Special Session 13: Nonlinear differential and difference equations with applications to population dynamics
Organizer(s): Kunquan Lan , Elena Braverman , Gunog Seo

Parallel Session 6 :: Friday, June 2, 08:00 – 10:00                     CI1012
8:00-8:30	Elena Braverman (University of Calgary, Canada)  On linear deterministic and stochastic control of nonlinear chaotic and unstable systems

8:30-9:00

Rongsong Liu (University of Wyoming, USA)  Pause of larval development and their consequences for stage-structured populations

9:00-9:30

Ananta Acharya (University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA)  Analysis of a competitive reaction-diffusion population dynamics model with density dependent dispersal on the boundary

9:30-10:00

Wei Feng (University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA)  Elimination, permanence, and exclusion in a competition model under Allee effects

Parallel Session 7 :: Friday, June 2, 14:00 – 16:00                     CI1012
14:00-14:30	Gail Wolkowicz (McMaster University, Canada)  Different Derivation Techniques for Population Growth Difference Equation Models and their Dynamics

14:30-15:00

Yang Kuang (Arizona State University, USA)  Rich and realistic dynamics of resource quality based population models

15:00-15:30

Olga Vasilyeva (Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)  Two examples of using phase plane analysis in nonlinear RDA models

15:30-16:00

Zhisheng Shuai (University of Central Florida, USA)  Population dynamics in heterogeneous networks

Parallel Session 8 :: Friday, June 2, 16:30 – 19:00                     CI1012
16:30-17:00	Paul Eloe (Univeristy of Dayton, USA)  Maximum, anti-maximum principles and monotone methods for boundary value problems for Riemann Liouville fractional differential equations in neighborhoods of simple eigenvalues

17:00-17:30

Christopher S. GOODRICH (School of Mathematics and Statistics, Sydney, UNSW, USA)  Monotonicity and Convexity for Discrete Fractional Operators with Applications to Fractional Difference Equations

17:30-18:00

Lingju Kong (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA)  User traffic dynamics in online social networks

18:00-18:30

Wenying Feng (Trent University, Canada)  Solutions for a class of nonlinear fractional difference equations at resonance

18:30-19:00

Eymard Hern\`andez (UAGro-TESOEM, Mexico)  Bifurcations of co-dimension two in a model of immune and neoplasia for two ODEs

Parallel Session 9 :: Saturday, June 3, 08:00 – 09:30                     CI1012
8:00-8:30	Gunog Seo (Colgate University, USA)  A Non-spatial Host-Parasitoid Model for Pest Control: Insights from Bifurcation Theory

8:30-9:00

Min Wang (Kennesaw State University, USA)  Online social network models with varying population size

9:00-9:30

Elisa Sovrano (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE), Italy, Italy)  Impact of threshold harvesting on the dynamics of age-structured populations

Parallel Session 12 :: Sunday, June 4, 08:00 – 10:00                     CI1012
8:30-9:00	Yun Kang (Arizona State University, USA)  The Role of Demographic and Environmental Stochasticity in a Single Population Model with Component Allee Effects

9:00-9:30

James Yorke (1941, USA)  Populations Die-Outs in Ecosystems

9:30-10:00

Alketa Henderson (UNC Greensboro, USA)  On the effects of density-dependent dispersal on ecological models with logistic and weak Allee type growth terms