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1998 Fall Western Section Meeting
Tucson, AZ, November 13-15, 1998
Meeting #938

Associate secretaries:
Bernard Russo, AMS brusso@math.uci.edu

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Friday November 13, 1998

• Friday November 13, 1998, 6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration and AMS Book Sale and Exhibit
  Lobby, Mathematics
• Friday November 13, 1998, 7:00 p.m.-7:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Universality of the distribution functions of random matrix theory.
  Room 201, Physics & Atmospheric Sciences
  Craig A. Tracy*, University of California, Davis
• Friday November 13, 1998, 8:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m.
  Welcome Reception
  Ventana Room, Marriott University Park

Saturday November 14, 1998

• Saturday November 14, 1998, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration and AMS Book Sale and Exhibit
  Lobby, Mathematics
• Saturday November 14, 1998, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Integrable Systems and Random Matrix Theory, I
  Room 312, Physics & Atmospheric Sciences
  Organizers:
  K. T-R McLaughlin, University of Arizona
  Craig A. Tracy, University of California, Davis tracy@itd.ucdavis.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    On the asymptotic analysis of the Fredholm determinant related to the time dependent temperature correlation function of the Heisenberg XX0 ferromagnet.
    Alexander R Its*, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis
    (938-81-90)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Fredholm Determinants,Random Matrices and Integrable Perturbations.
    Mark A Adler*, Brandeis Umiversity
    (938-60-52)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Distribution functions for random variables .
    Estelle L. Basor*, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
    (938-82-51)
• Saturday November 14, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometry and Lie Groups, I
  Room 501, Mathematics
  Organizers:
  Samuel R. Evens, University of Arizona evens@math.arizona.edu
  Jiang-Hua Lu, University of Arizona jhlu@math.arizona.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    A triangularity result for associated varieties of highest weight modules.
    William M. McGovern*, University of Washington
    (938-17-27)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Singular Loci of Schubert Varieties in a Generalized Flag Variety.
    James B. Carrell*, University of British Columbia
    (938-14-86)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Patterns, Smoothness and Rational Smoothness of Schubert Varieties.
    Sara C. Billey*, MIT
    (938-05-104)
• Saturday November 14, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Spectral Geometry and Its Applications, I
  Room 402, Mathematics
  Organizers:
  Xianzhe Dai, University of Southern California xdai@math.usc.edu
  Leonid Friedlander, University of Arizona friedlan@math.arizona.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Singular Sturm-Liouville theory.
    Rafe Mazzeo*, Stanford University
    Robert McOwen, Northeastern University
    (938-58-19)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Analytic torsion and R-torsion for manifolds with boundary.
    Xianzhe Dai*, UCSB and USC
    Hao Fang, Princeton University
    (938-58-121)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Spectrum of complete noncompact manifolds.
    Jiaping Wang*, Cornell University
    (938-58-15)
• Saturday November 14, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematics and Biology, I
  Room 220, Physics & Atmospheric Sciences
  Organizers:
  Jim Cushing, University of Arizona cushing@math.arizona.edu
  Shandelle M. Henson, University of Arizona henson@math.arizona.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Hamiltonian Limits and Subharmonic Resonance in Ecological Models: I. From the Pendulum \dots.
    William M. Schaffer*, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Program in Applied Mathematics, University of Arizona.
    Aaron A. King, Program in Applied Mathematics, University of Arizona
    (938-92-75)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Hamiltonian Limits and Subharmonic Resonance in Ecological Models: II. \dots to the Lynx and the Hare.
    Aaron A. King*, Program in Applied Mathematics, University of Arizona
    William M. Schaffer, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Program in Applied Mathematics, University of Arizona.
    (938-92-76)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Variations on the complex formation approach in modeling predator prey relations, mating, and sexual disease transmission.
    Horst R. Thieme*, Arizona State University
    Jinling Yang, Arizona State University
    (938-92-37)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    How to Construct Better High-Dimensional Population Models.
    Yang Kuang*, ASU
    (938-92-33)
• Saturday November 14, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Classical and Quantum Mechanical Lattice Spin Systems, I
  Room 237, Bio Sciences West
  Organizers:
  Tom Kennedy, University of Arizona tgk@math.arizona.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Non-mean-field behavior in finite-dimensional spin glasses.
    Charles M. Newman, New York University
    Daniel L. Stein*, University of Arizona
    (938-82-41)
  • 9:35 a.m.
    Phase Structure of a Lattice Model of Flux Lines.
    Christian Borgs, Microsoft Research
    Jennifer T. Chayes*, Microsoft Research
    Christopher King, Northeastern University
    Neal Madras, York University
    (938-82-138)
  • 10:10 a.m.
    Edge states of quantum spin chains.
    Bruno L Nachtergaele*, University of California, Davis
    (938-82-105)
• Saturday November 14, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Dynamical Systems, I
  Room 208, Bio Sciences West
  Organizers:
  Marek Rychlik, University of Arizona rychlik@u.arizona.edu
  Maciej P. Wojtkowski, University of Arizona maciejw@math.arizona.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Bootstrap Estimates of Chaotic Dynamics.
    Eric Kostelich*, Arizona State University
    (938-58-44)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Understanding renormalization.
    Ricardo Perez-Marco*, UCLA
    (938-30-47)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The spectra of nonnegative integer matrices via formal power series.
    Ormes S Nicholas*, University of Texas
    Ki H Kim, Alabama State University
    Fred W. Roush, Alabama State University
    (938-15-30)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Rational attractors and irrational continua for maps in the Lozi family.
    Chris Cleveland*, Adjunct
    (938-58-22)
• Saturday November 14, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry, I
  Room 219, Bio Sciences West
  Organizers:
  Douglas Ulmer, University of Arizona ulmer@math.arizona.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Low-degree points on curves: a worked example.
    Joseph L. Wetherell*, University of Southern California
    (938-11-125)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Arithmetic of some curves of high genus .
    Pavlos Tzermias*, University of Arizona
    (938-11-89)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Jacobians of genus one curves.
    Sang Yook An, The University of Arizona
    Seog Young Kim, The University of Arizona
    David C. Marshall*, The University of Arizona
    Susan H. Marshall, The University of Arizona
    William G. McCallum, The University of Arizona
    Alexander R. Perlis, The University of Arizona
    (938-14-134)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Jacobians of genus one curves.
    Catherine H O'Neil, Mrs*, Harvard University
    (938-11-83)
• Saturday November 14, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Filaments, Interfaces and Patterns, I
  Room 224, Physics & Atmospheric Sciences
  Organizers:
  Nicholas Ercolani, University of Arizona ercolani@math.arizona.edu
  Jerry Moloney, University of Arizona
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Phase field theories and material interfaces.
    Chaim Charach, Ben-Gurion Univ
    Paul C Fife*, University of Utah
    (938-82-57)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Boundary Homogenization of Kinetic and Fluid Models for Thin Film Deposition.
    Christian A Ringhofer*, Arizona State University
    (938-70-131)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Atomistic, Continuum and Bulk Models for Epitaxial Growth.
    Russel E. Caflisch*, UCLA
    (938-82-78)
• Saturday November 14, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Striking the Balance:Theory, Technique, and Applications in Lower Division Mathematics Courses, I
  Room 242E, Shantz
  Organizers:
  Joseph Watkins, University of Arizona jwatkins@math.arizona.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    A Non-Radical Version of `Calculus Reform'.
    Neal Koblitz*, University of Washington
    (938-98-09)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Balancing Theory and Applications in Multivariable Calculus.
    William G McCallum*, University of Arizona
    (938-98-115)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Stirling's approximation for ln$(n!)$: An elementary proof and applications.
    Keith A. Brandt*, Missouri Western State College
    Anton S. Wallner, Missouri Western State College
    (938-98-21)
• Saturday November 14, 1998, 11:15 a.m.-12:05 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Poisson geometry and some applications.
  Room 201, Physics & Atmospheric Sciences
  Jiang-Hua Lu*, University of Arizona
  (938-53-137)
• Saturday November 14, 1998, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  On the asymptotic speed of a stochastic invasion.
  Room 201, Physics & Atmospheric Sciences
  Mark A. Lewis*, University of Utah
  (938-60-140)
• Saturday November 14, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Groups and Computation
  Room 404, Physics & Atmospheric Sciences
  Organizers:
  Robert Beals, University of Arizona beals@math.arizona.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Algorithms in Representation Theory .
    Klaus M Lux*, university of arizona
    (938-20-127)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Algorithms for matrix groups over number fields.
    Robert M Beals*, University of Arizona
    (938-20-130)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday November 14, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
  Special Session on Geometry and Lie Groups, II
  Room 501, Mathematics
  Organizers:
  Samuel R. Evens, University of Arizona evens@math.arizona.edu
  Jiang-Hua Lu, University of Arizona jhlu@math.arizona.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Invariant Theory and Entanglement in Quantum Computing.
    David Meyer, University of California, San Diego
    Nolan Wallach*, University of California, San Diego
    (938-22-94)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Representations and deformations of Lie bialgebroid.
    Arkady Vaintrob*, New Mexico State University
    (938-53-107)
  • 4:20 p.m.
    Poisson brackets on projective spaces and trilinear forms.
    Alexander Polishchuk*, Harvard University
    (938-14-60)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Moduli of polygons and n-pointed projective lines.
    Philip A Foth*, Northwestern University, University of Arizona
    (938-14-61)
  • 5:40 p.m.
    Compact weakly symmetric spaces and spherical pairs.
    Hieu D Nguyen*, Rowan University
    (938-53-11)
• Saturday November 14, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Spectral Geometry and Its Applications, II
  Room 402, Mathematics
  Organizers:
  Xianzhe Dai, University of Southern California xdai@math.usc.edu
  Leonid Friedlander, University of Arizona friedlan@math.arizona.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Inverse Scattering Problems in Two-dimensional Anisotropic Media .
    Gregory Eskin*, UCLA
    James V Ralston, UCLA
    (938-35-20)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    An invariant of the smooth structure related to the first eigenvalue of the Laplacian.
    Leonid Friedlander*, University of Arizona
    Nikolai Nadirashvili, University of Chicago
    (938-35-99)
  • 4:20 p.m.
    On the small-scale mass concentration of modes .
    John A Toth*, McGill University
    (938-35-12)
• Saturday November 14, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematics and Biology, II
  Room 220, Physics & Atmospheric Sciences
  Organizers:
  Jim Cushing, University of Arizona cushing@math.arizona.edu
  Shandelle M. Henson, University of Arizona henson@math.arizona.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Consistency and Fluctuation Theorems for Discrete Time Structured Population Models Having Demographic Stochasticity .
    Joseph C Watkins*, University of Arizona
    (938-92-56)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    From Individuals to Population Dynamics: A Method and an Example .
    Wade Leitner*, University of Arizona
    (938-60-96)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A Stochastic Continuous-Time Age-Structured Population Model.
    Edward J. Allen*, Texas Tech University
    Maruful Chowdhury, Texas Tech University
    (938-92-10)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Estimating Mean Time to Extinction; an Overview of Some Popular Methods.
    Kevin R Anderson*, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications
    Wade Leitner, Department of Mathematics
    (938-92-31)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A model of the population dynamics and coevolution of mutualisms.
    Brian J McGill*, U of Arizona
    (938-92-123)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Temperature based growth/mortality model for the Mountain Pine Beetle.
    Peter W White*, Tarleton State University
    (938-92-66)
• Saturday November 14, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
  Special Session on Classical and Quantum Mechanical Lattice Spin Systems, II
  Room 237, Bio Sciences West
  Organizers:
  Tom Kennedy, University of Arizona tgk@math.arizona.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Hyperscaling in Percolation.
    Christian Borgs*, Microsoft Research
    Jennifer T Chayes, Microsoft Research
    Harry Kesten, Cornell University
    Joel Spencer, New York University
    (938-82-139)
  • 3:35 p.m.
    Power-Law Corrections to Exponential Decay of Connectivities and Correlations.
    Kenneth S. Alexander*, University of Southern California
    (938-60-102)
  • 4:10 p.m.
    Surprises in the Hydrodynamics of Driven Lattice Gases .
    Gregory Eyink*, University of Arizona
    (938-70-117)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Status of the two dimensional nonlinear Sigma models.
    Adrian Patrascioiu*, University of Arizona
    Erhard Seiler, Max Planck Institut fuer Physik
    (938-82-129)
• Saturday November 14, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Dynamical Systems, II
  Room 208, Bio Sciences West
  Organizers:
  Marek Rychlik, University of Arizona rychlik@u.arizona.edu
  Maciej P. Wojtkowski, University of Arizona maciejw@math.arizona.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Multi-dimensional Piecewise Smooth Expanding Maps.
    William J Cowieson*, UCLA
    (938-58-48)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Dynamics of Anosov diffeomorphisms with small holes .
    Nikolai Chernov*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    (938-58-50)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Distribution of return times for rational maps.
    Nicolai T A Haydn*, University of Southern California
    (938-58-55)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On the Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy of the Chirikov Standard map .
    Oliver R Knill*, University of Texas
    (938-58-54)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Chaotic billiards on surfaces of constant curvature.
    Eugene Gutkin*, USC
    (938-58-28)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday November 14, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry, II
  Room 219, Bio Sciences West
  Organizers:
  Douglas Ulmer, University of Arizona ulmer@math.arizona.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The central derivative of certain Hecke series.
    Tonghai Yang*, SUNY at Stony Brook
    (938-11-88)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Stark--type Conjectures ``over $\Bbb Z$''.
    Cristian D. Popescu*, University of Texas at Austin
    (938-11-64)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Isogeny Covariant Differential Modular Forms .
    Chris M Hurlburt*, University of New Mexico
    (938-14-40)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Moduli of Vector Bundles on Curves in Characteristic p > 0.
    Kirti Joshi, University of Arizona
    Eugene Z Xia*, University of Arizona
    (938-14-38)
• Saturday November 14, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Filaments, Interfaces and Patterns, II
  Room 224, Physics & Atmospheric Sciences
  Organizers:
  Nicholas Ercolani, University of Arizona ercolani@math.arizona.edu
  Jerry Moloney, University of Arizona
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Modelling bioconvection patterns produced by swimming bacteria.
    Joceline C Lega*, University of Arizona
    Neil H Mendelson, University of Arizona
    (938-92-108)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Convolution based methods for cellular automata models.
    Steven J Ruuth*, Department of Mathematics, UCLA
    Barry Merriman, Department of Mathematics, UCLA
    Stanley Osher, Department of Mathematics, UCLA
    (938-65-118)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Dynamics of axial separation in long rotating drums.
    Igor S Aranson, Argonne National Laboratory
    Lev S Tsimring*, InstituteUniversity of California, San Diego
    (938-35-85)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    The stability of waves for modulation equations.
    Todd M Kapitula*, University of New Mexico
    (938-35-95)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Singularities and Defects in Patterns Far from Threshold.
    Nicholas M Ercolani*, University of Arizona
    Robert Indik, University of Arizona
    Alan C. Newell, University of Warwick
    Thierry Passot, CNRS
    (938-35-110)
• Saturday November 14, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Striking the Balance:Theory, Technique, and Applications in Lower Division Mathematics Courses, II
  Room 242E, Shantz
  Organizers:
  Joseph Watkins, University of Arizona jwatkins@math.arizona.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Encouraging Effective Change within an Atmosphere of Flexibility.
    John W. Hagood*, Northern Arizona University
    (938-98-100)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Within the Balance, A Tilt Toward Applications.
    Lynne B Small*, University of San Diego
    (938-98-81)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Where will the applications be coming from?
    Brad G. Osgood*, Stanford University
    (938-98-18)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The balance - a moving target: Experiences from 5 years teaching in an integrated engineering curriculum .
    Matthias Kawski*, ASU
    (938-98-112)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Discussion
• Saturday November 14, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Integrable Systems and Random Matrix Theory, II
  Room 312, Physics & Atmospheric Sciences
  Organizers:
  K. T-R McLaughlin, University of Arizona
  Craig A. Tracy, University of California, Davis tracy@itd.ucdavis.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    An electrostatics model for zeros og general orthogonal polynomials.
    Mourad E.H. Ismail*, University of South Florida
    (938-33-07)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Statistics at the Edge of the Spectrum of Wigner Random Matrices.
    Yakov G Sinai, Princeton University
    Alexander B Soshnikov*, California Institute of Technology
    (938-60-08)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Determinantal formulas for the correlation functions and the infinite symmetric group.
    Alexei Borodin*, University of Pennsylvania
    Grigori Olshanski, Institute for Problems of Information Transmission
    (938-60-39)
• Saturday November 14, 1998, 4:15 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
  Session for Contributed Papers
  Room 210, Bio Sciences West
  

  • 4:15 p.m.
    Selected Tessellations and the Nature of the Schaffli Numbers.
    C. S. Felicitas*, Pan Asian Congress of Mathematicians(American and New York Branch)
    (938-14-01)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Mathematics basic skills for the first three grades.
    Abdullah Alharbey*, King Abdulaziz University
    (938-96-06)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Kernel Inspired Factorizations of Partial Differential Operators.
    Alex Kasman*, MSRI
    (938-35-29)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    The Conditional Empirical Distribution as a Decision Making Tool.
    Rod A Freed*, California State University, Dominguez Hills
    (938-00-92)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Generalized functions and approximate solutions to the abstract Cauchy problem.
    Boris Baeumer*, University of Nevada, Reno
    (938-44-109)

Sunday November 15, 1998

• Sunday November 15, 1998, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration and AMS Book Sale and Exhibit
  Lobby, Mathematics
• Sunday November 15, 1998, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Integrable Systems and Random Matrix Theory, III
  Room 312, Physics & Atmospheric Sciences
  Organizers:
  K. T-R McLaughlin, University of Arizona
  Craig A. Tracy, University of California, Davis tracy@itd.ucdavis.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Scaling limits for correlations between zeros of random polynomials.
    Pavel M. Bleher*, IUPUI
    (938-60-23)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the distribution of the length of the longest increasing subsequence of random permutations.
    Jinho Baik, Courant Institute
    Percy A Deift*, Courant Institute
    Kurt Johansson, Royal Institute of Technology
    (938-05-68)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Zeros of the Jimbo, Miwa, Ueno tau function.
    John N Palmer*, University of Arizona
    (938-34-43)
• Sunday November 15, 1998, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematics and Biology, III
  Room 220, Physics & Atmospheric Sciences
  Organizers:
  Jim Cushing, University of Arizona cushing@math.arizona.edu
  Shandelle M. Henson, University of Arizona henson@math.arizona.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    A Mathematical model of microbial growth and competition in a plug flow reactor: a model of the gut.
    Hal L Smith*, Arizona State University
    (938-92-49)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Temporal and spatial synchronization in microbial ecology.
    Frank C Hoppensteadt*, ASU
    (938-92-62)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Differentiability and species coexistence.
    Frederick R Adler*, AMS
    (938-92-59)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The dynamics of a simple food chain.
    Sophia R. - J. Jang*, Texas Tech University
    (938-92-101)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Dynamical System Modeling Meristematic Plant Developement and Reproducing the Observed Phyllotactic Patterns.
    Pau Atela, Math Department, Smith College
    Christophe Gole, Math Department, Smith College
    Scott Hotton*, Math Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064
    (938-92-106)
• Sunday November 15, 1998, 8:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Classical and Quantum Mechanical Lattice Spin Systems, III
  Room 237, Bio Sciences West
  Organizers:
  Tom Kennedy, University of Arizona tgk@math.arizona.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Central Limit Theorem for Stochastic Hamilton-Jacobi equations.
    Fraydoun Rezakhanlou*, Associate Professor
    (938-35-82)
  • 9:05 a.m.
    Nonlinear wave equations with randomness.
    Jan Wehr*, University of Arizona
    (938-60-116)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Localization of Classical Waves: A General Framework.
    Andrew J. Koines*, University of California, Irvine
    Abel Klein, University of California, Irvine
    (938-78-122)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Generalized eigenfunction expansion of second order partial differential operators defined by quadratic forms.
    Abel Klein, University of California, Irvine
    Maximilian Seifert*, University of California, Irvine
    (938-47-136)
• Sunday November 15, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Geometry and Lie Groups, III
  Room 501, Mathematics
  Organizers:
  Samuel R. Evens, University of Arizona evens@math.arizona.edu
  Jiang-Hua Lu, University of Arizona jhlu@math.arizona.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Gauge equivalence of Poisson structures.
    Alan Weinstein*, University of California, Berkeley
    (938-58-58)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Groupoid and the integration of Lie algebroids.
    Victor Nistor*, Penn State
    (938-58-26)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Braid Representations and Exceptional Lie Groups.
    Hans Wenzl*, UC San Diego
    Imre Tuba, UC San Diego
    (938-22-70)
• Sunday November 15, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Spectral Geometry and Its Applications, III
  Room 402, Mathematics
  Organizers:
  Xianzhe Dai, University of Southern California xdai@math.usc.edu
  Leonid Friedlander, University of Arizona friedlan@math.arizona.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Berstein-type Theorem for Lagrangian Stationary Surfaces .
    Chikako Mese*, University of Southern California
    (938-53-16)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Poisson problems, diffusions, and comparison theorems for complete Riemannian manifolds.
    Patrick T McDonald*, New College of USF
    (938-58-111)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Ginzburg-Landau vortice and Mandelstam Diagram.
    Jie Qing*, UCSC
    (938-58-17)
• Sunday November 15, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Dynamical Systems, III
  Room 208, Bio Sciences West
  Organizers:
  Marek Rychlik, University of Arizona rychlik@u.arizona.edu
  Maciej P. Wojtkowski, University of Arizona maciejw@math.arizona.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Fast Singular Oscillating Limits of 3D Euler-Boussinesq Equations .
    Alex Mahalov*, Arizona State University
    Anatoli Babin, UC Irvine, USA and MIIT, Moscow
    Basil Nicolaenko, Arizona State University
    (938-58-46)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Exponential Attractors and Finite Dimensional Inertial Dynamical Systems for Navier-Stokes and General Dissipative Equations.
    Basil Nicolaenko*, Arizona State University
    (938-58-45)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    The Hill's Region of the Four-body Problem .
    Quidong Wang*, UCLA Mathematics Department
    (938-58-25)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Horseshoe: Pruning and Homoclinic Families.
    Andre S de Carvalho*, IMS - SUNY at Stony Brook
    Toby Hall, University of Liverpool
    (938-58-42)
• Sunday November 15, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry, III
  Room 219, Bio Sciences West
  Organizers:
  Douglas Ulmer, University of Arizona ulmer@math.arizona.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    The parameters of trace codes from curves over rings.
    Felipe Voloch, University of Texas
    Judy L Walker*, University of Nebraska
    (938-11-77)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Improved Bounds for the Number of Rational Points on Curves over Finite Fields .
    Kristin E. Lauter*, University of Michigan
    (938-11-69)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Trigonal Modular Curves.
    Matthew H Baker*, UC Berkeley
    (938-11-53)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On a conjecture of Fontaine and Mazur.
    Yihsiang Liow*, University of Arizona
    (938-14-143)
• Sunday November 15, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
  Special Session on Filaments, Interfaces and Patterns, III
  Room 224, Physics & Atmospheric Sciences
  Organizers:
  Nicholas Ercolani, University of Arizona ercolani@math.arizona.edu
  Jerry Moloney, University of Arizona
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Spectra, multi-phase solutions of vortex filament flow, and knot types.
    Annalisa M Calini*, College of Charleston
    Thomas A Ivey, Ball State University
    (938-35-80)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Pulses, fronts and oscillations of an elastic rod .
    Alain Goriely*, Dept of Mathematics
    Joceline Lega, Department of Mathematics
    (938-73-65)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Viscous Nonlinear Dynamics of Twist and Writhe.
    Raymond E Goldstein*, University of Arizona
    (938-35-36)
• Sunday November 15, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Striking the Balance:Theory, Technique, and Applications in Lower Division Mathematics Courses, III
  Room 242E, Shantz
  Organizers:
  Joseph Watkins, University of Arizona jwatkins@math.arizona.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Applications Inspire Student Confidence.
    Simon J Bernau*, Cal Poly Pomona
    Nancy C Marcus, University of Texas at El Paso
    (938-98-13)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Modular Pre Calculus and Clustering: Evolution of a Successful Program.
    Simon J Bernau, Cal Poly Pomona
    Nancy C Marcus*, University of Texas at El Paso
    (938-98-14)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    An Introductory Modeling Course for Non-Science Majors: Using Mathematica to Convey Mathematical Concepts.
    Silvia P Heubach*, California State University Los Angeles
    (938-98-79)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday November 15, 1998, 11:15 a.m.-12:05 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Differential Algebraic Geometry and Derivatives of Integers.
  Room 201, Physics & Atmospheric Sciences
  Alexandru Buium*, Univ of Illinois
  (938-14-35)
• Sunday November 15, 1998, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
  Invited Address
  Renormalization group methods in Hamiltonian dynamics.
  Room 201, Physics & Atmospheric Sciences
  Hans A Koch*, The University of Texas at Austin
  (938-70-103)
• Sunday November 15, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Dynamical Systems
  Room 208, Bio Sciences West
  Organizers:
  Marek Rychlik, University of Arizona rychlik@u.arizona.edu
  Maciej P. Wojtkowski, University of Arizona maciejw@math.arizona.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Abundance of piecewise isometries with self-similar structure in dimension one and two.
    Arek Goetz*, Boston University
    (938-58-133)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Positive stretch and rigidity for group actions and foliations.
    Alberto Candel*, Caltech
    Raul Quiroga-Barranco, Cinvestav
    (938-53-126)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Several examples of multi-valued dynamics.
    Marek R. Rychlik*, University of Arizona
    (938-58-132)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Magnetic flows and Gaussian thermostats.
    Maciej P. Wojtkowski*, University of Arizona
    (938-58-114)
• Sunday November 15, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry, IV
  Room 219, Bio Sciences West
  Organizers:
  Douglas Ulmer, University of Arizona ulmer@math.arizona.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Arithmetic Schubert calculus.
    Harry Tamvakis*, University of Pennsylvania
    (938-14-120)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Deformations of Large Fundamental Groups.
    Bruno N De Oliveira*, Lecturer of Mathematics
    Ludmil Katzarkov, Assistant Professor
    (938-14-93)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Algebraic cycles and arithmetic on degenerations.
    Caterina Consani*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    (938-14-84)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On Frobenius splittings and ordinary varieties.
    Kirti Joshi*, University of Arizona
    (938-14-142)
• Sunday November 15, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Filaments, Interfaces and Patterns, IV
  Room 224, Physics & Atmospheric Sciences
  Organizers:
  Nicholas Ercolani, University of Arizona ercolani@math.arizona.edu
  Jerry Moloney, University of Arizona
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    A Generalized Level Set Method for Computing the Motion of Filaments and Objects of Any Codimension.
    Li-Tien Cheng, UCLA, Dept. of Math
    Paul Burchard, UCLA, Dept. of Math
    Barry Merriman*, UCLA, Dept. of Math
    Stanley J Osher, UCLA, Dept. of Math
    Steven J Ruuth, UCLA, Dept. of Math
    (938-65-128)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A diffusion-generated approach to the curvature motion of filaments.
    Steven J. Ruuth, University of California, Los Angeles
    Barry Merriman, University of California, Los Angeles
    Jack Xin, University of Arizona
    Stanley Osher*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (938-65-32)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Dynamics of the Geodynamo.
    Dieter Armbruster*, Arizona State University
    (938-86-119)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Average dynamics of the optical soliton in communication lines with dispersion management.
    Alejandro B Aceves*, University of New Mexico
    C.K.R.T. Jones, Brown University
    Vadim Zharnitsky, Brown University
    Sergei K Turitsyn, University of Dusseldorf
    (938-78-97)
  • 5:15 p.m.
    Role of the Critical Collapse Singularity in Sustaining A Novel Femtosecond Light Guide .
    Jerry V. Moloney*, University of Arizona
    (938-78-135)
• Sunday November 15, 1998, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Striking the Balance:Theory, Technique, and Applications in Lower Division Mathematics Courses, IV
  Room 242E, Shantz
  Organizers:
  Joseph Watkins, University of Arizona jwatkins@math.arizona.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Institutional support for faculty members involved in teacher preparation and outreach.
    David Gay*, University of Arizona
    (938-98-98)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    High Standards: What are they and how do we achieve them?
    Deborah Hughes Hallett*, University of Arizona
    (938-98-113)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Providing Challenges, Interest, and Comfort for Incoming AP Students.
    David O Lomen*, University of Arizona
    (938-98-63)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Discussion

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