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1997 Fall Southeastern Sectional Meeting
Atlanta, GA, October 17-19, 1997
Meeting #926

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

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Friday October 17, 1997

• Friday October 17, 1997, 11:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Meeting Registration
  Room 255, Skiles Classroom Building
• Friday October 17, 1997, 11:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
  Exhibit and Book Sale
  Room 255, Skiles Classroom Building
• Friday October 17, 1997, 1:45 p.m.-2:35 p.m.
  Invited Address
  New trends in partial differential equations, calculus of variations, and applications to problems in materials science.
  Auditorium, College of Architecture
  Irene Fonseca*, Carnegie-Mellon University
• Friday October 17, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Set-Theoretic Techniques in Topology and Analysis, I
  Room 168, Skiles Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Gary F. Gruenhage, Auburn University garyg@mail.auburn.edu
  Piotr Koszmider, Auburn University piotr@mail.auburn.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Some applications of set theory to topology
    Franklin D Tall*, University of Toronto
    (926-54-86)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Set Theoretic Real Analysis
    Krzysztof Ciesielski*, West Virginia University
    (926-26-114)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Set Theory and Geometry.
    Paul Erd\"{o}s,
    Steve Jackson*, University of North Texas
    R. Daniel Mauldin, University of North Texas
    (926-04-37)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Homogeneity in the square of a rigid subspace of the real line
    L. Brian Lawrence*, George Mason University
    (926-54-236)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Sharp bases and weakly uniform bases versus point-countable bases
    Aleksander V. Arhangel'skii, Ohio University
    Winfried Just, Ohio University
    E. A. Reznichenko, Moscow University
    Paul J. Szeptycki*, Ohio University
    (926-54-238)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Unions of Rectifiable Curves in Euclidean Space and the Covering Number of the Meagre Ideal.
    Juris Stepr\={a}ns*,
    (926-04-87)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Universal summands for families of measurable functions.
    Tomasz Natkaniec*, Gda{\'n}sk University
    (926-26-182)
• Friday October 17, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-5:20 p.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
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Knotted periodic orbits -- problems and obsessions
    Robert F. Williams*, The University of Texas at Austin
    (926-58-234)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Stable Ergodicity of Anosov Flows
    Keith Burns,
    Amie Wilkinson*,
    (926-58-211)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Master-Slave synchronization
    Charles P. Tresser,*, IBM
    (926-58-72)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Invariants of twist-wise flow equivalence
    Michael C Sullivan*, Southern Ill. Univ.
    (926-58-52)
• Friday October 17, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Modern Banach Space Theory, I
  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
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Asymptotically isometric copies of $c_{0}$ and renormings of Banach spaces.
    Patrick N Dowling*, Miami University
    (926-46-138)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Extremal structure in K\"othe-Bochner spaces
    Mark A Smith*, Miami University
    (926-46-264)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Dunford-Pettis property for symmetric spaces
    Anna Kami\'nska*, The University of Memphis
    (926-46-170)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Twisted sums, Fenchel-Orlicz spaces and property (M)
    George Androulakis, University of Missouri
    Constantin D. Cazacu*, University of Missouri
    Nigel J. Kalton, University of Missouri
    (926-46-55)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Remarks on subspaces of $c_0$
    Nigel Kalton*, University of Missouri
    (926-46-208)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    The Spaces $L_p(w)$, $0
    James W Roberts*, University of South Carolina
    (926-46-96)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    The w$^*$ Topology and Optionpricing
    Thomas B Schlumprecht*, Texas A&M University
    (926-46-90)
• Friday October 17, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Stochastic Inequalities and Their Applications, I
  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
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the maximal inequalities for VC classes
    Rafa{\l} Lata{\l}a*, Warsaw University and Georgia Institute of Technology
    (926-60-121)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Some Prophet Problems in Mathematical Finance
    Robert P Kertz*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (926-60-188)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Independence of multiple stable and other stochastic integrals
    Jan Rosinski*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    Gennady Samorodnitsky, Cornell University
    (926-60-278)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Relationship Between Stochastic Inequalities and Some Classical Mathematical Inequalities
    Yung L Tong*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (926-60-84)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Two sharp inequalities related to measure-partitioning in statistics and fair division theory
    Pieter Cornelis Allaart*, Free University of Amsterdam
    (926-60-144)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Variance inequalities for some multivariate distributions
    Wan-Ying Chang,
    Donald St.P. Richards*,
    (926-60-63)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Some tail inequalities for Wiener functionals
    Christian Houdré, Georgia Tech.
    Victor Pérez-Abreu*, CIMAT
    (926-60-246)
• Friday October 17, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-6:10 p.m.
  Special Session on Discrete Conformal Geometry, I
  Room 243, Skiles Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Philip Lee Bowers, Florida State University bowers@math.fsu.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Riemann surfaces, plane algebraic curves, and their period matrices
    Patrizia Gianni, Universita di Pisa
    Mika Sepp\"al\"a*, Florida State University
    Robert Silhol, Universite de Montpellier II
    Barry Trager, IBM Research
    (926-14-277)
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Computing values of quadratic differentials on Riemann surfaces
    Pekka Smolander*,
    (926-30-78)
  • 4:20 p.m.
    Combinatorially short homology bases.
    Peter Buser*,
    Mika Sepp\"al\"a,
    (926-30-184)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Hurwitz Spaces and Representations of Subgroups of Braid Groups
    Eric P Klassen*, Florida State University
    Yaacov Kopeliovich, Florida State University
    (926-57-279)
  • 5:40 p.m.
    Conformal Welding and Circle Packing
    George B Williams, Jr*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    (926-30-133)
• Friday October 17, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Concrete Aspects of Real Polynomials, I
  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
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    An elementary proof of Schm\"udgen's Theorem in one variable.
    Victoria Powers*, Emory University
    Bruce Reznick, University of Illinois
    (926-14-157)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Describing Convex Sets in $\mathbb{R}^2$ with 3 Inequalities
    Kathleen M Krzastek*, Emory University
    (926-14-231)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Infinitely near base conditions and the 3-dimensional separation conjecture.
    James J Madden*, LSU
    (926-14-202)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Generalizing Newton Identities to the multivariate case
    Gonzalez-Vega Laureano*,
    Gonzalez-Lopez Maria-Jose,
    (926-14-181)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A family of real polynomials and its applications to robot kinematics.
    Jaime Gutierrez, Universidad de Cantabria
    Tomas J Recio*, Universidad de Cantabria
    (926-14-74)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    An Improved Algorithm for Quantifier Elimination Over Real Closed Fields.
    Saugata Basu*, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
    (926-68-130)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    Real Large Solving
    J. Maurice Rojas*, MIT
    (926-65-225)
• Friday October 17, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Nonlinear Dynamics and Applications, I
  Room 146, Skiles Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Wenxian Shen, Auburn University ws@math.auburn.edu
  Yingfei Yi, Georgia Institute of Technology yi@math.gatech.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Competition in a chemostat with an internally generated inhibitor
    S. B. Hsu,
    P. Waltman*,
    (926-92-127)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Reaction-Diffusion models of microbial growth and competition
    Hal Smith*, Arizona State Unversity
    (926-92-179)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Persistence for non-autonomous semiflows
    Horst R Thieme*, Arizona State University
    (926-34-156)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Synchronization and Pattern Formation in Delayed Systems from Neural Nets
    Jianhong Wu*, York University, Canada
    (926-34-197)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Stability and Bifurcation in a Delay-Differential Equation with Two Delays
    Xiangao Li,
    Shigui Ruan, **,
    Junjie Wei,
    (926-34-224)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Mathematical models for the disease dynamics of TB
    Zhilan Feng*, Purdure Unversity
    (926-92-180)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    A Global Stability Criterion for Nonlinear Difference Systems
    Michael Y Li*, Mississippi State University
    (926-39-120)
• Friday October 17, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Discrete and Combinatorial Geometry, I
  Room 246, Skiles Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Andr\'as Bezdek, Auburn University bezdean@mail.auburn.edu
  Wlodzimierz Kuperberg, Auburn University kuperwl@mail.auburn.edu
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    On the number of empty lattice simplices
    Imre B\'ar\'any*, Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
    Jean--Michel Kantor,
    (926-52-215)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    On the Surface Area of Voronoi Polyhedra in Lattice (unit)Sphere Packings in $E^3$
    K\'aroly Bezdek*, E\"otv\"os University, Budapest, Hungary
    (926-52-98)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Generalizing cyclic polytopes
    Tibor Bisztriczky*, The University of Calgary
    (926-52-79)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Lattice k--planes and the convex hull of lattice points in a smooth body
    Imre B\'ar\'any,
    K\'aroly B\"or\"oczky, Jr.*, Math. Inst. Hung. Acad. Sci.
    Imre Z. Ruzsa,
    (926-52-221)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Minimal translation covers for sets of diameter one
    Karoly Bezdek, Eotvos University
    Robert Connelly*, Cornell University
    (926-52-258)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Some Theorems on Strictly Ordered but Aperiodic Structures in Euclidean Spaces
    Ludwig W Danzer*,
    (926-52-228)
• Friday October 17, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-6:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Recent Developments in PDE's, Calculus of Variations, and Applications to Problems in Materials Science, I
  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
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    The variational formulation of the Fokker-Planck Equation and its consequences
    David Kinderlehrer*, Carnegie Mellon University
    (926-35-80)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Deformable Thin Films: From Macroscale to Microscale and Nanoscale to Microscale
    Richard D. James*, University of Minnesota
    (926-73-187)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Energetics in martensites
    Oscar P. Bruno*,
    (926-49-09)
  • 6:00 p.m.
    The Gamma-limit of Ginzburg-Landau functionals
    Robert L Jerrard*,
    H. M. Soner,
    (926-49-219)
  • 6:30 p.m.
    Motion of a closed interface by minus the surface Laplacian of curvature
    Sergio A. Alvarez,
    Chun Liu*, CMU/UGA
    (926-35-185)
• Friday October 17, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
  Special Session on Applications of Symbolic Computation to Differential Equations, I
  Room 270, Skiles Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  James Herod, Georgia Tech herod@math.gatech.edu
  Maria Clara Nucci, University of Perugia, Italy nucci@unipg.it
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Predicting the Existence of Limits of Solutions to ODEs with a Quadratic Nonlinearity
    Timothy G Howard*, Columbus State University
    (926-34-240)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Using Symbolic Manipulation to Find Approximate Solutions
    T. D. Morley*, Georgia Tech
    (926-35-135)
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Theory and Application of Boundary Value Problems for ODEs
    Douglas B. Meade*, University of South Carolina
    (926-98-210)

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