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1991 Southeastern Sectional Meeting
Tampa, FL, March 22-23, 1991
Meeting #865

Associate secretaries:
Joseph A Cima, AMS cima@email.unc.edu

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Friday March 22, 1991

• Friday March 22, 1991, 7:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Applications, I
  Room 202, Chemistry Building
  

  • 7:00 a.m.
    Some dimension results.
    Anca Deliu*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (865-41-132)
  • 7:40 a.m.
    Extension domains for A_rho weights.
    Peter Holden*, Florida International University
    (865-42-08)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    Local solvability of first order linear operators with Lipschitz coefficients.
    Jorge Hounie*, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Cidade Universitaria, Brasil
    (865-35-92)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A marriage theorem with Lebesque measure.
    Steve Hudson*, Florida International University
    (865-42-02)
• Friday March 22, 1991, 7:00 a.m.-9:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Approximation Theory, I
  Room 205, Chemistry Building
  

  • 7:00 a.m.
    Approximation of functions by polynomials in C[-1, 1].
    Z. Ditzian*, University of Alberta
    D. Jiang, University of Alberta
    (865-41-151)
  • 7:30 a.m.
    Monotone polynomial approximation in L_p, 0
    D. Leviatan*, Tel Aviv University, Israel
    (865-41-39)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    On blending-type K-functionals.
    Claudia Cottin*, University of Duisburg, Federal Republic of Germany
    (865-41-69)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Recent results on global smoothness preservation.
    Claudia Cottin, University of Duisburg, Federal Republic of Germany
    Heinz H. Gonska*, European Business School, Federal Republic of Germany
    (865-41-189)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Best uniform appproximation by solutions of elliptic differential equations.
    Paul M. Gauthier, University of Montreal
    D. Zwick*, University of Vermont
    (865-41-191)
• Friday March 22, 1991, 7:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Finite Groups and Related Topics, I
  Room 130, Physics Building
  

  • 7:00 a.m.
    Divisible codes and representations.
    Harold N. Ward*, University of Virginia
    (865-94-100)
  • 7:30 a.m.
    Hermitian and Ree unitals and their codes.
    E. F. Assmus, Jr.*, Lehigh University
    (865-20-53)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    The Jamison method in Galois geometries.
    A. A. Bruen*, University of Western Ontario
    J. C. Fisher, University of Regina
    (865-05-144)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Hyperplanes and embeddings of point-line geometries.
    E. E. Shult*, Kansas State University
    (865-51-140)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Primitive permutation characters.
    Robert M. Guralnick*, University of Southern California
    Jan Saxl, Princeton University
    (865-20-97)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    The absolute Galois group of a Hilbertian PRC-field.
    Helmut V\"olklein*, University of Florida
    Michael Fried, University of California, Irvine
    (865-11-89)
• Friday March 22, 1991, 7:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Operator Methods for Control Problems, I
  Room 120, Physics Building
  

  • 7:00 a.m.
    Controllability of distributed systems.
    Lawrence Markus*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
    (865-93-05)
  • 8:00 a.m.
    Mathematical controllability theory of capital growth of nations.
    E. N. Chukwu*, North Carolina State University
    (865-93-173)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    RKH space methods for identification of linear stochastic systems: A factorization approach.
    Robert E. Fennell*, Clemson University
    James A. Reneke, Clemson University
    (865-93-83)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Exact controllability of dynamic von Karman plates.
    John E. Lagnese*, Georgetown University
    (865-93-43)
• Friday March 22, 1991, 7:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m.
  Special Session on Hypergeometric Functions on Domains of Positivity, Jack Polynomials, and Applications, I
  Room 105, Chemistry Building
  

  • 7:00 a.m.
    Multivariate statistics in polymer physics.
    Bruce Eichinger*, Biosym Technologies, Inc., San Diego and University of Washington
    (865-33-139)
  • 7:40 a.m.
    Positive bilinear forms on polynomials with a reflection group invariance property.
    Charles F. Dunkl*, University of Virginia
    (865-33-84)
  • 8:20 a.m.
    Analytic continuation of the hypergeometric function of a matrix variable.
    Jacques Faraut*, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, France
    (865-33-91)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Markov chain on the symmetric group and Jack's symmetric functions.
    Phil Hanlon*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (865-05-87)
• Friday March 22, 1991, 8:00 a.m.-9:10 a.m.
  Special Session on Differential Geometry and Mathematical Physics, I
  Room 118, Physics Building
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Null geodesics in cosmic censorship.
    John K. Beem*, University of Missouri, Columbia
    Andrzej Krolak, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
    (865-53-01)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Phase space symmetries and geometric quantization.
    Gerard G. Emch*, University of Florida
    (865-53-104)
• Friday March 22, 1991, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Several Complex Variables, I
  Room 109, Physics Building
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Ends of varieties.
    H. Alexander*, University of Illinois, Chicago
    (865-32-67)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    On an example of Ahern and Rudin.
    John T. Anderson*, College of the Holy Cross
    (865-32-23)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Approximation on thin sets.
    Thomas Bagby*, Indiana University, Bloomington
    P. M. Gauthier, Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
    (865-32-37)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Levi-flat hypersurfaces and averaging problems.
    David E. Barrett*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (865-32-44)
• Friday March 22, 1991, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Probability on Algebraic and Topological Structures, I
  Room 108, Physics Building
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Multiplicative symmetry groups of Markov processes.
    Joseph Glover, University of Florida
    Renming Song*, University of Florida
    (865-60-28)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Symmetry groups of Markov processes.
    Ming Liao*, Auburn University, Auburn
    (865-60-16)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A multidimensional Feller program.
    Joseph C. Watkins*, University of Southern California
    (865-60-107)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Markov functions.
    Joseph Glover*, University of Florida
    (865-60-52)
• Friday March 22, 1991, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Fractal and Spectral Geometry, I
  Room 101, Chemistry Building
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    IFS's, compact semigroups, and topological contractions.
    P. F. Duvall, Jr., University of North Carolina, Greensboro
    J. W. Emert, Ball State University
    L. S. Husch*, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
    (865-54-26)
  • 8:40 a.m.
    Iterated function systems with applications to wavelet bases and the inverse fractal probelm.
    J. S. Geronimo*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (865-54-174)
  • 9:20 a.m.
    Fractal functions and multiresolution analyses.
    Douglas Hardin, Vanderbilt University
    Bruce Kessler, Vanderbilt University
    Peter R. Massopust*, Vanderbilt University
    (865-41-74)
• Friday March 22, 1991, 8:00 a.m.-9:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Boundary Value Problems, I
  Room 102, Chemistry Building
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Permanence in some reaction-diffusion models from ecology.
    R. S. Cantrell, University of Miami
    C. Cosner*, University of Miami
    V. C. L. Hutson, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
    (865-35-114)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    A singular parabolic problem.
    Jerome A. Goldstein*, Tulane University and Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley
    (865-35-116)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Existence and regularity for a singular parabolic problem.
    Gisele Ruiz Rieder*, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
    J. R. Dorroh, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
    (865-35-178)
• Friday March 22, 1991, 8:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Issues in Biologically Motivated Computing, I
  Room 104, Chemistry Building
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Controlling chaos in distributed systems.
    Bernado Huberman*, Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, California and Stanford University
    (865-68-159)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The possible role of ascendency in neural networks.
    Ken Bosworth*, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland, Solomons
    Bob Ulanowicz, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland, Solomons
    (865-68-169)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Evolving transformation systems: A new symbiosis of the discrete and the continuous.
    Lev Goldfarb*, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton
    (865-68-35)
• Friday March 22, 1991, 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Can one hear the shape of a fractal drum? From the Weyl-Berry conjecture to the Riemann hypothesis.
  Room 101, Chemistry Building
  Michel L. Lapidus*, University of California, Riverside and Yale University
  (865-35-45)
• Friday March 22, 1991, 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  The Weyl functional calculus.
  Room 101, Chemistry Building
  Josefina Alvarez*, New Mexico State University
  (865-47-46)
• Friday March 22, 1991, 1:10 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Applications, II
  Room 202, Chemistry Building
  

  • 1:10 p.m.
    Weighted inequalities for the Fourier transform.
    H. Heinig, McMaster University
    R. Johnson*, University of Maryland, College Park
    (865-42-133)
  • 1:50 p.m.
    On the continuity of solutions to certain elliptic equations.
    Craig A. Nolder*, Florida State University
    (865-35-131)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Some operators on the classical Hardy spaces.
    Aristomenis Siskakis*, University of Thessaloniki, Greece and New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
    (865-30-59)
• Friday March 22, 1991, 1:10 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
  Special Session on Approximation Theory, II
  Room 205, Chemistry Building
  

  • 1:10 p.m.
    Sub-exponential growth of solutions of difference equations.
    Doron S. Lubinsky, University of Witwatersrand, Republic of South Africa
    Paul Nevai*, Ohio State University, Columbus
    (865-39-96)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Zeros of orthogonal polynomials.
    Vilmos Totik*, University of South Florida
    (865-33-190)
  • 2:10 p.m.
    Polynomials orthogonal on the unit circle with random reflection coefficients.
    J. S. Geronimo*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (865-30-175)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    On Markov's inequality on R for the Hermite weight.
    X. Li*, University of Central Florida
    R. N. Mohapatra, University of Central Florida
    R. S. Rodriguez, University of Central Florida
    (865-41-120)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    Muntz theorem on closed sets with positive measure.
    Peter Borwein, Dalhousie University
    Tam\'as Erd\'elyi*, Ohio State University, Columbus
    (865-41-124)
• Friday March 22, 1991, 1:10 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Finite Groups and Related Topics, II
  Room 130, Physics Building
  

  • 1:10 p.m.
    Nielsen separation: Distinct orbits of G(Q/Q) actions detected by representation theory.
    Michael D. Fried*, University of California, Irvine
    (865-20-179)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Extended generalized polygons.
    Richard M. Weiss*, Tufts University
    (865-20-78)
  • 2:10 p.m.
    On loop rings and codes of nets.
    G. Eric Moorhouse*, University of Wyoming
    (865-17-79)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Projective planes with regular collineation group and a question of prime power.
    Chat Yin Ho*, University of Florida
    (865-20-122)
• Friday March 22, 1991, 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Differential Geometry and Mathematical Physics, II
  Room 118, Physics Building
  

  • 1:10 p.m.
    On the topology of black holes.
    Gregory J. Galloway*, University of Miami
    (865-83-167)
  • 1:50 p.m.
    Control theory and centro-affine geometry.
    Robert Gardner*, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    (865-93-102)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Geometry near the boundary of some Yang-Mills moduli spaces.
    David Groisser*, University of Florida
    (865-53-76)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    A bosonic version of the Krichever correspondence.
    Mitchell Rothstein*, University of Georgia
    (865-35-171)
• Friday March 22, 1991, 1:10 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
  Special Session on Several Complex Variables, II
  Room 109, Physics Building
  

  • 1:10 p.m.
    Contact geometry and CR structures on S^3.
    John Bland*, University of Toronto
    (865-32-68)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Holomorphic approximation of CR functions on tubular submanifolds of C^2.
    Andre Boivin, University of Western Ontario
    Roman Dwilewicz*, University of Warsaw, Poland
    (865-32-42)
  • 2:10 p.m.
    Informal Discussion
• Friday March 22, 1991, 1:10 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
  Special Session on Probability on Algebraic and Topological Structures, II
  Room 108, Physics Building
  

  • 1:10 p.m.
    Eigenvalue bounds on convergence to stationarity for nonreversible Markov chains, with an application to the exclusion process.
    James Allen Fill*, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
    (865-60-94)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Symmetries on random arrays and set-indexed process.
    Olav Kallenberg*, Auburn University, Auburn
    (865-60-19)
  • 2:10 p.m.
    Weak convergence of probability measures on semigroups.
    Gregory Budzban*, Martin Marietta Aerospace, Orlando, Florida
    (865-60-117)
• Friday March 22, 1991, 1:10 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Fractal and Spectral Geometry, II
  Room 101, Chemistry Building
  

  • 1:10 p.m.
    On negative dimensions for fractal sets and for multifractal measures.
    Benoit B. Mandelbrot*, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York and Yale University
    (865-28-186)
  • 1:50 p.m.
    The Riemann zeta function and the one-dimensional Weyl-Berry conjecture for fractal drums.
    Michel Lapidus, University of California, Riverside
    Carl Pomerance*, University of Georgia
    (865-11-73)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    The Riemann hypothesis, vibrating fractal strings and the modified Weyl-Berry conjecture.
    Michel L. Lapidus, University of California, Riverside
    Helmut Maier*, University of Georgia
    (865-11-50)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    Integration on continuously embedded manifolds.
    Jenny Harrison*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley
    (865-58-129)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    Counting and distribution problems in fractal geometry.
    Steven P. Lalley*, Purdue University, West Lafayette
    (865-30-181)
• Friday March 22, 1991, 1:10 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Operator Methods for Control Problems, II
  Room 102, Chemistry Building
  

  • 1:10 p.m.
    Uniform decay rates for the solutions of semilinear wave equation with nonlinear boundary damping.
    Irena Lasiecka*, University of Virginia
    (865-35-58)
  • 1:50 p.m.
    Rational approximations of infinite dimensional systems.
    E. B. Lee*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
    (865-49-177)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    A minimax problem for semilinear nonlocal competitive systems.
    Suzanne Lenhart*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    Vladimir Protopopescu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee
    Srdjan Stojanovic, University of Cincinnati
    (865-35-14)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    What's new in boundary control theory of PDE's.
    Walter Littman*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
    (865-35-82)
• Friday March 22, 1991, 1:10 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
  Special Session on Hypergeometric Functions on Domains of Positivity, Jack Polynomials, and Applications, II
  Room 105, Chemistry Building
  

  • 1:10 p.m.
    Operator-valued Bessel functions on symmetric cones.
    Hongming Ding, University of Vermont
    Kenneth I. Gross*, University of Vermont
    (865-33-152)
  • 1:50 p.m.
    Finite field analogues of Bessel and Legendre functions for GL(n) and applications in graph theory.
    Audrey Terras*, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla
    (865-11-03)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Identitites for generalized hypergeometric coefficients.
    L. C. Biedenharn*, Duke University
    (865-33-153)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    Degenerate principal series on tube type domains.
    Kenneth D. Johnson*, University of Georgia
    (865-22-86)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    A constant term orthogonality for the Jack symmetric functions.
    Kevin W. J. Kadell*, Arizona State University
    (865-33-154)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Variation on a theme of Macdonald.
    G. J. Heckman, Catholic University, The Netherlands
    R. Brussee, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
    E. M. Opdam*, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
    (865-33-25)
  • 5:10 p.m.
    Associated continuous Hahn polynomials.
    David R. Masson*, University of Toronto
    (865-33-127)
• Friday March 22, 1991, 1:10 p.m.-3:35 p.m.
  General Session
  Room 120, Physics Building
  

  • 1:10 p.m.
    C^infinity functions with convergent Taylor series.
    T. I. Ramsamujh*, Florida International University
    (865-04-15)
  • 1:25 p.m.
    On the constructions of designs.
    D. K. Ray-Chaudhuri, Ohio State University, Columbus
    Tianbao Zhu*, Ohio State University, Columbus
    (865-05-06)
  • 1:40 p.m.
    On double stirling asymptotic formula.
    R. Y. Song*, Florida State University
    J. R. Quine, Florida State University
    (865-11-12)
  • 1:55 p.m.
    Some remarks on primal ideals of the polynomial ring and power series ring.
    J. H. Kim*, East Carolina University
    (865-13-57)
  • 2:10 p.m.
    A new look at the rationals.
    Anthony J. D'Aristotile*, State University of New York, College at Plattsburgh
    Orrin Frink, Kennebunkport, Maine
    (865-16-63)
  • 2:25 p.m.
    On the number of conjugacy classes in finite groups.
    Edward A. Bertram*, University of Hawaii, Manoa
    (865-20-123)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Support points of subordination families.
    Shelton Perera*, Union College
    (865-30-135)
  • 2:55 p.m.
    The solution of a boundary value problem for a differential equation of nth order in a weighted Lebesque class.
    Salah A. Emara*, American University in Cairo, Egypt
    (865-34-119)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    Bound and tight extensions of a normed space.
    N. V. Rao*, University of Toledo
    (865-46-182)
  • 3:25 p.m.
    Equivalent composition operators.
    Randall K. Campbell-Wright*, University of Tampa
    (865-47-62)
• Friday March 22, 1991, 1:40 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Issues in Biologically Motivated Computing, II
  Room 104, Chemistry Building
  

  • 1:40 p.m.
    Emergent computation, genetic algorithms, and the immune system.
    Stephanie Forrest*, University of New Mexico
    (865-68-168)
  • 2:10 p.m.
    Periodic behaviors of deterministic interactionless Lindenmayer systems.
    Tom Head*, State University of New York, Binghamton
    (865-68-166)
  • 2:40 p.m.
    Evolution as a theme in artificial life.
    David Jefferson*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (865-68-165)

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