AMS Sectional Meeting Full Program
Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:41
1997 Fall Central Sectional Meeting
Milwaukee, WI, October 24-25, 1997
Meeting #927
Associate secretaries: Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu
Friday October 24, 1997
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Friday October 24, 1997, 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Meeting Registration
Lobby, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Building -
Friday October 24, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Operator Theory and Function Spaces, I
Room 137, Physics Building
Organizers:
\v Zeljko \v Cu\v ckovi\'c, University of Toledo zcuckovi@math.utoledo.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Schroeder's Equation in Several Variables
Carl C. Cowen*, Purdue University
Barbara D. MacCluer, University of Virginia
(927-32-115) -
8:30 a.m.
Composition Operators On BMOA
Joseph A. Cima*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Paul Bourdon, Washington and Lee University
Alec Matheson, Lamar University
(927-30-132) -
9:00 a.m.
Compact Operators via the Berezin Transform
Sheldon Axler*, San Francisco State University
Dechao Zheng, Vanderbilt University
(927-47-37) -
9:30 a.m.
Reproducing kernels of weighted Bergman spaces, quantization and mean value theorems
Miroslav Engli{\v s}*, Mathematics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
(927-46-61) -
10:00 a.m.
Bergman Kernel Asymptotics
Richard Rochberg*,
Finbarr Holland,
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10:30 a.m.
Mellin transform, monomial symbols and commuting Toeplitz operators
Zeljko Cuckovic,
N V Rao*,
(927-30-110)
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8:00 a.m.
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Friday October 24, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Exhibit and Book Sale
Room W-101, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Building -
Friday October 24, 1997, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Low Dimensional Dynamics, I
Room E-180, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Building
Organizers:
Karen M. Brucks, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee kmbrucks@csd.uwm.edu
Beverly E. J. Diamond, University of Charleston bdiamond@nsf.gov
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8:30 a.m.
Closing the gaps of a Cantor Julia set in quadratic polynomials.
Pau Atela*, Smith College
(927-58-147) -
9:00 a.m.
Quadratic Julia sets and irrationally indifferent periodic orbits
John C. Mayer*, UAB
(927-58-240) -
9:30 a.m.
Indecomposable Continua as Boundaries of Siegel Disks
James T. Rogers, Jr.*, Tulane University
(927-58-221) -
10:00 a.m.
Recurrent critical points and typical limit sets of rational maps
Alexander Blokh, UAB
John Mayer, UAB
Lex G. Oversteegen*, UAB
(927-58-230) -
10:30 a.m.
Higher dimensional ``solenoids'' as bundles
Robert F. Williams*,
(927-58-40)
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8:30 a.m.
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Friday October 24, 1997, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology and Geometric Group Theory, I
Room E-159, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Building
Organizers:
Fredric Davis Ancel, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee ancel@csd.uwm.edu
Craig R. Guilbault, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee craigg@csd.uwm.edu
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8:30 a.m.
Homogeneity of Boundaries of right angled Coxeter groups having manifold nerves.
Hanspeter Fischer*, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
(927-57-143) -
9:00 a.m.
Resolving infinite-dimensional homology manifolds.
Steven C Ferry*, SUNY at Binghamton
(927-57-323) -
9:30 a.m.
A cut point theorem for 2-dimensional CAT(0) groups.
Eric L. Swenson*, Brigham Young University
(927-20-191) -
10:00 a.m.
Rigidity theorems for singular spaces.
Boris Okun*, OSU
Michael Davis, OSU
Fangyang Zheng, OSU
(927-51-336) -
10:30 a.m.
Algebraic Annulus and Torus Theorems
Peter Scott*, Michigan
Gadde A. Swarup,
(927-57-201)
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8:30 a.m.
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Friday October 24, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Computability Theory, I
Room E-150, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Building
Organizers:
Steffen Lempp, University of Wisconsin, Madison lempp@math.wisc.edu
Robert I. Soare, University of Chicago soare@cs.uchicago.edu
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9:00 a.m.
A c.e., noncomputable Boolean algebra of rank 1
Rod Downey, Victoria University of Wellington
Carl Jockusch*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(927-03-45) -
9:30 a.m.
On invariants of automorphic hh-simple sets
Eberhard Herrmann*, Humboldt University, Berlin
(927-03-149) -
10:00 a.m.
Some Examples of Degree Spectra of Relations
Denis R. Hirschfeldt*, Cornell University
(927-03-76) -
10:30 a.m.
Degrees of unsolvability of real numbers
Anthony Dunlop, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Marian B. Pour-El*, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
(927-03-86)
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9:00 a.m.
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Friday October 24, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Concentration Phenomena in Differential Equations, I
Room 127, Physics Building
Organizers:
Lia Bronsard, McMaster University bronsard@icarus.math.mcmaster.ca
Wei-Ming Ni, University of Minnesota
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9:00 a.m.
Chaotic solutions for a Hamiltonian system on a torus
Paul H Rabinowitz*,
(927-34-126) -
9:40 a.m.
Multi-peaked solutions to the Cahn-Hilliard Equation
Peter W Bates*, BYU
(927-35-96) -
10:20 a.m.
Spiky solutions in classical Lotka-Volterra competition-diffusion model
Yuan Lou*, University of Chicago
Wei-Ming Ni, University of Minnesota
(927-35-64)
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9:00 a.m.
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Friday October 24, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Its Applications, I
Room 143, Physics Building
Organizers:
Lung-Kee Chen, Oregon State University
Dashan Fan, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee fan@csd.uwm.edu
Yi-Biao Pan, University of Pittsburgh
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9:00 a.m.
A conjecture related to the Ahlfors-Beurling transform in the plane.
Albert Baernstein, II*, Washington University, St.Louis, MO 63130
Stephen John Montgomery-Smith, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 65211-0001
(927-42-192) -
9:30 a.m.
On interpolation inequalities and semiliner equations on the Heisenberg and stratified groups.
Guozhen Lu*, Wright State University
(927-35-205) -
10:00 a.m.
Uniqueness for multiple trigonometric series I
J. Marshall Ash*, DePaul University
Gang Wang, DePaul University
(927-42-229) -
10:30 a.m.
Uniqueness for multiple trigonometric series II
Gang Wang*, DePaul University
J. Marshall Ash, DePaul University
(927-42-232)
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9:00 a.m.
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Friday October 24, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Rings and Modules, I
Room W-110, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Building
Organizers:
Karl Andrew Kosler, University of Wisconsin Centers-Waukesha kkosler@uwcmail.uwc.edu
Shubhangi S. Stalder, University of Wisconsin Centers-Waukesha sstalder@uwc.edu
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9:00 a.m.
The noncommutative Noether-Lasker theorem for modules
John Dauns*, Tulane University
(927-16-107) -
9:30 a.m.
Monoids and Categories of Modules
Gary Brookfield*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
(927-16-79) -
10:00 a.m.
Primeness condition for enveloping algebras of color Lie superalgebras
Kenneth L. Price*, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
(927-16-09) -
10:30 a.m.
Decompositions of torsion free injective modules into types
Maria Arroyo-Paniagua*, UAM-Iztapalapa
Jose Rios, UNAM
(927-16-88)
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9:00 a.m.
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Friday October 24, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Enveloping Algebras and Quantum Groups, I
Room E-160, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Building
Organizers:
Ian M. Musson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee musson@csd.uwm.edu
Yi Ming Zou, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee ymzou@csd.uwm.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Constructing pointed Hopf algebras by Ore extensions.
Margaret Beattie*, Mount Allison U.
Sorin Dascalescu, U. Bucharest
Luzius Grunenfelder, Dalhousie U.
(927-16-343) -
9:30 a.m.
Galois Extensions relative to Polynomial Algebras and Enveloping Algebras
Allen D. Bell*, UW-Milwaukee
(927-16-288) -
10:00 a.m.
Down-up Algebras
Georgia Benkart*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Tom Roby, California State University, Hayward
(927-16-282) -
10:30 a.m.
Prime Ideals of the Enveloping Algebra $U(sl_3)$.
Stefan Catoiu*, Temple University, Philadelphia
(927-16-333)
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9:00 a.m.
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Friday October 24, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Eigenvalue Problems for Differential Equations, I
Room 149, Physics Building
Organizers:
Hans W. Volkmer, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee volkmer@csd4.milw.wisc.edu
Paul A. Binding, University of Calgary binding@acs.ucalgary.ca
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9:00 a.m.
On a class of nonlocal operators
Walter Allegretto*, University of Alberta
(927-35-26) -
9:40 a.m.
Computing Eigenvalues of Limit Circle Sturm-Liouville Problems
Paul B Bailey*,
(927-34-83) -
10:20 a.m.
Sturm-Liouville problems with eigenparameter dependent boundary conditions
Patrick J. Browne*, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Saskatchewan,
(927-47-260)
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9:00 a.m.
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Friday October 24, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Symplectic Topology and Quantum Cohomology, I
Room E-204, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Building
Organizers:
Yong-Geun Oh, University of Wisconsin oh@math.wisc.edu
Yongbin Ruan, University of Utah ruan@math.wisc.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Topological recursion relations in genus 2
Ezra Getzler*, Northwestern University
(927-14-63) -
9:30 a.m.
A geometric construction of Getzler's elliptic equation.
Rahul Pandharipande*, University of Chicago
(927-58-207) -
10:00 a.m.
Symplectic surgeries along spheres
Margaret F Symington*, University of Texas, Austin
(927-53-197) -
10:30 a.m.
The Rigidity of Hamiltonian Loops
Dusa McDuff*, SUNY at Stony Brook
Fran\c{c}ois Lalonde, Universit\'e de Qu\'ebec \`a Montreal
Leonid Polterovich, Tel-Aviv University
(927-58-146)
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9:00 a.m.
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Friday October 24, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Analysis with Wavelets, I
Room 145, Physics Building
Organizers:
Gilbert G. Walter, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee ggw@csd.uwm.edu
Ahmed I. Zayed, University of Central Florida zayed@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Convergence of multiwavelets
Luchuan Cai*, UW-Milwaukee
(927-42-278) -
9:30 a.m.
Banach Frames and Wavelet Convergence
Linda M. Davis*,
(927-43-39) -
10:00 a.m.
Nonhomogeneous refinement equations.
Thomas B Dinsenbacher*, Vanderbilt University
Douglas P Hardin, Vanderbilt University
(927-39-308) -
10:30 a.m.
Compactly Supported Wavelets in 2-D.
George C Donovan*, Princeton University
Jeffrey S Geronimo, Georgia Institute of Technology
Douglas P Hardin, Vanderbilt University
(927-43-305)
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9:00 a.m.
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Friday October 24, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Differential Geometry, I
Room E-220, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Building
Organizers:
Hongyou Wu, Northern Illinois University wu@math.niu.edu
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9:00 a.m.
Dupin hypersurfaces with four principal curvatures
Gary R. Jensen*, Washington University
Thomas E. Cecil, College of the Holy Cross
(927-53-179) -
9:40 a.m.
Quadratic Differentials and Conformal Immersions
George I Kamberov*,
(927-53-259) -
10:20 a.m.
Minimal surfaces via loop groups.
Josef Dorfmeister, University of Kansas
Franz Pedit, University of Massachusetts
Magdalena Daniela Toda*, The University of Kansas
(927-53-182)
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9:00 a.m.
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Friday October 24, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Semigroups and Their Applications, I
Room 147, Physics Building
Organizers:
Karl E. Byleen, Marquette University karlb@marque.mscs.mu.edu
Peter R. Jones, Marquette University jones@mscs.mu.edu
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9:00 a.m.
One relator inverse monoids with trivial group of units.
John C Meakin*, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
(927-20-344) -
9:30 a.m.
HNN extensions of semilattices
Akihiro Yamamura*, Telecommunications Advancement Organization of Japan
(927-20-111) -
10:00 a.m.
HNN-extensions of inverse semigroups.
Tatiana Jajcayova*, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
(927-20-335) -
10:30 a.m.
Endomorphisms of finite symmetric semigroups.
Boris M. Schein*, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas
(927-20-281)
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9:00 a.m.
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Friday October 24, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Applications of Model Theory to Analysis and Topology, I
Room W-130, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Building
Organizers:
Paul J. Bankston, Marquette University paulb@marque.mscs.mu.edu
H. Jerome Keisler, University of Wisconsin
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9:00 a.m.
On the Microscopic Behavior of Measurable Functions
Peter A. Loeb*, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
(927-28-55) -
9:30 a.m.
$\sigma$-homomorphisms into the Loeb $\sigma $-algebra.
Hermann H. Render*,
(927-28-188) -
10:00 a.m.
Automorphisms of the Gurarii Space.
C.\ Ward Henson*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(927-46-332) -
10:30 a.m.
Embedded finite model theory
MIchael A Benedikt*, BelL Laboratories
(927-03-172)
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9:00 a.m.
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Friday October 24, 1997, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on K-Theory and Motives, I
Room W-109, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Building
Organizers:
Daniel Richard Grayson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign dan@math.uiuc.edu
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10:00 a.m.
Adams operations and the Dennis trace map--the Rational case
Miriam R Kantorovitz*,
(927-19-199) -
10:30 a.m.
Operations on locally free classgroups
Bernhard K\"ock*,
(927-19-23)
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10:00 a.m.
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Friday October 24, 1997, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
Invited Address
Noncommutative geometry and characteristic classes
Room E-190, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Building
Henri Moscovici*, Ohio State University
(927-00-01) -
Friday October 24, 1997, 1:30 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
Invited Address
Mixed motives
Room E-190, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Building
Spencer J. Bloch*, University of Chicago -
Friday October 24, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Computability Theory, II
Room E-150, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Building
Organizers:
Steffen Lempp, University of Wisconsin, Madison lempp@math.wisc.edu
Robert I. Soare, University of Chicago soare@cs.uchicago.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Some Definability Aspects of Vaught's Conjecture
Gerald E. Sacks*,
(927-03-54) -
3:00 p.m.
Two results about exact pairs
Kevin Wald*, University of Chicago
(927-03-176) -
3:30 p.m.
Feasible Theories and Models
Douglas Cenzer*, Department of Mathematics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
(927-03-33) -
4:00 p.m.
Jump Traces with Large Gaps
Peter G. Hinman*, University of Michigan
(927-03-71) -
4:30 p.m.
Enumerations, countable structures and Turing Degrees
Stephan K Wehner*,
(927-03-106) -
5:00 p.m.
Downward Density and the $\Delta_2^0$ Generic Degrees
Benjamin J Schaeffer*, University of Illinois
(927-03-43) -
5:30 p.m.
True approximations
Julia F. Knight*, University of Notre Dame
(927-03-57)
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2:30 p.m.
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Friday October 24, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Low Dimensional Dynamics, II
Room E-180, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Building
Organizers:
Karen M. Brucks, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee kmbrucks@csd.uwm.edu
Beverly E. J. Diamond, University of Charleston bdiamond@nsf.gov
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2:30 p.m.
Transverse homoclinic orbits without horseshoes
Evelyn Sander*, CDSNS, Georgia Tech
(927-58-75) -
3:00 p.m.
Generic properties of open billiards
R. Daniel Mauldin*, Univ. of North Texas
(927-58-103) -
3:30 p.m.
Conjectures on Discontinuous Bifurcations in Two Dimensions
James A. Yorke*, University of Maryland
(927-58-242) -
4:00 p.m.
Dynamics of Basic Sets
Kathleen T. Alligood*, George Mason University
(927-58-246) -
4:30 p.m.
Smooth Flows on Exotic Manifolds
John B. Etnyre, Stanford University
Robert W. Ghrist*, Univ. of Texas, Austin
(927-58-190) -
5:00 p.m.
The dynamics of surface homeomorphisms
Andr\'e S. de Carvalho*, University of California at Berkeley
(927-58-292) -
5:30 p.m.
Prime End Rotation Numbers for Attractors in the Henon Family
Chris Cleveland,*, UCLA
(927-58-171) -
6:00 p.m.
Entropy and Rotation Intervals for Circle Maps Near Saddle-node Bifurcations
Todd R. Young*, Ohio University
(927-58-131)
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2:30 p.m.
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Friday October 24, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Special Session on Concentration Phenomena in Differential Equations, II
Room 127, Physics Building
Organizers:
Lia Bronsard, McMaster University bronsard@icarus.math.mcmaster.ca
Wei-Ming Ni, University of Minnesota
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2:30 p.m.
Liapunov-Schmidt procedure and singularly perturbed probelms
Yanyan Li*, Rutgers Univ.
Louis Nirenberg, Courant Institute, New York Univ.
(927-35-100) -
3:00 p.m.
Semi-classical states for nonlinear schr\"odinger equations.
Manuel del Pino, Universidad de Chile
Patricio Felmer*, Universidad de Chile
(927-35-293) -
3:30 p.m.
A localization method for some singularly perturbed elliptic problems
Manuel Del Pino*,
Patricio L Felmer,
(927-35-124) -
4:00 p.m.
Break -
4:30 p.m.
Scalar curvature equation on $S^n$
Chang-Shou Lin*,
(927-35-129) -
5:00 p.m.
Interior multiple spikes in the shadow Gierer-Meinhardt system
Michal Kowalczyk*,
(927-35-225) -
5:30 p.m.
Vortices of Solutions of Ginzburg-Landau Equation
Xing-Bin Pan*,
(927-35-128)
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2:30 p.m.
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Friday October 24, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Its Applications, II
Room 143, Physics Building
Organizers:
Lung-Kee Chen, Oregon State University
Dashan Fan, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee fan@csd.uwm.edu
Yi-Biao Pan, University of Pittsburgh
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2:30 p.m.
$(L^p, L^p)$-mapping properties for oscillatory integrals in $R^n$.
Gary Sampson*,
Pawel Szeptycki,
(927-42-160) -
3:00 p.m.
Littlewood-Paley theory on product spaces of homogeneous type.
Y. S. Han*, Auburn University
(927-42-303) -
3:30 p.m.
A transference theorem for ergodic $H^1$.
Nakhle H Asmar, University of Missouri
Stephen J Montgomery-Smith*, University of Missouri
(927-43-314) -
4:00 p.m.
Singular Integrals with Rough Kernels along Real-analytic Submanifold
Dashan Fan,
Kanghui Guo*,
Yibiao Pan,
(927-42-204) -
4:30 p.m.
Discussion -
5:00 p.m.
A wavelet-based method for extracting speech from background noise.
Jonathan Cohen*, DePaul University
Nathaniel A. Whitmal, III, Depaul University
Janet C. Rutledge,
(927-42-231) -
5:30 p.m.
Function Theory in $H^2(D\times D)$ and Connections with Operator Theory .
Tavan T. Trent*, The University of Alabama
(927-32-320)
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2:30 p.m.
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Friday October 24, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Special Session on Operator Theory and Function Spaces, II
Room 137, Physics Building
Organizers:
\v Zeljko \v Cu\v ckovi\'c, University of Toledo zcuckovi@math.utoledo.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Measure induced by analytic functions and a problem of Walter Rudin
Carl Sundberg*, University of Tennessee
(927-47-94) -
3:00 p.m.
Invariant subspaces of Bergman space
Peter L. Duren*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Michael Stessin, SUNY at Albany
(927-30-87) -
3:30 p.m.
Invariant subspaces with index $\geq 2$
Stefan Richter*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
(927-47-85) -
4:00 p.m.
Closed Ideals of Bounded Analytic Functions
Pamela B Gorkin*, Bucknell University
Raymond R Mortini, Universit/'e de Metz
(927-46-50) -
4:30 p.m.
Operators that dominate normal operators
Jim Agler, U.C. San Diego
John E. M\raise.5ex\hbox{c}Carthy*, Washington University
(927-47-15) -
5:00 p.m.
Cyclic Vectors for the Commutant of a Generalized Backward Shift Operator
Kit C Chan*, Bowling Green State University
(927-47-41)
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2:30 p.m.
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Friday October 24, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Geometric Topology and Geometric Group Theory, II
Room E-159, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Building
Organizers:
Fredric Davis Ancel, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee ancel@csd.uwm.edu
Craig R. Guilbault, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee craigg@csd.uwm.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Multiplicities of boundary slopes in knot exteriors.
Marc Culler, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago
Peter B Shalen*, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago
(927-57-324) -
3:00 p.m.
Boundary slopes and genera of incompressible surfaces in knot exteriors.
Marc Culler*, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago
Peter B Shalen, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago
(927-57-325) -
3:30 p.m.
Properties of convergence groups and spaces
Eric M Freden*, Utah State University
(927-57-177)
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2:30 p.m.