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1998 Spring Central Section Meeting
Manhattan, KS, March 27-28, 1998
Meeting #932

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

Special Session on Nonlinear Problems

  • Friday March 27, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
    Special Session on Nonlinear Problems, I

    Room 131, Cardwell Hall
    Organizers:
    Lev Kapitanski, Kansas State University levkapit@math.ksu.edu
    Eugene Wayne, Pennsylvania State University

    • 9:00 a.m.
      Global existence and global nonexistence of solutions of the Cauchy problem for a nonlinearly dampedwave equation.
      Howard A. Levine*, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
      S. R. Park, Kiemung University, Teagu, Korea
      James B. Serrin, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455
      (932-35-135)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      Nonlinearity versus linearity in ridge approximation.
      Konstantin I. Oskolkov*, Department of Mathematics, USC
      (932-41-163)
    • 10:00 a.m.
      Optimal heat kernel estimates for Schr\"odinger operators with magnetic fields in two dimensions.
      Michael P Loss*, School of Mathematics, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA, 30332-0160
      Bernd Thaller, Institut fuer Mathematik, Universitaet Graz, Austria
      (932-81-89)
    • 10:30 a.m.
      Discussion
  • Friday March 27, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
    Special Session on Nonlinear Problems, II

    Room 131, Cardwell Hall
    Organizers:
    Lev Kapitanski, Kansas State University levkapit@math.ksu.edu
    Eugene Wayne, Pennsylvania State University

    • 2:30 p.m.
      Asymptotic structures in nonlinear wave equations.
      Jerry L. Bona*, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712
      (932-35-232)
    • 3:00 p.m.
      Stability of traveling waves in birefringent fiber optics.
      Keith S Promislow*, Simon Fraer University
      Yi A Li, U. of Minnesota
      (932-35-124)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      Evans function analysis in the essential spectrum.
      Robert A. Gardner*, Mathematics Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003
      (932-35-136)
    • 4:00 p.m.
      Geometry of singular solutions and self-replicating pulses in the 1-D Gray-Scott model.
      Tasso J. Kaper*, Boston University
      (932-35-149)
    • 4:30 p.m.
      Long-time asymptotics for the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation in a circular domain.
      Vladimir V Varlamov*, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
      (932-35-53)
    • 5:00 p.m.
      Discussion
  • Saturday March 28, 1998, 9:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
    Special Session on Nonlinear Problems, III

    Room 131, Cardwell Hall
    Organizers:
    Lev Kapitanski, Kansas State University levkapit@math.ksu.edu
    Eugene Wayne, Pennsylvania State University

    • 9:30 a.m.
      Discussion
    • 10:00 a.m.
      Convergence of the vanishing viscosity approximation for superpositions of confined eddies.
      Milton C Lopes, Filho, IMECC-UNICAMP
      Helena J. Nussenzveig-Lopes, IMECC-UNICAMP
      Yuxi Zheng*, Indiana University
      (932-35-122)
    • 10:30 a.m.
      Cahn--Hilliard description of secondary flows of a viscous incompressible fluid in an unbounded domain.
      Guido Schneider*, University Hannover
      (932-35-123)
  • Saturday March 28, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
    Special Session on Nonlinear Problems, IV

    Room 131, Cardwell Hall
    Organizers:
    Lev Kapitanski, Kansas State University levkapit@math.ksu.edu
    Eugene Wayne, Pennsylvania State University

    • 2:30 p.m.
      Index theorems and the Heisenberg caluclus.
      Charles L. Epstein*, U. of Penn
      (932-58-150)
    • 3:00 p.m.
      On Limits of Rescaling.
      Igor Y Rodnianski*, Kansas State University
      (932-35-198)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      Evolution semigroups for infinite dimensional cocycles.
      Yuri Latushkin*, University of Missouri
      (932-34-119)
    • 4:00 p.m.
      Invariant Tori for periodically perturbed planar oscillators.
      Carmen Chicone*, University of Missouri
      (932-58-28)
    • 4:30 p.m.
      Discussion
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