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1996 Fall Southeastern Sectional Meeting
Chattanooga, TN, October 11-12, 1996
Meeting #915

Associate secretaries:
Robert J Daverman, AMS daverman@math.utk.edu

Special Session on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations

  • 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

    • 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)

  • 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

    • 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)

  • 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

    • 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)

  • 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

    • 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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