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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

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)