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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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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 compactn