows producing unbounded growth of energy
9:30 – 10:00	Clark Robinson, Northwestern University, USA
	Shadowing orbits for transition chains of invariant tori

SS12: Complex and Chaotic Dynamics Organized by: Miguel A. F. Sanjuan and Jose M. Amigo		Location: 105 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Xavier J Carton, University of Western Brittany, France
	Transition to chaos in a two-vortex system under oscillatory strain and rotation
8:30 – 9:00	Jesús M Seoane, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
	Phase control of escapes in open dynamical systems
9:00 – 9:30	Juan L.G. Guirao, Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena, Spain
	Positive topological entropy of Coupled Map Lattice
9:30 – 10:00	Samuel Zambrano, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain.
	Topological detection of determinism in time series

SS15: Topological Methods for Boundary Value Problems Organized by: Kunquan Lan and John R. Graef		Location: 102 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Haiyan Wang, Arizona State University, USA
	A periodic boundary value problem
8:30 – 9:00	Eric R Kaufmann, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA
	Positive solutions of a nonlinear fractional order boundary value
9:00 – 9:30	Feliz M Minhós, University of Évora, Portugal
	On the solvability of some beam equations with functional boundary conditions
9:30 – 10:00	Joseph Paullet, Penn State Erie, USA
	Existence and Multiplicity of Solutions for Stagnation Point Flow Toward a Stretching Sheet

SS17: Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Related Topics Organized by: Nobuyuki Kenmochi, Toyohiko Aiki and Mitsuharu Otani		Location: 209 PKH
9:00 – 9:30	Yusuke Murase, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Chiba University, Japan
	Elliptic Quasi-Variational Inequalities
9:30 – 10:00	Noriaki Yamazaki, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan
	Approximating problems of the singular diffusion equations with inhomogeneous terms

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	Michael S Jolly, Indiana University, USA
	Some specific mathematical constraints on 2-D turbulence

8:30 – 9:00	Nusret Balci, Indiana University, USA
	Exploring 2-D turbulence in the 3-D Rayleigh-Benard system
9:00 – 9:30	Theodore Tachim Medjo, Florida International University, USA
	On strong solutions of the multi-layer quasi-geostrophic equations of the ocean
9:30 – 10:00	Hongqiu Chen, University of Memphis, USA
	Cnoidal wave solutions to Boussinesq systems

SS25: Long Time Behavior of Hamiltonian and Dissipative Systems Organized by: Atanas Stefanov and Milena Stanislavova		Location: 223 PKH
8:30 – 9:00	Yuncheng You, University of South Florida, USA
	Global Dynamics of 3D Gray-Scott Equations
9:00 – 9:30	Roman Shvydkoy, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
	On the energy of singular inviscid flows
9:30 – 10:00	Dmitry Pelinovsky, McMaster University, Canada
	Justification of tight-binding approximation for space-periodic problems

SS26: Qualitative Analysis of Parabolic Equations Organized by: Gieri Simonett and Patrick Guidotti		Location: 107 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Arnd Scheel, University of Minnesota, USA
	Diffusive synchronization of spatially extended oscillations
8:30 – 9:00	Huiqiang Jiang, University of Pittsburgh, USA
	Analysis of a reaction-diffusion system: Dynamics and steady states
9:00 – 9:30	Christoph Walker, University of Hannover, Germany
	An age and spatially structured population model for Proteus mirabilis swarm-colony development

SS27: Sign-changing Solutions for Nonlinear Elliptic Problems Organized by: Dumitru Motreanu		Location: 109 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Zhitao Zhang, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
	Sign-changing and multiple solutions of Kirchhoff type problems
8:30 – 9:00	Shibo Liu, Xiamen University, China
	Lyapunov-Schmidt reduction, critical groups and multiple solutions of elliptic resonant problems
9:00 – 9:30	Anna Maria Candela, University di Bari, Italy
	Some abstract existence theorems and applications to p-Laplacian type problems
9:30 – 10:00	Addolorata Salvatore, University di Bari, Italy
	Sign-changing solutions for an asymptotically linear Schrődinger equation

SS29: Nonlocal Equations and Diffusion Problems Organized by: Arnaud Rougirel		Location: 220 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Abdelkader Boucherif, Brown University, USA
	USA Nonlocal Problems for Parabolic Inclusions
8:30 – 9:00	Vladimir V Varlamov, University of Texas-Pan American, USA
	Nonlinear heat equation with a fractional Laplacian in a ball
9:00 – 9:30	Pascal A Azerad, Universite Montpellier, France
	A non monotone nonlocal PDE for dune morphodynamics

9:30 – 10:00	Eduardo Cuesta, University of Valladolid, Spain
	Runge-Kutta convolution quadrature methods for well-posed equations with memory

SS33: Thermomechanics and Phase Change Organized by: Alain Miranville and Ulisse Stefanelli		Location: 122 LS
8:00 – 8:30	Irena Pawlow, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences and Military University of Technology, Poland
	Global existence for a quasilinear system in thermoviscoelasticity with strain gradient energy
8:30 – 9:00	Roderick Melnik, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
	Phase Transformations in Nanostructures: Models and Applications
9:00 – 9:30	Toyohiko Aiki, Gifu University, Japan
	Free boundary problems for a valve made of shape memory alloys
9:30 – 10:00	Elena Bonetti, University of Pavia, Italy
	Investigating adhesive contact by phase transitions

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
8:00 – 8:30	Mufid A Abudiab, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, USA
	A Reaction-Diffusion Model of Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus (BVDV) Infection
8:30 – 9:00	Richard P Arena, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, USA
	Modeling Predator-Prey Interactions

SS36: Nonlinear Elliptic and Parabolic PDEs with Applications Organized by: Junping Shi		Location: 305 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Yi Li, University of Iowa, USA
	Singular Solutions of the Vlasov-Poisson System
8:30 – 9:00	Ratnasingham Shivaji, Mississippi State University, USA
	n x n Laplacian Systems with Combined Nonlinear Effects
9:00 – 9:30	Xiaofeng Ren, George Washington University, USA
	Ideal and Defective Solutions to a Free Boundary Problem from Block Copolymer Morpholog
9:30 – 10:00	Jann-Long Chern, Central University, Taiwan
	Structure of the sets of regular and singular radial solutions for a semilinear elliptic equation

SS42: Delay Differential Equations Organized by: Tibor Krisztin		Location: 113 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Eduardo Liz, Universidad de Vigo, Spain
	On the interplay between delay differential equations and one-dimensional maps
8:30 – 9:00	Gergely Rőst, University of Szeged, Hungary
	Global dynamics for non-monotone delayed feedback
9:00 – 9:30	Janos Turi, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
	Parameter Identification in a Respiratory Control System Model
9:30 – 10:00	Nicola Guglielmi, University dell'Aquila, Italy
	A regularization for discontinuous differential equations with application to state-dependent delay differential equations

SS43: Dynamical systems in Biology and Medicine Organized by: Yang Kuang, Bingtuan Li, and Jiaxu Li		Location: 309 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Heinz M Schaettler, Washington University, USA
	Delivery of Growth Factors to Wounds
8:30 – 9:00	Haiyan Wang, Arizona State University, USA
	A mathematical model for calcium regulation in yeast cells
9:00 – 9:30	Ami E Radunskaya, Pomona College, USA
	Predicting the Release Kinetics of Matrix Tablets
9:30 – 10:00	Horst R Thieme, Arizona State University, USA
	Species decline and extinction: synergy of infectious disease and Allee effect?

SS46: Localized Behavior of Elliptic Equations and Systems Organized by: Jun-cheng Wei, Michael J. Ward		Location: 229 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Matthias Winte, Brunel University, England
	Spikes for the Gierer-Meinhardt system with Variable Coefficients
8:30 – 9:00	Veronica Felli, Universitàdi Milano Bicocca, Italy
	On Schrődinger equations with multisingular inverse-square anisotropic potentials

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
8:00 – 8:30	Jonathan Nimmo, University of Glasgow, Scotland
	Darboux transformations for noncommutative systems.
8:30 – 9:00	Cornelia Schiebold, Mid Sweden University, Sweden
	Noncommutative Equations and Solutions of Integrable Systems
9:00 – 9:30	Wen Xiu Ma, University of South Florida, USA
	Wronskian and Casoratian determinant solutions to soliton equations
9:30 – 10:00	Mehmet A Akinlar, UT, Arlington, USA
	Exact solutions to the sine-Gordon equation

CS9: PDEs and Applications Chair: Ian Martines, University of Texas at Arlington, USA		Location: 424 LS
8:00 – 8:20	Richard Haberman, Southern Methodist University, USA
	Chaotic Scattering Via the Separatrix Map in Solitary Wave Interactions
8:20 – 8:40	Arjun Beri, University of Houston, USA
	Estimation of Effective System From Discretely Sampled Data
8:40 – 9:00	John B Gonzalez, Northeastern University, USA
	Unbounded Solutions of the Modified Korteweg-De Vries Equation
9:00 – 9:20	Kawin Nimsaila, University of Houston, USA
	Dimensionality Reduction Using Markov Chain Modeling
9:20 – 9:40	Muniraja Gopal, Bangalore University, India
	Application of Minkowski Space Geometry in the Study of Some Nonlinear Equations
9:40 – 10:00	Inkyung Ahn, Korea University, Korea
	Patterns of Two Prey-One Predator Models with Ratio-Dependent Predator Influence

Coffee Break
10:00 – 10:30	Location: Palo Duro Lounge, E.H. Hereford University Center (UC, on the campus map)

May 20, Monday A.M. (2) Sessions

Plenary Lectures 6-7 Chair: Martin Golubitsky, University of Houston, USA		Location: Bluebonnet Ballroom, UC
10:30 – 11:15	Lassi Paivarinta, University of Helsinki, Finland
	Invisibility challenges inverse problems

Lunch Break
11:30 – 13:00	Lunches Location: The Connection Cafe, E.H. Hereford University Center (UC, on the campus map)

May 20, Tuesday Poster Sessions
13:00 – 14:00	Location: Palo Duro Lounge, E.H. Hereford University Center (UC, on the campus map) Authors will be available for Q & A.

May 20, Tuesday P.M. Sessions

SS1: Oscillations and Synchronization in Neuronal Networks Organized by: Qishao Lu, Georgi Medvedev and Jonathan Rubin		Location: 321 PKH
13:00 – 13:20	Qishao Lu, Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics, China
	Oscillatory Bursting in Chay Neuronal Model
13:20 – 13:40	Morten G Pedersen, University of Padova, Italy
	Analytic tools for studying the role of noise in bursting pancreatic beta-cells
13:40 – 14:00	Qingyun Wang, Peking University, China
	Dynamics in neuronal networks with delay
14:00 – 14:20	Xilin Fu, Shandong Normal University, China
	Delay-dependent stability analysis for high-order delayed Hopfield neural networks with impulses

SS3: Qualitative Behavior of Solutions to Evolutionary PDE's Organized by: Irena Lasiecka, Grozdena Todorova and Mitsuhiro Nakao		Location: 110 PKH
13:00 – 13:30	Grozdena Todorova, University of Tennessee, USA
	Critical Exponent Problem for Nonlinear Dissipative Wave Equations with Space-Dependent Potential
13:30 – 14:00	Ryo Ikehata Hiroshima University, Japan
	Local Energy Decay for a class of Hyperbolic Equations
14:00 – 14:30	Zhiyong Zhang University of Alberta, Canada
	Asymptotics of Solutions to a nonlinear system with damping
14:30 – 15:00	Jonathan J Kenigson, University of Tennessee, USA
	Decay Estimates for Dissipative Wave Equations with Space-Time Dependent Potential

SS8: Nonstandard PDE and PDE Control Organized by: D. L. Russell and R. Triggiani		Location: 308 PKH
13:00 – 13:30	Vilmos Komornik, Universite De Strasbourg, France
	On the Fourier Series Method in Control Theory
13:30 – 14:00	Luther W White, University of Oklahoma, USA
	Radar Network Scanning Coordination Based on Ensemble Transform Kalman Filtering Variance Optimization
14:00 – 14:30	Roberto Triggiani, University of Virginia, USA
	The Critical Case of Clamped Thermoelastic Systems With Interior Point Control: Optimal Interior and Boundary R
14:30 – 15:00	Louis Tebou, Florida International University, USA
	Locally Distributed Desensitizing Controls for the Wave Equation
15:00 – 15:30	Zhaosheng Feng, University of Texas-Pan American, USA
	A Reaction-Diffusion System With Higher-Order Nonlinearity

SS9: Variational Inequalities, Theory, Methods and Applications in the Engineering Sciences Organized by: Daniel Goeleven and Khalid Addi		Location: 103 PKH
13:00 – 13:30	Alain Pietrus, University of Antilles and Guyane, Guadeloupe
	Some Variants of the Secant-Type Methods for Variational Inclusions
13:30 – 14:00	Stanislaw Migorski, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
	Variational Analysis of Static Frictional Contact Problems for Electro-Elastic Materials
14:00 – 14:30	Sophia T Kyritsi, National Technical University, Greece
	Pairs of Positive Solutions for p-Laplacian Equations with Combined Nonlinearities
14:30 – 15:00	Adly Samir, University of Limoges, France
	Non-Smooth Dynamical Systems: An Overview

SS11: Hamiltonian systems and applications Organized by: Amadeu Delshams, Marian Gidea and Rafael de la Llave		Location: 319 PKH
13:00 – 13:30	Hans Koch, University of Texas at Austin, USA
	Renormalization of flows with Brjuno frequencies
13:30 – 14:00	Hector Lomeli, ITAM, Mexico and University of Texas, USA
	Measures of chaotic transport
14:00 – 14:30	Renato C Calleja, University of Texas at Austin, USA
	Numerical computation of KAM tori for equilibrium states in 1-D statistical mechanics models
14:30 – 15:00	Alex Haro, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
	Non-twist KAM Theory

SS12: Complex and Chaotic Dynamics Organized by: Miguel A. F. Sanjuan and Jose M. Amigo		Location: 105 PKH
13:00 – 13:30	Eva Kaslik, West University of Timisoara, Romania
	Complex and chaotic dynamics in discrete-time delayed Hopfield neural networks
13:30 – 14:00	Maria F Correia, University of Evora, Portugal
	High energy states on an infinite well
14:00 – 14:30	Gamaliel, Ble, Universidad Juarez Autonoma de Tabasco, Mexico
	On the dynamical properties of an alternating iteration of two logistic maps
14:30 – 15:00	Jose M Amigó, Universidad Miguel Hernandez, Spain
	On the topological entropy of the interval maps

SS15: Topological Methods for Boundary Value Problems Organized by: Kunquan Lan and John R. Graef		Location: 102 PKH
13:00 – 13:30	Johnny Henderson, Baylor University, USA
	Three Functionals Fixed Point Theorem
13:30 – 14:00	Paul Eloe, University of Dayton, USA
	Nonlinear Discrete Fractional Difference Equations
14:00 – 14:30	Patricia J. Y. Wong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
	Existence of Solutions to Singular Integral Equations
14:30 – 15:00	Miroslawa Zima, University of Rzeszow, Poland
	Positive solutions of second-order multipoint boundary value problems

SS17: Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Related Topics Organized by: Nobuyuki Kenmochi, Toyohiko Aiki and Mitsuharu Otani		Location: 209 PKH
13:00 – 13:30	Kouta Kumazaki, Nagoya Instisute of technolopy, Japan
	On a non-isothermal phase separation model with constraints
13:30 – 14:00	Adrian Muntean, TU Eindhoven, Netherlands
	A fast-reaction slow diffusion limit for propagating redox fronts in mineral rocks
14:00 – 14:30	Irena Pawlow, Polish Academy of Sciences and Military University of Technology, Poland
	Global existence and long-time behaviour of Cahn-Hilliard system coupled with viscoelasticity

SS20: Partial Differential Equations from Fluid Mechanics and Mathematical Physics Organized by: Xiaoming Wang, Jiahong Wu and Ning Ju		Location: 212 PKH
13:00 – 13:30	Dongho Chae, Sunkyunkwan University, USA
	Remarks on the blow-up problem of the 3D Euler equations
13:30 – 14:00	Chongsheng Cao, Florida International University, USA
	Global Well--posedness of the Three-dimensional Geostrophic Turbulence Mixing Model
14:00 – 14:30	Atanas G Stefanov, University of Kansas, USA
	Estimates for L^p norms for the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation
14:30 – 15:00	Brian D Ewald, Florida State University, USA
	The Two-Dimensiona Primitive Equations of the Ocean with an Additive Noise

SS25: Long Time Behavior of Hamiltonian and Dissipative Systems Organized by: Atanas Stefanov and Milena Stanislavova		Location: 223 PKH
13:00 – 13:30	Yuri Latushkin, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA
	Orbital stability in a combustion problem
13:30 – 14:00	Honggiu Chen, University of Memphis, USA
	Existence and Sability of Travelling Waves for a Class of Nonlinear Dispersive Equations
14:00 – 14:30	Clayton Bjorland, University of California, USA
	On Stability of steady-state solutions for the Navier-Stokes equation
14:30 – 15:00	Chongchun Zeng, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
	Invariant manifold of dynamic spike solutions to a singular parabolic equation

SS26: Qualitative Analysis of Parabolic Equations Organized by: Gieri Simonett and Patrick Guidotti		Location: 107 PKH
13:00 – 13:30	Joachim Escher, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
	Asymptotic behaviour of a multidimensional moving boundary problem
13:30 – 14:00	Patrick Guidotti, University of California, Irvine, USA
	Stability of the Planar Front in a Diffusive Free Boundary Problem
14:00 – 14:30	Misha Perepelitsa, Vanderbilt University, USA
	Dynamics of a density discontinuity in compressible viscous flows. Contact problem.
14:30 – 15:00	Gieri Simonett, Vanderbilt University, USA
	On the the Stefan problem with surface tension

SS27: Sign-changing Solutions for Nonlinear Elliptic Problems Organized by: Dumitru Motreanu		Location: 109 PKH
13:00 – 13:30	Nikolaos S Papageorgiou, National Technical University, Greece
	Multiplicity of solutions for parametric p-Laplacian equations
13:30 – 14:00	Sergiu Aizicovici, Ohio University, USA
	On a class of nonlinear boundary value problems
14:00 – 14:30	Daniel Goeleven, Universite de La Reunion, Reunion
	A general positivity condition for variatiobal inequalities,
14:30 – 15:00	Dumitru Motreanu, University of Perpignan, France
	Multiple and sign-changing solutions for nonlinear elliptic problems

SS31: Nonlinear Waves and Solitons Organized by: Christo Christov, Stanley Chin-Bing and Pedro Jordan		Location: 229 PKH
13:00 – 13:30	Thiab R Taha, University of Georgia, USA
	Parallel Numerical Methods for Solving Nonlinear Evolution Equations
13:30 – 14:00	Stanley A Chin-Bing, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, USA
	Using ocean acoustics to select parameters for large shallow-water soliton simulations
14:00 – 14:30	Anjan Biswas, Delaware State University, USA
	Perturbation of topological solitons due to sine-Gordon equation and its type

SS33: Thermomechanics and Phase Change Organized by: Alain Miranville and Ulisse Stefanelli		Location: 122 LS
13:00 – 13:30	Giulio Schimperna, University of Pavia, Italy
	On the longtime behavior of some variants of the Cahn-Hilliard equation
13:30 – 14:00	Ken Shirakawa, Kobe University, Japan
	Stability analysis for a phase field system associated with linear growth energy
14:00 – 14:30	Antonio Segatti, Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Germany
	Uniform attractors for a phase transition model coupling momentum balance and phase dynamics
14:30 – 15:00	Maurizio Grasselli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
	Phase-field systems with dynamic boundary conditions

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
13:00 – 13:30	Liping Liu, North Carolina A&T State University, USA
	Developments And Future Trends in the Harmonic Balance Method for Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
13:30 – 14:00	Lijian Jiang, Texas A&M University, USA
	A framework of 4D-Var and its mathematical analysis
14:00 – 14:30	Runchang Lin, Texas A&M University, USA
	A Robust Finite Element Method for Singularly Perturbed Convection-Diffusion Problems
14:30 – 15:00	Xianjin Chen, Texas A&M University, USA
	Instability analysis on spatial vector solitons via a local min-orthogonal method

SS36: Nonlinear Elliptic and Parabolic PDEs with Applications Organized by: Junping Shi		Location: 305 PKH
13:00 – 13:30	Yuanwei Qi, University of Central Florida, USA
	The global dynamics of p-Laplacian with asborption
13:30 – 14:00	Jaffar Ali Shahul-Hameed, Mississippi State University, USA
	Positive solutions for a class of p-Laplacian systems with multiple parameters
14:00 – 14:30	EunKyoung Lee, Mississippi State University, USA
	Global result for multiple positive radial solutions of p-Laplacian system on exterior domain
14:30 – 15:00	Zhifu Xie, Virginia State University, USA
	Cross-diffusion induced instability and stability in reaction-diffusion system

SS42: Delay Differential Equations Organized by: Tibor Krisztin		Location: 113 PKH
13:00 – 13:30	Horst R Thieme, Arizona State University, USA
	An epidemic model with post-contact prophylaxis of distributed length
13:30 – 14:00	Yang Kuang, Arizona State university, USA
	Dynamics of a delay differential equation model of hepatitis B virus infection
14:00 – 14:30	Yuan Yuan, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
	Nonlinear waves in a delayed BAM neural network
14:30 – 15:00	Mohit H Adhikari, University of New Mexico, USA
	Delay-induced destabilization of entrainment of nerve impulses on ephaptically coupled nerve fibers

SS43: Dynamical systems in Biology and Medicine Organized by: Yang Kuang, Bingtuan Li, and Jiaxu Li		Location: 309 PKH
13:00 – 13:30	Thomas Hillen, University of Alberta, Canada
	Pattern Formation in Chemotaxis Models
13:30 – 14:00	Alex James, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
	Modelling the dynamic response of oxygen uptake to exercise
14:00 – 14:30	David Greenhalgh, University of Strathclyde, Scotland
	An Improved Optimistic Three-Stage Model for the Spread of HIV amongst Injecting Intravenous Drug-Users
14:30 – 15:00	Christopher M Kribs Zaleta, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
	Saturation in predation and predation-transmitted infections

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
13:00 – 13:30	Takayuki Tsuchida, Okayama Institute for Quantum Physics, Japan
	Exact solutions of the potential derivative nonlinear Schrődinger equation
13:30 – 14:00	Kenichi Maruno, University of Texas-Pan American, USA
	Soliton solutions of 2-dimensional vector soliton systems
14:00 – 14:30	Gino Biondini, SUNY at Buffalo, USA
	Soliton solutions of the Davey-Stewartson equation
14:30 – 15:00	Hidekazu Tsuji, Kyushu University, Japan
	Numerical Study for Two-dimensional Interaction of the Solitary Waves in Shallow Water System: Comparison with Web-like Solutions

CS2: ODEs and Applications Chair: Adina Oprisan, University of Texas at Arlington, USA		Location: 220 PKH
13:00 – 13:20	Patrick Wilber, University of Akron, USA
	Buckling of Graphene Sheets
13:20 – 13:40	Tanasie Adriana Loredana, West University of Timisoara, Romania
	Nonlinear Boundary Value Problems for Second Order Differential Equations Describing Concave Equilibrium Capillary Surfaces
13:40 – 14:00	Felix Sadyrbaev, Daugavpils University, Latvia
	Fučik Type Spectra for Essentially Nonlinear Equations
14:00 – 14:20	Tamas Kalmar-Nagy, Texas A&M University, USA
	A Nonlinear Delay-Differential Equation with Harmonic Excitation
14:20 – 14:40	Jaime Cruz-Sampedro, UAEH-UAMA-Mexico, Mexico
	Spiral Classical Motion in Angular Potentials

CS4: Modeling and Math Biology Chair: Theresa Busse, University of Texas at Arlington, USA		Location: 424 LS
13:00 – 13:20	Benito M Chen-Charpentier, University of Wyoming, USA
	Random Differential Equation Models for Monod Kinetics
13:20 – 13:40	Hermann J Eberl, University Guelph, Canada
	A Model of Pyoverdine Production by P.Fluorescens
13:40 – 14:00	Sefi Givli, California Institute of Technology, USA
	Membrane Instabilities Driven by the Mobility of Membrane Proteins
14:00 – 14:20	Justin S Blackwell, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
	Spontaneous and Evoked Glutamate Release of NMDA Receptors
14:20 – 14:40	Tanya Kostova, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
	Model of viral quasispecies dynamics with nonlinear replication rates and phenotypic mixing

Dallas Downtown Tour (Optional)
15:00 – 21:00	Pick up at 3 p.m. on May 20: UT Arlington Parking Lot #47 (near Pickard Hall) Drop off: West End, Dallas Downtown. Pick up: West End, Dallas Downtown Drop Off: 1) Hilton Arlington Hotel 2) UT Arlington Parking Lot #47 (near Pickard Hall))

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	Banu Baydil, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
	Parameterization for Mesoscale Ocean Transport through Random Flow Models

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	Marianna a Shubov, University of New Hampshire, USA
	Exact Controllability of Bending-Torsion Vibration Model
8:30 – 9:00	Victor I Shubov, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
	Instability of Viscous Flow in Channel With Flexible Walls
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	Amadeu Delshams, Universitat Politecnica Catalunya, Spain
	Arnold diffusion along nearly parabolic orbits for the planar restricted planar 3-body problem
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
	Estimation of a Hyperbolic Invariant Set in the Three-body ProblemAssociated to Lyapunov Orbits and Resonance Motions

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, and David Y. Gao		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: 227 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	Jennifer L Mueller, Colorado State University, USA
	Regularized solutions to the inverse conductivity problem by the D-bar method
9:00 – 9:30	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		Location: 104 PKH
8:00 – 8:30	Masayuki Oikawa, Kyushu University, Japan
	Two-dimensional Interaction of Intermediate Long Solitary Waves
8:30 – 9:00	Stephane Lafortune, College of Charleston, USA
	Stability Analysis of Persisting Periodic Solutions to a Complex Ginzburg-Landau Perturbation of NLS
9:00 – 9:30	Christopher W Curtis, University of Washington, USA
	On the Convergence of Hill's Method
9:30 – 10:00	Kouichi Toda, Toyama Prefectural University, Japan
	Non-isospectral Lax pairs and integrable equations in (2+1) dimensions

Coffee Break
10:00 – 10:30	Location: Palo Duro Lounge, E.H. Hereford University Center (UC, on the campus map)

May 21, Monday A.M. (2) Sessions

Plenary Lectures 8-9 Chair: Jerry L Bona, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA		Location: Bluebonnet Ballroom, UC
10:30 – 11:15	Lisa Fauci, Tulane University, USA
	Interaction of elastic biological structures with complex fluids
11:15 – 12:00	Walter Strauss, Brown University, USA
	Steady Rotational Water Waves

Lunch Break
12:00 – 13:30	Lunches Location: The Connection Cafe, E.H. Hereford University Center (UC, on the campus map)

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

SS1: Oscillations and Synchronization in Neuronal Networks Organized by: Qishao Lu, Georgi Medvedev and Jonathan Rubin		Location: 321 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	David Terman, Ohio State University, USA
	A Neurobiological Model of the Human Sleep/wake Cycle
14:00 – 14:30	Jonathan E Rubin, University of Pittsburgh, USA
	Transitions Between Bursting and Spiking in Conditional Pacemaker Networks with Excitatory Synaptic Coupling
14:30 – 15:00	Jianzhong Su, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
	Regular Bursting Solutions Arising from Synaptically Coupled Chaotic Neurons
15:00 – 15:30	Xia Shi, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
	Spike and burst synchronization of coupled neurons

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	Vittorino Pata Politecnico di Milano, Italy
	Attractors for semilinear equations of viscoelasticity
14:00 – 14:30	Alexandre N Carvalho, University de Sao Paulo, Brazil
	Generalized Gradient Like Dynamical Systems Under Perturbation
14:30 – 15:00	Moez Daoulatli, University of Sousse and LAMSIN, Tunisia
	Asymptotic decay rates for a solution of an nonlinear hyperbolic system
15:00 – 15:30	Thomas Seidman, University of Maryland Baltimore, USA
	Reaction-diffusion system with a large parameter.

SS4: Effective Stochastic and Statistical Modeling of Multiscale Systems Organized by: Ilya Timofeyev and Gregor Kovacic		Location: 103 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Ilya Timofeyev, University of Houston, USA
	Stochastic Mode--Reduction in Large Deterministic Systems
14:00 – 14:30	Maxim Shkarayev, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
	Rare events in information transmission
14:30 – 15:00	Gregor Kovacic, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
	Applications of kinetic theory to neuronal network dynamics
15:00 – 15:30	Aaditya V Rangan, Courant Institute, USA
	Coding in neuronal networks, event-chains, and functional connectivity

SS5: Boundary Value Problems and Control Theory Organized by: Hongqiu Chen, Mathieu Colin and Reika Fukuizumi		Location: 105 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Jeongwhan Choi, Korea University, Korea
	Supercritical Surface Gravity Waves Generated by a Negative Forcing
14:00 – 14:30	Makoto Nakamura, Tohoku University, Japan
	Nonlinear wave equations with localized dissipations in exterior domains
14:30 – 15:00	Zoran Grujic, University of Virginia, USA
	Well-posedness for a nonlinear fluid-structure interaction model
15:00 – 15:30	Harvinder Kaur, Govt. College, India
	Thermal effect on variation of clamped visco-elastic rectangular plate with exponentially thickness variation in both directions

SS8: Nonstandard PDE and PDE Control Organized by: D. L. Russell and R. Triggiani		Location: 308 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Valeria N Domingos-Cavalcanti, State University of Maringa, Brazil
	Asymptotic Stability of the Wave Equation on Compact Surfaces - a Sharp Result
14:00 – 14:30	Marcelo M Cavalcanti, State University of Maringa, Brazil
	Optimal Decay Rate Estimates for Viscoelastic Dissipative
14:30 – 15:00	Matthias Eller, Georgetown University, USA
	Symmetric Hyperbolic Systems With Boundary Conditions That Do Not Satisfy the Kreiss-Sakamoto Condition
15:00 – 15:30	John Cagnol, University Leonard De Vinci, France
	Latest Developments in the Control of Shells Modelled by Intrinsic Geometric Models

SS11: Hamiltonian systems and applications Organized by: Amadeu Delshams, Marian Gidea and Rafael de la Llave		Location: 319 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Claudio Vidal, Universidad del Bio, Chile
	Dynamics of mechanical system with polynomial potentials
14:00 – 14:30	Mickael D Chekroun, CERES-ERTI, France
	Other topologies for topological conjugacy between diffeomorphisms of non-compact manifolds
14:30 – 15:00	Jason D Mireles-James, University of Texas at Austin, USA
	Parametrization of Invariant Manifolds for 3D Volume Preserving Maps
15:00 – 15:30	Leo Butler, The University of Edinburgh, UK
	A construction of integrable systems with positive entropy

SS14: Smooth dynamical systems and ergodic theory Organized by: Miaohua Jiang, Andrew Torok and Mahesh Nerurkar		Location: 102 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Miaohua Jiang, Wake Forest University, USA
	Exact Formula of the Derivative of the Potential Function of the SRB Measure
14:00 – 14:30	Yunping Jiang, CUNY Queens College and Graduate Center, USA
	Analyticity of the susceptibility function for uninodal Markovian maps of the interval
14:30 – 15:00	Nicolai Haydn, University of Southern California, USA
	The Central Limit Theorem for uniformly strong mixing measures
15:00 – 15:30	Andrew Török, University of Houston, USA
	Extreme value distributions for non-uniformly hyperbolic dynamical systems

SS20: Partial Differential Equations from Fluid Mechanics and Mathematical Physics Organized by: Xiaoming Wang, Jiahong Wu and Ning Ju		Location: 212 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Alain M Miranville, Universite de Poitiers, France
	Asymptotic behavior of some doubly nonlinear equations
14:00 – 14:30	Hongjie Dong, Brown University, USA
	Finite time singularities and global well-posedness for fractal Burgers equation
14:30 – 15:00	Changbing Hu, University of Louisville, USA
	Navier Stokes Equation in 3D thin domains under Navier friction and interface boundary conditions
15:00 – 15:30	Rana Parshad, Florida State University, USA
	Asymptotic Behaviour of the Darcy-Boussinesq System at Large Darcy-Prandtl number

SS22: Modeling and Analysis of Multi-Phase Lipid Bilayer Membranes Organized by: Tim Healey and Qiang Du		Location: 229 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Jemal Guven, University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico
	Stresses in Fluid Membranes
14:00 – 14:30	Sovan L Das, Penn State University, USA
	A boundary layer analysis for two-phase lipid bilayer vesicle and vesicle adhesion
14:30 – 15:00	Miguel S Pauletti, University of Maryland, USA
	AFEM for Parametric Surface Flows: Applications to Biomenbranes
15:00 – 15:30	Timothy J. Healey, Cornell University, USA
	A New Model for Nucleation in Two-Phase Lipid Bi-layer Membrane Vesicles

SS25: Long Time Behavior of Hamiltonian and Dissipative Systems Organized by: Atanas Stefanov and Milena Stanislavova		Location: 223 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Bixiang Wang, New Mexico Tech, USA
	Random Attractors for the Stochastic FitzHugh-Nagumo System on Unbounded Domains
14:00 – 14:30	Ning Ju, Oklahoma State University, USA
	The global attractor for the solutions of the viscous Primitive Equations
14:30 – 15:00	Jiahong Wu, Oklahoma State University, USA
	The 2D dissipative surface quasi-geostrophic equation
15:00 – 15:30	Igor Kukavica, University of Southern California, USA
	Regularity and uniform gradient bounds for solutions of the Primitive Equations of the Ocean

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	Qishao Lu, Beijing University of Aero. & Astro., China
	Spatiotemporal patterns and chaotic burst synchronization in a small-world neuronal network
14:00 – 14:30	David Y. Gao, Virginia Tech, USA
	Understanding and Control Chaos in Nonconvex/Neoconservative Dynamical Systems
14:30 – 15:00	Tingwen Huang, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar
	Synchronzation of Chaotic Systems using intermittent linear feedback control
15:00 – 15:30	Xiaohui Wang, The University of Texas-Pan American, USA
	Analysis of Time to Event Data With Functional Predictors

SS36: Nonlinear Elliptic and Parabolic PDEs with Applications Organized by: Junping Shi		Location: 305 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Kazuhiro Kurata, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
	Multiple stable patterns in a balanced bistable equation with heterogeneous environments
14:00 – 14:30	Yi Wang, University of Science and Technology of China, China and Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
	Asymptotic Symmetry of nonlinearly stable solutions for parabolic equations
14:30 – 15:00	Fengxin Chen, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
	Traveling Waves for System of Nonlocal Evolution Equations with Bistable Nonlinearity
15:00 – 15:30	Zhaosheng Feng, University of Texas-Pan American, USA
	Burgers-Korteweg-de Vries-type equation and its first integrals

SS38: Evolution Dynamics in Ecology and Epidemiology Organized by: Zhilan Feng, Dashun Xu and Xiaoqiang Zhao		Location: 107 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Abba Gumel, University of Manitoba, Canada
	Removal of Vaccine-induced Backward Bifurcations in Epidemic Models
14:00 – 14:30	Jiaxu Li, University of Louisville, USA
	Modeling the glucose-insulin regulation system: towards to artificial pancreas
14:30 – 15:00	Libin Rong, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
	Variable decay kinetics of HIV-1 latent reservoir and intermittent viral blips in HIV-infected individuals on HAART
15:00 – 15:30	Britnee Crawford, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
	The Impact of Vaccination and Multiple HPV Strains on Cervical Cancer

SS43: Dynamical systems in Biology and Medicine Organized by: Yang Kuang, Bingtuan Li, and Jiaxu Li		Location: 309 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	John D Nagy, Scottsdale Community College, USA
	Natural selection on cell ATP allocation may constrain evolutionary suicide in cancer
14:00 – 14:30	Clinton C Mason, National Institutes of Health, USA
	Modeling glycemic change in individuals who develop type 2 diabetes
14:30 – 15:00	Andrea De Gaetano, CNR LASI - Roma, Italy
	Models of glucose/insulin regulation
15:00 – 15:30	Amy H Erickson, United States Military Academy, USA
	An Introductory Mathematical Model of Chronic Skin Inflammation

SS45: Water Waves Organized by: Adrian Constantin		Location: 227 PKH
13:30 – 14:00	Zhaoyang Yin, Sun Yat-sen University, China
	Wave-breaking and global existence for the Degasperis-Procesi equation

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	Reinout Quispel, La Trobe University, Australia
	Discrete Integrable Systems
14:00 – 14:30	Shuhei Kamioka, Kyoto University (PhD student), Japan
	Enumerative combinatorics on discrete-time integrable systems
14:30 – 15:00	Satoshi Tsujimoto, Kyoto University, Japan
	On the discrete coupled KP equation

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

May 21, Wednesday P.M. (2) Sessions

SS1: Oscillations and Synchronization in Neuronal Networks Organized by: Qishao Lu, Georgi Medvedev and Jonathan Rubin		Location: 321 PKH
16:00 – 16:30	Astrid A Prinz, Emory University, USA
	Prediction of Phase-Locking in Hybrid Circuits Based on Phase Response Curves
16:30 – 17:00	Carmen C Canavier, LSUHSC Neuroscience Center, USA
	Synchrony and Phaselocking Between Neural Clusters
17:00 – 17:30	Gemma Huguet, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain and University of Texas at Austin, USA
	Effective computation of phase resetting curves (PRC) using a parametrization method

SS4: Effective Stochastic and Statistical Modeling of Multiscale Systems Organized by: Ilya Timofeyev and Gregor Kovacic		Location: 103 PKH
16:00 – 16:30	Lee DeVille, University of Illinois, USA
	Regularity and synchrony for motor proteins
16:30 – 17:00	Peter R. Kramer Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
	Homogenization-Based Approach for Coarse-Graining Molecular Motor Models
17:00 – 17:30	Adnan A. Khan, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan
	Drift Diffusion Parameterization for Solvent Molecules around a Solute

SS5: Boundary Value Problems and Control Theory Organized by: Hongqiu Chen, Mathieu Colin and Reika Fukuizumi		Location: 105 PKH
16:00 – 16:30	Marcia A Scialom UNICAMP- State University of Campinas, Brazil
	Asymptotic behavior for a class of solutions of the critical modified Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation.
16:30 – 17:00	Juan-Ming Yuan, Providence University, Taiwan
	A new solution representation for the BBM equation in a quarter plane and the eventual periodicity
17:00 – 17:30	Reika Fukuizumi Hokkaido University, Japan
	Stochastic fluctuations in the Gross-Pitaevskii equation
17:30 – 18:00	Jerry L Bona University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
	Boundary-value problem of a class of nonlinear dispersive equations

SS8: Nonstandard PDE and PDE Control Organized by: D. L. Russell and R. Triggiani		Location: 308 PKH
16:00 – 16:30	Luca Petrelli, Mount St Mary's University, USA
	Existence and Uniqueness for General Nonlinear Diffusion Equations Via a Wasserstein Metric Variational Method
16:30 – 17:00	Jan Sokolowski, Institute Elie Cartan and Systems Research Institute Pan, France
	Topological Derivatives for Variational Inequalities

SS14: Smooth dynamical systems and ergodic theory Organized by: Miaohua Jiang, Andrew Torok and Mahesh Nerurkar		Location: 102 PKH
16:00 – 16:30	Ilie Ugarcovici, DePaul University, USA
	Continued fractions, natural extension maps and their geometric structure
16:30 – 17:00	Ke Zhang, University of Maryland, USA
	Lifting measures to inducing schemes
17:00 – 17:30	Mahesh Nerurkar, Rutgers University, USA
	Density of cocycles with positive Lyapunov exponents in the smooth category

SS20: Partial Differential Equations from Fluid Mechanics and Mathematical Physics Organized by: Xiaoming Wang, Jiahong Wu and Ning Ju		Location: 212 PKH
16:00 – 16:30	Netra P Khanal, Oklahoma State University, USA
	The Complex KdV Burgers Equation: A study on its series type solutions
16:30 – 17:00	Andrew F Acker, Wichita State University, USA
	Operator Methods for Double-Free-Boundary Fluid Problems in Annular domains

SS36: Nonlinear Elliptic and Parabolic PDEs with Applications Organized by: Junping Shi		Location: 305 PKH
16:00 – 16:30	Jinglong Ye, Mississippi State University, USA
	Positive Solutions For A Class Of Infinity Semipositone Problems
16:30 – 17:00	Galina V Grishina, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Russia
	Positive solutions to a semilinear elliptic equation with a singular nonlinearity

SS38: Evolution Dynamics in Ecology and Epidemiology Organized by: Zhilan Feng, Dashun Xu and Xiaoqiang Zhao		Location: 107 PKH
16:00 – 16:30	Yang Kuang, Arizona State university, USA
	Models with explicit resource quality dynamics and their implications
16:30 – 17:00	Rongsong Liu, Purdue University, USA
	Plant-herbivore interactions mediated by plant toxicity
17:00 – 17:30	Maria Leite, Purdue University, USA
	Coupling SI Epidemic and Virus Dynamics: Pathogen Evolution

SS43: Dynamical systems in Biology and Medicine Organized by: Yang Kuang, Bingtuan Li, and Jiaxu Li		Location: 309 PKH
16:00 – 16:30	Hermann J Eberl, University Guelph, Canada
	Probiotic control of bacterial biofilms
16:30 – 17:00	Jiaxu Li, University of Louisville, USA
	Pharmacokinetical models of subcutaneous injection of insulin analogues for type 1 diabetes