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1997 Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting
Memphis, TN, March 21-22, 1997
Meeting #919

Associate secretaries:
Robert J Daverman, AMS daverman@math.utk.edu

Friday March 21, 1997

Friday March 21, 1997, 7:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Registration
Lobby, Psychology Lecture Hall, next to Psychology Building

Friday March 21, 1997, 7:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Book Sale and Electronic Products
Ground Floor Lobby, Psychology Building

Friday March 21, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Dynamical Systems and Fractal Geometry, I
Room 109, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Fernanda Botelho, University of Memphis botelhof@hermes.msci.memst.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  The boundaries of self-similar tilings of ${\bf R}^n$.
  James E. Keesling*, University of Florida
  (919-28-14)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Boundary of Self-Similar sets.
  Chithra A. Krishnamurthi*, University of Florida,Gainesville.
  (919-28-15)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Solving the Sextic by Iteration: A Study in Complex geometry and dynamics
  Scott Crass*, Denison University
  (919-51-22)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Conservative Exact Rational Maps of the Sphere
  Julia A. Barnes*, Western Carolina University
  (919-28-20)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Dynamics of Lattice Differential Equations
  Erik S Van Vleck*, Colorado School of Mines
  (919-34-16)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Annulus Diffeomorphisms with many non-Denjoy minimal sets
  Mark Turpin*, University of Hartford
  (919-68-37)

Friday March 21, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Topology of Manifolds and Singular Spaces, I
Room 129, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Bruce Hughes, Vanderbilt University hughescb@math.vanderbilt.edu
Andrew A. Ranicki, Edinburgh University a.ranicki@edinburgh.ac.uk
- 8:00 a.m.
  Relative controlled end and h-cobordism theorems
  Frank S Quinn*, Virginia Tech
  (919-57-34)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Generalized assembly maps
  Erik K. Pedersen*, Binghamton University
  (919-55-117)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On assembly maps for lattices and their analogues
  Boris Goldfarb*, Stanford University
  (919-19-55)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Families of Hypersurfaces with non-isolated singularities
  Terence J Gaffney*, Northeastern University
  (919-32-106)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The topology of some nonsingular algebraic spaces.
  John W. Wood*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (919-57-107)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Controlling Thom's $a_f$ Condition
  David B Massey*, Northeastern University
  (919-32-21)

Friday March 21, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Graph Theory, I
Room 233, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Ralph J. Faudree, Jr., University of Memphis faudreer@mathsci.msci.memphis.edu
Richard H. Schelp, University of Memphis schelpr@hermes.msci.memphis.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  $P_3$-isomorphisms for graphs
  R. E. L. Aldred, University of Otago
  M. N. Ellingham*, Vanderbilt University
  (919-05-35)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Infinite Paths in Planar Graphs
  Xingxing Yu*, Vanderbilt University
  (919-05-114)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Graphical Knockouts
  Peter J. Slater*, University of Alabama in Huntsville
  (919-05-104)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Some Results on Minimal Rankings
  Renu Laskar*, Clemson University
  Daniel J Pillone, Clemson University
  (919-05-64)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Group connectivity of chordal graphs
  Hong-Jian Lai*, West Virginia University
  (919-05-170)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Two results on matching extensions with prescribed and proscribed edge sets
  R. E. L. Aldred, University of Otago, New Zealand
  D. A. Holton, University of Otago, New Zealand
  M. I. Porteous, University of Otago, New Zealand
  M. D. Plummer*, Vanderbilt University
  (919-05-151)

Friday March 21, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Partial Differential Equations, I
Room 209, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Gisele Ruiz Goldstein, University of Memphis Gisele@ceri.memphis.edu
Jerome A. Goldstein, University of Memphis goldstej@mathsci.msci.memphis.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Model equations related to KdV
  Jerry L. Bona*, University of Texas at Austin
  (919-35-321)
- 8:30 a.m.
  The Global Behavior of Positive Solution to Certain EllipticSystems
  Lige Li*, Kansas State University
  (919-35-293)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Some generalizations of the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equations
  Michael Mudi Tom*, Louisiana State University
  (919-35-179)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Motion by curvature. A center manifold analysis.
  Gieri Simonett*, Vanderbilt University
  Joachim Escher, University of Basel, Switzerland
  (919-35-238)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Quenching and Blow-Up
  C. Y. Chan*, University of Southwestern Louisiana
  (919-35-222)
- 10:30 a.m.
  A Picard-Maclaurin Theorem for Initial Value PDE's
  G. Edgar Parker*, James Madison University
  James S. Sochacki, James Madison University
  (919-35-52)

Friday March 21, 1997, 8:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Numerical Solutions for Partial Differential Equations, I
Room 225, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Ohannes Karakashian, University of Tennessee ohannes@math.utk.edu
Xiaobing Feng, University of Tennessee xfeng@math.utk.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Implementing the Picard-Maclaurin Theorem for Initial Value PDE's
  James S Sochacki*, James Madison University
  G. Edgar Parker, James Madison University
  (919-35-11)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Adaptive finite elements in 3D and the binary black hole initial data problem
  Douglas N. Arnold*, Pennsylvania State University
  (919-65-175)
- 9:45 a.m.
  A Two-Level Finite Element Method
  Leopoldo P. Franca*, University of Colorado at Denver
  Antonini P. Macedo, University of Colorado at Boulder
  (919-65-182)
- 10:15 a.m.
  Convergence Analysis of Orthogonal Spline Collocation for Elliptic Boundary Value Problems
  Bernard Bialecki*, Colorado School of Mines
  (919-65-186)

Friday March 21, 1997, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Complex Analysis in One and Several Variables, I
Room 204, Psychology Building
Organizers:
Dmitry Khavinson, University of Arkansas dmitry@comp.uark.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Pick-Nevalinna Interpolation
  Stephen D Fisher*, Northwestern University
  (919-30-72)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Two-point distortion theorems for spherically convex functions
  C. David Minda*, University of Cincinnati
  (919-30-154)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Boundary Correspondence and dilatation of harmonic mappings
  Peter Duren*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  Dmitry Khavinson, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
  (919-30-17)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Local minimality results related to the Bloch and Landau constants.
  Albert Baernstein, II*, Washington University, St.Louis, MO
  Jade P. Vinson, Washington University, St.Louis, MO
  (919-30-141)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Conformal images of tangential and nontangential arcs
  John Akeroyd*, University of Arkansas
  (919-30-96)

Friday March 21, 1997, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Convexity, I
Room 206, Psychology Building
Organizers:
Eric A. Carlen, Georgia Institute of Technology carlen@math.gatech.edu
Erwin Lutwak, Polytechnic University lutwak@magnus.poly.edu
Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University emw2@po.cwru.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  A Special Case Of Mahler's Conjecture
  Mario A. Lopez, University of Denver
  Shlomo Reisner*, University of Denver
  (919-52-227)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Banach space operators preserving the extreme points of the unit ball.
  Vania Mascioni*, University of Texas, Austin
  (919-46-204)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Discrepancy estimates and the Radon transform
  Allen D. Rogers*, Elmhurst College
  (919-52-310)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Continuity of Steiner symmetrization
  Almut Burchard*, Princeton University
  (919-46-288)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Convexity and Extremals of Zeta Functions of Laplacians
  Richard S Laugesen*, Johns Hopkins University
  (919-35-287)

Friday March 21, 1997, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Chaotic Dynamics, I
Room 123, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Nikolai I. Chernov, University of Alabama at Birmingham chernov@math.uab.edu
Serge Troubetzkoy, University of Alabama at Birmingham troubetz@math.uab.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Dynamics of Spatial Averages
  Leonid A Bunimovich, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Miaohua Jiang*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (919-58-253)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Torsion in the Isentropic Euler Fluid and the Impulsively Started Cylinder
  Philip Rupert Baldwin*, The University of Akron
  Subramanian I Hariharan, The University of Akron
  (919-76-164)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A theory of chaotic time series
  Regis J. Serinko*, Pennsylvania State University
  (919-60-256)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Cocyclic Subshifts
  Jaroslaw Kwapisz*, Center for Dynamical Systems and Nonlinear Studies, Georgia Institute of Technology
  (919-58-194)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Substitution dynamics, tilings, and symmetry
  Charles Radin*, University of Texas at Austin
  (919-52-150)

Friday March 21, 1997, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Random Graphs, I
Room 227, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Bela Bollobas, University of Memphis bollobab@ibex.msci.memphis
Cecil C. Rousseau, University of Memphis rousseac@mathsci.msci.memphis.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Contiguity Amongst Random Graph Models
  Michael S. O. Molloy*, University of Toronto
  (919-05-248)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On Random Matchings in Regular Graphs
  Jeong Han Kim*, AT&T Labs-Research
  (919-05-265)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Asymptotic isoperimetric inequalities
  Joel Spencer*, New York University
  (919-05-28)
- 10:00 a.m.
  On a Problem by Welsh in First-Passage Percolation
  Sven Erick Alm*, Uppsala University, Sweden
  (919-05-49)
- 10:30 a.m.
  On the hexagonal lattice site percolation critical probability.
  John C. Wierman*, Johns Hopkins University
  (919-60-50)

Friday March 21, 1997, 8:45 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
Special Session on Invariants of 3-Manifolds, I
Room 125, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Richard Martin Hain, Duke University hain@math.duke.edu
Jun Yang, Duke University yang@math.duke.edu
Stavros Garoufalidis, Brown University stavros@math.mit.edu
- 8:45 a.m.
  Chern-Simons invariant for ideal hyperbolic polyhedra
  Walter D Neumann*, Melbourne University, Australia
  Jun Yang, Duke University
  (919-57-168)
- 9:20 a.m.
  A universal finite type invariant for integral homology 3-spheres
  Thang T. Q. Le*, SUNY at Buffalo
  (919-57-53)
- 9:55 a.m.
  On the virtual automorphism group of hyperbolic surface groups
  Christopher T. Odden*, Duke University
  (919-20-235)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Burau Representation and Random Walk on String Links
  Xiao-song Lin, University of California, Riverside and The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  Feng Tian, University of California, San Diego
  Zhenghan Wang*, Indiana University at Bloomington
  (919-57-312)

Friday March 21, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Approximation in Mathematics, I
Room 351, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
George A. Anastassiou, University of Memphis anastasg@mathsci.msci.memphis.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Scattered Cardinal Hermite Interpolation by Positive DefiniteFunctions
  Xingping Sun*, Southwest Missouri State University
  (919-41-329)
- 9:30 a.m.
  On smoothness and conditions and conformality conditions for bivariate cubic splines
  Don Hong*, East Tennessee State University
  Huanwen Liu, University of Wollongong, Australia
  (919-41-331)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Approximation by Spline Elements over a Mixed Three-Directional Mesh
  Don Hong, East Tennessee State University
  Ram Mohapatra*, University of Central Florida
  Shuntang Wu, Zhenjiang Normal College, China
  (919-41-333)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Projection methods for approximate solutions of integral equations ofthe first kind based on sampling theorems and multiresolution analysis
  M. Zuhair Nashed*, University of Delaware
  (919-65-322)

Friday March 21, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Symbolic Dynamics, I
Room 107, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Paul B. Trow, University of Memphis trowp@mathsci.msci.memphis.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Dynamics of affine maps induced on the torus
  Roy L. Adler*, IBM Research Center
  Bruce Kitchens, IBM Research Center
  Charles Tresser, IBM Research Center
  (919-58-316)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Symbolic dynamics for almost linear maps of the torus
  Bruce P. Kitchens*, IBM Research Center
  Adler L. Adler, IBM Research Center
  Charles P. Tresser, IBM Research Center
  (919-58-122)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Tiling the integers and sofic systems
  Ethan M. Coven*, Wesleyan University
  William Geller, IUPUI
  (919-58-113)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Conjugacies Between Markov Subgroups of $(\Bbb Z/2\Bbb Z^{\Bbb Z^2}$.
  Sylvia Silberger*, Wesleyan University
  (919-58-138)

Friday March 21, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Convergence and Recurrence in Ergodic Theory, I
Room 244, Psychology Building
Organizers:
Mate Wierdl, University of Memphis matyi@moni.msci.memphis.edu
James T. Campbell, University of Memphis campbelj@hermes.msci.memphis.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  A.E. Multiple Recurrence for weakly mixing systems
  Idris Assani*, University of North Carolina at Chapel-Hill
  (919-28-134)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Unconditional Convergence of Differences in Ergodic Theory
  Bryan Johnson*, University of Illinois at Urbana
  Joseph M. Rosenblatt, University of Illinois at Urbana
  (919-28-131)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Oscillation inequalities in ergodic theory
  Roger L. Jones*, DePaul University
  Robert Kaufman, University of Illinois at Urbana
  Joseph Rosenblatt, University of Illinois at Urbana
  Mate Wierdl, University of Memphis
  (919-28-126)

Friday March 21, 1997, 11:05 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
Invited Address
Conditionally invariant measures in dynamical systems
Psychology Lecture Hall, next to Psychology Building
Nikolai I. Chernov*, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Friday March 21, 1997, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
Invited Address
Convolution inequalites in convex geometry
Psychology Lecture Hall, next to Psychology Building
Keith Ball*, Texas A & M University

Friday March 21, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Approximation in Mathematics, I
Room 351, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
George A. Anastassiou, University of Memphis anastasg@mathsci.msci.memphis.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Bilinear maps of bounded variation on products of Banach lattices.
  Gerard J. Buskes*, University of Mississippi
  (919-46-08)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Multivariate and Matrix Refinement Masks
  Thomas A Hogan*, Vanderbilt University
  (919-41-09)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Simultaneous Approximation by Algebraic Polynomials
  Kirill Kopotun*, Vanderbilt University
  (919-41-12)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Approximation by rational functions in Hardy space
  Xin Li*, University of Central Florida
  (919-41-24)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Rate of convergence of some multivariate neural network opeators to the unit
  George A. Anastassiou*, University of Memphis
  (919-41-30)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Convexity properties of circular Bernstein Bezier curves.
  Tian-Xiao He, Illinois Wesleyan University
  Larry L. Schumaker*, Vanderbilt University
  (919-41-36)

Friday March 21, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Symbolic Dynamics, II
Room 107, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Paul B. Trow, University of Memphis trowp@mathsci.msci.memphis.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Flow equivalence of reducible SFTs and filtered SL(Z) equivalence of their defining infinite matrices
  Mike M. Boyle*, Univ. of Maryland at College Park
  Danrun Huang, University of Washington
  (919-54-140)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Jewett-Krieger: One Step Beyond and Outer Limits
  Nicholas S. Ormes*, University of Maryland, College Park
  (919-58-139)
- 3:30 p.m.
  A ${\Bbb Z}^2$ Embedding Theorem
  Samuel J. Lightwood*, University of Maryland, College Park
  (919-58-142)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Textile Systems and Two Dimensional Shifts of Finite Type
  Kathleen Madden*, Lafayettte College
  Aimee Johnson, Swarthmore College
  (919-58-43)

Friday March 21, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Special Session on Numerical Solutions for Partial Differential Equations, II
Room 225, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Ohannes Karakashian, University of Tennessee ohannes@math.utk.edu
Xiaobing Feng, University of Tennessee xfeng@math.utk.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Finite Element Methods for Approximating a model of ferro-magnetism.
  Peter B Monk*, University of Delaware
  (919-65-188)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Effects of discretization on solving the Ericksen's bar problem
  Charles R Collins*, University of Tennessee
  (919-65-190)
- 3:45 p.m.
  A Conservative Form of the Modified Method of Characteristics
  Jim Douglas, Jr.*, Purdue University
  Felipe Pereira, Laboratorio Nacional de Computacao Cientifica, Brazil
  (919-65-191)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Numerical Approximation of Stationary MHD Flow with a Nonideal Boundary
  Amnon J. Meir*, Auburn University
  Paul G. Schmidt, Auburn University
  (919-65-192)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Numerical simulation of blowup for the nonlinear Schrodinger equation
  Ohannes Karakashian*, University of Tennessee
  Michael Plexousakis, University of Tennessee
  (919-65-298)
- 5:30 p.m.
  A Posteriori Error Estimation and Adaptivity for DegenerateParabolic Problems
  Ricardo H. Nochetto*, The University of Tennessee
  (919-65-332)

Friday March 21, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Convergence and Recurrence in Ergodic Theory, II
Room 244, Psychology Building
Organizers:
Mate Wierdl, University of Memphis matyi@moni.msci.memphis.edu
James T. Campbell, University of Memphis campbelj@hermes.msci.memphis.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  A non-linear version of Szemer\'edi's Theorem for sets of positivedensity in the real line.
  Vitaly Bergelson, The Ohio State University
  Randall G. McCutcheon*, Case Western University
  (919-28-132)
- 3:10 p.m.
  Some Recent Developments and Questions in the Theory ofAlmost Everywhere Convergence of Weighted Ergodic Averages.
  James H. Olsen*, North Dakota State University
  (919-47-95)
- 3:50 p.m.
  $L^p$ bounds for the bilinear Hilbert transform
  Michael T. Lacey*, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Christoph M. Thiele, Universit\"at Kiel
  (919-28-127)

Friday March 21, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Complex Analysis in One and Several Variables, II
Room 204, Psychology Building
Organizers:
Dmitry Khavinson, University of Arkansas dmitry@comp.uark.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Bohr's power series theorem in several variables
  Harold P. Boas*, Texas A&M University
  Dmitry Khavinson, University of Arkansas
  (919-32-05)
- 3:00 p.m.
  On elliptic and parabolic measure
  John L. Lewis*, University of Kentucky
  (919-30-58)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The $\bar\partial$-Neumann Problem in the Sobolev Topology
  Steve Krantz*, Washington University
  Luigi Fontana, Universit\`a di Milano
  Marco M Peloso, Politecnico di Torino
  (919-32-184)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Plurisubharmonic functions and subellipticity of the $\overline{\partial}$-Neumann problem on nonsmooth domains
  Emil J. Straube*, Texas A\&M University
  (919-32-245)
- 4:30 p.m.
  A Frobenius-type theorem for some singular partial differential equations
  Jill E. Hemmati*, University of Arkansas
  (919-35-92)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Mizohata Structures on $S^2$: Automorphisms and Standardness
  Abdelhamid Meziani*, Florida International University
  (919-30-157)

Friday March 21, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Convexity, II
Room 206, Psychology Building
Organizers:
Eric A. Carlen, Georgia Institute of Technology carlen@math.gatech.edu
Erwin Lutwak, Polytechnic University lutwak@magnus.poly.edu
Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University emw2@po.cwru.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Differentiability of the Integral of Banach space valued functions
  S. J. Dilworth, University of South Carolina
  Maria Girardi*, University of South Carolina
  (919-46-223)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Kinematic and translative integral formulae concerning the convex hull operation
  Stefan Glasauer*, University of Oklahoma
  (919-52-199)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Mean width and diameter of proportional sections of a symmetricconvex body
  Apostolos A. Giannopoulos*, Oklahoma State University
  Vitali D. Milman, Tel Aviv University
  (919-46-233)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Isoperimetric Inequality vs. Virial Identity
  Michael Kiessling*, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
  (919-35-289)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Inmobilization Problems
  Luis Montejano Peimbert*, Instituto de Matematicas, UNAM
  (919-52-197)

Friday March 21, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
Special Session on Invariants of 3-Manifolds, II
Room 125, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Richard Martin Hain, Duke University hain@math.duke.edu
Jun Yang, Duke University yang@math.duke.edu
Stavros Garoufalidis, Brown University stavros@math.mit.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  On the structure of the Torelli group
  Stavros Garoufalidis*,
  (919-57-189)
- 3:05 p.m.
  Finite type 3-manifold invariants and holomorphic functions
  Ruth Lawrence*, Univeristy of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  (919-57-301)
- 3:40 p.m.
  Hyper-Kahler Geometry and Invariants of 3-Manifolds
  Edward Witten, Institute for Advanced Study
  Lev Rozansky*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  (919-57-210)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Stable formality of moduli space
  Alexander A. Voronov*, M.I.T.
  (919-57-266)

Friday March 21, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Chaotic Dynamics, II
Room 123, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Nikolai I. Chernov, University of Alabama at Birmingham chernov@math.uab.edu
Serge Troubetzkoy, University of Alabama at Birmingham troubetz@math.uab.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Noncompact limit sets
  Krystyna M Kuperberg*, Auburn University
  (919-58-285)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Horseshoes and the Conley Index Spectrum
  Konstantin Mischaikow*, Georgia Tech
  (919-58-250)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Entropy and the number of geodesics joining two points
  Keith Howard Burns*, Northwestern University
  Gabriel Paternain, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay
  (919-58-203)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Graph Substitutions
  Joseph Peter Previte*, University of Maryland
  (919-57-147)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Some results and many questions about renormalization in dynamics.
  Charles P. Tresser*, IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY
  (919-58-165)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Using a Finite Horizon to make Embedded Surfaces with Ergodic GeodesicFlow.
  Victor J. Donnay*, Bryn Mawr College
  (919-58-305)

Friday March 21, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Recurrent Neural Networks and Applications, I
Room 109, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Fernanda Botelho, University of Memphis botelhof@hermes.msci.memst.edu
Max H. Garzon, University of Memphis garzonm@hermes.msci.memst.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  A Language That Recurrent Neural Networks Can't Recognize in Less than Exponential Time
  Cristopher Moore*, Santa Fe Institute
  (919-68-195)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Decoding Discrete Structures From Fixed Points Of Analog Hopfield Networks
  Arun K Jagota*, University of California, Santa Cruz
  (919-68-39)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Tradeoffs between noise and computation in analog neural networks
  Pekka Orponen*, University of Jyv{\"a}skyl{\"a}, Finland
  (919-68-304)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Fault-Tolerance in neural networks with two neurons
  Fernanda Botelho,
  Max Garzon,
  Mi Zhou*,
  (919-68-240)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Primal-Target Recurrent Neural Nets for Hypergraph Optimization Problems
  Dmitri Kaznachey*, St. Jude / University of Memphis
  Arun Jagota, University of California, Santa Cruz
  (919-68-216)

Friday March 21, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Topology of Manifolds and Singular Spaces, II
Room 129, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Bruce Hughes, Vanderbilt University hughescb@math.vanderbilt.edu
Andrew A. Ranicki, Edinburgh University a.ranicki@edinburgh.ac.uk
- 2:30 p.m.
  Higher analytic torsion
  Mel Rothenberg*, University of Chicago
  (919-57-163)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Orthogonal calculus and index theory
  Michael S Weiss*, University of Notre Dame
  (919-57-60)
- 3:30 p.m.
  h-Cobordisms and Mapping Cylinder Obstructions
  Bogdan Vajiac*, University of Notre Dame
  (919-57-112)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Which G-Spheres are suspensions?
  Frank Connolly*, University of Notre Dame
  (919-57-174)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Obstructions to transversality for some singular spaces
  Heather M Johnston*, Rutgers University
  (919-57-102)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Universal formulas for the generalized Casson's invariants of knots
  Hans U. Boden*, McMaster University
  Andrew J. Nicas, McMaster University
  (919-55-159)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Ring structure on Floer homology for symplectic fixed points
  Matthias Schwarz*, Stanford University
  (919-58-100)

Friday March 21, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Graph Theory, II
Room 233, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Ralph J. Faudree, Jr., University of Memphis faudreer@mathsci.msci.memphis.edu
Richard H. Schelp, University of Memphis schelpr@hermes.msci.memphis.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  The Number of Cycles in a 2-Factor
  Ronald J. Gould*, Emory University
  (919-05-68)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Two-factors with few components in claw-free graphs
  Ronald J. Gould, Emory University
  Michael S. Jacobson*, University of Louisville
  (919-05-108)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Hamilton weight and Petersen minor
  C. Q. Zhang*, West Virginia University
  H. J. Lai, West Virginia University
  (919-05-47)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Closure, paths and cycles of claw-free graphs
  Zden\v{e}k Ryj\'{a}\v{c}ek, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic
  Akira Saito*, Nihon University, Japan
  R.H. Schelp, The University of Memphis
  (919-05-83)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Toughness and hamiltonicity of families of chordal graphs
  Jen\H{o} Lehel*, University of Louisville
  (919-05-103)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Results on Forbidden Triples for Hamiltonian Graphs
  Linda M Lesniak*, Drew University
  (919-05-144)

Friday March 21, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Special Session on Random Graphs, II
Room 227, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Bela Bollobas, University of Memphis bollobab@ibex.msci.memphis
Cecil C. Rousseau, University of Memphis rousseac@mathsci.msci.memphis.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Antichains in the partition lattice.
  Rod Canfield*, University of Georgia
  (919-05-318)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Endomorphisms of partially ordered sets
  Dwight Duffus, Emory University
  Tomasz Luczak*, Emory University
  Vojt\v ech R\"odl, Emory University
  Andrzej Ruci\'nski, Emory University
  (919-05-254)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Quadrilaterals in the cube and directed graphs
  Richard H. Schelp, University of Memphis
  Andrew Thomason*, University of Cambridge and University of Memphis
  (919-05-328)

Friday March 21, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Partial Differential Equations, II
Room 209, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Gisele Ruiz Goldstein, University of Memphis Gisele@ceri.memphis.edu
Jerome A. Goldstein, University of Memphis goldstej@mathsci.msci.memphis.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Inverse Spectral Problems and Herglotz Functions
  Fritz Gesztesy*, University of Missouri - Columbia
  (919-34-202)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Spectral and growth bounds for the linearized Eulerand kinematic dynamo operator
  Yuri Latushkin*, University of Missouri-Columbia
  Misha Vishik, University of Texas-Austin
  (919-58-207)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The spectrum of the Laplacian on a class of Riemannian manifolds
  Robert M Kauffman*, UAB, Birmingham
  Alberto G. Setti, University of Milan, Italy
  (919-47-183)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Lower gradient bound for ground state eigenfunctions of Dirichlet Laplacians
  Rodrigo Banuelos, Purdue University
  Michael M.H. Pang*, University of Missouri-Columbia
  (919-35-260)
- 4:30 p.m.
  On the solution theory of linear, higher order, factored, abstract Cauchy problems
  Nikos Kodogianidis*, Saint Leo College
  (919-35-193)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Rellich inequalities
  Andreas M. Hinz*, University of Munich, Germany
  (919-35-273)

Friday March 21, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:10 p.m.
Session on Contributed Paper Session
Room 230, Psychology Building
- 2:30 p.m.
  Multiple Spike Layer Solutions to Semilinear Elliptic Equation with Neuman Boundary Conditions
  Michal Kowalcyk*, University of Minnesota
  (919-35-317)
- 2:45 p.m.
  On the relationship betwen a Cauchy problem and a family ofboundary - value problems for a second order differential equation
  Aurora Breazna*, Louisiana State University
  (919-35-123)
- 3:00 p.m.
  On the Thomas - Fermi model for a quantum system
  Andrei Breazna*, Louisiana State University
  (919-35-70)
- 3:15 p.m.
  Summation of functional serious which occur in thermomechenical problem with respect to nongomogeneous structures.
  Andriy Mikolaevich Blazhievskiy*, Technological University of Podillya, Khmelnitsky, Ukraine
  (919-35-07)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Campbell--Hausdorff series and P-algebras Lie
  Boris S Khots*,
  (919-22-297)
- 3:45 p.m.
  Strong convergence of copulas
  Piotr Mikusi\'nski*, University of Central Florida
  (919-28-243)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Sparp subelliptic estimate for n-1 forms on finite type domains
  Lop-Hing Ho*, Wichita State University
  (919-32-18)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Spherical harmonics, multinomial expansions, and the Pythagorean theorem.
  Allan Fryant*, Greensboro College
  (919-42-54)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Minimal Length Normal Forms for Braid words
  Margaret A. Yoder*, Eastern Kentucky University
  (919-20-44)
- 4:45 p.m.
  Geometric Representations of Substitution Dynamical Systems
  Luca Q Zamboni*, U.N.T.
  Charles Holton, U.C. Berkeley
  (919-54-232)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Directed Graphs and Geometric Representations of Substitutions
  Charles G. Holton, Jr.*, University of California
  Luca Q. Zamboni, University of North Texas
  (919-58-299)

Friday March 21, 1997, 5:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Dynamical Systems and Fractal Geometry, II
Room 109, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Fernanda Botelho, University of Memphis botelhof@hermes.msci.memst.edu
- 5:00 p.m.
  Maps of the interval, inverse limit spaces, and the pseudoarc
  Louis S. Block*, University of Florida
  James E. Keesling, University of Florida
  Vladimir V. Uspenskij, International Moscow University
  (919-54-228)
- 5:30 p.m.
  Generalized crises: how planar invariant sets merge asa system parameter is varied
  Kathleen Alligood*, George Mason University
  (919-58-241)
- 6:00 p.m.
  Denjoy minimal sets are far from affine.
  Alec Norton*, University of Texas, Austin
  (919-58-23)

Friday March 21, 1997, 7:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
Paul Erdos Lecture Series Invited Address
Extremal problems for graphs and integers
Room 123, Fogelman Center
Vera T. S\'os*, Hungarian Academy of Science

Saturday March 22, 1997

Saturday March 22, 1997, 7:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Registration
Lobby, Psychology Lecture Hall, next to Psychology Building

Saturday March 22, 1997, 7:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Book Sale and Electronic Products
Ground Floor Lobby, Psychology Building

Saturday March 22, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-8:50 a.m.
Special Session on Dynamical Systems and Fractal Geometry, III
Room 109, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Fernanda Botelho, University of Memphis botelhof@hermes.msci.memst.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  The Hausdorff dimension of the boundary of the L\'evy dragon
  Paul F. Duvall*, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  James E. Keesling, University of Florida
  (919-28-149)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Geometric approach to global qualitative investigation of polynomial dynamical systems.
  Valery A. Gaiko*, Belarus State University of Informatics & Radioelectronics, Minsk, Belarus
  (919-34-171)

Saturday March 22, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Complex Analysis in One and Several Variables, III
Room 204, Psychology Building
Organizers:
Dmitry Khavinson, University of Arkansas dmitry@comp.uark.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  On dilatations and substantial boundary points of homeomorphisms ofJordan curves
  Shanshuang Yang*, Emory University
  (919-30-38)
- 8:30 a.m.
  The Hardy class of K{\oe}nigs maps
  Pietro Poggi-Corradini*, University of Virginia
  (919-30-63)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Quasi-self-similar Jordan Curves
  David A. Herron*, University of Cincinati
  (919-30-67)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The existence of Hayman directions for entire functions of slowgrowth
  John Rossi*, Virginia Tech
  (919-30-283)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A ``regular'' pentagonal tiling of the plane
  Kenneth Stephenson*, University of Tennessee
  Phil Bowers, Florida State University
  (919-30-161)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Composition operators and measures
  Joseph A Cima, University of North Carolina
  Alec L Matheson*, Lamar University
  (919-42-62)

Saturday March 22, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Topology of Manifolds and Singular Spaces, III
Room 129, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Bruce Hughes, Vanderbilt University hughescb@math.vanderbilt.edu
Andrew A. Ranicki, Edinburgh University a.ranicki@edinburgh.ac.uk
- 8:00 a.m.
  Analysis and Topological Manifolds
  John Roe*, Jesus College, England
  (919-58-41)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Nonvanishing of K-theoretic index and applications
  Guoliang Yu*, University of Colorado, Boulder
  (919-19-65)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Geometry and homotopy functors
  Christopher W. Stark*, University of Florida
  (919-58-105)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Cartesian products of 3-manifolds
  Slawomir Kwasik*, Tulane University
  Reinhard Schultz, University of California, Riverside
  (919-57-94)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Stable Diffeomorphisms of 4-manifolds
  James F. Davis*, Indiana University
  (919-57-66)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Stabilized fixed point neighborhoods in $4$-manifolds
  Reinhard Schultz*, University of California, Riverside
  S{\l}awomir Kwasik, Tulane University
  (919-57-97)

Saturday March 22, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Graph Theory, III
Room 233, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Ralph J. Faudree, Jr., University of Memphis faudreer@mathsci.msci.memphis.edu
Richard H. Schelp, University of Memphis schelpr@hermes.msci.memphis.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Ramsey colorings for diagonals of convex sets
  Heiko Harborth*, Technische Universsit\"at Braunschweig, Germany
  (919-05-155)
- 8:30 a.m.
  The largest matroid circuit-cocircuit Ramsey number
  Joseph E. Bonin, George Washington University
  Jennifer McNulty, University of Montana
  Talmage J. Reid*, University of Mississippi
  (919-05-118)
- 9:00 a.m.
  The Order of Magnitude of Some Ramsey Functions
  Yusheng Li*, University of Memphis
  Cecil C. Rousseau, University of Memphis
  (919-05-48)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Line Graphs and Forbidden Induced Subgraphs
  Lubo Soltes*, West Virginia University
  Hong-Jian Lai, West Virginia University
  (919-05-84)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Forbidden Ordered Subgraph versus Forbidden Subgraph Characterizations of Graph Classes
  Mark C. Ginn*, Austin Peay State University
  (919-05-27)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Aharoni's duality theorem and partially ordered sets
  Dwight A Duffus*, Emory University
  Edward w Goddard, Emory University
  (919-05-101)

Saturday March 22, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Partial Differential Equations, III
Room 209, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Gisele Ruiz Goldstein, University of Memphis Gisele@ceri.memphis.edu
Jerome A. Goldstein, University of Memphis goldstej@mathsci.msci.memphis.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Uniqueness of the solution of the Schr\"odinger equation with discontinuous coefficients
  Yoshimi Sait\B o*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  (919-35-259)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Inequalities for the Dirichlet and Neumann Eigenvalues of the Laplacian for Domains on Spheres
  Mark S. Ashbaugh*, University of Missouri
  (919-35-264)
- 9:00 a.m.
  On second order linear differential equations with inverse squaresingularities
  Rudi Weikard*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  (919-34-229)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Radial solutions to a Dirichlet problem arising is Astrophysics
  Alfonso Castro*, University of North Texas
  (919-35-320)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Finding critical points of the Ginzburg- Landau Functional by means of Sobolev Gradients
  John W. Neuberger*, University of North Texas
  Renka J. Robert, University of North Texas
  (919-35-166)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Asymptotics of the resolvent of the Dirac operator with scalar short-range and bounded potentials
  Christopher Pladdy*, Nicholls State University
  (919-81-309)

Saturday March 22, 1997, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Approximation in Mathematics, II
Room 351, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
George A. Anastassiou, University of Memphis anastasg@mathsci.msci.memphis.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Convergence of Subdivision and Dilation Equations.
  Marian Neamtu*, Vanderbilt University
  (919-65-40)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Macroelements and Orthogonal Multiresolutional Analysis
  Tian-Xiao He*, Illinois Wesleyan University
  (919-41-42)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Approximating a bandlimited function in terms of its samples
  Rudolf Stens*, RWTH Aachen, Lehrstuhl A f\"ur Mathematik, Germany
  (919-94-206)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Weak Copositive and Intertwining Approximation
  Ying K. Hu, Georgia Southern University
  Kirill A. Kopotun, Vanderbilt University
  Xiang M. Yu*, Southwest Missouri State University
  (919-41-45)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Joint Spectral Radius and H\"older Regularity of Multiresolution Analyses
  Mohsen Maesumi*, Lamar University
  (919-41-74)

Saturday March 22, 1997, 8:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Numerical Solutions for Partial Differential Equations, III
Room 225, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Ohannes Karakashian, University of Tennessee ohannes@math.utk.edu
Xiaobing Feng, University of Tennessee xfeng@math.utk.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Stability and Convergence of Higher Order Finite Element Methods forPartial Differential Equations
  Tadeusz J Janik*, University of Alabama in Huntsville
  (919-65-213)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Space-Time Finite Elements for a Problem in Surface Diffusion
  Bernard D Coleman, Rutgers University
  Richard S Falk*, Rutgers University
  Maher Moakher, Rutgers University
  (919-65-201)
- 9:45 a.m.
  Analysis and computation of flow control and optimization problems
  Max D Guznburger*,
  (919-65-214)
- 10:15 a.m.
  Recent Advances in Mixed Finite Element Methods for NonlinearProblems and Applications
  Eun-Jae Park*, University of Wyoming
  (919-65-221)

Saturday March 22, 1997, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Convexity, III
Room 206, Psychology Building
Organizers:
Eric A. Carlen, Georgia Institute of Technology carlen@math.gatech.edu
Erwin Lutwak, Polytechnic University lutwak@magnus.poly.edu
Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University emw2@po.cwru.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  Floating Body, Illumination Body, and Polytopal Approximation
  Carsten H Sch\"utt*, Christian Albrechts Universit\"at
  (919-52-59)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Geometric Averages of Projections of Convex Bodies.
  K. K. Spriestersbach*, University of Dallas
  (919-52-284)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Adapted Convex Bodies
  Jane R Sangwine-Yager*, Saint Mary's College of California
  (919-52-262)
- 10:00 a.m.
  An inequality for sections and projections of convex bodies
  Jonathan Spingarn*, Georgia Tech
  (919-52-275)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Sliding convex bodies inside non-convex domains
  Ralph Howard*, University of South Carolina
  (919-52-211)

Saturday March 22, 1997, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Chaotic Dynamics, III
Room 123, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Nikolai I. Chernov, University of Alabama at Birmingham chernov@math.uab.edu
Serge Troubetzkoy, University of Alabama at Birmingham troubetz@math.uab.edu
- 8:30 a.m.
  On the dynamics of infinite dimensional Hamiltonian particle systems
  Oliver R. Knill*, University of Arizona, Tucson
  (919-82-269)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Conformally symplectic dynamics
  Carlangelo Liverani, University of Rome II, Italy
  Maciej P. Wojtkowski*, University of Arizona
  (919-58-272)
- 9:30 a.m.
  The number of periodic orbits in a polygonal billiard table with pockets
  Gregory Galperin*, Eastern Illinois University (EIU)
  (919-70-267)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Periodic orbits for billiards in polygons
  Eugene Gutkin*, USC, Los Angeles
  (919-58-173)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Geometry of projective billiards
  Serge Tabachnikov*, University of Arkansas
  (919-58-279)

Saturday March 22, 1997, 8:45 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
Special Session on Invariants of 3-Manifolds, III
Room 125, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Richard Martin Hain, Duke University hain@math.duke.edu
Jun Yang, Duke University yang@math.duke.edu
Stavros Garoufalidis, Brown University stavros@math.mit.edu
- 8:45 a.m.
  Finite-type $3$-manifold invariants and the lower central series ofthe Torelli group.
  Jerome Paul Levine*, Brandeis University
  Stavros Garoufalidis, Harvard University
  (919-57-239)
- 9:20 a.m.
  p-adic Lie groups and splittings of 3-manifold groups
  Darren Long, University of California, Santa Barbara
  Alan Reid*, University of Texas, Austin
  (919-57-187)
- 9:55 a.m.
  Generalizing Casson's invariant from SU(2) to SU(3)
  Hans U. Boden*, McMaster University
  Chris Herald, Swarthmore College
  (919-57-111)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Embedding Incompressible Surfaces in Three-Manifolds
  Hugh Nelson Howards*, University of California, San Diego
  (919-54-178)

Saturday March 22, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Symbolic Dynamics, III
Room 107, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Paul B. Trow, University of Memphis trowp@mathsci.msci.memphis.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Duality and ordered cohomology of shifts of finite type
  K. H. Kim, Alabama State University
  F. W. Roush, Alabama State University
  Susan G. Williams*, University of South Alabama
  (919-58-258)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Polynomial matrices and spectra of nonnegative matrices
  K. H. Kim, Alabama State University
  Fred W. Roush*, Alabama State University
  (919-58-135)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Graph presentations for Markov shifts
  Doris Fiebig*, University of Heidelberg
  (919-58-116)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Factor theorems and embedding theorems for locally compact Markov shifts
  Ulf Fiebig*, University of Heidelberg
  (919-58-115)

Saturday March 22, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Convergence and Recurrence in Ergodic Theory, III
Room 244, Psychology Building
Organizers:
Mate Wierdl, University of Memphis matyi@moni.msci.memphis.edu
James T. Campbell, University of Memphis campbelj@hermes.msci.memphis.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Tail Fields Generated by Symbol Counts in Measure-Preserving Systems
  Karl Petersen*, University of North Carolina
  Jean-Paul Thouvenot, Universit\' e Pierre et Marie Curie
  (919-28-129)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Symmetric measures and oscillation inequalities
  Karin Reinhold*, University of Albany, SUNY
  (919-28-130)
- 10:20 a.m.
  When the Integral is the Limit
  Joseph Max Rosenblatt*, University of Illinois
  (919-28-158)

Saturday March 22, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Recurrent Neural Networks and Applications, II
Room 109, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Fernanda Botelho, University of Memphis botelhof@hermes.msci.memst.edu
Max H. Garzon, University of Memphis garzonm@hermes.msci.memst.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Nonparametric Adaptive Learning With Feedback
  Halbert White*, University of California, San Diego
  Xiaohong Chen,
  (919-68-29)
- 9:30 a.m.
  A Learning Algorithm for Applying Cohen's Models to System Identification
  James W Howse*,
  Chaouki T Abdallah,
  Gregory L Heileman,
  (919-93-296)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Extraction of Rules from Recurrent Neural Networks and Applications to Financial Time Series
  C. L. Giles*, NEC Research Institute
  Steve Lawrence, NEC Research Institute
  Ah-Chung Tsoi, University of Woollongong, Australia
  (919-68-308)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Generating Random Time-Series with Arbitrary Distributions by ChaoticNeural Networks
  Xin Wang*, UCLA Computer Science Department
  (919-68-25)

Saturday March 22, 1997, 10:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
Special Session on Mathematical Methods in Computer Vision, I
Room 219, Psychology Building
Organizers:
Benjamin B. Kimia, Brown University kimia@lems.brown.edu
- 10:00 a.m.
  Hierarchical Markov random fields and stochastic optimization with stable points
  Gregory Budzban,
  William A. Casey*,
  (919-60-234)

Saturday March 22, 1997, 11:05 a.m.-11:55 a.m.
Invited Address
Invariant curve and surface flows in computer vision
Psychology Lecture Hall, next to Psychology Building
Allen R. Tannenbaum*, University of Minnesota

Saturday March 22, 1997, 1:30 p.m.-1:50 p.m.
Invited Address
Hodge theory and mapping class groups
Psychology Lecture Hall, next to Psychology Building
Richard M. Hain*, Duke University
(919-20-148)

Saturday March 22, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Approximation in Mathematics, III
Room 351, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
George A. Anastassiou, University of Memphis anastasg@mathsci.msci.memphis.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  On the mesh independence principle for a certain class of Newton methods and applications
  Ioannis K. Argyros*, Cameron University
  (919-65-93)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Multivariate Exponential Differences
  Thomas Kunkle*, College of Charleston
  (919-41-169)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Mellin Transforms and the Exponential Sampling Theorem
  Paul L. Butzer*, RWTH Aachen
  Stefan Jansche, University of Kiel
  (919-44-244)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Moduli of smoothness and best approximation of functions with singularities
  Michael Ganzburg*, Hampton University
  (919-41-209)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Optimum Parameters for the Generalized ADI Method
  B. Le Bailly, Facultes Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paiz, NAMUR
  Jean-Pierre Thiran*, Facultes Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, NAMUR
  (919-41-271)

Saturday March 22, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
Special Session on Symbolic Dynamics, IV
Room 107, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Paul B. Trow, University of Memphis trowp@mathsci.msci.memphis.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Semigroups Associated with 2-dimensional Shifts
  Nata\v sa Jonoska*, University of South Florida
  (919-58-121)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Characterizing tilings with self-similar structures
  Natalie M Priebe*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  (919-58-295)
- 3:30 p.m.
  A class of quasi-invariant measures for the $\beta$-shift
  Kennan Shelton*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  (919-28-247)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Friedland's entropy for $Z^2$-actions
  William Geller*, Indiana University-Purdue University
  Mark Pollicott, Manchester University, England
  (919-58-300)

Saturday March 22, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Dynamical Systems and Fractal Geometry, IV
Room 109, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Fernanda Botelho, University of Memphis botelhof@hermes.msci.memst.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Classification of Denjoy Continua
  Marcy Barge*, Montana State University
  Robert F Williams, University of Texas at Austin
  (919-58-230)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Local stability and Lyapunov functions
  Jorge Lewowicz, Faultad de Ingenier\'\i a., Universidad de La Republica, Uruguay
  Juan Tolosa*, Richard Stockton College
  (919-58-225)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Numerical calculations for a family of torus maps with wandering domains.
  Patrick D. McSwiggen*, University of Cincinnati
  (919-58-255)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Geometric integration on nonsmooth sets
  Jenny C. Harrison*, U.C. Berkelely
  (919-28-286)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Connecting Webs for 2-Parameter Dynamical Systems
  J. Ringland*, SUNY Buffalo
  K. Brucks, Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  M. Schell, SMU, Dallas
  C. Tresser, IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY
  (919-58-282)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Invariant, generic, and noisy topology
  Judy Kennedy*, University of Delaware
  (919-58-306)

Saturday March 22, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
Special Session on Numerical Solutions for Partial Differential Equations, IV
Room 225, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Ohannes Karakashian, University of Tennessee ohannes@math.utk.edu
Xiaobing Feng, University of Tennessee xfeng@math.utk.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Numerical Analysis of Conservation Laws and Hamilton-Jacobi Equations.
  Pierre A. Gremaud*, North Carolina State University
  (919-65-200)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Finite Element Superconvergence for the Reissner-Mindlin Plate Model
  Zhimin Zhang*, Texas Tech University
  (919-65-252)
- 3:45 p.m.
  Mixed Finite Element Methods on Non-Matching Multiblock Grids
  Todd Arbogast*, Texas Inst. for Computational and Applied Math., The University of Texas at Austin
  Lawrence C. Cowsar, Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories
  Mary F. Wheeler, Texas Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin
  Ivan Yotov, Texas Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin
  (919-65-276)
- 4:15 p.m.
  On the Reliability of FEM-solutions for Helmholtz equation
  Frank Ihlenburg*, The University of Texas
  (919-65-281)
- 4:45 p.m.
  Finite Element Methods and Domain Decomposition Algorithms for a fluid--SolidInteraction Problem
  Xiaobing Feng*, The University of Tennessee
  (919-65-236)

Saturday March 22, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
Special Session on Convergence and Recurrence in Ergodic Theory, IV
Room 244, Psychology Building
Organizers:
Mate Wierdl, University of Memphis matyi@moni.msci.memphis.edu
James T. Campbell, University of Memphis campbelj@hermes.msci.memphis.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Multiparameter Superadditive Ergodic Theorems for Mean Ergodic$L_1$-contractions
  Do\u gan \c C\" omez*, North Dakota State University
  (919-28-124)
- 3:10 p.m.
  Random Averages
  M\'at\'e Wierdl*, University of Memphis
  (919-28-167)

Saturday March 22, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Complex Analysis in One and Several Variables, IV
Room 204, Psychology Building
Organizers:
Dmitry Khavinson, University of Arkansas dmitry@comp.uark.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  Sums of Kernel Functions
  Daniel H Luecking*, University of Arkansas
  (919-30-110)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Cyclic vectors for crescent domains
  Alexandru Aleman, Fernuniversitaet Hagen, Germany
  Stefan Richter, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  William T. Ross*, University of Richmond
  (919-30-61)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Estimates of the Bergman kernel in Bergman spaces with radial weights
  Richard Rochberg*, Washington University
  Finbarr Holland, Cork University, Ireland
  (919-46-198)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Extremal Functions in Some Weighted Bergman Spaces
  Carl Sundberg*, University of Tennessee
  (919-32-237)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Compact composition operators between weighted Bergman spaces on convex domains in $C^n$
  Peter R. Mercer*, St. Mary's College of Maryland
  (919-32-143)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Distortion Theorems and Coefficient Bounds for Subclasses of Univalent Functions
  Bruce O'Neill*, Mississippi Valley State University
  (919-30-291)

Saturday March 22, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Convexity, IV
Room 206, Psychology Building
Organizers:
Eric A. Carlen, Georgia Institute of Technology carlen@math.gatech.edu
Erwin Lutwak, Polytechnic University lutwak@magnus.poly.edu
Elisabeth Werner, Case Western Reserve University emw2@po.cwru.edu
- 2:30 p.m.
  The Fourier transform formula for the volume of sectionsof star bodies, and minimal sections of the $l_p^n$-balls with $0
  Alexander Koldobsky*, University of Texas at San Antonio
  (919-52-56)

Saturday March 22, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
Special Session on Invariants of 3-Manifolds, IV
Room 125, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Richard Martin Hain, Duke University hain@math.duke.edu
Jun Yang, Duke University yang@math.duke.edu
Stavros Garoufalidis, Brown University stavros@math.mit.edu

2:30 p.m.
The Kauffman bracket skein algebra of links and arcs.
J\'ozef H. Przytycki*, George Washington University
(919-57-313)

3:05 p.m.
The Quest for the Minimum Volume Orientable Cusped Hyperbolic 3-Manifolds
Chun Christopher Cao, Boston College
G. Robert Meyerhoff*, Boston College
(919-57-311)

3:40 p.m.
Construction and Classification of 1+1+1-dim TQFT's.
Thomas Kerler*, Ohio State University
Volodimir Lyubashenko, Kansas State University
(919-55-302)

4:15 p.m.
Four vertex theorem and contact topology
Thomas K.-K. Au, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Xiao-Song Lin*, University of California, Riverside
(919-57-270)

Saturday March 22, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Chaotic Dynamics, IV
Room 123, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Nikolai I. Chernov, University of Alabama at Birmingham chernov@math.uab.edu
Serge Troubetzkoy, University of Alabama at Birmingham troubetz@math.uab.edu

2:30 p.m.
Building higher degree Julia sets
John C Mayer*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
(919-54-277)

3:00 p.m.
Intertwining Surgery and the Geography of the Cubic Connectedness Locus
Michael Yampolsky*, SUNY at Stony Brook
Adam Epstein, SUNY at Stony Brook
(919-58-185)

3:30 p.m.
Calculating Topological Entropy
Stewart L. Baldwin*, Auburn University, Auburn
Edward E Slaminka,
(919-58-268)

4:00 p.m.
Typical limit sets of critical points for smooth interval maps, II
Alexander Blokh*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Michal Misiurewicz, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis
(919-58-292)

4:30 p.m.
Typical limit sets of critical points for smooth interval maps, I
Alexander Blokh, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Michal Misiurewicz*, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis
(919-58-290)

Saturday March 22, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Topology of Manifolds and Singular Spaces, IV
Room 129, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Bruce Hughes, Vanderbilt University hughescb@math.vanderbilt.edu
Andrew A. Ranicki, Edinburgh University a.ranicki@edinburgh.ac.uk

2:30 p.m.
The Stratified Structure of Alexandrov Spaces
Conrad P Plaut*, University of Tennessee
(919-53-176)

3:00 p.m.
Finiteness theorems for hyperbolic manifolds
Igor Belegradek*, University of Maryland, College Park
(919-57-133)

3:30 p.m.
Algebraic Topology for Controlled Spaces
Hans J Munkholm*, IMADA, Odense University, Denmark
(919-55-46)

4:00 p.m.
The Geometric Finiteness Obstruction for Boundedly Controlled CW Complexes
Jill H. Wiesner*, Guilford College
(919-57-109)

4:30 p.m.
A comparison of Steenrod homology theories
Douglas Mennella*, SUNY at Binghamton
(919-55-86)

5:00 p.m.
On the exponent of the topological equivariant K-groups.
Francis X. Connolly, University of Notre Dame
Stratos Prassidis*, Vanderbilt University
(919-19-71)

5:30 p.m.
Embedding theorems for Poincar\'e complexes
John R. Klein*, Bielefeld University
(919-55-51)

Saturday March 22, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Graph Theory, IV
Room 233, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Ralph J. Faudree, Jr., University of Memphis faudreer@mathsci.msci.memphis.edu
Richard H. Schelp, University of Memphis schelpr@hermes.msci.memphis.edu

2:30 p.m.
Crossings in the Complete Graph
Barry L Piazza, University of Southern Mississippi
Sam Stueckle, Travecca Nazarene University
Richard D. Ringeisen*, East Carolina University
Heiko Harborth, Tech Universitat Braunschweig
Richard Guy, University of Calgary
(919-05-57)

3:00 p.m.
Uniform Maximum Degree and Edge Density
Debra Knisley*, East Tennessee State University
(919-05-146)

3:30 p.m.
Clique covering the edges of a locally cobipartite graph
Guantao Chen*, Georgia State University
Michael Jacobson, University of Louisville
Andr\'{e} K\'{e}zdy, University of Louisville
Jen\H{o} Lehel, University of Louisville
Edward Scheinerman, The Johns Hopkins University
Chi Wang, University of Louisville
(919-05-91)

4:00 p.m.
Heavy transversals in weighted hypergraphs with an application to consensus
Andr\'{e} E. K\'{e}zdy*, University of Louisville
Jen\H{o} Lehel, University of Louisville
Robert Powers, University of Louisville
(919-05-85)

4:30 p.m.
Minimal directed graphs of specified diameter
Zolt\'an F\"uredi*, University of Illinois and Math. Inst. of the Hungarian Academy
(919-05-152)

5:00 p.m.
On the Number of Vertices with Specified Eccentricity
Dhruv Mubayi, University of Illinois
Douglas B. West*, University of Illinois
(919-05-98)

Saturday March 22, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Partial Differential Equations, IV
Room 209, Dunn Hall
Organizers:
Gisele Ruiz Goldstein, University of Memphis Gisele@ceri.memphis.edu
Jerome A. Goldstein, University of Memphis goldstej@mathsci.msci.memphis.edu

2:30 p.m.
Peicewise $C^1$ Viscosity Solutions of Some Bellman Equations
James R. Dorroh*, Louisiana State University
Guillermo S. Ferreyra, Louisiana State University
(919-35-274)

3:00 p.m.
A Free Boundary Problem with Both Smooth and Nonsmooth Fit
J. R. Dorroh, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Guillermo Ferreyra*, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
(919-49-261)

3:30 p.m.
An age dependent regularization of Martin's problem
W. Fitzgibbon, University of Houston
J. Morgan, Texas A&M University
M. Parrott*, University of South Florida
G. Webb, Vanderbilt University
(919-35-307)

4:00 p.m.
Existence results for Classes of Constrained Semipositone problems
Ratnasingham Shivaji*, Mississippi State University
(919-35-257)

4:30 p.m.
Weakly Coupled Systems of Partial Differential Equations Modelling the Circulation of Infectious Disease in Structured Populations
William E. Fitzgibbon, III*, University of Houston
Michel Langlais, Universite Bordeaux 2
(919-35-153)

5:00 p.m.
Large Diffusive Models of Resource and Sexual Competition
Wei Feng*, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Wei Liu, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
(919-35-319)

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1997 Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting Memphis, TN, March 21-22, 1997 Meeting #919

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1997 Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting
Memphis, TN, March 21-22, 1997
Meeting #919