AMS Sectional Meeting Full Program
Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:31
1996 Fall Southeastern Sectional Meeting
Chattanooga, TN, October 11-12, 1996
Meeting #915
Associate secretaries: Robert J Daverman, AMS daverman@math.utk.edu
Friday October 11, 1996
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Friday October 11, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Commutative Ring Theory, I
Room 204, University Center
Organizers:
David F. Anderson, University of Tennessee, Knoxville anderson@novell.math.utk.edu
David E. Dobbs, University of Tennessee, Knoxville dobbs@novell.math.utk.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Finitely generated mmultiplicative subsemigroups of rings.
D. D. Anderson*, Univesity of Iowa
(915-13-08) -
8:30 a.m.
Rooty and root closed domains
Jeanam Park*, University of Tennessee
(915-13-236) -
9:00 a.m.
Prufer subrings of Int(Z).
Alan Loper*, Ohio StateUniversity-Newark
(915-13-229) -
9:30 a.m.
The Skolem Property in Rings of Interger-Valued Polynomials
William W. Smith*, Math Dept, UNC-CH
Jean-Luc Chabert,
Scott T. Chapman,
(915-13-226) -
10:00 a.m.
On the IV-equivalence of $E$ and $f(E)$
Robert Gilmer*, Florida State University
(915-13-228) -
10:30 a.m.
Locally Nilpotent Derivations of Maximal Rank on Polynomial Rings
Gene Freudenburg*,
(915-13-209)
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8:00 a.m.
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Friday October 11, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Galois Theory, I
Room 212, University Center
Organizers:
Kevin R. Coombes, University of Maryland, College Park krc@math.umd.edu
Helmut Voelklein, University of Florida helmut@math.ufl.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Groups of genus zero
Daniel E. Frohardt, Wayne State University
Kay Magaard*, Wayne State University
(915-20-339) -
8:30 a.m.
Exceptional polynomials over finite fields
Peter M\"uller*, Univ. of Florida
Robert M. Guralnick, University of Southern California
(915-12-135) -
9:00 a.m.
Finitely generated Galois groups of $p$-henselian fields
Ido Efrat*,
(915-12-60) -
9:30 a.m.
Scalar extensions of solvable crossed products.
Steven Liedahl*,
(915-12-27) -
10:00 a.m.
A Realizability Problem about Partitions
A'ron Bereczky*,
(915-20-259) -
10:30 a.m.
Exceptionality and the Schur question for rational functions
Robert M. Guralnick*, University of Southern California
Peter M\"uller, University of Florida
Jan Saxl, Cambridge University
(915-12-161)
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8:00 a.m.
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Friday October 11, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Matrix Theory, I
Room 102C, University Center
Organizers:
Shu-An Hu, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Zhongshan Li, Georgia State University matzli@gsusgi2.gsu.edu
Ronald Lee Smith, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga rsmith@utcvm.utc.edu
Frank Uhlig, Auburn University, Auburn uhligfd@mail.auburn.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Recent Progress in Matrix Completion Problems
Charles R. Johnson*, College of William and Mary
(915-15-115) -
8:50 a.m.
Completion of triangular matrices
Leiba Rodman*, College of William and Mary
(915-15-116) -
9:40 a.m.
A Note on Positive Definite Completions
Mihaly Baconyi*, Georgis State University
(915-15-150) -
10:10 a.m.
The Real Positive Definite Completion Problem for Nonchordal Graphs
Wayne W. Barrett*, Brigham Young University
(915-15-148)
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8:00 a.m.
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Friday October 11, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Applied Probability, I
Room 103, University Center
Organizers:
Thomas Kozubowski, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga tkozubow@cecasun.utc.edu
Anna Katarzyna Panorska, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga panorska@utkux.utcc.utk.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Convergence of random series and symmetric infinitely divisible processes with sample paths in Orlicz spaces
Michael Braverman, Ben-Gurion University
Gennady Samorodnitsky*, Cornell University
(915-60-72) -
8:30 a.m.
Geometric Stable Laws through Series Representations
Krzysztof Podg\'orski*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, IUPUI, Indianapolis
(915-60-20) -
9:00 a.m.
Toward Numerical Approximation of the Skew-Stable Distributions
J. H. McCulloch*,
(915-41-155) -
9:30 a.m.
Estimation of stable spectral measures
John P. Nolan,
Anna K. Panorska*,
Huston J. McCulloch,
(915-60-133) -
10:00 a.m.
Geometric stable processes and their applications
Tomasz J. Kozubowski*,
Krzysztof Podgorski,
(915-60-127) -
10:30 a.m.
Structural analysis of stationary stable random fields
Jan Rosinski*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
(915-60-106)
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8:00 a.m.
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Friday October 11, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, I
Room 102A, University Center
Organizers:
James R. Ward, Jr., University of Alabama, Birmingham ward@math.uab.edu
Gilbert A. Weinstein, University of Alabama, Birmingham weinstei@math.uab.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Strongly monotone skew-product semiflows.
W. Shen, Auburn University
Yingtei Yi*, Georgia Tech
(915-35-140) -
9:00 a.m.
Classical solutions for the Mullins-Sekerka model.
Gieri Simonett*, Vanderbilt University, Nasville, TN
Joachim Escher, University of Basel, Switzerland
(915-35-38) -
9:30 a.m.
The Dynamics of a Reaction-Diffusion Equation with Time Delay
Wenzhang Huang*, University of Alabama in Huntsville
(915-35-300) -
10:00 a.m.
A Diffusive Spatially Dependent Epidemic Model for a Population in Equilibrium
William E. Fitzgibbon,
Irene Loomis*, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Sheila J. Waggoner,
(915-35-183) -
10:30 a.m.
An Analysis of the Rotationally Symmetric Flexible Membrane Problem Using Upper and Lower Solutions
Stephen B Robinson*, Wake Forest University
(915-35-168)
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8:30 a.m.
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Friday October 11, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology, I
Room 102B, University Center
Organizers:
Alexander Nikolaevich Dranishnikov, University of Florida dranish@math.ufl.edu
Jerzy Dydak, University of Tennessee, Knoxville dydak@math.utk.edu
James E. Keesling, University of Florida jek@math.ufl.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Finite group actions on products of Menger manifolds
Krystyna M Kuperberg*, Auburn University
(915-54-180) -
9:00 a.m.
Topological Dynamics and Invariants of Manifolds
Christopher W. Stark*, University of Florida
(915-57-185) -
9:30 a.m.
On the equivalent spines problem.
Dusan Repovs*,
(915-57-15) -
10:00 a.m.
CAT (0) groups with non-locally connected boundary.
Michael L. Mihalik*, Vanderbilt University
(915-20-103) -
10:30 a.m.
Cohomological dimension of Tychonov spaces
Alex Chigogidze*, Univ. of Saskatchewan
(915-55-91)
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8:30 a.m.
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Friday October 11, 1996, 8:50 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Reform in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, I
Room 110, University Center
Organizers:
Betsy Darken, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga bdarken@utcum.utc.edu
Aniekan Asukwo Ebiefung, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga aebiefun@utcum.utc.edu
Stephen W. Kuhn, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga skuhn@utcvm.utc.edu
Robert Glenn Wynegar, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
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8:50 a.m.
Why Linear Algebra -- How Linear Algebra ?
Frank D. Uhlig*, Auburn University
(915-98-101) -
9:30 a.m.
Darken Discussion -
10:00 a.m.
Keeping Mathematics Current by Negotiating Netscape
Gladys H. Crates*, Chattanooga State Technical Community College
Edward C. Nichols, Chattanooga State Technical Community College
John C. Peterson, Chattanooga State Technical Community College
(915-98-162) -
10:30 a.m.
Implementing mathematics curricular reform in a mid-sized department
Michael May*, St. Louis University
Hongming Ding, St. Louis University
(915-98-279)
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8:50 a.m.
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Friday October 11, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Dynamical Systems and Continuum Theory, I
Room 117, University Center
Organizers:
John Clyde Mayer, University of Alabama, Birmingham mayer@Vorteb.math.uab.edu
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9:00 a.m.
H\'enon mappings and Wada lakes
Ralph W. Oberste-Vorth*,
(915-58-293) -
9:30 a.m.
A compatification of the Fatou mapping as a dynamical system.
Vladimir F. Veselov*, Cornell University
(915-32-282) -
10:00 a.m.
Hyperbolic Julia sets in ${\Bbb C}^n$
Hartje Kriete*,
(915-30-40) -
10:30 a.m.
Flows in Higher Dimensional Solenoids
Alex D Clark*, Auburn University
(915-58-214)
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9:00 a.m.
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Friday October 11, 1996, 11:05 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
Invited Address
Nodes, nodal lines, nodal surfaces: Using this data to solve inverse problems.
Room 110, University Center
Joyce R. McLaughlin*, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
(915-00-03) -
Friday October 11, 1996, 1:25 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
Invited Address
Galois theory for curves
Room 110, University Center
David Harbater*, University of Pennsylvania
(915-14-108) -
Friday October 11, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Commutative Ring Theory, II
Room 204, University Center
Organizers:
David F. Anderson, University of Tennessee, Knoxville anderson@novell.math.utk.edu
David E. Dobbs, University of Tennessee, Knoxville dobbs@novell.math.utk.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Prime decompositions of certain determinantal-ideals
Shashikant B. Mulay*, University of Tennessee
(915-13-237) -
3:00 p.m.
Criteria for Unique Factorization in Integral Domains
Daniel D. Anderson,
Scott T. . Chapman*,
Franz Halter-Koch,
Muhammad Zafrullah,
(915-13-260) -
3:30 p.m.
Integral extensions of half-factorial domains.
Jim Coykendall*, North Dakota State University
(915-13-273) -
4:00 p.m.
Strong convergence properties of SFT rings.
Jim Coykendall, North Dakota State University
John T. Condo*, Woodstock, Georgia
(915-13-274) -
4:30 p.m.
Polynomial or power series extensions with linearly ordered intermediate rings
Michael Gilbert*, University of Tennessee
(915-13-219) -
5:00 p.m.
When is $\bf Z[alpha]$ seminormal or $t$---closed?
Martine Picavet-L'Hermitte*, Universite Blaise Pascal
(915-13-49) -
5:30 p.m.
Splitting multiplicative sets generated by HF-sets
David F. Anderson, University of Tennessee
Gi-Ik Kim, Myungji University
Heung-Joon Oh*, Chodong University
Jeanam Park, University of Tennessee
(915-13-199)
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2:30 p.m.
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Friday October 11, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Galois Theory, II
Room 212, University Center
Organizers:
Kevin R. Coombes, University of Maryland, College Park krc@math.umd.edu
Helmut Voelklein, University of Florida helmut@math.ufl.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Arithmetic lifting of Galois extensions
Elena V. Black*, University of Pennsylvania
(915-14-239) -
3:00 p.m.
Mock covers and Galois theory over complete domains
Tamara R. Lefcourt*, University of Texas at Austin
(915-14-278) -
3:30 p.m.
Formal patching and group theory applied to fundamentalgroups.
Katherine F. Stevenson*, University of Maryland, College Park
(915-12-333) -
4:00 p.m.
The action of the absolute Galois group on the fundamental group of algebraic varieties
Yasutaka Ihara*, Kyota University, Japan
(915-14-347) -
4:30 p.m.
Lifting of Galois coverings of curves.
Marco Andrea Garuti*, Universiteit Utrecht, Vakgroep Wiskunde, Utrecht (NL)
(915-12-346)
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2:30 p.m.
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Friday October 11, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, II
Room 102A, University Center
Organizers:
James R. Ward, Jr., University of Alabama, Birmingham ward@math.uab.edu
Gilbert A. Weinstein, University of Alabama, Birmingham weinstei@math.uab.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Motion by Surface Tension
Nicholas Alikakos*, University of Tennessee
(915-35-195) -
3:00 p.m.
Discontinuous behavior of equilibria for liquid drops that contact two planes
Paul Concus,
Robert Finn,
John McCuan*,
(915-53-248) -
3:30 p.m.
An existence theorem for a superlinear two-point boundary value problem
Anna Capietto*,
(915-34-166) -
4:00 p.m.
Periodicity In Diffusive Epidemic Models
Mary E. Parrott*,
William E. Fitzgibbon,
Jeffrey J. Morgan,
(915-35-266) -
4:30 p.m.
Uniqueness of Positive Solutions for a Dirichlet Problem
Jairo Santanilla*, University of New Orleans
(915-35-291) -
5:00 p.m.
Bounds on trajectoreis in di9ffusive predator-prey models.
Robert Stephen Cantrell*, University of Miami
Chris Cosner, Universityof Miami
(915-92-320)
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2:30 p.m.
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Friday October 11, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Special Session on Matrix Theory, II
Room 102C, University Center
Organizers:
Shu-An Hu, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Zhongshan Li, Georgia State University matzli@gsusgi2.gsu.edu
Ronald Lee Smith, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga rsmith@utcvm.utc.edu
Frank Uhlig, Auburn University, Auburn uhligfd@mail.auburn.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Accuracy in Eigenvalue Computations
Roy Mathias*, College of William and Mary
(915-15-136) -
3:20 p.m.
Iterative Methods for Nonsymmetric Linear Systems
Noel M. Nachtigal*, Oak Ridge National Lab
(915-15-74) -
3:50 p.m.
Using Sparse Direct Factorization Techniques for EncodingTerm-by-Document Matrices
Michael W. Berry*, University of Tennessee
(915-15-81) -
4:20 p.m.
How to Make Matrix Perturbation Results Look Good for Small Eigenvalues
Ilse C.F. Ipsen*, Department of Mathematics
(915-15-97) -
4:50 p.m.
Rook's Pivoting in Parallel.
George D. Poole*, East Tennessee State University
(915-15-345) -
5:20 p.m.
Linear Algebra Computations in Optical Imaging
Robert J. Plemmons*, Wake Forest University
(915-15-144)
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2:30 p.m.
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Friday October 11, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology, II
Room 102B, University Center
Organizers:
Alexander Nikolaevich Dranishnikov, University of Florida dranish@math.ufl.edu
Jerzy Dydak, University of Tennessee, Knoxville dydak@math.utk.edu
James E. Keesling, University of Florida jek@math.ufl.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Splitting approximate fibrations over generalized manifolds
John L. Bryant*, Florida State University
Penelope A. Kirby, Florida State University
(915-57-200) -
3:00 p.m.
Cores of noncompact manifolds
Gerard A. Venema*, Calvin College
(915-57-332) -
3:30 p.m.
Survey of properties of visual compactifications of CAT(0) Davis manifolds
Fredric D. Ancel*, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
(915-57-172) -
4:00 p.m.
Two point set extensions.
Jan J. Dijkstra*, The University of Alabama
Jan van Mill, Vrije Universiteit
(915-28-100) -
4:30 p.m.
Negatively curved graph metrics with applications
Philip L. Bowers*, Florida State University
(915-54-224) -
5:00 p.m.
Novikov Conjectures and Relative Hyperbolicity
Boris Goldfarb*, Stanford University
(915-57-95) -
5:30 p.m.
Exotic smooth structures on non- positively curved symmetric spaces
Boris L. Okun*, The Ohio State University
(915-53-290)
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2:30 p.m.
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Friday October 11, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Optimization, I
Room 406, Brock Hall
Organizers:
Jerald P. Dauer, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Ossama A. Saleh, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga osaleh@utcvm.utc.edu
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2:30 p.m.
New Perturbation Results for the Linear Complementarity Problemwith Po-matrices
Aniekan Asukwo Ebiefung*, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
(915-90-55) -
3:00 p.m.
Mathematical Programming Models for Constrained Discriminant Analysis
Richard J Gallagher*, Columbia University
Eva K Lee, Columbia University
David A Patterson, University of Montana
(915-90-213) -
3:30 p.m.
How to Solve a Nonlinear Complementarity Problem
Michael M. Kostreva*,
(915-90-217) -
4:00 p.m.
Computational Experiments of an Interior-Point Algorithmin a Branch-and-Cut Framework
Eva K Lee*, Columbia University
(915-90-227) -
4:30 p.m.
An augmented Lagrangian Scalarization for multiple objective programming.
Matthew Ten Heuisen,, L.*, The University of North Carolina at Wilmington
(915-90-277)
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2:30 p.m.
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Friday October 11, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Mathematical Aspects of Wave Propogation Phenomena, I
Room 301, Brock Hall
Organizers:
B. Belinskiy, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga bbelinsk@utcvm.utc.edu
Yongzhi Xu, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
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2:30 p.m.
discussion -
2:30 p.m.
Near Field Acoustic Approximations in a Shallow Ocean
Robert Pertsch Gilbert*, University of Delaware, Newark
Zhongyan Lin, University of Delaware, Newark
(915-35-337) -
3:00 p.m.
Near Field Acoustic Approximations in a Shallow Ocean
Zhongyan Lin*, University of Delaware
(915-35-318) -
3:30 p.m.
The Wavelet Petrov-Galerkin method for Integral Equations of the Second Kind
Yuesheng Xu,, Ph.D.*, North Dakota State Univ.
Charles A. Micchelli,, Ph.D.,
Zhongying Chen,, Ph.D.,
(915-41-118) -
4:00 p.m.
Object Shape Determination Using Incomplete Data in a Stratified Medium
Yongzhi Xu*,
(915-35-271) -
4:30 p.m.
Determination of seabed parameters from far field acoustic data.
James L. Buchanan*, U.S. Naval Academy
(915-86-241) -
5:00 p.m.
Global existence and scattering for small-amplitude solutions ofnonlinear wave equations on the three-dimensional lattice.
Pete Schultz*, New York University
(915-39-269)
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2:30 p.m.
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Friday October 11, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Special Session on Reform in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, II
Room 201, Brock Hall
Organizers:
Betsy Darken, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga bdarken@utcum.utc.edu
Aniekan Asukwo Ebiefung, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga aebiefun@utcum.utc.edu
Stephen W. Kuhn, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga skuhn@utcvm.utc.edu
Robert Glenn Wynegar, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
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2:30 p.m.
Why is There So Much Interest in Linear Algebra Reform ?
Charles R. Johnson*, College of William and Mary
(915-98-235) -
3:15 p.m.
Using Software to Motivate, Visualize, and Discover Linear Algebra Concepts
Steven J. Leon*, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
(915-98-243) -
4:10 p.m.
The University of Kentucky Laboratory Calculus Program
Paul M. Eakin,, Jr.*, University of Kentucky
(915-98-245) -
4:40 p.m.
A course in visual problem solving.
Carl Eberhart*, University of Kentucky
(915-98-247)
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2:30 p.m.
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Friday October 11, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Conformal Analysis, I
Room 401, Brock Hall
Organizers:
David Howard Hamilton, University of Maryland, College Park dhh@math.umd.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Some local results related to the Bloch and Landau constants.
Albert Baernstein,, II*, Washington University
Jade Vinson, Washington University
(915-30-329) -
3:00 p.m.
Extremal domains for eigenvalues of Laplacians
Richard Snyder Laugesen*, Johns Hopkins University
Carlo Morpurgo, University of Texas
(915-35-174) -
3:30 p.m.
Harmonic measure of curves in the disk.
Donald E. Marshall*, University of Washington
Carl Sundberg, University of Tennessee
(915-30-313) -
4:00 p.m.
Harmonic Measure of Curves in the Disk
Carl Sundberg*, University of Tennessee
(915-30-308) -
4:30 p.m.
Paraexponentials, Muckenhoupt weights, and resolvents of dyadic paraproducts.
Cristina Pereyra, Princeton University
Lesley Ward*, Rice University
(915-42-186) -
5:00 p.m.
Conformal measures for rational functions revisited.
M. Urba\'nski*, University of North Texas
(915-30-315) -
5:30 p.m.
Harmonic measure and metric estimates of Julia sets.
Alexander Volberg*, Michigan State
(915-30-316) -
6:00 p.m.
Escaping geodesics of Riemann surfaces and applications.
Jos\'e L. Fern\'andez*, Universidad Aut\'onoma de Madrid
(915-30-324)
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2:30 p.m.
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Friday October 11, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Applied Probability, II
Room 103, University Center
Organizers:
Thomas Kozubowski, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga tkozubow@cecasun.utc.edu
Anna Katarzyna Panorska, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga panorska@utkux.utcc.utk.edu
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2:30 p.m.
An interpolation formula and its (many) consequences
Christian Houdr\'e*, Georgia Institute of Technology
(915-60-75) -
3:00 p.m.
A logarithmic hypercontraction inequality.
Jerzy Szulga*,
(915-60-154) -
3:30 p.m.
Random sphere of influence graphs
Tae K. Chalker, Department of Mathematics, Occidental College
Anant P. Godbole*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Michigan Tech University.
Joshua Radcliff, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan
Otto G. Ruehr, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Michigan Tech University
(915-60-22) -
4:00 p.m.
Non-linear Models for Time Series Using Mixtures of Experts
Robert J . Adler*,
(915-60-163) -
4:30 p.m.
Limit Theorems for Discounted-Sum Decision Processes in Multiple-Asset Sales and Energy Storage
Robert P. Kertz*, Georgia Institute of Technology
(915-62-86) -
5:00 p.m.
Extremal properties of random fields
Malcolm R. Leadbetter*, University of NC at Chapel Hill
(915-60-262) -
5:30 p.m.
Optimal Adaptive Control of a Class of Partially Observed Stochastic Control Systems.
Kurt Helmes*, University of Kentucky
(915-60-359)
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2:30 p.m.
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Friday October 11, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Dynamical Systems and Continuum Theory, II
Room 117, University Center
Organizers:
John Clyde Mayer, University of Alabama, Birmingham mayer@Vorteb.math.uab.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Organization of parameter space for simple circle maps
Karen Brucks*, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
(915-58-250) -
3:00 p.m.
Typical limit sets of critical points for interval maps
Alexander Blokh*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Micha\l\ Misiurewicz, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis
(915-58-261) -
3:30 p.m.
Collet-Eckmann maps are unstable
Alexander Blokh, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Micha\l\ Misiurewicz*, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis
(915-58-258) -
4:00 p.m.
Jumps in Rotation Sets at Crises
Kathleen Alligood*, George Mason University
(915-58-285) -
4:30 p.m.
Indecomposable continua in fluid flow past a spatial array of cylinders.
Judy Kennedy*, University of Delaware
Miguel Sanjuan, Univesity of Madrid
celso Grebogi Ipst, University of Maryland
James A. Yorke, University of Maryland
(915-54-184) -
5:00 p.m.
A further non Aubry-Mather annulus diffeomorphism.
Mark H. Turpin*, University of Hartford
(915-58-190)
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2:30 p.m.
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Friday October 11, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Set-theoretic Topology, I
Room 405, Brock Hall
Organizers:
Peter J. Nyikos, University of South Carolina nyikos@math.sc.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Some Results on Covering Properties
Zoltan T. Balogh*, Miami University
(915-54-240) -
3:00 p.m.
{Diagonal Conditions in Generalized Ordered Spaces}
David J. Lutzer*, College of William and Mary
(915-54-210) -
3:30 p.m.
Property III in Generalized Ordered Spaces
Harold R Bennett*, Texas Tech University
(915-54-211) -
4:00 p.m.
On Dense Subspaces of Generalized Ordered Spaces
Steven D. Purisch*, Barry University
Harold R. Bennett, Texas Tech University
David J. Lutzer, College of William and Mary
(915-54-323) -
4:30 p.m.
Monotone Insertion Properties of Stratifiable Spaces
Peter Nyikos, University of South Carolina
Chunliang Pan*, University of South Carolina
(915-54-232) -
5:00 p.m.
Neighborhood assignments: A unified approach to metrization and uniformity.
Richard Hodel*, Duke University
(915-54-328)
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2:30 p.m.
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Friday October 11, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Inverse Spectral Problems For Differential Operators, I
Room 402, Brock Hall
Organizers:
Peter Anton Perry, University of Kentucky perry@ms.uky.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Lower Bounds for the First Eigenvalues of the Clamped Plate and Buckling Problems
Mark S. Ashbaugh*, University of Missouri-Columbia
Rafael D. Benguria, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile
Richard S. Laugesen, Johns Hopkins University
(915-35-128) -
3:00 p.m.
Inverse Eigenvalue Problems on Directed Graphs
Robert C. Carlson*,
(915-34-121) -
3:30 p.m.
Inverse Spectral Theory and the Borg System
Lester F. Caudill, Jr.*, University of Richmond
Peter A. Perry, University of Kentucky
Albert W. Schueller, University of Kentucky
(915-34-178) -
4:00 p.m.
Heat Content Invariants
Sylvie Desjardins*, University of Ottawa
(915-58-292) -
4:30 p.m.
Trace formulas and inverse spectral problems.
Fritz Gesztesy*, University of Missouri
(915-34-179) -
5:00 p.m.
Degeneracies in the spectra of self-adjoint operators
Mikhail Teytel*, University of Pennsylvania
(915-46-34)
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2:30 p.m.
Saturday October 12, 1996
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Saturday October 12, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Commutative Ring Theory, III
Room 204, University Center
Organizers:
David F. Anderson, University of Tennessee, Knoxville anderson@novell.math.utk.edu
David E. Dobbs, University of Tennessee, Knoxville dobbs@novell.math.utk.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Warfield Domains
Herman Pat Goeters*, Auburn University
(915-13-47) -
8:30 a.m.
Numbers of generators of ideals in zero-dimensional group rings
James S. Okon,
David E. Rush,
J Paul Vicknair*,
(915-13-257) -
9:00 a.m.
Anodality
Gabriel Picavet*, Universite Blaise Pascal
(915-13-50) -
9:30 a.m.
Some relations between finite conductor property and coherence.
Sarah Glaz*, The University of Connecticut
(915-13-286) -
10:00 a.m.
Coherent-like conditions in pullbacks.
Stefania Gabelli, Universita di Roma
N. G. Houston*, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
(915-13-276) -
10:30 a.m.
Semi homogeneous domains
Muhammad Zafrullah*,
D. D. Anderson, University of Iowa
(915-13-265)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 12, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Galois Theory, III
Room 212, University Center
Organizers:
Kevin R. Coombes, University of Maryland, College Park krc@math.umd.edu
Helmut Voelklein, University of Florida helmut@math.ufl.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Local Fundamental Groups of Algebraic Varieties
Shreeram S. Abhyankar*, Purdue University
(915-14-26) -
8:30 a.m.
More Classical Groups as Galois Groups
Paul A. Loomis*, Purdue University
(915-12-216) -
9:00 a.m.
$GL(d)$ coverings of the projective line in characteristic $p$.
Ganapathy S. Sundaram*, Purdue University
(915-12-242) -
9:30 a.m.
Frattini Embedding Problems
Bernd Heinrich Matzat*, Univ. Heidelberg
(915-12-230) -
10:00 a.m.
Explicit regular realization of transitive groups of low degree
Gunter Martin Malle*, Universit\"at Heidelberg
(915-12-234) -
10:30 a.m.
Isometries of Quadratic Forms Characterize All $DC$-Extensions
John R. Swallow*, Davidson College
(915-12-105)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 12, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Matrix Theory, III
Room 102C, University Center
Organizers:
Shu-An Hu, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Zhongshan Li, Georgia State University matzli@gsusgi2.gsu.edu
Ronald Lee Smith, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga rsmith@utcvm.utc.edu
Frank Uhlig, Auburn University, Auburn uhligfd@mail.auburn.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Kostant's convexity theorem and compact classical groups
Tin-Yau TAM*, Auburn University
(915-15-109) -
8:45 a.m.
Special Classes of Positive and Completely Positive Maps
Chi-Kwong Li*, The College of William and Mary
(915-15-84) -
9:15 a.m.
Consecutive-column and -row properties of matrices and theLoewner-Whitney factorization
Thomas L. Markham*, University of South Carolina
(915-15-125) -
10:00 a.m.
Row Appending Maps, $\Psi$-Functions, and ImmanantInequalities for Hermitian Positive Semidefinite Matrices
Thomas H. Pate, Jr.*, Auburn University
(915-15-338) -
10:30 a.m.
Interlacing Theorems and Structured Matrices
Peter Nylen*, Auburn University
Frank Uhlig, Auburn University
(915-15-48)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 12, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Mathematical Aspects of Wave Propogation Phenomena, II
Room 301, Brock Hall
Organizers:
B. Belinskiy, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga bbelinsk@utcvm.utc.edu
Yongzhi Xu, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
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8:00 a.m.
Spectral asymptotics for Laplacian in domains with fractal boundaries.
Stanislav Molchanov, UNC at Charlotte
Boris R. Vainberg*, UNC at Charlotte
(915-35-225) -
8:30 a.m.
Application of Zero Range Potentials for Fractures Modelling in Fluid Loaded Elastic Plates
Ivan V. Andronov*, Dept. of Mathematical \& Computational Physics, Institute in Physics, University of St.Petersburg
(915-35-71) -
9:00 a.m.
An Exact, Well-Posed, One-Way Reformulation of the Helmholtz Equation
Louis Fishman*, Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University
(915-35-51) -
9:30 a.m.
Propagation of singularities phenomena for equations of Tricomi type
Kevin R. Payne*, University of Miami
(915-35-59) -
10:00 a.m.
Exact and approximate radiation boundary conditions for the numericalsimulation of waves
Thomas Hagstrom*, The University of New Mexico
(915-65-124) -
10:30 a.m.
Boundary Value Contact Acoustic Problems
Boris P. Belinskiy*, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
(915-35-212)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 12, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Reform in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, III
Room 201, Brock Hall
Organizers:
Betsy Darken, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga bdarken@utcum.utc.edu
Aniekan Asukwo Ebiefung, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga aebiefun@utcum.utc.edu
Stephen W. Kuhn, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga skuhn@utcvm.utc.edu
Robert Glenn Wynegar, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
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8:00 a.m.
Multivariable calculus from graphical, numerical, andsymbolic points of view
Paul Zorn*, St Olaf College
(915-98-187) -
8:30 a.m.
RUMEC: An education research community in mathematics and a framework for its operation.
Ed Dubinsky*, Georgia Stte University
(915-98-208) -
9:30 a.m.
The Development of Students' Graphical Understanding of the Derivative
Mark Asiala,
Jim Cottrill*,
Ed Dubinsky,
Keith E. Schwingendorf,
(915-98-255) -
10:00 a.m.
Mental constructions used in understanding the chain rule.
Julie M. Clark*, Emory & Henry College
(915-98-281) -
10:30 a.m.
The Development of Students' Understanding of Permutations and Symmetries
Mark E. Asiala, Georgia State University
Anne E. Brown, Indiana University South Bend
Jennifer B. Kleiman*, Georgia State University
David M. Mathews, Central Michigan Univerity
(915-20-287)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 12, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Applied Probability, III
Room 103, University Center
Organizers:
Thomas Kozubowski, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga tkozubow@cecasun.utc.edu
Anna Katarzyna Panorska, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga panorska@utkux.utcc.utk.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Tail Parameter Estimation for Linear Processes
Somnath Datta*, University of Georgia
(915-60-79) -
8:30 a.m.
Approximating the distribution of extreme values for random fields via geometric methods.
William P. McCormick*,
(915-60-73) -
9:00 a.m.
Tails of weighted sums of iid standard Weibull random variables
Pawel Hitczenko*, NC State University
(915-60-89) -
9:30 a.m.
The QQ-estimator and Heavy Tails
Marie F. Kratz*,
Sidney I. Resnick,
(915-62-152) -
10:00 a.m.
CED Model for Asset Returns and Fractal Market Hypothesis
Aleksander Weron*,
(915-60-153) -
10:30 a.m.
An estimate of semi-stable measure of small balls in Banach spaces with applications
Balram S Rajput*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
(915-60-88)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 12, 1996, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Dynamical Systems and Continuum Theory, III
Room 117, University Center
Organizers:
John Clyde Mayer, University of Alabama, Birmingham mayer@Vorteb.math.uab.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Building blocks for Julia sets
John Mayer*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
(915-58-249) -
8:30 a.m.
Properties of subcontinua of Julia sets
Lex G. Oversteegen*,
(915-54-295) -
9:00 a.m.
Recent results on the boundaries of Siegel disks
James T. Rogers,, Jr.*,
(915-58-139) -
9:30 a.m.
Prime ends revisited:A geometric viewpoint.
Carsten Lunde Petersen*, IMFUFA, Roskilde University, Denmark
(915-30-165) -
10:00 a.m.
Structure of the closure of the unstable manifold near homoclinic tangency
Marcy Barge*, Montana State University
Beverly Diamond, College of Charleston
(915-58-284) -
10:30 a.m.
Rotation intervals for inverse limit spaces
Beverly Diamond*, College of Charleston
(915-58-264)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 12, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, III
Room 102A, University Center
Organizers:
James R. Ward, Jr., University of Alabama, Birmingham ward@math.uab.edu
Gilbert A. Weinstein, University of Alabama, Birmingham weinstei@math.uab.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Convergence in the Fisher's equation with time almost periodic fitnesses.
W. Shen*, Auburn University
Yingtei Yi, Georgia Tech
(915-35-141) -
9:00 a.m.
The space of conformal metrics with constant scalar curvature and constant boundary mean curvature
Zheng-Chao Han*, Rutgers University
YanYan Li, Rutgers University
(915-35-222) -
9:30 a.m.
The Dirichlet problem for complex Monge-Ampere equations in non-pseudoconvex domains
Bo Guan*,
(915-35-275) -
10:00 a.m.
Phase Separation in a Multi--Component System
Lia Bronsard*, McMaster Univ.
Barbara Stoth, Universit\"at Bonn
(915-35-94) -
10:30 a.m.
Singularly perturbed Hodgkin-Huxley systems.
William Fitzgibbon*, University of Houston
Mary Parrott, University of South Florida
Yuncheng You, University of South Florida
(915-35-07)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday October 12, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology, III
Room 102B, University Center
Organizers:
Alexander Nikolaevich Dranishnikov, University of Florida dranish@math.ufl.edu
Jerzy Dydak, University of Tennessee, Knoxville dydak@math.utk.edu
James E. Keesling, University of Florida jek@math.ufl.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Covering spaces of manifolds
David G. Wright*, Brigham Young University
(915-57-233) -
9:00 a.m.
Enlarging ${ANR}$'s with ${SDAP} 2$-manifolds.
Tadeusz Dobrowolski*, Pittsburg State University
(915-57-181) -
9:30 a.m.
Countable Dimensionality and Dimension Raising Cell-like Maps.
Jan J. Dijkstra, Department of Mathematics, The University of Alabama
Jerzy K. Mogilski*, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Brownsville
(915-54-289) -
10:00 a.m.
Characterizations of infinite-dimensional manifold triples
Tatsuhiko Yagasaki*, Department of Mathematics, Kyoto Institute of Technology
(915-57-44) -
10:30 a.m.
The fundamental groups of 1-dimensional spaces.
Eda Katsuya, Waseda Univesity
Kazuhiro Kawamura*, University of Tsukuba
(915-55-270)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday October 12, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Conformal Analysis, II
Room 401, Brock Hall
Organizers:
David Howard Hamilton, University of Maryland, College Park dhh@math.umd.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Lattice constants and the translation length of a M\"{o}biustransformation.
Frederick W. Gehring*, University of Michigan
(915-30-304) -
9:00 a.m.
Polymodal box mappings.
Grzegorz Swiatek*, Penn State
(915-30-309) -
9:30 a.m.
Hausdorff dimension of Julia set
Jacek Graczyk*, California Inst of Tech
(915-30-331) -
10:00 a.m.
Spectral theory, Hausdorff dimension, and the topology of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Richard D. Canary*,
Yair N . Minsky,
Edward C. Taylor,
(915-57-288) -
10:30 a.m.
Complex Projective Structures on Kleinian Groups
Albert Marden*, University of Minnesota
(915-30-334)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday October 12, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Set-theoretic Topology, II
Room 405, Brock Hall
Organizers:
Peter J. Nyikos, University of South Carolina nyikos@math.sc.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Forcing new results on compact spaces.
Piotr Koszmider*,
(915-04-302) -
9:00 a.m.
On the existence of universals
Mirna D\v zamonja*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Saharon Shelah, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Rutgers University
(915-04-325) -
9:30 a.m.
Covering a function on the plane by two continuous functions on an uncountable square - the consistency
Mariusz Rabus*,
Saharon Shelah,
(915-03-201) -
10:00 a.m.
Countable Fr\'echet topological groups under the Continuum Hypothesis
Alexander Y. Shibakov*,
(915-54-177) -
10:30 a.m.
A non-metrizable space whose countable power is $\sigma$-metrizable
Gary Gruenhage*, Auburn University
(915-54-254)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday October 12, 1996, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Inverse Spectral Problems For Differential Operators, II
Room 402, Brock Hall
Organizers:
Peter Anton Perry, University of Kentucky perry@ms.uky.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Inverse problem for a semicrystal (two-dimensional case)
Yulia Karpeshina*, Dept. of Mathematics, UAB
(915-35-220) -
9:00 a.m.
Continuous Families of Riemannian manifolds isospectral on functions but not isospectral on 1-forms.
Ruth Gornet*, Texas Tech University
(915-53-145) -
9:30 a.m.
Inverse nodal problems and discretization
Julio Moro*, Universidad Carlos III,
(915-15-252) -
10:00 a.m.
Two-Dimensional Inverse Spectral Problems
Vassilis George Papanicolaou*, Wichita State University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
(915-35-14) -
10:30 a.m.
Spectral Operators Generated by Equations of Damped String.Transformation Operators Method.
Marianna A. Shubov*, Texas Tech University
(915-49-203)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday October 12, 1996, 8:45 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Contributed Papers, I
Room 406, Brock Hall
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8:45 a.m.
Conformal invariants of smooth domains and extremal quasiconformalmappings of ellipses
Shanshuang Yamg*, Emory University, Atlanta GA 30322
(915-30-11) -
9:00 a.m.
Quasi-self-similar Jordan Curves
David A. Herron*, University of Cincinati
(915-30-28) -
9:15 a.m.
Reliability and Semigroups
Ginger H. Rowell, Lander University
Kyle T . Siegrist*, Univ Alabama Huntsville
(915-60-299) -
9:30 a.m.
A D/D/1 queueing process with varying service times and an application to a D/G/1 process
John Coffey*, Purdue University Calumet
(915-60-46) -
9:45 a.m.
Perturbing a rectangular membrane with a restorative force: Effects on eigenvalues and eigenfunctions.
Joyce R. McLaughlin, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Arturo Portnoy*, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
(915-35-35) -
10:00 a.m.
Linear Bilevel Programs with Multiple Inner Decision Makers
Yi-Hsin Liu,, Ph.D.*,
(915-90-171) -
10:15 a.m.
The european option with hereditary price structures.
Mou-Hsiung Chang, Univesity of Alabama
Roger Youree*,
(915-90-175) -
10:30 a.m.
CRITERION OF P-GROUPS.
Boris S. Khots*,
(915-22-134)
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8:45 a.m.
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Saturday October 12, 1996, 11:05 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
Invited Address
Strings, branes and the structure of space-time.
Room 110, University Center
Orlando Alvarez*, University of Miami
(915-00-04) -
Saturday October 12, 1996, 1:25 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
Invited Address
The geometry of Kleinian limit sets.
Room 110, University Center
Christopher J. Bishop*, State University of New York, Stony Brook
(915-00-01) -
Saturday October 12, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Galois Theory, IV
Room 212, University Center
Organizers:
Kevin R. Coombes, University of Maryland, College Park krc@math.umd.edu
Helmut Voelklein, University of Florida helmut@math.ufl.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Generalizing Conway-Parker for effective construction of Braid Orbits
Michael D. Fried*, UC,Irvine
(915-20-335) -
3:00 p.m.
Fields of definition of covers over the $p$-adics
Pierre D\`ebes*, Universit\'e Lille 1
(915-12-253) -
3:30 p.m.
Representability of Hurwitz functors over $\Bbb{Z}$
Stefan Wewers*, Institut for Experimental Mathematics, Ellernstr. 29, 45326 Essen, Germany
(915-14-191) -
4:00 p.m.
Coverings of the complement of a plane curve and connections with Hurwitz spaces
Michael Dettweiler*, Universit\"at Erlangen
(915-20-142) -
4:30 p.m.
Interpolation of galois branched covers
Kevin R. Coombes*, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland at College Park
(915-14-296) -
5:00 p.m.
Subvarieties of Hurwitz spaces
Helmut Voelklein*, University of Florida
(915-12-96)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday October 12, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, IV
Room 102A, University Center
Organizers:
James R. Ward, Jr., University of Alabama, Birmingham ward@math.uab.edu
Gilbert A. Weinstein, University of Alabama, Birmingham weinstei@math.uab.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Heteroclinic solutions in $R^2$ for elliptic systems with multiple well potentials
Stanley Alama*, McMaster Univ.
Lia Bronsard, McMaster Univ.
Changfeng Gui, Univ. of British Columbia
(915-35-92) -
3:00 p.m.
Harmonic maps of the hyperbolic space and development ofsingularities for wave maps and Yang-Mills fields.
Thierry Cazenave,
Jalal Shatah,
A. Shadi Tahvildar-Zadeh*, Princeton University
(915-58-131) -
3:30 p.m.
A nonlinear Dirichlet problem at a critiical exponent.
Alexandra Kurepa*, North Carolina A & T St U
(915-35-176) -
4:00 p.m.
Existence of positive solutions for semilinear elliptic systems without variational structure
Henghui Zou*,
(915-35-272) -
4:30 p.m.
The effects of the external environment on competition in a habitat patch.
Robert Stephen Cantrell, University of Miami
Chris Cosner*, Universityof Miami
William Fagan, University of Washington
(915-92-319) -
5:00 p.m.
Some Recent Results for Balanced Reaction Diffusion Systems
William E. Fitzgibbon, University of Houston
Selwyn L. Hollis, Armstrong State College
Jeffrey J. Morgan*, Texas A&M University
(915-35-251)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday October 12, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Special Session on Matrix Theory, IV
Room 102C, University Center
Organizers:
Shu-An Hu, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Zhongshan Li, Georgia State University matzli@gsusgi2.gsu.edu
Ronald Lee Smith, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga rsmith@utcvm.utc.edu
Frank Uhlig, Auburn University, Auburn uhligfd@mail.auburn.edu
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2:30 p.m.
An Introduction to Complex Sign Pattern Matrices
Carolyn A. Eschenbach*, Georgia State University
(915-15-223) -
3:20 p.m.
Determining the Sign Patterns of Matrices Whose Inverses Have a Prescribed Pattern
Frank J. Hall*, Georgis State University
(915-15-149) -
3:50 p.m.
Quadrangular graphs and combinatorially orthogonal matrices.
Peter Gibson*, University of Alabama
Guo-Hui Zhang, University of Alabama
(915-15-126) -
4:20 p.m.
Sign Patterns for Matrix Semipositivity
Charles R. Johnson,
William D. McCuaig,
David P. Stanford*,
(915-15-82) -
4:50 p.m.
Commutativity and Structure
James R. Weaver*, Univ. of West Florida
(915-15-53)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday October 12, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology, IV
Room 102B, University Center
Organizers:
Alexander Nikolaevich Dranishnikov, University of Florida dranish@math.ufl.edu
Jerzy Dydak, University of Tennessee, Knoxville dydak@math.utk.edu
James E. Keesling, University of Florida jek@math.ufl.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Local embeddings of homology manifolds.
Washington Mio*, Florida State University
John L. Bryant, Florida State University
(915-57-182) -
3:00 p.m.
The gap between Steenrod and coherent singular homology theories
Akira Koyama*,
(915-55-321) -
3:30 p.m.
Ends of Manifolds
Craig R. Guilbault*, U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
(915-57-169) -
4:00 p.m.
The $l_p$-cohomology and the conformal dimension of hyperbolic cones.
Gabor Elek*, Purdue University
(915-58-32) -
4:30 p.m.
Localizations in dimension theory
Katsuya Yokoi*, Institute of Mathematics, University of Tsukuba
(915-55-159)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday October 12, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Mathematical Aspects of Wave Propogation Phenomena, III
Room 301, Brock Hall
Organizers:
B. Belinskiy, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga bbelinsk@utcvm.utc.edu
Yongzhi Xu, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
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2:30 p.m.
A comparison of stability results for wave equations and elastic systems.
Mary Ann Horn*, Vanderbilt University
(915-93-110) -
3:00 p.m.
Wellposedness and Stabilization of PDE's Arising in Nonlinear Elasticity
Irena M. Lasiecka*, University of Virginia
(915-35-267) -
3:30 p.m.
Optimal Control Solution of an Inverse Wave Problem
Suzanne M. Lenhart*, University of Tennessee
(915-35-54) -
4:00 p.m.
Spectral Properties of 3-dim Spherically Symmetric Damped Wave Equation and Applications to Control Theory.
Marianna A. Shubov*, Texas Tech University
(915-49-202) -
4:30 p.m.
Wave Interactions in Two-Dimensional Conservation Laws
Sun\v{c}ica \v{C}ani\'{c}, Iowa State University
Barbara Lee Keyfitz*, University of Houston
(915-35-146) -
5:00 p.m.
Wave equations with damping boundary conditions.
Ronald Grimmer, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Min MH. He*, Kent State University-Trumbull Campus
(915-35-192) -
5:30 p.m.
Global Instability of Equilibria
David L. Russell*,
(915-35-326)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday October 12, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Conformal Analysis, III
Room 401, Brock Hall
Organizers:
David Howard Hamilton, University of Maryland, College Park dhh@math.umd.edu
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2:30 p.m.
{Periodic quasiregular mappings of finite order}
David Drasin*, Purdue
(915-30-303) -
3:00 p.m.
Semi-conjugacies between some geometrically finite and geometrically infinite Kleinian group actions on the Riemann sphere
Erica G Klarreich*, SUNY at Stony Brook
(915-51-218) -
3:30 p.m.
Uniformizing ``dessins'' via circle packing.
Ken Stephenson*, niversity of Tennessee
(915-30-314) -
4:00 p.m.
Dessins, circle packings, and discrete Belyi maps
Phil Bowers*, University of South Florida
(915-30-301) -
4:30 p.m.
On Removability of Sets for Quasiconformal Mappings
Jang-Mei Wu*, University of Illinois, Mathematics Department
(915-30-129) -
5:00 p.m.
Spaces with BLD coordinates.
Juha Heinonen*, University of Michigan
(915-30-311)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday October 12, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Applied Probability, IV
Room 103, University Center
Organizers:
Thomas Kozubowski, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga tkozubow@cecasun.utc.edu
Anna Katarzyna Panorska, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga panorska@utkux.utcc.utk.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Generalized hitting and quitting kernels, with applications to classical potential theory
Olav H. Kallenberg*,
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3:00 p.m.
Transport coefficients and limit theorems for interacting particles systems.
Leonid Bunimovich*, Georgia Institute of Technology
(915-60-138) -
3:30 p.m.
On Positive Harris Recurrence for Multiclass Queueing Networks: A Unified Approach via Fluid Limit Models
Jim Dai*,
(915-60-130) -
4:00 p.m.
Construction of a stochastic motion in Hilbert space based on kinematics.
Leszek P. Gawarecki*, GMI Engineering and Management Institute
(915-60-18) -
4:30 p.m.
A nonlinear differential equation associated with a class of interacting diffusion systems
Jie Xiong*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
(915-60-77) -
5:00 p.m.
Diffusion in flows of hydrodynamic type
Wojbor A. Woyczynski*,
(915-60-132) -
5:30 p.m.
A class of nonstationary point processes and their application to queueing systems.
Peter C. Kiessler*, SIAM
(915-60-294)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday October 12, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Dynamical Systems and Continuum Theory, IV
Room 117, University Center
Organizers:
John Clyde Mayer, University of Alabama, Birmingham mayer@Vorteb.math.uab.edu
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2:30 p.m.
A Weakly Chainable Tree-Like Continuum without the Fixed Point Property
Piotr Minc*, Auburn University
(915-54-189) -
3:00 p.m.
Sandra Shields, College of Charleston, Charleston SC 29424 "Branched surfaces and the universal covers of foliations." Preliminary report
Sandra L. Shields*,
(915-58-215) -
3:30 p.m.
Images of the Hairy Arc
Lex G. Oversteegen,
Mark P. Widener*,
(915-54-207) -
4:00 p.m.
Nonexistence of a Lift of a Triod Rotation to a Map on an Interval
Sean I. MacDonald*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
(915-54-280) -
4:30 p.m.
Monotone Open Homogeneity of Some Non-Homogeneous Plane Continua
Carl R. Seaquist*, TTU
(915-58-263) -
5:00 p.m.
Maps Onto Hereditarily Indecomposable Circle-Like Continua
Wayne Lewis*, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409-1042
(915-54-283)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday October 12, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Set-theoretic Topology, III
Room 405, Brock Hall
Organizers:
Peter J. Nyikos, University of South Carolina nyikos@math.sc.edu
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2:30 p.m.
The topology of elementary submodels.
Franklin Tall*, University of Toronto
(915-54-343) -
3:00 p.m.
Absolutely countably compact spaces and property~a)
Jerry E. Vaughan*, Universityof North Carolina at Greensboro
(915-54-327) -
3:30 p.m.
Finite approximation of compact Hausdorff spaces.
Ralph D. Kopperman*, City College, CUNY
Richard G. Wilson, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa
(915-54-340)
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2:30 p.m.
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Saturday October 12, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Inverse Spectral Problems For Differential Operators, III
Room 402, Brock Hall
Organizers:
Peter Anton Perry, University of Kentucky perry@ms.uky.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Quantum limits for hyperbolic surfaces
Scott Andrew Wolpert*, University of Maryland
(915-58-157) -
3:00 p.m.
Quasi-rigidity of hyperbolic $3$-manifolds and scattering theory
David Borthwick, University of Michigan
Alan McRae, University of Indiana
Edward Taylor*, University of Michigan
(915-51-160) -
3:30 p.m.
Trace-formula methods in the spectral geometry of graphs
Gregory T. Quenell*, Oberlin College
(915-05-164) -
4:00 p.m.
An inverse spectral problem for a nonnormal first order differential operator.
Steven J. Cox*, Rice University
Roger Knobel, University of Texas, Pan American
(915-46-188)
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2:30 p.m.