AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:47

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

Friday March 20, 1998, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Boundary Value Problems for Differential Equations, I
Room 159, Burhans Hall
Organizers:
Paul W. Eloe, University of Dayton eloe@saber.udayton.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Multiple Positive Solutions of Singular Right Focal Boundary Value Problems.
  Paul Eloe, University of Dayton
  Johnny Henderson, Auburn University
  William K.C. Yin*, LaGrange College
  (931-34-108)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Uniqueness Implies Existence for Fourth Order Lidstone Boundary Value Problems.
  John M. Davis*, Auburn University
  Johnny Henderson, Auburn University
  (931-34-121)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Boundary value problems for functional-difference equations.
  Anjali G Datta*, Tuskegee University
  (931-34-149)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Positive Solutions for $n^{th}$ Order Functional Differential Equations.
  Eric R Kaufmann*, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
  (931-34-145)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Summation of functional series.
  Andriy Mikolaevich Blazhievskiy*, Technological University of Podillia, Khmelnitsky, Ukraine
  (931-35-12)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Extremal Properties of Eigenvalues.
  Charlotte A. Knotts*, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
  (931-34-203)

Friday March 20, 1998, 2:45 p.m.-6:05 p.m.
Special Session on Boundary Value Problems for Differential Equations, II
Room 159, Burhans Hall
Organizers:
Paul W. Eloe, University of Dayton eloe@saber.udayton.edu
- 2:45 p.m.
  Asymptotic Boundary Value Problems in a Time Almost Periodic Bistable Nonlinear Equation.
  Wenxian Shen*, Auburn University
  (931-35-98)
- 3:15 p.m.
  On global bifurcation at infinity of variational inequalities.
  Vy K Le*, University of Missouri
  Klaus Schmitt, University of Utah
  (931-35-96)
- 3:45 p.m.
  New Developments on the Sturm-Liouville Theory: ODE's and PDE's .
  Xue-Feng Yang*, GA Tech
  (931-35-168)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Dynamics of Traveling Wave Solutions of Differential-Difference Equations.
  Erik S Van Vleck*, Colorado School of Mines
  (931-39-191)
- 4:45 p.m.
  Theta Functions on Degenerate Hyperelliptic Surfaces.
  D David McRae*, The Woodberry Forest School
  Rudi Weikard, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  (931-33-175)
- 5:15 p.m.
  Quenching for Degenerate Semilinear Parabolic Problems.
  Chiu Yeung Chan*, University of Southwestern Louisiana
  (931-35-106)
- 5:45 p.m.
  Effects of Heat Input and Output on Quenching.
  S. I. Yuen*, Lakeland Community College
  (931-35-105)

Saturday March 21, 1998, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Boundary Value Problems for Differential Equations, III
Room 159, Burhans Hall
Organizers:
Paul W. Eloe, University of Dayton eloe@saber.udayton.edu
- 8:00 a.m.
  Slow Passage Through Bifurcation in Hamiltonian Systems.
  Norman R. Lebovitz, University of Chicago
  Todd R. Young*, Ohio University
  (931-34-353)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Periodic Solutions for Nonlinear Volterra Difference Equations With Infinite Delay.
  Youssef Raffoul*, Tougaloo College
  (931-39-151)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Groebner Bases for Discrete Isoperimetric Problems.
  Betty Jean Harmsen*, Omaha, NE
  (931-39-146)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Direct and Inverse Scattering in a Layered or Anisotropic Medium.
  Joseph F Coyle*, University of Delaware
  (931-65-238)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Existence, Uniqueness, and Properties of Azimuthal Shear Solutions in Compressible Nonlinear Elasticity.
  Joseph E. Paullet*, Penn State Erie
  Debra A. Polignone, University of Tennessee
  Paul G. Warne, Maryville College
  (931-34-55)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Wellposedness, regularity, and stabilization of shells.
  Christine A McMillan*, Virginia Tech
  (931-49-349)

Saturday March 21, 1998, 2:45 p.m.-5:05 p.m.
Special Session on Boundary Value Problems for Differential Equations, IV
Room 159, Burhans Hall
Organizers:
Paul W. Eloe, University of Dayton eloe@saber.udayton.edu
- 3:15 p.m.
  Spatial analyticity for the nonlinear heat equation in a bounded domain.
  Zoran Grujic*, Indiana University
  Igor Kukavica, Univ. of Southern Cal.
  (931-35-101)
- 3:45 p.m.
  Multiple Positive Solutions for a Three-Point Boundary Value Problem.
  Douglas Anderson*, Concordia College
  (931-34-135)
- 4:15 p.m.
  Control and stabilization of elastic systems.
  Mary Ann Horn*, Vanderbilt University
  (931-35-352)

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