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,  David Y. Gao, and Qingguo Meng		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,  David Y. Gao, and Qingguo Meng		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))