Advances in the Mathematical Sciences Research from the 2015 Association for Women in Mathematics Symposium /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Letzter, Gail (Editor), Lauter, Kristin (Editor), Chambers, Erin (Editor), Flournoy, Nancy (Editor), Grigsby, Julia Elisenda (Editor), Martin, Carla (Editor), Ryan, Kathleen (Editor), Trivisa, Konstantina (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Association for Women in Mathematics Series, 6
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Partial differential equations.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Topology.; Biomathematics.; Mathematics > Study and teaching.; Statistics.; Applications of Mathematics.; Mathematical and Computational Biology.; Partial Differential Equations.; Mathematics Education.; Statistics, general.

Presenting the latest findings in topics from across the mathematical spectrum, this volume includes results in pure mathematics along with a range of new advances and novel applications to other fields such as probability, statistics, biology, and computer science. All contributions feature authors...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Floer field philosophy (K. Wehrheim)
• An elementary fact about unlinked braid closures (E. Grigsby & S. M. Wehrli)
• Symmetric unions without cosmetic crossing changes (A. H. Moore)
• The total Thurston–Bennequin number of complete bipartite Legendrian graphs (D. O'Donnol and E. Pavelescu)
• Coverings of open books (T. Ito and K. Kawamuro)
• Understanding locomotor rhythm in the lamprey central pattern generator (N. Massarelli, A. Yau, K. Hoffman, T. Kiemel and E. Tytell)
• Applications of knot theory: using knot theory to unravel biochemistry mysteries (C. R. Price)
• Metapopulation and non-proportional vaccination models overview (M. Cruz-Aponte)
• Controlling a cockroach infestation (H. Albert, A. Buchmann, L. Ohm, A. Radunskaya, and E. Swanson)
• The impact of violence interruption on the diffusion of violence: a mathematical modeling approach (S. A. Wiley, M. Z. Levy, and C. C. Branas)
• Cramér's theorem is atypical (N. Gentert, S. Kim, and K. Ramanan)
• Counting and partition function analysis for subordinate killed Brownian motion (S. Bryant)
• A statistical change point analysis approach for modeling the ratio of next generation sequencing reads (J. Chen and H. Li)
• A center-level approach to estimating the effect of center characteristics on center outcomes (J. Le-Rademacher)
• False discovery rate based on extreme values in high dimension (J. Park, D. Park, and J. W. Davis)
• Asymptotic and oscillatory behavior of dynamic equations on time scales (R. Higgins)
• Using applications to motivate the learning of differential equations (K. M. Bliss & J. M. Libertini)
• What is a good question? (B. Servatius)
• Information measures of frequency distributions with an application to labeled graphs (C. Joslyn & E. Purvine)
• Integrating and sampling cuts in bounded treewidth graphs (I. Bezáková, E. W. Chambers, and K. Fox)
• Considerations on the implementation and use of Anderson acceleration on distributed memory and GPU-based parallel computers (J. Loffeld & C. S. Woodward).