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Southeastern 1993 Spring Sectional Meeting
Knoxville, TN, March 26-27, 1993
Meeting #879

Associate secretaries:
Joseph A Cima, AMS cima@email.unc.edu

Special Session on Sturm-Liouville Operators, Applications, and Extensions

  • Friday March 26, 1993, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
    Special Session on Sturm-Liouville Operators, Applications, and Extensions, I
    Room 107, Humanities and Social Sciences Building

    • 8:00 a.m.
      Focal point characterizations and comparisons for right focal differential operators.
      Paul W. Eloe, University of Dayton
      Johnny Henderson*, Auburn University, Auburn
      (879-34-03)
    • 9:00 a.m.
      Differential operators and orthogonal polynomials.
      Allan M. Krall*, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
      (879-34-11)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      Hearing point masses in a string.
      Robert Carlson*, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
      (879-34-24)
    • 10:00 a.m.
      Spectral analysis of the double commutation method.
      Roman Svirsky*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
      (879-34-25)
    • 10:30 a.m.
      A variational method for recovering a function and its derivatives from experimental data.
      Robert Wallace*, University of Alabama, Birmingham
      Ian Knowles, University of Alabama, Birmingham
      (879-65-37)

  • Friday March 26, 1993, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
    Special Session on Sturm-Liouville Operators, Applications, and Extensions, II
    Room 107, Humanities and Social Sciences Building

    • 2:30 p.m.
      Eigenvalue ratios for Sturm-Liouville operators.
      Mark S. Ashbaugh*, University of Missouri, Columbia
      Rafael D. Benguria, Pontificia University Catolica, Chile
      (879-34-51)
    • 3:00 p.m.
      Continuous spectrum Eigenfunction expansions and the Cauchy problem in L_1(R).
      David E. Edmunds, University of Sussex, England
      Robert M. Kauffman*, University of Alabama, Birmingham
      (879-47-52)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      A spectral analysis for self-adjoint operators generated by a class of second order difference equations.
      Steve Clark*, University of Missouri, Rolla
      (879-47-53)
    • 4:00 p.m.
      Resolvent estimate for Dirac operators.
      Chris Pladdy, University of Alabama, Birmingham
      Yoshimi Saito, University of Alabama, Birmingham
      Tomio Umeda*, University of Alabama, Birmingham
      (879-47-62)
    • 4:30 p.m.
      Eigenparameter dependent boundary conditions for Sturm-Liouville problems.
      Paul Binding*, University of Calgary
      Patrick J. Browne, University of Saskatchewan
      (879-34-65)

  • 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

    • 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)

  • 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

    • 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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