AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:48

Associate secretaries:
Susan J Friedlander, AMS susan@math.northwestern.edu

Friday March 27, 1998, 9:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Problems, I
Room 131, Cardwell Hall
Organizers:
Lev Kapitanski, Kansas State University levkapit@math.ksu.edu
Eugene Wayne, Pennsylvania State University
- 9:00 a.m.
  Global existence and global nonexistence of solutions of the Cauchy problem for a nonlinearly dampedwave equation.
  Howard A. Levine*, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
  S. R. Park, Kiemung University, Teagu, Korea
  James B. Serrin, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455
  (932-35-135)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Nonlinearity versus linearity in ridge approximation.
  Konstantin I. Oskolkov*, Department of Mathematics, USC
  (932-41-163)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Optimal heat kernel estimates for Schr\"odinger operators with magnetic fields in two dimensions.
  Michael P Loss*, School of Mathematics, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA, 30332-0160
  Bernd Thaller, Institut fuer Mathematik, Universitaet Graz, Austria
  (932-81-89)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Discussion

Friday March 27, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Problems, II
Room 131, Cardwell Hall
Organizers:
Lev Kapitanski, Kansas State University levkapit@math.ksu.edu
Eugene Wayne, Pennsylvania State University
- 2:30 p.m.
  Asymptotic structures in nonlinear wave equations.
  Jerry L. Bona*, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712
  (932-35-232)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Stability of traveling waves in birefringent fiber optics.
  Keith S Promislow*, Simon Fraer University
  Yi A Li, U. of Minnesota
  (932-35-124)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Evans function analysis in the essential spectrum.
  Robert A. Gardner*, Mathematics Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003
  (932-35-136)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Geometry of singular solutions and self-replicating pulses in the 1-D Gray-Scott model.
  Tasso J. Kaper*, Boston University
  (932-35-149)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Long-time asymptotics for the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation in a circular domain.
  Vladimir V Varlamov*, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
  (932-35-53)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Discussion

Saturday March 28, 1998, 9:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Problems, III
Room 131, Cardwell Hall
Organizers:
Lev Kapitanski, Kansas State University levkapit@math.ksu.edu
Eugene Wayne, Pennsylvania State University
- 9:30 a.m.
  Discussion
- 10:00 a.m.
  Convergence of the vanishing viscosity approximation for superpositions of confined eddies.
  Milton C Lopes, Filho, IMECC-UNICAMP
  Helena J. Nussenzveig-Lopes, IMECC-UNICAMP
  Yuxi Zheng*, Indiana University
  (932-35-122)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Cahn--Hilliard description of secondary flows of a viscous incompressible fluid in an unbounded domain.
  Guido Schneider*, University Hannover
  (932-35-123)

Saturday March 28, 1998, 2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Special Session on Nonlinear Problems, IV
Room 131, Cardwell Hall
Organizers:
Lev Kapitanski, Kansas State University levkapit@math.ksu.edu
Eugene Wayne, Pennsylvania State University
- 2:30 p.m.
  Index theorems and the Heisenberg caluclus.
  Charles L. Epstein*, U. of Penn
  (932-58-150)
- 3:00 p.m.
  On Limits of Rescaling.
  Igor Y Rodnianski*, Kansas State University
  (932-35-198)
- 3:30 p.m.
  Evolution semigroups for infinite dimensional cocycles.
  Yuri Latushkin*, University of Missouri
  (932-34-119)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Invariant Tori for periodically perturbed planar oscillators.
  Carmen Chicone*, University of Missouri
  (932-58-28)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Discussion

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