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1996 Fall Central Sectional Meeting
Columbia, MO, November 1-3, 1996
Meeting #916

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Special Session on Partial Differential Equations and Mathematical Physics

  • Friday November 1, 1996, 4:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
    Special Session on Partial Differential Equations and Mathematical Physics, I
    Room 109, General Classroom Building
    Organizers:
    Mark S. Ashbaugh, University of Missouri, Columbia mark@ashbaugh.math.missouri.edu

    • 4:00 p.m.
      Pointwise Fourier inversion and the wave equation.
      Mark A. Pinsky*, Northwestern University
      Michael E. Taylor, University of North Carolina
      (916-42-245)
    • 4:30 p.m.
      Embeddings of Weighted Sobolev Spaces, Poincar\'e Inequalities, and Applications
      Richard C Brown*, University of Alabama
      David E Edmunds, University of Sussex
      William D Evans, University of Wales
      (916-35-164)
    • 5:00 p.m.
      Spectral gaps and rates to equilibrium for diffusions in convex domains.
      Robert G. Smits*, Purdue University
      (916-35-261)
    • 5:30 p.m.
      On the Payne-P\'olya-Weinberger Conjecture on the n-dimensionalSphere
      Mark S. Ashbaugh, University of Missouri
      Rafael D. Benguria*, P. Universidad Catolica de Chile
      (916-58-131)
    • 6:00 p.m.
      Sharp fractional integral inequalities, and the spectrum of intertwining operators.
      Carlo Morpurgo*, University of Texas at Austin
      (916-35-231)
    • 6:30 p.m.
      Periodic solutions of a second order superquadratic Hamiltonian system where the potential changes sign
      Andr\'es I \'Avila*, University of Missouri-Columbia
      (916-58-137)

  • Saturday November 2, 1996, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
    Special Session on Partial Differential Equations and Mathematical Physics, II
    Room 109, General Classroom Building
    Organizers:
    Mark S. Ashbaugh, University of Missouri, Columbia mark@ashbaugh.math.missouri.edu

    • 9:00 a.m.
      Isoperimetric bounds for solutions of the heat equation and integrals of Green's functions
      Rodrigo Ba\~nuelos*, Purdue University
      (916-31-68)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      On the optimal placement of boundary conditions.
      Steven J. Cox*, Rice University
      Paul X. Uhlig, Rice University
      (916-35-77)
    • 10:00 a.m.
      Some further results on gradient maximum principles.
      L. E. Payne*, Cornell University
      (916-35-50)
    • 10:30 a.m.
      Trace identities and universal eigenvalue estimates.
      Evans M. Harrell,, III*, Georgia Institue of Technology
      Joachim Stubbe, Forschungsinstitut f\"ur Mathematik, ETH, Z\"urich
      (916-47-259)

  • Saturday November 2, 1996, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
    Special Session on Partial Differential Equations and Mathematical Physics, III
    Room 109, General Classroom Building
    Organizers:
    Mark S. Ashbaugh, University of Missouri, Columbia mark@ashbaugh.math.missouri.edu

    • 2:30 p.m.
      A rearrangement inequality for integrals involving volumes of simplices.
      Albert Baernstein, II*, Washington University
      Eric Carlen, Georgia Institue of Technology
      Michael Loss, Georgia Institue of Technology
      (916-26-181)
    • 3:00 p.m.
      The Essential Spectrum of Relativistic Multi-Particle Operators
      Roger T. Lewis*, University of Alabama, Birmingham
      Heinz Siedentop, Universitetet i Oslo, Norway
      Simeon Vugalter, Radiophysical Research Inst. Russia
      (916-81-186)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      Optimal smoothing and decay estimates for the two dimensional Navier-Stokes equation
      Eric Carlen, Georgia Tech
      Michael Peter Loss*, Georgia Tech
      (916-35-129)
    • 4:00 p.m.
      Buckling eigenvalues for a clamped plate embedded in an elastic medium and related questions.
      Bernhard Kawohl, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
      Howard A. Levine*, Iowa State University
      Waldemar Velte, University of Wurzburg,Germany
      (916-35-37)
    • 4:30 p.m.
      Zeta functions of Laplacians under mass normalization
      Richard Snyder Laugesen*, Johns Hopkins University
      (916-35-182)
    • 5:00 p.m.
      On Hydrodynamic Models of Semiconductor Devices
      Dehua Wang*, University of Chicago
      (916-35-64)
    • 5:30 p.m.
      Entire Large Solutions of Semilinear Elliptic Problems
      Alan V. Lair, Air Force Institute of Technology
      Aihua W. Shaker*, Air Force Institute of technology
      (916-35-06)

  • Sunday November 3, 1996, 10:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
    Special Session on Partial Differential Equations and Mathematical Physics,IV
    Room 109, General Classroom Building
    Organizers:
    Mark S. Ashbaugh, University of Missouri, Columbia mark@ashbaugh.math.missouri.edu

    • 10:00 a.m.
      Spectra of Schrodinger operators on planar domains with endswith unbounded cross-section.
      Julian K Edward*, Florida International University
      (916-35-83)
    • 10:30 a.m.
      The Stochastic Flow of a Dirichlet Eigenvalue
      Steven J. Fromm, University of Wyoming
      Kimberly K. J. Kinateder, Wright State University
      Patrick T. McDonald*, New College of the University of South Florida
      (916-35-238)
    • 11:00 a.m.
      Resonances of the Stratified Wave Equation
      David W. Pravica*, East Carolina University
      (916-35-187)
    • 11:30 a.m.
      Spectral Operators Generated by Damped Hyperbolic Equations.
      Marianna A. Shubov*, Texas Tech University
      (916-49-136)
    • 12:00 p.m.
      Upper Bounds for Spontaneous Bifurcations with Sublinear Growth Functions
      Yaping Liu*, Pittsburg State University
      (916-35-36)
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