Schedule

Schedule (all abstracts for talks may be found below).  All talks will be held in Skiles 005.

9:00.  Coffee, continental breakfast, and registration

9:20.  Conference welcome

9:30-10:30.  Plenary Speaker:  

Dan Margalit (Georgia Tech)
Mixing surfaces, algebra, and topology

10:30-10:40.  Coffee and snacks

10:45-11:45.  Contributed short talks.

11:45-12:00.  Short break.

12:00-12:45.  Panel Session.

12:45-13:30.  Lunch.  Lunch will be provided in the Atrium outside Skiles 005.

13:30-14:30.  Contributed short talks

14:45-15:45.  Plenary Speaker:  

Svetlana Poznanovik (Clemson University)
RNA structure prediction

15:45-16:00.  Coffee break.

16:00-17:00.  Contributed short talks. 

17:00-17:15.  Short break.

17:15--18:15.  Contributed short talks

The schedule for short talks is as follows:

Session 1. 10:45--11:45.

Amanda V Tran (University of Massachusetts, Boston)

The Geometry Behind the Projective Space of $Z_2^4$

Manyi Guo (Lehigh University)

Isomorphism Classes of Cut Loci for a Cube

Fredrick Mooers (Virginia Tech)

Equivariant Reconstruction in Euclidean Space

The Math Path Program at Georgia State

Math Alliance and the F-GAP program

Session 2.  13:30-14:30

Zemyna Emilija Mikalciute (University of Georgia)

2-spheres in unlinked position

Cara Bennett (Georgia Tech)

Counting Pak-Stanley Labels in the  G-Shi Arrangement

Saisudharshan Sivakumar (University of Florida)

Toric varieties given by principal 2-minor ideals

Nicholas Papciak (University of Georgia)

Divisibility of Central Stirling Numbers

Session 3.  16:00-17:00

Alan Boles (The University of Tennessee)

An Implementation of a Maximal Coupling Algorithm for Markov Chains

Neil Patram (Georgia Tech)

A lower bound on the expectation of convex functions applied to the generator of a Markov semigroup

Alexandria Carter (Augusta University)

Homotopy Analysis Method for the One-Dimensional Saturation Equation

Vishal Kumar (Georgia Tech)

Maximizing the Number of Matches between A Set of Random Numbers and A Set of Probabilities

Session 4.  17:15--18:00.

Owen Cardwell (Georgia Tech)

Linear Programming for RNA Secondary Structure Prediction

Cholyeon Cho (Emory University)

Quantum Analogues of Some Probability Distributions

Arnav Hiray (Georgia Tech)

The Crowning Crypto:  Examining the Evolution of Cryptocurrency and Community Structures through Network Science

The file below contains the titles and abstracts for all talks.  It will be updated as new abstracts are submitted.