AMS Sectional Meeting Full Program

Saturday October 18, 1997

• Saturday October 18, 1997, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Room 255, Skiles Classroom Building
• Saturday October 18, 1997, 7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Room 255, Skiles Classroom Building
• Saturday October 18, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Set-Theoretic Techniques in Topology and Analysis, II
  Room 168, Skiles Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Gary F. Gruenhage, Auburn University garyg@mail.auburn.edu
  Piotr Koszmider, Auburn University piotr@mail.auburn.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Actions of non-compact groups
    Slawomir Solecki*, Indiana University
    (926-22-152)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    How are "denseness" of a subspace and Pospisil's estimate affected by a non-Abelian group structure?
    Stephen Watson*, York University
    (926-22-242)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Groupwise Density
    Andreas R. Blass*, University of Michigan
    (926-03-220)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Some topological properties viewed through filter combinatorics
    Claude Laflamme*, University of Calgary
    (926-54-175)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Continuous functions on sets of real numbers.
    Marion Scheepers*, Boise State University
    (926-54-43)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    An Either-Or Chain Condition for Boolean Spaces
    Murray G. Bell*,
    (926-54-38)
• Saturday October 18, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Modern Banach Space Theory, II
  Room 249, Skiles Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Stephen Dilworth, University of South Carolina dilworth@math.sc.edu
  Maria K. Girardi, University of South Carolina girardi@math.sc.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Intersection bodies and the Busemann-Petty problem
    Alexander Koldobsky*, University of Texas at San Antonio
    (926-52-23)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    On the p-affine surface area
    Elisabeth M Werner*, Case Western Reserve University
    Mathieu Meyer, Universite Marne la Vallee
    (926-52-217)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Approximation of convex bodies by polytopes
    Carsten H Schutt*,
    (926-52-216)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Some more $\ell_2$ -saturated weak Hilbert spaces
    George Androulakis, University of Missouri-Columbia
    Peter G. Casazza, University of Missouri-Columbia
    Denka N. Kutzarova*,
    (926-46-106)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On the Szlenk index and the $\ell_1^+$ index of a Banach space
    Dale Alspach, Oklahoma State University
    Robert Judd*, The University of Texas at Austin
    Edward Odell, The University of Texas at Austin
    (926-46-108)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Subspaces without local unconditional structure in $\ell_2(X)$
    Ryszard A. Komorowski, Technical University, Wroclaw
    Nicole Tomczak-Jaegermann*, University of Alberta
    (926-46-262)
• Saturday October 18, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Dynamics and Applications, II
  Room 146, Skiles Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Wenxian Shen, Auburn University ws@math.auburn.edu
  Yingfei Yi, Georgia Institute of Technology yi@math.gatech.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Dynamics of spatially discrete systems.
    John Mallet-Paret*, Brown University
    (926-35-272)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Invariant manifolds for semiflows in Banach space
    Peter W Bates*, BYU
    Kening Lu, BYU
    Chongchun Zeng, NYU
    (926-35-85)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Sphericity in multiparticle diffusion.
    Nick D Alikakos*, U of Tenn, and U of Athens
    Giorgio Fusco, Universita di L'Aquila
    Gieri Simonett,
    (926-35-65)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Qualitative Behavior of Solutions of a Chemotactic Diffusion System
    Xuefeng Wang*, Tulane University
    (926-35-254)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Existence and bifurcation of solutions to reaction-diffusion systems
    James R. Ward, jr.*,
    (926-35-226)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Uniqueness of Bistable Traveling Wave for Mutualist Species
    Wenzhang Huang*,
    (926-34-230)
• Saturday October 18, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Discrete and Combinatorial Geometry, II
  Room 246, Skiles Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Andr\'as Bezdek, Auburn University bezdean@mail.auburn.edu
  Wlodzimierz Kuperberg, Auburn University kuperwl@mail.auburn.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Covering the greatest part of a convex disc by congruent circles
    G\'abor Fejes T\'oth*,
    (926-52-223)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    On Some Problems and Results in Combinatorial Geometry.
    Zolt\'an F\"uredi*, University of Illinois, Urbana, and Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
    (926-52-295)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Sphere Packings, V
    Samuel P Ferguson*,
    (926-51-196)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Computers and Sphere Packings
    Thomas C Hales*, University of Michigan
    (926-52-287)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Minimum limited snakes
    Heiko Harborth*, Technische Universit\"at Braunschweig
    (926-52-58)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Gr\"unbaum--Dress Polyhedra
    Egon Schulte*, Northeastern University
    (926-51-118)
• Saturday October 18, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Recent Developments in PDE's, Calculus of Variations, and Applications to Problems in Materials Science, II
  Room 254, Skiles Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Irene Fonseca, Carnegie Mellon University fonseca@andrew.cmu.edu
  Daniel Phillips, Purdue University phillips@math.purdue.edu
  Vladimir Sverak, University of Minnesota sverak@math.umn.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Problems and Theorems related to the Nodal and Critical Sets of Solutions of Elliptic PDE's
    FangHua Lin*, university of chicago
    (926-35-203)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The $\infty$-eigenvalue problem
    Peter Lindqvist,
    Juan J Manfredi*,
    (926-35-227)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Connected components of free discontinuity sets in image segmentation and fracture mechanics
    Christopher J. Larsen*, WPI
    (926-49-201)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Exact relations for effective tensors of polycrystals.
    Yury Grabovsky*, Department of Mathematics University of Utah
    (926-73-16)
• Saturday October 18, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Applications of Symbolic Computation to Differential Equations, II
  Room 270, Skiles Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  James Herod, Georgia Tech herod@math.gatech.edu
  Maria Clara Nucci, University of Perugia, Italy nucci@unipg.it
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Visualizing 3D Systems of Differential Equations with Maple
    William C Bauldry*, Appalachian State U
    Sue A Bauldry, Wake Forest U
    (926-92-89)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Vignettes: Maple in the DE Classroom
    Robert J Lopez*, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
    (926-98-259)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Computer Assisted Determination of Iterated Symmetries
    Scott A Herod*,
    (926-35-232)
• Saturday October 18, 1997, 8:20 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Discrete Conformal Geometry, II
  Room 243, Skiles Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Philip Lee Bowers, Florida State University bowers@math.fsu.edu
  

  • 8:20 a.m.
    Aperiodic tiling
    Charles Radin*,
    (926-51-147)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    A Conformal Generalization of the Pinwheel Tiling
    Lorenzo A Sadun*,
    (926-51-110)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Conformality of rotationally invariant finite subdivision rules
    James W Cannon,
    William J Floyd*,
    Walter R Parry,
    (926-30-119)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Galois actions on maps on Riemann surfaces
    Gareth A. Jones*, University of Southampton
    (926-51-166)
• Saturday October 18, 1997, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on The Dynamics and Topology of Low Dimensional Flows, II
  Room 149, Skiles Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Michael C. Sullivan, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale mcs@math.nwu.edu
  Robert W. Ghrist, University of Texas at Austin ghrist@math.utexas.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Contact Topology and the Hydrodynamic Seifert Conjecture
    John B. Etnyre,
    Robert W. Ghrist*,
    (926-58-46)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Templates and Hopf algebras
    Louis H. Kauffman, University of Illinois at Chicago, 851 S. Morgan St.
    Masahico Saito*, University of South Florida
    Michael C. Sullivan, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
    (926-57-199)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Periodic points from periodic prime ends
    Marcy Barge, Montana State University State University
    Krystyna Kuperberg*, Auburn University
    (926-58-212)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Contact Anosov Perturbations of Locally Symmetric Geodesic Flows
    Jeffrey R Boland*,
    (926-70-250)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    New dynamical invariants on hyperbolic manifolds.
    Philip L. Boyland*, University of Florida
    (926-58-41)
• Saturday October 18, 1997, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Stochastic Inequalities and Their Applications, II
  Room 202, Skiles Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Theodore P. Hill, Georgia Institute of Technology hill@math.gatech.edu
  Christian Houdr\'e, Georgia Institute of Technology houdre@math.gatech.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Moment inequalities for sums of independent random vectors
    Krzysztof Oleszkiewicz*, Warsaw University
    (926-60-76)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Control and Stopping of a Diffusion Process on an Interval
    Ioannis Karatzas,
    William D Sudderth*,
    (926-60-195)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Inequalities and applications connected with the $\rho^*$-mixing condition for stochastic processes
    Richard C Bradley*, Indiana University
    (926-60-47)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Some Correlation Inequalities
    Gideon Schechtman,
    Thomas Schlumprecht,
    Joel Zinn*,
    (926-60-222)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Bonferroni-type inequality and limit theorems for sums of dependent random vectors
    Adam Jakubowski*, Nicholas Copernicus University
    (926-60-113)
• Saturday October 18, 1997, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Concrete Aspects of Real Polynomials, II
  Room 268, Skiles Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Victoria Ann Powers, Emory University vicki@mathcs.emory.edu
  Bruce A. Reznick, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana reznick@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Polynomials with Concentration at Low Degrees
    Per H Enflo*, Kent State Univ.
    (926-12-204)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Perturbing polynomials with all their roots on the unit circle
    Michael J. Mossinghoff*, Appalachian State University
    Christopher G. Pinner, Flinders University of South Australia
    Jeffrey D. Vaaler, University of Texas at Austin
    (926-12-177)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Inequalities for polynomials with -1,0,1 coefficients
    Tamas Erdelyi*,
    (926-41-235)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Singular points and limit cycles of planar polynomial vector fields
    Ilia Itenberg*, Institut de Recherche Math\'ematique de Rennes, France
    Eugenii Shustin, Tel Aviv University, Israel
    (926-34-123)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The control of linear systems and Shapiros's conjecture
    Frank J Sottile*, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto
    (926-14-56)
• Saturday October 18, 1997, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Complex and Algebraic Dynamics and Applications, I
  Room 143, Skiles Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Marek R. Rychlik, University of Arizona rychlik@math.arizona.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Dynamics of Holomorphic Correspondences.
    Christopher Shaun Penrose*, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London
    (926-58-282)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Correspondence and Translation Principles for the Mandelbrot set
    Karsten Keller*,
    (926-30-153)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Decay of Gemetry in the Cubic Family
    Gregory Swiatek*, Penn State
    (926-58-266)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On dynamics of regular polynomial endomorphisms of C$^N$.
    Mattias Jonsson*,
    Eric Bedford, Indiana University
    (926-58-280)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Discussion and Problem Session
• Saturday October 18, 1997, 8:45 a.m.-10:55 a.m.
  Session on Contributed Papers, I
  Room 171, Skiles Classroom Building
  

  • 8:45 a.m.
    Introduction to the theory of development
    Viktor V. Ivanov*, St. Petersburg, FL
    (926-92-57)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Blow-up of Solutions for Nonlinear Wave Equations in High Dimensions
    Hengli Jiao*, Jackson State University
    (926-35-148)
  • 9:15 a.m.
    Regulation of singular ODE's modeling oscillating systems
    Ronald E Mickens*, Clark Atlanta University
    (926-34-198)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Slow motion in higher-order systems and $\Gamma$-convergence in one space dimension
    William D. Kalies,
    Robert C.A.M. VanderVorst,
    Thomas Wanner*, Universit\"at Augsburg
    (926-35-82)
  • 9:45 a.m.
    Set-Theoretical technique of H - Limit of Hausdorff Spectra of H - Spaces
    Eugeny I Smirnov*, Russia
    (926-46-13)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Density of infinite Markov systems
    Alfredo L\'azaro Gonz\'alez, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina
    Richard A. Zalik*, Auburn University
    (926-41-263)
  • 10:15 a.m.
    Quadratic Volume preserving maps
    Hector E Lomeli*, University of Colorado, Boulder
    James D Meiss, Professor
    (926-58-22)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Transverse homoclinic orbits for maps without horseshoes
    Evelyn Sander*, Georgia Tech
    (926-58-83)
  • 10:45 a.m.
    Some remarks on a paper by S.G.Slobodnik
    Zbigniew Piotrowski*, Youngstown State University
    (926-54-95)
• Saturday October 18, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Its Applications, I
  Room 271, Skiles Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Michael Lacey, Georgia Institute of Technology lacey@math.gatech.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Canonical Bilinear operators on Hardy spaces and Time frequency analysis
    John E. Gilbert, The University of Texas at Austin
    Andrea Nahmod*, Institute for Advanced Study
    (926-42-274)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    From Bilinear operators with non-smooth symbols to Bilinear Cone operators.
    John E. Gilbert*, The University of Texas at Austin
    Andrea Nahmod, Institute for Advanced Study
    (926-42-273)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    On geometry and phase plane analysis
    Jose A Barrionuevo*, University of South Alabama
    Michael T Lacey,
    (926-42-207)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Geometric asymptotics and the logarithmic Sobolev inequality
    William Beckner*, University of Texas at Austin
    (926-58-154)
• Saturday October 18, 1997, 11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
  Invited Address
  The bilinear Hilbert transform: New methods of phase plane analysis.
  Auditorium, Van Leer Electrical and Computer Engineering Building
  Michael T. Lacey*, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Saturday October 18, 1997, 1:25 p.m.-2:15 p.m.
  Invited Address
  The solution of the equichordal point problem and the dynamics of algebraic correspondences.
  Auditorium, Van Leer Electrical and Computer Engineering Building
  Marek R. Rychlik*, University of Arizona
  (926-58-25)
• Saturday October 18, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Set-Theoretic Techniques in Topology and Analysis, III
  Room 168, Skiles Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Gary F. Gruenhage, Auburn University garyg@mail.auburn.edu
  Piotr Koszmider, Auburn University piotr@mail.auburn.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    A strong generic ergodicity property of unitary conjugacy
    Alexander S Kechris*,
    (926-04-64)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    On duality between measure and category
    Tomek Bartoszy\'{n}ski*, Boise State University
    (926-04-162)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Perfectly meager sets and weakly perfect ordered spaces
    David J. Lutzer*, College of William and Mary
    Harold R Bennett, Texas Tech University
    Masami Hosobuchi, Tokyo Kasei Gakuin University
    (926-54-35)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Liftings for products of probability spaces
    Maxim R Burke*, University of Prince Edward Island
    (926-28-214)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Matveev's variations on the theme of compactness and countable compactness
    Winfried Just*,
    Michael V. Matveev,
    Paul J. Szeptycki,
    (926-54-124)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Remarks on property (a)
    Jerry E Vaughan*,
    (926-54-270)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Continuous images of $\omega^*$ under PFA
    Alan S Dow*,
    Klaas Pieter Hart,
    (926-54-253)
• Saturday October 18, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on The Dynamics and Topology of Low Dimensional Flows, III
  Room 149, Skiles Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Michael C. Sullivan, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale mcs@math.nwu.edu
  Robert W. Ghrist, University of Texas at Austin ghrist@math.utexas.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    More on topological horseshoes: dynamical system topology preserved in the presence of noise
    Judy A. Kennedy,*, University of Delaware
    (926-58-117)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Invariant sets for geodesic flows
    Keith Burns*,
    Mark Pollicott,
    (926-53-93)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Dense Orbits in Area Preservings Flows on Surfaces
    Michael D. Hirsch*,
    (926-58-11)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Branched surfaces and the lift of foliations to the universal cover
    Sandra L Shields*,
    (926-57-229)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    "Conjectures on the discontinuous bifurcations in generic one parameter families of planar dynamical systems".
    James A. Yorke*, University of Maryland
    (926-00-289)
• Saturday October 18, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Modern Banach Space Theory, III
  Room 249, Skiles Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Stephen Dilworth, University of South Carolina dilworth@math.sc.edu
  Maria K. Girardi, University of South Carolina girardi@math.sc.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Stonean representations of vector-valued Orlicz spaces.
    Peter Greim*, The Citadel
    Henryk Hudzik, A.\ Mickiewicz University, Pozna\'n
    (926-46-260)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Spaces of uniformly convergent Fourier series
    Scott F Saccone*, Washington University
    (926-46-252)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Approximation of Lipschitz maps by affine maps
    S. Bates,
    W. B. Johnson*, Texas A&M University
    J. Lindenstrauss, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    D. Preiss, University College London
    G. Schechtman, The Weizmann Institute of Science
    (926-46-200)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the uniform Kadec-Klee property
    Edward Odell*, University of Texas at Austin
    Helmut Knaust, University of Texas at El Paso
    Thomas Schlumprecht,
    (926-46-28)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    On super complete Banach spaces
    Haskell Rosenthal*, The University of Texas at Austin
    (926-46-151)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Non commutative Disc Algebras
    Alvaro Arias*, The University of Texas at San Antonio
    (926-47-192)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Sharpening spectral inequalities
    Vania D Mascioni*,
    (926-47-171)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Operators on $C(\omega^\alpha)$ which do not preserve $C(\omega^\alpha)$
    Dale E. Alspach*, Oklahoma State University
    (926-46-107)
• Saturday October 18, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Harmonic Analysis and Its Applications, II
  Room 271, Skiles Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Michael Lacey, Georgia Institute of Technology lacey@math.gatech.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    On the two weights problem for the Hilbert transform.
    Mar\'{\i}a C. Pereyra*, Univ. of New Mexico
    (926-42-288)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    ($L^p, L^p$)-mappings of oscillatory integrals.
    Yi Biao Pan,
    Gary Sampson*,
    Pawel Szeptycki,
    (926-42-94)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Brownian Motion on Cones
    Rodrigo Banuelos*,
    Robert Smits,
    (926-31-77)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Smoothness of Wavelet Paraproducts
    Andrew G. Bennett*, Kansas State University
    Eric P. Canning, Kansas State University
    (926-42-27)
• Saturday October 18, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Computer Proofs in Set Theory and Logic, I
  Room 171, Skiles Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Johan G. F. Belinfante, Georgia Institute of Technology belinfan@math.gatech.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    The Emergence of Formalized Mathematics
    Robert L. Constable*, Cornell University
    (926-03-244)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    A First-order Logic Interactive Theorem Prover for Teaching Geometry
    Richard D. Sommer*, Stanford University
    Patrick Suppes, Stanford University
    (926-03-249)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Computer Proofs in Abstract Algebra
    Kenneth Kunen*, University of Wisconsin
    (926-20-109)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    On the decidability of word problems in quasi-varieties.
    David A. McAllester*, AT\&T Research
    (926-03-245)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    The Comprehension Schema in Tableaux
    Benjamin Price Shults*, Kenyon College
    (926-04-102)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Mizar - a proof assistant
    Piotr Rudnicki*,
    (926-00-155)
• Saturday October 18, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Stochastic Inequalities and Their Applications, III
  Room 202, Skiles Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Theodore P. Hill, Georgia Institute of Technology hill@math.gatech.edu
  Christian Houdr\'e, Georgia Institute of Technology houdre@math.gatech.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    The (s)-Convex Orders Among Real Random Variables, With Applications.
    Michel Denuit, Universit\'e Libre de Bruxelles
    Claude Lef\`evre, Universit\'e Libre de Bruxelles
    Moshe Shaked*, University of Arizona
    (926-60-49)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Convex Bodies and Gaussian Processes
    Richard A. Vitale*, University of Connecticut
    (926-60-29)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Concentration of measure and Information Inequalities.
    Amir Dembo*, Stanford University.
    (926-60-276)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    A General Class of Exponential Inequalities for Martingales and Ratios.
    Victor H de la Pena*, Columbia University
    (926-60-164)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Optimal Tail Comparison Based on Comparison of Moments
    Iosif Pinelis*, Michigan Technological University
    (926-60-17)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    An inequality of correlation type for stable vectors
    Alexander Koldobsky*, University of Texas at San Antonio
    (926-60-24)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Limit theorems over a stationary sequence of random vectors
    Miguel A. Arcones*, Univ. of Texas, Austin
    (926-60-40)
• Saturday October 18, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Discrete Conformal Geometry, III
  Room 243, Skiles Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Philip Lee Bowers, Florida State University bowers@math.fsu.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Pleating structures for quasifuchsian space of once punctured tori
    Linda Keen*, CUNY
    Caroline Series,
    (926-32-126)
  • 3:10 p.m.
    Towers of Riemann surfaces and virtual automorphisms of fundamental groups.
    Subhashis Nag*, Cornell University {\it and} The Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
    (926-30-61)
  • 3:50 p.m.
    Superrigidity of the mapping class group
    Howard Masur*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Benson Farb, University of Chicago
    (926-57-257)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Geometry and combinatorics of curves on surfaces
    Yair N Minsky*, SUNY at Stony Brook
    (926-57-206)
  • 5:10 p.m.
    Geometry of some protein configurations.
    J. R. Quine*, Florida State University
    (926-51-261)
  • 5:50 p.m.
    Real analytic variation of moduli of ring domains
    Clifford J. Earle*, Cornell University
    (926-30-142)
• Saturday October 18, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Concrete Aspects of Real Polynomials, III
  Room 268, Skiles Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Victoria Ann Powers, Emory University vicki@mathcs.emory.edu
  Bruce A. Reznick, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana reznick@math.uiuc.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Can an acute-angled cone be imbedded in a right-angled cone?
    Man-Duen Choi*, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto
    (926-15-73)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Bad points for positive semidefinite polynomials
    Charles N. Delzell*, Louisiana State Univ.
    (926-12-174)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Sums of Squares of Polynomials in $R[x,y]$
    David B Leep*,
    (926-12-168)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Real Even Symmetric Forms
    William R Harris*, Georgetown College
    (926-11-137)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Laws of inertia for higher degree forms
    Bruce Reznick*,
    (926-15-150)
• Saturday October 18, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Dynamics and Applications, III
  Room 146, Skiles Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Wenxian Shen, Auburn University ws@math.auburn.edu
  Yingfei Yi, Georgia Institute of Technology yi@math.gatech.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Invariant tori for periodically perturbed oscillators
    Carmen Chicone*, University of Missouri
    (926-34-39)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Evolution semigroups and their applications
    Yuri Latushkin*, University of Missouri-Columbia
    (926-34-92)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Generalized Floquet exponents for certain homoclinic orbits, and its applications in bifurcation and dynamics.
    Weishi Liu*,
    (926-34-53)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Riemann Problem Solutions of Codimensions 0 and 1
    Stephen Schecter*, North Carolina State University
    (926-35-149)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Method of singular characteristics for Hamilton-Jacobi equations that develop shock structures
    Xiao-Biao Lin*, NC State university
    (926-35-194)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Singular nonlinear multipoint conjugate boundary value problems
    Paul W. Eloe, University of Dayton
    Johnny Henderson*, Auburn University
    (926-34-19)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Connecting orbit structure of monotone solutions in the shadow system.
    Hiroshi Kokubu*, Department of Mathematics, Kyoto University, Japan
    Konstantin Mischaikow, CDSNS, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology
    Yasumasa Nishiura, Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Japan
    Hiroe Oka, Department of Applied Mathematics and Informatics,
    Takeshi Takaishi, Hiroshima-DENKI Institute of Technology, Japan
    (926-58-45)
• Saturday October 18, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Complex and Algebraic Dynamics and Applications, II
  Room 143, Skiles Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Marek R. Rychlik, University of Arizona rychlik@math.arizona.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Homoclinic connections and Euler's finite-difference schemes
    Alexander Tovbis*,
    (926-65-70)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    New singular strange attractors arising from hyperbolic flows
    Carlos A Morales*,
    Maria J Pacifico,
    (926-58-275)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Propagation of singularities in billiards.
    Leonid A Bunimovich*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (926-58-267)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Stability and instability for polygonal outer billiards
    Eugene Gutkin*, University of Southern California
    (926-58-54)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Discussion and Problem Session
• Saturday October 18, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Discrete and Combinatorial Geometry, III
  Room 246, Skiles Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Andr\'as Bezdek, Auburn University bezdean@mail.auburn.edu
  Wlodzimierz Kuperberg, Auburn University kuperwl@mail.auburn.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Geometry of polygons
    Branko Gr\"unbaum*, University of Washington
    (926-51-115)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Loose Ends in Knot Theory.
    Jeffrey C Lagarias*, AT&T Labs-Research
    (926-57-213)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The construction of Grassmannian packings and quantum codes from orthogonal geometry.
    Neil J. A. Sloane*, AT&T Labs-Research
    (926-51-290)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Exponential lower bound for the translative kissing numbers of $d$-dimensional convex bodies
    Istvan Talata*, Department of Mathematics, Auburn University
    (926-52-218)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Sphere Packings, Crystal and Quasicrystal Growth
    Wills M. Joerg*,
    (926-52-81)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Critical points on convex surfaces
    Tudor Zamfirescu*, University of Dortmund
    (926-52-146)
• Saturday October 18, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Developments in PDE's, Calculus of Variations, and Applications to Problems in Materials Science, III
  Room 254, Skiles Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Irene Fonseca, Carnegie Mellon University fonseca@andrew.cmu.edu
  Daniel Phillips, Purdue University phillips@math.purdue.edu
  Vladimir Sverak, University of Minnesota sverak@math.umn.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Relaxation of multi-well variational problems based on necessary conditions
    Andrej V Cherkaev*, Department of Mathematics, University of Utah
    (926-49-205)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Geometric restrictions for the existence of viscosity solutions.
    Wilfrid D. Gangbo*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (926-49-233)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Inverting the $p$-Harmonic Operator
    Carlo Sbordone*, University of Napoli (ITALY)
    (926-35-165)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Some Variational Functionals in Quasiconformal Geometry
    Tadeusz Iwaniec*,
    (926-35-285)
• Saturday October 18, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
  Special Session on Applications of Symbolic Computation to Differential Equations, III
  Room 270, Skiles Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  James Herod, Georgia Tech herod@math.gatech.edu
  Maria Clara Nucci, University of Perugia, Italy nucci@unipg.it
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Symbolic Computation of Conserved Densities for Nonlinear Evolution and Difference-Differential Equations
    Willy A.M. Hereman*, Colorado School of Mines
    (926-35-51)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Iteration-Bifurcation Analysis of PDEs Using Symbolic Computation
    Jerry F. Magnan*, Florida State University
    (926-35-284)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Computing Differential Galois Groups
    Michael F Singer*,
    (926-12-125)

Sunday October 19, 1997

• Sunday October 19, 1997, 7:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Room 255, Skiles Classroom Building
• Sunday October 19, 1997, 7:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Room 255, Skiles Classroom Building
• Sunday October 19, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Set-Theoretic Techniques in Topology and Analysis, IV
  Room 168, Skiles Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Gary F. Gruenhage, Auburn University garyg@mail.auburn.edu
  Piotr Koszmider, Auburn University piotr@mail.auburn.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Forcing for slaloms of density zero sets
    Andrzej Roslanowski*,
    (926-04-178)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Totally proper forcing
    Todd Eisworth, University of Kansas
    Peter Nyikos*, University of South Carolina
    (926-03-256)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Continuous Restrictions of Real Functions to Large Sets
    Jakub Jasinski*,
    Ireneusz Reclaw,
    (926-26-139)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A survey of Q-set spaces and their applications
    Balogh T Zoltan*, Miami University
    (926-54-32)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Luzin and anti-Luzin almost disjoint families
    Judith Roitman*, University of Kansas
    Lajos Soukup, Mathematical Institute of Hung. Acad. Sci.
    (926-04-88)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    The Complexity of packing measures and dimension.
    R. Daniel Mauldin*, University of North Texas
    (926-04-60)
• Sunday October 19, 1997, 8:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Modern Banach Space Theory, IV
  Room 249, Skiles Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Stephen Dilworth, University of South Carolina dilworth@math.sc.edu
  Maria K. Girardi, University of South Carolina girardi@math.sc.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Stability of the fixed point property of Hilbert spaces
    Pei-Kee Lin*,
    (926-47-10)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Perturbation of frames for subspaces of Hilbert and Banach spaces.
    Ole Christensen,
    Christine DeFlitch,
    Chris Lennard*,
    (926-46-241)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Constructions of smooth, single function, multivariate wavelets
    Qing Gu,
    David Larson,
    Darrin Speegle*,
    (926-46-97)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Local Theory of Frames and Schauder Bases for Hilbert Spaces
    Peter G. Casazza*, University of Missouri
    (926-46-173)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Convolution Operators Associated with Vector Measures
    Mangatiana A. Robdera,
    Paulette Saab*, University of Missouri
    (926-46-104)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On the spectrum of quadratic forms
    George Androulakis*, University of Missouri-Columbia
    Stamatis Dostoglou,
    (926-46-105)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Positive definite functions associated with contraction semigroups
    Anton R. Schep*, Univ. of South Carolina
    (926-47-132)
• Sunday October 19, 1997, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Dynamics and Applications, IV
  Room 146, Skiles Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Wenxian Shen, Auburn University ws@math.auburn.edu
  Yingfei Yi, Georgia Institute of Technology yi@math.gatech.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Functional Reaction-Diffusion Problems from Climate Modeling
    Georg Hetzer*, Auburn University
    (926-35-75)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Positive Solutions for Semipositone Systems in an Annulus.
    Dang D. Hai,
    Ratnasingham Shivaji*, Mississippi State University
    (926-34-167)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Travelling fronts in discrete space and continuous time
    Karl P. Hadeler,
    Bertram Zinner*,
    (926-39-131)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Evolution Problems Describing Viscous Incompressible MHD Flow With Nonideal Boundaries
    Paul G Schmidt*, Auburn University
    (926-35-247)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    On Periodic-Parabolic Equations with Nonlinear Boundary Conditions
    M. N. Nkashama*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    (926-35-268)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    On efficient computation of connecting orbits.
    Mark J. Friedman*, University of Alabama in Huntsville
    (926-34-281)
• Sunday October 19, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on The Dynamics and Topology of Low Dimensional Flows, I
  Room 149, Skiles Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Michael C. Sullivan, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale mcs@math.nwu.edu
  Robert W. Ghrist, University of Texas at Austin ghrist@math.utexas.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Flows in Plane Fields
    John B Etnyre*,
    Robert Ghrist,
    (926-57-158)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A Model of the Collinear Three-Body Problem.
    Samuel R. Kaplan*, Bowdoin College
    (926-73-20)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Interesting Attractors.
    William L. Block*, Wheaton College
    (926-58-292)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Pseudo-Anosov flows on 3-manifolds.
    Lee D. Mosher*, Rutgers University
    (926-58-293)
• Sunday October 19, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on Computer Proofs in Set Theory and Logic, II
  Room 171, Skiles Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Johan G. F. Belinfante, Georgia Institute of Technology belinfan@math.gatech.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    A set theory for mechanized mathematics
    William M. Farmer*, St. Cloud State University
    (926-04-103)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Applications of Set Theoretic Reasoning in Automated Deduction
    Robert L Veroff*, University of New Mexico
    (926-68-101)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Automated Equational Deduction
    William McCune*, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
    (926-03-176)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Instance-based Deduction Techniques for Set Theory
    David A Plaisted*, UNC-Chapel Hill
    Yunshan Zhu, UNC-Chapel Hill
    (926-03-239)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Experimenting with OTTER
    Thomas Jech*,
    (926-03-12)
• Sunday October 19, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Stochastic Inequalities and Their Applications, IV
  Room 202, Skiles Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Theodore P. Hill, Georgia Institute of Technology hill@math.gatech.edu
  Christian Houdr\'e, Georgia Institute of Technology houdre@math.gatech.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Tail probabilities for sums of independent random variables.
    Stephen J Montgomery-Smith*, University of Missouri
    (926-60-15)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    A domination inequality and its consequences for some polynomials in special martingale differences.
    Jerzy Szulga*, Auburn University, AL
    (926-60-283)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Convexity Inequalities for Traces and Quantum Entropy
    Eric Carlen*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (926-60-286)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Martingale inequalities and concentration of the size of a random sphere of influence graph around its mean
    Pawel Hitczenko*,
    (926-60-62)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Exponential Integrability of Diffusions
    Yaozhong Hu*, University of Kansas
    (926-60-42)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    The Additive Forms of Prophet Inequality for Transforms.
    Zhongde Yan*, Southern University and A \& M College
    (926-60-291)
• Sunday October 19, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Discrete Conformal Geometry, IV
  Room 243, Skiles Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Philip Lee Bowers, Florida State University bowers@math.fsu.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    On symmetries of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
    Albert Marden*,
    (926-51-209)
  • 9:40 a.m.
    Ramanujan partition identities
    Hershel M. Farkas, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Irwin Kra*,
    (926-30-111)
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Multi dimensional Theta identities
    Yaacov Kopeliovich*,
    (926-30-116)
• Sunday October 19, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Complex and Algebraic Dynamics and Applications, III
  Room 143, Skiles Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Marek R. Rychlik, University of Arizona rychlik@math.arizona.edu
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Geometry of the boundary of Siegel disks
    Jacek Graczyk*, Michigan State University
    Peter Jones,
    (926-58-271)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Measure-theoretic Properties of Analytic Maps of ${\Bbb P}^1$ and ${\Bbb P}^2$.
    Lorelei M Koss*,
    (926-32-59)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A Classification of the Julia Sets of Hyperbolic Functions with Polynomial Schwartzian Derivative.
    Paul F Strack*, UNC - Chapel Hill
    (926-30-134)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Holomorphic Dynamics in ${\Bbb C}^n$
    Stefan M Heinemann*,
    (926-32-145)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Discussion and Problem Session
• Sunday October 19, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Applications of Symbolic Computation to Differential Equations, IV
  Room 270, Skiles Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  James Herod, Georgia Tech herod@math.gatech.edu
  Maria Clara Nucci, University of Perugia, Italy nucci@unipg.it
  

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Algorithms for classifying subalgebras of Lie algebras
    Pavel Winternitz*, Universite de Montreal
    (926-22-140)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Exact Solutions of Nonlinear Differential Equations through Symmetries
    Maria Clara Nucci*, Universit\`a di Perugia (Italy)
    (926-58-251)