AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Day
Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:03
Southeastern 1993 Spring Sectional Meeting
Knoxville, TN, March 26-27, 1993
Meeting #879
Associate secretaries: Joseph A Cima, AMS cima@email.unc.edu
Saturday March 27, 1993
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Saturday March 27, 1993, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Sturm-Liouville Operators, Applications, and Extensions, III
Room 107, Humanities and Social Sciences Building
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8:00 a.m.
A theory of weighted Poincare inequalities.
Richard Brown*, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
David Edmunds, University of Sussex, England
Jiri Rakosnik, Mathematical Institute, Czechoslovakia
(879-35-73) -
8:30 a.m.
Molecular propagation through electron energy level crossings.
George A. Hagedorn*, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
(879-81-91) -
9:00 a.m.
Asymptotics of Eigenvalues for Sturm-Liouville problems with an interior singularity.
B. J. Harris*, Northern Illinois University
D. Race, University of Surrey, England
(879-34-92) -
9:30 a.m.
A discrete interpretation of Reid's roundabout theorem for generalized differential systems.
Calvin D. Ahlbrandt, University of Missouri, Columbia
Stephen L. Clark, University of Missouri, Rolla
John W. Hooker, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
William T. Patula*, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
(879-39-93) -
10:00 a.m.
On the uniqueness problem in one-dimensional inverse scattering.
Martin Klaus*, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
(879-81-94) -
10:30 a.m.
On Hill's equation with Picard potentials.
Rudi Weikard*, University of Alabama, Birmingham
(879-34-131)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday March 27, 1993, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Numerical Methods in Optimization, III
Room 110, Humanities and Social Sciences Building
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8:00 a.m.
Implicitly restarted Arnoldi methods for large scale Eigenvalue problems.
D. C. Sorensen*, Rice University
Phuong Vu, Cray Research, Inc., Texas
(879-65-35) -
8:30 a.m.
A conservative semi-Lagrangian method.
J. S. Scroggs*, North Carolina State University
(879-86-108) -
9:00 a.m.
A GMRES-backtracking Newton iterative method.
Homer F. Walker*, Utah State University
(879-65-117) -
9:30 a.m.
Inexact Newton methods for singular problems.
C. T. Kelley*, North Carolina State University
Z. Xue, North Carolina State University
(879-65-12) -
10:00 a.m.
Sufficient conditions and the gradient projection method in sets of functions with range in a polyhedron.
J. C. Dunn*, North Carolina State University
(879-49-75)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday March 27, 1993, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Continua Theory and Dynamical Systems, III
Room 120, Humanities and Social Sciences Building
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8:00 a.m.
A homeomorphism almost periodic but not periodic on an indecomposable continuum.
Piotr Minc, Auburn University, Auburn
William R. R. Transue*, Auburn University, Auburn
(879-54-123) -
8:30 a.m.
Group actions on R-trees.
R. J. Fokkink, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
L. G. Oversteegen*, University of Alabama, Birmingham
(879-54-119) -
9:00 a.m.
Prime ends and dynamics of the plane.
James T. Rogers, Jr.*, Tulane University
(879-58-82) -
9:30 a.m.
Every attractor of a flow on a manifold has the shape of a finite polyhedron.
Jack Segal*, University of Washington
(879-54-104) -
10:00 a.m.
A Nielsen type theorem for area preserving homeomorphisms of the two disc.
Edward E. Slaminka*, Auburn University, Auburn
Morton Brown, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Kenneth Boucher, University of Utah
(879-54-125)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday March 27, 1993, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Commutative Ring Theory, III
Room 104, Humanities and Social Sciences Building
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9:00 a.m.
Formal fibers and birational extensions.
William J. Heinzer*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
Christel Rotthaus, Michigan State University
Judith D. Sally, Northwestern University
(879-13-44) -
9:30 a.m.
On equimultiple ideals.
Kishor Shah*, Southwest Missouri State University
(879-13-67) -
10:00 a.m.
Reduction numbers, Rees algebras, and Pfaffian ideals.
Ian M. Aberbach, Purdue University, West Lafayette
Sam Huckaba*, Florida State University
Craig Huneke, Purdue University, West Lafayette
(879-13-30) -
10:30 a.m.
Depth formulas for certain graded rings associated to an ideal.
Sam Huckaba, Florida State University
Thomas Marley*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
(879-13-54)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday March 27, 1993, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics, III
Room 109, Humanities and Social Sciences Building
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9:00 a.m.
Nonnegative Hall polynomials.
Lynne M. Butler*, Haverford College
Alfred W. Hales, Center for Communications Research, California
(879-05-113) -
9:30 a.m.
Some particular entries of the two-parameter Kostka-matrix.
John Stembridge*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
(879-05-36) -
10:00 a.m.
The decomposition of a bi-graded left regular representation of S_n.
Edward E. Allen*, Wake Forest University
(879-05-109) -
10:30 a.m.
Factorizations of Pieri rules for Macdonald polynomials.
A. M. Garsia*, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla
M. Haiman, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla
(879-05-101)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday March 27, 1993, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
General Session, II
Room 106, Humanities and Social Sciences Building
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9:00 a.m.
A simple proof of the Bieberbach conjecture.
Pavel G. Todorov*, Paissii Hilendarski University, Bulgaria
(879-30-10) -
9:20 a.m.
Answer to a query concerning the mapping w=z^1/m.
Thomas L. McCoy*, Michigan State University
(879-30-14) -
9:40 a.m.
Constructing the spherical harmonics.
Allan Fryant*, Jamestown College
(879-33-76) -
10:00 a.m.
On stochastic global smoothness.
George A. Anastassiou*, Memphis State University
Heinz H. Gonska, European Business School, Germany
(879-41-20) -
10:20 a.m.
Complex white noise and derivative versions of Ito's formula.
David Betounes*, University of Southern Mississippi
(879-60-81) -
10:40 a.m.
Unbiased estimation in the presence of an outlier.
Kandasamy Selvavel*, Claflin College
(879-62-18)
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9:00 a.m.
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Saturday March 27, 1993, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Interventions To Assure Success: Calculus Through Junior Faculty, III
Room 111, Humanities and Social Sciences Building
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9:30 a.m.
Evolutionary intervention programs - The FAMU method.
Donald Cole*, Florida A & M University
Rosalyn Williams, Florida A & M University
(879-98-48) -
10:00 a.m.
SCAMP laboratories at Clemson University for calculus and pre-calculus.
T. Gilmer Proctor*, Clemson University
(879-98-68) -
10:30 a.m.
MathExcel, an intervention in first year Calculus on behalf of women, minorities, and rural students.
Michael Freeman*, University of Kentucky
(879-98-135)
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9:30 a.m.
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Saturday March 27, 1993, 11:10 a.m.-12:10 p.m.
Invited Address
Homology of partially ordered sets of partitions.
Room 121, Humanities and Social Sciences Building
Michelle L. Wachs*, University of Miami
(879-06-134) -
Saturday March 27, 1993, 1:20 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
Invited Address
The dynamics and topology of iterated cubic polynomials.
Room 121, Humanities and Social Sciences Building
Paul Blanchard*, Boston University
(879-30-100) -
Saturday March 27, 1993, 2:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Special Session on Commutative Ring Theory, IV
Room 104, Humanities and Social Sciences Building
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2:30 p.m.
Minimal polynomials, resultants, generalized character polynomials and polynomial automorphisms.
Jie-Tai Yu*, University of Notre Dame
(879-13-160) -
3:00 p.m.
Standard bases in formal power series rings.
Yonghao Ma*, Southwest Texas State University
(879-13-13) -
3:30 p.m.
Power residue symbols and the central sections of SL(2,A).
Douglas Costa*, University of Virginia
Gordon Keller, University of Virginia
(879-20-23) -
4:00 p.m.
The Galois module structure of the ring integers in wildly-ramified cyclic extensions.
G. Griffith Elder*, Ohio State University, Columbus
Manohar M. Madan, Ohio State University, Columbus
(879-13-161) -
4:30 p.m.
Discussion
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday March 27, 1993, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Optimal Control and Applications, II
Room 108, Humanities and Social Sciences Building
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2:30 p.m.
Optimal trapping strategies for diffusing nuisance-beaver populations.
Ray Huffaker*, Washington State University
M. G. Bhat, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Suzanne Lenhart, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
(879-49-01) -
3:00 p.m.
Bilinear optimal control of a Kirchhoff plate.
M. E. Bradley*, University of Louisville
Suzanne Lenhart, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
(879-35-66) -
3:30 p.m.
Optimal control for competitive parabolic systems.
Vladimir Protopopescu*, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee
(879-49-72) -
4:00 p.m.
Optimal switching control for diffusions.
Arthur Heinricher*, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
(879-93-97) -
4:30 p.m.
Diffusion approximation for controlled queues.
Michael Taksar*, State University of New York, Stony Brook
(879-93-148)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday March 27, 1993, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Variational Problems in Geometry, II
Room 119, Humanities and Social Sciences Building
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2:30 p.m.
A convergence theorem for Riemannian submanifolds.
Zhongmin Shen*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
(879-53-99) -
3:00 p.m.
On the functional logdet and related flows on the space of embedded curves on a sphere.
Dan Burghelea, Ohio State University, Columbus
Thomas Kappeler, Ohio State University, Columbus
Patrick McDonald*, Ohio State University, Columbus
Leonid Friedlander, University of Arizona
(879-58-137) -
3:30 p.m.
Metric and topological stability in a theorem of F. Schur.
Igor Nikolaev*, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
(879-53-63) -
4:00 p.m.
Yang-Mills connections with an SU(2) symmetry.
Jan Segert*, University of Missouri, Columbia
Lorenzo Sadun, University of Texas, Austin
(879-81-136) -
4:30 p.m.
On the analytic torsion.
Dan Burghelea, Ohio State University, Columbus
Thomas Kappeler*, Ohio State University, Columbus
Leonid Friedlander, University of Arizona
(879-53-130)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday March 27, 1993, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Sturm-Liouville Operators, Applications, and Extensions, IV
Room 107, Humanities and Social Sciences Building
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2:30 p.m.
Some new variational estimates of spectra of Sturm-Liouville and similar operators.
Evans M. Harrell, II*, Georgia Institute of Technology
(879-34-132) -
3:00 p.m.
A note on the localization of bound states of N-particle systems.
Volker Bach, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Switzerland
Roger T. Lewis*, University of Alabama, Birmingham
Elliott H. Lieb, Princeton University
Heinz Siedentop, Norwegian Institute of Technology, Norway
(879-35-143) -
3:30 p.m.
The automatic classification of Sturm-Liouville problems.
Charles T. Fulton*, Florida Institute of Technology
Steven Pruess, Colorado School of Mines
Yuantao Xie, Colorado School of Mines
(879-45-144) -
4:00 p.m.
Positive solutions of systems of nonlinear boundary value problems.
John V. Baxley*, Wake Forest University
H. B. Thompson, University of Queensland, Australia
(879-34-152) -
4:30 p.m.
Computing continuous spectrum.
Anton Zettl*, Northern Illinois University
(879-34-164)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday March 27, 1993, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Numerical Methods in Optimization, IV
Room 110, Humanities and Social Sciences Building
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2:30 p.m.
On the convergence of pattern search methods.
Virginia Torczon*, Rice University
(879-65-27) -
3:00 p.m.
An implicit filtering algorithm for optimization of functions with many local minima.
P. Gilmore*, North Carolina State University
C. T. Kelley, North Carolina State University
(879-49-58) -
3:30 p.m.
Fast numerical determination of symmetric sparsity patterns.
Richard G. Carter*, Stoner Associates Incorporated, Texas
(879-49-69) -
4:00 p.m.
A Bayesian approach to robustness in the linear regulator.
Ben G. Fitzpatrick*, North Carolina State University
(879-93-88) -
4:30 p.m.
Augmented Lagrangian method with second order update.
Kazufumi Ito*, North Carolina State University
(879-65-163)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday March 27, 1993, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Continua Theory and Dynamical Systems, IV
Room 120, Humanities and Social Sciences Building
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2:30 p.m.
Attractors of flows.
James Keesling*, University of Florida
(879-58-77) -
3:00 p.m.
The rotation numbers for interval maps.
Alexander M. Blokh*, University of Alabama, Birmingham
(879-58-128) -
3:30 p.m.
Generic hyperbolicity in the real quadratic family.
Grzegorz \'Swi\c atek*, State University of New York, Stony Brook
(879-58-122) -
4:00 p.m.
Rotation numbers of projectivities.
Marc Frantz, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
Michal Misiurewicz*, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
(879-58-127) -
4:30 p.m.
Riddled basins.
J. C. Alexander, University of Maryland, College Park
Brian Hunt, University of Maryland, College Park
James A. Yorke*, University of Maryland, College Park
Zhiping You, University of Maryland, College Park
Ittai Kan, George Mason University
(879-58-105)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday March 27, 1993, 2:30 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Special Session on Stochastic Processes, II
Room 105, Humanities and Social Sciences Building
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2:30 p.m.
On large deviations for Markov chains.
Wlodzimierz Bryc*, University of Cincinnati
(879-60-60) -
2:55 p.m.
Stable generalized moving averages.
Stamatis Cambanis*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
V. Mandrekar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Jan Rosinski, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Donatas Surgailis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
(879-60-79) -
3:20 p.m.
Detection of abrupt changes in stochastic dynamical systems.
Kurt Helmes*, University of Kentucky
(879-93-158) -
3:45 p.m.
One-sided limit theorems and their rates of convergence.
Theodore P. Hill*, Georgia Institute of Technology
(879-60-159) -
4:10 p.m.
Discussion -
4:30 p.m.
Laws of large numbers for negatively dependent random variables.
Abolghassem Bozorgnia, Mashhad University, Iran
Ronald F. Patterson*, University of Georgia
Robert L. Taylor, University of Georgia
(879-60-09) -
4:55 p.m.
Stable processes with sample paths in Orlicz spaces.
Rimas Norvaisa, Lithuanian Academy of Science, Lithuania
Gennady Samorodnitsky*, Cornell University
(879-60-33) -
5:20 p.m.
Robust decoupling inequalities.
Jerzy Szulga*, Auburn University, Auburn
(879-60-141)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday March 27, 1993, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics, IV
Room 109, Humanities and Social Sciences Building
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2:30 p.m.
q-analogues of partially ordered sets.
Rodica Simion*, George Washington University
(879-05-83) -
3:00 p.m.
A combinatorial presentation of the free lie superalgebra..
Guy Melan\c con, University of Bordeaux, I, France
Christophe Reutenauer*, University of Quebec
(879-05-150) -
3:30 p.m.
The cohomology representations of the k-equal partition lattices and manifolds.
Sheila Sundaram*, University of Miami
Michelle L. Wachs, University of Miami
Volkmar Welker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(879-05-110) -
4:00 p.m.
Connecting characteristic and chromatic polynomials.
Andreas Blass, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Bruce E. Sagan*, Michigan State University
(879-52-28) -
4:30 p.m.
Coxeter-associahedra.
Victor Reiner*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
G\"unter Ziegler, Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum, Germany
(879-52-45) -
5:00 p.m.
Cell structure of partition varieties and rook length polynomials.
Kequan Ding*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
(879-05-17)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday March 27, 1993, 2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
Special Session on Interventions To Assure Success: Calculus Through Junior Faculty, IV
Room 111, Humanities and Social Sciences Building
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2:30 p.m.
Scholars in mathematics at Spelman.
Wanda M. Patterson*, Spelman College
(879-98-157) -
3:00 p.m.
Calculus calculator or the poor man's version of mathematica.
Bruno Guerrieri*, Florida A & M University, Tallahassee
(879-98-31) -
3:30 p.m.
The San Antonio pre-freshman engineering program: A mathematics-based minority intervention program.
Manuel P. Berrioz\'abal*, University of Texas, San Antonio
(879-98-39) -
4:00 p.m.
Discussion
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2:30 p.m.