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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

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

Saturday March 22, 1997

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