AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:21:28

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

Saturday April 21, 2001, 9:00 a.m.-10:40 a.m.
Special Session on Analysis and Applications of Nonlinear PDEs, I
Room 213, Classroom Building Complex C, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
David G. Costa, University of Nevada, Las Vegas costa@nevada.edu
Zhonghai Ding, University of Nevada, Las Vegas dingz@nevada.edu
Hossein Tehrani, University of Nevada, Las Vegas tehranih@nevada.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Boundary-value Problems for Nonlinear Wave Equations.
  Jerry L Bona*, University of Texas at Austin
  (965-35-156)
- 9:35 a.m.
  Stability of multidimensional traveling waves for a nonlocal Allen-Cahn equation.
  Peter W Bates*, Brigham Young University
  Fengxin Chen, University of Texas, San Antonio
  (965-35-128)
- 10:10 a.m.
  Boundary value problems with bounded nonlinearities.
  James R Ward*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  (965-35-132)

Saturday April 21, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
Special Session on Analysis and Applications of Nonlinear PDEs, II
Room 213, Classroom Building Complex C, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
David G. Costa, University of Nevada, Las Vegas costa@nevada.edu
Zhonghai Ding, University of Nevada, Las Vegas dingz@nevada.edu
Hossein Tehrani, University of Nevada, Las Vegas tehranih@nevada.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Elliptic PDEs with critical exponents and singular potentials.
  Nassif Ghoussoub*, Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences
  (965-35-169)
- 3:35 p.m.
  Bilinear control for global controllability of the semilinear parabolic equation with superlinear term.
  Alexander Khapalov*, Washington State University
  (965-35-16)
- 4:10 p.m.
  On a Free Boundary Problem with superheating arising in microwave heating processes.
  Hong-Ming Yin*, Washington State University
  (965-35-10)
- 4:45 p.m.
  Diffusive Logistic Equation with Constant Effort Harvesting.
  Shobha Oruganti, Mississippi State University
  Junping Shi, College of William \& Mary
  Ratnasingham Shivaji*, Mississippi State University
  (965-35-39)

Sunday April 22, 2001, 8:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Analysis and Applications of Nonlinear PDEs, III
Room 213, Classroom Building Complex C, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
David G. Costa, University of Nevada, Las Vegas costa@nevada.edu
Zhonghai Ding, University of Nevada, Las Vegas dingz@nevada.edu
Hossein Tehrani, University of Nevada, Las Vegas tehranih@nevada.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Computation and visualization of multiple solutions of Lane-Emden type semilinear elliptic equations in 3D by the finite element method.
  Goong Chen*, Texas A\&M University
  Wei-Ming Ni, University of Minnesota
  Alain Perronnet, Universite de Pierre et Marie Curie
  Jianxin Zhou, Texas A\&M University
  (965-35-11)
- 9:05 a.m.
  Sharp layer solutions of semilinear elliptic equations.
  Junping Shi*, College of William and Mary
  (965-35-127)
- 9:40 a.m.
  A local min-orthogonal method for finding multiple saddle points and its application to sublinear elliptic PDE.
  Jianxin Zhou*, Texas A\&M University
  (965-35-69)
- 10:15 a.m.
  Some inequalities related to isoperimetric inequalities with partial free boundary.
  Meijun Zhu*, University of Oklahoma
  (965-35-48)

Sunday April 22, 2001, 3:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
Special Session on Analysis and Applications of Nonlinear PDEs, IV
Room 213, Classroom Building Complex C, Classroom Building Complex C
Organizers:
David G. Costa, University of Nevada, Las Vegas costa@nevada.edu
Zhonghai Ding, University of Nevada, Las Vegas dingz@nevada.edu
Hossein Tehrani, University of Nevada, Las Vegas tehranih@nevada.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  A Sign-Changing Solution for a Superlinear Dirichlet Problem, II.
  John M. Neuberger*, Northern Arizona University
  Alfonso Castro, University of Texas, San Antonio
  Pavel Dr\'abek, University of West Bohemia
  (965-35-111)
- 3:35 p.m.
  Characterizing the Second Eigenvalue for a Class of Nonhomogeneous Quasilinear Problems.
  Stephen B Robinson*, Wake Forest University
  (965-35-133)
- 4:10 p.m.
  The Dirichlet Problem for Harmonic Maps from the Disk into the 2-Sphere with Symmetric Boundary Conditions.
  Michael A Brilleslyper*, U.S. Air Force Academy
  (965-58-36)

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