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Day 0: Tuesday 11 December 2007
18:00-20:00	Reception and Registration University Staff Club

Day 1: Wednesday 12 December 2007 MORNING
7:45	Registration Maclaurin foyer
8:15	Conference welcome: Dr Di McCarthy (RSNZ), US Ambassador Bill McCormick MCLT103
8:45	Plenary Speaker: Michael Freedman MCLT103 Chair: Vaughan Jones Physically Motivated Questions in Topology: Manifold Pairings
	Quantum Topology 1 (MCLT103) Chair: S Morrison	Matroids, Graphs & Complexity 1 (MCLT102) Chair: D Mayhew	Dynamics & Control: Applications to Biomedicine 1 (COLT122) Chair: H Scaettler	New Trends in Spectral Analysis & PDE 1 (CO118) Chair: B Belinskiy	History & Philosophy of Mathematics 1 (CO119) Chair: C Montelle	Special Functions & Orthogonal Polynomials 1 (CO216) Chair: E Kalnins	General Contributions 1 (CO228) Chair: R McKibbin
9:50	Andrew Kricker Covering spaces and the Kontsevich integral	Paul Seymour Forcing a K_2,t minor	James Sneyd Calcium and ducks Cancelled	Graeme Wake Spectral properties of non-local eigenvalue problems	Douglas Bridges Constructive reverse mathematics	Dennis Stanton Finite fields and (q, t)-binomials	Winston Sweatman Full ionisation in binary-binary encounters at high velocity
10:15	Andrew Kricker Covering spaces and the Kontsevich integral	Paul Seymour Forcing a K_2,t minor	James Sneyd Calcium and ducks Cancelled	Florina Halasan Absolutely continuous spectrum for the Anderson model on more general trees	Hannes Diener The dark side of constructive reverse mathematics	Dennis Stanton Finite fields and (q, t)-binomials	John Harper Electrophoresis of gas bubbles
10:40	Morning Tea: Maclaurin foyer
11:00	Noah Snyder The ribbon half-twist	Gordon Royle Binary matroids with no K_3,3 minor	Helmut Maurer Optimal multi-drug control of the innate immune response with time delays	Colin Fox Semi-analytic spectral methods	Iris Loeb Indecomposability of the continuum in constructive reverse mathematics	Pee Choon Toh Representations of certain binary quadratic forms as Lambert series	Ratneesh Suri A real options approach to fisheries
11:25	David Gauld Foliations and non-metrisable manifolds	Isidoro Gitler Some links between combinatorial optimization properties of clutters and algebraic properties of monomial ideals	Urszula Ledzewicz Optimal and suboptimal protocols for a class of mathematical models of tumor growth under angiogenic inhibitors	Colin Fox Semi-analytic spectral methods	Philip Catton Elegance and insight: what is the link?	Shayne Waldron Tight frames of multivariate orthogonal polynomials	Nick Depree Mathematical modelling of an annealing furnace
11:50	Vaughan Jones tba		Scott Graybill TGF - a renal feedback mechanism	David Wall The mathematics of imaging in magnetic resonance elastography		Edmund Chiang On the Nevanlinna order of Lommel functions and subnormal solutions of certain complex differential equations	Celine Cattoen Cosmography: extracting the Hubble series from the supernova data
12:15-13.45	Lunchtime

Day 1: Wednesday 12 December 2007 AFTERNOON
13:45	Plenary Speaker: Gaven Martin MCLT103 Chair: Robert McLachlan Curvature and Dynamics
	Hopf Algebras & Quantum Groups 1 (MCLT103) Chair:	Computability Theory 1 (MCLT102) Chair: B Kjos-Janssen	Dynamical Systems & Ergodic Theory 1 (COLT122) Chair: M Nicol	New Trends in Spectral Analysis & PDE 2 (CO118) Chair: A Biswas	University Mathematics Education 1 (CO119) Chair:	Special Functions & Orthogonal Polynomials 2 (CO216) Chair: D Stanton	General Contributions 2 (CO228) Chair: V Kirk
14:50	David Radford On the representations of pointed Hopf algebras	Carl Jockusch Jr Chains and antichains in (weakly) stable posets	Mathias Beiglböck Ramsey theory from a dynamical viewpoint	Yulia Karpeshina Quasi-intersections of isoenergetic surfaces: description in terms of determinants	Derek Holton Where have all the mathematicians gone?	Michael Schlosser Macdonald polynomials in the light of basic hypergeometric series	Robert McKibbin Modelling turbulent dispersion of pollen in a forest canopy
15:15		Jan Reimann Effective capacitability and dimension of measures	Anthony Dooley The AT property is not preserved by finite extensions	Gunter Stolz Bubbles tend to the boundary	Derek Holton Where have all the mathematicians gone?	Heung Yeung Lam Sixteen Eisenstein series	Neil Watson Recent progress on the heat equation
15:40	Afternoon Tea: Maclaurin foyer
16:00	Akira Masuoka On cocycle deformations of pointed Hopf algebras with abelian grouplikes	Antonio Montalban On the back-and-forth relation on Boolean algebras	Anthony Quas Distances in positive density sets	William Desmond Evans Inequalities of Hardy-Sobolev and Hardy-Gagliardo-Nirenberg type	David Easdown Teaching proofs in mathematics	Nicholas Witte Semi-classical orthogonal polynomials and the Painlevé-Garnier systems	ChungChun Yang On entire solutions of certain type of nonlinear differential equations
16:25	Yevgenia Kashina Classifying Semisimple Hopf Algebras of dimension 2ⁿ	Denis R. Hirschfeldt Atomic models and genericity	Alistair Windsor Tilings and Gallai's theorem		Panel Writing effective university mathematics texts and courseware: What works, and what's new? Chair: Patricia Cretchley	Howard S. Cohl Fourier expansions of the fundamental solution for powers of the Laplacian in Rⁿ	Yuncheng You Regularity asymptotics of vorticity for the 2D Navier-Stokes equation
16:50	Siu-Hung Ng On the classification of Hopf algebras of dimension pq	Barbara F. Csima Linear orders with distinguished function symbol	Reinhard Winkler For a topologist, typical sequences are extremely irregular			Richard Askey The first addition formula and some of what came later	Petarpa Boonserm Buchdahl-like transformations in general relativity
17.30-18.30	NZMS Annual General Meeting and Colloquium Meeting MCLT103

Day 2: Thursday 13 December 2007 MORNING
8:45	Plenary Speaker: Rod Downey MCLT103 Chair: Rob Goldblatt Practical FPT and Foundations of Kernelization
	Quantum Topology 2 (MCLT103) Chair: D Gauld	Computability Theory 2 (MCLT102) Chair: C Jockusch	Dynamics & Control: Applications to Biomedicine 2 (COLT122) Chair: J Sneyd	New Trends in Spectral Analysis & PDE 3 (CO118) Chair: G Wake	History & Philosophy of Mathematics 2 (CO119) Chair: K Pledger	Integrability of Continuous and Discrete Evolution Systems 1 (CO216) Chair: M Hickman/R Quispel	General Contributions 3 (CO228) Chair: K Teo
9:50	Michael Freedman Continuation of plenary talk: Manifold pairings	Cristian S. Calude Representation of computably enumerable e-random reals	Phil Wilson The lipid bilayer at the mesoscale: a physical continuum model	Boris Pavlov An ill-posed problem in scattering theory	Bruce Burdick Mathematical problems from the Maine Farmer's Almanac	Reinout Quispel Discrete integrable systems	Irwin Pressman Steiner triples and a solution of the Kirkman school girl problem using matrices with multiple symmetry properties
10:15		Johanna Franklin Truth table reducibility and Schnorr triviality	Emily Harvey Complex oscillations in mathematical models of calcium dynamics	Annalisa Calini Cable formation for finite-gap solutions of the vortex filament flow	Jim Tattersall Mathematical contributions to the Educational Times from Australia and New Zealand	Willy Hereman Symbolic computation of conservation laws of nonlinear PDEs in (n+1)-dimensions	Bill Taylor A note on strategies for win/loss symmetric games
10:40	Morning Tea: Maclaurin foyer
11:00	Christopher Tuffley Generalised knot groups	Keng Meng Ng Strong jump traceability and beyond	Carlo Laing Bumps and rings in a two-dimensional neural field: splitting and rotational instabilities	Jochen Brüning The equivariant index theorem for Dirac operators	Lawrence D'Antonio Leonard Euler and the dastardly John Robison	Mark Hickman Leading order integrability conditions for differential-difference equations	E. F. Cornelius, Jr. Module-building with polynomials and power series
11:25	Shona Yu The cyclotomic Birman-Murakami-Wenzl algebras	Ludwig Staiger On universal computably enumerable prefix codes	Dann Mallet A hybrid CA-PDE model of Chlamydia trachomatis infection in the female genital tract		Hardy Grant Episodes from the career of the Riemann Hypothesis	Gerrard Liddell American barriers	Kevin Byard Qualified residue difference sets from unions of cyclotomic classes
11:50	Scott Morrison Lasagna composition of Khovanov link homologies, and a 4-d skein module	George Barmpalias Relative randomness and cardinality	Andrzej Swierniak Evolution of repeats in microsatellite DNA and emergency of genetic disorders	Anjan Biswas Quasi-stationary solitons for Langmuir waves in plasmas	Paul R Wolfson Algebraic invariant theory and characteristic classes	Ernie Kalnins Integrability and separation of variables	Daniel Lond Külshammer's second problem
12:15-12:45	ANZIAM Annual General Meeting MCLT103
12:15-13:45	Lunchtime

Day 2: Thursday 13 December 2007 AFTERNOON
13:45	Plenary Speaker: Assaf Naor MCLT103 Chair: Ruth Charney The Story of the Sparsest Cut Problem
	Group Theory, Actions & Computation 1 (MCLT103) Chair: R Blyth	Matroids, Graphs, and Complexity 2 (MCLT102) Chair: J Oxley	Water Wave Scattering Focusing on Wave-Ice Interactions 1 (COLT122) Chair: M Meylan	Geometric Numerical Integration 1 (CO118) Chair: R Quispel	University Mathematics Education 2 (CO119) Chair:	Infinite-Dimensional Groups & Their Actions 1 (CO216) Chair:A Dooley/S Morris	General Contributions 4 (CO228) Chair: R Beatson
14:50	Ruth Charney Partially symmetric automorphisms of free groups	Henry Crapo Simplicial maps, and the generic rigidity matroid	Alison Kohout An elastic plate model for wave scattering in the marginal ice zone	Laurent O. Jay Butcher trees and curve search in nonlinear optimization	William McCallum Secondary mathematics from an advanced standpoint	Sidney A. Morris The structure of connected pro-Lie groups	Michael Tuite Vertex operator algebras on genus two Riemann surfaces
15:15			Gareth L. Vaughan Scattering and damping of ice coupled waves	John Butcher G-symplectic general linear methods		Christopher Atkin Isometries of infinite-dimensional Riemannian manifolds	V.Lakshmana Gomathi Nayagam Fuzzy translation invariant topological spaces
15:40	Afternoon Tea: Maclaurin foyer
16:00	Gerhard Rosenberger The Tits alternative for sherical generalized tetrahedron groups	Rhiannon Hall Chain-type and splitter-type theorems for cocircuits and hyperplanes in 3-connected matroids	Malte A. Peter Time-dependent water waves incident on a vertical elastic plate	Yousaf Habib Symplectic methods with transformations	G. Arthur Mihram Three attributes of tertiary-level mathematical education to one's society and its advancement of science	Hendrik Grundling On group algebras for non-locally compact groups	Andrew Percy Cohomology cross-cap products
16:25	Benjamin Fine On some finiteness properties in infinite groups	Thomas Britz Matroids applied to coding theory	Luke Bennetts Wave scattering by a periodic line array of axisymmetric ice floes	Dion O'Neale Geometric integration, high oscillation and resonance	Bill Barton Revisiting Felix Klein's “Elementary Mathematics from an Advanced Standpoint”	Stefano Ferri Groups acting on Banach spaces	Driss Drissi On bounded sequences and applications to invariant subspace problem Postponed: new time TBA
16:50	Gunter Steinke Old and new on the universal covering group of SL(2, R)	Peter Humphries A basis exchange property for matroids	Michael Meylan Simulation of near-trapping time-dependent water wave problem	Klas Modin On explicit adaptive symplectic integration of separable Hamiltonian systems	Round Table Discussion What mathematics studies are essential for secondary level mathematics teachers?	Christian Rosendal Generic representations of finitely generated groups	Jacek Krawczyk A viability theory approach to a two-stage optimal control problem
17:15-17:40	Early evening break			Robert McLachlan Achieving Brouwer's law of round-off error		Vladimir Pestov A footnote to the property (FH)	Early evening break
17:40-18:15	Early evening break			Early evening break			Early evening break

Day 2: Thursday 13 December 2007 EVENING
	Special Functions & Orthogonal Polynomials 3 (MCLT103) Chair: M Ismail	Matroids, Graphs, & Complexity 3 (MCLT102) Chair: G Whittle	Dynamics & Control: Applications to Biomedicine 3 (COLT122) Chair: A Radunskaya	Dynamical Systems & Ergodic Theory 2 (CO118) Chair: R Murray
18:15	Walter Van Assche Multiple Hermite polynomials and some applications	Carolyn Chun Unavoidable minors of loosely c-connected infinite graphs	Michael Plank Levy random walks in ecology: fact or fiction?	Arno Berger Uniform attraction and growth in nonautonomous dynamical systems
18:40		Maria Chudnovsky Even pairs in Berge graphs	Annette Molinaro Piecewise constant estimation algorithms for predicting clinical outcomes: applications in genomic data	Wenzhi Luo Equidistribution of closed geodesics on the modular surface
19:05	Tom ter Elst Does diffusion determine the drum?	Maria Chudnovsky Even pairs in Berge graphs	Michal Swierniak SVD based analysis of DNA microarray data	Martin Wechselberger Canard induced mixed-mode oscillations
19:30	Diego Dominici Asymptotic analysis of the Bell polynomials by the ray method			Ilze Ziedins Nonmonotonicity of phase transitions in a tree loss network
19:55	Song Heng Chan Congruences for Andrews-Paule's broken 2-diamond partition function

Day 3: Friday 14 December 2007 MORNING
8:45	Plenary Speaker: Bruce Kleiner MCLT103 Chair: Marston Conder Bilipschitz Embedding in Banach Spaces
	Hopf Algebras & Quantum Groups 2 (MCLT103) Chair:	Computability Theory 3 (MCLT102) Chair: T Slaman	Dynamics & Control: Applications to Biomedicine 4 (COLT1222) Chair: U Ledzewicz	Geometric Numerical Integration 2 (CO118) Chair: R McLachlan	University Mathematics Education 3 (CO119) Chair:	Infinite-Dimensional Groups & Their Actions 2 (CO216) Chair: C Atkin/ G Hjorth	General Contributions 5 (CO228) Chair: B Barton
9:50	Fred Van Oystaeyen On crystalline graded rings	Hugh Woodin Definable determinacy and second order number theory	Graeme Wake Modelling of cancer treatment	Melvin Leok Homogeneous variational integrators for Lagrangian dynamics on two-spheres	Matthias Kawski Interactive visualization in advanced university mathematics	Lionel Nguyen Van Thé Oscillation stability for topological groups and Ramsey theory	Peter Donelan Genericity of serial manipulator singularities
10:15	Fred Van Oystaeyen On crystalline graded rings	Chi Tat Chong A Π¹₁ uniformization principle for reals	Wen Duan Mathematical modeling of GnRH neurons in the rat brain	Mayya Tokman Evaluating performance of exponential integrators	Tim Passmore A flexible, extensible online Testing system for mathematics	Yevhen Zelenyuk On finite groups in Stone-Cech compactifications	Avinesh Prasad A Lyapunov-based path planning and obstacle avoidance for a two-link manipulator on a wheeled platform
10:40	Morning Tea: Maclaurin foyer
11:00	Blas Torrecillas The Dickson subcategory splitting conjecture for pseudocompact algebras	Andre Nies Borel presentable structures	Inga Wang A mathematical model of airway and pulmonary arteriole smooth muscle	Allison Heard Stability of numerical solvers for ordinary differential equations	Patricia Cretchley Readiness for first-year mathematics studies: management, placement and prognosis	Anthony Dooley Costs of equivalence relations and group actions	Krishna Sami Raghuwaiya Potential field functions for motion planning and posture control of 3-trailer systems
11:25	Miodrag C Iovanov (Co)representation theoretic approach to fundamental results in Hopf algebras	Qi Feng Solovay pairs and supercompacteness	Peter Hinow A mathematical model quantifies proliferation and motility effects of TGF-b on cancer cells	Philip Zhang Dynamics and numerics of some generalised Euler equations	Mark Nelson Online learning resources for engineering students: do they work?	Inessa Epstein Orbit inequivalent actions of non-amenable groups	Bibhya Sharma A navigation and collision avoidance scheme for heterogeneous robot collectives Cancelled
11:50	Juan Cuadra The Hopf-Schur subgroup	Noam Greenberg Working above totally omega-c.e. degrees using strong reducibilities	L.G. de Pillis A mathematical model of B cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia	Will Wright The efficient evaluation of functions related to the matrix exponential	Alex James From lessons to lectures: NCEA mathematics and first year performance	Todor Tsankov Full groups of equivalence relations	Agnes Radl Transport processes in networks with scattering ramification nodes
12:15-12:40	Lunchtime		Krzysztof Fujarewicz Optimal sampling for identification of models of cell signaling pathways	Reinout Quispel Geometric Integration of Ordinary Differential Equations	Lunchtime
12:40-13:45	Lunchtime		Lunchtime		Lunchtime

Day 3: Friday 14 December 2007 AFTERNOON
13:45	Plenary Speaker: Marston Conder MCLT103 Chair: David Gauld Chirality
	Group Theory, Actions, & Computation 2 (MCLT103) Chair: M Conder	Special Functions & Orthogonal Polynomials 4 (MCLT102) Chair: W van Assche	Dynamics & Control: Applications to Biomedicine 5 (COLT122) Chair: L de Pillis	New Trends in Spectral Analysis & PDE 4 (CO118) Chair: G Stolz	History & Philosophy of Mathematics 3 (CO119) Chair: J Tattersall	Matroids, Graphs, & Complexity 4 (CO216) Chair: D Mayhew	Dynamical Systems & Ergodic Theory 3 (CO228) Chair: A Berger
14:50	Tomaž Pisanski A census of edge-transitive tessellations	Mourad E. H. Ismail Addition theorems via continued fractions	Heinz Schättler Minimizing the tumor size in mathematical models for novel cancer treatments	Stephen McDowall Optical tomography in media with varying index of refraction	Bronwyn Rideout Probability in ancient Greek: moving beyond the traditional narrative	Joseph P. Kung The Tutte polynomial turned upside down	Boris Baeumer Brownian subordinators and fractional Cauchy problems
15:15	Tomaž Pisanski A census of edge-transitive tessellations		Alona Ben-Tal Modelling Cheyne-Stokes Respiration and other aspects of the control of respiration	Boris P Belinskiy Stochastic wave equation driven by a fractional Brownian motion	Clemency Montelle Hypsicles of Alexandria and arithmetical sequences	Joseph P. Kung The Tutte polynomial turned upside down	Dmitry Dolgopyat Galton board
15:40	Afternoon Tea: Maclaurin foyer
16:00	Jin Ho Kwak Enumerating chiral maps on surfaces with a given underlying graph	Andrea Laforgia The zeros of the complementary error function	Ami Radunskaya A delayed-differential model of the immune response: optimization and analysis	Sergei Avdonin Control and inverse problems for partial differential equations on graphs	Kim Plofker Mathematics and observation in Indian astronomical parameters	Charles Little Minimal non-bipartite join covered graphs	Ian Melbourne Decay of correlations for Lorentz gases
16:25	Antonio Breda d'Azevedo Bicontactual rotary hypermaps	Kevin A Broughan The vanishing of the integral of the Hurwitz zeta function	Matthias Kawski Chronological calculus and nonlinear feedback loops	Georgi Raikov Spectral properties of a magnetic quantum Hamiltonian on a strip	John Hannah Limits of solvability: unsolvable problems in Fibonacci's Liber Abbaci	Gary Gordon Automorphisms of matroids associated with root systems	Matthew Nicol Extreme value statistics for non-uniformly hyperbolic systems
16:50	Gareth Jones Total chirality of maps and hypermaps on Riemann surfaces	Bruce C. Berndt Modified Bessel functions in Ramanujan's lost notebook	Robert Donnelly Cellular automata model of radiation therapy in cervical cancer	Felipe Leitner On unitary conformal holonomy		Petr Hlineny Finding Branch-decompositions and Rank-decompositions
17:15-18:30	Early evening break
18:30 for 19:00	Conference Dinner Skyline Restaurant

Day 4: Saturday 15 December 2007 MORNING
8:45	Plenary Speaker: Theodore A Slaman MCLT103 Chair: Hugh Woodin Effective randomness and continuous measures
	Computability Theory 4 (MCLT103) Chair: C T Chong	Special Functions & Orthogonal Polynomials 5 (MCLT102) Chair: B Berndt	Dynamical Systems & Ergodic Theory 4 (COLT122) Chair: I Ziedens	Hopf Algebras & Quantum Groups 3 (CO118) Chair:	General Contributions 6 (CO119) Chair: G Weir	Group Theory, Actions, & Computation 3 (CO216) Chair: M Conder	General Contributions 7 (CO228) Chair: J Harper
9:50	Guohua Wu On the complexity of the successivity relation in computable linear orderings	Ernie Kalnins Orthogonal polynomials and associated algebras	Keith Burns Typical partially hyperbolic diffeomorphisms with one dimensional center are accessible	Susan Montgomery Frobenius-Schur indicators for Hopf algebras	Mareli Korostenski Regular martingales in Riesz spaces	Russell Blyth Nonabelian tensor squares of free nilpotent groups of finite rank	Sun Young Jang C^*-algebras like the Toeplitz algebra
10:15	Frank Stephan Sets of nonrandom numbers		Gary Froyland Phase transitions and equilibrium states		Muni V. Reddy Some recent developments on the structure of lattice rules		R.K. Beatson Preconditioning radial basis function interpolation problems using mean value coordinates
10:40	Morning Tea: Maclaurin foyer
11:00	Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen Infinite subsets of random sets of integers	Wenchang Chu Abel's lemma on summation by parts and theta hypergeometric series	Rua Murray Ulam's method for invariant measures with an indifferent fixed point	Stefaan Caenepeel A structure theorem for relative Hopf bimodules with applications to Morita equivalences	S. K. Sunanda Generalized Opial type L(p)-inequalities for fractional derivatives	Arturo Magidin Capable groups of class two and prime exponent	Alexey L. Sadovski On spacial statistics models of the determination of the geoid
11:25	Bakhadyr Khoussainov Kolmogorov complexity, computable categoricity, and Frasse limits	Garry J. Tee Permutable polynomials and rational functions	Luchezar Stoyanov Spectra of Ruelle transfer operators for contact flows on basic sets	Aaron Armour The geometric classification of four dimensional superalgebras	Stephen Joe Lattice rules for integration over R^s	Michael A. Jackson The strong symmetric genus and generalized symmetric groups: results and a conjecuture	Gloria Cravo Snapshot-based theory: an interdisciplinary approach
11:50	Paul Brodhead Continuity of capping in E_bT	Michael Hirschhorn Some conjectures of Melham concerning representations by figurate numbers	Gustaf S�derlind Adaptive geometric integration: structural aspects of reversible step size control	Yorck Sommerhäuser Hopf algebras and congruence subgroups	Alastair McNaughton Loci of zeros in fractional calculus	Marston Conder Short presentations for the alternating and symmetric groups	Igor Boglaev Robust monotone iterates
12:15	Lunchtime

Day 4: Saturday 15 December 2007 AFTERNOON
13:45	Plenary Speaker: Matt Visser MCLT103 Chair: Matt Miller Emergent spacetimes, rainbow geometries, and pseudo-Finsler geometries
	Matroids, Graphs, & Complexity 5 (MCLT103) Chair: J Oxley	Special Functions & Orthogonal Polynomials 6 (MCLT102)Chair: R Askey
14:50	Jim Geelen Binary matroid minors	N J Wildberger Spread Polynomials
15:15	Jim Geelen Binary matroid minors	A. Sri Ranga Asymptotics for Gegenbauer-Sobolev and Hermite-Sobolev orthogonal polynomials associated with non-coherent pairs of measures
15:40	Afternoon Tea
16:00	Dillon Mayhew The excluded minors for the class of matroids that are either binary or ternary	Ross Barnett High-precision values of the gamma function of real argument
16:25	Neil Robertson tba	Ole Warnaar The Mukhin-Varchenko conjecture
16:50	Neil Robertson tba