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1993 Western Section Meeting
Claremont, CA, November 6-7, 1993
Meeting #887

Associate secretaries:
Lance W Small, AMS lwsmall@ucsd.edu

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Sunday November 7, 1993

• Sunday November 7, 1993, 8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
  Special Session on Dynamical Systems and Chaos, II
  Room 126, Beckman Hall
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Volterra's crusade against chaos.
    Ray Redheffer*, University of California, Los Angeles
    (887-34-27)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Positive fixed points for subhomogeneous monotone maps.
    Morris W. Hirsch*, University of California, Berkeley
    (887-34-09)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On some quadratic dynamical systems.
    Klaus Schmitt*, University of Utah
    (887-34-12)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Unrestricted iterations of contractions.
    Simeon Reich*, University of Southern California
    (887-47-28)
• Sunday November 7, 1993, 8:30 a.m.-9:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Analysis and Banach Space Theory, III
  Room 285, Parsons Hall
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Unrestricted products of contractions in Banach spaces.
    Pei-Kee Lin*, Memphis State University
    (887-47-56)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Stability of some properties in Banach spaces.
    Elias Saab*, University of Missouri, Columbia
    (887-46-42)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday November 7, 1993, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Models in Epidemiology, III
  Room 350, Parsons Hall
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Asymptotical behavior of an S-I-S multiple group model with age-structure.
    Wenzhang Huang*, Cornell University
    (887-92-45)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Can a core group allow for the coexistence of multiple strain of a non-fatal sexually-transmitted disease?
    Jia Li*, University of Alabama, Huntsville
    Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Cornell University
    Wenzhang Huang, Georgia Technology
    (887-92-44)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Multi-annual outbreaks of childhood diseases revisited: The possible effects of isolation.
    Zhilan Feng, Arizona State University
    Horst R. Thieme*, Arizona State University
    (887-92-05)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Models for diseases with vertical transmission and nonlinear population dynamics.
    Fred Brauer*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    (887-92-19)
• Sunday November 7, 1993, 9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Industrial Applied Mathematics, II
  Room 132, Jacobs Hall
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    The exact confidence bound method: Use in marketing.
    Steven P. Louden*, Claremont McKenna College
    (887-62-67)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Lower confidence bounds on system reliability.
    Darren M. Gonzales*, Claremont McKenna College
    (887-62-68)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Reliability growth models.
    David W. Ballew*, Claremont McKenna College
    (887-62-69)
• Sunday November 7, 1993, 9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Computational Number Theory, III
  Room 134, Beckman Hall
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Halfway to a solution of a quadratic diophantine equation.
    Alf van der Poorten*, Macquarie University, Australia
    (887-11-04)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    On the continued fractions of quadratic surds.
    David G. Cantor*,
    (887-14-58)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Discussion
• Sunday November 7, 1993, 9:45 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
  Special Session on Brownian Motion and Applications to Potential Theory, III
  Room 134, Jacobs Hall
  

  • 9:45 a.m.
    Boundary fluctuations in first-passage percolation.
    Kenneth S. Alexander*, University of Southern California
    (887-60-41)
• Sunday November 7, 1993, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Invited Address
  Morse theory up to Epsilon.
  McAlister Room, Galileo Hall
  Nassif Ghoussoub*, University of British Columbia
  (887-58-50)
• Sunday November 7, 1993, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
  Invited Address
• Sunday November 7, 1993, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Dynamical Systems and Chaos, III
  Room 126, Beckman Hall
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Absence of limit cycles.
    Pauline Van Den Driessche*, University of Victoria
    (887-34-32)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Complicated dynamics in a 4-level food chain.
    H. L. Smith*, Arizona State University
    Paul Waltman, Emory University
    (887-35-14)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Delay differential equations models vs. differential equations models -- two case studies in biological modeling.
    Betty Tang*, Arizona State University
    (887-92-30)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Distributional and small solutions of delay equations.
    K. L. Cooke*, Pomona College
    S. M. Verduyn Lunel, Vrije University, Netherlands
    (887-34-24)
• Sunday November 7, 1993, 3:00 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
  Special Session on Brownian Motion and Applications to Potential Theory, IV
  Room 134, Jacobs Hall
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Coexistence results in catalysts.
    R. Durrett, Cornell University
    G. Swindle*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (887-60-78)
  • 3:55 p.m.
    A discrete invariance principle for random combinatorial structures.
    A. D. Barbour, Institut f\"ur Angewandte Mathematik, Zurich, Switzerland
    R. Arratia, Institut f\"ur Angewandte Mathematik, Zurich, Switzerland
    S. Tavare*, Institut f\"ur Angewandte Mathematik, Zurich, Switzerland
    (887-60-39)
  • 4:50 p.m.
    Particle representation of functionals of a superprocess.
    Raisa E. Feldman*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Srikanth K. Iyer, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (887-60-29)
• Sunday November 7, 1993, 3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
  Special Session on Quantum Groups and Quantum Topology, II
  Room 132, Jacobs Hall
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Discussion and Problem Session
• Sunday November 7, 1993, 3:00 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
  Session on Contributed Papers
  Room 134, Beckman Hall
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The content of boxes.
    G. D. Chakerian, University of California, Davis
    M. A. Ghandehari*, University of California, Davis
    (887-52-01)
  • 3:15 p.m.
    Representation theorems and continuous duals of paranormed sequence spaces generated by infinite matrices.
    Nandita Rath*, Washington State University
    (887-40-02)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The storage complexity of some estimators of the median.
    Mark Finkelstein*, University of California, Irvine
    Stephen Scheinberg, University of California, Irvine
    (887-68-03)
  • 3:45 p.m.
    Fekete-Szego problem for powers of strongly close-to-convex functions.
    M. Jahangiri*, California State University, Bakersfield
    (887-30-43)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Numerical integration by the inverse of derivative operator.
    Krishnanand Verma*, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
    (887-65-53)
  • 4:15 p.m.
    A new perspective of trigonometric function.
    Kaninka Verma*, Whitewater High School
    Samarth Verma, Whitewater High School
    (887-33-54)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On a free boundary problem in porous media.
    Gieri Simonett*, University of California, Los Angeles
    Joachim Escher, University of Besancon, France
    (887-35-15)
  • 4:45 p.m.
    Existence, uniqueness, and stability of symmetric periodic solutions of a differential delay equation.
    Anatoli F. Ivanov*, University of Rhode Island
    Srikanth K. Iyer, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (887-34-21)

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